Problems Affecting Half Million Miners t ; i * v * » ' *- HARRISBURG iSIISSi TELEGRAPH lxxxv-t ::o. 10 WILL AUDIT ALL TREASURY BOOKS OF LAST DECADE Ordinance Offered in Council Authorizes Examination of Accounts FOH INFORMATION ONLY So Commissioner Bowman, Father of Measure, Ex plains—l9os to 1010 THOMPSON ASSESSOR; VERBEKE ASS'T CHIEF Council this afternoon elected •lames C. Thompson, chief clerk in the Bureau of Highways, as City Assessor with a salary ol $2,000. Marion Verbeke. chief clerk in the Department of Finance, was elected assistant fire chief. William L. Ho mis was. elected pa trolman to succeed clrant Moore, lias resigned. All the hooks and accounts of the <"ity Treasury for the last ten years will be specially audited under the supervision of Council if an ordinance offered at this afternoon's session l>e t'Omes a law. The measure was introduced by City < 'ommissioner Harry F. Bowman, su perintendent of public safety, and. ac cording to Mr. Bowman, covers the period of ex-City Treasurer O. M. < 'opelin's incumbency. The sole purpose of the ordinance, Mr. Bowman declared, is to furnish the commissioners with complete in formation as to the city's finances, the >tandins of the various sinking funds, the outstanding balances, etc. "For instance." said the superin tendent of public safety, "the only people who seem to have had a per [Continued on Page I.] Jitney Owners Appeal to Council; Want Bond Now Required Reduced Kort.v or more jitney chauffeurs this afternoon asked City Council to recon sider the jitney ordinance which be came a law Saturday. The Jitney men protest against the tequirement which makes ii niunda tory for each driver to r>ost a bond of >2.000. A. R, Rupley rep resented the appellants, lie de'clared 1 hat chauffeurs were "light ing for their »-xistenee:" that "the regulations were such that, if allowed to stand, would spell strangulation to the business of 1 he jitney operator." The former congressman finally got into a legal argument with City So licitor D. S. Seitz and had no answer for the solicitor's statement that the law under which the ordinance had been passed had ilrea.dy been tested in the courts of Philadelphia and ap proved. Mr. Rupley declared that the pro \ isions of the ordinance relative to regulation were not in accordance with the law. He appealed for recon sideration. but was informed that the law had been passed, that the time I'or appeal had expired, that the mat ler had been thoroughly threshed out, that the people, if they objected, could have reverted to the referendum—and that Council was powerless to act. "Why don't the jitney men go ahead and operate?" asked Mayor Meals. "IT they do so they'll be arrested," returned Mr. Rupley. "All right. That's so. Then they • an appeal to take it to the courts," smiling answered the Mayor. "Why don't the bonding companies want to give a $2,000 bond, anywav.'" inquired the Mayor. "It looks to me ■as if the bonding companies look upon !he jitney as a thing unsafe to be upon the streets." I». I-. KIKSTDR BETTKR Daniel L. Kiester, 316 Crepcent street was to-day reported as showing further improvement. He had a slight relapse last night, but his con dition is not serious. RKPAIK 1111,1, TOO RIG? Most of to-day's session of January • 'ommon Pleas Court was take.n up with the trial of Joseph D. Kerry Mgainst Mark E. Winileld. to recover a I'll! of S2BB for automobile repairs. Win lield declares his repair hill is too big. l-erry says Winfield's car liail to be repaired nearly a dozen times—that the • nvner would bring it in at nightfall sind keep it in the garage until the next day. A day or so later the act would lie repeated. STATE BANK CALI. The State Banking Department last night issued a call tor a statement of state banks and trust companies as of elot.e of business January 12. THE WEATHER I'or Harrlnburg nml vlelnlty: Part ly cloudy anil nut quite Me oold tn-nlght: IIIIVMI temperature about 12 degrees; Wednesday partly cloudy. For Knntrrn Pennsylt ttiilii: Partly cloudy and not aiulte no colli to- Itlcsht: Wedni'Hda.v partly eloudyi Moderate »f»t uiiij xoiitlHvriit n indk. River Tlie •'UMiueliannn river uihl hl| i<« hrnuchen Mill continue to fall olutvly except local risen will • rohably occur, due to Ire. A ntnge »f about 4.H feet IN Indicated for Hnrrlaburg Wrilnesi'ay ni'irnlug. General Coodltlona A ileiirrKwion from Outario. mm lug soutben»t»nrd over the lake re gion hag eaiiacil anon along th ( - nortliern boundary from the l.nke Miperlor region enstvynrd to the interior of \e»r Vork State, with a enteral rise of a to degreea in temperature over the territory eomiuK under Ita influence. Temperature: Ba. m.. 12. Sun: nines. 