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HARRISBURG d9»l TELEGRAPH
LXXXV— No. 117
WORK OF CLEARING
EXTENSION ZONE IS
TO BE HURRIED
Removal of Hickok Plant i
Building to Be Followed
by Survey
STUDENTS MAY DO IT
Landscape Plans Will Be|
Worked Out For Action by
Legislature
Demolition of the old plant of Ihe
Hickok Manufacturing Company to j
make room for the extension of Capitol
Park is to be started within a few days j
under the direction of the State au- j
thorlties and will he followed rapidly i
by removal of other structures so that j
before summer is far advanced not j
only will a very fair idea of what the ,
extension will look like be obtainable, i
but people passing on trains will be j
able to see the Keystone State Capitol.
It will be the realization of hopes of j
many people throughout Pennsylvania I
for years, as the proposition to give j
the State House an adequate setting
had as many supporters outside of ihls
county a* in it. and probably more
When the Hickok plant shall have I
disappeared and progress made on
other buildings along the railroad
frontage it is expected that the survey j
of the extension district will be i
started.
Students May Do Work
The question of the survey of the
park to get ideas of the topography,
the highways, trolley lines, irees and
other matters which must be taken
into account in making up an estimate
for the next legislature to pass upon
for expert landscape gardening was
considered at the recent meeting of
the Board of Public Grounds and
Buildings and will likely lie taken up
at the special meeting to be held bc
forr the end of the month.
The survey, as pointed out in the
Telegraph on Saturday, will be the
first step in the permanent Improve
ment of the extension district, a pro
gram which is to be started next year.
The Capitol Park Extension Commis
sion has done such excellent work that
although it has until June 1. next
year, to finish its task, practically
every building lias been secured, op
tioned or Is In negotiation, while a few
people have taken the question of
■ ■ ice into court.
One of the propositions is to have
State College students do the work of
surveying, the State to pay the actual
expenses. Another Is to have some
departmental staffs do the engineer
ing but It is possible that the board
may do the work itself.
Will lie Comprehensive
The survey will not be merely of
the extension district, but will be com
prehensive. In addition to workincr out
the Information for 'he proper treat
ment of the extension the engineers
will prepare plans for the improve
ments which Governor Brumbaugh
has in mind and which he discussed
with the City Planning Commission
and citizens. These plans, which also
have the support of State officials gen
erally, will include the widening of
Walnut street and North street to 100
feet and the treatment of the Third
street side of the park by abandoning
Ihe sidewalk on the park side °nd
establishing a new walk from Walnut
to North streets. Provision will be
niade as well for the adornment of
was figured when the bill for park ex
tension was passed.
Estimates of the cost of the land
scape and other work will be made up
for the of Public Grounds and
Buildings and incorporated by Gov
ernor Brumbaugh in his next message
tn the legislature. The State has se
cured In the park extension an im
mensely valuable asset, greater rhon
figured when the bill for park exten
sion was passed.
J J. HIM- RF.CO VF.RIXG
By Associaftil Press
St. Paul, May 23. Although James
J. Hill's condition is not entirely satis
factory he is reported to-day to be re
( uverlng slowly from an illness which
has kept him at his home several days.
A member of the household said he
"was getting along quite well." Busi
ness associates expect him to he at his
office this week.
THE WEATHER
For Hnrrifttnirje and vlcinlt?)
< loudj and minirnbnl warmer to
night! tVrdnrminr portly i-louri<r.
For Kuatrrn Prnmivhanliii Cloudy
.ind warmer to-night: AYednevtlay
linrtly cloud}; iiKHlemte i.Ci
e«l»t nml Mouth winds.
River
1 lu- Suaquelibniia liver r.,i.l !♦»
main liritneheN will rlar, except
the loner portion of the mnln
river, n hirh w ill remain nearly
Htatlonary or fail slowly to-night,
anil tile Juniata and Chemung
river* anil the upper portion* ot
the \iirlh mid Went liranehe*.
