Austrian Submarine Torpedoes and SM&. Italian Cruiser Guiseuue Garibaldi HARRISBURG iSlSgk TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 165 -"HERO" WHO FOUND BOH ON TRACKS OF P. B. D. UNDER ARREST Confesses to Police That He Wanted to Improve His Position in Life INSPIRED BY FRANK HOLT Accused Man Carried Enough Dynamite to Altoona to Blow Up City Block By Associated Press Reading. Pa., July 19.—At a late hour last night, the local and Pennsyl vania railroad detectives arrested here Harry F. West brook, 32 years old. Ac cording to a confession made at police headquarters to-day, he Is the man who placed a bomb loaded with 20 sticks of dynamite on the Pennsyl vania railroad tracks at Newton Hamilton, on the Altoona division, last Thursday evening, and then removed it a few moments before the crack 18- hour flyer of the road running be tween New York and Chicago passed the point. Several hundred lives were placed in Jeopardy. In his confession he says that he was inspired to place the bomb on the tracks by Frank Holt, who killed himself after he attempted to assassinate J. P. Morgan and who confessed to placing a bomb in the United States capital at Washington and was credited with placing bombs on steamships. Westbrook made the bomb at his home in this city. It contained enough dynamite to destroy a city block. Last Thursday night he went to Altoona. placed it on the track and then told the officials that he had "found" It. His story was disbelieved from the first. He says that he did It to be come a "hero" to improve his position in life and for the sake of his wife and babies. "For You and the Babies" Westbrook was takeiv to Jail this afternoon. "It was for you and the babies I did it," Westbrook declared to his wife, as he kissed her goodby. "I thought possibly I might Improve our Jiving if I could make the officials be lieve I was a hero. I never intended ™ ny harm and would not have left it on the track for anything. Remem ber, no matter what happens it was my love for you and the hcildren that prompted me to do this." If convicted, Westbrook stands in a position to spend many years in Jail. The authorities have not yet deter mined Just how far to prosecute hlm v IN JURED ARE IMPROVING By Associated Press Reading, Pa., July 19.—The 20 per sons injured in an accident yesterday near Birdsboro, due to the wrecking of a crowded trolley car which Jumped j the track, are getting along favorably! to-day with the exception of Harry j Davidheiser, of BirdsborO. His con-1 dition Is regarded as serious. The State authorities will likely investigate the accident, It Is stated to-day. City Swelters as Mercury Mounts to 93 Degrees Ninety-three degrees at 2 o'clock at the local weather bureau, the record for this year, put Harrisburg In the grip of intense heat although breezes helped to prevent heat prostrations. The mercury started this morning at 8 o'clock at 76 degrees and climbed steadily. E. R. Demain, local fore caster. predicted that cooler weather with showers would reach the city by nightfall and that to-morrow would be cooler. Yesterday the temperature went up to 92. * * -O You can't keep in touch with the doings in the baseball world unless you have the Harrisburg Telegraph sent to your vacation address. You'd feel like Jumping on your own foot twice if you missed a full account of the games be ing played this week. Drop a postal or telephone the Circula tion Department and you will re ceive to-day's issue. THE WEATHER For Harrt>bor( and vicinityi Prob ably ahowers thin afternoon or to-night; tllvktly cooler to-night; Tuesday fair and cooler. For Eaatern Pennnylvanlns Prob ably nhonfra and wimi'wbat lower temperature to-night; Turmlny fair and cooler) moderate, vari able wind*. River The main river will probably re main stationary and ita principal branches will probably fall to— night and Tuesday. A stage oi about 6.1 feet la Indicated for Harrlabnrff Tuesday morning. General Conditions Pressure Is uniform and slightly below normal over nearly all the esstern half of the country, ex cept over Weatern IVew York, where a alight depression la lo cated. An area of moilerntcly high preaaure covers the \orth weatern States. I,IK ht. acattrred ahonera have fallen In the hi at twenty-four hours In Penuaylva nla. New York and Michigan. Temperature! 