7:24 a. m.: set*. .1:06 P. M. Moon: Full mooa. Thursday, 3i29 a. m. River staae: 5.1 feet above low. Mater mark. i esterday'a rather IlilNriit temperature, -7. I.owesf temperature. J>. Mean temperature. IS. Normal temperature, as. POLICY AFFECTING HALF MILLION MEN IS BEFORE MINERS Wage Demands to Be Made; Mining Will Continue Until Agreement Is Reached MAY ADOPT BASIC SCALE Delegates Discuss Prepared ness, but Opinion's Vary; j Woman's Suffrage Up By Associated prtss Indianapolis. Ind., Jan. IS.-—About' thirteen hundred delegates faced Presi- i dent John P. White when he opened j the twenty-fifth convention of the j United Mine Workers of America here i to-day for one of the most important sessions the organization has held in a j long time. Before the convention adjourns it will have outlined a policy that will affect probably a half-million coal miners in the United States and Can ada. Wage agreements expired this year in all the hard and soft coal dis tricts of Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana. Illinois, West Virginia, Kentucky. Michigan, lowa. Kansas. Oklahoma. Aransas. Missouri. Texas. Montana. Wyoming and Washington. In these States there will be new demands made, and if the powers that now con trol the miners' organization have their way coal mining will continue without interruption so long as there is a possible chance of coming to an agree ment. President White favors such a policy and has stated that there should lie no strikes so long as there are honest efforts made by each side to arrange new wage scales. To Discuss Wage Increase The union anthracite mine workers have already formulated their de mands and the convention is expected to ratify them without much discus sion. This will leave the way open for j wide discussion on the proposition of adopting a basie wage scale for all the bituminous coal fields. Then will come the adoption of a policy that will affect i all districts, anthracite and bitumi nous. The Ohio miners have agreed to ask a 10 per cent, increase in wages ' [Continued on Page I.] "Nothing Doing, Pop!" Says Local Youth Asked to Leave the Trenches "N'othing doing. Pop. I like this too well. Elmer." That cryptic but rather startling message penned from the the English army in England was the first intimation that George Kline, Syl van Terrace, received after months of anxiety and suspense as to the where abouts of his son. Since then there has been another unique development in the Kline family. Elmer left home very suddenly just after the Uusitania incident and vague reports from time to time led the father to believe that the boy had en listed in the British army. He set the wheels of official machinery in motion through Senator Penrose. Nothing was heard definitely from the boy until the nine-word message from England reached here. However. Mr. Kline has suddenly left Harrisburg and his whereabouts ure unknown. Therein lies the other unique development in the Kline sit uation. Neighbors believe Kline, senior, has gone to Europe to bring back his son—or to stay in the king's army. Local Boy's Death in Trenches Not Credited A report circulated in this city to day that Archer Owen, of Paxtang, who left last May for Europe to join the allied trdups, had been killed in battle recently, was not credited at. his home to-day. Although he has not been heard from for some time, the last informa tion obtained by friends here contained the news that he was in good health. At his home it was said that had any thing happened to young Owen, in formation would probably be received there. Owen left last May after taking a (ourse in salesmanship in the Elliott- I'.'ishcr Company school in this city. Later he wrote from France, where he had joined a Canadian regiment, and In a been promoted to a second lieu tenancy for bravery, Three Men Overcome by Gas From Ashes Three men were overcome by gas this morning while working at the plant of the Harrisburg Eight and Power Company, Ninth and Walnut | streets. They were: William E. Klingcr. aged 37, 511 Race street. Harry lilhigcr. aged 28, 511 Race street. John linutl, ij33 Sayford street. All of the men were taken to the Harrisburg Hospital, where they re sponded to treatment and will recover. Kr.ull, shortly after 8 o'clock, when ihe ambulance was called to remove iiie other two men. helped to carry their, out. Shortly after 10 o'clock he. <oo. collapsed. The men, who are laborers, were overcome while remov ing hot arhes and cinders from the furnaces. THE DAY IN CONGRESS By Associated Press Washington. Jan. 18. Senate: Met at noon. Senator Brady, of Idaho, took oath of office. Beading of news paper editorial attacking President Wilson was objected to and voted our. Senator Smith, of Georgia, attacked British blockade. Secretary Garrison explained continental army plan to military committee. Naval commit tee heard steel officials on cost of armor plate plant. House: Met at noon. Representa tive I.ondon, Soc ialist, denounced pre paredness program and urged adop tion of his resolution for President Wilson to call a neutral nation peace conference. Quartermaster General Alossire continued testimony . herore military committee. HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1916 "HOUNDED BACK MAKES PLEA FOR CLEMENCY I &* ■ . jX; TT"-^ >?