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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-15

Chinese under German officers.
In addition. the few German and
Austrian cruisers in the far east sought
refuge in the port upon the outbreak
of war. Probably these vessels will he
stripped Of their armament as far as
possible and the guns taken from them
will he mounted on shore. The crews
of the ships also will he landed.
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EXTREME PRIVILEGES
FOR ALL LOYAL POLES

ST. Petersburg, Aug. 15.-The Rus
sian government promises Poland
freedom i'm the matter of religion and
language, and autonomy. If the Poles
are loyal in the present struggle with
Germany and Austria Hungary
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TWO ROBBERS SHOOT AND
KILL ST. LOUIS PAYMASTER

st. Louis, Aug. 15.-F. II. Suller, pay
master of the st. Louis Refrigerating
q Cold Storage Co, was shot and
killed by two robbers. who escaped in
an automobile with the payroll at 10
o'clock this morning.
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VATICAN'S FINANCES
AFFECTED BY THE WAR

Rome, Aug. 1.-THE effect of the
war is being felt at the Vatican. the
resources of which are deposited in
the banks of Italy and abroad, whence
ii is difficult to withdraw them. Re-
mittances are few and the payment of
Peters pence is almost suspended.
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- BULLETINS -.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Aug 15.-The Austrian -LloyG
steamer Marienbad captured by British warships

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Aug 15.-The Austrian Lloyd
steamer Marienbad captured by British warships.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15-Germany will allow the cruiser
Tennessee bearing gold for Americans Bremen
LONDON Aug 15-The sailing today of the St. Louis Cam
pania Minnewaska at Megantc reduced the Americans
stranded in England by forty five hundred.
WASHINGTON, Aug 15-Americans may leave Ger.
MANY as train service has been restored Ambassador
ard at Berlin, reported today, via Copenhagen.
LONDON Aug 15.-A Times dispatch says German aero
plane few Namur Belgium last evening and dropped
several bombs Five were wounded being horri
bly, mangled
BRUSSELS via Paris Aug 15-According to latest advices
barely 500 soldiers escaped unhurt of the four
or five thousand engaged in the battle of Haeen Many
field of the Germans lost in the Among
the wounded are two German princes.
NEW YORK Aug 15-The liner Celtic arrived today with
800 passengers from Europe. More than hundred per
sons of means in the eerage because of the
ton aboard One passenger who had obtained first cabin
accommodations refused So, 700 for stateroom.
WASHINGTON Aug 15-Acher Huntington president of the
American Geographical society, and family, ar
rested but have been enjoying the fullest liberty Nur
emberg Germany according to the state department The
German government explained that automobile owned
hv Huntington requisitioned and that his chauffeur
british subject held for short time but released
All are safe and well at Nuremberg.
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T. r. TO ADDRESS CONVENTION

Hartford, Conn, Aug. 15.-Col.
Roosevelt will speak at the Progressive
state convention here tonight.
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MAY ASSIST RUSSIA.

Paris, Aug. 15.-A Rome
dispatch says the various Bal
kan states are actively work
ing to bring about the recon
structiOn of the former Balkan
league to assist Russia against
Austria-lIungary and keep
Turkey inactive.
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London Press Bureau Says This
Is Apparent Plan Of Ger
mans in Advance
REPORTS CONFLICTING
Censors Say French Stop InVad-
erS in AIsaCe, While Ger
mans Claim Victory

