Employes of Westinghouse Electric Comp HARRISBURG I§lllß® TELEGRAPH No. 133 LXXXIII— PRISONER JUMPS OUT OF CAR WINDOW ON PASSENGER TRAIN Escapes From Chambersburg Of ficer as Cumberland Valley Train Passes Through Mechanicsburg WAS ARRESTED AT STEELTON Colored Man Charged With Pil fering From Railroad Stations and Freight Cars Sfcciol la The Tclrgrnfli Mechanicsburg, Pa., June 5. —Yes- terday afternoon the upper end of town was greatly excited a few min utes after the 4 o'clock passenger train had passed "Washington street station. Chief Norman, a Cumberland Valley Railroad detective, of Cham bersburg, had in his charge on the train a colored man by the name of Jackson, whom he had arrested at Steelton for stealing from freight cars and pilfering from railroad stations. AVhen the train reached the edge of town Jackson asked the chief to go to the toilet. Permission was granted and unlocking the bracelet from his left arm, the detective followed him to the door, the manacle still being fastened to the negro's right arm. tioing inside, the prisoner pulled the door shut and locked it on the inside and immediately opened the window and jumped headforemost out of the tar, landing in a hedge fence which surrounds the station. The chief had the train brought to a stop and sum moning the police of the town, they immediately started in pursuit and traced him several miles in the coun try, when the trail was lost. Chief Norman put several of the township constables on the Job. but up to a late hour no word has been received. The negro is a bad one. having only a short time ago been released from the penitentiary. The detective was un able to jump from the train, as he liad a leg broken and a dislocated hip, from which he is still suffering, some months ago. Violent Eruptions on Dutch Island Reported Batavia, Java. June 5.—A violent volcanic eruption occurred to-day on the Dutch island of Sanguir, 140 miles directly south of Mindanao, in the Philippines. Several volcanoes were included in the disturbance. Streams of boiling lava poured down the sides of the mountains, over whelming forests and cocoa planta tions. At the same time a heavy rain of stones and ashes from various craters fell over the whole island. Official reports do not mention loss of life, but register the destruction of 100 houses. MESSIAH TO GIVE SPECIAL ENVOY TO AFRICA GOOSPEEO Lutherans Will Gather Tonight to Say Farewell to Local Church Missionary With a reception to-night to Dennis D Swaney, of Nakomis, 111., and to three other missionaries who will make up a party to leave Monday on the North German Lloyd liner Koeni gen-Louise for Africa, Messiah Lu theran members will celebrate the go ing: of a missioner to the Dark Conti nent who will be entirely supported by that church. This is the first event of the kind to lake place in recent years in Karris burg. Although there are several i hurches who have been supporting missionaries in foreign fields for some [Continued oil Page IS] Late News Bulletins FIRE AT MIDDLETOWN FAIR GROUNDS Fire In an outbuilding on tlie Middletown Fair Grounds late this aft ernoon threatened the main building of tin- fair association. The burn ing outhouse was twenty feet away Trons the main building and the flames were fanned by a strong breeze. .Middletown firemen succeeded, however, in extinguishing the blaze without other loss than the outbuild- i'IB EDUCATORS TO MEET HERE The executive committee of the State Educational Association to day selected this city for its annual convention. It will begin Decem ber :!». Teachers and school directors will be here from ull over the State. PUBLIC OPINION INFLAMED London. June s.—Recent discourtesies shown by militants to the king and tin- burning down of many churches have inflamed public opin ion to a remnrkable degree. People have been still further incensed by what is regarded as the well grounded lielicf that much of the work of destruction is done by hired hands well paid out <>f the bulging coffers of the Women's Social and Political Union. Cases have been reported ol' women leaving other employment to Join the militants not from love of the cause but because the "pay is better." EXTRA SEATS IN DIVORCE COURT Chicago, June 5. —Extra seats for the Schumann-Hcink-Kapp di vorce case were placed In Judge Sullivan's court room to-day. All fore noon the spectators, more than half or them women, waited while the <-ourt and counsel were ill secret conferet-encc in chambers. SCOTT HEADS LIGHT MEN Philadelphia, June s.