MM • l»"% _ ■* ■ • - Mexicans Bteski and Flee in Encounters With Forces of American Cavalry HARRISBURG lllllls TELEGRAPH LXXXV — No. 76 BAR CHILDREN FROM SCHOOLS, CHURCH, MOVIES; FIGHT MEASLES City Health Officer Takes 1 Drastic Measures to Check Disease Spreading Through City at Rate of Thirty Cases a Day Following Conference With School Inspectors FIRST FOUR GRADES TO DISCONTINUE SESSIONS Will Reopen Next Week to Close Again if Epidemic Is Not Checked; Over Thou sand Cases Reported Dur ing March Is Cause of Strenuous Efforts by Au thorities Following a conference with nied-1 leal inspectors of the Harrisburg pub-1 lie schools. Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, city health officer, this afternoon ordered! ill rooms in the First, Second, Third | rnd Fourth grades in the public, pri-! i ate and parochial schools in the city! closed from to-morrow morning for the remainder of ihe week in on ef fort to check the epidemic of measles. At the same time letters were senl all clergymen in the city notifying them to have all children under 15 years barred from Sunday school ses sions this coming Sunday and Sunday, April 16. Orders were also issued to the man agement of all theaters and moving picture houses in the city to bar all; children under sixteen years from at tending any exhibitions. Schools Ke-Opcn Monday In issuing the orders to close the' lower grades in the schools Dr. Raunick explained that the schools j will be closed for the remainder of! ibis week but that will reopen next Monday for a period of one week. On ; the following Monday, or April 17. the : schools will again be closed for a, period of another week. Explaining this plan. Dr. Raunick said that children exposed to con-j tagion during the first period in which the schools were open would develop 1 the measles during the time the! schools were closed and would not therefore threaten children who at tend the sessions, following. A similar] plan has been successfully worked out in fighting measle epidemics in other \ cities, he declared. The present epidemic resulted in 1,017 cases during the month just closed and is now spreading at the rat" of thirty cases a day. These strenuous measures on the part of the health authorities will be j successful in checking the contagion, it is believed. Lack of Prize Will Not Defer Wanamaker Flight Special to the Telegraph New York, April s.—ln reply to the cablegram sent by the Aero Club! of America, to Lord Northeliffe, in-! quiring whether his ante- bellum offer of a prize of $50,000 for the first trans-! Atlantic fight was still open, the club • yesterday received this answer: "Yes, after the war." The reply, however, Allan R. Haw- , ley, president of the club, said will; not affect the recently announced plans of Rodman Wanamaker to make a cross-Atlantic flight in a new high powered triplane now tinder construc tion, as Mr. Wanamaker had not con sidered the matter of a prize. The' flight probably will he attempted this summer, and the war, Hawley thought would not interfere. THE WEATHER] i For llnrrlnburK and vicinity: Fair Thurmlaj partly cloudy; not much clinnue in temperature; lowest to-iilelit about HH rieicree*. For Kastern Pennsylvania: Fair to night ; ThurfMlay partly cloudy; aoi much change In temperature; light uent WIIIIIN. River The *u««iuchnniin river nn«l all It* trlhutaricM will continue to fall. V Mtagc of ahout 10.3 feet IM Indi cated for llnTlwhnrg ThurNday morning. , General t ondltlnnM The Te*a* Mtorm that Wll off llat tera*, Tuesday morning, hat* mov ed northward aad in aotv cen tral off the coamt of Maine. It ham light rain in the St. Law rence Valley aad In the Atlantic State*, from Virginia northward, with some nnow In !S>w Knglimd. Mght ti» moderate precipitation, nioatly In the form of Nnow-, ham occurred la the Upper MIMKIMMIPPI Valley and along the northern border of V<ake Superior and In Montana, Wanhlngton nnd Hrlt- INII Columbia. A alight disturb ance In the Southwent liaix re sulted in precipitation, montly rain. In Southern L tali. South western Colorado. Souihw cntcrn Kansas and Oklahoma. It IM 111 to IN degrees colder In Minnesota, Vorth Dakota and In Manitoba; elsewhere temperature changes have been mostly alight and somewhat Irregular. Temperature! R a. m.. *O. Sun: Rises, ."nil a. in.; sets, flj.fJl p. m. Moout First quarter, April 10, a. m. River *tagct 12.7 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, to. Cow est temperature, XV Mean temperature, ,IH. .Normal temperature, 441. i nv CABNIEK r. rF.XT* A WEEK, SIXGLK COPIES a CENTS. VILLA DODGING CAVALRYMEN IN TERRITORY 1,600 MILES IN AREA General Pershing Confronted; With Problem of Locating and Capturing Bandit in Ever-Widening Country; Task Becomes Increasingly i Difficult as He Moves South ROVING BANDS LOSE HEAVILY IN ATTACKS Forty-two Bandits Reported Killed in Fight Near Tor reon; Another Crowd Sus tains Loss of Ten in Fight With Carranza Forces; Equipment and Horses Taken Washington, D. C., April 5. Senator Call, Republican, of New Mexico, telegraphed from tin- bor der to-day to Senator Gailinger that the food situation for the American expeditionary force in Mexico was precarious and there -till was danger that all means of communication with the American forces far in the interior would lie (lit off. K.l Paso, Texas, April s.