Holt Is Believed to Have Placed Dynamite Bomb Aboard Cunard Liner HARRISBURG tISMR§ TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 156 HOLT PREDICTED DISA SHORTLY BEFORE HE ENDED HIS LIFE IN LETTER TO WIFE I SAID snt OR PHILADELPHIA WOULD BE BLOWN UP JULY 7 I Wireless Dispatches Sent Out by the Navy Department, Warns Liners of Danger of Internal Explosions; Cap tain of Philadelphia Feels His Ship Is Safe MAN IS IDENTIFIED AS LONG SOUGHT MUENTER Investigation at Mineola Jail Establishes Fact That Holt Committed Suicide by Jumping From Top of His Cell Door While Guard Had His Back Turned; Planned to Blow Up Capi tol Here HOI/r IDENTIFIED AS MURDERER BY DETECTIVE j Glen Cove, N. Y„ July 7.—Frank ■Holt, who attempted to take the life of J. P. Morpan and wlio com mitted suicide last niffht In the Mineola jail, was to-day Identified ' as Erich Muenter. the Harvard in structor. who disappeared after be ing indicted as the murderer of his wife, fveona, in Cambridge, Mass., in l»0fl. , The Identification was made by S. P. Smith, state detective of the district attorney's oflU« of Middle sex county, Massachusetts: Tlieo- ( dore Hilller, an automobile man of I Cambridge, and A. T. Brown, a j Boston newspaper man. * New York. July 7.—The dead hand of Frank Holt, assassin, bomb maker and alleged wife murderer, reaches out over the Atlantic to-day and menaces with dynamite two transAtlantic liners with nearly 1,000 aboard. Somewhere on the ocean, Holt wrote his wife, the liner Saxonia or the Philadelphia —he wasn't sure which would be destroyed to-day. A dynamite bomb, con taining thirty pounds of ex plosive, which Holt is known to have received and which has not been accounted for, is believed by the police to be the means Holt had chosen to destroy the ship. While Holt lay to-day a suicide in his cell at Mineola, where he was taken [Continued on Page 7.] fv NEVER MIND THE STRING Don't pu{ it off until you get downtown, don't wait another minute. Order the Harrisburg Telegraph to your vacation ad 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 and vicinity! Un settled weather, probably alion ♦•r* to-night and Tfiarftdavj not much change In temperature. For Eastern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy to-night and Thursday, with probably ihom-rai not much change In temperature) light tn moderate south winds. River The North and West branches and the main river will continue to fall to-night and probably Thurs day. A stage of about 5.3 feet Is Indicated for Harrisburg Thurs day morning. General Conditions A well defined storm of moderate energy Is central over lovra. It has caused showers generally In the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys and along the western border of the Great Lakes In the last twenty-four hours, with amounts exceeding an Inch In lowa and Southern Minnesota. Temperaturei 8 a. m., ««. Sun: Klses, 4:43 a. M.i aeta, 7:30 V. m. Mooni New moon, 4:31 p. m„ July 12. River Stage: 0 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 70. I.owest temperature. 59. Mean temperature, OR. Normal temperature, 74. FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE AND MAN WHO SHOT J. P. MORGAN DECLARED TO BE SAME PERSON BY CHICAGO PROFESSOR 6 tX* * ' . 1 ._; - /'' , ERICH MIEATEH, ' FRANK HOLT, "• Former Inntrortor In German at Hiirard. Former laiitractor In German at Cornell. Chicago, July 7. —Identification of Frank Holt, the assailant of J. P. Morgan as Erich Muenter, the missing! Harvard professor, who was suspected of having caused the death of his wife, is made here by Professor Chester N. Gould, of the University of Chicago. Professor Gould in a statement made public to-day, admitted that he had identified Muenter, who was a former student at the University of Chicago, while at Cornell University last November. He said he decided for several reasons not to expose tHe man as "he seemed to be getting along so nicely, and I thought it was better to let well enough alone." • Professor Gould's statement, in part, follows: "When I arrived at Cornell University last November to engage in research work, I was introduced to Dr. Frank Holt, but paid little attention to him at that time. He asked me how Cutting and Allen, two University of Chicago professors, were getting along. I told him and asked him if he knew them. He said he did not, but had heard of them. "Holt's carriage and speech had rather stayed with me and reminded me of some one, but I could not remember whom. Then my mental associations began to work, and I said, 'I know who it is. It is Muenter.' "The next time I saw him he looked squarely at me and said, "Hello Gould.' - His words had the attitude of a man stepping back into an old familiarity. He never avoided me, except on one occasion when I saw him with his wife and family. '1 had every opportunity to observe him and hear him speak German and English and there can be no doubt that Frank Holt was Erich Muenter." 