THE WEATHER RAIH, TO NIGHfr AND TO MORROW Detailed Report. Pas* < SRfFSK." 0 VOL. 76 —NO. 114. GERMANS NOW OCCUPYING BRUGES IN THEIR ONWARDMARCH TOWARD OSTEND Kaiser s Troops Are Within Fif teen Miles ofLast \ serted by the B j ment French I clares Situation in Center Is About to Develop idly and That tinue to Make P Newspaper States Germans Lost 12,000 to 15,000 Men in Defeat at Arra Attacking Russian Positions in Galicia , Bp Associated Press. London, Oct. 15,1.50 P. M.—A dispatch to the "Central News" from Amsterdam confirms the report that the Ger mans have occupied Bruges, fifteen miles east of Ostend. The Hague, via London, Oct. 15, 6.35 A. M.—Train •service Rosendale and Antwerp h been ordered resumed Thursday. The concentric movement of German troops in Belgium upon Gstend is progressing. The van guards are believed to be at Bruges, Thourout and Dix mode. At Selzaet (30 miles north of Ghent) a proclamation issued by the Germans demands the registration of all males between the ages of 18 and £0 years. The proclama tion says that soldiers in uiiifonhs are to be treated as prisoners of war and that soldiers dressed in citizens' clothes will be treated as spie§. ALLIES' POSITIONS FAVORABLE Bordeaux, France, Oct. 15, 1.15 P. M.—A high official of the French government declared this morning that the last dispatches from the front showed that the military situation was about to develop more rapidly in the center, in the region of Berry-au-Bac and on the left in the La Basse Estaires and Bailleul district. The allies continue to make progress, this official con tinued. Several hotly contested positions which had changed hands repeatedly during the past few weeks, were now held strongly by the French, and the Anglo-French situation was most encouraging. THE GERMAN DEFEAT AT ARRAS Paris, Oct. 15, 1.02 P. M.—The newspaper "France du Nord" declares to-day that when the Germans were de feated at Arras they lost from 12,000 to 15,000 men who were surrounded by the French in some marshes. AUSTRIANS PURSUING RUSSIANS London, Oct. 15, 8.05 A. M.—Reuter's Telegram Com pany has received from Amsterdam the following official statement issued in Vienna at noon Wednesday: "General staff says that the Russians have occupied fortified positions on the line of Stry, Samber and Midyra, in Galicia, The Austrians are now attacking the positions. "In the Carpathians the Austrians occupied Toronya after four days of fighting and pursued the enemy in the direction of Wyskow. Smaller successful skirmishes have taken place in the Visso valley." The Germans who arc moving ou Osteud are reported to have occupied Bruges, fifteen miles east of the former city. This report is confirmed from neutral sources. A German official statement coming direct from Berlin by wireless says that their troops in Belgium are now marching iu part towards Ostend and in part in a south westerly direction towards the French frontier. There lias been heavy fighting east of ISoissons and the Argonnes, the Germans have at no point lost ground, it is declared! :> rench claims of successes in the Woevre district are denied. This afternoon s French official statement announces that the allies have made marked progress in the region of Lens and between Arras and Albert. On the center the allies, it is said, have advanced in the direction of Cra oune, while a German offensive movement to the north of Saint Die has been definitely checked. The reports and claims regarding the situation in the eastern theatre are as conflicting as before. A dispatch from Petrograd says that the Austro-Ger rnan army was completely defeated Wednesday in the neighborhood of Warsaw, Russian Poland, suffering enormous losses in casualties and prisoners. A wireless message from Berlin says that it was officially announced there to-day that the battle to the east of Wirballen in Russian Poland continues after eleven davs of lighting, favorable to the Germans. Repeated advances of the Rus sians having been repulsed with heavy losses. Paris says that the fighting continues along the front from Warsaw to Przemysl but gives no details. HARRIS BURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1914 12 PAGES. GERMANS MAKE SPIRITED ATTACK ON THE FRENCH: MANY SOLDIERS WOUNDED Paris, Oct. 15, 6.30 A. M. —The right wing of tthe allies is now begin ning to show signs of activity. Accord ing to reports reaching Paris this morn ing there wns yet an almost continuous firing of heavy artillery aloug the fron tier. A force of <!ermaivs delivered a spirited attack on Frencth troops iu which numbers were won ruled. As niglit closed this force of t'he enemy was