8 mill's AID OIL BOMB HURLING Want President to En ter Protest Against Dropping of Missiles From Aircraft PLAN PROPOSED ABOARD VESSEL Keoolutaon Aciop:fd by Two Hundred Passenger? States It Is Not » Ques tion of Neutrality but Ona of Hu manity in War 4 New York. Oi't. IT.—A resolution : and letter a»k'ng President \V |h>: t > protest against bc:n'.» droi' ", >\ l.'p pelins and aeroplane* uiou Euro eit cities were adoftei by 200 passengers on the steamsh [• Olyni| . which »r rived hce last night t'-om "scotliiit. F. Hopkinson Smith, .he iijiHtti nove.ist, ene of the passengers. matte i the resolution to the Pre-.d?ut as loon a.- he stepped ashore. \V th it he u.t dressed :i pe-sona etter au;h>r:.'ei by those who signed the resolut n. "We fee it :•» no: a question of neutrality but a q.iesti.m of human ity," the lette- sets forth. "and th it «nv power refusing t< heed your « i*.r rv to the instinct of ad -e ' re«p.*eting na tions. "Second —As being sure ' 1 a'ciiute every particle of sympathy from : s endorsing sui-h outrage*. "Third—As not only brutal and cruei to the a«t degree. bur with iu: any other mil tarv advantage "ban the terrorizing, maiming aui kiUnc >f in nocent non-combatants. wh • are heif less against s'.,ca atv ' CANAOIftN IrtliOrS MOVE ATNIGHTINORDER NOT TO IMt RAILWAY TRAFFIC S;» isburv P'.a.n, Hag.. Oct. 16. . a Lonuou. (X-t. IT. 2.20 A. M. Before noon to-day the Canadian troops ceased to rea.-b cam;' here a< they are trave. ing only n tae night time n order not to dislocate the railway -service. Ixj.*! Roberts will review :ae Canadians Monday. The oniy incident marking the firs; day of the Canadians in camp was a broken leg reve ve i by a troope- when kike-1 by a norse. The horses reach ing the camp to- iai after the long >ea and train journeys were e the. understood onlv the r-en • : language and refuse Ito obsy orders giveu a English. An aeroplane flying over the -amp to- lay aiuio-*: a used a stampede anion i the horses. The troops showeu much in teres; 'u the heavier-thanair machines. As the Canadians are traveling oniy at night an! have a long march to camp at the end of their raitrdad jour ney. it s not expected alt the -ont n sent will rea.h here before Monday. The camp has not been -ompletel. GERMAN FLApentyagen. Oct. IT.—Toe firm of Hagembeek has on its hands votes of wild animals with no market. It had a contrarrt to deliver wild beasis to the amount of 10.000 pounds to America, bes.des other big contracts with zoos of the belligerent Powers. Those can not in tne present circumstances be fulfilled. So now Haoenbe-ks are left in t.he lurch with To full-grown lions. 45 ti gars, TO trained polar bears. 100 hvenas and ST elephants, besides five caravans which ought to be on tiheir way home to Africa. India or where their homes may be, with their horses, camels, etc. Ail these men and beasts must be housed and fed. The animals want fod der and everything is getting scarce. •>ats and maize are hardly to be bad. Fish is almost impossible to procure. The only thing easily obtained is horse in eat. Germans Sink British Prize San Francisco. Oct. IT. —The British tram:> steamer Ir. lima. TOO tins, last repo ted as •• detained" at the .Marshal) Islands, was sunk by the Germans be fore the islands were occupied by the Ja anese. according to unofficial infor mation received here yester.tay. MACHINES TO COMPETE FOR U. S. ARMY PRIZES \ y I v OV-i -c- - -' t t • C' i ; | I' - : i- 1 mi In America there Is a among che autumn !>*it\es on the aviation fields these iVtober days over the news of 'leria '-onflicts thtit slips past the mi'ii tarjr censors and reaches the easier ears ">f t'.