Killing of Another American Rancher Further Complicates Tense Situation HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 14 TRAIN HURLED DOWN MOUNTAIN BY AVALANCHE; MANY ARE DEAD Limited Struck by Snowslide Near Summit of Cascades in Washington; Two Cars Carried 300 Feet; All on Board Are Reported Kill ed or Injured TEN BODIES HAVE BEEN TAKEN OUT Many More Still Remain; Dining Car Is Reported to Be Burning Fiercely in Midst of Snow Pile; Total Number of Passengers in Two Cars Is Unknown / % Fourteen Known Dead By Associated rress st. Paul. Minn., Jan. 22.—Four teen dead in llio Great Northern wreck Rt Corca was the report rc < eived r.t 12.15 p. in. at tin 1 olHces of bonis W. Mill, president of the Great Nortticin Itsclroad. —————/ By Associated Press Seattle, Wash.. Jan. 22.—Great Northern train No. 25. the Cascade Limited from Spokane was struck by a snowslide near Corea stalion on the west slope of the Cascades near the summit this morning. The train was standing still when hit. The dining car and dav coach re ceived the full force of the avalanche and were carried down an embank ment three hundred feet. All the per sons in the two cars were reported as killed or injured. Physicians have been sent from Everett. The train had been stopped by a small slide, which had covered the track. Workmen had Just completed re moving the snow and debris from the rails and the train was about to pro ceed when an avalanche thundered down from the mountain side. The dining car and day coach were struck squarely and swept away. The other cars and the engine were left on the track. Many Are Killed Two dead and three injured were taken from the dining ear of the Great Northern train wrecked at Co rea. according to reports received here. Two negro porters and a trainman are known to be dead. The dining cal ls reported burning. The first passenger reached in the day coach, a small boy, was severely Injured. The next two passengers were dead. Five employes in the dining car are believed to lie dead. Three hours after the wreck It was impossible to say how many passengers were in the day coach. Corea is about 120 miles east of Seattle and is at the loop of a big switchback. It is the second station down the west slope from the Cascade tunnel and Great Northern officials said, is almost the stop where a train was swept from the tracks Februarv 28. 1910. Detectives Search For Daring Chicago Robber By Associated Press Chicago, Jan. 22. Detectives -to day are searching for the man who late yesterday shot and killed one man, wounded another and escaped with S9OO belonging to the Chicago branch of the Thomas Cook and Sons Tourist Agency. The shooting occurred during the late afternoon rush hours when the streets were crowded with people. The robber escaped as did also the woman who accompanied him after a taxieab driver refused to assist in the flight. THE WEATHER] For Hurrlsliiirg anil vicinityi Light rnl n this afternoon i partly cloudy ami colder to-iiiichl mill Miiulay: lowest temperature to night iiliont 45 degrees. For Kustcru Pennsylvania: l.ncal rains to-alght, somewhat eiihtrr In northern and nratrrn portions; Sunday partly eluuily anil coiilerii fresh southnest to northwest winds. Hlver 'l'lie Susiiuehnnnu river unit its hrnuelics nlll rise snmetThut. l.n eal movements of lee have occur red In the West llriincli anil prob ably In other streams of the sys tem, and further movemt-iits are likely to occur within the next twenty-four to thirty-six hours, on moderate stages. V gauge reading of uliout 5.7 feet Is indl entil for tiurrlMliurg Sunday morning. General Cnnditloas The storm that was centra! over iovia, I-'rldey morning, has moved rapidly noi'theaNtvvurd to Ontario. It has caused rain In the last twenty-four bourn generally In the central valleys and the lake region and In the Ciuif states, Tennessee anil South Carolina, the heaviest rains reported failing In Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama and Kentucky. Temperatures have risen - to 22 degrees In the Atlantic States and 2 to 2U degrees west of the Itock les. Temperature: 8-a. nt., 58. Sunt Itlses, 7:22 a. m-i sets. silt p. m. Moon: Rises, 7:41 p. m. Illvcr Stage: 5.4 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's W eat her Highest temperature, 58. I.ovrest temperature, 3H. Mean temperature. 47. Normal temperature, 28. APPRAISEMENTS BY LONG MAY BE CLASSED LEGAL Deputy Attorney General Har dest (lives Decision in Mer cantile Appraiser AFFECTS A LLEGHENY Other Counties Have the Same Situation as Arose in Dauphin County In an opinion rendered to-dajr to Auditor General A. W. Powell it is held by Deputy Attorney General W. M. Ilargest that assessments and ap praisements made by Herman D. Hang, elected mercantile appraiser of Dau phin county by the county commis sioners who assumed office on Jan uary 3 after the election of Henry B. Hoffman by the previous board had been recalled, would be valid. This decision affects similar situations in Allegheny and four other counties in the state where the new commission ers recalled elections by their prede cessors and chose new appraisers. The opinion says that "the State is not concerned