>.. r * , Heavy Earthquake Shakes Ron ie; Ter HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV — No. 9 * EARTHQUAKE SHOCK PRECEDES TERROR ID PANIC 111 ROME Historic Buildings in Central Part of City Are Reported Damaged CHURCH BELFRY IN DANGER As Far as Can Be Learned There Were No Deaths in the Italian Capital By Assoeiatti Frets Rome. .Tan. 13. 7.50 A. M.—A ter rific earthquake, the strongest ever felt in Home, occurred early to-day. It lasted several seconds and caused a serious panic, people everywhere rushing from their houses In terror. Many buildings were damaged by the ehock. So far as could be learned one hour after the quake no lives were lost. Nor was it possible to reach any definite Idea of the degree of the damage suf fered by the city. Confusion in City There was confusion throughout the whole of Home. In some cases It amounted to terror, and bordered on ponic. The telephone was resorted to by a number of people at the same time to inquire of the safety of rela tives and friends and then to learn the extent of the damage to the city. The telephone girls did their best to meet the emergency. A system of gathering and giving information was liurriedTy inaugurated. It was learned early in the day that among the old buildings damaged was the Palazzo Chlgi, as well as the famous column of Marcus Anrelius. Historic build ings on the Piazza Colona, in the cen ter of Home, also were damaged, as was also the famous Parnese palace, occupied by the French embassy. Here a piece of the stone cornice had fal len. The helfry of the Church of St. An drew is in danger of falling and the building has been surrounded by a cordon of police to prevent the people approaching it. A large crowd gathered this morn ing: in the square in front of the Col umn of Marcus Aurellus. At a point about halfway up it was seen that the column had been broken and twisted. It was at least six inches from its true axis. The immense hronze status of St. Paul on top of the column also in clines to one side. The last serious earthquake in the Home district occurred July 1!*, 1899. Home. Frascati. Marino and other towns on the Alban hills felt the shock and many builings were damaged, but there Was no loss of life. Further south in Italy and In Sicily, however, earthquakes are frequent and very se vere. Great loss of life and heavv damage to property have occurred in 1 hese regions. Bill Is Presented to Make Washington "Dry" Special to The Telegraph Washington. P. C.. Jan. 13. a resolution to amend the Senate rules to permit a vote on prohibition for the District of Columbia was reported fa vorably to tile Senate yesterday. Sena tor Sliepparrt, of Texas, author of the resolution, gave notice he would sak for action on it to-day, and predicted its passage. The prohibition measure is proposed us an amendment to the district ap propriation bill. The rules amendment was referred to the rules committee by a vote of ?,7 to 34, and three hours later the committee, by a '*ote of 5 to :i. reported If back with a favorable recommendation. The Senate struck out of the ap propriation bill a provision inserted byvthc House to abolish the system bv w litfch the T'nitod States tiovernment e District of Columbia each pnv* expenses of tyle district AID TO POLAND By Associated Press "Renin, via The Hague and London, Jan 13. 10.5.'. A. M.—Dr. Wlokliffe Ross nrid Krnest Blcknell, belonging to Ihe American Red Cross mission, de part to-day for Poland, where succor for the civil population is equnllv as urgent as it Is in Belgium. ! THE WEATHER] l-'er llirrioburjE tind vicinity! Fair :<RI! • oilier c-nlchl, with loivrx »••m;>crature nhuut 30 degree*: '! luirvdny fair. FVi' KnMern PetniaylTanla r l-'nlr :,n 'l colder 'to-night; Thurmlnr fair) illmlnUhlng northwest wlntly. IMvcr The \orth Branch, lower portion of Hie «>»t llrnnch and the main ritcr will rl*o slowly thla nfter- TSOOU and to-night and remain nearly Mntlnnniy or fall NIOTIIV Ihu-sday. The Upper Went Krasch and the .Inntata will fall slowly or remain nearly xtntlon .try daring the next thlrtv-»lx | iiourn. \ stage of nbont 12JS feet ™ 1* Indicated for ifarrlshurg ' IhiirndHy morning. General Conditions The storm hna moved slowly north nard during the last twenty-four hours and Is now central off the >ew .lerney coast. It has caused rain along and nenr the Atlantic ••oast from Xcw Jersey southward nnd rain and anow In Pennsylva nia. Sew York and the New Rag land States In the last twenty four horn*. the rainfall belli* heart est In New York, New Jer sey, Pennsylvania and theDlstrlet of Columbia. Tern pern tare i K a. m.. 40. *un Rlaesi 7<17 m. M.i sets, BtOO p. m. Mooni New moon, Jnnuary 18. t1:42 a. m. River at age i 10.3 feet above low. water mark. Yesterday's 