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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-13

BEGINNING THE DAY-I thank Thee, my Father. for the love anu wisdom which have restrained Thee from answering all my prayers. l thank Thee that hast heard my prayer for strength rather than my prayer for lighter burdenj tnat Thou hast given me trust rafher than riches. and communion with Thee rather than freedom from tears, Amen.-H. M. E.
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X K X xxx X x X

x x X X x X X x A note today
 From fair Yvette; The postscript is The sweetest yet. Some tiny marks For kisses meant Have filled my heart With vast content.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-13
WHY HESITATE:

Moves and Watson both have written Poems to fire the British heart. Whats the matter with Rud. Kipling?
 Won't he try to do his part?
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A coNsIDERAfE WIFE.

A CONSIDERABLE WIFE.
 "A beauty specialist offered me rem edy yesterday that she guaranteed would make me look 10 years younger said Mrs. Twobble
 Why didn't you try .it?' asked MT. Twobble from behind his paper.
 She wanted s25 for the recipe.' an- swered Mrs. Twobble, "and I was afraid the price would make you look 10 years older"
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TELLS OF OSCAR wunE

At that s5o,OOo.OOO per day comes pretty high even for a first class war
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-13
PAS GUESS

PAS GUESS. Pa, who was Atlas?@ T guess he was an ancester of Kaiser Wilhelm, my boy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-13
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
NO CAUSE TO WORRY.

Though champagne scars. he shall not
 mind
 Who much prefers Milwaukee's brew, And deep in soothing suds doth find Nepenthe for a life of rue.
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No communication will be published without it's authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
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New York Independent: Jean Jacques: War is the foulest fiend that ever vomited forth from the mouth of he'll
 Thomas Jefferson: I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of man. kind.
 Benjamin Franklin: There never was Q good war or a bad peace. William Lloyd Garrison: My country is the world; my countrymen are all man kind.
 Napoleon Bonaparte: The more study the world the more am convinced of the inability of force to cieate anything dur able.
 Paul on Mars Hill: God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth
 (Anrdew Carnegie: We have abolished slavery from civilized countries-the own ing of man by man. rne next great step that the world can take is to abolish war the killing of man by man. George Washington: My first wish is to see the whole world at. peace. and the in-
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-17
MERCURY Still lowering
AROUND 1O-DECREE MARK
Cold Wave to Last For Two Days, Say
Weather Bureau officials-Sunday'
Snow Remains Frozen to the
Pavements

There was no Indication o.day of
any let up in the cold wave, the Wealth.
er Bureau officials here continuing to
forecast extremely low temperatures,
fixing to-night's probable minimum at
IL degrees, one degree higher than
that of last night.
The Susquehanna river under the
influence of the protraeted cold spell
had become generally icebound and it
will remain so. Slight decreases in the
river stage are forecasted for the next
twenty -four hours. The ice on the riv-
er at this point is FIVE inches thick
where tests were made by Weather Bu.
reau officials. 1t will likely average
close to that point in thickness.
The weather continues far below the
normal temperature for this time of the
year and since the first big fall in
temperature the mercury has not been
within twelve degrees of the freezing
point. the maximum since the cold wave
set in occurring yesterday afternoon
when the twenty degree mark was
reached.
Under the influence of this kind of
weather there is no hope that iee-coat-
ed pavements will be cleared by the
sun. The life of the present cold wave
Is believed to be two days vet. A
storm of unusual strength has appeared
off the coast of California causing
heavy rains. That may develop east
following the present cold wave.
Generally fair weather will prevail
tonight and Friday east of the Mis-
sissippi except in the lower Mississippi
valley where rain or snow will fall and
in Florida where rains are predicted.
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BIZ Associated Press

PottsviAe, Pa. Dee IA $4,000.
900 FIRE wiped out one entire business
block in the heart of the business dis
trict of Pottsville early this morning
and at clock it was burning fiercely
after communicating to second block,
but 1t was believed that it had been
controlled. The fire burned itself out
about $50 a. m.
From Centre to Second and from
Norwegian to Mahantongo is a mass of
red embers and smoking ruins or with
flames shooting skyward from the
buildings yet uneonsumed. Twenty
store buildings, including the Pennsyl-
vania National bank and the Academy
of Music, one of Pottsville's leading
playhouses. are among the buildings de-
stroyed. The postoffice was afire, but
was not badly damaged
The FIRE started in the rear of the
Woolworth Five and Ten Cent store,
communicated on both sides TO the Brit.
ton Hoffman furniture store and the
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-17
"a DEAD, 147 INJURED, TOLL OF RAID
BY GERMANS ON ENGLISH COAST CITIES
late WAR news summary

