U. S. Demands Prompt Punishment of Mexican Bandits Who Shot Rmeikuns HARRISBURG liSGh. TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 5 SENATOR URGES INTERVENTION IF MEXICAN BANDITS GO FREE CARRANZA TOLD TO BRING VILLA MEN TO JUSTICE Must Arrest Lawless Soldiers Who Murdered 16 American Mining Men TAKE BODIES TO JUAREZ j White House Fears Fresh At tack on "Watchful Waiting" Policy | Washington, Jan. 12. The Mexican situation has been brought to the boiling point again by the execution of the sixteen or more Americans near Chi huahua. In Congress, at the White House and at the State De partment to-day it entirely dis placed the submarine controversy and all other international aaffirs. Secretary Lansing after send ing a demand for satisfaction to General Carranza, issued a state ment declaring it was to be de plored that the Americans had not followed the State Department's warning against exposing their lives in the guerilla warfare region, and adding: "Every step will be taken to see that the per m Detrators of this dastardly crime ire apprehended and punished." Storms Break in Senate In the Senate, an expected storm broke as soon as it as sembled. Senator Sherman, Re publican, introduced a resolution proposing that unless General Carranza gives proper protection to foreign life and property the United States should invite the Pan-American nations which have been associated in the Mex ican negotiations to join in re storing ord erand government in Mexico. Senator Sherman's resolution was read lo the Senate, and without com ment or discussion of any kind was referred to the Foreign Relations < 'ommittee. In the House Representative Dyer, Republican, presented a similar reso lution calling on the president to in loi-m Congress if he did not helio\o the time had come to abandon the "watchful waiting" policy. Otlier members gave notice or their inten tion to make speeches. Hie adminis tration was not without its defenders. Mho gate notice that they would sneak also. Show Concern While tin- White House and the state Department exhibited evidences or concern, there was no indication 10-tlay of proceeding further than calling upon General Carranza to punish the bandits who executed the Americans and to give proper guaran [Con tin tied on Page 5.] I THE WEATHER For Hnrrlnliurgr and vicinity: Rain and warmer to-nlKht: lowest temperature about 30 ileKrrcm Thursday rain or mun and •■older. For Knatrru Pennsylvania: Itatn and warmer to-nl K ht: Thnrsdnv rain la MOiitheitnt, rain or anotv and colder In north and neat por tion"! freah enwt to south winds. Hlver 'Phe Susquehanna river and all KM branches will probably fall alow ly or remain nearly Mtatlonarv. evcept the upper portlona of the JVorth and We«t branches, which are likely to rl*e nomew hat. V atajte of about 5T feet la Indicat ed for ilnrrlahurg Thuradav morning'. General L'ondltloiia The atorin that nan central over \ew Mexico, Tueadny morning, haa moved rapidly iiortlieaatward and la now central near St. I.OIIIN. It la betnK followed by the north western high preaaure area with Ita attendant cold wave. Temperature have rtaen 2 to de ar rea over a broad belt of coun try extending from the northern portion of the lake region lo the tiulf. Temperataret S a. m.. 32. Snn: lilacs. 7i27 a. M.i aeta, 5 p. m. Mooni Full moon, .fanuary 20, 3:a» a. m. Stiver Stage! 6.9 feet above low water mark. Veaterday'a Weather Jtlgtieat temperature. 47. t.on eat temperaurr. 31. Mean tempera tore. 10. JN or mil I temperature, II), 'SIMMONS', SHOT BY BANDITS, MAY BE DAUPHIN MAN H. J. Simmons, Contractor of Up-River Town, Believed io Be .Victim LIVED AT EL PASO J Employed by American Smelt ing Co., Whose Men Were Murdered In Ihe list of mining men reported (alien from a train in Mexico,'stripped and Killed by a firing squad of Mex ican bandits, appeals the name of; "R. If. Simmons, master mechanic, El Paso. Texas. ' Relatives of It. J. Simmons, a eon-i tractor from Daupliin, fear that the i dispatch refers to liim, as he has heavy interests in Mexico, was employed by j the American Smelting Company, tin- 1 der whose employ were all the men; shot, and for the la-si tive years has j made his home in El Paso. F. C. Gerberich and H. 1. Gerberich, | brothers-in-law, of Dauphin, base t heir 1 fears on the fact that Simmons had j contracted several years ago to build j the new $1,000,000 smelter plant of i the American company in Cusihuiri-J achic. When the latest revolution; worked its way around to this district two