THE WEATHER RAIN TO-NIGHT AND TO-MORROW Detailed Report. Pace 8 VOL. 77— NO. 54. PEHROSE raOBEIS KOW OF TO SEDATE Resolution to Investi gate Campaign Funds of U. S. Senators is Reported Favorably WAS AMENDED TO INCLUDE OTHERS If Senate Adopts Resolution. Probe Will Cover States Reside* Pennsylvania and Illinois Where Charge* of Cor ruption Are Made By Pr«», Washington. P.v>, s.—By unanimous vote the Senate Elections Committee to day recommended investigation of Sen atorial campaigns in Pennsylvania and Illinois and in any other States where charges of corruption have been made. The original resolution by Senator Norris. Progressive Republican from Nebraska, proposing inquiry into the campaigns where Senator Penrose was re-elected from Pennsylvania and Roger Sullivan was defeated by Senator Sher man, Republican, in Illinois, was adopt ed, but, at the insistence of Republic ans on the committee, it was amended to authorize similar investigation into any snob charges from other States. Chairman Kern said the committee's recommendations would be put at once before the Senate. Senator Sutherland. Republican, of fered an amendment specifically naming Alabama. Indiana. California and South Dakota, but it was rejected and the amendment was made to provide for inquiry into campaign expenditures -'in any other States which evidence brought before the committe may jus- Should the Senate adopt the resolu tion. the inquiry probably would be conducted during a recess "of Obngrese. TBREE SLAIN_ASTHEY SLEEP JbrriMe Triple Tragedy In Which Two Woman and Girl Are Killed With Sledge Hammer By 4 wmaw fVrji. L N. Y., Feb. s.—The bodies HL~ Mrs. Liazie Drake, 66; Mrs. Irene "wpencer, 35, and her daughter, Ger trude Spencer. 12, were fouad in their beds at their homes at Salamanca to day. Their heads had been crushed in with a slaige hammer. The hammer, rtneaW with blood and hair, was found on the floor in one of the rooms. Boys passing the I>rake homestead found the rear door open and made thei discovery. The bodies were in sepa rate iw™ an.i there was no evidence of a struggle. Apparently the victims' had been slain as they slept. Phy-1 nc-ians who examined the bodies said that the murder had been committed three or four days apo. The polioe have ' seat oat an aiarm for a former boarier, at the Drake house. Mrs. Drake was Mrs. Spencer *s mother. WBEAT JUMPSJIP T051.67 Swiftly Advances to a New High Rec • ord War Price, But Takes a Sudden Drop By Auocutted Press, Chicago, Feb. s.—Wheat advanced ! swiftly to-day to a new high record war price. It only took a brief time ftjr thr May option to reach $1.66 1-2, a jump of 2 3-S eento compared with las; night. The previous top notch quo- j tarion was on February 3. $1.66. Most ; of the trading to-day, however, was in the July delivery, in which the upturn '' was not quite so radical. Something like a selling stampeded ensued after the market had elimbed to $1.6. for May. Seaboard offers to resell wheat in Chicago surprised the bulls, and there was also an element of depression in the fact that corn which to a large extent mav be sub-. stituted of wheat, was not keeping pace upward with the more expensive cereal. Tie res.:lt was a sudden drop of more than three cents from the top figures attained by wheat. Breaks in prices continued until 41, I bad been taken from the earlier values'. 1 tlos-.ng prices were extremelv nervous at a range varying from half a cent on to half a cent up compared with last night. TKIES TO CUT WAY OUT CEUL Man Detained in Police Headquarters Uses Knife on Panel of Door Being dissatisfied with his lot upon being "committed" to a detention cell in police headquarter*, where he could ' sleep it off." Herman Sherman, brought in last night by Patrolman ' arson, who accused him of being drunk on the street, tried to cut his way out of the cell by using a pocket knife on a wooden panel of the cell door. Patrolman Romieh, going on auty at 10 o'clock in the evening, hap pened to see the man so engaged and ! placed him under arrest. Sherman, ac- | cording to a report made to Chief of Police Hutchison, then tried to use his knife on Patrolman Romieh. Sherman was committed to jail to await a hear ing on a "disorderly practice" charge. 