THE WEATHER
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VOL. 77—NO. 14ti.
AUSTRIA STRIKES WITH AEROPLANES, FOLLOWIN6 ITALY'S
DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE DUAL MONARCHY
Governmental Arsenal
at Venice Is Attack
ed in First Blow
I
Struck in the War
Between Italy and
Aus t ro-Hungary—
Aircraft Make Vio
lent Raids on Many
Other Places
i
SWEEP ENTIRE
EASTERN COAST
Unofficially Reported
In London, by Way
of Paris, That Ger
manjr Has Declared
War on Italy and Has
Recalled Prince Von
Buelow, Her Ambas
sador at Rome
____
Borne, May 24. Via Pari?.—Official
announcement was made here to-day i
that Austriat aeroplanes have attacked !
the governmental arsenal at Venice. I
The aeroplane was driven off. Porto!
C'orsini. Aneona, Barletta and Gesi also I
were attacked.
It is apparent from the foregoing j
dispatch that Austrian aeroplanes have
twept virtually the entire eastern coast
of Italy. From Venice, at the head
of the Adriatic, tht-v have ma le their '
way as far south a? Birrfntta, a distance i
of 350 miles, committing acts of hos
tility during their progress. Barletta
is 125 miles north of the Strait of
Otranto, at the entrance to the Adri
atic.
Granted that the aeroplanes started
from Triest or Pola. they did not have
more than SO or 90 miles to travel to
reach \enice. Driven away here, they
would appear to have turned south.
Pnrto Corsini is the seaport of Ravenna
and about 6S miles south of Venice.
Anacona is another sea[>ort on the Adri
atic, ISS miles northeast of Rome and
about 140 miles south of Venice in an
airline.
Rome. May 23, Via Paris, May 24.
—Lieutenant General Cadorn. chief of
the Italian general staff, left for the
front at 9.15 o'clock to night.
Rome. May 24 —The value of
Austrian and German ships now in
Italian ports, which have been com
prizes of war,'is estimated at more than
$20,000,000.
Paris. May 24 2.30 P. M.—An at
tack by Austrian warships on the east
ern toast of Italy along the Adriatic
is announced in an official communica
tion from the Italian War Office, trans
mitted to Paris by the corespondent
of the Havas agency. It is said the
Austrian warships were forced to with
draw after i> short cannonade.
London. May 24, 10.42 A. M.—A
dispatch from Paris to the Exchange
Telegraph Company -ays a telegram
from Base! stated that the Wolff agen
cy announces Germany has declared
war against Italy and recalled Prince
% on Buelow. her Ambassador at Home.
Italy's Declaration of War
Rome, via Paris, May 24. Details
concerning Italy'« declaration of war
against Austria-Hungary were given
by foreign Minister tSonnino this aft
ernoon at a cabinet council which last
ed three hours. He told also of com
munications sent to the allies and to
neutral nations. Diplomatic relations
between the Vatican and the belliger
ents also were discussed.
Baron Sonmno referred particularly
to the relations between Italy and Ger
many expressing the belief that the
latter would declare war as soon as
official information was received re
garding Italy's action against her ally.
The council did not discuss military
questions as they have been entrusted
entirely to the general staff which will
wrok in harmony with the commanders
of the allies' forces.
A royal decree has been published
providing for a rigid censorship
Authority is given to censor letters
CMllauti ob Fourth Pace
3b£ Star-
RULERS OF LATES
Photo by American Press Association.
KING EMMANUEL, OF ITALY
SONS OF ITALY ! N PW.D
NEXT CONVENTION HERE
Salerno Wires From Pittsburgh That
Tentative Plans Are Made to Cele
brate "When Ltaly Takas Trient
aud Trieste From Austria"
The Pennsylvania State Branch;
Sons of Italy, in convention in the Fort
I itt hotel, Pittsburgh, this morning en
thusiastically dec i< ie< i to hold the next
State con\ ention in Hariisburg iii
May, 191(i, according to word received
here this morning from V. K. Salerno,
president of the Harrisburg lodge. Mr!
