Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, October 23, 1916, Image 1

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Teutons Press Backßumanians as French
HARRISBIJRG TELEGRAPH
Tvv V\7" Mr* OAi\ hy cahhikhs <; cknts a week
LAAAV I\o. -"tU SINGLE COPIES 1* CENTS.
TEUTONS WREST
CONSTANZAFROM
RUMANIANS IN
BIG OFFENSIVE
Capture City and Fort at This
important Black Sea Port;
Hold Eastern Terminus of
■ Railway Line to Interior
Rumania; Already 13
Miles Inland
NEARING TCHERNAVODA
OF GREATER VALUE
Stubborn Resistance Made by
Combined Russian and Ru
manian Forces, but They
Are Powerless to Stop On
rush; French Make Fur
ther Gains on Somme
Field Marshal Von Mackensen's
campaign in Dobrudja has resulted in
the capture of one of its principal ob
jectives, the city of Constanza.
The occupation of this important
Black Sea port and easterly terminus
of the railway line to interior Rumania
is reported by Berlin to-day. It an
nounces also that the troops of the
central powers have crossed the rail
way to the east of Martatrar, 15 miles
inland.
On the westerly wing of Von Mack
ensen's line his troops arc approach
ing the Tchernavoda, on the Danube,
which is of even greater importance
from a military standpoint than Con
stanza.
Petrograd admits the continuation
of the Russo- Rumanian retreat in
Dobrudja, declaring howeVer, that the
Russians and Rumanians are offering
stubborn resistance as they fall back.
On the north where Teutonic pres
sure is also being applied in the at
tempt to crush Rumania between the
two jaws of the Teutonic military
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SII,OOO Already Raised
in M. E. Campaign
Gifts totaling SII,OOO have been re-!
reived by the Rev. C. W. Karns, sec
retary of the annuity fund campaign
for the Methodist Episcopal Church,
who has opened a campaign in the
Harrlsburg district, to raise $50,000.
An office has been opened in the
Grace Methodist Church, where re
ports are received from the various
CTOUP leaders, including the Rev. J. E.
rffcillington, Chambersbitrg: the Rev.
A. L. Miller, Carlisle; the Rev. J.
Emory Weeks. Hanover; the Rev.
Morris E. Swartz, York; and the Rev.
E. A. Pyles and the Rev. W. W. Hart
man, Harrlsburg. Dr. A. S. Fasick,
district superintendent; the Rev. Mr.
Karns, the Rev. Mr. Pyles and the
Rev. Mr. Hartman are planning to
conduct a personal campaign for
funds.
Two Are Killed, One Hurt
in P. R. R. Freight Wreck
Wilmington, Del., Oct. 23.—Two men
were killed and one Injured to-day
when a freight train on the Maryland
division of the Pennsylvania railroad
tan past a signal at Perryman, Md„
derailing the locomotive and wreck
ing the train. The dead are J. R.
Fiances. Fairfax. Va., engineman, and
B. R. Randel, Coakley, Va., fireman.
Tht injured man is J. T. Algard, of
Baltimore, fireman of a light locomo
tive which ran into the. wrecked
freight train.
A. F. OF 1,. SCORED
Philadelphia, Oct. 23. A resolution
criticising the American Federation of
I-abor for attempting to put itself on
record as supporting the candidacy of
President Wilson for re-election was
introduced by a majority report of the
resolutions committee at to-day's ses
sion of the thirteenth biennial con
%entlon of the International ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.
THEWEATHER
For Harrlshurg anil vicinity! Fnlr
• o-ni|[tit nnil Tuesday; not much
change In temperature.
For Kaatern I'ennsylvunla; Fair to
night and little change
In temperature! moderate north
erns winds.
River
The mnln river will rise slowly to
night and probably Tuesday. The
tributaries will remain nearly
stationary or tall slowly. A stage
of nhout 5.4 feet Is indleuted for
Harrlsburg Tuesday morning.
tieneral Conditions
The riisturhan€e that was central
over Ontario, Snlurda.v morning
has passed off northeOMtwnrd, and
the high pressure area from the
Southwest has overspread the
Kastern half of the country and
Is now central over \ew England.
