2
OPEIC PLflltltED
TABERNACLE
Women Will Appear
for Work To-morrow
With Hammers and
Double Lunches
PRACTICE FOR
USHERS TO-NIGHT
Stough Supporters Will Hold Neighbor
hood Prayer Meetings In the Morn
ing During Campaign. Attired in
Their Working Clothes
From present indications. Stough
workers believe that the campaign will !
start off on Sunday in whirlwind fash
ion. Most of the co operating churches
have decided to close ali day nest Sun
day and members will attend the serv
\ ices at the tabernacle. It is however|
in the afternoon service that all rec
ords for a first day seem likely to be
eclipsed. By order of the Stough party,
this meeting is confined to church mem
bers and admission will be by ticket
only. All the members constituting
the party will be introduced to the
audience and Dr. Stough is expected to
have something special to say to the
church people.
Emphasis has been laid on the need
for care that tickets get into proper
hands. The demand for tickets has ex
ceeded the supply and headquarters
was inundated yesterday with personal
and telephone requests for information
about tickets. There is still a small sup
ply at headquarters, but these can only
be supplied to pastors or members of
the publicity committee of the various
churches and through them to the mem
bers. Arrangements will be made also
for a supply of tickets being placeJ in
the hands of the ushers at the Sunday
morning service. These ushers are se
lected from each church connected wifS
the movement and church members who
wish tickets will apply to the ushersi
who represent their particular church,
as the ushers will have instructions
only to supply those whom they can
identify.
The 137 ushers to serve in the tab
ernacle meeting will meet to-night at
the tabernacle at 7.30 o'clock for in
struction and practice under the lire.
t:on of liOuis ,T. Houseal. chief usher.
A few weeks ago the local executive
committee accepted an offer made by
the Sigler music house to supply a Meh
lin concert grand piano for the taber- 1
nacle services. It transpires however,
that the Stough party have made ar
rangements direct with a firm of piano
manufacturers to use one of their
jiianos through the campaign beginning
with Harrisburg. then Altoona, Lancas
ter. Reading. Lebanon ami Allentown.
Women to Appear For Work
Women workers are asked to appear
at the tabernacle at 10 o'clock to-,
morrow morning, with their hamfners.
William S. Roebick, who i« in chArge
of operation* there, has sofue soeciali
work for them to do. They are request
ed each to bring lunch for two. so that
the men who volunteer during the day
. an be fed. There will be a short praise
service at noon, the first service to be
held in the tabernacle.
The decorating will "be in the care
of the young men's and young wom
en "s work committees. House painters
are requested to lend the workers high
ladders on Saturday afternoon when
the decorating will be finished. There
is need for at leas: twelve such ladders.
Everything is in readiness this aft
eruoou for turning on steam in the
building, and i; will be warm ail day
tomorrow The ventilators were
closed To-dav and all the doors are in
phtee.
Prayer Meetings in Mornings
Arrangements will in all probaidiity
be made at a meeting to-morrow after
noon at 2.30 o'clock in the Fourth
Street Church of God to hold neighbor
hood prayer meetings every weekday
except Monday an 1 Saturday from 9
to 9.30 o'clock in rhe morning, instead
of Tnesdav and Friday evenings. The
morning meetings will be entirely*in
formai. Those who attend will for the
most part be atti-ed in their working
c-iothes. >uati-hing just a little time for
the services without going to the trou
ble of •• tix-.ag up."
Plans a-e now on foot for a big ban
q.et to be given iu honor of Evangelist
Henry W. Btcugh by business men of
the city on Thursday evening of next
neek at 3.30 o'clock at the Board of
Trade building. It is expected that
there will be at least 400 piates. The
evangelist will address the business men
on the effects his campaign will have on
the business of this city. Other mem
bers of the St o ugh party will also
speak. Tht program is to be completed
in detail later. Arrangements are beiug
u ade by a committee headed by J. J.'
\u»gesser. manage. - of the Evangelical
Publishing House.
Will Furnish Headquarters
The entertainment committee, which
hfcs been iu charge of the furnishing of
«ne Slough residence, 216 Fine street,
and has arranged for a dinner in the
evangelist's honor upon his arrival here
ou Saturday, is also occupied with the
furnishing of the campaign headquar
ters at 26 South Third street. Rock- j
chairs will be provided and plants:
wiu !»« supplied for the outer room by '
the Berryhi'i Nursery. Matters pet
t&iniug to the campaign in general will j
be attended to »t headquarters. Evan
gelist Stougli will sec visitors who de
sue to confer with him personally at his
private room in the Fine street resi
dence.
STOUGH MEETINGS AT SHOPS
Men and Women Will Speak to Labor
ers To-morrow Noon
Shop meetings arranged for to mor-.
row noon by Stough campaign work
e-s will be as follows: Enola car shops.
