f|S|p~~ r • m y [/ nm^j / Heavy Loss otffWßollows Sinking of Old Dominion Liner Monroe Near Norfolk HARRISBURG SSSBb TELEGRAPH LXXXIII— No. 26 J! MILLION A YEAR IS RUM'S TOLL IN COUNTY OF DAUPHIN .21,153,621 1-3 Bottles of Beer and Malt Liquor Made Here in Twelve Months ' B THE ESTIMATE OF BREWERS | Reports to Court Show That 86,- I 285 1-3 Barrels of Booze r Were Manufactured 50.3M1 l-S barrols. 21,153.621 1-3 bottle*. 39,106, 862.13 1-8. In barrels, bottles and dollars, the uibove, In brief, represents Dauphin county's 1818 contribution to the liquor traffic. Whether or not Dauphin county's beer drinking class drank all of that and paid out all that money for it is a I matter of conjecture; but that Is the I amount of beer and other malt, liquors ■brewed within the county's borders, band that is the approximate cost—at TSo cents a bottle. | } The estimated number of barrels of I beer and other mait liquors manu factured In the county is shown in the ■applications for brewers' licenses for ■1914, the last of which were tiled with bhe Dauphin County Court yesterday. ■Unless there are remonstrances filed ■which will necessitate a hearing upon ■ any of them, these breweries will all Lbe re-licensed for the ensuing year at ■February license court, February la. r Supi>ort Five Breweries Dauphin county supports five brew eries and in asking for the privilege to manufacture in 1914, the proprie tors and managers tile an affidavit as to the amount brewed during the year past, for the purpose of estimating the product for the new year. And this Is what the applications show: Fink Brewing Company, 84,1 Bfl bar rels; Mary L. Grapner, 19,230; Na i tlonal, Steelton, 15,185; Anna O. I DOehne, city, 9,295 1-3; Louis Wentzel, | Lykens Brewing Company, Lykena, 18,419; a total of 86,285 1-3 barrels. And all that reduced to pints—beer lis ordinarily put up in pint bottles, , isn't it —totaled 21,053,621 1-3 pints —or bottles! And at 10 cents a bottle, I nm—well—it's merely a matter of L simple arithmetic. 1 By 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon W1 the applications had been filed, Trnd while all the licensed places last .vpar, with the exception, of course, oft Augelo Bosch e ratae iIX i, Prmtded McDonald and H«irrlshurg raifie 9100.000 eiu-h to finance the proposition. NEW BRIDGE AT DOCK STREET W. H. Lynch, of the Department of Streets and Pub. and City Engineer M. B. Cowden conferred late this r 1 « railroad engineers anil Superintendent W. nock wtre.-l n ' K the construction of the proposed new ■ \ ONE YEAR TO OBTAIN $20,000,000 Jan - 80.—The American Red Oroas Society has been granted Chinese government a year in which to obtain $20,000 000 to ■«ut a project for controlling the Hver Hwal, whose overflows have caused every year great loss of life and damage to property JAMES O'CONNELL IS SAFE , ' a, V 80 —The list of passengers saved sent by wireless Nantucket Includes the name or .James O'Connell vlce-nresi federation of Labor, and a member of the new relations commission, was a Daseenger on the Monroe COLLEGE "MAN DIES Jen- SO. —The death at Shanghai, China, or Samuel R Oapen, chMtman of the Board of Trustees of Wellesley College and president Of the American Board or Commissioners ror Foreign Missions was announced in a cablegram received here to-day. ' Closing Minutes in Wall Street New York Closing.—Alamgamated Copper, 76%; American Smelt lng '.« e9^; Atchlson ' 1 98e * 41v. l'/j i>er cent.; Baltimore-Ohio, 95 U e* div. 8 i>er cent.; Brooklyn Rapid Transit, 91%; Canadian PaciH?-' 218*; Chesapeake-Ohio, 07%; Chicago-Milwaukee and St. Paul io« i/■ Lehigh Valley, 155%; New York Central, m%; Nor U.em "steel*6*6% P R° : R S<> ll5 ,ern 981,n,0n Pa«lflc, 19S%i V. GOMPERS GLORIOUSLY DRUNK, IS CHARGE OF DUNCAN MINALD Head of Labor Federation Shouts "liar" and "Slanderer" at Speaker CONVENTION IN AN UPROAR McDonald Says He Is Glad Gomp ers Conld Hear the Charges He Made By A irocictrd Prtts Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 80. That Samuel Qompers, president of the American Federation of was "gloriously drunk" at the Seattle con vention of the federation, was the charges made by Duncan McDonald, of Illinois, at. the convention of the United Mine "Workers of American to day. During the prolonged cheer* "liar" and "slanderer" were hurled at McDonald by Gompers, who sat on the platform. "I am glad Mr. Oompem 1B here so I can say what I want to," said Mc- Donald in beginning h-ls reply to the speech made yesterday by Mr. Gom pers. "I said there were booze fight ers in charge of the American Fed eration of Labor and I'll prove