11101 VOTE ON PROHIBITION IKED Anti-Saloon League Asks Congress to Submit Amendment to the People Atlantic City. N. J., July 7.—The na tional hoard of directors of the Anti- Saloon Ijeague of America at an execu ti\o session to-day adopted resolutions urging Congress to submit to the states the proposed amendment to the fed eral Constitution providing for national [Continued on Page 7] MURDERED UN'S DAUGHTER SPURS COPS i Has No Rest Since Mother Was Found Slain in House on the Hill Mrs. John Casey, of Lemoyne. the daughter of Mrs. Ella Albright, who was murdered In her home at Fif teenth and Briggs streets, last Wed nesday night, has been keeping in [Continued on Page 7] Gen. Gorgas Says Wage Increase Lengthens Life Chicago, 111., July 7.—Attorneys for the Chicago carmen read Into the testimony at their wage arbitration hearing to-day part of a published Interview in which Major General William C. Gorgas. Surgeon General of the United States army, said in crease in wages would lengthen the lives of Americans. "Add to the laboring man's wages from $1.50 to $2.50 a day and you will lengthen the average American's thread of life by 13 years, at least," General Gorgas was quoted as saying. The arbitration proceedings are go ing forward, in an effort to settle diffi culties which caused a two days' strike on Chicago surface and elevated lines several weeks^ago. HARRISBURG, PA,. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1915 TEUTONS SLACKEN THRUSTJN POLAND Allies Display Less Anxiety Over Outcome of Present Campaign The force of the Teutonic thrust in Southern Poland seems to have slack ened for the time at least and there is less apparent anxiety on the side of the entente allies over the outcome of the campaign in tills region. The latent official statements from Vienna, how [Continued on Page 7] MolifiT IN PHI'S FACE Intimates South Carolina Is No More Likely to Treat Negro Unfairly Than This State Pleas that if Governor Brumbaugh honored a requisition from the Gov ernor of South Carolina for the extra dition to Edgefield county, that State, of Frederick Brown, alias Grant, to [Continued on Page 3.] Confer With Traction Co. Head on 19tit St. Bridge Dauphin county's board of commis sioners conferred with Frank B. Mus ser president of the Harrisburg Rail ways Company relative to the cost of erecting the proposed new concrete bridge across the Philadelphia and Reading tracks at Nineteenth street. Plans were exhibited by County En gineer Hershey. The structure will boast of a 24-foot roadway and six-foot waltarays and all told will cost in the neighborhood of SIMOO. The commissioners think the railways company should pay half |or even a third of the cost. Mr. Muter i said he would present the commis- Isioners' suggestion to his directorate and report to tht county authorities |by Friday INQUEST INTO BIG i SMISIUP TONIGHT Engineer of "Queen of the Val ley," Night Operator and Others to Be Called Among the witnesses who will testify before Coroner Eekinger dur ing the inquest into the accident at the Hummelstown grade crossing ac cident, Monday night in which six members of the Cassei family of Hoernerstown were killed by a fast [Continued on Page 7] ORPHANS' OUTING AT HEM AUGUST 19 May Expell Members of Motor Club For Reckless Driving Plana were made last night by the members of the Motor Club of Harris burg for the fifth annual orphans' out ing at Hershey Park, Thursday, Au gust 19. The children from" the Sylvan [Continued on Page 3] Private Banker Is Missing With $5,000 Wilkes-Barre, Pa., July 7. Vito Bianco, private banker and merchant of Pittstown, has been missing since last Thursday.' Creditors to-day forced the appointment of a receiver and H. H. Welntraub. lawyer, at noon closed the store and bank. Depositors endeavored to withdraw their money, but failed.' Blanco carried deposits of needy Italian families and the loss is estimated at $5,000. CONCERT FRIDAY Two band concerts are scheduled for Reservoir Park within a week. Fri day evening the Municipal band will play a prograh that should make any one's musical mouth water and on Tuesday the Commonwealth will play a postponed concert. COULD HARDSCRftBBLE BE IRTZ' GRAVEL?' Carious Problem of What's in a Name Developed After Today's Condemnation Hearing ADJOURN UNTIL JULY 20 City to Take Up Question of East Side Property Holdings When Viewers Meet Again Is it "Hardscrabble?" Or Is It "Hartz' Gravel?" You may take your choice now, when you speak of the section of Har rlsbury lying on the west side of Front street between