, - • t 7 • • - '.4 t V 1 - •, - r • v •• • '-r - • ; •• \ . • : Steto Library- Harris burg Pa « "Oh Paddy Deat'and Did You Hear the News Thai's Going 'round?" HARRISBURG SflsStii TELEGRAPH ! .XXXIII- Xo. 64 Friends and Neighbors Regardless of Politics Endorse Judge Kunkel Hon. B. F. Meyers Presides at Largely Attended Cit izens' Meeting STATE-WIDE CAMPAIGN IS NOW UNDER WAY former Opponents of Judge Are Now Enthusiastically Working in His Behalf TCelghbors and friends of President Judge George Kunkel, regardless of political faith, unanimously endorsed his candidacy for the Supreme bench In a aeries of ringing resolutions passed at a meeting that taxed the capacity of No. 2 court room in the eourthouse last night and prepared to carry his campaign to every, pre cinct in the SttLte. The venerable B. V. Meyers, for years a leader In Demo cratic politics in Pennsylvania and one of the most vigorous opponents of Judge Kunkel when he was a candi date for the Dauphin county bench ten years ago, presided and delivered the principal address. Indeed one of the remarkable features of the meet ing waa the number of men who op posed Judge Kunkel when he first ran for the bench who last night vol unteered their services to further his campaign for the Supreme Court judgeship. During the speech-making Milton fc>. Robinson, chairman of the legis lative committee of the Brotherhood of Trainmen In Pennsylvania, said tliat he was present fcy direction of the Brotherhood to ask that the name of that organization be specifically mentioned as endorsing Judge Kun kel, on account of his eminent fitness ion sustaining the Pull Crew law I when efforts were made to overthrow I it in the courts. Letters of regret were read from j the Rev. Dr. Fox, pastor of Grace j .Methodist church, and the Rev. B. H. Hart, pastor of Fifth Street Methodist church and past grand mkstor of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, I. O. O. F., and other well-known men, all of them pledging to use their best ef- i forts in behalf of Judge Kunkel's can- ] didacy. Kinging Resolutions The resolutions were read by E. J. . Stackpole and Sheriff Wells moved that they be adopted, which was done, by a unanimous vote. The resolutions j follow: i Whereon,. Br unanimous action, Jhr member* of 'the Dauphin Coun y Bar have presented for the con sideration of the voter* of Pennsyl vanln the name of President Judge 'jeorge Kunkel as one pre-emi nently qualified (or service In the Supreme Court, and Whereas. Hl* neighbors and friends not Identified with the legal profession, but representative of nil the walks of life In 'this community desire In some publle manner to give expression to the generiil es teem In which he Is held nnd their appreciation of the unusual nnd striking qualities of the distin guished eHlmen, who hns honored himself and his native city by a splendid career upon the bench of the Twelfth Judicial Districti 'there fore. be It Reaolved, That In thus endors ing the candidacy of President Judge Kunkel his neighbors and associates In Harrtsburg desire to convey to their fellow-cttUens throughout the Commonwealth in this publle way their opinion of the Impartial and courageous discharge of judicial duties In which he has hewn to the line without fear or favari their universal esteem for him as a luun and citizen| their ap preciation of his dignified, yet com mon-sense ndmlnlstratlon of Justice tempered with nicreyt their convic tion that the higher tribunal would [Continued on Page 3.] fr J Late News Bulletins GRANTS HABEAS CORPUS WRIT Port Worth, Teia#, March I".—Judge Edward Meek, n the Federal District Court here to-day granted a writ of habeas Corpus 011 lielialf of the live thousand Mexicans held as prisoners by the United States gov ernment at Fort Bliss, 101 Paso. WANTS COMPANIES SEPARATED Philadelphia, March 17.—The defense to-day began presenting its side of the case in the government suit to separate the Heading Company from the Jersey Central Railroad Company and its subsidiaries. The government contends that the Reading's control of the Jersey Central, the Lehigh and Wilkes-Bar re Coal Company and several small cool car rying railroads tends to monopolize the anthracite coal industry. DROP PAMPHLETS ON KING London. March I".