as to who the mercan tile appraiser is. but is concerned with the validity of the assessments made," the Auditor (Jeneral having raised the latter proposition. Mr. Ilargest says "it is a familiar rule of law that the acts of de facto officers are valid so far as they affect the public or third persons." He says that in a case in which an attempt w9s made to question the authority of a ta\ collector said to have been illegally appointed the court held "as against and as respects all other persons, the appointment bv the commissioners gives authority de facto and de jure." The commissioners in the Dauphin and other county situations held that under the Constitution appointed offl- ' cers with exception of judges and the superintendent of public instruction I may be removed at the pleasure of I the power by which they shall have I been appointed. Man and Recent Bride Found Dead in Auto, . Victims of Petromortis By Associated Press Bellefonte. Pa.. Jan. 22. —Victims j of petromortis, William H. Noll and his bride of a few days were found dead in Noll's garage to-day. Mrs. Noll was sitting in their automobile and the husband was standing along side the car leaning over the door. Both had been dead some hours. They were last seen alive last night when after a drive, Noll ran the car into the garage. The authorities say that they were overcome by the fumes of gasoline and asphyxiated. Norwegian Seaport Is Being Burned to Ashes By Associated rress Copenhagen, via London, Jan. 22. The Norwegian town of Molde was still burning at midnight. The greater part of it has already been reduced to ashes find It is threatened with destruction in its entirety. Nearly 2.- 000 people are homeless. No casual tics have been reported. An earlier dispatch announced that the fire which started at Molde on January 21 had consumed the central part of the town and that the flames were being fanned by a high gale. Molde is a small seaport on the bay of Molde. to the southwest of Chris tiansund. It lias many historic as sociations and conducts a trade in timber, tar and fish. U. S. Secures Release of Consuls From Allies Washington. Jan.' 22.—Following a request from the United States, the allies have agreed to release the Ger man, Austrian, Turkish and Bulgarian consuls at Saloniki. who have been under arrest on board a French war ship in the harbor. They were taken into custody following a recent Ger man air raid on the Greek port city. The condition of release will be that the consuls shall not resume their functions in Saloniki but return to their own countries and plans are al ready under way for the agents to I leave Greece. If Bulgaria insists, the British Vice I Consul at Sofia who took refuge in [the American legation when Bulgaria ordered the arrest of enemy consuior officials In retaliation for the seizure of the consuls at Saloniki, will be sur rendered, an order to that effect hav ing been sent from Washington. It is reported by cable, however, that the vice consul is already under arrest and this despite the protests of the American Charge de Affairs. IRON" WORKS. I.OXG 11)1,E. TO RESUME IN MARCH Special to the Telegraph Heading. Pa.. 22.—After being idle since March, 1913, the furnace of the Berkshire Iron Works, at Sheridan, will lie put into blast In March, giv ing employment to several hundred men. The furnace has a capacity of 700,- 000 tons a week, and extensive alters ations and repairs have been under way for some time. THE DAY IN CONGRESS By Associated Press Washington. Jan. 22.—Senate: Not in session. Meets Monday. I House: Met at noon. General de bate was continued on the Shackleford bill to appropriate $25,000,000 Federal (aid to States for highway construction. I fnunlgratton committee considered llt | eracy test provision of the immigration bill. Insular committee considered the Philippine bill without action. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1916. JUST A BIT OF SUNSHINE I J Wu llf re are a few of the pretty girls who will appear In the Sunshine Society's benefit amateur opera, "The tfagic Wheel," at the Orpheum Theater January 28-29. The girls above are "The Parrots." They will be part of i big bird chorus. From left to right, they are: Top row —Grace Seighman, Hess Black, Helen Lyme, Esther IVebb, Sara Relff; lower row, left to right, Kathryn Bowers, Catherine Dubbs and Margaret Miller. MYSTERIOUS FIRE j FORCES STEAMER i BACK INTO PORT Freighter Loaded With Steel and Supplies For Russians Returns Ablaze ORIGIN IS UNDETERMINED Clouds of Smoke Pouring From Hatch First Indication That Anything Is Wrong j _ i Ry Associated Press New York, .Inn. 22.