Grave Mexican, Situation Is Considered bf*Cabinei HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH T YYY\ f Vn IHQ BY C'IRRIEK fl CENTS A WEEK, LAAAV — .\<>. lUO COPIES 2 CEKT9. WILL NOT CHANGE % MEXICAN POLICY CABINET DECIDES; NO INTERVENTION Renewed Indications Given After Meeting That Ad ministration Has No Inten tion of Withdrawing Amer ican Troops Until Danger of Further Border Raids It Removed WILL ARRANGE MEN TO MEET ANY EVENTUALITY Calling Out of Additional Guardsmen Not Contem plated ; U. S. Generals Leave For Their Head quarters Following Failure of Conference With Obre gon; Assurance of Co-ope ration Given tf.v Associate,! I'ic .s Washington, May 12. - Secretary Baker announced after to-day's cabi net meeting that no change in the Mexican policy had been decided upon. So new orders for militia or ganizations to pro to the border were in contemplation, he said, and indi cated that no general intervention in Mexico was being thought of at pres ent. Renewed indications were given that the administration lias no inten tion of withdrawing American troops until it is definitely established that the danger of further border raids has been removed. The President will take no further steps until General Scott returns from the border. The admin istration considers tiie next move up to General Carranza. Will Protect Border In the meantime American troops will be so arranged that they will be ready to meet any eventuality and pro leer the American border. Secretary Baker laid before the Cabinet latest information from Oen- 1 . [Continued on Page 2] * Chicago Hotels Jam Full For Convention; Private Houses Are Being Rented By Associated rress Chicago, ill.. May —The demand for accommodations during convention week, June 7, it was learned to-day, has so exhausted the supply of roonis in Chicago hotels that many visitors Will live "In private homes, In some cases entire houses being rented to care for parties. The firs' penson to take this step to secure accommodations was John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, who has taken a house of fourteen rooms. Chimney Sparks Cause Small Fire in West End Fire caused by sparks from a chimney, destroyed a small barn and one-story frame house at IS2I George street, occupied by Howard Clark and his family. The blaze was discovered by How ard Clark, Jr., small son of Mr. Clark who was playing near his home at the time. An alarm was sent in by S. W. Dodge, one of the neighbors, from Box No. r.6, Cameron and Kelker streets. The loss will not exceed S2OO. Mr. Clark was nt work when the Are started, and none of the furniture was saved. No insurance was carried on the contents. J. E. Heinperly, owner of the property, has his loss covered by insurance. The home of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Pilson, 1819 George street, was threatened at first but after a hard fight, was saved by the firemen. Mrs. Carrie Ward and William Lawrence, two neighbors rushed into the house when the blaze, was discovered and rescued Reba and Frances Clark, small children of Mr. i'lark, and John and Mary Ward, chil dren of Mrs. Ward. WIM. NOT RKPIA TO NOTK Copenhagen, May 12.—According to the Berlin Tageblait. Germany will not send a reply to the last American note, but the German government will con fer with Ambassador Gerard in regard to it. 1 THE WEATHER] For Marrlshuric nn<l vicinity: Fair, eontlnued eool to-night and Saturdays lowest temperature to- II IK h < about IN degrees. For r.nNtern I'eunsylvniiln: Fair to night. probably light frost in northern portion; Saturday fairs moderate north went to north w I ml*. River The SuN<|uehnnna river and nil It* tributaries will fall slowly. A stage of nhout 4.5 feet IN Indicat ed for Harrlshurg Saturday morn ing. (•eneral Conditions fv The northern*! disturbance In now central off the North Atlantic coast. Another disturbance of consldernhle magnitude covers the Southwest with its center over Artvona. The northwestern blub pressure area has spread rapidly eastward to the Middle Atlantic roast, eairwlng n teener a I fall of li to 14 degrees In tem perature over the eastern half of the country In the Inst twenty four hours. Temperatures 8 a. ro.. 54. Sun: nlses, 4:W a. in.( nets, 7:11 P. m. Moons Full moon. May 17, I>sll a. m. River Staves 4.7 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature. 77. I owest temperature. 