American Warships Speeding Under Full Steam to Mexico to Project Foreigners
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 185
STATE POLICEMEN
WILL BE ASKED FOR
By RIVERSIDE FOLK
Want Commonwealth's Patrol toj
Help Rout Out Italian Park
Crap Shooters
TOWNSPEOPLE ELECT OFFICERS |
Improved Road Conditions De
manded in Monthly Meeting
of Residents
Residents of Riverside held their
August Town meeting last night In the
Riverside M. E. church, Third and
Lewis streets, and elected the follow
ing officers to serve for one year: Pro
fessor C. A. Ellen berger, president; C.
L. Rhoads, vice president; Fred O.
Smith, secretary; Frank R. Oyster,
assistant secretary and H. C. Miller,
treasurer.
A resolution was unanimously
adopted Instructing President Ellen
berger to communicate with Major
Lumb. of the State Constabulary, and
to request that the patrol system of
the constabulary include the Riverside
district if possible.
Residents have made complaints,
that windows were broken, maliciously
It is believed, in the public school
building, and that at least a hundred
crap shooters infest Italian Park south
of Riverside each Sunday, wantonly
shooting revolvers and guns.
Speeding along Riverside Drive with
cut-outs open is also being protested
and the residents said that repeated
appeals to the constable, nave brought
no results. The citizens have deter
mined to make an appeal to the State
for aid.
Bad roads are also in evidence, ac
cording to the citizens who are up in
arms because the township supervisors
have not made repairs ana remedied
conditions.
The committee on street lighting
made a report, statipg that there is
universal Interest in having well
lighted streets, and that with only a
few exceptions all tho citizens are
cheerfully contributing regularly to
this necessary feature. The collectors
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Germans Give Ideas of
Acceptable Peace Terms
By Associated Press
Berne, via Paris, Aug. 11.—The Tag
wacht prints the text of a manifesto
Issued by a group of German pro
fessors and intellectuals enumerating
their ideas of the only acceptable peace
terms. These, according to the mani
festo, must insure the free expansion
of German culture, industry and com
merce. Belgium for military and com
mercial purposes must be subject to
Germany. France must cede to Ger
many all territory north of from
Belfort to the mouth of the river
Somme and pay a large indemnity.
Rrssia must cede Poland and the
greater part of the Baltic provinces
and other territory in lieu of indem
nity which she could not pay.
JfEED MONEY FOR CONCERTS
The Municipal Band Concert As
sociation made another appeal to-day
for funds. To complete the series of
concerts, $l5O Is needed. A committee
will call upon merchants. The
treasurer, Clarence O. Backenstoss
will receive contributions at the
mayor's office.
Vacation season Is at Its height.
Rest and recreation will not be
complete unless you have all the
news from home daily.
Tour favorite newspaper. The
Harrisburg Telegraph, will fill the
gap.
The cost Is the same as when
you are home, six cents a week.
Call The Circulation Depart
ment or drop a postal.
THE WEATHER
For Harrisburg and vicinity« Un
settled weather to-night and
Thursday, with probably ihow
erai not much change In tem
perature.
For Eastern Pennsylvania! Unset
tled to-night and Thursday, prob
ably shorrerst gentle north to
northeast winds.
River
The Snsqnehanna river and Its prin
cipal tributaries will continue to
fall slowly to-night and probably
Thursday. A stage of about ,1.2
feet Is Indicated for Harrisburg
Thursday morning.
General Conditions
Under the Influence of a disturb
ance of small energy, now central
over Western Tennessee, showers
occurred In the last twenty-four
hours In the Ohio Valley and
Tennessee and In the Gulf States
and South C'nrollna.
Temperature) 8 a. m., 70.
Sunt Rises, 5i13 a. m.( sets, 7:07
p. m.
Moon: First quarter, August 17,
f**l7 p. m.
River Stage) 5.6 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 81.
I.owest temperature, OS.
Mean temperature, 73.
Normal temperature, 73.
"HATCHET FIEND"-
CAUGHT BELIEVE
STEELTON POLICE
Attacked Sick Woman Last Night;
Nabbed by Officers This
Morning
PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE
Mrs. Annie Gutschall, 669 South
Front St., Identifies
Assailant
Two foreigners, one of whom Is be
lieved by the police to be the "hatchet
fiend" who has terrorized Steelton
women for months, attacked Mrs. An
nie Gutschall, an Invalid woman, of
66! i South Front street, shortly after
11 o'clock last night.
