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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
.
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* 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.