THE WEATHER FAIR TO-NIGHT AND TO-MORROW Detailed Report* Pas* I f,'T A ?.S" H « En VOL. 77—NO. 57 ATTACKS BY GERMANS AT WARSAW NIL Fierce Assaults of Rai ser's Troops on Po land Capital Come to a Standstill RUSSIANS AGAIN ON THE OFFENSIVE Austro-Gennan Army Reported to Have Met Reverses On Galiclan Side of Uzsok and Bzid Passes —Russians Lose In Bukowina London, Feb. 9, 12.42 P. M.—The fierce German attacks on the Warsaw front are again at a standstill, accord ing to reports received from both Ber lin and Petrograd. On the other hand the Russian capital reports that on eacn ■vring of the eastern battle line the Rus sian offensive has been resumed. An official Russian communication claims that the Russians have made . progress on the Hungarian side of the ■ -western Carpathians ranges, as well as gained success in the direction of Mez olaborz, which resulted in driving back the Germans with considerable losses in guns and prisoners. Dual Monarchy's Reverses The Austro-German army is said to have met reverses on the Galician side of the Uzoek'and Bzid passes. Balanc ing these Russian successes is the Rus sian admission of their retirement be-: fore strong forces in Bukowina and the Russian claim of having entered the town of Kimpolung, in the crown land. I In East Prussia the fighting appar ently is assuming a more desperate character. This may account for the lull on the Warsaw front as the East Prussian forces may have been rein forced by some o f ' Field Marshal Von Hindenburg's veterans. Quiet on the Western Front The fighting on the western front lias been taking its usual inonotoucus course, with sporadic infantry t ssaults on the trenches to an accompaniment of , artillery firing. The full text of the German blockade proclamation, published in London to d.iy, served as a theme for much com ment in which the Lusitania flag in cident figures largely. Most of the papers defend Ihe use of the American flag in this emergency, but some of them express misgiving's as to the effect of this course of action. THE BELGIANS DESTROY A FHAHUTBEFEK Paris, Feb. 9, 2.45 P. M.—The re port on the progress of the war given out this afternoon by the French War Office follows: "In Belgium yesterday there were intermittent artillery exchanges and Yprea and Fumes were bombarded. The Belgian artillery destroyed a farm, the defenders of which fled. "On the road between Bethune and liji Bassee we yesterday occupied a mill where the enemy had succeeded in installing himself. "Soisson was bombarded with pro jectiles, the purpose of which was to net the city on fire. On all the Aisne front, and in Champagne, our urtiKery effectively engaged the batteries of the Germans. • "In tihe Argonne the fighting which lias developed and continued yesterday in one of the most dense jiarts of the forest, and consequently became quite confused. Each side, generally speak ing, was successful in maintaining its lines. The men engaged in this figtot, February 7, did nut exceel three or four battalions on each side. During yesterday only one French battalion was engaged." CERffIAN WOMEN WITH RIFLES TAKEN FROM THE TRENCHES Petrograd, Feb. 9, via London, 1.45 P. M. —The engagements are growing in intensity at the two extremities of the eastern battle front, ip East Prus sia, as well as in the Carpathians, ac cording to information reaching Petro grad to-day. The same news sets forth that on the Warsaw front the battle has subsided. The fighting line from the province of l'leck in Russian Poland, as far north as Tilsit in East Prussia, is very continuous. The Germans to-day apparently are taking the offensive from Gubinnen and the Mazurian lakes as l'ar south as Lipno, in Poland, ou the right bank of the Vistula. A dispatch reaching here from War saw says that among the prisoners taken by the Russians in the fighting at the junction of the Bzura river, were a number of German women. According to this message some of these women were found with rifles in their hands in the first line of trenches. LATE WAR NWSUMMARY The German army In East Prussia, reinforced with troops sent to help stay the Russian advance Into Germany, ha 3 undertaken the offensive. Tbe Russians also are beloved to have a large army Comtl>u«eut some time in looking over the fil ter plant. After the sight sening tour the party went to the Senate for lunch. "The South Polar region," said the explorer while discussing his expedi tion at the table, "is very much colder than the