Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-05

roads to give lower transcontinental
freight rates to San Francisco, Oak
land, Seattle and other ocean ports
while denying them to the inland cities
of Sacramento, Stockton, San Jose
and Santa Clara, Cal, were sustained
by the Supreme Court.
Amsterdam. The newspaper Les
Nouvelles says the Germans are be-
ginning to reduce considerably their
requirements as to the number of I'M
employed to be deported from Bel
gium. Some are being sent back.
New York. - Remedial measures in
the form of State legislation will be
considered at once by the committee
of five appointed by Governor Whit
man yesterday to investigate the
causes of the high cost of living.
London. - The passage of the home
army bill caused n panic throughout
Berlin last week when it was realized
that women would be forced into the
factories.
Pittsburgh. - Upward of $4,000, 900
will be available to industrial workers
of the Pittsburgh district during the
Christmas shopping season, according
to announcement made here by the
Philadelphia Industry Trade Commits
sion. 1t has been. estimated that 1885,
600 men are employed in and about the
industrial plants in this district Many
the plants.
Shenandoah.-Mrs. Charles Schlim-
mer, Sc years old. wife of Charles
Schlimmer, a prominent resident of
Jackson's. dropped dead In the arms
of her daughter, who was escortlng
her to a trolley.
PittsburEh.-Mormon was assail-
ed, militarism attacked and universal
peace urged at the second days session
nF 1la
Reform Association held jointly with
the Christmas Citizenship Convention
here.
LansdaIe.-Crazed with religious ex-
element, Miss Alverda Sturzebecker.
2S years old, a telephone operator of
Lansdale, was taken to the State In
sane Asylum, at Norristown, yesterday.
Her father William Sturzebecker, of
Lansdale, nurseryman. with tears
streaming down his cheeks told the
story of his daughters mental break
down, due, he declared, to constant at
tendance at the Lansdale GLORY Barn."
where Evangelist C. f. Weigle is con-
Quoting revival campaign.
manifestations Evangelist Wei
gle. preaching at the Lansdale GLORY
Barn." termed dancing church mem
bers "decoy ducks of the devil" the
Saturday night Lansdale Assembly
attendance.
ShnmOkin. - Wilson Bressler shot
his wife, injured his daughter Goldie
and tried to kill Michael Dormer,
constable. yesterday. Mrs. Bressler is
in serious condition from a wound
in the hip
New York. Charged with con-
spiracy to violate the customs laws by
means of fraudulent manifests in the
shipment of small arms and ammuni-
tion, Louis Gotting and Wencesloa
Mont, partners in an exporting firm
known as the Adic Company, were held
in $4,000 bail by United States Com
missioner Houghton yesterday. The
defendants are charged with shipping
arms and ammunition, billed as plumb
ers' supplies and machinery.
Washington, d. c., Dec. 5. - Captain
j; A. Hughes and eight privates of the
Thirty-tirst Company and two privates
of the Thirty second Company Of Unit
ed states marines, Were wounded in the
fight November 20 and 80 at Macoris,
Dominican Republic, between American
forces and natives who resisted occu-
patton by the Americans, according to
a dispatch to the Navy Department to-
day from Captain Harry Knapp, COM
manding the forces there. Eleven Do
minicans were reported killed and six
wounded.