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established DEC.*. 1«76. VOL. 77?NO. 24. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1915?12 PAGES. PRICE, ONE CENT. LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY ONLY ONE BROKEN BONE Another British warship want to the MIHERS PARADE ON THEC. Y. R. R. IN 1914 MIIMF WARSHIP to-day, Germany BIS bottom and apparently has scored again by her naval methods President Kennedy Points Out That fighting. 13,000 of sea The ton battle- There Was Not a Single Wreck in ship Formidable, carrying 750 men, was OF Bill EVENT DAY and Says ad English the Twelve Months Bo HEWS sunk in the channel. Whether DOWN or a Is Safest and Best in United States GDES she was destroyed by a submarine mine has not been determined. So far Thousands of Specta- her as is known the only members of tors M. C. Kennedy, president of the Cum- SHOW 71 who were Line Streets and 111 survive TBI crew to are men berland Valley Railroad Company, is- CHANNEL picked up by a British cruiser. Applaud Gorgeously sued the following to the employee of IN the road to-day: on land is proceeding along righting j* * "'"^ Little Kathryne virtually the same lines as during the "During the year just e.loeed the jfjjfcjjr^ w*: Frick \ Bedecked Marchers Cumberland Valley Railroad transport- 1 The War J last few days. Berlin Office ed approximately eight and a quarter Writes Impressions British Navy Again announced to-day the abandonment of milUiou tons of freight and two million the attempt to retake the Belgian town passengers the of of St. Georges, recently captured by without lows life of Behind Scenes for in the a ]«,sseiiger or one 2,100 em- Suffers Disaster on high FLOATS FEATURE of its allies, account of the water ployes a fighting in the and without injuring passen- Star-Independent there. The heaviest west ger. the Destruction of yesterday was the Argonne. Ber- THE PROCESSION in The "While minor ac- statement asserts there have boen lin official that Ger- to employes, not so as a Formidable many has won that cidents much the there and 4 pris- finger or a toe ampu-tatexl, oners and a quantity of supplies Following the has been SHE were Parade Drills Take Place and with one IS GUEST taken. The the exception of fracturei French War Office admits in Front of Police Headquarters and ankle, not a leg nor an arm broken. that the Germans advanced fifty yards "Without taking into OFRITTY GORDON LOSS OF LIFE places. allies, said, Judger Awardthe Prizes to Best consideration in The it is are mak- the few slight on ing progress foot by foot in the Organizations accidents industrial battle sidings yards not been for possession town and in there has IS UNKNOWN of the Alsatian of a wreck in the general acceptation of In Not* She Writes oil a Typewriter, Stein bach. that term. Tike crew only fighting all wreck has »\u25a0 ' In Poland has been but seven year H 'SecondHelen Keller" Tells of Gift by a heavy mist. King Mummer was cleverly honored been called times during the Seventy-one Survivors Up by halted Russian attacks cost of wrecking of Diamond Ring From Actress Who Picked In Galicia, near the Carpathians, are de- in llarrisburjf this afternoon. AH Har- j and the total lias been risburg joined insignificant. Fancy & British Light Cruiser?Not Known clared at Vienna to have been repulsed. in the celebration and ! Took Great to Her enjoyed the second annual parade un- j "This splendid reeord of which I Whether Vessel Was Sunk by a Publication in iondon of the text of der the auspices of feel juwtly proud, and which I do not the note concerning British interference the "Harrisburg ! Mjmmers' weather' believe has been equaled by any rail- Mine or Submarine with has Association. The Miss shipping allayed ir- man conspired for road of its size same density Kathryne M -v Frick, the little ritation there which from false the success of the and of arose event and produced as fine a New traffic, is not attributable to any one deaf, dumb and blind girl, daughter of impressions of the tone in which the Year's Day as couid be hoped for. man but to the hearty co-operation off William L. Frick. 