Phillies and Brooklyn Battle in Morning and Afternoon Game For Championship HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH T YVYV Vrt ~??7 BY CARRIERS n CENTS A' WEEK. LAAA V -NO. / SINGLE COPIES 2 CKXTS. BIG DINNER TO MARK START OF CITY'S NEW ERA Stage Set For One of the Most Notable Events in Harris burg's history STEEL MAGNATES COMING Plans For Reception of Guests of Honor Completed by Committee The stage is set and all is in readi ness for what it is believed will prove one of the most notable events in Har risburg in many years the annua! dinner of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce at the Masonic Temple next Monday evening at 6:30 oclock. More than ordinary interest attaches to this affair in view of the notable [Continued on Pafrc 1-1 16 Bushels of Dead Flies Fall Victims to Second Onslaught of Civic Club All Civic Club records in the second fly swatting contest of the summer were broken to-day when almost six teen bushels of dead insects were brought to the Patriot building by youngsters to be measured. The four prizewinners all won awards in contests of other years. They were Allen R. Collier, of 9SI North Third street. 4SS pints, $5 prize; George Sullenberger, of, 1538 North Fourth street. IS2 pints, $2.50; John Kindler, of 230 North street, $1; Ruth Blair, of 321 Hamilton street, sl. Each of the contestants was paid five cents a pint for the deal flies. The total number killed in the two contests this year was 31 bushels. Mrs. Robert H. Irons and Miss Rachel Pollock, of the Civic Club, had charge of the meas ui !n&' and prize awarding this morn ing. Wharton Dean Sends Letter to City's Businessmen Dean William McClellan. head of the Wharton School of Accounts, and ■Finance of the University of Penn sylvania has sent a letter to business heads thanking them for the sup port which has been given the Har risburg Wharton Extension and urg ing that they use their influence with young men in their employ who would be benefited by the Wharton course. Secretary Raine, in charge of the Harrisburg Extension, announced this morning that to accommodate pros pective students from the nearby towns who are unable to get to the city on any evening except Saturday, the registration headquarters at the Chamber of Commerce rooms in the Kunkel building will be op?n to-night. Numerous requests for information have been received from men in Hummelstown, Carlisle, Middletown, Shippensburg, Mechanicsburg and other suburbs. Paper Mills Are Valued at $322,147,000; Big Increase Washington, Sept. 30. Paper and wood pulp manufactures were valued at $332,147,000 in 1914, an increase of 24.1 per cent over 1909 according to announcement to-day by Director Rogers, of the Census Bureau in a preliminary statement of the 1914 census of manufactures. The number of establishments op erating was 718, a decrease of 59 from 1909. Persons engaged in the indus try numbered 95.516. an increase of 17.2 per cent; capital invested was 1534.625,000, an increase of 30.6 per cent: salaries and wages paid $66,- 164,000 an increase of 31.5 per cent materials used $213,151,000, an inl crease of 28.9 per cent and value add ed by manufacture $118,966,000, an increase of 16.4 per cent. THE WEATHER. THE WEATHER HarrUhurij and vicinity; Fair, continued cool to-night and Sun day. I.orrent temperature to-night about 40 dryrffH. Kn.tr rn Hrannylvanla t Fair to nlKht and Sunday, continued cool. 1-roM to-night. Fre.h northwest Hirer The main river nnd the lower portion* of the .North and West branches will rise slightly. Other streams of the system will fan slowly or remain nearl.r stationary. A •**• of about 4-- feet In indi cated for Harrlsburg Sunday morn- General Conditions The storm that wax central ovet . Lawrence valley Fridav morning ha* moved northeast™ard on the North Atlantic coasts it caused rain in the last 24 bourn from the Great I.nkes eastward to the Atlantic roast and southward along the roast to South Carolina. Another disturbance ha* appeared In WeMtrn Canada which baa caus ed ahowera In Alberta anif British Columbia. Rain has fallen also in California and Arizona. „. Tfc * high preasure area from the w overspread nearly all the country eaat of the Mississippi river canalnf a general fall of 2 to 26 degree* In temperature eaat of the lake region and south and eaat or the Ohio river. There has been a general rise of 2 to 20 degreea In river* r " tn ™' west of the Mississippi Temperature: ft . m., 40. San: ftlsea. 