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78 NO. 115. HARRISBUKG, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 191512 PAGES. PRICE, ONE CENT. POSTSCRIPT IK WEALTHIEST DEFENDANT IN THE NEW HAVEN DIRECTORS' TRIAL nun: Minn IHIlffffiJlPWE S49.QOO.000 VALUE BASIS OF PEW1A.

STEEL DEAL Pennsylvania Railroad Reported to Have Sold $17,131,900 of Its Stock to the Donner Party $6,000,000 Advance Over Last Tear BULGARSUSE 40,000 If ASSAULT 4 HELD HJ BALLOT BOH FRAUD CASE i Terrible Accident Occurs On the Union Pacific Railroad Near Randolph, Kansas 6- T'L'AM leoclcEFELLER William Rockefeller is the wealthiest of the Uiillionnnlre defendants! on trial In the New Haven cae. He Is reported to be worth $150,000,000, while the wealth of his older brother, D. Rockefeller, is estimated at $750,000,000. The picture shows Mr. Rockefeller leaving the court after a session of the trial.

FT P. I. A. A. RULES AS wnii Fill! BRIDE AT 14 W.

M. Jones, Moore. Young and Reed Must Answer to the January Grand Jury THREE OUT ON BONDS OF $500 District Attorney, In Response to Question of D. W. Sohn, Says Vote Cast in Precinct Tor All Candidates Will Be Ee canvassed In Court The four of the five election officers of the Second precinct of the Sixth ward, who were arrested on charges of conspiracy, fraud and making false returns in connection with the count of the recent primaries vote cast in fhe precinct for Sixth ward Republican constable candidates, ail were held for action of the January grand jury following a preliminary hearing this morning before Alderman A.

M. Landis, in his office at 269 CaJder street. The defendants held for court are: William M. Jones, judge of election; George E. Moore and William H.

Young, inspectors, and J. H. Eeed, clerk. The three latter are colored men. The fifth member of the board lias thus far evaded arrest and is believed by detectives "to have jumped the town." The detectives declare that the fugitive clerk's name is not really Jones as had been stated, but that he is Nathan Matix, a colored man with a penit record.

During former Hay, Meals' administration, the record iw, a Nathan Matix and his brother wre convicted of breaking into and robbing the store of Joseph iAaronson, in this city. Both were sent to the penitentiary and served two-and- one-half years each. District Attorney (Michael E. Stroup whose office has been investigating the election case, examined several wit nesses who appeared for the Common wealth and it was the first time in the history of the county at least so far as the records show that a District Attorney personally prosecuted a charge ui election xraua. Alderman's Office Crowded The practice in former years, accord ing to officials, was for individuals not connected with the District Attor ney's office to make the information and have the matter returned to court for action of the Grand Jury.

Then only would the matter be taken up by the District Attorney. Stroup pressed Alderman Landis to NATHAN MATIX, ALIAS JONES fugitive Election Clerk, Who Is Said to Have Penitentiary Becord hold all of the accused election officers on the several charges upon which they had been arrested and the Alderman Mexican Leader Reported to Have Been Put to Death by Own Followers CONFIRMATION STILL LACKING General Eodolfo Fierro, a Notable Villa Leader, Drowned While Fording a River, Says Dispatch Received In 'e1 Paso, Texas, Last Night By Associated Prtss. El Paso, Texas, Oct. 16. Reports current here for 12 hours that General Francisco Villa, chief of the convention forces in Mexico, had been arrested by hie own men at Casas Grandes, convicted and put to death, could not be confirmed here early to-day.

Messages from General Villa in his private code were received at Juarez at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The messages related to business with his representatives in Juarez. The report that General Rodolfo Fierro wae dead, received last night, came over the military wires from Casan Grandes. It stated briefly that Fierro had been drowned while fording a river. American Brings the News A Mexican passenger from Gaeas Grandes arriving Thursday night was said to have brought the first word of Villa's death, but his story became public only late yesterday when it received apparent confirmation from an American arrival who said he had been so informed by a railroad employe.

The death of General Rodolfo Fierro, reported last night from Casas Grandes, Mexico, removes from the Villa campaign one of its most notable leaders. Fierro sprang into prominence at the time of the death of William Benton, a British tubjoct at Juarez, two years ago. BenUn's death which has never been satisfactorily explained, has been laid to -Fierro, then Villa's bodyguard. Pierre Got Generalship During one of Villa's critical battles Fierro in tho face of, a deadly fire un coupled a troop train, preventing tho arrival of Huerta reinforcements. This deed of valor is said to have won him his generalship.