One Of the greatest victories of the
war is claimed to-day by Germany.
The German Official statement contains
these words:
THE Russian offensive against Sill
esia and Posen has completely broken
dwon. In the whole of Poland the
enemy was forced to retreat after fierce
and stubborn frontal battles and is be-
ing pursued everywhere.
A semi-official statement from Ber-
lin speaks confidently of the situation
in the east and says that the Austrians
appear to have achieved their first
actual successes against the Russians
in the last few days in Western Gal
icia. Petrograd admits that the Ger
man hanking movements threaten the
Russian lines of communication and
that it has been necessary for the Rus
slams to draw back their lines in GER
tain sections, but it gives no intimation
of such reverses as are reported from
Berlin.
The great battle in the west, which
is being carried on most fercely in Bel
gium and Northwestern France, is the
subject of conflicting claims. The Ger.
man war office announces that the al
lies have made new attacks but that
they have been beaten back with heavy
losses. The French statement says that
several German trenches in Belgium
have been captured by infantry as
saults and that at other points to the
south and east the artillery of the al
lies has done effective work.
-Four steamers were sunk by mines
Continued on Fifteenth PAGE.
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new freproof building on the corner
was little damaged and opened for bust
ness while the fire ragged around il.
This bank building and grocery store
at another corner and brick restau-
rant next to the bank were the only
buildings left standing in the entire
block
Inability to secure sufficient water
supply in the early stages of the fire
is given'as cause for the rapid spread
of the confagration. The electric pow
er was shut off and the trolley lines,
electric lights and electric power are
all dead.
All but one of the buildings were of
brick, the frame one being a small resi-
dence on Second street. The fire is 10.
Gated in one of Pottsville's s principal
business blocks and the merchants all
had big stocks of holiday goods. which
adds greatly TO their loss, as this extra
stock was not covered by insurance.
II was the worst fire in PottsviHe s
history,
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-17
TROOPER SHOT: z ARRESTS
State Police Hope TO Capture Five
More of Party Alleged to Have Beat
en- Two Members of Constabulary

Captain George F. Lumb.. deputy SUI.
perintendent of State police, received a
report this morning of the alleged at
tSck made by seven Italians upon two
State policemen IN Wyoming, bnzerne
eoUnae, yesterday. The two troopers.
Amman anu Marshall. called at the
house of an Italian to search for stolen
goods alleged TO be seereted in the
house. The Italian, il is claimed. met
them with smiles and told them TO
proceed with the search and thev went
through the lower part of the house.
finding nothing They then went to
the upper part of the house and while
both were STOPPING over in the small
room, lifting mattress from bed to
look under It, they were suddenly at.
tackled from behind by seven men.
Both Amman and Marshall are skill.
ful with their fists. and thev succeeded
in beating their assailants for a time.
but finally. il is alleged, the foreigners
drew revolvers aud began to shoot, one
ball ploaghing a ridge across the top
OF Amman 5 head, the blood binding
him.
Both men knew that il was death
to remain longer, and they jumped
from the window to a snow pile. escap-
ing further injury. although both were
badly bruised and cut. They succeeded
in arresting two of the men. but the
others got away with two guns they
had taken from tine troopers.
The members of B troop have been
notified, and Captain Lumb saws that
all of the men who participated in the
assault on Amman and Marshall will be
arrested before the day is over, as they
are all known and it will be impossible
for them TO get away
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Auto Bandit Robs One
Institution of $4,000
and Escapes With the
Police in Pursuit
VISITS ANOTHER
WITHIN 2 HOURS
At Latter Place the Robber Shoots the
Cashier and Escapes With Another
Bundle of Money in Automobile
But Afterward Is Arrested
By Associated Press.

