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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
MALTAS TO CONFER DEGREE
Ceremony to Take Place Tomorrow
Evening in Council Chamber

Tomorrow evening Star of America
Commandery No. 113, Knights of Nal
ia, will confer the Malta degree in the
Council Chamber, &c North Third
street. in full ritualistic form. Sir Jo-
seph s. Piefer will occupy the occi-
dental chair, assisted by full compile
ment of officers.
This Commandery is in a Aourishing
condition, having a membership of 265,
forty of whom are past commanders
and are actively engaged in furthering
the interest of the order. During the
past two years this Commandery has
subscribed aud paid S735 toward the
building of the Malta Home at Gran
vile, Pa, which will be built during
the coming year.
January 16, the monthly social will
be held to which the entire district will
be invited to be present to enjoy an
evening of sociability together. These
sOcials are always looked forward to
with much interest.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
Delegation From Cen
trail and Sou t h er n
Pennsylvania Co M
ing to Harrisburg
CONFERENCE IN
Y. M. C. A. HALL
Railroad oficials, Business Men and
Manufacturers Take Advantage OF
Meeting Arranged by Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce Tomorrow

MANY representative business men
from Central and Southern Pennsylva'
MIA will attend the foreign trade con-
ference TO be held in y. NJ. {. A. hall
tomorrow under the auspices OF the
Harrisburg Chamber Of Commerce. TWO
sessions will be held, the first conven-
mo at 10 o'clock, the second at Z.5U
0 o'clock. Experts in foreign trade VIII
address the gathering.
Chambersburg will be represented
bv President NJ. c. Kennedy and other
officials Of the Cumberland Valley
railroad. Secretary John B. Baum
eardner. of the Chambersburg Chamber
Of Commerce, will bring a delegation
of twelve business men and manu'
facturers.
A. B. Farquhar, of York, president
of the A. B. Farquhar Company, Ltd.
an exporter to South America for for
ty-fve years. vice president of the
Chamber of Commerce of the U. ). a
and president of the York Chamber OF
Commerce. II. Read, president of the
Read Machinery Company, and Francis
Farquhar, will be present.
G. H. Wanless, secretary Of the Ian
easter Chamber of Commerce, will head
delegation among which will be IL
s. Williamson. r. Z. Roder and viii
liam c. Bidlack. George H. Mosser
secretary of the Altoona Chamber OF
Commerce. will bring large number
from that city
Lebanon, Coatesviile. Pottsvilie. Me
chanicsburg, Bedford Reading, Belle
fonte. Mt. Union, Columbia. Mt. Joy
Elizabethtown, Downingtown and East
Downin etown. Middletown, HeEshey
and Loo k Haven will all be represent
ed.
Ralph w. Cooke, of Pittsburgh, IN
dustrial agent of the Pennsylvania
railroad lines west of Pittsburgh, and
Special Agent John Fl. Whitaker, oi
Philadelphia. industrial agent for lines
east of Pittsburgh, viii be present. Di.
vision freight agents from Harrisburg
Baltimore, Altoona and Williamsport
and General Freight Agent George D.
Ogden, of Philadelphia will attend the
conference.
John Barrett, director general OF
the Pan-Americsn Union. will speak on
- Pan American Commerce.; What Ii
Really means to Central Pennsylva
MIA DR.. E. +. Pratt, chief OF the
bureau of foreign and domestic com
merce of the United States department
OF commerce, will speak on ''How the
Department of Commerce Aids Export
ers and the Extension OF Its Work.
How Our New Branches in South
America Will Aid in Extending For
eign Trade" is the subject of a tall,
to be given by W. S. Kies, manager
of the foreign department of the Ma.
tional City bank, of New York. Dudley
Bartlett will tell Of the service render.
ed to the exporter by the Philadelphia
Commercial Museum.
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At the Photoplay

The Senator's Brother two-act
Vitagraph drama, written by the ia
nous Novelist, Gouveneur Morris. will
be shown at the Photoplay to-day. Miss
Leah Baird, a former Vitagraph play
er who has recently returned to the
Vitagraph Company, plays the leading
role, supported by an All-Star cast.
The Senator, very ambitious for po-
litieal honors, succeeds in getting to the
Capitol. Thinking his wife would be out
OF place in the social set, he poses as a
single man. Later, his brother, be-
friends the young wife aud her child,
and after the death of the wife, brings
up Dorothy in ignorance of her par.
ents. = This is just beginning of this
interesting drama Of Gouveneur Morris.
The rest will be shown at the Photo.
play to-day, Adv.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
EXPERT IN ANESTHESlA
LECTURES TO PHYSICIANS
Medical Club of Harrisburg Procured
Services of DR.. Robert Ferguson
Who Returns in Several Days to
Military Hospitals Of Europe

