Department of Justice Pte pa ring to File Suit For Dissolution of New Haven System
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII—No. 172
PIEPIRIITK Ml
FOR DISSOLUTION OF
NEW Ml SYSTEM
Wilson's Order That Criminal
Aspects Be Given Order
Creates Discussion
INDICTMENTS TO BE SOUGHT
Mcßeynoids Indicates That He
Will First Endeavor to Get
Bill Against Mellen
By Associated rress
Washington, D. C., July 22.—Prepa
rations for the actual tiling of the gov
ernment's long-delayed suit to dis
solve the New Haven railroad system
In accordance with President Wilson's
instructions were being made to-day
by the Department of Justice. In a
letter to Attorney General -Mcßeynoids
the President not only directed that
civil action be instituted against the
New Haven, but ordered that the
"criminal aspects of the case'' be laid
btfore a federal grand jury.
Decision to proceed against the New
Haven ended the lons continued efforts
to solve the case without litigation.
The President and his Cabinet hail dis
cussed the case and the course of the
Department of Justice was approved.
The civil suit was to be Hied against
the New Haven in the United States
court at New York immediately. The
Attorney General also was to direct
the United States marshal at New-
York to summon a grand jury and
work of laying evidence before it on
which to ask for criminal Indictments
against officials and directors of the
New Haven under the management of
ex-President Charles S. Mellen were to
be begun at the earliest moment.
To llnve Pull Cliarge
T. W. Gregory, special assistant in
charge of the cases, was to have full
charge of the civil suit and before the
grand jury was to have the aid of F.
M. Swacker, an Interstate Commerce
Commission expert, who assisted him
in preparing the evidence. How many
indictments were to be sought had not
been divulged early to-day, but cor
respondence made public plainly indi
cated that Mr. Mcßeynolds expected to
ask for a bill against Mr. Mellen. The
most significant fact in connection
with the proceedings was said to be a
statement made public by Mr. Mcßeyn
olds months ago when the Interstate
Commerce Commission began its New
Haven .investigation in which he
warned the commission to consider
whether immunity might be given to
certain men if made to testify as to.
their actions as directors of the road. ]
The names he mentioned were Charles
S Mellen, William Rockefeller. George
Macullough Miller, Charles F. Brooker,
Edward Milner. Lewis Cass Ledyard,
George F. Baker and Edward D. Rob
bins.
In his letter to Mr. Mcßeynolds ad
vising suit the President declared that
the decision of the New Haven di
rectors not to keep their agreement to
dissolve peacefully has caused him
"the deepest surprise and regret" and
.that their failure "upon so slight a
' pretext" was "inexplicable and en
tirely without justification."
Course Is Just
The department's course, he as
s« rted, was just, reasonable and effi
cient. In the correspondence made
public by the department which ac
companied President Wilson's letter
were communications between the At
torney General and President and the
Attorney General and President Hus
tis. of the New Haven.*
A feature of the correspondence was
Attorney General Mcßeynolds' letter to
the President which contained a re
buke for the Interstate Commerce
Commission in subpenaing Mellen and
"perhips others flagrantly culpable"
with the possible result of embarrass
ing the department by claims .of ;m
--munity in return for their testimony.
In this connection Mr. Mcßeynolds
stated that criminal prosecutions had
always been in mind and that there
had never been "the slightest hope
that parties guilty of criminal vio
lations of the law would ewcape."
FIGHTING ARMY WORM
By Associated Press
Pittsburgh, July 22. The cam
paign against the army worm began
here In earnest to-day when park em
ployes and others attacked pest rid
den sections of the city with chemi
cals. Much damage has already been
done to lawns and trees in all parts
of the city. '
Late News Bulletins
SHOT IN MISTAKE FOR BURGLAR
Akron. July 22.——Thomas Wolf, l.">. a well-to-do business mail, was
shot and instantly killed nt an early hour to-day at the home of his son
in-law. Fred Brown, when he was mistaken for a burglar l>> Anthony
Olskcfskl, Brown's neighbor. Olskefski knew the Brown family was away
from home and when lie saw Wolf leading the house, lie o|>encd lire.
The slayer surrendered.
PREMIER ASQUITH RESPONSIBLE
l.ondon. July 22.—Premier .Ysqulth to-day assumed in the House
of Commons full responsibility for the speech made by the King yester
day to the |M)litical leaders who had met at Buckingham palace to confer
on the Irisli Home Rule problem. He thus set at rest various reports in
circulation since the Ulster controversy has become acute and since tho
first announcement of the conference.
