Eighty Men Trapped in Burning Building, Causing Death and Injury For Many
HARRISBURG (gfim&l TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— No. 142
SUITER'S MUfIDERER
WILL PH PENALTY
OF liW NEXT WEEK
Will Not Ask For Hall'* Pardon
After All; Execution in
Jail Yard
WAS CONVICTED LAST FALL
Shot Victim in Steelton Street
During Jealous
Quarrel
One week from to-morrow Pascal
Hall will be hanged in tlie county jail
yard for the murder of W. H. Slater.
The expected final appeal to the
court of last resort —the Board of Par
dons of Pennsylvania—will, after all,
not be asked to-morrow to intervene
and the law's penalty will be paid by
the youthful Steelton negro at the
conclusion of the time limit allowed
by the reprieve.
Attorney W. J. Carter, counsel for
Hall, announced to-day that the
hoped-for evidence relative to Hall's
hereditary insanity could not be dis
covered in his home town among the
South Carolina cotton fields and that
consequently the application for a
hearing before the Board of Pardons
to morrow will be withdrawn.
Hall was convicted last Fall of
shooting Slater in the streets of Steel
ton during a jealous quarrel. The
date for his execution was set for
May 26, but the date was stayed until
June 2 4 so counsel could seek the
hoped-for information. The counsel
for the defense meant to ask for com
mutation of the sentence to life im
prisonment.
The death warrant, which lias al
re'ady been read to Hall, is still in
Sheriff H. C. Wells' office, marked "Re
prieved to June 24." This warrant
will serve its intended purpose aftei
And some time between 10 o'clock
and noon of Wednesday. June 24, the
trap will be sprung from beneath
Hall's swaying body.
OUTLINE FIGHT ON
WHITE PLAGUE IN
CITY AND COUNTY
Discuss Plans For Combatting Tu
berculosis at Meeting in
Charities' headquarters
The battle plan of the summer's
fit-'lit against the white plague in Har
risburg was outlined at a joint meet
ing this afternoon of the Harrisburg
brunch of the Pennsylvania Society for
the Prevention of Tuberculosis and the
Associated Charities. The meeting took
place at 4 o'clock this afternoon at
the rooms of the Associated Charities.
A committee from the anti-tuberculosis
society was present and also officials
of the Charities. Invitations were also
extended to Dr. C. R. Phillips, in
charge of the State dispensary, and to
Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, of the city
health bureau.
A representative from the Philadel
phia headquarters of the Pennsyl
vania Society for the Prevention of
Tuberculosis also is present and he
1 3 expected to advise the local workers
as to effective means for the expendi
ture of the money raised through the
sale of Red Cross stamps last year.
About $1,900 was raised last year
through this means.
I,t is planned to begin the summer
enmpaign in earnest this year as early
as possible and carry it on vigorously
and as extensively as the funds permit.
The possibility of a summer camp for
sufferers is among other things to be
discussed.
Late News Bulletins
Portland. Ore., June 16. —That disaster in sonic form lias overtaken
the crew of the lmlloou Springfield. which lelt here Thursday with
three other balloons in a race under the auspices of the National Aero
dub. seemed certain to-day. Yesterday and last night a searrl over
the Sandy river district[ where the balloon was reported seen at 180
Friday morning, proved fruitless. ul •
Paris. June 16.—Several more buildings collapsed in various narts
of 1 arls to-day owing- to subsidences of the soil caused hv vcstprllflv'a
terrific storm and a number of. persons were Injured. The list of dead
known to-day was officially stated to bo eight, but as more pcr-ons
vvere reported missing. the search of the debris was continued Ma!
cliinery was used to hasten the work.
A ork. June 16.—W llliain Dentils, of the CUD vaclit Vnnttio tn
!mir , '' n<ler,<l ' 8 I h' S,K i , " U n!' " S "'aster of the Cochran sloop"
Differences over the handling of the Vanltle in the recent ra. es Is said
to lie the cause ol the retirement of Captain Dennis
London June 16.—James A. Do Rothschild's' Broadwood, a 4-vear
old bred in the Inked States, to-day won the Ascot stakes tlie nrin/i
pal race on the first day of the Royal Ascot
second, and The Ouller, third. Twenty-four ran. 1 K as
Gorham X. 11.. June 16.—1n a signed statement, Harry K. Thaw
to-day denied a report that he was planning to leave the country 'The
only place lam going Is to Pittsburgh," he said. "\s soon Is f Jwt
permission I am going home to be with my family and look after by
business Interests. I have no Intention whatever of going abroad \nv
statement to that effect is fabricated." aoroaa. Any
Washington, June 16.—President Wilson was hopeful to-day that
the administration trust legislation program will be nasswl £> r™
gress may adjourn by the end of July. He uas
of a conference to-day with Senator James, of Kentucky and Hie con
K W,th ° tl,Cr Senators » nd 'he chairmen of work?^
Ked Bluff, Cal., June 16.—"Keep away from the crator" Is A
warning that Is being given by W. J. Hushing, United States Forest
supervisor, to the curious that are eager to view at clow mn«.
cone of Mount I.assan. which last night was again sending foruf wlspa
of steam and smoke. Another eruption is believed to be Imminent
Wall Street. Closing—Union Paellle, 151% ; Clien ocako and
51V.: Dehlgh Valley, 137%: Northern Pad lie
01'4: Chicago. Milwaukee and St Paul. 100; p. RR.
