• • - ' "Wmrnv ■- w J.i j w w iij, i.puu ~LI v jiiii Another British Has; <J Is Su HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 274 24 PAGES TROOPS DIDN'T * VOTE ON JITNEY OR SCHOOL LOAN Returns From Border Show That Soldiers Had Voted on Neither Question ONLY LOCAL ISSUES So State Sent Down No Tickets; Troop "C" Count First; Splendid Records Harrisburg voters who are doing police duty for Uncle Sam along the Border didn't voice their sentiments on either the high school loan or the Jit ney problems, according to the returns of the "soldier vote" which was opened for official counting at noon to-day. The bundle of packages from the company officers which contained the sealed tally sheets, registration books, and ballots, were received a few days after election but they couldn't be opened until, to-day. The remainder of the official count including all the votes cast in the city and county has been computed and to taled but the final returns can not be certified to until after the soldier vote is computed. For this reason, incidentally, Pro thonotary Harry F. Holler couldn't certify the jitney amendment return nor the high school loan vote to Coun cil or the School Board. Much to the surprise of the election computing board to-day, no returns of either the jitney amendment nor the high school loan question were included in the vote from the Border. Inquiry from State officials revealed the fact that because these matters were entirely local, the State had not officially ac quainted the troops of the problems. Incidentally, it developed that the County Commissioners hadn't sent any additional ballots to the Border for the purpose, so the Harrisburg men voted on neither question. Conse quently, as soon as the official vote is definitely completed, the Prothonotary will certify to the count that has al ready been made on the jitney and high school loan questions in Harris burg. At Tuesday's meeting of Council, the jitney amendment will be formally in effect. The first vote to be counted to-day was included in the returns from Troop C, of the Pennsylvania cavalry command, the organization that had formally been the Governor's Troop. Additional Law Judge McCarrell com mented enthusiastically on the splen did appearance of the records and re ports of the soldier election boards. Miss Copelin to Go 'Long to Border With Father at Yule Time If train service doesn't go wrong and the timetables aren't guilty of false pretense. Miss Eleanor Copelin and Christmas morning are due to ar rive simultaneously at the far away Border town of El Paso. For Miss Copelin, who is the daugh ter of Captain O. M. Copelin, ordnance officer of the Eighth Regiment, Sev enth Division of the United States National Guard, is going to accom pany her father to the Border when he leaves here December 20, at the expiration of a 30-day furlough. The trip, it is expected will require about four days. Captain Copelin, who is an ex-city treasurer, reached Harrisburg last evening for a brief stay on home leave. He visited the courthouse to day and was kept mighty busy greet ing friends in city and county of ficialdom. Incidentally Captain Cope lin said he "doesn't like the Border duty"—the same complaint which so many of the Pennsylvania men and officers have voiced since the inac tivity of police work has become so monotonous. When Captain Copelin goes back to Texas he will take along a brief communication from Captain H. M. Stine, the recruiting officer, to Col onel Maurice E. Finney, commander of the Eighth urging that officer to acquaint the men of the importance of filing applications for assistance for dependent families at home from the $2,000,000 fund provided by Con gress. THE WEATHER For Harriftburg and vlclnlt.v; Fair unci colder to-night and Saturday) lwt temperature to-night about 30 degree*. For ICnxtern Pennsylvania t Fair and eolder to-night and Saturday; wenterly kulcm. River The Su<iuehaiiiui river aad it* trlbiiturlCH will Hue Kllghtlv or remain nearly xtntiouary. A Maue of about 4.7 feet lis Indicated for Harrlsburic Saturday morning. General Conditions The Htorm from the Southnext, which nnn central ovrr l.ake Michigan Thurxday morning, him moved northeaxtward with In creaxlng force and ix now imp ing down the St. I.awrence Val ley. It caused rain generally east of the Mlxxlxxlppl river in the laxt twenty-four hours, the rain being followed by xnow flurries In the I'pper Ohio Valley and over a part of the l.ake Region, and wax attended by strong, shifting wind* and galex over the Great l.akex and along the Middle and *orth Atlantic coast, the hlghext 9 velocity reported being xlxty ' eight mllex, from the West, at Buffalo, l.lght xnow fell also In the Rocky Mountains and along the northwest border. It l '1 to 18 degrees warmer this morning In the Middle Atlnntle and Xew England States and the