94 North Seventeenth By Associated Press. communication was phrased. It Is be- every lieved there that, Hetd up by the late arrival of one officer and employe in their un- street, who is known as a "second Hel- London, Jan, 1, 2.4'5 P. M.?The In view of the British entries, the tiring efforts to rnako of the star parade, headed i the Cumberland en Keller," was a New Year's Eve by a of police, over its Valley the betft and safest railroad in war of attrition found another Continued oa Fourth platoon started i guest of Miss Kitty Gordon, on the Pace. course ait The the United States. 1.30 o'clock. announced stage of the Orpheum IBritteh victim tuis morning and robbed plan of halving taps on the court house "I congratulate you and ask a con- theatre. Miss MKhe British navy of the 16-year-old, but bell as the parade started was a sue-1 tinuance of that loyal support without Gordon, who fills the headline RULERS OFWfIT NATIONS ceasful one, many persons remaining in-' which such n record could not have position on the Orpheum bill this week, \u25a0etill useful, battleship Formidable, of I doors until the taps on the bell an- , been made, awl 1 extend to you one and took a great fancy to the little girl and all my best wishes a ithe eame class as the battleship Bul- nounced the start. for happy and slipped a diamond ring on Miss Frick "s SEND CREETINCTO WILSON Motorcycle Club's Display prosperous New Year." finger as the child stpod wings -wark, which was blown up a few weeks Clubs created for the purpose of the Katheryne Mary Frick in the Washington, Jan. I.?New Year's parade only, in gaudy uniforms formed during the first of the two New Year's Oft of Sherness. SLED RUNS UNDER A CAR Although Deaf, Dumb and She Enjoyed Going to Theatre Where greetings to the first division, many She Is Blind Eve performance!". Apparently the loss of life on board President Wilson from the and of them Actress Gave Her a Diamond Ring rulers of other nations and from many surprised the officials, who were in ig- Boy's Life Saved By Motorman?Four Although Miss Frick could neither the Formidable has been very heavy, norance of the costumes until clubs see nor Americans poured into the White House the Other Coasting Accidents hoar what was going on upon as only crew aro to-day. arrived. The Keystone Motorcycle the stage, a large part of periorm- 71 members of her King Albert of Belgium sent at Stanton Byers, years old, con- the Club, with the Commonwealth band 12 lost anco was not known to have been saved. The offi- the following message from his general division, trol of his sled while coasting on j lost to her, so remarkably the head of this was the fea- the her cials, however, hold out hope that oth- army headquarters: ture of the parade. Sitate street hill last niigfot arid he shot j TENER CLEARING HIS DESK have powers of perception been de- '* The beneath a trolley car which was veloped at the, Mt. Airy institution ers may have been picked up. On the occasion of the new year, members all bore small key- g»in(g where I most stones on their shoulders, their figures south on Cameron street. Fortunately Retiring Governor Will Make Several she is being educated as a ward send you my sincere congratula- CAUCUS fIOH of the exact State of Pennsylvania, The locality of this disaster tions and the wishes I being enveloped in them. A great for the lad the motorman saw him as Important Appointments the Leg- form for the wel- Prob- islature having a not ibeen that fare of the great large keystone born by a of oth- he sjied down the hillajul the car was made special appropri- has revealed, but the fact American nation, score ably on Monday ation to whose to er members formed the center of the stopped in time a pay her expenses. it occurred in the British channel re- generosity Belgium is of so to prevent possible Among her other accomplishments. much help in this time of distress and group. A color schemo of blue aud fatality. The lad cscaijied with a few calls the circumstance that British sorrow.'' gold was carried out. Peaked caps scratches. THE Miss Frick has learned to use the type- on ran Governor Tener expects to have his were worn by members of the club writer and on this she wrote to-day for chips have been engaged in bombarding King George of Great Britain sent Three other children were injured in of time the following: and the bamd as well. coasting accidents desk cleared all business