THE WEATHER I TAIB TO-NIGHT AJTD TO MORROW DMiIM lk**rt Fx* • VOL. 7T>-yo. 11s. BELGIANS HOLD OWN ON RIVER YSER; GERMANS RETAIN THE POSTS AT LILLE In French Officia the Kaiser's ported to be ing Their Advan in Direction o Fournes and La Bassee— Efforts of Austrian the River San Have Been Repulsed While of Przemysl vorable to the Russians—- Japanese Occu portant Archipelago Islands Belonging to By Aitoctated IVwi, Paris, Oct. 20.—The French official communication given out this afternoon says that the Belgian army is hold ing its position on the river Yser. The official communi cation follows: "In Belgium, in spite of violent attacks on the part of the enemy the Belgian army has held its position on the )ine of the river Yser. "There have been other actions in the region of Ypres between the allied forces operating in this territory and the forces of the enemy. "On our left wing the Germans continue to hold strongly their advance posts around Lille in the direction of Armentieres, Fournes and La Bassee. "On the Meuse the enemy has endeavored in vain to drive back the advance posts of our troops, who have moved out along the right back of this stream in the peninsula of the Camp des Romains. "To sum up during the day of October 19, we have made progress at various points on the front. "In East Prussia and on the Vistula river there is no change in the situation. The efforts of the Austrians to cross the river San have been repulsed. The battle south of Frzemysl continuing under conditions favorable to the Russians." RUSSIAN TURKISH NAVAL BATTLE London, Oct. 20, 10.10 A. M.—A dispatch from Copen hagen to the "Central News" says: "The Berliner Tageblatt' publishes a telegram from Bucharest saying that evidently a big Russian-Turkish naval battle has taken place in the Black Sea. Exceed ingly heavy firing lasting a considerable time is reported." That the allies are frustrating the attempt of the re inforced extreme right wing of the German army to skirt the English Channel ports with the supposed object of finding a new route to Paris, is indicated by the French official statement given out this afternoon which asserts that the Belgian army is maintaining its position on the river Yres. Further actions, the statement adds, are heing fought between the allies and the Germans in the region Yres. Belgium, brom \ res the allied left wing extends to the I Lnglish < ha unci where it is being supported bv British! naval forces. Along the remainder of the 360-mile battle front stretching from the North Sea to Switzerland, where the • blenders and the invaders have been deeply entrenched! for >i days, the only activity noted is that in the.region! of the Meuse river where heavy fighting goes on inces santly principally in the vicinity of Camp Des Romaine. French batteries at St. Mihiel, south of Verdun, are 1 reported to have destroyed an entire battery of German artillery which had been particularly active in sweeping the French positions. . There is a dearth of news from German sources con-! cerning the operations <>f Emperor William's forces either, in France or in Russia. A huge conflict is in progress along the Vistida river, in Russian Poland. Dispatches from Petrograd declare i that after fierce fighting to the west of Warsaw the Ger- 1 mans have been driven back towards their main positions' on a line from Skiernewice. near Lodz, to Sandomir, on the Galician border. Russian official report says that the large forces of Austrians that crossed the river San have been repulsed. In the Pacific Ocean Japan has occupied "for mili-j tary purposes" the German islands in the Archipelagos of Marshall, Marianne and Caroline. These groups lie C«aoiu4 ElrTfitk Pace. ®)e Star- 4tgß!Sjk Mtepenfrent HAKIiISBURG, PA.. TUESDAY EVENING, QCTDBER 20, PAGES. ► - | JAPS OCCUPY IMPORTANT ISLANDS WREN GERMANS SINK THEIR OWN VESSEL i Tokio, Oct. 20, 6 P. M.—The Navy Department has announced the occupa ' tion, for military purposes, of strategi ; tally important islands in the Marianne J (or l.alrdne), Marshall, East Carolinet | and West Caroline Archipelago®. Jaluit, in the Marshall group, was I occupied October 14 by a division of 1 the Japanese fleet. Jaluit, it is es ; plained, was the base of the enemy's j maritime operations in the Marianne. | Marshall and Eastern and Western Caroline Archipelagos. The Japanese I found two German vessels there. One j sent herself to the bottom and the oth !er was captured with her crew. No ! damage was suffered by the Japanese fleet. The German ships of Jaluit were survey vessels. Previous announcement has been made of the occupation by