FRENCH TROOPS RETAKE LA 00ISSELLE TRENCHES FROM KAISER'S TROOPS Paris, Jan. 19, 1.45 P. M.—Snow fell yesterday in Belgium, in Northern France and in the but neverthe less there was artillery fighting in those sections of the line of battile. ac cording to the official communication of the French war office given out this afternoon. French troops have reoo cupied the trenches at La Boisselle previously given up bv them to the Hermans. Yesterday saw no further fighting at Soissons but near Pont-A- Mousson the French claim a slight ad vance. The statement follows: "In Belgium there lias been a snow storm and also intermittent artillery exchanges at certain point#. There was also a fall of snow yesterday in region of Arras, where our heavy artil lerv on several different occasions silenced the batteries of the enemy. "As we set forth yesterday a fairly spirited euga.rement has been develop ing af 1* Boisselle where following the breaking out of several fires, we were compelled during the night of January 17-1S to evacuate our posi tions. These, however, we recaptured January 18 at dayibreak. The enemy has not renewed his attacks on this part of our front. "In the section of Soissons the bombardment of the suburb of St. Paul during the night of January 17.18, was not followed by any infantry at tack and the day of January IS passed in absolute calm. "In the valley of the Aisne, to the east of Soissons and in the section of Rheims, there were yesterday artillery exchanges. "To the northwest of Pont-A-Mous son we yesterday occupied another field work of the enemy in the forest ot Lop ret e, where we to-day occupy 500 yards of the trenches of the enemy. '•ln the Vosges yesterday there was a snow storm. Here also there has been artillery fighting particularly iu Ban De Sa;«t and in the neighborhood of Thann.'' CREAI BRITAIN WILL NUT ALLOW DACIA TO PROCEED Washington, Jan. 19.—The British government will not eonsent to allow the steamer Dacia. recently transferred from German to American registry, to proceed to Rotterdam under safe eon duct with her cargo of cotton, the State Department was noticed to-day from London. While the text of the message was withheld, it is known the British ob jection was based broadly on a re luctance to create a precedent which, it is feit. would be followed by many similar purchases of German ships in America and efforts to operate them on the former German trade routes. The British note does not undertake to assert the right of Great Britain to interfere with ships purchased and transferred to the American flag in a legitimate way. The objection to the transfer of the Dacia, according to the British view, is that it was not genu ine. it being intimated by the British government that the American pur chaser really was acting for German principals. The Dacia's cotton cargo, admitted y. is not subject to seizure and the British note leaves it to be inferred that if the owners of the cotton do not rake other arrangements for its trans port to Germany and the Dacia puts to sea the cotton either will be unloaded n an English port and placed at the liisposal of the owners to forward to 3ertnany by another and neutral ship >r appropriated by the British govern ment upon payment to the owners of its invoice value. .ATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY tootlDunl From Firat race. vacuation of St. Mihiel. Tenure of his town by the Germans results in a •harp bend in the lines of the allies, iresenting a menace which they have >e«n endeavoring for weeks to remove. The French have retaken the posi ions at Laboisselle captured by the Jermans, to-day's statement from Par s asserts. The German official an kouncement says no action of impor ance occurred along the entire western ront. Russian attacks north of the Vistula iver w re repulsed with heavy losses, he Berlin statement asserts. Military len in Petrograd are of the opinion hat the Russian encircling movement n both the north and south will com icl the Germans to attempt to break trough the Warsaw front, or. if un uccessful, to retreat nearly to the Ger lan border. The Germans have begun another of ensive movement, according to unoffi ial advices to-day from Holland. It is aid the German heavy artillery went iito action yesterday and that a battle s in progress lor possession of Ypres. 