Which will prnhnhly hegln to fall
to-night or Wrdnraiiay. .1 atnge
of abimt SJS feet is indicated for
Harrinhuric Wednesday morning.
Oenerol Conditions
The western disturbance IN now
central over Manitoba, hittingile
erenxed somewhat In strength
slnee last retort. A secondary
disturbance has nppeareil over
Northern tieorgla. Knln has fallen
generally over the Kastern half
of the country in the last twenty
four hours, being heavy in l.oulnl
ans, Alabama, JS'orth Georgta,
East Tennessee and U eatern
North ( arollnn.
«t is somewhat cooler In the Middle
Atlantic and New England state*,
the St. l.awrenee Valley and
nlong the northern border of the
"ireat f.ake* and In a few locali
ties In the West.
Temperature: "» a. m., »o.
Sun: Rise*. 1i43 a. in.: *et«. 7:20
i>. in.
Mnont New moon. May 31, 2:37
a. ni.
River «tagei 5.2 feet aboie low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Hlghe*t temperature, (K,
l.oweat temperature. S|,
Mean temperature, ."(8.
formal temperntare, 64.
nv ctßiiiEH n CENTS A WEEK.
SIKGI.E COPIES 2 CENTS.
TO BARE HEADS
FIVE MINUTES ON
MEMORIAL DAY
Veterans Will Pay Silent
Tribute to Dead Com
rades
PLAN 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Program For Big Reunion of
State G. A. R. June 6-8
Announced
"Five minutes (or memories" will
be observed by G. A. R. men through
out the State May 30, Memorial Day,
and Grand Army men in this city will
do their part in paying: tribute to the
dead. The suggestion has been made
by the Civil War veterans that the
citizens of Harrisburg generally take
part in this observance.
Orders have been issued by Col
onel C. F. Gramllck, commander of
the Department of Pennsylvania, to
G. A. R. men in this city and ap
proximately 18,000 throughout the
State representing every town and
hamlet, as well as the larger cities,
that the striking of the noon hour on
Memorial Day will be the signal for
the baring of heads as a silent tribute
to the memory of their comrades In
arms more than half a century ago.
In this city the noon hour will find
most of the G. A. R. men In the
cemeteries, strewing flowers on the
graves of the boys in blue who are
gone—and there they will stand at at
tention for Ave minutes with bared
heads.
School children will also pay tribute
to the veterans. On Monday veterans
will make their rounds of the schools
and will tell the children of the war.
Plan 5(1 tli Anniversary
Plans for the fiftieth anniversary of
the (5. A. R. of Pennsylvania to be
held in this city June ti to 8 are fast
Hearing completion. Headquarters will
be established at the Commonwealth
Hotel where post commanders will re
port with their credentials, prelimin
ary to the opening of the encamp
ment.
At 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon,
June 7, the veterans will assemble at
Second and State streets to form In
line for the parade which will move
promptly at two o'clock, to move down
State to Front, down Front to Mar
ket; to Fourth and counter march in
Market street and dismiss at Front
street.
Immediately after the dismissal of
the procession the encampment will
convene in the Chestnut street hall
to explain the unwritten work of the
O. A. R. that took place 50 years ago.
In this discussion the feats that oc
curred BO years ago will be made
clear.
The annual business session will be
held Thursday. A session will be held
in the morning and one in the after
noon. At the afternoon session offi
cers will be elected.
At 8 o'clock in the evening there
will be an open caniptire In Tech High
School Auditorium, under the aus
pices of the Harrisburg Posts. Ad
dresses will be made by Commander
in-Chief Elias R. Monfort and Past
Commander-in-Chief Thomas J. Stew
art. Mayor Meals will make the ad
dress of welcome. Other local speak
ers are J. E. B. Cunningham, former
Deputy Attorney General; Dr. J. Geo.
