t v HARRISBURG («R& TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 32 COLDEST WEATHER OF YEAR FOLLOWS 24-HOUR STORM Mercury Down to 5 at U. S. Bu reau Station; One Above at Paxtang MICH WIRE TROUBLE Hundred Western Union Poles Down; Bell Line Cut at Sterrctts Gap The coldest weather of the winter in the city has followed the storm of Saturday and Sunday morning:. Last night the mercury at the Weather Bureau dropped to 5 degrees, three below the record for this season. In xome of the nearby towns, including Dauphin, Paxtang and 'cross-river boroughs, the thermometers registered 1 and 2 degrees above zero. Continued cold weather to-night is forecast, to be followed by fair and warmer weather to-morrow, with tem perature about freezing. The most peculiar storm of the win ter hit Harriaburg Saturday morning. • 'entering over Texas. it reached over to the North Atlantic coast, causing rain and snow. A cold wave in Canada made conditions unbearable in some places. In the city and vicinity the rain fell almost uninterruptedly until early Sunday morning, freezing into a thin coat of ice on trees, poles, wires, streets and house tops. Wire trouble and traffic conditions were reported from all parts of Central Pennsyl vania. Wire Trouble Yesterday the main line between New York and Chicago on the Hell Telephone Company circuit was down at Sterrelts Gap and "trouble shoot ers'' found it difficult even to-day to set the line in service owing to the in tense cold. The Western Union line suffered most near Lancaster. More than a hundred Western Union poles on the line between that city and Bedford [Continued on I*atc 5.] Shuman Acquitted of Murder of Daughter, Says Prayer Did It After deliberating until within a lew minutes of Sunday morning the jury which tried William Harvey inhuman, ex-police chauffeur, for the murder of his daughter, Margaret E.. returned a verdict of "not guilty." The jury had been locked up for; nearly eight hours, having retired at i 4:0? o'clock Saturday afternoon. "I have been a wicked man in my time," declared Shuman on hearing l lie verdict, "but since 1 have been in jail there has not been a night that I have not prayed and God has answer ed my prayers, for He knew 1 was innocent." President Judge Kunkel received the report of the jury in the presence of a dozen or more lawyers, a few late wayfarers and some of the court attaches. Immediately following the pro nouncement of the verdict, District Attorney Stroup announced that there were no further charges upon which .Shuman could be held and he was formally dismissed. The ex-police chauffeuc appeared deeply moved by the jury's finding. He was surrounded by a lot of friends who crowded about to congratulate him. The lirst ballot taken was upon the question of returning a second degree verdict. This was voted down by 11 io J. Then the manslaughter charge was considered and for hours the jury was deadlocked. 9 to 2. on this prob lem. Just before midnight the verdict of "not guilty" was made unanimous. The Shuman jury will go down in Dauphin's criminal history as the "jury of the Johns." Of the twelve men. eight of them were surnamcd John. Presbyterian Board Gets Anonymous Gift of $75,000 By .Jssocicted Press Philadelphia, Feb. 14. Dr. William Hiram Kouikes, general secretary of i'ue Presbyterian Board of Ministerial Itelief and Sustentatinn, which is en gaged in raising a fund, of $10,000,000 for the pensioning of retired minis ters and missionaries of the Presby terian Church to-day announced the receipt of an anonymous gift of $75.- 000. The total resources of this board have passed the $4,000,000 mark. i THE WEATHER For Harrlahurg anil vlclnitv: Fair continued cold to-night with low cat temperature about s degreeat Tuniliij fair nnd nirmfr. For Kaatern Pennaylvanlni Fair to nlghti not finite no cold In north ern portion; Tucaday fair, with rlalng temperature) freah north wind*. River The ><u««iiiel»anna river anil all Ita branrhea will fall alowly, except loeal rlaea may occur m here the channel hecomea chokrd with It. The areu of frozen aurfaee will |n creaae. A atnge of about 4.5 feet la Indicated for Harrlahurg Tuca day morning. (General ( ondltlona The atorm that extended acroaa the country from Texaa to the Mid dle Atlantic coaat, Saturday morning, haa paaaed off the Mouth Atlantic coaat. It cauacd anow In northern, rain turning to anow In central and rnln In aouthcrn illa tricta on Satnrilny and Sunday generally caat of the Mlaalaalppl river. Temperature: 8 a. m.. 4. Muni niaea, tli.'S a. m.; acta, Si3o p. m. loom Full moon, February 18, )•:-» a. ni, lllver stage: 1.7 feet above low water mark. Venterday'a \\ rather lllgheat temperatnre. HO. I.oweat temperature, 15. tlenn