NEW FIRE RECORD
EIGHTEEN BOX ALARMS SENT IN
Tola! Estimate on Losses During First Month Incomplete; but Will
Likely Run Close to $130,000, Says Police Chief
Figures in (he monthly (Ire report of
Chief John C. Kindler will show now
records. The total number of box
alarms was IX. Telephone calls num
bered 22. Fire Chief Kindler is un
able to give an official estimate on the
,-t.otal losses, but believes it will run
over siso.ooo.
Estimates on the losses at the recent
12.000 MEN JIT WORK
IN PITTSBURGH MILLS
Homestead Steel Works Resume
With 9,000 Men; Other
Forces Increased
Pittsburgh, Feb. 2. —The Homestead
Steel Works of (no Carnegie Steel
Company resumed operations yester
day in full, giving employment to be
tween 8,000 and 9,000 men. It was
announced that the company had large
orders on hand which would keep the
bin; plant running steadily for several
weeks. One of these orders is for 32,-
000 tons of skelp Iron for the Arnold
Skclp and Iron Company.
At the Schocnberger plant of the
American Steel and Wire Company on
Pcna avenue, the announcement was
made to-day that the plant would go
on full time February 5. This plant
has been working about 80 per cent,
turning out horseshoes, horseshoe
nails anfl other war munitions, as well
us Immense quantities of wire. The
new order will add 2,500 men to the
payroll.
Workmen in Braddock and Rankin
were rejoicing to-day over the an
nouncement made by the Edgar
Thompson Works of the Carnegie Com
pany ordering live furnaces Into opera
lion at once and two others within the
present week. These furnaces have
been idle several months. They will
give employment to several hundred
men.
The Carrie Furnaces of tlio Carne
gie Steel Company, at Rankin, which
have been undergoing a thorough re
pairing during their Idleness, will re
sume operations this week. More than
500 men will be employed.
REV. MI IH.E HURT IN TALI;
The Rev. Dr. Lewis S. Mudge, pastor
of the Pine Street Presbyterian
Church, broke his right upper arm
last night by falling on the icy pave
ment in Second street near Pine while
on his way to the church. An X-ray
examination was made at the Harris
burg hospital this morning.
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TUESDAY EVENING,
lire in Market Square have not been
reported. Three of the firms whose
stores were damaged, including the
Kaufman Store and the
S. S. Pomeroy grocery store, have not
been reported. In his report Fire Chief
Kindler will also say he has been un
able to report as to the origin of the
lire in Market Square.
HAD BUT TWO YEARS'
HAPPINESS SINCE '92
Husband Choked Her When She
Had Tonsilitis; Tries to "Bust"
Telephone
The mere fact that the telephone
was attached to the wall was really
of no account to Charles C. Johnson
who wanted to throw something at
his wife and wanted to throw it im
mediately.
The stoutness of ihe wainscoting
of the Johnson home, the length of
the screws and the toughness of the
wires that hold the phone box to its
established position, interfered, how
ever.
So airs. Johnson wasn't struck with
the family telephone.
That was part of the testimony de
veloped by Attorney Charles C. Stroh
this morning during the continued
session of January divorce court when
Mrs. Lila Johnson's appeal for a di
vorce was heard before President
Judge Kunkcl.
Johnson is a huckster and produce
man, and one of the famous "John
son Brothers" the gun-and-bayonet
tossing drum-majors that made pa
rades in Harrisburg so well worth
while a few years ago.
The Johnsons were married in 1892
but according to Mrs. Johnson she's
had scarcely more than two years of
real happiness in all that time.
Charles, she said, was addicted to a
love of liquor and behaved according
ly. On May 29, last year, he decided
that the weather was stillling and
that she was to blame. Whereupon,
according to the witnesses, he twist
ed the chandelier until the globes
were knocked to pieces, threw the
coffee pot on the floor, kicked over
chairs and tried to curve the tele
phone at his wife. Two years before
when she was suffering with tonsilitis
Mrs. Johnson said that she had casu
ally mentioned her ailment to her
husband so he choked her.
Mlllir H BILLS IRE
PBESEIIITED IN HOUSE
$575,000 For Erection of Village
For Feeble-Minded Women in
Union County
A bill carrying an appropriation of
$575,000 for the construction and
maintenance of te State Village of
Feeble-Minded Women was introduced
in the House to-day by Mr. Showalter,
Union. The establishment was au
thorized by the last Legislature and a
location in Union county has been se
! leeted. Other bills presented were:
| Mr. Walter, Franklin—Authorizing
j boroughs operating electric plants for
commercial purposes to supply current
outside their limits.
| Mr. Sinclair, Fayette—Requiring all
I locomotives to be equipped with auto
i matie bell ringers, 2T> per cent, to be
so equipped by January 1, 1916.