0 a. m.,i seta, 5.30 p. m. Moon I Flrat quarter, October . A a. m. River stage, 18 feet above low -rater mark. Yeaterday'a Weather Highest temperature, 7S. I,owest temperature, .14. Mean temperature, 84. Normal temperature, 61. MYSTERY OF ONE TINY SNAPSHOT STIRS COURTROOM Court and Lawyers Smile "When Defendant Produces Little Picture STATE DIDN'T WANT IT "Let's See," Says Judge; Lenney Trial Ends What was shown on the tiny kodak picture which was unexpectedly and unofficially introduced this morning at the trial of Mrs. Grace M. Lenney. charged with marital Infidelity by her husband. J. M. Lenney ,a moving pic ture theater manager? What turther whetted the euroslty of the jury, an Interested crowd in the court and a few lawyers who didn't get a chance to see it was the attitude of the court, of District Attorney Stroup, counsel for both defense and prosecution —and the blushing face of pretty Ruth Albright, one of the State's chief witntsses. Guy Cunningham, who was charged by Lenney with being the "other man" in the case, produced the photograph. When the Court Smiled President Judge Kunkel smiled when he saw it; so did Attorneys Hull and Kunkel. for the defense: so did Sen ator John E. Fox and John R. Geyer, for the prosecution. And after a few other lawyers had had a. satisfactory look Mr. Geyer tucked it away in his pocket—"close to his heart." as Attorney Kunkel face tiously said. Nor would Mr. .Geyer explain the mystery, oven to the newspaper men. "Indeed 1 won't show it to you," said he emphatically-. "That's a pic ture. a rather interesting picture, of a very nice little girl, and—but I've got to go on with this case." And he fled. Pidn't Want to I>o It Cunningham suddenly produced the [Continued on Pace 12] Life Preserver Marked "Bremen" Floats Ashore on Rocky Coast of Maine Portland, Maine. Sept. 30.—A life pre.serv-?r marked "Bremen," the name of the German submarine freighter which has been generally expected to j'rrive at some Atlantic coast port for the past week or more, was picked up on the oceanside of Cape Elizabeth to-day. The name "Bremen" was stenciled • in black letters on both sides of the buoy. On one side of the canvas cov ering was printed a small crown. Over ; this mark were the words "Shutz marke," meaning patented, or trade mark. Beneath were the words "V. Epping-Hoven, Wilhelmshaven." This ! indicated, apparently, the name of the maker. The preserver seemed to be new end apparently had not been in • the water a great length of time. It was stained wrth oil. The buoy was j picked at a small place known as ' Alaideii Cove by a ten-vear-old lad, 1 Frederic L. Lakeman. of Westbrook. Distribution of $55,000 Strike Fund Among N. Y. Trolleymen Is Started New York, Sept. 30. Officials of thb Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes began to-day the distribution of a $55,000 strike benefit fund among the street car men who have been .on strike here since September 6. Ac cording to the figures given out by the labor leaders, each man was to re ceive $5. The fund came from the headquarters of the association in Detroit and the orgamiers said a similar amount will be distributed each week. Two More Men and Women Arresed as Blackmailers Chicago, Sept. 30. Two more men and a woman were arrested by a federal agent of the Department of Justice in a raid on a private apart ment here at 4 o'clock this morning and held in connection with the op erations of the Mann Act black mailers' syndicate recently brought to light by federal officers. Pursuing