! THE WEATHER
FAIR TO-NIGHT
AND TO-MORROW
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S£ A ?. , , , :S KU VOL. 77—NO. 44
BRITISH SHIP ALSO IS LOST WHEN
GERMAN CRUISER BLUECHER SINKS
Biggest Naval Battle of War
Fought in the North Sea Yes
terday When Five of Great
Britain's Most Powerful Ves
sels Intercept Four of the
Kaiser 9 s Squadron on Way to
Bombard English Coast-
More Than 700 of Crew of the
Bluecher Perish as the Vessel
Goes Down While the Rest of
the German Ships Make Their
Escape
x I
Bji .luucictrd Pre**,
Berlin, Jan. 25. via London, 11.35 A. M. —The follow-'
in.~ official announcement on the naval engagement in the
-.'iarch Sea yesterday was given out in Berlin to-day:
'During the advance of our armored cruisers Seydlitz,
Der:l:-"::eei, Moitke and Bluecher, which, accompanied by
.cm smaller cruisers and two flotillas of torpedo boats
were steaming in North Sea. these vessels became engaged
with British detachment composed of five battle cruisers, i
.avera smaller cruisers and 2b torpedo boat destroyers.
•"The c-nemv discontinued the engagement after threei
hours cimc a + a point seventy miles west northwest of
Heligoland, and retreated.
"According to the information available one British
battle cruiser and one armored cruiser, the Bluecher, were
sunk All the other German ships returned to port.
{Signed) "Von Behncke." !
Lo" lon, .'an. Jo.—Tiio biggest naval |
battle of the war, so far as sire of ships I
and we cut of i* concerned, was
fought in the North sea yesterday and
no -e»ult was a victory for Vice Ad
miral Beatty an 1 the British battle
cruiser squadron.
This squadron, composed of the l>ion.
T jer, Princess Royal, New Zealand and;
Indomitable, accompanied by a flotilla j
of light cruisers and destroyers, under
Commodore Reginald Y. Terwhitt, soon j
after dawn met a German squadron,
composed of the battle cruisers Derf- (
flinger. Seydlitz and Moltke, and the
armored < ruiser Blueeher. also escorted
by light iruisers and torpedo craft,
heading toward the English coast. [
In a :'our hours' running fight that
ensued the armored cruiser Blueeher
was sunk, anil the remaining three, two
of them showing marks of heavy pound
ing. took refuge behind the mine fields
off the German oast, whether the Brit
ish ships did not venture to follow.
The British ships'suffered only slight
injury. So far as is known only 123 >
of the Bluecher's crew of BSS were
saved.
Official Description of Sea Battle
The official statement issued by the
Press Bureau follows:
"Early this morning a British pa
trolling squadron of battle cruisers and
light cruisers, under Vice Admiral Sir
David Beatty, with a destroyer flotilla,
& under Commodore Terwhitt. sighted
" four German battle cruisers and several
light cruisers and a number of destroy- 1
ers stewing westward, and apparently
making for the English coast.
"The enemy at made for home
#r high speed. They were at once pur- j
med, and at about 9.30 a. m. action
was joined between the battle cruisers
Lipn, Tiger. Princess Royal. New Zeal-'
and and Indomitable on the one hand,
and the Derfflinger. Seydlitz. Molke and
Blueeher on the other. A well contest- j
ed running fight ensued. Shortly after j
1 o'clock the Blueeher, which had pre-!
viouslv fallen out of line, capsized and
sank.
"Admiral Beatty reports that two
other battle cruisers were seriously
damaged. They were, however, able to !
continue their flight and reached an
area where danger from German sub
marines and mines prevented further
pursuit.
"No British ships have been lost,
and our casualties in personnel, as at
present reported, are slight, the Lion,
which led the line, having only eleven '
wounded and no killed.
"One hundred and twenty-three sur
vivors have been rescued from tne
Bluecher's crew of 885, and it is pos
sible that others have been saved bv
some of our destroyers. No reports of
any destroyer or light cruiser fighting
have yet been received by the Admir
alty, though some have apparently taken
place.
