' ■ . ' • ■ • ' ' • -'I; ■ • ' " ' • ' 7 ■■ ' ' ' ■' ' . * • . • Central and Tech High Students Drill HARRISBURG iSsSlk TELEGRAPH T YYYV TMr> ">1 1 Bv CARRIERS 0 CEXTS A WEEK L.-A..A..A. V i\iO. SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS. "RAILROAD OFFICER SHOT DEAD TRYING TO ARREST NEGROES John L. Beisser, Lemoyne, Murdered, and Harry C. Chubb, 1024 Market Street, Another P. R. R. Policeman, Dy ing From Bullet Over Heart; Slayers Were Trespass ing on Tracks West of Wormleysburg TWO ASSAILANTS SAVED FROM LYNCHING IN NICK OF TIME I Mob Armed With Shotguns, Bricks and Clubs Chase Pair of Southern Trainriders; Police Rush Accused Men to Harrisburg Police Station to Prevent Crowd From Taking Law Into Own Hands; Victim Identifies One Who Did Shooting While attempting to arrest two Southern negroes this morning for trespassing on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks just west of Wormleysburg, one special railroad officer was murdered and another fatally shot. Special Officer John L. Beisser, aged 36, of Lemoyne, was shot through the heart and died almost immediately. Harry C. Chubb, aged 33, of 1024 Market street, also a railroad officer, was shot just over the heart, and through the left leg. He is in the Harrisburg Hospital in a dying condition. Archie Miller, aged 24, of Charles ton, S. C., and Joseph Fletcher, aged 17, of Gainesville. Fla., are under ar-1 rest charged with the murder. T. 'H.! Fenlcle, of Marysvllle, brakeman on I the Pennsylvania railroad, saw the 1 shooting, and he organized a posse to I chase the negroes who were captured ! along the Susquehanna river nearl West Fairvlew. The mob was armed with shotguns, gfc bricks and clubs, and railroad offl • cera from Harrisburg with difficulty prevented a lynching. They rushed the two negroes to Harrisburg police headquarters. When Chubb was brought to the hospital, the negroes were taken there and the railroad officer said that Miller did the shooting. When ques tioned at headquarters. Miller ad mitted that he had shot several times, but declared that he did not know whether he had killed anyone. Both men admitted that they were armed with .45 caliber Colt revolvers, but said that they threw them away when the mob closed in on them. Squire P. C. Coble of Wormlevsburg, who aided in the capture saw Miller and Fletcher trying to hide in the bushes along the river. Officers Rush to Scene Railroad officers from Harrisburg as soon as they learned of the murder, Jumped into an automobile and rushed to West Fairview. just in time to pre vent any violence. Those in the ma chine who brought Miller and Fletcher to Harrisburg. were Captain Paul L. Barclay, Lieutenant Edwin J. Oran ford, and Officers James Morrissey, Jr., and Augustus H. Haines. According to Fenicle, who was with his train. Officers Beisser and Chubb ■walked up to the negroes and asked them to stop. Miller pulled out his revolver and fired, according to the brakeman. Both of the officers drop ped, and Miller and Fletcher fled. Members of the crew blew the whistle of the train to attract the attention of the people in the neighborhood, and Fenlcle rushed Into tho town and gTabbed a shotgun, spreading the news as he ran. The posse started in a few minutes, and after a short chase located and held both the negroes. At police headquarters Miller de clared that he and Fletcher Just ar rived here to-day from the West. He said that after leaving the South, they went to Buffalo, then west to Chicago, and were on their way to Jersey City. Both admitted that they carried re volvers, but declared that they did so for protection. Miller told the offi cers that he and Fletcher were about to leave on a freight train this morn- THE WEATHER] For Harrisburg and vicinity: Rain and slightly colder to-night; Sat urday fair and much colder. For Eastern Pennsylvania: Rain and somewhat colder to-nightt Saturday partly cloady and much colder; strong south and south west winds. River The main river and the lower por tions of the North and West branches will rise slightly. Other streams of the system will prob ably remain nearly stationary. A stage of about 4.0 feet is indicat ed for Harrisburg Saturday morning. General Conditions The eenter of the southern storm has moved from the Lower Ohio > alley to Lake Michigan during the last twenty-four hours with Increasing energy. It has caused rain generally over the eastern half of the country in the last twenty-four hours and. In con nection with the cold, high pres sure area In the West, snow In the Ipper Minslsslppl and Lower Missouri valleys. Temperatures have risen 4 to l de grees In the Middle Atlantic and New Fngland States, the Upper Ohio Valley, Bast TenncMee and In the Interior of North Carolina In the last twenty-four hours. Temperature: R a. in., 64. Sum Rises, C:22 a. m.