French Win Back Artois Positions Captured HARRISBTJRG TELEGRAPH * LXXXV— Xo. 31 SHUMAN OUT OF SHADOW OF THE ELECTRIC CHAIR Slate, in Closing Case, Admits Failure to Make Out "First Degree Murder" FATE IN JURY'S HANDS Ex-Police Chauffeur Accused of Death of Daughter, Heaves Long Sigh On (rial since Wednesday for the; murder of his daughter, Margaret IS., ex-Police Chauffeur William Harvey Shuman this morning stepped from the shadow of the electric chair. At 11.80 o'clock District Attorney; -Michael K. Stroup formally announced that the State's testimony did not war- ' rant the finding of a verdict of murder in the first degree. Second degree or manslaughter, he ( added, was all the Commonwealth could expect. President Judge George Kunkel agreed and instructed the jury ac cordingly. Slmmaii 'Heaves a I/Oiig Sigh Shuman, who eagerly watched the j court and attorneys during the district j attorney's admission, heaved a long] sigh as a the trial judge made his de cision. Mrs. Shuman raised her veil 1 and dabbed her eyes with her black bordered handkerchief. After submitting some "points of j law" upon which the defense hopes to obtain acquittal, Philip S. Moyer, of counsel for the defense, began the summing up address lo the Jury. District Attorney Stroup followed , with the closing address for the Com monwealth, after which President Judge Kunkel delivered the final charge. Around the Courthouse it was considered unlikely that a verdict would be returned until late this even ing. Tlio Diphtheria Theory The closing moments of the trial that has aroused more interest, per haps. than any homicide case since the Wells W. Detweiler hearing, was de \oid of any of the high-light features] that made the first few days so in- i teresting. £ The testimony offered by the de fense to-day was largely of a medical ! character to prove that diphtheria and | not the kicks and blows alleged to I [Continued oti Pairo 7. ] Many Goucher Seniors Take Course in Love Special to the Telegraph Baltimore. Md.. Feb. 12. —When the class of 1916 is graduated from Goucher College next June one-half of its number will be authorities on love in all its ramifications, including the gentle art of successful marriage. For, by the way of finishing the col lege education of the Goucher seniors, Dr. Lillian Welsh, lecturer in hygiene, to-day inaugurated a weekly course of instruction on "Love and Mar riage." A few undergraduates have express ed skepticism over the qualifications of Doctor Welsh to give instruction concerning matrimony, since the in structor is unmarried. Explosion Rocks Big War Munitions Factory By Associated Press Niagara Falls. X. Y„ Feb. 12.—An attempt was made to blow up the i astner Electrolitic Alkali Company's plant here shortly before midnight. The explosion shattered many win dows but failed to damage the foun dations, Supt. C. F. Wauglian said. Several sticks of dynamite were found near the base of one of the walls by the police. After a careful investigation by the police and officials of the company it was said no theory had been develop ed as to the perpetrators of the plot. There has been no trouble at the plant where 120 men are employed. The company is said to have been working on war orders recently. RAIX FOR 21 HOURS Rain and unsettled weather to-night and to-morrow with no change in the temperature is forecasted by the local weatherman. A storm centering over Texas is causing rain and snow over this section of the country. The mer cury to-night will go to freezing, but no trouble is expected by, tlio tele phone and telegraph companies. i THE WEATHER For llarrlshurg and vicinity t Un settled. probably rain thin after noon, to-nlglit and Sundays not much thniiKt- in temperature; lonent to-night about freezing. Fur Kastern Pennsylvania: I'rob alily rain to-night and Sunday; moderate east nindN. River ™ \o decided change* In stages are likely to occur In the Susqne hnuua river and Itn branches A. gauge height of uhout 4.5 feet In Indicated for Harriaburg San day morning. t-eneral Condition** A narrow area of low pressure, cen tral over AVest Texan, extends northeastward through the Mid dle Mississippi and Ohio vallcv* Into the Middle Atlantic State*. Pressure Is blgh over the re mainder of the country. A general rise of 2 to iM) degrees has occurred In the tmperatnre o\er nearly all the eastern half of the country In the last twenty four hours, except the north por tion of the Lake ICcglon, where It la colder. Temperature: A a. n>.. 2S. Sun: Rises, 7:»- a. in.; set*, 5:3(1 p. m. Moon: Full moon. February 18, !