Lone Bandit Boards Train, Robs Fift HARRISBURG ifS®! TELEGRAPH » V VV \ R \T/% IN nv cahiiiFJK c* a wexk* LaAAV i\o. 71 KIKGI.E COPIKH 2 CENTS. SCOTT'S REPORT WILL DETERMINE * IF TROOPERS ARE TO BE RECALLED Chief of Staff and General Funston Are Reviewing in Detail History of Expedi tion's Operations; Persh ing Is Warned of Carranza Movements; to Prepare For Aggression WILL GET READY FOR ANY SITUATION Army Officials Indifferent to Suggestions That Manifest Hostility of De Facto Troops Movement Might Be Due to Work of Agents of Diaz; Reported to Be Establishing Headquarters Near Border By Associated Press •San Antonio. Texas, April 22.-—Sec retary of War Baker should be in re- ! celpt of a report before night from! Major-General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the army, that may assist the 1 administration in deciding whether to ■withdraw the American troops or send j 1 hem farther into Mexico. Generals Scott and Fimston to-day will review in detail the history of the punitive expedition's operations since entering Mexico. almost six weeks ago. General Funston lias received re ports showing movements of Carranza troops in the district penetrated by' General Pershing and others have been sent to General Pershing authorizing, him to prepnre for any aggression. Carranzu officials have given plans- 1 ible reasons for moving; the forces of Generat Arnulfo Gomez eastward from Sonoro. the troops of General Luis j Herrera south from Chihuahua to Par- , r.il and a considerable force toward Cesos Grandes. but should the war offi<•? at Mexico City decide later to use ; these forces to prevent further Ameri can military operations. General Per (Continued on Page 7) Villa Bandits at Torreon Reported to Have Given Up to Carranza Troops By Associated Press . Torreon. Mex.. April 21.—General Severino Conieeros and his command of Villa bandits have surrendered to thr> military commander In DurangO I City and have been granted an am- 1 nest jr. General Trevlno has informed eiti- who desired to resist the advance of the American troops, that the do facto government had the situation well in hand. General Trevino told them that if thev lelt that they must tight he would find them places in the army where they could make war on the Villa bandits. Pershing Is Prepared to Proceed With Chase or Return to United States By Associated Press El Paso. Tex., April 22.—Brigadier .'leneral Pershing: has made such dis position of his forces that the Amer ican punitive expedition is equally ready to-day to proceed quickly in pursuit of Villa or withdraw from Mexico when the future course of op erations is determined by the admin- j istration at Washington. The troops can be retimd from Mexico In ten • days, according to army officers at Fort Bliss. Carranza officials at Juarez re ported the situation generallv quiet throughout upper Mexico and said l pvery preparation has been made to suppress any disorders that might arise. The Parral district is being illlpil with Carranza troops and guards have been thrown about mining prop erties. I | THE WEATHER For llnrrlMlnirK ami vicinityi Fair to-night nuil Jmxihlji.v; modcratr torn iM-rnl ii rt», ltmn( to-night «i l»€» ii t -|y ileKreen. For i:ns(«rn Peunivylvitnln: Partly cloudy tu-iiluht find Sunday; mod erate (rniprrnt urr | frrnli went wlndN. River The Sußfiuehnniin river and nil Mm l> ranches will riMt' v except th<> Juniata, t hcmtniu. I pi»er North «ud I |»p<. r Went llrtineli will prohahly liculn lo full to-night «»r Sundnv. \ Mtnice of about feet Im Indicated fur llai'rlM- I'lirn Sunday morning. (•cncrnl Condition* The dlM< urhance from the \Ve*t linn reninlued nearly »tatlonary over tlio l.ake Itc&lon during tlie InMt / twenty-four bourn und luik de erenned Momenhnt In energy. \ aeeondnry Morm developed over * Iffflnla* Friday, and Im now cen trnl off the New Jersey eonNt, uppnrently m<MlnK nnrtheaxt ward. There liaM lieea a ueneral fall of 2 to 20 degree* | n temperature over aearly nil the eountry ea»t of the MNftinnippi river. Temperatures S a. m.. 4(1. Sunt TM«CH, stlH a. m.T act*. fljfil p. m. >loom Klmcm. 12:01 n. m. lllver Stnicr: 6.0 feet above low water mark. Yeaterday'n Weather Hlahent tempera t lire, 7."». I.orient temperature, 4N. Mean temperature. I\2. >ormnl temperature, S3. i l\ REPUBLICANS ARE THRICE STRENGTH ! OF DEMOCRATS 0,8.")1 to 3,20!) in Proportion to Enrollment in Dauphin County Districts GAIN'S ALONG THE LINE 4,655 Declare Themselves Non partisan; City Registration on Wednesday Just 9,851 Republicans. 