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HARRISBURG ||§ll||t TELEGRAPH
LXXXV— No. 178
U-BOAT PLAYING
HIDE AND SEEK
FAR OUT AT SEA
Deutsehland Submerges Mile
Off Capes and Is Unobserved
by Allied Warships
CHEERS FOR AMERICANS
Last Act of Crew Refore Going
Under; Will Pass Through
English Channel
By Associated Press
Norfolk, Va., Aug. 3.—Somewhere
out in the Atlantic to-day the German
merchant submarine Deutschland and
allied warships were believed to be
playing hide and seek as the undersea
boat sped homeward after passing out
the Virginia Capes last night.
The Deutschland submerged a mile
off the coast shortly before 9 o'clock
and so far as known here was un
observed by the allied warship patrol
guarding the canes against her escape.
One of the last acts of Captain
Koenig and his crew, according to
Captain Hinsch, of the tug Timmins,
which acted as her convoy from Balti
more to the capes, was to stand on
the deck of the submersible and give
three rousing cheers for America and
the American people.
The final dash was virtually without
incident. Eighteen miles up the Chesa
peake bay, at the crossing of the Old
Point and Cape Henry channels, the
submarine began to gather speed and
soon was hurrying toward the Atlantic.
Carried False Upper Works
As the Deutschland approached the
sea it was apparent she was carrying
false superstructure, sligntly lower
than hir conning tower. It was straw
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General Strike on All Transit
Lines of New York Is Now
Regarded as Imminent
By Associated Press
New York, Aug. 3. A strike of
street railway employes tieing up every
surface line in Manhattan, the Bronx
and Queens county seemed inevitable
to-day. The leaders of the union re
cently organized and the employes to
day delivered an ultimatum to the
railway companies giving them until
to-morrow to grant their demands and
efforts to-day by Mayor Mitchel to
bring about arbitration failed.
Heads of the various traction com
panies are reported to be united in
a decision to refuse to grant the de
mands of leaders of the street railway
men's union for recognition and in
creased pay. The union organizers
are making every effort to extend
their organization and the railway of
ficials are preparing for a strike.
Their plan is said to be to bring
thousands of strike-breakers from
other cities.
The only hope held out to-day of
avoiding a strike on the many surface
lines operated by the New York Rail
ways Company within 4 8 hours was
the slender one that either the com
pany or the union men would yield.
Prior to the hour set for the meet
ing between representatives of the
traction companies and union heads
at Mayor Mitchell's office, William B.
Fitzgerald, general organizer of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employes an
nounced that demands in behalf of
the employes of the New York Street
Railways Company and the New York
and Queens Railway Company would
be presented to the companies to-day
and that they would be given until
6 p. m. to-morrow to give their ans
wer. If unfavorable, a strike vote
among the employes would be taken,
he said.
THE WEATHER,
For HnrrUburi; nnd vicinity:
Cloudy .mil *iightly warmer to
night; Friday *liowerfc.
For Ka»tern I'ennt.ylvania: Cloudy
to-night. noinewhut warmer; Fri
day Khowersi south to neat
winds.
River
The Susquehanna river and all its
branches will probably continue
' al ' "lowly. \ atage of about
Bjß feet is indicate for Harriitburg
I riilay morning.
. General Condition*
There has been a Keneral rise of 2
to 16 dc&reCN »» temperature
since last report throughout
nearly all the territory pictured
on the map except in the West
ern Canadian provinces, along the
Immediate Middle Atlantic conut
■nd at a few scattered stutlons in
other parts of the country where
slightly lower temperature!, are
reported.
Showers have occurred In the Mis
sissippi and l.ower Missouri val
leys, In Virginia, the Carollnas,
Alabama and over Florida.
Temperature! 8 a. m„ OH.
Suni Rises, S: OH a. m.| sets 7ilß
p. ni.
Moon: First quarter. July 0, 4i06
p. m.
River Stnarei 3.0 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, SO.
Lowest temperature, HO.
Mean temperature, 70.
Korinal temperature, 74.