Later Fierro became notorious as an executioner. One of his exploits, as re ported from the battle field, was tho shooting of more than three hundred prisoners taken in battle. He is reported to have killed the men as thev stood in a row and as rapidly as his aide could iced his gun. Death By Drowning Doubted The report that Fierro met his death bv drowning is discredited here. In well informed circles, it was hinted that Fierro was the victim of a con spiracy.

It was reported from Torrcon more Continued on Eleventh rase. HOY TO QUIT LIGHTING CO. Resigns Position Here to Assume Sim ilar One In Elmira, N. Y. Robert W.

Hoy, who for twenty-eight years was associated with tho Harrisburg Light Power Company, beginning as a laborer and rising to his prrnent poet, commercial manager, to-day tendered his resignation to the light company to accept a similar position with the Elmira Water, Light and Power Company, of Elmira, N. The resignation will become effective on or about November 1, but Mr. Hoy will not assume his new duties until a week or so after that. Mr. Hoy had several responsible positions with the old Harrisburg Light, Heat and Power Company and he became commercial manager when the firm was consolidated with the Paxtang Electric Company and the name was changed to the Harrisburg Light and Power Company.

R. Kiple, commercial manager of the Easton Light and Power Company, and assistant to the president of that concern, has een appointed successor to 'Mr. Hoy. This was announced at the offices of the local company this after- FIRE HORSE BIDS TOO LOW Commissioner Taylor Throws Out Offers' on Four Animals City Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor at noon to-day opened bids on four fire horses, which have been replaced by motor fire apparatus and tractors.

All bids were thrown out as being too low. Two of the Royal company horses. which have been replaced by two from the Mt. Vernon truck, will be sold. The third animal in the Mt.

Vernon team went to the Citizen engine team and one of the latter 's horses is to be sold. One of the horses formerly in the Hope engine team is also among the quartet of animals to be sold. The passing of four of the old faithful animals from the department is saddening to the firemen, who have had them many years, but they are delighted with the new motor apparatus and are plugging for more. Loops the Loop to Death Buenos Aires, Oct. 16.

Francisco Baltraimo, while attempting to loop the loop in an aeroplane here to-day. (Special to the Star-Independent.) Philadelphia, Oct. 1 6. Ownership of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, which operates the big works at Steel ton, and the Sparrows Point, shipyard, is to pass to the interests headed by Charles M. Schwab at prices for the stocks which make the prop erties cost $49,533,000.

Alhough no official announcement of the sale has been made it is learned that a special meeting yesterday the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Company authorized the sale of 131.900 of the $31,310,500 stock owned for some years by the Pennsyl vania Railroad interests. Sale of control of the Cambria Steel Company through the stock market is approaching completion. The Donner party will probably get this property at a turnover valuation or aoove ou, 000,000 for the $45,000,000 outstand ing capital stock. It is expected that big financial and development plans will be carried out with the Cambria Steel Company as soon as the transfer of control is completed. Following the Pennsylvania Com pany board meeting Henry Tatnall, fi nancial vice-president of the Pennsyl vania Railroad, went to see William H.

Donner, president of the Cambria Steel Company, who holds an option on 56,260 shares more of the stock to be paid for at such prices as can be ob- tained from any other buyer. In the end market quotations will probably fix the price at which this block of stock will change ownership. Action taken more than a yeai ago by Samuel Itca, president of the Penn sylvania Railroad, has worked out so that the system of which he is head realizes about $6,000,000 more in the sale of its big interests the Pennsylvania Steel- Company properties than would have been accepted a year ago. THIEF HIDESJS PLUNDER Jewelry and Small Savings Bank Pound in Bear Yard of Home He Looted Between 6.30 and 7.30 o'clock last evening a thief entered through a window on the balcony the house at 1314 ransacked the second floor and made away with valuable jewelry and a savings bank full of small change. The entire value of the plunder was more than a hundred dollars.

The entire loot intact was found this morning buried under some fallen leaves in the rear yard at the home. The bank was unopened and its contents untouched. Tho police believe that the thief hid the articles until he had a chance to return and open fhe bank. Mrs. Arent and another woman were seated on the front porch waiting for Mr.

Arent. When the latter went to the second floor on returning from work he discovered that all bureau drawers had been ransacked. City detectives are working on the case. Registers to Vote at 101 By Associated Press. Rome, N.

Oct. 16. Orvil S. Dorman, 101 years of age, went to the polling place to-day and registered. He will vote for prohibition and woman suttrage.

