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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-09
Another All Night Ses-
sion of Senate Fea-
lures Fight on Wilson
Measure
EXTRA SESSION
MAY BE RESULT
Senator Reed Proposes Order for Ar
rest of All Absentees and to Keep
the Ninety-six Senators in Chamber
Until Measure Is Disposed Of
Bu Associated Press.

Washin gton, Feb. 9.-Another all
night session of the Senate, threats of
many more, and counter threats OF
what is likely to happen if there are
many more, found President Wilson s
ship bill still being tossed about in a
sea of debate, with the Republican hh-
buster again in full blast.
The President at White House con-
ference to-day said he had no intention
of dropping the bill and intimated he
would call special session if it were
filibustered to death at the present one.
The Senate Republicans declared again
thev were prepared to talk off a vote
until March'4.
Reeds Proposal Hornets Nest
Some Indications of the wearing ef-
fects of the long hard fight were com
ing out in the Senate, however, and
Senator Reed, one of the administration
Democrats, proposed an order for the
arrest of all the absentees; in short, he
proposed to bring every one of the 96
Senators into the chamber and keep
them there until the bill was disposed
of. His proposal drew roaring attack
and gave prospect of furnishing ma
terial for an all days debate. Mean
while the ship bill itself was waiting,
practically where it has been for the
last two weeks.
At noon the Senate had been in ses-
sion twenty four hours and Senator
Inf
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Fierce Assaults of Kai-
ser's Troops on Po-
land Capital Come to
a StandStill
RUSSIANS AGAIN
ON THE OFFENSIVE
Austro- German Army Reported to Have
Met Reverses On Galician Side of
Uzsok and Bid Passes-Russians
Lose In Bukowina

London, Feb. 8, 1912 P. M.-The
fierce German attacks on the Warsaw
front are again at standstlll, accord
ing to reports received from both Ber-
lin and Petrograd. On the other hand
the Russian capital reports that on eacn
wing of the eastern battle line the Rus
sian offensive has been resumed.
An official Russian communication
claims that the Russians have made
progress on the Hungarian side of the
western Carpathians ranges, as well as
gained success in the direction of Mez-
olaborz, which resulted in driving back
the Germans with considerable losses in
guns and prisoners.
Dual Monarchy's Reverses
The Austro-German army is said to
have met reverses on the Galician side
of the Uzock and Bid passes. Balanc-
ing these Russian successes is the Rus
sian admission of their retirement be-
fore strong forces in Bukowina and the
Russian claim of having entered the
town of Kimpolung in the crown land.
In East Prussia the fighting appar-
emily is assuming a more desperate
character. This may account for the
]ull on the Warsaw front as the East
IruSslan FORCES may nave Deen rein
forced by some Of Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg veterans.
Quiet on the Western Front
The fighting on the western front
has been taking its usual monotoucus
course, with sporadic infantry assaults
on the trenches to an accompaniment of
artillery firing.
The full text of the German blockade
proclamation, published in London to-
day, served as a theme for much com
ment in which the Lusitania flag in
cident figures largely. Most of the
papers defend the use of the American
flag in this emergency, but some of
them express misgivings as to the effect
of this course of action
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THE BELCIANS Destroy A
FARM and ROUT DEFENDERS

Paris, Feb. 8, 2.45 P. M.-The re-
port on the progress of the war given
out this afternoon by the French War
Office follows:
SIN Belgium yesterday there were
intermittent artillery exchanges and
Ypres and Furnes were bombardei. The
Belgian artillery destroyed farm, the
defenders of which fled.
son the road between Bethune and
La Bassee we yesterday occupied a
mill where the enemy had succeeded in
installing himself.
''Soisson was bombarded with pro-
jectiles, the purpose of which was to
set the city on fire. On all the Aisne
front, and in Champagne, our artillery
effectively engaged the batteries of the
Germans.
In the Argonne the fighting which
has developed and continued yesterday
in one of the most dense parts of the
forest, and consequently became quite
confused. Each side, generally speak
ing, was successful in maintaining its
lines. The men engaged in this fight,
February Z, did not exceed three or
four battalions on each side. During
yesterday only one French battalion
was engaged
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-09
Light Co. Interests Ask
in Exchange Right to
Build Wharf at the
Island
PLAN IN FORM
OF ORDINANCE
introduced At Meeting of City Commits
sion BY Bowman This Afternoon
He Says 1t Would Mean Saving of
$1,14O Year to Harrisburg

