THE WEATHER
SNOW TO-NIGHT
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Oet«lle4 Kepurt. i'age 6
VOL. 77—NO. 19.
ESTABLISHED
DEC. 4. is?«.
A FRENCH
SUBMARINE
DESTROYED
Sunk in an Attempt
to Torpedo Austrian
Battleships in Naval
Base of Pola
CREW. RESCUED.
ARE PRISONERS
Attacks by Turks in the Caucasus Re
pulsed. States Official Communica
tion Given Out by tne Russian
Army Officials This Morning
Paris. Dec. 26. 6.10 A. M.—The
Italian press states. according to ad
vices to the "Matin"' that a French
submarine belonging to the fleet of
Vice A imiral Lcvpeyrers has been sunk
w':>. attemptiv.g to torpedo Austrian
ivarti;•« in the Austrian naval base
o: Tola. The crew, it is stated, were
res. .io.i and taken prisoners.
Pftrograd, Dec. 25. —An official
communication given out by the Rus
sian army in the Caucasus reports quiet
there. Some fighting occurred in the
Van region where attacks by the Turks
were repulsed. The communication
says:
"In the region of Butaka. Turkish
Armenia, the enemy attempted an of
fensive from different directions but
the attacks were repulsed. On the other
fronts there is no change."
TURKS ATTACK AMERICAN
VESSEL; I). S. CRUISER
THREATENS BOMBARDMENT
London, Pec. 2 6. —Bombardment by
an American cruiser of the Turkish
port of Tni.oli, Syria, is said at Athens
to have been threatened on account of
an attack by Turks on the crew of an
A 'ieri.au merchantman on which Brit
ish a- 1 French citizens desired to de
• ;>-t. The in.''inpiete reports received
i :i Athens state that the threat of
t warship's commander quelled the
, ' k. T';e cruiser Tennessee has
n i the western Mediterranean for
sev at months and was last reported
c • far from Tripoli.
BRUSSELS WARINDEMNITY
HELD UP BY BRYAN. REPORT
Paris, Dee. 26, 5.35 A. M.—''Ger
i> proclamations annoancing a levy
or 5' " i: ..on fran:s ($100,000,0'.'0 >.
in lemuity at Brussels have been pass
ed over," says the "Journal" and the
re;«rt is current that the measure was
w :u irawn by the German governor as
the result of representations by the
Ariur -an .Secretary of State, William
•' Bryan, through Minister Braul
Whitlock. pointing out that the t3X
was in vio ttion of The Hague conven
tion.
"It is announced that the Germans
have mposed a tax of 25 francs on
a unmarried persons over 2" years of
age in Brussels."
Wa-hington, Dec. 26.—Secretarv
Bryan reiterated to-day that if Brand
Whitloek, American Minister to Bel
gium. ha i taken any action to dissuade
the German military authorities from
collecting a war levy on Brussels he
had been acting entirely in a personal
and unofficial capacity and without anv
instructions from the American govern
ri eat. The Secretary sail he had no
information that Mr. Whuloek had been
concerned.
LATE WAR SUMMARY
Although stating that further pro
gress has been made to-fiays communi
cation from the French war office lays
chief emphasis on the repeated attacks
by the Germans, who apparently have
undertaken a series of vigorous on
slaughts in response to the offensive
movement of the allies. Some of these
German attacks extended over consid
erable sections, involving large bodies
of troops but the assertion is made that
all were checked. Perceptible progress
in Alsace is claimed by the French
Reviewing conditions in the east the
French war office asserts that the Ger
mans have been thrust back along the
line before Warsaw and that in the
fighting in the region of Cracow the
Russians have won the advantage.
The Japanese embassy at Washing
ton gave confirmation to last night's
report from the official press bureau in
Cuatlaued oa Fourth Page.
HOW FIGHTING IN BELGIUM IS AFFECTED' BY WINTER CONDITIONS
This picture, drawn by i'aul Tbirtat. special artist for this newspaper, the -New York Herald and the London Sphere, comes from the South Belgian battlefield. It gives some Idea of
tt. cvere conditions under which the French troops on the left wing have been operating A correspondent from there writes:—"Always the same spotless snow over the same pur
pie lull wood*. From the height to which we have been conducted this afternoon we are on the borders of two regions, clearly divided by tlie abrupt descent of a olaleau as if by a thick
*'«■ At our right the Artois and its chalky slopes descend Into steep dykes; at our left is Flanders, the charm of the I>ow Countries."
