Concerted Action For Wage Increase Pla
HARRISBURG SfiSlik TELEGRAPH
LXXXV— No. 26
RAILROADERS AND
MINERS PLANNING
COMBINED ACTION
Labor Leaders Say Move Is
Under Way to Bring Increas
ed Wage Demands Jointly
750,000 MEN ARE AFFECTED
Trainmen, Engincmen and
Firemen Heads Approve
of Move
By Associated Press
New York, Feb. 7.—Labor leaders 1
here say that a movement is under
way to bring about concerted action
of members of the four great unions of |
railway employes and of the union of
mine workers in their demands for
increased wages or shorter working
days. It is stated that if this plan j
were put Into effect it would bring
about combined action by 750,000 men ;
and affect the mining fields of Penn
sylvania, Colorado and the South.
The movement is said to have the
approval of W S. Carter, president of
Hie Brotherhood of locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen, and of W. G.
l-.ee, president of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen. Representatives
of the railroad unions are said to have
been sent lo Mobile to confer with the
United Mine Workers of America, who
are gathering there for a conference
with the operators to-morrow.
lr is reported here that John P.
White, president of the United Mine
Workers, has disapproved the pro
posed coalition.
Members of the local brotherhoods
learned of this proposition to-day. Any
action that will be taken will be a
part of the meetings next Sunday.
Trainmen were of the opinion that if
President William G, Dee authorized
a vote on this question, it would come.
They would not commit themselves as
to what the probable result would be.
Members of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
were not inclined to talk on the sub
ject until the question reached the
local lodges from headquarters.
Partial Victory Now
Predicted by Miners
Special to the Telegraph
lla'/.leton. Pa.. Feb. 7. —"There will
be no strike in the anthracite coal
Held.
"The miners will be granted a wage
Increase, but it may not be 20 per cent.
"On the other demands of the men,
compromises will be reached after ex- j
1 ended negotiations in New York be
iween committees of the union and tlio
operators.
"The chances are that the price of
fuel will be advanced after April 1.
"Each side will fight hard for .its
contention, and at times the outlook
may be critical, but there won't be any
break."
These arc the deductions reached by
an expert in the Lehigh field after the
people have had a chance lo recover
from the shock they got when it was !
announced from New York last week
that all the- demands of miners had
been rejected, when, in fact, they had
merely issued the first of a series of
statements to the public explaining
their position.
Saves Settler From Band
of Indians Fifty Years Ago; j
Now Bequeathed Fortune
By Associated Press
Kokomo, Ind„ Feb. 7.—John W.
Royer, 70 years old, has received a no
tice from an attorney at Independence,
Kan., that he has Inherited a large
farm and thousands of dollars' worth
of stock from the estate of a wealthy i
Kansas farmer. John Westfail, who
died ten years ago.
When a young man seeking adven
ture in the West fifty years ago Boyer I
sin prised and. single handed, drove
away a band of Indians attacking the
home of Westfail, then a poverty
stricken settler, saving Westfail. his
wife and children.
I THE WEATHER
For tlarrlxburg nn<l vicinity: Fair
ii ml -r to-night niul Tuemlny,
Mlth a colli nave; limcKl tcni
m-rnturc to-night nliout 10 de-
Itree*.
For Kiixtorn Penn«ylvnnln: Fnlrniiil
• older to-night nml Thomiliij >v lth
11 I'olil wave; moderate wexterly
Baled.
Illver
Tlie >iiMi|iiehniuiH river nml all |t«
trlhutnrlcN will full alowly or re
mnln npnrl.v Ntatlonnrv, rxi'cpt
the upper portion of t'hr North
llrnni-11. which will rlne Nllghtlv
to-night. A Htage of nbout
feet IN Indicated for llnrrliihnr K
Tiicmlay morning. Ice villi la.
creaae rapidly to-night In the
tributaries and the Htreanm are
likely to hecomr Icebound In
many plaeen within the ne*t
lorty-elglit houra.
tienernl C'oiiilltlonn
Tile lake stornt liiim moved to the
I iiper St. I.awernee Valley. It
him caused light to nioderatelv
heavy Known generally north of
the Ohio river nnd In the I'pper
tliaalulppl nnd l.ower MU.sourl
. \ nlleya nnd light rain* In the At
lantic and tiulf State* In the laat
lnenty-f«ur hour*. V eold, high
preaaure area, eentrnl over the
Mlnaourl Valley, la following the
atnrm, attended by a eold wave.
