THE WEATHER FAIR TO-NIGHT AMD TO MORROW Detailed Report, Fife • VOL. 77—NO. 31. RSTABI.I«HED ORr, 4, i«:«. HIT HIE FOR 10IIIIUTES Dr. Wilson, However. Fails to Give Crowd of 50 Curious Persons a Glimpse of Him SECRET SERVICE MEN IN FORCE They Jump Off Train and Surround Presidential Car When It Stops on the Way From Indianapolis to Washington This Afternoon Woodrow Wilson, President of the Uni »d States, spent ten minutes in Ha isburg to-day and during that time he was not seen bv a single person for the reason that he secluded himself in a stateroom of tie private car "Na tional "" and didn't even look out of the "window, much less appear on the rear platform to say "Howdy" to the fifty or more persons who had knowledge of his coming and waited in the Penn sylvania railroad station to try at least to get a gbmpse oif him. Nary a glimpse did anybody get. The President was on his way home from Indianapolis wiiere laest night, at a Jackson day dinner, he made a speech in which he broadly hinted that he will again be a candidate for President by saying that "the time may come when the American people will have to judge'' whether he is fit to stay where &e is now—in the Presidential" chair. Naturally, after that remark, and the construction that has been placed upon it'by the American people at large, it was expected that President Wilson, in passing through the capital of a estate Which so loyally smpported him at the Baltimore convention, would at least get out on the platform and be gin his 1916 campaign right off the reel, as an earnest that he meant what he said in Indianapolis. But the "Schoolmaster "President" failed to show himself. He kept in tne back ground, and when the train from the West pulled into the station at 1 o'clock this afternoon, he was not too the seen. Secret Service Men in Force the train stopped half a dozen se cret service Pinkertons, Sfherlock tHohneses, Old Sleuths. Hawshaw*. Old Cap Colliers. Burnses and others well known as protectors of the great and good, jumped from mysterious places and began to pace up and down the platform beside the car, which meant that the few carious spectators should Keep away. They did. Not one of them had the temerity to approach the Presi dential presence or even to attempt it. The President was accompanied by his private secretary, Joseph P. Tum ulty, and his private physician, Dr. Carl T. Grayson. U. S. N., but even these two kept, themselves secluded. In an apartment in the rear of the car were newspaper correspondents repre senting the New York "Herald." "World" and ''Tribune," the Asso ciated Press, United Press and Inter national "News Service. None of them had anything to do but get out and walk up and down the platform for the President; not being in evidence and not making a spe«vh, it wasn't neces sary for them to do anything. Conductor Ziegler in Charge The few present stood around and when any of them got too close to the car a secret service man eyed him askance and sized him up to see if he bore any 0 f the earmarks of an anar chist or looked like a secret emissary from Carranza. At 1.10 the train pulled out in charge of Conductor C. Ziegler and Brakemen .1. A. Sibbetts ami C. C. Snyder, with Engineer W. C. Foster at the throttle, assisted by Fireman F. H. Norris. Two years ago, even before Ae was President, when Dr. Wilson ap peared here on his way to the Grang ers picnic at Williams' Grove, there was a crowd of a thousand at the sta tion, all wearing nice yellow badges with "Woodrow Wilson for President" on them. Somehow that crowd failed to materialize to-day. AUTOTRUCK AFIRE IX STREET Engines Called Out Twice This Morn ing As Kesult of Small Blazes Firemen were called out twice this morning within three hours but only one company went into service. The Good Will Comptiny answered a telephone call to the restaurant of Thomas Amoutts, 1219 North Seventh street at 6.45 o'clock. A partition back of a stove was burning. A chem ical stream made short work of the fire, but an excited passerby turned in an alarm from box No. 47. Seventh and Yerbeke streets, calling out the district companies. The loss was trifling. A motor truck, belonging to Brown & Company, furniture deaJers, 1217 North Third street, caught fire when the engine backfired at Hay alley, near Fulton street, at 9 o'clock. Acid was thrown on the blaze which was out when the firemen arrived in response to a call from box No. 24, Sixth and Cumberland streets. The auto is not se riously damaged. Fire Chief's Ant# Damaged Assistant Fire Chief Edward Hal bert driving the fire chief's automobile through the Market street subway yes terday afternoon at 2 o'clock, applied the clutch too suddenly and the rear axle of the auto broke. The car was taken to the garage. Chief Kindler ex pects to have it in service again late this afternoon. He rode on the hope company carriage in response to two fire alarms this morning. Wje