River coal consumed at the city fit
ration plant, about 1900 tons annually,
hereafter will be furnished free to Har-
risburg, net annual saving Of some
thing lige s1,140, if the City Commits
sioners pass finally an ordinance intro
duced this afternoon by Commissioner
Bowman, whereby permission is given
to the Harrisburg Light and Power
Company to build coal wharf, hopper
and electric hoist on the island in the
Susquehanna river opposite the central
part of the city.
The measure authorizes Commission
er Bowman to enter into contract, for
the city, with the Light Company, un-
der which the city for fifteen years is
to receive without cost, all coal neces-
sary in the operation of the filtration
plant. At the expiration Of the fifteen
years it is provided that similar con-
tract may be entered into by the city
under the same conditions.
In return for that the city will per.
NIT the Light Company, the ordinance
provides, to utilize 100-foot square
plot of the island ground, directly op.
Continued ou Ninth para
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PLAN TO AID UNEMPLOYED
Will Be Taken Up On Definite Lines At
Meeting of che City Com
mission Tomorrow

Plans under which many of the
city's unemployed men will be given
work and thereby relieved of depend
ing upon charity for the maintenance
of themselves and their families, will
be offered to the City Commissioners
by Commissioner Lynch, at special
meeting of that body to be held to-
morrow afternoon at 8 O'Clock.
The subject was brought up by May
or Royal at this afternoons IS meeting
of the Commissioners but he said he
could offer no solution to the question
of unemployment except to introduce
a resolution directing department heads
to start at once on Improvement work.
That, it was argued, would mean that
the city would have to pay extraordi-
nary prices for the work in view of
the prevailing freezing temperature,
and it was also said that only such con-
templated Improvements as are not now
under contract could be started now.
In other words the Commissioners felt
their inability to compel contractors to
start before spring ON Jobs the contracts
for which have been awarded during
the winter.
The subject was discussed at length,
the Mayor contending that the improve
ment work could be started now. and
his colleagues arguing on the question
OF cost. The discussion ended only
when Lynch offered to have a solution
of the problem to offer by tomorrow
afternoon.
To w. H. Opperman was awarded
the contract for sewer in Geiper
street and Henry Opperman got the
contract for another in a section of
Cumberland street. Contracts for
sewers in Market and Wiconisco streets
were not awarded because Charles E..
Elder, of Elizabethville, the low bidder.
has not yet filed his bond.
City Solicitor Seitz sent an opinion
to the Commission In which he holds
that trust companies, which sometimes
act as real estate agents and rent col
lectors, are exempt from mercantile
tax. Thomas IL. Woods, an aged fores.
ter, who long since has retired from
active work. in a 10-minute talk to
the Commissioners dropped few words
of advice on the subjects of tree trim
ming and planting.
Ordinances passed finally to-day in
cluded these: Changing the names of
dozen or more city highways and
providing walk along the east side
of the wall on the eastern curb line
of Second street, south of Mulberry.
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KREIDLER FIRE Loss $4,000
Flames in Cellar Of Grocery Store Fill
Building With Smoke and Excite
Business District

A fire which resulted in loss of al
most $4,000, was discovered at 7.l0
o clock last evening in the basement
of the grocery store of A. H. Kreidler
& Brothers, Second and Walnut streets.
Most of the damage was caused by
smoke and water. The fire, occurring
early in the evening, created good
deal of excitement in the business dis
trict and attracted big crowd.
The statement that Miss Clara Fred
ericks, who has apartments on the Sec
ond floor of the building, was carried
out in semi-conscious condition, was
denied this morning by A. H. Kreidler
who said that all the occupants walked
out of the building before the smoke
got to the second story.
The fire started in corner of the
basement on the Walnut street side. 1t
is believed it was caused by some pass
erby throwing lighted cigar or cigar
cite through an open cellar CRATE. The
blaze soon ate its way among boxes. The
canned goods that were stored in the
front end of the basement, and attack
ed the rafters. 1t was only few min
utes after an alarm was sent in from
Box 112, that six streams were playing
on the flames. Much of the work of di-
recting the fremen was done personally
by A. H. Kreidler, who is president of
the Hope Steam Engine Company.
Most of the damage in the store
room, on the ground floor, was due to
the effect of the smoke on cereals, as
the flames did not reach that far. The
building, which is owned by the Kreid.
Ter Brothers, was but slightly damaged.
The whole loss is covered by insur-
ance.
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Startling Rumors in
Connection With Sui
eide Of Schaeffers-
town Bank Cashier
ARRESTS WILL
LIKELY RESULT
Checks and Notes Of Men Involved in
Failure Have Been Protested-Ef-
forts of Men to Cover Paper and
Help Out
By Associated Press.