Getting used to strange
newspapers Is like breaking in
a pair of new shoes—mighty
uncomfortable. Order the
Harrisburg Telegraph mailed
to your vacation address if
you would enjoy real comfort.
Six cents a week will bring
the Telegraph to you no mat*
ter where you are.
BY CARRIERS 6 CENTS A. WEEK,
SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS.
MISSING MILITANT WORKING IN SCULLERY
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New* York, Aug. 3.—Miss Kitty Marion, the famous English suffragist
who disappeared some time ago, has been found in a rooming house of this
city where she is serving as a dishwasher, having been reduced to this ex
tremity by failing to find other work.
Miss Marion came to New York from London at the beginning of the war.
She was a militant member of the Women's Political Union. Few women be
longing to that fighting organization had more strenuous experiences than she.
She was sent to Holloway jail 250 times for taking a leading part in the
women's fight tor political recognition. It was then she was forcibly fed
232 tinies. But. In New York she found it much harder to get food than
it was to dodge it in England.
STRIKERS ASK
GOVERNOR'S AID
Request Chief Executive to Use
Influence For Settlement;
New Disturbances
Labor leaders to-day asked Governor
Martin G. Brumbaugh to help adjust
the differences between the striking
trolleymen and the officials of the Har
risburg RailwayJ Company by arrang
ing a conference, if possible, between
committees representing the carmen
and the company, respectively.
If such a plan of mediation could
not be arranged, the union men asked
that the Governor use his best efforts
toward bringing about an amicable
settlement of the problems by arbi
tration or mediation.
Governor Brumbaugh promised to
take a hand in the matter before even-
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OCTOGENARIAN TO
ADOPT TWO GIRLS
May Inherit Fortune Estimated
at $8,000,000 as Result
of Action
By Associated Press
Chicago, Aug. 3. Captain Edward
W. Morrison, an octogenarian, has ob
tained permission of the county court
to adopt two young girls who some
day may inherit the fortune once es
timated at $8,000,000 left by the cap
tain's father, James W. Morrison, who
died in 1868. The girls are Margaret
Anna Burnstein, aged 16, and Alice B.
Burnstein, aged 10, daughters of Jo
seph Burnstein, owner of a small
store.
Captain Morrison is 82 years old,
and resides with the girls, a caretaker
and a pair of watch dogs in a 70-year
old frame dwelling in the center of
the crowded West Side.
It is asserted that the elder Morri
son's will provided that the son should
have but a life estate in the property,
and that at his death, if he should
have no heirs, approximately $1,000,-
000 should go to certain collateral
heirs of James Morrison, and the re
mainder, some $7,000,000 should be
used in building a great public high
school in Chicago. The will was de
stroyed in the great fire of 1871, but a
copy has been established under court
decree.
Fourteen Scranton Babies
Are Killed by Cucumbers
Scranton. Pa., Aug. 2. Fourteen
children, ranging in ages from 8
months to IV4 years, have died of
cholera morbus in this city in five days.
Dr. G. J. Vanvachten, superintend
ent of the city bureau of health, says
he discovered that all cases resulted
from cucumben being fed to the In
fants. Virtually all of the deaths have
occurred in North Scranton's foreign
colony, and the bureau of health to
day took steps to save other children
reported to be dangerously ill ,
tUTT Y' S?/}/?/QJY
MISS KITTY MARION
CLEVER THEFT OF
AUTO IN SQUARE
Crook Sets Up Job by Tele
phone and Makes Sure of
His Loot
A slick automobile robbery was
puiied off in Market Square yesterday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Ralph W.
Dowdell, sales manager for the Bur
roughs Adding Machine Company,
with offices in the Calder building, is
the victim. His five-passenger Dodge
car was stolen while he was within
hailing distance of his car. The po
lice were nearby and crowds of peo
ple were in the Square. The State
police are making a vigorous search
for the stofen auto.
