Bandits Flee in Disordetjtfier Long Bailie in Which They Lose Seventy Men
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXV— No. 82
BANDITS ROUTED
WITH 70 KILLED
AFTER FIVE-HOUR
FIGHT AT PASAJE
Flee in Wild Disorder When
Attack on Carranza Gar
rison Is Repulsed; De
fenders Lose Four
CATTLEMAN DOUBTS
THAT VILLA IS DEAD
Says Reports Were Spread to
Mislead American Forces
in Hope They Would Be
Withdrawn
By Associated Press
Torreon, Mexico, April 11, via
El Paso Junction, April 12.—Details of
a five-hour battle between the Car
ranza garrison at Pasaje, Durango,
and an attacking force composed of
Contreras and Ceniceros bandits were
brought here to-day. The outlaws fled
in disorder after losing seventy killed,
it is reported. The de facto troops lost
four dead.
The battle took place on Sunday.
First reports were that the attacking
force was commanded by General
Canuto Reyes, but it is believed, how
ever, that he was not implcated. Ne
gotiations have been under way for
the surrender of General Reyes under
an amnesty grant.
A doctor sent from here to treat
men wounded in the battle said the
•"ontreras and Ceniceros attackers
were subjected to withering fire from
the garrison. They fled in disorder,
lie counted the bodies of seventy of
the outlaws. Among the dead were
a colonel and a captain.
After the battle word was received
that Juan I-aniadrid. a noted bandit,
was killed in a dispute over the
division of loot by the Contreras
bandits.
General Trevino, Carranza com
mander in Torreon. has arranged for
corn shipments from Colima and
Jalisco to relieve the food shortage
here.
Cattleman Says Villa Is
Neither Dead Nor Wounded;
Reports to Fool Troopers
t. By Associated Press
El Paso, Texas, April 12.—An en
tirely new version of the story of
Villa's deatli was brought here to-day
by a Mexican cattleman, who claimed
to have suffered a visitation from a
band of Villa followers on his ranch
near Rachiniba. This man said that
Villa was neither dead nor wounded,
but that Pablo Lopez, the bandit's
notorious lieutenant and exeeutioner
in-cliief, had died, and that Villa had
deliberately used his death as the basis
of the storv of his own finish. The
cattleman told the following story:
"I Was in Guerrero at the time Villa
came there and afterward when the
American soldiers arrived 1 believed
it was safe for me to return to my
ranch.
"T/fist Thursday a band of twenty of
Villa's men rode up to the ranch
bouse. They took a little grain that 1
bad and killed one of my cows and
bad a great feast. They had several
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Suicide Uses Dynamite
Within View of His Wife
After Bitter Quarrel
Windber. Pa., April 12.—Following
quarrel with his wife. Joseph Brad
dock, a miner, aged .".G, committed sui
cide yesterday by blowing himself to
pieces with dynamite. After the quar
rel the man retired to a shanty in the
rear of his home and secured a stick
of dynamite, which he placed between
bis thighs, and then lighted the fuse.
When the dynamite exploded both
Braddock and the shanty were blown
to fraKments.
Braddock's wife saw her husband go
to the shanty and from a back window
saw him place the dynamite between
liis thighs. She, however, thought he.
was only trying to scare her, until he
lighted the fuse.
THE WEATHER
For IVnrrUburK nn«l vicinity: Ftilr
to-nlicht anil Thursday,
Thursday: louei«t temperature t«-
iiittht about 4- degree**.
For Kantern Pennsylvania: Fair to
night nii«l Thursday, rising tem
perature Thursday; freMlt *\e*t
tvlntl* becoming light variable.
Hlver
Tlie main river ill continue to fall
"lowly. The North Branch will
rlwe slightly. The Went llranch
iiuil the Juniata will remnlu near
ly stationary* A «tagc <>f about
7.2 feet Is Indicated for Harrln
liiirg Thursday morning.
