Besetted Philadelphia Wife Goes to Bedside HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXY— No. 4 HARD COAL PRICE *. INCREASE TO BE PROBED BY STATE Governor Names Commission I Following Refusal of Antlira- j cite Tax Rehearing MAKE DEALERS DISGORGE I Thomas Martindalc First on Rodv Appointed to Con duct the Inquiry Governor Brumbaugh to-day promptly followed up (lie refusal of the State supreme court to grant a rehearing: in the anthracite coal tax •ase by naming: a commission to probe the Increase in prices which were put on coal under the guise of State tax. This movement is the first in the rampaign to make the operators and dealers disgorge what they have taken for a tax which has been declared unconstitutional. The court knocked out the act of 1913, which had been upheld here, and owing to the classification issue that carried down the act of 1915 as well. The operators, however, made no attempt to make any return of the money when the tax was overturned and the auditor general is prepared to escheat the money. The Governor recently declared that he intended to see thai the people got all the protec tion that the law would give. The supreme court refused a re hearing Saturday, but it was only an nounced to-day. None of the State officials would discuss the action of the court, but the Governor lost no time in acting. He was empowered l>y the legislative resolution of June 15. 1918, to name a commission of three to investigate cause of the advance in prices and selected as the commission Thomas Martitulale, of Philadelphia: Ex-Judge Kobert S. Oawthrop, West Chester, and John l.angdon. of Huntingdon. All have accepted and the inquiry will be start ed in a short time. The commission is authorized to call upon the at torney general for legal advice and lias an appropriation of S3OOO for ex penses. The enactment of this resolution followed complaints to the legislators that additions, alleged to be unjusti fied. had been made to the price of coal because of the anthracite tax. When the supreme court declared the tax unconstitutional recently the ~ attorney general asked a rehearing which was refused. Meanwhile the auditor general's department took steps to escheat to the State any money collected by coal operators or others for tax to which they were not entitled. At the Capitol to-day it was stated that the future course of the State in regard to return of the money would [Continued on Page 13.] Publishers of Menace Are Placed on Trial By Associated Press Joplin. Mo.. Jan. 11.—The Menace Publishing Company, of Aurora. Mo., and several of its officers were called into federal court here to-day for trial on charges of misusing the mails. Indictments were returned. Six counts in the indictments were leveled at items alleged to have been printed in The Menace, a weekly publication, alleged to have been distributed throughout the I'nited States mail bv The Menace Publishing Company. The seventh count concerned certain mes sages in a book entitled "The Pope, "'liief of White Slavers: High Priest of Intrigue," of which the defendants 'Mere charged with being the dis tributors. The eighth count charged sending information through the mails as to where the book might be ob tained. U'XIUARY WTI.T/ EI.KCT Special to the Tclctraph Wnrmleysburg. Pa.. Jan. 11.—The 1 -adies' Auxiliary of the Wormleys j.i.rg Fire Company will meet to-night at the home of Mrs. 11. r:. Booso. This is the regular time for the election of officers for the coming jcar. THE WEATHER] For llnrrlsbiirg and ilHnlt.T: Fair and colder to-night, with loneat Irmprraturr about HO ilrsrrmi \\ t'ilnr«<lay unsettled, probably anow or sleet. For Fnatrrn IViinn.vlvnnln: < loudr and colder to-night; Wednesday cloud.v, probably snow or sleet Id northern and western portions; moderate to north winds. River The river and all Its tributaries wtll fall slowly or re main about stationary. A stage of about 5.1) feet Is indicated for liarrlshorK Wednesday morning. General Conditions The lake storm has moved to the \ortli Atlantic const. It caused rain and sleet In the last tnentv. four hours over practically all the eastern half of the country except Florida and Kastern South Caro lina. The Pacific const storm has moved southeastward to _\>w Mexico. In connection with the cold, high pressure area to the northward it has caused light -now and rain over practlealiv all V the western half of the country. An area of high pressure, with a . cold wave, covers the Northwest. Temperatures are rero to 80 or more degrees below In liinneaotn, the Dakotas. Northern Wyoming mid Mnntaiin and In the West ern Canadian provinces. Tem peratures have fallen In practic ally all districts except the Atlan tic and Gulf States. Temperature: R a. m., -10. Sun: Klses, 71-7 a. m.; sets, 4:Rg I*, ra. Mooa: Full inoon. January 20, 3:29 a. m. Hlver Stage; ».J feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather lllKhest temperatnre. SR. I.owest temperature, it. llean temperature, .10. Aormai temperature, ill, DEMOCRAT RAPS PARTY'S RECORD IN BITTER WORDS Senator Newlands Severely' Scores Wilson Administra- I tion in Senate | SEES DEFEAT AHEAD Declares War Was All That | Saved Them at Last Elec- j tion; Knocks Tariff By Associated Press Washington, D. C„ Jan. 11.—Sen ator Newlands, of Nevada, Democrat, attacked his party's record in the Sen ate to-day, delivering a long prepared speech In which he criticised the tariff and banking reforms—the chief legis lative achievements of the Wilson ad ministration. He declared that because there had been indusirial and com mercial depression coterminous with Democratic control of legislation, the party would be ill danger of defeat at the next presidential election unless the European war continued and made the President's "sagacious and firm" handling of foreign affairs the over- I shadowing issue. Although he characterized the gen eral trend of Democratic legislation as commendable, the senator asserted that the party was too radical, and expressed the conviction "that no po litical party can hope to remain in power which adopts radical instead of evolutionary methods of reform." sees Defeat Ahead Danger of a Democratic defeat in the congressional elections of 1914, he said, was "averted only by ihe Euro pean war, which brought into sudden contrast the President's policy of watchful waiting regarding Mexico, with the mad haste of the European nations as they rushed into war, and [Continued on Page la.] Three Explosions in Short Time at Du Ponts Make Workmen Apprehensive Special to the Telegraph Wilmington. Del., Jan. 11.—Three explosions in less than seventeen hours, with a total of three men Killed and one hurt, have caused a decided feeling of uneasiness among the em ployes of the Du Pont powder plants. There also is a feeling of anxiety among the officers of the company, even though they still positively declare the explosions were due to accidental causes and there is no suspicion of spies or plots. The number of killed and injured is comparatively small, considering the number of explosions, but the number and the fact that they occurred within a few hours of each other is what caused the real anxiety. Two explosions occurred within an hour or a little more of each other in the Haglev yard yesterday afternoon, following the explosion at Carney Point in the morning. The first ex plosion amounted to little, but it oc curred in precisely the same kind of mill as the one at Carney Point earlier in the day, except that prismatic in stead of sporting powder was being made. Only five pounds of powder exploded, but Joseph Golt, who was in charge of the mill, was slightly bruised. A little over an hour later there was a crash which was almost as great as the noise of the explosion at Carney Point in the early morning. Buildings in Wilmington were shaken and the second severe explosion within such a short time caused more than the usual excitement. The second explosion oc jcurred in what is known as a' mealing mill, where black sporting powder is ground. About 300 pounds of powder went off in the second explosion. Asserts Central Powers Have Whip Hand of U. S. By Associated Press I.ondon, Jan. 11, 9.53 A. M.