Star- JitJtepenftent CATCHES COLD IN BOUSE; WANTS TO HAVE IT MOVED Representative Nissley, Suffering From Stiff Neck, Says He Will Introduce Bill For New and Better Ventilated Quarters for the State Law-makers Contending that the ventilating sys tem in the Senate an"tage of 12." feet had been reached. The danger stage here is 1" feet. The vrest of the flood passed Harrisburg hours earlier than was expected, but the maximum stage verified the fore casts. The river had fallen to 12.3 feet when the Weather Bureau official made the S o'clock reading this morn ing. The main river and all of the tribu taries. from this place, north are now falling and practically all of the ice now floating is in the main river or h:ts passed out to the bay. A river stage of about 10.4 feet is indicated for Har risburg for to-morrow afternoon. The only increases in the stages of branch rivers in the last twenty-four hours were reported from Wilkes-Barre and Sciinsgrove. Fair weather is predicted for to night and to-morrow with little change in temperature. A minimum tempera tore of 2S degrees is expected here to night. Unfilled XT. S. Steel Tonnage Grows By Associated Press. New York, Jan. 9.—Th e unfilled ton nage of the United States Steel Cor poration on December 31 totalled 3,- 836,643 tons, an increase of 512,051 over November. WORK BEGUN TO-DAY ON INAUGURATION PLATFORM Force of Carpenters Gets Busy on Construction of the Big Stand at Third and State Streets—Tener Will Bemain for the Exercises Senator E. E. Beidleman, chairman of tihe legislative inaugural committee, was confined to his home to-day with a slight attack of grip. Preparations for the inauguration of Dr. Brumbaugh as Governor on January 19 are pro gressing v.ery satisfactorily, and every thing wiH be in readiness by Monday, January 18. Superintendent Ramrbo began to-day the construction of the big platform at Third and and State streets with a large force. The decorations have bean ar ranged for, and the big platform will be fairly smothered in national colors and American flags. The committee has ordered 35,000 invitations, and they will all be sent out by Monday as the envelopes to contain them have been addressed. The various military companies to form the provisional regiment of Na tional Guard, under command of Colonel B. Hutchison, have all been notified of their selection, and will turn out with full ranks. The Governor's Troop will look its best under Captain George Jack, acting as escort for the new Gov ernor. The detachment of police to take part in the parade will be here on the morning of the 18th. In selecting the route of the parade it is intended to have the line of inarcto only through the central part of the city. The Governor's carriage will halt at a point near the reviewing stand so thart the gubernatorial party can reach fhe grandstand in time to meet the head of the procession and review it. Governor Tener has changed his plans and will attend the inaugural exercises. In tihe afternoon he will leave for Phil adelphia. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1915 12 PAGES. BIOKEI ENDS LIFE WHEN FIRIR FAILS Tragic Suicide of G. F. Stringer, Jr.. Un known When Failure Is Announced DEATH CAUSED BY PISTOL SHOT Crash of Firm Attributed to the Sen sational Rise in *Vheat Within the Last Few Days—Company Caught on Short Side By Associated Press. \ork, Jan. 9. U. F. Stringer, Jr., junior member of the Stock Ex change firm of Stringer & Co., shot him self and died instantly in his office shortly before the. suspension of the firm was announced to-day on the floor of the Stock Exchange. The firm of Striuger i Co. was or ganized May 23, 1912. It consisted of G. i. Stringer, Sr., and his sou of the same name. At the time of its organ ization the younger Stringer had not attained his majority Recently, after he had reached the age of 21, he was admitted as a partner. He was mar ried. A few minutes oefore the opening of the Stock Exchange to-day Stringer. Jr., left his own ntiice and entered that of the (Juan Ajuato Development Com pany, in which the firm of Stringer & Co. had an interest. When the Ex change opened the failure was an nounced. Not long afterwards the body of Stringei was "found lying on the floor under a desk in the develop ment company's office, with a revolver a few feet away. A physician and a policeman were summoned. For more than an hour, how »ver, no announce ment was made of Stringer's death. He had shot himself in the mouth. The firm did a commission business of small proportions. For some years it had been interested in Mexican prop erties, especially mining companies. The unsettled political conditions in Mexico, it wa said, embarrassed the firm linancinih and its suspension was attributed primarily to this. C. A 3j>ecker, counsel for the firm, said that he knew ot no reason why stringer shouUi kiil himself. Young Continued on Mmk I*»are. FIND 50 BTIpilE BOMBS Police Uncover Deadly Missiles in Trunk of Young Italian in Trenton, New Jersey By Associated Press. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 9. —About fifty dynamite bombs aud fuses were found to-day by the police m the home of Inalle Gabreie. 28 vears old, a resi lient of the Italian district of this city. ■He is held under arrest and will be ex amined to determine how he came into possession of the dynamite and what he intended to do with it. The police have been searching the Italian district of Trenton since t>he finding of an unexploded bomb iu St. Joachim's church here last Monday. A clue led the police to visit Gabreie's house early to-day and they placed him under arrest when he re fused to open a trunk. He told the po lice he hail lost the key. The trunk was forced open and the bombs found. They are about eifcht inches long aud two inches in diameter. 1,500 FULL PARDONS ISSUED Wholesale Clemency Granted Prisoners by Governor Cole Blease By Associated Press. Columbia, 8. C., Jan. 9. —Full par dons to about 1,500 persons convicted in South Carolina of various crimes, and paroled since January 1, 1911, were granted to-day by Governor Cole Blease. In addition to that number, who were included in a . blanket pardon and none of whom is now in the penitentiary'or in prison camps, the governor also granted clemency to thirty-four con victs in State prison or engaged on public works. Eighteen were pardon ed, ten paroled and six were given com mutations of sentence; seven had been convicted of murder and ten of man slaughter. Ttne Governor haii prepared a special decree granting full pardons to those paroled since January, 1911, and with one sweep of his pen, lie restored citi zenship to approximately 1,500 men and women, who collectively tad been found guilty of violating virtually ev ery law of the State. Governor Blcase signed the blanket pardon in red ink. He accepted as cor rect the estimate of his office attaches tliat his action to-day would increase to 3,165 the total number orf pardons, •paroles and commutations of sentence which he has granted since he became Governor four years ago. According to information obtainable here that places Governor Blease's rec ord for granting pardons above that of any State Executive. He will retire from office on January 19. - Auto Fractures Boy's Leg George Sheaffcr, 7 years old, 259 Delaware street, received a fractured leg yesterday afternoon when struck by an auu>mobile at Third and Muench streets. The fracture was reduced at the Harrisburg hospital. NOT CONSIDERING RAISING PRICE OF DREAD DERE Several of the Biggest Bakers Say There Is No Need to Do So at Pres ent as They Have Flout Bought at Old Prices The rise >u the price of wheat will not immediately cause a decrease in the size of bread loaves in this city in the opinion of local bakers, or result in an advance iu the price per loaf. For fhe most |>art they have flour on hand ■bought before the recent spectacular rise in wheat. Bernard Schmidt, whose bread-bak ing business is one of the largest in Central Pennsylvania, said he is not considering an increase in the price of bread or decrease in the size of the loaves. He said he kuows of no move ment among local bakers to make any change for the present, saying the supply of flour oil hand, bought at'the old prices, will see them through for a while. Mr. Andrews, of the Harrisburg Baking Compauv, is also of the opinion that there will be no immediate changes, sjnee supplies of flour pur chased at former rates are on hand. At the Hoffer Flour Mill Company offices it WAS said that flour will go up Ave cents a barrel with each one cent increase per bushel in wheat. It will ilrop correspondingly with each drop in the price of wheat. SMALLER LOAVES OF BREAD Or Increase in Price Likely as Hesult of Rise in Wheat By JtHNH-tatfrf Press. Washington, .lan. 9.—•'Smaller loaves of bread or au increase in the price is oue likely result of the rise in wheat, in tie opinion of Charles J. Brand, chief of the Federal Bureau of Mar kets. Moreover, Mr. Brand believes the American farmer will not be a first 'hami beneficiary of the soaring prices. With good prices and good markets which have prevailed for the last few months. !Mr. 'Brand "believes a major ■portion of the 1914 wheat crop no longer is owned bv the farmers, but has passed to the hands of the elevator men and the grain dealers. No statistics have been gathered to support that view, but officials of the department say experience and practice warrants audi a conclusion. WHEAT TAKES A SLUMP TO-DAY Opening Prices Almost Two Cents Low er Than Yesterday By Associated Press. Chicago, Jan. 9. —Wheat diropped t-o-dav as if struck with a hammer. Opening prices were in some cases near ly two cents a biwheJ lower than last night. May sold down to $1.39 as com pared with J 1.40 7-8 at yesterday's close. Fear of the effects of talk of an em bargo on the export of breadstuffs as well as on arms and ammunition had much to do with the sudden decline. Despite the fact that buying on the part of exporters and domestic millers afterward rallied prices completely, the market seemed to go to pieces in the final quarter hour of the session. Quo tations fell a full cent a bushel below the low point at the start. May selling as low as sl.3s. Conditions at the close were much disordered at a de cline of 2>/ s to 2% aet. ICE BREAKS AT M'CALL'S Just in Time to Save Hamlet of Safe Harbor By Associated Press. iork, Pa., Jan. 9.