Lemberg, Capital of Galicia, Falls HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 145 *FIRE PLUG STREAM FLOODS OUT NEGRO BARRICADED IN HOME 2,000 People See West End Colored Man Hold Posse of Police and Firemen at Bay For an Hour; Fires at Officers Who Attempt His Capture; Tries to Kill Him self, but Cartridges Miss Fire Wanted on Charge of Threatening to Kill Wife; Frequent Quarrels With Spouse; Had 200 Cartridges on Bed Beside Him; Thought to Be Dope Fiend .Barricaded in his home. 1430 Ful ton street, with a 32-caliber revolver and 200 cartridges, Nicholas William Hager, colored, aged 48 years, from 9 to 10 o'clock tms morning, held at bay a posse of policemen and a squad of Good Will Fire company mem bers. A crowd of 2,000 people watched Hager's fight for liberty, from all sides of the house. Car trafHc was blocked In Relly street, and all other traffic in Fulton, Calder and North Fourth streets, was at a standstill dur ing the excitement. Hager, who was wanted on a war rant, charging him with felonious as sault and battery of his wife, and with threatening to kill her, barricad ed himself in the front room on the second floor of his home. Three times he sent bullets at the officers on the outside of the house; and twice he fired two bullets through the door of .bis room, outside of which were five viher officers. Plug Stream "Gets" Him Hager finally surrendered himself ••tSen driven from his room by a tire Vlug stream. The hose was drawn Through the Blough Company manu facturing plant to the warerooms. op posite the Ilager home. The doors were opened far enough to let the branch pipe of the hose stick out. Then the stream of water was directed to one of the windows of the second story room In which Hager was lo cated. When the water poured into we room, Hager flred two shots at the door of the Blough warehouse. But the water finally proved too wet and he gave up. Tried to Kill Himself Before giving himself up Hager tried three times to kill himself. Twice he placed the revolver barrel to his breast and once at his temple and pulled the trigger. Each time the cartridges missed fire. Before he told the officers that he was ready to give up Hager called out "Good-by everybody." When Sergeant Page stepped into the room, Hager said: "Come take me, I'm ready." He was brought to the police station in the patrol, where a series of other charges of felonious assault and battery with attempt to kill, were lodged against him. He made no denial that he intended to kill his wife if he got a chance. Quarrels AVitli Wife "Nlch" Hager, as he is known in the locality in which he lives. Is em ployed as a night watchman for the Pennsylvania railroad at Lucknow. For some time, it is said, he has been having.quarrels with his wife. Neigh hers claim that Hager is a dope and whisky fiend. Mrs. Hager said her husband has been acting strangely of late and was taking some kind of medicine all the time. She said he abused her fre quently, and she finally refused to remain in the house with him, except to get his meals, after which she went to her stepmother's house. Mrs. Agnes Williams, 1409 North Fourth street. When Hager returned from work shortly before 7 o'clock this morning, Mrs. Hager was at her stepmother's house. According to the wife's story, GOING OX A VACATION? Before you leave home don't forget to order the Harrisburg Telegraph sent to your vacation address; otherwise you'll miss something every day you're s,way. No matter where you go, the Telegraph will follow you and keep you posted on what is doing In Harrisburg and the rest of the busy world. You won't flsh, bathe, dance and play all the time, and you'll long for news from home If you don't get the Telegraph. The cost is just the same as when you are home, 6 cents a week. A postal addressed to the Circulation De partment will rblng you the next lssae. f THE WEATHER For Harrisburg and rlclnHyi Fair to-night and Thursday, nomr wbat cooler to-night. For Fastern Pennsylvania! Fair to-night and Thursday) moderate northeast winds. River The Susquehanna river and all Its tributaries will remain nearly statlonnry. A stage of about .1.4 feet Is Indicated for Harrisburg Thursday morning. General Conditions The dlstnrbance that was central north of I.ake Huron, Tnesdar morning, baa moved northeast ward to the >"orth Atlantic coast. It caused thundershowers In the last twenty-four hours along the northern and eastern border of the Great l.nkes, In the I pper Ohio Valley and thenr* eastward to the Atlantic coast. Temperature! 