WOMAN SHOT BY DISCHARGED EMPLOYE
Coaterfvllle, Pa.. July 22.—.Mrs. Ray Martin, 28. wife of a farmer,
was shot and seriously wounded to-day by a farm hand, known as
"Happy" Dooley, who had been discharged by Mrs. Martin's husband.
The man was dismissed yesterday ami to-day in the absence of .Martin
went to a field where he shot Mrs. Martin In revenge. Dooley escaped.
NEW HAVEN DIRECTORS MEET
New York. July 22.—Although there was no regular meeting to-day
of the board of directors or of the executive committee of New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, President Hustis and other
officials attended a series of conferences the reason of which It was said
might be made known later. ,
New York Closing: Cliesapcakc-Olilo. 16%; I/ehlgli Valley,
134%; Northern I'acllic, 1011: Southern Pacific, Union Pacific
127 Vi; V. H. Steel, «1%; C. M. St. Paul. »7-X: P. R. R., 110' X; Reading!
102%; New York Central, 8.") %; Canadian Pacific, 18«.
WILSON 1W GETTING
READY TO BREAK INTO
ISLAND REVOLUTION
1,000 Marines Will Soon Be With
in Striking Distance of Haiti
and Dominican Republic
INTERVENTION IS COMING
War and Navy Officials Confident
That Is the Only Way Peace
Can Be Restored
By Associated Frrss
Washington, D. C., July 22.—Plans
for mobilizing at least 1,000 marines
within striking distance of Haiti and
the Dominican republic will move for
ward another step to-morrow with the
arrival of the naval tronsport Prairie
at Guantanamo from Vera Cruz. The
Prairie will bring the full complement
of officials for the marines already at
Guantanamo and will remain there
t<\ transport the force to Haiti should
an emergency arise while the Hancock
is away for more troops.
The transport Hancock, which has
just landed 300 at Guantanamo, is now
headed for the Philadelphia navy yard
to return with another load to bring
the total force tip to at least 1,000.
With those preparations President
Wilson's decision as to what action the
I'nited States shall take to quell the
revolutions in the island republic and
satify the pressure of European coun
tries wag awaited. War and navy offi
cials. confident that peace can be re
stored on the island only by the active
intervention of the I'nited States, are
perfecting their plans.
POLICE AS BI'RGLARS
Rockville Center. N. V., July 22. —
One half of Rockville Center's police
force of six men are accused of burg
lary by warrants issued here to-day.
Three trunks containing articles of
every description valued at approxi
mately $5,000 were found at dawn in
the chicken coop of two' of them.
The village trustees are trying to in
duce the prisoners to explain how the
trunks happened to be there.
BiMEWLEWiS
IN UPPER END TALK
IS REAL GOOD JOKE
Chairman of Meeting Employer of,
Female Labor; Candidate
Berates All Such
Special to The Telegraph
Williamstown, Pa., July 22. The
whole upper end of the county is
laughing to-day over the frightful
blunder made by Dean Lewis, candi
date for Governor on the Washington
party ticket, in his speech last even
ing.
Lewis, who addressed a small audi
ence in front of the Williams House
after a band had drummed up inter
est by a street parade, was introduced
by Professor Detter. formerly promi
nent in educational circles and now
interested financially in an industry
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CAR SERVICE STOPPED
By Associated Press
St. Petersburg, July 22.—The street
car service was suspended here to-day.
The employes of the Central Street
Railway company joined in the gen
eral strike called by the workmen as
a protest against the drastic measures
of authorities at Baku and other pro
vincial towns against strikers there.
HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1914.
TWO KILLED WHEN
ROCKS FALL INTO
I LYKENS MINE SHAFT
- Two Others Seriously Injured in
Early Morning
Accident
FELLOWWORKERS HEAR CRASH
I •
t Race to Assistance of Victims—
Mangled Bodies Dug Out
of Debris
Special to The Telegraph
! Lyker.s, Pa., July 22.—Two miners
» were killed and two others were seri
-1 ously injured early this morning when
■ a mass of rock fell into Short Moun-1
5 tain slope of Xo. 1 shaft of the Lykens ]
a Valley Coal Company.
The dead:
Eilward Willis, colored.
' Samuel Kcrda, Russian,
t The injured:
, Joseph Peterson, colored.
Schlcmbel Plasa. a Russian.
1 All of the men who were caught in
: the fall of rock live at Wiconisco. Res
cuing .parties went to work at once
and succeeded in reaching the rock
' filled tunnel. Groans of a couple of
the miners urged the rescuers to
1 hasten their work. The debris was
shoveled out of the way and the two
men were taken to their homes. The
two dead miners were caught under
huge masses of rock and pinned to the
i ground.