—The ice ou the Mhe preliminary reply has convinced them that probably it will be necessary to await- the supplementary note prom ised by the British government before undertaking to continue the negoti ations so far as they relate to the gen eral road principles involved in the American note. That, of course, will not prevent immediate consideration of special caaes that may arise in connec tion with now seizures or detentions, nor in fact will it stop the State De- Continued on Ninth Pagt. LEFT FRITZI HER NIGHTIE Sheriff Attached All of Miss Scheff's Other Clothing (Special to the Star-Independent.) St. Louis, Jan. 9.—Fritzi Scheff's personal belongings were attached here yesterday afternoon to satisfy a judg ment obtained against her by Henry Beudal, a costilmer of New York. The attachment included everything Miss Scheff has in the way of clothing, ex cept What she has on her back. What she had on her back when the writ was served consisted of one very beautiful French nightie, for she was in bed, where she has been since the unpleasantness which caused her to re tire Tuesday night from '' The Pretty Mrs. Smith" to enter t)he movies on the Pacific coast. Ijast night, wtiile Miss Scheff steps, a deputy stood guard in an outer room. The attachment is to satisfy a judg ment for $710.62, the balance due on a $2,800 bill for costumes. ELOPED WITH SON'S WIFE Father Is Named as Corespondent in Suit for Divorce By Associated Press. New York, Jan. 9.—FrankKn D. Wood, a young hospital ihterne, named his own father as corespondent in a suit for divorce from his wife brought to trial in the Supreme Court to-day. It was alleged that the young man's father eloped . with his bride on the very night of the weddiug and took her to Chicago. Young Wood's mother testified in the suit that she had found her hußband and her son'd wife occupy i ing apartments together in Chicago. AUSTRIANS CAUGHT IN TRAP SET BY RUSSIAN GENERALS Geneva, Vii< Paris, Jan. 9, 4.55 A. | M.—The Austrian)* havo been caught in a trap skilfully set by Generals Ruz sky and Ivanoff, according to advices from a Hungarian source received here without first passing through the hands of the Austrian censor. In confoimity with the Russian plan, the advices say, the Austrian columns, pushing toward the Nida river, found themselves stopped by dangerous marshy ground. At the same time the Russians attacking Cracow suddenly abandoned their original plan, but re sumed their attack in a'totally unex pected manner. With the Russiau army occupying the most important positions of the | Carpathians from the side of Bosnia, the Austrian army can advance no fur ; tlier towards Warsaw, for the only roads across the marshes are mined and strongly held by the Russians. Ou the other hand, the Austrians are obliged to defend Cracow and because of the Russian maneuvers can only meet the Russians along the line from Wiel k'/.ku to Bochnia under the most unfa vorable conditions. The Austrian commander, being un able to discern whether the Russians | intended to occupy Hungary or attack Cracow, or both, lost five or six days and it is now too late, the advices say. to carry out the movement of troops necessary to oppose the Russian ma neuvers. Paris, .Tan. 9, 4.50 A. M.—"The Russians have entered Transylvania," telegraphs the Petrograd correspondent, of the "Matin." "The Austrians have hastily evacu ated the whole of Dukowina," he adds, " leaving open new roads for the Rus sian troops into the Hungarian prov inces, particularly in the direction of the city of Maramaros-S/.iget, capital of the county of Maramaros, at the foot of the Carpathians, 215 miles north east of Budapest." GERMANS REPULSED FN FIGHT WITH FRENCH CONGO TROOPS Paris, Jan. 9, 10.42 A. M. —French troops from the Congo, who have been occupying Kdea, in . German Kamerun. have been attacked In force by a mixed detachment of German and native sol diers. The Germans were repulsed, leaving on the field 74 dead and wound ed, one machine gun and fifty rifles. This information is contained in an official telegram received to-day by the French Colonial Office. The French losses in the engagement are described as trivial. The date of the fighting is not given. I WILL DELUGE KAISER WITH A MILLION BIRTHDAY POSTCARDS Amsterdam, Via London, Jan. 9, 4.40 A. M. —The Prussian Minister of