This morning Constable John Gibb
arrested a foreigner who gave his
name as Joseph Caleto. The prisoner
was taken to the home of Mrs. Gut
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Bicycle Thieves Baffle
Police; Average of
8 a Week Stolen
The Police Department is once more
up against it in trying to get a line on
bicycle thieves. During the last four
weeks an average of eight bicycres
have been stolen each week In Ha'rris
burg. This week's reports show five
wheels stolen. It is believed to be
the work of -boys.
EERRO CO. TO BUILD
NEW 19 ST. BRIDGE
Lowest of Five Bidders Who Sub- i
mit Proposals to County Com
missioners at Noon Today
Five bids for the construction of
the new concrete bridge that, is to
span the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad "cut" at Nineteenth street
were opened at noon to-day by the
county commissioners. The bids
were:
Ferro-Concrete Company, $17,-
866; Whittaker and Diehl, $lB,-
630; Reimard Brothers. $18,722;
S. W. Shoemaker and Son, $19,-
117; Stucker Brothers Construc
tion Company, $19,430.
With the exception of Whittaker
and Diehl all the bidders agreed to
finish the lob in ninety days; Whit
taker and Diehl promised to do it In
120 days.
In addition to submitting proposals
on lump sums for the viaduct each
contractor put In his prices for the
"extras." The Ferro Company offered
to do extra excavating at $1.50 per
cubic yard, extra concreting- at $8 per
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C. V. PHONE CO, I
TO BE REORGANIZED!
Will Put Forth Active Effort For
Increased Number of Har
risburg Subscribers
The Cumberland Valley Telephone
Company which has been operated by
Henry M. Tracy, receiver, since
January 1. 1912, is rabidly approach-I
ing the reorganization period. Since
Mr. Tracy, as receiver, has had |
charge of the property, he has spent
several hundred thousand dollars on
the rehabilitation of the Bystem In
general, and has placed the property
In a better physical condition than it
has been for the last ten years.
The company is now In a healthy
financial condition, having no obliga
tions whatever, outside of unpaid bond
interest, which will be eliminated by
the reorganization proceedings. There
fore, the company will start out after
the reorganization without any debts
whatsoever.
Foreclosure Sale Nov. 5
After the reorganization, which will
be brought about after the foreclosure
sale, which will be held in Harrisburg,
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American Reply May
Settle Frye Dispute
Washington, D. C., Aug. 11. Ad
ministration officials to-day were hope
ful that the American reply to the last
German note regarding the sinking of
the American ship William P. Frye
dispatched to Berlin last night would
result in a settlement of the dispute
growing out of the Incident. The
communication probably will be given
out for publication Saturday.
The United States, It is said, agrees
to accept payment for the Frye, as
proposed by Germany, the amount to
be fixed by a German-American Com
mission, although It reiterates that
destruction of the vessel was In con
travention of the Prussian-American
treaty of 1828. Acceptance of the
commission method make* an appeal
to arbitration at The Hague unneces
sary. t
GRAND DUKE MADE COMMAXDEK
London, Aug. 11, 10:40 a. m. —The
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, accord
ing to the Athens corespondent of the
Star, has been appointed commander
in-chief of the Turkish forces In the
Dardanelles, succeeding Field Marshal
Llman Von Sanders.
HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1915.
HARRISBVRG GUARDSMEN PEGGING THE BULL'S EYE
HARD AT ANNUAL EIGHTH REGIMENTAL RIFLE MATCHES
The marksmen of Companies I and D, Eighth Regiment, this city, won the 300 and 500-yard matches at the
annual regimental shoot at Lucknow range yesterday. The Harrisburg boys are hitting the bull's eye nearly every
shot. They are seen at the top, left to right, as follows: Sergeant Kennedy, Co. I; Sergeant Rogers, Co. I; Cor
poral Gerdes, Co. D, 'and Corporal Burtnett, Co. D.
Below ts seen Keiser, Co.. M, of Lewistown, shooting at 300 yards. The marksmen who are competing are
grouped at the bottom.