—"lt ; seems to us that on present lines the ! central powers have the whip hand of the United States." says the Man chester Guardian in an editorial re garding Germany's new promises in the submarine controversy. America's diplomatic victory, the paper goes on to say, is limited to promises, as President. Wilson's two principles adopted at the beginning of the controversy, namely, protection of Americans and assertion of the laws of humanity, have been violated dur ing the past six weeks in the Mediter ranean with some of the worst sub marine outrages. SAVES SOX FROM I.VW How George W. Sloop, a former resident of Steellon, saved the life of his son Kenneth in the Santa Anna canyon. California. recently, was learned by friends here to-day. While hunting in the canyon, Sloop, junior, was attacked by a lynx. His father killed the animal. The Sloops for merly lived in Lincoln street. Mr. Sloop is now manager of a large orange grove in California. JITNEY IX.TVRES MAX Noah Mulfair. 1725 Fulton street, clerk in an uptown grocery store, was struck last night by a jitney near Second apd Locust streets. He was hurried to the Harrisburg hospital suffering from concussion of the brain and other bruises and lacerations. He will recover, it is believed. PLAN COI'NCIL HAXQI'ET Plans for the annual banquet of the Harrisburg Councilmanic Association were discussed informally last even ing by a committee of former council men and other officials. The date will be fixed at a meeting to be held next week. The committee consists of A. 11. Kreldler, M. Harvey Taylor, T. B. Marshall. A. Coleman Sheetz, Francis 11. Hoy, Jr., and Assistant City Clerk R. R. Seaman. TWO MINERS CRUSHED By Associated Press Shamokin, Pa.. Jan. 11. —Victor and I'olack Chicola, brothers, entombed by la fall of coal in the Locust Spring col ! iiery, Locust Gap, yesterday afternoon, ■ were found crushed to death to-day by j a rescuing party. HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, JA NUARY 11, 1916. "A FRIEND IN NEED" V. GRANTFORRER IS REAPPOINTED AND CONFIRMED Named by Gross as Assistant Park Superintendent; (lets Unanimous Vote KINDLER AGAIN CHIEF y I |T-. ' * :r \ "» * ~ - V. GRANT FORRER After nearly two years In another line of work, V. Grant Forrer, torm erly superintendent of elty parks, was to-day formally reappointed as lite working head of the park depart ment under Commissioner E. 54. Gross. The appointment becomes ef fective February 1. Forrer's name was suggested by Mr. Gross to succeed J. R. Hoffert, whose term as assistant superintend ent expired with that of Ex-Commis sion e Taylor. Commissioner \V. j 1,. Gorgas seconded Mr. Gross' action and the entire council voted for Mr. Forrer's confirmation. In addition to selecting Mr. Forrer as assistant superintendent of parks, ! council this afternoon reappointed .John C. Ivindler as lire chief, William B. Windsor, former alderman of the Fourth ward and one time city de tective as superintendent of the de tective bureau, and Alfred Hrine to Succeed Charles D. Lytle as patrol-' man. No action on the choice of an as- ' sistant lire chief nor of a city J assessor or assistant assessor will be i taken it is understood. until next ' Tuesday. Marion Verbeke is the 1 choice of Mr. Gross, for assistant ■ chief to the departmental head. Com missioner tlowman favors .Millard Tawney, a member of the Royal Fire Company. The councllmen declared no agree- ] ment had been reached as to the as [Continued on Pago «.] British Steamer Sunk With Loss of 13 Lives London, .lan. 11, 3.48 p. m.—The British steamer Clan MacFarlane, ol 1.82S tons, has been sunk in the Medi terranean. Tlie Clan Macl-'arlanc was sent to the bottom Deeemlwr 30. Six officers aiul 18 Lascars have-been lainl ed at Malta. Thirteen I.a scars died in the lifeboats. ' The Clan MacFarlane left Liverpool on De«:ernber 16 for Bombay. The lat est marine registers contain no further records of her movements. She was 400 feet long. THE DAY IN CONGRESS Washington, .lan. 11. Senate —! Senator Clarke introduced a resolution to withdraw the sovereignty of the United States from the Philippines and recognize an independent governor. Secretary McAdoo in response to Sen-j ator Gore's request estimated that $130,000,000 In revenue could be gain ed from taxes on tea, sugar and au tomobiles. House Met at noon. Representa tive Fess, of Ohio, declared Great Bri- ! tain's violations of neutral rights were i greater than Germany's. Miss Jane Addams and other representatives of! Woman's Peace party addressed the j Foreign Affairs committee. GETS 920,000 PERMIT The higgest building permit of the ! year was issued to-day to Samuel Fisltnian. He will remodel the Hotel ! l.ennox. 