J. KIRK BOSLER STRICKEN
BEAD IN CARLISLE HOME
Member of Wealthy and Socially
Prominent Family Succutnta This
Morning a Few Hours After An
Attack of Paralysis
(Special to the Star-Independent.)
Carlisle, Dec. 26. — J. Kirk Bosier,
one of Carlisle's wealthiest residents,
banker, manufacturer, clubman and
■ formerly one of the town's most prom
inent business men, died at his home,
North College street, this morning at
6.30 o'clock. He had been in poor
health for about five years. The attend
ing physician said death was due to
a stroke of paralysis which he suffered
only a few hours before he died.
Mr. Boster quietly celebrated his
thirty-eighth birthday ia October. He
was born, reared and educated in Car
' lisle—the son of the late J. Herman
Hosier—and until his retirement about
• five years ago, managed the business
of the Carlisle Shoe Company, which
' nis father had success:'ally conducted
before him.
Following his graduation from D 1 k
inson College, Mr. Bosier joined his
wealthy father in a number of busi
ness enterprises and subsequent to the
death of his parent he became a
or of both the Farmers' Trust Com
pany and the Carlisle Deposit bank, of
this [ lace. Including the Fidelity Trust
Company, of Baltimore, he also was
identified with otner banking institu
tions in this and ot&er States.
The Bosier family long has been
prominent socially both in Cumberland
and Dauphin counties. Mr. Bosier was
Coßttoned on Fourth Pub*.
ATTEMPTS Sl K iDK IX JAIL
Tramp, Who Said He Once Was Rich.
Cuts Throat With Razor
(Special to th Star-[• ie; •■ .
Carlisle, Dec. 26.—Frauk Myers, 60
years old, a tramp who was serving out
a jail sentence on a vagrancy charge,
attempted suicide in prison here last
night by slashing his throat with a
razor. His windpipe wis backed and
the sharp instrument barely escaped
catting the jugular vein.
Myers was rushed to the Carlisle
bosipital where this morning it was
sai 1 his ehso.-es for recovery are good.
Other prison inmates, who found the I
old man after he had attempted self
destruction, said Myers told them he
once had much eioney but had lost it.
Admiral Dewey 77 To-day
By Asfxialed Pr**t,
Washington. Dec. 26.—Admiral Dew-1
ev was 77 years old today. Secretary
Daniels, his aids and members of the
navy general board, called on the Ad
miral at his home and found him in l
good spirits and health.
Sledding Accident Serious
Edward Cross. 6 years old. 1335 Ful
ton street, ran into a water plug while
sledding near his home Thursday after
noon and lacerated his left arm. He
was treated at tfce Harrisbtirg hospital.
Gold Coins for Trust Co. Force
The clerks and attaches of the Me
chanic*' Trust Company were remem
bered on the day before Christmas
with presents of double-eagle gold
pieces. I
HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1914—12 PAGER.
IJISIIII
Eight Are Arrested in
an Abortive Uprising
in Manila and Its
Suburbs
10,000 SAID TO
BE IN THE PLOT
Constabulary Agents, as Members of
Secret Societies, Disclose Plans of
Intended Rising, and Subsequently
Disperse a Number of Gatherings
By -lis - id>' I Pre i,
Manila, Dee. 26.—K Filipinos
have been arrested on the charge of
sedition as a result of an abortive ris
ing in Manila an.l its environs on
Thursday- night. Further arrest,- are
probable. From army source? it is
learned that a general warning was
sent to ail officers on Thursday after
noon stating that fully ten thousand
Filipinos in Manila aione were ready
for a concerted attack on Fort San
tiago, the Cuartel K-pana. the Curatel
luf.mteria and the medical depot. The
military unit« were immediately pre
pared and a street patrol was startod
at dusk.
Plans of Risng Disclosed
Constabulary agent's who are mem
bers of the secret societies disclosed
the plan- for an uprising, thus enabling
a force of Constabulary and police to
disjierse gatherings at liagumbaya, Paco
and Xavotas, near Malabon. At Caloo
ean a squad of American sailors seized
chains when a force of Filipinos ap
proached a d«me hall in which they
were gathered and, using the chairs as
weapons, routed the Filipinos, of whom
quite a number were injured.