hOlluOl, aug. l0.-lle DrlU-
| ish official press bureau says:
"There are indications of
the intention of the German
troops to envelop the extreme
left OF the allied forces.
1.-The German offensive is
for the moment arrested in up
per Alsace and there are indi-
cations that the French have
made progress on that side.
"t'rench troops are advanc-
ing into the high Alsatian val
Ieys of the Vosges mountains.
French troops have entered the
town of Sales, driving out the
German troops.
I'm the Woevre district, de-
partment of Meuse, French
troops today fired at and
brought down a hostile aero
plane at height of over 1000
yards. Two German officers
occupying the machine were
taken prisoners. In the same
district a battalion of light in
fantry routed a battalion of
the German landwehr, taking
forty prisoners.
Belgian cavalry continues
successful in the neighborhood
of Hasselt."
GERMANS RoUT FRENCH.
New York, Aug. 15.-The
following dispatch from Ger
man official sources in Berlin
was received at the Sayville, l..
l., wireless station today:
"The Seventh French army
corps, and an army division
from Belfort, invaded upper
Alsace and were defeated yes
terday by the German troops
near Meulhausen."
The dispatch, somewhat
mutilated by poor transmits
sion, indicated the French en-
trenchments were taken at the
point Of the bayonet.
LIEGE FORTS INTACT.
Paris, Aug. 15.-An official
announcement says the cour-
age of the soldiers and inhabi-
tants of Liege is exemplary,
as they realize France has re-
piled to the appeal of Belgium
for aid.
The Belgians' maior-in-com-
mand of the forts surrounding
Liege contradicts the rumors
they had surrendered. The bat
tie was declared to be still go
ING on.
German deserters complain
of the terrible hunger they suf-
fered. They are said to have
declared their rations consist
ed of one sausage and two
spoonsful of peas.
CUT COMMUNICATION.
London, Aug. 15.-The Rus
sian general staff at st. Peters
burg announces that Russian
troops have destroyed local
and railroad telegraph lines in
the province of East Prussia,
at eleven points, between
Schmalleningken on the Rus
sian frontier and Tilsit. The
German troops have also dam
aged some frontier roads.
Find Range With Asroplsnes.
Rotterdam, Aug. 15.-"The Belgians
are making good use OF their aero
planes wires the Dutch correspond
INT OF the Nieue Rotterdamsche Cour-
mt, from Maestricht. From my posi-
ton on the frontier I saw 300 yards
away the bridge the Germans were
trying to build across the Meuse and
he German encampment 600 yards
away.
Suddenly a Belgian aeroplane pass
sd over head. lowering first over the
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RUSSIANS VICTORIOUS.

london, Aug. I5.-Of1iciaI
confirmation of the Russian
victory over the Austrians on
the river Daniester is contain
ed in a telegram from the
French minister of foreign af-
fairs. He says the fourth in
fantry regiment and the first
cavalry regiment of the Aus
trian army were annihilated
by the Russians. He adds that
the positions in upper Alsace
and at Iiege, Belgium, are un-
obanUaI
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Francis sJoseph's Troops Succeed
in Crossing Save River
West Of Belgrade
TAKE TOWN OF SABAC
Attempts to Invade SerVia on
Danube and Other Points
Are Repu|ssd

London, Aug. ia dis
patch to the Reuter- Telegram
Co., from Nish, Servia, says
that after an incessant bonn
bardment along the entire
frontier line of the Rivers Save
and Danube, the Austrians
succeeded in entering Sebac on
the Save, 81 miles west of Bel
grade, and into Losnitza.
The Austrians renewed their
attempts to cross the Danube
at Belgrade and other points,
but were repulsed.
Another dispatch to the
Reuters from Nish, dated the
thirteenth, sent by way of Ath-
ems, gives the Servian official
account of recent fighting on
t1e frontier, as follOWS:
-Four hundred thousand
Austrians attacked the Serv-
ians last night. A fierce battle
ensued all along the line. The
Austrians were repulsed with
heavy casualties toward Takia
on the Roumanian frontier,
and also repulsed from Bel
grade, where they attempted
to cross the Danube, but
through numerical superiority
they succeeded in crossing the
Save"
The Servians are concen-
trating for a big engagement
fbiC oN,opipr
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Aug. 15-Germany will allow the
Tennessee, bearing gold for Americans. to enter b
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Aug. 15.-Americans may now lie
many as train service has been restored, Ambass
ard, at Berlin reported today, via Copenhagen.
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-08
ONLY ONE HOUSE
Of Ill REPUTE IN
CITY, SAY POLICE
Telegraph's Crusade Against Vice
Productive of Unexpected
Results in Harrisburg
WHOLE TOWN CLEANED UP
One Other Place Being Closely
Watched; Soliciting" Is
Reported
WHOLE TOWN CLEANED UP

