Mediators Will Not Officially Admit Carra HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIII — No. 139 REBELS WILLNOT BE OFFICIALLY ADMITTED TO PEACE CONFERENCE Mediators Will Hold to Original Demands That Armistice Be Declared CAN BE RECEIVED INFORMALLY Dispatch From Saltillo Regarding Carranza's Note Not Com mented Upon By Associated Press Niagara Falls, Ont.. June 12.—The mediators will not officially admit to the conference here the representatives General Carranza has announced he will send to Niagara Falls. The South .American diplomats said they could not recede from their original con dition demanding an armistice. The dispatch from Saltillp yester day stating that the Carranza note made no mention of the conditions under which he was sending delegates was shown to the mediators. They declined to make formal comment, but let it be known that their attitude had undergone no change. They re iterated that admission of the Consti tutionalists is and will continue to be contingent upon declaration of an armistice. The mediators would have no objec tion if a conference could be held be iween the Huerta delegat*s. the Car ranza delegates and the Americans. In fact, such a suggestion has been under consideration for some time, so that if an agreement could be reached liptween these three parties at interest the mediators would finally admit all to the signing of a protocol. Received Informally It is considered possible that the Carranza delegates might be informally received here and their argument heard as to why any armistice cannot he declared. But on this point there has been no crystallization of senti ment. and the influence of the Ameri can delegates to obtain at least a hear ing for the Constitutionalists when they come may he brought to bear on the situation. The Huerta delegates read the dispatch from Saltillo with evident interest. Senor Rabasa, their spokesman, said he had received no previous intimation of it. The ques tion of admission to the conference, he said, was a matter for decision by the mediators. Knoouraginc Sign The American delegates looked upon the announcement from Saltillo as a distinctly encouraging sipn, indicating that all sides now recognized the value of mediation as a way of restoring peace. It is not at all unlikely that they will try to persuade the mediators not to close the door on the Consti tutionalist delegates. On the other hand, the need for Constitutionalist representation, in the view of one of the mediators, is daily diminishing. He said the mediators from the outset had taken the interests or the Constitutionalists fully into con sideration. Also the American dele gates have kept in touch with the wishes of the Constitutionalists through the Washington government. Car ranza delegates could give valuable information and assistance to the T'nited States, upon whom rests the responsibility for bringing peace out of the present chaos. Rush's Filipino Boy Before Military Board By Associated Press ■Washington. T>. 0., June 12.—He ports to the State Department to-day say Gregorio Alrarez, Captain Hush's Filipino hoy. a prisoner in Mexico City, is at. present up for trial before a mili tary hoard there. Assurances were given some time ago that he would be released. VERA CRUZ IX NEED By Associated Press Memphis, Tenn., June 12. Vera Cruz is in urgent need of foodstuffs, according to an official report of the T'nited States consul in that city, ouoted in a telegrafli received by the Merchants' Exchange of Memphis from Secretary Redfield, of the De partment of Commerce. Mr. Redfield asked that shippers be informed that foodstuffs intended for consumption in Vera Cruz would be admitted duty free. Late News Bulletins PRAIRIE AGAIN SAILS Philadelphia, June 12.—The transport Prairie sailed from the Phila delphia navy yard to-day with supplies and several thousand hags of mail for the American forces at Vera Cruz. After discharging her cargo at Vera Cruz it is expected the Prairie will return here for more supplies for the fleet. OUIMET LEADS AMATEURS Troon, June 12.—Francis Ouimet led all the amateurs with an ag gregate score of 151 in the two quallf>ing rounds concluded to-day for the British open golf championship. Ouimet was tied for twelfth place in the entire list with Tom Kail, champion of Belgium. ANTILLA'S CARGO UNLOADED Tanipico, Mexico. June 11. (Via Laredo, Texas. June 12.) —The Mcamshlp Antilla from New York to-day discharged her cargo of am munition for the constitutionalists. Sixteen hundred cases of aniniuni tlon and two aeroplanes were Immediately dispatches north on a special train. SHARP AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE Washington, June 12.