(General t'onilltlonn
A disturbance that wnn central
north of the <«reat l<nkcn, Tues
day morning, haw moved eastward
to the Southern \>w I'liglaail
const, attended by light ralnn in
the I.nke Region and t'pper Ohio
\ alley, anil thence eastward to
the Atlantic connt.
There ban been a general rlae of 2
to 18 degree** In temperature
cant of the Vtocky Mountains In
the lant twenty-four liourn. ex
cept In the I.nke Region anil the
I pper St. l.awrenee \ alley,
where It In ftllglitly coli'cr. it
Is 'J to 21 ilegreen colder over
nearl'- all the country went of
the Hoeky Mountain*.
Temperature: S a. m.. IS.
Sun: Rlncn, 5:3U n. m.; nets. 6:41
p. m.
Iliiun: Full inoon, April 18, 12:07
a. m.
River Stage: 7.3 feet above low
water mark.
Ye*terila> 'n l eather
Highest temperature, .Ml.
l.owcst temperature. 3."».
Menn tempernture. 47.
iNormal temperature, ID*
BY CARRIER n CUNTS A WESIt
SINGLE COPIES 3 CEXTS.
DELEGATES ATTENDING FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE
* m?'
GERMANY'S NOTE
ON SHIP ATTACKS
EXPECTED TODAY
Ambassador Gerard Put It on
Cables as Soon as He Re
ceived It
U. S. COURSE OUTLINED
Final Decision Will Not Re
Made, However, Until Reply
Is Received
By Associated Press
Washington. D. o\, April 12.—Ger
many's note regarding the Sussex and
other merchant ships which have re
cently met disaster was expected to
reach the State Department late to
day.
Unofficial advices from Berlin said
the communication had been presented
to Mr. Gerard and had been started on
Its way to Washington over the cables
at once.
It is understood that a general out
line of the future course of the United
States has been agreed upon by admin
istration officials, airhough final de
cision will not be made until the note
has been received, together with addi
tional evidence collected by American
diplomats which is due here to-mor
row.
If a reply is sent to Berlin, it is
said, it will not deal exclusively with
any one case, but will cover the whole
history of Germany's submarine cam
paign from the time of the Lusltania
down to the present and will be de
signed to preclude any extended diplo
matic negotiations.
Midvale Steel Lands
$2,700,000 Gun Order
Philadelphia, April 12. —An order
for 100 howitzers. approximating
$2,700,000, was obtained yesterday by
the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Com
pany from thp British government.
The contract was signed in New York
and reports from that city stated that
it was probable extensive improve
ments would be made at the local
plant of the company in order to carry
out the work. These improvements,
it was said, would entail an expedi
ting of nearly $1,000,000.
The fact that additions to the Nice
town plant were contemplated was not
n surprise here, as it has been gen
erally known that Midvale is already
booked to capacity and must have
more space if it determines to accept
additional munition contracts. The
Cambria steel plant, at Johnstown, Pa
is not adapted to such construction,
making a specialty of steel rails and
freight cars.
CHILDREN DIE
IN BIG POWDER
MILL EXPLOSION
Two Crushed in House When
Four Blasts Destroy Du Pont
Plant in West Virginia
BluefieUl, W. Va., April 12. Three
persons were killed, one perhaps fatal
ly injured and two others less serious
; iy hurt at the Nemours plant of the
i Du Pont Powder company, eight miles
| from here early to-day when four
i thousand kegs of black powder ex
i ploded. The plant was almost com
i pletely destroyed with a loss of about
j Si 00,000.
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Maurer Is Absolved of
Insult to American Flag
New York. April 12.—"With the ex-
I ception of the testimony of one re
f porter, we found absolutely no cor
| roboration of the published statement
'that President J. H. Maurer of the
i Pennsylvania State Federation of. La
! bor said 'To Mell with the American
I Flag,' or made any statement whatever
in any way insulting to the flac last
Sunday night at the Labor Forum in
the Washington Irving High school."
This statement was made last night
by President W. G. Willeox of the
; Hoard of Education, after be, Loo
Arnstein and Miss Mary E. Dreier, as
a special committee of that body, had
.investigated by Mayor Mltchel's dl
' rectlon the widely circulated charge
as to language used by Maurer in his
nntlpreparedness talk.