Only one house of questionable
character to-day exists in Harrisburg,
according to the quarterly police re-
port of Col Joseph b. Hutchison,
chief of police to the Dauphin county
court at June quarter eessions.
In a report six months ago Col.
Hutchison said that he knew of more
than twenty-five places of i'll repute.
The names and addresses of the own
ers Of these places were returned 10
court and they were printed in the
Telegraph. Notice was served on the
police department that the Harrisburg
tenderloin must be closed to its hid
eous traffic. And the report to-day
shows the result. In all Harrisburg,
when once the police really got busy,
the chief of police knows of only one
house of questionable character. The
house in question is:
Corner of Strawberry and Cowden
streets, owned by Ben Pruss, con-
Quoted by Mary Crawley.
One other mention of an establish
ment that was watched by the police
is mentioned. This is No. $40 Straw
berry street and, according to the po-
lice report, "colored women sit on the
porch and openly solicit"
AS to the existence of gambling
houses, ETC., selling of liquor illegally
and the other violations of the law to
which the officers are required to an
swer in their reports, the police con-
stables state that they have had sus-
picions in some instances, but suffi-
cient evidence to convict was lacking
In other instances where they are able
to back up their suspicious with evil
dence, the cases were returned tC
court.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-08
Leper Causes Officials
of US. Much Concern
BY Associafed Press

Washington, June S.-John r.
Early the alleged leper whose unex-
pected return to Washington recently
creased such CONSERVATION. continued
to-day to cause Treasury Department
officials considerable concern Early
is the ward of the District of Column
bia, but will not be allowed to remain
here indefinitely. Yet any plans to
move him must be approved by the
leper himself
The suggesting that he be sent in
wolves many complexities, even If
Early consents and Congress passes
an act making it possible to care for
him in the Hawaiian leper colony at
government expense. 1t would be nee
essary to get the consent of all the
States through which a leper would
pass in making the trip and it is likely
such consent would not be granted
unless the government can give as
surances that Early will not leave his
car and mingle with the public as he
did upon leaving the leper colony
where he was employed on Puget
Sound
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-08
Will Ask Council to
Change Road to Save \
Two Fine Old Trees

Council will be asked by City Com
missioner M. Harvey Taylor to-mor-
row to direct some minor changes Of
line for the proposed Front street sub
way road south of Mulberry street in
order to save several splendid trees.
According to the present plans
Front street after leaving the subway
will curve to the southwark up to the
present level in such a way as would
mean the cutting away of two beauti-
full trees. In the opinion of Commits
sioner Taylor enough fine old trees
have been sacrificed there. In order
to determine what changes could be
made, Mr.. Taylor, Assistant Superin-
tendent Hoffert, Mayor Royal and
President Ed. S. Herman, of the City
Planning Commission, went to South
Front street, and inspected the pro-
posed grading work.
The new fire apparatus bid recon-
mendations, the report on the silk
mill conference, and action on filing
the vacancy on the police force caused
by the removal of Patrolman Clifford
Palmer will occupy the councilmen.
1t is expected that Herman Kautz, q
former sergeant, will be appointed
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CONTINUED on Page 81
More Rapp Letters Are
Read in Divorce Court
BY Associated Press

Chicago, ILL.,, June S.-More i'm
passioned letters addressed to Mrs.
Dean and alleged to have been written
by William Rapp, who is being sued
for divorce by Nine. Schumann- Heink,
were introduced in court to-day.
1t was said that ten more letters
would be identified by Miss Frances
j. Ashton, a detective, and that this
probably would conclude the pre-
sentation of testimony for the COM
plainant.
Ben M. Smith, chief counsel for the
defendant, declared that he would CEN
ter his defense on the allegation that
the singer was not resident of Illinois
and therefore not entitled to sue for di-
vorce in the Illinois courts. He added
that he would prove Rapp's counter
charges of infidelity against the song
stress.
In the letter of August 1, 1918, Mrs.
Dean is addressed as my Darling,
Wonderful girl
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-08
HOT WAVE WILL
MAKE Us SWEAT
FOR SEVERAL DAYS
Harrisburg at 8 This Morning Was
as Hot as,-New
:, Orleans!
CITY MOPS ITS HEATED BROW
Mercury Goes Up 20 Degrees
Since Saturday; Warm
Throughout East
CITY MOPS ITS HEATED BROW