The accident happened about 3
o'clock. Men working in other gal
leries reported the fall and a rescue
party went to work at once. All steel
timber is being installed in this part
of the Lykens mine but a small por
' tion has not yet been reached and at
the point where the rock fell it car
ried away twelve by twelve timbering.
So great a mass of debris and rock
fell that twenty wagons full of it were
removed before the tunnel was elear
! ed.
\V. J. HARRIS QUITS RACE
By Associated Press
1 Washington, D. C., July 22. —Wil-
liam J. Harris, director-general of the
Census Bureau, has withdrawn from
s the race for governor of Georgia and
will continue in his present position.
REPRESENTATIVES OF <
IRISH PARTIES ARE
AGAIN IN CONFERENCE
, Public Interest in Discussion Over
shadows All Else in Great
Britain
■
I
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By Associated Press
London. July 22.—Public interest;
in the crisis over the Irish home rule
question overshadowed everything
else in the British Isles to-day. When
the representatives of the Liberals, '
Conservatives, Irish Nationalists and
Ulster Unionists arrived at Bucking
ham Palace this morning to continue [
their, cinference with a view to settle I
the Ulster problem they found an !
enormous crowd assembled in the j -
great open space before the gates of j ■
the palace. The various statesmen as j I
| they passed in were respectfully greet- j I
ed by their sympathizers.
Having disposed of the preliminaries
of conference at yesterday's formal
meeting, when King George addressed
the assembled statesmen, the con
ferees arrived to-day prepared to
tackle the crux, of the problem—the
area of Ulster to be executed from the
opening of Irish home bill and the
means of carrying out this exclusion.
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Big Reunion Planned
by McCormick's Island
Camp Girls Next Week
While activities continue at the
McCormick's Island girls' camp, inter
est and expectations are beginning to j
be centered on the reunion week, j
which will follow the week's outing of c
the girls from Boas street and Maple
Hill playgrounds. These small camp- s
I era will go under canvas Thursday.
Great preparations are being made for
i the reunion week, when stunts which
| sill be evolved from the most popular
| diversion of the summer will be car
-1 ried out. This week girls from the J
Hamilton, Fourth street, Harris street *
I and Sycamore street playgrounds are t
having packs of fun. Beginning, with t
, a show Saturday night, "the week's e
1 program has included a taffy pull and c
i a watermelon party. Six large, juicy i
I melons were sent up last niglit by
I Park Commissioner Taylor and later
' Mr. and Mrs. Taylor visited the camp,
i To-night a feast of peanuts and ride <
i on the river are scheduled. '
I These be busy days on the city play
' grounds, too. By a victory over Maple
j Hill last evening in the playground
I ball contest Kelker street achieved the
I championship of section A and will
meet the winners of section B when
' the schedule is finished. Two games
| are scheduled to-night girls'
longball league—SycamorP* at Reser
| voir and Maple Hill at Twelfth street.
j HEART ON RIGHT SIDE
II By Associated Press
.I Wabash. Ind.. July 22.— Examination
'made by a physician following the
I death yesterday of Mabel Talmagc, 11,
l : disclosed the fact that her heart was
' on the right side and that her liver
I was on the left side. The girl died
' lour hours after she had been struck
' on a street corner by an automobile
• driven by a 15-year-old boy.
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Girl, Man and Canoe Are
Missing; River Searched;
Either Mystery or Joke
A search which began early this
moning and ocntinued all day
by anxious relatives without re
sult, follows the failure last even
ing of Russel Douglass, 23, and Miss
Ethel Shenk, 19, to return after they
had started down stream from Ber
rier's livery, near Verbeke street, on
a canoe ride.
Douglass, who is a student at the
University of Pennsylvania, lives with
his sister, Mrs. Horace Snodgrass, at
New Cumberland. Last evening he
and Miss Shenk left their homes,
came to Harj-isburg and engaged a
canse at the livery of H. J. Berrier.
"We're going for a little ride," they
laughingly told relatives as they set
out from Newmarket.
The pair reached Berrier's between
iROERER ENDS LIFE
BY CUTTING TUMI
WITH SHIK OF SHOE
Lawrence Robinson, Charged
With Killing Policeman Grimly
Ends His Career
By Associated Press
Boston, Mass., July 22.—Lawrence
Robinson, charged with the murder of
Police Inspector Thomas J. Norton,
committed suicide during last night.
Robinson cut his throat with a steel |
shank which he had removed from one.
of his shoes. Since the opening of
the trial he had been confined at night
in a room of the court house.