'he British are moving in fresh troops 0 defend this town, around which oc urred some of the heaviest fighting of he war at the time when the Germans rere attempting tc cut their way to he English channel. The assault on 'pres. following the victory of the Ger lans at Soissons and their attack at dbert, marks the third movement of lie kind writhin a week. Petrograd dispatches say Russian srees are moving rapidly westward trough Transylvania, which forms the »stern portion of Hungary, adjoining Watania. The Russians now have pos :ssion of a mountain pass which gives lem easy access to Hungary .accord ig to these advices, which state that te Austrian-Hungarians were not pre fired for victories said to have been on recently by the Russians. The plight of the Turkish army >rps which gave battle to Russians Far Kara Urgan. in the Caucasian re ion, is described in Petrograd reports 1 pitiable. Those who escaped alive ;om the battle are said to be fleeing iward Erzerum. but, owing to capture f Russians of their food supplies, are infronted with the alternative of star ition or surrender. It is stated that i one place JHM> soldiers were found ozen to death, and doubt is expressed tat any of the Turks will be able to ach Erzerum End of War Not Yet in Sight By Attociaied Pre»», Washington, Jan. 19.—President ilson sees no likelihood of the terml ition of the European war this spring, e told callers to-day he had not yet iticed any indications on either side. HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRING HEARD IN VICINITY OFYPRES Amsterdam, Via London. Jan. 19, 1*.29 A. M.—"Heavy artillery firing has beet heard since early Monday around Ypres. where the Hermans have taken an active offensive," says the Sluis corr«spet»dent of the "Tele graaf." "Their efforts to Occupv Ypres have thus far been unsuccessful. Many fresh British troop* have arrived at this front."' The correspondent of the "Tele gr«af" at Selzaets, in the region near Ghent, wires that the Hermans have is sued proclamations forbidding the in habitants to discuss the war under pen alty of a heavy jfins or long imprison ment. ''Some of tlu> inhabitants have al ready been puuished," he says. In fact, the prisons are filled, not with or dinary criminals, but with citizens who have unwittingly been guilty o£ some infraction of the numerous tirrw»n pro scriptions. THE SINKING OF A FRENCH SUBMARINE PROVES MYTH Paris, Jan. 19, 1.30 P. M.—The Ministry of Marine gave out a state ment to-day saying tht French subma rine Saphir, which had taken a position for observation purposes near the en trance to the Dardanelles, sailed ou the afternoon of January 15 to rejoin the French naval forces in that vicinity. Foreign newspapers now announce, the Ministry says, that the Saphir was sunk, but that part of her crew was picked up by Turkish boats. A wireless dispatch from Berlin two days ago said the Saphir had been sunk by Turkish artillery wh>e trying to enter the Dardanelles, and that part of her erew had been saved. Another Berlin dispatch sa'd a mine caused the destruction of the Saphir. RUSSIANS REPULSED NEAR VISTULA WITH BIC LDSSES Berlin, Jan. 19 (By Wireless to Lion don, 2.50 P. M.l.—The German oflicial statement given out in Berlin to-day savs: "In the western theatre, except for a few unimportant skirmishes, only ar tillery duels took pi ice along the entire front. Ir. the eastern theatre the weather was verv unfavorable. "At Rabzanowa. at Cjeshun and at Sierpec (noirh of the Vistula river) the Russians were repulsed with heavy losses. Several hundred prisoners re mained in our hands. On the west of the Vistula river and on the east ot' the Pilica river the situation generally re mains the same." REJECT BRYAN'S SECRETARY AS CONSUL AT NOTTINGHAM Nottingham, England, via London. Jan. 19, 1.30 P. M. —On account of letters written by him and published in a newspaper at Lincoln. Neb., John L Cutrigkt, newly accredited American vice consul at Nottingham did not take up the duties for which he came to this city, but returned to London. 'Mr. Cutright departed from Nottingham after he had been informed by the MayoT and other city officials that he would not be acceptable as vice consul because his newspaper letters were re garded as expressive of pro-German sen timents. Before coming to Nottingham Mr. Cutright served as American vice con sul at Coburg, Germany. While there he wrote the letters to which the Not tingham officials took exception. Mr. Cutright is a son of John Cut right, editor of the Lincoln "Star" and formerly private secretary of Wil liam J. Bryan. The son. a graduate of the University of Nebraska, had been in the consulate service only a few months. 811,000 GROCERS CO-OPERATE IN AIDING BELGIAN SUFFERERS New York, Jan. 19.—Eighty thou sand retail grocers throughout the I nited States are co-operating tn the campaign launched by the woman's section of the commission for relief in Belgium to obtain boxes of food for adults and babies to be shipped to the Belgian sufferers. In an announcement to this effect made to-day by the commission it was stated that placards instructing the public where to buy rnd how to ship the food boxes have been placed in ail retail grocery stores. Committees in 4 8 States have been notified to receive the donations and turn them over to shipping agents. Rapid Promotion Now in British Army I/ondon, Jan. 19. 