Mrs. Jobu V. Boyd, speaker; Ruther
ford car shops. the Rev. «Mr. Carmich
ael, speaker: P. R. R. division transfer,
Ira Dean, speaker; Lucknow car shops.'
H. C. Hoffman, speaker. and Reiiv
street shops, the Kev. J. T. Spangler,
speaker.
A prayer meeting will be heid to
morrow night at the engine house of'
the Royal Fire Thirteenth
ward.
CAPITOL
CORPORATIONS PAYING
I THEIR ANNUAL TAXES
Fears of a Diminution in the State's
Revenues Have Been Dispersed by
Big Payments Made in the Past
Few Weeks
While there was considerable appre
hension in State financial circles a
month ago regarding whether the
money collected this year would reach
, the sum taken in last year, it is now
said that the chances of equaling last
year's sum are good. At the begin
ning of October the treasury was pav
ing out at the rate of SIOO,OOO per
! day, and that amount was not being
taken in by a long shot. School dis
■ tricts were clamoring for their money,
. j but they could not be accommodated
! on the moment, for the reason that the
big corporations were holding back pay
j ments for some reason. Within the past
couple of weeks it is said that the cor
porations have been coming to the
f tront and iiau iing over their tax on
II capital stock, increase of capital, etc..
1 so that the treasury balances show an
' increase.
This morning the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company paid in $500,000 of its
tax on capital stock, having sent a big
check some time ago, and there is more
;to follow. Several other big corpora
tions are yet to be heard from, but
■ unless they get busy during November
the increase of revenue will not be
very much marked over last year, and.
■ lit is possible, that there will not be any
increase. The loss of the $1,500,000
1 personal property tax by the State was
expected to be made good by the tax
on coal, but thus far very little has
; been collected from that source, and
the constitutionality of the law is still
in dispute in the courts.
Highway Bulletin
1 The Pennsylvania Highway News, is
sued by the State Highway Department
with \\. R. p. Hall, the department
statistician. as its editor, made its ap
' pea ranee this week. This bulletin is is
sued under the authority of the Sprout
I act and ;s fihed with interesting infor
mation relating to the operation of the
department, including the data relating
to the number and cost of roads ecuu
i, pieted and under contract by the de
i partment. and many other matters that
j the public, is concerned about. The
present number contains all of the oper-
II atious of the department up to date,
and those that follow will give the hap
i penings as they occur.
New Policeman
■ 'esse P. Ashburn, of Cumberlaud
county, has been appointed a police
man for ;:ie Philadelphia and Reading
, Railroad Company to look after mat
ters on the Cumberland part of the
line.
WIFE OF CONTRACTOR DIES
1 Mrs. Minnie M. Sechrist Expires at Her
Home This Morning
Mrs. Minnie M. Sevhrist, 361 South
Fourteenth street, aged 52 years, the
wife of George H. Sechrist, a well
known contractor and builder, who has
lived on South Fourteenth street for
the last 2$ years, died this morning at
$.lO o clock. Besides her husba»l, she
is survived by two sons, Roy S., at
(home, and Harrv E., 141:' Swatara
"ti eet: three sisters. Rebecca Gohn. who
resided with Mrs. Sechrist: Mrs. Mary
iieigler. 1901 Forster street, and Mrs.
Anna Yogei 33 South Sixteenth street,
and one biother, Edward Gohn, 638
Schuylkill street.
The funeral services will be held Sa f
urdav afternoon at 1.30 o'clock at the
; home, the Rev. A. H. Sampsel, pastor of
the I'ark Street United Evangelical
ehurch, officiating. Burial wi-11 be in
the East- Harrisburg cemetery.
Mrs. Catherine Finn
Mrs. Catherine Finn, aged S3 vears.
died at her home, 160$ North Fifth
street, yesterday morning. Funeral
services will be held Saturday morning
at St. Mary's Catholic ehurch, Maclay
street. Buris> will be in M't. Calvarv
■cemetery.
Jolin H. Bowers
The funeral of John 11. Bowers, a
Civil war veteran, of SummeTdaJe. who
died yesterday, will be held from his
home on Sunday. Burial will be in Mt.
Ziori cemetery. Mr. Bowers, who was
69 years old. is survived by his wife,
six children and three brothers and sis
ters.
$15,000 BLAZE ON FARM
Sheely Home and Barn Near Shiiemans
town Are Destroyed
A defective flue is believed to have
been the cause of a fire which at 4
o'clo k yesterday destroyed the barn,
homestead and all but one of the out
buildings on the J. M, Sheely farm, a
mile southwest of Shiremanstown. The
members of the family were in the field
when the fire was discovered, but they
• were able to get most of the furniture
out of the house and rescued what live
stock was in the barn.
Little or uo furniture save what had
been in the attick. was burned. Farm
tiands withdrew the Sheely automobile
from the garage just as'the building
took fire. The loss will amount to fullv
$13,000 and is covered by insurance.