Temperatitrei S a. m., 38.
Sum Rlaea, 7iOS a. in.; aetft, 5:30 ,
p. m.
Jlcwn: Klrat quarter, Febrnarv Jo. I
,'»2O p. in.
River Stagei 5.7 feet above low
water mark.
Veaterday'a Weather
Highest temperature, 42.
I.oweat temperature, 27.
Hcnn temperature, 34.
Aiirual temperature, 2U.
« i
SAW MURDERER
GRIND HEEL ON
VICTIM'S FACE
District Attorney Gets Bloody
Story From Trembling
Witness
FEARED SAME FATE
Nikolo Kotur Swore He' Would
Finish Man Who Told
of Crime
When Mike Novokovic climbed
tremblingly* to bed that memorable
December night Joso Backie was
murdered in Steelton's foreign colony,
' this was the last thing he saw from
I the top of the stairway,
j At the bottom of the flight lay the
' quivering figure of Backie. Over him,
drawn knife in hand, stood Nikolo
Kotur. As the fascinated witness
i watched, Backic feebly tried to raise
his arm. Kotur deliberately stepped
upon the fallen head and ground his
boot-heel into the upturned face.
That was only part of the confession
Novokovic this morning reluctantly
made to County Detectives James T.
Walters in the Dauphin county prison.
It was just what District Attorney
Michael E. Stroup wanted to untangle
a few threads of evidence with which
lie hopes on Wednesday to send Kotur
to the electric chair.
.\l tlie Foot of the Stairs
Novokovic added some other start
ling details of that winter night, which
has materially strengthened the
State's case.
As Novokov'c crawled into bed his
room-niate noticed that he was shak
ing as if with a fever; Novokovic
didn't even undress but quickly buried
his face in the covers. Mike admit
ted this in bis confession to-day.
| Before the pair had gone to sleep
[Continued on I'age 7. ]
Attempt to "Jimmy"
Open Lock of Door
of City Treasury ?
What is believed to have been an
attempt to "jimmy" an entrance to
the city treasury was discovered this
morning by City Treasurer Harry F.
Oves.
The treasurer's office was formerly
used as the grand jury room and when
the city look the quarters the old en
trance from the rear of the Courthouse
was left open. The door through this
narrow passageway has always been
locked with a Yale lock, to which only
| the treasurer has the key. It is gen
erally used as a private entrance for
i this official. This lock was loose this
i morning.
Reported Kitchener Will
Leave War Office, Giving
Robertson Sole Charge
By Assonated Press
London. Feb. 7. —Changes of great
importance in the direction of the war
I arc contemplated, says the Daily
Sketch. II asserts Karl Kitchener
probably will leave the war ollicc.
Tlie Sketch also says Sir William
Robertson, now chief of staff, pres
ently will take over active direction ol'
the war without interference except
from the cabinet as whole anil that a
civilian of real ability for organization
. will become secretary for war.
In event that Earl Kitchener leaves
: the war office, the Sketch says that he
will undertake work of an important
character elsewhere.
Ministers Favor Merging
of Benevolent Societies
Methodist ministers in the city, after
j a discussion this morning at the Min
isterial Association meeting, favored
the consolidation of the benevolent so
i eieties of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, including tlie Sunday school,
: church extension, home and foreign
mission work. It is believed that at
the general conference of the Meth
odist Church in Syracuse this Spring
action will be taken on this subject.
The Rev. J. V. Adams, of New Cum
: berland. read a paper on the "Con
solidation of Benevolences." Dr. J. A.
Kynett. of Philadelphia, also spoke on
this subject. He is general secretary
of church extension work in the Meth
odist Church. Brief plans of the lay
men's missionary conference to be held
1 in Grace Methodist Church, March IS,
13 and 14. were announced by Frank
B. Everett, executive secretary of the
movement.
The Rev. S. S. Games spoke this
| afternoon at the Lutheran ministerial
I meeting on "The Gary School Method"
| and explained the system being used
j in religious instruction in the schools
| at. Gary, Ind.
HIT BY CAR
William Harrington w' <i says lie
lives in Pittsburgh, was admitted to the
Harrisburg Hospital last evening, suf
fering from a fractured elbow and two
fractured ribs. He told the hospital
physician that he was struck by n
trolley car at Second and Chestnut
streets.
