Germans Believed to Be Preparing For Terrific Drive Against Russians at Warsaw
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 148
HAS WOMAN SPLIT
BULGARIAN COLONY?
Principal in Romantic Court Case
Again Figurei in Sensational
Legal Developments
NOBLEMAN IS MENTIONED
Suits and Counter Suits Follow
Each Other in Rapid Succes
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Members of Steelton's prosperous
West Side Bulgarian colony are en
gaged in a bitter legal battle that bids
fair to divide the entire colony into
two hostile camps.
Already dramatic stories have been
told about a scion of the Bulgarian no
bility, who is now residing in the
West Side; about a woman's love let
ters to this man, said to be of royal
blood, of how the woman's overtures
were spurned and of how another
man, said to be an admirer of the
woman, took legal steps to remove the
favored one from the field.
Suits and cross suits have been
started and some of the foremost
members of the Dauphin county bar
have been retained on both sides to
fight their cases.
Intrigue and Romance
Stories of free love, of intrigue and
of romance have already been aired
in court, and principals in the case
say not half has been told.
One of the figures around whom
much of the legal battle has raged, is
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If you're up on the lakes, or in
an Adirondack camp, or down at
Atlantic City, or anywhere else,
you can have the Harrisburg Tele
graph mailed you every day of
your vacation. Something impor
tant is sure to happen while you're
gone and you can't afford to miss
"it. Telephone the Circulation De
partment or drop us a postal card.
THE WEATHER
For Harrisburg and vicinityi Fair
to-night and Sunday) slightly
warmer to-night.
For Kaatern Pennsylvania! Partly
cloudy and warmer to-night |
Sunday falr» light, variable winds.
River
The Su«quch;.nna river ami all Ita
tributaries will fall a lowly or re
main nearly «tationar>. A stage
of about 3.1 feet la Indicated for
Harrisburg Sunday morn tun.
General Conditions
The high preaaure area, central off
the North Pacific coaat, la push-
InK Inland.
There were local thunderahowera
In Pennaylvanta, New York and
Southern tVew England. It la s
to 14 degrees cooler In the Vppcr
Mlsanurl Valley, In the Rocky
Mountains and thence weatnard
to the Pacific. Kaat of the Mia.
alaalppl a general rlae of 2 to 8
degrees In temperature has oc
* curred alnee Inst report.
Temperature) 8 a. m„ A;>.
Sum Ktsea, tiSH a. m.| sets, 7:31
p. m.
Mnoni Full moon, to-day, at 11i27
p. m.
River stage) 3.8 feet above Inn -
water mark.
Veaterday'a Weather
Highest temperature, 80.
I.oweat temperature. 111,
Mean temperature, AO.
Normal temperature, 72,
DANIELS APPEALS 10
U. S. NAVAL OFFICERS
Urges Them to Profit by Lessons
Being Taught by Great
War in Europe
OLD THEORIES CRUMBLING
Secretary of Navy Is Placing Great
Hopes in Unrevealed Possi
bilities of Airships
Newport, R. I. June 26.—1n an ad
dress at the opening session of the
Navy War College here to-day. Sec
retary Daniels appealed to American
naval officers to profit by the lessons
that are being taught by the great
war in Europe and to fearlessly dis
card all theories which fail to stand
the acid test. He referred briefly to
the naval program for the coming
year, and expressed confidence that
Congress would authorize any increase
recommended.
Mr. Daniels said: "As you look
abroad, you see the foundation of old
theories crumbling every day. If war
upon the land has reverted to the
bayonet and the hand grenade, war
upon the sea has leaped forward at
a single stride and broken almost
every shackle of ancient convention.
"We have seen the main fleet of
the greatest sea nation in the world
withdrawn from the seas to some se
cluded harbor without having fired a
shot during the first year of a mighty
conflict. We have seen battles be
gun at ranges believed to be impossi
ble and ships disabled by shots from
guns as yet invisible. We have been
told that modern sea fights would be
determined in the first ten minutes,
vet we have seen that it took six
hours to decide one of the greatest
ocean battles of the present war. We
have seen ships of shallow draft used
as fortresses to protect land armies
on the Belgian coast.
"With what weapons, by what
strategy, shall we meet the terror of
the submarine; the still unrevealed
possibilities of the airship? It is to
vou, gentlemen, f.iat this question
must be put. It is to you your secre
tary of the navy looks for an an
swer."
