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M LITTLE CASH
[ LEFTFORSIGHWAYS
Bute Board Committee Finda Oat
Tliat Fuuncei Hare Been
Modi Depleted
XCeaben of the State Board of
Agriculture oommlttee last night cot
froze the departments of the Auditor
General and Highway Commissioner
confirmation of statements that very
little money waa In sight for 1914 road
work because the controversy over the
disposition of the Income from auto
xxi oh lie licenses had tied up almost
three-quarters of a million dollars.
The Highway Department counted oa
tiUs money to keep the Btate highways
in repair during this year and it is
Rnerally believed that when Governor
«er cut the highway appropriations
tliat he figured that the automobile
ca«h would be available for road
building.
The committee last night made pub
lic what it had learned from the two
departments.
The Auditor General's figures show
a balance of $2,038,915.47 out of ap
propriations of $6,260,000, but he savs
that he has no knowledge as to what
portion of this amount Is covered bv
contracts.
Poweil'a figures show:
»-f tate highways, construction, $164,-
*•?«?' ealarles a nd expenses, $206.-
786.94, maintenance, $181,505.29;
maintenance experiments and ex
-4 penses, $88,130.42.
Highways—l9ll, $192.-
• 09.15; 1913, $900,000.
Traveling expenses, $91,152.04- ex
periments and tests. $41,330.26; con-
ES!? 11 * f V nd ;o 555.578.67; township
road fund, $248,280.35; automobile
aiMslon expense fund, $90,095 27-
Cumberland road. $2,571.25; State aid
maintenance, $373,807.49.
All , tl l, ea6 fun ds have to be spent
as provided.
The statement from the Highway
rm a Bo?', sho *' s thßt the ltem of
*181,50o.„9 for State highway main
ih?« a «t e t an several others tally, but
this statement is made: "Out of the
appropriations made by the Legisla
ture at the 191|3 session for State high-
S C r? ruc J to » there remain* a bal
ance in the hands of the State Treas
{"here a * ainßt whfch
v $305 c " e on contracts of
nvowi-.U h 8 ltem 18 apparently
of Mav 23 : in?? a PP, rf ? v al of the act
May 191.,, which appropriates
the money paid for motor vehicles to
the use of the Highway Department
contracts were made accordingly and
u n h Jh£ T ney the department has' been
unable to use. hence the apparent de
ficiency. Again the State-aid high
including
f 192.609 IB from 1911, there are con
t£ Ct U f $Bl9 - 3 , 100 - additton to
there wm he „°, f ! 2T3 ' 000 remaining
tnere will be due from counties when
roads are completed $845,774 43
i7Tatr-fw stateme "t says' that
iV? v. ni automobile licenses
The rte b> ' the Auditor General.
The department has let thirty-two
contracts since June 1, twenty-elVht
being for State-aid highways.
Mrs. MargaretSheller
Dies at Duncannon
Special to The Telegraph
Duncannon. Pa.. Jan. 31. Mrs
Margaret H. Sheller. widow of Samuel'
Sheller died suddenly of
*" lte "digestion. She was 8 3 yea?s
old and before her marriage was Mar
garet Haines Servis. She was a* de
scendant of some of the earliest set
tlers of Pennsylvania and Virginia and
was a granddaughter of Lewis Servhf
surveyor for the Penns before the
Revolutionary War. She was also a
«nd tl A e H° f G^' ernor William Finlev
end Andrew G. Curtin and Senator
Andrew H. Dill Democratic candidate
for Governor in 1878. She w»« the
vlvell of - tWelve children and is sur
c V four sons and three daugh
ters, Samuel R., Sylvester S., Ada V
and Mrs. K. G. Gladden, of Duncan-
I" ra n. k ,B. and Charles of
Philadelphia, and Mrs. Mary S Miller
? i ,j£aS o , 111., and one brother, Cap
tion Th ni f' S B ' pervis. of Williams-
L- w fu " eral service will be held
at z Vn !$, f , ? ome .Monday afternoon
?». T? c 1 and wl " be conducted
Aj B thnH^f V t- Sho 'l. pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
High School Students
Give "Prince of Liars"
Special to The Telegraph
. l^el^anon. Pa.. Jan. 31. Students of
the Lebanon high school scored a tri
umph in the presentation of "The
Prince of Liars, a farce comedy, to an
& u 1 ?j.« nc e packed the Academy of
Music to the doors. The proceeds of
«?in tn'xt* ure i | Wil .' g V to the fu "d for a
trip to Washington, D. C.. by the irrarlii
ating class in June. The was
V. p entirel y °f seniors and the
production was given with the sanction
of the school authorities.