it. At the Seattle convention I had a room with my wife at a hotel next to the room reserved by the resolutions com mittee. The first Saturday night we could not sleep for the noise made by a hunch of drunks In the next room. "I appealed to the clerk of the hotel and the noise grew louder. Then I went down to the hotel office and the nlgnt manager called Jim Duncan on the phone and told him they would have to get out of the room, that they were disturbing all on the floor. "The noise grew fierce and I finally knocked on the door of the room and was asked to come in and have a drink. "When the door was opened there sat Sam Gompers at the head of the table, gloriously drunk, with a bottle of booze in his hand." The statement threw the convention in an uproar and it was some time before order was restored. While the confusion was at its height Gompers called McDonald a liar and a slan derer. Mr.' Gompers followed McDonald and denied absolutely, the charge of drunkenness. He declared the state ment "libellous, untruthful, vlclotis, slanderous ami without any form of \ honor." Electrical Work Is Criticized by Underwriter • fly Associated Press Philadelphia, Jan. 30. —Conditions In Harrisburg and Heading were told to-day to the legislative committee which is investigating fire insurance companies, by Louis Wiederholt, Jr., secretary of the Underwriters' Asso ciation of the middle department. He told in detail of the careless electrical work which underwriting Inspectors had corrected. He showed a switch board which had been ripped out of an establishment at Harrisburg. The apparatus was composed of insulated j brass strips packed close together on ( a plain wooden base. Fire, he said, could have been started by this with | the greatest ease. He showed nu- j merous fuses which had been "bridged" with copper wire. One "bridged" fuse was taken from a Reading store. ONE DEAD AND ONE OVERCOME IV APARTMKNT HOUSE BLAZE By Associated Press Pittsburgh, Jan. 30.—One man was killed and ten other persons were overcome by smoke when fire broke out in an apartment house in the Lawrencevllle district here shortly after midnight. Three of the ten per sons overcome were rescued with diffi culty by policemen and firemen and were burned so severely they were taken to hospitals. Of the others six were small children. All were rescued by means of a human ladder of police and firemen. The dead man is John Martin, aged 35. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1914. HEAVY FOG SAVES BRIDE'S LIFE WHEN HER HUSBAND SHOOTS Dense Mantle of Mist Also Enables Assailant to Make Get-a-way HE SHOT THREE TIMES Two Bullets Take Effect; Be lieved Victim Will Recover Heavy fog covering the city last night prevented Steve Stiner, alias "The Cowboy," a Roumanian, from killing his bride of five months. The heavy mantle of mist also en abled Steve to make a get-away after he fired three shots at Mrs. Stiner as Bhe was entering the home of her parents at 1114 North Seventh street. In the dense fog Stiner's aim was not true. The young wife Is in the Harris burg Hospital with a bullet wound in her neck at the base of the skull and a bullet in her left shoulder. The second ball entered the right shoulder passing through the fleshy part of the neck. The third shot went wild. Mrs. Stiner wilf recover. Up until late this afternoon Steve was still at large. Steve Stiner was released from jail Monday night after serving four months with three others for beating up Peter Shilling, a foreigner, In the Herr street subway, last August. While in jail he sent for his wife repeatedly but the young woman feared her hus band and sent word she did not want to see him. Said He'd Kill Wife Following his release Stiner went to the office of Alderman Bayles and asked for clothing from the home of his wife's parents, but it was not given him. Later In the day he called on Detec tive Ibach and made a similar request but was told nothing could be done for him. Steve then went to the home of his sister at Herr and Cameron streets, where he had been in an ugly mood. Late -yesterday afternoon Stiner called at the store of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Katzman in Seventh street, near Cumberland, and said he Intend ed to kill his wife because she had turned him down. Shortly after 7 o'clock last evening Stiner was talking to a friend at Cal dfcr rand 'ST'VJrrttlT streets, when his wife and a sister came to a store near by. As the two women left the store Stiner followed them. Just as Mrs. Stiner was about to enter her home, he fired, the wife falling In the door way. Mrs. Stiner was rushed to the hos pital and Detective White went after the husband. Mrs. Stiner before marriage was Caba Lenca Fostanar. She made her home with her mother, Mrs. Rosa Fostanar, 1414 North Seventh street. Mrs. Stiner is 20 years of age. Her husband 22 years. They were mar ried August 1, 1913. Since the mar riage Mrs. Stiner has seen very little of her husband because of his being in jail. Yeggmen Blow Safe in Conyngham Post Office and Escape With $250 Hazleton, Pa., Jon. 30.