—ln an attack on Villa forces at Ciene quita yesterday General Cava/.os killed ten and scattered (lie band, according to a report given out to da> by General Gavira in Juarez. Torrcnn, Mexico. April 5. A Villa band under Simon Keycs and ('bacon lost forty-two killed in an attempt to surprise the garrison in tlic milling' town of I'aras, several miles cast of here, last Saturday. The garrison, under Colonel ,1. M. CVonzalcs. drove off the bandits and captured a quantity of arms i and a number of horses. Washington, D. C„ April s.—Reports | to the Department of Justice indicate thpt there now is no longer any doubt that Felix Diax had landed in Mexico. ; Officials have been informed that he is , i at the head of a considerable force in ! the south of Mexico and has received i material aid through Guatemala. It is the tlrst official information of the ! revolutionary leader s movements. A propaganda in his favor along the border between the I'nited States, and Mexico is reported and a number j I of his adherents there are under sur- ; ; velllance by the department agents. Thus far there has been little defi nite information as to his movements I or the source whence lie obtained | arms and ammunition. It has been fairly well established, officials say, that he received considerable financial i aid in New York. One of bis agents recently was traced by department , agents to Canada and another was said • to have left recently for Spain, Torreon, Mexico. April 5.—A band of Villa supporters wrecked a passen- ! ger train on a branch of the Mexican ! Central railroad in Ihe neighborhood of Sonibrerete last Thursday, killing ! a number of persons, according to re- I ports reaching here to-day. Kfforts to arrange the surrender ' i under an amnesty of General C'anuto Reyes and other Villista leaders of the Torreon district are being hastened, j General Trevlno. military commander here, has named a peace commission ; to confer with the chieftain. El Paso. Tex., April s.—The prob- 1 ; lem of locating and capturing Villa' | somewhere within an area of 1,600 I square miles confronts Brigadier-Gen- j i eral Pershing to-day. Information from the front states that the American troops have been disposed to the best possible advan tage but the task of running down : the Mexican bandit in an ever-widen- | ing territory as the brigade moves | [Continued on Page 1 I.) Fred B. Harry Buys Business of H. C. Dodge, in Third Street <>ne of Harrisburg's oldest business i : houses changed hands to-day when Fred B. Harry, a clerk in the State j | Treasury Department, bought the store I : of H. C. Dodge, hatter and furrier, ! ,17 North Third street. The consid-I | eration is not made public. Mr. Dodge, who has been engaged! in the business for close upon thirty- i I five years, will retire, it is understood, 1 <o his newly purchased country place j north of Fort Hunter. Mr. Harry will conduct the business ! under the old firm name of H. C. | ! Dodge. No extensive changes in the establishment are contemplated for : the present, .Mr. Harry said to-dav. | The present clerical force, he added, : will be retained. Mr. Harry is a son of George M. [ , Harry, owner of Harry's Cigar Store, j Third and Walnut streets. He resides i ;at 1521 North Second street. For the last year or more he had been con- I nected with the State Treasury de -1 partment, although he learned the intricacies of salesmanship in his j father's business for four or five years I prior to going upon the "Hill." He is I a graduate of Staunton Military Acad- j : emy and is widely known and popular i among the younger folks of the city. i ASKS 82.000 OK DR. MARSHAbL FOR INJURIES BY Al'TO Suit for $2,000 damages was begun ' 'this afternoon by George W. Herman against Dr. A. Leslie Marshall, of this I city, for injuries the former declared he received on January 22, 1916, when Dr. Marshall's automobile crashed into • him at Conestoga and Front streets, Steelton. Herman had just alighted from a trolley car, he alleged, when j Dr. Marshall, without exercising proper j or caution, ran into him. | HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1916. CUSTER'S OLD REGIMENT PU 7 T . H is. s ding w >jcxroo fflwm. nts* ssev/te. This interesting picture shows the Seventh United States Cavalry, the regiment commanded bv General Custer in the Indian wars, a couple of generations ago, riding through Mexico in pursuit of Villa. The Seventh, under command of Colonel Dodd, is reported to be in hot pursuit of the bandit leader. It was this regiment which is said to have engaged ithe Villista forces at San Geronimo ranch. This picture gives a good idea of the character of the.country through which the troops are now operating. GAWTHROP HEADS! COMMISSION ON COAL INCREASE Organization of Body to Inves tigate Hise in Anthracite Effected MEET WITH GOVERNOR "1 Told Them to Be Thorough About It," Declared Chief Executive Ex-Judge Ilobert S. Gawtlirop, of j West Chester, was to-day elected chair- i inan of the commission provided by the last Legislature to probe thd in- i crease in the price of anthracite coal after enactment of the anthracite coal tax. The commission, which is com posed of Mr. Gawtlirop, C. Tyson lvratz, Norristown, and John S. Langdon, ' Huntingdon, organized in the Gov ernor's office after Governor Brum baugh had outlined the purposes of I the legislative resolution creating the i commission. Deputy Attorney General IW. H. Keller met with the eommis- I i sion and Chief of Mines Roderick | offered the assistance of his depart -1 inent Immediately after the organization! the members of the commission left j for Philadelphia, where they will con- ' 'suit with Attorney General Brown, who was designated as counsel for the com- j missioners. The office of the commls- i sion will probably be established In Philadelphia and the work will he out- j lined to-day. "I told the commissioners to go j i ahead at once and to find out all that j i could be ascertained about the in- j - crease. 1 told them to be thorough i | about it," said the Governor. ' BEGIN WORK ON WATERING PLANT AT COUNTY FARM New System For Irrigating Almshouse Acres Is Being Installed j Work was begun to-day by the I County Poor Board on the construc ) tion of the new irrigating system at i the poor farm. j The new scheme for watering the I ground with a view to Increasing its j productive possibilities Is one of the I ideas which Director F. B. Snavely lias ! had under consideration practically [Continued on Pago 5.] IOI,F, IRON WORKS TO RESUME Special to the Telegraph I Reading, Pa., April G.—ln two ; weeks the Berkshire Iron Works at Sheridan will blow In its furnace. This plant was closed three years ago. When running full, the capacity of the furnace was 700 tons of pig iron per week. It will employ 150 people. WARDEN DROPS DEAD Special to the Telegraph Huntingdon. Pa., April s.—On his 1 way home from Pennsylvania fndus i trial Reformatory yesterday. Amos G. i Smucker, 62, warden, dropped dead on the sidewalk less than one block from his residence. Captain G. Chalport, of the Pennsylvania police, found his dead i body a few minutes later. WOMAN HUHNEI); NEAR DEATH Special to the Telegraph Lancaster, Pa.. April 5.- —By the ex plosion of a kerosene lamp yesterday the clothing of Mrs. John R. Herr, wife of a Drumore township former, j was set on fire and she was so badly (burned that she will not recover. "PLAY DAY" FOR ALL HARRISBURG, ROTARIANS' PLAN Biggest "Stunt" Ever At tempted by Organization Is Outlined at Meeting "Play Day" will be the next big ; i"stunt" which the Harrisburg Rotary iClub will introduce In Harrisburg. This was decided on at a meting i last night of the club at the place of , business of Witmer, Bair and Wltmer,, j 202 Walnut street, at Which President i Arthur D. Bacon asked for suggestions as to what the club should do to car-j Iry out the recommendations of Inter-/ national President Allen D. Albert In' ! his recent addresses in this city, i | Healthful, wholesome play was one of j Mr. Albert's thenles and the Rotar ;ians, after some discussion, concluded ]that what is good for the individual ought to be good for the community, so it was decided to have a "Harris-1 burg Play Day"—a day given over 1 [Continued on Page 5.] "I Shot Papa to Put Him Out of Misery," Says Girl By Associated Press Louisville, Ky„ April 5.—"1 shot j j papa to put him out of his misery; ! j it was an act of mercy," hysterically expained Anna Lee Sfitzel after she had fired a bullet into the breast of her father. William Stitzel, 75, a Fed » era! veteran of the Civil War, at their home here last night. Mr. Sfitzel died I thirty minutes later at a hospital. For several weeks Miss Stitzel is said lo have brooded over her father's j loneliness and growing infirmities, j I Physicians who have attended the, i young woman believe she is suffering] ' from dementia. LODGE EXPRESSES ROOSEVELT VIEWS ON BIGGER ARMY Force of 250,000 Regulars and Large Mobile Reserve Ad vocated in the Senate Washington. D. C., Aprtl s.