by the the Star-Independent the following de- the German positions on Belgian in the city yester- that scription of her first the "It affords me pleasure The Triangle Club, of Steelton, day, although his term expires so Governor experienc behind sincere to none seriously. George F. Four Candidates in the the wt'ne in that theatre: coast, and that German submarines on convey to you on the commencement formed for this parade, was one of the Early, a Brumbaugh can begin "from the be- 14 years old, Dnncannon boy, "It gives me great pleasure to praise of the new good wishes gaudy clubs in this division. The St. was ginning" with no unfinished business several occasions in the past have at- year my hearty brought to the HarrisJ>urg liosed London, lj follows: relle, as the New Year, a A decree in legheny county court, pre- Jan. 2.14 P. M.?The attracted divorce in the suit of COMING TO-NIGHT has been to sleep put fin- great deal of a en- pared on re- in. Miss Gordon my British battleship Formidable was sunk "On the occasion of New Year's Day attention in float Jacob against Louise Snyder was to- and will be issued the gers lips to me I express most tered by the management Orphe- ceipt resignation, Judge on her and she talked my sincere good wishes of the day signed by Judge George Kuukol, of the Frazer not this morning in the British channel by for the um Theatre. In the midst a great Frazer going on the Supreme that way. What 1 did understand you and American people." of anil Mrs. Snyder was directed to pay Hotel Accommodations Will Be Taxed State Bernstorff, sea of white she in cradle, my father spelled in my hand and I either a mine or a submarine, according Count German Ambassa- rested her the court costs. Fox & Ueyer, counsel bench. The Governor will also have enjoyed myself very much. dor to the United States, sent which was labeled "1915." She was as Never Before During Coming Ses- the appointing of Coroner for Mont- the fol- for the respondent, have twenty days n many beautiful gifts last HOURS REDUCED male of the case by the appellate the cliair. Wishing my mends in week, were emphasized to-day by the Tho appointments made by the Gov- school. all of picked up by a British lightcruiser, and court. Ilarrisbnrg a happy New Year, I re- & posting large over part ernor during recess Those of B. C. Department, Steelton, of cards all that the of the Legis- love, it is possible that others may have been MANYTIMES BY AUSTRIfINS of the city frequented by the newly- lature, which require confirmation, in- main with Will Get 25 Per Cent. Less Pay JOHN T. "Kathryne M. Frick." fesoued by other vessels.'' BRADY HOST TO 175 arrived legislators, announcing that cluding the members of the Public Vienna, Jan. 1, via Amsterdam and A reduction in the working hours of Service (Jommission, sent to Richard J. Baldwin, of Delawaro coun- will all be ? the draftsmen Gives London, 12.40 P. IM, An official an- employed by the Penn- His Annual New Year's Break- the Senate next Tuesday among tho MUST PAY REWARD FOR HOHL sylvania Steel Company in the in ty, is a candidate for Speaker of the Vhatßrirtrish 'battleship Formidable had nouncement on the progress of the war Bridge fast the Harrisburg Club i first lot of communications from the and Construction Department went into House. to a of 16,000 tons. Sttie was was given out in the Austrian capital John T. Brady, prominent member of Governor to the higher branch, and Judge Decides Officer Entitled Money displacement effect this morning. Heretofore these the county bar, It is usually tho custom to placard State men Dauphin' was host at a among the officials whose ap- For Bandit's Capture 4 30 fact longand carried a complement to-day. It refers to events of yesterday worked until 5 o'clock each even- the trees along the capitol walk with New Year's breakfast in the Harris- pointments will be sent for confirma- APtoiyua, ?Blair is as follows: ing. From to-day on until the volume these cards, thus far the ban has are Jan. 1. county must of 75® men. She was heavily armored, and of burg Club at 12.30 o'clock this after- but tion those of Banking Commission- work increases the quitting hour for noon. was been put on that method of announce- er William pay the SSOO reward offered for the and earned "In