>:-P p. vu. nivcr Stage: 4.M feet above low- MHtcr mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 40. lowest temperature. IW, Mean temperature, .14. temperature, 30. PRESIDENT MAY PICK WAR CHIEF DURING CRUISE Considers Successor to Garri son Aboard Mayflower Dur ing Trip Down Bay MANY NAMES SUGGESTED Lane, Houston and Polk Fore most Will Announce De cision on Return By Associated Press Washington, i-eb. 12.—Aboard the naval yacht Mayflower on his way down the Potomac river and Chesa peake Bay for a week-end trip, Presi dent Wilson to-day was considering the selection of a successor to former .Secretary Garrison. It is expected that tlie President's decision will be made known immediately following his return. A score or more of names includ ing Cabinet officers, members of Con gress and other prominent men have been suggested to the President as pos sible successor to Mr. Garrison. The President is said, however, ta be giv ing foremost consideration to Secretar ies Lane and Houston and Counsellor Polk of the State Department. Several names also have been sug gested to the President to succeed Henry Breckenridge as assistant sec retary of war but it is not expected that a selection will be made until the new secretary is consulted. Mrs. Wilson Is Along The President left here last night accompanied by Mrs. Wilson. Their return is set for to-morrow night or Monday morning. Although Mr. Garrison favored the [Continued on Page 7. ] GOVERNOR BRIM BAI'GII TO ADDRESS HAITI ST R.\1,1,V Arrangements have been completed for a big Baptist union rally to tie held in the First Baptist church Tues day evening at 7:4 o'clock, with Gov ernor Martin G. Brumbaugh invited as the guest of honor. Governor Brumbaugh has accepted the invitation to be present at the rally and to make the address of the evening. Congregations of all of the Baptist churches of the city will be present at the meeting which is be ing arranged for by the Baptist Young People's Union. WEALTHY FARMER AND HOUSEKEEPER KILLED WITH AX Aged Couple Found Long After Crime; Man Was in House Covered With Cloak By Associated Press Flemington, N. J., Feb. 12. Rich ard J. WycHoff, a wealthy and aged farmer living near Wertsville, a few miles from this place, and Miss Cath erine Ann Fisher, about 75 years old. | housekeeper for many years, were ! found murdered at the Wyckoff home stead late yesterday afternoon. The crime was discovered by Wil liam Wyckoff. a neighbor, who called [Continued on I'agc ».] Measles Close Lykens Schools For Ten Days Sfecial to the Telegraph Lykens, Pa., Feb. 12.—Measles has ! become so prevalent in Ihe lower i grades of the Lykens schools that the Board of Health has closed the pri mary department for ten days, so that the authorities can endeavor to check the epidemic. Out of one room, num i bering about forty pupils, seventeen ; are quarantined with measles. 25 BODIES ARE I TAKEN FROM MINE AFTER EXPLOSION Many Rescuers Overcome by Black Damp Trying to Pene trate Explosion Debris By Associated Press Indiana, Pa., Feb. 12.—Six bodies I were to-day at noon added to the nineteen already recovered from the | mine of the Jefferson and Clearfield | Coal and Iron Company at Ernest, where an explosion occurred late yes terday. This brings the total known dead to [Continued on I'ase 7. ] .THE DAY IN CONGRESS By Associated Press Washington. D. C., Feb. 12.—Sen i ate: Met at noon. Lands committee | continued oil hearing. Adjourned at ■12:58 p. m. until noon Monday. House: Met at noon. Debate on I post office appropriation bill con tinued. Speeches on Lincoln's life were made and Lincoln's Gettysburg address was read. Hear Admiral Hen son told Harbors Committee on Im provements of New York harbor chan nels leading to navy yard was impera tive. Hearings on administration ship bill was continued before marine com mittee. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1916. 16 PAGES MEMORIES W.BostdofTP^ "Vlve-K cCCkcoCTV "Jcit m m M When Lincoln fell it was with arms outstretched To form a cross of human flesh and blood. And as he lay, those great and tender hands Seemed reaching out across a war's red flood. Right to the north, left to the south they lay As if to beckon to the sons of men To meet above his dying form and say Their land should know no severance again. When Lincoln fell it was a sacrifice Like unto that upon old Calvary's hill. Although his flaming soul immortal lives The shadow of that cross is on us still Since Lincoln fell! —ANNA H. WOOD. Written for the Telegraph. COLLEGE YOUTH MAY BE SLAYER OF YOUNG GIRL Deaf Mute Says He Saw Lad Press Bottle to Lips of Wo man Found Dead in Woods By Associated Press Chicago. Feb. 12. - William H. Orpet, a junior at the University of Wisconsin, to-day confessed to detec tives at Madison, Wis., knowledge