"Their Lordships have expressed
their satisfa<-tion to Vice Admiral Sir
David B«*atty."
London Crowds Cheer Victory
Following the publication of this re-
31je Star- 3febcpcnl>cnt
j p"rt London went wild with exultation,
i The spaces in front of the bulletin
! board were thronged all day. Cheer on
j cheer was given for the navy and Sir
David Beatty, who. already a popular
> hero after his victory off Heligoland on
; August 2>, has, by his latest exploit,
i become idolized.
It is believed that the German
; squadron ha 1 set out to repeat the raid
j of last month on the Yorkshire coast.
It is thought that the German!
j squadron was identical with that which !
i made the first successful descent on j
: England, and it is probable that the de
struction of raj German ship could have
caused greater rejoicing than that of
i the Bluecher. unless, possibly, that of ,
t the Moltke, her fellow-raider.
The result of the action also is re
garded here as a triumphant vindiea 1
tiou of British theories of warship
building. So far as »an oe judged from
the meagre accounts now available, the
tight itself was merely a demonstration
of a victory that had been won in the j
\ears of peace by the British design
ers. who were able to send to sea a 1
squadron that, ship for ship, outclassed '
the Germans of the same late in speed, j
| sn armor protection and in gun power.
' The ma thematic of superior speed
and gunnery were even more strikingly
i demonstrated than in the victory of
Admiral Sturdee off the Falkland*. The
Bluecher was. of all German ships, the
most decisively outclassed. She was the
slowest and apparently the rearmost of
their squadron. She was an armored
cruiser of an earlier day, and though a
splendid specimen of her type, was as
; helpless, with her battery of twelve 8.2-
I inch guns and her belt of 6-inch armor,
against the 13.5-inch broadsides of the
British squadron as were the Scharn
horst and the Gneisenau before the In
vincible and Indexible in the South At
lantic.
Germans Near English Coast
Apparently the German squadron was
| not more than an hour s run from the
| English coast when the British patrols
ahead of Admiral Beatty 's heavy forces
reported the presence of the Germans.
1 The action seems to have been fought,
out according to the most approved!
rules of naval tactics,' the light ships
reconnoitering and keeping in touch, 1
and gradually falling back on the <
heavier fighters, as the two squadrons
a; proached.
The German Admiral, however, eith i
er was less effectively served bv his
scouts than wag Admiral Beatty, or he
I became convinced —at the British ships!
were only light patrol craft; or, con- j
fident in the speed and power of his!
own squadron, he determined to pusn i •
home the reconnaissance, and went too !
far.
In any case, when he finally learned !
the odds against him and swung hisj l
own heavy squadron around for (light, j'
it was too late, for the big British 11
cruisers were bearing down at the ut-1
iqost speed. , ! I
Neither squadron, it is believed, was 1
in close formation. But in the rear of
the German squadron was the weakest '
Cntliord ob Seveath I'alt
HARBISBUBQ, PA.. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25. 1915—12 PAGES.
PKMISI!
SIMMS
Germany Complains to
United States That
Curtiss Aircraft Are
War Vessels
36 BEING MADE
FOR THE BRITISH
German Ambassador Bernstorff Claims
the Selling of Hydroaeroplanes to
the Belligerent Countries Constitutes
a Breach of Neutrality
Bp Associated Press,
Washington. Jan. 25.—Germany pro
teste I to the State Department to-day
through her Ambassador, fount Hern
storff, against shipments of American
hy iroaeroplane* to the European b'el
■ liferents, on the ground that such air-j
I craft are war vessels. A statement i>-
Isued by the embassy to day says:
"The turtle works at Hammonds- 1
I port. X. \have sold and sent to Eng
land the well known hydroaeroplane
|'' America and five hydroaeroplanes
jof the >ame type. Thirty-six hydro
aeroplanes of a differeut type have been
i ordered by Knglaiki and are under con
i stmetioo by the same firm. Also Itus
j sia has ordered a number of these ves
sels from Curtis® for use in her navy.
