2 AEROPLANE AS A! WARFAREWEAPDN A Recital of Recent Thrilling Air Duels BetweeD French and German Machines THEIR VALUE IN AERIAL SCOUTING A French Corp* Commander Ventures Opinion That a Single Aeroplane I* aa Valuable as a Whole Division of Cavalry in War Paris, Oct. 14, 9.10 A. M. —The ac tivity ol' Herman aeroplanes over Pari? has brought up a geueral discussion ol rile value of these machines in warfare and a recital of thrilling aerial duels between French and German machines. One Prencth corps ownmaniler is quot«sl as having said tnay, iu h:s opinion a single aeroplane was as valuable a> a division of cavalry. Aeroplanes are of the greatest service in preventing sur prises. and few important movements of troops iiave been made which haye not been promptly reported by aerial scouts before their completion. A daring encounter took place recent ly between a German inonorlinc anil a French 'upiane during a critical mo ment in the execution of nil important maneuver north of the river Oise. The Germaa n.ai-hine was seen sailing over tie Fre eh lines jusi before a strong detachment of troops was to start on a movement to the nortii. For the suc cess of this maneuver it jvas vital that . ritis scout of the air be removed and a French biplane undertook the respon sibility. The French machine rose from fhe ground abruptly and in rapid circles pained an altitude greater than that of the Oerman. but even this advantage was not sufficient to drive the scout away. In a daring dive iu which he braved a heavy ti-e from the French lines tie German descended to a height of 1.000 yards, and skilfully avowing the French machine, he started to drive for the German lines. The Frenchman seemed to ha>e the advantage in sr>eel which has not often been the case in aeroplane encounters in this war. For a whi!fr the German was successful in keeping out of reach of the Frenchman, liut the biplane, continuing its flight a; a considerable height, finally attaiuel an advantangeous position. Then there could be heard the quick and sharp reports of a machine gan on the Fren "h flyer. The monoplane floated for a few moments as if the pilot had lost control and then, flut tering like a wounded bird on the wing, the machine started an oblique fligHit downward which ended in its crashing to the earth. LOSES SAVINGS OF LIFETIME AS SHELL WRECKS HIS HOME New ork, Oct. 14.—Captain Kol hange, of the Belgian steamer Sam land, which arrived to-day from Lon don, said his home in Antwerp had been destroyed by a German shell and that he had lost his savings of a life time. "When the attack on the fort be- Can. said Captain Kolange. "nn wife sent two of oar children to me in Lon don. while she stayed in Antwerp to look after our home, our propertv and the other children. When one of the big shel's struck our house my wife was hurlfd out of bed. She and the • hildren, scantily clad, escaped from the ' ouse before oth.'r shells fell, lyater they succeeded in reaching England." GERMAN WOMEN' AND CHILDREN PERMITTED TO QL IT TSING-TAL' Tokio. Oct. 14. 3.40 P. M.—lt was declared officially in Tokio to-day that the American cousul at Tsiag-Tau. W. R. Peck, and a number "of German women and children are to leave Tsingy- Tau to-morrow. This move is n fulfill ment of .the arrangement recent'y con dude! for the removal of all remaining non-combatants from the German po sition in Kiao-Ohow. An engagement between a German and a Japanese aeroplane occurred ovei Tsing-Tau yesterday. Neither aviator was hurt. The German machine rose to a heigat o' 9,000 feet and disappeared in the clouds. GERMAN CAMPS TWENTY MILES LONG IN VICINITY OF ANTWERP London, (Vt. 14. 3.25 A. M. —"The captain of an Ameriiaa schooner which was permitted to pass Antwerp to-day," says the "Daily Express." Hotter-lam correspondent in a dispatch filed (Mon day, "states that the German camps extend iu a semi circles four miles wide and twenty miles in extent between the inner and outer fortifications. "There were no fires in the city then though the ruins were smouldering. The ermans were busily engage*! in making an inventory of the stores wnich had fallen into their hands. - ' Pekin. Oct. 14.—According to ad vices received here from Tsing-Tau, ar rangements ha>e beer, made for the re moval from that city of W. R. Peek, the American consul, and non-consbat auts. The transfer of these people to the Japanese, will be made to-morrow under a white flag. It is understood that bombardment of Tsing-Tau by the Japanese will begin October 17. To Safeguard Non-Combatants Tokio. Oct. 14.—1t is reliably re ported that tthe German commander at Tsing-Tau has agreed to tihe Japanese proposals as put TO'ward by the Em peror of Japan for the preservation of the lives of non-combatants in the Ger man fortress and it is expected that these neutrals will leave Tsing-Tau «hortlv bv wav of the Shantung rail way. LAWYERS' PAPER BOOKS Printed at this office in best style, at lowest prices and on short notice. FRENCH REPORT DENIES DESTRUCTION OF TWO OF ITS CAVALRY DIVISIONS Paris. Oct. 14. 