8 POINTS OF HISTORIC INTEREST COMPLETELY DESTROYED BY GREAT ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE THE • xV tE "W* twenty thousand Inhabitant*, there remain* only one bouse of rottforced concrete, recently -j^'^UNLCIPAI# built. The remainder crumpled to pieces The ruin WHS SO complete and sudden tbat no one V; — C. V.NEWS DEFEATS CURFEWIi]I Carlisle Council Decides Not to Adopt Ordinance by Vote of 7 to 6 To Pave More Streets Carlisle, Jan. 16. —Propositions to establish a curfew ordinance in the town and to amend the traffic ordinance were defeated Thursday evening in a session of borough Council, in one case by a seven to six ballot, and in the other by a seven seven vote, on a tech nicality. Under a resolution offered by Mr. Strohm and adopted by Council, ordi nances were directed to be drawn cov ering the paving of Hanover street, from Pomfret to South, Dickinson ave nue. from High and Hanover to i'itt; Church avenue, from Hanover and High to Pitt and High street from Pitt to West. It has been decided to jave INorth Hanover street from the Deposit 'bank to North street. This work will give four additional blocks of street paving and two of alley paving during the coming year. ELECTED 3 NEW DIRECTORS Few Changes Made in Board of Officers of Wolf Company Chairfbersburg, Jan. 16. —A number of changes were made in the board of directors of the Wolf company at the annual meeting of the stockholders held on Thursday. Three new members were chosen to the board and a new president elected. The directors chosen were: Harold Wiekersham, of Lancas ter; J. L. Butt, Gettysburg; W. T. OmwaUe, of Waynesboro; 11. W. Spes sard, John T. Pensinger, J. A. Strife and H. G. Wolf, all of town. Robert *S. jSJhriver, of Baltimore; Donald P. McPherson. of Gettysburg, and Waiter K. Sharpe retired from the board. When the board organized after the stockholders meeting H. G. Wolf was elected president to succeed W. K. Sharpe and.'H. W. Spessard was/hoseu secretary and general manager. The company annually pays out salaries and wages amounting to SIOO,OOO. To Oppose Liquor Licenses Carlisle, .lan. 16.—Following the sermon at the evangelistic service held in the First Lutheran church Thursday evening, a call was made for signers of remonstrances being circulated against four Carlisle hotels. A number of sig natures, it is said, were received and copies will be circulated in all parts of the town. The places to which opposition to li censing is manifested are the Pennsyl vania house, James' restaurant, the i ' lm V ' ' •' ... \ \ TFIAKBTgBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY Ifi, 1915. AMUSEMENTS » MAJESTIC Monday afternoon an 1 evening, Al G. Field Minstrels. Friday, matinee and night, January 22. "The French Models." (Bur lesque). OHPHEUM Every afternoon and evening, higii class vaudeville. COLONIAL Kverv afternoon and evening, vaude ville and pictures. VICTORIA Motion Pictures. PHOTOPLAY Motion Pictures. -» Al. G. Field Minstrels The coining af the Al. ft. Field Min strels lias a place in bov-land—and girl land too —right alongside the big holi days and festivals of the year. The highly colored posters on the bill board announcing these minstrels causes the same rejoicing among the kidlaes, big and little, as that created by the ap proach of an official "big time" day. In fact, such a permanent institution for fun has the Al. G. Field. Minstrels become with these patrons, that the brilliant colors o! the posters are super fluous. Just the name and date, with the word "Coming," would be suf ficient. And then, when the minstr-e-l pa rade begins! Is the jubilation confined to the boys and girls and young? Hard ly, for it takes no keen observer to se? that traffic in any direction other than that of the parade is positively stopped! The name and the parade of the Al. 6. Field Minstrels have a meaning with the masses—entertainment! Adv. * At the Orpheum Lamont's Cowboy Minstrels, Joseph Hart's delightful romance "A Breath of Old Virginia," the Moneta Five, presenting an exquisite musical offering, and plenty of clever talent beside, will all leave the popular Locust street play house to-day. Several of the important attractions booked for next week are bound to strike a popular note with many of the "regulars." .Not that they ar<> the headliners, but they are old favorites, and surrounding a name like Flo Irwin, they are bound to prove attractive assets toward combining into a popular bill. Flo Irwin, equally as popular as her sister May Irwin, will have the support of an excellent cast in presenting George Ade's clever farce entitled "Mrs. Pekham's Carouse" as the undivided headliner. The old favor ites are no less than Nonette, the Gyp sy violinist, who will undoubtedly be favorably recalled by the majority; and then there are the Oourtney Sisters, the clever and pleasing singers, who were immense favorites about three seasons ago. The Keaton Family with ''Bus ter,'' the well konwa rough and tum ble