•' There is no ijJoubt, and it does' not
i need any explanation, that from the
, stan l.point of international law, hydro
| aeroplane* have to be considered as war
I vessel* aud fcnat, therefore, by Article
|\in of the agreement concluded a;
| The Hague on October 18. 1907. neu
jtral coon tries are prohibitol to supply
I belligerent countries with such vessels.'
The selling of hydroaeroplanes by the'
< urtiss works, therefore, constitutes a
breach of neutrality. Hydroaeroplanes
are not especially mentioned in The'
Hague agreement for the simple reason j
that this kind of war vessel did not vet;
exist at that time."
LATE WAR NEWS SUIKIMfIRY
A new attack on the Russian armies
has been initiated by Austria, in con
junction with the German forces in the
east, in accordance with the plan be
lieved in Petrograd to have been adopt
led by the Teutonic allies. Austria;
forces have struck at their opponen i
aU along their :iOO-mile front. Heavy j
fighting is in progress, out, so far as is
known in Petrograd. no important re
sults have been achieved as yet. The
object of the attack apparently is to
relieve Hungary from further danger of
invasion by clearing the Russians from |
Galicia, Bukowina and Northern Hun-'
gary. Vienna reports state that the
Russians already have been checked in
Bukowina.
Desperate fighting in close quarters
ConSfnuril <m Mnth I'ncr.
ran IT. HOLLY 1 BAR
Remonstrants Oppose Transfer of Li
cense From Present Tenant to
Owner of Famous Hostelry
iSpt- ial to t'ne Star-Independent.)
i arlisle, Pa.. Jan. 23. —Although no
disposition had been made of the cases |
daring the morning session, the court
sitting here to-day intimated that all
of the seventeen application? for whole
sale and retail liquor licenses, to which
no remonstrances had been filed, would
be granted for 1915. The court, how
ever, did urge the hotel men to follow
strictly the rule laid down su.-ne years
ago regarding the closing of saloons
on holidays and at 10 o'clock at night.
Testimony was taken this morning i
in three of the fourteen cases in which
remonstrances have been filed. One of
these was the application of H. W. Gill, j
owner of the Mt. Holly Inn, who seeks
the liquor license which now is held bv
D. Fred Spaders, as tenant. The re
monstance to this application, Gill al
leges, was gotten up at the instance of i
Souders.
Another case was that of Fred Bren
neman who wants the Hogestown hotel
relicensed. Ten years azo a license for
this hostelry was denied to Frank Buf- ]
fimjton.
XO RETRIAL FOR BLUEIOAT
Lawyers So Announce in Case of Scott,
Who Killed Nathan Banks
The plan to file reasonß for a retrial
of Kobert F. Scott, the city patrolman
convicted of second degree murder,
growing out of the fatal shooting on
August'l, last, of Nathan Banks, has
been abandoned, so Seott's attorneys
announced to the court this morning.
District Attorney A roup subsequent
ly stated that Scott will not be called
for sentence for a week .or ten. days,
and possibly not until February 8. '
ARRESTED
HERE FOR
IMURDER
OF WOMAN
1 Paul Van Horn, Known
| Also as "Buffalo
Sears," Seized in the
Harrisburg Postof
fice Shortly After
Noon To-day on
Charge of Strangling
Mrs. Mary Jane Ful
mer, 84 Years Old,
in Williamsport Last
Wednesday
HIS WIFE ALSO
IS APPREHENDED
Pair Are Alleged to
Have Been Living in
137 South Third
Street, This City.
Since Last Thursday
—Presence Here I s
Learned Through a
Letter He Sent to
Williamsport— Loot
Found in Local Pawn
I Shop
After a vigil in the Harrisburg post
offiee, Third and Locust streets, which
, had lasted since early (Saturday even
ing, in which City Detectives White
and Murnane, of Harrisburg. and Coun
ty Detective I'red \V. Tepel. of Wil
liamsport. took part Paul Van Horn,
alias "Buffalo Sears," who is formally
i charged with the murder last Wednes
day of Mary Jane Fulmer, 84
years old. in her Williamsport home,
was arrested at 12.30 o'clock to-day
i by Detective Murnane.