-e alrtueu «>u ; side of the ocean. Tile aero; lane - c ; ng put to the ce«t if pract; ai servi - n the field, in which i s use has li?en developing ever since tlie fir«: demnustratlors of Its scouting value were made by Uncle Sim's -in liters in Texas five years ago. At the War Department it was stated that the builders of eleven types of aeroplanes had given notice that they would compete for the army prices. Tlieir names were not made public by the government, but tluougn trade sources most of them are known and several have supplied pictures of the bi planes they contemplate entering in the trin's at San Dieco on October 20. Those buUdto'c machines for the contest iu clude Orviile Wright, of Dayton, Ohio: G'enn H Curtiss. of Hammotidsport. N. Y : (ilen L. Martin, of Los Angeles; Thomas Brothers, of Bath. X. Y.: Silas Cri«t 'fferson. of San Francisco; Edson F Gallaudet. of Norwich. Conn; Maxi milian S.-hmitt, of Paterson. N. J . ami Charles B. Kirkham. of Savoua, N. V.. and Avondale, N. J. CITIZENS OF GHENT HOSTS TOGEI'IWPSINCITV Amsterdam. Via Ixindon. Oct. IT. T. 20 A. M. —The Sluis, Netherlands, cor- sj oi'dent of the "Telegraaf " says tiiar Genera'. YOUU.K has been an poinre.i commander of the German gar ri*on at Ghent, which numbers 4,000 men. The sol iier-> ?ire no! quartereil in private houses but iu public build ug*. No alcohol ; s sold to the soi diers. who are under the strictest or der* to prevent looting. Ghent had to I ro iuce hosts who however, say- the dispatch, are permitted to stay in their own houses. The Germans seized the money iu the pos:otti-e and in the town treasury. The schools hive been re opened and the Germans hope soon to resume the railway truth- between Brussels and Ghent. Large supplier of provisions and clothes have arrived at Slui- for the Belgian refugees. A majority of the fugitives have no idea at the present time of returning to Belgium. The sit uation at Bfuges is quiet. English Aeroplane Shot Down London. Oct. IT, 10 A. M.—A d.s patch to the Exchange Telegraph Com pany from Amsterdam says that accord ing to the German ; aper "Der Tan" an English aeroplane was shot down near Peronue, France, iuside the G'r man lines. The town aviators aboard were captured. i THE GERMAN TROOPS HAVE NOW REACHED OSTEND V\ \* ** ••• AuiE S~"««i 'O 5 0 10 20 30 40 SO • Kai I tic German troops from Antwerp, after occupying Ghent and Bruges, continue*! their advance to the North Sea at Blankenbergh«\ and then proceeded to Ostendl 12 miles to the west. The allies at Ypres are ready to oppose the German , advance into France and the German cavalry detachments which on Tuesday were at Hazebrouck and on Wednesday at i have been driven further east, the allies now holding Estaires in the direction of Lille. fURRISBITRfi STAR-fNDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVKXINd. OCTOBER 17, 1914. ' - TnnirT Tim "if f JRs: 1/ —' .—^ITH AUSTRO v y,K>tx ™ ■ — —• gi plane i- ' ■ . these lUit' hhii s l«e?n kept sivret. the de-i slguer> not wUhlug ;o iuforui their coui-j HALF MILLION WAR TAX IS !l DEMNBEB Fftllfl BRUGES London. Oct. IT. 3.00 A. M. —The German efforts to induce refugees to re turn to Antwerp are meeting with no success, because Bu-g minster Frank has advised the citizens of Antwerp to wait twelve days, pending the result of i his endeavors to arrant>e favorable terms, says a disp\tch from tiie Am sterdam correspondent of the ••Daily Chroni e." Tne message continues: "Negotiations with thi< aim will take place iu Brussels, to which place the Burgomaster lies sent a party of, refugees, all me- 50 >ear« ild, to con suit with the German military gov ernor. "Tim* t'ai there nave been praeti cally no exicsses of any kind in Ant-1 werp. although the mansion of fo.mer i ■ Burgomaster Dexos has been plundered.' I ommuuication between Brussels and i Antwerp is being maintained hv motor j cars only, the railroads till being uie less. Foreigners in Antwerp have been forbidden to leave. The city wa ter supply is still cut off. " Bruges, which was occupied by 50, 000 Germans, has been asked t-o pav a * war tax of haif a million dollars. AI trong G->rnian force which is reconnoit strong German force which is recounoit with no resistance. "Lille has been badly damaged, the whole district between the railway sta tion and the church of St. Maurice be ! ing iu rums.'' ' petitory ss to thc-r ptans. General out -I!lues,! lues, however, have appeared in the I photographs