—Holton 11. Scott, of New York, was to-day elected president of the National Electric Light Association. The next aunuul convention of the association will be held in San Francisco. Annapolis, Md„ June s.—President Wilson received a long wlrelcsp dispatch on board the Mayflower en route to Annapolis at 2 o'clock this morning from the American delegates at Niagara Falls.. Member of the Presidential party refused to discuss the message except to say that it did not materially change the situation. Ijchigh Valley. 130; Northern Pacific, 110%; Southern Pacific 92% : Ohio and Pacific, 151%; Milwaukee and St. Paul, 09U; p. R, r ' 111; Rending. Ifit'u : New York Central, »t%; Canadian Pacific f«l ' l". S. Steel, 01%. TO INVITE CHURCHES IN CITY SUBURBS TO JOIN BIG CAMPAIGN Invitation Direct Result of Church men's Trip to Hazleton WILL CLEAN UP THE TOWN Stough Takes Crack at Indifferent Christians; To War on Rum Every church within a radius of ten miles of Ilarrtsburg will l»c Invited to join in the gigantic Stough Kvanpel- Istic t'amiwiign to be held In Jlarrls burg next I all. Action to this effect is scheduled to i be taken late this afternoon at a meet- j ing of the pastors of the thirty co operating church already allied in the ; big revival movement. The mc ting i of the co-operating churches was called yesterday as a direct result of the journey of the Harrisburg church men to Hazleton, where a conference was held with Dr. Henry W. Stough, head of the Stough evangelistic party. Advisability of inviting the churches in the Harrisburg suburbs to co operate in the evangelistic movement which promises to bring at least 10,000 people of Central Pennsylvania into the church was discussed at length last evening with the Stough party. It was finally decided that extension of such an invitation would, be produc tive of splendid results for Harris burg and to the general success of the campaign in this city. The Rev. E. E. Curtis, pastor of the Westmin ster Presbyterian Church and secre tary of the pastors' committee, accord ingly called a meeting of th'e pastors v [Continued on Page 7.] Historic Church and Priceless Relics Are Destroyed by Women By Associated Press Derby. Eng., June 5. —The ancient and historic church at Breadsall, dat ing back to Norman times and con taining many priceless relics, was de stroyed by fire during the night. Suf fragettes arc suspected by the authori ties, as explosions similar to those caused by the bombs usually employed by the arson squad were heard before the Ore. A short time ago a suffragette meeting in the village of Breadsall was broken up by boys, and it is generally supposed that the women burned the church in revenge. Among the things consumed by the flames was an ancient chained Bible. The church register, dating back to 1573, was saved. CITY'S NATURALISTS GiVE FOLK CHAI\ICE TO STUDY NATURE Initial Outing Will Be Taken Tomorrow to Wildcat Falls Glimpses into out-of-the-way places where nature has combined the pic turesque with a display of unusual flora will be enjoyed by members of the Natural History society this sum mer. The first outing is arranged for to-morrow. The public is invited to join in# these excursions which will afford not only interesting holiday dips into the great-out-of-doors but also an opportunity to become ac quainted with plant-life under the guide of Harrisburgers who know what considerable difference lies be- [Continued on Page 17] HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1914 » :^*;<xtfw.•:V.-JiU^:>:::C:: : fe^'k : :^ : iMa»^^>V^j'%KU>i;:jj^KS^- : : : :-^jg':-i-S'||HHHHH|jjV MHHHHHHHF vHrSHHHHHMHONHMHHHPHKJMHHVSHPs^IsmBSksKI HHMH m jhbh|^^HK|||^* IT- Hp HDBra 4 &&.*s ■/*■■. • fS<jMB .iVi^TO^^^iri jjaaMra GIMIII ATHLETES BUTTLE ON ISM FOli TROPHY SHIELD 225 Contestants From 14 Schools; Nobody Is Favorite This Year With a record entry list of 225 ath letes the seventh annual grammar school track and field meet started on Municipal Field, Island Park, this aft ernoon at 2 o'clock. Postponement of the meet sched uled for yesterday which was prevent ed by rain, brought increased enthu siasm and the rain put the track and field in excellent condition. Grammar school athletes and stu dents were up with the sun to-day. No clouds darkened the skies, and pre parations at each of the fourteen schools for the big day, began soon af ter the morning exercises. Studies were out of the question. Instead, songs and cheers were rehearsed, and drills held. As early as 1 o'clock to-day, the march to Island Park was on. Inter est manifested by parents in the event ot to-day brought many expressions of appreciation from the men who look [Continued ou Page 8] Program of Exercises at C. V. State Normal School Special to The Telegraph Shippensburg, Pa., June 5. —Com- mencement exercises at the Cumber land Valley State Normal School .will take place June 21-24, and the fol lowing program has been pcepared for the four days' celebration: Sunday, June 21 Baccalaureate sermon by S. A. Martin, D. D., La fayette College. Monday Address to graduating class. Professor J. S. Heiges; tea in art room; musical and literary en tertainment. Tuesday—Class day exercises; re union of classes; alumni procession and rally; alumni business meeting; baseball game, Alumni vs. School; alumni entertainment and alumni re ception. ,Wednesday Commencement exer. cises; address, "The Place of the Nor mal School in a System of Education," by Dr. Ezra Lehman. SEVENTY-EIGHT SOLDIERS SICK By Associated Press Washington, D. C„ June s.—Brig adier-General Funston reported to-day there were 78 sick among the soldiers at Vera Cruz, with 12 Buffering front injuries. The percentage of army is 2.23. Among the marines thefle are 1 101 sick and Injured, the percentage I being 3.3 SCENES IN HAZLETON WHERE HARRIS BURGERS MET STOUGH PARTY Scenes attending the trip of the Harrisburg churchmen yesterday to Hazleton, where Dr. Henry W Stough Is closing a six weeks evangelistic campaign, are seen in the etchings above. The upper left shows a group of Har risburgers gathered around Dr. Stough in front of the big tabernacle where he chatted over the possibilities of the coming Harrisburg campaign. The upper right shows Dr. Stough at close range in a characteristic rainy day pose. Reading from left to right in the etchings directly below are Miss Sara Palmer, of Belfast, Ireland, a noted preacher of Great Britain, who has charge of the Stough campaign women's work; Miss Josephine Colt who will have charge of the young women's work, and a view of the tabernacle at Hazleton. Below is Dr Stough' leader of the Stough party. Palmer McCormick Machiie Most Brazen and Ruthless in History, Says Ledger Perhaps no more convincing analysis of the boss-ridden character of the Palmer-McCormick machine has been printed than the following from Frank J. Price, chief of the Harrisburg bu reau of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, who sent to his newspaper last night this story of the meeting of the State committee held here: "What is said of one of these con ventions applies to both, in a large measure. Take the Democratic, for instance. It is agreed by politicians and visitors who have attended such functions—under the old name—year after year, that the Board of Trade gathering was notable for two things —an utter lack of curiosity on the part of the people as a whole, and the ab solute subservience of the average committeeman to the dictation of the WILSON DISAPPROVES OF Willi 10 SETTLE MEXICAN SITUATION Says "Self Control" Is One Impres sion Americans Will Leave in Mexico By Associated Press Annapolis, Md., Juno s.—President Wilson to-day told 154 graduates of tho Naval Academy, many ot whom laave shortly for Mexican waters, that the mission of the United States Is one of service to humanity, not of aggran dizement nor confiuest. He spoke at the annual academy graduation exer cises and later delivered tho diplomas to the young midshipmen. He de clared the duty of the United States is to serve the world. Speaking of the Vera Cruz situation, [Continued on Page 13] All Market St. Poles Must Come Down by Tomorrow at Noon Noon to-morrow is the time limit for the removal of telegraph and tele phone poles in Market street fixed by City Electrician Clark E. Dlehl. All poles were down between Front and Third streets to-day. Five more poles remain, three of which will be removed this afternoon. MONEY FOR FIGHT POSTED By Associated I'rcss London. June 5. —Six thousand sov ereigns, tho largest sum of gold ever deposited to Insure a glove light, were posted in the offices of the Sportsman this afternoon for the approaching match between "Jack" Johnson and "Sam" Langford. The cash was hand ed over by Gerrard Austin, represent ing the syndicate promoting the fight. HORSE RACING FAVORED My Associated Press New Orleans, La., June 5.—A bill to restore horse racing in New Orleans received a unanimously favorable vote iii the city affairs committee of the 1< wer house of the Louisiana legis lature last night. It will be reported to the house to-day. 