driven back in t'he direction of Muel hauseu. Lieutenant Colonel Rousset. the "French military critic, in his article to day, declares t hat tSie recent official j communications are lacking in clearness and that it is impossible to find in them any indication. even an absolutely harmless one, of the present military situation. Colonel Kousset says he calls atten tion to this fact without any thought of recrimination. He is well aware that it is difficult to reconcile the legitimate curiosity of the public with the safe guarding of national interests, but when those interests are not at stake more liberality could be shown. The French people have given evidence of dignity with firmness, wisdom and patriotism and they should be taken more into the confidence of the government. In con cluding his article t'he critic points out several instances in which, in his ; opinion, the official communications have been lacking. The Hotel De Villa (town hall) at Arras, which was burned down after the bombardment of that place, was a building of Gothic style. ft was erect- I ed in the beginning of the sixteenth | century and was one of the finest types ' of this style of architecture in North ern France. THE BBLGIANSAND ENGLISH LOSE HEAVILYAT ANTWERP Berlin. Oct. 15, By Wireless to Say ville, Li. I.—A telegram received here from Rotterdam says that the losses of the Belgian and Enghsh troops during i the 'bombardment of Antwerp were tremendous. Bursting shells from the German side repeatedly killed at one time between forty and fifty soldiers in the Antwerp trenches. The statement from Russian sources to the effect that the two Oernian sub marines were sunk during the attack off the Gulf of Finland last week on j the Russian cruiser Pallada was to-day given official denial in Berlin. More thau 2,000,000,000* marks ($5,000,000) already have been phid in on the war loan. This is nearly 1,000,- 000,000 marks more than required. HAIURC-AIICAN LINER SUNK BY BRITISH CRUISER London, Oct. 15, 4.5 3 P. M. —The admiralty announces that the British j cruiser Yarmouth has sunk the German j Hamburg-American Line steamer Mark | omannia in the vicinity of Sumatra | and has captured and is taking into a j harbor the Greek steamer Pontports. ! Both the Markomannia and the ! Pontports have been reported previous ly as accompanying the German cruiser ! Emden. The Yarmouth has sixty Ger i man prisoners of war on board. The Markoiuannia had a gross tonnage of 1 4,505 and was engaged iu the African service. AUSTRIAN WAPSHIP BURNS IN TRIESTE ARSENAL FIRE London, Oct. 15, 3.30 P. M.—Fire ; in the government arsenal at Trieste, ■ the principal seaport of Austria-Hun- I gary on the Adriatic sea. has virtually i destroyed an Austrian dreadnaught un j der construction there, according to a "Central News" dispatch from Rome. Six torpedo boat destroyers also were damaged by the fire which quick- Ily enveloped the workshop. It is al | leged that a quantity of wood work in the arsenal was soaked with petrel. A number of workmen have been ar rested. The arsenal is said to have been greatly damaged. RUSSIANS CLAIM BIG VICTORY AT WARSAW, RUSSIAN POLAND London, Oct. 15, 3.44 P. M.—A dis patch from Petrograd to the "Messa gero" of Rome says that the Austro- German army yesterday was complete ly defeated in the neighborhood of Warsaw, Russian Poland. The Austrians and Germans suffered enormous losses. The Russians are stated to have taien thousands of pris oners. $5 GIVEN FOR BELGIANS George B. Stucker Heads List of Con tributors as Result of Appeal Made to Harrisburgers lii response to the appeal for funds for the aid of the war sufferers in stricken Belgium, published in the Star- Independent last evening at the request of P. Hagemanii, Belgian Consul Gen era! in Philadelphia, a contribution of $5 from George B. Stucker was sent to this office this morning. This money j will be forwarded at once to the proper! agency in Philadelphia. The Star Independent desires to call the attention of prospective contribu tors to the fact that, while the Star-In dependent wil! gladly forward any fur ther amounts received, it was the re quest of the Consul General in Phila delphia that all money be sent to "Charles C. Harrison, .Tr„ & Co., Laf ayette building. Philadelphia, treasur ers of the Belgian Belief Fund for Destitute Non-Combatants, who will forward the money direct to the Bel gian Minister in Washington, who has endorsed the movement." The Philadelphia Arm will promptly acknowledge all contributions thus sent and will send receipts to the contribu tors. 1 LOCAL RED CROSS FUNDS Eecent Contributions Swell the Amount to #237,<1« Recent contributions from the Penn sylvania Amusement Company and the People's Bridge Company, for moneys taken in on Red Cross baseball day and a contribution of SSO from the Pine Street Presbyterian church, has swelled the European war fund of the local Red Cross chapter to $237.63, The money from the baseball game on August -8 turned over recently to George W. Reilv, local treasurer, amounted to $74.88. Bridge toll on that day, which was turned into the fund, amounted to $14.50. Contributions pre viously acknowledged amounted to $118.25. TO TURN DOWN MAYOR'S MAN City Commissioners Will Appoint Sey mour as Policeman Instead of Kinley George W. Seymour, Sr., 1070 South Cameron street, it was said upon re ! liable authority to-day, will be named to succeed Andrew Murphy, the patrol man whom the Mayor has suspended on charges ot insubordination'and who. it is said, will resign. • Seymour's appointment will in all probability be made at next Tuesday's meeting of the City Commissioners. Murphy has not yet sent,in his resigna tion, although city officials say they expect it will be received by the City Clerk before the Commissioners' next nfeeting Seymour's appointment will come in | the form of an amendment to Mayor Royal's resolution, which has been pending for several weeks, under which the Mayor proposes to appoint Jacob Kinley in Murphy's stead. The Re publican Commissioners, it is under stood, will back Seymour, and they have sufficient strength to appoint him. ALL TRIIL AT NEWGERMAIITOWN Autumnal Robe Has Arrived on Time and Squirrels Scamper, Says Space Writer i FOREST'S AFIRE —BUT NO MATTER Levi Swartz Has a 4-pound Potato, Ci der Is Oocing From the Presses and Special Correspondent's Milli nery Store Has a Fine Fall Opening (From Our Special Correspondent) New Uermantown, Perry County, i Oct. 14. —Nature's gav autumnal roue is changing to a more sombre hue since the tine rain we had last week and I more is badly needed now. Farmers are bus\t seeding and tired are the reaper* that come from the cornfields these evening 9, for it is an abundant crop. Hundreds of gallons of cider and apple butter have been -made and the apples are being packed and stored for winter '• use. Rifles are being fitted for use and the squirrels doing their best scampering after nuts, not knowing that the hunting season is on. The Nimrods will soon be climbing our i ridges. Nuts of all kinds are plentiful, but not nearly as large and perfect on ac ! count of the drought. ' Sweet potatoes are fine and a plen tiful crop. Levi 1). Swartz had a sweet potato that weighed 4 pounds. A forest fire IB raging northwest of town. John Odell is the potato-raiser of this county. He had 140 bushels this year. A party of fakirs, eight in number, from Bedford county, passed through [ town to the Newport fair on Monday. Pine Turkeys bv many farmers are being fed foi the Thanksgiving. The stores here have a fine line of | winter goods, and the latest and stylish I millinery for the winter at M. E. Mor j rison's. Editor's Note—M. E. Morrison is the corresj^ondent. ii "CHIEF" CALLEDIMPOSIOR Soliciting Aid From Clergymen and Oth ers on Pretext That He Was Robbed POLICE CHIEF ' LOOKS HIM UP Hutchison Asserts That Redskin Is Tell jing Conflicting Stories and Latter Departs When Closely Questioned by the Officer A tall ludian, whft says he is 7S years old and who claims to be the chief of at least two tribes of red men. is working clergymen and police de partments iu this section for a living, according to Chief of Police Hutchison. Lust night a clergyman tried to 'induce the Police department to give some aid to the aged man and. fearing that he was still in this vicinity plying his trade. Chief of Police Hutchison decided to make public, the manner in which the man is workiug. Several days ago the Indian walked into police headquarters and gaVe his name as "Frank Wilson," saying he was chief of the Oneita tribe and that he had collected al' of the Indians of this tribe in the East and was follow ing them to a reservation in Green Bay, Wis., -when his money was stolen, leaving him enough to get only as far as Harrisburg. Chief Hutchison wired the Indian Bureau in Washington and in the mean time sent the redskin to Carlisle. At the Carlisle Indian School, According to Chief Hutchison, the man told an entirely different story, claiming to be the head of a different tribe. In addi tion, Chief Hutchison received word from Washington that there is no rec ord of a chief of that name, instructing the police here to wire on his Indian name for identification. A Harrisburg clergyman walked into police headquarters with