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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<e
tort hotel and the Franklin house.
Many at Home Wedding
Gettysburg, Jan. 16. —Guests numiber
ing one hundred or more attended a
pretty home wedding at the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. J. Carna Smith, in
IMount Joy township, on Thursday aft
ernoon, when their daughter. Miss Elsie
Smith, was married to Ueorge 8. Geisel
man, of IMcSherrystown. The ceremony
took place at 2 o "clock.
Before the service Miss Helen Geis
elman sang, and as the wedding party
descended the stairs and entered the
parlor, Mrs. Stock si ager played the
wedding march. The bride was gowned
in white silk and carried a bouquet of
bride's roses.
Chase Fugitive Thirty Miles
Federalsburg, Md„ Jan. 16.—George
W. Fowler, talias "yuiglev," of Bridge
ton, N. J., accused of stealing a horse
and carriage belonging to Franklin
Achy, a farmer living between Fed
erals.burg and Seaford, was captured at
Kldorado, Md„ Thursday night. The
capture was made after a thrilling chase
of thirty miles by automobile.
Magistrate Throne, at Seaford. held
him for a further hearing.
Three Months for Drunk
Hagerstown, Jan. 16. —Lewis Thomp
son, well known about Hagerstown,
yesterday was sentenced by Justice
Doub to serve three months in the
Maryland House of Correction on the
charge of being a habitual drunkard.
"Love Conquers Hypnotism." An
Oriental Mystery Piav. Photoplay To
day.—Adv.
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TFIAKBTgBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY Ifi, 1915.
AMUSEMENTS
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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.
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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.
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Th? Daily Fwhioa liir.i. !
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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.
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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.