Van Horn said immediately that he
had been living in 137 South Third
| street, this city, with his wife, who also
was wanted by the Williamsport au
thorities because she was believed to
have left with Van Horn.
She was arrested a few minutes later
by Detectives White and Murnane. j
Both prisoners were taken to police j
headquarters, where they were met bv I
Detective Tepel. He started with them
for Williamsport at 3 o'clock this aft-
I ernoon.
Woman Was Strangled
Van Horn had no intention of doing
j any bodily harm to Mrs. Fulmer, he said
; this afternoon, and dL i not know she
! had died as the result of the alleged
attack until he read a Williamsiport
! Sunday paiper yesterday. He told de
tective* he merely was waiting for
l money from Williamsjjort and he had
: intended to return there. According to
advices from Williamsport, Mrs. Fulmer
was strangled to death when her tongue
j was forced down her throat.
The fire intimation the Harrisburg
police had tJiat the pair were in Har
! risburg was at 3 o'clock Saturday aft
ernoon when word was received that a
letter had been mailed out of the Har-
Coatinued oa Klotktk
SOLDIERS TO APPEAR
IN PLAY, "PAPAS DAUGHTERS"
■1
The brave soldier boys who appear
in "Papa's Daughters,'' at the Ma
jestic to-niglit and to-morrow night are
from left to right, Richard Koth, Kirbv
I<awson. Walter Kittle, William Kittle,
Jerry Douglass and Howard Albright.
The assistant nurse, on the left, is
Pierce Sliope.
The little fellows in the soldiers'
chorus, promise to be one of the big
hits in the home talent plav. They drill
just like grown up soldiers, and" even
if some of them do turn on the wrong
heel at times, that will add all the
more to the fun.
The hundred and twenty-five players
in "Papa's Daughters" held a dress
rehearsal this afternoon and to-night,
when the curtain goes up at the Ma
jestic they will make their public ap
SAYS HUSBAND'S CAMERA |
SNAPPED POSING WOMAN
Mrs. Earl Beebe, Who Seeks Order For!
Maintenance Money. Declares in,
Court That Her Spouse Got Letter?
Signed "Your Baby, Madeline"
Half a dozen photo prints whivh she
saiil she had made t'rom films taken
from her husband's camera, a few .post
cards, each of which contained a mes
sage of affection, and a letter, were of
fered in Judge McCarrell's side of 'ln
sertion court this morning by Mrs. Karl
Beebe, a daughter of Charles McOauley,
528 Race street, who left her husband
on November 17, last. t>he is asking
the court to compel her husband to pay
her weekly maintenance money. The
case had not been ended at the time for
noon adjournment.
This afternoon Beebe was ordered to
pay his wife S2O a month.
The Beebes had been living in Kas- i
ton, where the husband is employed'
as an insurance solicitor. Mrs. Beebe
said she found the postcards and letters
by accident when she was cleaning her j
husband's desk.
"He said nothing when I asked him
to explain," she began, "but he struck i
me right here (she pointed to her
cheek), and I struck him, too." !
Later Mrs. Beebe said her husband I
offered the excuse that lie couldn't keep
girls from sending the postcards.
Reference to the husband's camera
was contained in a letter alleged to
Continued on Ninth fane.
THAW IS ARRAIGNED TO-DAY
Decision on Motion to Send White's
Slayer to Bellevue Hospital
Postponed to Wednesday
_ ' I
By Associated I'rcss.
New York, .lan. 25. —A motion to;
have Harry K. Thaw sent to Bellevue
Hospital so that it might be determined!
there whether he were sane, was nialfei
to-day by Thaw's attorneys alt his ar
raignment in thie Supreme Court here I
on a charge otf conspiring with others j
in affecting his escajxe from the "Mat-!
teawan Asylum in August, 191 r 5. De
cision on the motion was reserved.
No aittempt was made to obtain j
Thaw's release on bail. Ho was re
manded hack to Tombs prison to remain
there till Justice Davis should notify
th© lawyers of the day to be selected
for Thaw's pleading to the indictment.