temperature. .Normal lcmpcratorc,'3o. - TO THE PEOPLE OF HARRISBURG Beginning to - morrow. February 15, the price of single copies of the Tele graph purchased from news boys and newsdealers will be two cents each. The price of the Telegraph delivered to the home by Telegraph office carriers will continue to be 6c PER WEEK NEW TRAFFIC CODE WILL BE EFFECTIVE SOON Police Chief and Captain Will Present New System For Mayor's Approval U X I F 0 B M SIGNALING Squad of 20 Officers; Two- Hour Beliefs; Whistles to Be Used Chief of Police J. Thomas Zeil and Captain of Police Joseph P. Thomp son in charge of the traffic depart ment. li{ive worked out a complete system <• traffic rules and regulations to be presented to Mayor E. S. Meals within the next few days for his ap proval. Some of the things which will be advocated follow: A squad of at lea.st 20 officers. Complete change of traffic .code. 1 Uniform system of signals for traffic. Two-hour reliefs instead of half day system now in use. Special instructions in base [Continued on Page 7. } HANDS IN POCKETS HE STROLLS IN TO ANSWER MURDER Xikolo Kolur Indifferent at Arraignment on State's Highest Charge , With his hands in his pockets, Xo kolo Kotur, of Steelton. this morning | strolled nonchalantly into X'o. 1 court room to answer to a Dauphin county jury for the murder the night of De cember 22, of Joseph Backic, a fel low countryman. Kotur is the second man arraigned j [Continued on Paste B.] Six Persons Killed in Aerial Raid on Milan; Material Damage Slight I.ondon. Feb 14. —A Routrr dis-, j patch from Milan says ix persons ; were Ml led and several injured by' ; homos dropped from aeroplanes which appeared over !he city this morning, j The dispatch says several aero planes took part in the raid, which was made at 9 a. m. Anti-aircraft guns opened a heavy fusillade and the aeroplanes disappeared after drop ping bombs. The material damage was small. The casualties were all i among civilian?. Milan is <n northern Italy, south of the Swiss border and seventy miles west of the Austrian line. Munition Plant of General Electric Wrecked by Fire Schenectady, X. Y., Feb. 14.—The i munition plant of the General Elec tric Company was wrecked by a fire to-day. The blaze was finally ex tinguished by the bompany'a pri\ate . fire department and no report was J made to the city, police or fire author!- 1 ties. Officials of the company with held all information regarding the fire. The employes of the munitions plant were sent home. It was re ported that the roof of the building had fallen in and that the walls had been declared unsafe. The plant has been closely guarded ' for some time and no one was al lowed to approach the munitions I building to-day. SHOT ENDS WAR ARGUMENT German Held to Await Result of Vic tim's Wounds Lancaster. Pa., Feb. 14. Albert Weynreclit, a German, was locked in the county prison yesterday to await the result of a wound inflicted upon Horace Shagg, also German, who is in the county hospital in an apparently dying condition. The men. with several residents of Pennsvillc, including Frederick Mann, a Swede, took refuge from the rain in a carriage shed in the Dunkard grave yard near Pennsville and a heated argument over flic European war en i sued. Weynrecht became angry and fired a revolver shot at Mann. The bullet missed hini and struck Shaud in the neck. Weynrecht made no at i tempt to escape. HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1916. When a Feller Needs B * BRIGGS / WHO'S TT ~1 \ /- FROM JOHMNY . I [K VALENTINE __ M M M 'Tis an old-fashioned custom to send out to-day j; Some visible sign of devotion, Some trifle of ribbon and flowers and lace ;! With appropriate words as a token. !'» We live in an age most progressive and swift. Must our hearts be so regulated That once in a season we show what they hold Lest the fever of work be abated? Who knows of the changes a year may bring forth? ,; Three hundred and sixty-five days I would rather you TELL of your love, sweetheart, Fn soite of the old-fashioned ways! I —ANNA H. WOOD. |j 5 Written for the Telegraph, jj 1 ji WORK ON MIDLAND PENNA. R. R. MAY SOON BE RESUMED Plans Being Made to Reopen Work on Road From Mil lersburg to Ashland Gratz, Pa., Feb. 14.—Citizens of this borough and residents of every section of the Lykens Valley are interested in tlie proposed plan to resume work on the roadbed of the Midland Pennsyl vania railroad and push the Job through to completion before April 1, 1917. About six or seven years ago a num ber of Philadelphia capitalists made a trip through the Lykens Valley from Millersburg to Ashland. They were impressed with the possibilities of a railroad through that territory and immediately they began to lay their plans for development. Boards of [■Continued on Page 2] BREAKS HYDRO RECORD San Diego, Cal., Feb. 14.