3,269 Dem ocrats, COo Wasliingtonians, 468 So cialists, 57 Prohibitionists, 2 Progres sives, 3 Kevstoners, 4 Independents, and 4,055 "Nonpartisan" voters have been enrolled to east their ballots at the Spring primaries in the 71 districts of the county outside the city. These totals were based on the re turns of the assessors who sat for the purpose March 14 and 15. The city's Spring primary registra tion day occurs Wednesday of next ] week. . The returns indicate that there will be five party names printed on the j ballot Republican, Democratic, j Washington, Socialist and Nonparti san. | (Jains all along the line in the Re | publican ranks over the Democrats are indicated and the various districts all show a goodly proportion of Re publican party affiliations over Demo cratic declarations. That there are j still a fair following of Washington party men and an extra large follow ing of Socialists are indicated in var ious precincts. Steelton, Middletown, Tokens, Mll ! lersburg boroughs and Swatara, Sus quehanna and Derry are among the leading townships. Rush has a total enrollment of but twenty voters, twelve of which are Republicans, three Democrats, a single Socialist and four "Nonpartisan." Wall Street Views Latest Developments in Situation With Increasing Concern By Associated Press New York. April 22. —To-da.v's two hour session of the stork market was ! attended by much excitement and fur ther free selling. War shares and the stocks of companies operating in Mex ico broke 4 to 8 points and the entire list, including investments, was un favorably affected. News over the Good Friday holiday was anything but reassuring from the i Wall Street point of view, latest de velopments in the German crisis were viewed with increased concern and re ; ports of the proposed cancellation of I American concessions in Mexico were responsible for the acute weakness in • that quarter of the list. Yuan Shi Kai Hopes to End Revolution by Surrendering Authority to New Cabinet By Associated Press Peking, China. April 22. ln ac cordance with the mandate issued yesterday by President Yuan Shi Kai in which he admitted his full control of the administration had caused dis satisfaction and authorized the Secre tary of State to organize a responsible cabinet, it was announced to-day that a new cabinet was being constructed. Tuan Chi-Jui, former minister of war has accepted the premiership and the i war portfolio. President Yuan Shi Kai has agreed to surrender all civil authority to the new cabinet. The Peking govern ment hopes that the premiership of Tuan Chi-Jui, who is a staunch Re publican. will reconcile the southern provinces and put an end to the up rising. You Can Enlist Here For U. S. Summer Naval Cruise Official orders have been received ! at the Harrishurg naval recruiting sta ' ticn, opened here recently, to receive enlistments for the naval training cruise for civilians which will be con ducted from August 15 to September 12. this year, by the United Slates Navy. The order Is the result of following the general outline of the Plattsburg military training camp idea. Enlist ments may be made on the third floor ;of the Bergner building, this city. , where the navy recruiting station is located. Certain qualifications are I given for enrollment and the object of ! the cruise is to help equip properly I qualified men to act as reserves in time ' of war or national emergency by giv ing. them a course of training on war : ships under naval officers and naval , discipline. Any information on the subject will ; be furnished at local headquarters and ! I* was announced this morning that | both l.ieutenant C. 1., Hand and Dr. C. \ DeYalin. of Philadelphia, will be in the city twice a month. Austria Gets Note From U. S. on Imperator Attack By Associated Presx Amsterdam. April 22 (via London) —Press dispatches from Vienna re , port that the Austro-Hungarian For , eigr. < )ffice has received a note from | the United States dealing with the at i tack on the Russian bark Imperator j in the Mediterranean. Two Americans were on board the Imperator. Official advices to the State Department at Washington said an Austrian submarine fired on the 1 vessel without warning and that one ' of the. Americans was wounded. ACCUSES M.OYD-GROHGE By Associated Prei I.ondon. April 22. Displeasure ex pressed by the Radicals over the attl { tilde of David Lloyd-George, minister of munitions, culminated to-day in a remarkable letter by Alfred G. Gard iner. editor of the Daily News, in which Mr. Gardiner charges Mr. Lloyd-George with responsibility for government crisis just passed. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1916 I PENNSYLVANIA STATE BASEBALL LEAGUE OWNERS AND BOOSTERS I v j ' | Tf you have any doubt about the State League being a real organization, ju'at take* a glance at this picture. Tt does' not include all the hustlers in the new organization but is proof that the league always has a quorum at its meetings. While waiting for the arrival of J. B. Reinhart, u prominent attorney of Lmcaster yesterday, the State League officials who met at Lebanon, adjourned and were photographed. In the picture are: Front row—reading from righfc to left—George 1. Kngle, one of tin* new owners at Allentown: Walter Folger, Har • risburg. a former baseball magnate and Interested in the State cireuit this season; Edwin 11. Sheporwich, attorney, » Wilkeß-Barre. and Wellington G. .lon<'«. secretary of the Harrishurg Club. t ! Hack row—Hugh A. McKinnon, owner of Lebanon, chairman of the booster committee: Leo Groome, owner of Har , risburg franchise; Abraham Rosenbluth, owner at Heading: George Washington Heckert, York, with his baseball smile; William R. Douglass. Tlarrisburg, the new league president; Jimmy Sheckard, manager at Reading, and Charley White, Philadelphia, who will supply the uniforms and baseballs for the league. POSSE SEARCHES FOR LONE BANDIT WHO STOPS TRAIN Bold Bobber Forces Guard to Pass Hat on Union Pacific Limited; Gets #IOO GIVES BACK WATCH Beturns Timepiece Taken on Previous Baid; Performed Series of Exploits By Associated Press Rawlings, Wyo., April 22. A 1 sheriff's posse of two dozen, mounted on fast horses early to-da.v resumed the chase begun last night for the bandit who held up nearly fifty pas-! sengers on Union Pacific Limited train j west of llanna, Wyo. The robber is believed to be the 1 man who on April 5 last held up the 1 I Union Pacific Overland Limited near i Corlett Junction, Wyo., and on February 9 performed a similar exploit 1 near Green River, Wyo., and in March j robbed a passenger train on the Oregon short line near Roy, Utah. The bandit, described as a tall hand some youth, boarded the train at Greeley, Colo. After a conversation with the train's stenographer he sat down with the train guard. In the [Continued on Page 7.] ' FRONT STREET OWNERS WIN IN PAVING BATTLE t r e Property Holders North of 1 Maclay Needn't Pay Full Width Assessment 1 i - | Owners of property abutting on 1 j Front street from Maclay to Division I streets are not liable for the cost of paving the entire width of the high j way, according to a brief but compre " 1 hensive opinion on the subject handed j down to-day by President Judge | _ • George Kunkel of the Dauphin county | I courts. , | The opinion settles, so far as the 1 _ lower courts are concerned, the ques- I tion raised several years ago by the! a fleeted property holders as to the right of the city to levy against them , for paving the full width of the street. I: It is parallel with the Whitehall street [Continued 011 Page 7.] •; Colonel Roosevelt to Invade Twice Before Big Conventions Meet I Oyster Bay. N. Y., April 22. —Colonel Roosevelt will probably make two in- I vasions of the Middle West before the' 1 Republican and Progressive national ! t conventions meet on June 7. Besides his trip to Chicago, where , he will speak on the evening of April 1 2P, it is more than likely that he will go to Kansas City to deliver the Me morial Day address, an invitation to that effect having come to him from the representative citizens of that city t who are war veterans and members of civic preparedness and business or- ! ganlzations. Of still greater interest, particularly | ' 1 to the delegates to the Republican con " j vention, is the intimation that Colonel " | Roosevelt, after having delivered a 1 patriotic address In Kansas City, might " i enlarge the tour to include two or r i three other large cities, and then enter | Chicago on the morning of the conven . tion meetings, while the effect of talks p on preparedness and Americanism was still freshs In the minds of the Middle 1 West. p Those who could never he convinced e that, the Colonel is now out for the Republican nomination for President will see in such a move a clever stroke in the preconventton campaign. . STFKI; WORKI.RS (JET INCREASE -i Sharon. Pa.. April 22.