Hotel at Delaware
Water Gap Destroyed
Stroudsburg, Pa., June 26. Fire of!
Incendlarv origin destroyed the Casino
and annex at Delaware Water Gap dur
ing the night. A discharged employe
ts accused of. the crime, but has escap
ed Quests escaped In theler night
clothes and the proprietor, C. T.
Nighatonle was rescued with difficulty
hy firemen who had been summoned
from the nearby boroughs. Nothing
was saved from the structures and
the wife of Manager S. S. Skelton lost
jewels valued at a thousand dollars.
The loss on the property is placed
at $20,000 by the owner.
Mill MIS FOR SIX
DAYS IS FOUND DEM)
Body of Aged Resident of Heck
ton Is Discovered in Little
Frequented Spot
Under a tree in Ray Park. Lemoyne,
John Houser, aged 72, of Heckton,
who has been missing since Monday
night, was found dead shortly before
noon to-day by residents of Lemoyne,
who were searching for him.
Mr. Houser had been visiting friends
in Lemoyne for several days, and left
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Five Youthful Prisoners on
Their Way to Glen Mills
After Night in Courthouse
After an uneventful night within
the four walls of jury room No. 1 of
the courthouse, the five small boys
wlio were committed by Juvenile
Judge McCarreU to Glen Mills, got
up early to-day and after a hasty
breakfast, started on their Journey
Philadelphia-ward.
The boys seemed highly delighted
with tho novelty of spending the night
in the courthouse and they played
games, read and otherwise enjoyed
themselves last night until a late hour.
Outside the door a deputy watched.
Prior to leaving for Glen Mills this
morning in Sheriff Wells' custody the
boys gave the deputies of the sheriff's
office a trying half hour. They pried
inquisitively into everything in the
office from inkwell to ledger.
"My, oh my," sighed Deputy William
Hoffman aB he mopped his brow after
the boys had waved their last cheery
good-byes, "but I'm certainly glad
those kids are on their way. They're
chuckful of deviltry."
"BATH TUB" CASE RESI'MEI)
By Associated Press
London, June 26, 2:27 p. m.—Geo
Joseph Smith, husband of three wives
who died in their baths and who is
now on trial charged with the murder
of one of them, whom he married as
Beatrice Munday, had to-day to face
the ordeal of a partial reconstruction
in court of the scene immediately after
the death of Alice Burnham, second
of the three brides.
FARM PRODUCTS DECREASE
By Associated Press
Paris, June 2ti. —According to an
announcement given out in Paris by
the ministry of agriculture. France
has less corn, fodder, beets, sugar
beets and potatoes under cultivation
to-day than she had a year ago while
the contrary is true of beets for the
making of alcohol. In this case the
acreage is greater. The acreage in
grapes also is leas, but here the dif
ference la very slight, being about 60,-
000 acres.
HARRISBURG, PA,. SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1915.
WANT CITY TO PLACE
TREES ABOOT SQUARE
Petitions of Abutting Property
Owners Soon in Circulation
Asking For Improvement
PREFER BAY OR EVERGREEN
Eighteen to Be Asked to Be Spaced
Equi-Distant Between Elec
tric Light Standards
Bay trees or possibly evergreens,
planted in boxes, will be placed at
regular intervals around the four
sides of Market Square if the mer
chants and other businessmen on the
block take kindly to a movement sug
gested by City Forester Mueller.
The forester's plan is to provide
about a dozen and a half of bay or
other trees which can be safely and
properly reared and cared for in boxes
and placed on the edge of the curb
ecui-distant between the light stand
ards. They will be just high enough
to admit of the distribution of light
and at the same time add materially
to the beauty of the square.
In order to obtain the trees, how
ever. it will be necessary for the
abutting property owners to petition
the forester for them, and the peti
tions and the sketches showing the
type of trees proposed are soon to be
circulated among the businessmen
on the Square. The forester said he
prefers that evergreens be selected,
although there is a possibility, because
of the increased expense, that these
will not find favor amopg the peti
tioners. In this event the forester
| will be satisfied with the bay trees.
Beginning Monday, Forester Mueller
and Benjamin Gipple, 219 Peffer
street, a graduate of the State for
estry school at Mont Alto, will make
the census of trees in the city. The
tree trimming work for the year has
practically been completed and the
forester's men have been dismissed.