426-28 Market street, by add- i ing fifty-four new rootrtp with baths The cost will approximate $20,000, 1 ! DEDICATION OF ! BOYD MEMORIAL il HALL TONIGHT I Dr. Rrownson, Phila., and Dr. Stone, Chicago, Will Re Speakers The dedication of the John Teo-j mans Boyd Memorial Hali, erected! through the generosity of the late > John Y. Boyd for the men and boys j of Pine Street Presbyterian Church, ] this evening will mark the completion of the building and the official hand-! ing over of the property by the build- | ing committee. T. T. Wierman, chair- ; man. Francis Jordan Hall, treasurer,' n#d IT. B. McCormick, secretary, to < the trustees of the church. The dedicatory exercises will take i place in the new hall in South street ; at 7:45 tills evening and will be fol-j lowed by a thorough inspection of the j building:, which with the possible ex ception of some plumbing, is now ready for occupancy. The entire congregation of Pine Street Church will be present at. the exercises, which will be featured by two addresses and win be held Iti two different parts of the building, the expansive gym nasium and the men's lounging room. Marcus A. Brownson, D. IX, pastor of the Sixteenth Presbyterian church (Continued on Page ROOSEVELT SENDS HIS GREETING TO MOOSE MEETING In Telegram Before Progres i sive National Committee Says Country lias Fallen Short * FI.IVN WANTS IIAHMOW By Associated Press Chicago, Jan. It William Flinn, ; addressing the meeting said: "The | Progressives in my Stale are divided, i Many of them do not care whether ' they are labeled Republicans or Pro gressives. They want results. New questions have arisen since 1912. We must be Americans above all else. 1 don't think that Theodore Roosevelt is the only man who can run this gov ernraent, but personally i think he can run it better than any other man and ; I'd like to see him run it. The Re : publican party by this time ought to jbe pretty well cleansed The leaders j have had their ears to the ground and j have been listening and watching. For i one 1 a niwilling to give the Repuhli | cans a change. I think we should hold I our convention concurrently with them •in Chicago." George W. Perkins de clared it was "not in thu mind of any one present to amalgamate the Pro gressive party with the Republican party. We should hold our convention I and nominate our ticket," he said. The I convention will be held in Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 11.—When the Pro gressive National committee was called 1 to order to-day a telegram of greeting j from Theodore Roosevelt, standard- I bearer of the party in the 1912 elec | tion, was read. It was-received with i applause by the committeemen and | was followed by the reading of mes j sages from other leaders including .Hiram Johnson, Governor of Califor | nia, and Albert 1 Hcvcridge, former | Senator from Indiana. The intssuge Hum colonel Roosevelt i follows: j "I send you my hearty greetings, j We, as a country, are facing a great [Continued on Page O.J ITO FIGHT CONDEMNATION I OF lIAHDSCHABBLF. PROPERTY I At a meeting last evening of twen ty-flve or more "Hardserabble" prop | erty owners preliminary steps were j taken to form a permanent organiza l tion to wage a legal battle againsl I the . proposed condemnation of that I distsffct by the city. John T. Ens ; minger was elected presider* T. B. | Rockafellar, vice-president, ami J. A! j McKelvey, secretary. A committee consisting of J. A. McAlister, E. J. Fogarty and M. Rockafellar were ap pointed to enlist the co-operation of i other property owners, secure coun sel, etc. Another meeting will be held ] Friday evening. LITTLE HOPE FOR HUERTA El Paso, Texas, Jan. 11.