St. I.aw renee Valley; elxewhere there lias been a general fall of 2 to :t4 de grees In temperature, except In the extreme Southwest, where It Is xomewhnt warmer. Sherldaa, Wy., reports 2 degrees below aero. Temperaturei 8 a. in., 4<l. Sua: Rlaes, 7102 n. m.; seta, 4i43 p. m. Mooni New moon, Saturday, SifiO a. m. River Stagei 3.7 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, so. I.owext temperature, 34. Mean temperature, 4<l. Normal temperature, 30. GENERAL FLEHZ, NOTED ATTORNEY OF STATE, DIES Man Well Known to Many Har risburgers Expires After Third Operation DUE TO OLD INJURY Less Than Fifty Years of Age, He Was Long Active in Public Affairs j FREDERICK W. FLEITZ I Frederic Waldorf Fleltz, one of j the best-known lawyers In Pennsyl j vania, member of the Dauphin county I bar and former State official, died | this morning at the Scranton State ; Hospital from complications follow j ing an Injury to his hip received sev ; eral years ago. General Fleitz, as he i was known to many Harrisburg peo ' pie, recently underwent three opera tions at the Scranton Hospital and word came here yesterday that his ; condition was exceedingly grave. J There were many friends who knew i his rugged constitution and who hoped i that he might recover. } General Fleltz was here early in I September. He had been away much | of the summer in Canada and when Ihe returned appeared to be in good i health, attending to hearings at the Capitol and meeting clients at his | office in the Telegraph Building. On ; September 15 he went to Scranton, trouble in his hip having developed. Two of the operations were per j formed in the last fortnight and he , died at 4 o'clock this morning. Well Known to Many Here Born in Tioga county, which has given many prominent men to Penn sylvania, Mr. Fleitz was a boyhood i friend of State Treasurer Young and ; others from that region. He was the son of John and Katharine Fleitz, and was born in Wellsboro, March 1, 1867, and when a mere lad gave evidence f of those energetic qualities which | made him a figure in State affairs. Ho [Continued on Pago 6] In Plea For Money Assert ''Dublin Rebels Are Going to Fight Again and Very Soon" j Boston, Nov. 24. Speakers who i asked for funds to support another ! revolution in Ireland, asserting that | "the Dublin rebels are going to fight j again and fight very soon," obtained subscriptions at a meeting here last I night. The money, it was said will I be used to pufchasa rifles. Foreign Ambassadors Instructed to Learn Effects of Daylight Saving Plan New York, Nov. 25. The State department has instructed the Ameri can ambassadors in England, France and Germany to investigate carefully the practical effects of the daylight saving system which was in operation in those countries during the summer. Bribery Is Charged in i Connection With Calling of West Va. Legislature I Charleston, W. Va., Nov. 24.—Charges lof legislative bribery in connection | with the special session called to take action on Governor Hatfield's legisla tive program, were laid to-day before 'Thomas Townsend, prosecuting attor ney for Kanawha county, by Delegate J. K Wolf, Republican, chairman of the I special committee of investigation ap | pointed last night. It was understood i that some of the witnesses wanted | were not strangers in Charleston. 102.826,300 PEOPLE IN U. S. Washington* Nov. 24. Popula tion of continental United States on | January 1, 1917, will be 102,826,309 und with its outlying possessions, 113,- 509,285, the census bureau estimates. NEW NOTES COUNTERFEITED Washington, Nov. 24. Two new counterfeit $lO Federal Reserve Bank notes, both of the New York Bank, have been reported to the secret serv ice. AUTO KILLS IIAKKISBUHGEK According to a dispatch from Potts town to-day, George ("rover, aged 37, of Harrisburg, was killed last night at Stowe, when he was struck by an au tomobile driven by Dr. Lee F. Mauger of that place. 'Crover was taken to the Pottstown hospital but died from a compound fracture of the skull. The Harrisburg directory does not con tain the name Crover. AUTOS CUTTING IN ON PARES Titusvilie, Pa., Nov. 24. Because so many citizens of this city are using automobiles the Titusvilie Traction Company has been obliged to increaso its fares from live to six cents, except to workingmen whose fares remain at three cents during certain hours. HARRISBURG, PA.,FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1916 IS THE HIGH COST OF LIVING A PROBLEM IN LYING the high cost of living is the chief problem in every family just now. Work is plentiful and the daily wage has been advanced in nearly all lines. But the dollar's purchasing power has been steadily falling by reason of constantly in creasing prices. There appears to be no hope of immediate relief so far as prices are concerned, so it becomes necessary for the thrifty housewife to