comedians, who convulsed Orpheum audiences with laughter about four or five years ago, also return on this bill. Other names of next week's bill will include The Meyakos, Warren and Con nelly and McLellan and Carson, — Adv. * At the Colonial There's an act appearing at the "Busy Corner" for the last half of the week that has certainly proved a treat for Young Harrisburg. It is the act presented by the Jeanettes, two men and one woman, who all don clown togs and who are assisted in their clever feats by a troupe of well trained dogs and monkeys and a beautiful gro\ip of white doves. The Colouial's bill through out is especially clever and the moving picture entertainment, headed by a two-reel feature called "The Voice of the Wild," i« above the average.— Adv. * Football Star in Coasting Crash Leiwistown, .lan. 16. —Kdward John ston, a local football star, sustained a fractured arm and dislocated ankle. Misses Cynthia Purcel and Marian Way, serious injuries of the spine and suffering from shock when a sled on which they were coasting collided with a stone wail at express speed. ITALY'S EARTHQUAKE RECALL The earthquake in Italy, whertlu thousands of lives were lost and whole towns wiped out, recalls the dis aster in Messina in ltiOS, where also death and destruction played havoc. The accompanying picture, taken in Messina at the time, (lives one a good impression of how the re en; earthquake carried terror in its path. The sceue shows a view along tlie seaport of Messina after tile earthquake MARSHALL P. WILDER BURIED Funeral in New Ycrk Conducted by Masonic Order Neivv Vork, .lan. 16.—More than 200 members of tlie Lambs Club iml other actors, attended the funeral of Mar shall P. Wilder, entertainer, who died in St. Paul, Minij., Sunday and was burieil yesterday from the Stephen Merritt Chapel, Kijhth avenue and Nineteenth street. The interment was at Ridgcwood, N. J. lidward M. L. Killers, secretary of the State Grand I.odye of Masons, < 011 ducted the service. COST OF A THUNDERBOLT What It Would Take 111 Kilowatts and Cash to Make One A Belgian engineer IIES been making a novel calculation, which he publishes in the Bulletin de la Societe d'Astronomic. It is nothing less than the value of a thunderbolt 111 kilowatts and in cash! He took as the basis of his ralcu'a tion the price that the electric plants of great European cities charge their cus tomers for current. Measurement of the magnetism of certain rocks containing iron ore, 110 says, proves that the electric current which magnetized them must have had a strength of at least 0,000 amperes. In reality the strength of the current must have been much greater, since the rocks were at a considerable dis tance from the spot at which the thun derbolt fell. However, one must be conservative in treating of such mat ters, and the modest figure of 27,800 kilowatts may be taken as fairly cor rect. The lowest price at which current can be supplied industrially when ob tained under the most favorable condi tions—that is to say, by hydraulic pow er —is one-fifth of a cent per kilowatt. So the minimum value of a thunderbolt would be $55.60. But the author notes that in Brus sels, where he lives, the price of elec tricity is 10 cents a kilowatt. This is the price of current for ordinary house hold use in New York. At this figure a thumlerbolt would come to $2,980. As the price of electricity varies very widely in different cities, according to the conditions under which it is pro duced, every one can calculate for him self what it would cost in which he lives.—New York World. Central Democratic Entertainment The Central Democratic ML-J has completed arrangements for an enter tainment and dance at the Board of Trade auditorium on Wednesday, Feb ruary 3. The Morehead Entertainment Company will furnish the first part of the program with a short play having vaudeville features, and dancing will follow the play, music by Mark's or chestra. j I Th? Daily Fwhioa liir.i. ! _ Covert coats that fall Into godet folds ore the .latest addition to daytime styles. This coat has a collar faced 011 th« *ide with black velvet Elizabethtown Bank Officers 1 The following were elected a* direc tors of the Elizabethtown National Bank this week: W. S. Smith, J. 3. ' Risser, E. C. Hinder, Peter N. Butt, Amos G. Coble, K. E. Coble, B. L. Gey er, P. W. Groff, E. H. Strickler. At a 1 subsequent meeting of the Bnard of f>i ; rectors these bank officials were elect ed': President, W. J. Smith; vice presi dent, Peter N. Rutt; caslnur, A. H. • Martin; teller, I. W. Eshleman; clerks, r J. W. RMiser, J. Brubaker; notary pub -1 lie, S. B. Kiefer. Artiatic Printing at Star-Independent. MASKED BANDITS ROB BANK Lock Two Clerks in Vault • and Escape With $3,000 Jacksonville, Flu. Jan. 16.