Becht, secretary of the State Board
of Education: Henderson Gilbert, ex
president of the Chamber of Com
merce. The committee is making ef
forts to secure other prominent local
men to speak.
The committee on credentials is
composed of the following: Assistant
Adjutant General Sami. P. Town;
Ofeorge W. Rhoads. Post No. SS; D. S.
Reemer. Post No. 139: B. J. foil. Post
No. 157; John N. Reeber, Post No.
191. They will report to the Assistant
Adjutant General on Tuesday, June
6tli, at 3:30 p. m.
Shoes Will Soon Advance
Another Dollar in Price
Special to the Telegraph
Philadelphia, Pa., May 23. A con
ference of the National Retail Shoe
Dealers' Association and .illied organ
izations will be held in the Chamber
of Commerce rooms next Thursday. A
billion d Jllars in manufacturer will be
represented. The object of the con
ference is to bring together the lead
ing men of the leather trade and ar
ranee to obviate the chaotic condition
in trie trade. Since the beginning' of
the war, according to A. C. McGowin,
president of this association, shoes
have advanced a dollar in price and
soon will advance another dollar.
Lloyd's Report Sinking
of Three Big Vessels
By Associated Press
London. May 23. Lloyd's ship
ping agency to-day reported the sink
ing of three ships, a Greek and a
British steamer and an Italian sail
ing vessel.
MOVES NEW VOTE OF CREDIT
London. May 23. ln moving the
vote of credit for $300,000,000, as had
been forecast in the House of Com
mons to-day, Premier Asquith com
mented that this was the eleventh vote
since the beginning of the war and
the second for the current financial
year. The total granted this year, he
added, was therefore f 800,000,000
making a grand total of £2,382,-
000,000.
Workman Electrocuted
at Central I. & S. Plant
Workmen In the universal mills of
the Central Iron and Steel Company
plant shortly before noon to-day saw
Matthew Feigie, 850 Mohn street,
Steelton, lying across several high
power feed wires in the plant. The
current was turned off at once and
Feigle was brought to the ground.
Efforts made to revive him by using
the pulmotor fßile<i and the man was
taken to the Harrisburg Hospital,
where nhysiclinr, pronounced him
dead. Coronet Eckinger has started
an investigation U nd may hold an
inquest.
HARRISBURG, PA.. TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1916.
\ TRIAL OF SELF-CONFESSED POISONER BEGINS |
*■ >
New Tork, May 23.—The trial of Dr. Arthur Warren Walte, self-conftssed
prisoner of his father-in-law and mother-in-law is well under way. The
dentist-sportsman is taking: the trial calmly and yesterday dozed during the
proceedings. To-day he sat with head bowed.
MANY WITNESSES
AGAINST WAITE
Medical Men, Studio Compan
ion and Relatives of Wife
in Court
By Associated Press
New York. May 23.—0r. Victor C.
Vaughn, dean of the Medical Depart
ment of the University of Michigan, at
Ann Arbor, was the first witness call
ed to-day in the trial of Arthur W.
Waite for murdering his father-in
law.
Mrs. Dorothy Van Palmenberg, for
mer intimate friend of Mrs. Margaret
Horton, with whom Waite shared a
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MERGER CLAUSE
GOES BACK AGAIN
Telephone Company's Original
Ordinance Omitted Rcstric
tive Provision
Another underground wire ordin
jance containing the original merger
I restriction clause has been submitted
for Council's consideration by the
i Cumberland Valley Telephone Com
ipanv as a substitute for the measure
offered a week ago.
The tlrst ordinance amended the old
| Cumberland Valley franchise measure
:in such a way as to authorize the
Western Union Telegraph Company to
use the telephone company's under
ground conduits. This would mean
the eventual clearing of the telegraph
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DR. G. M. ECKELS,
DRUGGIST, DIES
Former Member of State Legis
lature, and Mechanicsburg
Councilman
Special to the Telegraph
Mechanicsburg", Pa.. May 23. Dr.