Sr.HKH SI.Y HURT IN I''\l,l,
Joseph O'Leary. 3 Hummel street,
tripped and fell this afternoon at the
Bolton House. He was picked up un
conscious and rushed to the Harrisburg
Hospitals, where physicians found him
suffering from concussion of the brain
; and minor scalp injuries.
NEW CONSTABLES' FORMS
i New forms for constables' subpenas
were adopted for service to-day by
the county commissioners. These in
clude space for setting out the num
ber of miles traveled by the officer and
j1 he place to which he journeyed to
make the arrest.
DR. I RITCIIEY IMPROVING
I Dr. John A. Krltchey, former mayor
of Harrisburg, who has been In thfe
Presbyterian Hospital. Philadelphia,
for five weeks, was none the worse to
day, as a result of a second operation
performed Saturday. It was said that
Dr. Frltchey passed a comfortable
inlght j
HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1916
{ SMOKING RUINS OF HISTORIC CANADIAN PARLIAMENT HOUSE I
V J
ML/z/vs OF*' ~ /NTL.r.cj~r
This picture was taken the morning ater the fire had destroyed the interior of the historic Parliament
' I House in Ottawa,, and shows the ice-coated ruins of the building, in which six lives were lost
CAMBRIA STEEL
IS TAKEN OVER
BY MIDVALE CO.
i
Deal Follows Collapse ol' Cam
| bria - Youngstown - Lacka
wanna Merger Scheme
*
[ BIG FLURY IN STREET
Stock Transfers Break All
Records Since Reading
Deal in 1893
By Associated Press
Philadelphia. Feb. 7.—Control of
I the Cambria Steel company, one of the
\ largest of the independent steel eon
[cerns has been purchased by the Mid
jvale Steel and Ordnance company, of
! Philadelphia.
Announcement to the effect was
made to-day by W. H. Donner, presi
dent of the Cambria company.
Financiers here and in New York
learned with surprise that negotia
tions for the consolidation of the Cam
bria Steel company, the Lackawanna
Steel company and the' Youngstown
Sheet and Tube company into a $200,-
000,000 corporation had suddenly been
called off at a time when an official an
nouncement of the merger together
[Continued on Page 7. ]
Notre Dame Students Chase
t Conductor and Motorman
From Car, Then Fire It
South Bend, Ind., Feb. 7. Notre
C Dame students last night in a demon
t si rat ion against the street car com
i pany destroyed one of the company's
i cars by tire after forcing the motor
man and conductor to leave their
< posts and return to the city.
The trouble started Thursday when
( a conductor, locked in his car as a
prank, threatened several students
with a switch hook and was soundly
trounced by one of he crowd. Later
extra men from the 'ar company had
an encounter with students and sev
-5 eral injuries resulted. To-night 150
students came to the city and paraded
through the street car station, later
. boarding the last car, which they
[ fired.
' Skeleton Found Astride
1 Goat in College Room
. Special to the Telegraph
■ j Wooster, Ohio. Feb. 7.—A skeleton
stolen from the office of Dr. H. N.
- Mater was found in the Y. M. C. A.
• room at Wooster College, astride a
i goat which had been taken from the
curio room.
The prank is believed to be the
j work of a group of students.
Wellesley Girls to Make
Plea For Sunday Beaus
Special to the Telegraph
I Boston. Mass., Feb. 7. —Wellesley
J College girls have declared war on a
number of rules that govern their
conduct on Sundays, and are prepared
|to go into the next meeting of the
Student Government Association and
; ! fight to have them abolished.
; Three rules which the girls say
i must be done away with are those
l that prohibit them from having men
' callers on Sunday afternoons, that
: close Dakc Waban on Sunday and
prevent them from skating in the
winter and boating in the Spring, and
the order which forbids them to
travel to and from Wellesley on Sun
| days.
Says There Are Too Many
"Low Brows" in College
< Hy Associated Press '
Stanford University, <'al„ Feb. 7.
In Stanford University circles to-day
: there was a lively discussion of an ad
-1 dress made to tlip students last night
1 by Chancellor David Starr Jordan
who said:
"There are too many, "low brows' in
college."
A "low brow" he explained was
only one degree removed from a
, "rough neck." The "low brow" was
too practical .iust as the "high brow" j
was not practical enough.
