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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.