years ago Simmons, with the rest ; of the Americans there, was forced to! flee across the border to El Paso. Con- ! trading lools and equipment valued at ! many thousands of dollars were left: behind. Naturally, under the circumstances, he would be anxious to get beck at the first opportunity to see how his equip ment fared, relatives believe, and they have but slight hopes that the R. H. Simmons referred to is not H. J. Simmons. Mr. Simmons was born in Dauphin. Me was about 35 years of age and suc ceeded his father in the contracting business. About five years ago he started work In Mexico and was iden tified with the construction of the in- ( ternational bridge across the Rio Grande at El Paso. With his wife and daughter. Eliz abeth, he spent the summer of 1912 with his mother at Dauphin. I-lis rela tives are anxiously awaiting news of his fate from his wife and a daughter, who are at El Paso, Texas. Band of Villa Men Boards Train and Shoots American Passengers El Paso, Tex., Jan. 12.—With the expected arrival here to-day of the bodies of the 19 foreigners, most of whom were Americans, executed by former Villa soldiers Monday near San Ysabel, 50 miles from Chihuahua City, details of the tragedy were eagerly awaited by hundreds of mining men and others formerly active in in dustrial affairs in northern Mexico. Telegraph offices and other sources of information were crowded throughout the night with those eager for news of the execution. The censorship im i mediately imposed shortly , after the j first news of the affair came through, i shut, off all but the bare announce | ment of what had transpired. Final checking up by the American j Smelting and Refining Company of | its employes to-day showed 19 foreigners unaccounted for. Ttventy | foreigners were reported to have been lon the train only one of whom, Thomas M. llolmes, escaped. Fol j lowing is the revised list, which was 'issued by the smelting company: C. It. Watson, 101 Paso. \V. .1. Wallace, 101 Paso. M. Is. Homer, 101 Paso. T. >l. lOvans, Chihuahua City. C. A. Cringle. San Francisco. >l. Anderson, Chihaiiliua City. 11. P. Mitchell, 101 Pa-o. A. Couch. Chlhuahuu City. C. \V. Coy. Denver. Alexander O. Ilall, Douglas. Ariz. Charles Wadlclgli, Blshcc, Ariz. 10. 1,. Robinson. F.I Paso. 11. W. Newman, 101 Paso. 11. C. llasse. Miami. Ariz. •1. Adams. 101 Paso. It. H. Simmons. 101 Paso. \V. D. Pearce, Cos Angeles. •1. W. Wooin, 101 Paso. I Of these Couch was a Canadian and Romero a Mexican. I According to information reaching here a special train bearing the twenty foreigners and several Mex icans left Chihuahua City early the morning of January 10. It had hardly started on its journey to the mining camp of Cusihuiriscliic, in the west ern part of the State of Chihuahua, when a band of Villa followers, said to ltave numbered 28, boarded the train and lined up the foreigners on the railroad tracks and a firing squad killed them. Holmes was said to have escaped by remaining behind as his companions were marched out. of the cars. Just as the firing squad raised their rifles, he fled along the railroad track in the direction of Chihuahua City, which he reached on Monday night. A telegram asking that President Wilson demand full satisfaction from the Carranza government was sent to Washington by a committee of min ing men. Many telegrams have come from Chihuahua City from managers of mining crews, ordered back to the mines, stating thai they were re turning to the border. In the midst of the excitement Gen-1 cral Manuel M. Mcdinievlatia, Villa's j former chief of staff, suspected of Im-1 plication in the killing of Peler Keane I near Madera recently, was arrested and held in the city jail on a charge of vagrancy. It was reported from Juarez that Carranza troops had been dispatched lo Chihuahua City to bring the bodies of the victims to the border. Another report said government forces hail been sent in pursuit of the Villa bands in western Chihuahua. HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1916. PRIEST WHO WILL PAY FOR CRIME IN ELECTRIC CHAIR; GIRL HE MURDERED &wt - fttj~t setw New Haven. Conn., Jan. 12. -Prof John C. Schwab, university librarian at' Yale and a graduate of the college with the class of ISSfi. died at liis home here to-day of pneumonia. LOSS OF LOVCEN IS SERIOUS BLOW TO ALLIED FORCE Summit of Mount Now in Aus- ; trian Hands Dominates Cattaro Bay CAPITAL IS IN PERIL Only Ton Miles Away; Tempo rarily Lull Prevails Along Eastern Front By Associated Press London, Jan. 12. The