3.10 R M.—The fol lowing official announcement was given o;rt in Paris this afternoon: "In tho Belgian Held of operations there were some en winters during the night t»f 0.-tobe-- 12-13 and during the day of the 13th in t.he region around Ghent. Kuglisfa and French troops have occupied Ypres. "First—On our left wing, as far as • the Oise, the operations are developing normally. •' Second—On the center previous re , ports of the progress of our armies .in rhe region of Berry-au-Bac have been con tinned. "Third—On our right wing there is nothing new. German Press News Denounced " While it is not our custom to reply to the inaccuracies of the German press.' ■ t seems to us rroper to denounce the' . :'aise news published in certain German newspapers concerning the pretended! destruction of two divsions of French > cavalry. This information is absolutely erroneous. The truth is that '.*ertain ; forces of French and German cavalry, ■ with supports, nave been engaged for •several days along the front at I.a! Bassee, Kstaires and Bailleul. The Ge mini avalry sncceded in maßing a very j slight advance between the cana' of '«a Bassee and the Lys, but tihey were; obliged to .(raw back in the territory! north or' Lys. "The losses susnained by the Ger-: man cnvalry are assuredly as percept ible as our own. One of t*he German >|i-1 j visions suffered particularly because j it was pursued during one entire day i by our avitors, who did not 'cease to! throw l>omhs down upon the Genuan I | troops. Verdun Report Also False "Another case is the fact that the Germans aunounce t'hey are undertak i ing the investment of Verdun. Tn this , instance, also, to learn the truth, it Is sufficient to refer to the situation as j set fortfh. on several different occasions,! ■ n tiie French oflicia 1 communications, f . The Germans have not succeeded up to j the .resent time in hurling t*hemseOvesi against the fortified position of Ver-1 dun. They have, however, made two futile effort? to envelope, at a consul-1 era'ble distance, the French forves which j are operating around Verdun. "One of these efforts was chllraHer ized by their attempt to go through the' Argonne forest, between Binarville and ; Varennes. It will be recalled that this j movement failed, with very important losses. We did not even announce at t'he time rhat two German battalions had been annihilated is this engage- I nient. Crossing of the Meuse "The other enveloping movement on ! the par: of the Germans, undertaken in milch g-eater numerical strength, was directed toward crossing tihe ATeuse in j the region of St. Mihiei. If the Ger-j mans succeeded in reading this river i on the front, between Maifey and j Ohauvoccoiirt. all t.ieir efforts to ad- j var.ee farther resulted in failure. The! German forces found themselves caught on the flank by detachments of our j troops which advanced from the south to the north through the southern see-1 tion of the heights of the IMeuse and i through the southern section of the | Woevre distri"f. GERMANS SUSPECTED IN MOVEMENT TO REPEAT RAPID FORWARD MOVE London. Oct. 14. 1.40 P. M, —Out of the mass of wholly irretconcilable asser tions regarding the war in Europe, emerges the seemingly established fact that ti-e (iermaus are attempting to re peat- the rapid sweeping movement which five weeks took them al most to the gates of Paris. With most of Belgium already occu pied there is nothing that can stop the invaders reaching the coast ami remain .ll a there at least temporarily utriess the Britis i naval guns are able to render tenure impossible. The length of their stay at the popular seaside resort,' should they seize Osten l, will, of COUTSC, ' depend upon tihe outcome of the great - battle now understood to be opening near the frontiers separating the prov-1 ' inces of West 'Flanders and 'Hainaut' from the French department of the . i north. Allies' Left Strongly Reinforced Beyond an unconfirmed report of fighting iu the direction of i'. 1 oas* town fifteen miles northeast of ! , Ostend, there is r.o frrtlher news of the ' German advance in this vicanity. Far ther south there is reason to believe !. that rhe left wing of the allies has been strongly reinforced and confirmation of . this is found in tho statement in the , last report from General Joffre. the , Fren h commander-in-chief, that the of fensive aga.nst rhe Germans has been resumed in tfaat part of the line of ' battle. Tn order to strength his forces in ':this vicinity General Von Kluck has Mrown an entire hnny corps into LiiJe. , This manufacturing city has once t>e i fore been in German hands and it has . been within the German lines since an early stage of the hostilities. Its occu i ration to-day does not seem to have 1 been seriously opposed, in fact it is ex , plained here that it could not have , been without disarranging tiie allies' . line. Germans Anxious for Amiens , ' A- ording to observers in London, the Germans have been particularly anxious to reach Amiens and thus se , cure control of tihe railroads to the , north and to the south. But, according to a- French official announcement the . 