Mr. Lipshutz, Philadelphia Pro
viding a method for discharge of per
sons arrested or held In process Issued
on a Judgment in court actions.
Mr. Whitaker, Chester—Appropri
ating $188,150 to the Valley Forge
Park Commission, of which $105,000 Is
for purchase of land.
Mr. Campbell, Philadelphia—Appro
priating $500,000 for pensions for
"emergency men" who volunteered for
the defense of the State in 1862 and
1863.
Mr. Davis. Lackawanna—Authoriz
ing counties to organize, equip and
maintain county fire brigades, which
are to be subject to call to extinguish
I brush and forest fires.
Mr. Steedle, Allegheny Requiring
county commissioners of Allegheny to
furnish quarters In courthouseforquar
ters for * recognized official county as
sociation of physicians and surgeons,"
to be open to all reputable medical
men.
Mr. Alexander, Erie —Establishing a
code for collection of taxes In bor
oughs and townships, the collector to
be elected; regulating admission of
land to boroughs.
Mr. Bornthelzel, Lancaster—Provid
ing for a commission of three, to be
named by the Governor, to codify the
; law of decedents' estates. An appro
priation of SIO,OOO is carried. He also
introduced bills making right to prac
tice In Supreme Court proof that per
son holding it is qualified to practice
in all other courts of the State and
providing that no judgment or decree
shall be set aside or reversed or new
trial granted unless error complained
of his injuriously affected rights of
parties.
Mr. Showalter, Union, chairman of
the education committee, proposed
amendments to the school code, one
providing for reimbursement of ex
.•rmining boards and the other provid
ing method of collecting cost of tuition
ol nonresident pupils.
Mr. Lynch, Fayette—Making it a
misdemeanor ror any unnaturalized
foreign-born resident to hunt for game
or to own or have possession of a dog.
Dogs are to be confiscated by any offi
cers or state policemen and sold or
killed, by order of the State Game
Commission.
Mr. Gans, Philadelphia, introduced
a workmen's compensation bill based
on the Michigan law. The bill would
establish an industrial accident board.
It provides that every employer is pre
sumed to have accepted the act in
stead of taking positive acttion, and if
an employe rejects the act the em
ployer retains the common law de
tense of contributory negligence. The
rate is put at 50 per cent., the same as
in New Jersey.
The resolution for investigation of
claims of Brobst heirs to lands in cen
tral counties by the Attorney General
was referred to the judiciary general
committee after objections by Mr.
Maurer, Berks, had been voted down.
The deficiency bill, carrying $638,000
was the tirst bill to be passed finally.
Two members voted against it.
Speaker Ambler requested all com
mittees to get to work at once on bills
ai)d announced u short session to-night
to receive those to be reported.
The hall of the Mouse was granted
for the night of February 9 to Con
gressman W. D. B. Ainey to make an
address on American relations with
Japan.
The speaker referred over sixty bills
this morning, the boxing commission
bill being sent to the law and order
committee.
The House took a recess until noon
after Speaker Ambler's admonition to
committees to get busy.
Air Brakes For .Street Cat's
When the House reassembled at
noon Mr. Gallagher, Northumberland,
introduced a bill requiring all street
cars to be equipped with air brake at
tachments and automatic air couplers.
The penalty is made $lO per day for
each car not equipped after January 1,
1916.
Mr. Honey, Philadelphia, presented
a bill requiring all locomotives except
those used exclusively for switching
and transfer service to be equipped
with licjadlights of sufficient power to
distinguish a man 600 feet distant.
Twenty-five per cent, of locomotives
are to be equipped by January 1. 1916,
50 per cent, by January 1, 1917 and
all by January 1, 1919.
-Mr. McNichol, Philadelphia, intro
duced a bill to place optometrists un
der the supervision of the Bureau of
Medical Kducation and licensure. This
will overcome the difficulty now exist
ing.
Among the bills reported out were
Stein bill, regulating sale of heroin
and Geiser bill permitting pay patients
to take their own physicians and sur
geons and nurses into hospitals receiv
ing State aid.
The linal committee assignments
were announced as follows: Spencer,
education; McVicar, municipal cor
porations, and Forster, ways and
means. N'o more will be made.
The subcommittee in charge of the
Spangler bill to fix salaries of county
officers in counties having less than
150,000 population announced a pub
lic hearing on February 10.
Thus far 208 bills have been intro
duced in the House.
The House adjourned at 12.20 until
8 p. m.