99)e Star- 4M|Mi Snkpenknt ROBBER BAD CHLOROFORM BUT DIDN'T HAVE TO OSE IT Got A«v With $l4O From tit* Home of Noah S. Moyer —Eight Cues of Burglary Have Roan Reported to the Police la the Present Week Eight places in this city, five of thorn stores, have been entered by rob bers since Monday. Two arrests have been made on burglary charges and one man is being held on a charge of receiving stolen goods, as shown by the records at Police Headquarters to-dav. So skillful was a sneak thief, who made away with >l4O from the home of Noah S. Moyer, Twentieth and Brookwood streets, Tuesday night, that Moyer did not know of his loss until Wednesday when his housekeeper found his kevs on the floor of his home. The ease was reported late to the police. Thev investigated and in a room, some distance from the one in which Moyer had been sleeping, a small bottle of chloroform and a quantity ot cotton were found. The bottle was un opened, the thief evidently having found it unnecessary to use the chloro form. Moyer was in the stable the fol lowing morning when his housekeeper found the keys. It was then that tne loss was discovered. Yrttetday morning two houses on State street were entered by sneak thieve®. In the home of Wilson K. Houeer, 1724 State street, jewelry val ued at S2OO was stolen, and in tho house of J. Garfiedd Fackler. 1506 State street, a watch and bracelet, val i ued at $75, were stolen. The police are j at work on those cases. Goods recovered after the arrest yesterdav afternoon of Henry S. Wag ner. colored, jointly accused, with Jo seph Wilson, of the robbery of the store of Henry S. Wagenheim. 1123 South Ninth street, will raise the total of value of Wagenheim's property that has been restored, to almost s2oo.'The , police now believe that most of the property has been recovered. Others detained in this case were .James Epps. South alley and Fifth street; Roy Alexander, Margaret Brown ; and Larry Strange. Epps was held un der S3OO bail yesterday afternoon by , Mayor Royal on a charge of receiving stolen goods. Two others were dis- I charged. A hungry thief early this morning | broke into the store at 339 South Cam ] cron street, owned by Mrs. Anna Krentzman. and made away with canned goods, coffee and tobacco to the value of about sl2. The poiice are iu ve«igating the case. CAVE AWAVJ324.fi57.389 Andrew Carnegie Say* His Donations Up to Olom of 1914 Run Into Fabulous Figures B)i Associated Press. New York. Feb. s.—Andrew Car i nefgie went on the witness stand to-day I before the Federal Industrial Relations Commission and testified that up to the close of 1914 his donations totalled $324,657,399. "The work still goes bravely on," said the iron master. "I am indeed a most fortunate man and think myself j .n nothiing elso so happv as a soul re , memberiug my dear friends, to whom I owe so much." j After Mr. Carnegie had settled him self in the witness chair and prepared ! to read a statement he was asked what his business was. "My business." he replied, "is to I do all the good in the world that 1 can. '» His statement was in part as fol lows: "I never bought or sold shares on the Exchange; all my earnings were i from manufacturing, if it were neces- I sary for me to return to that calling 1 I , should not consider the problem of ] labor as at all difficult." NEW X-RAY MACHINE HERE Expert Will Install Them In Harris burg Hospital Monday Two new X-ray machines to be in-1 stalled in the Harrisburg Hospital ar- i ri\ a: at that this morning. [ On Monday an expert at installing sucli apparatus will arrive in the citv to set them up. A room in the hospital, formerly' used as a class room for the student' nurses, will be equipped with what is termed a "high frequency" machine. All orf the skin diseases which are now being treated with the aid of the Ro entgen ravs, will be treated in this new labratory. The X-ray machine to be used for! general purposes will be installed in the j present electrical labratorv in the base ment. rire doors are now being placed in | the hospital building. Other improve ments are being contemplated. J_ $75,000 P. 0. BILL IS REPORTED Appropriation for Harrisburg Building Advanced in U. S. Congress A dispatch from Washington to-day! announces that the sundrv civil appro priation bill was reported to Congress i yesterday carrying among its items $ i 5,000 for the Harrisburg postoffice. It was at first thought here that this ' was an additional appropriation to in crease one of similar amount made some time ago, but the postoffice au thorities here say that it was the orig inal appropriation on which the plans for the enlargement of the postoffice I here were based and are now being car ried out. The bill is now certain to be passed, and the work will go on uninter ruptedly. Locomotive Strikes Trackman James Eiovel, of Enola, a trackman for the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Enola yards, was struck by a locomo tive this morning and