1.4T« P. M.—An il lustration of the new spirit that has come over the Britisn army, in which formerly it was exceedingly rare for a private soldier to become a commis sioned officer, is seen in an announce ment by the "Gazette" of the promo tion of Captain J H. S. Dimmer to be a brigadier major Captain Dimmer en listed as a private in 1902 and ob tained a commission in 1907 in recogni tion of his soldierly qualities. He won the Victoria Cross in the fourth month of the present war. He was sent in 1906 to study army methods in Bel gium and Germany. Suppressing News of Turkish Defeats London, Jan. 19, 10.59 A. M. —The "Centra! News'' has published a dis patch from its Athens correspondent, who declaies that the authorities at Constantinople are suppressing the news of Turkish defeats in the Caucasus. They have ordered the execution, he says, of any one spreading unauthorized news reports. The military rule in Constantinople is stricter to-day than it was in the strictest days of Sultau Abdul Hamid. Revolutionary rumors are numerous. Pathfinder Arrives in Holland London, Jan. 19, 10.53 A. M.—An Amsterdam dispatch to the "Central News" states that the American steamer Pathfinder, with a cargo of cotton from America to Germany, has awaiting a pilot to proceed to Bremen. Austrian Official Besigns Adelaide, Australia, Via London, Jan. 19, 10.35 A. M. —Hermann Homburg. Attorney General if South Australia since 1909, has resigned his position because of the anti-German feeling ex isting among the public. HARRTSBFRO ST AR- FN DEPENDENT, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1915. IHR. SNYDER FOR 55 YEARS A LAWYER INHARRISBURG Fna Klrst I'ase. year. He never has resided anywhere else in Harrisburg. In 1562 Mr. Etter had liis law office on Third street, just above Market, and it was there that Mr. Snyder studiej law. Being admitted to the bar In 1860 he remained with Mr. Etter two years and in 1862 he established his office in the brick building. No. 10 Xorth Third street. next to the present Rergner building, and ever since he has continued his law office in those qunr ! ters. at the same desk, and in his leisure hours watched the changing crowd go by from the same office window in the business heart of the city. Mr. Snyder is a member of the old Snyder family of Pennsylvania which furnished so many men eminent in the state 's history. He is a grand-nephew of Governor Simon Snyder. The vet eran attorney is an authority on Harris burg history and on Harrisburg citizens and families, but he is exceedingly mod est in the narrative except among close friends with whom he delights to detail reminiscences of the old town when South street marked the boundary lino north, and from Walnut street south was the business section of the Capital Citv. Still vigorous and active. Mr. Snyder is in the constant practice of his protest sion, but. he says, with a sorrowful shake of the head, that there are ft>w of his acquaintances and familiars of the old days who are still in the land of the living. INCIDENTS AS tiOYERNOK REVIEWS Bl(i PARADE The return of the inaugural party to the reviewing stand, after Ghe ride around the city, was greeted with much eheeriug as the new Governor took position to watch the procession pass in review. The eoming of General Morrell was loudly applauded, and the various companies of guardsmen were given a friendly wave of his hand by the Chief Executive, while the State policemen gained loud applause. The cadets from State College got an ova tion and marched like veterans. When the civic division arrived at the reviewing stand everybody looked tor something spectacular and none was disappointed. The Philadelphia Republican Club, headed by David H. Lane, Senator McNichol and David Martin, made a great show and when their prize exhibit, the two big ele phants. arrived at the stand the big animals, at command, wheeled and fa cing the new Governor, elevated their trunks in salute and bellowed loudiv much to the joy of the crowd. Senator Vare got a cheer with his South Philadelphia Republican club and so did T. Larry Evre with his tine Ches ter county organization. The Old Home lolks from Huntingdon county waved a salute to the new Governor and some of them shouted: "Hallo. Marty!" at which the Governor laughed. The firemen got a grand reception, the visiting Vigilant Company from \ ork, leadiug off in splendid style. The tire lighters from