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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
PENROSE SPEAKS TONIGHT
Senator Will Address Republican Mass
Meeting in the Chestnut Street
Hall at & O'clock

Elaborate arrangements are being
made by the Dauphin County Republi-
cans for what they predict will be a
great mass meeting in Chestnut street
hall tonight, when Senator Boies Pen
rose will make his first speech in sHar-
risburg during the campaign. Senator
Penrose is expected to arrive in Har-
risburg late this afternoon. The plan
was for County Chairman Hoerner, City
Chairman Owes and a committee from
the Dauphin County Republican League
to escort him to the Senate Hotel.
The meeting tonight in Chestnut
street hall win be opened at s o clock.
and Governor Tener will be the presid-
ing officer, with large list of vice
presidents including prominent Republi
cans of Dauphin county. The Governor
will introduce Senator Penrose. Other
speakers of the evening will be w. |.
Swope, of Clearfeld; Thomas S. Crago,
candidate for Congressman Large, and
Congressman Kreider.
Previous to the meeting the Harris
burg Republican Club will form in line
in front of its headquarters on Second
street, above Market Square, and march
to the upper end of the city to meet
the West End Republican Club and the
Harrisburg Colored Republican Club.
The procession will march down Third
to the hall. The Commonwealth and
Colonial bands have been engaged to
furnish music.
An effort is being made to have DR..
Martin G. Brumbaugh, candidate for
Governor, come here on late train aft
er he has made his address at meet
ing IN Lancaster, but it was not GER
tain that DR.. Brumbaugh will be here.
A special train will be at the Lancaster
station to bring him to Harrisburg if
arrangements can be made to get him
after the Lancaster meeting.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
Big Antietam Garage, With
Adjoining Buildings, Is Wiped
Out Early This Morning and
Seuentyfioe Costly Autos
Are Destroyed Fire Soon
Afterward Discovered in the
BaldlDin House Which Is
Ruined Throughout - One
Hundred Guests Flee Peril
in the Citys Second Largest
Hotel

Especial to the Star-Independent.)
Hagerstown. Nd, Oct. 2S.-This
city was visited early to-day by two
fires, the most destructive in its his.
tory, causing losses estimated at more
than 100000.
The Sherley building, on South iona.
than street, in which was located the
Antietam automobile garage, was to-
tally destroyed, and soon afterward
the Baldwin hotel, two blocks away, on
West Washington street, the second
largest hotel in the city, was com.
petely wrecked Seventy-fve automo.
biles were burned when the big garage
went down.
The loss on the hotel and contents is
estimated at 100000; to the garage
the buildings nearby and the automo.
biles, $l75,000, and to the Sherley
building proper, 100000.
a hundred or more guests quartered
in the Baldwin hotel were driven from
the hostelry. All escaped injury be.
cause they had been awakened earlier by
the alarm spread when the garage took
fire.
The Baldwin hotel site is two blocks
distant from the Antietam garage. The
hotel was discovered to be on fire while
the tiremen were endeavoring to save
the Sherley building and garage. The
fire in the Sherley building originated
in the garage and was due, it is said,
to a smoker carelessly throwing a
lighted match on the floor at spot
soaked with gasoline.
Fire Companies Burned Out
When the alarm was sounded for the
hotel fire it was at first thought that
the big hostelry had become ablaze
from burning embers carried from the
garage by the high winds. The fire
men, however, say the blaze started in
the kitchen of the hotel Although the
Baldwin House was not burned to the
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28

