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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
House Fails to Repass
immigration Measure
Over Presidents Veto

Washington, ID. c.. Feb. 5.-An at
tempt to pass the immigration bill
prescribing a literacy test for the ad-
mission of aliens over President Will
sons veto failed in the House yester-
day. the affirmative vote lacking Just
I'VE of the necessary wo-thirds. OF
399 members present 261 voted to
override the veto, 1876 voted to sustain
the President and two answered
present"
The final test came at the close of a.
day of earnest debate, in which party
lines were temporarily obliterated.
Majority Leader Underwood made a
vigorous speech. criticising the Presi-
dents reasons for vetoing the bill and
urging the House to override executive
disapproval. Underwood told the
House that the country had in several
elections returned majorities in Con-
gress favoring the restriction of i'm
migration, and that the Presidents
contention that no political platform
had placed the issue before the peo-
pie was futile. THE question is"
said he, whether YOU stand for the
American standard of living and the
American standard of wages"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
F|END KILLS THREE
WITH BIG HAMMER;
DEAD SEVERAL DAYS
Boys Seeing Door Open, Enter
House and Make Gruesome
Discovery
BOARDER HUNTED BY POLICE
Indications Are That Victims Were
Murdered as They
Slept
;OARDER HUNTED BY POLICE
BY Assoeiaied Press

Buffalo, n. Y, Feb. 5.-The bodies
of Mrs. Lizzie Drake, SIS, Mrs. Irene
Spencer, 35, and her daughter. Ger
trude Spencer, IL, were found in their
beds at their home at Salamanca to-
day. Their heads had been crushed
in with sledge hammer.
The hammer. smeared with blood
and hair, was found on the floor in
one of the rooms.
Boys passing the Drake homestead
found the rear door open and made
the discovery. The bodies were in
separate rooms and there was no evi-
dence of a struggle. Apparently the
victims had been slain as they slept.
Physicians who examined the bodies
said that the murder had been COM
mitted three or four days ago. The
police have sent out an alarm for Il
former boarder at the Drake house.
Mrs. Drake was Mrs. Spencer s
mother
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05

Berlin, Feb. (by wireless to Say
ville) The chief admiral of the stan
of the German navy has issued the
following official communication:
England Is ON the eve of shipping
numerous troops and large quantities
of war material to France Against
these English transports we will pro-
ceed with all the means of warfare at
our disposal.
Neutral shipping is earnestly eau
toned against approaching the north
ern or the western coasts of France.
rs In these waters such vessels would
run the serious danger of being con-
founded with ships whose purposes
are warlikc.
"The best route for the North Sea
Is around Scotland
One of the most furious battles of
the war is now at it's height along the
Russo-German front west of Warsaw.
Large bodies of German troops have
been brought UP for Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg's third desperate eff
fort to batter away through the Rus
sian line. The attack is centered near
the Polish village of Borjimow around
which for the last few days has been
raging a battle that for intensity COM
pares with the struggle in Flanders
earlier in the war. Official statements
make no mention of the extent of the
losses which judging from the nature
of the fighting, must be enormous.
communication from the Russian
war office to-day says that along a
section of the front about six miles
long the Germans brought up no less
than $4,000 men, supported by 100
batteries of artillery. In compact
masses these troops were hurled
against the Russian positions. The
Petrograd statement asserts that these
attacks were broken up and that the
Russians assuming the offensive in
turn captured German trenches and
occupied two villages.
In the Carpathians the fighting is
hardly less severe. The Petrograd war
office admits that the Russians re-
treated in one section of this front,
after fighting ten successive engage
ments with bayonets. Elsewhere Rus
sian successes are claimed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
HOTEL INSPECTION To
FEATURE TRADE TRIP
Commerce Chamber to Investigate
Way Other Cities Support
First Class Hotels

