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.
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Late News Bulletins
wheUu>r ß or 0 i" r rr OH Ule poll/* had not yet learned
"\lllc'' Hfod .... . i , ° < J rreslp <l HI Nnrrisfwn on suspicion of being
bv thc'l,e!l| J a , t' , iTo s r!° street, was overcome
South Cameron lireo. u ' . " ft<r,K><,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<irlo,, sl.v injured at Water town. S. p.; property dam-'
prostration 'of .T'i m , ,U,On dollnrs wlth u » «"»<>*< « '»>"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
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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,
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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
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"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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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