—Militant suffragettes contributed an extra and unrehearsed '"turn" to the program given before King George and Queen Mary at a music hall performance to-day.. A shower of militant suf fragette pamphlets fluttered from the gallery above the royal IJO.K. some of the papers floated into the l>o* and foun da lodging' 011 the tor, was al>out to resign from the Cabinet. GOVERNMENT TROOPS DEFEATED Peking, China, March 17.—The government troops at Klng-Tzc- Kwan, in the province of 110-Nan, were defeated to-day by a force of brigands under the famous "White Wolf." These same brigands recently looted and burned I*ao Ho-Kow, killing Dr. T. Froyland, a Norwegian missionary, and wounding the Rev. O. M. Sama, another Norwegian. REVOLUTION AVERTED Washington, March 17.—Minister Sullivan at Santo Domingo City reported to-day that the threatened revolution in the Dominican Repub lic hail been averted and that an understanding had been reached for the presidential elections to be held as already announced. Wall Street Closing.—Chesapeake ami Ohio, 53>/ ; Lehigh Valley 147; Northern Pacific, 112'/i; Sou'hem Pacilic, 049 A; Union Pacilic, 158* Chicago, Milwaukee and sjt. Paul, 00; P. R. R., 110%: Reading, 184 V- Canadian Pacilic, 205%; .Vmal Copper, 74 74; V. S. Steel, 01%. 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"In'all 20,000 men passed the reviewing stand, in which were Car dinal Farley, Governor Glynn, Mayor Mitchel, O'Gorman and other prominent men. Thfe observance of St. Patrick's Day | began with a mass this morning at St. Patrick's Cathedral In honor of the feast of St. Patrick. An unusually big consignment of shamrocks arrived here yesterday from Movllle, Ireland, .on the steamship Co lumbia. The vessel also brought over a quantity of Irish mall, many of tht. envelopes hearing double postage stamps, because of the shamrocks con tained in them. HARRISBURG, PA V TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1914. COLLEGE il 111 ! WELLESLEY COLLEGE 1 | OESTRDYED BY FIRE : 350 Students and Members of Faculty March to Campus in Safety 3y Associated Press Wellesley, Mass.,. March 17, —Two! hundred and rtfty Wellesley students j and 100 other persons. Including mem | bers of the faculty and servants, fled ' I for their lives early to-day when flrej I destroyed College Hall, the largest and j I most pretentious of the buildings In I | the, college group. No one was in-! | jured. The loss is estimated at sl,-1 I 500,000. ' The college sessions have been tem-I I porarily suspended and special trains' were made up to take the girls to their homes. Practically all of those who j had rooms in the building lost their | personal possessions and clothing, j The superb behavior of the young ; women probably prevented heavy loss of life or Injury to many who groped | their way through smoke-tilled balls and down stairways and lire escapes to i safety. College Hall had a commanding site on a hill just east of Lake Waban. The j cornerstone was laid in 1871. The building was of brick and stone, with ; an interior of wooden fittings, it was five stories high, with a tloor space.ofi 500 by 120 feet. The building was divided into dor mitories, administrative offices and, quarters for servants. Three hundred and fifty persons slept there last night \ —250 students, fifty members of the 1 [Continued on Page '2l Gunboats Engage in First Naval Battle of Mexican Revolution Hy Associated Press | San Francisco. Cal., March 17.—A j story of the first naval engagement of ' the present Mexican revolution was j brought here to-dav by the crew of ' the United States collier Justin, which ! has arrived from the Mexican coast. The engagement was found at Topo lobampo between the recently ac quired rebel gunboat Tamplco and the federal gunboats Guerrero and More los. The federal gunboats had been ordered north to sink or capture the Tamplco, whose crew a short time I before had marooned the captain and | first engineer at Massatlan and turned j rebel. According to the Justin's crew, I the two federal ships arrived at the [ rebel port and when 17,000 yards off, opened fire on the Tumpico. The guns ! of the three little fighting craft huve a; range, of about 15,000 yards and fori about two hours a heavy bombardment! was kept up, the shells falling sever».l j thousand feet