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
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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
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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
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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
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.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 |
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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* 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
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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.