sliuwu. RUSSIANS PLAY WAITING GAM-: GERMS ACTIVE London, Oct. IT. 5 A. M—Tele u'ra :iing from Petrogr.nl regarding the situation in the Russian field of opera tions, the correspondent of the "Times'' says: "It loolis as if those high in Kussian command lu.i deeded to (lay a wait-; game. Otherwise they would not give the German> time to entrench an 11 therein prolong the whole course of op- 1 orations "Reliable information shows that liie Germans seriously contemplate win tering in Poland. Peasants have risen at many places, notably Kielce and Michow . Regardless of the most tec- j rioie reprisal", they are forming gueril la bands and attacking the invaders.: The railroad near Nowo Radomek has j been wrecked and train loads of Ger- • ; man soldiers killed. "All roads front the Vistula to the 1 frontier are encumbered with the Ger- j man transport wagons and dead horses. The ' oads are impassable owing to j , rains.'' Britain Charters Horse Transport Seattle. Oct. IT. —The Great North-' ern's steamship Minnesota is to be cuar terei by tiie British government it is reported, to carry to Europe 9.000 -horses purchased in eastern Washing ton, Idaho an.l Montana. The IMinne- j sota can carry 2,000 horses each voy- j j ag«. j 1.200,000 RED IN TOE ENGLISH ARM! I Military Scribe Re futes Statement That There Are Only 600,000 in Service SEES STRUGGLE TO END OF 1915 Main Body of the British Army Will Then Begin to Come Into View and Mcke Good War When the Allies Need a Rest London, Oct. 1", 5.40 A. M. —The i "Times" military correspondent, re-i plying to the "Frankfurter Zeitung's''; statement that Great Britain was un able to raise more than 600,000 troops.! say s: ••We have at the present moment ex aetly double that number, namely. 1,200,000 men, and the uumber grows almost faster than we ran cope with. This is only the 'beginning. "It is our way, as well as that of America, to begin to raise our arms, after war breaks out aiul to go on rais ing them until our ultimate ends are I achieved. With 1,200,000 men at! home, the aruiv in the field and the; hundreds of thousands forming in In-j dia. Canada. Australia and elsewhere.: ure merely the nucleus upon which oth-| er armies will eventually be built. Only a Question of Time "It is only a question of time. It stands to reason that an empire of 400,- j 000,000 can never lack men. This war for us has hardly begun. We have ; sent merely an advanced guard into ' France. In the spring the remainder [ of the advance guard wiil begin to come within View. "We are sorry for the allies t'hat we i are even slower than R.issia in making our weight felt, but a year or so hence, | when the allies need a rest, we shall be' in a position to make good war. Maritime War Against Germany "Nothing inn arrest the steadily | ascending figures of our army. Their ! cos; is little account, since Germany ! will ultimately have to pay in terri- j i torv us well as money, i "Imagine, things at their worst.! i Imagine the last Cossack upon the * i I'rals and the last French doorkeeper | ■ evicted from Bordeaux. Then we i would begin a maritime war against j Germany and still be no worse off than ■ when we began against Napoleon." KRONTRI\ZI>SI\ I'ECKJIE ORDERED TO NEW WATERS > Portla-nd. Me., Oct. 17. —An order | i directing that the North German IJovd steamship Kronpriuzessin Cecilie, now j 'at Bar Harbor, be transferred "at mice" to the distric; of Massachusetts, was issued in the Federal court yester day. The reason given for the removal \ is tlmt it is not safe for the ship to j remain ar her present anchorage on am ount of the ice. United States Marshal Wilson, of i this district, was ordered to provide the necessary convoy, ami it is understood ' that at least one torpedo boat will be j employed for this service. As far as I possible the vessel will be kept within j rhe three-mile limit, but it is not be- | , lieved this can be done for the entire j ; vovage to Boston. The libel for $1,040,000 which has j teen filed against the steamship by the ! i Guarantee Trust Company, of New i York, has been withdrawn on account ! of tlhe change of jurisdiction, but an ! ( ot'her has been brought in 'Massachusetts ! and will be filed as soon as she reaches Massachusetts water. This also applies" i to a petition to intervene in tfhis libel, j brought by ( Carles W. Rantoul, a pas-! ' senger on the ship, who claims dam-1 ages because he was uot landed iu Eu- i rope. I . THINK FRENCH SOIL WILL BE SOON FREE FROM GERMANSJ London. Oct. 17, 4.38 A. M.