Dublin Street Fighting Continues With Long List of Casualties
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
T VVY\r V rt 07 BY 4MUtll.lt CENTS % WEEK.
LAAA V — V HIGGLE COPIES '2 CENTS,
SINN FEINERS
DESPERATELY FOR
LIVES;CITYONFIRE
Regulars Now Command All Rebel Positions, the Fall of
Which Is Matter of Time; Field Cans Bark, Machine
Guns Rattle and Rifle Fire Patters All Over City Ap
parently at Same Time; Casualty List Exceeds 100
SACKVILLE AND GRAFTON STREETS IN FLAMES;
ARTILLERY BEING USED ON VACANT HOUSES
Snipirs on Housetops Take Potshot at All Civilians; Firm
ly Believed in Popular Mind That German Submarines
Have Been Landing A rms For Several Months; j
Countess in Uniform Shoots Guard; Looting Is Now
Widespread
London. April 2''.—Parts of the city of Dublin arc in flames, an'
Evening News dispatch filed at Belfast last night says. Street fight- j
ing continues and there is much looting.
One dispatch received from Ireland this afternoon says that
Sackville and Grafton streets in Dublin arc in flames and that artil
lery i- being used on the houses, the inhabitants having been
removed. J
Dublin. April 27. —Fifteen hundred or so armed men of the Sinn
Fein had a hold on Ireland's capital to-day. After four days of fight-!
ing their rebel flag still flew from a number of central points.
Since Monday some of the chief positions in the city have been
in the hands of the rebels. In defending these strongholds against
regular troops and Irish nationalist volunteers the rebels are fighting
with desperation for their lives which they know may be forfeited on
account of treason.
Regulars now command all the rebel positions, the tall of which
ir merely a question of time.
The streets of Dublin were deserted to-day. except for sentries
and military guards. Husines> was at a standstill. Civilians peeped
anxiously from behind curtained windows. Field guns were bark
ing, machine guns rattling and rifle tire was pattering, apparently
from every quarter at the same time.
Wh?n the Associated Press corre- 1
spondent landed early this morning
at the quay near the customs house
the pinging of bullet from rifles of
snipers in the vicinity was frequent.
Augustine Birrell.the secretary for Ire
land. had made tlie passage from Eng
land with the newspapermen. As he
stepped ashore he shouted cheerily:
"I wish you luck gentlemen. 1 don't
know what will happen to you. now
that you are here."
Naval Ciuiis \<ld to l>iu
Soldiers and rebels tired at ea> h
other from street corners, wharves,
roofs and windows. Sentries with
fixed bayonets on loaded rifles, sta
tioned every few yards shouted their
commands to halt. Naval guns join
ed in and added to the deafening gun
fire.
From the quay the respective posi
tions could be seen. The rebels were
holding a square section of territory,
from the point where Liberty llall
stood before a gunboat destroyed it as
fnr as Sackville street, to St. Stephens
Green and the Four Courts district,
and along the southern side of the
river to the Butt and OVonnell
bridges. They also held isolated posi
tions in a flour mill and a disused dis
tillery opposite the Northwall station.
Rebel Flag Waves
Over all this section there was con
siderable fighting the whole day. The
distiller)' was the scene of one of the
•sharpest little battles of the uprising.
The rebels were forced out*of the flour
mill by bombardment and many of
them were seen, covered with flour,
making their way to the distillery.
Once there they hoisted the rebel flag,
which floated from the corner of a
square tower.
Soon a naval gun opened fire. The
fust shot hit the tower, and then half
a dozen in succession struck the roof
around it. The flag still flew and the
rebels replied with rifles and a ma
chine gun.
The bombardment ceased after a
dozen shots, but was renewed later.
Hit after hit was scored, but the Hag
remained hanging from its pole. One
shot hit a water lank just below it and
for a time there was a miniature cas
cade down the walls of the distillery.
When night fell and all firing ex
cept with rifles ceased the flag was
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THE WEATHER
For HnrrNhuru nn«l vlelnlty: Fair
10-iiiitht and Sunday; warmer to
ulultf. with lowent temperature
nitont is (leftrreit.
For Kflntfrn IVmiw> l\an in s Fair to
nluht nnil SiiDiln)': warmer to
nlicht; ilßtit, \ nrialile ulndn.