Saierno is a delegate to the convention
an.) was empowered bv the Harrisburg
an.! Steoifon branches to invite the '
convention to <'ome h*»re next voar. The
selection of Harrisburg was'also rec- '
ommended by (irand Master A Joseph
Disilvestro, of Philadelphia
The convention to-da\ took action
supporting the stand of King Victor'
Emmanuel, of Italy, in declaring war on
Austria-Hungary. In this connection
Mr. Salerno wired to the Star-Independ
ent as follows:
Have decided to have in Pennsvl
vania a great manifestation of the day 1
that Italy will take awav from Aus- '
tria Trient and Trieste.*'*
WARSHIPS OF AUSTRIA
ATTACKITALY'S COAST
Paris. May 24. 2.30 p. M.—An at-'
tack by Austrian warships on the east
ern coast of Italy along the Adriatic,
is announced in an official communica
tion from the Ltalian war office, trans
mitted to Paris by the correspondent
of the Havas agency.
It is ..aid the Austrian warships
were forced to withdraw after a short
cannonade.
AUSTRIANSIAZE TRACKS
AND DYNAMITE BRIDGES
Paris, May 24. 4.<>5 A. M.—Austri-!
an troops ha\> torn up a section of the
track ot' the railroad running between
■\osino and Malborghetto dynamiting
.one bridge and destroying another bv
shell tire according to' a special dis
j patch from Verona.
| The Austrian* havi> retired behind
their fortifications on the frontier of
Trent. Forty thousand Tyrolian, Ruthe
nian and Boheinian troops have arrived
at Trent. The jiolice of thu citv are
said to have arrestee forty persons of
p co-Italian sympathies. Twenty oth
j ers. including two priesrf. have been
J taken into custody at Koverto. Signor
De Hiasi, an Italiftn, who formerly was
a member of the Austrian parliament
and his brother were arrested at Ala
and sent to Bohemia as hostages. The
; bishop of Trent has declared he will
j remain in the city as long as a single
i building remains standing,
j The mountains along the frontier
j from \al Adige to \al Sugaua are
swarming with Anntrian soldiers. The
: frontier line has been outlined with an
! elaborate system of barbed wire en
tanglements through which electric eur
rents can be passed.
The City Hall at Avio has been de
stroyed. The family of the Mavor es
caped across the Italian frontier.
No Local Italians Called to Arms
N'o excitement was occasioned by
the news of the declaration of war on
Austria by King Victor Kmmanuei of
Italy last evening by local Italian*.
Those who are liable-to be called to
arms are anxiously reading the news
dispatches of the war, but so far noue
of them have received the call.
HARRIBBURG. PA., MONDAY EVENING. MAY 24, 1915—10 PAGES.
RUSS SHIP IS
SUNK; 1,400
MEN PERISH
Armored Man-of-War
Panteleimon Meets
With Disaster in the
Black Sea
v
FATALITIES MAY
BE INCREASED
Czar's War Vessel of More Than 12,-
«H»O Tons Displacement is Reported
to Have Gone Down in tie Black
Sea—Was Built in I MOT
Berlin. May 24. by Wireless to Say
ville—The Overseas News Agency to
day gave out the following: "Accord
ing to a Bucharest dispatch the Rus
sian armored man of war Winteleimon
has been sunk, with 1400 men i# the
Black Sea.''
The foregoing evidently refers to
the Russian battleship Panteleimon.
This warship, whose destruction is said
to have caused the loss of 1,400 lives,
is put dowu in naval reference books
as having a complement of about 74f
men. In times of war, however, this
number might be increased consider
ably.
The Panteleimon was built Tn 189".
She was 378 feet long. Her displace
ment was 12,582 tons. She carried
four 12-inch guns, sixteen 6-nnch, four
3 inch, six 3 pounders and five torpedo
tubes.
WOMAN IS SERIOUSLY BURNED
Kerosene Can Exploded as Engineer's
Wife Kindles Fire
Hagerstown, Md., May 24.—Mrs. O.
H. Friend, wife of G. H. Friend, divis
ion engineer of the Western Maryland
railroad, this city, was seriously and
perhaps fatally burned at her "home
here to-day when a can of kerosene ex
plo ied in her hands. ,
Flames shooting out nf the kitchen
stove into which she had poured a
quantity of the oil while kindliug the
fire caused the explosion. Mr. Friend '
ran to bis wife's assistance and beat
out the fire that ignited her clothing
but not before she had been badly
burned aboqt the arms and legs.
A. R. Kip Victim of Epidemic
A. R. Kip, since 1899 a railway
postal clerk running between New
J Vork and Pittsburgh, with headquarters
in Harrisburg, died yesterday at his
home in Newport, Perry county, a vic
tim of the typhoid epidemic that has
swept that town. Mr. Kip was stricken
I on April 29 ar.d left the office here to go
to his home. He was married and is
'survived by his family.