—Official announcement that Floyd Smith, civilian aviator, had broken the world's hydroaeroplane record for pilot and two passengers when he ascended 9.544 feel here Friday was made to-day by Captain Arthur S. Cowan, chief of the signal corps avi ation school, United States Army, who represented the Aero Club of America at the flight. 1 AT LEAST 16 FACE ELECTRIC CHAIR IN POULTRY MURDER "Steering Committee" of 12 Is in Same Legal Position as Becker Was By Associated Press ' Xew York, Feb. 14. A grand jury began to-day to take evidence con cerning the murder of Barnett Baff, the poultry dealer who was killed by a band of gunmen in Ndvember, 1914, under circumstances which have been likened in some respects to the murder of Herman Rosenthal for the murder of which Charles Becker was executed. The has been no hint, however, that the police were In any way involved in the Baff case. It is charged that Baff was slain as theTesult' of rivalry in [Continued on P«{c 5.] THE DAY Washington, D. C., Feb. 14. Senate —Met at noon. Discussed con ference report on urgent deficiency bill. Military affairs committee began executive consideration of army re organization plans. House—Met at noon. Rear Admlrnl Grant testified before the naval affairs , committee that larger submarines j were needed by the navy, J WILSON CONSENTS TO RENOMINATE FOR PRESIDENCY Gives Formal Permission For Use of His Name in Ohio Primaries _____ i By Associated Press Washington, Feb. 14.—President Wilson to-day formally gave his con sent that his name be used as a can didate for renomination. In a letter to the Secretary of State of Ohio the President stated that he was unwilling to enter a contest for the nomination but was ready to per mit the use of his name in the coming primary in order that the Democrats [Continued 011 Page 7. ] County Commissioners Keep Dauphin's Tax Rate Down to 4 Mills i Dauphin county's tax rate for 1916 j was llxed this morning by the county | commissioners at four mills. The millage is the same as pro vided for the county's revenues dur ing the last three years. County Controller Henry W. Gough submitted to the commissioners his estimate of the county's probable ex penditures during the ensuing year as stated in his budget. This estimate amounts to $374,505. Find Method of Reproducing Natural Colors After Eight Years of Experimenting By Associated Press \ Rome, Feb. 13, 8:25 P. M., via Paris £'sb. 14, 12:45 A. M. —What is hailed here as an important scientific dis covery is a method of photography reproducing natural colorß found, after 8 years of experimenting, by the Pineachi brothers and by Signor Santon. These men say that they have solved in a satisfactory way a problem on which scientists have been working in many countries and that important commercial results are to be expected from the exploitation of their dis covery for the purposes of moving picture exhibitions. XEW PMJGB l-'OR TEETH By Associated Press Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 14. The dis covery of a composition for lining cavities in human teeth which, it is said, will make a great change in the practice of dentistry has been made by Dr. C. C. V'ogt, a prominent chem ist and holder of a fellowship in the Mellon Research Institute at the Uni versity of Pittsburgh, it was an nounced to-day. The new composi tion is said to have the plasticity of cement, the appearance of porcelain and the durability of gold, and is the result of two years of constant work, on the part of the dlsoQvereCr 12 PAGES TWO CRUISERS OF I ALLIES ARE SUNK j BY GERMAN FIRE! British Vessel Aratheusa Is Wrecked by Mine With Loss of Ten Men > TOBPEDOED FBENCH SHIP I j Sailor on Baft With Bodies of Fourteen Companions Con firms Beport By Associated Press London, Feb. 14. The British j cruiser Aratheusa and the French j I cruiser Admiral Charaer are the latest victims of the Germans. The. British boat was wrecked by a mine and the French craft was sunk by a submarine. The total loss of life was less than thirty. 1 The British cruiser Aratheusa struck a mine today off the East coast of England, according to a statement Issued by the British official press bureau. It is feared, the statement adds, the vessel will be a total wreck. [Continued on Page 5.] Poor Woman Spurns $40,000 Left by Skinflint Uncle Special to the Telegraph New York. Feb. 14. Miss Edith Hitching, who lives in one room in old , Greenwich village, explained yesterday why she has refused to accept $40,000 at least, and perhaps a great deal more, of the estate left by lier uncle. Francis F. Kipley, a money lender, of i Brooklyn. Jllss Kitcliing earns S3OO a year, and that is all she has. But much as she needs money, her principles and convictions prevent her from taking | the thousands which, she says, are !tainted. ! "The source of my Uncle Kipley's j money was not pure. If there ever ■ was a skinflint on earth, that was j Uncle Ripley. He was a miser from childhood, and the only pleasure he took in living at all was in piling up stacks of gold, grinning over his mort gages. thinking up new ways to grind out interest payments. I would rather ; starve than take a cent of that money, j Me take the money ground out of un j fortunate people? I guess not!" ?ton, Feb. 14.