region about the North Pole, and what people need to learn is that there is a continent about the South Pole quite a« large as North America. It is practi ally all land there, while in 'he Nor . it is mostly water." fter dinner, the man w»bo has put a th --and miles of newly discovered I coast on the map, was taken to the capitol where he met Governor Brum baugh and other state officials. The Governor will introduce Sir Douglas at tho Majestic to-night, and will occupy a box (luring the le'tnre. The valuable films which will be shown to illustrate the explorer's talk were run off this afternoon at the the atre, SIJ that there may be no hai.ch iu showing them this evening. In addition to lour reels of pictures tfflwre wMI be stereo'pticon views of the South Polar region shown. S'ir Douglas is visiting but two other cities in this State, Philadelphia and j Pittsburgh, and mil return to England after less than two months' stay in this country. KREIDLBRFISB_LQSS $2,000 Flames in Cellar of Grocery Store Pill Building With Smoke and Excite Business District A fire which resulted in a loss of al most $2,000, was discovered at 7.10 ' o'clock last, evening in the basement! of the grocery store of A. H. Kreidler . & Brothers, Second and Walnut streets.; Most of the damage was caused by • smoke and water. The fire, occurring I early in the evening, created a good ] deal of excitement in the business dis- i trict and attracted a big crowd. , I The statement that Miss Clara Fred-! erieks, who has apartments on the sec- j ond floor of the building, was carried | out in a semi-conscious condition, was denied this morning by A. H. Kreidler who said that all the occupants walked out of the building before the smoke got to the second story. The fire started in a corner of the basement on the Walnut street side. It is believed it was caused by some pass erby throwing a lighted cigar or cigar ette through an open cellar grate. The 'blaze soon ate its way among boxes. The canned goods that were stored in the front end of the basement, and attack ed the rafters. It wus only a few min utes after an alarm was sent in from Box 112, that six streams were playing on the flames. Much of the work of di recting the firemen was done personally by A. 11. Kreidler, who is president of the Hope Steam Engine Company. Most of the damage in the store room, on the ground floor, was due to the effect of the smoke on cereals, as the flames did not reach that far. T1143 building, which is owned by the Kreid ler Brothers, was but slightly damaged. The whole ioss is covered by insur ance. TWO J-'OUND DEAD IN RECTORY Mystery in Death of Priest and His Housekeeper New Conn., Feb. 9.—Tho Rev. Joseph Zebris, of the Lithuanian church, and the housekeeper employed at his rectory, were found dead to-day on the premises, victims of either mur der or suicide. The dead priest was lying on tho church floor. Apparently he had been shot and strangled. The woman's body, giving, the police say, indications of stran/gling, was found in the rectory. "Trackless Trolley" Company Appeals Because the Public Service Commis sion has declined to give the Perkiomen Electric Transit Company, a Delaware corporation, permission to do business with a ''trackless trolley line" in t>his State, the company to-day appealed from the Commission's decision to the Dauphin county court. The Service Commission holds that there is no law to govern the company or regulate its use of the State's highways. The court were allowed the appeal and will hoar argument on a date to be fixed. Tioga County Dry for a Year By Associated Press. Wellsboro, I'a., Feb. 9.—A1l applica tions for liquor license in Tioga county were ruled out of court to-day when Judge Davis Cameron sustained the po sition of attorneys for remonstrants that tihe applications had not been properly advertised. Tioga county will be dry for one year as a result. The defect in the advertisement was in not designating the residence of tho ap plicants. Essig and Brady Admitted to Ball John Essig and William B.rady, huck sters, who yesterday appeared before Judges Kunkel and McOarrel an't pleaded not guilty to charges of false pretense, were admitted to bail to await the action of the March Grand Jury. Newspaper reports yesrterday hail it that these men were remanded to jail to await trial. v HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1915 12 PAGES. NO GENERAL FLAK TO MSI BOEM Bakers Meet But Leave It to Individuals to