Controversy Over Sugar
Tariff Measure Expected
By Associated Press
Washington. April 12. The sugar
tariff bill, passed by the Senate late
yesterday by a vote of 40 to 32, went
to a conference of the two houses to
day where a controversy over the
measure is in prospect.
The bill is a substitute for the
.House free sugar repeal resolution
and would extend the present duty of
i>ne cent a pound oil sugar until May
11. 1820.
HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 12,1916.
FRENCH REPULSE
ANOTHER ATTACK
ON VERDUN LINE
Germans Lose Heavily as
Struggle For Fortress Goes
on With No Sign of Letup
GREEK FRONTIER ACTIVE
Heavy Artillery Fighting Under
Way; New Rritish Ship
Senator Sunk
By Associated Press
In Caurettes wood, Just west of the
Meuse river, another attempt to break
the French line defending Verdun was
made this morning by German troops.
The official communication from Paris
says the attack was repulsed. East of
the river there was no infantry fight
ing during the night, although the ar
tillery kept up its incessant fire.
The official report of to-day's from
Berlin says German troops yesterday
gained some ground in Caillette wood
southeast of Fort Douamount and that,
several French attacks broke down
with heavy losses.
The official French statement says
the German losses in yesterday's fight
ing were very heavy. Press dispatches
from Paris give praise to the German
soldiers, who, after nearly two months
of the fiercest fighting, keep up the
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Even Poker Chips Can Be
Found Among 30,000
Pieces at Rummage Sale
More than 30,000 pieces of goods,
: ranging from kitchen stoves to poker
| chips (fact, these chips; they arrived
at noan from a State street house), are
! already placed in the rummage sale
I headquarters, 308 Market street.
Fumigation of the entire stock will
be made late this afternoon by Dr.
John M. J. Kaunick. health officer, and
Sanitary officers William E. Orr and
Da\ id H. Ellinger. There will be abso
lutely no danger from infection what
ever. Every piece offered has come
from homes which are very cleanly in
every respect.
By nightfall it is believed the stock
will have touched the 40.000 mark, as
the contributions, instead of lessening
to-day. have increased. Outlying dis
tricts are sending their quotas, which
means that interest throughout the en
tire district is strong.
The sale opens to-morrow morning
at 10 o'clock. Preparations for a rush
j are being made by special arrange-
I nients with Chief of Police Zell.
TO CLOSE GRADE
SCHOOLS AGAIN
SAYS RAUNICK
City Health Officer Declares
Measure Is Necessary to
Check Measles
First, second, third and fourth
grades of city public schools will close
again next week, and orders will be
issued barring children under 16 years
of age from theaters and other public
institutions. Dr. J. M. Raunick, city
health officer, announced to-day, in a
continuance of his plan to check the
; epidemic of measles.
Dr. Kaunick said tbat he in not,
! positive whether he will order chil
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Riverside Folk Want
to Know Candidates'
Stand on State Police
Residents of Riverside at the regular
monthly association meeting last night
authorized the secretary of the or
ganization to communicate with can
didates for the State Legislature at
the primary election to get their views
on the State constabulary and to ask
them whether they favor increasing
the number of men in this organ
ization.
The Riverside residents favor in
creasing the constabulary.
A. 'r. DICE COMING TOMORROW
A. T. Dice, president of the Phila
delphia and Reading Railway, will 'visit
llarrisburg to-morrow. Tills will bo
his first Inspection of the local proper
ties of the company since Ills election.
SCHOOLS CIiOSK APRIL 19
It was announced to-day at the City
School Board offices that the regular
faster vacation will begin with the
close of school Wednesday afternoon,
April 19. and will end when the schools
reopen Wednesday morning. April 26.
DEBATING AGRICULTURAL BILL
By Associated Tress
Washington, April 12. Debate on
the agricultural appropriation bill
carrying 124.500.000 was continued In
the House to-day. Its passage is ex
pected early next week.