AT WAR WITH EACH OTHER
fr V
I I
Photo by American Press Association.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH. OF AUSTRIA
MILLAR. DOHONEY AND
WOOD TO BE RETAINED
Public Service Commission. When It Re
organizes To-morrow. Will Prob
ably Select Pennypacker as Chair
man—Will Confer With Governor
The commissions for all of the mem
bers of the new Public Service Com
mission were sent to them on Satur
day, having been made out in the State
Department, and the new Commission
will meet with Governor Brumbaugh at
the Executive Department to-morrow
morning for organization.
It is expected that Commissioner
Pennypacker will again be made the
chairman of the Commission, to which
place he succeeded the late Judge Ew
ing, and the fact that he will be the
longest in commission leads to the im
pression that he will have no opposition
for tirst place in the body.
The Commission will also elect a
secretary, inspector of accidents and
marshal!, and it is said that there will
be no changes in those offices as at pres
ent tilled. Archibald B. Millar, of Phil
adelphia. is the present secretary; John
P. Dohoney, of Harrisburg, investigator
»t' accidents, and (ieorge A. Wood, of
Philadelphia, marshal.
After its organization to-morrow the
Commission will go to its office and
take up its work. The argument in the
telephone rate case, scheduled for to
morrow. has been postponed until a
future time in order that the new Com
missioners may get acquainted with the
facts in the case.
BOG STI POTS
YOUTH IN PERIL
Nelson Snavely, of
Royalton, Is Deliri
ous and in Great Dan
ger of Death
LEG IS BLACK
UP TO THE KNEE
Amputation May Be Performed in Hope
of Saving Life of Youth Who Was
Bitten on Ankle During Fishing
Trip in Lancaster County
(Special to the Star-InrJepenilent.)
Rovalton, May 24. —Nelson
ly, 12 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Suavely, of Allen street, is suf
fering from bloo.l poisoning and fears
are entertained by the family* that the
lad may die or that his right foot may
have to be amputated, because of in
fection that is thought to have been
caused by an insect's bite.
The youngster's condition is now
alarming, he having boen delirious for
the last three days. frequently he has
been semi-consi-iousness. The limb is
black as far up as the knee.
Snavely is a bright, energetic boy
Coßtlaard an Fourth Fuse
5 ROBBERIES
ATTEMPTED
INSUBURBS
Jewelry Valued at
S2OO is Taken From
Two Residences. in
Fenbrook
PAXTANG HOMES
ARE ENTERED
Evidence Indicates That Men Familiar
With the Surroundings Were Re
sponsible For An Alarming Num
ber of Burglaries
i Burglars gained entrance to two
; houses in Penbrook Saturday evening,
: during the absence of the families and
made anav with money and jewelry
valued at ?200. In another instance,
early Sunday morning, two men were
frightened away from another Pen
brook home after stealing two [fairs
of trousers. Two attempts were made
to enter I'axtang homes earlv this
morning, making a total of five at
tempted burglaries in the suburbs.
Men familiar with the scenes of their
operations are believed to have com-
I mitted the crimes.
While the families were away Sat
urday evening, thieves gained entrance
to the homes of H. K. Goodman, 2307
Hofl'er street, and Ray L. Bolton. 2305
Hoffer street, Penbrook. just outside
the eastern city limits.
Tbev broke iuto the Goodman house
ibv prying open a rear window in the
dining room on the first floor with a
jimmy. The house was ransacked and
jewelry valued at almost a hundred
dollars was taken. A woman's watch,
Continued on Fourth Page
KILLED BY PIT< HEI> BALL
Guy W. Ommert Succumbs to Injuries
Received in Game at PalmyTa
Guy W. Ommert, 17 years old, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ommert, 1114
Green street, died in the Harrisburg
Hospital Saturday night from a brain
hemorrhage, the injury resulting from
being struck by a thrown ball in a
game Saturday afternoon at Palmyra.
Ommert, catcher on the Harris Park
nine, was struck on the head by a
pitched ball in the third inning of the
game.
He was not believed to be seriously
hurt but after resting a while on the
players' bench lapsed into unconscious
ness and was brought to the Harris
burg Hospital. Autopsy at the Harris
burg Hospital showed that his skull
was about one-third as thick as a ordi
nary skull.
Funeral services will be held at his
home this evening at 7 o'clock. The
Rev. Harry Nelson Bassler, pastor of
the Second Reformed church, will of
ficiate.