'Weather Kl|ll*at temperature. -1.1. I.owest temperature. :tn. Mean temperature, ;m. Normal temperature, 2®. Lawyer Rogers, Woman Who Killed Her Two Babies, and Former Husband y- * i — 1 ■■ . i .1 .f, ■ X . . J '* ; These are the first photographs of the leading characters In the strange tragedy "of T.,orlyfl rTTton Rogers, the New > ork lawyer, and Mrs. Ida SnilYen Walters (Rogers). Tills peculiar case has been in the newspapers for nearly two weeks ami the country has been scoured for pictures of s. Walters and her husband without result until recently. Airs. Walters was married to Arthur Walters some twelve years ai?u. She was ;hen Ida Sniffen. A divorce was | obtained later, and she went to Suffern, N. Y. There Rogers. Who had heen married to an Alabama woman somo twenty v»-ars ago, met her. He had then been divorced *roni the southern woman, but kept up his acquaintance with her. His acquaintance with Mrs. Walters resulted in the birth of two children, one about two vears old and the other less than a year old at the time of the tragedy. Hut prior to this Rogers had married Miss Catherine Giddin«;s. sister of Professor tviddings of Columbia T'nlver sity, perhaps th> best-known man in that institution, Professor Oiddings has». in fact, been mentioned several times as a mayoralty possibility in New York City. It was Rogers' custom to leave his downtown law office oarlv in the day : for the home of the woman who had divorced him. Then be went on further uptown to Mrs. Walters' home, where he remained until S or j» o'clock. Later he went to the home where his wife lived on Riverside Drive. This peculiar situation continued until Mrs. Walters, giving. up hope of having Mrs. Rogers get a divorce so she might marry the .lawyer, gave her two children poison and took some herself. She got well, but the children died, and now she must face i charges by the grand jury of Bronx county. PARK IMPROVEMENTS I AMOUNTED TO 58.600 1 Commissioner Taylor's Report Shows Changes Were Made From His Appropriation While the annual report of the city's parks and playgrounds, submitted yes terday by City Commissioner M. Har- vey Taylor, superintendent, recites in detail the various improvements, alter ations, etc.. in the development of the recreational department, the feature that attracted particular attention is that permanent improvements to the extent of JB.UOO were made during the year from maintenance appropriation. "In brief." points out the park head in concluding his report, "we have pro vided for the system from this year's maintenance appropriation either by direct construction or the awarding of contracts, improvements to the amount of $8,600, while we have expended [Continued on Page I ] HUNTS OWN SHADOW WITH BROOM-GUN Somnambulist Scours Home; Two Sergeants, Desk Officer and Other Policemen Summoned Taking his own shadow for a burglar during a somnambulistic trip early this morning, Charles Fisher. 227 North Fifteenth street, had the police guessing for a time. Two sergeants, a desk officer, one motorcycle oflicer anil a patrolman made a hurry call to the l-'isher resi dence at 4 o'clock. They''found• the somnambulist in the cellar hunting the burglar with a broom for a gun. According to thp police, while Fisher was walking about in his sleep he saw a shadow on the door and later on the wall of the bathroom. Thinking it was a burglar, he went to his wife's room and mumblingly asked for a gun. He picked up a broom standing in a corner and started a search, telling his wife there were robbers about. Patrolman Scott, who was on the district, was notified that burglars were In the Fisher home. He called the police department. Sergeants Page and Klsenberger, Motorcycle Offi cer Schelhas and Desk Officer Boas were rushed to the Fisher home In the ambulance. They found the man of the house bravely searching with his "broom-gun" aimed ready to flre. The somnambulist was allowed to complete his search. He finally returned to bed. HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENINGJANUARY 13, 1914. ] How Would You Like to Hug Oae of These Belgiaa Refugees, Huh? Relief Committee Warns Against Making Gowns Too Narrow 'Round the Waist None of the members of the Home and War Itelief Committee is posing as model for the women's gowns which arc being sent to the European war I refugees. The reason? Waist meas- I urement of the refugee gowns fluctu ates between the 4u and 42 inch mark. That little detail slipped out thi3 morning when the ladies of the sup < plies division began assembling parts I for the home relief division to issue. I The "word" came from the Red Cross j of Kurope that the average European • wkist required the 40 or 42 inch band | to make a comfortable lit. j Red Cross