announce ment of the occupation of Mount I Lovcen In Montenegro, although it is I not confirmed from entente sources, is | generally accepted here as true, i Uneasiness which is already freely I expressed in Italy is reflected in the j English and French newspapers. The I Joss of Lovcen, from the point of view jof the allies, is serious owing: to the fact that its summit dominates Cattaro bay, the Austrian naval base. Before Italy entered the war, the French had established a number of | suns on the mountain and had pre | pared emplacements for ehavy suns which could have swept the bay. Austria, by seizing it, forestalls this j danger and is in a commanding posi tion with regard to Cettlnje, the capital of Montenegro, whlen Is a little over six miles distant, although sheltered by intervening mountains. The Austrian advance, considering the distance to be covered was much slower than that made in the Teu ton conquest of Serbia, but, in con sideration of the formidable obstacles which the mountainous character of the country presents, it is conceded that the invaders are ma King steady progress. Scaring Capital The question is being anxiously raised as to why the entente allies did not long ago send aid to the Monte negrins, and in particular, why Italy, which is more acutely affected by this Austrian invasion, had not taken pre ventive measures. The Austrians are j now only ten miles from the capital of Montenegro, calculating the dis tance over the existing roads, and a successful blow at the heart of the country may have the effect, it is said by military critics, of isolating the troops who are defending the north eastern frontier. Gain In Cliampajnie In Champagne the Germans hold a slight gain made as a. result of the de termined offensive of last Saturday and Sunday. The French military authorities say that the German forces which delivered the attack lost heavily, with three divisions, they ad vanced in face of the French artillery [Continued on Page 5.] Many Tons of Powder Are Destroyed in Two More Explosions at Du Ponts By Associated Press Wilmington, Del., Jan. 12.—The fifth explosion within two days occurred last night about midnight at the Du Pont powder works in the Hagley yard on the Brandywine on the out skirts of Wilmington. It was a small wheel mill that blew up and beyond destroying the building and about a [ton of powder no damage was done. I Nobody was in the mill at time or near enough to be hurt. The shock I disturbed the entire western section I of the city, many persons being rudely awakened; houses were rocked and j there was general commotion. i The fourth blow-up in the two days occurred at the Carney's Point, N. j., i plant late yesterday afternoon, in what is known as the "solvent recovery," and, while about 13 tons of powder were destroyed, nobody was killed or injured. The Du Ponts do not appear to have any suspicion, and they at tribute both explosions to unavoid able acridents, thought, the definite cause of either is not known. Commissioners Appoint Fairchilds Inspector Harry SI. Fairchilds, a well-known businessman of Mlllersburg, to-day was appointed a member of the Dau phin county board of prison Inspec tors to succeed Luther N. Ryan, of Halifax. Mr. Ryan's term expired and | the vacancy was filled by the county commissioners. The Dauphin county court will fill the other vacancy oil the board as two yearly appointments must be made. The commissioners also appointed George W. Kennedy, formerly school director, as assessor for the First ward. Millionaire Father of "Poor Little Rich Girl" Marries Special to the Telegraph Chicago. 111., Jan. 12.—Gail Borden, milk millionaire of New York, father of Romona Borden, "the poor little rich girl," to-day admitted he had married the former Mr 3. Margaret B. Coutant, of Chicago. Mr. Borden has taken up his resi dence in the apartment formerly oc cupied by Mrs. Coutant at 4900 Michigan avenue. It is understood that the Bordens will go to New York after their honeymoon. RETURNING PACIFICISTS RELEASED MY BRITISH By Associated Press London. Jan. 12. The Daily Ex press says to-day that Andrew ,T. Be then, lieutenant governor of South Carolina, and a companion from the Ford peace party, who have, been de tained at Tilbury, opposite Gravcsend having satisfied the British authorities that they have no intention to prose cute a peace campaign in England, have been given permission to proceed to America and will sail on the first, boat available. 