Decide on Price and Size of Loaves B. SCHMIDT HAS MADE NO CHANGE He Has a Supply of Flour and So Will Not Increase Price or Reduce Weight at Least in Next 4 Months —Some Bakers Make Advances There has been no general agree ment among the Harristmrg bakers I either to raise the price of bread or to j cut. down the size of the loaves. This j information was •obtained to-day as a I result of inquiries made to ascertain the situation in the local bread market as Ii %' ; I ** i ;% : < BERNARD SCHMIDT the result of the recent great advance j in the price of wheat. It was learned by questioning a num- : ber of bakers that although they get together recently to discuss the mait ter of raising prices or cutting down the size of loaves there was no agree- : ment, and each baker, therefore was left to decide for himself what to do in the j matter. There seemed to be a pretty genera] opinion among the bakers that those who are now compelled to buy flour at the greatly increased market price are entitled to a higher price for their' bread or to cut down the size of their | loaves, and this gome of them have i done. Those bakes, however, who have supplies of flour on hand, which' were bought at the lower prices before I wheat began to soar, have, for the moot part, refrained from making any changes, but will pro-bably do so when their flour supplies run out if at that time they have to [>ay the same high prices for flour as are prevailing to-day. ' Some of the smaller bakers, whose, sullies of flour have become exhausted and who havo to pay the present high ■ prices for flour, have had either to make four-cent loaves a little larger i and charge five cents for them, or have reduced the size of the loaves that they regularly had sold for five cents. Schmidt Makes No Change Bernard Schmidt, one of the largest bakers in Central Pennsylvania, was j asked to-Miay what effect the increased: price of flour has had on his loaves. "J have had neither to change the j Continued on Ninth Pnige. ENDS HER LIFE AT MILL DAM Lebanon County Woman Drown» Her self in Tragic Manner Lebanon, Feb. 9. —Isainella, aged 58, wife of William Sittler, residing near Bethel, this county, drowned- herself in j the mill darn of Harry Zeller Sunday.j Sittlcr had loft home on Sunday to at-. tend a funeral and returned home about i noon. He found dinner prepared and j prejiarations for the evening's work i completed. His wife left word that 9he was going to the home of a friend. When darkness sfettlej down upon, Mr. Sittler feared that something had hap pened to his wife. A telephone message brought the news that the woman was not at her friend's home. A searching party was! later organized. Men, women and boys, | with lanterns and torches, tracked the; woman across open fields until they caino to the Zeller mill dam. Here the body was found floating on the breast of the dam. Mrs. Sdttler had not en joyetf-good health for some time, and this fact is thought to have preyed on her mind heavily, causing her to com mit the rash act. HARD BLOW TO TIPPLERS Only One Quart a Month Allowed By Alabama's New Law By Associated Press. Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 9.—A bill preventing any person from receiving more than ono quart of liquor a month from outside the State became a law automatically to-day, Governor Hen' derson declining either to veto or sign it. It is effective June 30, when the State goeL dry. The governor vetoed a bill prevent ing circulation in the State of news papers carrying liquor advertisements. OVERDRAFTS IN 11 TO MB Startling Rumors in Connection With Sui cide of Schaeffers town Bank Cashier ARRESTS WILL LIKELY RESULT Checks and Notes of Men Involved in Failure Have Been Protested —Ef- forts of Men to Cover Paper and Help Out By Aldocuitcd Press. Lebanon, Pa., Feb. 9.