Bukowina and the Carpathians It the thirteenth annual H. Smith, State Librarian four 12-bioh guns, twelve these draftsmen will be 3.30 o'clock tho ment, and the candidate's cards will "arrest and conviction" of Frank the Russians developed great activity. in the affair of kind given by Mr. Brady, Thomas Lynch Montgomery and several 6-inch and sixteen 12-pounders. afternoon. While tho draftsmen and among the were men appear on tho vacant bill boards and others Hohl, in Our are holding their the guests promi- connected with State boards. G. the bank bandit, killed Cin- troops positions will be paid at same rate per hour nent in business and professional affairs telegraph poles of the city, and there cinnati, 0., recently, to C. E. Cook, chief She vs-ai provided also with four sub- on as heretofore the Suczawa river, in the upper the reduction in hours of the city. are mighty few of those left. Baldwin's RICHARD J. EARNEST, of police, of Salem, 0., accordiag to an merged ttrpedo tubes. The (Formidable Cscremosz territory, west will constitute.a decrease of about 25 were headquarters will be in the parlors of 76, DIES down also further cent, in Covers laid for 175 guests and opinion handed by Judge Thomae was on ridges of Carpathians, the per thedr pay. holiday Commonwealth Hotel, from now taunted in 1898, and was a sister the the in the spirit chaarcterized tho the and Apoplexy J. IJaJdripe yesterday. valley Nagyag, That this reduction in working hours were informal on Stroke of Fatal to Aged to of the where yesterday, gathering. There brief, he and his friemlß will lie in wait After Hohl held up me Union bank Bhip tli Irresistible and Implacable. near Oflkoermezoe, an applies only to the draftsmen em- for the unpledged legislators Citizen of Hummelstown attack of the ployed [ speeches by many of the guests. The it the here March 23, he was arrested at .Sa- The had assigned to enemy was repulsed with heavy losses in the B. & C. Department and breskfast was served in the banquet hope of corralling sufficient votes to Richard J. Earnest, years by her, does not affect 76 old, lem Cook. Later he confessed, but to him, in the upper Laitoreoza district any professional or hall of the club, which was decorated carry the Republican caucus, which died at in sentence was to according o t'he British navy list for clerical forces in any this morning his home Hum- the day before be im- and north of the Uszok pasts. To the other department elaborately with Christmas greens. will be held on Monday night in the posed, he escaped from the Blair coun- December, ariouß fleet and con- of the big plant, was a melstown, from apoplexy. Mr. Earnest officers west of this pass all other passages over statement made House caucus room. jaH. The commissioners refused to in the executive offices morning. was born in Hummelirtowii and has ty sequently de undoubtedly was acting the Carpathians are oKxsu'pied by our this Headqtiarters also have been en- pay the reward, because Hohl was not troops. TWO FULL MOONS THIS MONTH gaged in the Commonwealth for Charles lived there all his life. For many as a flagshijat the time of her destruc- convicted, 'but the court held thwt un- '' Intlhe district of GorKve and to the A. Ambler, of Montgomery; Henry 1. years he conducted a shoe store and where was WAS FATHER OF SAFETY FIRST To-night Promises to Be Big One for necessary, it evident the tion. Her captain was Artlhur N. LlOl- northeast of Zakliczyu determined Rus- Wilson, of Jefferson, and Robert P. : later a shoe repairing shop. lie was was Wild wood Skaters lan Tight criminal apprehended. ley and her ommander, Charles sian attacks were repulsed everywhere. 