Ilivrr
The Slinquelianun river nml nil It*
liranchcN will fall nlowly for nev
eral dayn. or uotll nuhntiintial
rnlnn oeeur. \ ntaiie «f about 7.7
feet I* Indicated for If iirriMlni r»
Sunday nmrnlnit.
t.enernl t onditloiiM
The KOantern dlnturhnnee lin* final
ly panned neanaril off tlie Middle
Atlantic MMt it mmmmm4 mtral
rnlnn with nome niiow In \ewr
CoKlnnd and local nhowern In
\ew York and Kantern Pennsyl
vania In the lant twenty-four
hoam.
A general rlne of 2 to 14 ilegreen in
temperature hnn oeeurred from
the Plnlnn <taten eastward. ex
cept In the Lpper Jit. I.awerenee
nnd lpper Sunqaehnnnn valleyn
nnd In Northeast Florida.
Temperature: » a. m.. r»0.
Klin: Itlnen. 3:06 a. in.: net*. 6:58
i». m.
Moon: \ew moon. May 2,
n. m.
Illver Maites 5.3 feet aliove low
water mark.
Yenterday'n Weather
Highest temperature, 64.
lowest temperature. 42,
Mean temperature. .V>.
.Normal temperature, stl.
OVERTHROW OF
CARRANZA NEAR
ENVOYS ARETOLD
Coll ap s e of Government
Threatens, Foreign Em
bassies Hear
ON VEROE OF REVOLT
f irst Chief in Danger From
Starving Peons For Letting
Troops In
Foreign embassies in Washington
have received reports from Mexico
that the downfall of Carranza "s gov
. eminent is near.
With starvation and pestifence all
• lover the country, financial chaos and
• 'business stagnation in the principal
cities, particularly Mexico City, the
people are ready to oust Venustiano
Cat-ranaa, it is said.
. The report declares that all of Mex
ico is on the verge of revolt, the last
, cause of unrest being resentment
• against Carranza for letting the Ameri
• can troops cross the border after Villa.
Villa is again a national hero.
'I be Intrigue is said to extend to
Carranza's household, and he is in
danger of assassination, the embassies
hear.
Hostility is said to be shown in
Mexico t'itv to Americans in particular
and to all foreigners in general.
General Ohregon. minister of war.
at Juarez denies that there is anv feel-
I ine against Carranza.
Generals Scott and Funston are in
El Paso and General Obregon is at
Juarez. The first step in the eonfer
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MAV I'M'KH MONEY
fly Associated P'ess
Mexico City, April 28. A decree
! issued by General Carranza announces
| that Mexico's new issue of paper
money will be worth twenty cents in
Mexican gold for each paper dollar.
This will tnake the new peso equiva
lent to to len cents in American gold.
Kaiser Wants to Convey
Through Gerard Plea For
U. S. to Stay Friendly
Special la the Telegraph
Washington. April 29. The true
significance of Ambassador Gerard's
visit to the German grand armv head
quarters, for an audience with the
! German Emperor, was explained in
ofllci.il advices from Berlin.
The visit has been made at the
Emperor's request in order to per
mit him to convey through Ambassa
dor Gerard an earnest plea to Presi
dent Wilson to maintain friendly re
lationl with Germany.
COI.IX M'l-K.W DIKS
Ry Associated Press
Baltimore. Md.. April 29. Colin
i McLean, one of the largest and best
! known contractors on the Atlantic sea
board. died at his home herjß to-dav of
pneumonia. He was born in Nova
Scotia seventy-two yenrs ago. Among
his undertakings were the construction
of the foundations for the Statue of
' Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge. He also
built the longest timber bridge in the
t world, that over Albemarle sound.
HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1916.
I STATE FIRST AID CORPS AT WORK |
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PRETTY TWINS
KEEP MARRIAGE
CLERK GUESSING
'thought Ho Saw Double When
Two Visions in Pink and
Gray Confront Him
Xol often does the tiny traditional
dean or the marriage bureau tease
License Clerk Jake Alvord as he did
to-day. He was fussed, lie says.
'Twas a mighty day in that branch
of the recorder's office and Jake was
turning out licenses pretty nearly as
last as he could pen the certificates.
Consequently when Mrs. Elder B.