—President Wilson reached no j decision on whom to appoint Secretary of War while'he was t on his w< ek-end trip down the Potomac. • THIRTY CAUGHT IN RAID FINED with an | alternative of thirty days in jail, were this afternoon imposed ; by Mayor E. S. Meals on thirty white men and women, arrested in raids Saturday night, made on two houses in Strawberry street. Heavy fines were imposed on Edward i Dixon, and Maude Washington, alleged proprietor and pro- 1 prietress, respectively. It wa3 charged they enticed white men into their places and robbed them. 1 JURY PANEL EXHAUSTED AGAIN Harrisburg.—ln the murder case of Nikolo Kotur, the * jury panel was again exhausted late this afternoon when the I tenth juror, A. B. Gardner, former Select councilman had • been drawn. The court ordered jurors drawn from the ] a • Shively and William Metzger. j ' THREATENED JOHN MONAGHAN , PI iladelphia, Feb. 14.—While John Monaghan, of the ]| Publ c S< vice Commission, was eating in a restaurant oppo- ' site City Hall this afternoon a man approached and point ing a revolver, said: "I am going to shoot yon." Monaghan ® ► grappled and disarmed him. The assailant was ejected but ! , he is known and probably will be arrested. Monaghan was i formerly assistant district attorney, and it is said at one I time prosecuted the man. ! U. S. WILL AWAIT DEVELOPMENTS , ► Washington, Feb. 14.— The United States probably will ' | leave to future developments whether any action -will be ! L taken in response to the announcement from the Teutonic 1 . allies that armed merchantmen, beginning March 1, will 1 be subjected to submarine attack without warning. 1 Indiana, Pa., Feb. 14. Officials of the Jefferson and Clearfield Coal and Iron Company, checking up the list of 1 its miners to-day, expressed the belief that four men are still buried under the debris in the Ernest mine where an • 1 CM'l' n d -mo,! :>t le;M.t SvcMv-yix live:: last week UAHtUAtit LICENSES • Snmuel st«nlrj NyWeater Crli( nnd Kdnn May Peace, 9teelto«. Harry EL (»ood an<l Mabel U. Mauley, Mlddletowrn. Mamuel I). Weaver and l.uella Adelle Baraea, city. .lolin Henry McDonnell, Uerry Cburcli, and Cora Kraacea Hlnkle.l Manada Hill. * I CITY EDITION GERMANS CLAIM NOTABLE GAINS IN ARTOIS DISTRICT Break Through French Lines; Extending Positions Around Suloniki TURKS CONCENTRATING Throwing Large Forces Into Mesopotamia; England Calls Out More Recruits [ Activity on the major war fronts is confined mainly to northern France, j the intensity of the battling beinK most pronounced in the Artois district 1 where the Germans claim to have made ! notable gains recently. In the Balkans trie entente forces are reported extending their positions around Saloniki. concentrating troopa as far forward as the Bulgarian fron tier. In Albania the situation con tinues mixed. Bulgarian troops are said to have advanced in the south as far as Fieri 16 miles from Avlona. while an Austrian column recently was reported at Tirana, about twenty miles west of Durazzo. The Italians have been in force at [Continued on I'asc 5.] Indicted German Consul Must Appear in Person to Answer Neutrality Charges San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 14. —Franz Bopp, German consul-general ut this port, who was indicted by the federal grand jury last week on charges of violation of United States neutrality, must appear in court, to-morrow to be arraigned, along with members of his official family and others, accord i ing to a decision announced to-day by ' Acting United States District Attorney : M. A. Thomas. Attorneys for the officials of the i German consulate yesterday were in | conference with Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Annette Adams, assistant United States ! district attorney, as to whether or not the consul could not appear by proxy. "The law is law for all indicted men alike." was the decision of the federal attorneys. Mrs. Adams added that a consular representative for a foreign government may not demand any dif ferent treatment from that accorded to the humblest citizen.
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