ground it is completely wrecked and
will have to be rebuilt in its entirety.
Insurance carried on the burned
buildings and automobiles will offset
sixty per cent. of the total losses, so
the owners said The majority of the
autos in the garage were stored their
by. individual owners. Only two ma
chimes were gotten out. The strong
winds hampered the work of the fire.
men.
Two of Hagerstown IS fire companies
had quarters in the Antietam hail. ad
joining the garage, and had it not been
for that fact, a circumstance which
made it possible to begin fighting the
flames within few moments after the
alarm was struck shortly after mid
night, it is believed that it would have
been impossible to confne the flames to
the limits to which they were confined
The upper floors of Antietam hall
were the quarters of Company B., of
the First Regiment, Maryland National
Guards.
Owned by the Hamilton Estate
Adjoining the destroyed hotel is the
Academy of Music and although this
building escaped the flames, its con.
tents were ruined by water.
Fosmer Senator Harry e.. Baker,
manager of the destroyed garage, this
morning said it is impossible to fix the
exact loss on that property and con.
tents. He said it may reach 100000.
The hotel was owned by the estate
of the late Governor William 7. Ham
ilton. 1t was managed by Charles w
Boyer, who also is the manager of the
Academy of Music. So far as could h,
learned no fremen were seriously in
jured.
The Sherey building, the seat of til
first blaze, quartered the garage on the
first floor, the Cumberland Valley B "a
Company on the second Mendell Broih
ers clothing establishment on the third
and skating rink on the fourth floor.
The wholesale grocery house of j
w. Myers K Company and the postof
flee building adjoining the hall and gar
age We're slightly damaged both by fire
and water.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
Three testify FOR SEIfERD Stand BY Their PASTOR
Alleged Clairvoyant in $4,000 Will
Fight Will Likely Take the
Stand Tomorrow

Harrison Seiferd, alleged clairvoyant
and spiritualist, whose right to share
in the $4,000 estate of the late Mrs
Martha Adams is being questioned by
other Adams heirs in proceedings be
fore Roy c. Danner, Register of Wills,
to-day opened his side of the case
Three witnesses, long acquaintances OF
Mrs. Adams, were examined on the
question of whether the deceased had
"testamentary capacity at the time
the will was drawn-whether she was
capable of disposing of her property as
she desired.
All the witnesses declared it is their
belief that she had that ability. Be
fore John G. Nissley, who was Mrs.
Adams legal adviser, was called to the
stand as the first witness, Seiferd Is
counsel, John Fox Weiss, moved to
have stricken from the Register rec
ord all testimony that did not deal di!
rectly with the physical and mental
condition of Mrs. Adams at the time
the will was framed. The motion was
overruled
Mr.. Weiss moved also to quash the
proceedings and to have the Adams
will admitted to probate. The Register
reserved his decision and directed Sci
ferd to call his witnesses. 1t was said
this morning that Seiferd will probably
go on the stand tomorrow as the last
witness.
1t was learned to-day that in the
event of the Register sustaining the mo-
tion to quash the proceedings and ad-
NIT the will to probate, an appeal will
be taken to the orphans court by the
contesting heirs.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
BRUMBAUGH HERE TOMORROW
win Speak in steelton and Other Parts
of Dauphin County

DR., Martin G. Brumbaugh, Repub-
hcan candidate for Governor, will to-
morrow make campaigning tour of
the lower end of Dauphin county.
speaking at a number of places.
The Brumbaugh party will leave
Harrisburg in automobiles shortly aft
er o'clock in the morning and will
make the first stop in Steelton where
extensive preparations have been made
to give the candidates reception and
"glad hand" greeting.
Thence they will proceed down
through the county, arriving at Her
shey at noon for big meeting. From
Hershey the party will go to towns
north and west, and wind up at Pen
brook at 3 O'Clock. From Penbrook the
party will come direct to Harrisburg.
where DR.. Brumbaugh will take the
train for Philadelphia at 1925 O'Clock.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
Congregation Want to Retain tie Rev
Mr.. MacDannald, Whom Elder
ship Reprimanded
Especial to the STAR rIndepeudent.)

Especial to the STAR Independent
Shippensburg, Pa, Oct. 2S.-A con.
gregational meeting was held last night
by the Shippensburg Church of God
at which the standing committee of the
East Pennsylvania Eldership of the
Churches of God, composed of the Rev.
DR.. 5. G. Yahp, editor of the "Church
Advocate chairman; the Rev. G.. II
Grove, pastor of Green Street Church
of God, of Harrisburg, and the Rev.
c. F. Reitzel. of Auburn, were present
by request
The meeting was called to discuss
the desire of certain members of the
congregation to retain the present pas
tor, the Rev. /. A. MacDannald, whom
the stationing committee of the Elder
ship recently assigned to charge in
Chambersburg.
After heated argument the standing
committee was requested to arrange
matters so as to permit the Rev. Mr..
MacDannald to remain as the pastor OF
the Shippensburg church. In order to
make room for the retention of Mr..
MacDannald the congregation decided
to ask for the resignation of the Rev,
II. d. Boughter, who was last year the
pastor of the First Altoona Church of
God and who was assigned to the Ship.
pensburg church.
The only reason the Shippensburg
church had for asking for the resigna-
tion of Mr.. Boughter was so that it
may have the opportunity to retain Mr..
MacDannald and thus show its loyalty
to the latter clergyman, who was
charged with libel and hypocrisy before
the Eldership when it met two years
ago and again in the recent meeting Of
the Eldership in Lancaster, when Mr..
MacDannald was reprimanded
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
ALLIES CONTINUE TO ADVANCE NORTH
AND EAST OF YPRES, IS FRENCH REPORT
FIRE OF BRITISH WARSHIPS
REDUCES COAST Villages