&.s CO&hfEl/JjR J2/C£ . AND ;j H£E. J-lUS&AHD. LESLIE J. i IVo/» Fame, as Writer Following First Pen Sentence; Crushed by Accusation, He Commits New Crime j Chicago. 111., Jan. 18.—Convict No. j 2420. a second-termer in Joliet prison, I has made to Warden Ziinmer the most I fascinating; plea for clemency ever | placed on the penal records of this State. ; Het'ore Convict No. 2420 entered I Joliet the first time he was known to i the world as Robert A. Ward, a young | Chicago ne'er-do-well. During the in- i DISCUSS PLANS ! FOR SIDEWALKS IN NEW SUBWAY | ! Present-Level Grade. More Fa vorably Considered at Conference ■ i The feasibility of extending the side- | ' walks through the proposed new Mar- | ket street subway at the present height! I above the street level as compared to I the alternative plan of constructing I the pavements at the grade of the I! highway was the chief problem dis ! cussed yesterday afternoon at the con ! Terence of the City Planning Comniis , | sion and Pennsylvania Railroad offl j : cials. I The present. upper level plan re ' j ceived the more favorable eonsid j eration. By keeping the sidewalks at a cer , | tain distance above the street, it was I argued, the danger from Shutting oft [Continued on Page 4.] Mercury Will Again Fall to 12; Wildwood Lake Safe; No Relief in Sight , Continued cold weather to-night and to-morrow is forecasted at the United States Weather Bureau. The ther mometer will drop to 1 2 degrees above i zero again, it is predicted. Partly I cloudy weather Is expected, with no indication of snow. Last night the mercury dropped to 8 degrees in the city, while in nearby towns temperatures from 4 to 6 de grees were reported. Skating at Wild wood was declared safe and the red flag appeared over the Calder building jin North Market Square. This is the first time it was flown this season. It (is almost a. year since skating was de | dared safe by park officials, i Despite the cold weather the river remained open at this point to-day, ! but' moved slowly and was filled with 'floating ice. The cold wave continued i i to hold sway over the eastern section Ij or the country to-dav with no indlca i ttion of relief for the next 36 hour» ; at least. terlude of his release and his second incarceration he was l.eslie G. Shan non. noted writer, expert criminologist and tiance of .Mrs. Cornelia Rice, niece of the late Vice-President, James Schoolcraft Sherman. He has written an appeal to War den Zimmer asking hint to use his [Continued on I'agc 3.] DEATH INCREASE, BIRTH DECREASE, 'ls FIGURES SHOW • ■ ! Heart Troubles, Brights' Dis easc, Nerves and Pneu monia Lead Lisl One thousand and (en deaths, and 1332 births were recorded in Harris burg in 1915, according to statistics issued by the t.'ity Health Bureau to day. The death rate per thousand in the city list year was 13.9 compared with 13.3 for 1914. The birth rate de creased from 19.4 per thousand in 1914 to 18.G last year. Of the bis tdtal of deaths, 57 were nonresident. In 1914 there were 955 recorded and in 1913. 958. Births ' [Continued on Page J.] New Discovery in Serum Therapy Enables Wounds to Be Cleansed Automatically By Issociated Press Paris, Jan. 18. Dr. Pierre Roux, director of the Pasteur Institute, an nounced to the Academy of Sciences last night that remarkable advance in serum therapy had been made as the result of a discovery by Dr. Bassuet. By his method it was possible to cleanse automatically Dr. Roux said, wounds which hitherto had resisted treatment. Dr. Bar-suet employs the polyvalent Iserum discovered last year by Drs. Le clainche and Valle. Dr. Roux said 420 wounded men who had been in hospi tals from six to fourteen months, were treated according to Dr. Bassuet's meth ods. As a result the infection seemed to revive in the wounds. Abscesses formed and burst spontaneously, elim inating bits of bone, splinters, bullets, pieces of clothing: and cvep drains any silver threads left in the Incisions by mistake. After this had happened. Dr. I toi j x said, the wounds healed quickly in most rases, and men who had "been lyinm helpless for months iwere discharged cured. ALLIES SEND ULTIMATUM TO GRECIAN KING Demand Deliverance of Pass ports to Ministers at Alliens Within 21 Hours TEI TONS MASSING ME N Have .'