—How! | riyal interests in the Republican party { I are lining up on the new issues of na- | I (ional defense was clearly indicated in , j the Senate yesterday when Senator I Borah, of Idaho, in the debate on the ; army increase bill, made a bitter at tack upon the national militia, and ! Senator fjodge, of Massachusetts, fresh from a conference with Colonel Roose velt, advocated a regular army of 250,000 men. Senator Borah, recognized as one of the group of western candidates ar rayed at the present time against Roosevelt, attacked the National Guard [Continued on Page 5.] ARRESTED FOR SHOOTING Sfecial to the Telegraph Lancaster, Pa., April s.—Charged with enticing C. T. Reid, a visitor from Parkesburg, into an out-of-the | way place last night, beating him linto unconsciousness and then robbing him of SIOO and a gold watch, Jack i Reese was arrested and committed to jail for a hearing. i ~ MOVING ? | In order to avoid niUnlnc a Mingle Inline of the Tclricnph. miln« rr || >r „ nlio wntpraplntf moving nre re" qiK-Mtrd to notify the <'lr<iila tlnn Del partment promptly of ehmiKe of a«l- Idrtu. Don't fall to *lve your old aa well aa your new addreaa. NIGHT ATTACKS WIN BACK GROUND HELD BY GERMANS French Regain Territory North of Caillctte Wood With Violent Drives I NEW MOVE EAST OF FORT Intense Bombardment in Woevre District; Three More i Steamers Sunk I In evident determination not to per- ' mit the Germans to retain the ground ! they won recently in the Vaux-Douau- ! mont region, northeast of Verdun, the i French are continuing their violent attacks there. Paris to-dav reports , i that ground was gained north of Cail- , lette wood in several engagements! ; fought last night. The advance reported is in the im- 1 mediate neighborhood of yesterday's ; battleground south of Douaumont vil- ' i lagc, where the Germans attacked the [Continued on Page 5.] Negro Lynched For Aiding Son Escape Fury of Mob By Associated Press Kinston, N. C„ April 5. Joseph ; Blacs, a negro, was taken from the county jail here to-dav by a mob and I lynched. He was the father of 16-year old William Black, who was removed ! i last week to Stale prison to prevent a lynching. William Black Is charged with crtmi- I mil assault. Joseph Black was charged i with having assisted his son to attempt [ to escape. ASK SUPERVISORS TO USE MONEY IN BANK FOR ROADS Knola Citizens Plan Meeting to Petition Governing Roard to Improve Thoroughfares Enola, Pa., April s.—Residents of j Enola interested in better roads for |East Pennsboio township are planning to petition the township supervisors I to improve the thoroughfares in the H Continued on Page 5.] Millersburg Light Co. Sold to Farley Gannett Farley Gannett, consulting engineer ! with offices in the Telegraph Building, ! announced this morning that his firm j lias purchased and will operate the .Millersburg Electric Eight Companv. The consideration is not made public. 1 Mr. Gannett announces that under 1 the new management the plant will be I operated to furnish power to the mills and factories in and abofit Millersburg during the daytime in addition to pro viding electricity for lightinn purposes at night as at present. It is possible that the plant will be completelv re- | modeled and enlarged, although the ! purchase of power from some dis-1 trlbuting plant is being considered. ! This enKineering firm has also been ! retained by Gifford Pinchot to design and supervise construction of a dam on his estate in Pike county. It is j also making valuations of the Newport! . Home Water Company for the bor : ottgh of Newport on account of com j plaints filed with the Public Service I Commission against the company's I rates, and has been retained to make a report on improving the water sup ply of Waynesboro. Va., and on lm- j proving the sewering In that town, * DUTCH MANEUVER AS IF TO REPEL LANDING FORCES Neutral Just From Country! Says They Are Hostile to Both j Germany and England COMPLETELY MOBILIZED Action Was So Unexpected That Public Was as Much As tonished as Rest of World By Associated Press London. April 4 (delayed).