• •: f . - - Heavy Loss of Life and Property Damage Caused by Zeppelin Raids Over Wide Area HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXV — No. 74 ELUSIVE BANDIT SLIPS AWAY AND k COVERS UP TRAIL; LINES MENACED Villa Again Becomes the Man of Mystery After Working Way Through Encircling Net; Reported to Be Moving Toward Chi huahua to Win Garrison Over HAS LARGE FORCES PLANTED IN HILLS Believed That Big Bodies of His Troops Are Scattered Through Mountains Ready to Dart Out on American Cavalrymen; Clashes Are Looked For Anytime By Associated Press CAMI* OK GENERAL PER. SUING. APRII. •_>. (BY AERO PLANE TO COIiONIA 1H HI.AN. AND BY RADUO TO COI LMBIS. V M., APRIL S.) AMERICAN CALVARYMEN EXCOI NTER ED A FLEEING FORCE OF VILLA MEN NEAR (Deleted) EARLY TO-DAY AND SOUNDS OF FIRING HAVE BF:EN HEARD FROM THAT DIREC TION, BUT NO REPORT HAS BEEN MADE TO IIEADQI AR TERS AS TO THE BEsl LTS. THE MOUNTAINS OF (iI'FR KERO \HE BEIXG COMBED TIIOROUiIILV FOR VILLA BV IHE \MEKIC\X F'ORCES BIT XOTIIING II \> BEEN LEARN ED \s TO HIS WIIERF ».BOFTS OTHER THAN THAT CAP IT RKU BANDITS SAID HE WAS BEING CARRIED I TRTIIEI! INTO THF: MOVNTAIIN> IN Ills JOLTING COAC H. THE TROOPS WERE CLOSIO - BEHIND VILLA VESTI-.R -I»AY ENTERING Till". VILLAGE OF - ( —Deleted— ) SHORT LA AFTER HF: HAD FLFT> FROM IT. IT WAS SI SPF:CTF:D THAT HI: MK;HT BF: HIDDF:\ IN ONI: OF' ITS HITS AND F.VERY PRECAUTION WAS TAKEN TO EFFECT TIIF; CAPTVFK. TWO SQUADRONS OF CAVALRY I :NTF:RED TIIF: VILL AG E FROM OPPOSITE SIDF:S SIMFLTANEOUsI.Y. By .Issociated /'res _ El Paso, Texas. April 3 —Francisco Villa has again become the man of mystery. Almost within the grasp of Ameri can cavalry, after the battle of Guer rero. the bandit was repor'ed to-day to have slipped the net closing about him and to have covered the trail o' his flight. Mexican officials in Juarez sought information of the brigand's whereabouts, but the telt graph wires brought no definite word. Mexican reports had it that Villa and another band of his followers were moving on Chihuahua City with the intention o f getting the garrison of the dc facto government there to re volt and join htm against the Ameri cans. These reports, brought here by travelers, were scouted by Mexican Consul Garcia. Band- Menace Lines While the bandit's main command was scattered at the battle of Guer rero. it is believed here that Villa has [Continued on Paw lu] DEAD ENGIVKKR lit. \ MKD FOR MOW IIAVK\ MIIKI K By Associated Press Washington. D. C., April 3. The Interstate Commerce Commission report in the New Haven wreo*. near Mtlford t'onn.. Febraiv 22. when ten u*er. ; kill ed and many were injured in u rear end collision of passenger trains, places the blame on the dead engineer of the local train, which stru'-k a stalled ex press. because, the report >ays. he fail ed to regard block signals. Tin- report idds that the wreck .igain emphasizes :he need for automatic train stops. THE WEATHER For Ifnrrlfthurg; an«l vlclultyt Threatening, prol>ii!»l.v rniii to night and Tueailayi not much cliMnßf In temperiiture; loweM to night nliout Tilt ileKreew. For ICantern Feiiunylvaiiiitit Threat ening, whh prohahly rain to night and Tuewdnyj not mueh change in temperature; fre»h cant «I n dm. River All Ktream* of the *u«qucliunnn river ayatem are falling thin morning. The nioMt decided fall* In the Inat twenty-four hourn huve occurred lu the < heniuug and the \Ve«t llrnnch below Henovo, and the leant In the main river and t pper Went Hrancb. The wat era are noit below flood *tngc at all Mntinim except \\ ilke«-lliirr«» v whfle the liver wIII remain the flood point until Tueadny. All Ntreama will eon tlntie to fall unleaa conNldcrablc ralir oecurm over the I |»per North llrancli, where there prohahly In eoiiMldrrnhlc anow remaining in the htllMt other Htrennm can now dinpoMe of auliataiitlnl raliiN, as tlio unow water la moatly kovic. U lill.