—Representative William G. Sharp, of Ely ria, Ohio, was nominated to-day by President Wilson to be ambassador to Prance, succeeding Myron T. Herrick. Mr. Sharp is a Democrat. RESOLUTE WINS AGAIN Associated Press Boat, June 12.—(8y Wireless).—Resolute this afternoon won the seventh of the series of yacht races preparatory to the selection of a defender for Anterica's Cup. The official time was Resolute, 2:23:57: Vanitie. 2:26:46. TOLLS BILL GOES TO WILSON Washington, June 12.—Without the formality of a conference the House to-day by a vote of 216 to 71 accepted the Senate's amendment to the repeal of the Panama tolls exemption and sent the bill to I'resi dent Wilson. New York, June 12.—The market closed steady. Speculators favored the long side to-day. Business was small, but tliere were numerous ad vances of a p:>int or so. Sluggish conditions prevailed in the latter JMirt of th" session aiul earlier gains were reduced. Wall Street Closing.—Chesapeake and Ohio, 52%; I/ohigh Valley, 137; Northern Pacific, 111%; Southern Pa<llle, »I % ; Ohio and Pacific, 156%; C. B. & St. Paul 100*4; «*■ K. 11., 11144; Heading, N. Y. Central, 93%; Canadian Pacific, 194: D. S. Steel, «-j%. GUYER. DEFENDER OFTWKE, MAKES EXCUSES Tries to Disprove Charges Made by Italian Resident Against Conditions There ACCUSER COMES RIGHT BACK Sticks to His First Story; Every thing Clean Now, It Is Said The Telegraph yesterday, upon the request of the man whose name is attached thereto, published the fol lowing affidavit concerning deplorable conditions in the county almshouse: Personally appeared before me, Joseph J. Parialo. of 854 Cameron street, Harrisburg, Pa., who, being duly sworn, deposeth and sayeth: I was told by Charles Phillipelli, 37 South Summit street, that there was sick at the county almshouse a native of Italy. Thinking I might be of some assistance to him I called upon him and found Ernardo Ceribuoni, aged 38, confined in the tuberculosis ward. Ceribuoni was confined to a bed, the linen of which was filthy and marked with bloodspots where he said he had killed bedbugs the night before. Bedbugs made the night hideous for him, he said. In all the weeks of his confinement there Ceribuoni told me he had received no medi cal attention. Despite the fact that he was supposed to be suffering .from tuberculosis he said he had been refused milk and eggs, which are essential to a cure of that dis ease. No attempt was made even to put water within his reach, and the supply was left so far from his bed that when he wanted a drink he had to get up and go after it, falling often three or four times before he could go back to bed, because of his extreme weakness. I was astonished at these very evident indications of cruel neglect at an institution that has been held up as a model of its kind. From what I had read I was lead to sup pose that under the management that took charge last January everything at the almshouse was in the best of condition and that the taxpayers' money was beinK well spent. Now I know that the. man agement is bad and that the poor people confined there —at least those of the tuberculosis ward— are being neglected. I wouldn't [Continued on Page 14] GREEK PROSECUTION IN TURKEY MAY END II ANOTHER WAR Public in Athens Is Greatly Excited and Demands Are Made For Immediate Action By Associated Press Athens, Greece, June 12. —The Greek government to-day sent a vig orous note to Turkey demanding the cessation of the persecution of the Greeks in Turkey and the repair of damage caused to them and their in terests. Public opinion in the Greek capital is greatly excited and demands are made that the sovernment take im mediate sharp action in the matter. A warning to Turkey which fell little short of a formal declaration of hostilities was uttered to-day by Pre mier Venizelos of Greece in the Cham ber of Deputies. He was speaking on the treatment of Greek subjects in Turkey. The premier's attitude showed that the tension between Greece and Tur key was near breaking point and that the danger of war was imminent. M. Venizelos obviously found diffi culty in restraining his language when he spoke of the way in which the Turks had treated his fellow country men. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1914 ENDEAVORERS WAKE MERRY AT BIG FOUR-COUNTY PICNIC HELD AT HERSHEY , !**'r;:^-^r^^Sjy^IgBBMBWiWH^WW^MWWBMWI |.