I Dr. Jordan's subject was "A Man"'
and he told his hearers it was a good
| thing to leuru to be in tiie minority, j
ALL DEMANDS OF I
U.S. PRACTICALLY |
MET BY GERMANY
Agrees That Reprisals Must
Not Be D irected Against Any
but Enemies
'IN PLACE OF "ILLEGAL"
Also Suggests in Lusitania Case 1
I'. S. Co-operation Toward
Freedom of Seas
By Associated I'rcss
I Washington, Feb. 7.—Germany has!
agreed that reprisals must not be di
, rected against any other than enemy
subjects.
' This expression is offered by Ger-'
many to take the place of the phrase I
containing the word Illegal which was
! incorporated In the draft of the Lusi
tania agreement now unfler oonsldera
; tion.
It also became known that Ger-
I many expresses the hope that it may
j have the opportunity to co-operate!
! with the United States in some action j
' looking toward the freedom of the
soas before the end of the war. This
[ statement is taken in high diplomatic
circles to imply that the Berlin gov
t eminent sees no occasion to await
| the cessation of hostilities before set
tling that issue.
-, Furthermore, the German govern
■ 111 ont refers to the British blockade of
3 S Germany as being inhuman, calls at
* | tention to the fact that neutral vessels
r j have been affected by the efforts of
I the British government to starve j
1 1 Germany, and puts forth the conten-!
I tier, that the German retaliation in i
s the war zone abound the British Isles j
■' is justified by the actions of Great I
r,
[Continued on Pajc 12.]
i Cold Wave Sweeping in
on Thirty-Mile Gale;
Ten Above Predicted
| A 30-mile-an-hour gale this after-1
[ noon was the forerunner of a cold
wave which will hit Harrisburg to
night, according to the forecast at the
j United States Weather Bureau. The l
i j wind is expected to last until late!
• this evening.
•j The thermometer started on a!
I I steady drop at 11 o'clock. At 8 o'clock !
3 j this morning the mercury stood at
138 degrees, remained unchanged for j
1 several hours and then dropped to |
]2B degrees at 1 o'clock in the after-!
noon. The temperature will drop to
110 above to-night, according to the
I forecast.
Lose Your False Teeth?
Police May Have 'Em
Found—One set of false teeth on
I steps of the New Idea Spreader
i Company, Seventh and Kelker streets.
1 j Owner may have same by calling at
. police headquarters and Identifying j
' \ property.
An unknown man, or rather one,
I who refused to give his name to the
; police, came to headquarters this!
I I morning and turned over the set of
|; false teeth which he had found.
1 Captain Joseph P. Thompson is wait
' ing for some one to claim the set.
| "SUPPOSE I'LL BREAK MY NECK" j
j And tlie Skater Did Five Minutes
I .titer
!' Boston. Mass., Feb. 7.—At Loudß
Pond. South Weymouth, yesterday aft
ernoon, William L. Griffin, aged 30,
put on his skates for the first time in
; several years, remarking, "I suppose J
I'll break my neck." Five minutes!
later he fell and broke his neck, dying
almost instantly.
CATCH MILK THIEF
Charged with stealing milk from
doorsteps, Charles Smith was arrested
Saturday night, by Officer Dickey.
January 25. his companion. Frnest
! Lavender, was arrested on the same
charge, but Smith escaped. Laven- |
! der was held under S3OO ball for ,
court. Smith will be Riven a hear- .
jing before Alderman Nicholas. j;
SALONIKI ATTACK
IMMINENT FROM
ALL INDICATIONS
Teutons Are Concentrating on
Greek Frontier; Moving
Artillery From Nisli
RUMANIA IS MOBILIZING
Collecting Troops Along Aus
tro-German Line; Franco-
Belgian Front Active
While recent reports of the actual !
opening of an offensive movement by j
the Teutonic allies against Saloniki ap
pear to have been premature, the'
cables continue to bring accounts of
various troop movements held In mili
tary quarters to indicate that such an
1 offensive is probably not far distant.
| Athens dispatches to-day tell of con
-1 tinued concentration of German, Aus- i
trian and Bulgarian forces on the !
Greek frontier, together with the!
transfer of heavy artillery southward
from Nish.