8 a. m.. M). Sum Hlses. 4:8" a. m.| sets, 7i.l* p. m. Moon i Full moon, June 2K, lliitT a. m. River Stage! 3.4 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, AH. T.owrart temperature, ftT. Mean temperature, 18. Normal temperature, 72. the husband came to the Fourth street house and started a fight. Tried to Kill Her He said he would kill her and left the house. A half hour later he re turned and asked Mrs. Hager to come and get his breakfast. When the wife refused, he made an attempt to hit her. The door was shut on his face. Hager started to break open the door and the women on the inside screamed for help and yelled "mur der. Alonzo Harris, 319 Calder street, a colored waiter, who was pass ing, tried to get Hager to quit. Hager turned on Harris and told him to get out of the way, or he would send a bullet through his body. Harris got away. Later, on advice of Harris. Mrs. Hager swore out a warrant before Al derman Fritz Kramme, of the Sixth ward, charging her husband with fel onious assault and battery and attempt to kill. This warrant was placed in thel hands of Patrolmen Graham and I Spangler to serve. When the patrol men called at the Hager home to serve the warrant the trouble started. I lager was in the room on the second fioor. He pointed a revolver out of the w Indow and told the officers to pret away or he would not be responsible for what he did. In the meantime the crowd started to gather. Many who were enroute to and from the Ver beke market stopped to see what the excitement was all about. After numerous requests to Hager [Continued on Paife 5.] ITALIAN PRESS CONDEMNS POPE By Associated Press Rome. June 22, via Paris, June 23. —The Italian press vigorously con demns the interview attributed to Pope Benedict by Louis Latapie, and published in La Liberte, of Paris. In which His Holiness is said to have voiced a complaint that the privileges of the Vatican have been seriously cur tailed by the Italian Government as the result of the war. STRIKE STREET FROM MAP FOR PLAY9RDUND Commissioner Taylor Will Offer New Measure to Fill Require ments of Defeated Measure An ordinance authorizing the strik ing from the city map of Atlas street from Emerald to a point 23 4 feet northward—the section that extends through the new Fifth and Emerald [Continued on Page 3.] "LITTLE OLD UN" CRIES AS GUNDA DIES Bad Elephant in Bronx Zoological Park Shot by Assistant Curator Special to The Telegraph New York, June 23.—The days and the troubles of Ounda, the bad ele phant of the Zoological Park In the Bronx, ended this morning, when from the vantage point of the small iron door, leading from the side of the ele phant house into his enclosure, Carl E. Ackeley, assistant curator of the American Museum of Natural His tory, sent a bullet into his brain. The killing was ordered by Dr. William T. Hornaday, director of the Zoological Park, with the approval of the Exec utive Committee, because In the last few days the conduct of the great ani mal became such that it was no longer [Continued on Page 3.] Hugh G. Eastburn, Big State Educator, Dead By Associated Press Doylestown, Pa., June 23.—Hugh G. Eastburn. 89 years old, president of the Bucks County Trust Company, died at his home here to-day. He was a member of the Bucks County Bar As sociation. former superintendent of schools of Bucks county and was prominent In educational and financial circles in the state. A widow and two sons survive. The sons are members of the bar. Hugh G. Eastburn was well known in Harrisburg, attending all conven tions of educational bodies and school directors here in the last ten years. He also took a prominent part in the discussion on the school code several years ago at the CapitoL HARRISBURG, PA,. WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE 23, 1915. REIGN OF TERROR IN MEXICO BORDER CITIES AS RESULT OF 3 EARTHQUAKES At Least Five Are Killed; Heavy Property Losses in Area Covering Several Hundred Miles DECLARE MARTIAL LAW; CAVALRY IN STREETS Greatest Damage at Calex ico; Railroad Town Re ported Destroyed by Fire; Two Shocks in Arizona Calexico, Cal., June 28. Martial lnw has been declared here and In Mexican. Mexico, Just across the border line, and a reign of terror exists in both tonus, resulting from three earth quake shocks last night. Reports of at least five dead and many injured were brought here early to-day hy refugees from the Mexican city. Most of the buildings there arc In ruins and hundreds are sleeping in tho open. The earthquake was accom panied by tremendous outbursts of dust. American cavalry are patrolling the streets here. Villa soldiers are on duty In Mexicall. El Centro, Cal., June 23.