1 allies have checked their movement in . this direction and have made a "mark ed advance between Arras and Albert," where the principal German effort een ' jte-ej. Embassy Women Asked to Leave ] Oct. 14. 2.56 P. M.—ln a . dispatch from Amsterdam the corres- I pondent of the Rfuter Telegram Com : panv says the Frankfurter "Zeitung'' ; has received a communication from . i Constantinople which says that the l British Ambassador to Turkey, Sir , L«oiiis Mallet, asked the women of the . embassy last Monday to leave the city. Cholera Cases Multiply Rapidly t Paris. Oct. 14, 11.50 A. M.—A dis i patch to the Havas Agency from Borne savs: "Cases of cholera are multiply ing rapidly in Galicia. Transylvania and north and East Hungary. The fear is expressed that the disease will I prove a serious menace to military op -1 crations." HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 14, 1914. BELGIUM ASKS AID DERE Consul General of Philadelphia, Makes an Appeal for Contributions for War Soffarers I Belgium asks the aid of iHarrisburg ers in the relief of the suffering caused I in that country by the war. P. Rage- | mann. Consul General of Belgium, in i Philadelphia, to-day asked the sfrtar-In dependeut to print the following ap- n : :>eal: . c \ "To the Public: Once more I ap- 11 peal to your generosity in behalf of ' suffering Belgians. Antwerp has fallen, * Ghent has faileu. 'Many of our cities t are in ruins. Industry is almost wiped out. Local food supplies ore almost ex d j hausteiL The desolation and suffering T in once happy, prosperous Belgium are I i without a modern parallel. Millions of d women and children ar utterly penniless, s Nearly all our men are without employ- a I uient. Unless the world helps, the Bel- f , gians will die of cold apd famine. 5 I '' Wihhout regard to any political 2 , considerations I ask your contributions r j for our non-comlwtant sufferers. Every 0 little jielps. We cannot get enough. I Generous have offered f services and money to'eover advertis- c 1 ing. clerical assistance, postage, ew., { so that every dollar <>ontri.biit«<l will go (i ! liiroc't to Belgian nou-coMbatant suf- \ ! ferers. "Sen.l all money contributions to 1 Charles C. Harrison, Jr.. & Co., Lafav- » ' ette building. Philadelphia, treasurers i of the Belgian Relief Fund for Destitute Non-( omhatants. who will forward the 1 money direct to the Belgian Minister in ; Washington who has endorsed themove j ment. T " AH subscriptions will be -published, j! omitting names when requested, and : | receipts sent prompty. Official state ! ments as to disposition of fund will bo ( made frequently. s "In the name of Belgium I extend * my thanks f<u> contributions already re- ' eeiveti.' 1 ' t PORTUGUESE MOBILIZATION J . PROBABLE, A LISBON RKPORT . London, Oct.* 14, 1.35 A. M.—Ca- 1 , tiling from Lisbon, the correspondent of i j the "t entral News" says it is reported J j that the German Minister to Hirtugal ' ; and other Germaus residing in Lisbon ' | are about to leave for Madrid, i As a result of Cabinet meetings and 1 j conferences between the leaders of the ' | various Portuguese parties and the J I President of the republic, the corre- ' spoudent continues, it has been resolved ! to convoke Congress October IS iu ' der to pass a vote for the mobiiization 1 of Portuguese troops. I AMERICAN VICE CONSUL AT i (iHENT DOES HEROIC DEEDS « London. Oct. 14, 4.35 A. M.-r-Julius ' 1 Van Hee. the American vice confiil at 1 J j Ghent, before leavingthat city for Brue- I , 1 sels made repeated trips from, his hotel' | j to the railway station carrying wounded | ] Belgians in his motor car in order to ! ' i enable them to go to Ostend.'' says the 1 I "Daily Chronicle's" Belgium corre- ' j spondent. j Mr. Van Hee performed the i same services for six badly wounded I j persons at the military hospi-tal." DUTCH STEAMER CHASED BV CRIISER OFF ASBURY PARK ' New York. Oct. 14.—Officers of the | 1 Dutch steamer Prinz Willem V, which ' | arrived to-<lay from the West Indies, ! < ! reported that the vessel had been j chased bv a British cruiser while off As ; bury Park. Two German citizens were ! aboard the steamer. hen the British cruiser approached I the steamer was headed iu shore. She | ran well within the 3-mile limit. The ' war vessel then turned and steamed ' out to sea. BATTLE ON ABOUXD WARSAW. ! AT VISTULA AND SAX RIVERS j, Washington. Oct. 14.