Cincinnati, Dec. I7.-Late this aft
ernoon the bandit was captured. He
had rented room yesterday in West
Ninth street apartment house and the
owner of the apartment, having read a
description of the man, called the at
tention of the police to similarity.
Three policemen called at his room and
upon opening the door were received
with shower of shots. Policeman
Knaul fell wounded and the bandit,
jumping past the other two officers, fed
to the street, re-entered his automobile
which was standing in the front of the
house, and fed.
His fight proved unlucky for him,
inasmuch as he crashed into a pole
rounding the first corner, and wrecked
the machine. He extricated himself
from the wreckage and started to run
but the officers by that time were close
to him and after an exchange of shots.
the bandit fell.
Following an examination the ply
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-17
FIRE DESTROYS A
POTTSVILE BUSINESS BLOCK
aze That Starts in WO0w0rth Ten Cent Store
Levels Score of Buildings Including the PennsyI-
Vania National Bank Academy Music One of
the Cs Leading Payhouses-- Worst Fire i'm the History
of the Town--Masonc Lodge Made Homeless

City department store. owned by New
York Cleveland syndicate, part of the
second floor of which was occupied by
law Offices. The other buildings de-
stroyed were:
W. S. Cowen, druggist; C. w. Morti-
mer, men IS furnisher; L. a. Fisher,
Jewelry; Harry Schablein, pool and bill
lizards; III. Larer & Company, millinery; /;
X. J. Mills, automobile supplies; T. z.
Brennan, residence: Mrs. f. 4. Rabe-
nau, residence; P. Reif, tailor and
residence; Guy w. Mortimer, resi-
denee; E. A. Goodall, medical in.
stitute; G. T. Burd. fire insurance;
George Wiederhold, shoe store, and FIVE
new brick store buildings just eomplet-
ed but not yet occupied.
The Pennsylvania bank building was
occupied by lawyers and other Offices
en- the second floor and on the third
floor by the Masonic lodge. The
bank s valuables were all locked up in
a freproof vault and are believed to
be safe. The Union Safe Deposit bank 's
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-17
Four Steamers, One Be.
lieved to Be a Pas
senger Vessel. Are
Reported Wrecked
7 LIVES ON ONE
BOAT ARE LOST
Casualties on the Other Vessels Have
Not Yet Been Ascertained-Prob-
ably Victims of Mines Left in Wake
of German Fleet

South Shields, Eng, Dee. II. via
London 2.45 P. M.-Three steamers.
one believed to be passenger ship.
were sunk by mines in the North sea
of Marlborough head last might.
Only one of these three vessels has
so far been identified. This is the
steamer Elterwater. Twelve of her crew
were saved but seven lost their lives.
The casualties on the other ships have
not vet been determined, but it is re.
ported that the crew and passengers of
the passenger vessel were seen taking
TO their boats.
The Admiralty has announced that
all traffic between Marlborough Head
and New Castle mas been stopped indefi-
nitely.
Marlborough Head is about twenty
miles down the coast from Scarborough,
one of the points bombarded yesterday
bv the German cruisers. These hostile
ships were reported to have left mines
in their wake as they steamed away
from the British coast.
The area from Marlborough Head
Continued on sixth Page
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Scores of Houses in the Two
Hartlepools We're Wrecked
and Scarcely One of the Large
Factories in Both ToDns Es-
capped the Flying Shells
Many Ships in the Harbor
Damaged

London. Dec. IL. tt.t5 A. M.-The
casualties at Hartlepool as a result of
the German naval raid, according to an
Official bureau statement to-day were
81 persons killed and ti5 wounded.
Unofficial reports have indicated that
j. were killed and 30 wounded at Scar.
borough as a result of the lombard
ment there and that at Whitby two
were killed and two were injured.
AS result OF the raid most of the
coast towns OF England and many i'll
land towns are adopting the strictest
precautions. Street lights have been re-
ouced to the utmost and all along the
coast sharp lookout is maintained.
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FLAMES AGAIN ATTACK THE MASONIC
TEMPLE, CAUSING ALOSS OF $4,000
HER Will ON SCRAP Paper
Miss Jane L. Robinson Left More Than
$1,000 to Her Cousin, Miss
Catherine F. Bigler

