Washington Orders Full Inquiry Into Los
HARRISBURG S|l§llib TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 152
DEFER ACTION ON SINKING OF
ARMENIAN PENDING REPORTS
ORDER FULL INQUIRY INTO
SINKING OF SHIP WHERE
HARRISBURGER LOST LIFE
Freighter Surrendered When German Warcraft Dropped
Shell Through Her Skylight; Skipper of Leyland
Liner Tried Hard to Make Getaway, Is Report From
Avonmouth, England
"Brown of Harrisburg" Believed to Have Been Ship's Car
penter Who Lived at Middletown Several Years Ago;
Probably Drowned When Submarine Shell Cut Falls
of Lifeboat; State Department Awaiting Stories of
Survivors to Learn Definitely What Warning Was
Given.
By Associated Press
Washington. July 1 Secretary Lansing announced to-day that
until more complete reports had been received from Ambassador
Page at London on the torpedoing of the British liner Armenian, in
which several Americans lost their li\es, Monday, the United States
would take no action.
Later dispatches detailing how the Armenian made efforts to
escape after being ordered to stop caused officials to believe the sink
ing of the vessel was accomplished in accordance with international
law and that the United States might have no reason to take up the
subject with Germany except to verify the truth of statements.
Under the rules of international law, it was pointed out that the
Armenian which flew the British flag, as well as any neutral vessel
could be sunk for refusing to obey a warning to halt and submit to
visit and search or capture. Americans aboard such a ship lose pro
tection of their government when the vessel offers resistance.
Mr. Page reported that the Armenian was engaged in "admiralty
business" but the question of" how..far the vessel was under the con
trol of the British government by charter, or ownership, seemed to
be overshadowed in the minds of officials here, by the reported re
sistance to capture.
TENSION RELAXES
There was a relaxation of tension in official quarters by the news
that the Armenian apparently was resisting capture, for what seemed
to loom up as a possible complication in the pending negotiation over
submarine warfare with Germany appeared to be removed. The
report that the German commander had come to the surface and
that he megaphoned the Armenian seems to be verified. It was sug
gested in some quarters that the German submarine commanders
now may have new orders requiring them not to torpedo any ships
without warning in the last few weeks.
The law 011 the question of charter is not clear, but officials in
dicated it would not be a violation of American neutrality laws for
an unarmed transport carrying a cargo of munitions or supplies for
a belligerent government to sail from the United States and that it
never had been definitely determined whether belligent crews were on
the ships.
If
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downtown, don't wait another
minute. Order the Harrisburg
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dress. then you won't miss a sin
gle issue. You're going for a rest;
but you're not going to drop out
of Harrisburg life. You'll want
to know what's doing at home.
Telephone the Circulation De
partment or drop a postal card.
THE WEATHER
For Harrisburg nnd vicinity: Fair
to-night and Fridays not ranch
change In temperature.
For Eastern Pennsylvania i Partly
cloudy to-night nnd Friday) not
much change in temperature.
River
The main river and its principal
tributaries will rise auhstanMally
this afternoon, to-night and Fri
day, except the Jnnlata and the
upper portions of the North and
West branches nlll fnll Frlda-r.
A stage of about ."i.O feet Is Indi
cated for Harrisburg Friday
morning.
General Conditions
The rain depression that was over
the Upper Ohio Valley Wednes
day morning, has drifted slowly
eastward to the Middle Atlantic
coast. It caused general, and In
some localities, heavy showers
from the I.nke Region eastward
and front the Ohio river south
eastward to the Atlantic coast,
the greatest amounts of rain re
ported occurring In the Susque
hanna Valley, F.aktern New York
and Southern Sew Fngland,
where a number of stations re
ported from one to two and one,
half Inches.
Tempera in re i « a. m., 72.
Sunt Rises! 4:40 a. m.s sets, 7»37
'p. m.
/Moon: Rises, 10:37 p. m.
JRlver Stage: Three feet above
f low-water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
H'gheat temperature, 71.
(.oweat temperature, «7.
Mean temperature, 73.
normal temperature, 73.