—The correspondent of the "Times" in Bor deaux. commenting on the situation, tel-1 ographs as follows: I "The geueral impression prevails: | here that we are on the eve of the l»b- I eration of French soil from the in-] I carters. It is believed the Germans! j cannot long resist the combined pres j sure of the allied armies and will be ; j forced to weaken their center, thus re- ; j lieving Soissons and Rlieims. This will j I endanger General Von Kluck's army I I ajid will compel tlhe retreat of the > Crown Prince's army which is in .jeop-i ! ardv more especially because snow is j I falling in the Ardennes." England Buys Missouri Horses Springfield, 'Mo., Oct. 17. —Fifteen hundred horses for use in the British ; | army have been bought in the Ozark . ; district and shipped from here within | two days. They were sent to Canada. j Bids Asked on British War Loan Loudon, Oct. 17.—1t was announced , yesterday tfhat the Bank of England, on i October 21, would receive tenders for treasurv bills amounting to $75,000,- 000. "fliis will be the fifth loan for a similiar amount. Lancaster County Farms Sold Marietta, Oct. 17.—-Henry Weaver yesterday purchased the Lefevre farm in Strasburg township for $3,385; Jacob Hoak. of' Manor, bought the fifty acre farm in Providence township, be-' longing to Catharine Huber, and Jacoh ■ B. Mver estate sold to Ralph Rutter, a sixteen acre fafm for the high price of $3,200. These farms are all desirous and good farming tracts. Rush for Hunters' Licenses Lebanon. Oct. 1 7. —The rush for : : hunters' licenses at tihe county treas-' ! urer's office in the Court House reached \ the 1,200 mark yesterday and there is J every indication that there will be no j let up until the 2,000 mark of last year will have been reached or passed, i Deputy <'ountv Treasurer J. W. Hart man and bis cierk, Henry Hartman. are' kept busy attending to the needs of tlhe fauniera. j AMUSEMENTS, r j; i' MAJESTIC This afternoon unit evening. "Sin en Keys to Baldpate." Monday, matinee and night, Octo I ber 19, "The Dingbat Family." , Tlhursday afternoon and evening, Oct. 22, "The Girl of the Moun tains. Saturday afternoon and evening, Voxel's Minstrels. ORPHEUM Every afternoon and evening, high class vaudeville. COLONIAL Daily continuous vaudeville and pic tures. *■ "Seven Keys to Baldpate" George M. Cohan has gone up one! I step more and reached the round of per-j I nianent fame in the ladder of success. "Seven Keys to Baldpate' is his great ! est play. It teeuis with thrills and ! | fun. "Mvsterv farce" is a new an I | original classification for melodrama,! I but the "mystery" element is strong! ! and keeps one guessing. The plot is j perplexing at first —its complete solu ! It ion does not come until the curtain is ! I rung down on the last act. William 1 Hallowell Magee was the writer oi popular melodramatic novels. He was writing a book on a bet in "the lone sotnest s] ot on earth"—a summer ho tel in the winter —to which he is giv en an alleged "only" key by its own ' i er. The wager was to write a 10,000 j j word serious novel in twenty-four j ' hours, lie is just beginning t'o work when unsuspected happenings rob Bald j I pate of its lonesomeness. Five other ■ I" only" keys admit successively a rob | : ber with murderous intent, a charming ' !girl reported (aud it's love at first i sight with the author), an adventuress! with "cuss" wor.ls galore, a "graft j ing'' mayor and his henchman, an un j j scrupulous railroad president and a i i real, live, humorous "ghost." There I ! are political intrigues and scandal.) ! roundups aud