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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-11
WEEK- END AT DAUPHIN
Young People Will Pass Several Days
at 'tPine Top Cottage


at ''Pine Top Cottage
Mrs. Edward Hoffman and Miss Eliz-
abeth Crownshield chaperoned a party
of young people from this city, who left
this morning to spend the week end at
the 'Pine Top" cottage at Dauphin.
Saturday afternoon and evening a par
ty and dance will be given in honor of
Miss Margaret Crownshield, of Blairs-
vile, and Miss Edith Beltz, of Phila-
delphia.
The party includes Mrs. Jack Rog-
ers, of Enola; Miss Catherine Fraser,
Steelton; Miss Marian Tippet, of Camp
Hill; Miss Helen Berger, Miss Dorothy
Free, Miss Luella Miehaels, John Fin
ney, of Pottstown; Edward Wallace,
Frank Wallace, Mark Bennett, George
Palmer, Fritz Palmer, Ned Berger and
Sam Harmon.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-11

Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Miller. Mrs. Car.
RE ). Miller and Mr.. and Mrs William
Benner and daughter, Dorothy May,
are spending the week at the home of
John Miller, in Carlisle.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-11

Birth Announcements
Mr. and Mrs. Morris L Weidman, of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-13
Ten Thousand Storm Factories
OF the Ford Motor CO.=FreeZing
But Driven Away by Fire Hose.

Detroit. Mich, Jan. PA crowd of
men, estimated at 10000. seeking employ
ment this morning at the plant of the
Ford Motor Co. started serious rioting
when they were told, after they had
stood in the freezing cold for several
hours, that work could not be given them
today. An officer was knocked down. his
clothes partially torn off and bricks and
other missiles were hurled through the
windows and doors of the factory. After
a fire hose had been turned on the
crowd the rioters disappeared. Five ar
rests were made.
The efforts of policeman to turn the
crowd away from the factory doors
started the trouble.
1--WE can't stand here and freeze to
DEATH" shouted some of the leaders, and
a concerted rush was made toward the
building entrance. Several hundred man
oged to get inside the plant before the
trouble makers were under control. The
thermometer registered nine degrees
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-13

Boston, Jan. 12.-President Quincy n.
Shaw of the Calumet & Hecla Mining
Co, in a statement issued tonight.
takes issue with the report of the gov
eminent commission made public last
Saturday on the strike in Michigan in
which the Calumet and other mining
companies are involved. He imputes
the motives of the investigators in
making public the report at this time
and intimates that It was colored in
favor of the strikers. Mr.. Shaw's state
ment follows:
After Secretary Wilson's speech in
Seattle. it was to be expected that his
subordinates would make report
which would be highly colored in ia
vor of the strikers. The publican of
the report is also we'll timed to assist
the strike leaders in arousing false
sympathy through Misrepresentation
So far as it contains information CIV
en- by the companies the report could
have been published months ago, il
there was any genuine desire to have
the public know the conditions under
which the men worked.
Extracts. from the report which ap-
pear in the papers If accurately quot
ed contain many misstatements.
Since Dec. l, an S-hour day has been
in effect underground and in all places
where work is continuously conducted
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-13
Governor Says
Plans to Seek a
End Nomination.

Lewiston, Me, Jan. Ex-Governor
Haines will be a candidate for re-nom-
nation at the Republican primary in
June.
All question upon this point was
disposed on Monday afternoon, when
in answer to a question by a reporter,
the Governor stated that it was his in
tenticn, at the present time, to seek a
second nomination.
The Governor. accompanied by Mrs.
Haines, came to Auburn on Saturday
afternoon and have been the guests of
their daughter, Mrs. Percy Crafts in
that city.
Monday night the Governor will be
the guest of the Lewiston Chamber of
Commerce at it's first annual banquet
in City hall at o'clock. The Governor
will speak. His subject will be on the
general business conditions of the State
and the advancement of Maine.
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President Shaw of Calumet s
He Denounces Gov Report
AS"Colored tOFayOr Strikers. .