of the death by poison of Marion Fran ces Lambert, 18 years old, a Lake Forest, Ills., High School girl, whose body was found in a wooded section of Lake Forest on Thursday. Orpet, in custody of detectives is en route to Lake Forest where he will testify at the coroner's Inquest into the death of the girl. According to the statement of offi-: cers Orpet said he met Miss Lambert 1 in the woods near her home Wednes- ( day morning by appointment. He said she pleaded with htm for two hours to renew his friendship with her. lie said he declined, then ac cording to the officers, Orpet, he said, he left her and as he did she swal lowed the poison, which caused her death. Orpet said he wrote the young wo man a letter making an appointment | {.Continued ou Page B.J J SCHWAB AGAIN WANTS TO BUY PA. STEEL CO. Bids Against Donner For Penn sylvania Railroad's Con trolling Interest Philadelphia, Feb. 12.—Charles M. Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, is again in the mar ket for the purchase of the Pennsyl vania Steel Company, but has run counter to a formidable rival bidder in the person of William H. Donner, chairman of the board of directors of the latter company and already owner of 38 per cent, of its $31,000,000 cap ital stock. Donner is still president of the Cambria Steel Company, which has just been sold to the Alidvale Steel and Ordnance Company. At a meeting yesterday in the offices of Samuel Rea, president of the Penn sylvania Railroad Company. Schwab and Donner put in rival bids for the 27 per cent, of stock of the Pennsylvania Steel Company which is still owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and which virtually carries control of the steel company. Donner, it is re ported, offered S9O a share for the pre ferred stock and S4O a share for the common stock, payable In cash, while IC'ontlnued on Fagv tf.j FOUR MEN ESCAPE FROM LANCASTER COUNTY PRISON Dig Way Through Brick Wall, Cut Way to Hoof and Drop Blanket Hope to Ground Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 12.—Four pris oners escaped from tlie county prison this morn ins an<l their absence was not discovered for several hours. They had occupied adjoining cells and 1 had first cut a hole through the brick jwall separating them before uniting ; efforts to cut their way through the j roof of one of the cells from which they dropped to the ground 25 feet below by means of a rope made of blankets. From the prison yard they escaped through a coal chute in the high wall, entering by breaking into a small building where it terminates on the in side. The escaped prisoners are Rodney Hart, who has served 14 of 4 2 months' J sentence for attempting to kill his sweetheart; Harry L. Smith, who serv jed four months of a two years' sen tence for forgery; Harry Smith, await ing trial for larceny, and Alfred Wall, |a vagrant. SHIPPENSBURG IS BECOMING HOME . OF BIG BUSINESS ■ Factories Are Producing Capa j city Outputs and All Avail able Help Is Employed Special to the Telegraph Shippensburg, Pa., Feb. 12.—Tak ing full advantage of its excellent railroad facilities, Shippensburg is | fast becoming one of the most im i ! portant industrial towns in the Cum . i berland Valley., Every person, it seems, of working age had found em ployment in the various Industrial '; plants now in existence and if pro ■ I motors should attempt to establish i another plant they would find it a ! difficult proposition to get. sufficient labor. Shippensburg is one of the oldest I towns In the State and its residents [Continued on Pago 11.1 UNION' MEETING AT HERSHEY Hershey, Pa., Feb. 12. A union service in the interest of the Lay men's Missionary Movement will be held in the United Brethren church lure to-morrow evening at 7:30. ,\ representative of the movement will make an address. The Lutheran, United llrcthren nnd Presbyterian I churches have arranged for the union i meeting. 3 DIE SUDDENLY; [ ONE POISONED BY RIVAL IN LOVE? Stcclton Bulgarian's Death Arouses Suspicion of Bor ough Police TO MAKE POST MORTEM jPennsv Conductor Falls Dead I in Tower; Heart Disease Takes C. H. Border Three sudden deaths—one of which] I looks suspiciously to the Steeltonj .police like a poison murder case—l were reported this morning. ; Charles H. Border, treasurer of thei j Electrotypers anil Stereotypers Union! I died of heart disease yesterday after- , I noon. ! John F. Keller, a conductor on the Philadelphia division of the Penn-1 j sylvania Railroad, dropped dead this! [Continued on Page 7. ] Shots Stop Interned German Steamer When She Breaks For Sea By Associated t'rrss Rio de Janeiro, Feb. IS.