—Yoggmen blew the safe In the post office at Conyngliam, a borough near here, early to-day and got away with about SSO in cash belonging to A. W. Reisen weaver, the postmaster, and S2OO in government funds. The safe in the Reisenweaver store, where the post office is located, was also wrecked. Postmaster Reisenweaver was awak ned by the noise, and fired at two fleeing figures in the darkness, but they escaped, hater Sergeant .Jasper Oftedal, of the State police, arrested a man giving his name as Michael Scan lon and his residence Shenandoah, a supposedly deaf and dumb mendicant, who talked after being charged with Implication in the robbery and con fessed. He gave the names of two other men Implicated In the robbery. Cold Wave Will Hit City Late Today Is Forecast of Demain The cold wave which has been forcing the mercury down In the AVeat and Middle West will reach here late, this afternoon. Tt. will cause a fall of twenty degrees of temperature. The warm weather has caused an unusual condition in the river. For thet first time In years the January ' break-up is coming without rain. The j ice has moved down the west branch 1 almost as far as Wllliamsport and may cause a rise of four or five feet in the river by to-morrow. The west branch is clear as far as Nesblt. Parsonages Are Bought I and Sold; New Home For | Grace Church's Pastor Following the announcement that I the Pine Street Presbyterian church i has purchased the E. R. Mitchel resi dence In Front street for use as a parsonage, it was said to-day that the Grace Methodist church has bought the old Pine street property In State j street adjoining the Grace church and • will remove it and erect thereon a I parsonage of architecture and mate- I rials in harmony with the present church structure. It is also reported that Zlon Lutheran church Is negoti ating with Grace Methodist church for the purchase of the present Grace parsonage at 212 Pine street. TAKE LUNATIC HOME Henry W. Harper, the demented young man from Easton, who wanted to be commissioned Governor General of Northampton county, and called on Governor Tener the other day, was taken to Easton this afternoon by H. P. Rrown, a constable, to answer a ! rharge of carrying concealed deadly | weapons and threatening to kill a sister. Forty-nine Passengers and Members of Crew Lost When Ships Collide FRENCH MAIDS WHO WILL CURTSEY AT SUNSHINE PLAY m * I ■ I, i"'*?'I''" 1 ''"* 1 "' I ''."" .' "The Lost Princess 80-Peep," the opera to be given this evening and to-morrow afternoon and evening at the Majestic Theater for the benefit of the Roberta Dishrow Lloyd Sunshine Society, hae in Its cast more than 250 peo ple, many of whom are prominent in ilie city's social life. Many a Broadway manager would pay a pretty figure to have on bis stage the pretty figures that will be included in the big choruses. One of the pretty groups will be the French Maids, including Isabel Shrelner, Mary Boas, Marian Bretz, Eleanor Etter, Anna Young, Sara McCul loch. Cherry Westbrook and Alice Decevee. TWO ESCAPE WHEN THREE ARE KILLED IN MOUNTAIN ACCIDENT Driver and Four Little Children Go Over Embankment With Big Oil Wagon Special to The Telegiaph Newport, Pa.. Jan. 30.—0n& of the most shocking and distressing acci dents occurred yesterday afternoon in I Watts township, whereby two little ! girls, sisters, .lie dead at the home of I their parents and a nuin died on his I way to the Harrisbtirg Hospital. I Charles E. Cook, driver for the Atlan ! tic Refining Company, who goes out !of Newport making trips through various sections of the county deliver ing kerosene from a tank wagon 'drawn by three horses, had served his customers at New Buffalo, going [Continued on Page 0] i GREASY FAILS TO MANUFACTURE ANY CAMPAIGN THUNDER Endeavored to "Show Up Highway Department Again/' But Fell Down Hard ~ ~ "Farmer" William T. Creasy, promi nent in the affairs of the Democratic State machine, went into the closing meeting of the State Board Agricul ture to-day with "hay 011 his horns," as they say on the farm. The "Farmer" endeavored to get some po litical capital for the Democratic State windmill in Market Square out