Turkey Prepares For Entrance of Balkan HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH I. XXXIV No. 75 HARRISBURG FOLKS IN DISTRICT WHERE MASSACRE OF 15.000 PERSONSIS FEAREO Tories Continue Their Outrages and Murder Thousands of Persons BODIES HORRIBLY MUTILATED Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Labaree Last Reported in Territory Where Hundreds Are Dead Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Tha lia rec, missionaries from this city, are stationed at Tabriz. In the I'rumlah district, in which It is feared, according' to the Alisooiat ed Press dispatches of to-day. that all of the remaining ten to fifteen thousand residents will be massa cred. Mrs. Labaree was Miss Mary Fleming, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel I\ Fleming before her marriage. By Associated Press Tabriz, Persia, Wednesday, March 3J. via Petrograd, April 1, 11.30 A. M. and London, 2.25 P. M.—Preceding the reoccupatlon by the Russians of Sal niac Plains, in Azerbaijan province, northwest of Urumiah, hundreds of nati\'e Christians were rounded up by the Turks in the village of llaftdewan and massacred. Many of these were searched out for the homes of friendly Mohammedans who tried to hide them. The Russians on entering the village found 720 bodies, mostly naked and mutilated. The recovery of bodies from wells, pools and ditches and Iheir burial kept 300 men busy for three days. The wailing of women intensified the horror of the scene. Surviving widows who were able to Identify the bodies of their husbands insisted upon dig ging graves and burying the bodies. Some of the victims had been shot. In other cases they were bound to lad ders and their heads, protruding through, were hacked off. Eyes were gouged out and limbs chopped off. A general massacre of tho 10,000 Christians remaining in I'rumlah Is ex pected, unless it should be averted by orders from Constantinople. Verbal messages from Urumiah con firm earlier reports that more than SOO persons already have been killed in that neighborhood and that more •than 2,000 have died of disease. These messages also confirm tho reports of the maltreatment of tho Rev. F. T. Allen, an American missionary at Uru miah. Steele's Successor Not to Be Picked Tomorrow \'o choice < principal for the Cen tral high si- I to succeed Prof. W. S. Steele, w' led a few weeks ago, will be inad the school hoard to morrow eve as the 'special com mittee appo 'to fill the vacancy is not ready to report. Twenty or more applications for the position have been received. In the near future the committee, consisting jf President Harry A. Buyer, Directors Adam Houtk and Harry M. Bretz, City Superintendent !•'. E. Downes and Secretary IX D. Hammelbaugh will shift out all the applications and prepare the recom mendations. To-day a well-known educator from Passaic, X. J., called on President Boyer with a personal ap plication. MAKE NOTE PUBLIC APRIL 7 By Associated Press Washington, D. C., April'l.—At the request of the British foreign office the American note on thfc order in council, instead of being published simultaneously to-morrow morning in the United States and England, will not be published until the morning of ■Wednesday, April 7. It was explained that the week-end Faster holidays in England made the postponement de sirable. THE WEATHER for Harriabtirg and vicinity! Fair to-night and Friday) not much change In temperaturet lonrnt temperature to-olght about freez ing. For Hasten Penmylvanlai Fair to night and Friday) not mueh change In temperature) moderate northweat wlndu, Hlver The Susquehanna river and all Ita tributaries will continue to fall nlonly Indefinitely. A fringe or about 4.8 feet In Indicated for llarrlnburK Friday mornlnic. General Condition* The high preaxurr area, which la • till central over the Miaaourl Valley, bus continued to expand and now cover* prnctlcallv all the country except New Knglanil and Southern I'lorlila. right rain »«nd anow fell In North C arolina Wednesday and llnht rnlna have continued In Nevada and Oregon, l.lght local anoiva have occurrrd In the laat twenty-four houra In Wj-omlnn, Nebraska and New Mexico. and nlao In Western New York, Western Pennaylva nla and In portions of New Eng land and Eastern Canada. Over all the country east of the Rocky Mountain*, except the Eairt Gulf States and Florida, where It la cooler, temperntarea have risen 2to 12 degreea. It la aomewhat warmer also along the Pacific coast, while In I'tah. Southern Colorado and Arlsona somewhat lower tempera-tores are reported. Temperature I 8 a. in., 32. Sum Rises, 5:4(1 a. m.) sets, «i 23 p. m. Mooni Rises, Bi3s p. ni. Hlver Stngei 4.4 feet "hove low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 43. l owest temperature, 2ft, Ilean temperature, 36, Normal temperature, 14, K PLAN TO BE CONSIDERED FOR CLOSING GAP IN WALL AT MARKET STREET fW -w _ l)/ .