Yesterday afternoon someone called
Mr. Dowdell's home at 1819 White
hall street, on the telephone and ln-
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GOVERNOR MEETS
STATE OFFICIALS
Talks Over Matters in Regard
to Government and Positions;
Wants the Best Camp
Heads of departments of the State
government thronged Governor Brum
baugh's office to-day discussing with
the chief executive matters connected
with adminstration of their depart
ments, legislative programs and the
prospective removals of people in the
State government "not friendly to the
Governor" last Spring or whose per
iods of usefulness in various ways are
held to be over. It is understood that
some of the chiefs protested against
removals being made and that some
advised waiting until after election
The Governor has left the matter
or removal of State Zoologist Surface
l J p ,t°, the Agricultural Commission,
declining to even discuss it and the
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Cloudburst Believed to
Have Wiped Out Residents
Along Kentucky Stream
By Associated Press
Middlesboro, Ky„ Aug. 3.—Between
15 and 25 persons were drowned and
enormous property damage was sus
tained by a cloudburst nt Blair's Creek
near Tazewell. Tenn., last night, ac
cording to information which luis
reached here to-day.. Telephone mes
sages from there said about one hun
dred persons lived along the ereek and
of these only a few have been account
ed for.
Xlne bodies have been recovered
The region is very rouarli and c om
munication which normally is not of
the best have been practically cut off.
Blairs creek Is ten miles long and
It Is estimated that 150 people lived in
this neighborhood, although only 100
of them are supposed to have l>een
directly in the path of tlio cloudburst,
or endangered by the waters of the
creek overflowing its banks.
HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1916.
GOVERNOR SAYS
"THE TELEGRAPH
BEAT ME TO IT"
Came Home to Endorse Ver
mont Tourist Plan and
Finds Work Done
HARRISBURG GREAT Hl'B
Ambitious to See Capital City
Center of State's Greatest
Road System
The Telegraph beat me to It," said
Governor Brumbaugh smilingly last
night as he read with interest the edi
torial suggesting that Pennsylvania
follow the example of Vermont by Is
suing special invitations to tourists to
visit this State.
"I am home fully meaning to urge
that very thing," re continued. "I have
been touring through the reg.on where
hospitality to the summer tourist, spon
taneous and delightful thought It be,
approaches a busness proposition, as it
ought to In Pennsylvania. I hope the
newspapers will so popularize this
movement that we too will have our
special Invitations.
"I assure you New England, with the
possible exception of the grandeur of
Mt. Washington has nothing to excel
the scenic beauties of Pennsylvania.
"Touring Taxleahn"
"They are going so far In Maine as
•o consider the establishment of a
system of touring automobiles for the
benefit o the visitor, cars to be rented
at $lO a day."
"A kind of touring taxicab," suggest
ed the reporter.
"That's it." agreed the Governor,
"touring taxicabs, and the same plan
ought to be worked out in Pennsylva
nia. both for those who live without
the State and for our own people as
well, for few of our people know as
much of Pennsylvania as they should."
Hnrrlshurg n Hub
Governor Brumbaugh has tome back
from his vacation more enthusiastic for
good roads than ever before, and more
determined than ever to make Harris
burg the hub of a great number of
State highways leading to all parts
of the Commonwealth.
"We must have that loan," he said.
"We cannot make permanent improve
ments out of current revenues and get
anywhere. What we need is a great
system of main highways and feeders,
with hard surfaces flt for use all the
y*ar. Spending money on dirt roads
"will get the State nowhere, but that's
all we can do under the circumstances,
NEAT HIIUHC*
"I believe," the Governor said, "that
In addition to these roads the State
should build and maintain a system of
rest houses at intervals of a hundred
miles or less all along the main high
ways. I would have a road patrolman
and his family live in each and a large
room in each set aside for the use of
the public, with conveniences attached
such as every motorist requires. Pos
sibly the wife of the patrolman would
be permitted to sell light refreshments.
This is a matter that we can take up
later."
City as nnnil Center
The Governor says he is more Im
pressed with Harrisburg as a road cen
ter every time he comes back from
[a trip. "You don't have to climb a
j mountain to get in or out of Harris
burg," he said, "and you can get to
any important center of the State
quickly from here. The railroads real-
I ized that much more quickly than the
j Commonwealth. That is shown by the
fact that you can take an express train
:any afternoon from Harrisburg to al
! most any part of the continent and go
! by a direct route."