Hustler sank into a chair at the bureau
desk and said she was there to obtain
a license for her daughter the clerk
glanced tip only lons enough to note
' that the dnuehter was mighty pretty,
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COL T.M. JONES TO
SELL NEWSPAPERS
He and Other Ex-newsboys
Will Assist in Kaising Sick
Fund
Colonel Thomas M. Jones, the well
known Harrisburg newspaper man
who has lived, breathed and well
nigh eaten newspapers most of his
life, will some line day in the near
future doff hat and coat, step into the
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State Expert to Talk on
Flower Life at Paxtang
Special to the Telegraph ~ (
Paxtang Pa., April 2a. —Sheldon
W. Funk, of Boyerstown, one of the
farm advisers of the State Department
of Agriculture, who talked during the
planting day exercises at the school
house yesterday afternoon, made such
a deep impression on the adults who
heard him that he was immediately
Invited to return to the borough for an
evening meeting to talk on plants and
flowers. Mr. Funk Is an expert in his
line and his talk yesterday on the
origin and formation of flowers was
listened'to with much interest. The
Rev. H. B. King, pastor of the Paxton
' Presbyterian Church. offered his
church as a place for the planned
meeting.
Planting "Day here was a liig site
cess and the addresses and the pro
gram carried out li.v the children were
well received. Professor Shamhaugh,
superintendent of schools of Dauphin
county, and Professor Zimmerman,
the assistant superintendent, were
present and following sjjort talks
they assisted in the planting Other
speakers included William 11. Ifetrlck,
who originated the planting idea here, ,
Ralph I. Diehl, a school director, and
William Kitchen. The Rev. Mr. King
i offered the opening prayer,
APRIL BUILDING
FIGURES TOPPLE
ALL OLD RECORDS
Permits Aggregating Stupen
dous Sum of $373,4-15 Issued
This Month
April. 1!»16. will so down in the his
tory of Harrisburg's building operations
as tile biggest Spring month on record
since 1909.
Permits aggregating an expenditure
of just $373,445 were issued during the
; month that closed to-day: in July. 1914,
the total was $109,055. This month in
cidentally totaled nearly a iiundred
thousand dollars more than the entire
first quarter of 1916 for in January,
February and March combined oniy
SL'76.SS:; was expended.
That April, 1916. was bound to be
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NEW DORMITORY
I FOR THE ACADEMY
i Rapid Growth of Harrisburg's
Preparatory School Demands
New Building Immediately
It was learned to-day that another
1 big step forward will be taken at the
J Harrisburg Academy in the very near
future. Coincident with the house
, warming next Thursday afternoon
from 4 to 6 of tlie new Seiicr dormi
tory and the Lyman D. Gilbert library
in the main Academy building, plan's
will be made for the erection of a
second new dormitory within the year
The growth of the Academy under the
' new regime, with the board of trus
tees co-operating heartily and con
structively with Headmaster Arthur
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All Bethlehem Corporation
Employes Get Raise; More
Money for C. I. & S. Men
Simultaneously with the announce
ment that 7,000 employes of the Penn
-1 s.vlvania Steel rotnpany would receive
a voluntary raise of 10 per cent, in
wages came the announcement from
the offices of the Bethlehem Steel
Company that the 24,000 employes of
1 that company would receive a similar
raise, both effective May 1.
The increase which the Bethlehem
officials announce will mean An addi
tional J 170,000 on the total of the
month's payroll. President E. U
Grace lujving returned from Atlantic
City, where he went to recuperate from
an illness, made the announcement,
according to .i special dispatch, that
he was pleased to announce the raise.
Announcement was made last night
b> Robert H. Irons, superintendent of
the Central Iron and Steel Companv.
that the employes at that plant would
receive substantial increases in sala
ries, effective Jday J, <
WOMEN'S FIRST
AID CORPS AT
STATE CAPITOL
Class of Girls on Ground Be
fore Men Woke Up to Their
Opportunity
An active first aid corps of over a
hundred members has been organized
among the employes of the State De
partment of llealth in the Capitol.
Several months ago Commissioner of
Health Samuel G. Dixon, arranged that
the employes of his department should
: receive a series of iertures and be
| drilled under a practical instructor in
i rendering first aid In its various
'brandies. A member of the depart
ment's medical taff who had tauglit
1 first aid in the t'nlted States army
! was chosen for the work and classes !
| for both men and women were or- i
i ganized. A keen rivalry has grown up
between them as to which will turn 1
| out the most efficient teams.
] In two Instances within the past
' week when accidents and sudden 111-
I ness occurred in the Capitol, members j
j of the Department of Health's women's j
I first aid team have been on the ground
I before anyone else and rendered as
sistance. This has greatly chagrined '
| t|ie men who are drilling regularly and
i waiting for an opportunity to demon
trate their skill.