!*r VoSrr. Y s r s.^ nt ™!> 1 93%! Cana<Han W S:
BIG RIVER CmiVll
TO Mil FISH OF
CITY'S FRONT STEPS
Details of Plan Suggested by
Telegraph to Be Worked
Out During Summer
MANY WATCH IMPROVEMENTS
Big Gangs Pushing Job to Com
pletion ; Laying Sidewalk; Busy
on Fill; Building Steps
Scores and scores of interested peo
ple spend hours along the River Front
from Iron alley down town to
Hamilton street in the north
ern part of the city watching
the erection of the "Front Steps of
Harrisburg" and tl\e 14-foot concrete
sidewalk at the foot of the slope.
And everybody's wondering how
soon the work will be done for when
the big job is completed will come
a great river carnival in which every
body will participate. This suggesUon
of The Telegraph has met with en
thusiastic response and the details will
be worked out this summer.
The Stucker Brothers' Construction
company started operations two or
three weeks ago and the work is so
well orgai 'zed in several gangs that
splendid headway has been made uo
to the present time. One gang is lay
ing the sidewalk, fourteen feet wide,
from Iron alley northward. Another
gang is going ahead with the construc
tion of the steps proper farther up
the river. Still another sub-contractor
is filling in the space between the steps
and the slope, and from Oalder street
to Hamilton and northward the build
ing of the stringers and other concrete
work is under way.
With the same progress throughout
the summer this great undertaking
will be practically completed. Owing
to the depth of thp water between
South and Herr streets, along the
pumping station, this stretch will be
allowed to rest until the river reaches
its lowest possible stage later in the
summer when the contractors will
rush their work at that point with all
possible speed.
STATE DEPARTMENT
ASSISTING BANKERS,
CHARGED IN SENATE
U. S. Marines Kept at Nicaragua to
Influence Election, Declares
Senator Smith
By Associated Press
Washington. D. C., June 16.
Charges that the United States kept its
marines in Nicaragua to influence the
recent presidential election, and that
ths State Department has been acting
in the interest of American bankers,
contained in a resolution introduced
to-day by Senator Smith, of Michigan,
were referred to the Senate foreign re
lations committee.
The resolution charges that the
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Honorary Degree Given
Surgeon General Gorgai
Princeton, N. J.. June 16. —The one
hundred and sixty-seventh commence
ment of Princeton University was held
in Alexander Hall to-day. Degrees
were given a class of 219.
The honorary degree of doctor of
science was conferred upon Surgeon
j General William C. Gorgas, of the
United States Army.
John W. Beatty, director of Fine
Arts in the Carnegie Institute at Pitts
burgh; Judge Albert Constable, of
Maryland, of Timothy Cole, artist, re
ceived the honorary degree of master
of arts, ,and the honorary degree of
doctor of letters was conferred upon
John Williams White, ex-professor of
Greek in Harvard University.
IMPRESSIVE SCENES .4S VETERANS
CARRY COLORS FOR THE LAST TIME
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SCENES DURING TRANSFER OF BATTLE FLAGS YESTERDAY
An.™ tw left - BU^"' vors of Third Pennsylvania Cavalry with their battle
flags. Before the flags were taken to their cases the men kissed the old
relics. They are, left to right, H. G. Seaman, Harrisburg; John G. Taylor
Chester; John Clark, Philadelphia; Dennis C. Mulhearn Mauch Chunk-
MlUer Ca-rllsle; ° W Henderson. Thomas
\\ . Greenwood, Reading, W. L. Saylor. Annville. Upper right F M
Yeager. Reading (right), F. J. Wentz, LewUtown, (left), carrying flags of
the First Defenders. Middle row, (right), on the home stretch; (left) W
L. Sensendeffer Lancaster, (right). G. C. Boring (left), with flags of' the
Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers. Both men were with Sherman on
MarkeT°Square rCh t0 Be,oW ' Clvil war vtiter ans passing through
DIG PICTURES OF
FLAG TRDNSFER WILL
GO TO EXPOSITION
State Engages Reels Made by the
Telegraph; First Runs at
Photoplay Friday
Through the enterprise of the Tele
graph, the thousands of persons who
will visit the great Panama Exposi
tion In San Francisco next, year will
be able to view In moving picture form
the Imposing ceremonies incident to
the transfer of the Pennsylvania bat
tle flags at the Capitol yesterday.
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Church Council Will
Discuss Sunday Closing
The question of what action the
Civic Council of Churches will take !n
connection with the proposed agita
tion to enforce the Sunday closing
laws so as to Include all cigar stores,
small grocery stores and other places
now open will be decided ot the meet
ing to-night of the council.
The committee will be Instructed
to-night what action to t*ke in the
matter.
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1914.
FINAL HONORS PAID
IDLXIE. STEVEHISON
IN SLOOMIN9TQN. 111.
Former Vice-President Buried Fol
lowing Impressive Services
in Church
By Associated I'ress
Bloomington, 111., Juno If..—with
business suspended and the city
draped in mourning, Bloomington to
day paid final honors to ex-Vice-Presl-
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OUTDOOR PLAY TONIGHT AT
COLONIAL COUNTRY CLUB
Perhaps no theatrical event has
ever created more general interest
than the production of "Robin Hood
frnd His Merrie Men" in the open at
rii? Colonial Country Club this evening.
The Frank Lea Short company's pre
sentatlon of "Pomander Walk" this
afternoon has whetted the appetite of
hundreds for the evening play. The
clubhouse and grounds have been ef
fectively decorated for the evening and
many of the members will take din
ner at the club this evening. The en
tertainment is public and a large at
tendance is certain. Cars overy ten
minutes.
Spectators Weep and Ap
plaud as Aged Soldiers
Carry Rattle Tattered
Flags to Place of Honor in
the New Capitol.
Many notable events in the history
of the Keystone State have been en
acted In the park which slopes up to
the beautiful west front of Pennsylva
nia's Capitol, but it is doubtful if in
the hundred years which have wit
nessed official exercises on that spot
any has occurred touching- In impres
siveness the last scene in the transfer
of the battle Hags to the rotunda of
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TAKE LEAD FROM YACHT
Gosport, Eng., June 16.—1t Is un
derstood that Charles E. Nicholson,
designer of Sir Thomas Lipton's Sham
rock IV, purposed to remove about
four tons of lead from the keel of the
new challenger for the America's cup.
lie thinks this will materially Increase
the speed of the yacht.
Property Owners Want
Briggs Street Opened;
Say Measure Will Pass
An ordinance to authorize the open
ing and grading of Briggs street from
Second to Front was presented in
Council this afternoon and passed on
first reading.
Property owners in the vicinity of j
the proposed improvement who have
been in touch with councilmen say
they have found the members very
favorable to the measure and deny the
report that the measure is scheduled
to be killed.
A conference with the five members
of City Council has been arranged for
to-morrow afternoon, at which time
the property owners will present their
side of the controversy. They say that
If the street is not placed on the city
map and plans made for Its opening at
this time, the eventual cost to the city
will be much more than if It is done
within the coming year.
Wireless Message From
Rotary Club Delegates
Off Coast of Florida
I William R. Essick, president of the
Harrlsburg Rotary Club, this morning
received a wireless message from John
S. Musser, Howard C. Fry and Harry
Bruaw, the club delegates to Houston,
Texas, where the international conven
tion of Rotary Clubs will be held.
It was sent from tho steamship on
which the delegates with their wives
are bound South, and was as follows:
"Oft Florida; greetings; safe; well.
Signed, Bruaw, Musser, Fry."
The message will be read at this
evening's meeting of the Rotary Club
at the School of Commerce, 15 South
Second street. (
WATER METERS TO
COST POLK LESS
BY BOWMAN PLA
Safety Commissioner Saves Citizens
Money by New Buying
System
Reduction of from $3 to $13.50 in
the prices of water meters to be in
stalled in Harrisburg dwelling houses
during the ensuing year were an
nounced to-day by City Commissioner
Harry F. Bowman, superintendent of
the department of public safety.
Council this afternoon approved the
plan by adopting a resolution offered
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Kunkel Campaign
Committee Files Its
Expense Accounts
The committee that had charge of
the campaign of Judge George Kunkel
which led up to his nomination as
candidate for State Supreme Court
Judge filed Its expense account this
mo-rning.
All told 98 lawyers and 101 business
men contributed to the campaign fund,
which amounted to $9,234.10, all of
which was paid out for various pur
poses outlined by the committee, leav
ing a deficit to be made up to cover
printing and advertising bills of
$1,261.33.
The feature of the report is the
large number of individual contri
butors, a total of 199, all but two of
whom aro residents of Dauphin county
and 90 per cent, of them people of
Harrisburg. The contributions were
I all small and ranged from $3 to SIOO.
A summary of the Itemized account
follows:
Postage, $2,230.04; clerks, $672,06;
advertising, $2,632.29; dissemination of
information, $1,664.50; multigraphing
$94; traveling, $172.46; stationery and
office supplies. $294.33; printing, sl,-
445.28; miscellaneous, $26.14; total
$9,234.10.
Unpaid—Advertising, $141; printing
$1,120.33; total, $1,261.33.
Ninety-eight lawyers contributed
$5,555 and 101 business men contri
buted $3,679.10.
CITIZENS AS CONSTABLE
By Associated Press
London, June 16. —As a means of
circumventing the militant suffragette
"arson squad" the county authorities
throughout England have started the
organization of volunteer civilian pa
trols. whose first duty will be the
protection of churches. The Volun
teers are to be sworn in as special
constables. They will be armed and
.accompanied by dogs.
12 PAGES. * POSTSCRIPT.
FIUIM
LODGING HOUSE COSTS
LIVES OFSEVEN MEK
Twenty Others Seriously Injured
When 80 Were Trapped
in Old Building
FINANCIAL LOSS IS SMALL
Scene of Wild Excitement as
| Crazed Foreigners Attempted
to Save Their Lives
Py Associated Press
Mllford, Mass., June 16. —Seven men
were burned to death anil twenty seri
ously injured when eighty persons
were trapped In a burning Armenian
lodginghouse here early to-day.
The bodies were taken from the up
per floors of the four and a half-story*
brick and wooden building. In addi
tion to the twenty men taken to the
hospital suffering from burns or from
injuries received in jumping from win
dows, thirty sustained minor hurts. The
interior of the building was burned
out.
The fire, the cause of which has not
been determined, started in the dining
hall on the ground floor of the struc
ture, which was at the corner of West
and Cherry streets. When the Hremen
arrived flames were shooting through
all four floors. Escape by the two
narrow stairways was cut off and the
only means of getting out of the build
ing was by jumping from the windows.
There was a scene of wild excitement
as the crazed foreigners attempted to
save their lives.
Heat. Was Intense
The building, erected more than
fifty years ago, formerly was used as a.
shoe factory and its timbers were im
pregnated with oils. The heat was so
intense that the firemen were unabla
to enter and the only way they could
aid the occupants was by spreading
nets and blankets to catch them as
they leaped from the windows.
The victims were laborers and
moulders employed at a manufactur
ing plant in Hohedale. None of them
had families.
The building was owned by Peter
Popalian. The financial loss is small*
Woman Who Confessed
She Killed Husband Is
Released From Jail
By Associated Press
Charleston. W. Va., Jan. 16.—Mrs.
Dollie McSurley, who recently walked
into the sheriff's office and announced
that two days before she had killed
her husband and hid his body in thu
cellar of their home, walked out of the
county jail here to-day a free woman.
The Kanawha county grand jury re
fused to return an indictment against
her. Mrs. McSurley declared she
struck her husband with a hatchet
after he tried to kill her.
PARTY ACTION POII UQUOR
By Associated Press
Clinton, Mo.. June 16.—The liquor
question can be settled only by the
three branches of government—legis
lative, judicial and executive—com
bining for its solution, declared James
H. Woertendyke, of Los Angeles, in an
address at the national conference of
leaders and workers of the Prohibntion
party here to-day. Mr. Woertendyko
declared the liquor question demanded
political party action.
THE WEATHER
For Harrlnhurir nnd vicinity I Fair,
Kllclitly cooler to-nl|[hti Wednes
day fair, slightly nnrmrr.
For Haxtern I'ennaylvanlni Fair,
ronllonril cool to-nliclit; W filnn
day fnlr, slightly nurmfri mod
erate north nnd northeast winds.
Tli<- Susquehannn river nnd all Ita
tributaries will fall slowly or re
in ti in stationary to-night nnd
Wednesday. A Htntr of 1.(1 fret in
indicated for Harrisburg W ednea
dny morning.
tienernl Conditions
Under the Influence of the hitch
pressure area from the North
went, which now eovera the
grenter part of the eounrtry east
of the Itoeky Mountains with Ita
eenter over the western part of
the l<nke renlon, a further fall of
2 to 111 degrees In temperature
has occurred at all but a few sta
tions throughout the territory
under Ita Influence.
Temperaturei S n. m., 58.
Nun i ItlneH, 4.110 a. m.| aeti, 7:3.1
p. m.
Mount New moon, June 23, 10(33
a. m.
nlver Staicet 1.7 feet above lotr
water mark.
Yesterday'* Weather
IllfChent temperature, 7N. <
l.oneNt temperature, 62,
Mean temperature, 70.
Normal temperature, 70.
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