Another high pressure area cov
ers the Upper Mlssi H lpnl, Middle
and Upper Missouri valleys. Pres
sure Is lowest over the South
west and relatively low over Al
berta.
Temperatures are 2 to 24 degrees
lower than on Saturday morning
in the Atlantte States and over
the PaeHlr slope and over the
Central valleys and the the South
west It Is warmer.
Temperature! 8 a. m., 36.
Sum Rises, 6i25 a. m.; sets, 5i14
p. m.
Moont New moon, Oetoher 26, 3i37
p. m.
River Stagei 4.7 feet nhove low
water mark.
Vesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, ,18.
Lowest temperature, -to.
Mean temperature, 46.
formal temperature, 52.
|2 KILLED WHEN
HEAVY DYNAMITE
i CHARGE EXPLODES
Superintendent of Cumbler
Quarries at Steelton Buried
Beneath Tons of Bock
ASSISTANT MANGLED
3,()00 Pounds of Explosive Acci
dentally "Shot" While Being
Placed in Bock
Two men were killed and one ser
iously injured at 10 o'clock this morn
ing when dynamite exploded in the
Q-' W. Cumbler Estate quarries, on
the outskirts of Steelton.
The dead are Ross Smeltzer, aged
52 years, of Dressier, and Frank
Wonderly, aged 36, of Highsph-e.
Smeltzer's body was buried beneath a
pile of rocks and had not been found
late this afternoon. Wonderly was
picked up, baaiv mangled, and rushed
to the Bethlehem Steel Company hos
pital, where he died a few minutes
later. William Martu, aged 2 5 years,
of Bressler, was badly burned about
the face and body and may die.
The cause of the explosion is not
known. The three men, according to
C. C. Cumbler, a member of the firm,
were "loading holes" on top a sec
tion of rocks which they planned to
"shoot" to-night. They were work
ing on the sixth hole and were putting
the cap in the hole, when the explos
ion occurred.
Witnesses say that Smeltzer was do
ing' the work and Wonderly and
Martz were standing nearby. When
the two men saw the flames, they ran.
Smeltzer did not. move and was
thrown underneath the rocks. Won
derly ran up over the bluff hut was
caught by flying stones. Martz for
tunately escaped the flying stones,
' Uils burned by the blazing powder.
T he men had filled five holes, each
of which holds approximately 500 lbs.
of dynamite. The sixth hole had been
jilled and the cap was being placed
In position when the explosion took
place. The jar of the one explosion
is thought to have caused the five
°A P n hots to , fcr ° off - making a total
or 3.000 pounds of dynamite exploded.
Many tons of rock were sent flying
down the bluffs. Many of the men
engaged in work at the foot of the
ledge narrowly escaped injury. Cor
oner Kckinger is investigating.
•Smeltzer has been foreman of the
quarries for 25 years and for 15
J ears has been supervisor of the
blasting department. He is survived
PnJl o *?. d three children, Verna,
sisting him "• Wonderly was as "
Eighteen Lose Lives in
Southern Mine Explosion;
Two Are Still Entombed
loei ti.Ti r —Eighteen men
lost their lives as the result of the
explosion in the Roden coal mine here
jesterday and early to-day rescuers
had brought sixteen bodies to the sur
face. Six were negroes. \V. F.
and a miner named Pervis are still in
the mine and all hope for them has
been abandoned.
Great Coal Mine Is
Wrecked by Explosion
Punxsutawney, Pa., Oct. 23. The
EJeanor mine, of the Rochester and
Pittsbuigh ( oal and Iron Company
•vhere a strike of miners began last
Monday, was wrecked by a terrific ex
plosion .Saturday night. Whether lives
were lost has not been ascertained as
afterdamp and debris made it impos
f'We to penetrate far into the work
ings. The mine, eight miles from here
18 a drift mine, and the. explosion or.
curred two miles back from the mouth
1 lie mine had been idle since the
strike began and, according to officials
of the company, there was no electric
current on that mi"ht have caused the
explosion. Immediateiv after tli" ex
plosion which was hes> : ; mic felt for
S Sf' '., r - rl, omas F. Furniss and l>r.