„ /■ C•,, ? c, , j Vy J y '■"f v" ' "ft •♦ «« . • "v *7 *■ #"'••. ~jj ? f —i ? k - -* 4 „ : How the unsightly gap in the river front wall provided for at Market street as a coal wharf, will be eliminated if the city authorities adopt the proposed plan, is shown by the accompanying etching. The plan as prepared by the engineer of the Board of Public Works provides for the erection o.' several additional sections of steps from the wall below the Market street bridge northward to a point 120 feet south of the present end of the steps. This 120-foot gap which would otherwise serve as a sloping approach to the water's edge, will be abridged t>v the construction of a solid concrete wall rising from the water's edge to a line flush with the present sidewalk on the wall. If the Board and Mr. Lynch approve of the scheme this evening, Mr. Lynch in the near future will introduce legislation In council authorising the change. GOVERNOR SAYS HE | IS PERFECTLY HAPPY . T * I Local Option Fight Well in Hand,j He Says; Receiving Many Letters BIG DEMONSTRATION SURE| Thousands of People Will Come j Next Week to Urge Passage | of Measure "I am perfectly happy over the situ ation," said Governor Martin G. Brum baugh this afternoon when asked about the local option light. Then, in reply to a question whether he had gotten any more legislators for the bill he smiled and said, "I have everything that I expected to have at this timer' j The Governor has been receiving I many letters from people invited to [attend the local option rally and ex pects a great demonstration. He saw la number of legislators who remained [ here after the brief session of the | House. Pending the appointment of a high | way commissioner to succeed E. !». . Bigelow, whose resignation took effect to-day, Joseph W. Hunter, tlrst deputy | commissioner, is in charge of the de partment, this having been established by Attorney General Brown. The Gov ernor declined to discuss the resigna tion of Chief Engineer S. D. Foster to-day. The bill embodying the Governor's ideas in regard to the State Highway Department will be presented by Sen ator William C. Sproul, of Delaware. "It is being worked out now and It Is the hardest problem of all to handle," said he. "The hill will be prepared as soon as possible. There are some details to settle." During to-day the Governor had a talk on the McCaig bill carrying funds for the constitutional amendment ad vertising with Auditor General Powell and legislators who have been active in support of the legislation, hut did not intimate what he would do. "I have until to-morrow evening to wrestle with that," said he. Three Dig Way through Almshouse Wall; Other Prisoners Sit Tight After laboriously digging a hole through a thirteen-inch wall with a piece of lead pipe, Levi Quigg, John Murray tind William Conway, who were sentenced recently to the alms house stone pile, escaped between 11 and 12 o'clock last night and are still at large. The three men made an opening large enough for all to escape, but the remainder of the men remained to complete their sentences. Quigg was sentenced this week to serve ninety days on the stone pile, a record-break ing sentence. The other two had sixty day terms. JESSE J. LYBARCfR CASHES HIS CHECK No, He Hasn't Given Up the Ghost; Just Took the Money After All Jesse Jay Lybarger. late Democra tic candidate for member of the House of Representative from the Harris burg distrlctt, has cashed his check. This must not be taken as a slang expression. Mr. Lybarger has not passed away or given up the ghost. He l»s simply cashed the check that he got from ihe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania along In January, 1913, and which he announced, through [Continued on Page 8.) HARRISBURG. PA., THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1915. BABY, THOUGHT MURDERED, FOUND IN EAST END STREAM A girl baby, unclothed, was found this morning shortly after 11 o'clock by a boy who gave his name as Lawr ence Shoner, in a small stream running through ft field at Twenty-second and Swatara streets. Persons who saw the child lying in the water said that from all appear ances it has been there for several days. It is believed the baby was put In the water by some one after it had been murdered. A. J. Speece, 2137 Swatara street, was called by the boy who found the infant' and he notified the police de partment. Officer Fetrow was sent to STATE MUST RAISE TEN MILLION MORE 1 Chairman Jones Says Otherwise Roads, Schools