Teutons Co itinue Hammering Way Through Rumanians as French Win in V HARRISBURG WMmm TELEGRAPH V,, -)10 HY CARRIERS CENTS A WKKK AO. --tO SINGLE COPIES a CENTS. LXXXV— , TEUTONS SLOWLY BRING JAWS OF TRAP TOGETHER ON RUMANIANS Tchernavoda on the Danube and Vulcan Pass on Tran sylvania Border Taken by Germans Who Are Closing in From Two Sides LAST RAILROAD LINE CAPTURED French Succeed in Holding Gains Made in Sweep North of Verdun; Have Possession of Fort Douau mont Which Is in Flames The "process of closing In on Ru mania from both sides is being: con tinued by the armies of the Central Powers. Tchernavoda on the Danube and Vulcan Pass on the Transylvanian border have been captured. The loss of Tchernavoda by the Russ-Ru manian forces to Field Marshal Von Mackensen's victorious armies is con ceded by Petrograd which announced the evacuation of this important town, from which stretches the only bridge across the Danube from ■ Dobrudja, carrying the railway line running into interior Rumania. Important entente forces evidently remain on the Dobrudja side of the Danube as Petrograd mentions the continued retreat of Russ-Rumanian troops northward along the Black sea coast. Berlin comments that the loss of Tchernavoda deprives them of their last railroad communication. Opens Another Route The Austro-German success on the north likewise is important as open ing another route into Rumania from Transylvania for General Von Falken hayn's forces. This pass penetrates the Transylvania Alps half way be tween the iron gate of the Danube and Rothenberg Pass below Herr manstadt. Petrograd announces a success for the Russians near Dorna Watra, flose to the junction of the frontiers of f Bukowina, Hungary and Rumania, £ where the Austro-German forces have been driven from a series of heights. Reporting on the French advance at Verdun, Berlin says the attack gained ground as far as Fort Douau mont, which was in flames and that the was continuing. German submarine attacks on Nor wegian shipping continue. To-day five additional Norwegian vessels arc re ported sunk. The French have maintained the important ground they won yesterday in their coup north of Verdun, the War Office announced to-day. Last night parts of the regained ter ritory which includes Fort Douaumont and stretches along a front of more than four miles at points nearly two miles inside the former German lines, were subjected to a German counter attack. The French held their ground, how ever. according to Paris, repulsing the German assaults, which were de livered in efforts to recapture the Haudromont quarries, west of Douau mont, and the Damloup battery southeast of Vaux. The commander at Fort Douaumont is among the pris oners taken by the French, which a preliminary report placed at 3500 men. For Vaux is still in German hands but the French lines run beyond it on both sides. Rain is interfering with operations on the Somme front. Only artillery actions are reported in that area. To-day's French official report an nounces an important military move in the Balkans where Italian cav alry from Southern Albania has formed a junction with cavalry and artillery from the entente front in Macedonia. This gives the entente an unbroken front of 150 miles across the southern Balkan peninsula from Avlona, Albania, on the Adriatic to the mouth of the Struma river, east of Saloniki, on the Aegean coast. Ready to Move on Trenches Berlin military critics point to the capture of Predeal. reported yester day as marking the loss by the [Continued on Page 10] THE WEATHER Fpr Hnrrlshnrg anil vlrllitri Ilaln nn.l warmer to-night; I hur,din partly clouds. For Etfrn Knn;ligulii: Itain nnH Marnier to-night; Thurdnv partly cloudy In wmt and Mouth, probably rain in northeast por tions frexh. pofculhly ntronc, Mouth to went Minds. River The main river Mill full lvrlr to night and probably Thursday. *ome of the trlliumrlc* may rltte a* a result of rain In the' ne*t I m euti-four to thirty-nix bourn. % Mtaiee of about 4.8 feet U indi cated for llarrlburii Thursday morning. (icneral Condition* A disturbance of unknown Inten sity appears to lie approaching the South A tlantic coast. It kn> ■ <'UM*d rain on the Florida cast where the Kinds hme freshened aommliai. The South- Wft disturbance lion united with the disturbnnce thnt Man motlng down from Manitoba, Taftday morning, forming a storm of ron siderahle energy and magnitude now central over the I.ake Su perior region. There Han been a general rise of 2 to :>0 degree* In temperature over the I'pper Mississippi \ alley and nearly nil the eastern half of the country. If la 4 to 2-1 degreea cooler In the Middle MtssUslpnl Valley. Temperature! 