—The Ger-; I man steamship Asuncion interned at 1 Para requested permission to ap- I proach a wharf (o take water aboard.! I Under cover of the fog she turned 1 about and headed toward the sea. | The Brazilian cruiser Republic and ! the Auxiliary Tpffe fired blank shots' and as the Asuncion did not stop they! fired on her with projectiles. The' German steamship then stopped and returned to the harbor. The captain later stated thai he had no intention of escaping. The local authorities have opened an investigation. The German steamship Asuncion, Constructed at Hamburg in 189,'), is of | 4,tit>3 gross tons and is 375 feel long j and 4t> feet beam. She is owned by the Hamburg South American Steam ship Company of Hamburg and had been reported as remaining voluntar ily at Para. It is to he presumed that she was fired on under the belief that she was attempting to leave port j without proper clearance documents. BAPTISTS fcAISE HALF MILLION I Cleveland, 0., Feb. 12.—Cleveland Baptists announced 1 to-day they have completed their campaign for $500,000 for , permanent relief for aged pastors, begun May, 1915. It is i the first block of $2,000,000 to be raised in the United states. i I * SHUMAN'S FATE IN JURY'S HANDS ' Harrisburg.—At 3.30 this afternoon President Judge Kunkel began his address to the jury which tried William I H. Shuman for kicking his daughter Margaret to death. Preceding his charge District Attorney Stroup closed for the I commonwealth. Mrs. Shuman's. attiude indicated more than bitter resentment at the district attorney's charge. t Contrary to his expectations of earlier in the day Assistant District Attorney Fox did not ask for a verdict of "not guilty" in the Jacob M. Urich case. He only stated that the ( commonwealth wished justice to be done. I l I FRENCH PENETRATE GERMAN LINES Berlin. Feb. 12, via London.—After a violent artillery | bombardment on the greater part of the Champagne front. French infantry made an attack yesterday afternoon. The German war office announced to-day that the French pene i trated German positions near Massiges, over a front of about 200 yards. I STATE SUMS UP MURDER EVIDENCE ft • Harrisburg.—With the opening of court this afternoon District Atorney Stroup summed up the State's testimony I against William Harvey Shuman, ex-police chauffeur charg ed with having kicked his daughter Margaret to death and ( asked for a verdict of murder in the second degree. Philip S. Moyer, of counsel for the defense, pleaded in a thrilling hour's address for an acquittal. The court's charge follow - ed Mi. Guunp's addicsM. MARRIAGE LICENSES riydo Moiirrc Steele iiml Irene May oily. Knrl \Yl*ler Rife, Hamilton Dnm, !*«., ami Ddnn Mar,? tiro**, Rmfßft vllle. .lohmi itntl Julia Moyer, Steel ton. I lClmolir Altrnlium Anej, lit), nml lOliiior Kntlierlne I'elfer, Allen town. CITY EDITION FRENCH REGAIN LOST TRENCHES IN THE ARTOIS Win Back Some Positions Taken in Recent Nibbling by Germans STRENGTHENING SALONIKI Austrian Force ol' 30,t)U0 Marching on Durazzo; Rus sians Pushing On Datest reports from the western ; battle front indicate successes for the | French in winning back some of the ' positions they lost in the recent i nibbling of the Germans at their lines in the Artois and south of the ! Somme. From South llussia and I Galicia come announcement* that the | Russian offensive there is assuming I considerable proportions but without ' striking results having been so far ! achieved. Otherwise comparative 1 calm prevails in the widespread war ! area. In preparations for eventualities | around Saloniki. the allies are ! strengthening their positions and ex- I tending their lines. The French have advanced across the Vardar north ! west of the city, encamping on the i right bank of the river. In Albania the Austrians arc re ported marching on Durazzo with a I force not larger than 30,000 men, ! much of the Austrian army having i been left in the regions already tra- I versed for Guard purposes. Accord- I ing to word from Durazzo the dis arming of the Montenegrins lias not j been completed, and some of the | Montenegrin forces are still offering stiff resistance. Apparently the Russians are pre paring to push still further their ag gressive operations along the Bessara bian front where they have been men acing the Austrian lines in Bukowina. Important troop movements in Bess arabia are indicated by Bucharest ad vices. A Royal decree has been issued in Rome prohibiting the importation of German and Austrian goods, theiii* I transportation through Italy or their export from .Italian ports. Italy, j which has never declared war on Ger many, thus formally records the pro | hibition of commercial relations with . her.
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