—Colonel Col jewski, military attache of the Russian embassy here, received to-day the fol- i losing official dispatch from Petro- ' ; grnd: " A battle has begun on a line ex- ' tending from the country around War | saw along the rivers Vistula and San ! to Pryzemysl and further to the south of the river Dniester, in East Prussia 1 the situation remains unchanged." | A FRENCH GENERAL IS KILLED WHILE LEADING HIS BRIGADE Paris, Oct. 14, 9.10 A. M.—News j was received in Paris to-day of the death of General Rondony, commander j of the Third brigade of French colonial ' infantry. The general was killed 'j while leading his brigade against the enemy. Two English nurses have met their i. death on the field of battle. The wom en were killed by an exploding shell while they were on duty in a field hos- \ pital behind the center of the allied armies. Military Governor Killed at Arras liondon, Oct. 14. 3.25 P. M.—The ; ' Exchange Telegraph Company has given out a dispatch from Paris say- : ing that General Mareol, former gov- [ ernor of the famous French military, ■ school at St. Cvr, and one of the best known of the French gpnerals, has been killed in the fighting in the neigh-1 ' borhood of Arras. — Ostend Objective Point of Germans 1 The Hague, Oct. 14, via London,' 4.17 P. M. —According to a special dis patch to the " Avondpost" no fewer] than 50,000 Germans are in Ghent. ' Many of them, however, are 'eaving in I the direction of Brughes. A German of ficer is quoted in this dispatch as sav i ing that Ostend was the objective ! point of the German advance. Coining to America for Money i London, Oct. 14, 12.33 P. M.—E. B. ■ Wyman, head of the information bureau i •' of the American Belref Committee in ■ London, sailed on the steamer Adriatic ' . I to-day for New York, accompanied by his wife. Mr. Wvmaawill endeavor to raise money in Amelia to enable the ' committee to carry on its work as long I ? as may be necessary. t Boston Curb Exchange Resumes 1 By Atsi/ciatrrt Press. I. Boston, Oct. 14.—The Boston curb | ! exchange resumed business to-day after I having been closed since July 30. I ANNOUNCE EDISON ESSAY I CONTEST FDR OCTODER 21 . Pupils in Ninth Grade Schools In City to Compete for Priies—E. g. Wal lower Heads Committee on Judges —Letters of Instructions In a circular letter to all the grain- 1 mar or Ninth grade school teachers the 1 committee of the School Board which ( is arranging for the city-wide celebra- j tion of "Thomas A. Edisoe Day," OJ- I tober 21, to-day announced most of j the detdils. The committee, consisting of Presi dent Harry A. Boyer, Secretary I). D. j Hammelbaugh, Director Harry A. Bretz, Or. F. E. Oownes, school superinten dent, and Robert W. Hoy, commercial ( superintendent of the Harrisburg Light . and Power Company, was appointed | following the recent action of the ( School Board in setting aside October ( 21 as a day upon which the 450 gram- ( mar school pupils should write essays on the great olectrical inventor. Tn connection with this plan the Harrisburg Light and Power Company' offered cash prizes aggregating $25 for the best essays and this committee was ' appointed to serve as judges: K. Wallower and Professors W. H. Fahne stock and George R. Hull, of the facul- ] ties s of Central and Tech high respec tively. The letter of instructions to the school teachers is self-explanatory anil is as follows: "To Ninth Grade Teachers—On Oc tober 21 will occur the thirty-fifth an niversary of the perfection of the in candescent lamp by Thomas A. Edison. The Edison Lamp Works of the General Electric Company, Harrison, N. J., has conceived the idea of celebrating Bdi son Day in commemoration of this an niversary. The Harrisburg Light and Power Company jn response to this , movement has decided to offer prizes to our Ninth Grade pupils for best essays written on the life and achievements of Thomas A. Edison. Any data that may be desired relative to Mr. Edison will be furnished by the Harrisburg light and Power Company. "The money values of the prizes to be awarded are as follows: First prize, $10: second prize, SS; third, fourth, fifth and sixth prizes, $2.50, each* "The essays will be limited to from nine hundred to one thousand words each. They must be written on the regular ink" tablets supplied by the School District and ou one side of the paper only. The teacher of each Ninth Grade school is requested to cor rect the essays submitted by the pu pils of that school, select the first six of these and submit these six only to the committee in charge. All essays are to be handed in at the secretary 's office not later than October 21, the anniversary day. The final decision of the committee will be based upon the excellence of the essays, not only from the view point of thought and ma terial. but upon all the details of com position. such as neatness of work, punctuation, capitalization, etc. In fact this will be looked upon probably