8 a. m., 42. Sum Mines, I2T a. m.; set*. Sill p. in. Moon■ Xew moon, October 26, 3537 p. m. Illver Stage: 4.8 feet above ion vvater mark. Yeerday"a Weather Highest temperature, HI. I.owest temperature, .141. Mean temperature, 48. Annual temperature, 31. STREETS ABOUT i CAPITOL SHOULD BE WIDENED (Governor Says "It's Up to Har risburg to Persuade the Legislature" ADVOCATES SCHOOL LOAN City Is "Educationally Sick" Declares Brumbaugh at C. of C. Meeting i Governor Brumbaugh's maiden | speech as a member of the Harrisburg jChamber of Commerce, President J. , William Bowman's condensed report I of the Chamber's activities during the period of his incumbency, a brief j summary of the past and prospective j for the fut.ure by Secretary Edward L. McColgin, and the election of live new directors were the outstanding j features of the annual meeting of the i greatly enlarged Chamber of Com i merce which had been postponed from j the time of the recent complimentary ! dinner to the Bethlehem Steel King. Charles M. Schwab. The speakers touched upon the Capitol Park Extension, the new mil lion-dollar hotel, the proposed 51,250,- 000 school loan, the growth of Har risburg educationally and industrials, and urged through a still larger and all-inclusive Chamber of Commerce tho continued civic and commercial development of the growing citv of Harrisburg. The retiring board of directors. Henderson Gilbert, David Kaufman, George A. Shreiner. Warwick M. [Continued on Page 12] Five More Neutral Ships Sunk With Loss of Life I.ondon. Oct. 25.—The sinking by German submarines of five more Nor wegian steamships, valued at about a,C00,000 kronen, is reported in an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Christiania. Shipping shares dropped consid erably on the Christiania exchange to-day. The steamers Alix and Rising and the schooner Theodori, together with the Swedish schooners Antoinette and Henriette. are among the latest sub marine victims, adds the dispatch. The Tidens Tegn, of Christiania, states that one boat with six men from the Norwegian steamer Ravn, reported sunk by a German submarine in the Arctic on October 2, has been lost, while another boat with eleven men on board is reported from a lonely part of the Russian Muruian coast after drifting thirteen hours. Two American Marines and Haitian Colonel Are Killed in Engagement Washington. Oct. 25. Official re ports on the killing of Captain W. W. Low, and First Sergeant Frank L. At wood of the Marine corps in the Dom inican republic yesterday while at tempting to arrest a bandit, were re ceived to-day by the Navy Depart ment from Col. Pendleton, command ing the American forces. First Lieutenant John Marston, 111, was injured by a fall presumably dur ing the fight, although the dispatch gave no details. The bandit. Ramon Batista, was killed. The dispatch does not say where thfe fight occurred. It adds that conditions otherwise are quiet. DEATH OF BATISTA IS SMALL LOhS TO ILVITI New York. Oct. 25. The death of General Ramon Batista, a rebel leader in a fight between his forces and Am erican troops in the Dominican Re public yesterday was characterized by William W. Russell, United States minister to the republic upon his ar rival to-day as "the smallest loss that could come to that country. Batista has been a thorn in the flesh of the present Dominican government for some time," Mr. Russell said. Reformed Synod Plans $1,000,000 Annuity Fund ork. Pa., Oct. 25.—An overture to the General Synod of the Reformed 'Church in America to set aside the next trienniuin as a period for raising $1,000,000 for annuity fund for relief of aged ministers and their wives was adopted by the Potomac Synod here to-day. The General Synod will be overtured to consider a more uniform i system of relief. Details for the cele ; bration of the 400 th anniversary of the Reformation, next year, were left to a committee. Prohibition Special Will Make Stop Here Frank J. Manly, Prohibition candi date for President, will be in Harris | burg November 1, n:ien a Prohibition rally will be held In the courthouse. He will come fith his partv aboard I the Prohibition Special and will be | here about two hours, from 7.30 to : 9.30 In the evening. COTTON IS HIGHEST SINCE CIVII, WAR DAYS New York. Oct. 25.— Cotton in the future market sold to-day above 20 cents a pound, the May option rising 22 points to 20.01, the highest price it has touched since the Civil War. FLOUR $lO PER BARREL Chicago, Oct. 25. The wholesale price of high grade family flour was advanced to $lO a barrel to-dav, the highest price since the Civil war, an Increase of thirty cents In two days. .11 T.N EC RS PLAN PARADE Final arrangements will be made next Wednesday night at the Penn sylvania Federation of Labor head quarters. for the booster parade and demonstration to be given on Satur day night, November 4, by labor union men interested in the Jitney 'amend ments. Thrrfe bands, a drum corps and plenty of red (ire will be features of the parade, which will end with a mass meeting. IIARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25. 