07. Mean temperature. #lO Aoruia! temperature, 00. t GIRL D 1 VES RIVER BRIDGE ON HER WEDDING DA Y —-j K : Ty HCRj S aSHTfcyfci;- Miss May O't.auglilin, pretty girl diver and swimmer who thrilled hundn >f people at noon to-day just before she leaped from the Walnut street brie uto the river. In the insert is Charles Talbert, of Baltimore, who will narried to Miss O'l.aitghiin to-night. Miss O'Baughlin is appearing with I libley carnival at Third and Roily streets, as a fancy diver. Every performer of aquatic ability who comes to Harrisburg makes it a point to "conclude the performance" with a more or less hazardous dive off the Walnut street bridge. May O'Laughlin, of New York fame, no less than the others. But May's skill and the fact that there is a bit of a romance connected with her dive at 12.30 to-day into the swift Susquehanna makes her per formance of this afternoon somewhat more than ordinarily interesting. The pretty little "diveress," who holds any number of i harnpionships in New York and elsewhere, both for high, trick and fanes olving. and for long-distance swimming, is a member of a troupe of water nymphs enter taining crowds in a carnival at Third and Reily streets, for the benefit of the Reily Hose Kirc Company. And without casting any reflections on the others. Miss O'Laughlin carries off the honors of the week. The water to-day wasn't any too warm, but the glow of health on the laughing face and bare arms of the ASQUITH ARRIVES IN IRELAND FOR CONSULTATIONS Will Confer With Depart mental Chiefs mid General Maxwell Hv Associated Press Dublin, May 11!. Premier Asquith arrived in Dublin to-day and was taken In an automobile to the Viceregal lodge. The Premier's pro gram tor the day was first a confer ence with departmental chiefs and afterward consultation with General Maxwell in regard to the military situation which is well in hand. It is reported that in all likelihood a proclamation will be issued shortly (Continued on Page 9) Foreign Delegates Report Church Progress Despite War By .l.uociated Press Saratoga Springs. N. Y., May 12. Representatives of fourteen nations participated in a meeting to-day in connection with the General Confer «noe of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Native workers from Korea, Japan, India, Denmark, I'ruguay and Mexico reported that despite the war progress had been made in church activities during the last four years. DAVID S. SCOTT, WIDEIA-KNOWN PHILA. POLITICIAN, IS DEAD Philadelphia, May 12. David S. Scott, one of Philadelphia's three coun ty commissioners, died suddenly at his home early to-day from heart disease. Mr. Scott presided yesterday at a meet ing of his ward executive committee and seemed to be ill good health. Mr. Scott became a county commis sioner early this year for a term of four years. For many years he was a police magistrate. He was identified with the Vare wins' of the Republican party In this city. DRINKS EARACHE DROPS IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT Despondenl after an argument with her sister, according to the police, Miss Annie Weaver. 1216 Wallace street, drank about, two ounces of earache drops, in an attempt to end her life. A call was sent in for the ambulance but the girl refused to go to the hos pital. She was treated at home and is expected to recover. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1916. bride-to-be showed that in her per fect physical condition the elements meant nothing to her. Miss O'LaughHn is to be married to-night between performances at the small-scale circus. Alderman George l). Herbert will perform the ceremony. The lucky man is Charles Talbert, of Baltimore, a former prizefighter of the District of Columbia, whom she has known for two years, and who lias come up from Baltimore ".lust 'speshuly to marry her," as one of the wide-eyed little observers of the diver whispered in loud tones to an equally diminutive companion. May is only 19 years of age. but she Is a past master in the art of diving. A large crowd assembled to watch her go off into the water, which she did from the third pier, entering the water in perfect form toward the Market street bridge. A number of boats and canoes encircled the spot where she hit the water, ready to give her assist ance, but the little lady preferred io enjoy the swimming and came ashore under her own power. GERMAN DRIVE AGAINST BRITISH NOW UNDER WAY Storm Lines Near Hulhich; May Be Start of Offensive Along Belgian Front Berlin announces that German Iroops have stormed several British lines near Hulluch, which lies directly north of Lens in Northern France, about three miles distant from that city. Hulluch was taken by the British in the offensive of last September. [Continued un Page 2] Negro Kills Soldier and Girl, Shoots Women Then Makes Escape in Boat Leavenworth. Kan. May 12. Set--1 (geant James <Jackson and Miss Ern estine Brown. 