No Trace of Bandits
Reported Across Border
Washington, Aug. 3. Major Gen
eral Funston repor'ed to-day that no
trace could be found of the band of
Mexican raiders reported yesterday
to have crossed into American terri
tory near Fort Hancock. His mes
sage follows:
"General Bell makes report that
commanding officer of cavalry sent to
Finlay last night state that he had
locality where 150 Mexicans were re
ported to have been seen, thoroughly
scouted and saw no signs of any raid
ers. General Bell is inclined to be
lieve that the report of presence of
Mexican bands is a mistake."
MAY NEVER TRY CHRIBTLEY
John Christley, 353 South Thir
teenth street, postal clerk, who shot
and killed his wife a montn ago, and
then put a bullet into his head, has
been removed from the Harrisburg
hospital to the county jail. Christley
is not yet strong enough for trial and
will not be formally charged with
murder for at least a week, if then.
The bullet is still in liis brain, and it
is feared an abscess will develop. It Is
the belief of physicians thai Christley
will be deprived of his mental
facilities and may never be in a con
dition to be tried.
WILL NOT KKSIST EMBARGO
Jersey City, X. J., AUK. 3.—The rail
roads entering Jersey City have agreed
not to bring high explosives into their
terminals here and will not resist the
edict of the city commission requiring
an inspection of every freight train en
tering the city, it was announced to
day by Frank Hague, director of pub
lic safety.
SEEKS HEIKS TO MILLIONS
Reading, Pa., Aug. 3.—Joseph A.
Luria. of Xew York, is visttififc Read
ing, seeking heirs to the estate of the
late Poznanski Hoffman, of South
Africa, who died about fifty years ago,
leaving an estate valued at 6,000.000
pounds sterling ($30,000,000).
Mr. Luria culled on Miss Bessie
Abrahams, here, who, it is claimed, is
one of the heirs, as well as her father,
Harry Abrahams. Mr. Luria is look
ing up local records.
8 DEAD; 30 MISSING
Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 3. A dis
patch from Trazewell, Tenn., says
eight people are known to be dead and
30 or more are reported missing, as a
result of a cloudburst on Barren
creek in Claiborne county, which be
gan about 8 o'clock Wednesday night
and continued about 30 minutes. Con
siderable property was damaged and
some destroyed.
FRENCH LAUNCH
ATTACK ALONG
VERDUN FRONT
Hammer Germans Back on
Three-Mile Line an'd Cap
ture Several Trenches
ADVANCE IN FLEURY, TOO
Efforts of Teutons to Regain
Positions in Somme Re
gion Are Futile
The operations along the Somme on
the western front are momentarily
transcended in interest by the situa
tion at Verdun.
Yesterday the French, taking the
offensive, made an attack along a
three-mile front east of the Meuse,
capturing several German trenches
and organizeh points of support.
Paris to-day reports this ground held
against a series of German counter at
tacks delivered last night.
Progress by the French in the
Fleury sector, northeast of the fort
ress, also is announced, together with
the capture of 1100 Germans in the
fighting on the east bank of the river
since August 1.
Soinine Attacks Futile
In the Somme region tne Germans
have made renewed attempts to re
gain the positions they were rorced to
give up to the French in the Monacu
farm sector, near the river on Tuesday
night. These failed, Paris declares,
and the new French positions between
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Ninety Stores Have Now
Joined Saturday Move
Ninety is the present total of Har- ;
risburg stores that have joined in the !
early Saturday closing movement
xVhich will become effective this week,
and continue throughout August, and j
Friday will supplant Saturday as the;
big shopping day of the week. '
Beginning to-morrow, these stores
will remain open all day Fridays and I
Friday evenings and the downtown
busines section will present the usual
Saturday evening blaze of light. Sat- j
urday the stores will close at 1 I
o'clock, and clerks will be given the
first of their day and a half rest per
iods that will be observed each week
during the' present month.