Avonmoilth, England, July 1, 12:26 '
p. m. —There were eleven Americans 1
among the 19 members of the crew j
who lost their lives in the sinking of I
the Loyland Line freight steamer ■
Armenian by the German submarine
U-38 off the coast of Cornwall on i
Monday. Some members of the crew !
were killed outright when the German j
torpedo struck the ship. The vessel |
had a crew of 72 men and carried 96 |
men as muleteers.
The submarine was first sighted by '
the man at the wheel and though the j
ship was pushed to the limit, the ;
mosquito craft rapidly overhauled her ■
and commenced shelling. The Ar- I
mcnian's efforts to keep lier stern to j
the submarine were futile.
The faster vessel circled the
freighter and the German commander
speaking through a megaphone order
ed the Armenian's captain to surrender
or he would sink the ship.
The skipper of the Loyland Liner
struggled hard to evade the undersea
boat, but the latter dropped a shell
through a skylight into the steamer's
engine room, putting the engines out
of action. The Armenian then sur
rendered.
Life boats were lowered and the
crew and some seventy mule tenders,
nearly all Americans, scrambled into
them.
As one of the boats was being lower
ed, a shell from the submarine cut the
falls of the boat. The oc<"upants were
spilled into the water and presumably
were drowned.
Five boats with survivors got away.
The submarine then fired two tor
pedoes into the Armenian and the ves
sel sank within 30 minutes. The sur
vivors rowed around in the boats until j
Tuesday morning when a steam
trawler landed them at Avonmouth.
Ambassador Page Reports
Armenian Was Engaged i
"on Admiralty Business"
Washington, D. C., July 1. The;
Leyland Line steamship Armenian was
"engaged on admiralty business" when
she was sunk by a German submarine
off the Cornwall coast of England two
days ago with the loss of a score of I
lives. Ambassador Page reported to
the State Department to-day that he i
had been so informed by British ad
miralty officials.
Consular Armstrong at Bristol, who j
sent first word of the destruction of i
the steamer yesterday reported to Am-1
bassador Page that twenty-one of theJ
twenty-nine men lost with the A|d
menian were Americans. He gavMH
additional names, although
lists Included only twenty Amei^H
The Ambassador's dispatch^H
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HARRISBURG, PA,. THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1915
Americans Believed Lost
With Torpedoed Ship
E. WILLIAMSON, St. Louis.
J. M. MONROE, New Orleans.
B. M. GRAN BERRY, Montgom
ery. Ala.
S. R. SUTTON, Cartersvllle, Va.
HARRY STONE, New York City.
BROWN (CATTLE CARPEN
TER), HARRISBURG, PA.
DR. J. S. VISO, Porto Rico.
R. H. BROOKS, or WEST ( chief I
foreman of muleteers), London
(naturalized American).
Also the following- negro mule
teers:
Henry, Leroy, Jackson and
Speed, Richmond, Va.; Wall, Foley
and Little, Newport News, Va.;
King, Small, Rickert and Oakes,
Norfolk, Va.; Smith, Portsmouth,
Va
1
Identity of Local Man
Killed When Ship Sunk
Is Not Fully Determined
Browns of this city and vicinity are
anxious to know who the* carpenter
was that was killed when the Germans
sunk the Dominion liner Armenian oni
Monday night northwest of Cornwall!
England.
1 he man who was supposed to come
from this city was listed as "Brown,
cattle ship carpenter. Harrisburg, Pa."
•\o first name was given. Only two
Browns who are carpenters are listed
in the city directory and both of these
are in this city.
Residents of Middletown believe
that the man who was killed was
William E. Brown, known as "Billy"
and a former resident of that place.
He has not been heard from for sev
eral years, and when the last informa
tion of his whereabouts was received
he was employed on the Great Lakes.
Germans Refused to
Save Drowning Men
( ardiff, Wales, July 1. Survivors
of the sunken Armenian arriving here
say that the German submarine ran
close to the drowning men who had
I been thrown into the water by a
capsizing boat but that the crew of
the submarine did not attempt to
rescue any of them.