* weather conditions are threatening and rain will prob ably tall It will likely be light to moderate and * not aufflclent to materially ehangc the altuatlon. \ Ntage of about 1.1.H feet la Indl. A rated for Harrlahurg, Tueaduy # morulng. General Conriltlc»ns I'lie Texas ntorm has moved to tseorgia. It haw eavsed rains In the Olilo and Middle .Mississippi valleya and Tcnncsaee. Temperature: s a. m.. 10. >un: nises, 3x46 a. m.; sets, Hi3f p. m. Moon: First quarter, April 10, 0.10 a. m. River Stage: 10.0 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather II Ik best temperature, .12. l.owest temperature. 41, Mean temperature, 4*. .Normal temperature, 15, BY CARHIKR « CK*TS A WEEK. SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS. ZEPPELINS IN VAST RAIDS DO HEAVY DAMAGE Franco, Scotland and England Suffer Extensively From Bombs Dropped on Them D U N KIRK BOMBARDED Death List in Successive Night Attacks Mounts High; Many Injured My Associated Press Paris, April 3.—A Zeppelin appeared over Dunkirk last night and threw bombs, which killed two civilians. Dunkirk, the northernmost town of France, is a strongly fortified port on the Straits of Dover. During the war it has frequently been shelled by a j lons range German gun. London. April 3. Details of last night's Zeppelin raids over Eastern Scotland and the northeast and eastern j counties of England have not been given out officially, but from such re ; ports as have been received it is evi j dent the Zeppelins covered a wider i area than during the visitation of the I two previous nisjhts. Trains and street \ cars were hekl up and lights were [Continued on Page 7] Right Rev. Monsignor Lyons Is Dead After Illness From Complication of Diseases fly A ssociated Press Wilmington, Del., April 3.—The Rt. Rev. Mgr. John A. Eyons, V. G., died at the parochial residence of St. Peter's Cathedral this morning of a compli cation of diseases, lie had been failing for tlio four weeks, but had been critic* !ly ill only since Sunday morn ing. Father Lyons was born in New York city in IM2. He was educated there and at the Jesuit College. Montreal. Canada. He was ordained to the priesthood at St. Peter's Church in this city July 31. 1576, and installed as assistant priest. Subsequently he served the parishes of Elkton, Md„ and Dover and Newark, in this State, i and in ISSO> was returned to Wilming ton as pastor of St. Peter's, then the i ro-cnt'i dral of th • diocese and now the cathedral. At this time he was Mi>iiointeu vicar-general oi' the diocese, lie was made domestic prelate by Pope Pius N on March 19, 1911. On account of the absence of Bishop Monaghan. arrangements for the funeral uf the deceased prelate have not yet been made. Confederates of Pirate in Plot to Blow Liner Admit They Crossed Him By Associated Press New York, April 3.—One of the three men named by Clarence Regi nald Hudson, alias Ernest Schiller, and his associates in alleged conspiracy to blow up with dynamite the Cunard j I.ine steamship Pannonia is still at i liberty, hut the police say they expect to arrest him before night. Hudson, who captl!rod the British ship Jln toppo at sea and awed her crew of fifty-six men by a display of revolvers, will be arraigned in court in connec tion with the Pannonia plot as soon us the case acainst him is completed. George Haller and Otto Milleder. ar rested last nieht and held under minor charges as Hudson's fellow-conspira tors. admitted to-day they had fre- ; quent I'onferences with Hudson con cerning his plans to blow up British or French vessels lying at piers here. They said they had received money from him to buy dynamite, a motor boat. revolvers or other supplies, but asserted they spent his money for their own benefit and pawned revolvers he bought for them. Japan Will Not Give Up Islands Seized; Has 1,000 New Millionaires San Francisco, April 3. That Ja pan is colonizing and apparently in tends to retain the South Sea islands, captured during the the present War) from the Germans was the statement made here by Dr. Frederick Starr, i professor of anthropology University of Chicago, who is nnroute to ChSCEjo ; to-day from the Orient after six' months' research *.vcrk in Japan snd i Korea. "•Since the war began in Europe." continued Dr. Starr, "more than 1,000 new millionaires have been made in j Japan. Extravagant ideas have taken i possession of the Japanese nation and a wave of speculation is sweeping over the country." Car Dynamited and Tracks Blown Up at Wilkes-Barre Wilkes-Barre. Pa.. April 3.