1916 WILSON—THE POOR MAN'S FRIEND <Zd UPPER END SOLID FOR REPUBLICANS, CANDIDATES TOLD Great Rally at Elizabcthvillc One of Best and Biggest in History of Town Elir.abethville turned out In force last night to welcome the Republican candidates, who were in that town for the first rally of the present campaign. The meeting was held in the Star Theater, which was crowded to the doors, many being unable to find seats. The sentiment throughout the upper end, many party workers reported, is all for Hughes and the Republican ticket, and the result on election day will be a sweeping Republican victory. Many Progressives and not a few Democrats were present last night. Among them were several former Pro gressive committeemen who are out this year for Hughes. This is in sharp contrast with four years ago, when the Taft men at any meeting might have been counted on the fingers of two hands. Elizabethville is the home of County Recorder James E. Lentz and he was In charge of arrangements. The Eliz abethville band played during the meeting, which was called to order by So.uire I. S. Daniels, a prominent upper end Republican, and Recorder Lentz was the first speaker, dwelling mainly upon the local ticket and saying a kind word in its behalf. The other speakers were David J. Rechtel and Ira Ulsh. candidates for ..the Legislature; Charles E. Pass, Sen j "tor Reldleman and Congressman 1 1 Kreider. Senator Beidleman is verv • popular in the upper end, which has strong sympathies with the mining ele ment, on account of his excellent rec ord on mtne legislation both as a mem ber of the House and Senate. He got a warm reception and after the meet j ing was assured of hearty support ! throughout the whole upper part of the county. Kreider Speech a Hit Congressman Kreider. who is as sured of re-election-, made a wonderful ; impression amonj unper en- 1 people last night. He has been in Congress ever since President Wilson's in auguration and has been a close ob server and a strenuous opponent of i most of tlia policies that have made Mhe Democratic rnrty so unnopular. He went at length into the Mexican | policy of the President, showing that i resent conditions in that troubled re ! public are largely attributable to him. I and flayed Congress for its reckless I expenditure of money on a scale hun -1 dreds of millions of dollars in excess jof the appropriations of any of the ; Republican Congresses which were de : rlared in the 1912 platform as "ex jtravagant." He pointed out that whereas that platform had declared against the "needless offices" of Re j publicans, the Democrats themselves | have since then created 30,000 new offices. ft was 10.30 when he con cluded, but not a man had left the | hall. • At Berr.v.slnirg Another large meeting was held at , Rerrysburc. Morris Daniels presided l there, while his brother was accorded | a like honor in Elizabethville. The Porrysburg band played. Speeches iwcre made by Congressman Kreider, ! Senator Beidleman. Philip S. Moyer. County Solicitor, and Candidates Ulsh ; and Bechtel. | Meetings will be held Friday even ling at Lvkens and Wiconisco. where f addresses were made by Senator j Peidleman and Candidates Ulsh and Pechtel. BOMBARI) AUSTRIAN WORKS ! Rome. Oct. %4, via Paris, Oct. 25. j Squadrillas of Italian and French sea ! planes have bombarded Austrian mili • tary works In three places on the west roast of Istria and escaped unscathed, says an official announcement of the Italian war office to-day. An aerial battle between the French hydroaero planes and Austrian seaplanes. In which one of the Austrian machines 1 was capsized .and another fell into a! laeoon at Raseleghe. on the Italian I c oast near Carole, also Is reported. The I i AuFtrian squadrllla had been throwing I bombs on Carole. I HUGHES SCORNS HYPHENS' VOTE Before German - Americans G. O. P, Candidate Repudiates "Divided Allegiance" New York, Oct. 25. Charles E. Hughes last night opened his last big tour before election day with three meetings, one in Queers, one in Har lem and one in the Bronx, signalizing the occasion with a definite repudia tion of any class or interest or na tionality opposed to Americanism. It was in Schuetzen Park Hall, in Queens Borough, where citizens of German descent dominated, that the Republican nominee said he did not want the support of any persons ad vocating alien interests. Mr. Hughes will go westward after [Continued on Pasc 5] Man Beaten by Thugs Is Found Unconscious in South Harrisburg Street Beaten into unconsciousness by thugs the police believe, less than two squares from his home, D. C. Potter 709 South Front street, was found early