30,000 Coke Workers Suspend Labor Habgood, of McKean, but none of them active member of the Zion Luth- F. Bal- "On the is There arc two full moons this month I eran church. Nida everything quiet. as Thomas Lynch Is Buried has arrived. lard. Cai>taii John O. Deed was in com- Further to the north the attacks of our ?not on the same night and existing Surface'indications hero point to the He is survived by hig widow, two POISON KILLS J. L. SWARTZ By Associated Press. sons, mand of the marines on board, while allies arc progressing. only in the mind of a person suitably selection of Ambler, said to bo thie Dr. S. F. and Richard B. Earnest, "In tho war Connellsville, Pa, Jan. I.?Twenty choice of Hummelstown; Father of Carlisle Man Dies Four Hours float Balkan everything is stimulated, but on two different nights of Governor-elect Brumbaugh, four daughters, Mrs. the surgon was Godfrey Taylor, the east thousand coke workers to a annl quie«t. To of Trabina our ar- in the Connells- con- but there is sure be fight it j George Kttele, of Reading; Mrs. Mag- After Wife's Funeral and the fleet ville region to-day suspended their and visible under perfectly normal Cleveland; p.ymaster, P. J, Lin>g. The tillery compelled the (Montenegrins to daily The one moon is said that outside of Insurance Cbm- j gie Griffiths, Mrs. Jacob li. (Special to the Star-Indeppndent.) retreat.'' tasks in honor of Thomas Lynch, of the ditions. appears to-night missdoner Martz, and Miss chaplain isggin as the Rev. B. the other on January 30. Johnson, who is from Am- j Mannie Earnest, of Winchester, Va., Jan. l.r?Four hours George W. C. Frick Coke Compauy, whose fu- and bler's own county, none of the officers ] Humanelsiown, and one sister, Mrs. (>n Two full moons will be none too after the funeral of Mrs. Jane Cath- Robinson. burd the Formida/ble neral took place at Greensburg, Pa. of the Republican State Committee, Margaret Hill, Philadelphia. The were ST. GEORUES many for the January skaters on Wild- fu- was also 16 midshi|nen. DESTROYED BY Other employes of the company at are to act neral arrangements will erine Bwartz held here,' her hus- wood lake and on the river. There were who supposed in accord with be announced FIRE OF ALLIES, SAYS BERLIN Gary, W. Va., and Bunsen, 111 also the big leaders, are none for Ambler. later. band, John L. Swartz, a prominent resi- ceased their daily Lynch about three 'hundred persons at Wild- father tasks. MT. a Wilson as a Dark Horse dent of this section and of Sam- was father of the "safety first" move- wood last night, and there may be 1015 Carlisle, Pa., GERMAN AEDPLANES AGAIN Berlin, Jan. 1, By Wireless to Loo- larger crowd to-night to get the benefit Wilson, of Jefferson, appears to bo 12 Hours Late in Meohanlcsburg uel Swartz. of died oi ment in the coke country was re- to Mtar-Independent.) poisoning resulting from a faM don, 3.44 P. M.?The following of- and first full moon of now candidate, con- (Special the blood BOMBARD:ITY OF DUNKIRK sj>onsiible for much welfare of the the year. the dark horse and it is on Christmas Kve when he severely ficial was given out work jectured that the contest between Bald- iMeolianicSburg, Pa., Jan. I.?/ Because conumunicaition to- among the mining villages in this sec- some wag at bruised his face. His funeral was held A. A. Pays so 11.65 o'clock last night Paris, Jan. 1, .05 M.?Dunkirk, day at army headquarters: tion. Paul Kunkel 91,000 Costs win and Ambler will be bitter that, t)he to-day. Paul A. Kunkel, who in 1911 was to avoid trouble, the leaders will give turned hands of the town clonk back on northern oast '' In western not the of France, was the theatre of war noth- legislator to turn twelve hours, the new year did not ar- Samuel Swartz did know of the BROWN NOW CHIEF defeated for the District Attorneyship orders for the rural to 1 again bombarded y ing of importance has happened JUSTICE rive here until noon to-day. The town- accident his father until he arrive four German aero- near of Dauphin county, by Michael E. in for Wilson. State Chairman Crow is to the Nieuport. retaking folk lti't know a'bout it, however, and here attend funeral of his* moth- planes Thursday, jeeording reports The idea of ' the Takes Oath Before Judge Stroup, and who subsequently started iiii er and a to has Landls In Coattnned on Fourth Pact. celebrated at midnight just as though found the father in critical whiuh hanvlet of Hit. Georges, which been Lancaster To-day court proceedings by which he sought condition. The son expects to return reached Pa 3 during the night. completely demolished (by the 1916 had arrived on time. enemy's Lancaster, Pa., Jan. I.?Justice J. in vain to Show that he, and not Stroup TEN KILLED IN COLLISION to Carlisle to-morrow. artillery fire, was abandoned in view Hay a elected, yesterday paid tita Imperial of Brown, member of the State Su- had been Record in Bankruptcy