8 a. m„ 70| 2 p. m.. 1)3. lllver Maget r> feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 02. Lowest temperature, 7ft. Mean temperature, 81. kornwtl temperature, 75. ' THREE DROWN WHILE MING 'NEAR HERE Girl About to Be Wed and Young Married Man Die; Boy Other Victim SOME ONE ROCKED BOAT V : ~%r ' ' ■V ' • • '•' • : ' ■ " v. ~ v *: MISS RUTH WEN RICH Three persons were drowned near this city yesterday. The dead are: -MISS RI'TH WEXRICH, aged 22. of Lebanon, drowned in Swatara creek at Jonestown. GEORGE SEIBERT aped 12, of Middletown, drowned in Swatara creek. LEWIS DELSOX, aged 22, drowned in Conewago creek. Tfr". bodies were recovered shortly aftf ,They went down. Wenrich was visiting friends at Jonestown yesterday with several other persons. The party went bathing in the Swatara near a deep hole, and while standing on the edge of the bank. Miss Wenrich slipped and fell in. Being unable to swim she drowned | before she could be rescued. Miss i Wenrich was employed in a depart ment store in Lebanon and was en- ! gaged to be married next month. Rocked the Boat George Seibert, of Middletown, with his brother, Charles and John and Samuel Reidley, went boating Satur day evening on the Swatara. Coroner Eckinger in his investigation of Seibert's death, learned that the boys ' were rocking the boat. Water came 1 over the edges of the craft which cap sized as the youths were trying to reach shore. The other boys reached shore but George, who coud not swim, was drowned. His body was found half an hour later. Delson lost his life when he was seized with cramps while in bathing in the Conewago creek, at Conewago Heights. He was formerly from this city and was married only a short time ago. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Delson, reside in this city. The ! body will probably be brought here) for burial. Government May Take Over South Wales Coal Fields By /issccicted Press London, July 19, 11.12 a. m.—Re ports from the South Wales coal fields, indicate no progress in the ne gotiations for settlement of the strike but efforts will be made at the cabi net meeting to-day to find some meanar of speedily solving the labor problems. It is generally believed in the mining districts, however, that no satisfactory way out of the present difficulties can be found unless the government takes over the mines and operates them during the war. One of the first things the miners de mand is the withdrawal of the procla mation which brings them under the provisions of the munitions bill. They resent the idea of working under coercion and Insist they will not consent to It Sharp Declines in War Stocks Recorded To-day By Associated Press New Tork, July 19. Restraining Influences were responsible for some sharp declines in war stocks at tht opening of to-day's markets. A warn ing issued by officials of the Crucible Steel Company resulted in a severe decline in that issue, which opened with a loss of almost 3 points, which it later extended to almost 7. Yellow Stripes For Sing Sing Prisoners By Asst. c toted " Press Ossining, N. Y., July 19.—Mem bers of the Mutual Welfare League, the self-rule organization of the in mates of Sing Sing Prison, have adopt |ed a novel method of inflicting punish : ment for attempts to escape from prison of violation prison rules. Suspension from the privileges of the league W the basis for the punish ment. Offenders who are suspended for five days or more will be compelled to wear a yellow circle as large as an orange on the breast of their gray shirts. Those suspended for ten days or more must wear not only the yellow circle, but a yellow stripe down the middle of the back. In case of sus pension for 20 days yellow stripes on the trouser legs must be worn. The heads of all offenders suspended for 30 days will be shaved and in addi tion they must wear the yellow stripes. TWO TYPHOID CASES Mrs. Bertha Prowell. of New Cum berland. and Miss Sula Witmer, 905 Norwood street, were admitted to the Polyclinic Hospital during the last two days suffering from typhoid fever. HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JULY 19. 