12 PAGES WILLIAM H. BALL, THE GOVERNOR'S NEW SECRETARY Former Chief of Philadelphia's City Property to Succeed the Late Mr. Hiatt TAKES HOLD VERY SOON WILLIAM H. BAI,L. Governor Brumbaugh to-day an nounced that he had appointed Wil liam H. Ball, recently connected with the bureau of city property of Phila delphia, as private secretary to suc ceed the late James S. Hiatt. Mr. Hall will assume his duties in a few days. Since Mr. Hiatt's death the duties of private secretary have been most ac ceptably tilled by James C. Deininger, of Sonestown, executive clerk in the Governor's department, and it is un derstood that he declined to be consid ered for the secretaryship, preferring the place of executive clerk, where his extensive knowledge of public af fairs and of the departments makes him an invaluable part of the State government. He succeeded Thomas J. [Continued on Page &,] ! AMMUNITION DEPOT BLOWS UP; 70 KILLED T Berlin Jan. 12, via London, 3.10 P. M.—An ammunition f depot in the southern section of Lille, Northern France, f been blown up. An official announcement says tnat. seventy 3 persons were killed and forty injured. m Philadelphia, Jan. 12. A. R. Lisson, of Elizabeth, N. W J., a member of the freshman class at the University of # Pennsylvania, died in a hospital this afternoon from injuries ■ received in the annual bowl fight to-day between freshmen # and sophomores. £ Harrisburg. Warren Gabrick, Muench street, an em- ■ ploye of the Central Iron and Steel Company, was serious- # ly .injured this afternoon, when he was struck and knocked K !over by a heavy iron plate being moved by a crane. His M condition is serious. W Brandon, Man., Jan. 12. —Ten men were killed and C forty injured in a collision between a snow-clearing train t and a heavily laden stock train one mile east of Brandon / to-day. The victims are chiefly foreigners employed in the ! snow-clearing rang. . i I f STATE'S BIGGEST MERGER P The papers in the largest merger ever recorded at the ( # Capitol v.cre approved by Governor Brumbaugh to-day p when .rgh Coal Company and the Monongahela ( Jr River C • e Company, under the name | L of the Pittsburgh Coal Company of Pittab. > capital f fi of $30,000,000, equally divided between common and pre- t li ferred stock. W. X. Field, Columbus, is president and M. H. C & Taylor, Eric, chairman of the board. The directorate in- M £ eludes George T. Oliver, William Flinn, Pittsburgh; F. M. I £ Wallace, Erie; J. A. Donaldson, Emsworth. C F HALF-MILLION FIRE IN PANAMA % £ Panama, Jan. 12.—A serious fire occurred this morning f in Pi ma. The American Hotel was destroyed, as well a 6 C several other buildings, including retail stores and an ic« & factory. The loss is estimated at $500,000. ' WILLARD AND MORAN MATCHED ' I New York, Jan. 12.—Jess Willard, world's heavyweight ! champion, and Frank Moran have been matched to meet m t here, March 3, for a purse of $45,000. # POSTSCRIPT—FINAL WORST STORM OF WINTER HEADED TOWARD H'B'G Sleet, Snow and Rain Tie Up Telegraphic Communica tions in Middlcwest COOL WAVE TO FOLLOW Temperature 40 Below Zero in Sections Northwest of Chicago The worst snow, rain and sleet storm of the winter is headed this way according to reports from the Middle West. This storm is being fol lowed by two cold waves farther west where temperatures near zero are re ported. The heavy snowstorm Is moving rapidly northeastward centering over St. Louis to-day, according to the weather maps, and is expected to move up toward the lakes as it comes east. Both cold waves are also com ing in from the west closely following the snow and rain, which is causing the worst trouble of the year in tele phone and telegraph communications in the Middle West. Rain and warmer weather is fore (Coiitinued on Page 7.) 200 Masked Men Take Negro From Jail to Scene of Murder and Hang Him Goldsboro, N. C., Jan. 12.—Two hun dred masked men visited the Wayne county jaii here early to-day, com pelled the jailer to deliver his keys, took from a cell John Richards, n. negro, charged with having been im plicated in the murder of Anderson Gurley, a farmer, carried him to the scene of the crime and hanged him to a tree. They then fired into the body. Richards is said to have confessed to the authorities thai he and two other negroes sought (o rob Gurley and killed him when he resisted. BOY SHOOTS SELF While playing with an air rifle yes terday afternoon 10-year-old Samuel Roth, 229 South Thirteenth street, ac cidentally shot himself in the left, hand. The shot was removed at thu llarrisburg Hospital.