their investigation of the case of a wealthy merchant of Cedar Rapids, lowa, who is alleged to have been done out of $15,000 by the syn dicate, federal officials to-day took possession of a packet of letters said to have been written by the merchant to two Chicago girls whom he charges with havine lured him to their apart ment in Chicago where the blackmail was exacted. Attorneys for the girls contend that the lowa man wronged his clients and paid them $15,000 as recompense. The officers later took into cus tody a second woman said to have i resided at the raided apartment. The four persons arrested to-day are alleged to have blackmailed a wealthy Eastern manufacturer whose name is withheld. Federal officers said opium smoking outfits and great quantities of habit forming drugs were found in the apartment. Those taken into cus tody to-day are: J. H. Golden, who said he was a real estate asent; Mrs. Grace Golden, his wife; John E. Law rence. said to be a traveling salesman, and Mrs. Lawrence, his wife. Former Harrisburg Shoots Wife and Self at Lebanon Joseph Weaver, aged 48, an iron worker formerly residing in this city, shot and seriously Injured his wife yesterday afternoon at their home in East Lebanon, and then committed suicide by putting a bullet through his own brain. The police here said that they did not know Weaver. Mrs. Weaver' is in the Good Samaritan Hospital in a critical condition and may be blinded by the shot. The attempted murder and suicide were committed in the presence of four children. Accord ing to neighbors. Weaver quarreled continually with his wife, and after going away for two weeks, returned yesterday and shot her. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1916 PUSHED PHILLIES INTO LE I v J MORAN'(HGR) N LUDERVS CRAVATj-i ni^t ere i L S Fat M T or and , tw ? of ,lis heavy sluggers whose wallops land-ed the Phillies in first place of the N ntional League, Luderus had twodoubles and a homer in the morning game. PHILLIES JUMP INTO NATIONAL LEAD; SCORE 7-2 Brooklyn Unable to Fathom Rixev's Delivery in Morn ing Game PLAY THIS AFTERNOON Moran's Men Pound Pfeffer All Over Lot For Ten Safe Swats Ebbetts Field. Brooklyn. Sept. 30. The Philadelphlas captured the lead in the National League pennant hunt this morning by defeating the Brook lyns. 7to 2. Manager Robinson sent his star pitcher Pfeffer to the mound to check Philadelphia's advance but he was hammered hard and con sistently and his service failed to baffle the bats of the visitors. Luderus helped himself to two two baggers and a home run. Brooklyn could do little with Rixey's deliver}-. The game was .played on a windswept field. The official score: Philadelphia— AB. R. H. O. A. E. Paskert, cf 5 1 1 2 o 1 Bancroft, ss 3 0 0 2 2 1 Stock, 3b 5 0 0 0 3 0 Whitted, If 4 1- 2 3 0 0 Cravath, rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 Luderus, lb 4 3 3 14 0 0 Niehoff, 2b 3 2 2 3 2 0 Killlfer, c 3 0 2 3 0 1 Rixey, p. 4 0 0 0 4 0 Totals 35 7 10 27 11 3 Brooklyn— AB. R. H. O. A. E. Johnston, rf 3 2 0 1 0 0 Da.ubert, lb 3 0 012 1 0 Myers, cf 3 0 1 2 0 0 Wheat, If 3 0 0 4 0 0 Cutshaw, 2b'. .... 4 0 1 . 3 3 0 Mowrey, 3b 4 0 0 0 2 1 Olson, ss 4 0 1 2 6 0 Miller, c 4 0 0 3 1 0 Pfeffer, p 4 0 .-2 0 1.0 'Totals 22 2 5 27 14 1 ! Philadelphia . 11001103 o—7 Brooklyn .... 001 0000 1 o—2 Two-base hits. Luderus. .2; home run, Luderus: stolen bases, Bancroft, (Continued on rase 01 Grand Jury Again Recommends Erection of New Courthouse Dauphin county's grand jury at the close of September quarter sessions to-day once more recommended the construction of a new courthouse for county and city uses. Similar recom mendations had been made in June and March. In receiving the report President Judge Kunkel said: "It is quite evident that the present courthouse has outgrown its useful ness. It does not compare favorably with courthouse nnd county buildings in other counties."' The grand jury in addition to rec ommending a new courthouse, boosted the jail and almshouse and commend ed the boards and officials in charge for their efficient management of both institutions. Publishers Find Penny Newspaper Is Thing of Past Owing to High Prices Reading, Pa., Sep£. 