22 years old, were killed land an unidentified woman was dan-i igerously wounded to-day by William White, a negro, who had purchased his release from the army mounted l service school at Fort Leavenworth near here yesterday. White escaped across the Missouri river in a row boat. Sergeant Jackson, who was attached to the mounted service school, was killed at the school's stables. He was shot through the heart. Soldiers who were with him gave i chase at once, hut they carried only side arms, and White held them at bay with a rifle until he got into a rowboat he had hidden on the river bank. White first shot the unidentified woman, who is known only as "Min nie." He tired at her through a win dow in the home where sh'- was em ployed. She was shot tl jgh the arm. Miss Brown, whom <te killed, was shot nearly two hours later at the quarters of Lieutenant William Green, where she was at work She likewise was shot through a window. Fifteen minutes later he appeared at the school, where he killed Sergeant Jack son. J. TATNALL LEA DIES Philadelphia, May 12. J. Tatnall' Len. 77 years of age. a leading cltizei of Philadelphia, died In his apartment i in a hotel here to-day following an illness of several months. Mr. Lea I was formerly president and director of the First National Bank of Philadel phia. and chairman of the board of directors at the time of his death. POWER BEHIND RUSSIAN THRONE ASSASSINATED Word of Death of Rasputin Roaches Here Same Time as Story of Plot HAD MYSTIC INFLUENCE Exiled Leader of Masses Tells of Plot to Kill Monk For Peace Leanings By Associated Press New York, May 12.—The report received yesterday by wireless from Berlin through the Overseas News Agency that Gregory Rasputin. the Russian monk who is reputed to have wielded n powerful myrtle in favor of i ICmperor Nicholas, had lieen assassl- I nated, is coincident with the receipt here by the Associated Press of mail i advices from iis correspondent at j < 'hristiania, Norway, disclosing de tails of a plot to murder Rasputin. ; They were revealed by Heliodorus, j the "mad monk of Tsaritsyn," a fan , tastic leader of the masses of the | Volga region, who has figured promi | nently in the Rasputin case. Mad Monk a Refugee It is disclosed tliat lleliodorus, who j disappeared from Russia some time | ago is a refused in Cliristiania. Al [ Continued on I'age 8] Austrian Passenger Ship Torpedoed in Adriatic Without Any Warning By Associated Press Berlin, May 12, by wireless. "The | Austro-Tlungarian passenger steamer j Dubrovnlk has been torpedoed and Isunk by an enemy submarine in the I Adriatic," says an Overseas News Agency announcement to-day. "The DubroMiik was not armed and was torpedoed without any warning j whatever." A Paris news agency dispatch on I May 10 told of Hie sinking by a French submarine in the lower Adriatic of "an enemy transport laden with war material." The Dubrovnik was a vessel of 4,238 tons gross, built in New Castle in 1912. ; Marine registers reported her last at j Constantinople. POVERTY AND TUBERCULOSIS IN CLOSE RELATION Most Cases Traceable to Cheap Lodging Houses and Had Conditions By .Associated Press Washington, D. C., May 12. —The close relation of poverty to tubercu losis is emphasized in a report made public to-day by the Public Health .Service after an extensive investigation in many cities. One-sixth of all tuber culosis cases, it declared, develop in , cheap lodging houses and one-fifth are traceable to occupational hazards and bad working conditions. As examples, statistics gathered in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh are cited, j In the former city's tenement district ! tuberculosis was found to be three times as great as in the better sections, j and the average monthly income ot '■ 107 families In which these cases were i found was computed as sl7. Much i the same condition was discovered in Pittsburgh, where nearly 20,000 fac tory workmen submitted to physical examination in the course of investi- I gat ion. I The report points out that almost without exception cities with a higher percentage of Irish, Scandinavian and German stock and those in which the negro population is relatively large have