The rising was evidently poorly or
ganised and lacked leaders. It was
composed for the most part of persons
implicitly trusting the word of Ar
temio Ricarte, a revolutionary, who
conducts a continual propaganda from
Hong Kong to which .place he was ban
ished by the American authorities some
Continued on fourth I'agf
• Car Window Falls on Hand
E. A. Edwards, 169 North Fifteenth
street, a conductor for the HarrUburg
Railways Company, was injured last
evening when a car window fell on
his right hand. A laceration of several
fingers was treated at rhe Harrisburg
hospital.
Operation on Miss Bae Snyder
Miss Rae Snyder, 17 years old, of
Duncannon, was operated on y ester lay
afternoon at the llarrisburg hospital
for appendicitis. Her condition is much
improved to-day and her early recovery
is looked for.
HANDEL Yil® ON'CHOSEN
FOR THE CHORAL SOCIETY
Rehearsals for the Twentieth Season's
Work Will Start January Under
the Direction of Dr. J. Fred WoUe,
Conductor of the Bach Choir
The Harrisburg Choral Society an
nounced to-day it will begin the twen
tieth season of its activities on Tuesday
evening, January 5, when it will be
gin the study of Handel's beautiful
oratorio "Samson,'' the work to be
taken up this winter. The conductor
will be Dr. J. Fred Wolle, of Bethle
hem, conductor of the famous Bethle-
I hem Bach Choir. La>t year was Dr.
Wolle's first connection with the Choral
: Society and in the opinion of lo al
! musicians he demonstrated wonderful
ability. In addition he was most pcjiu
j lar with all the members.
The rehearsals will be held each
Tues lay evening throughout the win
! ter in Fahnestock Hall, in the Y. M.
| C. A. building. They will begin prompt
ly at 7.4.i o'clock. The old members,
are enrolling rapidly and many new re
cruits from the choir of the Stough
evangelistic services are coming iuto
the Society.
"If any who contemplate enrolling
have not yet done so they should en
roll before the book> are close]," said
an officer of the Society to-day. "Such
persons should communicate at once
with Harry M. Bret 7, secretary of the
Society, 222 Market street."
Upon being engaged for the season
of 1915. Dr. Wolle wrote the following
letter from Bethlehem,
"It is with the greatest pleasure
that I look forward to resuming re
hearsals with the Choral Society on
Tuesday, January 5, because my rela
tions with this splendid body of sing
ers during the past season were most
pleasant. During those few months the
response of the chorus to their leader
was so prompt and efficient, it is no
wonder that the first year of our co-
Conttnued on Sixth I'aife.
SHE FILLS FORTY STOCKINGS
Mrs. Stebbins Acts as Santa Claus for
Children of Lochiel Row
Mrs. Lauretta B. Stebbins, who con
ducts an eating house at 1019 South
Cameron street, made a whole lot of
poor little folks in Lochiel Row happy
on Christmas Day.
Knowing that some of these children
would not have the visit from Santa
Claus that they expected, Mrs. Stebbins
arranged to present all who called at
her restaurant with a remembrance of
the day, and when the day closed she
had filled forty stockings with candy
and oranges which she handed out to
her little visitors.
GLASS CUTS HER ARM
Margaret Loper Slips on Ice and Falls
on Broken Bottle
Miss Margaret Loper, 1624 Fulton
street, who slipped on some ice in the
rear yard of her home Thursday aft
ernoon while carrying a milk bottle,
painfully cut her left arm when she
fell on the broken fragments of the
bottle. She was treated at the Har
risburg hospital.
fIRE CLUB WANTS
UE OF MOO
Disputes Right of Mc-
Nichol- Penrose Men
to Head Line In Inau
gural Procession
COMMITTEE TO
ADJUST ROW
Twelve Companies of National Guard
FTOHI Harrisburg and Vicinity Will;
March—Local Firemen and Pos
sibly the State Police Will Parade
Although no committee has as yet j
been appointed to arrange for the inau-!
jiuration of Governor Brumbaugh, those
who undoubtedly will be selected to J
make the preparations have been giv-l
ing the matter some attention, and j
from what can be learned the members
of the Legislative Inaugural Commit-1
tee will have but little to do except
to endorse what will be ready for them j
when they hold their first meeting, j
This Legislative Committee will con
sist of five Senators and seven members
of the House, an I it has always been i
customary to place the Senator from j
Dauphin county at its head, and in this
instance Senator E. E. Beidleman will
be the chairman of the joint commit
tee.
