All International Problems Overshadowed HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 25 SEVEN COUNTRIES SEND QUOTA TO I HBG. ACADEMY South America Strongest With Four or Five Representa tives 9 STATES REPRESENTED New Dormitory Crowded to the J Doors; Over Fifty Hoarders at Local School Representatives from six foreign countries and nine separate states of the Union are here in the city engaged in important business, the most impor tant business that could possibly oc cupy their time at this juncture, as you will agree when you discover what it is. The recently erected dormitory of Ihe Harrisburg Academy, which, under , the careful and broad-minded super- j vision of Headmaster Arthur E. Brown, is expanding both in scope and pres tige, houses forty-six boarding pupils in this the first year of its existence. Besides these there are five or six more boarders who represent the over flow and are living in the cottages above the Academy. Scattered through ♦ his live bunch of "Tom Browns" a careful observer might discover the swarthy complexion of the scion of one of Central America's greatest fami lies; the peculiarly piquant features of one of our Japanese brothers; the somewhat similarly favored physi ognomy of a Chinese lad: a son of France: a number of young fellows who claim South America as their home, and Inst of all, "a bloody 1 [englishman." as Rudyard Kipling af fectionately terms them. \ Cosmopolitan Aggregation All of these boys, thrown together with well nigh a hundred and fifty red-blooded, active young scapegoats who are constantly making history for the Academy on the athletic field and in the classroom and in other fields of endeavor, have been taken in and made to feel at home, and although with a number of them there is that natural reserve characteristic of their race, the strangeness is gradually wearing off and they are all entering with enthusiasm into the spirit of the Academy's activities. To get down to personalities, it would he a great pleasure to you to meet George Cordovez. son of Charles < 'ordovrx. a prominent engineer of Ecuador, South America, whose family has the reputation of being the wealth iest in that country and whose home in that wonder land of promise has more the appearance of an enormous i astle than an ordinary dwelling. Then there is Joseph Lee, the 14-year-old lad from far-off China, who hasn't time just now to worry as to whether Yunn-Shi-Kai is going to "get away with it" in the recent change of his land from a republic back to a monarchical form; Young Lee's par ticular business is to get an education, and he has been sent here for that purpose by a well-to-do society woman in Philadelphia; the young man is full of life and a "real" boy. And of course we mustn't forget Luis Alvarado, 17 years of age, of Central America, whose brother-in-law is the consul general of Honduras; nor Onofre Cas tells. from Ecuador, a son of Jaime fasteHs, who is a big shoe manu facturer of that country and ships large quantities of his product to the United States. The gentleman from England is a Methodist minister, is 24 years of age, and is paster of the Methodist Church of Ilummel.stown, Pa. Percy Boughey is his name. Many States and Cities Represented The following states have all sent their quota to the Academy's halls for the ensuing year: New York. Penn. sj lvanla, New Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, In diana and Michigan; Mnd these cities are likewise represented: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. Clarion, New York city, Brooklyn. Baltimore, Lebanon. Lan caster, Altoona, Narberth, Greencastle, < Chester, Overbrook, Johnstown. Nor folk, Scranton, Warren and Mifflin, and, of course. Harrisburg. \V EST K\l) BOY A HERO Duncannon, Pa.. Feb. o. Ralph Campbell, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Emory Campbell, of this place, narrowly escaped drowning when he was pushed into the river by several companions. Robert Bolden. his 8-year-old cousin, of 1838 North Sev enth street, Harrisburg, jumped in *fter the boy and dragged him to shore. 1 THE WEATHER, Fur Tfarrlahur* and vicinity: < loml.v, priihnlily Know 10-nl K |it, •»nn(ln>- partly cloudy mid colder) n firmer to-nlrlit with lour>t temperature about 2(1 dearer*. For Kaatern I'enaftylvanlai Snow In northern and cloudy In aouth por tion to-nlßbti warmer to-nlchtt Sunday partly cloudy and eoldrr« frenh southerly wind*. River * The Susquehanna river and all Ita hranchea will fall slowly or re mnln nearly stationary. A stair of about 5.0 feet Is Indicated for ilnrrlsburjr Sunday motnlnic. General Conditions .* disturbance of moderate energy has moved dowi over the I.ake nesion and la now central near Chicago. It has caused snow In the Inst twenty-four hours In the Missouri and I'pper Mississippi valleys, the i.ake Region and In the Interior of >"ew York State. A general fall of 2 to 2« degrees In temperature haa occurred in the Missouri Valley. Temperature: 8 a. m., 22. Sun: Rises. 