I. R. Thomas headed a rescue squad
that entered the workings to see if anv
one had bnpn (n it at the time. The'y
forced their way through debris sev
era hundred vards and then had to
withdraw. The damage amounts to
thousands of dollars.
1 >U. TIFFANY DIES
Baltimore, Md„ Oct. 23.—Dr. Louis
McLane Tiffany, emeritus professor of
r.iedicinc at the University of Mary
land and a surgeon of international
note, died of hear! disease to-day at
his country home. Mount Ciistus, Ac
comae county. Virginia. Tie was 72
years old.
POST POX E KKAHGOIKXT
Washington. D. C.. Oct. 23.—Rear
gument of the case testing the con
stitutionality of the migratory bird law
and the railway mail pav divisor ease,
involving claims of SOO railroads
against the government for mail trans
portation, was postponed to-day bv the
Supreme Court.
TWO STE A M Fits SI N K
London, Oct. 2 3.—The sinking of
the Danish steamer Hebe and the
Dutch steamship Fortuna, of 1,254
tons gross, was reported to-day at
Lloyds shipping agency. Ten survivors
of the Fortuna were landed. The
captain and fifteen others, it is feared,
were drowned . It was also announced
•hat the Donaldson liner Cabotia. of
4,309 tons gross, WHS believed to have
been sunk. The Cabotia was 383 feet
long and was built In 1900.
WORLD "WHEAT C ROP IS
Ju*t 7 Per Cent. Oft
Rome. Oct. 23. The total wheat
harvest of the world is estimated
by the International Agricultural In
stitute as 7 per cent, below the aver
age and 25 per cent, below that of last
year. Tlie Institute'.- report includes for
the first time the crop of European
Russia, which it estimates to be 20 per
cent, less than that of last year.
DROP BOMBS OX FURNACES
Paris. Oct. 23. Four tons of
projectiles have been dropped by a
French air squadron of 2 4 machines
on blast furnaces north of Met/. and
on the Metz and Thionvilje stations,
the war office announced to-day In its
report of aviation activities. Hits
were secured on all the objectives, it
is declared. Another French flotilla
bombarded factories at Ronibach.
IIARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1910
CLEAR RIVER OF ROCKS AND PROTECT BANK AT ONE '
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STEPS fr/jjg
THIS accompanying illustration shows an effective and economical treatment of the River Bank, along the lines
suggested by Philander C. Knox during a recent visit here. The method of treatment was worked out by
Ernest I* Worrell, of the Berryhill Nursery Co., and is original with him. It provides that the big rocks
which now block the channel at many parts of the river b* taken out whole and brought in flats to the river shore.
These Mr. Morrell would raise to the ban., above the steps by means of a traveling steain crane running on the
concrete path at the top of the wall. The big boulders would be laid as high as the flood line and being heavy
would remain there. Pockets of soil would be arrange 1 for the planting of vines and the vines would be cut back
to roots each Fall in order to prevent them from being pulled out by high water. Above the rip-rap thus formed
Mr. Morrell would have a mixed planting of the following, with a possible use also, of small evergreens: Golden
bell, dwarf bush honeysuckle, bridal wreath, Japanese barberry, fragrant white azalea, mountain laurel, dogwood
hawthorn, dwarf deutzla, witch hazel, Kegel's privet, dwarf sumach, fragrant sumach, elderberry, flowering rasp
berry, snow berry, coral berry, weigelia, wild roses, Japanese roses, creeping roses, evergreen honeysuckle, Virginia
creeper, bittersweet, elimatis, low-growing willow, spreading Juniper, red cedar, Swiss mountain pine, Mugho pine.
Thus the river would be cleared of rocks and the rip-rapping would be done at one cost.
TRY TO THROW
LABOR TO WILSON
Organized Men Fear Scheme of
Gompers Will Overthrow
Cause
Washington, Oct. 23. The action
of Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of in at
tempting to deliver to the Democra
tic party the entire labor voter of the
country is one of the b.l* eoups which
President Wilson's campaign mana
gers intended to pull oft before the
election.
