Thousands View Body of Bishop Shanahan Lying in Siate at the Cathedral HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ■ "\r -\r , \T i r \t i a BIT'C ARRIER ® CEXTS 4 lil EEK. •LAAAV ISO. oy MNGIE COPIES a CENTS. REWARD OFFERED TO ONE BRINGING ! HILL FIREBUG To| JAIL AND JUSTICE People of Big Residential District Living in Terror of New Outbreak of Incen diarism; Private Watch men and Detectives on the Job CITY POLICE ADMIT THEY ARE RAFFLED I Arson Believed to Be Work of Some Fire-mad Brain; SSO Will Be Handed Over to Person Gathering Evi dence Leading to Arrest and Conviction SSO Reward To the person or persons gather ing evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of the firebug or firebugs responsible for the series of incendiary lires in the Allison Hill district, the Telegraph will pay a reward of fifty dollars. Relieving that the safety and pro- j teetion of the people of Allison Hill! depend upon the immediate arrest and j conviction of the firebug who has been burning sclioolhouses, factories, stables and other buildings in the Allison Hill residential and industrial district, the Telegraph to-day offers a reward of SSO to tlie person or persons gathering ' evidence which will lead to the arrest j Mid conviction of the incendiary. It is hoped that City Council, the l School Board and individuals will add to this sum sufficient to induce private agencies to prosecute a work so neces sary to the protection of life and prop erty—a work which the local police force up to the present time has been unable to do successfully. Hill People In Terror Ever since the outbreak of .the first series of incendiary fires a month ago when three sclioolhouses were set n blaze the residents of the Hill have been living in constant terror that a new outbreak might occur. Over Saturday and Sunday a second series of fires, not so serious as the first, because of prompt action on the part of the city fire department, point ed conclusively to the hand of the fire fiend. William L>. Windsor, head of the city [Continued on Page 6.] President Flayed in Verse by Owen Wister Sferial to the Telegraph Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 22. Owen Wister, the distinguished author, gave out the following poem for pub lication yesterday: TO WOODROW WILSON": FEB. 22, I*l6. Not even if 1 possessed your twist in speech, Could T make any (fit for use) fit you; You've wormed yourself beyond de scription's reach: Truth if she touched you would be come untrue. Satire has scared a host of evil fames. Has withered Emperors by her fierce lampoons: History has lashes that have flayed the names Of public cowards, hypocrites, pol troons; You go ityimune. Cased in your self esteem. The next world cannot scathe you* nor can this: No fact can stab through your com placent dream. Nor present laughter, nor the fu ture's hiss. But if its fathers did this land con trol. Dead Washington would wake and blast your soul. —Owen Wister. Five Lose Lives When Boardinghouse Burns By Associated Press New York, Feb. 22. Four men and a woman lost their lives to-day in a fire which destroyed a theatrical boardinghouse over a restaurant in the theater section of this city. Early reports said that a' number of the actors and actresses who were stopping in the house had perished, but the dead were identified later as employes of the boardinghouse and Thomas Keratsas, one of the pro prietors. ! THE WEATHER For HnrrUhars mid vicinity* r«ir and warmer J \\ edne*day fair, uhli no clinosf in tempera ture. For Kowtern Penn».vl\aula : o\ereant to-nlalit and Wednesday; warmer; moderate aoutb Mind*. General Condition* Legal holiday—no report, Weather flureati eloaed. Temperature! S a. m.. 30. Sunt Rlaeft, 6:49 a. in.; aeta, 5: ##> p. m. Moon: Rineiv, «t4O p. m. River Stage: 4.7 feet aliove lo%v ivater mark. Yeaferday'a Weather llitthent temperature, iCT. I.oweat temperature. 10. Mean temperature, Ifl. .Normal temperature, 31, I !! ! I -*—• ia .aafiffr j IF WASHINGTON WERE HERE j Were he alive today, what then? j Would there lie words and controversies held # I'or national preparedness or peace? 