as of greater importance than the his torical facts for the reason that these facts will be supplied by the company. All essavg should be expressed in the language of the pupil." MEETIXGS WELLATTEXDED Stough Campaign Shop Meetings Are Proving Extremely Satisfactory The shop meetings which the Stough party are holding daily in the interest of the Stough campaign are drawing much attention and are proving of much value to the advance activities. | All of the shop meetings so far have' been very well attended and the shop | people are looking forward to them with great interest. At a meeting held last night at the county almshouse by Billy Shannon and Miss Colt eighteen persons asked for prayer. Shop meetings were held to-day at noon at the Blough Manufacturing Company factory in Reilv street in charge of Homer Black, of the Y. M. C. A.; at the Summerdale shops of the! P. R. R., in charge of the Rev. B. L. Moore, pastor of the Enola I'nitedi I Evangelical church, and at the Luck-1 , now shop of the P. R. R. ■ A rally of persons interested in the neighborhood prayer meetings of the First and Third wards was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock in St. Paul's | Methodist church in charge of Billy ' Shannon and Miss Colt. ! A similar meeting for the Fourth and Fifth wards was conducted in the Boas Street United Brethren church at i 3 o clock by the same persons. The personal service committee meet- I ing scheduled for Thursday night in the Deny Street L'nite'd Brethren church has been postponed to Friday i night at 8 o'clock. Large rampaign posters will be placed all over the city during this week. PREPARING FOR RALLY DAY Dr. C. P. Wiles to Make Address at Christ Lutheran Church Christ Lutheran church and Sunday 1 school are planning for a great Rally service next Sunday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock. The principal event at the Rally will be an address by Dr. C. P. j Wiles, of Philadelphia. Dr. Wiles is editor of the Sunday school literature | [of the Lutheran church of the General | Sv/iod of the United States. Another attractive feature will be a j | chorus of men from Steelton. consist- I ing of sixteen voices. They will ren l der several numbers. T. H. Hamilton, j 1 of this city, will give an exposition of' ! the lesson. The program will include; | a number of vocal solos by trained j J singers, and a processional by the Bs-! jginner and Primary departments. Every one in attendance is to receive! a beautiful souvenir. A watch fob will i !be given each member of the Men's' I Bible class. The decorating committee, is at work to make the school room a : veritable garden of fall foliage and flowers. The officers of the school pre | diet the largest attendance in the : school's history. Visits Metropolitan's Sanitarium John Heathco'.e. a superintendent of i the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com-' I panv, returned to-day from an inspec-1 tion trip to McGregor, N. Y„ where 1 the company has built a sanitarium for : the use of its employes who are suffer | ing from tuberculosis. There are in I the sanitarium about one hundred of the company's employes, both from the home office and the field. EXHIBIT CROWDS INCREASE New Pur« rood Products aa Well as Attractive Ways of Preparing Old Ones Are Shown Crowds increase nightly at tho see end annual pure food exhibit held un der the auspice* of the wholesole gro-! cers of Harrisburg, the attendance Inst j night totaling almost 3.000, just' doubling that of the first night. It brings home to the users of goods of national fame the cleanliness used i in the manufacture of the product and! what's more it shows the housewife new and attractive ways of preparing long used articles. Then, just to help it along, a sample package is given so that the first trial can be made at home. lectures by Mrs. Jennings, a domes tic science expert, are proving inter esting. Along with her instructions she bakes bread, cakes and biscuits. Demonstrations are made every after noon and evening. The exhibit is open ! during the afternoons from 2 to 61 o'clock and in the evenings from 7 to j 10 o'clock. COURT HOUSE PUS BH; BATCH OK PAVTMT Highway Commissioner to Open Bids on October The lost big patch of street paving •work —31,000 cubic vards —to be laid out before the arrival of the real cold weather is planned in a call for bids to be received and opened at noon on October 24 by Highway Commissioner William IHV Lynch. oCntractors are asked to bid for Paving work on the following street sec tions: Emerald, Apricot, Whisler, I'rimrose, Gruber, Swato, Wingert, Nine teenth, Wharton, Derry, Howard, Ethel, 'Market and Derry. This work will re quire 17,000 feet of granite curbing. The majority of the ipaving contracts awarded by the City Commissioners during the past summer have ibeen worked out by the contractor and only u few