Foi the last several weeks they had
been helping out with the planting
of the River Front slopes above "Hard
scrabble." The foresters will begin
the official tree count in Second
street and go northward, and the
census, it is expected, will require a
couple of months.
MEDICAIi MEN GO TO EUROPE
By Special Correspondence
New York, June 26.—Two groups
of college men leave here on steamers
to-day for medical or relief service in
the war. The largest of the groups,
composed of 35 graduates of the Har
vard Medical school and 75 nurses,
leave on board the Holland-American
line steamer Noordam for three I
months' service with one of the Brit
ish army hospitals. They expect to
begin their work by July 4 and to be
relieved by men from either Johns
Hopkins or Columbia University in
October.
THOUSMDS SEE Ml
BICES IT CHICHGO
Best Known Racers in Country
Take Part in 500-Mile
Derby Today
Speedway, Chicago, June 26. —Thou-
sands of persons at an early hour to
day were on their way to the new
two-mile automobile speedway, adver
tised as the fastest in the world, to
witness the 500-mile derby particl
ppted in by 24 of the best known driv
ers in the country. The finest cars
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Miss Katherine Smith
Ready to Begin Cooking
Lessons at Reservoir Park
MiSS KATHERINE SMITH
Teacher of Reservoir Cooking School.
Cooking lessons will be on in earn
est at the Reservoir Park cooking
school Monday morning.
Nearly a hundred pretty embryo
cooks have already enrolled and there
is still room on the lists for more.
Miss Katherine Smith who will
have charge of the cooking school
this year has been busy arranging her
plans, registering the applicants and
planning menus. Registration can be
made either at the school or at the
park offices In the Calder building.
PROTECTION GUARANTEED
Washington, June 26.—State De
partment advices to-day contained
nothing bearing on the reported occu
pation of Mexico City by Carranza
troops, but announced General Car
ranza's guarantee of protection for
noncombatanta in case of lighting
I there.
YALE GRADS. CAVORT ON CLASS DAY
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Despite efforts of the Yale University /acuity to make the com
menement elebration this year a very tame affair because of the war
and many national complications, the old grads who returned to march
in the class day parade at the Yale-Harvard baseball game fairly out
did themselves. Fantastic costumes of all sorts were seen in the line.
The exhibit here pictured was brought out by last year's class, the sign
is self explanatory.
The class of 1912, dressed in Alpine toggery labeled themselves
"The Swiss Navy.'' At the head of the column was a sign announcing
"The Swiss Navy Never Takes Water." Close behind was a sign "Ninety
seven of Us Married and on the Firing Line." Another banner read.
I "God Gave Us Life. Yale an Education, but Who'« R*spcmsib>* For
i Bryan."
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS
APPEAL FOR PEACE
German Party Publishes Full Page
Article in Berlin News
paper
By Associated Press
Berlin. June 26.—The board of di
rectors or managing committee of the
Social Democratic party in Germany
has caused to be published in the
Vorwaerts a full page appeal for
peace.
This interesting document calls for
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To Discuss Plans For
Boosting New Walnut St.
Bridge Project Thursday
Hill citizens will hold a mass meet
ing at 8 o'clock next Thursday eve
ning in the Swab building to form a
permanent organization and discuss
ways and means for boosting the pro-
I posed movement to span the Pennsy
J tracks at Walnut street with a $300,-
000 concrete bridge.
While the meeting has been called
by the Hill's temporary bridge organ
ization committee, a general Invita
tion to everybody in the city to at
tend has been extended. The arrange
ments for a mass meeting to effect a
permanent organization were com
pleted last evening at a meeting of the
temporary committee.
Guard Still on Duty
at Slaton's Residence
Atlanta, Ga., June 26. Near-Beer
saloons were closed the entire night,
watch of police was held at stations
for extra duty, and the guard of mili
tia still surrounding Governor Slaton's
home In an effort of the authorities to
forestall to-day and to-night demon
strations of protest against the Gover
nor's commutation of Leo M. Frank's
death sentence. The term of Governor
Slaton expires at noon and crowds were
In the city for the Inauguration of
Nat E. Harris.
The business section of the city was
patrolled by a double watch of police
to-day and forty extra mounted men
were sent to the capitol. Otherwise, to
all outward appearances, the city was
normal.