1915. CONVICT IN READING JAIL KILLS FELLOW PRISONER AND SELF Tragedy Discovered When Attend ants Were ' Serving Breakfast FLOOR COVERED WITH BLOOD Officials Did Not Know Any 111 Feeling Existed Be tween Men By Associated Press Reading, Pa., July 19. Frank Snavely was murdered in the Berks prison to-day by Michael Puttinger. cellmate, by cutting his throat. Put tinger then committed suicide by hanging himself. The watchman distributed the knives to be used at breakfast at 6 o'clock in the morning. A half hour later the meat was served by the at tendants. Then the tragedy was dis covered, both men were dead. The cell floor was covered with blood from the terrible gash in Snavely's neck. The attack must have been made as soon as the knives were distributed. There could not have been much of a | struggle as the prisoners in the next cells heard no scuffle. Snavely, who was known as Monk, was serving a year for attempted in decent assault, and Puttinger the samelength of time for assault and bat tery and attempt to kill. The officials did not know that there was any . ill feeling between the men. GOMFERS MAY END STRIKE By Associated Press Washington, D. C., July 19.—Samuel Gompers, president of the American I Federation of Labor to-day began an j effort to end the strike in the Reming- ' ton Arms Plant at Bridgeport, Conn. He will confer with the labor leaders and others interested and while no official action has been taken by the Department of Labor, Secretary Wil son has been consulted and Is in touch with the situation. STORY TO BE INVESTIGATED By Associated Press Albany. N. Y., July 19. A state ment attributed to David Robinson, foreman of the Jury that recently de clared Harry K. Thaw sane, that the Jury did not helieve him to have been insane when he killed Stanford White, is to be investigated by Deputy At torney General Becker. He was as signed to this duty to-day by Attorney General Woodbury. AEROPLANE DROPS INTO SEA Rome, July 18, via Paris, July 19, 11 p. m.—An Austrian aeroplane which bombarded Barti yesteday was struck by rifle fire on the way back to its base and fell into the sea oft Barletta, 33 miles northwest of Bari, according to an official statement issued to-night at the War Office. MARKET SQIURE NOW UNDERGOING REPAIRS West Market to Front Finished and Presents Appearance of New ly Paved Highway Asphalt paving repairs in Market street from the Square to Front street were completed to-day and the big gang of repairmen immediately got busy with the "cuts" in Market Square. As soon as the Square is finished City Commissioner W. H. Lynch, su perintendent of streets and public im provements, will repair Chestnut and other streets in the business section of the city. Other streets in the outlying districts will receive attention in tile order that the necessity for traffic conditions require. From 800 to 900 yards of asphalt; was put down In Market street from the Square to Front street alone and the Job is considered by engineers and contractors to be one of the best bits of street repair work ever made. The section now resembles a newly paved street. , The material for the work was manufactured, of course, in the city' 3 new repair plant in South Ninth street. While the plant has a capacity of a i thousand yards every day, the equip \ ment need not be worked to nearly ] Continued on Page 7.[ State College to Aid U. S. Government in Aviation Work and Experiment Ptate College. Pa., July 19. The engineering experiment 3tation at the Pennsylvania State College will co i operate with the United States Gov ' ernment's new board of aviation to i work for the development of the Am ; erican aviation corps, and place it ■ ahead of the sky-fighting machinery lof other nations. Experiments will be i conducted here to measure the lifting power of the various sizes of planes. 1 Investigations along this line, begun here four years ago, will be resumed jby Dean Sackett and his assistants. They will continue and enlarge the ; experimental work after the value of j the collected data has been deter mined. A circular railway track, a quarter |of a mile long, has been erected. The track carries a car operated by an arm from a central station within the circle. Overhead planes are attached to the car by delicate springs supplied with gauges. As the car speeds around i the track, the operator seated on it records the readings of the gauges. From the material thus collected will be calculated tho variations of power in slae of planes and changes of speed. State College's experiment station is the pioneer in this particular field of investigation. JUST TO REMIND YOU:— I YOU'RE RIGHT, IT WASN'T SNAPPED TO-DAY FRANK'S CONDITION IS REPORTED WORSE Famous Prisoner, Slashed by Fel low Convict, Has Developed High Temperature BLOODPOISONING IS FEARED Jagged Cut in Throat Is Causing Much Pain, According to Officials MilledgevUle, Ga., July 19.