With such a movement In the Bal- I
kans in prospect, the reports that come |
out of Rumania comnfand Increasing
interest. Advices from ail sources de
clare that the friction between Ru
mania and the central powers has in
| creased and that Rumania, supposedly
in view of the reported threatening
! attitude of Germany and Austria, has
collected forces close to the Austro-
Hungarian frontier.
Offensive in West
There is a paucity of news of active
operations in any of the war fields,
probably:for the good reason that few
important movements are now actually
in progress. The chief capitals of the
entente allies .however, appear to be
impressed with the idea that an impor-
I tant offensive is shortly to be begun by
j the Germans in the west. The belief
| is prompted largely by the military
| movements noted along the Franeo
| Belgian front In recent days, consid
| ered to presage something out of the
[Continued on Page 7. ]
Father at 96, He Calls
Twenty-Fourth Woodrow
1 Cincinnati. Ohio. Feb. 7.—At the
age of ninety-six, "Uncle" Bob Bates
lof Whitesburg, Letcher county, Ky.,
the father of three families, has an
other new member of the household,
a boy, he has named Woodrow, hi
, honor of President Wilson. The
, youngster arrived last week.
"Uncle" Bob has been married three
j times, and has nine children as a re
| suit of his first union, eight by his
! second wife and seven by his third
and present wife.
Harrisburg Gas Sup't.
Goes to Syracuse, N. Y.
Charles M. Cole, Jr., for the past
six years connected with the Harris
burg Gas Company as superintendent,
has been transferred to a responsible
position with the Syracuse Lighting
Company, of Syracuse, N. V.
Mr. Cole came to Harrisburg In
1910, having been transferred here
from the Wyandotte Gas Company,
Kansas City. Mo., where he held a
similar position. During their resi
j dence in Harrisburg Mr. and Mrs. Cole
; have formed a larete circle of friends.
Alfred I. Phillips, formerly eon-
I nected with the gas department of the
Syracuse Lighting Company, will suc
ceed Mr. Cole as superintendent, and
with Mrs. Phillips will arrive in Har
risburg during the week, taking up
j their residence at 1602 Green street.
i "NOTHING BUT HARMONY,"
DECLARES POLICE CHIEF
According to Chief of Police J.
Thomas Zeil nothing but harmony i
exists in the police department under
the new administration. In speak
ing of the report that there wag no
i organization between the various de
partments, Chief Zeil declared that
there was no truth to the rumor, and
went on to say that he was well sat
isfied with the situation.
FAMILY NEAR SUFFOCATION
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence S. Seibert, !
239 Crescent street, and their three j
small children were partly overcome
by gas early yesterday morning. Mrs. |
Seibert was awakened when she heard
one or the children coughing. She I
called her husband, who summoned
Dr. G, iL Wldder. j
14 PAGES CITY EDITION
AEROPLANE OVER
PIPE MILL STORY
WATCHMAN TELLS
Haiti Early Morning Visit lo
Cily, Coming Oul oi' llic
Southeast
HIGH ABOVE THE EARTH
After Poising Near Same Spot,
For Several Minutes,
Speeds Away Again
j
Harrisburg was paid an early morn
ing visit Saturday by someone in an •
aeroplane, according to William Kama, •
i 1706 Briggs street, night watchman in
I
Mlie residential district between State,'
i Herr, Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets.
Mr. Earns said that he heard the
! whirr of the motor In the sky for at
j least five minutes, but could not see
' anything because of the clouds and the
j city street lights.
I am positive that, the motor was
| that of an aeroplane and not an auto
j mobile. The sound first was dim and
J came from the southeast, but the ma
l chine must have been a great, distance
from the earth. For several minutes
the sound came from the same place,
| right over the central part of the city,"
i Mr. Earns said.
Mr. Earns went on to explain that
the 'plane seemed to be circling over
the manufacturing and business sec
] tion, including the Pennsylvania Rall
j road yards, the pipe and pipe bending
I works, Hickok's, and so on.
Judging from the direction of the!
, sound as it grew dimmer, the sky vis- j
| itor went into the southeast again, ac- I
I cording to Mr. Earns.
DI'RRY CHURCH PASTOR TO
BE MARKET SQI ARI: ASSISTANT
i The Rev. George Snavely Rentz. pas
| tor of the Derry Presbyterian Church, |
at Derry Church, has resigned to be-!