With the barn were destroyed all of
, the season's crops, much harness and
! farming implements.
The Sheely family was working in
the corn field when the fire alarm
spread. The homestead was one of the
oldest in the Cumberland Vallev.
NEW TRICK IS EI) YESTERDAY
Only Chemical Apparatus at Fire on
Montgomery Street
The Uoou Will Automobile Combina-!
t.on Truck, which was put in service!
on Monday afternoon, had its first real 1
,try yesterday afternoon when it an
, swered a telephone call at 3.30 o 'clock.
The fire was at HIS Montgomery)
street and was caused by a detective I
flue in the home of J. Smith. The for !
ty gallon chemical tank and the two
hand extinguishers which are * part j
'of the combination were used for thir- ;
ty minute^
At 4.30 o clock they were again
called out to answer a call from a junk i
shop on Fourth street, near Reily. How
ever, it was not necessary to go into!
action as the lire was out when the
I truck arrived. • ■
ITARKTSBURCi STAR-IXDKPVSDENT, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1914.
ROOSEVELT SHAKES BANDS I
WITH TWO YOUNQ MOTHERS
CmUhml From I'trat rag*.
Colonel Roosevelt, permitting his eyes j >
to roam over the crowd, pointed to a j i
•1 vear-old boy and said; j.
•'I would be delighted to shake | I
hands with that youug man,'' he said. I
showing his teetli. !i
The ulushing father brought the boy j
forward for thai handshake, aud then i
Colonel Roosevelt iudicated that he |
wanted to shake hands with two young ;
mothers who were standing on the out j
skirts of the crowd with babies in their j ,
arms. This was accomplished and the .
train pulled out wWh Colonel Roosevelt j
waving his hat to the crowd.
CLOSING COLORADO MINES 1 ;
President Wilson Confers With Attor
ney General as'to Former's Bight to
Order Operations Suspended
Washington, Oct. 29. President Wil- 1
son is seriously considering Whether he 1
has authority to close the Colorado coal
mines involved in the strike if the oper- j
ators continue to refuse t he plan of set
tlement already accepted toy the miners.
Attorney General Gregory conferred
with the President to-day and it was 1
understood Mr. Wilson had asked him I
for a legal opinion on his right to close 1
the mines, if public necessity, in his '
opinion required that stop. After see 1
ing the President Mr. Gregory refused i
to discuss the question.
Vhe President has receive,! sugges -j'
tiom that he close title mines. Some of
his advisers have gone further and sug
gested that the gove-nment operate 1
them. He is unwilling to keep federal ,
troops in Colorado indefinitely, but has 1
been told by representatives of the' 1
miners that if they were withdrawn be- J 1
fore a settlement is reached, fighting ( !
and rioting would break out.
Denver, Oct. -9.—" I see no occa i
sion for closing the Colorado v'oal mines :
and imposing an industrial 'burden on 1
the Stare just at a time when the great- !
est demand for fuel is tieginning." was i
the statement of Governor Amnious to
day when told of a Washington dis- i
patch indicating that President Wilson 11
was considering whether he has author- i
ity to shut dowu the properties owned ,
by operators who have refused to ac- !
cept the plan of settling the miners'
strike.'"l have understood the Presi ,
dent would withdraw the federal troops
about November 15. In my judgment '
he can safelv do so and the State will .
be prepared at that time to assume re- ,
sponsibility for keeping order in Phe ,
strike-district." I
"SAMMY" WROTE "I'M SORRY" '
i
Rich Man's Letter to Wife Tells of
Fondness for "Mrs. Berkhard"
(Special to the Star-Independent.! .
New York. Oct. -9.—A remarkable [
confession, alleged to have been made '
by Samuel Schiess. whose father found- 1
ed a large embroidery business in Swit
zerland aud left him SIOO,OOO. was '
filed in the Supreme Court yesterday, 1
by h's wife. Mrs. L«illa Gertrude'
Schiess, in support of her suit for di-i
vorce. which supplemented a suit by
Schiess for a separation. '
Justice Donnelly has awarded Xlrs.'
Schiess $-5 a week alimony, pending j
the trial of the divorce action. Asj
for the confession, s, hiess swears in
affidavits submitted to the court that
he lived with his wife long after he
had signed the document. The coufes-<
sion follows:
"I have been too friendly with a>
woman known as Mrs. Berkhard. and i
also known as Florence Wagner and l
'Toots' Ijc Vey. I know her reputation
and 1 have given her funds. 1 let her;'
wear my diamond ring, which was a
present from my mother. I became
financially interested iu her impend-1,
iug divorce.
