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.
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' 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 MILLI<iAN IUES HERE
Body of Philadelphia Select Council
Clork Taken to His Home
The body of William Milligan, Phila
delphia Select Council clerk, who came
to this eitv with Quaker City organiza
tions for the inauguration and died sud
denly last night at his lodgings, 122
Chestnut street, was token to Philadel
phia at 2,05 o'clock this afternoon
where funeral services will be held.
Death was due to heart trouble.
Dr. L. C. Goldman was called when
Mr. Milligan became ill, hut death
came shortly afterward. Mr. Milligan
leaves a widow and oue son, a Philadel
phia lawyer.
Naomi Jane Shoop
Naomi Jaue Shoop, wife of George
Davis Shoop, 611 Forrest street, died
last evening at 9 o'clock after a lin
gering illness, being in her sixty-third
year. She is a member of the Indies'
Auxiliary to the B. R. T. She is sur
vived by her husband ami) the following
children: Miss Margaret, Miss Martina,
and Alexander at home; Mrs. C. E.
Wagner, of Steelton, and Mrs. C. S.
Parker, of Lueknow.
The funeral services will be held
from her home on Thursday morning at
10 o'clock after T. M. Mauk &
Son will take the remains to Camp Hill
where further services will bo hold in
the Church of God at 11 o'clock which
will be conducted bv the Rev. Thomas,
pastor of the Maclay Street Church of
God, assisted by the Rev. Ridell, of
Camp Hill. Interment in the Camp
Hill cemetery.
Elsie E. Longenecker
Miss Elsie E. Longenecker, daughter
of J. K. Longenecker, a local florist,
died last night at her home, 1433
North Second street, after a ten days'
illness. Besides her parents, Miss
Longenecker is survived by three sis
ters, Miss Emma Longenecker, Miss
'Mary Longenecker and Mrs. C. h.
Keim. She also leaves one brother,
Charles E. Longenecker.
J. K. D. Dumars
The funeral of James K. D. Dumars,
68 years old, who died last night, will
be held Thursday afternoon at 2
o'clock. Burial will be in the Harris
burg cemetery. 'Mr, Dumars is survived
by three sisters, (Mrs. Samuel Franklin,
(Mrs. Mary Earnest and Margaret Du
marq, also a brother, John &. Dumars.
RECEIVER EOR ROCK ISLAM)
Railroad's Stock Was Sold at Public
Auction Two Weeks Ago
lip Associated Prvts.
New York, lan. 19.—-The Federal
District court to-day appointed Walter
('. Noves receiver of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad Company,
the lowa corporation whose stock was
sold at public auction two weeks ago.
The receivers bond was fixed at s7o,
000.
The company for which the receiver
was appointed is a holding company,
the operating company being the Chi
cago. Hock Island ami Pacific Railway
Company. The receiver was appointed
as a development in the litigation be
gun by the Central Trust Company of
New York as trustee for its bondhold
ers.
RIVER AMI HARBORS BILL
House Endeavoring to Pass Measure
Before Adjournment To-night
By Associated Press.
Washington, .lan. 19. —-The House
met earl} to-day to take up the $34,-
000.000 Uivers and Harbors Appropri
ation ivill with a view to passing it be
fore adjournment to-night.
Opponents of the bill were ready to
renow their fight against the measure
on the ground of extravagance and
Chairman Sparkman and his colleagues
were prepared' to insist that no new
projects shall be put into the bill.
So far not a single change has been
made in the measure since it was taken
up in the House, despite attempts to
put amendments in to care for various
projects.
Probe for Capitol Excise Eoard
By Associated Press,
Washington, Jan. 19. —Operations
of the excise board in the District ol
Columbia in issuance of saloon licenses
•ill be investigated by a special Sen
ate committee, appointed to-day and
composed of Senators Sheppard, .lames,
Hitchcock, Jones and DiMimgham. The
inquiry grows out of charges made dur
ing the recent Senate debate on pro
hibition for the National Capital, that
licenses were issued in violation of the
spirit of the law.
Lehigh Valley Re-elects Directors
By Associated Press.
Philadelphia, Jan. 19.—The annual
meeting of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company was held here to-day. Presi
dent E. B. Thomas and the retiring
board of directors were re elected. The
meeting approved the annual report and
the acts of the directors during the
past year. The annual report for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1914, was
made public last August.
Aged Actor Dies Suddenly
By Associated Press,
Burlington, Vt., Jan. I'B.—George
Frothingliam, the original "friar
tuck'' of the old Bostonians, diejl sud
denly here to-day of heart trouble. He
was 75 years old. Frothingham appear
ed here last night in a revival of the
comic ofera "Robin Hood."' He has
played the part of the jolly friar more
than six thousaud times in the last
twenty-seven years.
Art Treasures Not Damaged
By Associated Press,
Rome, Jan. 19.—The Vatican in last
night's "Osservatore Romano" official
ly denies a report in circulation that
art treasures, especially in the Sistine
Chapel, had bcea damaged by the
earthquake. The article says that the
artistic objects which are being pre
serced in the Vatican suffered no in
jury-
v Thaw Back to New York Soon
By Associated Press,
Concord, N. H., Jan. 19. —No at
tempt will be made to delay th*" trans
fer of Harry K. Thaw to the custody
of the New York State authorities upon
the arrival here of the necessary pa
pers, according to an announcement to
day by his local attorneys.
hi NANCE
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
QUOTATIONS.
Furnished by H. W. Suavely. Broker.
Arcade Building, Walnut and Court
Streets
New York. Jan. 19.
Open. Close.
Alaska Gold Mines .. . 56% 58
Amal Copper ~ 36 35%
Ainer Beet Sugar 30% 30%
American Can 93% 96
do pfd 47„ 4 8
Atn Car and Foundry Co 4 7 46%
Am Cotton Oil KM 2 4'.,
Am Ue Securities .... 28% 28%
Amer Loco pfd 61 V 4 61 %
Amer Smelting pfd ... 10*% 105
American Sugar 119' .. 119%
Amer Tel and Tel .... 27';. 27 :, . t
Anaconda 94% 94%
Atchison 71% 73%
Baltimore and Ohio ... 52% 52%
Bethlehem Steel 9 8 100%
do pfd 87% 87%
Brooklyn K T 18% 17%
California Petrolaum pf 7 64166%
Canadian Pacific 35% 35
Central Leather -14 Vi 4*
< hesapeakc aud Ohio . 89% 90 1 1
Chicago, Northwestern. 35% 35%
Chino Con Copper .... 25% 25%
Col Fuel and Iron .... 120% 120%
Consol Gas 10% 10%
Corn Products 12 12
Distilling Securities ... 22% 22%
Erie 35% 36
Erie, Ist pfd 145 145
General Electric Co .. . 32 32%
Goodrich >B 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.
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