George Morris Eckels, member of the
firm of Eckels Brothers, druggists,
died at his home, 36 East Main street,
this morning after a long illness from
a complication of diseases. Dr.
Eckels was 59 years old and was born
,in Mechanicsburg April 29, 1557.
; About thirty years ago, with his
brother, he started the drug business
j here and was engaged in it until 1915
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WASHINGTON HEIGHTS PEOPLE
! COMMUNITY MEETIINt; TO-NIGHT
Residents of Washington Heights
will meet at the schoolhouse this eve
[ning to discuss tlie matter of annexa
tion to Camp Hill or the creation of
a separate borough. The community
has been growing very rapidly during
the past few years and many of its
property owners feel that their inter
ests are not best conserved by town
ship government.
20 PER CENT. PROFIT ON SILVER
By Associated Press
Manila, May 23. Jeremiah L.
Manning, insular treasurer returned
to-day from China, where he con
cluded negotiations for the sale to the
Indian government of 1,500,000 pesos
at a profit to the insular government
of 20 per cent. The bullion will be
shipped immediately. British officials
taking over the coin at Manila.
ENDORSE PROHIBITION
By Associated Press
Birmingham, Ala., May 23. A
constitutional amendment for federal
prohibition was endorsed by the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church at its
eighty-sixth general assembly here to
daj>
CHARGES AGAINST
PRESBYTERY HANG
Committee Fails to Reacli Con
clusion After All-night i
Secret Session
Hy .-Issociatt'd Press
Atlantic City, N\ J., May 23.—The
hopes of 900 commissioners attending I
the Presbyterian General Assembly
who had been informed by members I
of the New York Presbytery t,hat the
all-important question of Union Semi
nary and its alleged departure from ■
the tenets of Presbyterianisni would
be amicably settled to-day without dis
cussion vanished this morning when j
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SOCIAL CENTERS I
QUITE FEASIBLE
Edward J. Ward Points Out
Good Which Can Be
Accomplished
By ANNA 11. \VOOI>.
Edward J. Ward, known as the "so
cial engineer" and connected with the
National Bureau of Education in
Washington, D. told the people of
Harrisburg in the assembly room of
the Public Library last evening of the
great good which could be accomplish
ed by the establishment of community
centers in the public school buildings,
tie varied his accounts and figures of
what had been done in other cities
with humorous anecdotes and feasible
plans for beginning such work here.
Mr. Ward was introduced by A. Car
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TELEGRAPH BLDG.
IN FLOWER GARB
Spring Dress of Windowboxcs
Is Donned Week Early
This Year
The Telegraph Building bloomed
forth this morning like a huge bou
quet. The Telegraph believes in the
gospel of a more beautiful Harris
burg and yfcars before it prescribed
perch and window boxes as a remedy
for the dreary sameness of city streets
in summer time it took a big' dose of
its own medicine and was so pleased
with the results that it has continued
the Spring tonic of vines and flowers
ever since. Usually the Telegraph
building is decorated on the night pre
ceding Memorial Day, but this season
the florists in charge have been so
busy that the work had to be done
ahead of schedule, in order that late
applicants for wlndowboxes might not
be disappointed.
As the Spring opens, the window
and porch box campaign grows stead
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Reading at New High Price
Feature of Stock Exchange
New ork. May 23.—Heading was'
again the sensational feature of the
stock exchange to-day, advancing in
the first few minutes to 110% a point I
over Its previous best price. A week!
ago Heading sold as low as 90 Vj and
early in the year its minimum quo- 1
tation was 75 %. The Reading trad- !
ing pool was surrounded at to-day's
opening by scores of brokers, most of
whom had buying orders. From its'
new high price Beading fell hack to
109%, recovered to above no and i
again reacted to 109%, a fraction I
under yesterday's close.
Other standard rails were taken up !
particularly Union Pacific, Southern
Pacific. St. Paul, New York Central.