Since the last publication of the list,
the Central Book Store and P. M.
Oyler have joined in the movement.
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WEREN'T THIEVES AT ALL
Just a Couple of Stvnins Returning
from Seeing Tlieir Sweethearts
The supposed pitched battle re
ported to have been fought early this
morning in Camp Hill between the
newly organized Camp Hill vigilance
committee and .1 band of auto thieves
dwindled down to nothing to-day upon
investigation. Two young men of the
borough wero returning home, from
visiting their sweethearts in an auto
mobile when the machine stalled in a
lonely spot just outside the borough
limits. Volunteers who are helping
Special Officer Jnmes Martin guard the
town against jobbery, seeing the ma
chine. thought it belonged to burglars.
They immediately surrounded the car,
but when it was learned that the occu
l pants were members of one of the best
1 families of town they were given a
j hearty handshake and a good-natured
! good-by with apologies for the mis*
take in identity. During the excite
ment several shots were fired from
bedroom windows by frightened house
holders.
ONE MORE COOL NIGHT!
And Then Hariisburg Will Sweat
Onee More
, One more cool night for sleep is the
I weather forecast for to-day. Some
| time between midnight and to-morrow
I morning the temperature, which has
I been rather enjoyable for three days,
j will rise. To-morrow will be warm
land Saturday will be warmer.
I The hot wavo from the west is mov.
| ing slowly eastward. It reached Chi
cago to-day.
MAX SCARRED BY LIGHTNING
Special to the Telegraph
Bloomsburg, Pa., Aug. S. "While
sitting on the porch of his home last
night, Norman Michael was stunned
and badly burned by a flash of light
ning. Neighbors who came to his as
sistance found after he had been re
vived the imprint of a tree stump
with 100 roots burned into his back
in livid red. The physicians say
Michael will recover.
PUBI USHERS SAVE PAPER
Special to the Telegraph
New York. Aug. 3.—"What amounts
to practically a famine In white print
paper" is given as the New York Sun's
reason for making several editions
nonreturnable from newsdealers. A
similar rule prevails on the other big
New York dailies which refuse to take
back unsold copies. All the New York
publishers have announced a decrease
in the size of their papers by 12X
pages a week each.
UNARMED SHIP SUNK
By Associated Press
London, Auf*. 3.—The Cocker Line
steamship Britannic, of 3,587 tons, has
been sunk, it was announced at Lloyds
Shipping Agency to-day. She was un
armed. The British sailing vessel Mar
garet Sutton, 197 tons, also has been
f-unk.
TOSSED UNDER TRAIN; KILLED
By Associated Press
Sr.amokin, Pa., Au. 3.—Trying to
quiet his pair of fractious horses along
side the Reading railway here to-day,
George Smith was tossed by one of
them on the railroad tracks and a
passenger train struck and killed him
Instantly.
PLAGUE REACHES HIGH MARK
By Associated Prist
Xew York, Aug. 3. The epidemic
of infantile paralysis reached the hlg)i
mark to-day in the number of new
cases. The health department figures
showed that 217 developed during the
24 hours ended at 10 a. in., and that
the death list for the same period was
43, two more than yesterday. Seven
ty-six were stricken in Manhattan
alone where ttye epidemic now appears
to be centered.
[HANGED FOR TREASON |
ROGER CASEMENT
Former British Knight and Consul
who bravely mounted th© scaffold
to-day at I„ondon to meet death for
conspiracy in the Irish rebellion.
NEWSPAPERS FACE
RUIN AS FAMINE
IN PAPER GROWS
Prices High and Going Higher
With Supply Shrinking at
Alarming Rate
Newspaper publishers throughout
the country are alarmed as never be
fore over the unprecedented situation
growing out of the paper famine which
now threatens the very existence of
the newspaper industry. Tiiey are
confronted by conditions which are so
alarming as to have resulted in im
portant. conferences to develop plans
for curtailment of print paper con
sumption.
