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GERMANS OCCUPY OSTEND WITHOUT
RESISTANCE; BELGIANS IN FRANCE
Kaiser s Forces i
in Touch With Their Main
Army, Whose
Rests on Vou
Advices Say
Objective Point
mans Apparently Is
French War
Relative Quiet
Greater Part o
the Troops of t
pying Flourbaix
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, via London, Oct. 17, 4.35 A. M.—The
"Telegraaf's" correspondent at Sluis, Netherland, ten
miles northeast of Bruges, reports that the Germans have
occupied Ostend without resistance. The Belgian troops
retired to France. The German forces in Belgium are now
in touch with their main army, whose right wing rests on
Veurne, the westernmost town in Belgium, near the North
Sea and 26 miles west, southwest of Bruges.
London, Oct. 17, 10.30 A. M.—German forces, as was
predicted, nave occupied Ostend, near the sea, where the
German right wing and the allies' left are struggling in
the latest phase of what was once the battle of the Aisne.
Reports reaching London say that German imagina
tion has been fired by the taking of Ostend and the cry now
is not, only "on to Calais" but "on to Boulogne."
What progress, if any, the Germans have made since
they entered Ostend Thursday morning is not known here
but their next objective apparently is Dunkirk. Opinion
in England seems to differ as to what part the British fleet
would play should the battle continue to skirt the coast
line and the reports that British dreadnaughts would back
up the French, British and Belgian forces from the Straits
of Dover seem to originate in German sources.
London papers generally deprecate the importance of
the German occupation of the Belgian coast, pointing cut
that the British mine field prevents the enemy's bringing
ships to operate from the none too spacious harbor of
Ostend. The fact remains, however, that as the fighting
gets geographically nearer to England the public, hereto
fore discussing and speculating on a Zeppelin raid, is
bound to ask itself what will come next.
It is unquestionably true that if Germany is able to
engineer submarine attacks from a base further away,
Ostend, if held by the invaders, certainly would be of some
strategic value.
SITUATION IN NORTH FRANCE
Paris, Oct. 17, 2.50 P. M.—The official statement given
out at the French War Office this afternoon is as follows:
"In Belgium the German troops occupying western
Belgium have not crossed the line running from Ostend to
Thourout to Roulers to Menin. There is relative quiet
along the greater part of the front.
"On our left wing there has been no change. In the
region of Ypres, on the right bank of the Lys, the allied
troops have occupied Flourbaix, as well as the immediate
approaches to Armentieres.
"In the region of Arrays and also in the vicinity of
St. Mihiel we have continued to gain ground.
"In the Russian field of operations there has been no
change of importance on the front in East Prussia.
"Along the middle reaches of the Vistula river, the
Austro-German armies have been driven to the defensive
along the entire front. To the south of Przemysl the fight
ing continues and the Russians have taken 500 prisoners."
The Gorman army that successfully besieged Antwerp
has swept victoriously westward along the Belgian coast
until now with its right resting on Ostend it form the ex
treme right of the German line stretching from the North
Sea to the Swiss frontier.
A great battle to determine whether the advancing
German hosts will be stopped in Western Belgium or push
on into France, seizing Dunkirk and Calais on the strait of
Dover, must come soon and quite possibly is being fought
to-day.
The French official statement this afternoon says that
the German troops occupying western Belgium have not
crossed the line running from Ostend south to Menin. The
allied troops have occupied Flourbaix and the immediate
approaches to Armentieres, it is announced, while further
gains are claimed in the region of Arras and the vicinitv
of St. Mihiel.
Berlin announced that a gigantic battle is preparing in
the eastern theatre where the Austro-German forces have
taken positions along the Vistula and San rivers.
\ ienna states officially that fighting continued Thurs
day along the entire battle front from the southeast of
'Przemysl to the mouth of the San.
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HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1914 12 PAGES.
ALLIES' LEFT IS HOLDING
IIS CROUND AND MOVING
FORWARD, SAYS LONDON
London, Oct. 17, 10.30 A. M.—The
allied left is holding its ground. At
some points it is even moving forward,
having occupied Laventie, driving the
Germans back in the direction of Lille.
One report had it that the Germans
had been driven out of Lille, but this
has not been confirmed. The. presence
of Uhlans has been reported recently
within 40 mi'les of Calais, but a glance
at the map in the region of the cavalry
clashes of the last few days, which for
a time extended as far west aB Haze
ibrouck, show 3 that, notwithstanding
the German claims of victories, the al
lies have made steady progress, La
ventie being east of the town men
tioned.