Baltimore and Ohio, Atchison, Louis
ville and Nashville and Atlantic Coast
1-lne. at gains of 1 to almost Z points
the HarrJUxums ljadlpg.
30,000 TROOPS NEARLY ALL OF
OF CARRANZA TO FORT DOUAUMONT
GUARD BORDER WON BY FRENCH
Ordered Into District South of
Line to Exterminate
Bandits
ALREADY ON THE MOVE
Retirement of Co. Sibley's Ex
pedition Expected to Have
Beneficial Results
By Associated Press
Washington, D, C„ May 23.—The
Carranza government has ordered
30,000 troops into the region south of
! the border to exterminate bandits, ac
cording to information received to-day
at the State Department. The new j
troop movements are already In prog- j
ress through Chihuahua.
Anticipate Delay
Officials here were inclined to-dav to
' anticipate a further delay by General
Carranza in dispatching his new note
regarding the border situation. It has ]
been assumed the note would in some
measure be a reply to representations
sent after the Glenn Springs and 150- ,
quilla raids. Prompt withdrawal of,
the Sibley expedition when It reached
the end of the trail probably will have
a beneficial effect on future nego
tiations.
Vernon Widder Takes
Highest Honor at Central
, Honor students of the senior class
'nf the Central High school were an
\ nounced at the chapel exercises at
I noon to-day. They are as follows:
j Vernon Widder, 1)6.02; Miss Margaret to
! Yoder. *93.2.8; Miss Florence Rinken
bach, 9?.12; Miss Marjorie Hause,
i 92.92; Miss Margaret Campbell, 92.44;
Horace Nunemaker, 92.25; Miss Cath
erine Lewis, 92.13; James Mennaugh,
91.98; Miss Elizabeth Sykes. 91.37; Miss
! Ethel Bufllngton, 91.09; Miss Marlon
i
; Bretz, 90.04; Miss Helen Kelley, 90.19.
| The speakers selected for the com
j inencement exercises are Vernon Wid
der, Miss Margarette Voder, Miss Flor
j ence Rlnkenbach, Miss Marjorie Hause
J and Horace Nunemaker.
Tries to End Life After
Visit to Father's Grave
Miss Ada Hart, aged 18, 1008 South
; Cameron street, attempted to commit
suicide this morning at her home by
drinking iodine. Members of the fam
; ily administered antidotes until the
ambulance arrived and the girl was
taken to the Harrisburg Hospital. She
is expected to recover. On the way
lo the hospital the girl told the police
that she had visited her father's grave
yesterday and upon returning to her
home became despondent.
To Discuss Consolidation of
State and Atlantic Leagues
Consolidation of the Pennsylvania
State and Atlantic Leagues, the sea
i son to start June 1, will be the propo
: sitlon submitted to-night at a meet
ins: lo be held at Hotel Plaza. It IS
Leo Uroomes plan for settlement of
further flt.anclal and territorial
! troubles, and is favored by Harris
burg. Lancaster, Reading and Sha
mokln of the State organization. On
the Lawson side favoring the new
i i organization is said to be A 1 Lawson,
I Allentown, Wilmington and Paterson.
if this scheme is successful, Hank
Ramsey will move to Laurer's Park at
1 Reading. Paterson will be transferred
to Mt. Carmel, Allentown and Wilm
ington will be added to make up the
eight-club circuit.
An Associated Press dispatch from
j Lancaster, mentions Pottsvllle, Phtl
lipsburg and Easlon as newcomers to
the league, but Leo Groome said he
would not agree to any plan except
; what h proposed.
Col. Sibley's Troops Are
Back From Mexican Wilds
By Associated Press
Washington. May 23. Outstand
ing facts in the Mexican situation to
day were these:
Colonel Sibley's four cavalry troops
which entered Mexico nearly two
weeks ago in search of the Glenn
Springs and Roqulllas bandit raiders.