Japan of is lands iu the Marshall and Caroline groups. The occupation of an island in the Marianne or Ladrone group has not heretofore been reported. The Marianne islands lie directly east of Luzon and about 1,700 miles from Ma nila. In this group is the island of Guam which was acquired by the Unit ed States in IS9S. Here the United l States maintains a small military force and there is a cable station oil the line between Manila. Honolulu and San Francisco. The Marianne group is about 500 miles south of the Bonin Is lands, which belong to Japan. The tota! area of the Marianne is about 4-0 square niiies. Most of them are densely wooded Rnd all are described as very ! fertile. The climate is temperate and aiubnous. 281 PERISHEDTHEN JAP CRUISER WAS TORPEDOED j BY GERMAN SUBMARINE Sasebo. .'scan. Oct. SO, 4 P. M. — According to information reaching here I to-day onlv three of the 254 members of the crew of the Japanese cruiser ' ! Takachi'ho. which was sunk by a mine , in Kiao-Chow bay on the night of Oc towr 17, survive the disaster. The body of Captain Ito has been recovered. The mast of the cruiser is visible above the water. It is believed she ven ; tured too lose to the harbor. Pekin. China. Oct. 20.—A dispatch | received here from Tsing-Tau. the Ger man fortified position in Kiao-Chow, ! says the Japanese cruiser Takaehiiio was sunk in Kiao-Chow harbor the night of October 17 by the German torpedo boat S-90. Tokio, Oct. 20. —U was announced of ficially in Tokio to-day that the Ger man torpedo boat S-90. w.nch escaped I from Tsiug-Tau under cover of dark i ness. has oeen found aground and de- I st-royed by the Japanese at a point sixty miles south of Kiao-Chow bay. The destruction of the B-itish sub marine E 3 by German warships in the ( North sea. as announced from Berlin, is the first lo«s su>t lined bv the British submarine service since tne outbreak •of the present war. The K 3 was a comparatively new boat, having been completed in 1913. She was 176 feet long and 22 1 2 beam. Che was ca pable of making 16 knots above the water and 10 knots beiow and was equipped with four 21 inch torpedo tube. Her complement consisted of 16 men. BRITISH MEW SUBMARINE SUNKBY GERMAN WARSHIPS Berlin, bv Wireless to Saville. L». 1., Oct 20.—1t was officially stated here to-day that tihe British new submarine E-3 was sunk on Sunday, October 18, by German warships in the North sea. HOLLAND LINER(KIPPLKD IN STRIKING MINE IN NORTH SEA Harwi' h, Oct. 20, Via I»n ion, 5.07 P. M. —It is reported here that the Holland-American Line steamer Pots dam struck a mine in the North Sea last night and was crippled by the re- : suiting explosion. NEGRO MA 0 WILL TELL OF SHOOTING _____ 1 Servant in the Carman j Home to Relate Her Story About Murder of Mrs. Bailey JURY SELECTED >| IN RECORD TIME! District Attorney Opens Case Against Mrs. Carman and States Her Mo tive for the Murder Was Jealousy j and Suspiciom of Her Husband Bit Awmtatfd Mineola. N. V., Oct. 20.—After sev eral physicians have established the cause of the death of Mrs. Louise D. j Bailey, who was shot and killed in the i office of Dr. Edwin Carman at tVeeport j on June 30, last, Cecelia Coleman, the negro maid iu the Carman household, is expected to take the staud to-day to tell her story of the crime for which J her former mistress, Mrs. Florence C. Carman, is accused. Questions put to 1 the talesmen yesterday by District At torney Louis J. Smith indicated that about the testimony of the maid he i, will build his case against Mrs. Carman.i The record time m which the jury 1 was selected yesterday ted District At-' torney Smith to express the opinion that the trial would be short and that a verdict might be expected this week. It was reported that night sessions might be held to further shorten the; trial. Mrs. Carman bore up well under the strain of the first day of her trial and to-day she was expected to again take her place beside her husband aud coun sel. despite repoits that her health had been seriously impaired by her jail cou j tinement. Whether Mrs. Carman will be a wit ness iu her own defense had not been determined, it was said to-day. Her 1 appearance on the stand would depend, j Continued iiu KlrveiKh fogf. TABLE NOW BOARDED ON SIDES Group of Volunteers Continues to Work on Building for Evangel ist Stough's Use NO MEETING IN IT TILL NOV. 1 Arrangements Are Made for Gatherings of Training Classes in Personal Work and for Shop Meetings—Miss Colt to Speak at Sunday Services } Work on the Stough tabernacle to day consisted of entirely completing the root" of the building and boarding; the east and west