suffered an injury to his left side. Several ribs may b*9 fractured. He was. treated at the liar risburg hovpital. HARRISBUKG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1915 16 PAGES. HUES DWELLING; BURS THE DOORS Burglar Tries to Burn Building to Cover the Theft of Box Contain ing 100 Quarters SCATTERS OIL IN TWO ROOMS Victim, Awakened by Smoke, Vain to Batter Way Through En trance Blocked by Curtain Pole- Flames in Two Place* Conquered Awakened by smelling smoke in the second story of his dwelling, 745 South Front street, Steelton, at 11.45 o'clock last night. Peter Oetoie, employed as a driver by E. 6. lrvin. of the bottling works. Front and Walnut streets, that borough, jumped out of bed and went to investigate. Finding no ilamre in the second story, he went to the first floor and learned that the dining room door had been barred against his entrance. Going back to the second floor, he climbed o'lt on the front porch roof and by means of the porch posts reach ed the ground safetlv. lie was aPtired only in his night clothes. Bv this time several neighbors had appeared on the scene and the outside kitchen door was forced in. Whan this door was opened thick volumes of smoke rolled out and Ostoic hurriedly ran to box 12 and sent in an alarm, bringing out the fire engines. While Ostoic was sending in the alarm a bucket brigade was formed with such success that before rhe firemen arrived the flames had been conquered. An investigation made by Fire Chief Sboop, however, showed that the entire first floor had been saturated with oil and gasoline and thtt two blazes had been started, one oi a wicker rocking c-hair in the parlor on which had been piled curtains which had been torn from their fastenings. These curtains and the chair were entirely consumed. Curtain Pole Bars Door In the dining room a large pilo of papers on the table also had been set on fire, but only the edges of the pa pers had been charred. Ail furniture and oioching on the first floor had been disarranged and piled up in disorder. A basket standing in the kitchen filled with »lolay. Seven contractors competed for the i.iobs as follows: W. F. Martin, Stucker Brothers' Construction Company. Wil i liom H. Opperman and Henry " Opper man. of this city; G. W. Eu'sign. luc., Camp Hill; Municipal Construction [Company, Reading, and David D. Ekler. Elizabeth vifle. » The low bidders were as follows: Peiwer in Market Square and Market !street, David D. Elder. $7,64'3; Wico nisco street from FSfth to Lexington, David D. Elder, $4,543; Cumberland street, from Fourth to a point 110 feet west of Fifteenth street, Henry Op perman, $346; Thii»> and G-eiger streets, William H. Opperman. $737. Ensign lost the Cumberland street job fey a small margin, his bid being fifty cents higher than Opperman's. FOX TO HEAD BAR ASSOCIATION He Will Be Chosen President At Meet ing to Be Held To-night The annual meeting of the Dauphin County Bar Association will be held in the Court House this evening at whieh officers nominated at a recent session will be elected. The incoming officers will include these: President, John E. Fox; vice president, Simon S. Bowman; treasurer. William H. Mnsser; secr t *ary, Job J. Conklin. Directors, 8. S. Brpp, C. H. Hollinger, Thomas 8. Harg>st, Frank J. Roth and H. B. Saussam*n. Censors. John H. Shopp, Elmer W. j Ehler, William H. Earnest, Edward E.l Beidleman and John C. Niaaley. CLERGYMAN IS VICTIM OF A CLEVER FORGER The Rev. J. V. Adama, of New Oum berland. Pay* Over Money to Stranger Who Had Signed the Name of a Member of Congregation (Special to the Star-Independent.) New Cumberland, Feb. s.—The Rev. J. V. Adams, pastor of Baughman Me morial Methodist church, was called from his study yesterday to see a man who wished to cousult with him upon an ''urgent errand." The visitor, aft er greeting the pastor in a courteous produced a letter which has proved to be a forged order upon Mr. Adams for money. The pastor, think ing it to be an accommodation to the man whose name was affixed to the or der, paid over the amount asked for. The signature was so well copied that the minister thought it was genuine. The croojt had used an assumed name for himself and forged the name of Charles Ross, a member of Mr. Adams' congregation, whose place of business is in Steelton and who was out of town at the time. As soon as the man left the parson age he began to act strangely. Persons who saw liim come out of the house and who recognized him informed Mr. Adams of his actions. As the clergy man came out of the house to investi gate. the man started on a run down Third