—An earth quake shock up the Imperial Valley of California last night, killed five per sons, caused damage estimated at sl,- 000,000 in the valley's little cluster of towns, and left almost undamaged the great Irrigation system which trans formed the valley from a desert to a fertile farming country. El Centro suffered more than any other town. The five killed were caught in falling walls at Mexicali, Just across the border. Martial law was proclaimed there. As far as can be learned the shocks were severest at and below the Mex ican border. The towns of Calipatria and Niland appear to have been In jured less than the towns in the south end of the valley. The earthquake extended all the way to Yuma. Ariz. The direction of the first shock was about thirty seconds. This was fol lowed -half an hour later by a second Bhock almost as severe as the first. Plate glass windows, brick walls and hollow structures were more or less damaged. No one in Imperial Valley was killed. The five reported to have lost their lives in Mexicali were killed when a wall fell. Los Angeles, Cal., June 23.—Reports of three severe earthquake shocks which resulted in the death and injury 1 [Continued on Page 5.] DEFY YANKEES! URGES BIG MEXICAN LEADER Sneers at Country That "Allows Nation to Sink Ship Like Lusi tania With Impunity" Mexico City, Saturday, June 5. (Correspondence of the Associated Press* President Wilson's recent declaration on the Mexican question has created a sensation in this capital [Continued on Page 3.] DIPLOMAS FOR 752 AT KALE EXERCISES Three Local Men Get Sheepskins; Prominent Harrisburgers Are Present By Associated Press New Haven, Conn., June 23.—Yale conferred 752 degrees in course and ten honorary degrees at its 216 th commencement to-day. The honorary degrees conferred were: Master of Arts, Miss Katherine Ele ment Davis, commissioner of educa tion in New York: Edwin Musser Herr, president of the (Wcstinghouse Airbrake Company, and of the Yale engineering association; Melville Eli jah Stone, General Manager of the Associated Press. . Doctor of Science, Charles Ward well Stiles, Professor Zoology in the United States Public Health and Ma [Continued on Page 5.] Great Britain Sends New Memorandum on Shipping of Neutrals By Associated Press Washington. I>. C., June 28.—Great Britain's further memorandum to the United States on tlie British order In council as It alTwitu neutral shipping reached the State Department to-day from Ambassador I*age, at London. Sir Kdward Grey delivered It to the American ambassador yesterday. Secretary Lansing had not gone over the memorandum to-day and It vies not known whether it would l>e con strued as a reply to the last American note or a new communication on the subject. Initiative In making It public, It was stated, would be left to Great Britain, unless the memorandum itself contains some suggestion on the points. LEMBERG FALLS FIERCE TEUTO | MILITIA GUARD GEORGIA'S GOVERNOR 1 M y s" l|l~ 'I "SR'f i illiiliPlf^*' fill ■ fc>< if ■„, i anas. sk^-xof GOVERNOR JOHN M. SLATON AND MRS. SLATON Ari entire regiment of the Georgia National Guard is kept on hand to protect Governor John M. Slaton from mob violence following his com mutation of the death sentence of Leo Frank', condemned for the murder of Mary Phagan. Two machine gun s have been placed to guard the ap proaches to the Governor's country home and a cordon of troops is thrown about the grounds. Riots in the city of Atlanta have kept the police busy since the announcement of the Governor's decision in the case. SPORTS DON'T MAR WORK OF TECH MEN School Which Excells in Athletics Piles Up Splendid Averages; Sophs Lead Despite the fact that Technical High school carried away practically all the athletic honors in sight during the 1914-1915 school year, the students of the three lower classes made un [Continued on Page 7.] SCHOOL PARADE PLANS ARE FAST MATURING Arrangements Are Announced For the Meeting of Pupils to Greet Liberty Bell At a meeting of Chief Marshal Ar thur D. Bacon and the special com mittee on arrangements for the parade of school children on July 5, to wel come the Liberty Bell to Harrisburg, [Continued on Page 5.] Perry County President Judge Stricken 111 New Bloomfield, 4*8., June 23.