5 | He knew the cost of war. Were we prepared That day at liexlngton? Old courage cease t | At Might of armament so strong men smiled At our self-confidence as at a child? 2 ( Were he alive today, what then? Those bloody footprints on tlie fro7.cn snow J I Of Valley Forge their silent message send. Could such a leader fail, a heart which bled £ | But through its suffering held out to the end, | \ mind fJod-fearlng, humble, simple, true, S A will with power to see and force to do? « Were he alive today, what then? | He stood for peace if peace were nobly sought. S Hut would he sec tlie flag his hand unfurled J { Held light in men's esteem, his country's name A by-word with the nations of the world? i ! If Washington were here what would he say In these grave problems facing us to-dav? I » —ANNA H. WOOD • 1 f Written for the Telegraph. S BISHOP'S BODY LIES IN STATE AT CATHEDRAL As Doors of Groat Church Swing Open Hundreds File in to View Remains The body of the late lit. Rev. John jW. Shanahan. bishop of the Diocese iof Ifarrisburg. was taken into St. Pat rick's Cathedral shortly after three o'clock this afternoon and at 4 o'clock the doors of the great church which ' , tlie bishop built, were thrown open to tthc general public so that the prelate j might be seen for the last time. Bishop Shanahan's body was laid on I the catafalque in the rectory and was carried into the church by J. W. Ro- I denhaver. P. 11. Vaughn, Eugene : Waltz. George Weitael, Sr., A. 11. Kreidler and 1,, it. Simonetti. The j I bishop was attired in the robes of his [Continued on l'aftc 12.] MAISIE SAW THE i BIG SHOW SO SHE CALLED UP FLOSS • Chum May Have Been a Wee , Bit Stupid About Details of tlic Display ' In her fox furs, rabbit-topped boots . and pheasant-breast Spring straw, she ; went to the big show last evening. ) lier bosom friend Flossie hadn't fin | ished breakfast when the phone jin gled this morning. j "... Oh, dear me, why she's j surely there. Please ring again—Oh, is this you, Floss? Listen, \ e went to [Continued on rage 7. ] 50 SUSPENDED FOR DANCING By Associated Press ' Greencastle. Ind.. Feb. 22. Fifty I Depau University students have been suspended for a week because they violated tlie college rule against dancing. The students attended a ball given three weeks ago during the midyear recess. MIX ICR DUOS AT 107 Special to the Telegraph Ilazleton. Pa.. Feb. 22.—John Sudrie, 107 years old. died yesterday at Crys tal Ridge, where for many years he* | worked in Uie mines. HARRISBURG, PA„ TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1016 WHOLE COUNTRY PAYS HOMAGE TO GEO. WASHINGTON National Figures Participate in Monster Celebration at Washington Washington, Feb. 22.—Every agency of the American government paused to-day to pay homage to the memory of George Washington in the capital which bears his name. President Wilson, Secretary Daniels. Ambassador Jusserand and other na tional figures gathered at a celebra tion at Continental Memorial Hall un der the auspices of Associated Patri otic societies. Both houses of Congress suspended business while Senator Johnson, of Maine, and Representative Raker, of California, read General Washington's farewell address, with its poignant phrases warning against "insidious [Continued on Page 12.] PRIPET SWAMP I BRISTLES WITH MACHINE GUNS Mild Russian Winter Enables Germans to Mold Eastern Lines With Ease By Associated Press Pinsk. Russia, by Courier to Berlin, Feb. 21, via London. Feb. 22. The mildest winter of decades along the present German lines in the East has been an important factor in render [Continued on Page ll.] Just One George Washington in Town Says Boyd's Book If some curious soul with a voice like a Krupp gun should stand on the dome of the Capifol to-day and shout the name George Washington he would be answered by— •George Washington. 413 Filbert street, laborer." There may be other Georges in town, but if there are Mr. Boyd fails to mention it in his big red book. STEAMER ON FIRE St. John. N. B. Feb. 22.