Hundreds of Workmen Trying to Buil Tabernacle
HARRISBURG f|»iP TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— No. 247,
JOOB U. S. SOLDIERS
MID ONE COM
SHOT BT MEXICIIIS
Storm of Bullets From Moytorena,
Troops Reach American
Side /
TWO IN SERIOUS CONDITION
Attack Began Before Daylight and
Lasted For More Than
Six Hours
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By Associated Prtss
Naro, Arli., Oct. 17.— Five men—a
civilian and four soldiers or the United
States cavalry—were wounded to-day
by Mexican bullet* that flew over the
International boundary during an at
tack by Governor Maytorena's troops
on the Carranza garrison of Naco,
Sonora.
One of the soldiers was shot through
the head while on duty at a railroad
embankment forty yards from the
boundary. He is still alive. The
civilian, a carpenter, employed by a
railroad, was shot through the right
lung while traversing a sidewalk on
the American side of the line.
The storm of bullets that resulted
in the wounding of the fire men was
heavier than any heretofore that has
struck on the American side of the
boundary. The missiles came from
Maytoreria troops which attacked the
Naco garrison directly on the south
side of the town. The attack began
before daylight and continued more
than six hours, with brisk fire on both
sides.
Steamship With Many
Passengers on Board,
Goes Ashore Near Kent
By Associated Prtss
London. Oct. 17, 1.55 A. M.—ln a
dispatch from Dover the correspond
ent of the Evening News says the
Dutch, eteamer Tubantla, of the Royal
Holland Lloyd Line, went ashore on
the coast of Kent to-day while on her
way to Rotterdam from Buenos Ayres,
'Which port she left September 25.
The Tubantla Is believed to have a
considerable number of passengers on
board. Assistance has been summoned
from Dover and other ports.
THE WEATHER]
For Harrlahurg and vicinity! Gen
erally fair to-night nnd Sundayi
not much change In temperature.
For Eaatern I'ennaylvanla: l'n«et
tled to-nlKh'l, itomcw hat cooler In
north portion; Sunday partly
cloudy: gentle to moderate shift
ing wlnda.
River
The main river will probably con
tinue to rlac alowly to-nlsbt and
Sunday. A utaxe of abont 1.3
feet la Indicated for Hnrrlaburf
Sunday mornlnic.
General t'ondltlona
The Southern dlaturbance haa mov
ed northward to the l.ake region.
It haa cauaed rain generally eaat
of the Mlaalaalppl river during
the Inat twenty-four bourn, ex
cept In the Gulf S'tatea. The rain
fall waa moderately heavy along;
the Atlantic coaat from Southern
New Knitland to New Jeraey.
Temperature: 8 a. m„ 58.
Sun: Rlaea, 8:17 a. m.| acta, 5:24
p. m.
Moon: New moon, October 10, 1:33
a. m.
River Stance: Elght-tentha of a
foo>i above low-water mark.
Yenterday'a Weather
Hlgheat temperature, 71.
Loweat temperature, 57.
Mean temperature, 04.
Normal temperature. 54.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Boyd Braxton and Dora Dean, Steel
ton.
Ralph O. Funk and Mabel L Alberts,
Steelton.
Charles R. Tobias and Clara V. Acker,
Fisherville.
Galen L Delbler and. Susan F. Miller,
Jackson township. |
Late News Bulletins
DR. WATSON LOST ON HAWKE
London, Oct, 17, 11.40 A. M. —Among the officers who are believed
to have lost their lives In the. sinking: of the British cruiser Hawke In
the North Sea. by a German submarine Is Dr. J. H. D. Watson, who was
well known as an International Rugby foot hn 11 player. Dr. Watson was
temporarily attached to the Hawke as a surgeon.
WIRELESS CASE DROPPED ,
Washington, Oct. 17.—Upon receiving from the Marconi Company
an expression of regret and assurance that greater caution would be
exorcised in the future, Secretary Daniels to-day ordered that no further
steps be taken In regard to the sending of a message by the Marconi
wireless station at Honolulu announcing the arrival there Thursday of
the German cruiser Geler.