' were back at the border without
casualties, having penetrated 186 miles
Into unknown country over bad roads.
They rescued two Americans and
brought back five prisoners.
Marlon Letcher, American consul
: at Chihuahua City was due to arrive
! in Washington to-day with a full re
i port on economic conditions In
' Northern Mexico. Officials under
stand conditions are bad.
At. Mexico City the Carranze Gov
! ernment was preparing another note
1 to be rllspntched to the United States
which may contain renewal of the de
mand for withdrawal of American
j troops.
Officers of the Judge advocate gen
eral's office were examining the nilll
tary law to determine whether in their
opinion, 116 memhers of the Texas
National Guard are subject to court
martial for refusing to take the
mustering oath to enter Federal serv
| ice.
ARMORBI) Al'TO HKHI-)
j. Enroute to San Francisco on a trans
continental tour, mi armed automobile
, stopped in this city to-dav. The ma
chine is sent out by the Eight Infantry.
M. V. The machine is completely ar
mored and It carries a machine' gun
and an aircraft gun. 11 has room for
three men, and is capable of making
forty miles a* bpur over rough roada.
Germans Driven From All but
Small Angle of Stronghold
in Fierce Attacks
GAS AND FLAME FUTILE
! .
Crown Prince Unable to Pene
trate Trenches on Other
Side of Meuse
The dramatic surprise sprung by
the French yesterday in attacking '.he
Germans northeast of Verdun and 1
penetrating Fort Douaumont has been
successfully followed up by Genera!
N'ixelles forces. The Germans have ;
i ?£2i„ b 1 en /! rlven fro »' all but a small
<\ * l n } e nor theastern corner of
; the fort, this afternoon's bulletin from
Paris claims.
1 Furious counter attacks have been I
| made by the Germans in efforts to re- I
Kum the trenches along the mile and
a , c Ji larter fron t extending from east i
of 1-ort Douaumont to the Thiaumont I
I n?. 1 '" 1, cn Ptured in yesterday's assault. [
only success of the Germans, ac- 1
j cording to Paris, however, was the re- !
of a P° a "ion to the north of
| the Thiaumont farm.
t'w; (ias and Flame
, 2 1 , 1 \ ho fe^her - sidp of the Meuse the
, battle lias lost nothing in the intensity !
j which has characterized it for the last I
: da> or two. but no ground \ias changed
hands as a result, the French official
statement asserts. Gas and (lame at
tacks were made by the Germans near !
Hill 304, one of the dominating heights
in this region, but they were driven I
at once from the only French trench
which they succeeded in penetrating.
Austrian* (Gaining
The latest official bulletins on the
fighting along the Austro-Itaiian front j
indicate that the Austrian* are con-'
tinning to gain ground in their drive
; in the Southern Tyrol.
The current Austrian report claims
I important successes on the
: plateau, east of the Astico Valley. The
j official statement from Home, while
recording the repulse of Austrian at-
I tacks in other sectors. «s silent as to
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GIVEN ORDKR OF BLACK EAGLE I
By Associated Press
London. May 23. Clemens Del-1
1 hrueck, who resigned as minister of
the Interior on the plea of ill health, j
has been decorated by the Emperor j
; with the Order of the Black Eagle,
! according to advices from Berlin.
!n lift i« HONOR STUDENTS 1 "Sf
Harrisburg.—Honor members of the liarrisburg Teach- 1
ers Training Class were named to-day as follows: Miss Jb
Louise Auchinbaugh, Miss Margaret Murray, Miss Mary 1
Black, Miss Esther Wieseman, and Miss Bessie Bennett. i
METHODISTS ENDORSE SUFFRAGE V.