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that of healthy youth. Advertise
ment.
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ffIOLLEf LII WORK
fIILTEO Of ARRESTS
Heidelberg Township Supervisors
Demand Use of "L" Rail in
Schaefferstown Streets
Special to The Telegraph
Lebanon, Pa., Jan. 31.—The town of
schaefferstown, seven miles southwest
of Lebanon, was thrown into excite
ment by the arrest of the twenty-four
workingmen employed in constructing
the new street railway line between
Lebanon and Ephrata, on charges of
malicious mischief. When the op
erations reached Schaefferstown, the
Heidelberg township supervisors de
manded the use of an L rail for the
eight hundred feet of tracks through
the town, but the management of
Ephrata and Lebanon street railway.
It is alleged, refused to concur in the
request, and after some parley, Super
intendent Smith, according to the
story, tried to force the issue by plac
ing the men at work laying the tracks
with the T rails used in the outlying
districts. The supervisors retaliated
by summoning State policemen and
the entire force of workingmen were
placed under arrest, the supervisors
stating that while the town wants the
railway and its citizens have subscrib
ed to the funds for its building, the!
township authorities Insist upon their 1
rights to withhold a right of way in
the town until an agreement to their
liking is signed. It is expected that
litigation will follow. The workmen
were released on bonds for hearings
next Wednesday before Squire Horst
at Schaefferstown. The citizens were
much wrought up over the occurrence
and much excitement prevailed.
WOMAN, 102 YEARS OLD, DIES
New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 31.
| Mrs. Priscilla Inslee, widow of John
1 8. Inslee, and the oldest woman In
Middlesex county, died at the home of
her son, Ayres D. Inslee. Mrs. Inslee
I was born on a farm between Metuchen
Rnd Woodbridge, 102 years ago last
December 20.
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Infant Strangles to
Death at Supper Table
Special to The Telegraph
1 Columbia, Pa., Jan. 31.—George,
the thirteen months' old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Firestone, of Lititz,
strangled to death last evening: at the
supper table, where the little boy
1 sat with his twin brother and mother.
The latter had left the table for a
few moments to attend to some duties,
and when her back was turned one
of the small children gave a bisbuit
to each of the twins. Mrs. Firestone
succeeded in getting the biscuit out of
"the hands of one, but the other had
1 put his into his mouth and tried to
swallow it. A piece lodged in his
windpipe and he strangled to death in
fifteen minutes. The mother is pros
trated over the accident.
COMPLETE INTER-STATE
COMMERCE COMMISSION
Special to The Telegraph
Washington, Jan. 31. —The active
contest over the appointment of Inter-
State Commerce Commisioners ended
yesterday when Senators who called
at the White House were told that
President Wilson had selected Win
throp Moore Daniels, of Princetown
N. J., and Henry Clay Hall, of Color
ado Springs, to fill the vacancies
caused by the resignation of Charles
A. Prouty, of Vermont, and the death
of John H. Marble, of California.
BURGESS RESERVES DECISION
Special to The Telegraph
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Jan. 31 Ar
gument before Burgess Mishler in the
cases of the two cigar store men, A
Z. Hade and Lewis Pierce, who were
summoned to appear to answer
charges of keeping their Btores open
on Sunday, was heard yesterday af
ternoon, but the burgess reserved his
decision until February 20. The men
live in their places of business and
claim they have a right to keep them
open any time. No charges were made
that the men sold anything.
DOUBLE FUNERAL OF CHILDREN
Special to Tlie Telegraph .
Duncannon, Pa., Jan. 31.—With ser
vices In the Hill Church, near New
Buffalo, to-morrow morning, the bod
ies of Elva and Emma Hammaker.
who were killed yesterday when a big
oil wagon of tke Atlantic Refining
Company went oyer an embankment,
will be laid side by side in the Hill
Church Cemetery. The funeral service
will be conducted by the Rev. Mr
Cloud, of Liverpool, at 10.30 o'clock.
HAND BADLY INJURED
* Special to The Telegraph
Mifflintown, Pa., Jan. 31. While
helping to load stock into a car at the
Pennsylvania Railroad repair shops
Guy Auker had his hand badly
crushed, the bones being broken and
the third and fourth fingers torn by
the bones puncturing the flesh.
JUDGE AIDED RELATIVE
Special to The Telegraph
Atlanta, Jan. 31.—Georgia lawyers
testifying against Judge Emory Spfier,!