Justice Davis announced later that
Thaw would be arraigned next Wednes
day. The justice will, on that <vate, de
cide the motion to have Thaw sent to
Bellevue.
STOUGH FUNDS NOT ALL USED
About SMM> Surplus Will Be Distributed
Among Local Charities
When all -billv have been met 'by the
executive committee of the Stough cam
paign in this city, it is estimated that
there will be a ca<h baJance on hand of
from $350 to S4OO, which is to be dis- I
tributed among local charities.
An itemized statement is now being
preiparod.
City Solicitor Seitz 111
City Solicitor D. S. Seitz, 1211 North
Second street, is confined to the house
suffering from grip. Mis condition is
not considered alarming.
■ | pcarance, many of them for the first j
. i time. Some of the performers are al- ,
, | ready well known in amateur theatric !
als, and will make a try for added j
laurels, but many are to night to have
* their first, ctage experience.
"Papa's Daughters" has been pre-i
' sented in many other places, but it is j
said that in no city has the talent of
the amateurs developed as rapidly as
' here. The principals carry off their j
1 roles with precision, and the choruses I
1 execute their numbers with charm and i
: grace.
■ : The seat sales have been encourng !
ing to the ladies in charge. The pro-'
* coeds will be used for the benefit of i
* the Harrisburg Polyclinic hospital,
. which is in urgent need of additional
equipment and is depending largely on!
-| "Papa's Daughters'' to get it.
-CUNNINGHAM NOT SEEKING
UTILITIES BDftBD PLACE
Says He Wonld Not Accept Post Either
as a Commissioner or Counsel of the
• Commission—Brumbaugh Mum on i
Report of Changes
Xo authority could be' found thi<!
morning for the statement printed to-i
day that Governor Brumbaugh intends I
to hold up the continuation by the Sen. I
ate of several members of the Public
.Service Commission, and that Deputy I
Attorney Oeuerail Cunningham is to be
appointed either a Commissioner or to i
be made counsel for the Commission in .
; place of William X. Trinkle, of Phi la-1
delphia.
The appointments of Commissioners,
! a.* made by Governor Tener, are still in
the hand's of the Senate Committee on
j Executive nominations, and it is the
j Governor's prerogative to withdraw
them from the Senate and substitute
others if he sees fit to take such action.
Repeated efforts were made to obtain
| -om t > information as to the Governor's
intentions, but he declined to say any-
| thing at all on the subject. Only oncei
lid he get near it, and that was when,'
i speaking to a group of reporters, he '
| said he and Governor Tener were in ac-1
i cord 011 tho appointments of notarioJ
and justices of the peace. But he dint I
j not say it in such a way a» to lead to
! the inference that they were not in ac
. cord on other appointments sent to the
Senate by Governor Tener.
Regarding the possible appointment.
!of Deputy Attorney Generad Cunning
j ham to a place either on the Commission j
or as its attorney, Mr. Cunningham to-'
day expressed annoyance that a story]
of that character should be afloat.
"There is not a word of truth in the
story,'' said Mr. ('unningham. "I
would not take either of the places men
tioned. I cannot understand how such
a storv could Iwne originated."
It is said that Mr. Cunningham will
j remain as First Deputy Attorney Gon
i eral, his relations with Attorney Gen
| eral Brown being most cordial.
WOMAN'S PURSE SNATCHED j
I Mrs. Bernardia Hinnenkamp Robbed in ;
Front of Her Home of Pocket
book Containing S3O
ilrs. Bernardia Hinnenkamp, 30
South Eighteenth street, was attacked
by a thief in front of her home almost
under the rays of an electric street
light at 7.45 o'clock Saturday evening
and robbed of her pocketbook contain
ing S3O, half of which was in two
cheeks.
She had just returned to her home
from the market house at Fourteenth
and Market streets and was in front of
her homo when a man appeared from
behind, graspod her jiocketbook and
pushed her over on the steps, making
Lis getaway by running south on Eight
eenth street ami across a vacant lot.
I.M'rs. Kiuneuk&ntp was not injured by
Ihe blow and turning she was able to
see that the thief was br.i i small man
and wore a cap and a sweater with the
collar out over his coat.