—To-day's in quiry into the shortage in the affairs oif t.he First National Bank, of Schaeffers town, this county, and the causes otf the of the cashier, Alvin Binner, shows that instead of tfoe overdrafts amourfting to 15,000, they will aggre gate fully $ >i,ooo and there are re ports that they will even reach $50,- 000. To-day there are rumors of impend ing prosecutions. President Urialh B. Horst, of the bank, lias called a meet ing of the shareholders and general public to be held in the town hall at 9 a. m. to-morrow wh«n it is believed a startling tale will be told. A full re port of the discrepancies in the books wiM be made at this meeting as the di rectors do not wish to keep anything from the public. Mr. Horst admitted to-day that a proposition will be made to asse&s the stock to raise cash to re open the bank. T'he bank has dupo'.ita of nearly $60,- 000, a surplus of $15,000 and undivid ed profits of $2,800 ana it is the inten tion of the directors to a.pj>eal to the stockholders. Bank Examiner Logan is still at work on t'h> books. The intense and searching methods used by Examiner Logan to-day bro»jht to light still another source of shortage which had heretofore not been I considered, and which now justifies the i estimate of from $50,000 to $75,000, ! as the amount of the loss. Ho asked ! that every depositor in Schaefferstown j bring their bank books to be balanced. Quickly it was found that some de positors had been ■credited in their pass : books with sums which do not appear i on the books of the bank. In one case ! this amounted to an even SI,OOO. All the checks and notes of the men ! involved in the failure have been pro tested, and efforts will be made to ; realize on them. Some'of the men are endeavoring to cover their paper and J help out. There is much accommodation I paper on which the endorser will be the loser in many esses. The balance must be made up by the stockholders and li rectors if the bank is to continue. PLAN TO AID UNEMPLOYED Will Be Taken Up On Definite Lines At Meeting of the City Com mission To-morrow Plans under which many of the city's unemployed men wili be given work and thereby relieved of depend ing upon charity for the maintenance of themselves ami their families, will be offered to the City Commissioners by Commissioner Lynch, at a special meeting of that body to be held to morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The subject was brought up by May or Royal at this afternoon's meeting of the Commissioners but he said he could offer no solution to the question of unemployment except to introduce a resolution directing department heads to start at once on improvement work. That, it was argued, would mean that the city would have to pay extraordi nary prices for the work in view of tiie prevailing freezing temperature, and it was also said that only such con templated improvements as arc not now under contract could be started now. Iu other words the Commissioners felt their inability to compel contractors to start before spring on jobs the contracts for which have been awarded during the winter. The subject was discussed at length, the Mayor contending that the improve ment work could be started now, and his colleagues arguing on the question of cost. The discussion ended only when Lynch offered to have a solution of the problem to offer by to-morrow afternoon. To W. H. Opperman was awarded the contract for a sewer in Geiger street and Henry Opperman got the contract for another in a section of Cumberland street. Contracts for sewers in Market and Wiconisco streets were not awarded because Charles E. Elder, of Elizabethville, the low bidder, 'has not vet filed his bond. City fiolicitor Seitz sent an opinion to the Commission in which he holds that trust companies, whioh sometimes act as real estate agents and rent col lectors. are exempt from a mercantile tax. Thomas 11. Woods, an aged fores ter, who long since has retired from active work, in a 10-minute talk to the Commissioners dropped a few words of advice on the subjects of tree trim ming and planting. Ordinances passed finally to-day in cluded these: Changing the names of a dozen or more city highways and providing a walk along the east side of the wall on the eastern curb line of Second street, south of Mulberry. Senate Adjourns Till Mondty After confirming the nominations of several notaries and Justices sent in by the Governor, the Senate at 2.30 ad [journed to meet next Monday night at ' 9 o 'clock. INVESTIGATING MYS DEATHS IN ODD DANIEL WOLFF,CHIEF OF POUCE By Associated Press. Yonkers, N. Y., Feb. 9.