While publishers throughout the
United States are aroused over their
inability to make contracts for suffi
cient supply of print paper and are
staggered by heavy Increase In charges,
one manufacturing concern is holding
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1 HR'EE FOURTHS^OF VOTE '
New York, Aug. 3.—Seventy-five per cent, of the ballots
cast by more than 400,000 railroad employes of die United | >
States in the vote cn a general strike had been counted by
the special board of tellers in this city this afternoon. >
Timothy Shea, assistant president of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, in charge of the
work, declared that of these 300,000 almost all favored a '
strike.
CONGRESS PASSES $1,500,000,000 MARK *
Washington, Aug. 3.—Appropriations of the present. '
Congress passed the $1,500,000,000 mark to-day and set a ' I
new record The bill for support of thfe District of Colum
bia carried the appropriation'-, over the previous mark. Sev- < '
eral other bills still remain and leaders expect appropria- ;
tions of another hundred millions before adjournment. J i
THREE RIOTERS HELD ■ *
At a hearing this afternoon before Alderman Deshong, * |
W. C. Simmers, arrested last night on a charge of rioting
!at Fourth and Market streets, was held for court under ,
SI,OOO bail, and E. G. Greenly and Allan Yingst, on a charge
of throwing clubs and stones at a street car at Sixth and < '
Clinton streets, were held for court under $1,500 bail.
ON AGRICULTURAL BOARD J I
< George M. Patterson, of Williamsburg, Blair county,
< l to-day was appointed a member of the State Agricultural 1( \
iCommiss, n. He will fill the vacancy ra ;ed by the resig- I
nation of Frank B. Black, recently appointed State High
way Commissioner. Mr. Patterfeon, who was born and rais- j J
ed on a Blair county farm, was four times a member of the
Legislature. He is a brother of the late John D. Patterson, ,
a former mayor of Harrisburg. and his son, Mervin D. Pat-'
I teison is new district attorney of Blair county.
j i Mexico City, Aug. 3.—lt was officially announced at ' '
■
, I the Mexican Foreign Office to-day that Luis Cabreray *
< I Ganico Eonillas and Alberto Pani have been selected as '
the commissioners to negotiate with the United State com
, missioners regarding the questions at issue between Mexico 1 >
and the United States. The commission will b'e headed by 1
Senor Cabrera and Juan B. Hogo will act as a secretary. « !
a MARRIAGE LICENSES''
J ItolaDd foalatou U rem aud ( lara Virginia Koblnaon, city.
I Clyde Curll« Hitch, Wataoatown, and Stella May Wirt, city. | J
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CITY EDITION
20 PAGES
CASEMENT WITH
NO DISPLAY OF
EMOTION PAYS
FOR TREASON
Former British Knight and
Consul Is Hanged For Part
in Irish Revolt as Kneeling
Women in Streets Pray For
Repose of His Soul
CROWDS AROUND JAIL
JEER AS TRAP DROPS
Irishman Meets Death Brave
ly; "I Die For My Coun
try," Last Words on His
Lips; Body Consigned to
Quicklime Despite Entreat
ies of Family
By Associated Press
London, Aug 3. Roger, Casement,
former British knight and consul, was
hanged at 9 o'clock this morning In
Pentonville jail for high treason. He
was convicted of conspiring to cause
an armed revolt in Ireland and with
having sought German aid to that end.
Two hours before the execution a
crowd of men, women and children
gathered before the prison gates.
Twenty minutes before Casement
mounted the scaffold the great prison
bell began to toll. The sound was
greeted with cheers from the crowd,
mingled with some groans. At . 9
o'clock the crowd had swollen to such
proportions that it extended for two
blocks from the prison front. At one
minute after 9 a single stroke of the
bell announced that the trap had been
sprung. It was the signal for a mock
ing. jeering yell from the crowd which
suddenly died away into dead silence.
"I.ord Have Mercy"
Casement met his death with calm
; courage, according to eye-witnesses.
! Early in the morning two priests of
I the Roman Catholic church adminis
tered the last rites In the cell of the
condemned man and shortly afterward
a little procession headed by the
j clergymen with Casement following,
i a warder on either side, proceeded to
| ward the execution shed, only flvit
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