rousing meeting to plan ways and
means of conducting the largest and
best trade excursion ever sent out in
Pennsylvania was held at the Harris
burg Chamber of Commerce, last even
ing, by it's trade excursion committee
and subcommittees of same.
Chairman, G.. w. Burtnett and Pres
ident Henderson Gilbert Jointly pre-
sided and those present, who packed
the large assembly room, spent two
hours in a careful and painstaking
discussion of the detailed plans for
the excursion. -..s.. t... .u.s.. 3
The excursion will take place on
February II and IS, Wednesday and
Thursday, respectively. The following
towns will be visited Herndon, Mil
lersburg, Wilkes-Bar Sunbury, Dan
vile, Catawissa, Bloomsbury, Berwick
Hazleton, Pottsville, Auburn and
Reading. ..t
To Inspect Hotels
In Wilkes-Barre and Reading the
hotels Sterling and Berkshire will be
inspected by the trade excursionlsts,
giving them an ocular demonstration
that Pennsylvania cities of medium
size need and can support high class
Continued on Page Ill
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
Says England Treats u. S.
as Besieged Fortress
By Associated Press

London, Feb. 5, 4.O7 A. M.-"Eng-
land treats the United States as a
besieged fortress" declared Dr. Theo-
bald Won Bethmann- Hollweg, the i'm
perial chancellor of Germany, in dis
cussing with Danish correspondent
Great Britain's attempts to prevent
imports of food into Germany, says a
Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company
Winston Churchill" continued the
chancellor, wants to starVe a people
numbering 100000 in this bar
barian fashion Against this effort
Germany will use every opportunity to
take revenge. With regard to the
complaint that we are injuring neutral
interests, neutral powers have not
protested against England's action,
and they must take the consequences,
We certainly are not going to die of
famine
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
NAVAL BLOCKADE MAY
RESULT IN PROTESTS
Washington Says Declaration Is
Most Serious Develop
ment of War
BY Associated Press

Washington, Feb. 5.--Germany's
declaration of a naval war zone around
Great Britain and Ireland including
the English Channel and the northern
passage by the Shetland Islands, is re-
garded here as one of the most serious
developments of the war.
IL was regarded as highly possible,
for one thing, that it would hasten
the movement begun by the Latin
American countries for a speedy con-
ference of neutral States to devise
means to reduce losses to neutral
commerce TO a minimum.
At first there were some intima-
tions in administration circles that it
might be the subject of protest by
the United States. but the official view
developed that there was little or no
ground for that and it was recalled
that no protest was made when the
North Sea was strewn with mines.
Sweden, Norway, Denmark and
Holland have repeatedly addressed the
State Department here to secure
American backing for measures to re-
lieve distress in their own commerce
fTCNnF1ffnatnd
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
BUSY SECTION WILL
GET BETTER SEWERS
Commissioner Lynch Opens Bids
For New Drainage System in
Commercial District

Bids for the construction of new
sewers in Market Square, Market and
South Second streets that will mean
a radical improvement in the unsatis-
factory drainage conditions in the
city's business district We're opened at
noon to-day by Commissioner w. H.
Lynch, superintendent of streets and
public improvements.
Proposals were opened at the same
time for sewers in Wiconisco, Fifth,
Reel, Lexington, Cumberland, from
Fourteenth to 110 feet west of FIT
teenth, and in Third and Geiger
streets
Seven bids were received in all and
for the first time in several years two
contractors from out OF town sub
mitted figures. Incidentally, the
lowest bids on the two biggest jobs
the business district and Wiconisco
street improvem ents-were offered by
one of them, David d. Elder, of Eliza
~, Do-o
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
Horn Taken to Jail to
Serve 3O-day Sentence
IN Afsocidted. press


Vanceboro, Me-, Feb, 5.-Werner
Horn, who says he is a German off,
Ger, and in that capacity tried to blow
up the international railway bridge
here, was removed to Machias to-day
to serve sentence of 80 days for the
damage the explosion caused on this
side OF the Canadian border
The departure of Horn, who has
gained notoriety by what he calls his
act of war against Great Britain, at
tracted little attention. A small crowd
gathered at the station. The prisoner,
who was not shackled, smiled and
waved goodbye as the train drew
out. The case is now ended so far
as the State is concerned The next
move, it is expected, will be by the
Federal authorities. who are concern
ed with the application for the ex-
tradition of the dynamiter to Canada,
where he is wanted technically to an
swer for the little damage he did to
ary line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
Canadian Soldiers Dying
at an Alarming Rate