—Slight hope for the recovery of General Vic toriano Huerto remained last night, according to Dr. M. P. Schuster, his physician. Doctor Schuster said his patient was gradually losing strength and that his i illness had reached a critical stage. JEWS PLAN GREAT MASS MEETING TO AID WAR VICTIMS Thousands to Gather Sunday Afternoon in Technical High Auditorium TO RELIEVE SUFFERERS Col. Cutler Will Tell of Hor rors of Many Rattle Fronts in Europe What Is expected to be the greatest gathering of Jewish people in the his tory of Harrisburg will be held next Sunday afternoon in Technical high school auditorium for the benefit of the hundreds of thousands of strug gling co-religionists on the many bat tle fronts of Europe. It will begin at 2.30 o'clock. , The mass meeting Is being arranged by representative Jews of the city nt the suggestion of the American Jewish Relief Committee. It will be typical of hundreds of similar gatherings that [Continued on Page ".] ADMITS AGED FATHER; 2 ARE EXONERATED i Young Man Tells Police He Lied and Confesses Theft of Money Late last Saturday afternoon Wilbur iGibboney, aged 28, reported to the po i 1 ice that his father, John Gibboney, i aged UO, had been assaulted and rob | bd. ; As a result of this information the I police late Saturday night arrested I Jacob and George Allen, brothers, on ! suspicion of having committed the crime. i This morning Wilbur, the son. canie | into the police station and confessed to 'Chief of Police J. Thomas Zeil that he {had lied when he safd that he found I his father lying beaten and robbed— |and confessed that be. himself had !rifled his father's pockets. ! Wilbur in telling his story to the [Continued on Page «.] New St. Lawrence Catholic Church at Front and Chestnut? Will a new SI. Lawrence German Catholic church be erected in South Front street, near Chestnut street? is the question being asked by some of the members of the congregation, and also several property owners in that section, who have been approached with offers to buy there. Negotiations are under way, it Is said, for the purchase of properties in Front street either a short distance north or south of Chestnut street. Owners of residences in this section said this morning that they had been asked for prices on their properties and said that they were told on good authority that a new church would be built there for the St. Lawrence con gregation. The present church propertv was purchased by the State, as it is in the Capitol Park extension area. Although nothing official could be learned, it is understood that no sale 'has been effected as yet by any repre sentatives of the church. MORE WAGES TO GO UP? .Following the announcement, of a 10 per cent, increase In wages of em ployes of the Pennsylvania Steel Com pany. plant at Steelton and notification of an increase among a number of employes of the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Works, officials of sev eral of the other larger industrial plants are seriously considering (he same move, it was learned to-day. LiOOT ANOTHER CUSTOMS HOUSE By Associated Press London. Jan. 11.—Renter's Hong kong correspondent sends word that on January B a band of revolutionaries attacked and looted another customs! house at Kacheung, near Yintin. BRITISH RELIEF EXPEDITION IS FORCED TO HALT Weather Conditions and Care of Wounded Necessitates Stop of Ivut-El-Amara Force GERMAN DRIVE FRUITLESS Offensive in Champagne Re sulted in Heavy Losses, Paris Asserts There has been a halt in the prog ress of the British force proceeding to the relief of Kut-El-Amar.r, but ac cording to an announcement in Ijon don Its pause at a point some twenty miles from that place was due to weather conditions and the necessity of removing the wounded in the recent fighting by boat down the Tigris river. Latesf reports from the Champagne front rM'eal definitely the fact that the German offensive begun there on Sunday lias been fruitless, the French war office declares. Berlin, however, asserts that the efforts of the French to retake their lost trenches were fruitless. Last night, according to the official account, the Germans were driven from the advanced French position [Continued oy Page «.] Heavy Sentences For Liquor Law Violators Lewisburg, Pa., Jan. 11.—Pleading guilty to the charge of selling liquor without licenses Milton Royer, Robert Doebler, Edward Badger and Isaiah Dersliem, residents of Mifflinburg. were each sentenced to three months in the county jail, S3OO and costs of prosecution with the exception of Royer who was given the same fine but ills sentence is six months in the county jail instead of three. The de fendants were rounded up in the Deckard hotel at Mifllinbnrg in No vember, on a charge of selling liquor. Miffiinburg is dry. SPANISH WORKERS STRIKE By Associated Press Paris, Jan. 11. 