short of their marks. j After firing several hundred shots j the federal craft withdrew to Mazat- ! lan. The following day the papers of the rebel and federal cities gave glow- | Ing accounts of the great naval victory. | FOKM MKMOMAL ASSOCIATION j By A isociated J'rcss Pittsburgh. March 17.. —Meads of the various Westinghouse concerns and j well-known Plttsburghers yesterday I formed the. Westinghouse Memorial | Association, (t is planned to erect In j this city a memorial to the late George ' Westinghouse. The memorial will I probably take tho form of a inonu . iuont. J HUGH OUT FOR GOVERIIOR ON STRONG PLUTFORM Has No Entangling Alliances; Under No Promise or Agreement HE OUTLINES HIS VIEWS Local Option, Suffrage, Conserva tion and Appropriation Re forms Among Planks Dr. Martin Grove Brumbaugh last « night consented to become a candi date for the Kepublioan nomination | for Governor In response to pleas from i the home folks of Huntingdon county and Issued a statement In which he i declared for local option, reorganiza ; tlon of appropriations to charities, I conservation of resources, scientific . aid for agriculture and woman suff rage and asserted that he had no al i liances with anyone. Dr. Brumbaugh read the statement ! a group of newspapermen in Phila di'lphia and on the subject of his at ; titude toward candidates for other j nominations made this statement: "I have 110 entangling alliances of any sort. I am under no prom ise or agreement, made or im plied. I shall never be a party to any such thing. "If elected It must In- with the definite understanding that I shall lie free t<> iierform my ofllclal duties solely and steadily for the I people as a whole. "I shall reverently and hum bly endeavor to do my duty hi harmony with my conscience and under the guidance of the Divine." ! "This is my platform," said Dr. [Continued on Pago 0] BOYD CllfES 51.101 I FORPII ST. an HTHLIRK Income of Simitar Sum to Be Used i For Maintenance; Bene ficiaries Named The sum of $50,000 is set aside by the will of John Y. Boyd for the pur chase of a site and the erection and equipment of a bulldine suitable for carrying on and developing the insti tutional work of Pine Street Presby terian Church for men and boys. The income of a similar sum, S '>o,ooo, is to be used for salaries of workers In the proposed institutional building. These are the two public bequests of special Importance which were j made public to-day when the will of : the former Statu railroad conimls ! sloner was probated. Mr. Boyd's in | terests, real and personal, in tlie Boyd estate are to be divided equally be ! tween his two sons, James and Jack son Herr Boyd, while his two daugh- I ters, Eleanor and l.ouisa, are be- I queathed $50,000 each. The remainder of the estate, real, i personal and mixed, is willed to the [Continued on Page 91 One Killed and Three Others Hurt in Crash By Associated I'rtsi Washington, Pa., March 17. One j trainman was killed and three others i were hurt, probably fatally, when a | freight engine on the Baltimore and ! Ohio railroad jumped the track and ' crasned Into the West Washington sta tion near here early to-day. The ln (lured are hurt so badly that it is not believed they will survive the day. J. E. Kinsley, of Benwood, W. Va., was killed instantly . Camp Hill Woman Killed in Accident and Her Family WHERE THE BLOW FELL HEAVIEST It was In Ihe home of C. E. Jones, Camp Mill, that the heaviest blow tell when the Valley Railway Company car Inst nl«h( at 8 o'clock Jumped the track on 11 curve nnti turned over at. ElcheH'ericer's comer. half a mile east of Shlremnnstown. Five boys, the younticat just a } ear old, are lelt motherless. Mrs. Jones was alinoat indtuutly i killed beneath the wreckage. DR. MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH Candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, who announced his platform yesterday. THE SHAMROCK I Oft tlineN the MIIIUII and humble thlnK" of life I Are lifted to n hrlulit, exnlted plane | J*j- one Mmjtll act, um when the l'atron Saint I Of Irelnud would the Deity explain. | ttt. Patrick ntonped, and from the ground he took A little three-leafed Nhamrock. em erald Kreen, And held It high before the multitude, ! That plain it* oynabellNm ml«ht be neeu. * 1 "Thin plant, mj »hll