'Little definite news came during the
morniug of lighting along the Vistula
river, where the Russians claim to have
repulsed a German attack. Whether
the German advance on Warsaw has
been permanently checked only the fu
ture can show. One version has it that
the Germans are preparing to winter in
Poland.
According to a dispatch from Petro
grad, dated Friday but received here
to-day, the Russians now have opened
their attack along the entire line, with
special energy in the south, where
General Brussiloff's cavalry is saiil to
have captured several Austrian detach
ments, together with trains carrying
reinforcements and supplies. In re
treating from Warsaw, it is said, the
Germans lost 42 guns intended for the
siege of that city.
GERMANS AT NORTH SEA:
FIGHTING ON AT DUNKIRK
Berlin, Oct. 17, (by Wireless). —Ac-
cording to annerncemeat made in Ber
lin to-day German troops in the vicin
ity of Ostend have reached the North
Sea, and fighting is going on as far
to the west as l>unkirk.
Belgium to-day appears to be almost
completely in German possession. The
French and British troops are report
ed as cut off on all sides, particularly
around Ypres.
TRAWLER STRIKES GERMAN
MINE: NINEOFCREW PERISH
London, Oct. 17, 3.57 P. M.—The
steam trawler A.jax, out of Grimsby,
} has been blown up in the North Sea
bv a German mine.
Nine members of the crew lost their
lives.
DECREE AGAINST
NEW HAVEN FILED
Dissolution of Road Is
Asked by Govern
ment in Federal Dis
trict Court in N. Y.
THREE SETS OF
TRUSTEES ASKED
Latter Are to Manage Various Hold
ings of the Road Until .They Are
Sold, Subject to the Orders of the
Court
By Associated Press.
New York, Oct. 17.—The dissolu
tion decree asked by the government
against the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Company, was filed
in the federal district court here to
day.
The government's complaint is dis
missed by preliminary agreement in
sofar as it applies to all defendants,
individual, and corporation, with the
exception of the railroad company it
self, the New England Navigation
Company, the Boston Railroad Holding
Company, the Providence and Daniel
son Railway Company and the Boston
and Maine Railroad Company.
All the remaining defendants with
the exception of the Boston and Maine
Continued on Fifth Put.
FIVE WOUNDED IT
HEXICANDULLETS
Shots Fly Over U. S.
Border in Attack on
Carranza Garrison at
Naco
SOLDIER SHOT
THROUGH HEAD
Storm of Bullets Heavier Than Any
That Heretofore Struck on the
American Side of Boundary—Six
Hours of Brisk Fire
> By Associated Press,
Naco, Ariz., Oct. 17. —Five men—
a civilian and four soldiers of the U.
S. cavalry—were wounded to-day by
Mexican bullets that Hew over the in
ternational boundary during an attack
by Governor Maytorena's troops on the
Carranza garrison of Naco, Sonora.
One of the soldiers was shot through
the head while on duty at a railroad
embankment 40 yards from the boun
dary. iHe is still alive. The civilian,
a carpenter employed by a railroad,
was shot through the right lung while
traversing a sidewalk on the American
side of the lin-:.
The storm of bullets that resulted in
the wounding of the five men was heav
ier than any heretofore that has struck
on the American side of the boundary.
The missiles came from Maytorena's
tioops, which attacked the Naco garri
son directly on the south of the town.
The attack began before daylight and
continued more thfvn six hours, with
brisk fire on both sides.
Mexico City, Oct. 17. —The Consti
tutionalist peace convention at Augus
Caliejites issued an order today direct
ing Generals Carranza, Zapata and Hill
and Governor Mavtorena, of Sonora, to
stop the hostilities at Naco, Sonora, im
mediately undei penalty of being re
garded public enemies.
Generals Angeles, Buelna. Contieras
and Galvin were expected to arrive here
on their way to Zapata's hwdquarterg.
which have been established on the out
skirts of the Federal district. The four
generals will invite Zapata to send a
formal delegation to the peace confer
ence without delay.
The family of General Carranza left
the capital last night on a special train
bound for the United States by way of
Ijaredo, Texas. The party hoarded the
train at 5 o'clock this afternoon, but
the specal did not leave the station un
til darkness set in, starting at 7.10
o'clock.