GERMANS REACH NORTH SEA
Berlin, Oct. 17, (By Wireless).—According to announcement made
In Berlin to-day German troops In the vicinity of Ostend liave reached
the North Sea, and fighting ts going on as far to the west as Dunkirk.
Belgium to-day appears to \>e almost completely In Gorman possession.
The French and British troops are reported as cut off on all sides, par
ticularly around Ypres.
TRAWLER BLOWN UP BY MINE
*
London, Oct. 17, 8.57 P. M. —The steam trawler Ajax. ont of Grims
by, has been blown up In the North Sea by a Geruian mine. Nine mem
bers of the crew lost their lives.
POWELL AND VOIING
TOLD TO GET OH THE
JOB Of BRUMBAUGH
Says if There Is Graft on Capitol
Hill It Is Their Business to
Ferret It Out
SHOULD GO TO THE COURTS
And Not Drag Their Insinuations to
the Partisan Newspapers
of the State
If there is anything wrong in the
State Highway Department or any
other department of the State, govern
ment why don't Auditor General
Powell and State Treasurer Young ex
pose It and refuse to pay the bills
which they are passing right along,
asked Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, Re
publican candidate for Governor last
night at Franklin.
Dr. Brumbaugh said he had waited
to hear of any graft and called upon
the present auditor general and the
present State treasurer to go to the
criminal courts rather than to parti
san newspapers with their complaints.
"I condemn no man In advance,"
solemnly declared Doctor Brum
baugh. "The facts alone must deter
mine the verdict. If, as some insinu
ate, there have been fraud and graft
In any department of our State gov
ernment, It is now and here the duty
of the present auditor general and
State treasurer to disclose the truth
and institute prosecution.
"They were chosen by the people
to do this. It is their solemn obliga
tion to act if action is required. It Is
also their duty to the people to deny
Insinuations if they be not true. If
they fail to act, I pledge you that if
elected and any official Is shown guilty
I shall tell the people the truth; shall
Immediately dismiss any one who
hurts the people of Pennsylvania, and
I shall personally see that such offend
ers are promptly prosecuted.
For a Square Deal
"You shall have a square deal and
a clean State.
"If elected I solemnly pledge you
that I shall appoint to office only men
who are known to me to be honest,
earnest and efficient, and men whom
the people of Pennsylvania shall at
once agree are wholly desirable men
to serve in public administration.
"I guarantee to you a square deal
In all the appointments and no fa-
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50-YEAR-OLD 000
FELLOW RECEIVES
JEWEL OF HONOR
Judges Kunkel and McCarrell
Among Speakers at Banquet in
Honor of Charles A. Wilhelm
At the Commonwealth Hotel last
evening Charles A. Wilhelm was the
guest of honor at a banquet given by
a number of his Odd Fellow friends,
In testimony of his fifty years' active
service as a member of the Indepen
dent Order of Odd Fellows, and re
ceived from them a beautiful "Vet
eran Jewel." the official decoration of
the order for such of its members as
have completed fifty years of continu
ous membership. Mr. Wilhelm's
"Jewel" is the seventy-second to be
bestowed.
The event was the first of the kind
which has ever occurred in this city
and vicinity. The recipient of the
honor was kept in ignorance of the
preparations and was lured into the
banquet room under a pretext which
prevented him from learning the na
ture of the event. He was then ap
prised that the banquet was in his
honor, but the presentation of the
"Jewel" was withheld until the com
pletion of the menu, when he was
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HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1914.
Hundreds of Trees te Be Set Out
Throughout City Arbor Day by
Park Men and Property Owners
Nathan C. Schaeffer, State Super
intendent of Public Instruction, hav
ing fixed next Friday, October 23, as
the Fall Arbor Day, many property
owners will take advantage of that
date to plan trees. It is said that the
City Park Department will set out
hundreds of fine trees In the river
parks and elewhere throughout the
park system.
A tree expert said to-day that it is
extremely Important that the right
kind of trees be selected, so that they
will grown and be what the planters
desire later on. The list of trees best
suited for Harrisburg's climate and
soil is as follows:
Oriental Plane Red Oak
American l.inilen Scarlet Oak
Europeau Linden White Oak
American Kim White Asli
Norway .Maple Home Chestnut
TEN DEMOCRATIC
DOLLARS GO FOR
BOOZEJAD TALE
Halifax Heart How One McCor
mick Worker Failed to "Get
His;" Big Meetings
How $lO of the McCormick cam
paign fund went to purposes not ex
actly in accord with the candidate's
expressed views on local option was
told by Senator E. E. Beidleman at a
Republican mass meeting In Halifax
last evening.