the In dian chief, saying that the man had appealed to him for aid, whereupon Chief 'Hutchison confronted him with the conflicting stories. . "If you will toll me your Indian name I will try and identify you and secure aid," said Chief Hutchison. "You don't want to help-me,'' re plied the Indian and he walked out of the office. Ijast. evening another Harrisburg clergyman telephoned the police that the man asked th.it a collection be ta ken for hirn in the church. Fearing that other attempts would be made by the Indian to get aid in this way, Chief Hutchison is warning the clergymen. HI'RT SUCKING A LOLLYPOP Little Girl Sent to Hospital Following Injury Caused by Sweetmeat Evelyn Morgan, 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Morgan, 160S BerrVhill street, suffered sevoro lacera tions of her 'palate and t'he roof of her mouth at 2.P.0 o'vlock this afternoon when she fell at her home while suck ing a lollypivp. Sihe was taken to the Harrisburg hos pital where she was operated on im mediately. WHAT BOMB DID TO CATHEDRAL - iflnSfflHHHHilH ' :>s^H. ||raßw%V *■ Jfr l/msr JHH HOLE •BLOWN IN PLOOC. OF ST PATfeiCKB C«THEDBftL BY BOM 6 The police of New York are confronted with one of the most mysterious cases of bomb throwing they have yet bad to deal with While fifty men, women and children were praying a bomb was exploded In the famous St. Patrick's Cathedral. The explosive hurled fragments of iron and steel throughout the nave of the great cathedral, wrecking pews and memorial windows. A few hours later another borub'explosirun occurred In SL Alpboosus" Roman Catholic Church, Tffe police have absolutely no clew. RAT POISON KILLS WOMAN Arsenical Preparation Taken With Sui cidal Intent at Her Home Near Beaver Station (imperial to the Hummelstown, Oct. 15.—Mrs. Rnth | M. Crook, 21 years old, died at 12.30! o'clock (his morning at her home # on the Wright farm, a mile north of Bea ver Station, near this place, from the effects of rat poison, an arsenical prep aration, taken Sunday with suicidal in tent, according to Coroner Eckinger, whd investigated the death this morn ing. No reason is given for the woman's rash act, but persons said she had been losing interest in life for some time past. She loaves her husband, tenant farmer on the Wright farm, two small children and her mother, Mrs. Bertha Gingrich, who resides at Beaver Sta tion. Funeral services will be held at the farm Saturday afternoon. Services will be private. Burial' will be made in the Hummelstown cemetery. DR. STOUGH IS SURELY COMING Mr. Gross Removes a Wrong Impression Given by a Rumor To-day The issuance of circular letters call ing upon the members of the special committees now arranging for the Sitough evangelistic campaign, to be h-eld in this city beginning November 1, in Which it 'was 'pornted out that the meeting to night may determine t'he re sult. of tthe work accomplished 'by t'he individual committeemen, is believed to 'have been responsible for the spreading of a baseless rumor that the future of the campaign itself hinges on to-wight's session. E. Z. Gross, one of the leaders 'in the movement, said the sum-ess of tihe campaign never was in question. Mr. Gross also denied a rumor that l>r. S'tough had decided not to come to Harrisburg. Mr. Gross declared emphatically tihat. l>r. Stough will positively be 'hero. Ho will arrive on Novemiber t and a hottse for him has been opened preparatory to <his coming. PLAN FOR MUMMERS' PARADE Association Will Have Rules Ready for Next Meeting, November « When the Harrisburg Mummers' As sociation meets Friday, November 6, definite plans for the New Year's T>ay j parade will be made. Representatives jof twenty-one organizations which met with the association last evening will return to the next, meeting roadv to vote on the time of parade for that day. It is expected that 1 p. m. will be the time fixed. It is also expected at that time that a preliminary announcement will be made of how SI,OOO in prizes will be distributed in the parade. One of the important actions taken at last night's meeting was admitting organizations to membership in the association with a voice in the meeting on payment of the $5 parade fee. All rules and regulations will have been perfected by the association be fore the next meeting. ENDORSES WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE State Federation of Women's Clubs Gives It Their Support. The State Federation of Women's Clubs that is meeting this week in Pittsburgh passed a resolution at 12.30 o'clock this morning endorsing women's suffrage by a very large majority. Mrs. E. W. Biddle, of Carlisle, chair man on