—Rioting in the Wyoming Valley gave way to dynamiting outrages yesterday, when, according to officials of the AVilkes- Barre Railway Company, 75 pounds of explosives were used in wrecking a car and the roadbed on the Harvey's Txike division and in blowing up the tracks on the Hudson branch, of the com pany's lines. Dynamite caps were placed on the rails of the South Main street division last night, but the dam- , age was not serious. Dynamite caps on the South Main ' street line in this city caused eonsid- ! erable disorder, but little damage was done. Guards have been doubled in out- > side towns to prevent further dyna- i miting outrages on the part of strike sympathizers. While cars were not operating on all divlsons yesterday, because of flooded conditions, the full State police force and the scores of Sheriff's deputies are expected to be able to reduce lawlessness to a mini mum and eventually to wipe it out. RETURNED FROM TRIP Washington, D. P., April 3.—Presi dent and Mrs. Wilson returned early to-day from their week-end trip down the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay aboard the Mayflower, ( HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1916. I U. S. TROOPS IN RECORD HIKE ACROSS MEXICAN DESERT ' I I nil n;_ * On this hike they made 26 miles in one day rrom Camp Oje de Fredericka to the famous Corralitos ranch neai Colonia Dublin, Chihuahua, on March 21. GERMANS HURLING HEAVY MASSES OF TROOPS AT FORT French Offer Tenacious Resist ance; Drive Them Back Be tween Vaux and Douaumont By Associated Press Heavy masses of troops are still being hurled by the Germans against the defenses of Verdun, which are being tested to the limit at several points. The French are offering tenacious resistance and according to i Paris have succeeded in pressing back the crown prince's forces between Vaux and Douaumont. The gains claimed Is In the north ern part of the Paillette wood which the Germans penetrated yesterday. ' Desperate fighting continued there all: [Continued on Pace 10] Big Buildings Threatened in Spectacular Fire in Downtown District of N. Y. By Associated Press New York, April 3.—A serious lire started in the downtown section of the city early this afternoon. At - o'clock it had destroyed two five-story building and lieckman streets, occu pied by paper concern- and had spread to an old 15-story skyscraper at the corner of Nassau and lieckman streets and threatened it willi destruction. Throe alarms were turned in. Shortly after 2 o'clock, all tenants were ordered out of the twenty-story skyscraper known as the Nassau llceknian building and occupied by the New York Sun. The building was at that time seriously threatened b> the flames. Tlic lire \\ as one of the most spec tacular witnessed in the downtown section in many years. Hoofs of sky scrapers were crowded with specta tors and huge crowds jammed the streets, requiring all available police reserves in the lower part of the city to handle them. Eire department officials announced at 2:30 that the lire was under con trol and would be confined to the two destroyed buildings, with sonic dam age to the 15-story building at Nassau and Iteckmiin streets. Most of the tenants in the Sun building stayed in their offices in spite of the danger. It was roughly estimated that the dam age would amount to $200,0110, No