State, according to a Berlin dispatch to the "Telegraaf," has issued a notice that "in view of the seriousness of the times the greater public festivities, such as dinners, theatricals and dances, should be postponed on the occasion of the forthcoming birthday of the Kaiser. January 27. "On the other hand," the notice continues, ' 'celebrations appropriate to the significance of the day are contem plated." The Cologne "Gazette" says that the Germans in Vienna are planning to send by post a million post cards, bearing Emperor William's portrait, to the Emperor on his birthday as a mil lion fold greeting. The "Gazette" deprecates the idea and hopes its pro posers will abandon it. Tobacco For Prisoners Free of Duty Madrid, Spain. Jan. 9, via Paris, 11.45 A. M.—Tobacco sent to Germany for French prisoners of war will be ad mitted free of customs duty. The .Span ish embassy in Berlin, which is looking .after French interests, received word to this effect to-dmy from tihe German authorities. * POSTSCBIPI PRICE, ONE CENT. FRENCH SAY GERMANS IN ALSACEWIN Kaiser's Troops Reoc cupy Burnhaupt-le- Haut, Allies Admit in Official Report LATTER SUCCEED IN OTHER FIGHTS In One Place the Trench Oain Consists of Three Lines of German Trenches and at Another an Advance of Five Hundred Yards Paris. Jan. 9, 2.4 0 P. M.—Successes of greater or less importance at various points along the battle lino in France are claimed in the official report on tlu progress of the fighting given out by tho French War Office this afternoon. A German victory is admitted in Al sace, where the troops of Emperor Wil liam reoecupicd Burnhaupt-le-Haut. In one place the French gain con sisted of three lines of German trench es; at another they advanced 500 yards; elsewhere lesser gains or the re tention of positions are recorded. Tha French artillery also has been active with results declared to be advantage ous. The statement follows: "To the south of Ypres we have damaged the trenches of the enemy and reduced to silence the mine throwers of I the Germans. In the region of Arrarf and in the vicinity of Amiens there have been artillery engagements re sulting advantageously for our bat teries. Palace of Justice Set on Fire "In the region of Soupir wo yes terday morning occirpled " very bril liantly 'Hill 132.' Three times during the day the enemy delivered violent counter attacks. Each time they were repulsed. Our gain is represented by three lines of German trenches along a front of 600 metres. The enemy, not having been able to recapture that which they had lost, bombarded Soia sons and set fire to the palaice of jus tice. "To the south of Laon and of Cra onne our artillery demolished a camp of hats covering some machine guns, reduced to silence the artillery of the enemy and destroyed some trenches. French Masters of Village "In the region of Perthes the enemy delivered an attack to which we re sponded immediately by a counter at tack. This movement on our part per mitted us not only to retain our posi tions at 'Hill 200' west of Perthes, but also to take possession of 400 yards of the trenches of the enemy be tween 'Hill 200' and the village of Perthes. "Furthermore a direct attack deliv ered by us on Perthes at the same time that we were making our counter at tack <;n 'Hill 200' made us masters of the village. We installed ourselves in Perthes and we have advanced beyond the village boundary. Our total gain in this locality is more than 500 yards. Victory Costly to Germans "Along all the front between Rheims and the Argonne our artillery has inflicted noticeable losses on the enemy. This has been attested by prisoners. In the ATgonne we were subjected on our right to a lively at tack by the enemy, to which we re plied, with a counter attack which brought us back to our point of de parture. "In the Woevre district, to the northwest of Flirey in the forest of Aillv and in the forest of Lepretre we made some progress. "In the region of Cernay we main tained our position. Further to the south the enemy strongly reinforced, re occupiehl Burnhaup-le-Haut at the ex pense of heavy losses." LATE WARIEWS SUMMARY The French advance In Alsace ap parently has been checked. Both the French and German official statements of to-day tell of the recapture by the Germans of Burnhaupt-le-Haut, tha town south of Stelnbach, capture of which by the French was announced yesterday. In the Argonne violent fighting is again in progress. In one charge the French lost a number of men as the result of a trap set by the Germans, who permitted them to occupy a trench and then blew it up. Fighting has been resumed In th« Aisne region, where the allies claim to have captured three lines of Ger man trenches covering HOO metres of the front. The German statement, how ever, says that French attacks in this region were repulsed. German armies are again striking at Warsaw, from two directions. Alonf CwUiwd OR Seveath Pave