—Physi cians who examined Leo M. Frank in the State prison early to-day said his condition was much worse. The Jag ged cut in his throat received at the hands of a fellow prisoner Saturday night was swollen and his temperature was 102 2-5. Dr. H. J. Rosenberg, the Frank family physician, who returned to At lanta last night, believed Frank's con dition warranted his leaving. He and another Atlanta doctor were sum moned back to-day. Early to-day Frank was restless, his temperature continued to rise and at about daylight he was delirious at brief intervals. The temperature reached the highest shortly before 8 o'clock and then began to drop. At 9 o'clock it was fraction over 101. Dr. Guy Compton, the prison physi cian was not so alarmed over the turn of the night as was the other attendants. He stated to-day that some fever was to be expected and that the swollen neck was not necessarily within itself an exceeding dangerous sign. Blood ] Continued on Page ".[ ITALIAN'S SHELL A WHALE Rome, July 19.—The Tribuna states that a whale was sighted off of the is | land of Gorgana, opposite Pisa. It was mistaken for a hostile submarine I and was shelled and killed by a de stroyer. THAW REFUSES TO TALK DURING REQUEST OF MOTHER Harry K. Thaw .enroule to his home in Pittsburgh, was in Harris burg for 15 minutes to-day. For thfc first time since his release from Mattewan Asylum, he refused to talk. It is understood that he is silent at the request of his mother. In company with Daniel Dean, a New York detective, whose duty is to deliver Thaw safely at this home in Pittsburgh, and five New York news papermen, Thaw arrived in Harris burg on Pittsburgh Express, at 11:30 this morning. The party occupied a stateroom in one of the parlor cars. When the train stopped in Union station Detective Dean anchored him self at the door of the stateroom and refused to admit any person. The only applicants to see Thaw personally were two newspapermen. Thaw sat at a window on the left side of the MEXICAN CAPITAL IN GRIP OF STARVATION Thousands of People Drink Blood Saved For Them at Slaughter Houses - By Associated Press Washington, D. C., July 19. State Department dispatches to-day from Nogales confirm earlier reports of the victory of Carranza troops over Villa forces at Anavacachi, Sonora. The triumphant forces took possession of Cananea. American Consul Silliman reported the arrival of large quantities of food at Vera Cruz and that wireless com munication between Vera Cruz and Mexico City probably would be estab lished to-day by means of the new ]Continued on Page 7.[ CIRCUIT'COURT OF APPEALS UPHOLDS FIGHT "MOVIE" LAW By Associated Press New York, July 19. Attorneys for ti.. Lawrence Webber received word from Philadelphia to-day that the United States Circuit Court of Appeals had handed down a decision in the case which Webber brought against the deputy customs collector of New ark for an injunction restraining him from preventing: Webber bringing Into the United States, the Willard-John son fight films. The decision sustained the constitutionality of the law against the Importation of fight films. » FIGHTING ON ran REPORTED Allies, Attacking Along Entire Front, Are Said to Have Been Successful ITALIAN CRUISER SUNK President Wilson Returns to Wash ington to Draft Reply to German Note The Italian armored cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi has been torpedoed and sunk in the Adriatic by an Aus trian submarine, it is officially reported from Viciui. The destroyed warship, which displaced 7,284 tons and had a complement of 550 men was laid down 17 years ago. News dispatches from Athens re port hard lighting on the GalUpoli peninsula with the forces of the entente allies attacking along the. whole front. The attacks are said to have been successful but there is no definite news as to the extent of the ground said to be gained. Belated dispatches from Russia tell of the concentration of the great Anstro-German