for q hours. All other employees have
a 9-hour day. The companies in which
l am interested did not post a notice
that the hours of labor We're Sa..
Directly after mentioning the Cal
umet & Hecla Mining Cos. name it is
said that two men made affidavits
that at the point of a gun they were
compelled to go from Superior to Cal
umet and then to work at some other
camp These afiidavits are false if
they relate to any action on the part
of either the Superior or the Calumet
Cos. We have evidence of false affi-
davits secured by the Federation.
THE report states, a number of
strikers have been killed and others in
jured in the use of arms in the possess
sion of Waddell men, This convicts
the Waddell men before their trial. The
record of those killed to date is as fol-
lows:
1.-TWO strikers, who are said to have
resisted deputies: one striker who was
connected with the brutal murder of
Deputy Pollock. On the other hand,
hundreds of men, whose only offence
was 4 desire to go to work, have been
attacked and so cruelty beaten that
they required medical attention at our
hospitals, and three non-union men
shot to death while lying in bed.
Continued on Page Two.)
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Anti Trust Legisla-
ton Looms Big for
Long Term Before
The Two Houses.
President Wilson on Special
Train Indicates Preference.

washington, Jan. 12.-Congress set
tied down to the work of its long reg
ular session today, after being in re-
cess since the passage of the currency
bill just before Christmas. The com
ing administration antitrust legisla-
ton program doomed up as the big
business of the winter, but with the
prospect of waiting until next week
for the Presidents message both
Houses devoted themselves actively to
other matters.
On the House side of the capitol re-
turn to work was celebrated by
prompt passage Of the first of the an
nual supply measures, the District of
Columbia appropriation bill and the
introduction of the usual opening day
batch of miscellaneous measures. The
Senate began debate on the Alaskan
government railroad bill.
The antitrust experts of both
Houses began period of activity
which will continue until the anti
trust program is written into law be-
fore the close of the session. Actual
work on the antitrust bills in the
House judiciary committee and The
Senate interstate commerce commit
tee will be delayed pending President
Wilson'S address. a rough draft of the
address will be brought to Washing
ton by the President when he returns
tomorrow and later in the week Chair
man Clayton of the judiciary commit
tee and Chairman Newlands of the
Senate commerce committee probably
will be called into conference with the
President and Attorney General Nc
REYNOLDS.
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Thaw Awaiting
Release on Bail,

Concord. N. H, Jan. 12.-Harry X
Thaw, elated by the report of the federal
court commission that his release on bail
would not endanger public safety, re-
NAMED in his apartments at a local hotel
today, receiving many messages of con-
graduation and planning a series of VS.
its within the state in the event that
Federal Judge .Aldrich allows him his
freedom under bond The next move
in the case will be the filing by Thaw' s
counsel of petition asking that the
amount of bail be fixed, and a date for a
hearing on the question will be set by
the court. H
Several attorneys conversant with fed
eral procedure agreed today that Thaw,
if released under bonds, would be i'm
mune in every part of the federal juris-
diction from arrest by state authorities
in connection with the murder of Stan
ford White or his escape from Mattea-
Continued on Page Five.)
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HELPED SELVES
TO THOUSANDS.
Proprietors of Henry Siegel
& Co Bank Took "Loose
Change" Whenever Need
en-, Without Leaving Sc
curity--Day with the New
York Senate Committee.

New York, Jan. 12.-Henry Melville
receiver for the Henry Siegel & Co.
bank, told the committee on banks of
the State Senate today that when
ever any of the proprietors felt the
need of any loose change to the
amount of a few thousand dollars he
went to the bank and took what he
wanted without giving any note of
security of any kind" Mr.. Siegel him
self, the receiver said had borrowed
S7541 91 without security except a writ
ten agreement pledging in $4,000
shares of the common stock of the
Siegel Stores Corporation against
these loans. The hearing was held by
the Senate committee to get testi-
mony for use in revising the state
banking laws in relation to the priv
ileges of private banks. The whole
days session was spent in investi-
eating the affairs of the bankrupt
Siegel enterprises. Mr.. Melville said
the transactions he described were le-
gal under the present law. but admit
ted that conditions were "unfortu-
nate"
The Siegel bank, according to the
receivers testimony, had deposits Of
81, $50. 333, distributed among $1,000
customers of the Fourteenth street
store in this city. Mr.. Melville said
that this money was loaned also to
the two Siegel stores in New York
and the one in Boston. The actual as
sets of the bank, he said, were $4,000
in cash, 1000 in banks anG a cash
bond of s100,0 00.
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Takes Steps to Stay
Such Order by Judge
Says May Appeal
To Supreme Court.
Thinks Judge AIdrich Exceeded
Authority--Thaw Watched.