\ sets, ri!8 p. m. Moon: New moon, October UO, 3:37 p. m. River Staget 3.7 feet above low wnter mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 70. Lowest temperature, 4.1, Mean temperature. f>B. Normal temperature, C 3. ing. When searched only a few pen cils and a knife were found in thoir pockets and railroad officers are plan ning to take them to West Fairview to aid in the hunt for the revolvers. When taken to the hospital to be Identified neither made any statement. Miller declared at police headquarters that he "was willing to pay the pen alty," but could not give any reason for shooting. Despite the claims of Miller that he had not been In this section of the .country before, H. G. Morton, one of I the Enola shop foremen, asserted that he was almost positive the negro had applied for a Job about a month ago.' Formal Murder Charge Squire Coble, of Wormleysourg, no tified Dr. J. H. Deardorf, of Mechan iesburg,coroner of Cumberland county, •of the murder, and haa started his in vestigation. No time has been set for the inquest, but a formal charge of murder will probably be preferred at once against Miller. Hospital physicians late this after noon were making every effort possi ble to save Officer Chubb's life. Miller and Fletcher will probably be turned over to the Cumberland county au thorities to be held pending the action of Coroner Deardorf. Crowds Follow Auto An angry mob of railroaders and citizens followed the automobile that brought the colored men to Harris burg. No effort was made to collect bridge tolls at the west end of the bridge. The big crowd rushed through the gate and kept close to tho auto. Railroad police who had been call ed out to aid in searching for the ne groes were lined up at the bridge en trance, and several were on the bridge. Fearing that the mob would get hold of the prisoners they ran along with the crowd, keeping everybody away from the automobile. Once when the auto slowed up on the bridge the crowd caught up. There were some ugly words used by some of those In the crowd, but no effort was made to interfere with tho officers In charge of the colored men. Southern Xegroes a Menace Residents of the city and nearby towns are greatly alarmed because of the outbreak of serious crimes In which Southern negroes are the load ers. The first murder to attract tho at tention of the people was In Juno when Officer Lewis C. Hippie, of the city police force, was murdered at the Market street subway. Elwood Wilson and James White, both Southern ne groes, are Jail awaiting trial charg ed with the murder, Charles Smith, of Steelton, was stabbed to death on Wednesday after noon In a fight In the Eighth ward, and James Frazer, another Southern negro, will probably be given a hear ing to-morrow charged with the crime. Tom Pakowieh, of South Second street, Steelton, is In the Harrisburg Hospital with a bullet wound In his abdomen, Inflicted when he resisted a negro who attempted to hold him up on Monday night. John Robinson, also a Southern negro. Is being held pending the result of the foreigner's injuries. Pakowlch is not expected to iiVCi CHARGED WITH MURDKR James Fraeler, colored, was officially charged with the murder of Charles Smith, a Southern negro, in a verdict returned by the coroner's Jury at an Inquest held In the courthouse last night. Eye-witnesses to the cutting, which occured In the Eighth ward, Wednesday afternoon, told of the ar gument In the Washington Hotel, be tween Frazler and Smith. All York Daily Papers Raise Prices to Two Cents York, Pa., Oct. 20.