learn economies whereby the table and the home may be suppled at a figure within the family income. Short cuts must be devised, cheap dishes that are wholesome and toothsome must be discovered; money must be saved, but not at the cost of household effi ciency. The problem is a big one. The Telegraph has engaged the well-known writer, Mrs. Anna Hamilton Wood, to make a study of conditions in Harrisburg and to write her views for the benefit of the housewives of this city. The first articles will appear in a few days. VILLA DEFEATED IN FIRST ATTACK, IS TRYING AGAIN Renew Assault on Chihuahua City; 500 Killed on Both Sides GEN. TREVINO HUBT Garcia Denies Carranza Forces Evacuated Chihuahua City El Paso, Tex., Nov. 24. Francisco Villa and his command renewed their attack on Chihua hua City at 9 o'clock this morn ing, a message received in Juarez stated. Andres Garcia, inspector general of Carranza consulate to-day officially denied a report that General Trevino and his forces were at Terrazas sta tion north of Chihuahua City and had evacuated Chihuahua City. Chihuahua City, Mex., Nov. 23, via El Paso Junction (delayed by military I censor). —One general, two colonels I and one hundred men of the Carranza I forces were killed during the fighting j to-day between Carranza troops and Villa bandits. Four hundred men of i the Villa command are known to have been killed and left on the battlefield. EI Paso, Tex., Nov. 24. Richard 1 Wisburn, an American member of a party arriving here early to-day fromt '.Chihuahua, said that 1,000 Carranza ; troops sent out Wednesday by General j Trevino, commander at Chihuahua j ha ve gone over to the bandits without ; firing a shot. The train arrived at Juarez from Chihuahua about 3 a. m. bringing 100 refugees in passenger I coaches and three boxcars filled with | Chinese. The train left Chihuahua at noon yesterday, a short time after the I attack on Chihuahua by the Villa ban i dits began. [ At that time the guns on Santa Rosa [Continued on Page 14] Carlisle Chamber Invited to Luncheon Here Nov. 29 Officers and members of the newly organized Carlisle Chamber of Com merce have been extended an Invitation by "the Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce to attend the luncheon meeting next Wednesday, November 29, at the Board of Trade, as the guests of the agricultural committee of the Harris burg Chamber. Carl Vrooman. Assistant Secretary of, the United States Department of Agri culture, will speak on "The Import ance of Agriculture to the City." The africultural committee of the Harris burg Chamber met yesterday afternoon and organized. Plans were dscussed I for agricultural work in Dauphin and Cumberland counties. The committee Includes the following members: Don ald McCormlck, chairman; K. D. Hille ary, William Jennings. W. B. McCaleb, W. F. R. Murrie, Martin R. Nissly, Wal ter S. Schell, Flavel 1.. Wright, Edward L,. McColgin, secretary. Catholic Alumnae Is Expected to Protest Styles Baltimore, Nov. 24. Representing 32,000 members in the United States and Canada, the delegates to the sec ond biennial convention of the Inter national Federation of Catholic Alumna formally opened the sessions to-day which will continue until Sun day night. Dress reform, the drama and mod ern literature will be discussed and the feeling among the delegates was that strong resolutions relative to these matters would be passed. Short skirts, low necks and other of the present day modes of dressing will come in for criticism. Chicago Diet Squad Already Gains in Weight Chicago, Nov. 24. Members of Chicago's diet squad of six men and six women who are to live two weeks on meals that cost not more than forty cents a day for each person have made a net gain of 11% pounds in wcipht as a result in the first three days of the test. Nine of the volun teers have gained in weight while three have lost. For breakfast to-day the members were given stewed pears, griddle cakes with syrup and coffee. The bill of fare for luncheon consisted of beef and rice croquettes, peas and car rots, bread and butter, ginger bread and tea. The menu for dinner in cludes tomato soup, halibut steak, parsley, potatoes, bread and butter, cream taplco pudding and tea. EMPEROR'S BODY IS REMOVED FROM CASTLE AT NIGHT i Silver Urn to Hold Heart of Francis Joseph; New Mon arch Well Liked FAVORITE OF SOLDIERS Has Mingled With Them Often .in the Trenches; Will Be War Lord Vienna, Nov. 22 (delayed)\—Death came to Emperor Francis Joseph as | sleep to a child, while the sovereign was reclining in an armchair in what he called his workroom. His strength had rapidly been ebbing from 2 o'clock in the afternoon of yesterday, but he refused to take to hi* ued. After 6 o'clock he began gradually to lose consciousness, and ■tvent to the end without uttering another word, rest ing peacefully in his chair with his hands folded as if he were in prayer. Yesterday afternoon a death mask of the emperor was taken as a pre liminary to the embalming of the body and its removal to the Hofburg, where it will lie in state. The heart will be sealed in a silver cup. while the intes (Continued on Page 5) PA. EXTOLLED BY FOUR GOVERNORS Brumbaugh Urges People to Learn to Know It and to Love It Philadelphia, Nov. 24.