Albany, n. Y, Jan. 12.-Attorney
General Carmndy will appeal to a
higher federal tribunal, the supreme
court, if necessary, should Judge Aid
rich of the United States circuit court
permit Harry K. Thaws release on
bail. He also will take steps to stay
any such order by Judge Aldrich,
pending final disposition of the case
by the higher court
In announcing this determination
tonight, the attorney general express
ed the opinion that in entertaining
'Thaw's application for release, Judge
Aidrich had exceeded his authority.
Thaw will be kept under close sur
veillance by New York authorities in
case of his release and if he attempts
to leave Judge Aldrich's jurisdiction
his arrest will follow Immediately. Mr.,
CaIn,pdy would regard the release of
Thaw under bond as equivalent to
giving him his permanent freedom
he said tonight.
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caused the Western Federation of
obviously today. The union stores. es-
pecialiy the one in Hancock, were
crowded all daV and numerous re-
quests for increased fuel and food
supplies had to be met. Charity work.
ers and Salvation Army officers also
found numerous calls awaiting them.
Dan Sullivan. president of the dis
trict council of the Federation, said
the closing in of winter was some
thing for which he and his associates
were anything but anxious.
This means that we must keep on
getting busy" he said. as he watched
the clouds of snow driven by a 25-
mile gale off Lake Superior. I'VE have
feared all along that many men would
feel like quitting the struggle for rec
ognition of the Federation if we got
an old fashioned touch of snow and
ice. Thus far the elements have been
good to us. but today's storm is an
added burden on our shoulders"
The assertions at Ahemee village
were IA in number. and half a dozen
other union members We're reported
to have turned in their cards to the
management of the Mohawk mine.
Both companies are in the district
that has caused most anxiety to OPP
orators, and the last of the state
troops left that neighborhood only
this morning.
Fears that rioting might result from
CONTINUED on Page Five.s
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Hurricane Creates
Havoc in New York.

New York, Jan. PA cold and blus
terry northwestern, travelling at times as
fast as IA miles an hour, tying up con-
siderable shipping, injuring dozens OF
persons by throwing them to the ground
or against walls, smashing plate glass
windows, levelling signs and playing
freakish planks upon pedestrians in the
canyons between the city's skyscrapers,
today gave New York and its vicinity its
first real touch of winter
The wind and the resultant strong
tides were nearly responsible for a
serious accident in the North river,
Just as dar ness settled this evening,
when the Erie Railroad ferryboat
Suffern and car float belonging to
the Pennsylvania Railroad came into
collision. Eight hundred passengers
aboard the Suffern were thrown into
a panic and several women tainted.
Numerous passengers were bruised
and cut by being thrown violently T.
the deck or being hit by flying glass.
Though the Suffern was badly dam
aged. her pilot steered her safely into
her slip and landed the passengers.
The Red Star steamer Iapland, in
ward bound from Antwerp with about
700 passengers on board, was obliged
to anchor off Quarantine owing to the
gale.
Vineyard Haven, Mass, Jan. IA
northwest gale thrashed over the shoals
Continued on Page Ffve.)
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CENTRAL EUROPE
IN Grip OF COLD,
Most Severe Winter in Years
With Hundreds Freezing
Billiards Returning---The
Snowstorms Block Traffic
Reports from ManyCoun-
tries.

Paris, Jan. 12.-Central Europe is ex-
periencing the most severe winter in
generation. The blizZards of a fort
night ago, after abating somewhat.
seem to have returned with renewed
vigor.
In Eastern Russia, 1856 deaths from
the cold were officially reported yester-
day and stories of peasants devoured
by wolves are numerous. st. Peters
burg is in the grip OF three-foot
snowfall, with communication almost
cut off and food supplies low
In Bavaria and Afsace-Lorrain,
heavy snow storms have blocked rail-
road traffic and wrecked wires All
along the low-lying Rhine villages
watchmen are posted at various points
to warn the people whenever the flood
ed waters reach the dangr point.
In Switzerland snow has been fall
ing continuously since Friday. The
DANCE rfrom avalanches and floods is
regarded as serious. Lake Constance
is approaching food level.
In Belgium the flood levels are re-
ceding but the snow fall continues and
a sudden rise in temperature would
mean flood loss. Damage in the flooded
districts is already enormous and will
require months to repair. The founda-
lions of hundreds of houses are under
mined. roads are washed away. fac
tories are filled with mud and costly
machinery ruined. The condition of
thousands of homeless peasants has
been made preearious by the blizzard
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PAY 100000
OR ONLY $4,000.
Opening of Consideration of
Claims Against Owners OF
Titanic--Intricate Question
To Be Decided--American
Of British Law Applicable.