a corresponding high mortality, while those of the Italian and .Jewish element is proportionately great have a low tuberculosis death rate. ; Unguarded Robbers and Forgers Will Steal Bases in Aid of Ohio Charity ,i Columbus, Ohio, May 12. Unac j companied by guards, convicts, com posing the Ohio Penitentiary baseball I team, will go to the American associa ! tion baseball park here Thursday, to I play an amateur local team. I So far as is known by Columbus pri json olficials, it will be the first game j ever played by a team of convicts out ! side of prison walls and without the j presence of armed guards. Proceeds i from the game will go to local charity. Paul Helt'ner, serving an indeter j minate term from Loraine county for j nonsupport, will pitch for the prison team, and Percy Hanley, Hamilton county robber, will catch. Other mem bers of the prison team include burg lars, forgers and would-be murderers. TWO ARE KILLED WHEN FAST TRAIN JUMPS TRACK By Associated Press Raleigh. N. C., May 12. A flag ] man and a negro fireman were killed when the Seaboard Air Line's New York-Florida express was derailed at Mansion last night. Engineer Ste ! phenson, of Raleigh, was scalded. No | passengers were injured. DUTCH SAILORS MUTINY ; Amsterdam, May 12. Mutiny has! ] broken out on board three Dutch bat-1 tleships at Java, according to dls-; patches from Batavia to the Tel'egraaf. I IThree hundred sailors deserted the 1 ships and paraded t lie streets of Welt- I vreden. a suburb of Batavia. The sol-' diers of the garrison captured 60 of! tl.e mutineers who have beun pun ished. j PHILA. ORCHE OPENS CITY CHORAL SOCIETY . m iMAY EBREY, HOT* Soprano Soloist Who Wi II Sing in "Atonement." Before a crowded house, the Phila- 1 Fred Wolle, of Bethlehem, will render delphia orchestra, under the direc-1 Coleridge-Taylor's "Atonement." as tion of Leopold Stokowski. gave a | sisted by the Philadelphia orchestra, symphony concert In the Orpheum the-j and Mrs. May Ebrey I lotsoprano; ater. as the opening of the annual | Earle Waldo Marshall, tenor, and Spring music festival of the Harris-. Henry llotz, bass. burg Choral Society. | At the symphony concert this after- The orchestra arrived in the city noon the orchestra was enthusiast.ical thls morning from Syracuse together iy received, and from Indications a with distinguished soloists and held record crowd will be present this even a rehearsal at 10 o'clock. The re- ing when the Choral Society sings hearsal was a concert in Itself and "Atonement." everything is complete for the big Assisting the Philadelphia soloists choral concert this evening when the society, under the direction of Dr. J. | [Continued on Page 11] D. P. & S. STORE VOLUNTEERS FOR CITY BEAUTIFUL i ~ Wm. 11. Bennethum, Sr., Heartily Commends Flower box Campaign j The big department store of Dives, i Pomeroy and Stewart, extending for ; almost a half bloek along Market i street and a full half block deep in | Fourth, joined the Telegraph Porch i and Window Box Campaign this i morning. Wm. H. Bennethum, Sr.. general j manager, said he had the matter un | <ler consideration for some time and I was only waiting until his carpenters | and painters connected with the store had time to get the work under way before announcing his intention. Mr. j Bennethum has been identified with i every movement in recent years for the betterment of conditions in Har risburg and he said to-day that It gave him great pleasure to enroll the firm I of Dives, Pomeroy and Stewart in this city beautiful movement. He person ally went over the ground with the carpenters and decorators to-day and J Kave orders that the work lie rushed. He said that from the manner in which the store's /supply of window boxes lias been selling he feels sure that. Harrisburg is going to be well decorated with plants and flowers dur ing the coming summer. The addition jof this big store to those that will have flower boxes this year will add greatly to the appearance of the busi | ness district during the summer months. | The first window boxes In the downtown district appeared yester day. They were set up by the Berry ! hill Nursery in front of the offices of | the Tlarrisburg Feed and Grain Com pany, 14 South Market Square, and were conspicuous there to-day. James M. Barker who ordered the boxes to be placed, said he is greatly pleased with them and hopes to see all Mar ket Square a mass of bloom before very long. Among those who announced to-day that they will enter the campaign