—Pennsylva nia, its foremost place in the forma tive and fighting days of the republic, its pulsating present and Its coming years, formed the theme of a series j of notable speeches at the first dinner of the new Pennsylvania State Society at the Bellevue-Stratford last night. The dinner brought together many of the men who are leaders in the life jof the Keystone commonwealth, and i if the object of the organization born last fall on Capitol Hill is to cherish a State spirit in keeping with the glory of Pennsylvania, it has been [Continued on Page IS] High Winds Blow Bridge Onto Railroad Track; Trainmen Flag Flyer A high wind blowing 30 miles an hour last night tore an overhead bridge from its fastenings at HX tow er, east of the Rutherford yards. The timbers were scattered over the Philadelphia and Reading railway tracks. The Queen of the Valley flyer due in Harrisburg at 10.10 last night, was flagged by freight trainmen in time to prevent a serious accident. The wreckage also blocked the freight tracks and held up traffic to and from Rutherford yards for three hours. Considerable damage was done to workmen's shanties and watchboxes in the yards. Arc lights were broken and wires torn from the poles. No one was injured. The Pennsylvania railroad also re ported damage to wires and poles be tween Harrisburg and Lancaster and on the Middle division as far west as Lewlstown. A car roof was blown off near Rockville and a number of arc light globes broken in the Har risburg yards. Won't Prosecute Railroads Until Action by Court Washington, D. C., Nov. 24.—Under a tentative agreement arranged be tween Department of Justice officials and railroad attorneys, the govern ment will not insist on railroads put ting into effect provisions of the Adamson act until the Suprome Court has determined the law's constitution ality. 13 HURT IN N. Y. CRASH New York. Nov. 24.—Twelve per sons were injured, several perhaps fa tally to-day, when the last car of a seven-car Third avenue elevated train left the tracks and was crushed against a workman's shanty and a steel pillar at ,129 th street. Five of those hurt were women. ! ANOTHER BRITISH | HOSPITAL SHIP IS SENT TO BOTTOM With Wounded Aboard Brae mar Castle Is Mined or Torpedoed ALL ON BOARD SAVED : Nurses on Britannic Saved; Drowned Were Stokers and Engineers London. Nov. 24. The British hospital ship Braemar Castle of 6,280 j tons gross, bound from Saloniki to ' Malta with wounded, has been mined or torpedoed in the Aegean set, it was officially announced to-day. All on board were saved. The disaster occurred in the My koni ohannel, the announcement states. Mykonl is an Island In the Aegean sea, distant about 100 miles from Piearus. A comparatively narrow passage separates Mykoni from the Is land of Tino, to the northwest. A IX NURSES SAVED Athens, Nov. 22. via London, Nov. (Continued on Page 21) HIRAM MAXIM, INVENTOR, DIES Born in America and Develop ed Automatic Gun and Fly ing Machine London, Nov. 24.—Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the automatic system of firearms, died at his home here early this morning. Sir Hiram Maxim was born in Sangerville, Maine, on February 5, 1840. After a meager schooling he went to work in a machine shop and later was employed in the machine works of his uncle, Lew Stevens, at Fitchburg, Mass. At 28 he was a draftsman In a large steamship build ing concern in New York city, where he invented a new locomotive head light which went Into general use. He also did much to perfect automatic gas machines for lighting private houses. [Continued on Pasrc 22] Harvard and Yale Are Both in Fine Fettle For Game Tomorrow New Haven, Conn., Nov. 24. —Har vard and Yale will complete their long grind of traintng to-day in preparation for their annpal football game here to-morrow. Yale's team plans to run through sii nals behind closed Kates at old Yale field, while the Harvard squad which has been at New London since last night, will limber up on the baseball field in that city. From the rival camps comes the word that both teams are confident; that the players are in good physical condition and ready for the whistle to blow. PRESIDENT TO ATTEND GAME Washington, D. C., Nov. 24. Presi dent Wilson's cold was better to-day and he expects to attend the Ariny- Navy football game at New York to morrow. Finds Living Up 25 Per Cent. So Gives 30 Per Cent. Raise New York, Nov. 24. Based on an Inquiry which disclosed that the em ployes