Mr. Harris has stated that the guard
at Mr. Slaton's home will be doubled
to-night and the guardsmen will be
kept there until In the opinion of Ad
jutant General Nash, all danger has
passed.
COMPLETING PLANS FOR
ANNUAL REGIMENTAL SHOOT
The annual shoot of the Eighth
Regiment, National Guard of Penn
sylvania, will be held on the Lucknow
range within the next month. Cap
tain Frank E, Ziegler, of Company
I, Is completing arrangements for his
company. Each company in the
Eighth will send a team here for the
annual two-day contest. Silver tro
phies will be awarded the winners.
FIRST DUTING FOR
BENEFICIAL MEN
Railroad Employes Have Big Time
at Paxtang Park; Prominent
Officials Attend
More than 3.000 railroaders, with
their wives and families, frolicked at
the first annual outing of the local
branch of the Pennsylvania Mutual
Beneficial Association at Paxtang Park
to-day.
A local talent vaudeville show,
games, races, swimming contests and
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200,000 Men Out of Work
in Chicago as Result of
Strike of Building Men
By Associated Press
Chicago, June 26.—A general shut
down of Chicago's building industry,
which, it was said, will throw out of
employment more than 200,000 work
ers, went into effect to-day.
The shut-down is regarded by con
tractors and labor leaders as the be
ginning of one of the greatest labor
wars in recent years. The action was
taken at a meeting last night of rep
resentatives of the allied building and
material Interests as an answer to the
referendum vote of 16,000 striking
carpenters, who overwhelmingly de
feated the proposal to arbitrate all
questions in dispute.
The carpenters have been on a
strike since April 30 when their agree
ment with the Contractors' Employ
ers Association expired. The men had
demanded a wage Increase from 65
cents to 70 cents an hour.
By means of the shut-down the em
ployers, It was said, hope to prevent
the independent carpenter contractors
from obtaining supplies and thus
throw out of work the 10,000 carpent
ers who are working under Individual
agreements.
Knights of Malta Will
Attend Special Services
To-morrow evening at 6.4 5 o'clock
Knights of Malta of this city and Steel
ton will meet at the hall of Egyptian
Commander)-, No. 114, Third and
Hamilton streets, and go In a body to
Augsburg Lutheran Church, where the
Rev. A. M. Stamets will preach a spe
cial sermon.
Stanley G. Backenstoss, a member
of Star of America Commandery, No.
113. will sing a baritone solo entitled
"O Loving Father" In addition to the
anthems arranged by the church choir.
SULTAN UNDERGOES OPERATION
Berlin, June 28.—The condition of
Sultan Mehomcd of Turkey, who was
operated on by Professor James A. Is
rael, the well known Berlin surgeon,
for the removal of gall stones, is satis
factory, according to a dispatch re
ceived here to-day by the Overseas
News Agency from Constantinople.
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DEALERS PERSISTING
IN MILK VIOLATIONS
WILL BE PROSECUTED
Legal Action Will Be Brought
Against Several During
Coming Week
MANY FARMS ARE CLEAN
Wholesome Conditions Are Found
by Inspectors in Cumber
land County
By ROBERT F. GORMAN
As a climax to the first weeks cam
paign for better milk In Harrisburg,
officials of the Department of Health
were to-day building up cases against
several dealers who have failed to
comply with the rules and regulations
governing the sale of milks and prose
cutions will be brought during the
early part of next week. The depart
ment is determined that dealers who
do business here must comply with
every requirement and must offer milk
which is pure, milk which contains the
required standard In butter fats and
milk which is produced under sanitary
conditions.