sides. Both these sides were started at once and equal progress was made. About the same number of workmen volunteered as yesterday, at times thirty and at other times fifty or more. It is expected that work can be com mence i to-morrow on the waterproof covering for the roof. This work will j practically all be done by experienced men. owing to the danger of novices] making a bad job of it and of conse quent leakage in rainy weather. • After the planks had been nailed on Coatlnufd on Second Pace. THE LADIES WHO FED THE HBR: - p *" Committee of Women Who Prepared Dinner for Volunteers Who Put Up Framework of Stough Temple in a Day VILLA WITH 18,000 MEN ! IN POSITION Mexican General Cre ates Panic Among Del egates to Convention of Military Chiefs BIG ARMY MAY ENVELOP CITY' Mexican Consulate at San Antonio, Texas, Receives Startling Report From Mexico City That Constitu tionalist General May Surround Aguas Calientes By J«JOCl alert frrss. San Antonio, lex., Oct. 'JO.—The Mexican consulate here to-day received a report from Mexico City stating that General Francisco Villa created a panic j among the delegates to the convention 1 of military chiefs in Aguas Calientes to-day by moving an army of !B, men into position where he can envelop the city and imprison the entire con ference. TEST FUSION J THE COURT Old Line Democrats File Case to Deter mine Right of State Committee to Make Substitutions / Objections wore filed in coure here to-day by James 'M. Dohan. a Philadel phia attorney, to Democratic substituted nominations in the Seventeenth legis lative district of Philadelphia county.' The case is a test one, the point raised being the authority hearing. Between 40 and .V) Passengers Killed Liondon, Oct. 20, 9.30 A. M.—A dis patch to the "Chronicle" from Pas-de-1 *'alais. dated Monday, says that be tween forty an 1 fifty passengers were killed and eighty were injured in a} train wreck Saturday at Marquise, be- i tween Calais and Boulogne. Two trains carrying soldiers and refugees collided j owing to the fa' t that a broken signal' wire released the danger signal. Dr. Freed Seriously 111 Dr. Isaac Freed. 133" North Fourth street, who was brought home from Pittsburgh on Sun lay evening, to-day was reported to be in serious condi tion. He i« suffering Trom congestion' of the lungs. Dr. Freed is 70 years old and is a commercial traveler.' Bteelton Youth Injured in Fall Andrew Stinuko, -36 years old, of Steelton. suffered a fractured left col larbone when ht feli from a troliey car vesterday. ' Re was treated this morn- j ing at the Harrisburg hospital. LEWIS' NAME IS STILL ON BALLOT It Must Now Remain on the Ticket of the Roosevelt-Prog re sive Party FORGOT TO HAVE IT WITHDRAWN When He Retired as Washington Can didate For Governor He Failed to Remember Ho Was Named By An other Party—Too Late Now William l>rapet still is a can didate for Governor Of Pennsylvania. His name will appear as such on the Roosevelt Progressive ticket, notwith standing his formal withdrawal from the Washington party ticket in favor of Vance C . MeCormick. With the intention of retiring from the political arena as a candidate for Governor, Dean Lewis, who had been placed in nomination for the office by the Washington party at the spring primaries, hastened to Harrisburg on September 16 tiled his withdrawal pa pers, duly sworn to, in the State De partment, and then, going to the meet ing of the Washington party State Committee in Chestnut Street "hall, he announced his withdrawal, meaning thereby to convey the impression that so far as lie was concerned he would not be voted for at the November elec tion as a candidate for Governor. Therein is where Dean Lewis made a miscalculation. He still is a candidate for Governor and his name will Lie printed on the ballots of the Roosevelt Progressive ticket as such candidate to be voted for at tlu* November election. Plainly put. Dr. Lewis withdrew as the candidate of the Washington part v. but he forgot the important fact that he had been nominated for the same office by the Roosevelt Progressive par ty and he failed to withdraw as the Continued on Kltvriith imPPED 6? ansa Mayor's Action in Dis missing Patrolman Is Finally Sustained at Meeting To-day G. W. SEYMOUR GETS THE JOB Royal Tries to Have Kinley Appointed to the Newly Created Vacancy in Police Force. But His Plan Is Voted Down The City Commissioners this after noon finally approved the action of Mayor Royal, who dismissed Andrew J. Murphy, a patrolman, on charges of in subordination. By a vote of 4 to 1 they appointed George W. Seymour, 1070 South Cameron street, as Murphy's suc