London, Jan. 81 correspondence OF
the Associated Press) The Canadian
contingent training at Salisbury Plain
have suffered most severely as a result
of exposure and change of climate,
and the men, according to reports, are
dying at an alarming rate.
"Of 10000 men," says the World,
a London weekly publication at is
said that the Canadian forces have
lost 500, who have died in cdtfse-
quence of their exposure to the
weather.
"A whole battalion is suffering with
meningitis. Seventy per cent of the
horses have mud fever and the ar
tillery coluH1n when ordered to go to
Lavington for maneuver exercises had
to send word that they had no horses
for the ammunition wagons"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
SEES SHE'LL HAVE TO DON
TROUSERS TO GET HER RIGHTS
Declares in Letter Poor Board She Doesn't Like to Join the
Suffragettes, But Is Being Driven to 1t

Complaint of the governments
shortsightedness in failing to fix a
wage scale for women, covert threat
to join the suffragette movement, odi-
Gus comparison between Americans
and the lot of women in Germany, and
a decided and enthusiastic boost for
Mrs. Pankhurst, of London, New York
and newspaper fame, were all en-
bodied in an appealing letter for aid
that was received this morning by Di-
rectors of the Poor
The writer pathetically points out
that she needs coal and other supplies.
why is it that l have asked for Goals
for a week or two from Director Mr..
Boyer" says the letter. "and didn't get
them, as we are sitting in cold house
at this bitter, cold time?"
''I don't like to- Join the woman's
suffragettes but, she continues, "I see
I have to put on the mans trousers,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
LOCK MAN IN ROOM;
" THEN FIRE HIS HOME
Escapes by Leaping From Porch
Roof to Ground; House
Soaked With Oil

After securely fastening the door
leading out of the bedroom of Peter
Ostoic, at his home 745 South Front
street, Steelton, last night, frebugs
saturated the entire lower floor OF
the house with oil. and gasoline and
applied a match. .. ,,...-
That Ostoich was not cremated and
ms home burned to, the ground was
due largely to his loneliness for his
wife who is visiting relatives in an
othef town. Last evening, he de-
clares he was unable to sleep because
he was thinking of his Wife.
About ten minutes OF midnight
Ostoich to-day told Fire Chief John E
Shupp, Jr.,. of tSeelton, lie detected
an odor of burning OIL Going to his
bedroom door he found the door
locked ,8 -.t
Retracing his steps, Ostoich reach
ed his bedroom window. climbed out
EContinued IN Daoa 1f1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
Ports of Great Britain
BlOckaded, According to
Dispatches From Berlin

Berlin via London, Feb. 8, 1895 a.
m.-The entire German press greets
with satisfaction the admiralty's dec
laration that the waters surrounding
England, Scotland and ireland have
been included in the war zone. The
headlines of several papers speak OF
the announcement as a blockade. The
Post declares it is blockade and
must be so considered.
Neutral shipping" says the Post,
''is given time to take refuge in safe
harbors Only after a measured pc
riod do all merchantmen going to and
from the British Isles run into danger.
Then to be sure. men and freight not
only on British ships but under a neu-
tral flag are doomed to sink"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05

for here in America women haven't
any more rights than in Germany"
The pathetic, poorly little note clos
es with the statement that she has
been i'll and that she tries to keep her
sons in school
AT the office of the Poor Board,
Clerk John p. Geyer said that investi-
cation was made and that it has been
learned that the writer is a resident
of Altoona, Blair county and legally
not entitled to relief from Dauphin.
She has, lived here since June 80 and
negotiations are now on to have her
and her family returned to Blair coun.
ty According to Information furnish
ed the poor board, Clerk Geyer said
the woman had been accused of sur
reptitiously taking her two children
from an institution in Philadelphia
where they had been placed by Blair
county organization.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
10000 TURKS IN BATTLE

Cairo, via London, Feb. S, 1895
A. M.-Reports that 10000 Turkish
troops were engaged in Yesterdays
fighting are confirmed in an official
statement issued here to-day. The
troop ship Hardinge was struck by two
Turkish shells which wounded men.
making the total British casualties
for the day fifteen killed and fifty
three wounded
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
PEASANTS TAKE PART IN RIOT
Bv Associatrd Prct.