7:12 a. M.i sets, 5:28 p. m. Moon: First quarter, l'rhruarv 10 .1:20 p. m. River Singe: 0.5 feet above low water mark. Vesterday'a Weather Highest temperature, 20, l.owest temperature. 14. Mean temperature. 22. Aomal temperature, 28. FIERCE FIRE IS SWEEPING ALONG SCRANTON BLOCK Two Theaters and Many Busi ness Houses in Heart of City Destroyed GIRLS NARROWLY ESCAPE Flee From Caskrl Factory Amid Burning Paints and Varnishes By Associated Press Scranton, Pa., Feb. s.—Fierce fire is j i now sweeping t hrough the Casey build- j ing, on Penn avenue, starting in the Miller Casket Company. The block is occupied by several business concerns and also includes the Lyceum Theater, which af noon was enveloped in flames. The loss will be heavy. The entire fire ! department is in service. The Are spread rapidly and at 1 | o'i lock only the walls of the Casey | i building, known as the Lyceum block, i were standing. The whole building ; was gutted. Besides the theater the ; 1 business places of Allan K. Lawrence, I pianos; Hotel and Household Supply I Company, Gately & Fitzgerald and the Miller Casket Company, the latter oc i cupying all the upper, floors were de stroyed. The Snover block, oefcupied by the i National Casket Company, and the Majestic Theater, is now threatened, 'and the firemen are working hard to save them. The tire started in the basement of the Miller Casket Company among packing material, and on reaching the workrooms, where varnishes and oils were used, spread furiously. Upward of fifty employes, mostly girls, narrowly escaped being caught in (he workrooms, and excitement was intense until all were known to be safe. The loss at noon was at least S-itMI.OOO. with the lire still raging. The fire was under control at 2 o'clock, the total loss reaching half a million dollars. Ottawa Munitions Plant Is Destoyed by Fire Ottawa. Feb. 3.—Fire of unknown origin last night destroyed the plant of Grant, Holden & Graham Company, Ltd., which has been engaged in manufacturing clothing for the mili tary department. Eight employes were in the building when the fire started, but all escaped. The loss on the building alone is fixed at $20,000. No estimate lias been made of the value of the stock, but a large supply was ready for delivery. FIRE SUSPECT RELEASED Windsor, Ont., Feb. s.—Charles Strony, the opera singer, arrested here last night on suspicion of having been connected with the fire in the parlia ment houses at Ottawa on Thursday night, was released to-day here on orders from the Dominion govern ment. Fate of Wormleysburg Grade Crossing May Be Kept Secret Ur'.il May i Carlisle. Feb. 3.—Viewers appointed by the Cumberland county court to decide whether or not the grade cross ing at Ferry street. Wormleysburg. should be closed, appeared in court this morning while attorneys on both sides endeavored to reach an agree ment. It is said that a few days ago , it appeared as though everything had been settled and that n new road to the farms beyond Wormleysburg would be laid out through the private subway at Walnut street. However, ; some complications have arisen and ■ j the controversy has been reopened, ilt was hinted shortly after noon to i day that the court would likely grant a postponement of the case until the i 1 May term. If this is not done then the viewers will make their report in , court Monday morning, as the result of the view was made returnable Feb , ; ruary 7. Body of Chambersburg Man Taken From Ruins at Shore I Atlantic City. N". J.. Feb. 5. The , bodies of Mrs. Thomas Mott, mother . of Richard Mott, proprietor of the I Hotel Overbrook, scene of the $150,- j 000 blaze which yesterday morning took a toll of six lives, and Paul C. i Hendricks, of Chambersburg, Pa., , were taken from the ruins during the night, leaving only that of Edward Phillipsen, of White Plains, N. Y„ ■ still missing. John McCoy and George Brincker, two of the survi.ors in the city hos pital, one with a punctured lung and the other with internal injuries, are in a precarious condition. All otflers are out of danger. Anthracite Miners Must Be Treated Fairly, Umpire Rules By Associated Press Hazleton, Pa., Feb. s.—Coal com ! panies of the anthracite fields must protect miners from over-zealousness on the part of foremen in meeting the requirements of a six-inch topping on cars according to a ruling handed down to-day by Charles P. Neill, of Washington. D. C.. umpire of the con ciliation board, in the grievance of the Shenandoah City colliery men against the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. The men complained that they were often the victims of injustice on the part of bosses who required over loading of cars without allowing any extra compensation. BRAXDEIS' PUBLIC HEARING TO COMMENCE WEDNESDAY Washington, Feb. 5. Public hear ings on the nomination of Louis D. Rrandeis of Boston, to the Supreme Court bench will be held by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. beginning next Wednesday. The first thing to be taken up it was said would relate to Mr. Brandeis" forme)' connection with the United Shoe Machinery Company, and later | regarding his attitude toward the re- Ave per cent, railroad rate case. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1916. Roon, Believed to Be German Raider Which Aided in Capture of Appam I " ■; . . *-i • • - nil " ft s s < York; Promoted Cold Storage Hotel Here in 1913 Count August Seymour, who in the] summer of 1913 told a Telegraph re-j porter that he lived years and years | ago. and was Petronious, special guard j to Caesar, and later was reported to • have died, is very much alive. This j news came from New York, where I the Count last night told a thrilling! tale. Shortly after leaving Harrisburg last year, Count Seymour was re- j ported to have died from an overdose | of anablosa and contrablosa prepara- , tions of his invention used for cold storage purposes. It was claimed that a dose of these new preparations properly taken would permit a man ■ to freeze himself and remain in cold storage for 1.000 years, and wake up a rich man, providing he would put j his money in the bank before going! in cold storage. The New York Sun 1 to-day says: "Looking the picture of health, 1 fount August Sliappelysky de Muk kadel de Castellane Seymore (he wrote it out himself) came into The Sun office yesterday to say that the reports of his death were greatly ex- I aggerated and to tell a ftory that! could not possibly be exaggerated. The j Count, it seems, was not dead, but sleeping. "It is most disconcerting to have! every one think I am dead, said the; Count earnestly, twirling his Kaiser- j like mustache. I have to take twenty ! minutes every time I meet a gentle- j man friend to persuade him I anv alive. Now if you print that 1 am alive and all your thousands —hundreds of thu sands —of readers read it, it will save me the twenty minutes. So The Sun assures its readers that the Count really is very much alive, even though The Sun printed in its issue of January 2, 1914. that the; Count had been hoist by his own pet ard, had died while experimenting with a suspended animation serum which he hoped would prove that death was easily deprived of its sting. What follows is the count's own story of bow the genie in a little black 1 bottle containing bourbon whisky charmed him back to life after an un dertaker had seen his big toe wiggle, i also an authentic account of his ex ploration of Tibet, the erocodilephant, the pelliglraffe, anabtosa nnd contra- : biosa and other prodigies. The count's story Is particularly In J. CLARENCE FUNK APPOINTED CLERK TO FEDERAL COURT Judge Witmer Names Young Barrister to Succeed Snodgrass j I J. CLARENCE FUNK Attorney J. Clarence Funk, one of j the younger members of the Dauphin i i county bar, has been appointed clerk l ! to the federal courts for the Middle • district, with offices in this city. • | Mr. Funk succeeds Frank Snodgrass, : ' of the law firm of Snodgrass & Smith. I : He had served as clerk for the district for many years. The appointment of Mr. Funk was announced yesterday from Sunbury by ' Federal Judge Charles B. Witmer. II The new clerk to the federal courts j has figured prominently in the local t! courts and represented the United | States government in its anti-white slave investigations a year or so ago. ! teresting at this time, for within a few | days he departs, he says, to seek I Colonel Roosevelt's River of Doubt. In j the past the count has done marvelous ■ things, such as promoting a corner in I skeletons, a hotel for suicides, and 1 seeking in vain an American bride to share a $150,000 inheritance. Hut for ' his story: "You see. you have printed that Dr. : I. p. Dai ley telegraphed Mayor 13d- I ward Stetson Grilling, of New Rochelle |—T live in Xew Rochelle —that 1 died in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky on the first of January, 1914, from an in jection of anahiosa, my suspender of animation," he said. "Dr. Dailey thought I was dead and called an un ; dertaker, but that undertaker saw my ; toe wiggle. " 'By George," lie said, 'he's alive!' ! and he gave me some bourbon whisky out of a little black bottle, and sure i enough. I was alive. Animation had just been suspended a few hours longer than we expected, that's all.' My ana i biosa needed just something more to make it work properly, i "Well, 1 went to Tibet—emphasis on the 'bet,' as In a wager—on the steamship Empress of China. I ex ■ plored the country—and it is the land ' ol' opportunity. They are 800 years i behind the times, and all the poorest workmen wear jewelry, rings, gold, precious stones everywhere, but to con ! tinue— "Dr. Dailey and 1 go to Batany, a town near the coast, and from there we explore the interior and tlnd ani j mals. Oh, the most miraculous ani mals. Listen, and I will tell you. Oh, Sucli Animals! "There was the crocodilephant, with a head like an elephant, a long neck > and a body like a crocodile. Here, I j [Continued on Page 3.] All Missionaries in West China Are Reported Safe By Associated Press New York, Feb. 3.