Ch&noior's the high level of the waiter preme Court, to-day costs amounting Petitions Resignations Son Killed there. took the oath of court to almost sl,- Railroad Oars Reduced to Splinters in By Associated Pratt. More Peru Cabinet Berlin, Jan. 1, a '' Bast of Bet'hune, to office as Chief 000. This , The Hague and the south of Justice before Judge practicality mark* the close Crash Near London New York, Jan. I.?Bankruptcy pe- Lima, Peru, Jan. I.?Further cabinet " the we an Charles I. of contest. London, 1.05 P. \l._The Lokal canal, captured English Landis. the More than a hundred By Associated Press. titions, 1,696 in number, resignations, due to the unsettled po- trench. The new filed during Anzeiger" says in ts issue of Chief Justice succeeds D. witnesses summoned at the special in- London, Jan. 1, 12.55 P. 'M.?Ten 1914 established a record for this city litical conditions, were announced yes- fco-day our Newlin Fell conducted that it has learned , a t the eldest son "In the Angonne attacks marie whoa® term of office has quiry by Judge McCarrell, persons were killed and many others in- since the present law relating to bank- terday. Fernando Fucthz, Minister of tliJ - expired. were of Dr. \on Bethman Hollweg, further progress. Another 400 prison There no ceremonies in- now 'will be paid for their court at- jured in a train collision this morning ruptcy went into effect in 1898. Fig- Interior, and Colonel A'bril, Minister of the Im- cident to perial Chancellor, w, killed in era, sii machine guns, flour mine throw- the occasion. Chief Justice tendance. on the Great Eastern railway ures published to-day show there have War, were the latest members to lay action Brown has been a near Jn Poland December 9. The abatement ers and numerous other arms and quan- member of the Su- Ilford,five miles from London. been nearly 21,000 petitions since the down their portfolios. Colonel Abru at preme Court since 1, 1899. published tie tin that the young tities of ammunition feH Into our January Pennsylvania Guns For Russia Some of the railroad ears were re- act became effective. had held office for only about two man had been vtiimdcand made a pris- hands. A French camp northwest of St. Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 1.?The Rus- duced to splinters. weeks. Girl's ' oner is erroneous. Mihiel was set on fire by our artillery. Collarbone Soaps In Fall sian volunteer fleet steamer Tambov, Stolen Horse Recovered Falling on on * Attack* art Flirry and west of Senn- the ice w'hile her way arrived from tihe Orient last night. Aft- Kentucky Now Nearly All "Dry" A horse stolen from the bam of J, Extend Two-Cent Postage Rate Hopes to work Telegraph er she for Europe heiim, which were repeated yesterday, in the Postal office in discharging cargoes will take on Lexington, Ky., Jan. I.?Nine coun- H. Snyder, of near Dauphin, was recov- Jan. agreement Peactin Ilhe Pennsylvania railroad sta- a Washington, I.?An Bio Janeiro, Jan. t-The Brazilian were repulsed. passenger great quantity of heavy field guns ties in Kentucky became '' dry'' at mid- ered by Detective Ibach and Police- extending the two-cent postage whic;i tion this morning, Mass projectiles rate to Parliament, heltits final "The situation on aast Grace Dowhow- and manufactured in Penn- night, liquor having been voted out last man Schelhas in the barn of Simon mails between the United States session the Prussian er, 17 Evergreen street, suffered a and yesterday, adoptal. a relation express- frontier and in Poland remains un- frac- sylvania. One large cargo of Ameri- September with licenses expiring last Cooper, Seventh and Briggs streets, the Bahamas went into effect to-day, tured collar-bone. £She can ing the hope that peacwonld speedily changed. A heavy mist is was aided home, guns shipped from Vancouver has night. Only 15 counties out of 120 in this morning. The man who stole the marking another step in the movement in preventing all "bore the family physician already at be re-established E-,,pe. j operations." , reduced the arrived Vladivostok and is Kentucky are now in the so called animal was trying to sell the horse and to make effective a two-cent rate fracture. hurried to toeing Poland. "wet" column. rail when the policemen arrived. throughout the Western Hemisphere.