DUTCH STEAMER IS ASHORE
Royal Holland Lloyd Liner Tubantia
Believed to Have Large Number
of Passengers on Board
By Associated Press,
London. Oct. J7, 1.65 P. M.—ln a
dispatch from Dover the correspondent
of the "Evening News" says the
Dutch steamer Tubantia of the Boyal
HoHand Lloyd Line went ashore on the
coast of Kent to-day while on her way
to Rotterdam from Buenos Aires, which
port she left September 25.
The Tubantia is believed to have a
considerable number of passengers on
board. Assistance has been summoned
from Dover and other ports.
YOUTH JAILED FOR CONTEMPT
Said He Forgot Date on Which H®
Was to Appear in Court
"Jail is no place in which, to spend
Sunday. I hail intended going for
chestnuts to-morrow," was the remark
Wilson Potteiger, a farm boy, made
while entering the Dauphin county
prison this morning where he is to be
detained until Monday morning on a
charge of contempt of court.
Potteiger to day was brought to
court on a capias, he having failed to
report there yesterday when called "to
give an account of himself" under the
suspended sentence rules. He said he
forgot yesterday was the time to re
port the court postponed action on
the case until Monday.
Vine or more months ago Potteiger
pleaded guilty to a serious charge, but
got off with a suspended sentence.
When he gave the "faulty memory"
story this morning Judge Kunkel said:
"Apparently you have no regard
whatever for the law. You raced off
and got married without informing the
probation officer and now you don't
live with your wife. You thought of
allowing her an increase in mainten
ance money only when compelled to do
so by {he court. You don't deserve
leniency."
Potteiger was told that his bail has
been forfeited and that he would have
to spend Sunday in jail.
9100,000 Fire at Baa ton
Kaston, Pa., Oct. 17.—Fire last
night did SIOO,OOO damage to electrical
machinery, insulated wire and belting
and other stories in a four-story ware
house occupied jointly by the Macau
Junior Company and the Pennsylvania
Utilities Company. The loss is covered
by insurance.
TOOK POII 10
PHD DIED
John H. Sites, Railroad
er, Left Note Saying
He Had Nothing More
to Live for
FIGURED IN SUIT
FOR DESERTION
Court Yesterday Ordered Him to Pay
S2O a Month to Maintain His Wife
and Son—Couple Had Separated!
Last July
Leaving a note addressed to William
Sites, his father, in which he said he 1
had nothing to live for now that his i
home had been broken up, John H.
Sites, 34 years old, a fireiman on the
Middle division of the Pennsylvania
railroad, who boarded at 1007 Capital
street, last night swallowed the con
tents of a small bottle of poisonous
acid and lie was found dead at Front
and Herr streets, this morning. The
body was found by William Wiley,
2019 North Fifth street, at 5.30
o'clock. Coroner Eckinger said an in
quest was not necessary. The Coroner
said Sites died six or seven hours be
fore the body was found.
Sites was a defendant in a desertion
suit yesterday and was directed by the
Dauphin county court to pay his wife
S2O a month, ijlia father furnished the
required bond and the husband appear
ed satisfied with the decision when he
left the court room. He appeared to be
in good spirits then, although in his
conversations with his father and
Philip S. Moyer, his legal adviser, he
frequently had referred to his own
charge that an Enola couple was re
sponsible for hia wife refusing to live
with him.
Sites and his wife separated on July
Cantinnrd no Fifth Pagr.
OLD CHESTNUT HUNTER LOST
William Jacobs, 75, May Die From ."W
Hours' Exposure in Mountains
(fipeclal to the Star-Independent.)
Carlisle, Oct. 17.—After wandering
about on the mountain for thirty-six
hours and after he had fallen over ex
hausted, unable to go any farther, Wil
liam Jacobs, 75 years old, ef near
Heberlig, Upper Mifflin township, Cum
berland county, was found in a dazed
condition and suffering greatly from
exposure by a searching party last
evening when about eight miles from
home. To-day hi s condition is reported
to be very serious and little hope is en
tertained for his recovery.
Jacobs went out.on a chestnut hunt
Thursday morning and lost his way
soon after going in the woods. The
rain of yesterday added to his misery
and he was dripping wet -when found.
His condition would not permit his be
ing removed home and he was rolled in
blankets, which had been taken along
by the searchers, and a log fire was
built at his side.
This morning he was taken to the
home of William McElwain, where he
I has lived for a number of years. Ja
! cobs is a bachelor.
KNOXHAS PRAISE
FOR THE COLONEL
But Regrets Roosevelt's
Strength Is Not Be
ing Conserved to
Fight Democracy
BOOSTS PENROSE
IN CLUB SPEECH
Handles Charge That Senior Senator
Is a Boss by Referring to Roose
velt and Wilson as Not Being Great
Models of Political Modesty
By Associated Press.