{20.000 Along Border; British Relief Expedition Progressing The situation in the Balkans, sud denly grown tense from the allied point of view, with the capitulation of the Montenegrins, has entered a new and critical phase, according to reports through German channels, which state that the entente powers have demanded that Greece within 24 hours deliver their passports to the ministers of the central powers in Athens. Lack of compliance by Greece would cause the allies to take "neces sary measures" declare the Berlin ad vices, which are based on a dispatch from Sofia given out by the semioffi cial German news agency. It had previously been reported from Berlin that the allies were adopting extreme measures with Greece, land ing troops at the ports of Athens and giving other evidences of an inten tion to coerce her. It is even charged by the Berlin press, according to a wireless synopsis of its comment sent by the semiofficial agency, that the allies were preparing to dethrone King Constantine and establish a re public with former Premier Venizelos at its head. It was declared that ac cording to private reports to Berlin some of the Greek government archives already had been removed to Larissa. northwestern Greece, and that the whole Greek government eventually would be transferred there. Teutons Active Meanwhile come additional reports of the activities of the Teutonic allies in the Suloniki sector. Some 320,000 troops are reported to have been mass ed by them north of the Greek border while the Turks, who apparently are to participate in the expected advance against Saloniki. are said to have transferred 400 guns from the Galtipoli peninsula to Nanthi, where they would be available for use against the allies' right wing. British Advancing Tattle further news has come to hand of the important operations In Mesopotamia, where a British relief force is n earing the beleaguered gar rison at Kut-El-Amara, tlie Turkish war office reporting 110 change in the situation, mentioning however, the de struction of a British monitor about 23 miles down the Tigris from Kut. In the Oaucausus the Russians with strong columns, are pressing their of fensive against the Turks, admit the superiority of the Russian forces hut declare all the Turkish troops are co-operating effectively against the advancing armies of Grand Duke Nicholas. Operations on the western front have been confined, as in recent days, to aeroplane activity and artillery cn ' gagements, the latter, however, hav ing increased in intensity with the advent of clear weather. Kussi&ns Fortified An indication that the Russians now consider themselves well fortified against any German attempt to ad vance along the right Dvinsk line across the Dvina is furnished by an announcement to-day from Petrograd. This states that the judicial and other administrative authorities of Dvinsk who went to Pokov, l!>0 miles north -1 east, when their city was being threat- I ened by the Germans last year, have | now been ordered to return to ! Dvinsk. | Entente interests appear to he watching closely the situation in Al bania and recent advices from Eondon declare that adequate forces are now (Continued on Priest and Seventy-One Followers Are Held For Riots; Two More Dying Special to the Telegraph Wilkes-Barrc, Pa., Jan. 18.—With heads swathed in bandages, and show ing njany cuts and bruises from the riots of Sunday, when several hundred men and women fought with ferocity for control of the Sacred Heart Church. Dupont, against a company of State troopers and a squad of sher iff's deputies, 71 men were arraigned before Judge H. A. Fuller. All were charged with rioting, un lawful assembling and accessories be fore the fact to a felonious wounding. Each of the 71 was held under ?2,000 ball for the grand jury and 50 of the number failed to get bail an<J went back to Jail. The Rev. Edward Gucwa. deposed priest, for whose cause the rioters fought, was arrested on a warrant is sued by the district attorney on the I same charge as the rest of the prison ers. Because he is allged to have urged his followers to battle against the rep resentatives of the law, the court fixed bail in his case at $3,000 and he was able to secure a bondsman. A revised list of the dead and in jured to-day showed George Gruezor, 30 years old, to have been fatally shot Joseph Bish, aged 30, was shot through the chest and is expected to die. Ross W. Humor, native of Car lisle, State trooper, reported as dead early to-day, is still in a serious condi tion from a fractured skull and his re covery is doubtful. Technical Seniors Plan Trip to New York; No Class Day Forty members of the Senior class of the Technical High School will take a two-day trip to New York the last week in May, instead of tlic members of the class holding a class day oxer else, it was decided at a meeting ves terday afternoon. The class will fol low a regular program, while 011 the trip, and a committee consisting of; President Evans. William Miller, George Mumble. Harry Zolli.iger and John Moltz. Is working on an itinerary < for the parti;. v | 14 PAGES CITY EDITION LYKENS MINES PRODUCE 300,000 TONS EACH YEAR Upper Dauphin Town Enjoys Great Prosperity in All Its Industries BIG HOSIERY O UTPUT Iron Works Busy; War Helps Rciff and Nestor, Tap and Reamer Works BY ROBERT F. GORM AN I.ykens. Pa., .lan. 18.