of the business of this nonpartisan State board, but he failed. And the funny thing about it was that the Catawissa Granger was blocked in his spectre hunt by Auditor General A. W. Powell, who has been a critic of the Republican administration of affairs in highway and other departments. Creasy endeavored to "show up the Highway Department again." He started .a series of questions and a«ked Mr. Powell how much money the Highway -Department had on hand. His scheme was apparently to get out [Continued on Page 4] Express Co. Employe Commits Suicide by Hanging at Columbia Special to The Telegraph Columbia, Pa., Jan. 30. George Winkleman, about 40 years old, an employe of the Adams Express Com pany, committed suicide by hanging at an early hour this morning at his home in North Third street. Winkle man got up this morning and it was thought had left the house to go to work, but about 8.30 o'clock Mrs. Winkleman had occasion to go to the cellar and she found her husband's body hanging to a beam. She sum moned neighbors and the body was cut down. A physician was called and after an examination said the man had been dead more than an hour. No motive for the deed is known, as he had no financial or family troubles, and was in good spirits when he arose this morning. Coroner Strine is making an investi gation. HOLD-UP MEN MAKE ATTEMPTS TO ROB RAILROAD EMPLOYES Trackwalkers Along Pennsylvania System Are Stopped by High waymen While on Duty Special to' The Telegraph Marietta, Pa., Jan. 30. —Two hold ups of trackwalkers on the Penn sylvania railroad occurred last night, but in both cases the men escaped without injury and lost no money. Christian Ilaldeman. who walks the stretch between Schock's Mill and Holland, was making his trip about 10:30 o'clock and was about half way over the bridge when he was met by three men, one of whom carried a searchlight. They demanded his money, probably knowing that yester day was payday on the railroad. He r Continued on I'age 7] REFERENDUM VOTE ON HIGH SCHOOL HOURS TO BE GIVEN PARENTS Steele Has Scheme Whereby In convenience Can Be Some what Remedied To make the inconvenient hours of the double session system at the Cen tral high school more suitable to stu dents and parents. Professor W. S. Steele plans to give the parents a ref erendum vote on when they want their children to attend school. Each parent will bp asked to Indi cate on the midyear report card which will be sent out soon, whether it would suit the student In the family to go In the inorningß or the afternoons permanently or whether they prefer the present system. When the reports are all in, Pro fessor Steele will arrange each stu dent's work so that he can attend school at the time of day suitable to the student and the parents. As many of the boys have positions in the after noons, the present system of alternat ing half the school from morning to afternoon session eveVy month has caused , much inconvenience. In the Fall and Spring the members of the athletic tpams have to leave classes early or lose time In their changing teachers. Attorney For Accused Women Asks Court For Habeas Corpus Writ ' By Associated Press Chambersburg, Pa., Jan. 30. —Attor- neys for Mrs. Zelcla Keller Gerhold and her mother, Mrs. Jennie S. Ricker, arrested yesterday charged with the murder of Floyd Keller and placed in Jail here, to-day petitioned Judge Gil lan that writs be Issued on Sheriff Walker to produce the two women in court on February 6. The habeas curpus petitions declare that both women are held unjustly for the com mission of some supposed crime. Judge Gillan directed the prothono tary to certify all documents in the case into court. There was no re sistance on the part of the Common wealth. THOSE WHO TEACH IMMIGRANT CHILDREN FACE GRAVE PROBLEMS Future Citizens Moulded Largely Along Lines Laid Down by Public Schools [This is the second of a series of articles on the immigrant child in Harrisburg public schools. Mrs. Wood Illustrates their handicaps and sets forth their marvelous pro gress under difficulties.] By MRS. ANNA H. WOOD The immigrant children who have come to make their future homes with us are utterly at sea regarding the laws of ventilation and hygiene. Their home life is conducted vir tually without any, thought of such matters. One Italian mother, when [Continued on Page 9] SUBWAY AT DIVISION STREET TO BE URGED AT MASS MEETING West End Improvement League Calls Session For Next Tuesday The need for a subwav at Division street will be taken up at a mass meeting called for Tuesday night In the Camp Ourtin school building by the West Knd Improvement league. The