The vote for Governor will be com
puted in the presence of both Legisla
tive branches in the hall of the House j
on Tuesday afternoon, January 5, aft-!
er the organization of the two houses.'
The joint committee will then be ap
pointed to arrange for the inaugural, j
and adjournment until Monday even
ing Jahuary IS, will follow. Meantime!
the inaugural committee will meet and J
take up the detail of the inauguration j
and look over and endorse the arrange- ;
meats already ma te.
At present it is planned to hold the
inaugural ceremonies on a platform to
be built over the large flight of steps
leading up from Third street to the top
of Capitol Hill, in the same spot as
that on which the platform was placed
Continued on Klrrratli I'lrc.
Saws Prison Bars and Escapes
By Associated Press.
Worcester, Mass., l>ec. 26. —Sawing
two bars from tiie window of his cell,
Albert W. Johnson, 24 years old, who
was awaiting grand jury action on a
charge of breaking and entering, es
caped from his cell in the county jail
to-day and beat Curtis W. Sassefct, a
prison guar*l, insen&fole.
Whitman Takes Oath as Governor
By Associated Press.
New York, Dec. 26.—District Attor
ney Charles S. Whitman took the oat'h
of office as Governor of Xew York be
fore Presiding Justice IngraJiam of the
Apellate division of the Supreme Court.
NOBODY HINDERS WHEN
CHILDREN CARRY OFF JOYS
Youngsters Help Themselves at Elks'
Grill Boom While Benefactors Look
Away—More Than Thousand Boys
and Girls in Crowd
''Mister, may I take one of these
toys home for mv little sister, so sho
can have a happy Christinas too?"
came the anxious query from one of the
thousand children who to-day crowded
the grill room of the Elks' home and
amused themselves with the loads of
toys provided tor their benefit.
"Help yourself," came the answer.
"There is nobody to stop you."
That little incident repeated itself
over and over, until the youngsters hiad
gotten away with all the playthings in
the room, including a second supply,
long before 2 o'clock, the closing hour.
The toys were all attractive ones. They
could not be distributed equally because
of the overwhelming numbers of the
little visitors, so the men in charge
turned their heads the other way.
whenever a youngster started for the
door with one of the playthings under
his arm, and left the distribution take
care of itself.
Bells on the Tables Attract
Nothing was withheld from the
guests of the day excepting the orna
ments and attachments of the Christ
mas trees iu one corner of the room.
Efforts were also made to withhold the
bells on the tables which are used or
dinarily to call the waiters, and only
with difficulty were they saved. Prac
tically all of them were in constant
action while the visitors were in the
room .
Every child who visited the Elks'
home from 9 o 'clock until 2 received
Continued on Fourth Pnice,
RUNAWAY HURTS MESSENGER
Harvey Ensminger Injured This Morn
ing and His Bicycle Wrecked
Harvey Ensminger, 340 South
Fourteenth street, a Western Union
messenger boy, was run down end
slightly injured at Third and Market
streets at 10.30 o'cloek this morning
when he tried in vain to get out of the
way of a runaway horse belonging to
X. Freidlberg, 420 Walnut street.
The horse struck the boy after mak
ing a dash from Third and Pine streets.
The lad's bicycle was demolished.
McCormack Will Sing Here
.John McCormaek, the Irish tenor,
who has won many admirers since he
entered grand oj>era about five years
ago, will give a recital in
probably in the- Chestnut street audi
torium, on or about February 4. Mc-
Cormack 's coming here is being arrang
ed by Fred C. Hand, an attache of the
Pennsylvania Department of Labor and
Industry.
Arm Fractured in Fall
Mrs. Lvdio Caddell, 1851 Swatara
street, fractured her right forearm yes
terday morning in a fall on the ice at
Fourteenth and Derry streets. Tho
fracture was reduced at the Harrisburg
hospital.
Irvln Rubin Improving
Ija«t evening Irvin Rubin, of the firm
of R.i'biii & Rubin, was operated on at
the Harrisburg hospital for appendicitis.