OCTOBER IS SMASHING ALL I Stated in Office of Superintendent Mc Caleb That There Has Never Be fore Been So Much Activity on Philadelphia and Middlo Divisions Never before in the history of the Pennsylvania railroad has the freight movement over the Philadelphia and Middle divisions, converging in this city, been so heavy as since October 1 It was said in the office of Su.perin tendent William B. McCalob, of the Philadelphia division, this morning, that if the movement continues at the same rate until the end of the month every record for a single month will have been broken by October, 1915 This means that the largest pay checks for years will be received by freight employes of the road who make their homes in this city and vicinity. Notwithstanding the fact that a number of additional freight crews has been placed in the regular pool list, freight men are being worked to the fullest extent the law allows. Invariably they are being called out for service again as soon as their prescribed rest periods are up. There are no signs of a let-up in the activitv.

With the of five addi tional storage tracks now being con structed in the Enola yards and the probable continuance of the present rec ord-breaking freight movement, it is considered likely more crews will be put in service. Although no official information is available as to the cause of the boom in the freight business, it is rumored that the storing of coal in this city and at diiferent points along the road, together with the transporting of war order supplies, is largely responsible for it. i With Artillery They Begin an Attack on the Itarda Railroad Bridge TRY TO CUT OFF ALLIES' TROOPS Ferdinand's Forces Apparently Are At tempting to Break Railway Communication and Prevent the Forwarding of Men and Supplies to Serbia Athens, Oct 16. (Forty thousand! Bulgarian troops, with artillery, are re ported to have begun an attack on the itarda bridge, between Valandovo, oa the railroad running from Saloniki into Serbia, and Hovdovo. The point of at tack is about twenty miles north of fhe Greek border.

The Bulgarians apparently arc attempting to cut railway communication and prevent the entente allies from forwarding troops and supplies for the assistance of the Serbians. Light houses in fhe Bulgarian coast have been extinguished. Entrance to the port of Dedeaghatch, Bulgarias' principal point on the Aegean sea, has been forbidden except in the day time when a pilot is required. All Bulgarian ports are said to have been mined. King Ferdinand's Manifesto London, Oct.

16. A copy of tiha manifesto of King Ferdinand to th Bulgarians, portions of which were for warded from Sofia recently by telegraph, reached London to-day. The manifesto implies Bulgaria has no quar rel with the entente powers. It ex plains that they, like Germany, were prepared to give Bulgaria the greater part of Macedonia. "Our treacherous neighbor, Seifbda, alone remained inflexible in the face of the advice of her friends and allies," the manifesto continues.

"Far from listening to their counsels Serbia, in animosity, stupidly attacked bur territory and our brave troops have beea forced to fight for the defense of their own soil." In conclusion King Ferdinand says: "The European war is nearing a close. The victorious armies of the central empires in Serbia are advancing rapidly. I command our valiant army to drive the enemy from the lim its of our kingdom and crush this felon neighbor. We shall fight the Serbs at the same twne as the brave armies of the central empires." Stern Measures by Bulgars Milan, Oct. 16.

The Bulgarian gov. emment has been obliged to resort to stern measures of suppressing outibreakj of unrest among the people, says a dispatch to the Secolo, Sofia, by way of Bucharest. Many officers of pro-Russian sentiments have been retired from the army and it is asserted that reprisals are beginning against subject of the quadruple entente nations. CERIHAN ATTACKS REPULSED Several Counter Assaults Against French Trenches In Lorraine District Prove Futile Paris, Oct. 16.

French forces ihav repulsed several counter attacks in the Lorraine districts against trenches occupied by them yesterday, according to the official statement issued by the French War Office to-day. The text of the communication follows: We repulsed dast night in Lorraine several counter attacks against the trenches which we occupied yesterday to the north of Billon. In thex course of these engagements we took 100 prisoners. "In the Vosges the enemy undertook shortly after midnight an attack in force between the Llnge and the echiatzmannele. This was preceded toy a severe 'bombardment and accompanied by a curtain of fire directed against our second lines and our communicating trenches.

This attack was completely repulsed 'by us. "There has been nothing to report from the remainder of the front since the issuing of the communication of last night." Germans Capture Norwegian Ship Stockholm, Oct. 16. The Norwegian, steamship Tyr, loaded with cotton and bound from Bergen, Norway, for Copenhagen, Denmark, was captured to-day by a German warship in the Cattegat, the arm of the North sea between Sweden and Jutland. Would Menace Greece With Blockade London, Oct.