• . : i * ' &- ;' ■ < ' [ ,:• - : : * . < • ' • ' . MmmjktK ij -" l ' ''' Christian Endeavorers to the number of a thousand yesterday m ado merry at the big l'our - county picnic held at Hershey. The etching on the upper left shows how the youngsters helped to pass away the joy ous time; on the upper right a group of grownups getting their pictures snapped. Below is seen G. W. Smelt zer, chairman of the nominating committee on the left congratulating C. W. Black, re-elected president of the Dauphin County Christian Endeavor Union. From left to right in the front row are the Rev. C. F. Swift, Beaver Falls, a member of the Legislature; G. W. Smeltzer, C. W. Black, the Rev. M. R. F. Fleming, pastor of the United Brethren Church, Baltimore, the Rev. William F. Klem, of Reading, chairman of the Berks county union. In the back row are E. S. Schilling, chairman of the publicity committee and the Rev. George F. Schaum, pastor of Harris Street United Evangelical Church this city. SLICK AUGER THIEF GETS GOOD HAUL IN MARKET ST. STORE Bores Through Windsor Hotel Floor and Drops Into Paul's Shoe Place Boring a hole with an auger and let ting himself into W. F. Paul's store in Market street, a slick young man yes terday got away with about 5300 worth of shoes and stockings. "I wanta see a fella and I'll be here a couple of days," the slick one re marked to W. H. Butler, proprietor of the Windsor Hotel, 418 Market street, and after signing the register with the name "George Johnson," but failing to attach any place of resi dence to his signature, he was as signed a room. Operations must have begun at once. The police conjecture it must have happened this way. The young man takes off his carefully tailored blue serge coat, lays it on the bed so as not to muss it, puts down a news paper on the floor oil the spot selected and opens his suit case. He takes out an auger. Then He Got Busy Marking out with his eye a two-foot square, he bores holes in the floor close together and then lifts out this piece of the floor. Next he encounters the galvanized tin above the window of Paul's store. He cuts through this with a knife and lets himself down into the window. After getting in the store he carefully puts two Iron rings through the front door and proceeds to Investigate the stock. It is estimated that he got about $l6O worth of shoes and then went on down to the base ment, where he turned on the light and took about $175 worth of silk stockings. If ho made the haul alone he must have made several trips, but the po lice are inclined to believe that he had a "pal," although so far as the hotel attaches know, nobody came up to the room after he went up at about 7 o'clock. About 2 o'clock this morn ing he checked some heavy pieces of baggage at the Pennsy station, where there is no record of his destination. Owner Couldn't Get In Mr. Paul came down town this morning and couldn't get in his store. So he called up the police and Detec tive Joe Ibach came up and tried the door. He couldn't get in either. So he went up to the room that Johnson had occupied and somebody said "why everything's all right here," but De tective Ibach kept walking around until his foot went down through a plate of glass. Then they pulled up the carpet and saw the two square foot aperture through which the auger thief had let himself down. After tinishing his job he had carefully swept away the saw dust, so there was no trace of anything amiss. Early this morning the auger thief went down to the office and said, "Well, I couldn't see my party and there's no | use me waitin' around. Here's the key." 0,130 TONS THROUGH CANAL By Associated Press Panama, June 12.—According to the official reports a total of 6,180 tons of freight, for the most part sugar, was carried through the canal on barges between May 18 and June 1. This yielded the .first revenue to the canal [department of $7,356. SMITH MAY NOT HAVE TO STAND TRIAL FOR MURDER AFTER ALL Madhouse For Life May Be Fate of Youth Charged With Slaying Grandfather Before Edward G. Smith is called upon to stand trial for murder at Sep tember quarter sessions a special panel of Dauphin county's good men and true may have to determine whether the Inglenook youth is mentally able to tight the legal battle to save him self from the electric chair. Smith was called for trial this morn inn for the murder of his aged grand father, John E. Bush, December 18, 1913. Counsel for the defense contended that Smith is now insane, that his in sanity is so pronounced that he doesn't realize his plight and that he has not even given his counsel a chance to pre pare a defense. And then the defense