Harrisburg who ap peared in the bedraggled clothes un change,l after their all-night light at the Kaufman fire, were given a rousing cheer. \\ hen former Representative 1 unis passed with his tire company the band played "Tipperary" and sang it at the same time and a thousand grand stand voices joined in the chorus. As the end of the parade passed the Governor and party took carriages for the Executive Mansion, where lunch eon was served. BRIEF SESSION OF THE Hol .sE LAST EVENING After a session*which lasted but live minutes the House of Representatives last night adjourned to meet this morning at 11.15 o clock. A resolution giving the Central Pennsylvania Suf frage Association the use of the hall of the House on the evening of Januarv -6 for a lecture by United States Sen ator Moses E. Clapp was passed. Tony Ray Lynch, a member from Fa yette county, who was ill when the House organized January 5, was sworn in by Associate Law Judge S. J. M. McCarrell, of this county. , Serenade by Gaskin's Band s Military Band, of fortv I pieces, of Sunbury.'au attractively uni formed and excellent musical organiza tion, serenaded the Star-Independent following the parade this afternoon. The band accompanied the Hope Fire Company, of this city, over the route of the [iarade. The Hope Companv was marshaled 9v A. H. Kreidler. Democratic Donkey in Line A doney, recognized as the mascot of the Democratic party, was led over the route of the parade to-dav. It ear j ried a banner with the words, "Serious ly Injured in 1914." Strips of red-in spattered muslin were tied about the animal s legs, but there was no notice able limp on the donkey's part and it gameTv the °" P * eIe P hants Ringgold Serenades Star-Independent The Star-Independent employes were favored -with a serenade this'morning bv the famous Ringgold band, of Head ing, under the leadership of Monroe Aulthouse. The band headed the Northeastern Republican League in the inaugural parade. Jackson Addresses Civic Club John Price Jackson, State Commis sioner of Labor and Industry, spoke yesterday at the monthly meeting of the Harrisburg Civic Cliitj at tne Y. W. C. A. on '' The Man Who Wants to Work Should Have a Right To." The next regular meeting of the club will be held February 15. Knights of Malta to Meet The commanderies of Dauphin coun tv of the Ancient and Illustrious Order Knights of Malta will be entertained at the hall of Star of America Com mandery to-night. An interesting pro gram has been prepared. Parent-Teachers to Sew A parent-teaeber meeting will be held at the Forney building Thursday e*ening at 7.30 o'clock. Ladies are requested to take their thimbles with them and sew for the Belgians. Run on Bank Closes Institution Grafton, W. Va., Jan. 19.—The Graf ton bank, a State institution, failed to open for business to-day. Colonel John T. McGraw, one of the principal stock holders, said the condition of the money market had started a run on the insti tution, and it was deemed best to close it for the present. The bank has a capital of SIOO,OOO and deposits of ap proximately $500,000. THE ACTUAL WAR TRENCHES IN FRANCE AND HOW THEY ARE CONSTRUCTED . TRENCHES NOOTHESJN FRANCE WHICH HAD HOW bhe TRENCHED and APPROACHES LOOX. in. ACTUAL BEEN HEL.-D FOR MANV T>AYS WARFARE tWe deep «A tl. { \ ■ - 11 ■ ■ The illustrations herewith show how r——— ' THEIR .10.1 th tr:.,.. -T..,s SKP|II I.Y soar.-li ; 1 UEN MfcS ln « « r « fr "'" both sides. TUEMCH Uomporea with the he,<)M an c-tfWl GOOD BILLJNAUGURATED Flo Irwin. Nonette and the Courtney Sisters Among Performers at Orpheum The Orpiieum theatre, as its timely advertisements might say. " inaugu rate.l " quite a fine luTTVesterday. That it is a gocd bill dawns upon the audi ence diirin ; tlie 'i r st aits, and by the time of the coiicludiug performance ev erybody is couviuced of it. Flo Irwin. in her delightful piece of comedy, "The Lady or the Press," could lease most anyone. She lias nev er before appeared in vaudeville in this city, which only goes to show wiiat this eitv has been missing. This first ap pearance will not be her last in llar risburg, judging from tiie popularity which she is gaining. The gypsy violinist, Nonette, is al ready well known in the city, and is now renewing acquaintanceships with Harrisburg audiences that are phasing to the latter certainly, and n i doubt to the player, too, who would naturally prefer peaceful I'onnsylvanians to the warlike Europeans whom she left not so long ago. Of the other performers on the bill, the Courtney sisters sing. 'MeLellitn and Carson skate, . e three Keatons up hold their reputation as '"fun's fun niest family. and Connelly do a dainty turn and the Mevakos intro duce a breath from the orient. WILLIAM MILLIB F. pfd.... 115',? 