The uproar of laughter that followed
the recital showed very well that the
audience knew the circumstances and
appreciated the Joke.
Senator Beidleman said he had been
reliably informed, after reaching town
last night, that when Vance C. Mc-
Cormick was on his way to the En
terllne picnic last summer he had
given one of his followers in Halifax,
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American Made Laces
Fashion has decred that this
will be a season of laceß.
Kings and Emperors have or
dered that European lacemakers
shall drop their needles and
looms and carry stuns.
American manufacturers have
stepped Into the breach and their
mills are running night and day.
Kor the first time perhaps the
public will realize how good are
American laces.
Just ask to see some the next
time you go into a store.
Where Is the best place to go?
Turn to the advertising col
umns of the Te|egraph for ad
vice.
PERFECTLY IMPARTIAL
Ash-leavcd Maple Tulip Trees
Red Maple (iin;i'o
Pin Oak Catalpa
Two varieties that should not be
planted are Carolina Poplar, because
of its short life and persistent and
far-reaching root system, causing'
trouble with sewers, raising pave
ments, etc; the Silver Maple,' because
of its brittleness in not withstanding
wind and snowstorms. The most im
portant thing to consider in the selec
tion of varieties for street planting is
to adopt a variety that is now domi
nant on the street, provided it is a
good tree and suitable. The suitability
is determined largely by the width
of the street. Narrow streets should
have the more upright growing trees,
such as Gingco, Pin Oak, Ash, Tulip
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nin
GAME CAUSES LOSS
OFMSMES
Fire Started by Stable-Hands
Sweeps Away Property Worth
SIO,OOO at Hagerstown
Special to The Telegraph
Hagerstown, Md., Oct. 17. Fire
eerl.v this morning swept sixty-one
stable stalls on the Hagerstown fair
ground, burned to death two valuable
racing horses. Lord Percis, owned by
William M. Ward, Wilmington, Del.,
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Congressman Presents
Flag to Riverside
School This Afternoon
The huge American flag, which was
presented to the Riverside school this
afternoon by Congressman A. S.
Kreider was raised with Impressive
ceremonies at 2.30 o'clock. Many
residents of Riverside, Lucknow and
the vicinity were present.
The following program was given:
prayer, by the Rev. D. R. Lowdman;
address, Edward Moesleln, on "The
History of Riverside"; presentation of
the flag. Congress A. S. Kreider: ad
dress on "A Greater Riverside," by L.
M. Neiffer; acceptance of the hag,
President Henry, of the school board;
closing address. Headmaster Arthur E.
Brown, of the Harrlsburg Academy.
Music was furnished by a picked
chorus of school children. The com
mittee of arrangements included R. H.
Hoffman, chairman: E. A. Lit*, sec
retary; J. J. Welsh, T. A. White. S.
Porter, George Grlflee. J. E. Nagle and
Lewis Dapp.
KILLS SELF RATHER
THAN PAY WIFE S2O
A MONTH SUPPORT
J. H. Sites, Pennsy Fireman
Takes Poison in River
Front Park
Preferring death to obeying an or
der of the court to pay twenty dollars
a month for the support of his wife,
John H. Sites, aged 34 years, 1007
Capital street, a Pennsylvania railroad
passenger fireman, committed suicide
early this morning at Front and Herr
streets In River Park.
Cyrus Weily, a watchman, found
the body of Sites on a bench at 5
o'clock and notified the police depart
ment. The body was taken to the
Spicer undertaking rooms in Walnut
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Farmer Dies After
Being Rescued From
Old Well on His Farm
By Associated Press
Rristol, Pa., Oct. 17.—After being
Imprisoned for eighteen hours in an
old 30-foot well on his farm, near
here. William Chapman was rescued
by farmers early to-day only to die
as he entered his home.