sprung for the first time in a Dauphin county court the plea that was offered in New York to save Hans Schmidt from the chair: That because of his mental con dition the defendant is legally in competent to answer to the law to a charge of murder, and that before he is required to defend himself a special jury be em paneled to decide the question of his sanity. District Attorney M. E. Stroup pleaded legal "surprise' and asked that the case be continued until September quarter sessions in order that the State could prepare an answer to the defense on the Insanity ground. •lurigv Grants Continuance President Judge Kunkel allowed the continuance and explained to counsel that the court would hear testimony in chambers bearing upon the question of whether Smith's plea for a special jury insanity inquiry should be allowed. The ruling on this point will be made before September quarter ses sions, and if the special jury is allowed the youthful accused will face an issue that will determine whether he shall spend the remainder of his life in a [Continued oi) Page 0] Bitter Complaint Heard Because Tennis Court Is Not Put Into Shape One of the upper courts on the Whitehall street tier of tennis courts at Reservoir has not yet been put Into commission this season and the tennis players complain bitterly about the lack of sufficient courts. The court floor has been ploughed and is await ing a layer of finish clay. This, Assist ant Park Superintendent Hoffert says, has been ordered and will be laid on as soon as it arrives. Much complaint is also being made as to the failure of more strict ob servance of the court rules, particu larly that relative to 16-year-olds. A requirement is that after 4.30 children of 16 or under, must not use the courts when adult players are await ing. This has frequently been violat ed, say the tennis players. Another rule prohibits any players using a court for more than forty-five minutes while others are waiting to play. This rule, the tennis, enthusiasts say, has also been flagrantly violated THOMAS B. JONES, FRIEND OF WILSON. WILL HEAD BOARD Chicago Lawyer Selected by Pre sident to Be Governor of Federal Reserve By Associated Press Washington, June 12. —Thomas B. Jones, a Chicago lawyer, former mem ber of the Princeton University Trus tees and a personal friend of Presi dent Wilson, has practically been se lected for governor of the Federal Re serve Board. It was said officially to-' day that his nomination would go to the Senate Monday. With the nomination of Mr. Jones, the names of Paul M. Warburg, of New York; W. P. G. Harding, of Bir mingham, Ala; A. C. Miller, of San Francisco, and E. C. Simmons, of St. Louis, to be members of the board, are expected to go to the Senate. Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller Williams of the Currency Bureau will be ex-officio members. It was definitely stated at the White House that the President would for mally announce the personnel of the board Monday. Mr. Warbug and Mr. Harding are bankers, Mr. Miller is an econimist and at present assistant secretary of the interior; Mr. Simmons is a mer chant. Mr. Jones as well as being a lawyer, is a student and expert in finance. Plan to Suppress News Will Fall on Deaf Ears By Associated Press ■London, June 12.—Home Secretary McKenna's appeal to the newspapers to suppress reports on outrages In order not to play into the militants' hands by advertising them, will fall on deaf ears. The London morning pa pers, which comment editorially in a tone of Intense dissatisfaction at the inadequancy of Mr. McKenna's pro posal regarding the suppression of militancy, point out the evils likely to follow an agreement among the news papers to suppress news of any kind, and argue further that each suppres sion would only serve to provoke the militants to offenses of still greater enormity. KING PLACES OBSTACLE Copenhagen, Denmark, June 12. — King Christian X, of Denmark, to day placed an unexpected obstacle in the way of the plan of the Danish cabinet to solve the: deadlock. In elec toral reform by dissolving the upper house of parliament. The king object to the inclusion in the dissolution of the twelve members of the upper house nominated by himself ana de clared that he wished only the other fifty-four members to be affected. GARDEN PARTY FOR WOMEN Stockholm, Sweden, June 12. The International Congress of the Young Women's Christian Association began yesterdav with a garden party given by the King and Queen of Sweden. COOLER TO-NIGHT Cooler weather Is promised for to night by Forecaster Demain. The thermometer will drop ten degrees after sundown. To-day at H o'clock It was 78 degrees and by 2 o'clock the mer cury had climbed to 89. WILLIAM m BANK IN CHICAGO IS CLOSED BY EXAMINER Three Subsidiaries Also Suspend Business Following an Examination By Associated Press Chicago, June 12.