Democrats and Republicans alike
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| COAL AT HIGHEST PRICK
| Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 23.—Bitumin
ous coal reached $4.25 a ton at the
mines here to-day, $2.65 a ton higher
I than the customary price and prob
i ably the highest it ever commanded.
1 Sales agents of some of the more im
jportant companies said there was
j little available even at this price a
ithe mines generally operated on con
tracts which they were hard put to
; fill, owing to the car shortage.
MERIDA FOURTH
LAKE SHIP LOST
Seven Bodies Found; llad
Crew of 23; Total Loss
Fifty in Storm
Cleveland, Oct. 23. Local man
agers of the steamer Merida, owned
by the Valley Camp Shipping Com
pany, of Midland, Ont., conceded to
day that the ship was lost in Friday
night's gale on Lake Erie. The ad
mission came after seven bodies of
the crew had been picked up in mid
lake by two other ships. So far as
known not a man of the crew of 23
survived the" tragedy.
The loss of the Merida makes four
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Corn Husked by Storm
That Swept Upper End
Automobile parties returning yes
terday from trips through the upper
end of Dauphin county brought de
tails of the storm that swept over
that locality. The wind, which blew
nearly 70 miles an hour near Fisher
ville blew corn shocks to pieces and
in many instances actually stripped
the ears from the husks, leaving them
deposited alon& banks and in hollows.
The houses of Charles Matter and
Charles Yeuger near Fisherville, It
has been found will have to be en
tirely rebuilt. Many small buildings
were swept away.
Penbrook Will Have
Big Republican Rally
Penbrook Republicans will hold a
rousing rally to-night. The Pen
brook Republican club will have a
walk-around with a band and many
people from the country roundabout
will drive in to attend. The demon
stration will conclude with speech
making by Congressman Kreider, Sen
ator Beidleman and others.
A meeting will bo held this evening
at Enhaut, also, and to-morrow eve
ning there will be rallies at Ellzabeth
vlile and Berrysburg, where Senator
Beidleman and Congressman Kreider
will be among the speakers.
Big meetings were held at Qrant
vtlle and Linglestown Saturday night,
Prof. E. A. Leroh presiding at
Grantvllle and former County Com
missioner Dr. Charles • Smith at
Linxlestown. Candidates ITlsh emd
Bechtold spoke at both rallies and
Charles E. Pass made an address at
Grftntville and Wm. M. Hargest,
deputy attorney general at Lingles
towi
GRAYEST DIVORCE
STORY IN YEARS
Woman Tells Story of Many
Wrongs in Voice Squeezed
Dry of Tears
In a voice squeezed dry of tears
by the unspoken griefs of a score of
years, grray-haired Mrs. Sarah Specht
to-day told President Judge Kunkel
why she wa/ited a divorce from her
husband Edwin Specht.
The story was one of seventy-odd
that was listed for recital before
Dauphin county's judges at the Oc
tober term of Divorce court, the
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STEEL MAKES NEW HIGH
New York, Oct. 23.—United States
Steel made a new high record in this
morning's strong and active market, a
block of 3,100 shares changing hands
at 120? i. This exceeds its previous
maximum by % of a point. Later
Steel touched 121. Other industrial
shares, particularly the steel and iron
issues, sugars. Central Leather and
moderate priced rails, were higher by
2 to G points.
SUPPORTS DENIAL
OF SECRET PACT
Seiberlich in Voluntary Tele
gram Asserts Hughes Did
Not Make Promises
New York, Oct. 23. A telegram
from Frank Selberlicli, of Boston, was
Riven out here to-day by the Repub
lian national committee in support of
the denial by Charles K. Hughes last
night. of the Democratic national com
mittee's charges that the Republican
candidate entered into a secret agree
ment with the American Independence
Conference, of which Selberich and
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ROBBED AND BEATEN. MAN
MAY DIE FROM WOUNDS
Jr.mes Friel, aged 27, 1420 North
Sixth street, is in the Harrtsburg Hos
-1 i'nl in a critical condition suffering
from two fractures of the skull. He
was found unconscious yesterday
morning along the road near Rheems,
Lancaster county, and at a late hour
this afternoon had not regained his
sens-es. Railroad and city police have
no clew to the identity of his assail
ant. Friel Is a machinist, employed in
the Pennsylvania Railroad shops. He
left for Lancaster Saturday afternoon
after attending a football game at
Steelton. It is believed he was held up
and beaten into unconsciousness when
he resisted his assailants. His watch,
money and railroad paas ore missing.