Longer Will "01' Simon" Chism Linger About the Courthouse ! "OP Simon" Chism, the white j headed, bent and wrinkled negro who for years was a familiar tigure about ! the courthouse corridors and offices. Will visit the county's oflicial home no i more I Simon, who only a few weeks ago. was removed to the county almshouse died there this morning at the ripe old age of 74. The negro, who was well known to I every lawyer, county official and courthouse attache for years, was often called the "Courthouse Uncle Tom.'' Simon frequently gave a little ' color touch to the suggestion by de claring that he welt remembered his j "slave days." Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. Gerard Declines to Run For Governor of New York By Associated Press ! Berlin, April 3. by wireless.—James ! W. Gerard, the American ambassador. States that he was asked by friends and by the Democratic party to run for Governor of New York, says the ; Overseas News Agency. He considers it his duty, however, to stay in Ber ' lin during the war. I'KXNSY ANNOUNCES CHANGES IN DEMURRAGE CHARGE Special to the Telegraph The Pennsylvania Railroad Com- i pan.v lias put into effect an important change in its demurrage charges. On and after April 1, the usual 48 hours, free cars, will be allowed. For the next 72 hours $1 a day will lie charged, and after that on all cars except refrigerator and ventilator | cars. , PEACE HOPES IN ! REPUBLICAN CAMP ARE DIMINISHING People Who Have Been in 1 Philadelphia Look For a Fight to the Finish Republicans who came to the State Capital to-day from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington expressed ; the belief that hopes of peace in the j I Republican party over national dele- ■ Kates and State committee places are : diminishing and that an open declara- i 1 tion of war was likely to be made at | j any time. . 11 The Brumbaugh headquarters is; going ahead with preparation of peti tions and other preliminary -work and the return of Attorney General Brown ) ito the Capitol is expected to be the start of a vigorous campaign in wh'ich j [Continued on Page to] i BUFFALO SQUAD ROMPS IN FOR SPRING WORK "Must Think We're Sub marines" Groans Pat Dono van, Seeing Island B> "Cj" Klone Manager Pat Donovan and Jack De Murphy, together with several of the shining stars of the Buffalo Interna tional League ball tossers arrived at , the Columbus Hotel this morning and ; immediately made arrangements to j open up their Spring training camp. "Well, how do you like the island j [Continued on Paso 3] Twenty-five Men Hurt, Several Fatally, in Gas Explosion at Buffalo By Associated Press Buffalo, N. Y., April 3.—Twenty-1 five men were injured, several prob- i ably fatally, in an explosion at the j plant of the Otis Elevator Company here to-day. The accident was at tributed to the explosion of a gas tank !n the foundry. Called Wife "Liar"; Released From Jail After a Weary Week Pale and subdued after a week's stay in the Dauphin county jail Ed- Ward Sm it hers, who last Monday was i committed to prison for contempt of j court when he called his wife a liar l on the witness stand, was arraigned before President Judge Kunkei this' 1 morning and released. Smitbers' wife bad brought an ac tion against him for nonsupport and it was explained to the judge that so long as Smitbers remained behind the bars, his pretty little wife lacked sup port. The court sternly pointed out to-day that the contempt sentence was modified only because of the wife's needs. He directed Smithers to pay $3 weekly toward his wife's maintenance and to give a S3OO bond to comply; with the court's order. "And now." concluded Judge Kunkei as he dismissed Bmthers, "when you have occasion to come into court again, see that you behave!" Professor Baldwin Demands Reparation For Attack I Paris. April 3. Professor James j Mark Badhvin, of Baltimore, whose | ! daughter was seriously injured in the