Philadelphia, Oct. 17. —Former
United States Senator Philander C.
Knox was the principal speaker at the
Manufacturers' Club here today at a
meeting called in the interest of the
Republican ticket. Former Attorney
General Hampton L. Carson presided
and introduced Mr. Knox.
At the outset of his speech Mr. Knox
had occasion to quote Theodore Roose
velt on the "tyranny of the minority"
and had this to say about the former
President:
"I am proud of the achievements of
the party during his administration. I
appreciate the large measure of credit
to which he is entitled for those
achievements; and I was happy to lend
to him during his presidency, my as
sistance to further the great principles
and policies for which he stood. 1 can
Continued on Fifth Pane.
FEAR SHE ELOPED
WITH I REDSKIN
Police Here Are Asked
to Find Girl Who
Vanished From Cum
berland County
LAST SEEN ON
SEPTEMBER 16
Told Her Parent She Was Going to
Visit Relatives But the Latter
Have No Trace of Her—Search
Started in Minnesota
Love for Henry Guiard, a Minnesota
Indian, who is said to have visited
students in the Carlisle Indian School, j
is believed by the Harrisburg police to j
have prompted Mary Maude Loudon. I
16 years old. a pretty Cumberland coun- j
ty girl, to leave her home in Silver i
Spring township The girl hns been '
missing since September 16, last, and;
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Loudon, j
have heard nothing of her or her !
whereabouts sin 'e her mysterious de- j
parture. The police of this city have
been asked to join in the search for her.
A telegram has been sent to the
chief of police of Fosstire, Minn., said
to be the home of Guiard, by the local
police department to be on the lookout
for the pair, the belief of the police
being that the girl accompanied the In
dian to that western town.
The girl is 5 feet, 3 inches tall,
weighs about 135 pounds, has light
hair and a small mole on her right
cheek. When she left home she wore
a pink dress and carried a suitcase con
taining a green dress and other wearing
apparel. She left her country home
with the statement that she intended
visiting relatives and the family did
not become alarmed until she was ab
sent more than a week.
Relatives with whom the family have
communicated say Ihe girl did not visit
them and, the police here say, the par
ents now arc of the opinion that she.
accompanied the Indian to Minnesota.
TEMPLE BUILDER INJURED
| Both Anns and One Rib of L. H. Smith
Broken In Fall From Top of
Stough Tabernacle
Falling 20 feet to the ground from
I a rafter on the tabernacle that is being
! orected in one day for the use of the
I Stough evangelistic services, at North
! and Cowdeu streets, L. H. Smith, of
I Progress, a foreman carpenter, this aft
ernoon, suffered a fracture of both
: arms and one rib.
Mr. Smith is 43 years old. He will
probably recover. He was taken to the
Harrisburg hospital.
WOMAN ARRESTED IN THEATRE
Accused of Attacking Employes—Hus
band Thinks Her Mentally Deranged
Charged with assault and battery,
Mrs. J. M. Lenney was last night ta
ken 'before Alderman Caveny, who held
her for a hearing on Monday. Mrs.
l-ienney is charged with having gone to
the Grand theatre, a motion picture
house, 1426-28 Derry street, which is
owned by her husband, J. M. Lenney.
who also owns the Lenney motion pic
ture theatre, 5 and 7 South Thirteenth
street, and with having assaulted the
woman piano-plaver, who thereupon
fainted. Mrs. Lenney is alleged then
to have told Mrs. Preeda Johnson, tho
ticket-seller, that she was discharged.
iMrs. Johnson refused to go, saying that
she had been employed by Mr. Lenney.
Following this, it is charged, Mrs. Len
ney tried to ejeet Mrs. Johnson from
the ticket booth.
Mrs. Johnson had Alderman Caveny
issue a warrant for Mrs. Lenney's ar
rest. The warrant was served on Mrs.
Ijenney after the door of the ticket
booth was forced, having locked the
door and Btated her intent to sell tick
ets herself.
Mr. Lenney says he believes his wife
was suffering from mental derangement.
He says he will ask to have a commis
sion appointed to examine her as to
her sanity.
ABANDON "DETENTION HOUSE"
Authorities Decide It Is Necessary to
Make Some Other Arrangements
The overcrowded conditions at the
Almshouse and the demand for addi
tion rooms for quartering nnil treating
the county's indigents are responsible
for a decision reached to-day to cease
to maintain -there t>he "House of De
tention,"' a department where juvenile
law-breakers are kept ami which con
sists of ten rooms in the county home.