—Two masked men, armed with revolvers, forced two dorks of the American Trust & Savings bank into a vault yes terday and escaped with $2,000 in cash. Only the two clerks were in the bank when the rcWiers entered and seized all the cash in sight. The plight of the clerks in the vault was not discovered until 20 minutes later, when the cash ier entered. Alice Joyce To-day at the Photoplay Miss Alice Joyce, popular Kalem star, appears to-day in a two-act drama. "Cast Up by the Sea." Miss Joyce has never been seen to better advan tage. The role ot Ruth Aaants atfords this beautiful Kalem star a splendid opportunity to show her 'histrionic abil ity. Guy Coomfis and Jere Austin ap pear with Miss Joyce in this produc tion, Coombv as Lockwood, hhe gauioler. and Austin as the .cowardly Dupont. Because Paul Lockwood was exposed as n professional gambler, Ruth Adams, a millionaire's daughter, cast him aside in favor of Dupont, a titled foreigner. Lockwood is a man and Unponi n cow ard. Along with this, we present "The Strange Case of Princess Khan," one of those pleasing oriental dramas deal ing in hypnotism and in which love conquers the hypnotic. Also Patsy Bclivar and the famous "Sweedie" in eomedv films. Monday the greatest Broadway-Star Vitagrapb teawe yet shown, "Two Women," with Anita Stewart, Ear 1 Williams. .Tulia Swayne Gordon and Harry Northrup. One weman, wise as a serpent, the other in nocent as a dove. Adv. Stenographers Wanted The Civil Service Commission, of Washington, D. C., announces that it has been unable to supply the demand for stenographers and typists. The business men of Harrisburg ami vicinity need stenographers and bookkeepers. Call at the School of Commerce, 15 South Market Square, and see the large number of busy young men and women in the Day and Night School preparing for office work. Begin preparation im mediately and do not let another ste nographer take the position that you can get if ready when the opportunity comes.—Adv. Beat Babe to Death Is Charge Taeoma, Jan. 16.—Mrs. Bertha Dif ley, housekeeper for Amos R. Hall, was arrested yesterday on complaint of neighbors that she baM beaten to death Hall's 3-vear-old son Clarence. Hal*, whose business frequently called him from the city, was absent at the time of the child'B death and burial. FOUR ARE LYNCHED DY A MOD Two Women and Two Men Alleged to Have Beaten Police Chief Hanged and Shot Atlanta, .Tan. 16. —Dan Barber, his son Jesse, and Barker's two married daughters, Eula and Ella Charles, ne groes, wore taken from the Jasper coun ty jail at Monticello, (la., Thursday night by a nu»b and lynched, according to a telephone message received here yesterday. Sheriff James Ezelle was overpower ed by 100 men, he said, and the four negroes were forcibly taken from the jail. TRfir bodies, riddled with bullets, were found on the outskirts of the town yesterday. The lynchings resulted indirectly from a tight that recently occurred at Dan Barber's home, when J. P. Wil liams, chief of police, attempted to ar rest him on a charge of selling whiskey without a license. Barber appeared to have peaceably surrendered when sud denly, it is said, he seized a revolver and opened fire on the officer. Bartter s sou Jesse and the two Charles women were then alleged to have joined in an attack upon the policeman, beating him severely. Negroes living nearby noti fied the county authorities and the four were placed in jail. Late Thursday night, Sheriff lizelle assorts, the molb entered the jail, over powered him, took his keys, unlocked the cells and took the negroes from the building. It was said they were lynched one at a time, being first hanged, then shot. PAROLED MAN A SWINDLER Man Who Says He Was British Navy Officer to Be Returned to Pen Philadelphia, Jan. 16. —Norman St. Clair, who once told Warden R. J. Mic- Kenty, while a prisoner at the Eastern penitentiary, that he was an ex-British naval officer and hail sacrificed an es tate in England rather than reveal his identity while a convict, was arrested yesterday at Newark, N. J., by Penn sylvania railroad detectives. He was charged with having, i> his pretended capacity as a special agent for S. C. Long, general manager of the Pennsylvania railroad, inserted an ad vertisement in a Trenton newspaper for "twelve girls to do special work at good pay.'' St. Clair was alleged to have represented to those who answered the advertisement that he was a spe cial agent for Mr. Long and that the service they were expected to do would be to travel on the Congressional Lim ited trains .between New York and Washington and detect thieves and act as trained nurses. St. Clair was also alleged to have demanded a fee of $2.50 for securing the positions. The Philadelphia police authorities were notified that St. Clair would not be punished for his work at Newark, but would be sent back to the Eastern penitentiary to serve out the unfinished portion of a fourteen-year sentence for criminal assault that was imposed by Judge Isaac Johnson at Media in 1907. He was paroled for exemplary conduct on September 7. 1914, after serving seven years of his sentence. " CONDUCTOR FEARS BLOW-UP Dynamite at Bridge Only Floated Down on Ice Lewistown, Jan. 16.