ELUSIVE NYMPH ALMOST
BREAKS UP MILITARY CAMP
Frockless Maiden Flits About Woods Giving Fleeting
Glimpses, but Easily Eluding Pursuers
Lacrosse, Wis., Aug. 11. —A portion
of the United States army encamped
at Sparta has been suddenly demoral
ized without the firing of a shot. The
mysterious nude wood nymph, who
startled Farmer Val Busby almost out
of his boots and successfully eluded
Sheriff George Boss, Humane Officer
George Manuel and several posses of
Spartans until to-day, is the demoraliz
ing agency. She appeared on the fringe
of woods near the encampment and It
was with the utmost difficulty that
maneuvers were continued. After the
excitement subsided and the soldiers
were in nervous slumber a sentry saw
her again right in the midst of the
camp, but at the command to halt she
scampered into the woods.
Officers hunting for the mysterious
woman have found plenty of foot
prints. They believed her insane and
they say the soldiers at camp soon
would have been, too, had she not been
captured.
Tourists' camps, which are thickly
scattered throughout the vicinity, were
much wrought up over the beautiful
COMMISSI DECIDES
FREIGHT RATE CASE
Increases in Some Western Pro
ducts Permitted; Other Re
quests Denied
Washington, AUK. 11. —The Inter
state Commerce Commission to-day
gave its decision in the Western
freight rate rase allowing advances in
bituminous coal, coke, fruit and vege
tables and denying increases on grain,
livestock, packinghouse products, fer
tilizers and broom corn. The deci
sion allows some of the increases ask
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IKRUPT PRINCE HAS
28 CENTS IN CASH
Pignatelli, Owing $36,545.32, In
cludes Forty Shirts in
His Assets
New York, Aug. 11. —Prince Ludovi
co Pignatelli d'Aragon, former secre
tary of the Spanish Legation in Wash
i ington. whose elopement and marriage
Iwith Ruth Morgan Waters last May
caused a sensation, is bankrupt. Ac
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SEEN THE NEW JITNEY SIGN?
It's "Übique" and Means "Everywhere"
—Used in West
Have you seen the new Jitney bus
sign?
"Übique"—Latin for everywhere. Is
what it says.
Edward F. Eisley, president of the
j Jitney Club of Harrisburg, is the first
Harrisburg jitney owner to use the
new sign on bis cars.
"Someone told me about it being
used in the west," said Mr. Eisley to
day. "I thought it was a good thing
in view of the fact that Jitney is be
coming quite common. You see It
in windows and advertisements. Of
course iti will not affect the price.
1 'Ubique' sounds good to me."
wood nymph. The sentry who saw
her agrees with farmers and trainmen
that she is strikingly beautiful. Her
sole attire was a smile and a dainty
lace boudoir cap. Her footprints
ishow that she has small, shapely
feet. The conviction grows that she
is a member of some camp of "back
to-nature faddists," or that she is sim
ply having an immense amount of fun
at the expense of the countryside. A
proposition, believed to have' ema
nated from a coterie of jealous women,
that bloodhounds be employed to run
down the "nymph" and solve the prob
lem. was rejected.
The officers refuse to give any de
tails of her capture, nor will the girl |
talk." She is now in the care of the
sheriff's family and has been properly j
clothed. There are hints that she is a !
member of a prominent Lacrosse fam- |
ily. She is a decided blonde, with an
immense wealth of goldon bronze hair.
According to the officers, she is very
pretty and has a figure that would get
her Into the first row of any chorus in
the country.
MAI BUILD IMNCH
SEWERJN GREEN ST.
Section From Hamilton to Maclay
Suggested to Relieve Unsatis
factory Drainage
If sufficient money can be found by
City Commissioner W. H. Lynch, su
perintendent of streets and public Ini'
provements, relief for the impossible
sewer conditions in the west end of
the,city will be a question of the very
near future.
The plan Is to build a new 12-inch
sewer in Green street from Hamilton
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RIOT CALL TURNED IN
10 STOP FIST FIGHT
6 Cops Rush to Fifth and Straw
berry Where Two Turks
Had Set-To
Dispute as to the ownership of a
dress .suit case containing valuable
merchandise, caused an ugly fight be
tween two Turks at Fifth and Straw
berry streets this morning. A riot
cull was sent to the police department.
[Motorcycle Officer Paul Schelhas and
i five patrolmen went to the scene of
| battle.