London, Oct. IS, 5.35 A. M.-An
Amsterdam dispatch to the Reuters
Telegram Company says:
"The Handelsblaad learns from
Sluis, Netherlands, that there is no
change on the battle front between
Nieuport and Dixmude. Heavy fighting
continues. Tramway communications
with ostend is still stopped
ga dispatch from Vienna denies
rumors that Emperor Francis Joseph is
ill. On the contrary it says he is in
the best of health and dispatching all
state affairs. -
The Times" correspondent in Bel
gium wires the following:
Observation from captive balloon
has revealed how effective has been the
fire of the British warships on Ostend,
Middlekerke, Lombaertzyde and other
coast villages. Not a single wall re-
mains standing in the villages of West
kerke, Slype and Movie. Several other
villages are also in ruins. All this dam
age was caused by the artillery of the
British ships -
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
PALMER HERE ON SATURDAY
He and Mccormick Will Address Meet.
ing in Chestnut Street Hall

The Democratic State candidates will
be in Harrisburg on Saturday night,
after whirlwind trip up the Cumber-
land Valley, beginning at Chambers
burg on Saturday morning and stopping
at all of the principal towns.
The Palmer Mccormick party will
reach Harrisburg in the evening and
will be welcomed at mass meeting in
Chestnut street hall, where speeches
will be made by Congressman Palmer,
Vance c. Mccormick and Others.
Mr.. Mccormick is said to have de-
veloped greatly as an orator since he
last spoke here.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
FRENCH LOSSES AGGREGATE
40, 900 AT T0UL AND VERDUN

Berlin, Oct. 2S (by Wireless to Say.
vTlle).-swisas neWspfbers reenrt thar
since the capture by the Germans OF
camp Des Romans the French losses
IN the battle line between Tout and
Verdun have been more than 10000
men.
The French officers, according to
statements in these newspapers, com
plain of the inferior quality of the new
French troops
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
WAGON STOPS RUNAWAY
Bogar Team Crashes Into Ice Wagon at
Second and Walnut

A double horse team of the Bogar
Lumber Company, became frightened at
Second and South streets at 1880
O'Clock this morning and ran down Sec
ond street, stopping at Walnut street
when the horses ran into a United lee
and Coal Company wagon at that cor
ner. The tongue of the Bogar wagon
pierced the side of the ice wagon and
one of the Bogar horses fell under the
Ice wagon. One of the posts on the avn
ing in front of the store of John Rose
was snapped off.
Thomas Pancake, driver of the Bo-
gar team, was not on the wagon when
the horses started. The driver of the
ice wagon was not injured.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
CREW AND SHIP ARE LOST AS
THE LATTER STRIKES A NINE

London, Oct 2S, 3.15 A. MA
Dutch trawler reports that the Lugger
Vlaardingen struck a mine, 40 miles
north of Ymuiden, a seaport of Hol-
land, according to an Amsterdam dis
patch to the Reuters Telegram Com
pany. The crew and ship were lost.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
CLEANING UP RIVER BANK
Force of Park Department Employees
Gets on the Job To-day

Work of cleaning up the river bank,
between Iron alley and Market street.
was begun to-day by a force of Park
Department employees at the direction
OF Commissioner Taylor. William
Paget, formerly an inspector connected
with the Board of Public Works. is su.
perintending the work.
The holes and gullies viii be filed.
some grading will be done, the edges
will be rounded and all refuse removed.
The work will be carried on until the
entire river front has been overhauled.
This will likely require several weeks.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
COLD WAVE is BROKEN
Depression From Lakes Will Cause
Higher Temperatures