"1 took automobile trips with her
and I have maintained her at the
Hotel Astor and have been seen in;,
public diuing with her. I placed the!
automobile which I had previously
presented to my wife at this woman's
disposal. I;
"1 told my wife many lies. I gross-!
ly insulted my wife by having this
woman in a box at the theatre, be-1
decking her with flowers and seeing
her at intervals while my owji wife
sat beneath with friends. I have
committed many other indiscretions,
which my wife out of charity does not
demand me to state. 1 am sorrv.
• June 2. 1910. SAMMY." I
WILSON ENJOYING A REST
Practically the First Since President •
Entered the White House
By A*so- tated Press,
Washington, Oct. 29.—President,
Wilson is enjoying now practically the !
first rest he has had since entering the
White House. Cabinet meetings have ,
been postponed, the semi-weekly con
ferences with the Washington eor- ,
respondent have been called off until 1 ,
alter election and he is seeing only one ,
or two callers a day.
Mr. Wilson spends most of his time
golfing, automobiiing and reading in :
his study. He is keeping in close touch j i
with the Kuropean and Mex
ican situations aud seeking to solve the
Colorado strike troubles. He personally
wrote his Thanksgiving Day proclama 1
tion, issued yesterday, whereas such.
documents usually have been prepared
at the State Department. 1
CASH FOB BBTtBED MINISTEB3
Plans Launched to Baise *.~>.OOO,<MH)! 1
for Their Snpport
By Astociated Press.
Washington, Oct. 29.—Plans for ,
holding a convention in Chicago early | i
n 1915 were made to-day at the con M
eluding meeting of the conference hcrel.
inaugurating the campaign to raise, j
during 1915. $5,000,000 for the sup- Ij
port of retired ministers of the Metii- j
odist Episcopal Church.
Resolutions were adopted urging par- ■ <
ticularly the organir-atiou of laymen to !
work for the raising of the vast sum. j
Representatives from other denomiua-1
tions addressed the conference iu ex-11
planation of similar movements in their \
churches. j
U. S. Destroyer on Sand Bar j |
By Anoviatcd Prett. ,
Nortolk. Va., Oct. 29.—The destrov- i
er Pauloing, on a sand bar at Lvnn i t
Haven Inlet, had settled some to-day. 11
Her crew still is aboard but a part will ! f
soon be transferred to the naval station t
here.- The weather is goo.l and the i t
ship is said to be in no danger. ' i
Nortolk, Va., Oct. 29.—The destrov
er Pauloing, on a sand bar at Lvnn
Haven Inlet, had settled some to-day.
Her crew still is aboard but a part will
soon be transferred to the naval station
here.- The weather is goo.l and the
ship is said to be in no danger.
ORAL ARGUMENTS
IN RATE INCREASE
tMllllH from Klrat Pas*.
and several western state railroad com
missious, was prepared to address the
commission and be followed by counsel
for the shippers of the Chicago dis
trict, for Pennsylvania coal producers
and for lumber shippers. D.
Brandeis, special counsel for the com
mission, .was ready to close the case
for the opposition.
Mr. Patterson prefaced his argument
with the statement that the carriers did
not ask the commission to grant the de
sired increase "as a matter of grace."
nor claim that the principle of "pro
moting the prosperity of those indus
tries whose prosperity is dependent
on the welfare of the railroads," should
be applied, regardless of the reasonable
ness of the increases proposed. It was
contended, lie "Said, that the increases
suggested had been shown to bp reason
able.
Tilts of Counsel and Commissioners
J. P. Minnis, counsel for the Wabash
system, became involved iu frequent
exchanges with t ommtssiouers Clem
ents, Meyers, Clark and Hall in his ef
forts to show it was within the legal
power? of the Commission to extend re
lief for the purpose of safeguarding
railway credit.
Commissioner Clark asked if it were
contended that the Commission should
go beyond a consideration of the reas
onableness of rates as compare.! to the
cost of the service rendered. Mr. Min
nis insisted it should. The policy of the
government was for the operation of
railroads by private capital and the in
creases asked were imperative, he said,
if new capital were to be obtained.
Commissioner Clements asked if
counsel thought the Commission should
increase rjites from time to time to
make good impairments of credits from
financial mismanagement. Minnis said
disclosures as to mismanagement
should be dealt with iu Congress or else
where.
Rates From Pittsburgh on Produce
Washington, Oct. 29.—Present
freight rates on produce is general,
shipped from Pittsburgh, Pa., to desti
nations in other States, both east aud
west, were held to-day by the Inter
state Commerce Commission to be rea
sonable and not unduly preferential. It
also was held that the railways had
justified the increases in rates made on
September 10. 1913.
The commission suspended until
January 29 an advance in passenger
fares proposed by a large number of
Western railways. The increases, sug
gested in tariffs which was to have be
come effective November 1. averaged
one quarter cent a mile, affected the
paussenger rates between points located
on the Oregon short line, via Salt
City or Ogden. Utah and the Denver
and Rio Graude and points east and
south of Denver.