—The Brit ish steamer Arracan, loaded and in i the outer harnor ready to sail, was slightly damaged by fire of undeter- | mined origin early 10-dav- FIVE DEAD, 50 HURT IN WRECK ON NEW HAVEN Fast Speeding Special Crashes Into Passenger Train Stopped by Breakdown FLAGMAN GIVES UP LIFE Stands in Middle of Track Eractically Waving Flag Un til Too hate to Leap By Associated rrtss Milford, Conn., Feb. 22.—At least Ave persons were killed and more than fifty passengers were injured to-day 1 when the Connecticut river special. No. 79. from Springfield, Mass., for! New York, over the New York, New I Jersey. New Haven and Ilartford Rail-' road, was run into by a special pas-' I senger train. This train was made up in New llaven to carry passengers, who otherwise would have gone on the regular express from Boston to Xew York, leaving New Haven shortly after 11:30. The dead are said to be a flagman who had gone back to protect his train which had been stopped by a broken air pipe: Engineer Curtis and i Fireman McGinnis. of the special \ and a man and a woman passenger on that train whose bodies have been 1 seen under the wreckage. Sacrifices Life It is said that the flagman lost his' life in a futile attempt to stop the special running up the track so close to the engine that he could not es i cape. His body was cut to pieces. I The rear end collision followed a moment later. The Connecticut river special had stopped about a mile and a half east 1 of Indian river bridge because of ai ; broken air pipe. The flagman went i back with his red flag. The ("onnecti | cut river special was drawn by ai motor while the special, which had' been made tip at New Haven shortly j after the train left, was drawn by a , locomotive. It approached the stalled I train at a good headway, it is said, j | and as yet it is unknown whether, , Engineer Curtis applied his brakes upon seeing the flagman's warning. 1 Freight Train Drawn Tn At the time of the collision a freight train was running west on the next , track. When the smash came a pas senger coach was forced over against i the freight adding to the mixup. The j [Continued on Page fi.] Thinks He's "Billy" Sunday and Starts Revival After "looking upon the red. red . i wine," a man believed by the police jto be John Brodnie, South Front | | street, imagined he was "Billy" Sun -1 day and attempted to start an im promptu revival in the West Side, Steelton, this morning. When plaored under arrest by Patrolman John Wynn, after a tussle in which the of ficer was severely scratched and bruised about the face, Brodnie in sisted that he was being persecuted ; because of his religious beliefs and sank to his knees at Front and Lo cust streets, the center of the business . section, and declined to accompany the officer. ' Finally. Chief of Police IT. P. Long • naker ordered him loaded into a pa3s -1 ing beer wagon and there feeling at home, he was quieted and hauled to ' the borough lockup. . COLONEL HUTCHISON IS REPORTED AS RECOVERING Colonel Joseph B. Hutchison, who ■ is in the Fountain Springs Hospital, Ashland, is improved to-day. Dr. 1 J. C. Biddle who performed an opera- F! tion on the Colonel's throat to-day r wired: "Colonel Hutchison recovered »I from serious operation on Sunday, Lj Condition good." ROUGH TRIP FATAL TO TWO By Associated Press , j New York, Feb. 22. —Two deaths I which were attributed to the vessel's rough passage, occurred on the Amer ican Hine steamship New York which arrived from Liverpool to-day en cased in ice. Airs. S. A. Wallace, of Everett. Mass.. died last Sunday of heart failure ascribed in part to the rolling of the ship. February 15 John Haughey, coal passer, was crushed I under coal. KING GEORGE RECOVERED By Associated Press London. Feb. 22.—King George has j now completely recovered his health and his medical advisers have given him permission to resume his visits to the troops in training. GEO. E. MILLER DEAD By Associated Press Allentown, Pa., Feb. 22.—George E. Miller, for six years general superin • tendent of the Lehigh Valley Transit s ; Company, died of pneumonia here , this morning, aged 49 years. He was , one of the best-known railroad men in Pennsylvania, lie was born in Potts i ville. MURDERER KILLED BY TRAIN By Associated Press Lexington. Ky„ Feb. 22.