'party leaders,' who, being of the na- I tional administration brand, scorn the j designation of 'boss.' "And the delegate—that is to say | the committeeman unless he hap -1 pened to be of the elect, unless he had been already handpicked and set apart to have a voice in the delibera tions, was an entirely negligible quan i tlty. He was not considered for a mo ment at any stage of the proceedings, j his sole function being numerical classiflcation in the interest of a quo rum and legality. "There is grim humor in the de nunciation of 'Penroseism' by the trin ] ity of triumvirs —the Nine who have | formulated a platform, revised the .confession of faith and announced new [Continued on Page 8] CITY'S POPUUTIDN BU/. ESTIMATE OF 1914 DIRECTORY ! Increase of 1,300; 22,268 Changes; 6,450 New Names; 5,930 Erased Harrisburg's estimated population is now 8 8,967. And that is an increase over last year of 1300. These are the figures that stick out pre-eminently in the Boyd's City Director for 1914 that was issued to day. Of course the most important red book in the city and its environs to day has a lot of other interesting po pulation data and among other things, there are some facts new names, names erased, removals etc. In the first place there are just 35,587 names in the 1914 directory as against 35, 067 in 1913, an increase of 520. Following the method adopted for computation of population by directory estimate the country over, Boyd's as usual approximates the city's population by multiplying the number of names in the directory by two-and-a-half. This doesn't include Steelton however. During the year 22,268 changes were made in the "red-book", of this number 6, 450 new names were added, 5,930 were erased, removals, alter ations, etc. umbered 9,888. BERNHARDT TO TOUR U. S. By Associated Press New York, June 5. —Madame Sarah Bernhardt at the age of seventy will I sail for this city on October 10 to iiegin a professional tour of the world during which she will visit five conti nents. The tour will extend over a i period of twenty-six months and fif teen weeks of the time will lie "spent in the United States. HELD FOR ASSAULT Charged with assault and battery and defrauding a boardinghouse keeper, J. Tom Johnson, 618 Walnut street, was committed to Jail by Alder man Murray last evening. Information was made by A. B. Hayes, 618 Walnut I street. DOCTORS TO MEET The Harrisburg Academy of Medi- I cine will meet to-night for a business I session. , 20 PAGES FORMER RECTOR OF STEELTON GIVES IIP LUXURY JOR KIOSK Father Stefanovic Leaves Com fortable Cloister For Battle scarred Field Unable to repress his desire to uplift a downtrodden people and to help heal the scars of a sanguinary war, the Rev. Theolil Stefanovic, a former rec tor of St. Nicholas' Servian Orthodox Church, Steelton, has given up his comfortable station in the historic ab bey on Mt. Athos, in the Agean Sea, to take charge of a de-.astated parish along the Servian border, in the dis trict recently wrested from the Turks [Continued on Page 171 REBELS' IMUOE WILL NOT BE Kill UNTIL NEXT WEEK I General Carranza's Representative Says Affairs Are Get ting Better By Associated Press Washington, D. C., June s.—Car jranza's statement that he would not reply to the last note of the South | American envoys until lie reached Sal j tillo from Durango, confirmed the be i lief of administration officials to-day that the Constitutionalists' final atti tude toward entering the Niagara con ference would not be known for three or four days. Optirhism expressed at Niagara Falls that Carranza would decide to take part in the proceedings >vas reflected here. The statement of Rafeal Zubaran, the Constitutionalists' chief representative in Washington, attracted widespread attention. Affairs are getting better," he said, when asked directly as to the likeli hood of Carranza's participation in the [Continued on Page 20] Aquitania Reaches New York on Maiden Voyage By Associated Press New York. June 5. —The new Cunard Line giantess Aquitania, greatest ship afloat under the British flag, docked without mishap in the Hudson river at 9.30 o'clock this morning after her maiden run from Liverpool. Notwith standing her length—9ol feet—she gave her convoy of tugs no trouble and slipped easily into her berth v hile harbor craft shrieked greetings. MIXERS MAY ACCEPT NEW WAGE: SCALE OF OPERATORS By Associated Press Pittsburgh, June 5. - Representa tives of 50,000 coal miners in the Pittsburgh district assembled here to day to put the finishing touches on the wage scale for two years. Com mittees have agreed with the opera tors that the rate for machine mining shall be f>9 cents a ton and for pick mining 11. There were some differ ences on the scale for outside men, but it was believed the convention before night would accept the scale offered by ithe operators. * POSTSCRIPT. 