—Announce- j r ment was made by the Sharon Steel * j Hoop Company of an advance in wages j -'of all employes on May 1 of 10 per n j crnt. A hundred men are affected. '. j The Knox Pressed Welded Steel Com r j pany will also increase wages on t May 1, affecting about 350 hands. REDUCTION CO.'S VOUCHER HELD UP FOR INEFFICIENCY Health Officer Calls Vigorous Attention to Lack of System in Collections CAN'T "CLEAN-UP" * CITY Bonding Company Expected to Send Expert Here to In vestigate Conditions Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, city health; j offk-er, late yesterday sent a notilica-| i tion to a New York bonding company • lof the Pennsylvania Reduction Com-1 j pany that he has held up the voucher | i for the Reduction Company, because t | of the lack of system In collections of | ashes and garbage. 1 Ever since the strike of the ash- ; 1 men and garbage collectors, employed I iby the Reduction Company, which I lasted one week before an agreement was reached, the people of the city | have had 110 regular collection of their j rubbish and refuse. After a settle-1 I ment was made and the strikers were' 'given the demanded increase in wanes; the wagons were sent out again but j \ failed to reach West End districts,; until finally Dr. Raunick Issued in- I structions that the men were to start ' [Continued 011 I "age 7.] EASTER FAIR, FORECAST OF j WEATHERMAN Harrishurg Beady With New Frock and Bonnet For the Big Parade Easter will be fair with moderate | temperature, according to the forecast of E. R. Demain, United States weath er forecaster here. The storm of yesterday was general ! in this section of the country, but lost' 1 some of its force and is slowly moving 'out to sea. Clear weather will follow, but may not reach here until late to- I night. From present indications the day ; will be the biggest in the history of liarrlsburg, and thousands of people are expected to turn out for the ob servance. Florists with 'immense collections of varieties of blooms reported the big gest demand in years, despite the fact that the cost of the flowers had in (Continued on Page 7) Miners Fail to Reach Wage j Agreement; See Trouble in Pottsville Convention By Associated Press New York, April 22.—Although the joint subcommittee of anthracite op erators and miners who are trying to reach an agreement on wages and working conditions for about 175,000 workers in the hard coal fields will probably not be able to finish its work to day, both sides continued to predict that a satisfactory settlement would ! be reached probably early next week. While these optimistic expressions j were being Indulged in, some of those in touch with the proceedings inter preted the calling of the miners' con vention at Pottsville, Pa., on May 2 as the portent of trouble. It was argued that John P. White and his fellow committeemen would not announce the date of the convention prior to reaching an agreement if they ft>lt that satisfactory terms would lie reached. The miners' body must finally pass 011 the work of the joint subcommittee here. novo SAILS FOR FRANCE The ocean liner Chicago, of the French line, slipped its moorings at a late hour this morning on its trans | oceanic journey from New York, ' through the submarine infested dis trict to Bordeaux, France. Among the i passengers on board was Jackson Herr Boyd of this city, who is on his way to see service at the front under the American Ambulance Hospital Corps, which Is doing a splendid work for the allies. UNVEIL DONATO STATUE AS PART OF 1916 CARNIVAL Water Sports Committee Dis cusses Unique Feature For Summer Program ASK COUNCIL FOB FUNDS Big Mass Meeting of Canoeists, Motorboatmen to Be Called in Near Future Formal unveiling In River Front i park of Guiseppe Donato's famous | fountain group, "Dance of Eternal j Spring" will be a feature of Harris burg's 1916 water carnival program if ■ a suggestion of the permanent coni | mittee on water sports is carried out | —and City Council provides the ! wherewithal to