of the jobs now planned by the Highway Commissioner will be started this fall. This plan also will facilitate starting the paving work early next spring. To Sell Scrap Iron More than 2,500 tons of scrap iron which has accumulated througn rne re moval of abandoned water mains will be sold at a public sale to be conducted by Public Safety Commissioner Harrv F. Bowman at the pipe shop on Monday afternoon, October 26, at 2 o'clock. Pay Street Lighting The Harrisburg Light and Power Company was this morning paid $4,331.60, that money representing the cost of street lighting during the month of September. The City patrolmeu also received their semi-monthly checks this morning. Prothonotary Improving Prothonotary Harry F. Holler, who had bepn confined to his home at Hum inelstown for more than a week suffer ing with an attack of bronchitis, is slowly improving. He visited the office yesterday for a few minutes, although his condition does not .warrant his re turn to work at thU time. LETTERS OF THANKS READ Received by Local Fireman From Those Who Attended Convention At last night ' 3 meeting of t4ie Fore men's Union in the Washington tire house, letters from out-of-town fire com ipanies were read. They were all along the same line, thanking the local iire j men for the courtesies extended them during their stay in this city. This being the first meeting since t'he convention tihe work was mostly rerview work such as the reporting of commit tees and the like. Howard O. IHolstein, chairmna of t'he finance 'committee, said that aHI bills contracted for during tihe convention have 'been paid to date and tlnat enough money is in the treasury to fav those that have not yert been I turned in. Resolutions were adopted thanking ' the citizens of Harrisburg for decora -1 tions, Mayor Royal, Police C&ief Hutcty j ieon and the rest of the police force and I the newspapers for their aid. j A. !L. Button, chairman of the enter ; tainment committee, reported that the union cleared about SSOO by the Ferari carnival an.l about the same amount toy the firemen's popularitv contest, wtoicto was won toy John G. Willis. The next regular session of the union will be held on November 10. ARREST WOMAN FOR FORGERY Charged With Securing 97 on Check at Ensminger's Drug Store A young woman charged with pb- I taining $7 on a worthless check at the I Eosminger drug store, 214 Xorth Stfc j ond street, was arrested last evening at 6 o'clock by City Detective White, on a warrant issued on information signed by Dr. J. T. Ensminger. He told the police that he gave her that amount of money on a check for S2O and she promised to call for the check, which was left for security. She never re turned. he told the police, arraigned before Chief of Po lice Hutchison last evening she gave ; her as Margaret Feeser. She is j 21 years old. She waived a hearing ( and was held under S3OO bail for her appearance in court. According to the J police three similar checks were found, but no more money was raised on any I of them. Mrs. Oeorge W. Palmer Diee Mrs. George W. Palmer, of Pitts j burgh, mother of Mrs. Catherine A, (Place, 1712 Carnation street, died sud- I denlv last evening of apoplexy while ' here on a visit to her daughter. The body will be taken to Pittsburgh Vo-night at 11.55 o'clock by Under ■ taker George H. Sourbier. Funeral services will be held in Pittsburgh Sat j urday afternoon and burial will be made in that city. Penrose Attacks War Bevenne Bill By Associated Pre**, Washington, Oct. 14. —The Republic an attack on the war revenue bill was \ continued in the Senate to-day by Sen- I ator Peh rose. He declared that t'he measure was "war legislation in time of peace" and said that the necessity for additional revenue arose from the "total failure of the Democratic fiscal policy of tariff for revenue only." Artistic Printing at Btar-lndependent. CAPITOL | WILY STATE POLICEMAN < TRACKS A FILIPINO 1 | Civilized Native of the Philippines. Who la Charged With Forgery in 1 Western Pennsylvania, Flees to ' New Orleans —i I ■»• Dale I ook, a .State policeman, sta- i tioned at Butler, to-day secured a reuui- ( sitiou from Governor tener 011 the Gov- | | ernor of Louisiana for tlio return to I j Pennsylvania for trial of Nathan A Sisson, a native of the Philippines, who , is wanted for forgery in Butler and is ( under arrest in New Orleans. Sisson , came to this country several voars ago . and was a student at the Chicago Uni- < versity. where he seems to have ac- i cumulated ideas that were not strictlv i of au educational character. He lo cated in Pittsburgh and artcrwards i went to Butler, where, it is alleged, i he pursued a system of swindling bv < forged checks, being aided bv accom plices in Pittsburgh. Sisson removed i his baggage to Pittsburgh and then < shipped it to New Orleans, and Trooper , Cook was put on his trail. . By the employment