8,000 WESTINGHOUSE EMPLOYES ON STRIKE AT EAST PITTSBURGH Men and Women March to Play grounds to Discuss Their Grievances SEEKING BETTER CONDITIONS Workers Personally Solicited by Leaders to Quit Work Early To-day B.V Associated Press Pittsburgh, Juno s.—Declaring that they would not return to their place* in the factories of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and the, WestinKhouse Machine Com pany until working conditions were improved, approximately 8,000 men and women, members of the Alle gheny Congenial Industrial Union struck here to-day. Three thousand electric workers re fused to enter tho shops this morning and after a mass meeting at the Tur tle Creek playgrounds, their number was increased by men who later left tho plant. Pickets sent to the machine works brought out almost a thousand work ers and leaders of the strikers claimed [Continued oil Page 14] | Open Bids For Three More New Sewers Under the 1913 Loan Item Bids for three new sewers, to bo I paid for from the $50,000 of the SIOO,- ■ I 000 sewer item of the 1913 improve- II mcnt loan were opened at noon to-day 'j by City Commissioner W. H. Dynch, 1 Superintendent of Streets and Public. I j Improvements. The bids will be stth- C! mitted to Council for approval of con tract on Tuesday. The bids: . I Sewer in Hlldrup street, J. S. Brady, | $3,096; Johnson Construction Com ! pnny, $3,179.50; John A. Stucker, | $2,927; G. W. Ensign, Inc., $2,876.50; Henry Opperman, $2,949; William H. Opperman, $2,700. Prospect street sewer, from the same bidders, in tho following order: sl,lll, $1,291.90, I $1,084, $1,243.50, $1,219, $1,023. The I same bidders with the exception of Mr. j Brady, bid on the Twentieth street f j sewer in the following order: $2,- i ; 227.30, $1,995, $2,396.50, $1,863. j"Mona Lisa" Thief Gets Sentence of One Year By Associated Press Florence, Italy, June s.—The plea ]of "extenuating circumstances" wan II accepted to-day in behalf cf Vincenzo 1 ] Perugia, who stole Da Vinci's "Mona 3 | Disa" from tho Liouvre in Paris. Tho -Judges sentenced him to-day to one * I year and fifteen days imprisonment. 8 ! As Perugia has been in prison - awaiting trial since December last * 1 vear, he will serve only six months, ijl ITHE WEATHER For llurrlsbiirn mul vicinity 1 Part ly cloudy to-nlKlit und Saturday; not much change In temperature. For Kaatcrn Pennsylvania! Partly cloudy to-night and Saturday; moderate northern*! wind*. River The Juniata and upper portion* of the North and Wc»t branches will fall slowly to-nluht and Sat f urday. The lower portion* of the I North and West branched mill I rlNe NllK'h'tly or remain nearly | Htatlonary to-nlicht and fall slow ly Saturday. The main rlvrr will i rise slightly or remain nearly ■tatlonary to-night and Snturday. I \ stage of about 2.4 feet IN indl ! 1 eated for llarrlsburg Saturday morning. (•eneral Condition* | The offshoot from the Missouri Ynllry dlHturhaneeH In paaaing off the New Kniclmid roast, having Increased greatly In energy. Pres sure continues low over the western half of the country, n oept In the North Pacific Stated, t with three Independent eentera , of disturbance of slight energy. A strong high pressure aren from I auada In movluic down over the l.akc region; its Influence la now f lielnK felt In llnrrlaburg and it will continue to dominate weather conditions In thin vicin ity for the next two daya. II * Temperature; S n. m., Ill); 2 p. m„ 71. 1 Sun: Rises. 4t37 a. in.; acta, 7:29 a P- m. f Moon: Full moon, June 8, 12:18 , n. in. lllver Stage: 2.2 feet above law i water mark. , Yeaterday'a Weather Highest temperature, 08. I.owest temperature, 00. Mean temperature, 04. Normal temperature, ÜB. MARHIAGK LIC&NSKS John 1). Hopple, Lewlstown, and Katie Witmer. Dalmatia. Charles C. Shook, city, and Ella Viola * Hill, Altoona. 1 " "Everybody's Wearing 'Em" More shoos and stockings aro worn than any other article of attire. Their use is universal. Their variety is infinite. They come in all shades of the good, had, . I and indifferent. Many wise makers have stand- I unlisted these articles and are I producing brands that are sta " | pies. A most helpful guide to the best of these is the advertising columns of this newspaper. Dealers and manufacturers from time to time set forth the merits of particular brands, thus making It possible for the public to buy with confidence. Keep posted for the benefit of i | your own pocketbook.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers