President Wilson Commutes Sentences of Four Dynamite Conspirators HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIII — No. 149 WIDOW OF BEHEADS) HARRISBURG ENGINEER TOMES Mrs. Ella Getkin Sues Pennsylvania Railroad Under Federal Liability Law HEARING AT WILLIAMSPORT Tries to Prove Negligence Was Shown by Yard Crew in Hand ling Draft of Cars Action for damages against the Pennsylvania Railroad for the death of an engineer, brought by the widow, Mrs. Ella Getkin, was begun yesterday in United States court in Williams port, having been transferred there from Harrisburg. Mrs. Getkin lives at 643 Harris street. Davis Getkin was driving train No. 58, fast Buffalo und Washington express, wrecked the morning of Oc tober 21, 1912. He was beheaded when the train collided with a par tially derailed box car at Newberry. The suit was brought under the fed eral employers' liability law, which excludes negligence of a fellow employe as a proper defense. The case was scheduled for last week; in fact, the jury was struck two weeks ago, but it was not until yesterday that the case was reached. Mrs. Getkin and her youngest daughter, Ruth, were in court. There are four children, aged from 23 to 28. At the time of her husband's death, she testified, three of them were liv ing at home. Mrs. Getkin said her husband had been a railroad employe for thirty-nine years. For nine years he had run between Harrisburg and Renovo. The plaintiff scored a point In prov ing that the run was an interstate one and hence under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. Efforts during the day after this point had been gained centered in proving thatnegligence had been shown by a yard crew which was handling a draft of box cars the morning of the accident. C. H. Backenstoe, of this city, and one of counsel for the plain tiff, declared the engine was going fifty miles an hour when it collided with the corner of the car that raked through the cab of the locomotive and killed Getkin. John Hlnkleman, yard conductor, testified that a draft of seven box cars had been shoved out on a side track and he had ordered brakes carefully set. He said the cars got away because the brakes were too loose. Charles H. Bergner, solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad, ohjected and court ordered this part of the testi mony stricken out. leaving the Jury to determine from other testimony whether the brakes were properly ap plied or not. The objection was sus tained on the ground that the yard conductor could not know whether the brakeman had set the brakes properly or not. William M. (lain, of this citv of counsel for the plaintiff, skilfuliy piloted John Hinkleman, the yard con ductor, over the scene of the wreck and much of the case de pended upon this testimony. The case will likely continue several days before a, verdict Is reached. WREATH FOR CLEVELAND By Associated Press New York. .Tune 24.—A committee of the drover Cleveland Association of which George F. Parker is chair man, has forwarded a wreath to Princeton Cemetery to be placed on the grave of the late President to-day the anniversary of his death A wreath has been sent annually. The committee is composed of all the liv ing members of Cleveland's cabinet" Mayor Mitchei, Judge Alton B er. George B. Cortel. ou and many others. * ' WORLD'S RECORD MADE By Associated fress Johannisthal, Germany, June 24 world's record for a duration flight was made to-day at the aerodrome here by Gustav Basser, a German air man. He remained in the air for is I.ours 10 minutes without making n landing. The best previous record was mad. by Bruno Langen, on February 3—an uninterrupted flight lasting 14 l.ours 7 minutes. I ■ Late News Bulletins wheUu>r ß or 0 i" r rr OH Ule poll/* had not yet learned "\lllc'' Hfod .... . i , ° < J rreslp <,n w,li,e returning to work on Amherst Mass in..,? "? S , f, kon to Harrisburg hospital, iniwwi .1. I ', n< -•—former President William H. Tart re mint to-dav'"'Mr''-r! mT' °, r 1 ,>o< " , ? p ? r luws »« Amherst commence, dinner later in the day. principal speaker at the commencement r 4 n' ' June Jl.—Four killed in and near Minneapolis two I™ ii" . a . s< ' ,r< ' s*< « '»>"i»lcte hours was the renortlETi telephone communication for a number of 1 S over P v £ V ? , . lo "2 ay of ,Ast " Iml and rain storm I sin Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wlscon fia ks^a mV' n'llin n!■ iI ~\!of 001 ? of twent >" aeroplanes flying- mourning I K . i iiianiu (I dj axiators from several nations formal u fivin.r > m U e a nkmU ,o ta%,e\r^,,V ,n I cral ">-<*«> «" tho maneuvers. catastrophe last Saturday during the army j Chicago, June 21.—The 125 th murder in "Little Sicily" in the last ! plßcn toX" aErtSim F, "" k I>e M,rta ' " """'I | the constitutionalist general, Natera. had taken Zacateeas on that the troops were being hurried on to San Luis PotJi The report ! " 8S New l OHcans i r a. Lne'^4 l9t au °.S. o< sf' a,s , nor constitutionalists. , x * ow un eans, •June 21.—Alfredo Breccda, private secretary to General Carraiua, and his emissary to Washington, left l lav for V C sald ho hnd noth,,, S 10 a «" to his statement of jester- ! daj that < arranza never would agree to meet Hucrta representatives in 1 attempt to select a provisional president of Mexico. | .York Closing: Chesapeake-Ohio, 49%; Lehigh Vallev I IK2U- Southern Pacific, 05V, ; Union Pacific', I I. V, • n ' W"> I*- R. R., 110 V,; Reading, 162%; New 1 York Central, 88; Canadian Pacific, 102%; U. S. Steel, 60. j J T1 WILL HAVE MANY BUSY DAYS WHEN HE REACHES OYSTER BAY Colonel Will Reach Quarantine From Trip Abroad Late This Afternoon or Tonight CONFERENCES ARE ARRANGED Bull Mooser Spent His Time on Imperator Preparing Pitts burgh Address New York, June 24.—The second home coming to-day oZ Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt within two months caused almost as much of a stir smonn Progressive party leaders and friends of the former President as did his first on May 19 from South Amer ica. To-day as last month, Colonel Roosevelt's opinions on political ques tions drew Progressive leaders to this city and for some time the Roosevelt home at Oyster Bay will be the scene of many conferences. From the Imperator came wireless inessagos yesterday stating that Colo nel Roosevelt had spent much of his time since the big liner sailed in work ing on the speech he will deliver on June 30 at Pittsburgh. He had en tertained a party of friends at tea daily, the message added, and had confined his period of exercise to the early mornings. While on the trip Colonel Roosevelt has been under the care of Dr. Bossius. the ship's physi cian, and appears to have recovered entirely from the attacks of fever which gave his friends much concern on his arrival here from South Amer ica. Fogs last night and early to-day were expected to cause the Imperator to reduce her speed and she may not reach Quarantine until to-night. Colo nel Roosevelt planned to leave the ship at quarantine and go direct to Oyster Bay on board a yacht. Theo dore Douglas Robinson, Progressive State chairman, and George W. Perk ins were the only party leaders who expect to meet the Colonel on the yacht and go with him to Oyster Bay. Mrs. Roosevelt also planned to meet the traveler on the yacht. ANOTHER AVIATOR KILLED Rchwerin, Germany, June 24.—An other aviation fatality occurred in the German army flying corps to-day when Lieutenant Kolbe was killed by the overturning of the aeroplane .he was piloting. Captain Ruff, his pas senger, sustained a broken leg., TELEGRAPH S MOVIE MAN TO GO UP WITH AVIATOR AT PAXTANG Will Take Pictures of Throngs Be low as He Speeds Upward Toward the Clouds If air conditions are right and the light is sufficient for the purpose, those who attend the Paxtang Park aviation meet this evening will later have the pleasure of seeing how they [Continued on Page 9] Strikers Endeavor to Settle Differences By Associated Press Pittsburgh, June 24. Leaders of the Westlnghouse strike to-day declar ed they would exhaust every possible means to settle their differences with the various companies affected before they would call on the mediators sent hero by the Federal and State govern ments. Quiet prevailed throughout the val ley, there being not a sign of disorder in any of the villages where 12,000 men and women were in strike and fully 50,- 000 others affected. HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1914. SNIPING BY FEDERALS ON AMERICANS CAUSES AN INVESTIGATION War' Department Refuses to Make Public Reports Received From Funston OFFICIALS STILL WATCHING Huerta's Forces Are Attempting to Provoke Fight With American Forces By Associated Press Washington, D. C., June 24. Per sistent reports of sniping by Mexican Federals on the American outposts at Vera Cruz and rumors of Constitution alist advances toward Mexico City, served to-day to stir Interest in the Mexican situation. Although the War Department will make public no reports from General Funston regarding sniping on the American forces, it Is known that there has been an investigation of con tinued reports to that effect. There have been many Inferences that Huerta's forces were attempting to provoke a fight with the American troopers and force Intervention. Patient waiting on mediation con tinued to-day to be the attitude of the Administration. The coming of Al fredo Breceda, a representative of Carranza, to Washington to-morrow, was awaited with Interest in official quarters, where some knowledge of the nature of his mission was said to have been received from Consular Agent Carrothers. That Breceda and his colleagues are coming to participate in conferences with officials of the Washington gov ernment Is declared to be a fact, but whether they or other Constitutional ists will go to Niagara Falls to join the American and Huerta delegates in j informal discussion of peace, still seems problematical. Administration leaders insisted, [Continued on Pago »] HEAVY STORM IN WEST Chicago, 111., June 24. —Last night's windstorms caused no loss of life. The storm was most severe at. Watertown, S. D., where it reached the proportions of a tornado, destroyed buildings over thirty blocks and injured twenty-two persons. Wires are down tn Wiscon sin, Minnesota, parts of lowa, South Dakota and the upper peninsula of Michigan. KING OF SERVIA IS REPORTED TO HAVE ABDICATED THRONE Ruler Leaves Belgrade For Vranya in Southern Part of Country By Associated Press Belgrade, June 24. —King Peter I, of Servia, was reported to-day to have abdicated the throne in favor of his second son. Prince Alexander. The King left Belgrade In the aft ernoon for the baths at Vranya in the southern part of Servia, and a note issued by the official agency in an nouncing the King's departure did not say he had abdicated but confined itself to the statement that His Ma jesty had signed a ukase entrusting the government of Servia during his absence from the capital to Crown Prince Alexander. Man With His Organs Transposed Is Killed in Fall From Building By Associated Press Washington, D. C., June 24.—With all his organs transposed—his heart being on his right side, the liver and appendix on the left and the large end of the stomach on the right—the case of Thomas Murdock, a negro la borer, who was killed in a fall from a building here, was the subject of com ment in medical circles to-day. An autopsy revealed this curious ana tomical phenomenon, which was with out. precedent in the coroner's office. The body of the negro was otherwise normal and well developed and seem ingly he had enjoyed good health. First Fourth Victim Treated at Hospital The first Fourth of July fireworks victim was treated this morning at the Harrisburg Hospital. Kdgebert Duner, aged 11 years, of 1608 Zarker street, had a powder wound on bis right hand treated at the hospital. The accident occurred at Reservoir Park this morning shortly after 9 o'clock, when the lad was light ing a cracker and It suddenly exploded. MANUFACTURERS AGREE TO RECOGNIZE JOINERS' UNION By Associated Press Boston, Mass., June 24.—A settle ment of the controversy between Irv ing and Casson, furniture manufac turers, and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, which during the past eight years has Involved 300,000 workers throughout the country and has caused the ex penditure of thousands of dollars in litigation and strike benefits, was reached last night. TTnr. 'r the agreement the firm with draws its refusal to pay union wages and to recognize the union and agrees to abolish the open shop system. THE DEMOCRATIC Want to Get Married Girls? Now, Don't Crowd Please! Just Get a Job as Public Stenographer at No. 405 Tele graph Building and in Year You'll Be a Blushing Bride If you have a job as a public stenog rapher at 405 Telegraph building your chances of getting married within the year, girls, are just 100 per cent. There is also an electric fan, an,ele vator and nice green carpet on the floor. Really very nice place to work, girls; three public stenographers have found it so the past three years. The latest to forsake the ruled pad and crooked pot-hooks for the dishpan and the tea-kettle is Mrs. Frank L. Mountz, of Mechanlcsburg. At least that is her rme now. The change was made at Hagerstown Saturday, as follows: Married —At Hagerstown, Sat urday, in the parsonage of the First Baptist Church by the pas tor, the Rev. E. K. Thomas, Miss HIGH WILL BE 100 W OLD ON INDEPENDENCE OH Citizens' Committee Planning Fit ting Celebration of Centennial; Arrange Big Program On Saturday, July 4, the borough ol Highspire will he Just 100 years old. A committee of the town's representa tive citizens has started a movement to celebrate the event together with Independence Day in a lively manner. Plans have been completed for a big street demonstration in the afternoon. There will be a parade of all the secret societies, Sunday schools, the fire com pany with Its new motor truck, the Highspire band, a number of lire com t Continued on Page ".] "Stilt King" Crosses Mighty Mississippi on Long Hike Savage Farmers of Western Wheat Fields Make His Jour ney Extremely Hazardous Three hundred years or less after the discovery of the stream by DeSoto, another great historical fact is record ed in regard to the Mississippi—P. E. Wllvert, the Harrisburg Telegraph "stilt king," has crossed the mighty river. It is not true that he built an In flated rubber boot to attach to the La Donna Shaver, of the Cove, and Frank L. "Mountz, of Mechanicsburg. When Mrs. Mountz got back to the office this morning, friends who con di. t the business of the Chamberlain Metal Weather Strip Company had placarded her new name across the door and had pretty decorations of ribbon and bunting inside. Mrs. Mountz is the third matrimonial essay to have been made the past three years by stenographers at 405 Tele graph. The lirst was Miss Bell Geh rett, 2437 Reel street, who is Mrs. Les ter P. Leader; the second was Miss Beatrice Eshleman, now Mrs. Everett Eckles. Mrs. Mountz will take up her matri monial duties shortly at Mechanlcs burg. Now, who will be the fourth? "PEOPLE TOO PROUD" SAYS MURDERER AS HE GOES TO GALLOWS Pascal Hall Refuses Flatly to Don New Black Suit Provided For Execution THAT'S the trouble with people nowadays; they're too proud. With that definite staement Pascal Hall this morning flatly refused to don the brand new black suit and new shoes provided for him by the county [Continued on Page 12] MAKE TOUR OF LAKES Mr. and Mrs. Ed. T. Kulp, 2024 Green street, left last night for a tour of the Great Lakes. They will go as far as Duluth, returning by way of Niagara Falls. stilt so he could walk across the wa ter. He rode across while the ferry at Keokuk, la., did the work, and is now traversing the plains of the great West. The strong demand for labor ers on the wheat fields makes his Jour ney to the coast extremely hazardous as he has to pass by hundreds of sav age farmers. DIVIDEND PASSED 01 PANHANDLE SYSTEM, PENNSY SUBSIDIARY Decrease in Earnings of Company Lead Directors to Act on Common Stock By Associated Press Philadelphia, June 24. The di rectors of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Ijouls Railway, the Pnnhand,le system, a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to-day passed the dividend on the common stock and reduced the dividend on the preferred stock to one-half of 1 per cent, for the quarter. The Pennsylvania company directors on the lines west of PittshurKh de clared the usual semiannual dividend of 3 per cent. [Continued on Page 0] Baby Fawn Crawls Through Fence at Paxtang Park About two hours after a spotted fawn made Its appearance, as the eleventh member of the Paxtang deer colony yesterday, the rangy little cuss had crawled through the fence and park employes had a long hunt for It. But it was finally located, and now the park management Is anxious for the time when the fawn will have grown big enough to make It impos sible to get through the fence. Sun day was the birthday of the tenth member of the deer herd at Paxtang. This one also is a spotted beauty. Says T. D. Jones Was Not Connected With Illegal Practices of Company Washington, D. C., June 2 4.—Edwin P. Grosvenor, of New York, who as Assistant Attorney General began the government's anti-trust suit against the International Harvester Company, has written President Wilson that Thomas D. Jones, recently nominated for the Federal Reserve Board, had no connection with any of the practices the government contends were illegal. The letter was given out to-day at the White House as justifying the Presi dent's recent declaration to Chairman Owen, of the Senate banking commit tee, that there was nothing in Mr. Jones' relations with the Harvester Corporation to disqualify him from serving on the Federal Board. Mr. Grosvenor now Is a partner of ex- Attorney General Wlckersham. MERCURY AT 92 Although the thermometer stood at 92 degrees at the weather bureau this afternoon and although the day was undeniably warm a breeze now and then and the fact that the humidity was less great than yesterday's murky blanket mitigated matters considerab ly. At 8 this morning the thermome ter registered 76.7; t"hence climbing; upward gradually, but no less cer tainly. 12 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT. PRESIDENTWILSIM REMUS SENTENCES OF FOUR MB! Other Twenty Defendants Muit Begin Serving Their Terms Tomorrow ACTION WAS TAKEN TODAY Hannon, Painter, Mooney and Shupe Are Men Who Will Go Free By Associated Press Washington, D. C., June 24. —Presi- dent Wilson to-day commuted to ex pire at once the. sentences Imposed on Michael J. H. Hannon, of Scranton, Pa.; Frank H. Painter, of Omaha; Fred J. Mooney, of Duluth, and Wil liam Ehupe, of Chicago, all convicted In the "dynamite conspiracy" cases. The other twenty defendants, In cluding the leaders, must begin serv ing their sentences to-morrow In Leavenworth Penitentiary. Clemency for John H. Barry and Paul J. Morris, both of St. Louis, was withheld, while [Continued on Page 9] Ships Collide While Fog Hangs Over Harbor By Associated Press New York. June 24. The fog which shut down over New York harbor last night, did not lift until late this fore noon and many vessels were held fog bound. In the bay the schooner Samuel P. Bowers crashed Into the steamer Point Comfort, which runs from Keanßburg, N. J., to the Battery. The steamer a wheel house was damaged, but none of the 300 passengers on board was hurt. The steamship Taurus, of the Iron Steamboat Company, collided In the Hudson with a crowded ferryboat of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. The side of the ferryboat was badly damaged and several plates on the Taurus were bent WANTS HINDUS DEPORTED By Associated Press Vancouver, B. C„ June 24.—Reso lutions declaring It to be the universal opinion of all citizens on the Pacific coast of Canada that the influx of Asiatics was detrimental to the bent Interests of the Dominion were adopt ed last night at a mass meeting called by Mayor Baxter, of Vancouver. The Immediate deportation of the Hindu immigrants detained for weeks aboard the Japanese liner Maru was urged. CHARLES ENDERS IN TOWN Charles Enders, one of the well known men of the upper end of the county, called on friends in Harrls burg to-day. He was the guest of his son-in-law, James E. Lentz, of Eliz abethvllle. THE WEATHER- For Harrlsburg and vicinity! Gen erally fair and continued warm to-night nnd Thursday. For Eastern Pennsylvania! Unset tled to-night and Thursday, prob ably occasional shower* In north portions somewhat cooler Thurs day In north portloni gentle to moderate shifting winds becom ing southwest and west. River The Susquehanna river and its principal tributaries will fall slowly or remain nearly station ary to-night and Thursday. General Conditions The weather hus been fair 4irlac the last twenty-four hours at all points east of the Mississippi river except along the northern border of the Grrat Lakes and In Eastern Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, where local showers, and thunderstorms oc curred. Temperature! 8 a. m., 7ff| 2 p. m., 02. Sum Rises, 4i3T a. m.( sets, Tißl p. m. Mooni First quarter, June 80, 2i34 p. m. River Stage i 1.4 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 00. liOwest temperature, 00. Mean temperature, 80. Normal temperature, 72. MARRIAGE LICENSE!! Harvey H. Gottschall, Jackson town ship, and Anna Kocher, Elizabethvtlle. ' Daniel A. Fisher and Katherlne A« Caseel, Hummelstown. Harry C. Taylor and Mary K. Kepple^ Aifred M. D. Hollaway and Cora M. Wilson, Philadelphia. Charles A. Linn and Edna W. Hutter. city. Fred A. Tyson. Cresson, and Eunice E. Blackburn, Hummelstown. Ernest U Cunningham and Alice Souder, city. GOING ON A VACATION* 1 Don't forget to have the Telegraph ■ent you wnile you are away. You will have plenty of time to digest its happenings. The cost is just the same as when you are home. Six cents a week. A Postal addressed to the Circula tion Department will bring you the ill—— . F ~ Clean Up Week Philadelphia recently had a "Clean-Tip Week" and of Its re sults the director In charge said: "We had twice as much ad vertising this year as Itfst, and our clean-up campaign was Just twice as effective. The success of the campaign is di rectly proportional to the amount of advertising we do. "The only way to focus at tention on our pian was to ad vertise. Without plenty of publicity the house-cleaning would have been spread over the whole year, and it would have been Impossible to re move the rubbish in one week." He stated that the amount of dirt and rubbish removed, If piled in a city block* would tower 22 feet high. b-i ml