of the Central Trust Company are paying from 25 to 35 per cent, more for such life necessaries as food and clothing, a salary increase equiv alent to from 30 to 31 per cent, was announced by the company to-day. CHEESE NOT NOURISHING New York, Nov. 24. Saloon cheese and beer may be filling but If there is any nourishment In such a repast It is not in the chasse, it was brought out at the hearing of the Wicks Leg islative conimttteo investigating food conditions here. It developed that "saloon cheese" is not purely a de scriptive title, but Is the trade name for a specific article made out of skimmed milk and sold only to sa loons for free lunch counters. Single Copy, 2 Cents CITY EDITION TURNUSEVERIN AND ORSOVA ARE HELD BY TEUTONS Complete Conquest of Little W allachia by Breaking Ru manian Resistance NEARING ALT VALLEY I I Expect Allies to Make Their Last Stand Here; Bulgars on the Move Virtual completion of the Teutonic conquest of Little Wallachia Is an i nounced to-day by Berlin. Ossova and Turnu Severln, on the Danube, have been captured by the Austro-German forces which have broken the resist ance of the Rumanians in this section of Western Rumania. No mention is made of the booty taken or of the fate of the Rumanian forces which were defending the Os sova region. The retreat of these forces is assumed to have been cut off with the recent capture by General von Falkenhayn's armies of Craiova and with it the only main line railroad leading eastward. Pushing eastward front the Jiul val ley after their capture of Craiova, the Austro-German forces are now an nounced as approaching the Alt valley. It is along this valley that the Ru manians apparently have elected to make their next stand. Bucharest yes terday reported a withdrawal of the Rumanians from the Jiul region and announced that they were holding their own in the Alt valley, where a Teutonic force is driving from the northern Rumanian border in a con verging attack with the forces from the west. Bulgarians Oil Move Simultaneously a , movement has been made, presumably by the Bul garians, which may prove of notable importance. Bucharest reports an at tempt by hostile forces to cross the Danube at Zimnitza, thirty-five miles southwest of Giurgiu on the railroad | leading to Bucharest. This move, if successful, would mean a cutting in far behind the present Rumanian line (Continued on Page 5) London, Nov. 24. The Greek royalist troops have re > NINNNI I ! 16 uac force, says an Exchange Telegraph Company dis t patch from Athens to-day. I i F Hazleton, Pa., Nov. 24.—Acting under the State law i I fixing the penalty at not less than SIOO, nor more than S3OO, ■ Mayor Jan E. Troupe, of Ber- I cd while oner- I [ . . [[ VILLA'S SECOND ATTACK fcEPULSEEf '4k Juarez, Nov. 24.—Francisco Villa renewed his attacks < forces driven from their positions outside the city, it was an* I nounced at military headquarters here shortly after noon , MARRIAGE LICENSES L < J"|> n H. Zimmerman nn ,| Mnry M. E. Ilalley, Mlddletovrn. !I'r aeh Bott O '-aiienater, and Mabel Marituente thnrabera, IXor t hTle n iN " 11 nm An,| emon. Snnbury, and Carrie Katherlne l'tlugfelder, POLICE CODE IS NOT SO PLEASING TO COUNCILMEN Commission Said to Be Any thing but Enthusiastic About Meals' Plan MAKE POLICE CHIEF BOSS Which Just Can't Be Under the Clark Act Is Contention of City Fathers City Council, 'tis said, isri't a wee bit enthusiastic about Mayor Meals' new police code. The rules cover a multitude of things—nearly as varied a list of them as the walrus once discussed—but the City Commissioners aren't a bit favor ably inclined toward adopting them as they sland. The regulations were laid over for printing so that they can be taken up one by one at Tuesday's meeting. And among other things' that will require decided revision, so eouncllmen de clare. is that initial paragraph which prescribes the duties of the chief of police. In brief, the rules provide that the chief shall be the sole head of the department; that he has to do the "hirin" and flrin' " of cops, etc.: shall prescribe all the rules and regulations for the department—in other words, the r hi"f is to he boss. Which just can't he. say eouncllmen; the Clark act forbids it. Hence the revision. Boy Slayer Saws Out of Jail to Escape Chaii Punxsutawney, Pa., Nov. 24.—Hen ry W. Mottern. aged 17, who was con victed of killing William Haines, of Sprangle's Mills, of March 22, and was sentenced to be electrocuted on January 22, sawed his way to liberty from the Jefferson county jail yester day. Immediately his escape had been discovered, posses were organized and a search begun but no trace of the fugitive has been found. RAT.I.Y DAY SERVICES Shiremanstown, Pa., Nov. 24. Rally day will he observed in the United Brethren Sjunday school on I Sunday morning.
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