forces on the 100-mile line lietweqn the Vistula and the Bug. It is here tliat severe pressure is now being put by Elcld Marshal Von Mackcnseii upon th'c Russian forces in the gTcat Teutonic move against the armies of the Grand Duke Nicholas which has brought forth simultaneous attacks all along the front from the Baltic provinces to Bessarabia. Rus sia's army opposing General Aon Mackcnseii is declared to be one of the best she has ever put into the field. President Wilson has returned to Washington for conference at wblch the reply of the United States to the I latest German note of submarine war fare will be taken up. car. He wore grey trousers, and a white shirt with a small black stripe. His head was bare. Thaw looked weary. When his name was men tioned he looked up cautiously and then referred to the newspapermen as his representatives. "Thaw Is anxious to get home," was the remark made by one of the mem bers of the party. "He has decided to do no talking until he reaches his home at Pittsburgh," spoke' up the representative of the New York World. Before the question as to the reason of Thaw's silence could be put to one of the newspapermen, the de tective intimated that Thaw's silence was due to a series of telegrams re ceived from his mother since yester day. ]Continued on Page 7.[ SEEK GRANDFATHER MISSING 50 YEARS Believed to Have Owned Oil Wells; Alleged "Flimflammer" Cause of Search Believing that her grandfather who has been missing since 1863, was the owner of several valuable oil wells in Franklin county, Mrs. J. Rhoads, of 1806 Wallace street has Instituted a search in an attempt to ascertain his present whereabouts or the facts con cerning his possible death. The grand father's name was John Martin Michael and he was last seen on a canal boat in Baltimore in 1863. He was a resident of Snyder county then. Mrs. Rhoads stated this morning that the reason for the renewal of the search Just at this time is that about two years ago, a well-dressed man came to see her one evening and [Continued on Page 7] Body of L. W. Bates, Jr., Found on Irish Coast By Associated Press London, July 19. A body sup posed to be that of Lindon W. Bates, Jr., of New York, who lost his life on the Lusltania, has been washed ashore on the Limerick coast. A telegram to that effect was received from Wesley Frost, American Consul at Queenstown by Newton B. Knox, an American min ing engineer and friend of Mr. Bates. 10 PAGES CRUISER GARIBALDI SUNK BY SUBMARINE Italian Vessel Struck by Austrian! Torpedo, Founders Within Fifteen Minutes ATTACK MADE NEAR RAGASA Official Announcement of Success of Germany's Ally Made in Vienna By Associated Press Berlin, July 19, by wireless to Say ville, L. I.—The following official com munication was received here to-day from Vienna, under date of July 18: "An Austrian submarine tills morn ing torpedoed and sank south of I Ragasn. the Italian cruiser Giuseppe I Garibaldi. The cruiser foundered ! within 13 minutes. ! The Giuseppe Garibaldi was an ' armored cruiser of 7,234 tons displace j ment. She was 344 feet long and was | laid down in 1898. Her complement I was 350 men. She was armed with j one ten inch, two 8-inch, fourteen six- I inch and ten three-inch guns. • More Trouble For the Upper End Commissioner County Commissioner John H. Eby, of Lykens. candidate for renomination on the Democratic ticket on a brand new platform built for the exigencies of this year, is face to face with more trouble. At first he thought he was going to ride in on the machine band wagon with reorganization banners. Then he found Sheriff H. C. Wells, who is a Democratic campaigner of the old-fashioned get-there type, had an nounced he would be a candidate, next Samuel W. Taylor declared he thought he would be a candidate too. And now Charles S. Keefer, a form er Harrisburg policeman, who lives in ! Upper Paxton not far from Millers- I burg and who has many friends and I relatives in the upper end. is out as a candidate. This makes two Demo cratic aspirants from the upper end jand a contender right in Eby's own | bailiwick. Worse than that Keefer j has pre-empted one of Eby's shouting I mottoes: "I promise to give each tax payer a square deal." And worse still, Keefer says: "If nominated and elected I promise to give the office m'- entire attention." T DAVID LLOYD GEORGE TO TALK TO MEN ' ¥ | July 19, 3.56 P. M. —David Lloyd George, Mir ' I ts at last takeij a hand in the Soutl IJ V Wales coal strike and announced his intention of going t f Cardiff to-nijht to have a talk with the men. 1 I I Chicago, July 19. —Max Palenske, cashier of the Drc m ers' National Bank, for whom detectives have been search- 1 , 1 ing for several days, surrendered himself and confessed to ■ 5 1 having embezzled approximately $30,000. Officials of the ' ' bank declared that the institution will lose nothing as Palen- ! < i ske was under bonds. ' * FIFTEEN RESCUED FROta DROWNING jj! , r Kenton, 0., July 19.