30. Owners of twenty Pennsylvania dally papers held a special conference here to-day to discuss the newspaper situation. "No more cheap paper is the pros pect that roust be faced," declared J. H. Zerhev, of the Pottsville Republi can, chairman of the White Paper Committee of the Pennsylvania Pub lishers' Association and of the Na tional Editorial Association. The con ference was held at the request of the Federal Trade Commission, Washing ton, which has been investigating con ditions in the paper business. It was declared that overhead and running expenses must be reduced and that tin case of penny papers the subscription and street sale price must be in creased. A. Nevin Pomeroy, of Harrisburg, State superintendent of printing pre sided at the conference. It was the consensus of opinion that the penny paper wquld soon be a thing of the past. MORGAN TO FLOAT BIG LOAN New York, Sept. 30. J. P. Mor gan, whose banking firm is financial and purchasing agent for the British government and Walter Htnes Page, American ambassador to Great Bri tain, wese among the passengers who sailed for England to-day on the Am erican liner New York. Although It has been reported in the financial district that Mr. Morgan's mission was to arrange for the flota tion of a new British loan of $250,- 000,000 to be backed by American securities, the financier refused to dis cuss the matter. HENRY C. ORTH IS FOUND DEAD Long Prominent in Insurance, Masonic and School Circles Henry Charles Orth. age 73 years, one of the oldest members of Masonic order in Harrisburg. a prominent in surance underwriter, and twice presi dent of the Harrisburg School Board, was found dead this morning at his home; 223 State street. Death was due to heart failure. Mr. Orth went to bed feeling quite well. Failure to answer the wife's call at S o'clock brought the discovery, of [Continucd on Pago 7] Secrets of Blackhand Exposed in Murder Trial Sunbury, Pa., Sept. 30.—Ralph Manilo. of Kulpmont. a witness for the Commonwealth, in the trial of Prank Christiana for the murdei- April 15, of Fuerilo Manilo, at Kulpmont, swore to-day the blackhand society has branches in aU cites and towns in the East. Manilo was shot.in the street and the crime was laid to the blackhand. Manilo declared he is an active member of the society, and paid s27' to Join it. Branches are established in every city and small town in the East. Most all fniirders are done by the society, he told the jury. The object of the blackhand. he swore, is to "col lect money," "to cut somebody," "or to kill somebody." $25,000 GIFT TO j FINDLAY COLLEGE Dr. C. H. Forney Endow s Pres ident's Chair in Church of God Institution i ! The Rev. Dr. C. H. Forney, of this city, has declared his purpose to en- | ( tiow the Presidents chair in Findiay i College, a Church of God Institution ' lin Ohio, to the amount of $25,000. ! Th l ? Church Advocate says: "It was 1 originally understood that Dr. For- I nev would contribute $20,000 for this endowment, but in order to show to the brotherhood that he has faith in the welfare of -Findlay College, Dr. i Forney generously Increases tfrte amount to the above-named sum. It 1 is such gifts as these that restore con fidence, inspire others to give, and : give encouragement to those who i must bear the heat and burden of , the present work. "Coming at this time, when we are ' in the midst of a campaign to raise | $13,000, Dr. Forney's gift is as timely i as it is generous." | The statement in the Church Advo cate is from William Harris Guyer. ' President of Findlay College, who i recently visited Dr. Forney in this ; city. As a result of the conference ! with him covering all phases of the i college work, Dr. Forney authoriz ! Ed the announcement that he would | make the contribution of $25,000 to i j the endowment fund. $540,000 NOW