Macks British Government For Failure to Heed Sinn Fein Vfatuings HARRISBURG ifpfefll TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 95 ENTIRE IRELAND % IS PLACED UNDER MARTIAL RULE AS RESULT OF RIOT Fighting Is Still Under Way in Streets of Dublin and Rebels Hold Important Public Buildings INDICATIONS POINT TO SPREAD OF MOVEMENT Situation in West Serious; Sir John Maxwell Given Plenary Power Over Whole Country By Associated Press London, April 27. 3.20 P. >l. Martini law has boon declared throughout all Ireland. Fighting is .still going on in the streets of Dublin. Premier Asquith announced in the house of commons to-day that the rebels continue to hold important pub lic buildings in Dublin and that street encounters were still in progress. Premier Asquith told the house the Irish situation still presented serious features to-dav and there were indi cations of n spread of the movement to other parts of Ireland, especially in the west. Sir John Maxwell to Itule The premier announced thai Ma.ior- General Sir John Maxwell, -who for merly commanded the British forces in Egypt, was leaving London for Ire land. The general has been given plenary powe«rs, under martial law, oxer the whole country. The premier said there would be a searching investigation into the cause of and responsiliility for the outbreak. Tic added thai it was obviously neces sary to exercise military censorship while martial law prevailed in Ireland. This censorship, however, would be directed more with regard to the es sential military requirements of the silnation. All possible latitude in the transmission of news would be allowed, l eaders Wltli Government Sir Edward Carson and John Red mond. who were the leaders of llie opposing factions in the Irish home rule controversy, expressed in the house of commons their abhorrence of the uprising and their desire to sup port the government. £ Sending More Troops ▼ The troops in Ireland have been and are being strongly reinforced, Mr. Asquith added, and the government was satisfied the force dispatched was adequate to deal with the situation. The Trish authorities will place themselves at the disposal of Major General Maxwell to carry out his in stt uctions. Proclamation of martial law throughout Ireland may indicate an extension of disturbances, details of Which the rigid British censorship is withholding. Cable dispatches yes terday and early to-day give the im pression that the British authorities lin< the situation in Ireland well in hand. Martial law, it was said, had been declared only in the city and county of Dublin. A few minor dis turbances outside Dublin were re ported. but they were described as of small importance. Casement's Ship Had Rifles, Ammunition and Machine Guns For Irish Rebels By .Associated Press I.ondon. April 27. Sir Roger Case ment is occupying the cell in which Carl Hans L,ody was held as a pris oner before his execution as a spy in the Tower of London in November, 1914. I.ody was arrested in Kiilarney near where Sir Roger was captured. It is learned that Casement went on board the German submarine in Kiel harbor about April 14, which is near the date on which a report was cir culated that he had been arrested in Germany. The submarine wat ac companied by a tramp steamer man ned by twenty picked men from the • Jerman navy and carrying a cargo of twenty thousand rifles, machine guns and ammunition bound for Island. The steamer flying the Dutch flag and with the submarine proceeding awash in close attendance, crept through the Cattegat, across Bohus [Continued on Page 12] I THE WEATHER Forcoiintn till 8 p. in., Friday, for Harrlfthurg and vicinity: I naet tled. iirohahl.v aliowera HIIN af ternoon; generally cloudy mid font In tied cool weather to-night at nil Friday; IOWCMI temperature to-nlitht about 45 degree**. #*or Fax tern Penality Ivan la: l.ocal nhowerN llilm itfternoou: overcoat and con (luiied eool weather to night and Friday; moderate north and northweaterly wlmla. General Condition* frcaaure continued low over the Middle and South Atlantic State* with center of a weak dlMturh ince near Hatteran. An area of high prenNiire cover* the cen tral valleyM, the Lake Region and the Plaina Statea. «/ lilglit to moderate rain* have fallen In the Lake Region, the Ohio \ al ley and Tenneaaee and In the \l laatle Staten from South Caro lina northward to Colorado. River The \orth llrnnch will rlwe Morue what, prohahly not more than one foot at Wllkea-liarre. Other trlhntarlen anil the main rl\er will prohahly fall nlowly or re main nearly stationary. A utage of about 7.7 feet In Indicated for Harrlahurg Friday morning. Temperatures H a. m.. 411. Sunt Rlnea, a. m.j acta, O :.Ifl p. m. Moon i New moon. May 'J, IStiSn a. m. River Stages T.» feet above low water mark. Yenterday'a Weather Highest temperature, A3, l.owent temperature. 