—More than 1.200 men, residents of Eykens and Wiconisco, to-day are working in the Short mountain colliery, a short dis tance outside of this borough. Times have scarcely ever been better than they are now and the mining business has entirely recovered front the slump which struck it during the early months of last year. Although digging the famous Ly kens valley coal out. of the seams in Short mountain may be considered the town's principal industry, it cannot be said that it is the only employment In the borough. There are hosiery mills, looping factories and a box l'ac- I Continued on Page ll.] Four Hundred Cities Invite President Wilson to Speak on Preparedness By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Jan. 18.—Prepa ration of itineraries for several speak ing trips President Wilson expects to take within the next few months, to lay the preparedness program before the country, was begun to-day at the White House. The President believes that in some sections of the country the necessity for strengthening the army and navy is not fully recognized. Invitations to visit more than four hundred cities, including Chicago. St. Louis, Cincinnati, Toledo. Milwaukee, Baltimore, New York and points in the South and far West, have been received. They are now before the President for decision on which to ac cept. Indications to-day were that aside from his speeches in New York Janu ary 27 and here on February 10, the President will deliver most of the ad dresses in the Middle West, with pos sibly some in the South. TRANSATLANTIC LINER CRIPPLED London, Jan. IS. The transAtlantic liner Ryndam passed Southend to-day down by the bows with a list to etarboard. All her passengers ire safe. Threw stokers v/ere killed and four injured. The nature of the aeciflernt has not been learned. GERMANS DIDN'T SINK PERSIA Washington, Jan. IS.—Secretary —aniif.g announced to-day that the Berlin office had informed Ambassador Ger ard that all German submarines in the Mediterranean have reported and that none was concerned in the destruction of the British liner Persia. CIRLS CREMATED WHEK HOME BURNS Punxsutawney, Pa., Jan. 18. Miss Mabel Warden aged 23, and her sister, Florella Warden, agtd 13, wetv burned to death and their mother, Mrs. Warden, wa' seriously injured wnen the 1 .: home here v/fes b' fire to-day. The property loss was $2500. ' FOURTH C-AS VICTIM Hamsburg. G. W. Freed, 549, Showers street-, em ploy-: . • piant of uie Harmburg Light and puny v .« overcome by gas this afternoon while /at &'ork. f' lie was the fourth man overcome to-day at ti.e plant.' HUNDREDS HURT IN AIR RAID i London, Jan. 18.—Hundreds of Bulgarian soldiers;werc killed and a very large number wounded in a bombardment of Petrltsi by a squadron of twenty-five French aeroplanes, according to dispatches received in Athens and forvjfardeJ by the correspondent there of the Evening Standard.. : CARRANZA FORCES DEFEAT BANDITS Chihuahua, Mex., Jan. 18.—Fighting between bandit a and Carranza troops occurred yesterday at Guerrero, 125 miles northwest of Chihuahua according to advices received here to-day. The bandits numbering 200. They fled, leavin,*, one machine gun, 85 rifles and 85,000 rounds of ammunition in the hands of the Carranza troops. MARRIAGE LICENSES ■lnbn Snillh anil Hiuuia WycolT, city. 11. li. Kurnty anil !Mnrjr ScbuOocr. I |>|H'r l*n*lon. .Incoli Kluh Mini Jrulr M. I better, W iMlfliimlunu. BANDIT BANDS SCOUR MEXICO; i ROB REFUGEES Hundred More Are Brought tcj United States Soil; Proper ties Are Raided 4 \ PROTECTION IS PROMISED Say Carranza Urged Them Not to Leave; Victims of Mas sacre Had Passports By Associated Press El Paso, Texas, Jan. 18. More than 100 refugees from Parral, Chi huahua, arrived here early to-day aboard a special train which started from the Mexican mining center yes terday afternoon. They reported that Villa bandits in groups were scouring the clearing ranches, mines and other | properly belonging to foreigners of [ everything valuable. As # ar as known I the refugees said no one was molested [after tho 1S Americans, belonging to the Cuslhulrachlc Mining Company party, were massacred a week ago at Santa Ysabel. N The statement the victims of [Continued on 3.] Favorite Hymns Played on Graphophone at Funeral Special to the Telegraph Waynesboro, Pa., Jan. 18.—An inno vation for Chambersburg was the use of a talking machine at a funeral. By request of the deceased, his favorite hymns. "Abide With Me" and "Just As I Am." were played on such a ma chine at George O. Scilhamer's funeral. Princeton Theological Head to Preach at Pine Street Sunday ' The Rev. Dr. J. ltoss Stevenson, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church and president of the Princeton Theological Seminary, will preach next Sunday morning at 10.30 o'clock in the Pine Street Pres byterian Church. A special program is being arranged for the services.
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