Lebanon, Pa, Feb. 9.-To-day' in
quiry into the shortage in the affairs of
the First National Bank, of Schaeffers'
town, this county, and the causes of the
suicide, of the cashier, Alvin Binner
shows THAT instead of the overdrafts
amounting to ts15, 1000, they will aggre'
gate fully $ 1000 and there are re-
ports that they will even reach $780,
900.
To-day there are rumors of impend'
ing prosecutions. President Uriah B.
Horst, of the bank, has called meet.
ing of the shareholders and general
public to be held in the town hall at 8
a. m. tomorrow when it is believed q
startling tale will be told. A full re-
port of the discrepancies in the books
win be made at this meeting as the dl
rectors do not wish to keep anything
from the public. Mr.. Horst admitted
to-day that proposition will be made
to assess the stock to raise cash to re-
open the bank.
The bank has deposits of nearly $50,
600, a surplus of $4,000 and undivid
tu VI pSyoVV dnu ~ 10 NAiS hA'NA
tion of the directors 10 appeal to tht
stockholders. Bank Examiner Logan il
still at work on the books.
The intense and searching methods
used by Examiner Logan to-day
brought to light still another source Of
shortage which had heretofore not beer
considered, and which now justifes thu
estimate of from $4,000 to $4,000
as the amount of the loss. He asked
that every depositor in Sehaefferstowr
bring their bank books to be balanced
Quickly it was found that some de
positors had been credited in their pas
books with sums which do not appeal
on the books of the bank. In one cas'
this amounted to an even $1,000.
All the checks and notes Of the mer
involved in the failure have been pro
tested, and efforts will be made tt
realize on them. Some 'of the men ART
endeayoring, to cover their paper ant
help out. There is much accommodation
paper on which the e1dorser will be th'
loser in many cases. The balance mus
be made up by the stockholders and Ii
rectors if the bank is to continue.
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SENATE BOWS TO THE House
Twice Recedes From Amendments to
General Deficiency Measure to Pay
Back Bills of State

The Senate twice receded from
amendments to the general deficiency
bill, appropriating moneys to pay back
bills of the state, before the House
would consent to pass the bill to-day.
The first was appropriating money to
pay the expenses of the Catlin COM
mission and the second was the insert.
ing of the words Gas shown by bills
rendered" in the section of the bill
appropriating 100000 for the pay
ment of publishing advertisements of
constitutional amendments.
Both were stricken out by the Sen
ate and the House was ready to pass
the bill when Mr.. Habgood, of Mexican
county, precipitated an argument by an
attack of the Auditor General who, he
claimed, was unfair in the matter of
cutting some bills for advertising.
Habgood S effort to have a confer
ence committee appointed was declared
to be out of order and the bill was
passed. The bill carried $638,000 when
it reached the Senate where amend
ments were added totaling $4,000
which were concurred in by the House.
This measure now goes to Governor
Brlumbaugh for his signature.
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German WOMEN WITHRIFLES|
TAKEN FROM The TRENCHES

Petrograd, Feb. 9, via London, Las
P. M.-The engagements are growing
in intensity at the two extremities of
the eastern battle front, in East Prus-
sia, as well as in the Carpathians, ac-
cording to information reaching Petro-
grad to-day. The same news sets forth
that on the Warsaw front the battle
has subsidized. The fighting line from the
province of Pleck in Russian Poland, as
far north as Tilsit in East Prussia, is
very continuous. The Germans to-day
apparently are taking the offensive
from Gubinnen and the Mazurian lakes
as far south as Lipno, in Poland, on the
right bank Of the Vistula.
A dispatch reaching here from War
saw says that among the prisoners
taken by the Russians in the fighting
at the junction of the Bzura river, were
a number of German women. According
to this message some of these women
were found with rifles in their hands
in the first line of trenches.
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HARRISBURG PAGES
RIVER BREEZES TOO WARM
FOR SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON
Antarctic Explorer Makes Auto Trip to
Rockville Bridge without Hat
Meets the Governor at Capitol This
Afternoon