—Fifteen persons, standing up to t thei. necks in water, and nearly di'owned, were rescued early J | * , to-day from a flood-submerged house in the Scioto marsh, 1 , ' near Foraker, a suburb of Kenton. The rescuing party, com- \! J ed Si rowboat While they 1 > • I were saving those endangered, the water rose six inches in ] . j I the :: arsh ► < Island Park.—Harrisburg 2; Richmond 0. Third inning. | ► * WOMAN IS PROSTRATED BY THE HEAT J ; , Harrisburg. Mrs. Annie Diebly, an inmate of the ■ i county home was prostrated by the heat at noon while walk- ' , 1 ing at Second and Vine streets. She was rushed to the Har < ® risburg Hospital where physicians revived her. ' P | REV. SNYDER B. SIMES DIES | » Philadelphia, July 19.—Word was received to-day that j , the Snyder B. Simes, for more than fifty years rector J I < I of historic Old Swedes Church, in this city, died suddenly 1► | last night at Falmouth, Mass. I 1 CASUALTIES TOTAL 42,434 l \ * London, July 19, 3.26 P. M.—The total casualties of the ' | ( Dardanelles expeditionary force to date in killed, wounded | J ® and missing have been 42,434 officers and men, Premie. ; j Asquith told the House of Commons to-day. The total in , | I eludes both'naval and military branches of the service. , Harrisburg. Lower Paxton township voters will no\« ; I vote at the warehouse of S. A. Fishburn instead of Paxtonia 1 * I Inn. . ...... . t v i- : £ MARRIAGE LICENSES Victor Jackson Dunson and France* >im\oy Hroirn, city. Charles Barrldr Warren asd Mary Yence, Mlddlctow n. (ieorsr Lra««ol l.ngan, Richmond, Ind., and Jane Scott, city. I [ < . Arthur G. Wllaon, New York, and Margaret E. Wilson. Milton. i C Wert Jones and Jaale Fields, Steeltou. w "MWP i wB * POSTSCRIPT NEW NOTE TO BE OF DEFINITE CHARACTER President Wilson Returns to Wash ington and Immediately Con fers With Lansing WILL ANNOUNCE INTENTION Prompt Action in Dispatching Reply to Latest German Note Is Forecasted Washington, D. C., July 19.—Presi dent Wilson and Secretary Lansing to-day discussed in detail a draft ot the note to be sent to Germany this week informing the imperial govern ment what the United States will do if there is further violation of American rights on the high seas. The return of President Wilson from Cornish. N. H., gave Secretary Lansing his first opportunity- to confer with the President, which followed as the result of Germany's failure to satisfy the American demands in the note of June 20. It was understood that the President and Secretary Lansing had reached about the same conclusions—that the next communication to Germany will be of a definite character, making it unmistakably clear that the United States cannot be expected to remain passive in the event of another attack on an unarmed and unresisting ship with a loss of Americans. The note, it is now practically agreed, will announce to Germany the ] Continued -on Pa«e 7,[ Intoxicated Foreigner Is Killed on Rockville Bridge; Companion Hurt One foreigner was instantly killed and another badly Injured when they were struck by an engine and cabin car while walking across the Rock ville bridge, yesterday morning. John Caparali, aged 22, employed as a laborer by the Pennsylvania Rail road was cut to pieces. His head was severed from the body and the com plete skull has not yet been found. Raphaele Dirado, his companion was taken to the Harrisburg hospital with a badly crushed leg and other in juries. His foot was amputated. The men liver near ZA tower at Heckton. Coroner Eckinger after an investiga tion said that the men were Intoxi ' cated and that they were staggering i home across the bridge from Marys ville.
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