COUNTY CETS $8,557 IN
FEES FROM 3 OFFICIALS
Auditor Givqs High Praise to Prothon
otary Holler, Register Danner and
Recorder Wirkersham for I'.fftcient
Work in the Last Year
William B. Bind, auditor appointed
by the Dauphin county court to
examine the financial statements of
Dauphin county's Prothonotary, Re
corder of Deeds and Register of Wills,
this morning tiled liis report, showing
that the share of fees due to the county
from these offices on business transact
ed during 1914 is approximately
sß,ss7.3l.
The auditor has this to say regarding
the officials whose accounts he exam
ined:
"Your auditor desires to commend
Prothonotary Henry F. Holler, Record
er of Deeds Oscar (!. Wickersham and
Register of Wills Roy C. Danner, their
several clerks and deputies, for the high
state of efficiency existing in each of
the several offices; for the manner in
which the work of the offices is expo
dited; for the careful and accurate sys
tems of accounting existing in each of
the offices, and to thank each of the
said officers for the valued assistance
rendered your auditor by them."
According to the report of the au
ditor, the total of receipts in the office
of the Prothonotary during 1911 was
$13,164.31. From that is to be de
ducted the $2,000 salary of the Pro
thonQtarv, $1,895.4S for office expenses.
SIOO for solicitor's salary and
$228.90 for advertising, making a to
tal of $4,227.30. The excess fees,
therefore, total $5,936.93, fifty per
cent, of which is to be paid to the
county and the rest to the Prothono
f ontlnurd nn Fourth I'nar
MOTHER SUES FOR CHILD
Mrs. Leroy Colgate Asks Court to Com
pel Mother-in-law to Turn Over
Baby to Her
Habeas corpiis proceedings to ob
-1 tain the custody of her infant son,
Richard O. Colgate, were begun this
morning by Mrs. Esther Colgate, 1K22
Penn street, against her mother-in-law,
Mrs. Catherine Colgate, of 1539 North
i Fifth street.
The mother-in-law is directed to show
cause on June 7, at 10 o'clock, why
1 she should not deliver the )>abv over to
his mother. The proceeding is an out
'growth' of a suit for maintenance filed
by young Mrs. Colgate against her hus
band, Leroy Colgate.
Young Mrs. Colgate alleges that aft
; er she and her husband separated she
t left the baby at the home of her hus
! band's parents, her idea being to leave
i the child there until she could obtain
| money to support the youngster. Since
I then she has asked for the child and
| declares the mother-in-law refused to
I give him up. The court a week ago
I ordered the young woman's husband to
| pay her $4 a week maintenance
; monev.
TRAINMEN'S BILL VANISHED
Measure Limiting Length of Trains
Lost in "Pickling Vat"
Rainroad trainmen who fought so
vigorously against the repeal of the full
crew law and were defeated in the Leg
islature are asking what became of the
| bill introduced in the Senate by Sena
! tor Burke, of Allegheny, himself a rail
road conductor and a tighter against
the repealer, limiting the length o,l' rail
road trains.
On the day the repealer was reported
from committee Senator Burke intro
duced his bill which provided that no
fieight trains should be more than one
half mile long, and no passenger trains
should consist of more than ten cars.
It was expected that this bill would,
in a manner, mollify the trainmen for
j the loss of the full crew bill, but, if
that was the intention, the plans went
astray, as the bill never saw the light
, of day after it was sent to the Judi-
J ciary Special Committee, of which Sen
j ator Snyder, of Schuylkill, was ehair
! man. In fact, it died in the Snyder
"pickling vat" and was nQver heard
of.
The full crew repealer is yet in the
I hands of the Governor for him to sign
or reject.
KILLED IN 32-FOOT FALL
Charles Deardorf Crashes Through Sky
light in Shimmell Building
Charles Deardorf, 11 -year-old son of
1 Mr. and Mrs. David Deardorf. 1509
j Naudain street, died at 7 o'clock last
evening from injuries received in a fall
I in the new Shimmell school building at
! Seventeenth and Catherine streets. The
i boy fell through the skylight over the
auditorium to concrete floor thirty-two
feet below.
To get to the roof of the auditorium
young Deardorf and his companions had
to mount from the second floor through
i a door about eight feet high by means
of a carpenter's ladder. The lad fell
I through the first glass on the inside of
the door. His companions ran for aid
S as soon as the accident happened but
i the boy died while being taken to the
I hospital. The building was broken
into according to the scnool authorities.
PENITENTIARY JOR BANKER
Amos Hassler Sentenced to Serve Term
of Two to Three Years
(.Special to the Star-Independent.)