When Sir Douglas Mawson, the ant
arctic explorer who will tel of his ex-
periences in the South Polar region at
the Majestic tonight, was taken this
morning OH an automobile tour along
the river front to Rockville bridge by
members of the Harrisburg Natural
History Society, he found the river
breezes rather too warm for his COM
fort and he did not wear his hat at any
time during the trip.
Sir Douglas was interested in Rock
vile bridge and the other bridges cross
ing the Susquehanna, since he is an en-
gineer as we'll as an explorer, and he
spent some time in looking over the fill
ter plant. After the sight seeing tour
the party went to the Senate for lunch.
''The South Polar region" said the
explorer while discussing his expedi-
ton at the table, sis very much colder
than the region about the North Pole,
and what people need to learn is that
there. is continent about the South
Pole quite as large as North America.
1t is practi ally all land there, while
in he Nor !, it is mostly water.
eter dinner, the man who has put a
tn sand miles of newly discovered
coast on the map, was taken to the
capitol where he met Governor Brum-
baugh and other state officials. The
Governor will introduce Sir Douglas at
the Majestic tonight, and will occupy
a box during the lecture.
The valuable films which will be
shown to illustrate the explorer S talk
were run off this afternoon at the the
atre, 50 that there may be no hilsch in
showing them this evening. In addition
to four reels of pictures there will be
stereopticon views of the South Polar
region shown.
Sir Douglas is visiting but two other
cities in this State, Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh, and will return to England
after less than two months stay in this
country.
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the result Of the recent great advance
in the price of wheat.
1t was learned by questioning num-
Der of bakers that although they got
together recently to discuss the mat
ter IF raising prices or cutting down
the size of loaves there was no agree
ment, and each baker therefore was left
to decide for himself what to do in the
matter.
There seemed to be pretty general
opinion among the bakers that those
who are now compelled to buy -four at
the greatly increased market price are
entitled to higher price for their
bread or to cut down the size of their
loaves, and this some of them have
done. Those bakers, however, who have
had supplies of -four on hand, which
were bought at the lower prices before
wheat began to soar, have, for the most
part, refrained from making any
changes, but will probably do so when
their -four supplies run out if at that
time they have to pay the same high
prices for flour as are prevailing to-day.
Some of the smaller bakers, whose
supplies of -four have become exhausted
and who have to pay the present high
prices for -four, have had either to
make four-cent loaves a little larger
and charge five cents for them, or have
reduced the size of the loaves that they
regularly had sold for FIVE cents.
Schmidt Makes No Change
Bernard Schmidt, one of the largest
bakers in Central Pennsylvania, was
asked to-day what effect the increased
price Of -four has had on his loaves.
81 have had neither to change the
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Approved Finally by
Lower Branch and
Now Goes to the SEN
ate for Action
VOTE ON MEASURE
is 13O TO II
Lobbying Against the Amendment by
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Poll
ticians Is neutrality-suspicious. De-
bate Before Adoption

The bill to submit to the voters, next
November, the question of women s
suffrage was passed finally in the House
OF Representatives this morning. 1t will
now 60 TO the Senate. The vote was
130 to II and the measure called out
the only debate of any consequence
that has been held in the House since
the start of the session. Mrs. Frank
Roessing, president of the Pennsylvania
Woman Suffrage Association, lead a
went to the House to watch the pro-
ceedings.
The measure lost one friend during
the interim of the two years since the
last Legislative session, when the House
passed it by vote of 131 to 10. Those
on the inside" on Capitol Hill believe
the measure will pass in the Senate
with greater vote than in last sss-
sion, which was 26 to %.
William II. Wilson, of Philadelphia,
who sponsored the resolution in the
House, this morning opened discussion
on the measure, placing stress on the
fact that all of the dominent political
parties in the state had made it plat
form measure and warning the Assem-
blymen that they are bound by their
pledges to support it.
The principal speaker against the
resolution was Representative Boyer, of
Philadelphia, whose argument was that
the members were acting on a definite
proposition and not on referendum.
He warned each member that he must
stand for his vote. Representative Gro
mer, of Allegheny, and Representative
Roney, of Philadelphia, both spoke on
the bill. The latter said he felt as
though the question should go to the
people ait this time as the delegates to
a constitutional convention, to provide
which bill has been introduced, can
act intelligently on this phase of the
new constitution if the electors pass or
defeat the suffrage amendment before
the convention. Roney voted against
the suffrage amendment last session.
Mr.. Urich of Lebanon, in speaking
against the amendment, said he did not
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RESENT SUFFRAGE PRAYER
Ants Not Pleased With House Chap.
lain's Supplication at the Session
Last Night