—The La Salle ' Street Trust §.nd Savings Bank, of which Wiiiiam Lorimer, ex-United States Senator, is president, was taken in charge to-day by the State Bank Examiner. The examiner reported that conditions were such as to war rant the closing of the hank. A run started on the bank two days ago, according to the secretary of the instituion, and to-day more and more depositors gathered in front of the institution. An hour after the arrival of the State Bank Examiner the doors of the bank were closed. Examination of the subsidiaries of the La Salle Street bank, it was an nounced, was taken up by the exam iner and these banks were closed. Mr. Lorimer was in conference with the directors of the institution through the morning. In the last statement issued by the ban!; its capital stock was placed at $1,000,000, surplus $250,000 and un divided profits $93,631. Its stock was then held at par. The statement gave the deposits us $5,058,586 and the loans $4,363,398. William Lorimer, Jr., is listed as the heaviest stockholder in the Il linois State Bank of Chicago, which at the last report had deposits of $177,000 and a capital stock of $200,-' 000. Carelessness of Vessel Captains Will Not Be Tolerated Hereafter By Associated Press Washington, I). C., June 12. —Care- lessness on the part of vessel captains in the handling of their craft will not be tolerated hereafter by the Depart ment of Commerce. With the recent disasters of the Empress of Ireland in the St. Lawrence river and the Old Dominion liner Monroe off the Vlr -1 glnia coast still fresh in mind, Secre tary Redtield so indicated to-day in a letter to the head of the steamboat inspection service, calling attention to the recent grounding of the passenger i steamer Iroquois in the Hudson river, for which the captain of the Iroquois is said to have received a thirty days' suspension of his license. The Secre tary is convinced that the punishment ofted meted out to vessel captains who are in accidents is insufficient with the gravity of the offense. Underwood Has Narrow Escape From Injury By Associated Press Washington, June 12. Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama, majority leader ih the House, was to-day be ing congratulated by his colleagues upon his narrow escape from serious injury last night when a pair of run away horses attached to a heavy dray crashed Into the street car on which he was riding. The horses were kill ed instantly and the vestibule of the car was shattered. The collision was head-on, but for that fact, it is believed that serious injuries to Representative Underwood and others would have resulted. Capitol Hill Offices to Be Closed Monday | Ail departments of the State Capitol will be closed at noon on Monday be cause of the flag transfer ceremonies in Capitol Park. The day will also be a holiday In the city by proclamation of the Mayor. The final inspection of the stands in Capitol Park and of the flags was made to-day by Adjutant General Stewart and officers of the commis sion. The arrangements will be as an nounced in the Telegraph a few days ago. Motor Club Outing For Orphans in July The fifth annual children's outing of the Motor Club of Harrisburg will be held the latter part of July at Hershey Park. No exact date for the outing lias yet been set. J. Clyde Byton, secretary of the Motor Club, is making arrangements for the occasion. Arrangements are being made by a committee in charge of the sociability runs of the Motor Club of Harrisburg for a run to be held to Antietam Battlefield, July 4. ENTERTAIN TECH SENIORS Technical high school alumni to night will entertain the class of 1914 at a banquet to be held at the Tech nical high school. Fully 150 are ex pected to attend. Alfred S. Poffen berger president of the Alumni Asso ciation will be toastinaster. 