pistol shots and thrills: | a-plenty that start a guessing game in i the audience. Adv. "The Dingbat Family Two of New York's Society's fa vorite ballroom dancers will be carried I by the "Dingbat Family" along with the company of forty talented come ii ; ans and vocalists, including the famous j chorus of "real" Broadway beauties' that sing and dauce their way right ! into your heart. This famous fun show ! will appear at the Majestic Monday j ' matinee and night. The musical nam i bers, and there are plenty, are fast,! { lively and above all new, aud costumed i ]in fetching style; the many changes I keep the big chorus busy from the rise j to the fall of the curtain. The comedy , ! situations are really funny, which is j j more than can be said of many so- j ] called musical comedies. Taking all in ! i all it is a good, new fast, and original \ ! musical comedy. Aw, Dr. Cook was forced to j retire. He may appear here later in i 1 the season. Anyway we are going to J 'have the good luck to see I*ew Dock i stader in Harrisburg next week, giv i 1 ing a wonderfully realistic portrayal of i the übiquitous "Teddy," the loquati j ' ous "Teddy," Don Quixote charging | j the windmills of predatory wealth, the: j famous founder of the "Ananias Club" land the wielder of the "big club" I vicariously in the person of this joy ! i ous minstrel man. Clothed in khaki | uniform, wearing the familiar spec I tacles and the grinning teeth, the cele i brated artist of black cork gives a burlesque of a certain "third term candidate." that is easily the biggest | scream that was ever served up to the j varieties. Charging back and forth, imi tating the famous hissing voice to per - fection, Dockstader proceeds to explain ' "The policies." Doolev and Kugcl, the I clever musical comedy couple, who grew ;so popular here two seasons ago in that bright musical comedy "Thei i Housewarmers" are also among thei choice plums of next week's bill. I Adv. - At the Colonial A chararter dancing novelty of un-' usual excellence, a very clever and fun-i Iny skit of son# and nonsense, and a 1 > thrilling and handsomely staged Her- i , i culean novelty, round out a corking | vaudeville bill that appears at the Ct>- i ; lonia! for its last performances to-day. I The names presenting these acts' iii elude Mclver and Scott; Jerge and 'Hamilton and the Azard Brothers. A j splendid program of the first run li \ I censed feature films, is also slated to be i presented to day. In connection with th,> entertainment that is arranged for at the Colonial for the first halt' of next week the management will exhibit « local made "movie," comprising 900 feet, showing the parade of the Fire men s Convention. The picture will bo exhibited Monday, Tuesday and Wed nesday at the Colonial and then it hat been contracted for to appear in many cities and towng all over the State. Adv. OHILX WANTS OUR OOAL Asks Bid to Furnish Mhmmmi Tons in Three Years Pittsburgh, Oct. IT,— The producers of the Pittsburgh district are to have an opportunity to bid .on a contract for 400,000 tons of coal through the ef forts of the Pittsburgh Foreign Trade Commission. The coul is wasted by the railways of Chile. The specifications were ob tained through the Federal Department of Commerce, and are very full and complete covering about 25 typewrit ten pages. The contract is to cover three years. Inquiries for prices on cutlery, pneumatic and all kinds of steel tools continue to delude the foreign trade commission. In eleven of the inquiries it is stated that the concerns have heretofore secured their needs in Ger many. SENATOR HALL VERY LOW Little Hope For Recovery of Banker 111 in Cleveland Hospital Cleveland. Oct. 17.—Senator James K. P. Hall, banker and lumberman of Kidgwa.v, Pa., and Democratic leader , in State politics, was critically ill at Lakeside hospital last night as the re I suit of an operation performed on him j Wednesday. Five doctors were in constant at tendance during tiie night, and said j there wi;s little chance for recoverv. I Senator Hall, who is 70 years old, j was brought to Cleveland October 'i to be under the care of Dr. <;, W. ( 'rile. His wife and four children are | constantly at his bedside. BRYAN MAKES 1,1 SPEECHES Concludes Whirlwind Day In Tennes see With Address at Nashville Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 17.