—Wil liam N. Selbert, president judge of Juniata and Perry counties, is ill at his home here to-day, suffering from a slight stroke which affected his speech yesterday. His condition is improved this morning and the physicians be lieve that the attack is not serious. Judge Seibert has been suffering for several weeks from heart trouble. Cold Wave Ushers in Good Old Summertime A cold wave, together with cloudi ness and showers, greeted the good old summer time when it opened up its attractions for the next three months. The lowest temperature last night wes 58. but the record of 49 degrees for the last ten days of June still stands, having been set In 1902. Ac cording to Indications, the cool weather will prevail until some time to-mor row afternoon or evening. The low pressure of yesterday morning, caus ing the showers, has moved northeast ward and is being followed by a high pressure area, causing people to hunt extra covers in the evening. THOUSANDS TO SING CONCERT AT RESERVOIR Harrisburg Evangelistic Chorus Will Give Program of Sacred Music, Tuesday The Harrisburg Evangelistic Chorus —probably the most noteworthy of the outgrowths of the Stough campaign held in this city last winter —will give a public concert at Reservoir Park [Continued on Page 12.] PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP LEADS TWO TO COURT Doctor Opposes Wife's Plea For Alimony, Stating Marriage Was Never Consummated Special to The Telegraph New York, June 23.—1n opposing his wife's plea for alimony in her sep aration, Dr. Charles E. . Weber, a Brooklyn physician, to-day presented an affidavit to Supreme Court Justice Shearn stating the marriage perform ed in 1911 had never been consum mated. Hi« wife, Anna E. Weber, he aver [Continued on Page 3] STEEL CO. SEEKS WORKMEN Three Years' Employment at $2 to 95 a Day l*romi<ed i Pittsburgh,' Pa., June 23. The Maryland Steel Company, located at Sparrows Point, near Baltimore, has sent an urgent call to this city for machinists, lathe turners, boiler mak ers, riveters, and other classes of skill ed workmen. In its communication the company says that it will guarantee three years' work to all competent men, will pay their fares to Baltimore and will hire any man who can All a place, no mat ter what his nationality may be. The wages, it is said, will be from $2 to $5 a day. MAKES APPEAL/ FOR MEN fly Associated Press London. June 23, 2:53 a. m.—"The Commonwealth minister of defense," says the Times' Sydney correspondent, "has received an appeal from the im perial authorities for as many men as possible. Efforts will be made to raise another contingent comprising three Infantry brigades." 12 PAGES Galician Capital Taken After Campaign Costing Hundreds of Thousands in Killed, Wounded and Captured; Sec ond Advance Takes City From Russians. Strip of Austrian Territory Still in Hands of Invaders; 1 Czar's Troops Short of Ammunition, Give Up Town Only After Terrible Fighting. Berlin, June 23, by wireless to Say vllle, L. I.—Lemberg has been con quered after a very severe battle, ac cording to an official report received here from headquarters of the Austro- Hungarian army. The Galician capital fell before the advance of the second army. Lemberg, capital of Galicla fell be fore the Austro-German armies which have been sweeping across the province for the last two months. Austria has now reclaimed most of the province of Galicla, occupied by the Russians early in the war. The fall of Lemberg had been expected for several days and was admitted in Petrograd to be imminent. The Rus sians are reported to have withdrawn most of their forces and supplies from the city, which was threatened with envelopment by the Austro-German armies advancing from the north and south. South of Lemberg in the Dniester region, a strip of Austrian territory Is still in the hands of the Russians. An official statement from Petrograd re ports an Important victory after a bat tle along the river which lasted sev eral days. At Rawa Ruska, 32 miles northwest of Lemberg and near the Bukow'na border other Russian suc cesses are claimed. Occupied in September Lemberg. capital of Galicia, was oc cupied by the Russians on September 2. 