—Mystery sur rounded the fire which forced the Nor wegian freight steamer Sygna to put back to this port to-day after having sailtd yesterday for Archangel with a large cargo consigned to the Russian government. The (lrebont William J. Gaynor met the freighter at Quaran tine and after Quantities of steam had l>een turned into the Sygna's forehold, from which clouds of smoke were [Continued on Page I.] Chinese Rebels Winning | in Province Where Penna. I Missionaries Are Located By Associated Press Peking, Jan. 22, 7 A. M. The rebels in the province of Hunnan have defeat ed a body of Government troops and are moving northward. The engagement between the Hun |iian revolutionists and the Government i forces took place at Suifu. Sze-Chuen province, the rebels having crossed the } norther border of Hunnan. The force j opposing them at Suifu was the garri ; son of that place, and after defeating lit the rebels marched northward. Many I Government troops from Mankow are arriving at Chung-King, but the navi gation of the river above there is dif ficult. Consequently the revolutionists | are opposed only by small garrisons. | The revolutionists are not molesting foreigners. A number of Pennsylva nians, Including Dr. C. Newton Dubs, | nre stationed as missionaries near Han- I kow. Mercury Near 60 Is 30 Degrees Above Normal Spring weather in January with the mercury starting a climb at 58 de grees at 8 o'clock, greeted Jlarrisburg ers to-day. The temperature this morning was 30 degrees above normal and went up slowly until in the afternoon. Light rain late to-day with cooler weather this evening, is forecasted at the weather bureau but the thermometer will drop only to 45 degrees during the night. Partly cloudy weather will I follow the rain !ate to-day. A storm which caused heavy rain fall in the Middle West has moved up into the lake region and is going out over the coast, lilfeli temperatures up to thirty degrees above normal for this time of year, were reported at 8 o'clock over this section of the coun try. At Pittsburgh and Philadelphia it was 54 degrees this morning. PAHSI.KY GOES I P lligh cost of living went soaring this morning, when the price of green parsley took a jump in local markets. This product of the garden was a scarce article 10-day. It sold at one . cent per slip. STE.VMESI IH LINKING Madrid, via Paris, Jan. 20. 20. Madrid newspapers publish wireless messages announcing that the steamer Pollentla is In danger of sinking off the Azores. The steamers San Gug llelmo and the America have started for the scene to aid the Pollentla, TOO MUCH SAUSAGE CA USES BOWLEGS AMONG Too Much Fatly Meal Results in "Knock-Kneesßowlegs and Ailments of Serious Nature A number of children in the foreign and poorer sections of the city are getting too much sausage and pork) causing bowlegs, knock-knees and other ailments which should be unknown to healthy childhood, according to John Yates, secretary of the Associated Aid Societies. Mr. Yates said this morning that in the investigations of the organization many instances of children getting too WIDENING OF "THE NARROWS" IS NECESSARY Will Be Important Improve ment in Connection With William Penn Way No feature of the prospective Wil liam Penn Highway which will extend from Philadelphia to liarrisburg and thence through the Juniata Valley to Pittsburgh is more important to the people of this immediate section than the widening of the road in "The Nar rows" south of the Clark's Ferry bridge. This section has been under con sideration by the State Highway De partment and the Northern Central Railway officials are understood to be favorable to some equitable arrange ment by which the Inadequate road way along the railroad embankment can be replaced by a filling up of the rContinuct! on Page 2] BALKANS LEAD IN WAR INTEREST Situation Is Clouded by Lack of Direct News; Monte negrins Fighting The Balkans continue to take pre cedence in the war news, both Monte [ negro and Greece being points of [notable interest. The situation in j each, however, is somewhat clouded j by paucity of direct news and decided conflict in such advices as are re ceived. Further reports regarding the resumption of hostilities between Montenegro and Austria, following a rejection of peace terms by the for mer, are lacking and there is small disposition in Teutonic quarters even [Continued on Page I.] WILL DISCUSS NEW TRANSATLANTIC LINK Ry Associated Press Berlin, via London, Jan. 22.—Ac cording to special dispatches from Budapest, representatives of (be. North German Lloyd and Hamburg- American steamship lines will arrive there shortly to begin negotiations with the Hungarian government for oiganizing a new steamship lino from Flume to New York to supersede the Cunard Line, whose <ontract with the Government lapsed because of the I war. much fatty meat, including pork, were discovered by the persons who were looking into the conditions'in these homes. Mr. Yates said that in these cases when found aid was given so that the children received nourishing food. He deplored the fact that so many mothers do not know what to feed young, growing children, and said that the use of too much black coffee was another mistake made by parents. TARIFF BIG ISSUE IN 1916 CAMPAIGN GOVERNOR SAYS Adequate Protection For "Our Toilers and Our Industries" Necessary, Ho Asserts The commanding issue for the Re publicans of the State and nation to remember in tlie coming campaign will be the protective tariff and it. should not be lost sight of no matter how great the excitement over International relations or anything else, in the opinion of Governor Martin G. Brum baugh. The Governor to-day declared, in answer to some questions on what he considered the big questions of the | hour, that in his opinion the great issue would lie a protective tariff com mensurate with "the needs of our toil [Continiicil on Page I.] KENTUCKY MINERS TO BE ORGANIZED ! International Association Plans j to Prosecute Vigorous Cam paign; Wages Too Low By Associated Press Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 22.