1t is officially warm to-day. At 8
o'clock the weather bureau thermom-
eter registered eighty degrees 1t
grew warmer as the day passed, until
at 2 o'clock this afternoon the mer-
curry stood at SO degrees.
This is the hottest day of the year.
This warm wave is likely to be with
us for at least two or three days, ac-
cording to Forecaster Demain. AS
long as a present storm disturbance
in the West continues there will be
no cessation from the heated SPELL
But humidity is normal; so while Har-
risburg mops his brow it is comforting
to know that it isn't so bad after ALL
Harrisburg was among the three
cities in the United States at o'clock
this morning having temperature Of
eighty degrees. The other two are
Key West and New Orleans. Even
Philadelphia and Washington are get
ting off a little lighter. The tempera-
ture there this morning was 49,
Technically this is known as "gulf
coast temperature" 1t prevails pretty
much up the Atlantic States. The
warm spell began yesterday. This
morning at the temperature was 90
degrees higher than it was Saturday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-08
Examinations in Grade
Schools Begin Today

Examination in the grade schools
started to-day when grades eight and
nine were examined in grammar. All
students in grade nine must be exam
ined, while those below that grade if
earning certain averages will not have
to undergo the written test. Exemp-
tions are earned in grades one to five
by a general average of not less than
70 nor less than so in any study, while
from grades six to eight it is neces
sary in order to escape examinations
to have general average of rs and
not less than 65 in any study.
Tomorrow examinations will be
conducted in history, grades eight and
nine, language, grades six and seven
and mental arithmetic grade five-all
these at 9 o'clock. At 10 o'clock grade
five will be examined in language. The
examinations continue Wednesday and
Thursday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-08
Western Farmers Want
$4,000 Men to Help Them

Washington, June 8.-With a ban
ner wheat crop of S00,000,00 bushels
almost ready for harvest in the United
States this year, the farmers of Mis-
souri,, Minnesota. Montana, Oklahoma
and other Middle and far Western
States are clamoring for 5000 labor
ers to bring home this great harvest.
One of the first things the wheat
farmers did after learning of the tre-
mendous quantity of wheat which will
be harvested during the summer, was
to turn to the Federal Department of
Labor for assistance in getting help.
Already the department has posted
notices. offering jobs to harvest hands
to all the first, second and third class
post offices of the country.
T. V. Powderly, chief of the division
of information is the man who has
been selected by Secretary Wilson to
handle this great problem for the
wheat farmers of the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-08
Harrisburg Lodge Of
Masons to Celebrate
Anniversary Tmorrow

A banquet and program that will
include music and speeches by notable
Masons will mark the eleventh ami
versary of Harrisburg Lodge, No. 629,
Free and Accepted Masons, which will
be celebrated tomorrow evening in
the Masonic Temple, Third and State
streets. The next Masonic event of
interest following the banquet will be
the fourth annual outing of Dauphin
county Masons, which will take place
June is, when nearly every Mason in
the county is expected to take part in
the visit to the Masonic Home at
EliZabethtown. Dr. J. M. j. Raunick,
Perseverance Lodge, and Samuel d.
SAMSON, of Harrisburg Lodge, are Har-
risburg men on the committee.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-08
MILL OWNERS WOULD
GIVE CITY TWENTY
FEET AT BRIGGS ST.
Offer Will Be Taken Up by Council
at Special Meeting With
in Two Weeks