Federal District Justice, said he threw
concerns into bankruptcy to provide i
cases for his son-in-law's la<w firm. I
\VAI NICK ON -HQSPITAIJ STAFF
. J - Riunlck has been elected
to fill the vacancy on the stafr of the
w?. < L nßary at the Harrisburg
Hospital. Other members of the staff
include Dr. Samuel F. Haxsler. Dr. Jesse
U Lenker, Dr. J. E. Dickinson.
HARRISBURG ffljjjftl TELEGRAPH
Did Rudyard Kipling
Sway President Wilson?
Special to The Telegraph
Washington, Jan. 31.—Credit is be
ingl given Rudyard Kipling among
some people here for having been the
indirect cause of President Wilson's
understood determination to bring
about the repeal or postponement of
that portion of the Panama Canal act
of August 24, 1912. which permits
American coastwise vessels to pass
through the Panama Canal without
payment of tolls.
| According to the story that Is go
ling the rounds In Washington, Mr.
Kipling so impressed Walter H. Page,
the American Ambassador in London,
by his argument in favor of the Brit
ish contention that the free tolls pro
vision Is in violation of the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty that Mr. Page wrote
to President Wilson about it and con
vinced the President that Mr. Kipling
was entirely right. As newspapers in
Mr. Kipling's country would say, 'the
story lacks confirmation.
West Fairview License Must
Be Transferred in 15 Days
Special to Ihe Telegraph
Carlisle. Pa., Jan. 31.—Judge Sadler
yesterday handed down his decision in
the cases of three of the petitions for
license which he has had under ad
visement. Licenses are granted to
Elizabeth F. Stewart for the West
Fairview hotel and to John E. Unger
I Central Hotel. Newvllle. The appli
cation of Antonio Meggori for the New
Kingston hotel was refused and no
action has as yet been taken toward
granting a license to the Big Spring
Hotel at Newville.
Fifteen days are given to Elizabeth
F. Stewart, of the West Fairview ho
tel, to transfer her license to a proper
person. If a transfer is not recorded
within this time the court reserves the
right to revoke the license.
SPECIAL MUSIC AT MEETING
Special to The Telegraph
Annvllle, Pa.., Jan. 31. —To-morrow
afternoon the well and favorably
known glee club of the Annvllle Camp,
Patriotic Order Sons of America, will'
render special music at the men's mass
meeting in Engle Hall, Annvllle
Those who go at 2.45 will hear several
additional selections by the P. O. S. of
A. Glee Club, as well as piano solos
by Hay P. Campbell. The special
music Is announced for 2.46 and tho
mass meeting to begin promptly at 3
E. E. McCurdy, of Lebanon, will de
liver the address of the afternoon. Mr
McCurdy will speak particularly to
the men and the boys on the cardinal
points of the White Cross Single
Standard League.
Post 58 Holds. Its
Annual Memorial
Comrades who have not been able to
pet to the Grand Army of the Republic
Post room for months last night gath
ered at the room of Post 58, Grand
Army of the Republic, for the annual
memorial service of the post.
The Rev. George F. Schaurn, of the
Harris Street Evangelical Church, made
the address of the evening, and Post
Commander George B. Rhoads read a
short eulogy of the dead veterans N
A. Walmer read the list of dead Miss
Irene Wagner played "taps," while two
little girls. Mabel Maulfair and Mae E
Push, strewed flowers.
IA(V)U«S6(V)6f)T(S
MAJESTIC
To-day, matinee and night "The Lost
Princess, 80-Peep."
All next week—Kirk Brown Company.
Monday matinee—"Thais."
Monday evening—"The Woman In the
Case.
Tuesday matinee—"The Matchmaker."
Tuesday evening—"Thais."
Wednesday matinee—"The Woman In
the Case."
Wednesday evening "The Match
maker."
ORFHBVM
Keith Vaudeville—Every afternoon and
evening.
COLONIAL
Vaudeville and Pictures—Every after
noon and evening.
KIRK BROWN AND HIS COMPANY
Better productions at popular prices
than those given by the traveling com
panies presenting the same plays are
positively assured by Kirk Brown, the
famous and popular star, who appears
at the Majestic Theater all of next
week.
This claim is unquestioned by the
many theatergoers who are familiar
with the talents and worth of the
clever actor, the strength of his sup
porting company and the magnificence
of the various representations of the
remarkable list of plays that will be
ofTered during the engagement.
For the opening bill, Monday mati
nee, "Thais" has been selected, while
for the night "The Woman In the Case"
is underlined.—Advertisement.