A small boy who was standing on
the street but did not see the robbery
made way for the fleeing thief. The
robbery has been reported to the po
lice.
POSTSCRIPT
PRICE, ONE CENT.
ML OF HOHI. IS
FQUID GUILTY OF
HOIST! 1
Joseph Kaufman Con
victed This Morning
ofHelpingHarrisburg
Bandit Steal $ 12,000
GUARDED DOOR
WITH REVOLVER
Chicago Youth Says He Was Hypno
tized by Desperado, Fonucrly of
This City, Who Recently Was Shot
j to Death by the Cincinnati Police
(Special to tli" Stnr-tndepondent. >
Pittsburgh, Jim. 2.1. An echo of the
looting or' the Hcinostead National
| bank last August by Frank G. Holil, the
Harrislmrg desperado, who was shot to
death by the police recently while en
j denvoring tn escape after robbing two
Cincinnati banks, was neurd in the Al-
I leghoiiv county court this morning,
| when Joseph Kaufman, of C hicago,
Hold's pal in the Homestead crime, was
found guilty ot' assisting in the rob
bery.
William J. Brenneji, counsel for the
defense, told the court on Naturdiiv
"That Kauftrian had been Hypnotized by
Holil and thus was influenced to take
I part in the robbery. i>istrict Attorney
: Jackson declared that this was incon
sistent. with testimony of witnesses for
; the defense, who had said that Kauf
! man had been coerced by.Hohl. Co
ercion, the Prosecutor contended, is the
i direct opposite of hypnotism.
Kaufman himself was placed on the
i stand and told in detail of the robbery
jof the bank. He said lie had been
threatened with death if ho did not
! take a revolver, filled with blank cart
j ridges, and guard the entrance to the
] bank while the money was being ta
ken and if lie did not help in the es
! cape in tin automobile.
lloh 1, he said, had 'posed as a good,
moral man until we were about to rob
the bank. Then he revealed himself."
Kaufman's father, who is a hotel
proprietor in Chicago, and Samuel M.
Booth, an attorney, .>f Chicago, were
the principal witnesses in behalf ot the
defendant.
Despite the pleas made to the jury
!in his behalf, Kaufman, who is 20
! years old, was found guilty to-day on
| the charge of robbery. The Homestead
| bank was robbed of $12,000 through a
daring exploit ot lljhl and his accom
plice. None of the money has been
recovered.
Sentence Suspended in 3rooks Cass
j Sentence was this morning suspend-
I ed in Judge Kunkel's court in the case
i of Roy Brooks, who was arrested in an
' attempt to break into the (St. James'
; hotel. He pleaded guilty to the charge,
I but letters from city officials of Port
Amboy, N. J„ his home, influenced the
court to suspend sentence. It appears
I that the boy comes from a prominent
i family. Both his father and mother
were in court.
Engine and Car Jump Track
A local passenger truin No. 206, run
ning on the Pennsylvania railroad be
tween I'razer and West Chester, was
derailed near Green Tree at 7.43
o'clock this morning, the engine and
the truck on one coach leaving the
tracks. The train was running slowly
and no passengers were injured.
Russians Sink Sixteen Aeroplanes
London, Jan. 25, 4.33 A. M.—A Pet
rograd dispatch to the "Times'" as
serts that the Russians have sunk near
Sinope, Asia Minor, the Georgios, on
board of which were Sixteen aeroplanes,
comprising the entire Turkish aerial
jjoet.
V Wheat Higher Than Ever To-day
By Associated Prcnn,
Chicago, Jan. 2o.—Prices for wheat
soared higher to-dav than ever. May
delivery touched 45 5-8, a 'rise of
1.1-8 as compared with Saturday.
WALL STREET CLOSING
liy Associated Press.
New York, Jan. 25.—Renewed pres
sure upon Steel and an abrupt advance
in Union Pacific indicated the uneven
tone of the late dealing. The closing
was irregular. With a decided increase
in business to-day's stock market drift
ed aimlessly for the greater part of tht
session, making partial recovery at thi
close.