M. A. Rasas, aged 28 years, and
Jimmy Cheary, 21, were found en
gaged in a lively fist fight. Rasas was
badly used up. Both men were ar
rested. Rasas put up a $lO forfeit for
his appearance this afternoon, and
Cheary went to jail.
Rasas claims that he hired Cheary
to help him sell the goods! The pair
came to Harrisburg last night from
Wilmington. This morning Rasas left
Promises to Get Out of City If
Ho claims to have round the merchan
dise sometime later in the dreEs suit
case in possession of Cheary, he says,
who was trying to make a get away.
Mayor John K. Royal was puzzled this
afternoon as to what disposition to
moke of the case. Both were fined $6
each for fighting on the streets.
CO. I Wilis in
HONRS 111 SHIT
Captures Rapid Fire Match With
262; Two Men on Senior
Regiment Team
Winning the 200 and 300 rapid-fire
and 600-ynrd slow-fire event this after
noon on the Lucknow range, Com
pany I. of Harrisburg. again won high
honors in the annual Eighth Regiment
shoot.
Sergeants Kennedy and Roger*. the
Company T marksmen, made t total
score of 262, capturing the eveni and
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OXE DEAD IX AtlTO ACCIDENT
By Associated Press
Cleveland, 0., Aug. 11.—George F.
Murray, 35, was killed and five men
were seriously injured early to-day
when an automobile in whioh the
party was returning from the Grifflths-
Saylor prize fight at Asron, crashed
down a fifty-foot embankment after
leaping through the rail or a bridge
| over the Erie railroad tracks, several
miles southeast of the city.
RUSSIANS MAY SOOT
EVACUATE FORTRESS
Kovno, Important Point in Line of
Defense, Is Being Stormed
by Germans
German attacks on Kovno, an Im
portant point in the Russian line of
defense in the north, have been press
ed so vigorously that preparations for
the possible evacuation of the fortress
are reported to be under way.
Elsewhere along the fighting front
in the east the Teutonic pressure is
still being strongly exerted and except
at isolated points the Russian retire
ment is indicated by the official re
ports to be continuing.
Quiet prevailed for the most part
along the front In France. The Paris
War Office reported cannonading and
| bomb operations In the Artois district.
] The only other activity noted was in
the Argonne where the Germans
I violently bombarded the French posi
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Telegraph Invites Views
of Boys and Girls on
City Improvements
In view of the great Interest In
■the September celebration of the
first big program of improvements
for Harrisburg, the Telegraph de
sires to get the views of the girls
and boys of the city upon the value
I of these improvements to them.
I In order to encourage these ex
| pressions from the school girls and
\ boys of Harrisburg the Telegraph
is going to offer a series of three
prizes for papers not to exceed 200
words in length upon the theme,
"Why is Harrisburg a Better City
For tlie Girls and Boys as a Re
sult of Improvements of the Last
Fifteen Years."
This contest will begin Septem-
I ber Ist and continue to September
IB inclusive. All papers will be
| submitted to a committee of com
petent judges and prizes of $5.00,
I $3.00 and $2.00 will be awarded for
the best threo papers.
Further particulars will be an
nounced later. Public and private
schools are Included. The most
meritorious of all the papers sub
mitted will be printed.
12 PAGES
CARRANZA FROWNS ON
ANY PLAN TO FRUSTRATE
SUCCESS OF HIS ARMY
Thousands of Carranza Troops Cross Border Into Texas
and Attempt to Rally Mexicans in That State to Be
gin Uprisings; Notification of Carranza's Attitude Is
Sent to All Participants of Pan-American Confer-
By Associate Press
Washington, 1). C., Aug. 11.—Re
assuring dispatches from Vera
Cruz to the State Department to
day said the governor had given
out a public statrment deprecating
the anti-foreign demonstration and
incendiary speeches and that quiet
was restored.
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Aug. 11.—Gen
eral Carranza, through his Washing
ton agents to-day notified Secretary
Lansing that "the Mexican people view
with displeasure" any attempt tending
to frustrate the success of Carranza's
armed forces. Carranza's message re
ferred to the Pan-American conference
and was taken as plainly signifying he I
would not agree with its action toward
Mexican affairs.