Husband Forced Her to
Cook For Drunken Mob
Smiles and more than a suggestion
of tears were woven into many of the
stories of disillusionment that were
related to Judges Kunkel and McCar
rell in the continued session of Janu
ary divorce court this morning. Only,
as a rule, those who told the stories
didn't smile.
In Judge Kunkei's court Rosa Kel
ley appealed for a divorce from her
husband, George W. He abused her
frightfully, she declared. especially
when he became intoxicated. His
favorite pastime was to invite a host
of negroes around to his house, open
several kegs of beer, and compel her
to cook for the drunken crew.
I George Pasalo whose coat was
stolen the night of his wedding to
pretty 16-year-old Katie Pasaio,
wants that knot, of three months de
finitely untied. They were married
April 27, 1914. One evening three
months later Katie grew very angrv
because George tore to bits a picture
op her former lover, She ' decided
then that she preferred the old love
1- and left Pa*nlc to join that old
sweetheart of hers, She's still with
him, Uoorge says.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
'CHURCH IS FACING
ITS GREATEST TEST'
Mission Worker Says Church Has
Opportunity to Be of Real
Service to Humanity
f 3
MELVIN K. TROTTER
"The church of to-day is facing
the greatest test of its existence,"
said "Mel"Trotter, the mission work
er, soon after his arrival in Harris
burg at 1 o'clock this afternoon. "It
stands on trial this winter as to
whether it can take the opportunity
to be of real service to humanity.
This winter is the hardest we have
ever had in the cities, and it is up to
the church to save the men who nat
urally turn to it in time of distress.
"At all our missions over the coun
try we have five calls for help this
winter to one in other years. I think
it is this wave of hard times that is
giving impulse to the spirit of relig
ious revival that is gripping the coun
try. It is the old saying over again,
'Man's extremity is God's opportun
ity.'
Mr. Trotler was met at the station
by Geo. VV. Keily, whose guest he will
be during his slay here, members of
the board of directors of the local
Rescue Mission, and Griffith Jones,
the superintendent.
Mr. Trotter spoke this afternoon be
fore un audience of women In Chest
nut street hall and will speak again
this evening at 7.30 o'clock to men.
Afternoon meeting for women was
well attended. James W. Barker,
president of the Harrisburg City Res
cue Mission, presided. Singing wa.s
led by a ladies' choir from the Stough
evangelistic chorus, the "Make Christ
King'' songbook being used. Mr. Trot
ter told the story of his'life and out
lined the need and the usefulness of
the chain of Rescue Missions which he
has established in fifty cities in
America.
After the afternoon meeting Mr.
Trotter is to be tendered a reception
by a number of local business men at
supper in the Commonwealth Hotel.
The Mayor and Chief of Police will be
present.
The evening mass meeting, intended
principally for men. but from which
women will not be excluded, starts at
7.15, with a song service by a mixed
chorus from the Stough tabernacle
choir, under the leadership of Charles
Cllppinger. The Stough songbook will
again be used. Louis Houseal and his
corps or tabernacle ushers will take
care of the seating and the comfort
of the audience. A large attendance is
looked for at the evening session to
hear the story of Mr. Trotter's con
version.
No charge for admission is made for
either meeting, but an offering will be
taken up to help defray the expenses
of Mr. Trotter's visit. Mr. Trotter goes
from here to Philadelphia, where he is
one of the principal speakers at an
undenominational rally held there
from to-day until Thursday, and he
will also visit and take part in one
of the services at the "Billy" Sunday
tabernacle meetings there.
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ROMANTIC LIFE OF
IS. HART AT El
With Husband Through Rigorous
Indian Warfare; Bore Son in
Sagebrush Camp
Ending a life replete with romance
and which for daring and adventure
lias seldom been equaled by woman,
Mrs. Anna E. Hart, aged <i2 years, died
at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Harry
Robinson, 1002 Susquehanna street,
early this morning.
Born near Carlisle, she attended the
same school with her childhood sweet
heart. Just before the outbreak of
the Civil War she and young Hart
were engaged. Faithfully the girl
waited until her fiance had completed
his enlistment. At the age of thirteen
under romantic circumstances she was
married.
Stirred by the tales of martial ad
venture which the young soldier re
lated, Mrs. Hart urged her husband to
re-enlist. Because of his bravery in
the Civil War Hart was made a non
commissioned officer and was stationed
at Carlisle. Later he was transferred
to New Mexico and by special orders
allowed to take his girl-wife with him.
Less than a year later the Blackfoot
and Crow Indians in Washington and
Oregon rebelled and the majority of
frontier troops were mobilized in the
northwestern states. Hart was ordered
north with a troop of cavalry and with
his wife by his side he crossed the in
tervening deserts :ind plains. Late in
the fall they arrived at their desti
nation.