and Charities Will Suffer Severely The State of Pennsylvania must pass bills to add ten million dollars to its revenues if it is to make adequate pro vision for improvement of its high ways. for advancement of its educa tional work and to properly care for its charities Representative E. E. Jones, Susquehanna, chairman of the House public roads, told tho members of the House of Representatives to day in the course of a general discus sion of the road problem. The resolu tion presented some time ago by Rep resentative Henry I. Wilson, Jefferson, calling for outlining of a definite pol icy in regard to highways, immediate [Continued on Page #.] Vice President Earns $1 Taking Motion Pictures Special to The Telegraph Don Angeles, April I.—Vice-Presi dent Marshall to-day got on the payroll of a motion picture company. With several members his party, the Vice-President visltea*>a picture camp, where the "movie" men were making a film of an Egyptian drama. Just as the "veiled princess" entered the director called upon the Vice-pres ident to turn the crank of the camera. Mr. Marshall reeled cM several yards of film and the director handed him $1 for work as an "extra." The Vice- President pocketed the dollar. FURTHER REDUOTK IV IN OIL By Associated Pre Is New York, April I.—The Standard Oil Company of New York to-day an nounced a further reduction of 10 points in refined petroleum, making cases 10 cents per gallon, tanks 4 cents and standard white 7.50 cents. ARE YOU UNDER HERE'S YOUR REAL Sprightly Philadelphia Widow of Sixty Wants to Hear From Lonely . Bachelors or Widowers A real live chance for some bache lor or widower of Harrisburg who has a home or a good business and Is not over 90 years of age, Is offered In a letter to the editor of the Telegraph by a sprightly Philadelphia widow of sixty. The appearance of the letter gives every indication of good faith; it gives the address and full name of the lonesome lady and is written In a rather shaky hand that could not be forged by a youthful joker. Gentle men, here's your chance! • 125 North Olney Ave., Phlla. March 81, 1915. To the Editor of the Telegraph, Kind sir: lam writing through your paper for information of the spot until the coroner arrived. Coroner Eckinger said that he will conduct an examination at once in an effort to locate the child's parents. The boys who did not have any school because of the Easter recess, were playing in the field and the woods across the road. Shoner was running up the field along the creek when he saw the dead body. He at once called his companions to the place and the boys then told Mr. Speece. The boys who were near at the time were William Musser, Hunter street, and WBiter Lesher, of 1909 Swatara street. JEWEL THIEVES ROB PHILADELPHIA STORE Two Men Enter Establishment of W. Bershtein and Hold Up Owner i By Associated Press i Philadelphia, April 1. —Two robbers to-day entered the manufacturing Jew elry establisment of W. Bershtein, in the center of the city, covered the pro prietor and his brother with revolvers and took more than $3,000 worth of jewelry. They made their escape In an automobile. When the robbers entered the place the brothers were examining jewelry. "Don't move." sfiid the intruders, "or you will get shot." All the jewelry in sight was stuffed into the pockets of the robbers. • RIGHTS OF ADOPTED CHII-DREN REST ON OUTCOME OF CASE By Associated Press Washington. D. C., April 1. —Rights , of adopted children in many states ' are declared to rest on the outcome of the Supreme Court's decision of the case of the twin daughters of the late ■ General John B. Hood, who seek to ! share In the estate of the late George T. McGehee, of Mississippi, their , father's friend and their father by ! adoption. i Briefs for the daughters and for the "heirs" at law were filed to-day in the , court outlining the conflicting claims. The appeal will be considered by the court shortly after Easter. Ida RJch i ardson Hood and Odlle Musson Hood Holland now reside in New York. EARLY MORNING FIGHTING By Associated Press Brownsville, Texas, April 1. —There was considerable rifle firing between Villa's scouting parties and the Car ranza trenches at Matamoros early to day, but it stopped before daylight. Two hundred bombs are being manu factured in Brownsville for use of a Carranza aviator. some kind old gentleman that would like to correspond with a respectable upright widow of 60. Perhaps there are some older gentlemen that feel as lonesome as I do-r-if so, p'o&se write me and I will give all the references want ed. I have good health, brown hair and eyes. Either bachelor or widower from 68 to 80 or 90 will do, not particular to the age; eith