j explosion on the channel steamship | Sussex, gave out a copy of a cable gram which he had dispatched to I President Wilson. It reads: "A woman traveling where her right was. carrying an American pass port, stricken on the Sussex, hover ing between life and death, demands that reparation for assault on Ameri can life and liberty bo exacted. issued; MARK BAUDWiX," I SHACKLETON IS THOUGHT TO HAVE CROSSED POLE Crew of Aurora Expresses Con fidence That Explorer Has Completed Antarctic Trip By Associated Press Dunedin, X. Z., April 3. On the arrival of the Aurora here, J. R. i Stenhouse, the first officer who brought the vessel from Ross sea, ex pressed confidence that Sir Ernest Shackleton had succeeded in making his trip across the pole according to schedule. He added that, although tlie party entrusted with depot laying 1 were to go as far south as possible, they may nevertheless be unable to reach Cape Heardmore, the point < originally intended. Chief Officer Stenhouse explaining the circumstances in which the fContinued on Page 10] TAKE STEPS TO REVIVIFY CITY MINISTERIUM Fifty Pastors of Harrisburg Churches Meet at Bishop Darlington's First steps toward reviving the Har risburg .Ministerial Association was taken this morning at a meeting of lifty members of churches in the city . in the assembly hall of the residence iof liishop James Henry I>arlington, j when a committee of seven pastors | was appointed to draft a new con- I stitution. Bishop Darlington presided, and ! prayers were offered by the Rev. Dr. Kllis X. Kremer, of the Reformed Sa ! J®" 1 Church, and ex-Bishop W. M. Rev. S. W. Herman, of Zion Lutheran Church, acting as secretary. The Rev. Dr. I.ewis S. Street Presbyterian (hurch, was appointed chairman of he committee t«, draft ibe constitu tion. with the following other mem- I ,f rs: T T B,sh °P Darlington, the Rev. I Mr. Herman, the Rev. W. W. Hart i man. of Ridge Avenue Methodist Church; the Rev. H. w. A. Hanson Lutheran Church; the Rev! u 1111 am .\. 1 ates. the Fourth Street ( hurch of God, and the Rev. Albert ',■ Greene, of the Second Baptist | Church. The c ommittee met late to ; day at the residence of the Rev. Dr Muage. At lo clock this afternoon, nravers were offered in the chapel and shortlv after the ministers adjourned. Lu theran and Methodist ministerial meetings were held in the YMca also to-day. A - J Other Leaders Expected to Follow Root in Making Peace With Roosevelt | Oyster Bay, L. T.. April 3.—Rapid changes are expected to take place n the political situation during the com- Tn for , ln * ht " developments will probably reveal other Republican leaders following in Senator Boot's footsteps m making peace with Col ' Roosevelt. It is felt that because Senator Root who stands out as a dominant leader of the Republican party, has seen tit to shake the hand of the Colonel and call matters square, others in the' party who rank below Mr. Root in leadership will fall in behind him and do the same thine. It j s predicted that this week will be a busy one at sagamore Mill and the prospcet of O T\ P JJ* r,ms, sre» up the winding load to the Colonel's home would not be surprising. UI i ! MOVING ? ' In order to avoid mlxnlnic n *lnsl<> lni«ut* of the Tflfgrnph, »üb«crll>era who rontrmplnte moving »rr re* ciuexted to notify the Circulation De partment promptly off change of «d. drena. Don't fall to klvc your olil ne || your ueiv addreaa. iV PRIZES FOR BEST WINDOW-PORCH BOX DECORATION Individuals, Fire Companies and Communities May Participate EXPERTS WILL BE JUDGES Reduction in Price on Sectional Window Boxes if Purchased Through the Telegaph One Prize (To l>c announced later) For the best individual window or porcli IM>X display. One Prize (To In- announced later). For the liest lire company house window box displav. Community I»rize Tiic Tele graph will entertain n community party at the Colonial Country Club, the guests to lie the individ ual entrants, in honor of the l>cst window and porcli box decorations displayed by any block in the city. I ' \ "block" Is to include nothing \ iess than a half square and no j more tlum one full city square. These will be the inducements of-' : fered by the Telegraph to encourage | the people of the city to help inakei I Ilarrisburg beautiful the coming sum-j 1 mer by planting porch and window box gardens. In a few days enroll [Continued on Page 3] Poisoner in New Confession Says He Planned to Kill Wife to Get Her Fortune New York, April 3.