IN SIGHT FOR HOTEL Rotary Club Members Have Subscribed to Date Total of $48,850 E. Z. Wa I lower, head of the Cham ber of Commerce hotel committee, an nounced this afternoon that subscrip tions for stock in the new hotel now total $540,000. The committee is going ahead rapidly with excellent prospects of selling shares to the amount of the full miliioti dollars subscribed. The Rotary Club committee, headed by John S. Musser, which is co operating with the Chamber of Com merce committee; to-day reported that members and their wives up to this time, with only a few more than 50 per cent, of the members of the club solicited, have subscribed a total of $ 48,850. Of these subscriptions of Rotary IConllnuH on Pur 0] 12 3456789 RHE Philadelphia ntßtaißH—ai■■■ Brooklyn DEIfiISIEMHMHB Alexander and Marquard pitching. BIG ICE CREAM PLANT CLOSED State Healh Department Takes Action to Prevent Typhoid's Spread Orders were issued this morning by' Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State Commis sioner of Health, closing temporarily! the plant of the Hersliey Creamery Company this city, until the ice cream supply from that place is found to be satisfactory, it was announced to-day at the State Department of Health. State officials have been co-operat ing with city health authorities in checking the typhoid epidemic, and when a large number of cases were reported in the city and county and were traced to the ice cream supply,- the State department, it was an nounced, found it advisable to close down the creamery. Conditions there are not beyond correction, it was said. The creamery has had an excellent (Continued on l'nisr 0] Batteries at Tobyhanna Ready to Break Camp Tobyhanna, Pa., Sept.. 30. All is activity at the United States artillery camp of instruction here where the remaining batteries are arranging to break camp. The men have spent the entire sum mer in camp and are fit for anything that may artse but want to change. The health of the men is fiflne but the weather on the mountain tops is cold- LIQUOR CAUSE OF MOST CRIME Grand Jury Tells Court Two | Thirds of Cases Originate in Drink 1 Sunbury, Pa., Sept. 30. For the first time in the history of North • umberland county, where the courts ! cost- $50,000 yearly a grand jury to day called the attention of Judges ' Moser and Cummings to the fact that alcoholic liquors caused two-thirds of the business of criminal court, which will go into its second week next Monday. The grand jury says: "Inasmuch as the use of liquor was responsible for at least three-fourths of the cases act , ed upon we recommend a close scru j tiny of all applications for liquor i licenses, and we commend our judges for their stand in refusing a continu ation of liquor licenses for those places where the liquor laws are not obeyed." The Court refused to renew fifteen liquor licenses last year. AK#ESTKI> FOR EMBEZZLEMENT Lewis town. Pa., Sept. 30. Edward Treaster, who has been acting as : Adams express agent here for some i time, has been arrested, charged with embezzling about SSOO. HUSBAND HELD FOR KILLING WIFE Charged With Murder Follow ing Finding of Body in Ruins of Cottage Mountainview, N. H., Sept. 30. Frederick L. Small was formally ar raigned In the district court to-day and held for hearing October 5 on a charge of murder resulting from the death of his wife. Florence A. Small, whose body was found yesterday in the ruins of their burned cottage. The court action followed the Ending of the coroner at his inquest that Mrs. Small had died of strangulation. Small pleaded not guilty. Another development of the day was the statement made by B. Frank Home, medical referee, that his in vestigation had disclosed that the person who killed Mrs. Small and tir ed the house In an endeavor to con- ICon tinned on I'ngr 0| VON FALKENHAYN STOPS INVASION OF RUMANIANS Former Chief of German Staff Takes Field With Victor ious Result FIERCE FIGHT IN SOMME Teutons Beaten Off by New British Division With Heavy Losses The Rumanian