resolutions, presented the reso lution, which was voted on by the dele gates. POSTSCRIPT PRICE, ONE CENT. SCEIII DEATH-BED INSURANCEFDRUD Inspectors Allege Well Persons Are Imper sonating 'Risks' Who Are Close to Grave ONE WOMAN IS UNDER ARREST State Authorities Say They Are Abwrt to Spring Trap on Other* Alleged to Have Operated In Pittsburgh and Philadelphia . H ? '** jt ( The State Insurance Department, through Inspectors D. E. Hunihan, of Pittsburgh, and William H. Hazlett, of Philadelphia, is now engaged in un earthing an alleged insurance swindle that has been operated in those two cities with some success. It consists of the impersonation by a vigorous, healthy person, of an old, decrepit or sickly applicant for insurance for the purpose of obtaining the certificate of the examining physician that the appli cant is a good "risk." The party in whose name the risk is taken does not livo long thereafter and the insurance company pays the insurance to the heirs of the insured. This scheme, according to Deputy In surance Commissioner MoOulloch, is not a new one, having been played in Scran ton last spring, where it led to the ar rest of three persons, one of whom pleaded guilty. The other two are now awaiting trial. An insurance company doing business in Pittsburgh had reason to believe that it was being swindled and noti fied Inspector Hunihan who began an investigation. The trail led to Phila delphia where it was found the same game was being played, the parties in the two cities acting in unison. Inspec tor Hazlett, in his investigations, said be found that a woman named Bertha Epstein, who was said to claim a resi dence in both Pittsburgh and Philadel phia, was implicated, and she was ar rested ou Saturday in Philadelphia and plat ed in jail. The two inspectors are still working on the several cases, and will not make a detailed report until they have secured all the evidence needed for the conviction of all en gaged in the plot. It was said to-day that one of the seven companies swindled was the Min nesota Mutual Life, doing business in Pittsburgh, and that its agent was the one who became suspicious of the opera tions of the gang and called in the in spector. For two mouths Hunihau worked 011 the case, and it is stated that when he an<l Hazlett report their revelations will show that the game 1 was a widely-worked one and the swin dlers profited considerably. The Insurance Department, is deter mined to break up this "death bed insurance" game, and believes that it has worked the coils about the swindlers 1 so that they cannot escape. Mrs. Ep stein is the first known arrested, but there are a number of others under sur veillance and they will be taken into custody. RESICNATIONJ CARRAKZA Adjournment of Mexican Convention Without Taking Action Awaiting Arrival of Zapata Delegates By Associated Press, Washington, Oct. 15.—Adjournment ofj the Mexican convention at Aguasca lientes last night without acting upon the proposed resignation of General < arranza as .first chief, pending the ar rival of additional delegates represent ing Zapata, was announced to-day in official dispatches to the State Depart ment from Consular Agents Carothers and Kanova. October 20 was tentatively agreed upon as the date for reconvening the con vention. Aguascalientes. Mex., Oct. lo.—Un official reports of the results of the peace conference here yesterday sav that a successor to General Carranza for the Presidency of Mexico is to be named soon. These reports, which are ■brief, do not explain when General Carranza is to resign, or how, but indi cate that the conference finished iu work successfully last night. Washington, Oct. 15.—lolonel Hat field, at Naco, Arizona, telegraphed Secretary Garrison to-day that Govern or Mavtoreoa had at least 4,000 troops attacking the Carranza garrison, that he was looking for 500 men from Cans ilea and that a large force of reinforce ments were expected in Nogales. BANK RE-ELECTS DIRECTORS Old Members of the Board Retained by the Citizens The seven directors of the Citizens' bank, Thirteenth and iDerry streets, all were re elected at a meeting of'the stockholders held *t)his afternoon. They are as follows: Spencer F„ Barber •lossph C. Eshleman, John F. Foeser C. Xewton Herb, Charles H. Hoffman John H. Mcllhenny and Edwin C Thompson. The directors will meet next Wed nesday for the election of officers. Tfa 'bank [was organized on July 15, 1907 having deposits totaling $21,284.25 To-dav the 'bank statement shows t'h. deposits to be $221,951.65. The i» crease in deposits over last year •> ceedejl $27,000,
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