He was accused of shooting Norton
while resisting arrest In the Boyleston
Cafe an June 19. The officer was at
tempting the arrest at the request of
the authorities, Robinson being want
ed in Grand Rapid for alleged killing
of three clerks in a jewelry store dur
ing a robbery. Robinson was placed |
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S3OO Diamond Lost
as Woman Is Thrown
From Runaway Team
The loss of a diamond, said to be
valued at S3OO, from a brooch owned
by Mrs. D. Cloyd Mingle was discov
ered after Mrs. Mingle had been taken
back to her home at 1108 Market
street this morning following a run
away in which both she and her hus
band were pinned underneath the car
riage. The accident happened near
Hninton, four miles from here, when
the horse became frightened at a
steam roller and bolted. The swaying
wagon overturned when it hit the car
tracks.
Both Mingle and his wife were se
verely bruised and cut. Both were
taken home in an auto owned by S. S.
£peece and driven by John Craig.
t six and seven o'clock. It was not ob
served in what direction it headed, but
this morning relatives searched Inde
pendence and other islands without
finding any trace of the missing pair.
Dougless is an expert swimmer, and
it is believed that if the canoe had
j upset that he would have been able to
! swim to shore with the girl.
Believing that Miss Shenk might
have stopped last night with relatives
in the east end of Harrisburg, inquiry
was made at several homes where it
is known that she sometimes has
spent the evening, but no one in town
had seen her.
Cities all along the river were got
into communication with this morn
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CAILLAUX MURDER
IMS TOSH
POLITICAL ASPECT
Thrilling Scenes in Court Mark
Progress of Sensational
Trial
By Associated Press
Paris, July 22.—Politics was the pre
dominating factor to-day in connection
with the trial of Mme. Caillaux for the
murder of Gaston £almette, editor of
I thf> Figaro.
The French government was under
stood to be greatly concerned in regard
to the diplomatic documents men
tioned at yesterday's hearjng as having
been in the possession of the assassi
nated editor. These documents, it was
stated, were later handed over to
President Poincaire, who passed them
on to "the foreign office.
Josephs Caillaux. the prisoner's hus
band, and Fernand Labori, her coun
-1 sf 1, made a vehement demand that the
documents should be produced in
court.
The moment after the court had
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Elizabethville Camp
Meeting Will Be Open on
July 28 For Ten Days
Special to The Telegraph
Elizabethville. Pa.. July 22. The
annual Elizabethville campmeeting will
be opened here on July 28, to con
tinue for ten days. A big addition has
been added to the tabernacle and con
siderable money has been expended on
the improvement of the grounds. A
Sunday train will be run out of Har
risburg, leaving at 7.40 a. m., and re
turning in the ovoning, arriving at
Union Station at IE.IO. Lart year the
Sunday traffic between Mlllersburg and
the- campgrounds amounted to 3,500
on the big day of the camp.
12 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT.
LAYING OF WATER
MAINS CERTAIN TO
DESTROY THE PARK
"Howl" From People Assured
When Council's Action Is
Appreciated
When the people generally learn
what yesterday's action of the CJity
Council means in the matter of run
ning a big water main through the
river park from North street to Paxton
street—the entire length of the older
section of the city—the officials re
sponsible for this penny-wise-and
pound-foollsh policy will be apt tb hear
from them.
A provision in the contract that the
park shall be restored to its original
condition and thus be maintained for a
period of one year after the main shall
have been laid looks very well on pa
per, but in view of the way that other
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Burlington Man Kills
Policeman For Burglar
By Associated Press
Burlington. N. J., July 22. —Thomas
Rogan, a policeman, was shot and
killed in the street here early to-day
by Winlield Templeton, a friend, who
told the authorities that he had mis
taken Rogan for a burglar. Despite
Ttmpleton'n explanation the county
authorities are making a searching in
vestigation of the circumstances of the
shooting. Templeton told the police
that his wife woke him and told him
she heard noisM on the sidewalk a few
doors from tneir home. Templeton
secured his shotgun and went to the
-fmnt door of his home and when he
saw the ligure of a man in the dark
ness standing in front of a grocery
store he fired. Templeton, according
to the police, said he was horrified to
learn the identity of the man.
Rogan. who was 4 0 years old, leaves
a widow and five children.
Georgia's Labor Law
Chases Federal Scout
By Associated Press
Waycross. Oa„ July 22.—The Georgia
contract labor law was Invoked late
yesterday for the second time against
the Federal League when warrants
were issued 'here for a man said to be
a scout for the "outlaw" organization
who during the day conferred with
players of the Valdosta and Waycross
teams of the Georgia State League.