cessor. The Mayor opposed Seymour. The new patrolman will report for duty at once. Before appointing Seymour the Com missioners, by a 3 to 2 vote. —the May or and Commissioner Gtfrgas. Jjeing in the minority,—struck out of 'the ap pointive resolution the name of Jacob Kinley, Royal's preference as Murphy's Coatlaned un second Pa*r. POSTSCRIPT PRICE. ONE CENT. $50,000,000 PROFITS AIM OF CARNEGIE "To Want More Than That Seems Wicked," He Wrote From Ski bo Castle U. S. STEEL CO. ON THE GRILL Government Asks That Greatest Cor poration in World Be Broken Up Into Numerous Companios Alleged To Be Mergod Illegally—Suit Pending Throe Years fi\j .4,vmi( k;till Prras, Philadelphia, Del. I'll. final argu ment hi the government suit to dissolve the I uitod Slates Steel Corporation, the greatest combination of capital in the world on the ground that it was created in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. was begun here to-duy before four I' uitod States circuit judge* sitting on the United States i ourt tor the District of New Jersey, in which jurisdiction the proceedings were instituted, Dctober 2t>, 11(11. riie ease is being heard by Judges Hulliiuton, who is presiding; MePhev son. Hunt, formerly of tlie Commerce court, and Woollev, recently appoiuted to succeed Judge liray, retired. It was agreed that the entire week should be devoted to the arguments. .1. M. l)i ckinson, former Secretin v of War. who lias had charge of the "case for the government since its iuception, opened the argument. Henry 10. Coitgn, special assistant to the Attorney tieu eval, will also speak tor the goveru tjieut. Bigger Melon Wicked, Says Carnegie Mr. Dickinson quoted a letter w it ten by Andre.v Carnegie at Skibo t as tie August 12, I S:»9. In this letter Mr. ('ai ucgie w rote: •. Illinois 90,000 inns ahead of her proportion. v * * Bail polic\ iq allow j o.ir proportion of eiders received to tall below equality. * * It' you can (111 next \ear at present prices, you have at least forty millions profit but it may be tift\. To want more than that seems wicked." I his letter, according to tiie govern ment, is on record in tlje minutes u( August 23, I S9l), of the Carnegie Com pany. Mr. Dickinson, after telling the well-known story of the formation of ; the steel corporation, took up the cap ; ita'ization of the concern. He contend i ed that the corporation is over-capital ized to the extent of more than s,'>oo.- 1 000,000. Mr. Dickinson went into the history i of the various companies to show that competition among them prior to the I formation of the . I lege 11 billion-dollar steel trust was sharp. He quoted Charles M. Schwab as saying that com petition between the l arnegie anil Illi nois Steel Companies on rails had been destructive. Counsel for Big Corporation Counsel who appeared for the steel corporation and will speak during the week are Richard V. Lindabury, New ark. N. ,1.; John Ci. Johnson, Philadel phia; C. A. Severance; New York, and David A. Reed, Pittsburgh. George W. Klwood Murray, New York, will argue in behalf of John D. Rockefeller and his son. who along with Andrew Car negie. George W. Perkins, E. H. Gary, Charles M. Schwab. Henry C. Friek and others, are individual defendants. F. R. Kellogg, of New York, will speak briefly for the James J. Hill in terest. The Hill ore interests are in volved in the case through the lease bv the steel corporation of ore beds in the northwest. Since the institution of the suit this lease has been cancelled and Mr. Kellogg said he did not see the necessity of his appearance except to touch on certain law points in connec tion with the lease. The government asks that the great est corporation in the world in point of capitalization he broken up into the numerous companies that had been merged illegally, the government al leges, into the gigantic concefn. The « nnton Third ARMY NAH (J A.ME NOV. 28 Finally Agreed That Contest Will Take Place on Franklin Field By Associated Press. Washington, Oct. 20. —The Army and Navy football game will be played this year at Philadelphia on Franklin Field on November 2S and four annual games thereafter will alternate between New York and Philadelphia, by an agreement to-day between the Army an I Navy Athletic Associations in ses sions at Annapolis. The above anaoun ement came after a long controversy in which it wa> slated that tile game would not be played this year. Football Injuries Prove Fatal By Associated Press. Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 20.—Michael Kennedy, age,| 20, ,|ied here to-dav from injuries received Saturday in a football game. His back was broken.