street toward the Pennsylvania railroad station and was seen, to turn up an alley and disappeared. The Rev. Mr. Adams has since learned the real name of his early morn ing caller and has in his possession the nime and address of the family in Harrisburg with whom the man" had been staying. When seen to-day by a representative of this paper the clergy mati said: I '"As a man of my profession, I have, I presume, had as many demands for assistance as the rest of my ministerial brethren. They have come in requests small and great —from a night's lodg ing to a railroad ticket from Harris burg to the Pacific coast—but this is the first of the forgery class. I would rather, if a fellow means to pick my pocket, that he would at least give me the privilege of giving* him the grip, a good, stout punch might be a real moral relish to such fellows, even from a preacher." BAM LOUT AND PAID FOR Contractor Receives 910,855 as Last Installment on Contract for Work OB Structure in Susquehanna The four-foot high concrete dam ex tending across the Susquehanna fiver from a point near Iron avenue is com pleted so fai as Frank X. Skene, the contractor, is concerned, and Skene this morning got a check for $10,855.70, the final installment on the $77,000 job. Skene at once left for Lockport. N. Y„ to which place he has moved most j of his equipment. The finishing touches ;to the dam, Which will consist prin j cipally of facing 140 concrete blocks ; on the breast, will be done by the City : under the supervision of the Board of Public Works. These blocks all have been ma.it- and are really to be put in plai'e. This part of the job can be completed in three or four days, so the engineers say, and it will not cost more than $l5O. These slabs will be j put in place, early in the spring, or as ! soon as the water recedes. Highway Commissioner Lynch, whose i dejiartment su]>ervised the building of : the dam, stated this morning tha the contractor's charges for '' extras'' were ' accepted without alteration. Tney have j been approved and paid. The' exwa work was chiefly the filling of "pot ; holes" difc*9vered in the river bottom j after the contract had been let. The de;th of the water at the dam j will be bet ween five and six feet. Of ! course there will be many places above | tho dam where it will l>e deeped. READING GETSJABERNACLE . Structure Used by Stough Party Here Will Be Torn Down and Shipped Within Next Few Days The Stough tabernacle, minus the • sawdust trail, which cannot be trans- I ported, will be pulled down within the next few days and sent to Reading, where, after many days of trials and tribulations, the Stough committee ar langing for the evangelist's visit to that city, has finally succeeded in se lecting a site. The Stough tabernacle in Harrisburg was constructed by the Bogar Company for $3,500, the lumber to be retained by the comjony at the close of the work in Harrisburg. The Bogar Com pany disposed of the tabernacle as it stood to John E. Dare, and the lattoi was about to tear it down when an offer for it came from Heading, which was accepted. Mr. Dare says that he is ready to be gin tearing down the building and ship ping the material to Beading just as won as the Reading people cotne to Harrisburg with the contract to be signed. The tabernacle can be taken down and shipped to Reading witjhin the next two weeks. FUNERAL OF MISS WILHELX Burial Will Be Made at York Fallowing Services Here To-morrow Funeral services of Miss Sara Hand Coleman Wilhelm, who died on Tues day at her home at Paxtang, will be held there at 2 o'clock to-morro>w aft ernoon. The officiating clergymen will be the Bev. Dr. A. W. Rudisill. of BaJ timore, and the Rev. Rollin A. Sawyer, rector of 8t- Stephen's Episcopal church. Burial will be made at York. Miss ilhelm belonged to the Har risburg Civic Club, the Wednesday C;-ib and the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. OPERA STAR WHO AWAIT OF ARABIAN TO B l: 1 /jjriplf 1 I QDESTINN New York, Feb. 5. —Admitting that she weighed 170 pounds and asserting that she wil become the bride of an Arab, Miss Emmy Deatinn, the well known Opera House star, appeared be fore the Couutv Clerk in this city and applied for her first American citizen ship papers. The man of her choice is none other than l>inh Gilly, Arabian- GUESS OBJECT OF BOOM PROBE Hill Employes Worried by Governor's Activ i t y i n Ascertaining Political Backing FACTS MAY GO TO THE SENATE On« Member of That Body Favors a Be allotment of Jobs So That Each County Would Get Proportionate Share of Plums —Shake-up Feared Heads of departments