The high pressure area which brought
to Harrisburg the first freezing tenn
perature of the season, has been broken
up by depression from the lake re-
gion and temperatures will rise as a
result. E. R. Demain, local weather
forecaster, fixed to-night's minimum
mark at AZ degrees.
Lowest last night was 39 degrees
one degree higher than the previous
night. No precipitation is likely to re-
suit from this newest depression.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
ALLIES CAPTURE THoURoUT

London, Oct %, 1.50 A. M-The daily Telegraph s."
correspondent on the Dutch frontier reports that the allies
captured Thourout Monday after it had been occupied by
large force of Germans from Bruges
The allied forces according to the correspondent re-
manned hidden while the Germans entered the town and
then fell upon them suddenly and by swift attack drove
them out The Germans it is added left hundreds of dead
wounded behind them
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
Caught in Wheel; Fatally Hurt
(Speelal TO nc star Independent

Waynesboro, Oct. 2S.-While return
ing home from fishing trip along the
Conococheague creek, near Greencastle,
Thomas Wier was caught in wagon
wheel and was fatally injured. He died
soon after being admitted to the Cham
bersburg hospital.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
Raises Big Loan in London

Ottawa, Oct. est was reported
here to-day that the Canadian North.
ern Railway had succeeded in raising in
London $15,000,O00 of the amount
guaranteed by the government for its
line, Notwithstanding the European
war.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-28
SMALL JAP STEAMER SUNK

London, Oct 28, 742 A. M.-The German cruiser En-
den sunk the small Japanese steamer Kamegasaki Maru
while the latter proceeding Singapore according
to Central News" dispatch from Berlin by wav Of
Amsterdam.
In the marine records the steamer Kamegasaki Maru
is given as being of only 1873 tons burden She is owned
in Nagasak
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The great battle for possession of the strip of coast
running along the North Sea from Osend to Calais is said
by the French to be swinging slowly favor of the allied
forces The assaults of countless German troops has ap
parenty attained the height of human effort were matched
with equal courage and ferocty and to-day the offensive
efforts of the Germans said to be relaxing For the
third successive day the French official statement asserted
the advantage lay with the allies.
1t is noticeable however, that the French claims in
each instance have been vague and bare of detail as to-
the capture of towns localities which sent down
on the map marking definite advance at any point
Progress, advances" !" or gains reported at
various sections of the line not closely Indicated From
unofficial report from the front is inferred that in the
ntnuedo fifteenth PaEe.
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-09
Let's Live At Home.

The Macon Telegraph has inaugu-
rated a campaign to urge upon Ma
con people to buy Georgia raised beef
and to insist on getting it. This is a
movement in the right direction and
we think it would be advisable to eX-
tend it all down the line. In other
words, instead of alone insisting up
on buying Georgia beef let every
Georgian insist on buying Georgia
pork, Georgia corn and hay, Georgia
Irish potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, ap-
pies and other Georgia vegetables
and fruits. Let's insist on Georgia
made shirts, hosiery, underwear,
shoes, and other products of this
great state of ours. Let's patrOnize
our own home people and encourage
them to patronize us. By buying
from him at liberal prices let us en-
courage our own farmers to raise
enough necessaTies and luxuries of
life on his own farm for his own fam
lily and have some to spare to his
neighbor in the towns and cities.
Push this live-at-home campaign to
a successful end and our cities, ham,
lets and farms will blossom as a rose
and our beloved state and the entire
Southland will be immune from the
present disastrous effects of the Eu
ropean tragedy, and we will not only
be the happiest but the most prosper
Gus people in the world, and we may
benefit and make better the balance
of the world by our example and ia
f1uence, and we can spare some of our
bounty in feeding and clothing the
bleeding nations of Europe and make
our great nation of peace and plenty
an inspiration to the world. If this
European struggle does not teach US
any other lesson except to Give at
home and board at the same place"
it will have done wonders for our
land, and even amid the gloom and
sorrow for this useless sacrifice of
life we may bless the day when Eu-
peror William lost his head through
his ambition to conquer Europe and
increase his empire.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-09

that the average rural carrier barely
makes a living, and none of them
are able TO save against the day when
they are broken down with Old age
and exposure.
Mr.. Burleson, take this hint from
us: DO not use your pruning knife
on the pittance paid the poor rural
carrier if you do not want to raise
storm that is liable to wreck your po-
litical career, and that Of our party
If the government must cut expenses,
and it should certainly do so, start
with the salaries of the fellows high
er up and come on down. ii you do
this you will find the rural carrier
loyal and patriotic and perfectly will
ing to have his little wages shaved,
and stand his share of the burden,
even though the reduction forces him
to use more rigid economy in the
support of his family and keeping MS
equipment in order.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-09