Increase of Petroleum Suspended
A proposed increase of five cents a
hundred pounds in the freight rate on
refined petroleum in carloads from Cof
fevvi'le. Kan., to certain destinations
iu Missouri and other states was sus
pended until February 2$ pendiug an
inquiry.
ATTACK ON AGENT CAROTHERS
Unauthorized by Carranza, Says Lat
ter 's Confidential Representative
By Associated Press,
Washington. Oct. 29.—Rafael Zu
baran Capmany. confidential agent of
General Carranza, here, said at the Mex
ican embassy to-dav that the statement
issued at San Antonio last night by
Roberto V. Pesqtieira. attacking George
C. Carcnhers, special agent of the State
Department in Mexico, had not been au
thorized by General Car ran, '.a, but was
a personal expression from Mr. Pes
queirs. Tiie latter was at one time
Washington representative of Carranza.
said Mr. Zir'oarau. but now holds no
official position uOvler his government.
Carranza adherents have previously
expressed informally to the State l>e
partment their nelief that no American
consular agents should a company Gen
era! Villa. Secretary Bryan several
weeks ago inquired into the .'ontro
versv. conferring with Carothers person
ally here. Mr. Bryan exonerated him
from charges of partisanship and sent
him back to Villa's territory where he
has been since.
State Department officials to-day had
receive! no copy of the Pesqueira state
ment and Mr. Zubaran. who handles the
business of the Carranza government
here, said he had no intention of bring
ing it to the attention of the American
government.
TWO MESSENGERS HELD IP
Robbed of by Thieves. Who Es
cape in Taxicab
New \ ork, Oct. 29.—Two messen
gers employed bv John T. Stanley, a
soap manufacturer, were held up and
robbed of $4,000 here to-day.
,Tiie messengers reported to their
employer that while they were passing
the corner of Thirtieth street and Elev
enth aven:e two men stopgied them
and at the point of revolvers demand
ed the money they were carrying. It
was handed over. The robbers then
ran to a taxicab which was standing
a block away, jumped into it and 'es
caped.
CONVICT TOOK AUTO RIDES
Sing Sing Warden Says He Acted in
Capacity of Chauffeur
Ossining, X. Y., Oct. 29. T. J. Mc-
Cormick, warden of Sing Sing prison,
now under suspension, admitted to-day
that David A. Sullivan, now serving a
sentence iu Sing Sing prison for the
part he played in wrecking the Union
Bank of Brooklyn, had frequently been
outside the prison on automobile rides.
Mr. McCormk'k's admission was made
ou the witness stand in the investiga
tion started here to-day by Stephen C.
Baldwin, of Brooklyn, Governor Glynn's
special commissioner.
McCorm»ek testified that Sullivan had
been detailed to drive the automobile
and that the detail was in line with
McCormick's policy of having all work
done by prisoners wherever possible.
To Haul Dirt for River Fill
M. Harvey Taylor, Commissioner of
Parks, to-day entered into a contract
with the Stucker Brothers Construction
Company, which is doing the excavating
for the subway at Second ami Mulberry
streets, whereby 1.500 cubic yards of
dirt will be thrown over the river bank
along North Front street between Cal
der and Maclay. The work on the
proposed fill will be started the next
few days or as 9 oou as the transfer
trucks are available. It is estimated
that the dirt will cost the city slightly
more than twelve cents a cubic yard.
4 TRY SUICIDE
WITHIN A WEEK
loatlaurd I'rom Klrat Pace.
* week ago. A few days later ,lames
Steele muled hi* life in Carlisle by
swallowing carbolic acid.
Probst is about 39 years ol<i and his
relatives say he is mentally unbal
anced. Probst shared in the estate of
his father, the late .lohn K. Probst,
Sr.. formerly of Wormlevsburg. and re
ceived $750 about six weeks ago. Do
spite this fact the man was penniless
when his uuconscious body was dis
covered.
Wheu the Cumberland county nuthor
ities learned of Probst having received
the $750, and that h« now is without
funds, District Attorney Alexander de
tided to make an investigation. Probst
is a brother of Riley Probst, manager
of the Kapplian hotel, Ilarrisburg, and
of John K. Probst. Jr.,"proprietor of the
lipmoyne Hotel. Mrs. Lillie .lane Sher
wood, of Camp Hill, with whom he
lived until a week ago, is a sister.
John K Probst, Sr., the father, at
one time was considered wealthy al
though he is said to have lost much
money through waging legnl buttles in
his fruitless attempt to prevent the
Northern Central Kailroad Company
from laying its railroad tracks through
his Wormleysbnrg property.
Troutman, the man whose t>ody was
found hanging in the jail, was about 70
years old and was "believed to have de
cided on suicide bocause of illness. The
old man was last seen alive about 7
o clock last evening. His cell bore evi
dence of •his having stood on a stool to
prepare the noose. He fastened it to the
ceiling and then kicked the stool away.