this morning by Dr. C. V. Hart, lying in the street. City detectives to-day could learn little of the attack orr Potter, as he was still unconscious at a late hour this afternoon. Potter is suffering from a fractured arm, and severe bruises of the body. It was thought at first that he had been struck by an automobile and left lying in the street, but police doubt this story. His condition is serious. Bomb Badly Damages New York Subway Station ! N'ew York. Oct. 25. Explosion I of a bomb or dynamite at the 110 th : street station of the Lenox avenue j subway line early to-day did con isiderable damage to that station, j smashed the ticket agent's booth, in jjured the agent slightly, broke the | electric lamps and windows, tore off a 'portion of the sidewalk overhead and broke the windows in some of the apartment houses nearby. There was no train at the station or near it at the moment. Traffic in the subway ; was suspended for half an hour or more as the result of the blast. Subway employes at that station said they saw no one loitering about ! and did not know how the explosive was brought into the station. The only , theory they could suggest was that it might have been set off because of the | street railway strike which has been 1 in progress since early in .September. WILSON OX WAY WEST Long Branch, N. J., Oct. 25.—Pres ident Wilson left here at noon to-day for Cincinnati where he will make three addresses to-morrow. Mrs. Wil | son. Secretary Tumulty and Dr. C. T. Grayson, the White House physician, accompanied him. He is due to ar ; rive at Philadelphia at 3.40 p. in. and ; at Baltimore at 6 p. m. and to reach I Cincinnati 11.30 a. m. to-morrow. I CANCEL OLD LICENSE TO WED Altoona, Pa., Oct. 25.—Halting at I Hymen's altar four years ago, Miss Jessie F. Martin, of Duncansvllle, could not be induced by her lover, Charles M. Arthur, of Altoona, to be come his wife, so, at his request, Judge Baldridge has annulled the marriage license Issued to the couple on June 1?, 1912. They were to have been married on the following July 4. The trousseau of the bride-to-be had been purchased, the wedding trip planned and a house and furniture selected, but Miss Martin declined to fulfill her part of the contract at the appointed time, and since. • SCHOOTS HIMSELF Duluth, Minn., Oct. 25. Charles G. Bryant, chairman of the Duluth Board of Grain Appeals, committed suicide last night in his office In the Board of Trade building. The motive Is unknown. *i KNOX GUEST OF REPUBLICANS AT RALLY TONIGHT Big Meeting at Chestnut Street Auditorium to Be Preceded by Walk-Around Philander C. Knox will be the guest of Harrisburg Republicans this even ing. They will gather at Chestnut Street Auditorium to give him one of the most enthusiastic greetings of his campaign. The big auditorium will be crowded to the doors. All of the Republican clubs will be in line of parade previous to the rally and it was announced to-day that thev will be joined by the newly formed Hughes College Alliance, the members of which will meet in front of the Union Trust building to join with the Harrisburg Republican Club, the East End Republican Club and others, which in turn will be met by the West End Republican Club and the Capital City Republican Club at Third and Reily streets. Marching delegations from Mechanicsburg and Penbrook Republican Clubs also will be in line. Ex-Senator John E. Pox will be chairman of the meeting and among the speakers will be Senators Sny der and Beldleman, Congressman Aaron S. Ivreider and Representatives Wildman and f-wartz. Prince Boncompagni and Miss Draper Are Married "Washington, Oct. 25. Margaret Preston Draper, daughter of the late General William F. Draper, am bassador to llaly in President McKin ley's administration, was married here to-day to Prince Andrea Bon compagni of Rome. Cardinal Gib bons officiated In a chapel which had been converted froijj the ball room of the Draper home in accordance with a privilege granted to the Boncom pagni family which has given two popes to the Roman Catholic church. Bishop McDevitt to Be at Cornerstone Placing Cornerstone laying ceremonies for the new St. Lawrence German Catholic Church, will be held Sunday after noon at 3.30 with Bishop Philip R. McDevitt as celebrant* The cere monies will be held in the open at State and Buttonwood street, and all of the priests of Harrisburg and vicin ity will attend. Tho Rev. I'. S. Huegel, rector, will be master of ceremonies, assisted by visiting clergy. Addresses will be made in both English and German. The Knights of Columbus will attend in a body, and other Catholic societies have been invited. An old-fashioned German sauerkraut supper will be given to-night, In the basement of the church in Walnut street. Coroner Holds Inquest on Dauphin Tragedy Coroner