The thousands of friends and ad-
mirers of Mr.. James B. Neven in
Georgia and the South will be proud
to learn of his promotion to the edi-
torial management of the Atlanta
Georgian. Mr.. Nevin is gifted and
versatile newspaper writer, and the
Georgian is to be congratulated upon
having on it's staff such a man to
place in charge of its editorial man
agement. The News is an ardent ad-
mirer of this clever Georgian and
will watch with interest his career
in his new position.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-09
Administrator Sale.

Georgia. TIE rreIT Cbunty.-By yir-
tue of an. order from the Court OF
Ordinary OF Terrell county will De
sold at public outcy on the first Tues
day in November, in 1914, at the
court ha,use door in said county, be
tween the legal hours of sale the fol
flowing and towit One house and
lot in tie eity OF Dawson, Terrell
county, Georgia, fronting one hun
dred and five C105) feet on the west
side of Cato street and running bach
one hundred and fifty f15oJ feet anc
Known as lot No. nine 80 in the w
| G. Paschal addition TO Dawson, Ga.
and further known as the Mar!
Fields place, and located Just nortl
of tha Seab0ard Air Line depot
Terms cash. JENNIE ROPER, Ad
nfnfstrator OF the estate Of Patienc'
West, deceased. This October od-
1914.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-09
A Dangerous Economy,

Postmaster General Burleson has
recently suggested a plan for reduc-
ing the cost of his department, that
is causing a considerable stir among
certain government employees. He
proposes to let out the rural routes on
the contract system, on a similar plan
as the mail is now hauled from the
postOffices to the railroad stations
the lowest bidder getting the con-
tract.
This plan is not only not feasible,
but it is a dangerous proposition,
which, if put in force, would wreck
the rural route system if it did not
wreck the democratic party and MI
Burleson will learn that he is play
ing with a hornets nest when the
rural population become acquainted
with the import of his plan.
Rural carriers are at present ap-
nointed after a competitive examina-
+ion. and are selected for their fitness
and character, anu Ll4O IA 81 ~ "
force will compare favorably with the
amD1oves of any branch OF the gov
eminent, and are recognized by the
nublic as Uncle Sans most faithful
amnloves. The contract system VII
mean that the lowest bidder Will ge'
the contract for serving a certain
route without regard to his fitness .
character. and the rural mai car
riers under this plan will often d.
ignorant and worthless white men o
most likely negroes, and the pIeSei
efficient and conscientious mail ser
vice the farmer is now receiving VIII
be disorganized entirely. The rura
carrier is the poorest paid man IN tn
mail service when the expense OF nj
nouipment. and his running expenses
are deducted and the exposure u
undergoes and his labor is CONSIDER
ed. We have watched the men in tn
service for many years and We kno'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-09
CHINESE IN UNCLE SANS; ARMY

From Popular Mechanics.
A company of Chinese soldiers
regularly enlisted in the. malftia In
Hawaii constitutes an odd body III
the reserve fighting forces OF the
United States.
The organization was formed With
the sanction of the war department
at Washington, and under the trte-
LACE of an American army officer has
made such pronounced progress IN
the mastery of military tactics that
| the recruiting of a second COMPANY
/ is being considered.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-09
For Guardianship.
FOR GUARDIANSHIP.

FOR GUARDIANSHIP.
Georgia. Terrell County.-To all
whom il may concern: W. E. Drew
having applied for guardianship OF
the person and property OF Willis
Drew, minor child of Mrs. Alice
Drew. late of Grady county, deceased,
notice is given that said application
will be heard at my office at 10
o'clock a. M, on the first Monday in
November next. L. C. HOYL, Ordi-
nary and ex-oficio Clerk of Ordinary
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-09
Clark Auto Co. to Change Hands.

We ask all creditors and custom
ers to call and get accounts settled
we have a lot of cars and car acces-
series on hand that will be closed out
a. reduced price, so we ask you all
opr customers to call and take ad-
vantage of them. Thanking you for
vour patronage, 1 remain yours tru-
- CLARK AUTO co,