Hart's troop was stationed at one
of the most hazardous positions in the
circles which was slowly forcing the
Indians hack on the reservation. He
wife refused to leave him and suffered
the rigors of the winter and Indian
cam paten.
Sou Born in lli-iisli Camp
In a sagebrush camp hastily thrown
together to protect the cavalry from
Indians a son, William F. Hart, now
a resident of Carlisle, was born. That
night the troopers slept with guns in
j their hands, momentarily expecting an
! attack by the Indians. Half-starved
i panthers were forced back by a fire
line.
After the Indians had been placed
back on the reservation Hart, who had
been made a sergeant because of valor
ous service, was allowed six months'
leave of absence, brought his 16-year-
I old wife and their young son home
j through Southern California and
across the Isthmus of Panama. They
I returned to Carlisle and Hart was
I mustered out of service.
Mrs. Hart's death occurred to-day
from a complication of diseases. Ser
geant Hart died exactly eighteen years
ago to the day and hour. The chil
dren have arranged funeral services
for Mrs. Mart which will coincide with
those of her husband.
Surviving Mrs. Hart are three sons,
I William F., of Carlisle, Harry and Rob-
I ert, of this city: two daughters. Mrs.
Harry Robinson and Mrs. Morgan Wil
liams, of this city; a sister, Mrs. Fred
erick Barthell. of Carlisle; seventeen
grandchildren and seven great-grand
children.
Funeral services will be. held Friday
I afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Burial will
j l>e made in Harrisburg Cemetery.
ROCKEFELLER. JR., ARRAIGNED
BY LABOR REPRESENTATIVE
New York, Feb. 2.—John I). Itocke
: feller. Jr.. and the Rockefeller Foun-
Idation were arraigned to-day by an
other representative of labor who tes
tified before the Federal Industrial
Relations Commission. The witness
was Edward P. Costigan of counsel
for the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica, and his testimony, consisting
chiefly of a statement which he read,
followed closely the lines adhered to
last week by John R. Lawson, the
Mine Workers' executive board mem
ber for Colorado.
J. P. Morgan told the United States
Commission on Industrial Relations
yesterday lhat he had no opinions to
offer on a great many of the subjects
with which the present inquiry into
the causes of social and industrial un
rest. is dealing, and that it was for
others to says what shall be done in
alleviating the conditions of which
complaint has been made.
FEBRUARY 2, 1915.
CIVIL COURT LIST
FOR FEB. 22 ISSUED
Several Trespass Suits Included in
Calendar of Thirty Cases
Out Today
Jhi )< 111 mon Pleas' court
calendar was eom
—^ Protlionotary I-far
tlons involving the
S ways company are
«TBHW among the more
" ■' listed. The thirty
cases will be tried during the week of
February 22. The list:
Alary and Harry F. Lereh vs. Hum
melstown and Campbellstown railway,
trespass; Catherine Trout vs. Lykens
Valley Coal company, trespass; Abra
ham Selff vs. Charles Aaronson, ap
peal: Como company vs. Morris Sides,
appeal; Samuel Bower vs. R. L. Wiest,
appeal; T. R. Mathews vs. Nathan
[Copolowotz, trespass; Agnes Deldy et
al. vs. Central Pennsylvania Traction
Company, trespass; Commonwealth
i Insurance Agency vs. William H. Op
perman company, assumpsit; E. F.
Philllips vs. Allen Budd et al., tres
pass; J. Rlbenstein vs. Pearl Wilson,
appeal; Daniel G. Engle vs. John S.
jlterr. appeal; Jacob G. Feist vs.
Charles A. Hutton, trespass; Truman
A. Salspaugh vs. J. F'raneis Dinthicum,
I trespass; Louis Sobel vs. William
iSchleisner, assumpsit: Sarali and Ben
jamin IT. Prowell vs. Harrisburg Rail
ways company, trespass; Emanuel
Rhinehart vs. William J. Bayles et al.,
trespass; Robert Stewart vs. State, as
sumpsit; Sadie Horner's use vs. John
A. and W. H. Horner, assumpsit; John
H. Palm vs. National Ben Franklin
Fire Insurance company, assumpsit;
Miles F. Bixler company vs. C. L.
Brinser and son, appeal; John Bless
ing's administrator vs. Adam Rudy,
appeal; Jacob Rudy vs. Phillip Muto,
trespass; Frank Cline vs. Joel D. Jus
tin, trespass; Abraham Spooner vs.