are: Mrs. White, 208 Nortii Third street. Mrs. Ralph J. Baker, 2011 North Second street. Mrs. H. C. Kunkle, 2013 North Sec ond street. DR. WHITE INAUGURATED By Associated Press Wooster. Ohio. May 12. Dr. J. Campbell White, for ten years head of the laymen's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada, was Inaugurated president of Wooster Col lege to-day. POI.ICE WATCH CYCI.ISTS City police, owing to the number of minor accidents, for which reckless bl- j cyclists are largely responsible, have ' been instructed by Chief of Police J I Thomas 55e1l to keep a close watch on all riders of these vehicles and to en- ' force the law requiring them to sound 1 a warning at street Intersections. GERMAN COMPOSER DEAD By Associated Press Amsterdam, May 12.—The Tripsin j Tageblatf announces the death of Di.j M;.\ lleger. one «f the leading con temporary German cuiuyoaera, j GREEKS LEAD ROMANS AT 4 O'CLOCK Greeks lead the Romans, 37 to 30 at the Academy in the annual track meet held this afternoon, with six events still to be run off. Jack Froehlich has broken the broad jump record with over 19 feet. Philadelphia, May 12.—A contract for 75 freight loco motives of the Mikado type for £he Pennsylvania Railroad lines east of Pittsburgh has been awarded the Baldwin Locomotive Works, it was announced to-day. The order represents an expenditure of $3,000,000. Washington, May 12.—President Wilson left this after noon for a week-end trip down the Potomac river on the yacht Mayflower. He expects to return to the capital late Sunday night or early Monday morning. Amicable proceedings to determine whether actual proof of the death of a husband and father must be pre sented before payment may be made under the State's mother's pension system were begun in the Dauphin county court to-day at the instance of the board of trustees of the Philadelphia mothers' pension fund. GET MEXICANS WHO KILLED AMERICAN Brownsville, Tex., May 12.—Three Mexicans who killed Curtis: Bsyles, an American, near Mercedes, Texas, last night, were surrounded to-day, one was killed and the other two ciiptUFed according to a report received to-day at Fort Brown. BANDITS IN ANOTHER RAID Tucson, Ariz., May 12.—Mexican bandits are reported to have raided Polaris, a mining camp, seven miles below Lochicl, on the border yesterday, driving out the Americans who escaped to Nogales in Automobiles. Colonel Sage, commandant at Nogales, sent a company of infantry and twenty cavalrymen to guard Lochiel, Washington camp and other towns on the American side. CARRANZA TROOPS CHASE RAIDERS Washington, May 12.—The State Department received woid late to-day that General Trevino had ordered 1500 Carranza cavalry and infantry toward the border to pursue the bandits responsible for the recent raids at Glenn Springs and Boquillas, Texas. MARRIAGE LICENSES •lolui Da* id KUiiHine nml Kntlirr Kl|-/.«bcth Smith, city# 22 PAGES CITY EDITION YEGGMEN BLOW POST OFFICE AND MAKE BIG HAUL Lililz Boused by Two Heavy Explosions; Town Watch man Captured CET SI,OOO IN STAMPS Take -B;ig Willi Begistered Mail; "Not Bobbing Poor Man bul Uncle Sam" Hy Associated I'rest Lancaster, Ha., May 12.—While one of their number held the town's night watchman. I'hauncey Krclder, at the point of :i revolver, ycggnien blew the safe in the post office at latitat early thih inorrting. The townspeople were aroused by two heavy explosions which wrecked the building, but before their capture could bo effected they had escaped, taking with them the night watchman. Kreider was hurried about a mile and a half into the country I efore the yegg ' men released him with a flourish of jthiir revolvers and a command to I "beat it." Hetween S7OO and SI,OOO in stamps and money was taken from the safe, in addition to a mail bag containing registered mail. "Wo are not robbing a poor man. but Uncle Sam,'' the robbers told tlio v atchintin. 6,000 Delegates at Big Y. M. C. A. Convention By Associated Press Cleveland, Ohio. May 12. With 1 Grays Armory tilled to capacity by the six thousand attending delegates, the thirty-ninth triennial international corvention of the Young Men's chris tian Association was called to order ai j 10.80 a. in. to-day. IlKCORI) I'KH'K I OH WOOL By Associated Press Pendleton. Ore., May 12.—What Is , sail! iiere to be the highest price ever paid in the Pacific Northwest for Wool. [ 30 cents a pound, was received by twn | sheep companies, it was learned to day.
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