—lnvestiga tion into the story of Frederick Mors that he kiled eight «inmates of the Ger man Odd Fellows Home where he was employed as nurse, centered to-day in efforts to obtain -sufficient corrobora tion to warrant oxhuming tlhe bodies of three of the alleged victims. These died from poison before tlhe institnition moved 'here from Unionport, according to Mors, but the authorities said to SHIP FILIBUSTER TROUBLE STILL Oil Another All Night Ses sion of Senate Fea tures Fight on Wilson Measure EXTRA SESSION MAY BE RESULT Senator Beed Proposes Order for Ar rest of All Absentees arid to Keep tbe Ninety-six Senators in Chamber Until Measure Is Disposed Of By Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 9. —Another all night session of the Senate, threats of! many more, and counter threats of what is likely to haippen if there are many more, found President Wileoo's ship bill still being tossed about in a sea of debate, with the Republican fili buster again in full blast. The President at a White House con ference to-day said he had no intention of dropping the bill and intimated he would caJl R special 'session if it were filibustered to death at the present one. The Senate Republicans declared again they were prepared to talk off a vote until March* 4. Reed's Proposal a Hornet's Nest Some indications of the wearing ef fects of the long hard fight were com ing out in the Senate, however, and Senator Reed, one of the administration Democrats, proposed an orUer for the arrest of all the absentees; in short, he proposed to bring every one of the 96 Senators into the chamber and keep them there until the bill was disposed of. His proposal drew a roaring attack and giave prospect of furnishing ma terial for an all day's debate. Moan while the ship bill itself was waiting, practically where it has been for the last two weeks. At noon the Senate had been in ses sion twenty-four hours and Senator Continued on Ninth Page. "QUIET ZONE" FOR HOSPITALS Mayor's Bill Provides Fine for Unneces sary Noises Near Institutions A distance of >250 feet in all direc tions from a'hospital in the city of Har risburg is designated as a " zone of quiet,'' within which noises which may disturb patients in those institutions will not be permitted, in an ordinance in troduced at the meeting of the City Commissioners this afternoon by Mayor Royal. The measure makes it the duty of the superintendent of Btreets and public improvements to have placed in con spicuous places on streets leading to the hospital, a sign displaying the words: "Notice—Zone of Quiet." The ordinance says further: "The making, causing or permitting to be made of any unnecessary noise, or the playing, of itinerant musicians upon the public srtreets or alleys within any sudli zone of quiet that disturbs or that may tend to disturb the peace and quiet of any of the inmates of any hospital is hereby declared to be a nuisance.'' The bill provides that persons violat ing this measure may be fined from $2 to $25 on conviction, or in default of payment of fine be confined to the Dau phin county ja&y for a period not ex ceeding thirty days. Another Heir to Austrian Throne Vienna, via London, Feb. 9, 4.47 A. M. —Princess Zita of Parma, wife of Archduke Charles Francis, heir appar ent to the Austrian throne, to-day gave birth to a son. They were married in 1911 and have two other children, a son and a daughter. v" M OOfcONOR JAMES P. DUNN day they would not act upon this state ment until it was supported by other evidence. The otlher five victims were put to death witih an anaesthetic, IMore says, and exhumation of their bodies would be of uo value. Light on tihe question as to w'he.bher Mors is mentally unbalanced wag ex pected to-day from Dr. S. M. Gregory, who has had fhe nurse ynder observa tion at Bellevue hospital, New York. OFFEB FBEE COAL TO FILTER PLANT Light Co. Interests Ask in Exchange Right to Build Wharf at the Island PLAN IN FORM OF ORDINANCE Introduced At Meeting of City Commis sion By Bowman This Afternoon— He Says It Would Mean a Saving of $1,140 a Year to Harrlsburg .River i'oal consumed at the city filt ration plant, a'bout 1,200 tons annually, hereafter will be furnished free to Har risbuilg, a net annual saving of some thing lige $1,140, if the City Commis sioners pass finally an ordinance intro duced this afternoon by Commissioner Bowman, whereby permission is given to the Harrisburg Light and Power Company to build a coal wharf, hopper and electric hoist on the island in the Susquehanna river opposite the central part of the city. The measure authorizes Commission er Bowman to i?nter into a contract, for the city, with the Light Company, un der which the city for fifteen years is to receive without cost, all coal neces sary in the operation of the filtration plant. At the expiration of the fifteen years it is provided that a similar con tract may be entered into by the city under the same conditions. In return for that the city will per mit the Light Company, the