The detention quarters will be aban
doned on November 1, at which time
the employes in charge of that depart
ment will retire from active duty. This
plan was adopted after a conference
among J-udge Mefarrell and B. Prank
Nead and Colonel Fred M. Ott, lawyers
representing the Directors or the Poor
an-d the County Commissioners, respect
ively.
Until new quarters are provided—a
new 'building may have to be erected —
aldermen and justices of the pewe will
direct juvenile defendants to furnish
bail instead of committing them to the
detention quarters. Should conditions
-warrant it, juvenile court sessions will
be held more frequently.
POSTSCRIPT i
I
PRICE, ONE CENT.
BIG TEMPLE
IS GOING UP
IN ONE DAY
Forty Clergymen in
Overalls and Hun
dreds of Amateur
Carpenters Start La
boring Like Beavers
This Morning to Com
plete Framework of
Big Stough Taber
nacle by Nightfall
WOMEN HELP TO
DRIVE THE BOLTS
One Carpenter Is 82
Years Old While
Many Have Gray
Bea rd s—H ungry
Throng Fed at Noon
in the Ridge Avenue
Church —Greet i n g
From Evangelist Re
ceived With Cheers
Forty clergymen, several hundred
other amateur nail drivers and many
experienced carpenters started early
this morning to erect in a day the taber
nacle to be used for the Stough evan
gelistic services at North anil Cowdeu
| streets, and there was every indka
| tion late this afternoon t'ha.t the main
1 ramework of thf big 'building would >e
completed before nightfall. The roof
and the boards at the sides will be put
on later.
Until to-day the work of the Stough
campaigners had all been in the direc
tion of organisation but mis morning
the volunteers, with nails, hammers,
j bolts, saws and a windlass, began to
show more material evidence of the com
ing of the evangelist who will arrive
November 1.
An idea of the size of the building,
which is to seat 7,500, can he obtained
when it is noted that the half squn.e
on which it is being built does nv
provide a sufficiently large site, the
building extending from North stre
across North alley as if the alley did
not exist, to a point more than lift
feet south of the latter thoroughfare.
Promptly at 7 o'clock the workmen
j assembled and W. S. Roebuck, a con
! tractor, chairman of the tabernacle
committee, stationed them among tli'e
ground beams. He called on the men
for attention and introduced the Ret.
j George S. Sciiaum, pastor of the Ha-•
i ris Street United Evangelical church,
j who offered a short prayer. Taking im
j mediate charge, Mr. Roebuck starlc
tlie men out in five gangs under expert.
' onced carpenters.
First Section Up in an Hour
Uprights had already been placed oa
! the ground and the liist job of the vol
| uuteers was to put tops on the upright?
to form the bases on which the rooi'
; timbers are to be nailed. There a;
; sixteen uprights in each section of tin;
' framework, the framework runnin.
i parallel to Cowden street.
By 8 o'clock the first section wa
I leady to be raised and up it went. IL
( nnttniieil on Klfth Pane.
;CRAP GAME CAUSE OF BIG FIRE
Two Horseß and (II Stables Burned
When Gamblers Kick Lantern
(Special to the Star-independeiil. I
Hagerstown, Md., Oct. 17.—A light
ed lantern kicked over during a tight
over a crp.p game is said to have beta
j responsible for a fire which early thin
| morning destroyed sixty-one stall
| stables on the fair grounds and whim
I burned to death two valuable racing
horses. The loss will ruu close to $lO.
! 000. One of the horses burned was
! Lord Pen-is, owned by William Ward.
I Wilmington, Del., ami the other wa3
I Ann Dane, owned by J. M. Detrich,
! 'Baltimore, Md.
The fire started in the stall whcie
j a trotter owned by Robert Parr, of
i Winchester, Va., was stabled. The
horse was gotten out with difficulty,
but not until it had been badly burn
ed. Several other horses were injur
ed.
PINCHOT'S VOICE GIVES WAV
While Denouncing Penrose He Becomes
Mute
Punxsutawney, Pa., Oct. 17.—Gifford
Pinchot's voice wavered, then broke,
and he was forced to stop in the mid
dle of a speech at a mass meeting in
the public square here last night. Aft
er a delay of five minutes, in which the
crowd waited for him to go on and
during which he drank water copiously
the Progressive nominee for Unitei
States Senator was tfbliged to abandui
the effort to finish his remarks.