—"Hol land bared its teeth to the belligerents on both sides so unexpectedly that the Dutch public was as much astonished as the remainder of the world," said a prominnt neutral just returned from Amsterdam to the Associated Press to-day. This person, who enjoys ex ceptional opportunities of obtaining reliable information, stated that not only was the Dutch army mobilized, but actual maneuvers were held as if to repel forces landing from the North Sea in the neighborhood of Flushing. The mobilization was accomplished swiftly. \ Irtualty every private motor car in the country was seized. While mobilization took place along the Ger man frontier, maneuvers were held only along the seacoast. To add to the excitement, the Germans massed men and guns along the Belgo-Dutch fron tier near Antwerp as if in preparation to repel an invasion from that direc tion. Against All Belligerents The returned neutral is convinced the demonstration was aimed against Germany as much as England. He stated irritation in Holland against all belligerents bad become so pronounced that there was a sullen feeling of hos tllfy toward both Germany and Great. Britain which was becoming general throughout HIP country. On account of the British blockade. Holland is ex periencing shortage of food to such an extent thai ihe American Commission for Relief of Belgium lias been asked to loan some of its food supply to cer tain districts. The Dutch government has determined that food shall be transported to Holland in vessels com mandeered by it without reference to any limitation fixed by agreement with the Netherlands overseas trust. FINISH SUSS FX EXAMINATION Paris, April s.—The examination by American officers of the damages in flicted on the British steamship Sussex has been completed. WILL CONSIDER CONTEMPT CHARGES f i April s.—Without opposition the House ? to-day adopted a resolution for a special committee to con- 1 ' contempt charges aj*inst United States District A* 5 ; torney Marshall at New York which grew out of the in- f , Representative Buchanan of Illinois. 15 ITALIAN WAR MINISTER RESIGNS 1 ® Rome, April s.—General Zupelli, the" minister of war, J , \ has resigned on account of ill health. King Victor Emman 1 IP uel has accepted his resignation and appointed General T 1 Paolio Morrone, commander of an army corps, to succeed. 1 4 him. * I ARMOR BILL FAVORABLY REPORTED T I Washington, April s.—The Senate bill for a governmer j plant was favorably reported to-day by the c :tce by a vote of 15 to 6. • J SPENCER C. GILBERT TELLS OF OLD DAYS ' ; risburg. Spenper C. Gilbert, chairman of th< Capitol Park Extension Commission, gave an entertaining 1 ■■ account of old days on Capitol Hill, when the old brick [ State house and the arsenal and other buildings crowned < S&j the knoll, at the April luncheon of the Pennsylvania State j } .5 Society to-day at the Harrisburg Club. Governor. Brum ' * baugh and heads of departments of the State government j L..^ > were present. .|| Namiquipa Chihuahua, Mex., April s.—By Wireless to > I Columbus, N. M.—A small remnant of the Villa force, de ' | ! feated by Colonel Gebrge A. Dodd's cavalry at Guerrero, ' I eight days ago, was scattered in a skirmish with Carram 1 > tx 0 h . ii the mountains near the town, accord- ! L epo. ea'cl i \ here to-day fiom sources ■ I No detail >i tl e engagt d otl er than 1 ' » , that the Villa eader, Manuel Baca, was killed. Additional 4 J reports recei from Colonel Dodd indicate that ,\A | the Villa losses at Guerrero numbered forty-six. Picvio; • J J P (reports placed them as high gas sixty. MARRIAGE LICENSES I Ira J. Klinger, l.jrkeaa, anil Eva >l. Iloltacrmel, Jordan lonmbi|i.f te\orthun>lirrland county, » "A" ii nfti «■ ft, M »< Vt' II Vli" Mijg CITY EDITION 16 PAGES BRANDS REPORT THAT GERMANY PLANS ATTACK ON U. S. "SILLY" Chancellor Von Bethmann- Hollweg Vigorously Pro tests Imputation That His Country Contemplates Ag gression Against Any Na tion of Western Hemis phere "WE FIGHT FOR OUR VERY EXISTENCE" Military and Political Situa tion, and Use of Various Means of Warfare Discus sed Before Reichstag in the Most Comprehensive Speech of the War; End of Conflict Not in Sight Berlin, April 5. (By wire less) Chancellor Von Kctli niaiin-Hollweg indicated in liis speech to-day that any sugges | tions of peace on the basis of destruction of Prussian military power -would make possible only one answer—the German sword. Berlin, April s.—(By wireless)— Chancellor Von Bethniann-1 lollwe protested vigorously in the Reichsta to-day against the report that OJei many now or in the future content plated aggression against the Unites States. The chancellor said: "The latest offspring of the calum niating campaign directed against u is a report thai we. after the end o this war shall rush against, the Am [('outlulled oil I'age )>.] \<;i:i> WOMAN DROWNS Reading, Pa., April s.—Becomln* lost in the darkness while on her wa. to the city markets yesterday, Jlt> Alice Bradley I-Lall, 80 years old, wan dered into the Schuylkill canal H Douglassville, near here and wa drowned in four feet of water.
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