invasion of Transyl vania has met with a setback in the Hermannstadt region, some twenty miles north of the Rumanian., border, acording to the Berlin headquarters statement to-day. A victory there over strong Rumanian forces bv troops under General Von Falken ha.vn is announced. General Yon Kalkenhayn is one of the most noted of German military commanders and was chief of the. general stuff until recently when he was displaced by Field Marshal Von Hmdenburg. To-day's mention of his name in the official statement is the first intimation thr he was in active service in the field. The tact that a general of such note has been given command in Iransylvania apparently means that an important campaign in this Aus trian territory is under way. A new Teutonic offensive successfully press ed there would place Rumania be tween two tires, as large forces of the central powers in the field in the southern Rumanian province of Doli rudja under another of Germany's martial heroes. Field Marshal Von Mackensen. Desperate fighting has been in prog ress along the northern end of the Somme front where the British have recently made important roads upon German positions south of the Ancre. London to-day reports heavy coun terattacks by the Germans near the Stuff redoubt and the Hessian trench and declares that a division of the IContlnurd on Tuge i)| GUDEOVS TO MEET HERE The State convention of Gideons, the Christian Commercial Travelers Association of America, will be held in this city, October 14 and 15. There are 250 members in the State organ ization and one of the aims of the as sociation is to raise funds to purchase Bibles for the rooms of hotels in the State. r'" W "^ W •i their twenty* 1 ■.v '..1 ocr-Tor, 4 tO-0. ; ~ A FUN 1 \ C.tptu .n.. the . \ ■ tot v. the Phil- ' * i -noon with the" & • defeat to-4ay ■ ? , r.ot a , .V PAKAi.YSIS CAST. HERE J i A new case of infantile paralysis has' ' i developed in the city to-day. The victim is little-Catherine < l Kitzel, aged .3. 2U North Fourteenth street. 1 * MARRIAGE LICENSES if 9 Walter Samuel iloll. Kpudinit. and bottle May Reich, l.ehanon. 1 Stephen Jonrpb llabacb, Uiiliaut, aad Josephlnr llertba Tubylu. • Steelton. I John William Heaa aad Klale Wenael, city. Arland Johnxon aad .tarah Uavenport, Mlddletonn. a I §L '•■ rr J r H * Strlte and Mary Naomi Duncan, Loner Snatara. < Bruce I'enta and Mabel UllenbcrKer, city. 14 PAGES CITY EDITION HUGHES FINISHES HIS 20,000 TH MILE OF CAMPAIGNING Ends Second Trip at Buffalo This Evening; Makes Eleven Train Speeches INDORSES 8-lIOUR DAY Rigid of Laborer to Relief From Excessive Sti*aiu Is Advocated Hornell, X. Y., Sept. 30. Charles E. Hughes to-day completed his twenty thousandth tulle of campaign ing within eight weeks. He also end ed the second trip of his presidential campaign. Mr. Hughes left here at 8 a. m. to-day for Buffalo with eleven stops between. Itrturnn to Old RattlrsrnDnil Campaigning in territory where h fought hard in IStiG and 190S for eleu [Continued on POEC 7] Youthful Emperor of Abyssinia Deposed; Aunt Succeeds Him on Throne London, Sept. 30. Emperor LidJ Jeassu of Abyssinia has been deposed at Addis Ababa. Lldj Jeassu is 22 years old and a grandson of Emperor Menelik whom he succeeded in 1913. Rome. Sept. 30. - A dispatch from Addis Ababa, Abyssinia, reporting the dethronement of Emperor Lldj Jeassu announces that he has been succeeded by Oulzero-Zeoditu, a daughter of the 1 late King Menelik. who has been proclaimed "empress of Ethiopa." Mistakes Brother-in-Law For Another and Kills Him Wilkes-Barre. Pa., Sept. 3D. —Luigl Pitlotti was killed last night when his brother-in-law, Domenico Rega, shot him while lying in wait for Tony Maas, a neighbor. Rega asserts that his wife told him that Maas was pre paring to come to their home to threaten her. Rega armed himself with a revolver and when he heard a man at the door asked who was there. Getting no answer he fired and found that he had slain Plllotti. The bullet went through the victim's heart.