1914, about one month after the outbreak of hostilities, in the course of the early Russian drive Into Austria. It has therefore been In Russian con trol for over ten months. For the past twenty days since the Austro-Germans took Przemysl from the forces of Emperor Nicholas It has UNTEER ARMY OF WORKMEN , ► une 23, 4.45 P. M. Minister of Munitions | took the country into his confidence ( in the House of Commons the munitions bill, ' i e making strikes and lockouts illegal; provid- , alsory arbitration, giving the power to fine ' > I I "Slackers," limits the profits of employers, and creating a- ] I ( • volunteer army of workmen pledged to go wherever they » , are wanted. f J i FOUNDER OF D. A. R. DEAD 4 | Saratoga, N. Y., June 23.—Word was received here to- I. < I day of the death in a hospital at Washington of Mrs. Ellen )d Hardin Woolworth, one of the founders of the National i , Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. A , LEMBERG'S CONQUEROR HONORED T j ® Vienna, June 23, via London, 5.42 P. M.—Emperor Wil- 4 I liam has : iven Archduke Frederick, of Austria, the rank of f {I Field Marshal in the Prussian army in recognition of his K - ; services in the campaign which resulted in the f jibers. ~ LANSING GETS BRYAN'S POST ■ ' Washington,' June 23.—President Wilson offered Robert .1 ' > Lansing the post of permanent Secretary of' State at a con- 1 f < ® ference held at the White House to-day. It was said of- t I ficially that an announcement on the subject would be made ' j I at 5 p. m. « * Calexico, Cal., June 23. Further earthquake shocks I < I were felt here to-day. Several tremors after midnight were | | , followed by a severe shock at 10 o'clock this morning. I ' London, June 23, 5.15 P. M. The'steamer Tunisiana. f -1 has been torpedoed off Lowestof by a German submarine. || j I Her skipper was able to beach her. The Tunisania was • f bound from ontreal to Hull with 5,000 tons of wheat. Her ' « | crew landed at Lowestof. « > Washington, June 23. From Vera Cruz, Consul Can- I , ada reports a train on the narrow gauge line south had been t fired on Monday and nineteen persons were reported killed. ; . He also reports that the railway from Vera Cruz to Mexico | j| I J City had been cut, preventing the leaving of two troop 1 . trains J > MARRIAGE '' Howard Nrlaon KfUfr and Mary Ellen Harrold. lHafyitUl*. Arthur Park Ratherford, Rutherford, and Elisabeth Holntea, | Vt'Ml A" 1 "43 * POSTSCRIPT from Galicia Is counted upon in Berlin to help maintain the status quo in the Balkans. Captured All Galicia The capture of Lemberg was one of the earliest important successes of tho Russians. Following it they pushed onward rapidly through Galicia. The high water mark of the invasion found almost all the province in their hands. They appeared within striking dis tance of Cracow, at the western end of the province, close to the German frontier; stormed the heights and passes of the Carpathian mountains, which separate Galacia from Hungary, and. to the east, toward Buckawana. All this has been changed by the steady succession of Austro-German victories of the last few weeks. The change began with the launching of the great drive from Cracow eastward. Great numbers of German troops were sent in to assist the Austrians, as well as si vast amount of field artillery. The use of artillery by the Teutonic allies has been described by correspondents as on a scale never before undertaken. Its effectiveness was relatively In creased by the shortage of shells on the part of the Russians, which is be lieved to have contributed largely to the weakening of their resistance. Terrific Bombardment The Austro-German armies pushed forward westward through Galicia, re captured Przemysl, June 3, and then, without pause, struck at from the south and west. At no point were the Russians able to withstand the ter rific bombardment directed against their positions and even the line of defenses near Grodek. sixteen miles west of Ijemberg, which Is of great natural strength, proved to be un tenable. been the objective of a series of fierce and concentrated attacks on the pari of the Teutonic allies. Their succesi [Continued on Page ft.J
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