115% Great Nor pfd 29% 29% Illinois Central 49 1 49% Interboro Met 13 7 13 (% Louis and Nash 137 137% Mex Petroleum pfd . . 30 30 Mo, Kan and Texas ... 11% 12% National ißiSeuit .... 13% 13% Nev Consol Copper ... 89 89% New York Central ... 54% 55% X Y. N H and H 103 103 Norfolk and West ... 101 104% Northern Pa • 20% 22% Pacific IMail ..< 106% 106% Penna R R 120% 120% People's Gas and C*>ke , 18 17% Pittsburgh Coal, pfd .. 36% 36 Press Steel Car . . . 17 17% Ray Con. Copper 14 9% 151 Reading 22 22 Repnb. Iron and Steel . 77% 77% Hock Island, pfd 86 86% Southedn Pacific 16% 17 Southern Ry 60% 61 do pfd 31% 31% Texas and Pacific .... 134% 134% Texas Company 120 120% Union Pacific, pfd .... 56% 56% U. S. Rubber, Ist pfdl . 51% 52% U. 8. Steel 108% 108% do pfd 53% 54 Utah Copper 20% 22 Wabash, pfd 17 16% Western Marvland Kl% 62% W. U. Telegraph 72% 72 Philadelphia Closing Prices By Associated Press. Philadelphia, Jan. 19.—Stocks closed strong: Cambria Steel 43% G-eneral Asphalt 32 Lake Superior Cor 9 Ijehigh Navigation 74% ljehigh Valley 68% P. R. R ! 53% Pha. Electric 23% Pha. Company 33 Jo pfd 34 Pha. Rapid Transit . 11 Reading ' 75% Storage Battery 48% Union Traction 36 U. 8. 1 83% U. S. Steel 52% Chicago Closing Grain Prices Chicago, Jan. 19.—Close. Wheat —May, 139%; July, 123%. Corn—May, 77%; Julv, 75%. Oats —'May, 54%; July, 52%. Pork—.January, 18.30; May. 18.90. Ijard—l.May, 10.75; Julv. 10.95. Ribs—i May, 10.30; Juty, 10.17, MANY NEW .JOKES Al. G. Field's Minstrels Stock Audi ences at Yesterday's Shows The crowds which attended both per foinianccs of Al. G. Field's Minstrels at the Majestic yesterday had h hilar ious time and acquired a stock of now jokes which ought to last until the com pany coiißM again to Harrisburg, or some other company which approaches it-—none can be just like it. The joke* were apparently of the vintage of 1915, rirtny of them based 011 recent happenings and some refer ring, as usual; to local conditions and, therefore, especially appreciated. The music was minstrel music and, what was more, it was Field's minstVel mu sic, which made it somehow different. Not a few of the minstrel tunes were hummed and suug 011 Market square after tire performance while the crowd, Nero-like, watched the Kaufman stores burn. WILSON LACKS AUTHORITY Congress Must Declare Embargo on Ex portation of Wheat By Associated PI CKS. Washington, .lan. 19.—President Wilson has no authority to declare an embargo on the exportation of wheat and other foodstuffs, he told callers to day, discussing recent increases in food prices in the United States. Such authority must come from Con gress, he said, adding that he had hot investigated the constitutionality of the act. Missouri Pacific Passes From Goulds By Associated Press. St. Louis, Jan. 19. —The Goulds are tio longer in control of the, Missouri Pacific railroad, it was learned to-day and with the exception of the shares held by Mrs. Helen Gould Sheppard, the holdings of the family do not ex ceed 240 shares. Reports that, a reor ganization of the company is imminent were denied. Fatally Injured in Fox Hunt Ry Associated Press, Philadelphia, Jan. 19.—Alexander D. Grange, widely known in society and / a member of inauy fashionable clubs, died in a hospital at Brvn Mawr, Pa., to-day from injuries received during a, fox hunt which was conducted by the Radnow Hunt Club at Malvern, near here, last Saturday. Ten Stick Island Tn the Southwest bay, in the NVw Hebrides group, there is a small wood ed island of considerable height above the sea, although only a few hundred yards in circumference. The story of its acquisition is a curious one. South west bay used to be considered a good place for target practice by the British men of war on patrol dufV- there, and this small inlet was used as a target so frequently that it seemed in danger of being gradually shot away. Tin chief who owned it protested and want cd compensation. The captain of a man-of-war who understood the native* knew that those claims would be a ceaseless source of blackmail unless they were settled once for all, so he bought the island for the British crown, paying ten sticks of tobacco fol* it, and every one was satisfied. The place since then has been known a*> "Ten Stick island." —Ijomlon Stand ard. V Wasting Money "I guess it's just as well T didn't, marry that girl. She evidently has no | idea of the value of money." " How's tha,tt" "Spent fiO cents postage sending mo I a bunch of old love letters."—Louis ville Oourier-Journal. Business New Sou-inlaw—Here's only 19.600 marks. Von promised my wife a dolf ry of 20,000. FutlHer-inlaw—l always | knock off 2 per cent, for cash.—Pile- JUJattct. 9