SINGERS' LAST NIGHT
The Orplieum's most popular bill
with Will Oakland, America's famous
lyric tenor and an excellent cast pre
senting "A Night At the Club." and a
galaxy of Keith stars supporting this
attraction, all appear for their last en
gagement to-night. For next week the
maangement is announcing a feature
attraction that is by all odds the most
ambitious of anything that has been
sent here by the booking agent thus
far this season. It is a mammoth
dancing spectacle called "A Darling of
Paris, employing a cast of twenty
players, mostly girls, and a scenic
equipment that employs a sixty-foot
baggage car for its transportation. The
stage setting employed in this produc
tion represents the Palais de Danse in
the Latin quarter of the French capi
tal. The most conspicuous figure in
the cast Is Mile. A ICreniser, a very
capable actress and dancer. The play
is full of action, graced by the poetry
of motion, and there is a tragic finale
' that Is very effective, indeed.' For the
Burpose for which it was designed "The
arling of Paris," with its brilliant
scenery, Its costuming. Its dancing, and
its dueling is hard to beat. Percy War
am and company, presenting a scenic
Play'et called "The Rosun's Mate."
and Itimberly and Molir. In a great
singing and piano act, will be the chief
supporting attraction.—Advertisement.
AT THE COLONIAL
A fine minstrel attraction, presented
by five singers, dancers and comedians:
? re .?i'. y cleve r riding exhibition, offered
by The Girl With the Horse," and a
sweet singing comedienne, rounds out
the Colonial's splendid vaudeville bill
that appears for its last engagements
to-day. To-day's feature film Is en
titled Too Late," splendid Selig
production in two parts.—Advertise
ment.
VICTORIA THEATER
To-day closes another big -week of
motion plcturos at this theater. To
day s program consists of "Won In a
« Thl ," P' cturc '8 very funny.
Slim Hogan's Getaway" and "The
Cure will be shown. Also the feature.
Lucky Nugget" in three acts. The
Kinemacolor pictures are "Dainty Lin
gerie" and "Morning Gowns." a fash
ion picture all the ladles should see
'The Piegan Indians," is also a beau
tiful Kinemacolor picture.—Advertise
ment.
JANUARY 31, 1914.
Recent Deaths in
Central Pennsylvania
Sptrial to The Telegraph
Greencastla.—Miss Josephine Brown,
a well-known resident of Greencastle,
died at the home of Edwin Stouffer,
East Baltimore street, yesterday after
a three days' Illness with pneumonia.
She 1b survived by one sister, —rs.
Elizabeth Fuss, of Williamsport, Md.
Private funeral services will be held at
the home of Mr. Stouffer to-morrow
afternoon.
Mlfflinburg. The body of Harry
Blblghause, who died at the residence
of liis son, Dr. Russell Blblghause, was
brought to Mlfflinburg yesterday, and
burial made In the Woodlawn Ceme
tery. Mr. Blblghause was a fcrmer
resident of this place.
Murrell. After an Illness of four
years of Intense suffering, Mrs. Jacob
Stoner, died yesterday. She was. 63
years old, and was a member of the
Mennonlte Church for forty years. She
is survived by her husband, two daugh
ters. and several brothers and sisters
Lancaster. David S. Kreider 74
years old, died yesterday at the home
of his son. from a stroke of paralysis
Seven sons, three daughters and as sis
ter survive.
Mechanicsburg. To-day the body
of Michael Beltzhoover will be brought
to this place from Nevada, Mo. for
burial In the Mt. Zion Cemetery, near
Churchtown. He was a native of Boil
ing Springs, and left that place for
Nevada, Mo., In which city he resided
about thirty years. Mr. Beltznoover
was 55 years old, and unmarried. Ono
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BOARD OP TRABE~BAXftUET
Special to The Telegraph
Marysvllle, Pa.. Jan. 31. - Big prepa
rations are being mado for the first an
nual banquet of the Marysvllle Board
of Trade, which will be held in the
Masonic Temple, next Tuesday even
ing. Invitations will be isued to the
wives of all members in addition to the
members of the Marysvllle Civic Club.
It Is expected that altogether there will
be over 200 guests In attendance. Presi
dent E. B. Lelby has appointed the fol
lowing committee chairmen for the en
suing year: Membership and entertain
ment. W. IJ. Roberts; merchants, J W.
Astienfelter; civic, S. J. Boyd; munici-
Eal, W. T. White; industries, Scott S.
■eiby; education and professions, John
L Haln.
GORGAS IS SURGEON GENERAL
By Associated Press
Washington, Jan. 31.—Colonel Wil
liam C. Gorgan, the man who drove
disease out of the Panama Canal Zone,
was confirmed by the Senate as Sur
geon General of the Army to succeed
the late General George H. Torney.
The nomination of Daniel F. Mooncv,
of Ohio, to be Minister to Paraguay,
also was Confirmed.