An offer to donate twenty feet of
ground to the city of Harrisburg for
the opening of Briggs street from
Front to Second streets, made to-day
at a conference between representa-
tives of Pelgram & Meyer. owners of
the Harrisburg silk mill, and city Off
cials, will be considered at special
meeting of Council to be held within
the next two weeks
Representing Pelgram & Meyer at
the conference to-day were Albert
Forsch, of New York city; Joseph
Whitehead, Paterson, N. j., and G. F.
Roster. superintendent of the Harris
burg plant. The city was represented
by City Solicitor Seitz and members
of Council.
Representatives of the silk mill
company contended at the conference,
which was held at IL o'clock this
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-08
END Of O[|GARCHY
IN THE DEMOCRACY
AEAVES IN SIGHT
Democratic County Committee Of
Northampton Refuses to En-
dorse Ticket or Platform
ARE LOSING
Philadelphia Ledger Says That
McCormick's Expenses Bar
Way to the Poor Man
ARISTOCRATS ARE LOSING

Judging from the signs of the
times the democracy of aristocrats,"
the oligarchy which is ruling the DEM
ocracy of Pennsylvania, paved the way
for its defeat in the victory which 1t
Won at the May primary. Democrats
are in open revolt against the plat
form promulgated without members
OF the State committee having any
thing to say about its adoption, local
optlon has gotten loose in Philadel-
phla and Northampton county and is
reaching into other counties where
the machine thought 1t had it buried
ana the magnitude of the expense ac-
count of Candidate Vance C. McCor-
mick is making thoughtful men sit up
and take notice. Many are only await
ing the filing of the committee ex-
pense accounts so that it may be de-
termined what was approximately
spent in forcing "the rule of the peo-
ple."
The conditions within the Demo
cracy are so serious that the State
chairman is bending efforts to placate
men who would be dangerous if they
TOOK to the war path, and allowing
the preliminary campaign work, the
appointment of committees and other
things to go by the boards. 1t is ever
announced that faithful ones who ex.
pected to be named to fat fedora
places right after the primary elec.
tion may have to wait And waiting
for political appointment sometimes
means disappointment.
Bumped at Easton
The most significant thing about
the feeling within the Democracy /,
shown by the action of the Northamp.
ton county Democratic committee a.
Easton on Saturday. Northampton
is in Palmer's district and it aideC
materially in defeating Palmer's mar
for the congressional nomination, in.
cidentally defeating Palmers people
all along the line in the county. How
ard Mutchler, the man bitterly de-
nounced by the reorganizers, ran the
whole show. His man was elected
county chairman by 81 to 16.
Then the worst arrived. A resolu-
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-08
RIVER DAM WILL BE
FINISHED BY OCT. /;
To RESUME JUNE IS
Contractor Setting Up Machinery
and Preparing to Start
Operation

Work on the river dam will be re-
sumed Monday, June 15, and, barring
inclement. weather, sudden high water
or other unforeseen Interruptions,
that big public Improvement will be
finished by the middle of September
or October 1
Contractor Frank N Skeen arrived
Saturday to confer with the engineers
of the Board of Public Works and ar
ranged for setting up his machinery
and otherwise preparing for a re-
sumption of operation the beginning
of next week.
The first job will likely be the con-
struction of cofferdams on the eastern
side of the island, preparing to plac-
ing the piers across to the city side
as rapidly as possible AS soon as the
water recedes sufficiently the closing
of the gap in the deep water on the
western shore will be given prompt at
a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-08
CONST|TUT|ONAL|TY
Of AUTO FUNDLAN
UPHELD BY COURT
Powell and Young Ordered to
Honor Requisitions Releasing
Money For Road Repairs

The constitutionality of the appro-
licenses to the State Highway Depart
ment for maintenance of State high
ways was upheld by Judge S. j. M.
McCarrell in an opinion filed in the
Dauphin County Court to-day, wherein
he directs Auditor General Powell and
State Treasurer Young to honor a
requisition from the Highway Com
missioner against the accumulated au-
tomobile income. Judge C. V. Henry.
TCOutinueI IN PaUa
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-08
Murderer Holds Chat With
Cop as His Victim Dies
Night Desk Man Didn't Notify Police on Beat and "Ale'
Reed Made Getaway

The murder took place during a
crap game in Cowden street near
State. There was dispute over win
nings of forty cents: then a crash
with a table leg and Reed skunk away.
The police have notified several cities
to take the slayer. sending photo and
description. The dead man is a ma
tive of Frederick, Md, and has been in
Jail for assault several times.