Troutmau was committed to prison
j during the early fall under the va
grancy act but at his own solicitation,
j lie being one of a number of tramps who
had practiced spending their wiuters iu
the Cumberland county jail.
COURT HOUSE
ALL READY FOR ELECTION
Ballots Now AT# Ready for Distribu
tion aud Will Be Sent Out
Beginning To-morrow
Ballots for the election on next
Tuesday wero received at the Court
Court this morning and the Commission
ers' clerks will begin sending them out
over the county to morrow night. Prac
i tioally all is ready for election day.
j Prank I*. Brubaker was this morning a>p
j pointed judge of election of Halifax to
i succeed Gilbert A. Still, resigned, and
! so far as is kifown all vacancies noiv
i have been tilled and the election boards
j all are complete.
WiitJ.ihers have been appointed, dep
i uty constables have been named to
serve in wards where there are sevornl
precincts and the only work yet re
maining is tfhe registering, by the Coun
ty Commissioners, of voters who did
not qualify for the ballot on the reg
ular registration days through being ab
sent from the city or were prevented
from appearing before the proper offi
cers because of illness.
The registration in Harris»l>urg and
Dauphin county, this year, is a record
itself, having surpassed by several
hundred the high water mark registra
tion of 1912 when more than thirty
thousand prepared for the ballot.
Marriage Licenses
Albert Kiug and Mrs. Annie Plum,
Pleasant View.
K\iwai\l C. lies? and Bertha 'M, Gees
aman. East Hanover township.
David C. MeNaughton and Myrtle V.
Seig, Harrisburg.
FEDERAL RESERVE ORDER
Banks to Use Gold or Lawful Money in
Making Transfers
By Associated Press.
Washington, IX-t. 29.—Notices from
the Federal Reserve Board were omng
i forward to-day to member banks in the
i new system to use gold or lawful money
I iu making transfers of reserve deposits
:to the regional institution. The order
also will apply to capital stock sub
! scriptions to reserve banks to be made
j by the member institutions.
It is aimed to provide the regional
Ibanks immediately with money and per
j mit the ready issue of reserve notes to
; member institutions. The transfer of
j reserves will be begun after the Sevre
j tarv of the Treasury gives formal noti
fication of the regional banks. It is the
desire of the board," the notice to tßie
banks stated.'' to arrange for the actual
physical transfer of the first install
ment in such a manner as to create the
least possible disturbance to business
conditions in any city or action."
TWELFTH REVENUE DISTRICT
Is Re-established In Pennsylvania by
Order of President Wilson
By Associated Press.
Washington. Oct. 29.—President
Wilson has signed an executive order
re-establishing the old Twelfth internal
revenue district in Pennsylvania. No
headquarters have as yet been selected
for the district of which the State will
now have four. following twenty
counties are included in the one re-es
tablished:
Bradford, Carbon, Centre. Clinton,
Columbia. Luzerne. Lackawanna, Ly
coming, Monroe, Northampton, North
umberland. Pike, Potter, Susquehanna,
Sullivan, Tioga, Union, Wayne, Wyom
ing.
POET'S BIRTHPLACE DEDICATED
Longfellow's Residence Was for Tears
Used as a Tenement
By Associated Press,
Portland, Maine, Oct. 29.—The house
in which Longfellow was born, was ded
icated to-day under the auspices of the
International Longfellow Society as a
memorial to the poet. Arthur C. Jack
son, of Chicago, president of the so
ciety, delivered an address.
The building, which for years was
used as a tenement house, has been re
stored as nearly as possible to its orig
inal condition.
Seiferd Hearing Again Delayed
There was another lull to-day in the
proceedings before Roy C. Danner, Reg
ister of Wills, in which heirs of the j
late Mrs. Martha Adams are contesting!
her will and endeavoring to prevent.
Harrison Seiferd, alleged clairvoyant,
from sharing in the $1!,000 estate.
The case was continued until to-mor
row by agreement of the lawyers.
NATION WINNING WAR WILL
SURELY LOSE. SAYS GARY
Birmingham, Ala., Oet. 29.—About
300 representatives of the leading iron
and steel coucern* of the country at
tended the opening session hero of the
seventh general meeting of rhe Amer
ican Iron and Hteel Institute. The feu
ture of to-day's session was an address
by Klbert K Gary, of the P. 8. IS tee I j
Corporation and president of the int»ti- i
tute.
Pupers and addresses, chiefly of a
technical nature, dealing with various
problems and interests of the industry,
also were on today's program. Friday
and Saturday will be devoted to inspec
tion trips through tihe various mines
and ifon and steel plants in the Bir ;
mingham district.
"Paradoxical as it may seem," add
ed Mr. Gary, "the nation which is suc
cessful in this war will surely lose.