Calder and Herr which is now the subject of condem nation proceedings instituted by the city. The question of whether "Hard scrabble" is really and truly "Hard scrabble" —or whemer after all. it Is "Hartz" Gravel"—developed inform ally this morning after the board of viewers had adjourned for the day. "Hardscrabble" It was pointed out by one of the older witnesses was at one time called "Mt. Pleasant" but long before that —more than a hundred years ago—the gravelly section of river front was called "Hartz' Gravel." This was because the ground was owned by a family named Hartz. A descendant, it is said, still lives in the neighborhood. City Closes Its Side With the possible exception of ad ditional testimony which might be offered relative to land values on the west side of Front street from Herr to C'alder when the board of viewers meets July 20, the city's side of the "Hardscrabble" condemnation pro ceedings was closed to-day so far as [Continued 011 Page *] Col. Bryan Takes New Fling at Newspapers San Francisco, July 7.—Passage of n law to compel editors to show their financial interest in policies they advo cate was recommended by William Jennings Bryan in an address before the International Peace Congress at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. "It seems reasonable to suppose," Mr. Bryan said, "that the signing of editorials and news reports w<*ld contribute both to accuracy and to the reputation of writers. It is one of the injustices of the present system that the men who furnish the literary ability, the editorial writers and news paper correspondents often live In obscurity while the corporations from whieh they draw pay reap an unfair profit from their genius." The tendency toward "independent I newspapers Mr. Bryan deplored. "The man who thinks he can write on public questions clthout bias," he said, "is more apt to deceive himself than those who read what he says." He suggested that "independent newspapers" become "bi-partisan' and present articles signed by repre sentatives of both sides of political questions. Experience in the State Department, Mr. Bryan said, had convinced him that the public welfare would be bene fited by a law compelling editors to tell what pecuniary interest they had in governmental policies they advo cated so the public might know what weight their editorials deserved. CITY POSTMASTER'S PAY GOESJO $4,000 Many Nearby Offices Get Raises; Decreases Also Announced at Washington Indicating a healthy growth in busi ness at the local post office during the year ending March 31. the pay qf Postmaster Frank C. Sites has been caised from S3BOO a year to S4OOO Postmasters in many other nearby towns where business has increased [Continued oil Page 7] PROVIDE PLAYGROUND AT INDUSTRIAL HOME • Park Commissioner Taylor to In stall Complete Equipment For Small Youngsters Youngsters of the Children's Indus trial Home will have a real playground this summer through the kindness of M. Harvey Taylor, city commissioner of parks and public property. More than a hundred small folks live at the home and to-day Commis sioner Taylor arranged to install all [Continued on Page 7] CHICAGO PURCHASES J.IRROI.D Chicago, 111., July 7. —Harry Liebold, an outfielder with the Cleveland Ameri cans, has been purchased by the Chi cago Americans at the waiver price, it was announced to-day. He has been instructed to report here on Friday. Manager Rowland plans to use him In left field, replacing Roth. OFFER IS ACCEPTED By Associated Press Cape Town, July 6, via Ixmdon, July 7, 5.18 a. m.—Official announce ment was made to-day that the Impe rial government "had gratefully ac cepted" the offer of the government of the Union of South Africa to pro-j vide a contingent of troops to be rais ed in the union and some batteries of artillery. 14 PAGES BERLIN NOW WANTS U.S. TO COMPROMISE Advices Tend to Show Germans Are Anxious to Have Ques tion Settled PROPOSALS UNSATISFACTORY Situation, However, in Washington Circles Not Believed Hopeless Washington, July 7.—Further mes sages from Ambassador Gerard were to-day transmitted to President Wil son at Cornish, N. M., outlining the point, of view of the German govern ment on submarine warfare as em bodied in a tentative draft of the German reply to the last American note. The dispatches tended to show that Germany is anxious to bring about a.' compromise 011 the question of herl submarine campaign and there were indications in official quarters that the proposals in their present form are not acceptable to the United States. Just what means would be adopted to inform Germany of the disapproval of the United States is not apparent. It is believed, however, that Mr. Ger ard would be instructed within a day or two to make clear