The chaplain of the House last
night prayed for the success of the
woman suffrage measure at a time when
there were present a number Of women
representing the suffragists and the
latter were disposed to resent the chap
lain S getting into the game.
Fearing that the chaplain of the SEN
ate might offer up prayer in that
body for woman suffrage, representa-
tives of the antis called on him with a
request that he should refrain from
boosting suffrage in that way.
Chaplain Davis informed them that
no matter how he felt on the matter of
woman suffrage, he certainly would not
refer to it in his prayer, and further
more he did not propose to refer to any
legislative matters in his prayers as he
did not consider that within the pro-
vince of his duties.
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Lebanon County Woman browns Her
self in Tragic Manner

Lebanon, Feb. 9.-Isamella, aged So,
wife of William Sitter, residing near
Bethel, this county, drowned herself in
the mill dam of Harry Zeller Sunday.
Sitter had left home on Sunday to at
tend funeral and returned home about
noon. He found dinner prepared and
preparations for the evenings work
completed. His wife left word that she
was going to the home of friend.
When darkness settled down upon, Mr..
Sittler feared that something had hap.
pened to his wife.
A telephone message brought the
news that the woman was not at her
friend s home. A searching party was
later organized. Men, women and boys,
with lanterns and torches, tracked the
woman across open fields until they
came to the Zeller mill dam. Here the
body was found floating on the breast
of the dam. Mrs. Sdttler had not en-.
joyed good health for some time, and
this fact is thought to have preyed on
her mind heavily, causing her to COM
init the rash act.
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Prominent Speakers to Address Meet
ings at Johnstown

NSAA@A~SAAs ~PSA>SAc w &ANAASoo N3SS"-
ings at Johnstown
A number of Harrisburgers will be
in attendance at the forty seventh an
nual convention of the Young Men IS
Christian Association of Pennsylvania,
which meets at Johnstown February 49,
%, inclusive. Speakers of national i'm
portance have been secured and the pro-
gram as arranged for contains both
general and association themes.
Among the speakers are P. s. Clax-
ton, of the National Education commit
tee; DR.. Howard A. Kelly, of Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore; Prof. G..
Walter Fiske, Oberlin, Ohio, an author
and authority on boy life; DR.. Thomas
A. Storey, director of hygiene and
physical training of the New York City
College, along with many Y. NJ. C. A.
secretaries.
Themes of great Importance such as
"Why Christianity Did Not Prevent
the War;" "The Social Evil and Its
Cure" "The Conflict, Its Cause and
Cure and many others will be dis
cussed.
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Mayors Bill Provides Fine for Unneces-
sary Noises Near Institutions

A distance of $50 feet in all direc-
tions from hospital in the city of Har-
risburg is designated as a "zone Of
quiet,'' within which noises which may
disturb patients in those institutions will
not be permitted, in an ordinance in
troduced at the meeting of the City
Commissioners this afternoon by Mayor
Royal.
y The measure makes it the duty Of the
superintendent of streets and public
Improvements to have placed in con-
spicuous places on streets leading to
the hospital, a sign displaying the
words: Notice-Zone of Quiet" The
ordinance says further:
"The making, causing or permitting
to be made of any unnecessary noise,
or the playing. of itinerant musicians
upon the public streets or alleys within
any such zone of quiet that disturbs or
that may tend to disturb the peace and
quiet of any of the inmates of any
hospital is hereby declared to be a
nuisance.
The bill provides that persons violat-
ing this measure may be fined from 81
TO $25 on conviction, or in default of
payment of fine be confined to the Dau-
phin county jail for period not ex-
ceeding thirty days.