Chairman Miss Anne , McCormick and Mrs. Carl Ely are in I Mechanlesburg to-day giving the Irv ing College girls a demonstration in I the art of preparing Red Cross sup- I plies. MANSLAUGHTER CASE POSTPONED TO MARCH Illness of Senator Beidleman, Counsel For T. H. Moltz, Neces sitates Continuance of Case Because of the illness of Senator E. K. Beidlemun.'counsel for the defense, the triul of Theodore 11. Moltz, charged w»itli involuntary manslaughter, was continued this morning until March quarter sessions. The trial of William E. Wilson, in dieted with Moltz, also went over. Molt/, and Wilson were in the latter'B car when the machine struck a boy near Fort Hunter and so fatally in jured hiin that he died a short time later. Moltz was driving. The trial of Robert F. Scott, a for mer policeman, charged with murder, will likely be. started to-morrow. Aside from the murder cases interest In this week's session centered chiefly in the trials of 11. K. Mercer and Fred I,aHrun, charged with forgery and false pretenses. The local police de partment says the pair are crooks, wanted In many States. • Other cases disposed of to-day in cluded: Dick Owens robbery, (Ifteen months to two years; Allen .T. Silk, pleading nolle contendere to eight charges of larceny, case continued to January 25; Mile Miljevlc, tried on charge of felonious entry and theft of a quart of whisky: Cling Mitchell, con vened of aggravated assault and bat tery: Phillip Fleck got four months In Jail for stealing a bicycle. Volunteers to work on the- materials 011 hand or to buy material and work it up are Wifnted. There is room—and work—for five more women each day. Additional supplies for the foreign ;#nd Red Cross divisions were turned in to-day by the Mrs. K. Z. Gross Pine Street Sunday School Bible elass, which Was first in the field to sew for the- war sufferers. These volunteers have been sewing for four weeks. Children's hoods are now being manufactured by the Fled Cross divi sion. The necessary blanks, in warm materials, are on hand and may be bought by volunteers and sewn to gether,'either at headquarters or at home. , Just 15'* dozen surgical shirts were turned over to the Ked Cross division yesterday by the supplies dl -1 vision for shipment this week. [BftUMBAUGH TO SPEND FRIDAY WITH TENER Governor-elect Will Meet State Officials and Members of Inaugural Committee Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh will visit Harrisburg on Friday and will spend the afternoon at the Executive De partment at the Capitol, meeting va rious state officials and members of the Inaugural committee who wish to lay their completed plans before him for approval. Dr. Brumbaugh will arrive here late Friday morning and will be the guest of Governor Tener. He will go di rect from the Pennsylvania station to the Executive mansion where he will be a guest of Governor and Mrs. Tener at luncheon. During tho re mainder of his visit he will be at the Executive Department, following the [Continued 011 Pkrc 7] MRS. SARAH BMMS DEATH Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Blum were held Monday in Baltimore. Mrs. Blum died Saturday, January 9, at her home in that city after a brief illness, in her eighty-first year. She was the mother of Mrs. Kaufman, wife of David Kaufman, proprietor of the Kaufman Underselling Store, residing at 1728 North Second street. GILE CAUSES LOSS ID PA. AND JERSEY Atlantic City Suffers; Many Tex-; tile Mills Closed Along Schuylkill I WIND RESULTS IN ONE DEATH 52-Mile-an-Hour Wind in New York; Lower Susquehanna to Raise Tleports received to-day from the storm-swept sections of Pennsylvania; and New Jersey show that considerable! minor damage was done by high wind, i j while In many places the heavy rain I caused rivers and creeks to overflow.! i The weather to-day was clearing and j the high water was rapidly receding. I The Schuylkill river was high from [ | its source in the anthracite coal re-, ! pions to Philadelphia where it erap i tios into the Delaware. In many j 'places It was out of its banks, causing i I considerable damage. Textile mills] j along the Schuylkill in Philadelphia! j were closed because or water in their i basements. i In the northern parts of Pennsyl-j ;vania railroad traffic was impeded by j I deep snow. Exposed places at At-' 'antic City were again damaged by! j high water and severe gales. The] I music hall on the ocean end of thej j Steel Pier which was wrecked during | | the storm last month, was further i j damaged to-day when high seas I [crashed against It. Portions of the) I boardwalk south of Atlantic City were! j damaged and higher water Hooded a I I part of the upper end of the city at | the inlet. Storm Causes One Death | The derailment of tlie Washington-j