in advance of the receipt of the formal and final copy of the German note that he is unable to make any comment. from press dispatches and other sources it appeared that the Ger man proposals were unsatisfactory, [Continucrt on Page 7.] Pennsylvania's Output of Petroleum Increases Washington, D. C., July 7. —The out put of petroleum in Pennsylvania in 1914. which amounted to 8,170,385 barrels, registered an increase of 253,- 033 barrels over the Stale's produc tion in 4913, according to a statement just made public by the United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Topographic and Geologic Survey Commission. This notable increase,-coming from a State whose oil production prior to 1913 has shown a fairly steady decline of 5 or 6 per cent, a year for 14 years or more, is worthy of especial notice, for it was accomplished without the discovery of new pools of consequence within the productive area. It repre sents, rather, the intensive and effi cient development of an area in which the productive limits have long been fairly well defined. M. ri .rryt f T ~i ** '' ' \ I ; J • ( , ! ; 11< I _ pi ' j I . • relative to the sanity of her husband, Harry K. 1 ■ ! ; .1 for the f' U; ■ ' * ''' AUTO HITS CYCLIST -! | this :ernoon A. B. Tack, 127 Herr stree his auto I J ' • mobile :oHided with a motorcyclist running •:outh in Green. ' * ' stre t. Both machines were damaged e- name of * i | ! 1 driver of the motorcycle could not be learned I S OLD UP , | I n3, Ore., July 7. Atr i ft ( 1 I J I • ay to join their cojors i • ! , ; u:. •.. tiers. - | i> HOLT HAD ACCOMPLICES , W shington, July 7. Professor Charles Munroe, the 1 ► i i expei-t in explosives of the Bureau of Mines who conducted ; . ' the investigation here after Holt dynamited a room in the I | < ' Capitol, declared to-day he was confident Holt had accom- j 1 ! plice- I * j » CAR KIULS THREE ' I I Indi napohs, July 7.—Three persons were killed instant- t [ JI ly abc ' . ,cn to-day when an automobile in which they were ; f ; riding as struck by a Union Tractioh Company interurban | ! carat > :rossing a few miles north of Indianapolis. ; < ■ DUTCH STEAMER MI3SINQ | , I Lon lon, July 7.—The Dutch steamer Albergeg, which 1 , j I left New York, March 30, and Ncwpoit News, April 1, for • ';■* , ! Port .... in, has been posted at Lloyds as missing. 1 ' j » READING BOOKKEEPER SUICIDE . Reading, Pa., July 7. —Edwin I-'. Feather, aged 61 yea: *, ! < a bot kketper for thirty-eight, y'eii's, jumped into the Schuyl- • « j kill from a high bridge early this mcfrning. He died this 1 [ < r No cause is assigned. ' " MARRIAGE { • C'harlra H. Fair. Knnln, and Mary S. Miller, Milunun, l anctiater ouir. county. j | n<v W<|[| * POSTSCRIPT ENGAGED WHEN 18; . HIED IT I John A. Snyder Hies Himself to California to Wed Sweetheart of Long Ago WERE SCHOOLDAY LOVERS Then That Inevitable Quarrel and Both Were Joined to Others Culminating a romance which began more than thirty years ago and con tinued intermittently through all the vicissitudes of two more than ordinary eventful lives, John A. Snydor, 561 TTorrest street, a mail carrier, at tached to the Maclay street station, married Mrs. Mary C. Stemler, a for mer resident of the city, at Los An geles, Cal.. this morning. The bride Is 50 years of age and the groom slightly more than 60. The circumstances surrounding the romance and the recent courtship which involved a 'cross-continent cor respondence surpass the writings of the most imaginative novelist. Announcement of the wedding came as a complete surprise to Charles H. Hoffman, superintendent of delivery at the Post Office. He quickly spread the news among the scores of employes, who were likewise surprised. It was the sole topic of conversation among Mr. Snyder's hundreds of friends. Engaged at Eighteen The present Mrs. Snyder was born in Baltimore. Her maiden name "was Miss Mary Cook. She came to this city when quite young and attended school with the Snyder lad. When she was about 18 years of age they be came engaged and set the wedding f Continued on Page 7] Petrograd Says Teuton Forces Are Checked London.. July 7, 12:09 p. m.—Petro grad claims that a distinct check has been inflicted on the Austro-Hun garians near Krasnlk. in Southern Po land, where the invaders are threaten ing one of the most Important rail road connections at Warsaw. This claim directly contradicts the Vienna official report which states that tho Russians have suffered a defeat in this section. Otherwise the Russian and Austro-German reports agree that quiet prevails along the remainder o i the eastern front where for the first time In several weeks the Austro-Ger i man armies have ceased to' win daily successes.
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