HUNDREDS OF FOOOS
SAMPLED BY STATE
Foust's Agents Busy Here and in
York and Lancaster; Now
in Chemist's Hands
Special agents of the State Dairy
and Food Commissioner to-day com
pleted the most extensive sampling of
the food supplies of Harrisburg, York
and Lancaster that has ever been un
dertaken by the State authorities and
212 samples have been sent to Chem
ist C. H. Cochran for analyses.
The sampling has been under way
for three weeks and practically every
store dealing in food products' in the
three cities has been visited. In a.
number of instances it has been found
that dried fruits which had been
j treated with sulphur dioxide were sold
; without being labeled as required by
i law, and that coffee which contained
■ cereals or which contained chicory
j without being marked as required by
[the new act. Other foods sampled
! were Hamburg steak, sausage, cakes
I and soft drinks.
New Prohibition Law of
Alabama Most Drastic
of Any in Country
Atlanta, Ga., July I.—Alabama en
tered the prohibition ranks last night
at 11 o'clock when the most drastic
antiliquor law yet adopted by any
State went into full effect. This is
the second prohibition law for Ala
bama in the last 10 years, the first one
failing and being repealed, it is as
serted, because it proved ineffective.
The present law was designd to over
come the defects of the other, and in it,
is embodied practically every prohi
bitive clause to be found in the various
laws of other dry States.
Premier Asserts Spain
Favors Neither Side
By Associated Press
Madrid, July I.—Discussing war and
internal conditions in Spain, Premier
Date said to-day there was no foun
dation for the allegation that the
! Spanish government favors the cause
of the Quadruple entente. He declared
I Spain favors neither side and is act
ing as fairly as it can.
j Asserting that the constitution
, would not be suspended, the premier
! said: "Let us live united, having <n
j view only the defense of the county,
i That is the principle we will maintain
I with firmness."
U. S. Submarine H-3
to Be Placed in Drydock
By Associated Press
San July 1. United
j States submarine H-3 which was float
i ed late after being wedged
| between rocks near Point Sur
Tuesday night, ar-
I
j to determine If
was done to her hull.
SLU:D ADMIRAIi I LI,
■Pa., July I.—James Mac.
one of the oldest re
|Hmirals of the United States
of Philadelphia,
. l wlth paralysis to-day and
■I point of death.
Maxim Has Invention to Combat German Poison Gas
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S/rt H IRAfI mAX/tri
SIR HIRAM MAXIM IN* HIS WORKSHOP
According to dispatches, Sir Hiram Maxim, the noted inventor, has just
completed an invention to combat the German poison gas. His invention is
to force the fumes over the heads of the soldiers. Sir Hiram is 75 years
old, but continues to work seventeen hours a day In his laboratory. At
present he is deeply engrossed in several Inventions, among them being a
bomb Igniter and a device for the defense of trenches against bayonet attack.
HOW DID MOOED
Ml MEET DEATH?
ASK AUTHORITIES
Known as "The Old Fisherman,"
He Told Farmer's Wife;
Home in Baltimore
With no other clue than the letters
"T. W. M." and the figure of an Amer- j
ican eagle tattooed on the right arm (
and the figures of a man and a woman :
on the left arm, the authorities are en- 1
deavoring to learn the identity of the '
man whose body was discovered in a. ;
wheatfleld near Jednota, above Mid-!
dletown, yesterday.
There is still a mystery in the man- j
ner in which the man met his death, i
The body was found beneath a tall!
chestnut tree on the old Heina pickle,
farm, about a quarter mile below Jed- i
nota. It was entirely nude and cloth- \
ing was scattered promiscuously about, j
A pack, which the man carried, was i
opened and the contents scattered in I
confusion.
The body was discovered by a train I
crew passing on the Pennsylvania rail- I
road. In the crew were H. M. Beck, j
C. U Cless, J. A. C. Wright, S. W. |
Beam, H. E. Witman and R. F. Reed, i
One of the men was sitting on top of i
a box car when he noticed the body
laying in the field. The crew told a
dispatcher of the find and the dis
patcher notified Coroner Eckinger,
who turned the body over to H. Wilt's
Sons, Steelton.
I Mrs. Aaron Reigle, who lives on a
[farm near where the body was found,
identified it as that of a man who
asked her for something to eat on
Sunday morning. When she gave the
man food, she says, he told her he
was known as "The Old Fisherman."