The warrants charge him with "entic
ing" labo»ers under contract and were
issued at the request of President
Sinclair, of the league. The man left
the city before the warrants could be
served. His name was not made
public.
TRVST PROGRAM UNFINISHED
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., July 22. —The
administration anti-trust program still j
was unfinished to-day in the Senate.
Presentation of the entire program to !
the Senate was being delayed pending i
final approval of the railway securities i
bill. The perfected Clayton apti-trust
bill, however, was ready to be reported j
to-day from the judiciary committee. |
TRACK EXTENSION
HEADED TOWARD
CITY'S COUNCIL
Public Service Commission Grants
Certificate of Public Con
venience to Valley
CAN NOW OFFER ORDINANCE
John C. Nissley Shows Up Traffic
] Conditions and Indulges in
Some Prophecies
The Harrisburg and Mechanicsburj?
Electric Railway Company, a subsid
iary of the Valley Railways Company,
was to-day granted a certificate of
public convenience by the Public Serv
ice Commission, which. In ordinary
language, means that the application
of the company for an extension of the
rcute covered by its charter has been
approved and that it can now apply to
the City Council for a franchise to lav
a third track in Market Square, and
fifteen minutes. President C. H.
in Market street between the Square
and Front street. If the Council grants
the franchise the ordinance will have
to go to the commission for approval.
The whole proceeding did not take
fifteen mlntues. Superintendent C. H.
Bishop, of the Valley company, was
present, with Charles H. Bergner and
F. E. Beidleman as counsel. John C.
Xissley and John C. Wensell appeared
to protest, but Mr. Nlssley did the pro
testing. When he ended he was in
formally advised to make it to the City
Council. The commission's action is
a purely formal proceeding, one of
those intricate preliminaries embodied
In the public service company law for
checking surprise moves by cor
porations.
What the Company Asked
Senator Beidleman stated that the
company asked amendment to charter
rights and permission to apply to
Council for more tracks and a new
terminal. He stated that Second street
in crowded from Market to Chestnut
by reason of the use of Harrisburg
alleviate conditions and inure to the
minal uses. The proposition would
alleviate conditions an dlnure to the
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Difficult Question
Confronts Commission
By Assaulted Press
Chicago, 111., July 22.—While the
federal board of mediation endeavor
ing to bring about a settlement of the
wage dispute between the western rail
roads and their englnemen is pledged
to silence concerning what is done at
the meetings here, it became known
to-day that the task is a hard one.
"We are bound by solemn pledges to
divulge nothing that is said on either
side in the meetings," said W. L,
Chambers, of the federal commission.
"Nevertheless, I am at liberty to say
that this is the most difficult task of
mediation that ever has confronted
this commission."
ITHE WEATHER
For Harrlsbnrg and vldnltyt Fair
to-night anil Thursday, NDOt much
change In temperature.
For Enstern Pennsylvania! Fair to
night anil Thursday, not much
change In , temperature! light
variable winds.
River
The main river will fall slowly or
remain nearly stationary to
night. It will fall slowly Thurs
day. A stage of about 1.7 feet la
Indicated for Harrisburg Thurs
day morning.
General Conditions
The high pressure covering the
eastern half of the United States
has Increased somewhat In
strength. linder Its Influence the
weather has continued fair gen
erally east of the Mississippi
river, e*cept In Western Tennes
see, Northern Pennsylvania, New
York nnd In the New England
States, where showers have fal
len since last report.
Temperature! 8 a. m., 70| 3 p. ra„ BS.
Sunt Rises, 4i44 p. M.i sets, 7i28
p. m.
Moon I New moon, to-day, DiBB
p. m.
River Stage: 1.8 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 8».
Lowest temperature, «0.
Mean temperaure. 78.
Normal temperature, 75.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Charles Powden, Steelton, and Sadlaj
Styra. Ephrata.
Frank L. Monroe and Myra A. Mum
ma, city. „
Rlantori Sweeney, Columbia, and"
Bertha Waters, Chambersburg.
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11. ■'
Take a Camera
With You
Photography is the vacation
ist's delight.
It is a sport full of Infinite
fascination and without pang.
Modern Invention and science
has robbed picture making of Its
mysteries—but left the charm.
The amateur's equipment can
be had in many stores which
als(> specialize in the develop
ment and printing of pictures.
The better class of these
stores advertise in the Telegraph.
Use your favorite newspapef
as a guide to the store from
which to equip yourself for
snapping summer scenes.
The beauty of advertising is
that it is the voice of men who
anticipate your wants and who
attune themselves to the season.