Washington, Jan. 12.-Compensat1on
for the stupendous loss of life and or
property when the steamship Titanic
sank will come before the supreme
court for consideration tomorrow. On
the outcome of the argument of some
of Americas leading admiralty law
yers will depend whether the oceanic
Steam Navigation Co., the owner OF the
Titanic, must face the payment OF
some s13,000000 of claims, or whether
its liability is to be limited to some
$40, 900.
Intricate questions of law, which
have perplexed legal minds of the
United States and Great Britain ever
since the Titanic's maiden voyage was
ended by the icebergs fatal blow and
which have not yet been decided by
the British courts, will come up for
decision.
The Navigation Co. seeks to have the
American court hold the admiralty
laws and rules of the United States
it the liability of the company to the
salvage from the wreck and the pas
sengers and freight money received on
the voyage, amounting in all to some
$50, 0o0.
1t is claimed that American law
does not apply because the disaster
occurred on the high seas. Further
more, 1t is contended that the Amer
lean law ccntemplates limitation of Ii
ability only when the disaster results
from the collision of two vessels and
not when ii occurs from striking ar
iceberg. Some of the lawyers also ar
que that British law fixes the liability
of the owner because the Titanic car
ried the British flag, and that the su-
preme court should so hold.
Should the British law be held appli
cable, the American court would have
to determine whether 1t should pro.
coed 70 take jurisdiction of the claims
and enforce the British law or whether
the claimants must sue in England
In either case, it is said, a prolonged
contest would result.
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POSTPONE ACTION.
Petition of Bank Creditors for Third
Receiver.

Boston, Jan. IA petition by bank
creditors representing 100000 OF
claims for the appointment of third
receiver for Henri s'az=Y of Bos-
ton came up in the U....s,. states dis
trict court today, but action on it was
postponed pending a hearing on bank
ruptey proceedings. E. L. Blodgett.
an attorney representing 352 other
creditors and $S5O,0oo bankers in
debtednes stated that his clients had
confidence in the present receivers but
wanted to be heard before a third was
appointed. Another attorney, A. A,
Ginsberg, declared the Boston store to
be hopelessly insolvent, statement
which John s Sheppard, Jr., one of
the receivers, said he could neither adj
NIT or deny, as experts were still at
work on the books.
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KEPT CONFINED
AGAINST WILL.
Waterville Woman Brings
SuitAgainst Hartford Ply
sicians for Confinement in
Sanitarlum--Coe and
Intimidated to Institution.

Hartford, CT. Jan. 12-Mrs. Eliza
beth c. Holman Of Waterville, Me-, for
mer wife of Prof. Cranston Brenton
of Trinity College, today began suit in
the United States district court here
against Prof. Brenton. DIR. Paul Water
man and Dr. Oliver c. Smith, all of
Hartford, alleging that she had been
kept in Brattleboro, VT, sanitarium
two years ago against her will. She
sues for $4,000 damages.
Prof Brenton recently obtained a
divorce on statutory grounds and soon
afterward Mrs. Brenton married f. T.
Holman of Waterville. Mrs. Holman
alleges that she was coerced and intim-
ldated" to go to the sanitarium and fl
nally yielded, being kept there against
her will. Her health suffered as a re-
suit she charges.
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Conditions and General Forecast.