er farmer with no farm or a busi nessman with some means so as to have a good home. Write me all who see this and wish to. Please publish this for me. Yours very kindly, MRS. RINK LOUND. TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF RIVER WALL GAP Officials to Consider Scheme For Eliminating Coal Landing at Market Street FLUSH WITH THE STEPS Concrete Construction to Be Raised to Height of Steps; Plan May Go to Council If the proponed plan for solving the Market street river front landing problem is adopted this evening at the meeting of City Commissioner W. H. Lynch and the Board of Public Works, the former will, in the near future, in j troduce the necessary legislation in Council authorizing the change. Closing of the unrlghtly Market street landing is made possible by the erection of a coal wharf on the city Island by the Harrisburg Light and Power Company, the biggest handler of river coal. For years tho residents in the vicinity of Front and Market and Walnut streets, to say nothing of the residents beyond Front street who have had to suffer from dropping, dripping coal wagons, have objected to the landing at Market street. Furthermore the continuity of the miles of walk along tho "front steps of Harrisburg" is interrupted at Mar ket street because of the, extraordin arily wide gap at that point and be cause there has been no walk planned to connect the sections below and above the bridge. The engineers of the Board have prepared a tentative drawing of the proposed change, a sketch oi -which Is shown in the Telegraph. The draw ing provides for the building of sev eral additional sections of stops north continued on Page 9.] Good Friday Will Be Widely Observed in City Special services in practically all of the churches in the city will be the principal feature of the observance of Good Friday, to-morrow. The Catho lic churches will have masses in the morning as well as services in the evening, while most of the other con gregations will have special exercises, only in the evening. All the pastors have made special preparations for a solemn observance preparatory to the Easter season. Business will not be suspended, but all the banks will be closed. Frank C. Sites, postmaster at the Harrisburg Post Office issued an order this morn ing that the main post office and Ma-' clay and Hill stations will be closed from 10 a. m. to 12 p. m. The usual! deliveries and collections will be made. • The public schools closed yesterday (afternoon and will not resume session's! I until next Wednesday morning. BURY CJ. now SIWFTEIOOH Former Head of Park Commission Dies After Month's Illness Charles A. Diabrow, financier, manu facturer and president of the Harris bursr Park Commission for ten years, died at his home, 1816 North Front street, yesterday evening at 6.30 o'clock after an illness of almost ft month. He became aeiiously ill last week when influenza developed, and he lapsed into unconsciousness several (lays ago. He was in his sixty-sixth RUSS BLACK SEA FLEET 1 BOMBARDS ASIA MINOR 1 TOWNS AND SINKS SHIPS 1 French Steamer Sunk by German Submarine; Dutch Cargo Boat Suspected of Carrying Fuel Oil to Ger- •] man Submarines Seized by British Steamers: Tur key Fears Entrance of Other Balkan Nations Into I War on Side of Allies One of the German submarines I which recently have been operating 1 so successfully off the British Isles i has sent another steamer to the bot- ( torn. A French ship was torpedoed in the English Channel and so far as is known only two members of her crew of nineteen were saved. A Dutch cargo boat suspected of having supplied fuel oil to the submarines has been seized I by British torpedoboats. c There are further indications that i Turkey expects other Balkan nations 11 to enter the war on the side of the 1 allies. At Adrlanople, the nearest lm- ] portant Turkish town to the Bulgarian i frontier, troops are being concen- i trated and the artillery equipment in- 1 creased. This is Interpreted in Sofia as preparatory to a possible war with Bulgaria. Russian and Austrian reports con cerning the great struggle In the Car pathians are completely at variance, although they agree that heavy fight- , ing is continuing. The Russian war ] oftice claims various successes along ■, this front, but the Austrians state that < Russian attacks were driven back. ; There was similar conflict between ] German and Russian reports of the | fighting In the north.' The Russian Black Sea fleet has , bombarded several Turkish towns in j Asia Minor and it is stated that con siderable damage was done, including ! the sinking of several ships. This I claim, however, is contradicted at Con- I stantinopie. ! The French attack in the Cham pagne region, which met with a meas ure of success, apparently is no longer being pushed. Although the Germans'; are reported to have brought large! forces into Alsace, only the customary , desultory fighting Is in progress there. In Northwest France and Belgium op-1 erations are almost at a standstill. GENERAL PAGET IN ROME By Associated Press Rome, March 31, 8.30 P. M.. via I Palis, April 1, 6 A. M.