This organization will probably form
the nucleus of the safety organiza
tions in the Capitol which Governor
Brumbaugh suggests in a letter which !
lie sent this week to the various de
partment heads requesting them to act
as an advisory committee to outline
plans for safety work throughout the
State institutions and organizations.
J | Orders have been issued by Dr.
Dixon for the instruction in first aid
of the nursing staffs of the 115 State
; tuberculosis dispensaries. Classes have
also been organized at the State sana
• toria at Mont Alto, Cresson and Ham- I
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. Labor Party Considering
Merging With Socialists
New York. April 29. —A proposal to |
ujergc with the Socialist party is one \
.of the important questions before the
i national convention of the Socialist-'
; Labor party here to-day.
When the Socialist party recently |
i nominated Allan L. Bensen for the
presidency by referendum it ifclso de- 1
T tided to authorize its executive com
mitte to name a committee to confer
with the Socialist-Labor party's repre
sentatives regarding a union, it is:
expected that to-day's convention will
appoint a committee for such a con
> furence. It is said that members of
Ihe Socialist party have been discuss
ing such a merger ever since the i
death, about two years ago, of Daniel
I Dc Leon, leader of the party in this
t state. The consummation of such a .
i union would heal a breach in Socialist
i ranks dating back twenty years.
Wildcat Jumps on
Man's Shoulder in Dark
Waynesboro, Pa., April 29.—Wild
( cats are still in the mountains around
Pen-Mar. Last Wednesday night
Archibald Fox, a motorman of that j
place, had an exciting experience. |
Hearing a noise in the smokehouse, !
he seized his rifle and ran out. As he
came to the door a wildcat sprang at
, him, glanced off bis shoulder and dis- ;
appeared in the darkness. Fox put liis
dog on the trail and about a mile out
from town he treed the animal. Aim
ing at the flashing eyes, he ilred, and
a wildcat, weighing 28 pounds and
measuring 2 feet long, dropped to I lie
ground.
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Youthful Astor Heir Can
Not Live on $20,000 Yearly
' i New York. April 29. John Jacob 5
■ j Astor. 4 years old. finds that it costs
. him $75 a day to live and during the
. i last year liis expenses have been $27,-i
593.20. Mrs. Madeline Talmage Force
I Astor. his mother and guardian of his I
. property, filed her second annual ac-1
. ! counting in the Surrogates' Court.
Mrs. Astor shows that although the
'. court has allowed her to spend $20,000
, a year in support of her son from his
income, it has been impossible to keep
all liis wants supplied with I hat
i amount.
Every hour the youngest heir to the
• Astor fortune spends $3.15 and not a
, week goes by that lie does not average
[ $630.63 expended for his food, lodg
ing clothing, education- and recre
Ration,
DOPE FIEND GOT 1
HIS OPIUM IN
N. Y. HE SAYS
Paid $2.30 an Ounce William
Byrd Tells City
Police 1
j WOMEN ARE WITNESSES
One Testifies Accused Gave
Her "Pipe" lo Smoke
Several Times
William Byrd anil Albert Wise, col- j
' ored, charged with violating the Har- (
| rison antidrug law, were held under
| SI,OOO bail for United States court |
i by l.ero.v J. Wolfe, United States Com- j
| misslomws for the Middle Pennsylva
nia district, after a hearing this morn
! ing.
Byrd was arrested on Wednesday 1
| evening by Detectives Shuler and'
Speese, on suspicion, and gave the J
officers information which resulted in
a raid on a raider street house Thurs
day morning, when Wise was appre
hended. Margaret Byrd. wife of Wil
liam Byrd. and Ruth Poindexter, who j
said she lived with Wise, were thej
I principal witnesses this morning with
the exception of the two detectives. I
Detective Shuler testified that Byrd j
admitted buying the opium found in
the suit case taken by the police, \
and said that he paid $2.50 an ounce i
for it in New York city. More than
21 oinces were found in the outfit
taken by the officers.
! Ruth Poindexter testified that Byrd 1
had given he>- an opium pipe to smoke
I several times, and the woman also |
identified the part of the kit which !
i belonged to Wise.
Further investigations will be made i
by the detectives in ,an effort lo get '
more evidence on the use of "dope" in
l the city, and other arrests may ft»l
--| low.
