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
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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<t.<^*»»mxtKjm:*&tko*^
Ossining, X. Y., Jan. 12. Friday
morning. Hans Schmidt, the New
York priest, convicted of the murder
of his sweetheart, Anna Aumuller,
will pay for his crime with his life.
He will be put to death in the electric
chair.
PROGRESSIVES
READY TO JOIN
REPUBLICANS
I
Musi Amalgamate to Turn Out
Wilson, Is Decision of
Leaders
Special to the Telegraph
Chicago, 111., Jan. 12.—1n a "straight
forward statement to the American
[people." as Mr. Perkins termed it, the
j Progressive national committee, in ses
! sion at the Congress Hotel, opened the
! door Inst night for the complete amal
gamation of the Republican and Pro
gressive parties.
The declaration Axes June 7 as the
date of the Progressive national con
vention, the same as that fixed by the
I Republicans, and also in Chicago.
It declares for a reunion of the
party strength, the return of the Pro
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AFTER MEN WHO
BUY LIQUOR FOR
| HABITUAL DRUNKS
.
Police Chief Learns How
Boozers Are Gelling Around
the "Jag List"
i The police, according to Chief J.
Thomas Zeil, will be Instructed short
ly to track down and arrest, the men
who buy booze for habitual drunks on
the "jag list."
According to Chief of Police Zeil,
the habitual drunks know that the bar
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| NO RAISES IV WAGES TO
BE GIVEN IN ENGLAND
By Associated Press
London, Jan. 12. The govern
: ment in the interests of national econ
|omy. has notified all trade unions in
lllie country that in view of the press
ing emergency no further advances in
wages should be considered, except
those arising automatically from ex
isting agreements and necessary ad
justments of local conditions.
SCHOOL TEACHER DIES
' Miss Ethel Margaret Hall Succumbs
After Six Months' Illness
Miss Ethel Margaret Hall, teacher
in the public schools of the city since
1913, died last evening at her home,
2303 North Sixth street, after a lin
gering illness of six months. Miss
Hall was 24 years old. the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. Frank Hall. She
was widely known in the West End
of the city and in social circles. Miss
Hal! was graduated from the Harris
burg Central High School, class of
1909, and the Mlllersville State Nor
mal School in 1912. She was a mem
ber of the Fifth Street Methodist
Church, and one of the leading chor
isters there.
Miss Hall was appointed by the I
school board to teach in August, 1913, |
and was assigned to a school in the j
Paxtang building. Last year she was j
assigned to the Camp Curtln School l
but owing to illness could not take
charge. She is survived by her par
ents, one sister. Miss Olive Hall, and!
two brothers, Leslie and Emlin Hall. I
Funeral services will be held Sat- I
urday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the |
home, the Rev. E. A. P.vles officiating.
Hit rial Will be made at the llarris
burg Cemetery.
The dismembered body of the girl
was found in the Hudson river Sep
tember 2, Ifll 3. and the murder re
mained a mystery for several days,
until Schmidt was arrested and con
fessed lo having killed the girl, with
whom he had been carrying on an
illicit love affair.
MILLERSBURG IS
AMONG BUSIEST
TOWNS IN STATE
i
!Factories and Shops Are Pro
ducing Capacity Outputs
at Present
By KOBKRT F. GORMAN'
MiJlersburg, Pa., Jan. 1 2.—Twenty
two thousand pairs of shoes, 25,000
brooms, 6.000 chair seats, a. dozen keg
stave machines, hundreds of taps, dyes
and reamers, rings for lorpedo tubes
in submarines and hundreds of doors
and window sashes and all this only
represents a part of the output of the
industrial plants of this prosperous
borough for one week.
Millersburg. at the present time, is
one of the busiest towns in Central
Pennsylvania and there is not one per
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; WILLIAM PENN ~
! WAY TO TOUCH
SIX MILLIONS
| Three-Fourths Population of
Entire State Will Be
Reached by Road
Kvery day increases interest in the
William Penn Highway proposition.
From Philadelphia to Pittsburgh the
several towns and cities and commer
cial and automobile associations are
doing what they can to promote the
movement. Its great importance Is
realized as the conference that Is to be
held in Ilarrisburg In the near future
under the auspices of the Chamber of
Commerce approaches.
While there is a difference of opinion
as to the particular route of the new
highway, there is no difference among
those who understand the movement
regarding its practical character. Cer
tain towns and county seats will pre
sent the best kind of arguments why
the route should go their way, but
alternative roads will be the solution
For instance, alternative roads will be
found between Hollidaysburg and
Huntingdon and Altoona and Hunting
don. The same will be true between
Ebensburg and Hollidaysburg and
Ebensburg and Altoona.
Will Touch 5,(1.18,000
According to the 1910 census, the
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One Dead, Many Hurt
in Big Chicago Storm
By Associated Press
Chicago, Jan. 1 2.—One man is dead
ami half a score of minor accidents
were reported as the result of a snow
and sleet storm which struck Chicago
and this section last night and con
tinued early to-day.
Service on one of the city's elevated
| lines was abandoned for two hours
and on the other elevated roads and I
the surface lines traffic was seriously l
delayed. A cold wave is predicted by
the weather forecaster.
PROFESSOR .rollX SCHWAB
OK YALE UNIVERSITY T»KM>
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
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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.
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! 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
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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.