SAYS BOROUGHS
SHOULD NOT HAVE
LARGE COUNCILS
Uniformity of Accounting and
Stricter Health Measures
Are Urged
SHOULD PAY OFFICIALS
Pointed Out That Better Men
Could Then Be
Secured
Uniformity of accounting and book
keeping, health regulations and ordi
nances and the reduction of the num
ber of councilmen in boroughs were
among the topics discussed at the ses
sion this morning of the Fifth Annual
Convention of the State Association of
Boroughs.
A. M. Fuller, of Meadville, presi
dent of the Allied Civic Bodies of
Pennsylvania, talked on the commis
sion government for the cities and
boroughs of Pennsylvania and at. once
launched a movement for reducing
the number of councilmen. He rec
ommended the payment of salaries to
all councilmen, no matter how small
the borough, and stated that in his
belief, more efficient public men could
be secured.
In boroughs, with a population of
less than 1,500 Mr. Fuller said a bur
gess and the councilmen should be
elected on a nonpartisan ticket.. In
boroughs with a population of more
than 1,500 his idea would be to have
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Will Be Buried on First
Wedding Anniversary;
Death Due to Carbuncle
Blood poisoning, caused by an in-
I fected carinincle on his nose caused
j the death of David H. Pond, aged 20,
| at the home of his parents. Mr. and
I Mrs. James Pond. 1330 North Second
| street, yesterday.
Young Pond, who was married just
a year ago, was planning to celebrate
! his first wedding anniversary Friday.
| A carbuncle developed on his noso a
week ago and became infected.
Funeral services will he held Friday
] afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Pond
' home. The Rev. .T. Bradley Mark
j ward, pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran
; Church, will officiate. Burial will be
made in East Harrisburg Cemetery.
Mr. Pond is survived by his wife,
Anna, and his parents. Tfo was a ma
chinist at the Pennsylvania Steel
i Works.
PORCH-WINDOW
CAMPAIGN FLIES
OVER THE RIVER
West Shore Firemen's Union
Offered $lO For Best Dec
orated Fireliousc
The germ of the Telegraph's porch
and window box campaign has floated
across the Susquehanna river and has
taken root among the firemen of the
West Shore union.
Colonel Henry C. Demming told the
West Shore firemen about the plan the
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Denounces Politicians
Who Are Trying to Tempt
Justice Hughes to Run
Washington, April 12. Senator
Works, Republican, to-day coupled an
attack on the army bill with a de
nunciation of politicians who he de
clared were trying to tempt Justice
Hughes with a presidential nomina
tion.
"Partisan politics," declared the
California Senator, "is ruthless in its
demands and invades the most sacred
precincts of the national government.
It is seeking place and power where
ever it can tind entrance.
"Just now it is attempting to invade
the Supreme Court of the United
States. It is presenting to a member
of that body the greatest temptation
that could be offered to an American
citizen—to surrender his place on the
bench and become a candidate for
political office. This attempt to bring
the highest judicial tribunal of the
country, or any member of it Into
politics, should be resented not only
by the member to whom the tempting
offer is made but by the whole coun
try."
Youngstown Sheet Co. Buys
Iron Plant For $2,500,000
Youngstown. Ohio, April 12. —Presi-
dent James A. C"nmphell, of the
Youngstown Sheet nnd Tube Compnny,
announced to-dny that his company
lias bought outright the capital stock
of the Andrews &■ Hitchcock Iron Com
pany al a cost ol $2,500,000, J
OPENING DRAWS
JUBILANT FANS
OUT IN HORDES
Bleachers and Stands Packed
in All Major League Parks
For "Play Ball"
CLOSE BACE PBEDICTED
Many Federal Stars Back in
Line-ups; Teams All
Switched Around
By Associated Press
\ New York, April 12.—With clear
and fair weather reported from seven
: of the eight major league cities, the
opening games of the baseball season
! to-day will probably attract big at
i tendances. "The American League's
< initial contest at Boston may have to
be postponed, but that is the only city
in either big league where inclement
! weather conditions prevail.