—The publishers of all York dally newspapers to-day announce an Increase lti selling price of newspapers. The Die.. ~*ch, an evening newspaper, goes to twr cents per copy and ten cents per week delivered. The Dally and the Gazette, hoth morning papers, announce a price of two cents per copy and eight cents per week. The ahnormai price of whifp paper Is given as tho cause for tho Infreasß HARRISBURG, PA.. FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1916. CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS DRILLING FOR PAGEANT TO BOOST $1,250,000 LOAN FOR MUCH-NEEDED BUILDING CENTR AL HIGH STUDENTS GET MILITARY TIPS I j; Hundreds of Youngsters Re- j ceive First Lesson in Unique ; "Preparedness" Program WILL "PREPARE" PAPAS I So They'll Understand How to Vote on School Loan Ques tion in November Grace and Will and Clarice and Phil, j more than a thousand of them, got j initial instruction to-day in Harris-' burg's own domestic lesson of "pre- j paredness." j, The Graces and the Wills and the : Clarices and the Phils are Central i> High school's boys and girls and they J will march in a big parade Novem- j ber 4 as a real "student demonstra-i' tioij" of Hafrisburg'a ned for a new high school—figuratively and liter ally to "prepare" papa to vote for the new high school loan. All day the classes of a hundred odd, marched and wheeled, and "right dressed" and "left dressed" and "hep-I ped" and "fronted" and "columned right" and "columned left" and did i all the other mysterious military i things that help to make one Btepj' cenient was made yesterday that' thfc '.emperature would drop during, last 'ght. Thin would have hap pened li v f-r a storm which came up 1 unexpected., 1 rom the South and moved In ahra. if -ho ccld v-iv- It was unusual'. - warm lust .Irbt for this time of the year. This wan. ! spell will pass off to-night and tho cool ws'-Uhor will mo\c in. | MANY NEWSPAPERS MAY HAVE TO SUSPEND BECAUSE OF NEWS PRINT FAMINE New York, Oct. 20.—1n a careful statement regarding the news print situation —the paper upon which news papers are printed—G. F. Steele, sec retary of the News Print Manufac turers' Association, says the bottom of i the reserve supply of news print has I been reached. He declares that the ; only remedy to bring the demand i within the limit of the mills is to re- | duce the size of advertisements, in- j crease rates and economize in every direction in the consumption of paper, j | No hope is held out of any improve ment and Mr. Steele agrees with other i experts familtar with conditions that many newspapers will fall by the way- i side. There has been no increased pro- j duction of news print and prices will continue to soar. Weak publications cannot stand the Increase. RALLY HEAR PLANS Twice Adjourned to Find Larger Qunrtersy Moss Meet ings in Full Swing City and eounty committeemen in the city met last evening at the Re publican headquarters In the Wyeth building in response to the call of City Chairman Harry F. Oves and County Chairman William H. Horner. The headquarters were overcrowded and courtroom No. 2 in the courthouse was thrown open for the meeting. This, also, proved too small and the com | mitteemen finally adjourned to the main courtroom. Every seat was ! taken and there were those who could ! not find seats. It was the largest gath jering of the kind previous to election, j City Chairman Oves called the ( meeting to order and addresses were ; made by Congressman Aaron S. [ Kreider, candidate for re-election, | and by Charles E. Pass, of Harrls j burg. Announcement was made of the big j rally to be held Wednesday evening, ! October 25, when Philander C. Knox, j candidate for Senator, will address j a great gathering of citizens in Chest |nut street auditorium. All of the Re : publican clubs of the city will take 1 part in the "walk-around" preceding the meeting and will act as an escort for Mr. Knox. Ladies are especially : invited to attend the Knox meeting. The Republican campaign is now ,in full swing. Mass meetings will be held this evening at Swatara Station, I Fisherville and Halifax. To-morrow j evening, candidates and others will address gatherings at Linglestown and Grantville. Monday evening the newly ' organized Penbrook Republican Club | will be hosts to the candidates when (they go to that town for a series of j addresses. Appeal to U. S. to Take Initiative in Stopping All Submarine Warfare Amsterdam, via London, Oct. 20. ! A demand for the stoppage of subma rine warfare coupled with an appeal I to the United States to take the initla- I tive toward that end is voiced by the i Telegraaf, which says: "Ten days have elapsed since the submarine war was carried to the j doors of America and nothing has j been done. Are we to understand j that our ships are allowed to be torpe i doed right on the American coast? j We say in all frankness to America | that submarine war must be stopped , and Germany must be told that mis- I takes, which all the world know are no mistakes, will no longer be toler- I ated. Let America speak the redeem- I ing word lest she rue deeply in the I future having neglerted a task plainly ; to be expected from the mightiest neu ; tral. Deutschland Sailing Is Canceled After All Hope For Bremen Is Abandoned London, Oct. 20. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam says that a telegram received there from Bremen confirms the report that j the German ocean Navigation Com- 1 ; pany ha:< received no news from the j commercial .submarine Bremen and that she is regarded as lost. Grtat anxiety prevails alo-g the families of j | the rrcw, virtually all of when reside ! in Bremen and it Is expected difficulty i will lie experienced In obtaining crow.- for other commercial -.u'.tmrinet which may undertake trffg '.fait!' v oyi'.gns. '• ' According to this Infnrr.iQtlui: tlit ; ailini of tlif De-Ut"h!uid c ar.o'.bei npiott; Iho AtUintie im li I iar.ee. . • With the reserve stock exhausted and the demand still in excess of the supply, publishers bidding against each other, the manufacturers of paper can see no remedy. Instead of the news print supply be ing increased, a number of mills have advised their customers that on and after December 31 they will cease to make news print and produce the more profitable commercial papers. Still further showing the trend of events, the St. Louis Republic has in creased its street sales price from 1 to 2 cents and the home delivery price from 11 to 15 cents a week. Whole sale prices were advanced in pronor. tion. Other newspapers throughout the country are doing the same thing. There is no other course to pursue. HUGHES ENDING HIS THIRD TRIP! New England and Ohio Will Be ' Visited Next; Defines l.usitania Stand XTtica, N. Y„ Oct. 20.—Charles E. Hughes, homeward bound, passed through Utica to-day, concluding his third presidential campaign trip. Mr. Hughes was due to arrive in New York at 2 p. m. to-day. The nominee expected to remain in | New York or vicinity, possibly at I Montclair, N. J., for several days be i fore starting on his fourth trip next week. The itinerary of this trip has not been made public, but it Is under- I stood that tentative plans provide for ! his visiting New England and Ohio | again. The campaign will close with [Continued on Pasrc 19] Four of Six Convicts Who Escaped From Sing Sing in Truck Are Captured Ossining, N. Y„ Oct. 20. —Four of I the six Sing Sing convicts who escaped | yesterday in an automobile truck were ! back in the prison to-day, and Calvin Derrick, acting warden, has placed upon the Mutual Welfare League the | lesponsiblllty for the men's act in flee | ing. i Frank Lutz, convicted of murder, | who is a member of the executive I committee of the league, and Thomas Hyland, sentenced for life as a mur j derer, were caught early to-day near I Elmsford. William Tammany, serving j fifteen years for robbery, was appre | hended a few hours later near Pocan tico Hills estate of John D. Rockefeller. Marquis Curtis, a life-term convict, was arrested during last night's search on Mr. Rockefeller's property. He was shot when he refused to surrender and is in a serious condition. William Anson and Alfred Stein hauer are the two convicts still at J large. Deficient Gasoline Pumps Mulch Motorists of Millions Washington, D. C.. Oct. 20. Short measuring gasoline pumps, according to an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Standards, are mulcting motorists of millions of dollars a year. In Illinois alone the loss Is not less than $500,000 a year. Tests In many cities have con firmed previous conclusions, and actual tests of the types of pumps used by retailers at the bureau here have | shown 80 per cent, of them to give ■short measure for various reasons. Some of them are susceptible to manlpula | tlon by the dealer. j "This tendency toward deficient measurement," says an announcement ! by the bureau, "Is worthv of careful 1 consideration, as it results in the ag gregate In enormous monetary losses to i the public. "It is safe to say that in all localities not under an efficient and competent weights and measures administration and in a large majority of those which do have a relatively competent adminis tration. til* condition of measuring numps Is such that the motoring public Is being subjected to regular and con tinuous shortages In Its purchase of gasoline." WOMAN COMJKMNFD AS SPY Paris, Oct. 20.