The struggle for commercial supremacy
was the underlying cause of the war
and many believe if representatives of
the different nations had met in friend
ly spirit to settle the tiuaucial interest?
involved all trouble cou'ld have been
averted.
'• I'ndoubtedlv it would be to the
:best interests of all the nations en
gaged in the present war and to tho.
world at large if the commercial and
geographical lines of each of those na
tions colud be substantially preserved."
FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT
REITERATES DAILY STORY
Paris, Oct. 29. 2.50 P. M.—The
French official announcement given out
in Paris this afternoon says that yes
terdav the French troops made progress
at several points on the line, but par
ticularly around Ypres and to the south
of Arras. The text of the communi
cation follows:
"During the day of yesterday wo
made progress at several points along
the line of battle, but particularly
around Ypres and to the south of Ar
ras.
"There is nothing new on the front
between Nieuport and Dixniude.
"Between the Aisne and the Argonne
we took possession of some trenches
occupied by the enemy and not one of
the partial attacks undertaken by the
Germans resulted successfully.
"We advanced also in the forest of
Apremont.''
HERMAN CRUISER IS STILL AT
HONOLULU, WHILE JAPS WAIT
Washington, Oct. 29. —Japan Is plac
ing full confidence in tihe United States,
it was said at the Japanese embassy
to-day, to take proper action in regard
to the German cruiser Geir, which has
been at Honolulu for two weeks. No
protest has been made by Japan, it
was added, against the Geir remaining
so long in an American port, nor has
inquiry been made as to how long the
warship is likelv to remain there.
Embassy officials said, however, that
because of the threatened danger to
their commerce, if the Geir should take
to sea again, they were natural'ly anx
ious to see the case settled. The Ger
man vessel is reporter! awaiting repairs
to her machinery. V Japanese warship
is lying outside the 3 -mile limit at
Honolulu.
NOT KNOW IN BERLIN THAT
GERMANS ENTERED ANGOLA
Berlin, Oct. 29, via Londou, 12.15
P. >M.—it was announced officially in
Berlin to-day that nothing was known
concerning tho report that German
troops had entered Angola, the Portu
guese colony in West Africa. The state
ment was given out by the Wolff Bu
reau.
The dispatches relating that lierman
troops had forcibly invaded Angola
came by way of Lisbon, Madrid and
Paris through a French news agency and
were received here October 27. The
same message said that preparations
were being made at Lisbon for the im
mediate dispatch of British ships and
troops from Portugal to Angola.
LONDON OFFICIALLY DENIES
INDIAN UPRISING IN EGYPT
lx>ndon, Oct. 29, 2.49 I'. .\1. —Official
denial was given in London to-day to
the report sent out from Berlin October
27 that there had been sanguinary en
counters between the British garrison
and Indian troops at Alexandria, Egypt,
and that a court-martial held in Alex
andria had sentenced thirty men to
death.
This German report, it was said, was
from an official source. It was declared
to-day to be an entire fabrication, tho
best proof of which was found in the
fact that no Indian troops are stationed
at Alexandria.
Poincare Condoles on Death of Prince
Paris, Oct. 29, 4.15 P. M. — Presi
dent Poincare has telegraphed his con
dolence in connection with the death
of Prince Maurice, of Battenberg, cou
sin of King George, who died of wounds
received in battle, to King George,
Princess Beatrice, his mother, and to
King Alfonso, of Spain, whose wife is
a sister of Prince Maurice. The Presi
dent in these messages relates that he
recently saw the troops at the front
where he was mortally wounded in
lighting gloriously for the common
cause. \
Holland Refuses British Relief
Amsterdam. Via London, Oct. 29,
3.30 P. M. —The " N'ieuwe Rotterda
macho Courant" says it learns upon
good authority that the British govern
ment offered Hollund a pecuniary as
sistance for the relief of Belgian refu
gees in the Netherlands. Holland de
clined saying she wonld bear the bur
den herself of a duty spontaneously
undertaken.
Charged With Defracding Customers
John Essig and Peter Brady, huck
sters, charged by Scaler of Weights and
Measures Reel with defrauding by
giving short measure, were held under
)200 bail in polico court this after
noon.
Charged With Stealing Iron
Charles Young and John Dixon,
charged with larceny of iron from tho
Harrisburg Railways Company, were
held under S2OO bail for court by
Mayor Royal in police court this after
noon.
IT PAYS TO USE STAB
INDEPENDENT WANT ADS.
DETENTION OF U. S. COPPER
BY BRITISH iS PROTESTED
Wellington. Oct. Iff.—Represent*
lives of four copper companies in Now
York to-day protested to the HUto l»c
partmoiil tinat two r*t 11 li:«n at on morn. the
San Giovanni uml tho Begina DTliLlia.
Nurylag several thousand tons of Amcr
ican copier to Itnlinn ports, liHil hern
delayed by tlUo British authorities HI
Gibraltar.