Naples, via Rome, Feb. 4, 7.45 p. m.
A discussion to-day between men,
bers of the peasant league and the
land proprietors in the presence of
Socialist Mayor Castroilli at Miner
vino Murge, near Bari, degenerated
into fight. Pistol shots were fired by
men on both sides and the police and
troops were called to restore order A
score of persons were wounded but
no fatalities resulted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
WILL NOT STOP U. S. SHIPPING
BY Associated Press

New York. Feb. 5.-That the Ger
man admiralty communication declar-
ing the waters around Great Britain
and Ireland, including the entire Eng
lish Channel, a war zone after Feb
ruary is. would have no effect on the
movements of steamships between
New York and British and French
ports, was the opinion expressed by
representatives of shipping companies
in statements made public to-day. :
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
AvIAToRs AGAIN ACTIVE
Bp .dSSocinted Pre,,

Paris, Feb. 5, 2.55 e. m.-The
French war office this afternoon gave
out report or the progress of the
fighting which reads as follows: I'm
Belgium German aviators yesterday
showed great activity. The announce
ment given out last night reported the
occupation of trench of the enemy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
STEAMER AGAIN TLoATBD
Bp Assoeialed 20.

St. John, N, D., Feb. 5.-All the
freight and most of the bunker crop
of the coastal steamer Prospero were
thrown overheard before she could be
hoated from a submerged ledge upon
which she had been forced by a great
ice foe off the New Foundland coast.
Ice is coming down from Greenland
waters in great quantities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
HoNoRs FOR. AMBASSADOR
By Associated Pres,

Madrid, Feb. 3, Via Paris, Feb. s.
George E. Willard the American am
bassador to Spain, accompanied by his
family, and Sheldon L. Crosby second
secretary of the embassy have gone
to Algeciras and will visit SPANS
North African possessions. The Span
ish government has ordered that milf
tary honors be accorded the ambassa-
dor sat. ttt .'N.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
GERMANS ASSIST HUNGARIANs

Venice. via London, Feb. 8, 9.19
A. M.-Dispatches from Vienna state
that $4,000 German troops have ar
rived in Hungary on the way to Koros-
mezo. in the Carpathians, to assist
Hungarian forces said to be threat
ened with development by the Rus
slams ..f..s, -
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
AUsTRIANs ATTACK SERBS
BY Associated Press

Geneva. via Paris, Feb. 5, sos a. m.
-Hostilities against Serbia have been
resumed by the Austrians. according
to reports received here from sources
which usually have been we'll in
forDeS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
100000, 900 CREDIT OPENED
Bp Associated Press

Paris, Feb. 5, a. m.-President
Poincare has signed a decree opening
credit of 800 million francs (s6O,-
000,0O0) to meet the most urgent
needs OF persons whose property has
been destroyed as result of the war
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
RUSSIANS MAKING PROGRESS
By Associated Press

Petrograd, Feb. 5.-The general
staff of the Russian army, under date
of February has issued a report OF
the fighting which reads as follows:
I'm East Prussia we are making
progress by fighting our way along
both basks of the River Schesepuppe,
in the vicinity of Lasdepnen, to the
east of Tilsit. On the left bank of the
river Vistula the fighting between
Borjmow and VIOLA Szydlowiecka has
continued with extraordinary fero-
CITY,"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
RUSSIANS GIVE UP POSITIONS

Petrograd, Feb. 5.-The official re-
port of the Russian general staff given
out here to-day relates that the forces
of Emperor Nicholas have relinquished
some of their mountain positions in
the Carpathians. The troops opposed
to the Russians in these positions are
strong numerically and they are fight
ing with energy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
GERMAN SUPPLY SHIP SUNK

London, FEB. 5, $50 a. m.-The
Times says the German auxiliary
cruiser sunk by the British cruiser
Australia off Patagonia January Z, was
the steamer Eleonore Woermaun, IL
supply ship to Admiral Won Specs
squadron. The Times adds that it is
doubtful whether the vessel carried
any armament.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
TWENTY KILLED By EXPLOSION
By Assoefnlcd Prcs.

Madrid, via Paris. Feb. 5, els A. Nj,
Twenty persons were killed and
many Injured by the explosion yester-
day of boiler in u furniture factory
at La Gurdia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05

The action of the German admiral
ty in declaring within the war zone the
waters surrounding England, Scotland
and Ireland is supported enthusias-
tically by the German press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
APPoINT FoREIGN NIINIsTER
Br Assoffatfd Prnss

Lisbon, via Paris. Feb. 8, SIS A. M.
Jose Rodriguez Monteiro, a colonel
of artillery, has been appointed for
eign minister of Portugal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
TRYING TO STIR UP TROUBLE?