44. Mean temperature. 54. Aormal temperature 55. BV rtnillKll « ( EM'S \ WKISK, SINGLE roi'IES 2 CEKTM. SCORES BRITISH GOVERNMENT FOR RIOTS IN DUBLIN Viscount in House of Lords Says Sinn Fein Warnings Were Not Heeded FRAUGHT WITH DANGER Situation in Ireland of Great Peril; Details of Case ment Exploit London, April 27. Viscount Middleton attacked the government in the House of Lords yesterday for failing to take heed of warnings re garding activities of the Sinn Feiners. I Ic asked what the government meant by saying Tuesday that the situation was well in hand. J3O far as his in formation went, at the time this as surance was given, not only were rebels in possession of a number of prominent parts of Dublin, but no at tempt had been made to dislodge them. Viscount Middleton said he under stood telegraphic communication with Dublin was almost entirely inter rupted,* that the rebels when they i Continued on Page 3.] British Submarine E-22 Sunk and Big Cruiser Damaged by Germans By Associated Press Berlin. April 27 (by wireless).—The , German admiralty announced to-day that the British submarine E-22 had been sunk by German naval forces. The announcement also says a Brit ish cruiser of the Arethusa class was hit by a torpedo from a German sub marine. The announcement, given out under date of April 2ii, is as follows: "The German naval forces on April 2.5 sank the British submarine E-22. The Germans rescued and captured two men. "A German submarine on the same day hit with a torpedo a British cruiser of the Arethusa class." Henry Morgenthau Resigns to Do Work For Wilson; Elkus May Succeed Him By Associated Press Washington. April 27.—Formal an nouncement was made at the White House to-day that Henry Mongen thau. American ambassador to Tur key, had resigned and that his resig nation had been accepted. Abram I. Elkus, a New York lawyer, probably will succeed him. Mr. Morgenthau will So organiza tion work for the Democratic party in the Presidential campaign. $5,000 FOR CONSCIENCE FUND By Associated Press Washington, D. April 27. A $."1,01(0 contribution to the conscience fund was received to-day by the Treas ury Department from New York in a letter that gave no clue to its writer. TEUTONIC GUNS CONTINUALLY IN PLAY AT VERDUN Great Struggle Proceeds With Little Diminution in Vigor There are signs of increasing activi ties along the entire battle front in the west, notably on the southern end of the line clown to the Vosges. The great struggle at Verdun is being con tinued with little diminution in vigor, however, with the German heavy guns almost continually in play. The only infantry movement in (lie Verdun region noted in this after noon's Paris statements was to the ncrlh of Fort Vaux, northeast of Ver dun. where what is alluded to as a "small attack" was stopped immedi ately by the French artillery. In Loraine the Germans are feeling [Continued on Page 10] Germany Prepared to Pay $500,000 For Bomb Outrage, Plot Exposer Testifies By Associated Pre*; New York, April 27. The German government was prepared to pay $500,000 each for the destruction of ships loaded with war supplies for the allies. Lieutenant Robert Kay, of the Get man army, on trial in the United States court for conspiracy, was quoted as having informed Carl L. Wittig, a witness for the prosecution. "I asked him," testified Wittig. a chemical engineer, "if he knew what $500,000 was, and lie replied that money was no object in this thing." Wittig, who declared his sympathies In the warfare with France, told of in forming the French embassy of his conversations with Fay. The embassy in turn notified the New York police. On trial with Fay are his brother-in law. Walter Sehols and Paul Daeclie. DECLARE WIVES OF "DOPE" SCSPKCTS STOLE AT MT. CXIOX Frances Byrd and Margaret Clark, who claim they arcAvives of Benjamin Clark and William Byrd, arrested in: the "dope" raid this morning, are he-! ing held on a charge of larceny, it is| alleged that the two colored women robbed two men at Mt. Union ycater-I day. j IIARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1916. TWO PRETTY CAPTIVES OF BUSY DAN CUPID IN STEELTON MARRIAGE BOOM V MRS. FRANK REITZEL MRS. CHARLES DIPNER Stoclton young couples have been keeping; Hagerstown, Md„ ministers | and a few in the borough about as busy as any of the hustling employes of the I big steel plant these past few days. Two of the pretty "victims" of the little I winged God are shown above. FOUR COUPLES, ALL RELATED, ARE