16 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT. DRASTIC PUNISHMENT FOR WILD WOMEN IS DEMAND OF PUBLIC Leniency of Government in Re leasing Prisoners After Few Days' Detention Is Condemned CORONATION CHAIR DAMAGED Bomb Placed in Westminster Ab bey and Attempt Made to Wreck Part of Building By Associated Press London, June 12. Expressions of anger at the vandalism of the militant suffragettes were more vehement than ever to-day among the general public, which was roused to a state of Intense excitement by yesterday's attempt to blow up the historic coronation stone and chair in Westminster Abbey. Demands for the drastic punishment of the women engaged in this cam paign of destruction are heard on every side. The leniency of the gov ernment in releasing the women crimi nals after a few days' detention in Jail is generally condemned. The hope was widely expressed to day that Reginald McKenna's sugges tion of the prosecution of subscribers to the funds of the militant suffragette organization would stop to a large ex tent the flow of income to the coffers of the women engaged in the wide spread activities undertaken by that society. It is known that much of the money handed over by the largest sub scribers is sent in with the earmark "education," Mrs. Emmeline Pank hurst. the militant leader, being left to decide what that means. It Is be lieved, however, that this clause in the gift will not prevent the law reaching the persons who provide the funds used for crime. Damage Is Slight Closer examination to-day of the coronation chair in Edward the Con fessor's Chapel showed that the dam age was slight and easily repaired. The coronation stone was not injured at all. In fact, most of the damage done affected the wall of the chapel behind the chair. The abbey was open as usual to-day except for the chapel where the bomb was placed and in which an immense amount of soot, dust and dirt fell as the result of the explosion. A large congregation, composed mostly of women, attended morning service. Ex tensive precautions were taken and every visitor was closely scrutinized. The police have the description of a number of women who were seen in the vicinity before yesterday's explo sion, but no arrest has yet been made. Suffragettes Attempt to Destroy Ancient Church By Associated Press London, June 12. —A determined at tempt was madebymilitant suffragette* this morning to burn the ancient Church of St. Margaret's at Chlpstead, fourteen miles southeast of London. Three distint fires, fed by fire lighters composed of squares of felt saturated with oil, were set by the "arson squad." The, rector, the Rev. William H. Stone, and the villagers were soon on the scene and were able to extinguish the flames before much damage had been done. The church dates from the twelfth century. Suffrage Question Is to Be Fully Discussed by Federation Delegates By Associated Press Chicago, June 12.—The question oft woman's suffrage will receive the full-j est consideration at the convention on the General Federation of Women'ai Clubs. j This announcement was made sud-| denly but very emphatically by Mrs. Percy V. Pennypacker, president oC the federation, at the opening of to day's sessiqn. She was greeted with, a storm of applause. "The chair wishes to answer some seventeen questions which have been) received with regard to the subject of woman's suffrage," announced Mrs. Pennypacker. "The purpose of thesa questions is, are we going to smother the suffrage question?" At this the house became very sl-« lent and the speaker paused dramati-J cally. Then the speaker resumed wfch! an explosive "no." Then the prcsl-l dent amplified: "It is not the intention to smother, this great question." The rumor of a break in the general) organization was strengthened by the receipt of a telegram from Mrs. Hor-I ace Brock, honorary president of the Pennsylvania Federation, warning the Federation that if it should admit political clubs to full membership and officially act on the question of wo man's suffrage, either for or against it, there would be an immediate break in the national organization. STEVENSON'S END NEAR i By Associated Press Chicago June 12. —Adlai E. Steven son former vice-president of the United States is slowly sinking and the end is likely to come any time. He took a small amount of nourish ment to-day and the first time • In thirty-six hours. I THE WEATHER] For Harrlafourg; anil vicinity. Fair ami cooler to-night | Saturday fair. For Eaatern Pennsylvania! Fair, aomewhat cooler to-ulicht; Satur day partly cloudy, cooler In noutheant portion i gentle to mod erate north went to north nlnd*. Temperaturei 8 a. m., 78 1 2 p. m., 80. Sum lUnea, 4i3U a. In.) seta, 7i83 p. m. Mount Rlaen, llilS p. m. River Stage) 2.1 feet abova low water mark. Yeaterday'a Weather Highest temperature, 71. Lownrl temperature, 00. Mean temperature, 78. Normal temperature, UO. IHARRIAGK LICENSES William Anilorson, Camp Hill, and Margaret Wcndal, ltoyalton.
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