Notations made on two pieces of pa.
per, neither of which is larger than 3
postal card, make up the will of Jane
l.. Robinson, formerly a school teach.
er and nurse, late of 1913 North Front
street.
Miss Robinson was more than so
years old. She gave the bulk of her
estate, which consists of bank deposits
and small tract of land, to her cousin,
Miss Catherine F. Bigler. with whom
she lived at the Front street address.
IL does not appear on the "will y
just when it was written However,
three Harrisburgers, personal aequaint-
ances of the deceased, made affidavit
that the papers are in the handwriting
of Miss Robinson. The one reads as
follows:
81 leave $50 deposited in the Com.
mercial bank, Egg Hahbor, to Kitty
Bigler.''
The other carries this provision:
Il leave my bank deposits. over
$1,000, to Kitty Bigler In bank in
Brooklyn, Atlantic avenue and Clinton
streets.
Miss Robinson, years ago, followed
the profession of nurse and for some
time had been employed in New York
City.
The two papers which go to make up
the will were found among other less
valuable papers and letters shortly aft.
err Miss Robinson s death ON March 3,
last. The win was not probated earlier
because a search was being made to
learn whether there was a later docu-
mont.
Miss Robinson was sister of An
drew Robinson. formerly bank clerk
in this city, who is believed to have
been killed by bandits in Texas years
ago.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-17
DIVIDED ON PLAN
TO CUT TAX RATE
City Commissioners
May Split When 1t
Comes to Ballotingo on
Half Mill Reduction
BOWMAN SAYS
1T WILL CARRY
Asserts There Are Votes Enough to
Lower the Levy-Mayor Royal Be
heves a Decrease Now Would Mean
an Increase in the Rate for 1915

With the total of the 1915 budget
requests already reduced to a trihe less
than s56o.00o. the City Commissioners
went into extraordinary session begin.
ming at 5 o clock this afternoon deter
mined to finish their pruning work and
to have the measure prepared for print.
ing, so that il may be in shape for final
passage at the regular meeting next
Tuesday.
There is now some doubt in the
minds of city officials as to the pos.
sibility of reducing the tax rate from
nine and one.half to nine mills, al.
though Commissioner IL. f. Bowman
said this morning he now is satisfied
there will be sufficient votes to pass the
tax levy ordinance providing for the
decrease.
Mayor Royal and other city officials,
however, declared that if a nine mill
Continued ON sixth PAGE.
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sicians at the hospital said probably
both Policeman Knaul and the bandit
would die. Both were shot four times,

Cincinnati, o., Dec. 17.-An auto
mobile bandit believed to be operating
alone, terrorized the west and business
sections of Cincinnati TODAY. ro,,hed
two banks within radius of ten
blocks of each other. shot aud serious
~ wounded the cashie. of one bank,
shot at the cashier of the other and
apparently eludef the police by escap.
ing in an automobile.
1t is known that he obtained $4,000
IN the first bank, the West End branch
of the Provident SAVINGS Bank AMI
trust Company at Eighth and Fireman
avenues, and the officials of the Liberty
Banking and Savings Company at Lib
erty and fireman avenues. the second
bank ROBBED. believe that the amount
obtained from them will run into thou.
sands when check up is made.
No fewer than twelve persons were
in the banks at tine time the robberics
were committed, but the preniiscous
use of the bandit s revolver held them
IN check although minute description
of the man aud his automobile was OBJ
tanned.
At 1890 o clock the bandit drove
up before the West End branch OF the
Provident in small automobile. He
scaled an eight-foot screen in the bank
fired at Cashier Edward Hugaes. grab
bed $4,000, backed to the door and
disappeared in his machine followed
by a fusillade of shots from Hu,aha s
revolver. The police in their auto
picked up his track which led through
various streets in the Wcet End se.
tion but had almost given up hope Of
locating him that way, when bandit
was reported to have robbed the Lib
erty bank
The same tactics which had proved
successful at the Psovident bank were
employed by the bandit at the Liberty
bank, the only difference being that in
the latter case he shot Cashier George
Winters, probably seriously wounding
MIN. The police once more picked 80
Continued on Sixth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-17
TO EAT NEAT ON CHRISTMAS
Roman Catholics Will Fast Next Week
on Thursday, Not Friday