—Condi tions in the mining fields of Kentucky received the attention of the conven | tion of the United Mine Workers of 'America to-day when the resolutions j committee made a further report. The committee reported two resolutions urging the International organization to prosecute a vigorous campaign to organize fully what, is called the Hop kins county coal fields of that State. The resolutions were referred to the international executive board. W. O. Smith, international organ izer. and George Baker, executive board from Kentucky, declared that the nonunion men in that. State are being paid a lower rate for mining than those in any other State. Opera tors employing union labor, they said, had notified the union in Kentucky that they can no longer compete with companies employing nonunion min ers and that if the United Mine Work ers do not. organize the coal diggers In the Hopkins field in order to make wages uniform, the operators em ploying union miners will have to in sist upon their employes accepting a reduction in wages. 16 PAGES CITY EDITION BURLESQUE AT ORPHEUM JAN. 20 OBSCENE, CHARGE Supt. of Detectives Windsor Files Information Before j Alderman Iloverler MEALS GIVES APPROVAL New Mayor Declares No In decent Production Will Be Permitted A charge of "conducting an obscene I and indecent show on January 20 with I the intent to corrupt (lie morals of the people" was brought this morning against the management of the Or pheum Theater before Alderman George A. lloverter, of the Ninth ward. The information, according to Al- I derman lloverter. was made by Wil ! liam !,. Windsor, superintendent of the l | bureau of detectives of the city police department. The Orpheum Theater is controlled by Wiimer, Vincent & Ap pcll. The show on January 20 was "The F!ig Review of 191 ti," known as a "bur lesque." According to the information made, this is the one which, it is said, was "obscene and indecent." No time has been set for the bear ing by Alderman lloverter. The action was taken following an investigation liy the police, it is said. William I>. Windsor, superintendent of the bureau of detectives, denied [Continued on Page I.] Dr. J. B. McAlister to Confer With Wilson on "Medical Preparedness" Dr. J. B. McAlister will leave Sun day evening for Washington, D. where he has an appointment with President Wilson for Monday at 12.30, to discuss the subject of "Medical Pre paredness" in connection with the pro posed army and navy increase. The President will interview the represen tatives of various State medical socie ties, the Pennsylvania State Medical Association to lie represented by Dr. McAlister, president of the Associa tion. PAUL ROTHE, SR., ELECTED PRESIDENT f Harrisburg. Announcement was made to-day that 9 Paul Rothe, Sr., 2327 N. Third street, formerly chief dyer and chemist at the Romberger Hosiery Mills, of Newport, h« been elected president of the Rothe Dyeing Company, Ir.c , ! of Norristown. KEPHART FOR TREASURER f ; Philadelphia, Jan. 22.—Political circles here to-day were 1 interested in the announcement that the Vare element C of the Republican party in Philadelphia had agreed to sup- J I port Harmon K. Kephart of Connellsville, clerk of the ff Senate at Harrisburg, for State Treasurer. Kephart is the { | choice of Senator Penrose for the place and is a brother 6 \ | Judge Kephart of the Superior Court. / I v ' i i I i MARRIAGE LICENSES \ Idor antl Mi olio ll* Ito/u, strrlton. 9 Thomaa Arthur Cooper, l*rnl»rook, and KtHrl Moore Smith, Altoona. V llarry Hull Kvaim, Sinking Springs, mid Klale M« y ShcllruhrrKrr.% lllch Ac Id. # YOUNG AMERICAN RANCHER IS SHOT THROUGH BACK BY MEXICAN RUSTLER Seeking to Recover Cattle Stolen From Woman When He Is Killed by Bullet From Roof of House; Murder Further Complicates Al ready Tense Situation VILLA SURROUNDED, CAPTURE EXPECTED Carranza Troops Have Him Penned Up Near Eleruca; May Get Rebel Chief Soon; Yaqui Indians Are Being Forced Back; Smallpox Breaks Out in Guaymas / > Villa Surrounded By Associated I'ras IYarson, Chihuahua, Mex., Jan. 22.—I'ranclsco .Villa, according to military reports, was nt Klcrtica, t:s miles from here and surrounded l».v Carranza troops. Mis capture was expected at any moment, mili tary orticers declared. El Paso, Texas, Jan. 22.—Tile tense situation here produced by the Santa i Ysabel massacre more than a week i jago 10-day was complicated when de tails of the killing of Bert Akers, an American rancher from Ysleta, Texas, became known. Akers was slain by Bernardo Duran, a Mexican cattlo rustler in a tight that occurred yester day afternoon at San Lorenzo, Chi huahua. a village a few miles below the border. With a companion, Doug las Lawrence, and a Mexican police official, Akers sought to recover cattlu [Continued on Page 3.]
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