Washington, Jan. 12.-The Ontario
storm of Sunday night has moved to
southern New Brunswick with greatly
increased energy, accompanied by
storm along the Middle Atlantic coast
and over the Lake region. An extern
sive high pressure area follows with
its crest tonight over the Middle Mis-
sissippi valley and the cold wave now
covers the entire country from the
Upper Mississippi valley eastward.
with temperatures below zero over ex-
IRENE North districts. The weather
will be generally fair Tuesday and
Wednesday. Cold weather will con-
tinue in the East.
Storm warnings are displayed on the
Atlantic coast from Hatteras to
PASSPORT.
Cold wave warnings have been or
dered for New York and northern New
England.
Forecast. Southern New England:
Fair, continued cold Tuesday with
high i.orth to northwest winds;
Wednesday fair, not quite so cold.
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To Shoot Transvaal Dynamiters
On Sight-Another Desperate At
tempt--The R. r. Employees Join.

Pretoria, Union of South Africa, Jan.
12-The shooting of dynamiters at
sight is to be feature of the martial
law to be proclaimed throughout the
Tr&nsvaal and the Orange Free State,
and the proclamation is to be otherwise
also of most drastic character.
The government purposes making an
attempt to resume the full service of
trains on all the railroads tomorrow
and it is in order to safeguard the rail
roads, the train crews and the passen
gers that regulations usually imposed
only during a state of siege are to be
introduced.
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Water Receding in
German Villages.

koeslin, Germany Jan l2-The water
receded along the coast of the Baltic to-
day and ended for the present the dam
ger to the villages which mad been mum
dated for several days. The residents
VINO had taken refuge on the surround
ing elevations returned to theih houses.
which, however, had become almost up1
fnhabitable. Food and fuel were scarce.
Prince Eitel Friendrich as viceroy of
Pomerania. arrived at Koeslin today to
take personal charge OF the relief of the
stricken fsherfolk. A committee under
the patronage of the crown prince has
opened subscription for the suceor OF
CON inued on Page Five,
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RAILROAD MEN DROP TOOLS.
Incident Near Cape Town Regarded as
Important.

Cape Town, Union of South Africa,
Jan. 12.-The first break on the anti
strike resolve of the railroad en-
ployes in Cape Colony, occurred today
at Salt River, about two miles from
Cape Town. Half of the men employed
in the railroad shops, laid down their
tools, formed procession and marched
in the direction of Cape Town with the
object of holding a meeting. on the
way they made an unsuccessful at
tempt to induce the street car motor
men and conductors to join them.
AS the railroad employees in Cape
Colony are regarded as holding the
key TO the strike situation today's in
cident is considered most important
and the government Immediately or
dereG the mobilization of the citizens
defence force
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FAIR AND COLDER.

Washington, Jan. 12-Following is
the forecast for Northern New Eng
land: Fair, colder Tuesday, preceded
by snow in eastern Maine: Wednes-
day fair, not quite so cold west por-
ton; high west to northwest winds
Tuesday.
Eastern New York: Fair, continued
cold Tuesday with brisk to high
northwest winds; Wednesday fair, not
SO cold
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above zero, and many of the men had
been standing in line since long before
daylight.
announcement by the company of a
$1O,0000O profit sharing distribution
among its employees in 1914 has brought
thousands of employment seekers to the
plant during the last week. The profit
sharing plan went into effect today
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Gibbons Defeats McAllister.

New York, Jan. 12.-Mike Gibbons of
st. Paul knocked out Bob McAllister of
San Francisco in the seventh round of
their 10-round match at Madison Square
Garden tonight The decisive blow, a
right to the jaw, came at the end of one
minute and So seconds lighting in the
round. The men are middleweights.
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TRY TO DYNAMITE BRIDGE.
Structure North Of Kimberley With
stands the Shock.

Kimberly, South Africa, Jan. PA
desperate attempt to wreck with dyna-
mite the great railroad bridge at Four
teen streams. about so, miles north of
here. on the border of the Transvaal,
was made last night. The rails were
torn up by the explosion and portions
of the structure We're damaged, but
the bridge itself withstood the shock.
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Vessels Driven Back
IntOPOrtlandH arbOr
-=ManyShipsin Dam
ger to the South.
Hyannis and Vineyard Haven Re.
portAccidents and Signals.

Portland, Me-, Jan. PA high gale
which prevailed tonight kept all ship
ping in the harbor. The boat for Bos-
ton left at the usual time, but return
ed soon after having passed cape
Elizabeth life saving station.
The life savers report that the wilma
reached a maximum of 80 miles an
hour.