Eckinger, late this after noon held an inquest at Dauphin to I determine responsibility for the acci dent early yesterday morning when Mrs. S. Wilbur Shetron was killed, and Thomas G. Adams, 1614 Regina street, severely injured, when the auto in which they were riding was struck by a fast freight train. Louis Conrad, watchman at the crossing, was the principal witness. Adams Is in the Harrisburg hospital suffering from a fractured left hip, and bruises. I WANTS HEOI'I.AR COLLECTIONS Dr. J. M. J. Raunlck, city health of ficer, 1s planning to have regular col lections of ashes during the winter months. Since the tyhold fever epi demic has abated, the city official has been spending much of his time pre paring plans for a Fall and winter cam paign to clean up the city. Only ten new cases of typhoid fever have been reported since last Thursday. BIDS TO RIPRAP RIVER SLOPES BY BLOCK UNIT PLAN Park Department Will Ask Proposals For Job as Whole 100, to Save Expense BEGIN AT MACLAY STREET Ise Stones From Parkway— Push Construction With All Speed Before Winter Proposed plans for riprapping the river front slope north of "Hard scrabble" will call for bids for the com etion of the work by two meth od® 'op the job as a whole from Maclay to Calder streets, and by single block units. | Operations will be started at Maclay street and pushed southwardly as I speedily as possible. The cost of the much-needed, long talked of Improvement will be paid for from the balance of the park im provement loan fund and the cost may not exceed $4,000. Stones for the bracing of the embankment will be brought frcm the many tons of lime stone which has been quarried from the new Cameron parkway and piled [Continued on Page 7] Lancaster Inventor Claims He Has Unsinkable Ship ILancaster, Pa., Oct. 25. United States naval authorities at League Island are investigating a model ship mode by Charles K. Baker, of this city, who claims torpedoes cannot sink it. The present system of shipbuilding provides for a single section construc tion; his model calls for a double. He sent his model to the Navy De partment at Washington and was di rected to report at League Island for a consultation with the officers, lie spent several days there and the naval officers think his plan is feasible. They will construct a large model on the P.aker plan for further investigation. Mr. Raker lias not protected his idea. He says that if it is adopted by the Navy Department, he will be paid for it. If it is turned down by those authorities, he will take the matter up ! with private shipbuilders. r j< I H C ' l for < • i 0 ij j w [ ' 4 1 ! J' 1 i : i. i? ;• eh r v rr v ■ rv t H -vr i * ;■ ! (" tempt was made to enter the home of Wesley MetJtgcr. 1114 1 went outside the Cny < ',<■ p.,; ; of v"',. '<• i S if. ' lietT i tor- - M-vci i• ■ ■ iier // . . the iov/. Huy vert flight i' I MARRIAGE LICENSES Grove liajto* Wlinun and Jennie Gertrude .Natbannoß, Philadelphia Q"**"" ' 1 Vlf Vfr —Ti II |] 14 PAGES CITY EDITION MILK 8 CENTS i NOV. 1; FIGHT JUMP TO NINE Retailers Declare Producers* Are Asking Too Much at 20 Cents Per Gallon TO OPPOSE DEMANDS 200 Dairymen Unanimously For Increase; to Fine "Quitters" Milk will retail in the city fit S cents a quart on and after November 1, ac cording to an announcement made last night by C. E. Cooper, president of the Dairymen's Association of Marrisburg following an announcement of the dairy farmers that they will raise the wholesale price ono cent a quart after November 1. Ketail dealers In the city arc up In arms against the demands of the farmers for 20 cents a gallon whole- fContinued oil Page 10] 14-Year-01d Girl, 111 Hasn't Eaten in 35 Days York, Pa., Oct. 25. Anna, 14- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Jamison, of Spring Grove, Pa., has not eaten for thirty-five days. She has been precariously sick fop several months. With the exception of water and medicines, no nourish ment has passed her lips in that time. CALLS JUDGE "DEARIE" FINED Trenton, N. J., Oct. 25. lt cost George McCabe S2O to be familiar with Judge Geraghty it central police court here yesterday. He was brought into the room in a drunken condition and became noisy. When Judge Ger aghty entered McCabe yelled, "Hello, dearie," and was immediately fined. PLACE T. 11. AMONG DEAD Reading, Pa., Oct. 25. Cries of "Roosevelt, Roosevelt," greeted Reuben Post llalleck. of Louisville, Ky., at the county teachers' institute yesterday when he was enumerating the "six dead Americans most men tioned. Lincoln, mentioned first, and Washington, got no applause. Jeffer son, Jackson, Grant and Clay were named next, deep silence resulting until samebody shouted "Roosevelt!" Tt started a chorus of cheers and calls, interrupting the lecturer.
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