Lebanon, Pa., May 24. —Amos Hass
lor, for some time the treasurer of the
Farmers' Trust Company, of Myers
town, this county, who pleaded guilty i
to having embezzled funds amounting
to between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO and
also to falsifying the records of the
bank, was sentenced to-day to a term
of not less than two years and not more
than three years in the Kastern peni
tentiary, Philadelphia, by Judge C. V.
Henry. He will be taken to Phila
delphia this week. . / j
POSTSCRIPT
PRICE, ONE CENT. ,
2,000 ALLIES
LEFT DEAD
ON THE FIELD
Awful Slaughter Is Re
ported From Con
stantinople in the
Gallipoli Campaign
THE FRENCH AND
BRITISH SUFFER
Combined Attack of the Allied Force#
on the Turkish Positions Near Sed
dul Bakr is Repulsed With Disaster
to Armies of France and England
| Constantinople, May 24, Via Amster
dam unci Ltomlou, 2.45 P. M.—Official
| announcement nm made here to-day
that an attack hv the French and Brit
ish forces yesterday on the Turkish po
sitions near Seddul Bakr, on the south
cm em! of Gallipoli peninsula, had
t been repulsed. * It is stated the allies
| left 2,000 dead on the field.
The statement follows:
" The enemy on Sunday attacked near
Seddul-Bahr, under the protection of his
batteries and fleet, but notwithstand
ing the fact that he had reinforcements,
we repulsed the attack. The enemy left
2,000 dead on the field, and %ve cap-
I tured a machine guu.
"During the tight our fire caused a
hostile aeroplane to fall into th« sea.
Turkish Gunboat Sunk
Constantinople, by Wireless to Berlin,
May 24, 7.24 A. M.—An official state
ment issued last n „.. by the Turkish
| general staff said:
J "The twenty-uve-year-old gunboat
Pelenki-NDerin was sunk this afternoon
Iby a hostile submarine. Two members
jof the crew were killed but all the
escaped without injury."
LATE WAR CTS SUMMARY
| Hostilities between Italy and Aua
| tria opened early this morning with an
I Austrian sea raid on the Adraitic coast
lof Italy. An official statement from
■ Rome says Austrian destroyers and
1 torpedo boats fired on several points
; along the coast simultaneously with
an attack by aeroplanes. It is assert
ed the attackers were driven Bff after
a brief cannonade.
Attacks were made at Venice, Porto
Corsini, Darletta and Geci, showing
that the raid extended over the great
er part of the eastern shore. The only
damage inflicted, so far as the Italian
communication shows was at Ancona,
where an attempt of aviators to blow
I up the railroad caused small injury.,
j An unofficial report from Berlin
says the Russian Panteleimon has been
sunk in the Black Sea, with the loss
Continued on Fourth Pngc.
BODY IS FOUND IX GRAVE
Inquiry, Invited by Cemetery Official!,
Shows It Wasn't Tampered With
The grase of a Middletown man who
j was buried in the Hillsdale cemetery,
near Middletown, in December, last,
! was opened on Saturday evening and,
as predicted by the directors of the
I cemetery association, who had publicly
invited investigation of rumors that,
yraves had been tampered with, it was
| found that the body had not been dis
'• turbed.
Several graves in which burials were
| made a number of years ago were to
i have been opened this morning, accord
ing to the relatives of the dead per-
I pons, but up until a late hour this aft
jernoon nothing had been done in those
, cases. Weather conditions made it in
advisable to go on with the work to
: day, it was said.
j WORK RUSHED ON CAR PLANT
Extra Employed to Hurry Ex
tensions in Middletown
I (Special to the Star-1 nrlependent.)
I Middleto'vn, Pa., May 24.—The
j Middletown Car Company to-day put
several gangs of men on double turn
so as to rush the work on the new
buildings that now are I>eing erected
in accordance with the plant extension
plan. These gangs will he employed
chiefly with the cjnerete construction
work.
One force wei't on the job at 6.30
o'clock this morning and the second
went on duty at 2.30 o'clock this aft
ernoon.
WALL STREET CLOSING
By Ananrintril PI THS,
New York, May 24 (Wall Street).—
Crucible Steel recovered some of Its
early prominence In the later dealings
and obscure specialties, notably Colo
rado Fuel, became suddenly active at
substantial advances. The closing was
firm. The war and its latest develop
ments engrossed speculative attention I
to-day, trading being largely limited to
specialties.