—The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society an nounced to-day the receipt of a cable-I grain stating (hat all missionaries in West China are safe. [ The cablegram says that the rebels j have not Interfered in any way with j the missions, j FARMERS MEET IN LINGLESTOWN j FOR INSTITUTE Big Attendance and Singing of Children Feature Opening Sessions DISCUSS FRUIT GROWING Farm Drainage and Water Supply Is Another Inter esting Topic By ROBERT F. GORMAN Linglestown, Pa.. Feb. 5. —Two liun- j dred farmers and their wives residing j in the vicinity of Linglestown, and; residents of this town crowded intoj Union Chapel last evening to hearj the Farmers' Institute speakers sent i here by the State Department of Ag- j riculture. The sessions were opened | yesterday afternoon and a big crowd | was present at the initial meeting. | Sessions were held this morning and | this afternoon and the. closing meet ing will be held tills evening. One of the big features of tiie institute is the singing of the school children of Linglestown. Tlic three teachers, Miss Ella Good. John Unger and 11. B. King arranged the musical program and the children were greeted with prolonged applause as they finished each num ber. George W. STiriner is chairman of the local meetings and the Institute [Continued on Page 12.] LABORERS GET RAISE By Associated Press Pittsburgh, Feb. 5. —Five hundred workmen employed by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company at Ford City, Pa., and by the Heidenkainp Class Com pany at Springdale, Pa., were to-day j notified of an increase of 10 per cent. ;in wages. The men affected are prin- I cipally laborers, of whom there is a pronounced scarcity in this district. RIVER BRETHREN TO EMIGRATE TO SASKATCHEWAN Canadian Who Won Bride at Grantham, Will Take Colony Back With Him When Archibald Carmichael returns to bis home in Kindersley, Saskatche wan, during the next few weeks about two score fellow-members of the River Brethren sect will accompany him to the valleys of the Canadian province, jit is understood, with the vifcw of es tablishing another little colony of the people of that denomination in Can ada. Mr. Carmichael got into print about a week ago when he came all the way from Canada to attend the annual Bible conference of the River Breth ren at the Messiah Mission, Grantham, Pa. That was Mr. Carmichael's os tensible intention anyway. His real purpose, however, was developed a few days later at the Dauphin county marriage bureau when he and Miss Roxanna Anger, matron of the Mes- I siali Home, called to get a marriage license. They were married a day later. In various parts of the Saskatche wan there are many little colonies of the peace-loving River Brethren and Carmichael's stories of the Canadian •land of promise have been so glowing that the people in and around Gran tham have expressed a desire to jour ney into the domain of England's big fighting colony. Two Officers of Camp Hill Council to Quit When Camp Hill borough council meets next Thursday evening that, body will have to be prepared to receive two I resignations. John C. Orr and Arthur 1 W. Lebo to-day announced they will j quit. Mr. Orr is president anil Mr. I Lebo secretary. Mr. Orr has removed I to 1933 North Third street and Mr. Lebo has also taken up his residence ! here. Steps may also be taken at the com ing meeting to have the councilmanic ! committee on West Shore improve- ; ments reappointed. Since council re- • i organized in January the organization j | ha.« been without that committee. 14 PAGES CITY EDITION LUSITANIA CASE FORESHADOWS ALL PROBLEMS OF U.S. President and Secretary Lans-' in# Will Not Begin Discussion j of Beply Until Monday SITUATION 1 M P B 0 V E S Believed Two Governments Will Be Able to Find Grounds For Agreement By Associated Press % Washington, Feb. s.