! come assistant pastor of Market Square
| Presbyterian Church, this city. The
! Rev. Mr. Rentz has been pastor of the
1 Derry Church for several years and
I will come to this city as the assistant
j of the Rev. Dr. George Edward Hawes
on March I.
ii>rnr no>r «>rxr r»r»f■ i n
I TERRIFIC ARTILLERY FIRE 1
# Berlin, Feb. 7, via London.—Artillery engagements of m
■ terrific intensity have been in progress in the sector be- %
J tween La Bassee canal and Arras in Northern France and \
m soutli of the River Somrne, Germany army headquarters %
g announced to-day. J
I COLONEL HEPBURN IS DEAD *
# da, IOYPE, Feb. 7.—Colonel William P. Hapburn, %
J former member of Congress from this district, died, here J
i i to-day after a long illness. ■
# ACCUSE BREWERS OF FRAUD J
M Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 7.—United States internal revenue )
# officers are reported to be ready to prove that since the cor- f
# poration income tax law became efFective liquor corpor- J
■ W ationr; have deliberately evaded payment to the government •
I J of taxes that would run into millions of dollars. S
!UGLY WORDS MAY COST $2,000 I
Harrisburg. Suit for $2,000 damages was filed this M
afternoon by Anna Proanovic against Alois Kucar. Anna 1
declares Alois accused her of being too intimate with men 3
other than her husband. Both are Steelton residents. 2
LUSITANIA CASE "PRACTICALLY SETTLED" J
Washington, Feb. 7. —Chairman Stone, of the .Senate C
Foreign Relations Committee, said to-day after confeiences C
with administration officials that it was his impassion that C
the Lusitania case was "practically sctled." He did not go \
into details. f m
REGULARS DEFEAT CHINESE REBELS C
Peking, Feb. 17.—The government to-day announced %
that i; r oops hed recaptured. Pingshan, northeast of Siu-Fu, %
in the southern part of Sze-Chuen province, and that ; a gen- %
eral attack upon the rebels at Siu-Fu is imminent. ■ ;
El Paso, Tex., Feb. 7.—General Francisco Villa with a
aboui 25 men is on the defensive in Nidos Canyou of the »
Sailta Clara ranch, according to official advices received at 11,
military headquarters in Tuarz to-dia-r. ml
MARRIAGE C
William K. Snyder. Walton, nud Helm M. Wert, Kliznlicthvllle*
Joneph MHIUT and Ullr.alietb Wag:uer, city. K
"SHALL MEET YOU
IN HEAVEN" PENS
| ELOPING HUSBAND
New Benton Man, Believed to
Have Fled With Pretty
Girl Half His Age
WRITES, "KEEP MY MONEY"
,Tells Wife lo Sell Property and'
to Forgive Him; Letter
Posted Here
wm
"I have not been true to you for
a year. Sell our property nod
keep the money. Forgive hit fnr
wliat I unt doing mill some clay I
sltall meet you in Heaven."
: This, according to neighbors, is tho
substance of a letter received by Mrs.
|P. J. Lutz. of New Benton, front her
| husband who disappeared from his)
I home Friday.
| At the same time, tne police say,
pretty Mary Frantz, 20 years old, bclio
of the little hamlet and pride of aged
Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Frantz. her
adopted parents. also disappeared.
The town gossip naturally lias con
nected the two disappearances.
Never lias there been such a sensa
tion In the little hamlet that overlooks
the fusquelianna back of Steelton. Mr.
Lutz Is near the two-score mark in
years, and one of the town's most sub
stantial citizens. He is a moulder in
the Frog Shop department of the
Pennsylvania Steel company and until'
the first of the year was superinten
dent of the Methodist Sunday school
at New Benton.
His wife is nearly prostrated with
shame aiul grief, the neighbors say,
and the foster-parents of the Franta
girl take the gossip much to heart.
Friends have applied to the local po
! lice to trace the missing pair, believing:
I that they are now in this city, inas
much as the letter said to be received
I by Mrs. Lutz, bore the local postmark.
195 Workmen Perish in
Armament Factory Flare
Milan. via Paris. Feb. 7. .V
Bucharest dispatch to the Seeolo says
tlmt in (lie explosion or the Hkoila
armament factory in Armenia. ll»."i
| workmen perished. Tliree building*
I were blown up. the dispatch says, in
; I eluding the one in which the famous
12-inch hydraulic ennnon were made.