—A side issue of j tlie main crime to-day occupied the attention of members of the district attorney's stalT who are investigating the Peck murder case. Dr. Arthur Warren Waite has re vealed almost every detail of how he planned lo murder his father-in-law and his mother-in-law. Mrs. Peck, and last night he admitted, according to I bis attorney, that he intended also lo kill his wife to remove the last ob stacle between him and the Peck for tune. But Dr. Waite, apparently, does not know what became of part of tlfe $9,000 which he gave to Eugene O. Kane to induce Kane to testify that ,he used arsenic in embalming Mr. Peck's body. This is the point the dis j trict attorney now is anxious to settle. PLh» WHEAT SOARS WHEN CROP IS REPORTED LESS J Chicago, April 3. Wheat prices made an unusually ' I steep advance to-day. and the market showed broad activity IJ | as a result of estimates that the crop of winter wheat in the j t t United States this year would ze 165,000,000 bushels less |» ? than the yield' harvested, in 1915. f J » CLAIM TO HAVE DAMAGED SHIP YARDS " * Brlin, April 3.—By Wireless Edinburgh and Leith < I dock establshments on the Firth of Forth and Important 1 k shipbuilding works on the Tyne were attacked in last night's ' , , Zeppelin raid over England and Scotland, the admirlty ■ * announced to-day. There were numerous fires and violent ;' \ | explosions. A battery near New Castle was silencsd. All ► *; the Zeppelins returned safely. ; «» MARRIAGE LICENSES i Raymond C. Jcnklna and Florence .V. Sander*, city. vt" >i VU" I >iW*' iiWuN'g CITY EDITION 12 PAGES MAY REBUILD WALNUT STREET RIVER BRIDGE People's Bridge Company Con sidering Big Improvement, Heport RA IL WA Y S EXTENSIONS Trolley Schedules lo Linglcs town May Be Cut in Half by Company A new bridge across the Susque , hanna river at Walnut street, lo re place the People's bridge is said to be a possibility in the near future. Re ports widely circulated to-day that plans had already been completed for i a new structure were denied by Frank R. I>eib, secretary of the People's Bridge Company. He said, however, | "The construction of a new viaduct across the Susquehanna at Walnut street, to replace the present struc- I ture, has been talked about, but noth | ing definite has yet been done in the matter. It may come in the future, but just when I am not able to say." It is understood that the Valley i Railways Company, whose tracks run over' the bridge is in sympathy with the proposed improvement. Asked regarding a report that the ownership of the bridge had changed Mr. Lelb said: "The People's Bridge Company still [Continued on Page 7] CAUiS DEMOCRATS Washington. D. C., April .I.—Roland S. Morris, chairman of the Pennsylva j nia Democratic committee, to-day called a conference of the chairmen of | all Democratic State committees here April 13 to Utscuss plans for the next campaign. The committeemen will be here for the Common Council Club banquet that night, at which President Wilson and Democratic national com mitteemen will be guests. SHIP POINDING TO PIKCI-.S By .-Issociatcd Press Hongkong, April 3.—The Japanese i'steamer Chiyo Maru. which stra ruled Sln a storm off I,ema Islands, twenty miles south of Hongkong, has been . abandoned, as she was being driven on the rocks by a heavy gale, repeated j attempts to refloat her having been 1 unsuccessful.