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., May 23.—The Rev. Alexander £
flp ;
P. Camphor, of Birmingham, Ala., was elected negro mis- 4 v
iionary bishop for Liberia, Africa, by the Methodist General I
I Conference, On the motion of Federal Judge Henry W. Ir
Ro. e.s, of New Haven, Conn., a resolution was adopted 1
amid applause indorsing woman suffrage. Only six dc!c- 9
gates voted in opposition. f /
AMBLER TO SUCCEED JOHNSON? «
Harrisburg.—lt was reported at the Capitol to-day 1
Governor Br.: was giving j rrious consideration t;■ a {
the suggestion ox appointment of Speaker Charles A. Am'-- i
ler, of Montgomery, to succeed Charles Johnson as incur- ( >
J ance c< | j
A afternoon and the report could not be confirmed.
| SCHWAB FREE TO ACQUIRE PA. STEEL CO. ' '
i* Newark, N. J., May 23.—Judge Rellstab in the Federal
Court rere to-day denied the application of Clarence H.' '
Venner for an injunction to enjoin the acquisition of the |
Pennsylvania Steel Company's properties by the Bethlehem * » j
Steel Corporation, The restraining order issued recently
was vacated. The decision leaves the Bethlehem corpor ■ '
1 ation free to proceed with the acquisition of Pennsylvania
& Steel. ' '
I Washington, May 23.—President Wilson to-day nom
1 i inated James Houlihan, of Pittsburgh, as appraiser of me- *
chandise in District No. 12. B. F. Davis, of Lancaster, Pa.. ;
was nominated as collector of internal revenue in'the Nir h 1 J
District.
Washington, May 23.—President Wilson sent to the | ►
State Department to-day the completed draft of the new
note to Great Britain protesting against interference with . >
American mails.
, Harrisburg.—John Fackler, struck by an auto .Friday,
< j died to-day. ' '
, ( MARkIIAG E UCtNSLS «?
I I'nul Hfrnmn llrucltl, city, nnil Mnrgnret (ienevleve t nmphell, Stcelton. <
I 1 Inrenee M. HopfUfll anil Uarrlrl Itolilftnun, eity.
I Ko»« Weiley Gumpfr, Penbrook, and Kthrl M. Valentine, Progren. C?
CITY EDITION
14 PAGES
ROOT OR HUGHES
FOR PRESIDENT IS
VIEW OF LEADERS
But It Is Conceded That Roose
velt's Voice Will Be Weighty
at Chicago
MAY DICTATE PLATFORM
Colonel Meets Friends at Home
and Takes Fling at
Hughes
Advices from Washington and New
York seem to indicate the nomination
\ of Root or Hughes as the Republican
candidate for the Presidency. These
reports go further—they involve an
agreement between Colonel Roosevelt
; and the political leaders of the Re
publican party which contemplate*
the selection of Root should the
Colonel's nomination be Inadvisable
and a pledge to support Roosevelt at
the expiration of the Root term.
Always keeping in mind the advent
1 of a "dark horse" these prognostica
tors believe that before the convention
opens the impossibility of a inajorit}
for any candidate except Root oi
! Hughes will be brought home to those
who have the nominating power. •
They believe that Mr. Root's fidelity
to the party and the knowledge of
where he stands on every issue now
before tl"2 country are goint; into con
test with Justice Hughes' coldness to
organization methods and the doubt
that exists as to where he stands on
national and international question*.
The Root adherents choose to believe
that their candidate will be the benc
i ficiary of the final analysis of availa
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Cummins Unopposed in la.;
Many Voting For Roosevelt
By Associated Press
St. Paul. Minn., May 23.—Senator
Albert B. Cummins, of lowa, was un
opposed on the Republican presiden- i
tial ballot in the South Dakota >»rl
mary to-day. but in many sectlon.-
voters declared their intention of writ- j
ling in the name of Colonel Roosevelt. I
President Wilson was unopposed on 1
the Democratic ticket.
The Democratic delegates will go to
! the national convention pledged to
1 Wilson. The Republicans, while
pledged to Cummins as first choice
i will go to the national convention with
| the understanding they are free to act •
individually If it becomes apparan:
Cummins cannot be nominated.