CURFEW STARTS TONIGHT
Harrisburg's curfew ordinance will
be enforced beginning to-night and all
children under 15 years of age, un
less accompanied by a parent or guar
dian, must be off the streets after 9
o'clock. Warning whistles will be
blown in various parts of the city at
8:45 o'clock, and the curfew whistle
at 9 o'clock. This will remain in ef
fect until April 1, 1917, when the time
will be extended until 9:15.
ALMOST 107 YEARS OLD
Freeport, 111., Oct. 23.—Mrs. Maria
Simpson Cllngman, whose one hun
dred and seventh birthday waa only
fifty days distant, died to-day at Cedar
viUc, where she had lived since 1837.
She leaves four children, the oldest 74,
the youngest 65.
FOUND DEAD PRAYING
Atlanta, Qa„ Oct. 23.—Father Be
y.oin, vicar-general of the diocese of
Savannah, who had been a Roman
Catholic prist for forty-nine years, was
found dead yesterday at Sharon, Ga.,
where he was stationed. The body
was kneeling In an attitude of prayer
when found.
SOON TO LIFT
ICE CREAM BAN
Marked Improvement in Prod
uct Tests Show; Milk Stand
ard Also Higher
The City Health Department ban on
ice cream will probably be raised dur
ing- the latter part of the week. Dr.
J. M. J. Raunick, city health officer,
announced to-day.
With only four cases of typhoid
fever dver the week-end Dr. Raunick
declared that he was practically cer
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DESTROYER HIT BY BOMB
Berlin, Oct. 23, by wireless.—A Brit
ish destroyer off the Flanders coast
was struck by a bomb from-a German
aeroplane on Saturday the admiralty
announced to-day. The statement fol
lows:
"A German seaplane squadron on
the afternoon of October 21 success
fully attacked with bombs British sea
forces off the Flanders coast. One
hit of a destroyer was observed. Not
withstanding heavy shelling the raid
ers returned safely."
RIOT REPORTED
AFTER SHOOTING
Mobs Beyond Control When
Assassin Kills Austrian
Premier
London, Oct.. 23.—A wireless dis
patch from Rome reports that there
were grave riots in Vienna after the
assassination of Count Stuergkh,
which the police were powerless to
quell.
Vienna, Oct. 23.—The assassination
of the Austrian premier, Count Karl
Stuergkh, was purely political and was
induced by his refusal to convene
Parliament, according to the admis-
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Villa Near Chihuahua,
May Attack Any Moment;
People in Panic Fleeing
F1 Paso, TexifS, Oct. 23.—Inflicting
a. crushing defeat on the de facto gov
emment forces commanded by Gen
eral Carlos Ozuna, Francisco Villa and
his bandit band is now in the environs
of Chihuahua City. With his entire
garrison, General Jacinto Trevino,
commander of the Carranza army of
the north, has taken a position near
the Alameda and is preparing for an
attack. The.populace of the capital
are panic-stricken and hundreds have
fled to the eastern hills. An attack is
momentarily expected.
Trapping the army of 2,000 men led
by General Ozuna late Friday between
Santa Ysabel and Palamos, Villa and
his army practically annihilated the
entire command. But a handful of
men escaped the slaughter, and they
returned to Chihuahua City, where
they informed their commander-in
chief? General Trevino, that they were
all that succeeded in breaking through
the iron ring Villa had thrown about
the army commanded by General
Ozuna. General Ozuna and his entire
staff were killed during the engage
ment.
$125,000 FIRE AT BKOWNSYIIXK
Brownsville, Pa.. Oct. 223. The
tipple, electric plant and five barges
loaded with coal, Uie property of the
Diamond Coal and Coke Company at
West Brownsville, Pa., were destroy
ed by fire early to-day with a loss of
J125,000. Thirty-five miners' houses
nearby were saved when firemen from
neighboring villages ehoppedd to
pieces several buildings in the path
of the flames. The company suffered
q. severe loss five weeks ago when its
tipple at the Husted mine also was de
stroyed by Tire.