As in the case each season the two
major leagues staged their opening
j games equally between east and west,
in the National League Boston is at
j Brooklyn, New York at Philadelphia
I Chicago at Cincinnati and Pittsburgh
at St. Louis. Detroit opened at Cbl-i
] cago in the American League; St.!
| Louis at Cleveland, Philadelphia at!
j Boston and Washington at New York.]
Changes in Line-up
More than the usual interest cen-!
ters in the first contests this season on '
(account of the many changes in per-,
j sonnel of the teams and ownership
of the clubs which have taken place
since the wihning of the world's j
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Horses and Cattle Burned
When Lightning Strikes
Barn During Storm
Special to the Telegraph
Wiconisco, Pa., April 12. An early
j Spring electrical storm of unusual se
! verity passed over this section of Dau
j phin county late last night. Lightning
I struck the barn of A. H. Erdman, in
j Wiconisco township, near here. it
was completely destroyed, along with
1 seventeen head of cattle one mule and
1 live horses. Five head of cattle and
i one horse wore saved. Crops and
machinery were burned. The farm is
owned by the Jacob liartman estate
and barn was one of the finest In the
upper end of the county. The house
and small buildings were saved by a
bucket brigade. The loss will be about
I $5,500, partly sovered by insurance.
DAVIS, AUTHOR
AND WAR WRITER,
DIES SUDDENLY
Noted Correspondent Found
Dead Beside Telephone in
Mount Kisco Home
By Associated rrcss
Mount Kisco, N. Y„ April 12.—Rich
ard Harding Davis, author and war
correspondent, died at liis home here
late last night from heart trouble. His
body was found early this morning
and he had apparently been stricken
while at his telephone.
Tie had gone into his library to dic
tate a telegraph to a friend in New
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Changes in Car Schedules
Likely Says Mayor Meals
Further changes in handling traffic
now being considered by Mayor E. S.
Meals may result in a revision of trol
ley schedules on both the Harrisburg
and Valley Railways lines, the Mayor
announced this morning.
Several experts on schedule work
will be obtained. Mayor Meals said, to
aid the traffic department in overcom
ing congestion at busy downtown cor
ners and the co-operation of both
street car companies has been assured,
he asserted.
Part of the Mayor's suggestion pro
vides for laying a switch on Island
Park to aid 'cross-river car service dur
ing busy hours.
ENGLISH NOTE ARRIVES
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., April 12. Great
Britain's note replying to the American
protests against the seizure of thirty
eight Austrlang, Germans and Turks
from the American steamer China
rear Shanghai, was made public to
day by the State Department. It fol
lows the line of argument previously
indicated, and contends the seizure Is
.justified on tile ground thai the pris
oners had been enna»rcd in plots against
Great Britain In the Far Hast and were
attempting to return home to take up
arms. It contends that thev were not
clothed with the immunity which wmil.i
r-tlncii them to enemy subject* who i
merely were liavelin* A
LOCAL OPTION IS
TO BE PUSHED IN
WHOLE STATE
Joint Conference Begun This
Afternoon at the Common
wealth Hotel
LEADERS ARE ALL HERE
Open Meeting For Tonight at
Which the Governor Will
Be a Speaker
Plans for the campaign for election
of members of the next Legislature
pledged to local option were discussed
to-day at a conference of members of
the local option committee of Penn
sylvania and the Anti-Saloon League
here to-day.
The executive committee of the for
mer organization spent most of the
early part of the day discussing pre
emption of the name of the local op
tion party and in the afternoon a
joint conference was held. Names of
candidates for the Legislature were
suggested and discussed.
To-night there will be a joint open
meeting at which Governor Brum
baugh, J. Denny O'Nell, McKeesport,
chairman of the committee, and others
will speak.
Over fifty men attended the com
mittee meeting this afternoon in the
Commonwealth at which resolutions
will be acted upon and the commit
tee plans made known.