The operation was successful ami his
condition is said to be good to-day.
POSTSCRIPT
PRICE, ONE GENT.
BANDIT HOHL
BURIED WITH
POLICE NEAR
Small Crowd Orderly
At Funeral Services
for Desperado Rilled
by Bluecoats
MOTHER IS IN
TEARS AT BIER
The Kev. A. M. Stamets Beads Brief
Service in Undertaker's Chapel and
Then Body Is Taken Away and
Placed in Plot Beside Father
Severe in . their simplicity were the
funeral services held here this aftor
-110011 over the body of Prank (i. Hohl,
the llarrisburj; bandit who was kill .1
on Thursday of last week by the po
lice of Cincinnati, after he had roluod
two banks and mortally wounded Pa
trolman Knaul. More simple still were
th,> services in the Harvisburji cemetery
before the body was loweret into the
grave in the plot where already Hohl's
father, a brother and a sister had been
buried.
There was no Ion;; line of mourners
present at the chapel of H. Mauk,
undertaker, at Sixth and Ivelker streets,
where the lirst services were held at 1
o'clock. Only a few relatives took, part
in the services. Three score ptYrsons,
attracted by curiosity, stood on the op
posite side of JSixth street but made
no demonstration. No provision, had
been made to have friends act sis pill
bearers and paid assistants of the un
dertaker and the undertaker himself
took thai duty upon themselves.
The sixty curious persons, gathered
outside the chapel, stood a rcspeJtful
distance away and bowed their he>d<
as the body was carried out for its last
journey, in expectation of a morbidly
curious crowd three policemen had be-M
t« the funeral to preserve order
but their services were not needed.
Fewer Than a Dozen Mourners
The mourners, fewer than a dozen,
were gathered at Hie funeral chapel at
1 o'clock when the 'Rev. Amos M.
Stamets, pastor of the Augsburg Lu
theran church, arrived to conduct the
services. He talked hut a few minutes
and offered up a short prayer. * Tlu>
weeping mother was left alone for a few
minutes with body and then it was car
ried away. The services in the chapel
lasted but twelve minutes. Mrs. Hohi
was accompanied to the cemetery by
her daughter and a sister-in-law. There
was but a short prayer at the. grave.
The body of the bandit was brought
to Harrisburg last Thursday night and
immediately prepared for burial. AH
through Christmas Day persons went to
the chapel hoping to view the body,
but all save friends of the family were
prohibited from seeing the corpse. Some
of the friends did not recognize the
body immediately as Hohl had raised
a small mustache and it altered his
appearance. Hghl's mother, whose hope
to the last had been that it was a mis
take and that it was not her boy who
had been killed, broke down as her
doubt finally was dispelled.
Delay in Shipment of Body
No explanation other than that the
Cincinnati police wanted, as far as
possible, to clear up other burglaries
in and near that city, by holding the
body there for possible identification
was given to the undertaker here for
the delay on the part of the Cincin
nati coroner in releasing the body for
shipment to Harrisburg. Its arrival
here Thursday night was unexpected a*
those most interested had been lea I
to believe that, it would not arrive un
til some time Christmas Day, although
it originaJly had been expected last
Monday.
ENGINE RACESjOR A LIFE
Right of Way Over Tracks of Two
Bailroads for Shifter Carrying
Man Mangled in Yards
Tony Lemmo, 647 Verbeke street, a
Pennsylvania railroad trackwalker, was
struck by a shifting engine while walk
ing in the Harrisburg railroad yards
at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon and lie
was so badly injured that he has little
chance to live. Lemmo's back was
broken, his skull fractured and his left
leg cut off.
The man was placed on the shifting
engine, which was given the right of
way over the Pennsylvania railroad
and Cumberland Valley railroad tracks
to the illarrisburg hospital, at Front
and Mulberry streets, in the slim hope
of saving his life.
When taken to the operating room
the injured man's watch dropped from
his pocket. The timepiece apparently
had not been damaged, as it showed cor
rect time.
President 58 Next Monday
By Atsoviatcil Pros.
Washington, Dec. 26. —President
Wilson continued to-day to rest from
the cares of office. He is transacting
only necessary business during the hoi.
days. President Wilson will be 6*
years of age next Monday. He will
eelebrate the occasion.