Roman Catholics will be permitted to
eat meat on Friday of next week,
christmas day, according to the Rev.
NJ. NJ. lHassett, of St. Patrick s cathe-
dral The Roman Catholic Church has
ruling that when church festival
falls on a Friday general dispense
tion may be given in every diocese.
The custom will next week be fol
lowed of observing the preceding day
as the fast day. Fasting always pre-
cedes the celebration of church fes-
tival, and Thursday of next week will
accordingly be fast day.
This will affect the meat aud fish
markets of the entire world Fish will
be on hand II day earlier than usual
and meat will be furnished on Friday
to Catholics as we'll as non.Catholics.
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GREAT BATTLE BEING WAGED
30 NILES WEST OF WARSAW

Warsaw, Dec, II, Via London. 420
]. MA great battle is in progress at
Soehsczew, 80 miles west of Warsaw.
The German wedge which is proceeding
IN southeasterly direction from How
has managed after heavy fighting, in
which serious losses are reported to
have been inflicted, 20 establish itself
quarter of mile west of Sochaczex.
The Polish campaign now centers at
that point
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Held on a Forgery Charge

Elmer E. Hunter, $50 Ridge street,
Steelton, charged with forging the
names of two women to the backs of
Christmas checks and then cashing
them at Harrisburg store. was held
under $500 bail for court bv Mavor
Royal this afternoon. He was arrested
Yesterday by City Detective Ibach.
The amount of the checks was s76.69
and he had $50 left when apprehended
and his arms full of purchases.
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Majority of Victims Civilians

Mddlesooro, Eng, Dee Il, Via Lon
don, $40 \. M.-LateSt returns of the
KILLED and wounded as the result of the
German naval raid show that at Hartie.
pool 20 were killed ami so injured.
while at West Hsrtlepool l9 were
fkillei ana so injured. OF the wound
ed twenty are housed at the military
hospital in Masonic Hail and fifty in
,the Cameron Hospital
The majority of the victims were
seivilians. About eight of the killed and
is7 of the wounded were men engaged
in coast defense work but of the re
lmsinder the bulk were civilians who
iwere shot while at work in the streets
pr while in their own homes
Scores of houses in the two Hartle-
Pools have been wrecked and scarcely
zone of the large factories in the two
towns escaped damage. The telephone
lserviee is completely disorganized.
Gas Holders Out of Business
The gas works were shelled with ex
septionsl severity and every gas holder
was put out of commission. Several
rhurches and schools also suffered from
she enemy's 5 fire
East Hsrtlepool suffered the most in
the bombsriment but there was also
much damage done in West Hartlepool
Many ships in the harbor were dam
aged including the steamer Diobola, de.
tanned since the outbreak of the war.
which was completely pierced by
shell.
At West Garth, in the engineering
works, two vorkmen were killed any
three other persons were killed in the
streets.
Single Shell Killed Nine Men
In Dover street, West HarrIepool
which IS right in the heart of the busi.
Hess center. shell carried away the
entrance Of cottage and killei the
occupant, an Old woman. named Mrs.
Moon. Shells fell iudiscriminateK in
ai parts of the town Special con.
staoies were caiied out and ambulance
men anu doctors were quickly on the
scene. Not moment was lost in .-Iy.
lng aid to the wounded.
The firing Is said 20 have been very
accurate. In one ease a single she'll
killed NINE men and in another instance
three men were kiIlei and elevsn
wounjed. Another she'll killed 4 wnole
family aud there are many instances
where several persons in house Were.
killed together.
The populaee is quiet and mas eyi.
deutiy oeen reassured by the proelama.
tioH Of the mayor OF Nest Hartlenool
councillor Fryer, requesting the civil
population 10 keep their houses as far
as possible for the present.
The nearest parallel to the visit of
Yesterday is found in the activities of
''ohn Paul Jones. the terror of Englisb
shipping, who menaeet English coast
towns in 1919.
majority of the victims at HartIe.
rooi were women and children. Fifteen
school boys were killed by single she'll
only one boy in group escaping. Ten
persons were killed by the eolIapse Of
building in which they had taken shell.
ter. One shell damaged building FIVE
miles from shore.