—The search ■ for Bally Mulling, who was accused by the police of having killed Quincy Dve and fatally wounded R. A. Mattox, at | Paris, on Sunday, ended to-day when Muilins and an unidentified man were 1 run over and killed by a Louisville • and Nashville train near Elktns, Ky. The search tor Muilins had assumed I almost state-wide proportions. | $850,000 HOME FOR INDIGENTS By Associated Press Lancaster. Pa., Feb. 22.—A $350,000 home for indigent elderly men and . their wives on his farm in this county, I I is provided for in the will of Jacob S. i j Peacock, wealthy steel manufacturer .[and prominent clubman, who died suddenly last w<*ek at Miami, Fia. WIFE MADE HIM WOO HER PRETTY ADOPTED CHILD, PRINCE SWEARS As Flashing-eyed Yvonne Listens, Fositer-Mother's Husband Says It Was Tiresome lo Make Love lo Her al Princess' Orders; Yet He Called Her "Little Kizi-liizi" New York, Feb. 22. —Bending for- Court Justice Clarke yesterday a re- I ward in the witness chair, his swarthy markable story of his life with Mme. ! chin usually resting upon the palm of Almee Crocker Gourand Miskinoff and one hand. Prince Alexander Miskinoff of Kahedla, Caucasus, told Supreme [Continued on Pago 14.] TURKISH LOSSES ATERZERUMARE PLACED AT 40,000 Russians Following Up Victory by Chasing Ottoman Groups ; in All Directions 1 The Turks lost heavily in the fight- I ing resulting in the capture of Erze rum by the Russians, according to a 1 j Petrograrl dispatch to-day which esti ' : mates tlielr losses as 40,000 killed, ■ I wounded and prisoners. '| Following up their victory ener ! j getically, the Russians are pursuing j the Turks westward from Erzerum as ■ I well as to the north and south, as the - Turkish forces have split and fled In I all directions. The different Ottoman » groups, according to Petrograd ad i vices, have been cut off from com munication with each other, while the Russians are declared to have solidi- I lied their own lines so that their ad > vance is rapidly becoming a forward [Continued on Page 6.) ; Sends Quotations From Bible on Postal Card; Woman Is Held For Trial Special to the Telegraph JI Lewistown, Pa., Feb. 22. Miss _ j Sarah E. Taylor, of Saltillo, Pa., has j | been lodged in I he Mifflin county jail i here at the instance of the postal au thorities, charged with sending de • jfamatory matter through the malls. , j In default of $2,000 bail the woman is ' being held as a federal prisoner until j March 13. when she will be given trial ] at Scranton. Miss Taylor, who is about 36 years old, says that she copied several pass ; ago* from Scripture upon a postal i card, which she then mailed to a • woman In lier neighborhood. One i passage was a biblical allusion to a i woman of ill-repute. This latter pass ) oge, the postal authorities say, is using i the malls for defamalory purposes. The woman says that she mailed the j scriptural quotations to the other woman with the hope that by reading them she would reform from what she • considered were evil habits. ' Chicago Woman Official ' Is Accused of Grafting Special to the Telegraph I Chicago, 111.. Feb. 22. A sensational I allegation of graft was made yesterday bv Alderman William K. Rodriguez, who said that Mrs. Page Waller Katon. ' lecturer, author, and head of the Bu reau of Social Survey under Mrs. 1 Ijouise Osborne Rome. Commissioner of t, the Bureau of Public Welfare, had been I compelled for months to nay over ap , | proximately one-third of her salary to j ' Mrs. Rowe. ! The payments. It was alleged, wore t ! always made in cash, and wero said to I | be for the benefit of a needy relative i , of Mayor William Hale Tho-iiDson. LEPERS DRANK WOOD ATiCOHOIi; FIVE DEAD Honolulu, Feb. 23. A band of | ' lepers at. the leper settlement on the j 1 , Island of Moloski found a tin of wood I ■ I alcohol and drank it, with the result ■ | that four men and one woman arc, ■dead and several others are seriously I ill. according to word received here to- JUUV lit am. Um ssltjemftnt. i 14 PAGES CITY EDITION i »<||W n »<*UVi>i«^/Wii»^|jVi»> T TEN ARE REPORTED KILLED ? | New York, Feb. 22.