erect the splendid bit of sculpture. Tlie problem was threshed out last (Continued on Page 7) j _ Delay in Shipment of Materials Holds Up Federal Bldg. Work Held up during the winter months because of the difficulty in having an order filled for structural steel and be cause of the deep snows which tied up shipments from the granite quarries, j the 1-1. L. Brown Company, of New York city, contractors for the exten sion to the Federal building in this ■ city, kept men busy in doors largely on repair work. Electric conduits and water pipes were laid and repairs in the old and new parts, the brick tiling on the inner walls of the first floor of the extension finished, together with work on plas tering and floor repairing. Work 011 the granite part of the wings in the new addition will be started withi ra week or ten days, ac cording to C. A. Gieselman, superin tendent for the Brown company. Other work on the exterior will be pushed rapidly during the coming weeks, as fast as materials are re ceived. The big demand for steel prod ucts and the delay resulting in obtain- I ing the necessary structural steel re sulted in the indoor work being pushed during the winter. 31 Couples Get Licences to Wed Easter Week Young I). Cupid is due for pretty nearly as joyous a time to-morrow as Old Bre'r Rabbit of Easter fame if the business of the marriage bureau during this week with its wedding possibilities has any significance. To day eleven licenses were issued at the county marriage bureau, which, added to those issued during the week, run the total to thirty-one. Nor did' Old Papa Time bother the foiks who crowded the bureau ofllee to-day either. Among the applicants was a Steelton couple, a widow and j widower. The bride-elect gave her age as fifty while the groom-to-be is only 68. Pickets Flag Nearly All Westinghouse Employes By Associated Press Pittsburgh, Pa., April 22.—Pickets at all entrances to the plants of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufac turing Company at East Pittsburgh this morning pleaded so successfully with workmen on their way to the shops that leaders of the strike, in augurated yesterday to enforce an eight hour a day demand, declared only 5,000 of the 18,000 employes entered. Great crowds of strikers filled the streets leading to the gates, but there was no disorder. Organization of the strikers into locals of the newly formed union was said to be proceed ing rapidly. Inside the shops guards carefully examined the lunch baskets of the workmen who succeeded in passinK the pickets to prevent the introduction of explosives. This regulation first ap j plied to the shell department, but ! was later extended to include all the shops. RELEASE CONSUL Hy Associated Press London, April 22. The Judicial j authorities of Candla on the Island' of Crete, have released the British'i consular employe whose arrest pro-! voked the blockade of that port, says I an Athens dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company. j GERMANS RESUME VERDUN ASSAULTS WITHOUT SUCCESS Crown Prince Places Infantry in Action on Both Sides of . River Meusc LINES HOLD FIBM French Aeroplane Flies 100 I Miles in Balknns and Drops Bombs on Zeppelin Shed I The Germans have resumed the of-' | fensive before Verdun, putting their' infantry In action on both banks of j the Meuse but failing to gain ad- \ ditional .ground, according to the i French war office bulletin. The principal attempt to advance was made east of the Meuse, follow-; ling an intense bombardment. Paris' reports that the French artillery foiled the attempt and caused the Germans heavy losses. The scene of this fight ing was between the river and fort Vaux. On the west, Just beyond the Meuse, the Germans put liquid fire into play i in attacking the French lines north; of the Caurettes Wood, but the assault j Is declared to have been barren of ad- [ j vantage to the crown prince's forces. I Mies 100 Miles in Raid i Ir< the Balkans a French aeroplane! I made a 400-mile flight from the allied ! : lines to Sofia and return, dropping j | four large caliber bombs on a Zeppelin ; shed in the Bulgarian capital. Other I 1 points behind the lines also were' bombarded by French airmen, the Doiran region being given especial at ■ tention. British Recover Trench Berlin reports a futile attack by i the French in the Dead Man Hill re j gion northwest of Verdun. The Paris [Continued on .Page 11.] Search Fails to Unearth Body of Dorothy Arnold Hy Associated rrcss I New York. April 22. The body of Dorothy Arnold was not found in the ! cellar of the house outside West Point j i where New York detectives searched : i yesterday. Police Inspector Faurot, I who is in charge of the investigation announcing to-day there was no ; | truth in published stories that Miss I Arnold's body has been discovered. 