on Capitol Hill, whose employes come directly un der the appointment of the Governor of the State, were busily engaged to day in making out the lists of all con nected with their departments, giving their names, positions, salaries and to whom they owed their appointment, as required bv Governor Brumbaugh, It was suggested to-day, following the publication in yesterday's Star-In dependent of the news of the Govern or's activity in calling for this infor mation, that perhaps the Governor de sires to see how the jobs are distribut ed aJld whether the various counties are getting their fair share of the places, and whether some counties are getting more than their share. Whatever the purpose is, there are many Hill em ployes who are speculating as to wheth er they are to be fired. It was said by one legislator to-day that his county had but two Capitol positions and that there were other counties nearby that had many more than they were entitled to, but whether this will be laid before the Governor, or has already been called to his atten tion, could not be learned. The fact remains that the Governor has asked department heads for the names of employes and who are back ing the employes politically. What use he proposes making of this information he has not announced, but there is a good deal of uneasiness m&infested among Hill employes. One rumor is that there will be none but Republicans kept in office and that those in office, with the backing of other political parties, will be dropped in due time and Bepublicans put in their places. The fact that the Governor is ob . taining this information has excited much interest in legislative circles.' A western Senator said to-day that the information the Governor is getting would be mighty interesting for the Benate, as many attempts have been made to ascertain who are politically backing many department attaches, but the information could never be obtain ed. This western Senator is in favor of a resolution reciting the fact that the Governor has obtained this informa tion and that the Governor be requested to furnish lists of attaches with facts regarding their salaries and political backing to the Senate. This may be done by resolution on Monday night. Twenty Killed in Boiler Explosion 'Madrid, via Paris, Feb. 6, 6.16 A. M.—Tweuty persons were killed and many injured by the explosion yester day of a boiler in a furniture factory at La Ourdia. French baritone, at present a prisoner of war in Bohemia. Mr. Gilly is a hand some, swarthy chap, whoso parentage is lialf Arabic, half French. It is said that lie has been married, while Miss Destinn never has been. Wheth'er Mr. Gilly will add American citizenship to Jiis Arabic-French nationality when he marries remains to be seen. SENS ASPECTS IB CERMAHIOVE Declaration of Naval War Zone in British Isles as Seen by U. S. Officials MAY CAUSE THE NEUTRALS TO ACT Speedy Conference Probable by Repre sentatives of Latin-American Coun tries to Devise Means to Reduce Losses to Commerce to a Minimum By Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 5. —Germany's declaration of a naval war zone around Great Britain and Ireland, including the ' English channel and the northern pas : sage by the Shetland Islands, is re i garded here as one of the most serious developments of the war. It was regarded as highly possible, for one thing, that it would hasten the movement begun by the Latin-American countries for a speedy conference of neutral states to devise means to reduce losses to neutral commerce to minimum. At first there were some intimations in sdlministration circles that it might be the subject of a protest by the Unit ed States but the official view developed that there wae little or no ground for that anil it was recalled that no protest was made when the North Sea was strewn with mines. Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Hol land have repeatedly addressed the State Department here to secure Amer ican backing for measures to distress in their own commerce and the latest German proclamation is expected to cause a redoubled effort of all the neutrals for measures to protect them selves. Counselor Lansing, of the State De partment, took Secretary Bryan's chair ContlaaYd on Tntk Pace. 30,000 GERMAN TROOPS GO TO ASSIST HUNGARIAN FORCES Venice, via London, Fob. 5, 9.19 A. M.