16. Holding that the time has arrived to demand that Greece put an end to all doubts her attitude the evening standard" suggests that Greece "should be open to arguments presented with forceful tact by a British fle.et in th shape of blockade. HORROR CAUSED BY A WASHOUT Car Which Plunged Through Structure and Was Submerged in a Creek Contained Seventy-two Passengers, According to Reports to Officials By Associated Press. Kansas City, Oct. 16.

At least 15 persons -were killed and many were injured to-day when motor train No. 579 on the Union Pacifie railroad plunged down an embankment near Randolph, Kan. A washout caused the accident. One of the cars on the train was submerged in Fancy creek, a local stream, and most of the dead were drowned. This inrirmation came to the Union Pacific offices in Kansas City to-day.

The train which carried two cars, left Manhattan early this morning for Marysville. It carried about 75 passengers. A three-inch rain fell in the vicinity yesterday. The accident oc curred near the approach to the bridge over Fancy creek, where the track had been washed away. Both cars plunged down the high embankment, the first car burying itself deep in the stream below.

Railroad officials said the train usu-aly carried many traveling men. Today it had as passengers when it left Manhattan a delegation of young women school teachers en route to the Riley county teachers' convention which, was to have opened at Randolph to-day. Dr. Louis Atwood, a Topeka physician, was among the killed. Pour Bodies Recovered at Noon At noon, according to a message from the scene, four bodies had been recovered.

Work of rescue then was abandoned until wrecking equipment could lift the coach out of the water. Rescuers had been unable to get into the forward compartment. It was there the greatest loss of life was believed to have occurred. Dr. Atwood and Alma Jellin, of Garrison, Kan.) were the only identified dead up to nOon.

At that hour it was estimated forty persons had been in jured. According to a message from Ran dolph, the wreck was caused by the washing out of the abutment of the bridge across Fancy creek. As a result of heavy rains last night the stream was running bank full. The bridge itself did not give way, but when the heavy car struck the embankment it sank end-down into nine feet of water and two or three feet of mud. The car stands almost perpendicular.

There were two cars on the train, but the trailer broke loose and remained standing on the track. Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 16. Reports received by Union Pacific officials here said that one car on the Union Pacific motor train which was wrecked near Randolph, early to-day contained 72 passengers, 60 of whom were drowned when the car went through a bridge. INJUNCTION AGAINST STOUCH Effort to Restrain Evangelist From Preaching Sermon oil What Caused Murder of Cyrus Miller (Special to the Star-Independent.) Oct.

16. iLate this afternoon District Attorney Paul G. Adams had an injunction issued by the Lebanon county courts against Dr. Henry W. Stough, evangelist, to re strain the latter from preaching his sermon here to-morrow on what caused the murder of Cyrus Miller, or some theme similar to this.

It is feared by the local officials that Dr. Stougb's remarks may prejudice a fair trial for tho murdered man's father. The elder Miller, it will be remembered, shot and killed his son, Cyrus Miller, here this summer. Late this afternoon Sheriff 'H. P.

Strupp served the papers on Stough. Stough said that he was advised by his attorney to go ahead with his talk tomorrow. HITS MAX INSTEAD OF DCCRS Electric Light Superintendent Accidentally Shot at Pittston Wilkes-Barre, 0ct. 16. C.

Nagle, superintendent of the Citizens' Electric Illuminating Company, of Pittston, was accidentally shot and seriously wounded to-day by Anthony Maniaks, of the same place, while Maniaks was shooting at wild ducks along the Susquehanna river at Pittston. Nagle was at the plant of his company, 100 yards away. Maniaks deserted his boat and gun and could not be found immediately after the accident, SCHOOL STANDARD Central High Last to Join State-Wide Organization and Local Games Can Be Played Changes Eligibility Standard For Athletes At the request of Dr. Charles B. Fager, principal of the Technical High school, and Prof.

Howard G. Dibble, principal of the Central High school, the athletic regulations of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association were substituted for the athletic requirements of the Harrisburg district and hereafter will regulate all sports in the local high schools. The last high school of any consequence to enter the state-wide organization was Central High school, who held out because of the eligibility clause on strictly amateur ruling. Concessions have been made to Central High by Steelton and Tech and all local schools are now entered in the association. The important change in the new requirements for participants in athletic sports is in the scholarship of the athlete which makes him be up in scholarship in the term in which he is participating in whereas the old rules in force in the two high schools provided that his being allowed to play depended on his past record as a student, the number of conditions under the old rule proving his eligibility.

Continued on Twelfth Pnsre. Car Repairman Injured David. Landis, 20 09 North Fifth street, a car repairman at the Luck-now shops of the Pennsylvania railroad, had his right foot crushed while at work this morning. One of the toes was fractured. He was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital.