A short time later he talked with
Frank Freistak, an employe of the
Jednota printery. whom he told that
his home was in Baltimore.
Although there are no visible marks
to indicate that the man was mur
dered. the authorities are at a loss to
understand why his clothes had been
removed and the pack ransacked.
The body is that of a man about 70
years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall and
weighing about 125 pounds. The hair
and a thick beard are gray,
Thrilling Battle in Air
Described by Aviator
Paris, July I.—A ruse by which he !
destroyed a German aeroplane near
Ypres is described by Mark Helson, ai
British aviator In the Journal. The'
battle took place nearly 6500 feet in
the air.
"When the enemy machine sighted
me it immediately took to flight," said
Helson. "I dashed off in pursuit.
Af.er about ten minutes rapid fllghl,
I came up with him. The duel began
at once.
"After fighting for some time with
out result, I adopted a strategem
which I have always found success- j
ful and let my aeroplane dive almost!
perpendicularly. The German aviator •
believing T had fallen, also descended
in a gliding flight. I then righted my!
machine suddenly and shot above him ,
at a distance of about only fifteen feet. ;
Then we resumed the duel. One of my
shots hit the gasoline tank of the
aeroplane and the machine burst into
flames, crashing to the earth. The
,pilot and observer both were killed."
PERSISTENT EFFORTS
BIG LEAGUE BALL
i
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Harrisburg Takes Over Newark
Internationals Tomorrow;
Plan Big Opening
*
Baseball Guide For
Friday Afternoon
1 12.45—Formation of parade, Front
and Market streets.
I.oo—Parade moves.
2.ls—Concert at Island Park.
. 3.oo—Raisin* of flag.
| 3.ls—Baseball game starts. Har
risburg vs. Jersey City.
Island Park Schedule
Saturday, 3 P. M.—Harrisburg vs.
Jersey City.
Monday, 10 A. M. and 3 P. M.—
Harrisburg vs. Jersey City.
I
International league baseball for
| Harrisburg. This is gospel truth. First
! game at Island Park to-morrow be
i tween Harrisburg and Jersey City.
The transfer of the Newark team to
! this city canie after a hard tight at a
I league meeting in New York city
( which ended late last night. Plans for
! the opening game and parade to-mor
i row will be completed to-night.
President Edward G. Barrow was
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German Submarine
Sinks British Bark
Carrying Wheat Cargo
I By Associated Press
Ijondon. July t. Noon.—The British
j bark Tliifltlcbank. which sailed from
Bahln Blanca, .Argentina, April 26,
| with a cargo of wheat for Queens
town, was torpedoed by a < German sub
marine yesterday at a point off Fast
net. Ireland.
Some of the crew were landed at
Baltimore, a .small seaport forty-seven
miles southwest of Cork.
CORK WORKERS GETTING
HIGHEST WAGES EVER PAID
By Associated Press
Connellsvilie, Pa., July I.—Practi
cally all the operators in this region
have announced that the wages of em
. pioyes will be advanci to a parity
j with the H. C. Frick Coke Company
; which are the highest ever paid.
Operators declare coke prices do not
j warrant an increase in wages but say
; that this step is being taken owing to
a shortage in labor.
STRIKE CI/OSES MtINES
By Associated Press
Joplin, Mo„ July I.—Ten more lead
and zinc mines among the heaviest
producers in the Joplin district were
closed to-day as a result of the miners'
! strike, which began last Monday. More
than forty mines in Webb City and
liloplin now are shut down. Three
(thousand or more men are out of em
ployment.
GENERAL SHERMAN'S WIDOW ILiL
VParis, July 1, 12:31 p. m. Mrs.
Alexander H. Thackaray, the wife of
th® American consul general at Paris
Is seriously ill. She is the widow of
the late General Tecumsfth Sherman.
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STOUGH'S EARNINGS
IN 1914 $2210, HE
TELLS nuns
Says Wife Is His Bookkeeper and
He Knows Little of
Business
ADMISSIONS AND DENIALS
Delegation of Singers Accom
panies Him to Court; $570
Raised For Defense
Special to The Telegraph
Wilkes-Harre, Pa., July I.—Dr.