9-CENT MILK
IS POSSIBILITY
IN THIS CITY
Betail Dealers Fight to Keep
Price Down to
8 Cents
PBODUCEBS BESPONSIBLE
holcsalors Want to Increase
to $ .20 Gallon Whole
sale
Retail milk dealers in the city will
meet to-night in Maennerclior Hall,
North and Church streets, to start a
movement to prevent a raise in the
wholesale cost of milk, which will
mean an Increase to 9 cents a Quart in
retail price.
The meeting is the result of the ses
sion which dairymen of Dauphin and
Cumberland counties held last week
at the farm of A. J. Holtzman. The
dairymen are plannig an increase in
, price, it was said. At present they are
[receiving 16 cents a gallon from city
j dealers, who then sell the milk at
cents.
That an increase is inevitable is the
opinion of the retaif men. They are
now planning a fight to keep the
wholesale price at IS cents a gallon
during the entire year. This increase
will necessitate raising the retail price
to S cents a quart, they claim. If,
however, the dairy farm men decide
to boost the price 4 cents a gallon, city
(lctilers will probably raise to 9 cents a
quart. At the meeting to-night action
will be taken and the farmers will be
notified at I heir meeting to-morrow
night at Penbrook.
Increased cost of food, labor and
supplies is the reason advanced by
dairymen who are planning to jump
the price. Retail dealers claim that
the raise will cut down their business.
APPROVE UNUSUAL REAL,
Washington, D. C., Oct. 23.—A de
cree of Federal courts in Illinois re
quiring Charles W. Parker, of Chi
cago. to return securities worth about
1310,000 given him by Mary M. Gray,
an octogenarian, of Pennsylvania, un
der a contract by which Parker 1 agreed
to pay her $l5O a month during her
life time, was approved to-day by the
Supreme Court, which refused to re
view the lower court's finding that the
contract was void because of undue
! influence.
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arrested this afternoon by City Detectives Schelhas and '
the City Loan Office, Market street. The boys were r
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J, MARRIAGE LICENSES
John William Mackoy and Kllxalirtli Virginia t'ole, city.
| tlavld AltMchuler and UCMMIC Stlno, city.
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12 PAGES CITY EDITION
TECH BOYS ALSO
BOOST LOAN FOR
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
Increasing Numbers of Stu
dents Baise Question of Be
lief in Accommodations
EXTENSION IS SOLUTION
Erection of New Girls' Institu
tion With Junior Highs
Is Only Answer
Just one more room remains vacant
at th<: Technical high school, and with
75 seniors going out and at the present
rate of influx 300 prospective freshmen
coming in next year, the question 13
naturally being raised at the Walnut
street institution as to how 22 5 addi
tional students can be taken care of.
With the continued increase in pop
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PRIZES FOR REVELERS
Chairman Bniley Wonts Names of
Bodies Who Will Participate
The Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce which is conducting the Munic
! ipal Hallowe'en celebration that will
| take place at 8 o'clock Tuesday, Oc
tober 31, in Market Square offers four
| silver cups as prizes for the following:
I most comical lady's costume, most
comical gentleman's costume, most
fantastic lady's costume and most
fantastic gentleman's costume.
Chairman P. H. Bailey again re
quests organizations that desire to
i participate in the celebration as a
I body and be in the grand march to
the Square which starts from Front
i and Chestnut streets to get in touch
with him at once and make the neces
sary arrangements.
SET MAN AFIRE, CHARGE .
Henry Robinson, colored, is in the
Harrisburg Hospital in a critical con
dition suffering from burns of the face
and head, and Mrs. Mary G. Washing
ton is in the Dauphin county jo II
charged with setting tire to him early
yesterday morning. According to the
story told by Robinson, the woman
set tire to him when he dared her to
do it. The Washington woman claims
that he set Are to himself, "just to
scare her." Detectives are investi
gating. Robinson has little chance of
recovering according to hospital phy-
I sicians.