It is not the intention of the ocials
to "hound" any dealers in particular
in favor of others. Neither is it their
intention to attempt to put any of
them out of business. The health
bureau has established a standard
which is no more strict than that
existing in some other towns and cities
and to this standard every dealer de
livering milk in this city must con
form if he desires to continue his
business here. The present campaign
was not inaugurated to eliminate any
body. It was opened for the benefit
of dealers and producers as much as
for the benefit of the public. One of
its purposes is to educate the dealer
and to make him realize the respon
sibility which rr-sts upon him when he
sells milk which does not reach the
requtrod standard and which may re
sult in the sickness nnd death of some
of his customers as has been recorded
on many occasions. The department
wants the milk dealer here to know
where the milk which he is selling Is
produced and under what conditions
it Is produced. If the conditions are
not as they should he and that dealer
continues to sell milk from those
places then he Is open to prosecution
and it is just *uch dealers as these
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TWENTY-SIX ARRESTED AT SLATON'S HOME £
Atlanta, Ga., June 26.—Twenty-six men were brought I
to the county jail here by militiamen guardi
home, of Governor Slaton. The state guardsmen said they |
were arrested while trying to enter the Governor's estate. I
' RIDES 104 MILES AN HOUR t
Speedway, Chicago, June 26. A new competitive I
' speedway record for one hundred miles, it was announced, wj
1 was made by E. Cooper, at the rate cf 1
j I eleven miles faster than the p
, Palme. Cooper wa« in the lead at- 120 miles foil f
J | c
Philadelphia, June 26.—Joseph Thomas, a negro butler k
, yof Frederick E. Hastings, sc etary of a Phil- £
adelphia manufacturing paper company, shoL and killed »
4 » M iss Hattie Watson, sister-in-law of hi; *
I Hastings residence at Devon, nca- Y :re 1
j I then went into a barn back of the a ►
mil te i
< crime is unknown. |
! | EVELYN THAW IS MISSING
' New York, June 26.—1n the lull to-day in the court * t
! case to determine the sanity of Harry K .Thaw, it became ! (
I 'known that the state is trying to find Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, • |
j central figure in the shooting of Stanford White, to place '
| I her on the witness stand. Process servers sought her a |
, throughout the city but were unable to find her. I
j , RESTA LEADS AT 200 MILES ,
Speedway, Chicago, June 26. Resta lead at 200 miles, |
< 'followed by Cooper, Porporate, Grant, Richenbacher, Van ' '
1 Vaalte, Chevrolet and Anderson in the order given. Resta's ! '
j laverage was 97.1 miles per hour for this distance. ■ !
Speedway, Chicago. June 26. —Resta made 160 i
! I 1:6 :44, a world's record. His speed was 99.23 I J
Washington, June 26.—Official advices to day report a >
< smashing defeat of General Gonzales and the Carranza army |
advancing on Mexico City, by the Zapata forces. Carranza
i i
, has ordered all available rolling stock to Vera Cruz toward
the capital to aid the retreat and to aid Gonzales and his '
;, forccs - |
'' MARRIAGE
Arthnr J. Latham, Urmnlck, Conn., and Verna H. Flahel, ritT.
ctitrar Curtln ArmMtronK and Murxurrltc I.rnora Kahrlman, city.
J I Harvey C. I'rltrr, Mllleratow n, and Amy V. Miller, Oriental. |
4 Charlea M. Dnuglan and Kannie M. (.ruber, Dauphin.
Calvin 1.. Shorter, York, county, and Clara E. Shatto, Mteelton.
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GERMAN FORCES II
PREPARING Fl DRIVE
IT POLISH CIPITII
Run Claims Are That Teutonic
Allies Have Been Checked
For Present
ITALIANS MAKE PROGRESS
Turkish Patrol Destroys Party of
Invading Forces, and
Captures Arms
The left bank of the river Dniester
has been entirely cleared of the Teu
tonic troops, who forced their way
across at two points early this week,
I according to the latest Russian official
statements, but the Austro-German
forces are making desperate efforts
to effect a passage elsewhere.
Bridging operations were begun by
the Germans and Austrlans south of
Bukaszowice on the very night the
remnant of the detachments which
had previously crossed in the Kozany
district and in the region of Marty
noftany were being driven back in
tl'e former and captured in the lattT
region, the Russians report. The bat
tle is still raging at the near point
of contact, they add.
Nearly everywhere else along the
eastern war front the drive of the
Teutonic allies has been at least tem
porarily checked, according to the
latest Russian claims. The report
mentions specifically a breaking up of
the German offensive to the west of
the river Nlemen. in the Orzyc and
Omulew valleys and on the Vistula
front south of Pilsca. A later asser
tion to the force of the German drive
in the Orzyc region is indicated, how
ever, the Russians reporting that they
were forced to give way because of
annihilating artillery fire. No im
portant change In the situation to the
east of lyemberg is reported.
Fighting Is Watched.
Military observers are watching the
progress of this fighting in the east
and reported movements of German
troops on interior lines without ven
turing much more than vague specula
tion as to whether these operations
will be followed by another Teutonla
drive at Warsaw or renewed activity
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