—General Sir Arthur Paget, head of the British mlll- I tsury mission which recently waji In jlambe Tton Friz e~perpetu jTtFd bywilt^jH ■ Karris! urg-JBy will of Attorney Jirr.es M. Lamberton g 1 r •;!;:« afternoon ample provioion for perpetuation of \ the Robert A. Lamberton Memorial prize essay and I cxato:icol contest at Central High school h made by a be -1 qi!f: t tc School Boa. I for that purp.;. c- of the sum of I S7OO. This amount the will provider is to be invested to in -1 suic 5 ai.r.i'.ally for the prizes. Other luquests .included 500 to St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, and SI,OOO each to J Mr. Lamberton'i sister, Mrs. Annie L. Wilbur, wife of Rol- fl J lin H. Wilbur, and to his niece, Dorothy Wilbur Macsherry,' a wife of Richard Macsherry. The remainder of the est # personal and real, is bequeated to Mrs. Anne B. Lamberton j&l i mother of the dead lawyer. M Washington, April 1. The Villa-Zapata forces have , # agreed to the proposal of the United States for neutralization § V a of passenger traini between Mexico City and Vera Cruz. g Word is still awaited from General Carranza who received » ■ representations from the American government on the sub- f I H ject nearly a month ago. , I POUR BEER SEWER 1 v « Newport, April I.—All saloons in Perry county closed £ 'ft « their uopiii at o'clock,'.his morning, by order of tha- J jj*|j J court. Many hotel proprietors throughout the city poured _ M|jn[ their unsold liquor into the sewer. a Alton, UL, April I.—Five men are reported to have been* 5 |pl i killed in the explosion in the Glaiing mill of the Equitable. » . - I* Powder Company at East Alton; fiva miles from here. * wj|B I Chicago, April I,—Three thousand union painters arid decorators.struck to-day. ' 9 Rochester, N. Y., April 1. —Union painters and papc % hangers went on strike here to-day, tieing up fifty-six firm- V' Pittsfield, Mass., April I—Sixty journeymen painters to-'Mtfsjk day went out on a strike following the refusal of the master 1 painters to grant their request for $4 a day. M Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 1. For the first 1888 a trolley car failed to move on any of the lines of the g , Wilkes-Earre Railway . Company in the Wyoming Val # : i to-day when 355 motormen and conductors »J&ck foi in- SyS ■' creased wages. jr MARRIAGE LI WaWer Bojer anil Ida Flelachlte, Kradtnc, 1 ' ' C• ' jfl Henry K. Hupp aud Minerva M. MvMnnnmy. ,«l«y, v, ~'jS % -IB 14 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT. Russia and who hab visited the cap!- s j tats of the Balkan states on a special M mission to arouse sympathy in fa.or I of the allies, arrived in Rome. ' WILL ENFORCE OLD LAW By Associated Press Paris, April 1, 8.25 A. M.—The G : - man governor general of Belgium J...a created special tribunals in each prt ■- J luce whose duty it will be to endo:.w the old French law passed in I t o k ] fourth year of the republic and which J holds each community responsible tor ig damage done during public distui.- ; anees, according to a Geneva dispatch to the Matin. • PIS ACE PLANS ARK DEMED ! | By Associated Pre.\s Rome, March 31, 8.25 P. M., v-a 1 Paris. April 1, 6,05 A. M.—The Id ;i | Nazlonale says it is reported that Pi - " fessor Luigi Liusssattl. former prern ■ r Zsm and minister of the Interior, eventually j® will be the Italian plenipotentiary lo J negotiate preliminaries intended '■> lead to peace in Europe. It is stat' t % in government circles, however, th it the report Is unfounded nnd that r.u ®§ negotiations are In progress. WILL INVESTIGATE VIOLATION i I By Associated Press T.ondon, April 1, 3.59 A. M.—A, Ren- /4j iter dispatch from Petrograd says: /j?j "The council of ministers has ai'- / : H proved a proposal by the foreign mh'•/'j ister to create a communication to iv/'-jSgj vesti gate the violation of law and 11/»fjS traditions of war by the Germans an J ;j I the Austro-irungarians." DIVERS TO WORK ON F-4 By Associated Press Washington, D. C.. April I.—Exper! ' i divers from the New York navy yar'l to assist in raising the submarine F-1' > in Honolulu hnrlxjr are expected t leave with their equipment tp-dav for Sail Francisco, where the Maryland will be waiting to take thi^B
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