LATE WAR NEWS SUUARf Russia has not formally declared war on Bulgaria, but regards herself in a state of war with that country dating from the time Bulgaria is asserted to have attacked Serbia. The roreign Office at Petrograd issued a statement to this effect to-day, adding that the formal declaration awaited conclusion of an exchange of telegrams between Russia and her allies. A special dispatch to Cologne from Athens asserts that the Russians and Italian Ministers are preparing to leave Greece. Hard fighting has been in progress on the Lorraine front, where the French declare they have repulsed several counter attacks by the Germans on trenches which French troops captured yesterday. Repulse of a strong German attack between the Linge and the Schratzman-nele, in the Vosges, also is reported by the Paris War Office.

Athens dispatches Bay 40,000 Bulgarian troops are reported to be attacking a railroad bridge between Va-landov and Hovdovo, on the line from Saloniki, about 20 miles north of the Greek border. Former Premier Venizelos, of Greece, has announced himself in an interview as still a strong adherent of the cause of the entente allies, of whose ultimate success, he declares, he is more deeply convinced than ever. Unrest in the interior of Bulgaria is reported in special dispatches through Bucharest. Many officers of pro-Russian sentiments have retired from the army, it is declared. Only unimportant operations are recorded by the Turkish War Office in its latest report on the situation along the danelles front.

Edith Bricker.Puts Up Her Hair For the First Time and Goes to be Married PARENTS AGREE TO THE MATCH Give Consent to Wedding of Their Very Young Daughter to Youth of 16, and the Ceremony Is Scheduled For Late To-day In Derry Church In a pretty wedding frock and her hair "put up" for the first time in her life, Edith Bricker, 14 years old, this afternoon leaped nimbly into a carriage at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bricker, in Deodate, in the southern end of this county, and hurried away to the parsonage of the Rev. Mr. Leinbach, at Derry Church.

There all arrangements had been made for her wedding at 4 o'clock to Frank Krider, nf Hershey, who is only 16, but confident he can support a wife. The marriage license was issued yesterday to the youthful pair in the Court House in Harrisburg, after, of course, the parents of the girl had given their consent, and this afternoon it was a merry party of friends and relatives of the bride-to-be and her boy husband-elect who headed for the home of the Derry Church parson. It was love at first sight between Edith and the youth she plans to wed to-day. On November 14, a year ago, Edith's sister was married at Derry, and among the guests were Edith, with "pigtails" down her back, and Frank, who had not yet attained the dignity of long trousers, a son of Gottleib Krider, who conducts the Mcadowbrook Dairy at and Frank works for his father. When Edith's sister was married last November Frank and Edith met for the first time and were two of the merriest of the guests.

The occasion was propitious for Cupid and they fell in love at once. The wooing was continued ardently until Edith gave her consent to be his bonny bride. The parents of both were willing. Yesterday when they obtained a mar riage license they said it was their intention to be married next Monday, but two willing hearts were impatient. They changed their minds and this afternoon the young pair started for the parsonage at Derry, where everything had been arranged for their marriage by the Rev.

Mr. Leinbach at 4 o'clock Only the immediate relatives were in vited to be present. The couple will live with Edith parents at Deodate and Frank will continue to work with his father at Mea-dowbrook Dairy until the pair get old enough and opulent enough to establish a home of their own. Bank Reserve Decreases By Associated Press. New.

York, Oct. 16. The statement of the actual condition of Clearing 'House banks and trust coinpanaes for the week shows that they hold reserve in excess of legal requirements. This is a decrease of did so, fixing the amount of bail in each case at $500. James Anderson put up a bond for Moore, Bert F.

Bough furnished security for Young and Daniel Williams became Reed's bondsman. W. M. the judge, was unable to get a bondsman, as was the case following his arrest, and he was remanded to jail. W.

II. Jones is also being held for court trial on charges of assault and battery and surety of the peace, preferred by his sister. It was said among the man's friends at the hearing this morning that an effort now is being made to have the latter cases settled. C. G.

Nissley, in whose office at 1405 North Third street the Second pre-cinet, Sixth ward, polling place is located, and County Commissioners Samuel S. Miller and John H. Eiby, were the only persons who testified before the Alderman. The small office of fhe Alderman was so crowded during the hearing that many of the spectators were obliged to retire to an adjoining living room. Sohn Wants Deeper Probe W.

Justin Carter represented the accused election board members and Continued on Twelfth Pace. 1 fell to the ground and was killed. rrom last wees..