public has been urged to attend this meeting by members of the league, and it is expected that some definite plan for the furtherance of the movement for the subway will be presented. * The meeting will start at 7:45 o'clock. Members of the league will tell of the commercial value of a sub way in the West End. lews of Wild wood park and a history of the park will be given, and the ease with which the park could be reached through a subway will be explained. A committee of the league headed by Karl Steward has been busy for some weeks gathering data on the subject and the results of their work will be told at this meeting. First Arrest For Bad Housing Conditions Made By Sanitation Bureau Because he failed to clear out the rear of 517 South street, following the inspection of housing conditions by Mayor Royal, Chief of Police Hutchi son and Dr. J. M. J. Raunlck, city health officer, information was made to-day before Alderman Murray against N. Freidberg, of 420 Walnut street. Mr. Freidberg was given a hearing this afternoon. He is charged with allowing filthy sanitary conditions to exist in the South street house. This is the first prosecution to be brought by the health bureau as the result of the inspection of the slums, but many notices have been sent to owners, and there are many hurried "flittings" from crowded tenements land from the cellars in which lodgers were found. Further inspections are I promised tn other sections of the city. 16 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT. Monroe and Nantuckd Going in Opposu Directions, MJ During Heavy F1 Early To-day al Former Goes Dow Within 10 Minute: VICTIMS WERE 1 ON MONROE Nantucket, Following Collision, Acts as Rescue Ship and Succeeds in Getting 85 Persons From Water; Saved Are Now On Way to Norfolk. By Associated Press Norfolk, Va„ Jan. 30.—Forty nine persons went down to death at 2 tn. to-day when the Mer chants' and Miners' liner. Nan tucket, sunk the Old Dominion liner, Monroe. Wireless lists for warded by Captain Johnson of the Monroe, returning with the survivors on the Nantucket, show: Lost—Passengers, 25; crew 24. Total, 49. Saved—Passengers, 30; crew, 55. Total, 85. Captain Johnson, of the sunken Monroe and all his officers but one were among the saved. The lost offfcer was second engineer, named Dately. Eighty-five survivors picked from the sea and huddled on the [Coiltinned on Pag« IS] ANNOUNCE IJOAN'S SUCCESS Berlin, Jan. 30. — The complete suc cess of the new 190,000,000 Prussian loan was announced to-day. For Harrlsburg and vlelnltyt Gen erally fair to-night and Saturday* colder to-night, with lowest tem perature about 25 dpgrrn. For Eastern Pennsylvania! Unaot tled to-night and Saturday, prob ably mow or rain i colder to night) colder Saturday In south east portion t moderate weat to north wind*. IllTer lee movement* have occurred h both branches of the river. lee la gorged between Renovo and J.ock Haven, and there are prob ably other Jams In the Weat Branch. In the North Branch the river la covered with floating Ice to Towanda and Wllkea llarre. The main river and lower portion* of the two branches will rise to-night and Saturday. Upper portion of West Branch will tail to-night and Saturday. The up per portion of the North Branch will probably begin to fall to night or Saturday. General Condition* The main center of the western ■form has moved off northeast ward and the offshoot Is now central In the Bast Gulf. Temperature! S a. m., M| a p. m., 63. Sunt Rises, 7i17 a. m.j seta, 8i24 p. m. Moont New moon, flrnt quarter, February 8, 5i3H a. m. River Stage i 4.S feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 44. Lowest temperature, 37. Mean temperature, 40. Normal temperature. 28. The New Currency Bill Is not nearly of so much personal Importance to you as the new dollar bill you stowed away In your pocket. Congress may debate. Bankers may petition. Orators may orate. Well and good. But after all you are much more interested in knowing where you can get 100 cents' worth of goods or ser vice for that dollar of your own. You are not so much interested in the price of bonds in Mexico, but you do want to know about the t)est market at your own front door. You find that the very best and most up-to-the-minute guide to this market is the advertising in the Telegraph, and in other good newspapers. The advertising tells you what goods are being offered and where and what the prices are. People who get the most for their money are the students of advertising. They buy with knowledge. They buy where dealers are competitors and that Insures the lowest market price