—President Wil son and Secretary Lansing will not begin discussion of Germany's latest answer in the Lusitania case until Monday. It was said that the President al ready has the proposal from Berlin i before htm and wants to go over it carefully before be begins confer | ences with the Secretary of State. Officials in touch with the negotia tionr reiterated their statement that i the situation was unchanged. There | was an undertone of expectation that the two governments would be able to I find common ground for agreement iin official declarations Berlin's reply ! has not made the situation any more j serious. I President Wilson and Secretary Lansing carefully went over a new proposal presented last night by I Count Bernstorff, the German am bassador. Until they have decided [there will be no change in the virtual | deadlock to which negotiations came I weeks ago—and perhaps not then. 'Officials were emphatic in declaring that whatever of gravity there was in the situation was potential. Apparently the stumbling block of the situation is the word "illegal" as differently interpreted in this country and Germany. The Berlin govern ment's answer proposes instead of a fiat admission of illegality of the [Continued on Page 5.] Woman Seriously Burned While Cooking; May Die Mrs. Katherine McAllister, aged 23 J years, wife of William McAllister, 1018 i Berryhill street, was badly burned at I her home this afternoon. She is in I the Harrisburg Hospital in a critical I condition. Mrs. McAllister was cook | ing when her clothing caught fire from paper in the aslipan of the stove. ARKANSAS CITY INUNDATED Arkansas City, Ark., Feb. s.—Arkansas City is flooded deeper than at any time in its history and last night the water works and electric light plants were out of commis sion. The entire town is inundated. HYDROPHOBIA QUARANTINES Harrisburg. The State Livestock Sanitary Board of Agriculture has ordered a general quarantine in sections of Armstrong, Carbon and Clarion counties following an out break of rabies or hydrophobia among the dogs of those districts ACADEMY LEADS YORK COLLEGIATE Harrisburg—At the end of the first half of the basket ball game at Cathedral Hall this afternoon the score was. Harrisburg Academy, 20; York Collegiate Institute, 5. FRENCH AIR RAIDS ONBULGARS Paris—An official Bulgarian report forwarded from Athens to the Temps says that 470 men were killed and mor: than 500 wounded during the recent attack by French aero planes on Bulgarian camps. WANT WILSON TO SPEAK IN SOUTH Washington, .Feb. 15.—Invitations for President Wil son to cities in the South arrived at the White House to-day in !.■: e numbers. Governor Harris telegraphed, ask ing him to go to Georgia; Senator James invited him to Paducah and Louisville, Ky., and Senator Sheppard urged him to visit Dallas, Galveston and other points in Texas. REPULSE HAND GRENADE ATTACK Berlin, Feb. s.—By Wireless. The breakdown of a French hand grenade attack south of the Somme and the repulse of a British attempt to advance south of La Bassec canal are announced by German army headquarters to-day. TO RAISE WAGES AT CENTRAL IRON Harrisburg—Employes of the Central Iron and Steel Company will receive an increase in wages effective Feb ruary 1, it is understood. Just how large the increase will be. officials were unable to say to-day. "Eight hundred men will be effected. MARRIAGE Ueorit* Smith and Anna TolTna, city. William Drcltman anil Nellie Devlctor, city. rlmrlen Walter Springer and Mary RoniHl* Sober, city. t'liarle* Kdnnrd l.arkard and < hrlntlana Welrlch, Mlddletowa. Martin I.utker Hoffman and Mildred •Toledo Seldle, city. OPPOSING ARMIES ARE DEADLOCKED ON ALL FRONTS Decided Lull in Fighting; Heavy Artillery Play Continues RELIEF ARMY STOPPED British Mesopotamia Unable to | Make Headway; Bulgars Fall Back in Albania There is a decided lull at present ; along the various war fronts. Heavy artillery play continues along the line in France and Belgium but neither here nor in any of the other import ! ant theaters of operations have there I been infantry movements resulting in exchanges of territory worth noting, so far as the official reports reveal. In Mesopotamia, the British relief army under General Aylmer which has been halted for some time a short dis tance down the Tigris from Kut-El- Amara, where General Townshend's force is beleaguered, does not appear to have been able as yet to make further progress. Constantinople de clares that the British attempting to •advance from Felaliier were repulsed by a Turkish counter attack and com pelled to fall back to their former positions. Bulgars Fall Back In Albania where a mixed situation j prevails the Bulgarians are reported to have a hard time of it and to have been obliged to fall back toward the j Drin river near the Eastern frontier. The occupation of strategic points by the forces of Kssad Pasha and by Ser- I hian troops who have reformed at Durazzo is believed in Athens to make a new Bulgarian expedition toward the coast difficult. The advance of the Austrians down the Albanian coast continues, the latest advices apparently indicating that they were some twenty milei northeast of Duranzzo. The arival of 2,000 Montenegrin troops at Durazzo. after a fatiguing retreat, is an nounced.