ELOPERS " J Can You Figure Out This Mar ital Melange?; There Must Be Some Answer •) SLIP OFF TO HAGERSTOWN Three Pairs Wed at Maryland Gretna Green. One at Pittsburgh I That wise old Bard who once I | sagely remarked that "In Springtime | a young man's thoughts turn lightly' to love." must have had Steelton and j the present month in mind. For in that busy borough little Dan Cupid has nothing on the big steel i mills for speeding things up. Even ; the measles epidemic down there can't | beat Dan. Some of his darts have been shot out rather promiscuously and the; resultant relationships established are ; not easy 1o tigure out. For instance : can you tell just how all these are! now related Samuel B. Daugherty, of Harris j burg, anil Miss Ruth Wagner of 19 ' North Front street, have just an nounced their marriage in llagers town. Mr. Daugherty's sister. Miss Jennie j Daugherty. is home to-day from j llagerstown where she became the j wile of Frank Reitzel of Steelton. Not so many, many months ago Mr. Rcitzel's sister, Roseltna and James Chambers, also of Steelton, were married in Pittsburgh. And (Continued on Page 0) FLOWERBOXES ON CALDER BUILDING; CAMPAIGN GROWS Market Square Owners Con sider Bcautification Plans; Movement Spreading The Calder building, one of the best-known business and office build- i ings in Market Square, will be deco rated with flowers and plants the coming summer. Edward S. Herman, chairman of the City Planning Commission, a staunch advocate of everything that stands for ! a bigger and better Harrisburg, and [Continued on Page 12] Baby Show Prizewinner Victim of Measles Ellsworth Peiffer, aged one year, died (his mornin»r at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Peiffer, 1 450 South Cameron street. Death was caused by measles, followed by pm umonia. This baby, it will be remembered,! took third prize in the recent Baby Show held at Bowman's Department t Store. He Was a healthy little fellow before he contracted the measles, and his death comes as a surprise to those, wiio knew him. Accuse American Embargo Conference of Sending Antiwar Telegrams Washington. April 27. Senator Dusting. Democrat, told the Senate to-day that t.iie American embargo paigu ill Wisconsin to induce him campaign in \Viscon>in to induce liini lo support an embargo resolution against shipment of war munitions to Ktiropc. lie submitted a thousand letter* from Wisconsin citizens which, lie said all < manated front the Chicago headquarters of this organization. Senator Hunting said that thousands ol' telegrams deluging Congress charg ing the President with seeking war I with Germany emanated I'rom t.lie embargo conference. lie declared there a "deep laid plot to poison the minds of citizens all over the conn trj with the thought that the Presi dent wants war. when every fact gives , the He to such an assertion." ALL EXCEPTIONS TO HARDSCRABBLE REPORT ATTACKED ~~ • Seitz Assails Great Bulk of Ob jections to Condemnation Viewers' Award M A N Y UNINTELLIGIBLE Court Agrees; Paving, Park, Old Ordinance Questions; Some "Silly Twaddle" i One by one the long list of exeep- ! | tions filed by attorneys for some of the i | "Hardscrabble" property owners to the I J report of the condemnation viewers I were attacked and whacked yesterday i afternoon in the Dauphin county court i I by City Solicitor D. S. Seitz. Nearly twoscore objections had been ' raised, but Mr. Seitz didn't argue on i nearly all of them; some were dis missed with such cryptic comment as: "Said exception states a legal propo ; sition which wc are compelled to admit, j is too deep or too intricate, for us to j comprehend, but whatever it may I mean we respectfully submit it is untenable"; "said exceptions are re- I guarded as immaterial and unneces sary for comment"; "not regarded jas worthy of comment"; "misstate j ment of fact"; "reflection on court j and the viewers and unworthy of fur- | j (her comment"; "wholly immaterial"; i "unintelligible". On one occasion he ! sarcastiely remarked that the split ting of hairs was being carried to ex tremes. Kvcn Court is Puzzled That the court and the city solicitor [Continued on Page 2] FINAL VOTE IS BEING TAKEN ON MINERS' DEMANDS Joint Committee Considering Shorter Day, More Money and Recognition I ' ■ J9v stssocialcd Press New York, April 1!7. Thirty rep resentatives of the United Mine Work ers of America and an equal number of mine operators are here to-day for a meeting of their joint conference com mittee and a final vote on the demands of the miners for an eight-hour day, a liO per cent, increase in wages and rec ognition of the union. Sould they fail to break the dead lock over