Reports have reached here that
more than one thousand Carranza
troops from the command of General
Navarette in the State of Tamalipas
have moved over into Texas in the
territory surrounding Brownsville and
have scattered Into bands to rally
Mexicans in that State the announced
purpose of beginning an uprising. They
are reported to be under command of
Juan Delos Santos, Vlncente Davlla
and Carlos Garcia. War Department
officials would not discuss the report,
but it was said to be ;n their posses
sion and probably would be one of
the reasons for moving troops to the
border.
Notifies Others
Carranza also has sent a similar
notification to the diplomatic repre
sentatives of all the Latin-American
republics participating in the Mexican
conference, saying that any attempt
between them and the American Gov
ernment to solve the internal situation
of Mexico, "would involve an act which
could not be looked upon with levity,
as it would mean on the part of the
Latin-American nations the acceptance
of the precedent that they can take
part In any internal affairs of a sister
nation with the co-operation of the
United States, something absolutely
FLEET ORDERED TO BE READY I
Washington, Aug. 11. — Orders have been issued to the 9
Atlantic fleet now at Newport, R. 1., to be.prepared to sail I
for Mexican waters. K
PLAYS OFF TENNIS FINALS 1
® The final match in the mens singles in the city tennis
tournament championship is being played at Reservoir Park ' \
I between Charles Polleck and J. L, Lightner. They were | !
still playing at 4 o'clock. < r
MEXICANS IN RUNNING FIGHT
I Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 11. Forty or fifty Mexicans ]'l
J
were in a running fight this afternoon about twelve miles j i
from Harlin, i detachment of soldiers reinforced by jj|
a citizens' posse. The same Me> re seen earlier j y
the day trotting their horses westward, toward Mercedes. j"
There were then about forty of them. < u
i I
y Chicago, Aug. 11. —Indictments charging manslaugh*-. < 1
and criminal carelessness, were returned before Judge Ker- j
, sten in the criminal court to-day in connection with the j I
Eastland disaster. The captain and engineer and four oi , i
" fleers of the St. Steamship Compay, own- i |
P era of the boat, are named. ¥
J Berlin, Aug. 11, via London, 4.10 P. M.—The German L,
a War Office announced to-day the occupation of the fortress 1 .
o4 Benjaminow which lies to the east of Novogeorgievsk,
t the Russian stronghold on the Vistula, northwest of War- * *
saw.
Laredo, Texas, Aug. It.—A request for more troops in P
the Laredo district because of bitter feelings of some Mex- j
icans over the nonrecognition of Carranza, was wired the I \
State Department.to-day by United States Consul Alonzo B. 1 ,
Garrett, of Nuevo Laredo, opposite here. , ►
• London, Aug. 11, 3.15 P. M.—The sinking of nine more
craft was announ«ed this afternoon. They were the British »
I ertearner Oakwood, the Norwegian Bark Morna and seven i
trawlers. Tha crews of all the vessels were saved. L
■ MARRIAGE LICENSES ~
Willi* It Coleman and Anna Beatrice McLaughlin, city. I
* POSTSCRIPT.
undesirable, not only insofar as it majr
affect the relations between the Latin-
American nations themselves, and also
because it might invoive the moral
support of any future decisions which
grow out of similar conferences."
Carranza's communication delivered
on his behalf by his Washington agent,
Klesio Arredondo, was regarded as
little less than a defiance of the United
States in its effort to bring all the
Mexican factions into a conference foe
peaceful settlement of Mexican af
fairs.
What the next move of the Pan-
American conference, iti session In
New York to-day would tie in the face
o.f Carranza's warning that he intend
ed to brook no outside interference in
Mexican affairs was e«<erly awaited.
Surprise Kxprcsncd
In a letter to Secretary Lansing,
Arredondo expresses surprise that a
Pan-American conference had under
taken to devise a plan for the pacifica
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13-Year-01d Bride Gets
License; Ought to Be
in School, Says Mamma
The youngest bride-to-be that ever
got a license at the Dauphin county
bureau is pretty Anna Beatrice Mc-
Laughlin.
She is to wed Willis R. Coleman
and her husband will be just two years
less than twice his little wife's age.
Miss McLaughlin smilea when the
bureau clerk asked If she had parental
consent and produced the necessary
certificate. She laughed some more
when she was asked to sign her
name and apologized for her penman
| ship.
"Mamma told me not BO very lons
ago," said »he, "that I really ought to
be going to school 'stead o' going In
(for housework!"
The future Mrs. Coleman Is Just thlr-
I teen years old.