The Medical Club Of Harrisburg, fol-
lowing its custom of procuring as lee
turers experts in the various lines OF
medicine and surgery, and realizing the
Importance Of careful and skillful ether.
ization as factor in successful surgery,
were able to secure the services of Dr.
Robert Ferguson, international expert
on anesthesia, who lectured at the reg
ular meeting of the organization on
Friday night.
Members of the club had been search.
ing for one of the greatest authorities
on the subject, to give Harrisburg ply.
slcians the latest word on etherization,
when they learned that DR.. Ferguson
mad Just returned from Europe. Al.
though Memphis and other large cities
desired his services, he decided to come
to Harrisburg, and spent the latter part
of last week here.
DR.. Ferguson left Europe several
weeks ago, where he had been lecturinc
in all the large medical centers. He
has been employed by the leading
medical colleges in this country and Eu.
rope to train experts in the administra.
ton of ether, and during his recent stay
IN England was elected member of the
Royal College of Physicians of London.
lie was called back to Europe while in
this city and will sail in q few davs.
lie will train anesthetists in the mill.
tary hospitals.
/ The Medical Club Of Harrisburg dem
onstrated its broad mindedness and un.
selfishness, by inviting 6fty members OF
the profession in and around Harrisburg
to the lecture given by the specialist
IN the directors room Of the Polytechnic
hospital. The speaker was introduce 4
to the club by the vice president Dr.
W. Ii. West. Dr.. G. W. Bauder was in
the chair and the meeting was reported
by the secretary, DR.. Lawson. A buf-
fet luncheon followed the lecture.
On Friday aud Saturday. DR.. Fereu.
son trained the anesthetists at the
Harrisburg Polytechnic hospital. Drcc.
tors and members of the STAFF OF the
new hospital at Front and Harris streets
are among the members of the Medical
Club and thcy were successful in pro.
curing the experts S services in giving
actua! instruction in the administration
of ether.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
Late WAR News SUMMARY


Conttnued From First Page.
inforcements had postponed the dsci-
sion.
Germany accounts the battle in Rus
sian Poland as virtually won, and is
already estimating the effect upon fu-
ture military operations. An announce
ment to-day from the German general
staff is to the effect that decision is
at hand and that conditions every
where are favorable from its point of
view.
In Berlin it is said the outcome of
the main battle with the Russians may
decide not only that phase of the many
sided war, but with the whole European
struggle. A decisive triumph in the
east, 1t is pointed out, would free part
Of the German army engaged there to
assist the forces which are facing the
British, French and Belgians in the
west
Upon what information the confident
Berlin predictions were based was not
fully apparent. An official German
statement to-day said merely that the
fighting in Poland continues. Russia
admits that the Germans have won par
tial successes, but there Is nothing to
show that the continued German ad-
vance toward Warsaw Is influencing the
Russian campaign to the north, in east.
ern Prussia, or to the south near Cra-
cow, Galicia.
Unoficial reports from Petrograd
state that the Russians are continuing
their advance I'm east Prussia and have
captured Gumbinnen, fortified city
SO miles from Koenigsberg. According
to all accounts, the main battle, be.
tween the Vistula and Warta rivers
is still in progress and, although the
Germans are pressing forward steadily
the Russian army is still offering de
termined resistance.
In the west the fighting in Belgium
which has been slow for several days
ON account of the weather, has broken
with the artillery playing the main
part. London suggests that. this may
be the prelude to another German az
tempt to pierce the line, as in the past
onslaughts by German infantry have
been preceded by heavy artillery at
tacks.
From the other fields of battle re
ports were meagre. The Turks were
said to have reached the Suez cana
after defeating British forces.
The British steamer La Correntina
missing for several weeks after she
sailed from Buenos Aires for Liverpool
is now said to have been sunk by the
German converted cruiser Kronprin'
Wilhelm. her crew having been taker
by German steamer to Mcntevideo
The French bark Union, it is said, alsc
was sunk by the Kronprinz wilhelm.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
Tells COURT his EARNING
CAPACITY Is $40 A MONTH
Defendant In MOUNTAINEERING Case
Says Si.25 Week Is All He Can
Pay His Wife-ordersd to Give
Her $3.50 Weekly

''until my sister-in-law came into
our home everything went lovely. l
don t think we could have lived happier
even if my husband had been wealthy, -
said Ida Wise, the wife of Harvey
Wise, when. she appeared before Judge
Kankel this morning and asked for a
maintenance order against her husband
in favor of herself and their two small
children.
"Who is this woman to whom you
reterf' asked tine Court.
'~lt is Emma Rhan. She and my
husband disappeared on the same day
several months ago, and they were seen
together in Cleveland, Ohio. They also
were seen in Carlisle and in Hagers,
town, Md
The woman added that the separa.
tion between her and her husband fol
lowed 'quarrels growing out of Wise
going to the Rhan home, presumably to
play cards. The Court directed Wise
to pay SO week for the support of his
family. The Sheriff informed the Court
that the Cumberland county authorities
have lodged a detainer against Wise
in connection with suit brought by
Mrs. Wise, in which the husband il
wanted on serious charge.
Gives Him Another Chance
Since his marriage two years ago
Willis Lehr, his wife said. has been in
Jail more than eighteen months. The
wife appeared against him in non
support suit but said she would give
him lone more lebance to reform aud
the suit was withdrawn. Similar action
was taken in a case in which dehl
was charged with defrauding his board
ing house keeper. He was released
upon his promising to pay all claims
against him, including the costs.
''lHis sister and his mother w$nteo
TO boss me and [ left, said Mary, the
wife Of Earl Dalton, when she appear
ed against her husband in non-mainte
nance suit. The defendant said hi.
monthly earning capacity is $40.
What do You think you can pay
your wife?' asked the Judge
Oh, about $1.25 week." he re
piled.
That wouldn Il keep the chickens,
added the Judge. Dalton was directed
to pay his wife $50 week.
Charles Snyder, of Pillow, this coun
ty, Drought up on a non support charge
said he needed his wages. $13 a week
all for paying his board and buying
"other stuff I needed He had moth
ing left for his wife and child, he said
The defendant told story to the eff
feet that the "good tines he hac
had were financed by his friends. On be
ing questioned further he admitted in
accuraces in his story.
Advised to Tell the Truth
" How much can you spare youl
wifes' the Judge asked.
''Aoout 81 a week..
The man was directed to paw Mrs
Snyder s22 a month, the Court add
ing:
And when YOU are brought before
US again, tell the truth.
For the support of his wife and child
Clyde Hopple was directed to pay 81
week. Luther Yingst was ordered tc
pay $3.50 a week for the maintenance
of his wife and three children.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
RELIEF WILL START AT ONCE

London, Nov. 2S, 2.96 P. M.-The
relief work of the Rockefeller Founda-
tion in Austria, Servia, France and
some sections OF Russia will be under
taken actively at once. DIR. Wickliffe
Rose, head of the Rockefeller commits
sion, said to-day that be and his asso
ciates would soon visit these countries,
where the needs of the people are per-
haps as great as in Belgium, although
less has been heard of the conditions
there.
1t is the purpose Of the Rockefeller
committee Dr. Rose explained, to dis
cover the localities in which the needs
of the people are greatest, regardless
of the country, and send immediate re.
lief Ambassador Page and DR.. Rose
have learned that the conditions are
especially bad in some sections OF
Servia.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
WOMAN DOCTOR TO CARE FOR
HOMELESS BELGIAN CHILDREN

Chicago, Nov. 23.-Dr. Caroline
Hedger, formerly in charge of the in
fant welfare work in Chicago, and her
assistant, Miss Janet Hall, will leave
tomorrow for Belgium to take charge
of the work of caring for homeless chill
dren under the Belgian Red Cross.
The Chicago Women 5 Club to-day
donated $4,000 to DR.. Hedger and her
assistant to defray their expenses. They
will carry 10000 doses of typhoid vac
cine, prepared and donated by Chi
cago woman physician at a cost of s5,-
900. In New York DR.. Hedger will be
given 10000 vaccine needles and $500
worth of dressing by the Red Gross.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
palmer spent 81. 2.526.17
Of That Amount $1,715 Was Contrib.
uted by the Various Friends of the
Defeated Senatorial Candidate

Friends of A. Mitchell Palmer, de,
feated Democratic candidate for Unit
ed States Senator, contributed S1.71J
toward his campaign expense, accord
ing to his expense account filed in the
State Department to-day. Of this
amount W. A. Dickson gave $500; c.
H. Dickerman, $100; T.. Passmore
$3.50; Grant Dibert, $50: Cornehu.
Haggerty, Jr, $3.50; J. 4. McGovern
500; Charles r. jenkins, 500. The
rest of the $1,715 was made up Of
smaller contributions.
Mr.. Palmer spent $2,526.17, making
up the excess out of his own pocket
His money was spent, according to the
itemized statement, for clerk hire, tele.
grams, expressage, hotel, postage, print.
ing, advertising and travelling expenses
The items are all small. He has no un.
paid bills, everything. so far as he is
personally concerned, being paid.
Theodore G. Lamb, Pittsburgh. treas.
urer of the Personal Liberty Party Fl.
nance Committee, received s726.22
from the German American Alliance
and spent it all for clerk hire, travelling
ami advertising.
1t is believed the expense accounts
of the Republican, Democratic and
Washington Party State Committees
will not be filed until just before the
time expires for fling on December 3
At the various headquarters the ac
counts are now being made up slowly
the delay being accounted for by the
difficulty in getting back the vouchers
showing the expenditures.
Mr.. Palmer is the only candidate foi
Senator who has filed an account here
thus far. The Penrose and Pinchot ac,
counts will not be fled until the latter
part Of the month, possibly next Mon.
day.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
DONATIONS FOR HOSPITAL
Collections Begin Tomorrow and 38
Merchants Give Use of Teams
and Autos For Work

Collections of donations for the
Harrisburg hospital will begin to-mor.
row. Thirty ysix local merchants have
agreed to donate the use of their teams
and automobiles for that purpose. The
store rooms at the hospital building
have been made ready for the dona
tions, shelves cleared for jellies and
barrels made ready for potatoes, apples
and like things.
Members OF the Woman 5 Aid So.
ciety will be at the hospital all day
tomorrow and Wednesday to receive
donations. Hundreds of bags have been
distributed over the city and surround
ing towns. Donations from places out.
side the city will be received Wednes
day. The following firms have offered
the use of their vehicles for this work
Herman Astrich, 400 Market street;
D. Bacon Company, 431 South Elev.
enth street; Bates & Company, 110
Market street; Bowman & Company
318 Market street; Boyer Joy Car
Burns & Company, 80 South Second
street; l.. w. Cook, 31S Market street
Davis & largest, Third and Muench
streets; Irwin e. Deepen, 2259 North
Sixth street; Dives, Pomeroy s. Stew
art, Fourth and Market streets; Z. L.
Faekler Est, Thirteenth and Derry
streets; A. Reeder Ferriday, 101 North
Cameron street; Samuel Gardner, 1911
North Third street; Gardner & Bap-
tisti, Third and Chestnut streets;
Gault s Grocery, 236 North street; j.
j. Gentslider, Green and Verbeke
streets; Globe Clothing House, 324
Market street; Joseph Goldsmith, 309
Locust street; Harrisburg Carpet Com.
pany, 50 North Second street;
George w. Hines, 10 North Market
square; Hall Brothers, 171S North
Third street; Kaufman's Underselline
Store, South Market square; j. A.
Kirkland, 236 PETER street; A. Il
Kreidler & Brother, 100 North Second
street; Martz Brothers, q South Third
street; Miller & Kades, 8 North Mar
ket square; Ober Brothers, Court and
Cranberry streets: Paxton Flour and
Feed Company, Second and Paxton
streets; Peipher Line. South Tenth
street; B. Schmidt, Eighteenth and
Holly streets, j. II. Sebourn. S27
Green street; Steiff Piano Company, "a
North Second street; George W. SWAY.
ely, 1921 Green street; J. H. Tripner
312 Verbeke street; j. H. Troup, la
South Market square; United Ice and
Coal Company, Cowden and Forster
streets.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
CHILE WILL STOP NEUTRALITY
BREACHES, EVEN AT WAR COST

Lima, Peru, Nov. 23.-It is declared
here to-day on what would appear to
be good authority that the Germans
have been maintaining what is de
scribed as a naval station outside of
Valparaiso, Chile. Here they brought
together number of vessels having on
board coal and provisions
Chilean papers reaching here say the
government is determined to stop these
breaches of neutrality even at the cost
of war.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23

W. L. Loeser, well Known attorney
of Harrisburg, has just been appointed
member Of the Supreme Forum of the
Supreme Lodge of the World Loyal Or
der of Moose. This Forum is the high
est Court Of Appeals of the Order The
Moose has over six hundred thousand
members in the order and have lodges
in all parts of the United States and
Canada as we'll as in Australia and
South Africa. Harrisburg has a lodge
Of nearly three thousand members
Philadelphia lodges membership
amounts to more than nineteen thousand
members in one lodge.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
20 KILLED In B0MBARDMENT
OF LIBAU BY GERMAN SHELLS