I i VILLA MAY BE IN DURANGO T
El Paso, April 12. That the American expeditionary I
force has penetrated far beyond Parral and is near if not 5
actually at the Chihuahua-Durango border line, is indicated I
in code dispatches receieved here this afternoon. It seems 5
certain that Villa, if he still lives, has passed into the mtun- J f
tain fastnesses of Durango and is in a position to get in
touch with the scattered bandi forces of that district. ! '
WILL APPOINT CASEY POSTMASTER , »
Washington, April 12.—President Wilson and Post- '
5 '
roaster General Burl won to-day agreed to appoint Lawrence ',
J. Casey, postmaster at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Mr. Casey is a
brother of Representative Casey of Pennsylvania. There 1 k
has boon a contest over tko position for sevoral months.
PHILADELPHIA LOAN BILLS SIGNED 1
Philadelphia, April 12. Mayor Smitk to-day signed < >
the two ordinances proposing loans aggregating $114,525,-
000. • The loans will go to the people May 16 for approval. '
$75,000 IN PERMITS T
Harrisburg. April's building record was boosted A
$75,000 late this afternoon when permits were issued to the J
Messiah Lutheran Church for its now annex coating $70,000, L
and to Augustus Wildmon to build two 2-story brick dwell- T
£ ings on Green otroot, between Emerald and Soneca, costing I
J $5,000." H: C. Wright, Stoolton, will build the ckurck annex; #
i Wildman will build kis own houses. £ j
T NOT SURI OF SUSSEX, SAYS GERMANY 1
f Berlin, April 12, by Wireless.—Tke German reply to j
& tke America* note concerning the damaging or sinking of J
X five "stramskipS contains tke statement tkat tke steamers jL ,
! Englishman, Bagle Point, Manchester Engiaeer and Ber- ? "
winaale were destroyed by German submarines. Evidence I
is presented to show that these vessels were torpedoed J
legally. The note states that a German submarine torpedoed 1
a steamship in the vicinity of the place at which the cross 9
channel steamship Sussex was damaged by an explosion, f
but that evidence at hand indicates that the vessel tor- %
—nai'n.'il wv :ae submarine was not the Suasax. f
MARRIAGE LICENSES <'
Jnmcn Kbj- Drexler and l.ctllln Marie (■rrrn, iHtjr. f
Harry Fmnnclit Ylugat and Olive M. Boyer, IlummelatuiTn.
Harry E. Hnliman, rlty, anil Uoldlr V. \N n«lr. Plkttonn, d
•itOTfe M. (Gardner and Mabel Aiprr, York Springe. f
CITY EDITION
16 PAGES
TWO MORE DOPE
DISPENSERS ARE
IN POLICE NET; TO
ARREST OTHERS
City Detective Shuler Nabs
Man Suspected of Federal
Drug Act Violation Just as
He Is About to "Shoot" In
jection Into His Arm
FURNISHING STUFF
TO YOUNG GIRLS
Accused Pair Steer Victims to
Home of William Phipps
Jailed Some Time Ago Say
Officers; Get 'Tell-tale
Note; Find Hypodermic
Sets
With the arrest of two men, under
suspicion of aiding William Phipps
of 1303 Bailey street, in furnishing
"dope" to young girls, City Detective
George W. Shuler to-day brought to
light part of a big system which it
is believed is being used here to sup
ply people with drugs in violation of
the stringent Federal laws.
The men arrested were Donald
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Chinese Revolutionists
and Government Troops
in Many Bloody Fights
By Associated Press
Shanghai. April 12. • Three hun
dred armed revolutionists of Hong
Kong yesterday attacked 200 govern
ment soldiers at the Anglo-Chinese
boundary. As 400 men came up to
reinforce the latter, the revolutionists
1 scattered. The casualties on both
sides amounted to fifty killed and a
large number wounded.
The China Mall reports fighting be
tween the regular forces of Lung Chi
Kuang, governor of Kwang-Tung
province, in the Shakee district as a
I result of which it is estimated that a
' hundred were killed and many hun
dreds were wounded.