No official information? litis been re
ceived of tho detention of Iho lUilinn
vessel* from American <'nnsul Spragiu
at Gibraltar. who yesterday report oil
Iho seizure of tdie American steamer
Krotvnlunil, also laden wit.lf copper des
tiuated to Nap low and to (iroek pons.
Before taking official notice of tho soi
lire of these throe vessels, State Depart
nient officials will await a full report
of the o ire ninst an eon under wiiie.li tliov
are detained. Co.isul Kprague already
has 'been asked for details of the dotou
tion of tihe Krnoulnnd. It is understood
here that British warships hold up tho
Norwegian steamer Prosper 111. from
Now York for Copenhagen, and took
her to a port in north Scotland.
Now York, Oct. 29. In making pul>
lie the telegram of protest -«ent to Sec
rotary Dry an, the
four copper eoni|>anies announced to
day that sineo the telegram had boon
sent they received advices of the soi'.
lire by British authorities of the
steamship Prosper 111, Sweden, aifd the
steamship Ascot, for Uenou, Imtih carry
ing copipor. .
U. S. NAVAL OFFICIALS
DISCUSS EMDEN EXPLOIT
Washington, Oct. 29. For tho Ger
man cruiser Kmdon to disguise herself
tiy living Japanese tla+;s was not con
trary to the regularly recognized prac
tices of war, naval officials here pointed
out to day. Before tiring on a foreign
ship, however, or committing any other
hostile act. they say, tho Kmdeii would
be compelled under iirternationad law to
haul down the foreign tlag and hois;
that of her own country. No ob.jcr
tion could be made, it was said, oven it'
the Emdeii wore to llv the American
tlag to disguise herself, provided she
took it. down before attacking a ves
sel.
One navel officer recalled an inter
esting case during the Chinese Japanese
war, when a sui&N Japanese merchant
man was painted the color of a Uorniau
commercial ship and entered the port
of Wei-Hai-Wei through a cordon of
blockading ships, steamed around the
port, obtained all the information the
Japanese desired and escaped before
the deception was discovered by the
Chinese.
WAR ORDERS Af CHICAGO
KEEP BUSINESS ON MOVE
Chicago, Oct. 29.—T0 date it is
said that foreign orders for clothing,
trucks, harness, tinned meats and the
like in tho Chicago and neighboring
markets amount to between seven and
eight million dollars. Purchasing agents
of the British and French governments
are in tho field and tho former has $;!.
000,000 in a local bank to be use I
against purchases. The meat packers
are said to have enough European or
ders oil hand to keep them running full
time for a year.
William O. Bruce, secretary of the
Wisconsin Manufacturers' Association,
is authority for the statement that the
knitting mills of that state are swamp
ed with military orders. Coarse fur
coats, harness, shoes and light tonnage
automobile trucks are among other
Wisconsin commodities being sold
abroad, he said. .
ADRIATIC GERMAN STEAMER
REPORTED SI NK BY BRITISH
Paris, Oet. 29, 5.10 P. M.—<A
squadron of British torpedo 'boat de
stroyers has sunk in the Adriatic a
German steamer which had been con
verted into a cruiser, according to a
dispatch from Barcelona to t'he Havas
News Agency.
The Barcelona correspondent explains
that this news appears in "Puli
licldacs,'' a Spanish newspaper pub
lished at Gibraltar. The British de
stroyers rescued 38 members of the
herew of the German vessel.
luLAIMS NORTH SEA JUNES
DROPPED BY NEUTRAL BOATS
London, Oct. 29, 5.15 A. M.—
The"Times, " in an editorial suggesting
that t-lie mines oft' the coast of northern
Ireland havtr been dropped bv North
sea trawlers flying a neutral flag, says:
'•The Germans have so flagrantly
violated the precepts of international
law that the only safe precaution seems
to be to close the North sea to all neu
tral maritime traffic in order to prevent
any further dangerous abuse of ueutral
flags. We do not at present advocate
this extreme measure, but it is for tihe
authorities and, Above all, for the Ad
miralty to say whether suoh a develop
ment is practicable and desirable."
Furloughs for Exhausted Germans
Amsterdam, Oct. 29, via London, 3
P. M.—'Flic i'ologne "iia/.ette" says it
has learned from Berlin that so'diers
of various German units, which have
'become exhausted anil weakened owing
to the long stay in tho trenches, are be
ing sent home on a furlough lasting
from five to seven days.
HOW TO VOTE
FOR KUNKEL
There are two candidates for
Judge of the Supreme Court. Their
names appear at the top of the sec
ond column on the official ballot.
You can vote for one only.
A cross in a party square is a
vote for party candidates ana Is
NOT a vote tor judge.
You MUST make a cross after
the name of the judge for whom
you desire to vote. A vote for Judge
Kunkel must be marked on the bal
lot this way:
I George Kunkel X