ordinance provides, to utilize a 100-foot square piot of the island grouml, directly op- Contlnnrd on Ninth I'nxr. STATE Y. M. C. A. TO CONVENE Prominent Speakers to Address Meet ings at Johnstown A number of HarrisburgeTS will bo in attendance at t'he forty-seventh an nual convention of the Young Men's Christian Association of Pennsylvania, whiif h meets at Johnstown February 19- 22, inclusive. Speakers of national im portance have been secured and the pro gram as arranged for contains both general and association themes. Among the speakers arc P. S. Clax ton, of tho National Education commit tee; Dr. Howard A. Kelly, of ( loihns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Prof. G. Walter Fiske, Qberlin, Ohio, an author and authority on boy life; Dr. Thomas A. Storey, " director of hygiene and physical training of the New York City College, along with many Y. M. C. A. secretaries. Themes of great importance such as "Why Christianity Did Not Prevent the War," "Tihe Social Evil and Its Cure," "The Conflict, Ita Cause and Cure," and many others will ibe dis cussed. Poor Andy's Vacation Plans Spoiled? By Associated Proa*. New York, Feb. 9.—The war has spoiled Andrew Carnegie's vacation plans for this summer. For the first time in many summers he will be absent from- Skibo castle, his Scottish estate. Instead he will occupy Point D'Acostie, Mrs. George Vanderbilt's place at Bar Harbor, the lease of which place by him ihas just been announced. Crippled For Life in Football By Associated Press. Washington, Pa., Feb. 9.—Britain Patterson, left tackle on the Washing ton and Jefferson College football team, is probably crippled for life as the re sult of an injury to his right knee cap sustained in a game with Georgetown at Washington, D. C., last season. POSTSCRIPT 1 PRICE, ONE CENT. SUFFRAGE BILL IS PASSED 1 HOUSE Approved Finally by Lower Branch and Now Goes to the Sen ate for Action VOTE ON MEASURE IS 130 TO 71 Lobbying Against the Amendment by Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Poli ticians Is Unavailing—Spirited De bate Before Adoption The bill to submit to the voters, next November, the question of women s suffrage was passed finally in the House of Representatives this morning. It will now go to the Senate. The vote -wad 130 to 71 and the measure called out the ofily debate of any consequence that has been held in the House since the start of the session. Mrs. Frank Roessing, president of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Assooiation, lead a group of prominent suffragists who went to the House to watch the pro ceedings. The measure lost one friend during the interim of the two years since the last Legislative session, when the House passed it by a vote of 131 to 70. Thoso on tho "inside" on Capitol Hill believe the measure will pass in the Senate with a greater vote than iu last ses sion, which was 26 to 22. William H. Wilson, of Philadelphia, who sponsored the resolution in tho I House, this morning opened" discussion on the measure, placing stress on the fact that all of the dominent political i parties in the state had made it a plat jform measure and warning the Assem blymen that they are bound by their ' pledges to support it. | The principal speaker against the ! resolution was Representative Beyer, of Philadelphia, whose argument was that the menArrs were acting on a definite proposition and not on a referendum. He warned each member that he must stand for his vote. Representative Cro mer, of Allegheny, and* Representative Roney, of Philadelphia, both spoke on the bill. The latter said he felt as though the question should go to tho people at this time as the f delegates to a constitutional convention, to provide which a t>ill has been introduced, can act intelligently on this phase of the new constitution if the electors pass or defeat the suffrage amendment before the convention. Roney voted against the suffrage amendment last session. Mr. Unclb, of Lebanon, in speaking against tho amendment, said he did not Continued ou Seventh Page. SENATEBOWSTO THE BOUSE Twice Recedes From Amendments to General Deficiency Measure to Pay Back Bills of State The Senate twice receded from I amendments to the general deficiency ! bill, appropriating moneys to pay back 1 bills of the state, before the House j would consent to pass the bill to-day. The first was appropriating inouey to i pay the expenses of the Cat Id n com j mission and the second was the insert' i ing o