Chapman fell into the well yesterday
while he was cleaning it and the sides
began to cave In on him. His wife
summoned help, but not before the
man was almost burled by dirt and
stone. By chance the falling mass
formed an arch over him, enabling
the rescuers to reach him with a tube,
through which he was able to receive
fresh air and stimulants.
All night long fifty farmers labored
to bring the man out alive, while his
wife and daughter knelt In prayer that
he might be saved. At daybreak
Chapman was lifted out unconscious
and an hour's work with a pulmotor
revived him.
"Thank you boys, for what you
have done," Chapman said as he was
led to his home. As he was about to
step Into the house he collapsed and
died while physicians were working
over him.
LEFFLER-REEBE WEDDING
Special to The Telegraph
Millersburg, Pa.. Oct. 17. Byron
Leffler and Miss Grace Helen Reese,
well known Millersburg young people,
were married In their new home In
Moore street, last evening, the Rev.
Mr. Skeath, of the Methodist Church
performing the ceremony. In the pres
ence of a number of invited guests, In
cluding the families of the contracting
parties. The bridal party marched to
the altar to the strains of Lohengrin's
wedding march. Miss Ruth Rlckert.
a cousin of the bride, acted as maid
of honor and Paul Rutter was best
man. The bride was given away by
her uncle, Dr. C. M. Rlckert. After
the ceremony refreshments followed
and the happy young couple took a
night express for a wedding trip to
the northern part of the State. They
will be "at home" In Moore street af
jter November i,
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Victorious German Army
Pushing Along Coast to
Take Strategic Cities
Great Battle Is Now Being Fought in Western Belgium;]]
Soldiers Who Successfully Besieged Antwerp Are
continuing Their Successful Movements; Official In
telligence Is Markedly Meager.
The German army that successfully besieged Antwerp has swept
victoriously westward along the Belgian coast until now with its
right resting on Ostend it forms the extreme right of the German
stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier.
A great battle to determine whether the advancing German host
will be stopped in Western Belgium or push on into France, seizing
Dunkirk and Calais on the strait of Dover, must come soon and
quite possibly is being fought to-day.
Official intelligence is markedly meager to-day and this in
variably is the case when the belligerents are particularly active.
The French official statement this afternoon says that the Ger
man troops occupying western Belgium have not crossed the line
running from Ostend south to Menin. The allied troops have occu
pied Fleurbaix and the immediate approaches to Armentieres, it ii
announced, while further gains are claimed in the region of Arras
and the vicinity of St. Mihiel.
Berlin announced that a gigantic battle is preparing in the
eastern theater where the Austro-German forces have taken posi
tions along the Vistula and San rivers.
Vienna states officially that fighting continued Thursday alo tg
the entire battle front from the southeast of Przemysl to the mouth
of the San.
A correspondent at Flushing, Netherlands, reports that the
greater part of the German army after the occupation of Ostend,
left for the east.
BREAK FOR LIBERTY
COSTS LIVES OF TWO
MEN ll\l STATE PRISON
Bloodhounds Are Now on Trail
of Life Termer Who Escaped
Last Night
t'i
By Associated Press
Folsom, Cal., Oct. 17.—Posses
searched the country surrounding Fol
som State prison to-day for convict
Frank Creeks who escaped last night
in a break for liberty which cost his
cellmate, Harold Flash and J. B.
Drury, a sergeant of the guard, their
lives and resulted In serious Injury to
two prison guards. Warden John
Smith, in charge of the pursuit is using
bloodhounds. Creeks, a life termer,
and Flash, who was serving a twenty
year term for robbery, were the only
prisoners concerned in the outbreak.
They had obtained a knife, a dum
bell, to be used as a bludgean and a
piece of metal with which to unlock
the door of their cell. Gaining the
yard they crouched behind a door
leading into the main corridor of the
prison and awaited the approach of
Sergeant Drury and Guard Kerr.
When the two, bearing four guns
for the guards inside, entered they left
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WORKHOUSE VAGRANTS
SLIP QUIETLY AWAY
FROM THEIR GUARD
Four Prisoners Are Prisoners No
More; Almshouse Steward
Can't Explain It
Somewhere in the countryside
'roundabout, four "90-day workhouse"
vagrants are still roaming at large
and chuckling over the ease with
which they gave the almshouse watch
men the slip yesterday morning.