London, Nov. 23, 444 A. M.-Ac.
cording to Libau newspapers, during the
German bombardment of Libau last
Tuesday 700 shells were thrown in four
hours, says the Petrograd correspondent
of the Chimes.
Twenty people were killed and 40
others were injured, most of whom
were women and children. No panic
occurred and only that portion of the
town within the zone reached by the
guns was evacuated. In the other dis.
tricts the people continued at their
work as usual.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
PEN. FOR ROBBING
COLLEGE ROO1ER
Continued From First Page,


to the penitentiary for term of from
one to three years. Danner served two
terms in the Huntington Reformatory
and was in Jail several times. He, too,
said he stole because he had nothing to
eat and was without funds. The bi-
cycles all were recovered by the police.
Peter Ragin got thirty days for
stealing pair of shoes from his room
mate.
g | stole because | was hungry he
said.
8. You couldn t eat the shoes, could
you?' asked the Judge.
Sure, | could" be reslied.
The Judge smilingly advised the de-
fendant not to take another pair of
shoes, and added:
+" IL YOU must get something to eat,
get what you can eat
w. =. Gallagher, Mddletown man.
said:
Il got full and | just took those
things" He was charged with stealing
pair of shoes, knife and a pair of
tronsers. He got four months and the
usual fine of IS.
James Edwards, a Virginia negro,
bound for Chicago, "just decided to hop
off, when he arrived in Harrisburg
and he ''hoppedn into the tailor shop
of J.. i. Shandler. He also chopped /"
out with a pair of trousers. He got
three months.
He Stole Cornet
For stealing cOrnet and watch,
Andrew Striekler, employed in a Mar
'ket street lunch room, got four months.
As an excuse for walking out of his
boarding place with his roommate s
overcoat and shoes, John Smith, 10
years old, Southerner, said: I'D
bin drinking He was given seven
months
When the choir of Wesley A. NJ. E.
church decided to give a concert in
Carlisle several weeks ago, Stanley
jackson, one of the members, was iig-
uring on a scheme by which to get car
fare to that city. He pawned a $25
overcoat belonging to William B. Luck.
EFT, his roommate, for seventy five
cents. Jackson said he thought Luck
EFT wouldn t miss the coat since he had
two. Jackson got three months.
Edward Bradley struck Grace Van
Buskirk in the face "because she
cussed me, - and got thirty days. A
similar sentence was imposed on Oliver
Curtis, who confessed to striking Susie
Willis.
''She tore my shirt and | soaked
her." he said
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
FRANKS LAST HOPE GONE
U. S. Supreme Court Refuses to Review
Murderer S Case
I'm .iSsQCiNLed PreSS.

Washington, Nov. 23.-Justiee La
mar to-day refused to issue a writ of
error to bring to the United States
Supreme Court for review the eonvic.
tion of Leo NJ. Frank for the murder of
Mary Phagan, a factory girl, in At.
lanta, Ca, in 1913.
Frank is under sentence of death.
lIis attorneys applied to Justice Lamar
for the writ on the ground that right
under the Federal Constitution had
been denied him when the iury's yer
diet was returned during his absence
from the court room.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
EXPLOSION IN POWDER MILLS
Workmen Had Inkling Of Disaster and
200 Hundred Fled to Safety
Bg Associated Pre-

Chicago, Nov. 23.-Hundreds of
windows in Gary were broken to-day
by a nitrogiycerin explosion in the
works Of the Aetna powder mills, four
miles distant
No one was killed or injured, it was
reported, as a leak in an oil tang gave
warning that an explosion might be
expected and the workmen, numbering
about zoo, fed.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
COMING SESSION OF CONGRESS

Washington, Nov. "a" Congress
will not do much at the opening session
except TO pass appropriation bills, "
declared Speaker Clark to-day as he
was leaving for New England to fill
speaking engagements.
Tt cannot" he said, "do very
much more than that as l see it. There
ism going to be any extra session, /
believe.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23
CENTRAL CONES OFF PERCH
Rescinds Order Concerning the Honor
ing of Mileage Books

Washington, Nov. 23.--Notice given
by the New York Central lines that
mileage books sold before October /
when the rate was raised, from two
cents mile TO two and quarter
would not DC honored for passage, has
been withdrawn.
Although the railroad proposed to
redeem the unused portions of such
books, the Interstate Commerce Com
mission suspended it's regulation, hold
ing it was a violation of the contract
of purchase. To-day the railroad with
drew the regulation and the commits
sion vacated its order of suspension.