11.26 A. M.—A gen eral strike in the metal industry began at Barcelona. Spain, without incident. The strike was started with the pur pose of causing the emigration of Spanish workmen to factories abroad. NEGRO ASSAILANT CAPTURED Marietta, Jan. 11.—Charged with slashing W. Scott Long cracker with a ra/..;r JO severely that he may die, John Collin', ccioretl, was captured while hiding in the brush along the ri' er at Bainbrick.e ia-.e this aiterncon, by Doug lass Longer:ecxer, a son of the injured man. A race riot was narrowly averted when the negro was brought here. AMERICANS REPORTED KILLED El Pa:;o, Tex., Jan. il.—A teiegram from Chihuahua City received here to-day seated that it was reported there that a trair.load of employes which left the capital yester day from Cusihuiriachic, Western Chuhuahua, had been held up by Villa bandits, and all the Americans killed. DOUBT IF PERSIA WAS TORPEDOED Washington, Jan. 11.—The information contained in some of the affidavits taken from Persia survivors has caused goi . anient experts here to consider the possibility that *hr si' .' .at have been su-ik by an internal explosion rathe: *han. by a mine or a submarine. HALF MILLION FIRE IN WEST .Ottumwa, lowa, Jan. 11.—Half a million dollars' loss was caused to-day by a fire which started in the Friedman department store and consumed that and four other stores in the heart of the business district RAIL AND LAKE INCREASE UNJUSTIFIED Washington, Jan. 11.—Proposed increases in clase and commodity rates by rail and lake routes between New Eng land and Middle Atlantic States points and the West were found unjustified to-day by the Interstate Commerce Com mission. PENNSYLVANIA POSTMASTERS APPOINTED Washington, Jan. 11.—Edwin S. Laughlin was nomin ated to-day for postmaster of Oil City, Pa., and C. E. Gibbs was nominated for postmaster at Titusville, Pa. ALFRED I. DU PONT DEPOSED Wilmington, Del., Jan. 11.—Alfred I. Du Pont, it was learned to-day, has been deposed from the offices of vice president and member of the finance committee of E. I. Du Pont, De Nemours and Company. MARRIAGE LICENSES < hit rim l.rvl Hnnkrrt. \»rk ««umty, and MantaiX Krhm, York. Hammond \\. \> niter* and Kilbor Catherine Hoddy, Writ I'alrvlew. 14 PAGES POSTSCRIPT — WIFE, DESERTED, GOES TO HUSBAND, SHOT BY AFFINITY Willing to Forgive Man Who Left Her Sit With 4 Chil dren 6 Years Ago AFTER THIRD WOMAN* Tragedy Follows When Phil adelphia Eloper Sets Heart on Chorus Girl Ry Asiociattd Press Philadelphia, Jan. 11.—Relatives here of John Ulrich who was shot in Joliet, 111., yesterday, by Mrs. Gillian Pfeiffer with whom he eloped six years ago, are willing to forgive him If he recovers. His wife and their four children live In West Philadel phia. The wife and a sister of Ulrich were in telegraphic communication with St. Joseph's Hospital, Joliet, to day and when tliey learned that the erring husband and brother had a fighting: chance for his life, said they j would pro to him. After wounding Ulrich Mrs. Pfeiffer shot and killed herself. Her body will be brought here for burial. Ulrich began writing to Mrs. Ul rich three months ago and there after sent her money each week. Fights For His I.ife Joliet, Til., Jan. 11.—John Robart, owner of the Joliet Welding Company, is fighting for his life in St. Joseph's Hospital with a bullet at the base of his brain. "A fellow's not to pay the penalty," he said, haltingly, as he gasped for breath to-niglit. "If T live. I'm going back to my wife and kids in Philadel phia." He said his real name is John Ulrich. On a slab at the morgue lies the body of Mrs. Lillian Pfeiffer, whom all Joliet knew as Mrs. John Itobart. She killed herself after shooting liob art at. his office in one of the main streets yesterday morning. The Wages of Sin Pinned to her corset, the police found a note breathing the sanio tragic philosophy that was the burden of Robart's words. She wrote: "The wages of sin and deception is death." The tragedy brought to light a Jekyl-llyde romance, which is tho [Continued on Page 12.]
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