Samuel Sutnpgin, appeal; Paul Snyder
et al. vs. Hcrshey Chocolate company,
assumpsit: Harrisburg L,ight and
Power company vs. R. G. Cox, as
sumpsit; John Moyer vs. Harry Eby,
trespass; A. L. Greenburg Iron com
pany vs. Mifflin township, assumpsit;
Lou Is A. Smith vs. John Drexler, ap
peal, and William C. Bolton vs. Clar
ence H. Miller, trespass.
Realty Transfers. Realty trans
fers yesterday included the following:
Thomas F. Newby. to Helen B. Newby,
Middle Paxton, $1: E. Etzweiler to A.
T. Kerstetter, Halifax township,
$4,000; Charles Huber to Rebecca J.
/400k,105 Summit,sl; Harrisburg Roll
ing Mill company to R. C. Neal, Jr.,
First ward, city $9,000; Paul G. Smith
to J. Knox, 1608 Walnut street,
$1; John Pyne to Bertha Cassel, 2047
Swatara street, $1; William E. Orth
to State, State street and West alley,
$71,000.
52,fi25 For Moving; Garbage. City
Treasurer O. M. Copclln to-day paid to
the Pennsylvania Reduction company,
$2,625 to cover the cost of removing
the city's ashes and garbage for Janu
ary.
i To Sell Walnut Street Dwellings.—
Xos. 506-0S Walnut street, including
dwellings, a shop and other outbuild
ings, and a 180-foot frontage on Elm
street, properties of the Henry F.
Young estate, will be sold at trustee's
I sale on the Courthouse steps by At
torney William M. llargest, trustee,
at 10 o'clock Saturday, February 27.
Auditor In Albert ICstate to Sit. —
Attorney H. 1.. Lark, recently ap
-1 pointed to audit accounts of the Com
monwealth Trust Company, trustee for
the estate of John A. Albert, formerly
of East Hanover, will sit at 11 o'clock
February 8 at the offices of C. H.
Backenstoe. 14 North Third street.
Meat Shop and Tools Under Ham
mer.—Administrator's sale of the uten
sils of E. L. Minnig, a butcher, will be
held February 3 by Attorney Arthur
Hull.
Wants Disc harge from Insolvency.—
March 15 has been fixed for the hear
ing of George Rissinger's application
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for discharge under the insolvency
laws.
FettcrholT Divorce Hearing Febru
ary 8. —A hearing in the case of Har
vey against Annie M. Fetterhoff. listed
for the January session of divorce
court, has been continued to Monday,
February 8.
To Ask for Two Charters. —Attorney
Robert Rosenberg will make appli
cation to the Dauphin County Court
and to the Governor for charters for
the Harrisburg Hebrew Educational
Institute, February 23, and for the
incorporation of the Royal Bedding
Company, February 22. The bedding
company incorporators are Meyer and
Bessie Baturln, Herman Kushel and
Robert Rosenberg.
Departments Combine to
Make Sale a Success
Almost two pages of this paper are
devoted to the advertisement of Dives,
Poineroy & Stewart, to announce the
many attractions that will feature
their semiannual Mill and Factory
Sate which begins to-morrow morn
ing. This event which assumes great
er proportions each year, will in the
present instance be of still greater
magnitude than its predecessors.
Mills and factories which have
been left this year with greater sur
plus stocks than for many years have
come forwurd with more than the cus
tomary price concessions in the desire
to rid the mills of all remaining mer
chandise. Practically every depart
ment. of the big store will contribute
its share of attractions to the public,
and buyers are enthusiastic over the
exceptional merchandise that has been
procured for the occasion. Tlve doors
will swing open for the beginning of
the big sale to-morrow morning. Full
particulars and prices wilt be found
in the store's advertisements on pages
4 and 14 of this paper.
Will Decide If Trust
Companies Are Liable to
Taxation as Rent Agents
City Council this afternoon instruct
ed City Solicitor Seitz to submit a writ
ten opinion on the question of whether
or not trust companies which act us
rent agencies may be liable for the cit>
license tax imposed for renting dwell
ings. Commissioner W. I* Uorgas had
raised tho point as to whether such
companies are liable In view of the fait
that they pay a State tax. Mr. Seltz
said he is of the opinion that the
trust companies are exempt, hut added
that he will investigate the legal status
of the case more fully. The license tax
ordinance was accordingly postponed
for another week.
The ordinance changing the names
of a score or more of streets was
amended and laid over for reprinting
and the ordinances authorizing the
purchase of a motor truck for the
streets department and three motor
tractors and two chemical combinations
for the tire department were passed
finally, immediately after Council ad
journed the commissioners went into
session as a board of revisions.
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