of a little Sher lock hoi tnesism the trooper discovered that Sisson's baggage was bound for the southern city, and he telegraphed the number of the checks to the New Orleans authorities, with a request that | Sisaon be arrested, which was done as I soon as he presented his checks for his ! baggage. Trooper look left for New Orleans this afternoon to get his man. Sissou is said to have swindled a large number of merchants and others by means of forgeil checks and* secured a big sum of money, how much could not be stated, as the forged checks are still coming in. Raiding Fish Pirates . The State fish wardens, acting under instructions from State Fish Commis sioner Buller, have arrested a large number of moil along the lower {Sus quehanna who are alleged to have vio lated the fish laws, trapping game fish with'illegal devices, killing fish out of season and otherwise making them selves amenable to the law. State po licemen assisted in the raids resulting in the capture ot the fish pirates, and the latter have been heavily fined. Laws Codified The Legislative Reference Bureau ,has completed the codification of all laws relating to boroughs and lias pre pared a new law embracing all the sa j lient and necessary features of borough j government. The new measure will be | , submitted to the next session of the j Legislature. Huntingdon's Treasurer Governor Tcner has appointed H. W. I , Harrison, of Mount Union, to be treas-| urer of Huntingdon county, to fill a vacancy occasioned by death. , Candidates Withdraw Withdrawals of Legislative candi ! . | dates from the ticket to be voted in | , | September have been filed at the State ' . j Department as follows: Kober; H. I i | Smith, Republican and Keystone, Pirst i , | Philadelphia district; H. H. Young. ' i Prohibition, First Fayette; .1. M. tfem- i j bower and W. 11. Martin, Prohibition, j ! Second Fayette; George W. Porter, j | Washington, Jefferson county; A. Mar- | ; tin Graham, Democrat, 'Lawrence, i i —• j Automobile Licenses Automobile licenses to the number of ! j 104,569 have been issued at the Au- ; tomobile Division of the State Highway j Department and 6,200 trucks have been j [ licensed. These, «with the licenses to j ( ] dealers, drivers and others, run the | number of licenses issued thus far very j s I close to 150,000. Hamburg Sanatorium State Health Commissioner Dixon j j visited the Hamburg tuberculosis sana- I s torium to-day and found the work so I far advanced that it is expected the in- j , stitution will be ready for patients by j , October 26, the opening to take place ! on October 24. I : . | Typhoid Subsiding .' In the seven days of typhoid epi -1 ! demic at Lehigh University twenty-six 1 cases developed but the fear of a fur- ! .! ther spread is over. Having showu j » that the water supply was not the ' ; cause an analysis of milk and food is | r being made, and all milk and vege- ! j tables now furnished are being cooked. I t t Board of Accounts The Board of Public Accounts held a meeting to-day and took up matters | that have accumulated since the last 1 7 meeting. In the absence of Attorney i General Bell, his place on the board t was taken by Deputy Attornev Gen- , eral Cunningham. Auditor General | Powell and State Treasurer Young were I ' j also present. " j New Justice i i Thomas A. Hos-temian was to-day appointed justice of the peace for Penn | 1 township, Centre county. t Last Substitution Day 9 j Saturday next will be the last day 1 i : for the substitution of candidates on • [ the ballot in place of tliose who have ' ! withdrawn. Monday next will be the - j last day for candidates to withdraw, e jj' LEHMAN TO DRIVE AUTO ' e Gets Appointment at Good Will Five Company r Fire Chief John C. Kindler this morning announced that Samuel H. 1 Lehman, a member of the Good Will Fire Company, would be engaged to i drive the new motor apparatus of that 1 i company, the driver to take up the new 1 •' work to-morrow morning. At present : j he is employed at the Market hotel, i e Fourth and Capital streets. The appoiutment of George Irvin to I ! drive the new motor apparatus at the 1 Friendship Fire Company was announc >ll ed some time ago. Irvin has been a -1 driver of the combination wagon at e the Friendship for some time and has made himself familiar with the Morton truck of that company by watching its construction at the locai plant of the ■Morton Truck and Tractor Company. s Knocked Senseless by Chain • Nossel Droggie, 26 years old, an Aus e employed by T. Larry Rvre, con e tractor on the Second street subway, y was rendered unconscious this morning e when he was struck in the eye by a J huge chain. He was carried to the Harrisburg hospital, where he respond ed to treatment. Droggie resides at :. 57 Conestoga street, Steelton. EXPLOSION £ CATHEDRAL Dynamite Incased in Metal Placed Un der Pew in Famous St. Patrick's— Edifice Damaged by Crash New \ nrk, Oct. 14.