New York Express at Kerryville. Mil., i ; last night resulted in the death of l ! the engineer and injuring of the lire-1 ; man. was due to the locomotive hit- ■ ting the ro'6f of a box car which had j | been ripped off by the wind ten min-j ; utea before the passenger train came j j along. Harrlsburg and Dauphin county are not suffering much inconvenience from the heavy rains of the past 24 I hours. Jlinor damage was reported 'throughout this section and many of the smaller streams in the county are j high but will recede within the next 24 hours. A stage of about twelve and one half feet is estimated for the river at this point to-morrow morning, j At the Central Iron and Steel com ! pany the water backed up in the sew er, filling one of the driver pits but no 'damage was done. 30-Mile Gale Hero The wind velocity Cor the cjty was, .about miles an hour tvTicn nt It? I higetst last nigh), but caused no se-} j rious damage. At Xcw York city thej j wind was traveling at a rate of 52! 'miles an hour this morning. The storm which lia-i just passed over the eastern section of the country is now (at sea passing off the northern New !j Jersey coast. Fair and colder weath jer with the lowest temperature about I [Continued on Page 5] 11137.456 li COFFERS | OF DAUPHIN COUNTY All Indebtedness but $30,000 Could Be Cleared From Cash Balance | If Dauphin county just now wished I to wipe out its entire net bonded debt : it could pay off all but about $30,000 i of it from the balance in the treasury j alone. The net bonded indebtedness lis $1 (>",977.48; the cash amounts to i $1.".7,456.35. That is only one of the interesting ' possibilities shown by County Con j troller Henry W. Gough's lirst annual I report, submitted to-day to the Dau- I phlr. County Court' and the County Commissioners. Other high-lights in the county's financial status as set forth in detail by the report are: That the county has a thousand dol [Continued on Page 3] IMIKE SHIPPERS FEED BAD MILK 'TO HOGS' : City Health Bureau Will Urge Rigid Inspection of Supply at Train Sheds j A more rigid inspection of milk and stricter attention to the supply sent by express from the sorrounding country to city dealers, with con demnation of milk at the depots that does not come up to standards, will , be among the recommendations pre sented In the report of the City Bu [Continued on Page -1] ! GARRISON SAYS PLAN IS SOUND I Washington. D. C., Jan. 13.—Sound i In principal and eminently satisfactory Ito the War Department is the eom jment by Secretary Garrison, in an iswer to an Investigation from the Sen iate committee on military affairs to | express his opinion upon the Cham- I berlain hill to create a reserve of officers in the army. WAR IN BAIjKANK DOUBTED Berlin, via The 'Hague and London, ' Jan. 13, 10.55 A. M. —The eorrespond j ent of the Cologne Gazette at Solia, j Bulgaria, declares that the leading eir< les in Bulgaria do not share In the belief that there Is to he an immediate extension of the war in the Balkans. All decisions, it is said, depend on the results of the great battles now pro gressing. 12 PAGES • POSTSCRIPT TURKS TAKE IMPORTANT POSITION FROM RUSS; PERSIAN CITY CAPTURED One Turkish Regiment Captured and Another Partly De stroyed, According to Petrograd Dispatches; Obsti nate and Bitter Fighting Still in Progress in West; Austrians Claim Successes Dover, Jan. 13, via London, 4.55 P. M.—Two German sub marines were to-day fired upon and sunk by the coat batteries off Dover, according to persistent rumors current in the city. Further importance successes in the campaign against Turkey were an nounced to-day by Russia. It is as serted that one Turkish regiment was captured, another partially destroyed, and a Turkish position seized with guns and ammunition. Notwithstanding the statement it is evident that large bodies of Turkish troops are still on Russian soil, and the recent statement from Petrograd that an overwhelming defeat has been inflicted the Turks, involving the cap ture of one army corps and the cutting up of another, is dented officially at Constantinople. The statement to-day of the Russian stafl attached to the Caucasian army says that resistance has not been broken, stating that ob stinate and bitter lighting is still in progress. _ Turkish forces which invaded North western Persia and reported un officially to have occupied Tabriz, an important Persian city • within the sphere of Russian influence where a Russian .military station was main tained. A Constantinople dispatch last night said that the Russians had re treated from Tabriz. In Soutliev. Poland the Russians have made another attempt to push across the Nida river, apparently in an effort to advance once more on Cra cow. An official Austrian