1 I W W M I l<||W M I H NOTE IN HANDS OF KAISER £ BERLIN, APRIL 22, VIA LONDON. THE |; ' OF 1 ■ I- ' [ MANN-HOLLWEG AND GENERAL VON FALKEN- }Q AT GEN- ' * ERAL HEADQUARTERS. ! ' l! TURKS BOMBARD CAMP ON SUEZ CANAL J 1 Constantinople, April 22.—A British camp on the Sue/ I J canal has been attacked by a Turkish aeroplane the War ! Office 'announced to-day. The airship dropped bombs and < l returned successfully. ; BRITISH LOSS IN FIGHT 4,000 , Constantinople, April 22. —The British lc r in the battle | I on the right bank of. the Tigris, Mesopotamia, on April 17 J [ k | c. ws *' more ,J ban 4,000 killed and v to an ' V official statement issued by the War Ofc'ice to-day. i 1 ; 9 RUSSIANS ENTHUSIASTICALLY WELCOMED i J Lyons, France, April 22.—The Russian troops which 11 1 i arrived at Marseilles, Thursday, for services with the French ! [ 1 on the western front, passed through here to-day on their » ■i a nort hward. They were given an enthusiastic welcome | 'J i a * on £ their route. ; J BOY FALLS IN RIVER « \ T Richard Towney, aged nine, of 423 Cumberland street, ' [ { fell into the river from the steps near the pumpting station | | y this afternoon. Jacob Weiner, 1226 North Seventh street, \ ' held out a pole and pulled the boy out. i CAUGHT STEALING BOAT f Harrisburg.—Just as they were breaking the lock fas- ' * | 1 tening a boat on the river bank at Front and Calder streets • £ this afternoon, Hen#y Helman and Abraham Scott were ' ' 1 arrested by Officer Shoemaker. The men had just been j 1 discharged from jail at noon. • \ MAIIHIAGK I.ICF.'VSrc* » J Galen A. Snnb Hud Sylrln Jl. Jury. Kllxnhet h vllle. >ll leu l.l B ht Grabrr, 1 Lebanon ttud Catharine llrlirrca Smith, steel ton. Alphonmo Myers, Wnt< ) # K»lnlriv, on<l Anna lOllxnlirt h l,nivyer, elty. Ilalph seerUt Shrnffrr, city," > Sara Grace l.l«th«, Ilimciiuniiii. William Kline mid Lillian Jane Harrla, J Steclton. Mmirlce Eugene Shade anil I'aullnr Helen Kelly, city. Charle* ! | K. Sprout and Stella 1 elty. *lattU l.enker and Rllaabetli # Amelia l.cho. Halifax tunnahlp. Harry J. Armnlronit. Wnynnboro. and 1 •>'" lien»luner, G rremnatle. John I'ulmer Hoyer ami Catharine Grace! ' 4Ll(Hlnesmlth. Mt. Joy. John l.alTcrt.i, \\ nltonvlllc, and Slnry lttaacr. MUd- * 1 Pilletnnu. , D' i ii| 18 PAGES CITY EDITION LOOK FOR REPLY FROM KAISER TO NOTE BY MIDDLE OF COMING WEEK Ambassador Gerard Said to Have Informed State De partment That He Has Been Given Assurances of Immediate Consideration COUNT VON BERNSTORFF IS AWAY ON TRIP Teuton Ambassador Has Ad vised His Government to Modify Its Submarine War fare to Meet America's De mands Ry Associated rre.is Berlin, April 22, 10 A. M„ via lonilon.—Germany's answer Jo the latest American note is likely to l)e delayed l)y some parleys and requests for further information on certain points, ai-cordinjr to the I .oka I Anzijser which says it learns that the note is a decidedly long one and that it will l>c ex i amined with (ierman thorough ness. Washington, April 22. With offl j fia! word that tlie American note had I been presented to the German Foreign | Office, administration officials to-day 1 momentarily expected definite advices from Ambassador Gerard as to how : the combination was received, to gether with some indications as to ! the nature of the German reply. In reporting the delivery of the note late Thursday afternoon Mr. : Gerard advised the State Department that he had afterwards conferred briefly with foreign Minister Von .lagow. The contents of another mes sage from the ambassador was closely guarded, although it was said he in formed the department that he had been given assurances of immediate j consideration of the documents. Some {officials indicated that they look for a ; reply from Germany about, the middle \ ol' next week. Count Von P.ernstorff, the German I (Continued on Page 7)
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