The four, John White, Howard Wll
best, Joseph Fallen and James Clark,
had been sentenced by the Mayor to
put In ninety days cracking stones at
the almshouse quarry.
During the nights they slept in the
lockup at the poorhouse and yester
day morning Watchman Jones roused
them preparatory to marshalling them
for the march to breakfast. The quar
tet docilely permitted themselves to be
marshalled—and then when the
watchman turned to glance at the blue
! sky or the red and gold woods or
something, all four quietly slipped out
and hied themselves to the pike.
Doesn't Know How It Happened
"Just how it happened I don't ex
actly know," said Steward S. F. Bar
ber, In discussing the matter to-day,
"but I guess the watchman wasn't as
watchful as he might have been per
haps—and the four gave him the
slip."
Steward Barber called police head
quarters at once and requested assist
ane in running down the fugitives.
Some excitable debate as to the whys,
wherefores and respective responsi
bilities for the detention of police
prisoners committed to the county's
care, followed via the 'phone. But—
The quartet at last reports Is still
roaming o' far field.
And at the almshouse folks are still
watchfully waiting.
STOIGH WORKMAN HURT
L. H. Smith, one of the volunteer
workmen on the Stough tabernacle,
fell from the partly completed roof
early this afternoon, a distance of
about 20 feet. He was taken to the
Harrisburg Hospital where an X-ray
examination will "be made Monday.
He is suffering from a supposed frac
ture of both arms, a fractured rib and
possible internal injuries. . ,
STOUCHTIBEIACEE
RISES (S HUNDREDS
OF MEN HAMMER
Frame Work of Huge Building
Nearly Completed by
Volunteers >■
With Just the right weather con
ditions for a good day's work, between
two and three hundred men turned
out this morning at the site of the
Stough tabernacle. . . ,
Work was begun at 7 o'clock on the
tabernacle nnd by noon nearly all of
the foundation and heavy parts wers
erected. Every hour of the day morA
men reported and started to work an<j
more than five hundred were working
all or 1 parts of the time.
Among the workmen are some of
the ministers of the co-operating
churches. No list of the names of
those who volunteered was kept by
the committee, but the following were
caught with hammer and nails, show
ing the many onlookers that they can
do other things as well as preach a
sermon:
Some of the Men on the Job
The Revs. W. H. Dallmnn, J, A*
Lyter, C. A. Smucker, W. N. Yates,
I Harry N. Kassler, P. H. Balsbaugh,
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SENAIOB PROTESTS
AGAINST SEARCH OF
1 AMERICAN SHIR
Thomas Says Outrage Calls Fof
Prompt Investigation by
State Department
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Oct. 17.— Protest,
against a forcible search of the Amer
ican merchant ship Metapan by th®
French cruiser Conde in Mexican
waters was filed in the Senate to-day;
by Senator Thomas. A letter was sub
mitted by the Senator from R. W.
Patterson, a passenger on the Meto
pan, who said officers of the Conde
forced live Germans on the vessel to
sign parole agreements binding them
not to fight against the allies in the
European war. •
Senator Thomas declared that the
"outrage" as reported by Mr. Patter
son called for prompt investigation by,
the State Department. /
The letter set forth that the Cond«
stopped the Metapan between Carta
gena and Puerta Colombia, on Sunday
October 4, at 10.30 o'clock in th«
morning. Two armed officers and two
soldiers from the Conde, Mr. Patter
son wrote, boarded the Metapan.
which with other vessels of the unit
ed Fruit Company fleet had been re
cently transferred from British t**
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Dissolution Decree
Is Filed in Court
New York, Oct 17.—The dissolu
tion decree asked by the government
against the New York, New Haven,
and Hartford Railroad Company wm
filed In the Federal District Court here
to-day. (.
The government's complaint Is dt»-
missed by preliminary argreement In
sofar a« it applies to all defendant*.
Individuals and corporations, with tHft
exception of the railroad company It
self, the New England Navigation
Company, the Boston Railroad Hold
ing Company, the Providence and
Danielson Railroad Company and th*
i Boston And Maine Railroad Compute,
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