—Ten persons were killed and six- * \ teen injured in the wreck of passenger trains near Milford, e | Conn., to-day, according to reports received by the local I I offices of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- A * road. Six of the dead were passengers and four were train- 1 I men. JL J AMBASSADOR GERARD HURT 3KIINQ I £ 22. — A dispatch to the Exchange Tele- f 1 graph Company says that James W. Gerard, American Am- I & bassador to Germany, broke his collarbone while skiing 1 yesterday near Munich and also injured his left aide. It is | J said his injuries are not lerious. <C { DINGLE SUNK: ONE SURVIVOR * London, Feb. 22.—Sinking of the British steamship X \ j Dingle is reported by Lloyds. There probably is only one \ ] ! survivor. N» «etaii3 kavs bees received. The Dingle, £ « • J tons j f Ii MULTIMILLIONAIRE DIES IN WEST ? ! Pueblo, Colo., eFb. 22.—Mahlon D. Thatcher, Pueblo | ! millionaire banker died this morning. He was 76 years old. • [ Thatcher was born near Gettysburg, Pa., in 1839. His * estate is estimated to be worth from $10,000,000 to S2O,- g » 000,000. : COURT DISCUSSES SHORT SKIRTS \ Harrisburg.—"Nowadays one may see most any style ■ on the streets," declared Additional Law Judge S. J. M. Mc- ; * Carrell this afternoon in license court. The court's obser vation was in response to the statement of James J. McClel- , f lan, proprietor of the Savoy, that the dress of the cabaret ! singer in the "green room" was "no shorter than the styles ■ ► I that you can see any time on the streets." The Savoy re- 1 J j i i monstrance will likely run well into to-morrow's session. | J *' CHINESE REBELS DEFEATED \ I 1 Peking, Feb. 22.—Rebels made an attack yesterday on|| governor's mansion at Chang-Sha, capital of the province i of Hu-Nan. They were repulsed and captured. The leaders g » were put to death. ' . MARRIAGE LICENSES Bum** A. Cilcliell and Olive A. Bcalor, Uncuttr. 7 John E. Simpson and Mary K. Kchaeffer, York Spriusa. X Inane A. KeH-hncr nail Pearl K Boyer, city. • I Henry C. Nbuaiper and Thereaa Dietrich. city. *, Kdwln H. G ruber, South Hanover, and Baaale Oell* Shiva, t.nlon De-Tk ponlt. g_ 1 iSl'■»"lib" »» Vl#|' Ii w^i STORY OF PINK | LIGHTED CABARET IN COURT TODAY | Dauphin License Judges Hear Tales O'Nighls in Savoy Green Room v HOW MABEL ENTERTAINS Impossible For Witnesses lo lio Into Full Detail About Singer's Dress The long awaited story of the pink j lighted 'green room" cabaret of th® ! Savoy was told to-day in Dauphin ! county license court. ! The hearing was the third airing of the scores or more remonstrances tiled in the combined campaign of the city churches and the Dauphin County Uw and Order and Xo-l..ieensc Leagues against the veliccnsing of as many hotels for I91(j. The tales that were told of the wine rooms of the bt. Charles and the Har ris had editied or startled the crowded courtroom—it depended on which side you sat —from day to day, but develop ments of a character to make one gasp had lie.en promised for the airing | of the tight against the Savoy. The Story Is Told I And these tales were told this morn | ing hy John P. Ouyer, Held secretary J of the Dauphin County I-aw and <">rder I.eague, and the Fiev. Harvey Kiacr, president of the No-license League. The curious courtroom heard all about how "Mabel," the cabaret singer, entertained; how she was—or .."as not —clad; how the men and girl patrons of the "green room" on the fifth floor [Continued on Page fl.] East Penna. U. E. Delegates Gather For Conference 1 Ministers and lay delegates from ; the three districts of the East Penn i sylvania conference to the United i Evangelical Church will arrive In this j city to-morrow for the opening of their twenty-second annual session. The Missionary Society will hold a business meeting at 2:30 o'clock to - morrow afternoon, and in the evening . at 7: SO an address will be made by 1 the Rev. Agide Pirazzinl, professor of Hebrew Exegesis in the Bible Teach-, ers' Training School, New York City.
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