these demands it is under stood the loaders of the miners will ! prepare a set of resolutions to be pre sented to the miners' convention in (Continued on Page n) Girl Who Fired Father's Barn and Suitor Held Statta Barnick, aged 14 of Dell-1 ville. Perry county, was arrested yes- I terday on a charge of arson preferred ! iby Deputy Fire Marshal Charles H. -Rhoin. At—the—same —Hme —John ! Smith, of Donnelly's Mills was taken ! into custody for a statutory charge l made by the girl. Smith is 60 years I old. The Barnick girl set fire to her j father's barn Sunday night and in her j confession to Deputy Bhein yesterday! she told of carrying matches to the ! barn and firing the building. The girl's father opposed Smith as a suitor anu the Rirl said that he threatened ! to burn both the house and barn -if she did not set lire to the barn. The' Barnick sirl was taken to jail at New 1 Bloomlield whore she told Deputy ] Rliein she would plead Kuiltv in court. It is understood she will i>e sent to a home Tor Incorrigible girls. Several ' indictments wil be made against Smith 1 i and some officials say lhat his sentence 1 is likely to total about fifteen years. RKAD I'KOCIjAM ATIO V l.ondon, April 27. The Royal ! proclamation suspending in Ireland Section 1 of the Defense of the Realm j amendment act or 1915, which gives to a British subject charged with an of fense under the act the right to be tried by civil court, was read upon j the steps of the Ro.val exchange this morning acording to historic custom.' FEELING AGAINST AMERICANS IN MEXICO GROWING Situation of Yankees in Du rango Reported Serious; Peons Rebellious WILL CONFER TOMORROW Generals Seott, Funs ton and Obregon to Meet Soon; Turk men Ambushed El Paso, Texas, April 27. Dis turbing reports were received here to-day from many points in Northern and Central Mexico regarding anti- American feeling on the part of the peons. The most serious of these reports referred to towns in Durango and especially to Durango City where the Americans are still living there have been repeatedly warned by United States Consul Coen to leave. As far as can be learned here there are not more than a dozen Americans still in Durango City, the majority of them have married Into Mexican families and for that reason have so far con sidered themselves safe. The present trouble seems to be duo in part to the persistent anti-American campaign which has been carried on by the Mexican papers in the State Capital. This campaign had in creased in violence since the clash at Parral between United States soldiers and Carranza troops. Americans who have arrived here from Durango and Southern Chi huahua say that the Parral incident has been magnified out of all propor tions and grossly distorted by Mex ican papers which have described it as a great Mexican victory. Columbus, N. M., April 27.—Truck men arriving here to-day told of being ambushed by a roving band of marauders of about 150 attached to no Mexican faction, in a canyon near Satevo several days ago. The truck men and their soldier guard took a position behind the steel wheels of the cars and returned the fire, routing lite Mexicans and capturing two of theii number according to the story. Other truckmen said that snipers' bul lets had struck their machines on the i F Continue* l on I'JIRC 10] Gerard Will Confer With Kaiser at Headquarters Berlin, April 27.—(8y Wireless) American Ambassador Gerard will leave Berlin to-night for the army | headquarters where he will be re ceived by the German Emperor. Dr. Von Bethmann-Holhveg, t lie j German Imperial chancellor, who up I to the present has been at the army ' headquarters, is expected to come to ; Berlin to-morrow to prepare Ger- I mtttiv's answer to the latest American 'note. WORSE THAN WAR IS DISGRACEFUL PEACE, GEN. WOOD Pleads For Preparedness at Opening of Campaign; Editors Hear Speech Philadelphia April 27. "Disgrace ful peace" was declared to be worse | than war in its effects upon the na tional honor by Major General Leon ard Wood, last night, In the course of the opening address'of the Prepared ness Campaign Committee's effort to raise $500,000 with which to finance a citizens' army of 48,000 men. Men and women prominent in the social, professional and business life [Continued on Page 2] Prisoners Try to Attack Man Who Killed Child Lansing, Kansas, April 27. I Angered by the stories of the murder ,of ten-year-old Edna Dinsmore In ] Topeka Tuesday iwo hundred prison i er.s to-day attempted to attack Fred I Bjssell. of Topeka, suspected of the Lcrime in tile State penitentiary yard, j The prisoners had heard of Bissell's arrival here to save him from, the | Topeka mob that invaded Lawrence i last night and under the cry of | "come on boys" they rushed at'him. ; Prison guards clubbed the prisoners! j to submission Mob Thwarted in Attempt to Lynch Slayer of Girl By Associated Press Lawrence. Kan., April 27.