Henry W. Stough, the evangelist, came
here to-day from Hazleton to defend
the $50,000 slander suit of W. J. Cul
led, Hazleton councilman, and with
htm came a carload of singing women
and men. At the courthouse they
gathered on the main floor and before,
going to the court room sang several
hymns, making the two million dol
lar courthouse ring with their music.
One of the main rooms was crowd
ed to its capacity when Arbitrators
Dilley, Keck and Kleeman called Dr.
Stough to the witness stand. He de
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Italian Captain and
a Hundred Men Take
Strong Austrian Fort
Geneva, Switzerland, via Paris, June
30.—A dispatch from I*aiba<'li, Aus
tria. to the Geneva Tribune reports the
capture by Italians of a mountain
fortress at C'onl Sujnia, 2,500 meters
northeast of Ala, in Trentino, which
cost the Austrians SBOO,OOO to con
struct.
The correspondent characterizes the
capture as "an audacious affair." He
states that an Italian captain with 100
men climbed the steep slope and de
manded that the garrison surrender,
say liir that the fortress was sur
rounded.
This was a "bluff," but the garrison
capitulated. ,
Exploding Toy Cannon
Kills Meadville Boy
Meadville. Pa., July I.—lrvln Abel.
14. son of Charles E. Abel, was killed
last night when a toy cannon made of
a piece of gas pipe exploded, fractur
ing his skull.
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to Harrisburg hospital, suffering from internal ;
a used by swallowing lye. 5
Ehester, N. Y., July 1. James Edward Quigley, | '
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; Voik. Ju'y l.— : The Federal Grand Jury to. L I
indicted Rudolph Malik, an Austrian, arrested here last T H
I night, charged with mailing a letter June 23 to Preaid, I ■
Wi threatening him wih "a political crime" should the *1 I
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charged, was demanded as an indemnity for Malik's inabil 'fl
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MARRIAGE LICENf '■
■ K d .^." pd ?• ! y«' al Ell*«b®th Hill. city. f
\> llllani Vi *l(rr shearer an«l Km ma C. Bberaolr, city.
I John I. Lllley, olty, and C'nrrle J. Mlllhlmr, Enhaut. £
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TEUTONS CLEMIHIG '
WHY FOR TERRIFIC
DRIVE AT WARSAW
Austro-German Forces Making
Ivangorod Their Objective,
Believe Russians
REPULSE ATTACK IN BALTIC |
German Submarine Activity Again I
Takes Center of Stage Through '
Sinking of Armenian
The Russian lines are still being
swung back in Northern Gnllela and
Southern Poland, in an apparent effort
; by the Teutonic allies to clear the way
j for a determined more on Warsaw.
The Russians admit a continuation
of the enemy offensive between the
Rug and Vieprz. At the junction of
the latter river with the Vistula in
Poland, lies Ivangorod, which Russian
observers believe is the immediate ob
jective of the Austro-German forces in
this region. Ivangorod is little more
than fifty miles southeast from the
Polish capital.
Just at present the chief Russian
holding power seems to be along the
line of the western Rug and the Gnila
Lipa in Galicia. Petrograd also re-
I cords a repulse of an attempt by the
I Teutons to cross the Dneister for
Hailed indicating that the line of the
Dneister south of that place is still
well held by the Grand Duke Nicholas
forces.
A German attack on Wandeau in
Courland, in the Baltic just south of
I the Gulf of Riga, was repulsed by the
I Russians, the official statement says.
! five cruisers and ninny torpedoboats
I participated in the attack and an at
| tempt is believed to have been made
'to land troops. One of the torpedo
boats was blown up before the fleet re
] tired. Eyes are being turned toward
I the Gallipoli peninsula from which
, stirring news has recently come and
there ure hints from the side of the
entente allies that successes just reach-
I ed are to be followed by still more
| determined attempts to carry Turkish
positions.
German submarine activity brought
! sharply to the front by the sinking of
j the steamer Armenian with the loss
|of a number of American lives is
I further shown by news of the sinkir.es >
j of the British bark Thistiebank, and 1
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