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 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 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 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.