—Dispatches from Vienna state thait 30,000 German troops have arrived in Hungary on the way to Korosmezo, in the Carpathians, to assist Hungarian forces said to be threatened with en velopment by the Russians. Aturtrian forces, dispatches say, have attacked , the Russian leift flank at Jacobeni, i» Southern Bukowina, forcing the Russians to retreat towards Radautz. It is stated also that an Austrian advance guard has been an nilihated in Uzsok pass. Confirmation is given the report that 200,000 German troops are being sent from Holland to assist in attempting the relief of Praemysl. Deny Russians Sank German Cruiser Berlin, Feb. 5, Via Amstendam and London, 3.05 P. M.—Official denial was made here to-day of the announcement from Petrograni on February 3 that a Russian submarine had sunk a German destroyer in the Baltic sea, off Cape Moon, Denmark, on January 29. POSTSCRIPT PRICE, ONE CENT. CARPATHIAN PASSES LOST BY RUSSIANS Latter Admit in Offi cial Report the With drawal of Forces in the Mountains 84.000 GERMANS - IN 6-MILE FRONT Kaiser's Forces Keep Up Desperate and Stubborn Fighting in Russian Po land—Russians Claim Successes in Engagements at Various Polnta Petrogrnd, Feb. s.—The official re port of the Russian general staff, giv en out here to-day, rolntes that the forces of Emperor Nicholas have re linquished some of their mountain posi tions in the Carpathians. Tho troops opposed to the Russians in these posi tions are strong numerically and they are fighting with energy. Near Borjimow, in Russian Poland, tho desperate and stuoborn fighting which has been going 011 for several days past is not yet at an end. The Russians claim progress, but mention no decisive outcome. The Germans, ac cording to the Russian report, brought seven divisions (84,000 men) iuto a front six miles wide. The official statement is as follows: Ferocious Fighting Continues ''ln East Prussia wo are making progross by fighting our way along both banks of the river Sehesepuppe, in the vicinity of Lazdepnen, to the east of Tilsit. "On the left bank of the river Vis tula the fighting between Borjimow and Wola Szvdlowieeka has continued with extraordinary ferocity. The ene my has brought into the engagement compact masses of men. In the en edavor to penetrate our front the Ger mans hare tere introduced into a sector of ten verats (about six miles) no fewer than seven divisions, supported by 100 batteries of artillery. Certain divisions advanced on a front only one verst wide. Drive Germans From Trenches "Our counter attack began the night of February 3 and was immodiately followed by a series of engagements at the point of the bayonet. We sue ceeded in compelling the enemy to as sume the defensive. At a point near Borjimow we took possession of two lines of German trench«-s, and we drove the enemy out of Goumine. After des perate fighting, which had lasted two days, our troops entered Wola Szydlow iecka. The fighting here is still going on with desperate stubbornness, partic ularly around a neighboring distiller/, which was still in the possession of the enemy the night of February 3. The Carpathian Campaign "In the Carpathians the fighting continues along the front, which is be tween the Dukla Pass and Mount Wysz kow. We advanced at a point near Svidnik, in the valley of the river La bortch, moving in the direction of Ou jok. We took 2,000 prisoners and 10 machine guns. At Mount Toukhola aud at Mount Beskid our troops during the last few days have been confronting the enemy with a desperate resistance. They ac cepted no less than ten engagements at the point of the Bukla. On February . 3 we resolved to withdraw our soldiers from the mountain positions, the posi tions previously selected and occupied by us. "Offensive operations of the enemy in the vicinity of Mount Wyszkwo have been repulsed with the infliction of heavy losses.," IMWARW SUMMARY One of the most furious battles of the war is now at its height along the Russo-German front west of Warsaw. Large bodies of German troops have been brought up for Field Marshal Von Hlndenburg's third desperate effort to batter away through the Russian line. The attack is centered near the Polish . village of Borjimow around which for the last few days has been raging a battle that for intensity compares with the struggle in Flanders earlier In the war. Official statements make no men tion of the extent of the losses which, judging from the nature of the fighting, must be enormous. A communication from the Russian Cwllaurd on Klevnth Pan*. WALL STREET CLOSING New York, Feb. s.—Recoveries of a point or more were sustaining influ ence for a time, but prices sagged again in the final dealings. The closing was heavy. Heavy selling of standard stocks, largely for Europe, was the fea ture of to-day's stock market. Some of tile loss was regained in the later trading.