—A court-martin! at Marseilles lias urnnlirtouMy condemned to depth for snying Madame Comeno Spnches. >vh" before her marriage was Marie Liberdall. of Dusseldorf. Sf\ TXC'US IX MINNESOTA Hu'-fi. Mln". <>(•. 20. Snow' that. beo-m, fnll'-i-r lpst n'g'it con- 1 tlv'"-i< to '••• " i*'■ e"' fo f-w ••■*:*te ™*'' fit is' r " " a atest j limber y.ait kno.wt in the Stale. TO TREAT SEWAGE IN INTERCEPTORS VIA LIME BARREL City Promptly Adopts State's Suggestion For Safety of Lower River Towns BOUQUETS AND BRICKBATS Chief Engineer Emerson and Mr. Lynch Do Some Light Sparring City Council, in extraordinary ses si 9 n . this morning adopted the State Health Department's suggestion for temporarily treating Harrisburg's sew ago by passing on first reading an or dinance appropriating $3,000 to pro vide for the construction of simple disinfecting plants near the mouths of the big intercepting drains. By resolution it also directed the city bacteriologist to make necessary tests of the sewage after the injection |of the disinfectant to Uetermins the I quantity required. I The appropriation measure will be | passed finally at the regular session Tuesday, and at that time, too, the Lynch ordinance appropriating SI,OOO for the services of a consulting engi neer to prepare plans for the perma nent sewage disposal plant will be on the final reading calendar. Erect Temporary Plants In the meantime the construction of the temporary disinfecting plants will be proceeded with. The solution of this 1 phase of the typhoid problem presented a few days ago by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State Health Commissioner, was reached after an hour's discussion of the sub ject. Dr. Dixon had warned Harrisburg of the Importance of immediately, if temporarily, disinfecting the sewage emptying into the stream because of the effect of the city's typhoid epi demic on towns below Harrisburg which use the Susquehanna for drink ins; water. ICmerson Attends Conference At to-day's special session C. A. Em erson. chief sanitary engineer of the State Health Department, and Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, city health officer, were | present. Chief Engineer Emerson as sured Council of the State's earnest desire to co-operate in every possible way with the city. The temporary plants suggested by ' i [Continued on Page 17] NGE HOUR TO SUIT COVER tlarrrsburg.— Thr hour of the r.:u business | of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce has been changed ' from 8 to 6.30 Tuesday, October 24, in order that Governor |Bi ~':ribftu..h might be present and ndd< t-, true.-: upon P his interest in the plans cf the Park extension and I new Hip'n School pl.in- . | • RUPLEY WITHDRAWS . L Harrisßurg.—Aruthifr R. Rupley, of Carlisle, Wash ington party candidate for Congress in the Eighteenth dis l trict, filed his withdrawal as a candidate at the State Capitol r to-day. I r APPOINT MEDICAL BOARD MEN Governor Brumbaugh to-day reappointed Drs. I. D. r Mctzger, Pittsburgh, and C. L. Johnstonbaugh, Allentown, ! as members of the State 'Bureau of Medical Education and p Licensure and named Drs. H. W. Arthur and T. A. Ilogan, P Pittsburgh, members of the Board of Dental Examiners. ' ■ : MIDDLE WEST IN GRIP OF COLD WAVE I Chicago, Oct. 20.—A foretaste of winter was given I midwestern states fro mthc Canadian border to Texas to \ day. The coldest spot on the may wab at Devil's Lake, * North Dakota, where the mercury registered six degrees, p Snow blanketed Northern Minnesota. It icll in Illinois. I lowa and was predicted for Chicago by night. L . . ' if I ! COLORED LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE AROUSED Harrisburg.—Dr. Charles Crampton, president of the Colored Law and Order League, gave out a statement this ' afternoon in which he said: "The law-abiding,colored peo ple of Harrisburg regret most deeply the shooting of two officers of the law by murderous colored men from Southern States.. They urge that the law in thi3 case be vigorously i and quickly enforced. This league has adopted resolutions 1 and has appointed representatives to assist in curbing and putting down the outbreak of lawlessness in recent months. i It will go the limit to that end." MARRIAGE UCENSES ) Ivan Kolvuntc amtl tOltxnliet It lloncuj Storlton, WIIMUII Mtartx Kiiemulv