CUPID BUSY vr BARX VRD
New York, April 29.—Marriage as a
life pursuit i>- becoming; attractive
again among college women, accord
ing to statistics which appeared in the ;
Mortarboard, the yearbook of Barnard \
College. Sev en members of the class ,
o' ISIS have plunged into matrimony
since their graduation, putting it iifth j
1 among the list of occupations taken !
■< up by the 111 graduates. Teaching.
i however, still holds a strong lead. 47 i
1 having decided to follow the orthodox !
■ path of college graduates.
£ REPORTS OF BANDITS IN TEXAS UNVERIFIED
San Antonio, April 29.—Headquarters of the southern
i department of the army had not been advised to-day of the '
reported crossing into Texas of a band of Villa bandits at
Terlingua was said by officers to be strong enough to handle
1 the situation if bandits have crossed. .
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! GERMANS TAKE 5,000 RUSS PRISONERS
4 » Berlin, April 29, via London.—The capture of Russian
i positions south of Lake Narocz between Stanarocze and
j I Stachowce, by German troops, together with more than
( 5,000 prisoners was announced by the War Office to-day.
i BERLIN'S REPLY IS COMPLETED
1 London, April 29.—The Berliner Tageblatt says that 1
| Germany's reply to the latest American note has been com
pleted and will be delivered at the beginning of next week, i
according to a dispatch from Copenhagen to the Exchange <
Company.
TECH HIGH WINS RELAY
1 Franklin Field. April 29.—One mile relay high school—
< won by Harrisburg Technical; second, Williamsport; third,
! Steelton; fourth, Reading; fifth, Harrisburg; sixth, Altoona. 1
9 Time, 3.40.
< » POPE SENDS NOTE TO DUBLIN
, Paris, April 29. A Rome dispatch to the Matin, says
< i that Pope Benedict granted an interview of an hour to Car
dinal Gasquet, an English prelate, aftler which the Pope
, sent a long telegram to the archbishop of Dublin. 1
* 1 DO HURDLES 16
Franklin Field, April 29.—120 yards hurdle, heats on (
< ■ grass, first heat won by Packer, Iowa; second, Watt, Cor
! Nell; third, Coolidge, Harvard. Time, 16 seconds.
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MARRIAGE
I l)r. .lonrpli l.lulit Diihklici-i j n nil llelrn Katliryn liutli.Miirrninniitom n ;
■lnmrn ICilnln l)«r»ln, < iirfUlr, nuil Sue Kathry n llt-Hmnii. «lt> ; tarun Dll-
Inril, Uriidinu. mill ll«ry Stewart, ••Ityi <ilndn l»«-Turrr*. Wrk, nml
Antolnrtta < orlllii, <•!«>-1 (loyd Uillrtiy Kndcrx anil Mary J line Hustler. \r<i
SCumlM-riandi Paul Jay >onrr» nml t'linrlottr Hcbrrcn lluntlrr. \r« « nm-i
brrlaadt « barlrn Benjamin Krall and Mary Brandt Mrtxgrr, Mlddletonn;
(iulaeiip* Intrrri and Hoaa Artlmano, XtMllon,
IS PACKS CITY EDITION
BRITISH FORCE
IN MESOPOTAMIA
SURRENDERS TO
TURKISH ARMY
Major General Townshend in
Command of 50,000 Men
Besieged at Kut-el-Amara
Since Last December Gives
Up After Destroying All
Guns and Munitions
BELIEVED STARVATION
FORCED THIS MOVE
Grounding of Supply Ship in
Tigris Dashed Last Hope
of Garrison; Relief Army
Held in Check Short Dis
tance Away
flv Associated Press
Unidon. April :!». I:ir» P. M.—
Major-ticncral Clmrles Town- •
shend, commander <>•' 1 lie* liritlsli
forces besieged at Kul-el-.\mara.
'Mesopotamia, by Turkish forces
since last lJccember,' has surren
dered.
This information was contained in a
British official statement issued this
afternoon.
The official statement added that
j General Townshend destroyed all his
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Thugs Beat and Rob
Reading Brakeman
Morris, a brakeman in the
TJi therford yards, was attacked about
2 o'clock this morning by two negroes.
Morris was at work when his assail
ants rushed 011 him and kicked him
itill he was unconscious. They took
s.;o which he had just received on his
salary, and a gold watch valued at
1 $35. Morris is twenty-one years old
and resides at 430 South Seventeenth
! street. He was taken to the Harris
i burg Hospital and treated for con
! fusions of the abdomen. His assail.
' ants have not yet been captured.