—This city' is quiet to-day after the departure of i the mob of nearly 200 men who came! here from Topeka motorcars last night to lynch Fred Hissell, alleged slayer of Edna Dinsmore, 10 years old, in Topeki' Reports that members of the mob had gone to Lansing, where the ac-! cased man had been placed in the: Kansas State Penitentiary for safe keeping were unfounded. The body of the girl was found in a vacant house which had been set afire' on Tuesday afternoon. Bissell admit ted he had purchased candy for the j victim a short time before her bodv I was found. " ANOTHER STRIKE COMPLETES TIEUP OF WESTINGHOUSE Shadyside Plant Closed; 120,- UOO Arc Now Out; Few Disturbances EMPLOYERS ORGANIZE Will Try to Make District Open Market and Handle All Labor Questions By Associated Press Pittsburgh, April 27.—Fifteen hun dred workers were added to the unem ployed of the Westinghouse companies to-day when notices were posted at the Shadyside plant of the Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Com pany saying the shops had been closed to prevent "annoyance to employes." This practically completes the tie-up oi the various factories where a pro portion of workmen in each struck for an eight-hour day. Three foreign strikers were arrested at Wilmerding and fined $lO for dis orderly conduct, but in East Pittsburgh [Continued on Page 3,] 300,000 Revolutionists Are Ordered to Begin Advance on Pekin, China, Soon San Francisco, Cal„ April 27. A rebel advance on Pekln, the capital of ! China, has been ordered by the [Chinese revolutionists, according to a Shanghai dispatch to the Chinese Re public Association here late yester : day. An army of several hundred thou sand troops under Luy Ung-Tung, formerly commander of Yuan Shi i Kai's forces in Kwangsi province, and General T,ung Clii-Kwang, formerly with the government troops in Kwang tung. will begin the march upon Pekin soon, it was stated. Both leaders are i said to have deserted Yuan Shi-Kai with their forces. The rebel troops are scattered over the seceded provinces of Southeastern I China, 600 to 700 miles south of Pekin in Pechili province, but they have the advantage of transportation by sea. it is believed here by officials of the Chinese Republic Association that the army of the revolutionists number j about 300,000 equipped troops. I $ ? MARGATE RAIDED BY ZEPPELIN J Berlin, April 27.—A German Zeppelin last nifcht at a tacked the port and railway depots of Margate, on the ' I English east coast i TRAINMEN TO DISCUSS ARBITRATION 5 Chicago, April 27. Proposals that questions involving f 1 wages and hours of work of 300,000 trainmen be submitted I | to arbitration will be discussed at a series of meetings be- I ginning June 1 at New York City, it was decided to-day at | f - meeting of representatives of the railroads and of the I four employes' unions here. «» MURDERER WANTS NEW TRIAL J Nicolo Kotur, Steelton foreigner, convicted of murder- ! i in g a fellow countryman, was brought into the Dauphin ' I county court to-day to hear attorneys argue reasons why < they think he should have a second trial. J QUELLING DUBLIN DISTURBANCES Drogheda, Ireland, April 27.—The disturbances in * I Dublin are being quelled effectually. Only in isolated places ► 5 are there any disorders. ' I L ONE SHIP SUNK; TWO DAMAGED ! London, April 27. A dispatch to Lloyds shipping . > i agency says that the Dutch steamships Dubhe and ' ' | Maashaven have been damaged but are still afloat. The J Norwegian steamship Stromsnaes, bound for Lubeck with ' * 5* a cargo of herring from Norway ha been blown up and sunk y off Gjedser, Denmark. The crew was landed at Warne- ' ? I munde, Germany. 9 New York, April 27.—The 24,000 bituminous coal min- T | ers on strike in district No. 5, in Pennsylvania, will go back I 6 to work tomorrow morning under an agreement reached f J here to-day between John P. White for the coal miners and f . April 27. Secre tary Ijansing announced to-day that the United States liad sent another note Ito Great Britain demanding the re | lease of the thirty-eight Austrians, Germans and Turks taken from the American steamship China by a British cruiser off Shanghai. Great Britain contends that the men : were engaged in plots against the | British Government and having been I discovered, were fleeing to Manila, where they intended to continue their | efforts which would have embarrassed the neutrality of the United States.