—Finding cap ped dynamite under a bridge near Nag iney on the M. and C. branch and, be lieving he had discovered a Black Hand plot, Conductor Frank Reigle refused to permit his train to cross the struc ture until Superintendent Schaeffer, of the Cambria quarries, explained that in blowing out an ice gorge in the Kisha coquillas creek, some of the explosive had floated down stream on the ice. Reward For Honest Maid Lancaster, Jan. 16. —Motoring from their home in Boston to Memphis, Tenn., Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Bishop stop ped over a couple of hours Thursday afternoon at Hotel Brunswick, lian caster. When they left Mrs. Bishop forgot jewelry valued at $2,000. It was found by Gertrude Rohrer, a cham bermaid, Thursday evening and taken to the hotel office, where a telograni was soon received from the travelers at Gettysburg, inquiring alb&ut the property. It was forwarded to them Thursday night, and yesterday a hand some ciheek, as a reward, was received ■by tho fortunate maid. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR WEEK Societies of This City and Vicinity Schedule Big Event for Week of February 7-14 At the executive committee meeting of the ltarrisbiirg Christian Endeavor Union held in the Olivet Presbyterian church last evening arrangements were made to observe Christian Endeavor .week, I'Vbruary 7-14. All of the Endeavor Societies of this city and vicinity are expected to take an active part during the big week. Special invitations will be extended to the Epwort'h (Leagues, Junior Endeavor Societies and to the '"Booster Junior Chorus" to attend the big meeting on Friday evening, February 12, whica will be held in the largest auditorium available. The Rev. F. K. Clark, D. L>., of Boston, founder of the C. E. move ment, will be the principle speaker, ami will deliver an address on the subject, "The Full Significance of C. E. Week." District rallies will be held during the C. E. week which will be arranged by the vice presidents as follows: Mon day evening, Central district; Tuesday, Allison 'Hill and across river; Wednes day, C. E. and church prayer meetings in the various churches; Thursday, up town district and Steelton. These ral lies will be boosters for the big meeting on Friday night. It is likely that a banquet will lie held preceding the big rallv. ['resident A. C. Dean announced liis following ofiicers and committee chair men for the year: Secretary, Miss Emily Edwards; treasurer, F. (*). Wita erow; vice presidents, R. B. Mauley, C. S. Urich, J. P. Harder, B. B. Drum, .1. D. Crider, Ralph Crowl, 10. W. Stuyt, Committee chairmen, music, ,i. Franl; Palmer; press, E. S. Schilling; good citizenship, Benjamin Whitman; look out, L. C. Spangler; missionary, Mrs. .1, »T. Hemmer, Wormleysburg; temper ance, 11. 1). Jackson. The following new societies were re ceived into the union: Milltown Church of God and First Baptist, tnis city. STAR-GAZING AFTER RICHES Man Once Worth *7o,<)<>(> Is Arrested As Astrologer Chester, Jan. 16.—"Professor" S. Suriano, a so-called astrologer, is being held by the Chester police authorities, and he is wanted in Baltimore, changed with emibezulement. Suriano, who is a.bout 45 years old, is badly crippled with rheumatism. "Would you believe tlrnt a few years ago I had a fortune of $7.0,000?'" ho asked. "To-daiy I <', an hardily get along. A woman was to blame for it all. I trusted in her implicitly, only to be cast aside when my money finally ran out. I was well known in Newark, N. J. It was there I met the woman." This Is a Bad Month The indoor life of winter, with lack of outdoor exercise, puts a heavy load on the kidneys. Nearly everybody suf fers from rheumatism, backache, pain in sides and back, kidney and bladder ailments. A backache may not mean anything serious, but, it certainly doe# not mean anything good. It's better to foe on the safe side and take Foley Kid" ney Fills to strengthen and invigorate the kidneys and help them do their work. They help rid the blood of acids and poisons. Sold by Ceo. A. Uorgas, 16 North Third street, and P. R. R. Station.—Adv. LAST OF FAMILY SUICIDE Brothers' Deaths in War Killed Mother, and Professor Ends Life Austin, Tex.. Jan 16.—An enlire family was wiped out by the suicide or I'rofessor Wjlhelm Kittenhaus, a mem ber of tilt faculty of the University of Texas, whose unidentified body was found late Thursday evening on top of a hill overlooking town. It was not until yesterday morning that the iden tity of the remains was discovered. Thursday morning Professor Kitten haus roceived a cablegram informing him that his only two brothers had been killed while fighting in the Ger man army, and that his mother dropped dead when she received news of their death. Professor Bitten liaus seemed overpowered with the terrible message. He left his class without hardly a nod of recognitio-i to friends and he was not again seen alive. He killed him self by firing a bullet from a small salibre pistol into his brain.