—A bomb made of dynamite, encased in metal, explod ed under a pew in 'the famous St. I 'at rick s Oatbedral, on 'Fifth avenue, late yesterday. A hide was blown in Hie floor, another smaller one in a window, t'hree pews >ve.re destroyed and pieces were hipped from a granite pillar ami from a temporary altar. Two of the five persons who were at worship in the church were slightly injure I bv flv ing fragments of metal and wood! Whether the explosion, the sound of which was heard blocks awav, was caused by a bomb was a matter of doubt for sonic hours. Reports that such a device had been employed were declared erroneous by t'iic police, who asserted that either n hot-air box or a recently ius l talle<l heating apparatus lhad burst. Inspector Owen Eairtfn, of t'he Bureau of Combustibles, decided last night, however, t'hnt a bomb had caused t'he damage. In the ilust and fragments gathered up were discovered a two-inch length of pipe a half inch 'in diameter, a hit of tin resembling a box cover and small pieces of iron. Police and fire officials said they knew «>f no motive any one icould have tor exploding a bomb in the Cathedral. Monsignor (Michael J. 'LaveHe and other priests of s9t. Patrick's niiwle simitar i statements. Mnnoignor Lavelle suggNsi led that a demented person with a j fancied grievance might have placed tfho bomb. HOY To MEET MUMMERS Chief of Staff for Big Para<ta to Meet. Association To-night Francis H. Hoy, ,lr., who has ac cepted the appointment as chief of stall' for the mummers' parade which will lie held here New Year's Day, will meet with the association this evening in the basenieut at police headquarters. More than » hundred invitations have been seut out to individuals and or ganizations which contemplate taking part in the parade, asking that the,\ attend the meeting t< hehr of I lie pa rade plans. The rules committee will report to the association ami if is expected that preliminary plans governing entries for the parade will l.e made. „ A meeting for the organization of the board of directors of the association will be scheduled and plans will be started for another ball to be held in Winterdalo I hall on the night of December 3". HOLD IT MEN TAKE WATCH j Hairy Updegrove Assaulted and Rob bed on Sixth Street Near Boas I Dick Oweus. a colored man, was ar | rested in an Eighth ward house last ' evening on complaint of W. Weaver, j who reported to the police that Harrv ! Updegrove, with whom he was walking j was held up by two men on Sixth | street, between Forster and Boas streets last night and robbed of a I watch. Weaver, according to the po | lice, identified Owens as one of the as sailants. Updegrove was requested to appear I before Mayor Royal in police court to | morrow afternoon to prosecute Owens. | Minnie Brown, in whose house Owens j was found by policemen, was also ar i rested and held on a disorderly prac | tice charge. The second man, said to • be in the case, was not found. I I EXPLOSION VICTIM RECOVERS ; William Frye, Injured in Garage Ex plosion Sent Hou-.b | William Frye, 15 years old, 336 South Sixteenth street, who Was ; burned in' the gasoline explosiou in the Mt. Pleasant garage, 1336 Thompson I street, September 16, was discharged j from the Harrisburg hospital yesterday j afternoon, having fully recovered. He | was burned about the face, hands and j arms, several burns on the arms being very deep. He is the first of the five I victims of the explosion to recover. Daniel Frazier, 1363 Howard street, i and Harry B. Noal, Rutherford Heights, two others, are still in the I hospital. Both these men were taken jto their homes on their own request and later returned to the hospital. Both j are recovering slowly. HAITI EN REBELS WIN VICTORY Are Successful Over Government Troops Near Limonade By Associated Press, Cape Haitien, Haiti, Oct. 14.—The ' Haitien rebels have won a victory ovo? I the troo[« of the government at a point j near Limonade, on the north coast, j The President of Haiti is retreating ' in the direction of Granderiviers. Other I government forces are returning to j Cape Haitien. MORO SEVEBS MAN S HEAD Charley Schuck Hilled and His Wife Wounded Near Jolo By Associated Press. Manila. Oct. 14. —Oharlev Schuck was killed and his wife wounded to day by a Moro near Jolo. The man's bead was severed from bis body. No i reason for the murder is assigned. Schuck had lived among the Moros ! for thirty years and was held in the j highest esteem. Funeral of Duncannon Boy (prank W. Maguire, aged 9 years, the | son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Maguire. | of Duncannon, died at the Harrisburg ! hospital Monday. The body was taken j to the home of his parents from where the funeral will be held. j - Read Bargain&Educational Advertisements Page 8 »-
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