London, Feb. 5, .25 a. m.--Discuss-
ing editorially the foreign offices con-
traband statement the Times refers to-
the German Bundesraths insertion of
clause seeking to exclude wheat and
flour in that country. This action the
Times characterizes as a fraud intend
ed to make bad blood between Great
Britain and the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
GERMANSAREBLOCKADING
BRITISH PORTS TO CUT
OFF FOOD IMPORTATIONS

Press Throughout Germany Enthusiastically Supports De-
caration of Admiralty; Furious Fighting in Progress
Along RussO-German Front West Of Warsaw; Won
Hindenburg Makes Third Furious Attempt to Break
Through Line; Germans Reinforce Hungarian Army
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
SCHOOL DIRECTORS
OPPOSE PROPOSED
COUNTY UNIT PLAN
Take Stand Against Recommends
tion Made by State Educa-
tional Association
BOARD WANTS MORE LEEWAY
Would Pay Cost of Food and
Clothing For Open Air
Schools

A decided stand against the county
unit system" of school government
whereby schools will no longer be gov
erned by local school boards, but from
the county seats, was taken this
tlnorning by the directors department
of the Pennsylvania Educational AS
lsociation. in session in the Central
high school assembly room.
Seventeen recommendations of the
Legislative committee of the body were
passed by the directors. Nine of these
recommendations are new and eight
were recommendations made at last
years meeting The nine new rec
concentrations are as follows:
Opposing legislation tending to
remove the schools further from
the direct control of the people,
and disappearing plan of local
school government known as the
county unit system, whereby
trolled by local school boards, but
from the county seat, as recon-
mended recently by the State
Educational Association.
Permission for school boards
TO employ agricultural, manual
training and domestic science
teachers according to their judg-
mcnt,
That township schools receive
the same amount of appropri-
aConS from the State as high
schools i'm boroughs in the same
class.
Changes in the school code re-
gaFding details of Indebtedness of
school districts.
Compulsory registry of children
admitted to private or public
home institutions.
Repeal of laws requiring school
boards TO pay State tax on all
school debts, funded or bonded.
That school boards be permitted
TO pay costs of food, clothing and
transportation of children attend
ing open-air schools,
Urging tho preservation of
form of school code by having all
new acts submitted as sections
and when the meaning is changed
i'm any way by action of courts,
that the language be made to
conform. p
The old recommendations are as
follows:
That names of all candidates for
school director shall appear only on a
nonpartisan ballot; recognition of
properly organized training schools for
teachers be granted; increased ap-
preparation for maintenance of public
schools; the inclusion of fire escape
regulations in the school code; amend
ment of the code providing a stenog-
Tapher for county superintendent
three days a week, in counties having
less than 400 teachers and regular
stenographer in counties having more
teachers; opposing any law whereby
any consecutive employment of
teacher in district school shall con-
stitute permanent employment or life
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
General Conditions

Pressure fs high in Atlantic connt
districts and west of the Rocky
mountains, except tn the Far
Northwest, where another dis
furbance Is moving from the Pa
cifc.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg md vicinity: Rain
and warmer Tonight and Satur-
day; lowest temperature Tonight
about 20 degrees.
For Eastern Pennsylvania; Rain
Tonight and Saturday; warmer.
fresh winds.
River
The main river will continue To fall
Tonight and probably Snturdnv
\ stage of about 60 feet is indi-
Gated for Harrisburg Saturday
morning. The JunIatn, West
Brnnch and possibly the upper
portion of the North Branch are
likely to begin to rise to-night
or Saturday under the Influence
of higher temperatures and rain
Indicated for the Susauehanna
valley within the next thirty
six hours.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
Temperature, s ~ M ae

temperatures n. M, 36.
sun; Rises, 11O n. m; sets, 5i2s
~. M.
MoOBi Rises. 1901 n. nm.
River Stage; rs feet above low
water mark.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05
Ycsterdny,a WcntI,r

fcSterdny's Weather
Highest temperature, 20.
Lowest temperature, IL.
Mean temperature, ri.
Normal temperature, IS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-05

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