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,
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PLAN TO BE CONSIDERED FOR CLOSING GAP IN WALL AT MARKET STREET
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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