—After j having spoken at twelve points in mid ! die Tennessee yesterday, Secretary I William Jennings Bryan wound up his j whirlwind tour of this section last | night before an audience of 6,000, j that packed the Ivy ma m auditorium. I Mr. Bryan pleaded for the support of General Rye, the Democratic noni- I inee in the Governorship fight, and vig. | orously assailed Governor Hooper, j To-day Mr. Bryan is touring' West Tennessee, closing at Memphis to j night. ASHLAND ENGINEER KILLED Two Shenandoah Miners Fatally In jured When a Blast Explodes Shenandoah, Pa., Oct. 17.—Edward Smith, of Ashland, was crushed to I death and Sylvester Hudock and Jo ! seph Close, both of this city, wera J probably fatally injured at l/ocustt Mountain colliery. Smith was employed as locomotive engineer. While cleaning the fire on his j locomotive he fell under the wheels. His father was killed in a similar -man ner a year ago at Locust Spring eol i liery. Hudock and Close prepared a | blast and when he failed to go off they j went back to investigate, when there | was a terrific explosion, hurling both j fifty feot down a breast. SCORNED HUSBAND A SUICIDE Told By Rich Wife She No Longer Loved Him New York, Oct. 17.—Policeman Mi chael J. Nugent, of the Butler street police station in Brooklyn, learning from the lips of his wife that she no longer loved him, shot himself in the head early yesterday morning. Mrs. Nugent is 26 years old, a worn ! an of property, owning stock in a Rose j street printing company. She was mar ried to Nugent two years ago. BAD TEETH WORSE THAN RUM Evil Effects on System Pointed Out By Dentists J Boston, Oct. 17.—Defective teeth J cause more destruction to the system j than alcohol, according to speakers at I the convention of the Northeastern | Dental Association yesterday. Dr. W. A. White, of the New York I State Board of Health, said 45 per cent, of the failures among school chil j dren were due to teeth troubles. To Test Mileage Book Law Concord, N. H., Oct. 17.—The con stitutionality of the New Hampshire , statute under which the Boston and i Maine Railroad Company is required i to sell 500-mile hooks of mileage for $lO will be tested in the federal ! courts. This announcement was made ! yesterday by President James H. Hus ! tis, of the road. Find Broken Mother, Drowned Altoona, Oct. 17. —The body of Mrs. Cora Daire, aged 3.5, who. while | temporarily insine over the shooting j of oue of her sons by another, wander ' ed away from her home at Daughertv's ! Mines, 12 miles north of here, on June j 4. was found in a small stream near Bellwood, yesterday by Raymond | Shultz, Bellwood, and Blanchard Parks, | Tyrone, who were out hunting. Named for Peace Commission Washington, D. C., Oct. 17.—Senator ! Stone, of Missouri, chairman of the | Senate Committee on Foreign Relation", j has been appointed by President Wil son, the first memher of the Commis sion provided for in the peace treaty | between the I'nited States and Guatc i mala. Postofflce Is Robbed Oentralia, Oct. IJ.-*- Burglars early | yesterday morning entered the postof ! fice through n ••ellar window and stole a package of jewelry valued at several 1 hundred dollars. The money and stamps j were locked in the safe, which showed signs of being tampered with, but tlie | burglars were evidently scared away j before blowing the 'door from its hinges. Reward for a Murderer Wilkes-Barre. Oct. 17.—Offi ials of the Lehigh Valley railroad yesterday offered a reward of SSOO for the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Con : rad Ruwedel, section foreman, whose body was found along the road lead ing from the Silver Brock colliery to Cranberry on the night of September I 26. Death was caused bv two bullet l wounus in the head.