statement says the Russians were compelled to withdraw under the fire of the Aus trian artillery. Miles' Advance Checked The assaults of the allies against se lected positions in the German line, gaining grounds for them at several points during the last week, have led to Merman counterattacks in force and the heaviest infantry lighting of some time. To-day's official communications from Berlin and Paris indicate that the Germans, having brought large bodies of troops into play, have checked the advance of the allies and have themselves made important gains. The heaviest fighting occurred yes terday to the east of Soissons. The Germans state that they definitely re- I pulsed the allies and gained possession of two of their positions, capturing J. 700 prlsoenrs and several guns. At- I tacks near the canal of T,a Pnsse, it f Boston Jan. 13.—The storm which reached New Eng land yesterday attained its maximum strength oIE the south -1 east coast to day, causing much damage in Rhode Island, Connect t . id Southeastern Massachusetts Summer r< i dences on Massachusetts l ay from Sandwich to Cape Ann I were badly damaged. Damage was reported also at Nan tucket, Coi.anset and other points on the south shore. CHILD STARTS FIRE A five-year-old daughter was responsible for a blaze at the ! eof Earl D. Williams, 2023 Penn street, this after noon The child set fire to curtains and pillows. The Reily chemical wagon was called. The damage amounted to $25.00 • BIG NAVAL INCREASE IN SIGHT Washington, Jan. 13.—A naval building program of two battleships, six torpedoboat destroyers and seventeen I submarines was adopted and incorporated in the naval bill to-day by the House Naval Committee. The bill was ! reported at once to the House. FORESTERS MUST NOT PAY Watertown, N. Y., Jan. 13.—Supreme Court Justice C. i Emerson handed down a decision to-day in a test case which affects all Foresters in the United States who joined the o '< . prior to 1899. The decision holds that such Fores ters need not pay extraordinary assessment levied*in 1912 which amounts to virtually $260 on SI,OOO of insurance. The case is that of Henry McClement vs. the Supreme Cou:t of Foresters. | VIOLATES RESTRICTION ORDER Aberdeen Scotland, Jan. 13, via London, 5.13 P. M.—. Ado'ph Dietze claiming American citizenship and in pos l session of an American Passport was remanded here to-day on the charge of violating the Aliens restriction order. Delhi, India, Jan. 13, via London, 4.05 P. M. The Viceroy, iiaron liaidinge in a speech to-day at the opening of the Viceregal council disclosed that the troops which j India has coatubuted to the war numbeied 2UU,U)d. These I soldie»s are distributed in Fiance, Kgypt, Africa and along | the Persian Gulf. | MARRIAGE John S.rlvrwtrr Kttfr, Dauphin vomit v. mid Kllr.n Gertrude (itliilapr, t lllon l>P|iOMlt. I Aaron 11. Ilrlrkr l.rhanon county, anil Mary A. l'lhrraolr, Daunhlu county. . I \ is said, wore defeated, while the allies were compelled by German artillery lire to evacute trenches near the Bel gian coast in th neighborhood of Nieu port. The French statement admits that the allies were driven back near Soissons. being compelled to yield ground to the Germans. In the Argonne. where despernta lighting lias been in progress for some time, the opposing armies temporarily have relaxed their efforts. There, as elsewhere in the west, bad weather hindrs military activities. No change is recorded from either Petrograd or Berlin in the campaign ill Poland. 11.000 <;I:KM \XS DESERT RANKS Strict Guarding of Frontier to Stop Crossing of Deserters Paris. Jan. 13. 4.50 A. M.—"The real reason for tiie strict guarding of tlio Belgian Dutch frontier," says the Ma tin's correspondent at Havre, "is an epidemic of desertion which began in the German ranks after the battle of the Yser. From November 15 to De cember 15 there was 11.000 desertions ! from the garrison of Bruges alone." VAlit'E OF ANTITYPHOID VACCINATION IS SHOWN Paris, Jan. 13. 4.40 A. M.—The war has demonstrated beyond all question according to members of the medical j commission, the value of antityphoid I vaccination. Most of the members of the active array had lieen vaccinated before the war but the reservists and territorialtsts drafted and sent to the front later had not and as a result, to wards the end of October, a largo number of eases of typhoid developed. The medical commission sent doc tors to the tiring line and they vaccin ated a whole army corps of 40,000 men. By the end of December the good| results of this treatment became ap parent as typhoid had practically dis appeared, the only cases remaining be ing among the men of two regiment* which the doctors were unable to reach.
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