Wide Variance in Price of Milk Over HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH T W VAT "NT-. nv CAnniKRS CENT* A WEEK LAAAV INO. ~-\J SINGI.E COPIES 2 CENTS. KNOX, GREETED BY "BIG OUTPOURING OF PEOPLE, FLAYS WILSON'S POLICIES Over 2,000 in Parade That Preceded Rousing Rally in Chestnut Street Auditor ium PROGRESSIVES OUT IN BIG NUMBERS Speaker Tells Some Inside History of Mexican Mud dle; Largest Meeting in Years ' 'fl : £ ' - 5 aMMaH I - 4wi 1 t£*A Wmm ||^JKMH|M| PHILANDKR C. KNOX "Who Received Enthusiastic Greeting At Hands of Thousands Last Night. Republicans, Progressives and Inde pendents crowded Chestnut street hall to the doors last night to hear Phil- j ander C. Knox, former Secretary of State and candidate for United States j Senator; State, congressional and j legislative candidates discuss the! issues of the campaign. It was the; biggest meeting held in the hall ex- j cept for those assembled to greet presidential candidates and, as Mr. Knox said after his address, one of the most thoughtful and serious minded he had spoken to during this campaign or in any other. It was notable, moreover, for the wide dis trict represented, men from a dozen nearby counties being in the audience, and for the appearance of the militant progressives of 1912 and 1914 who sat side by side with the men who fought in Republican ranks in those years. The whole meeting appeared to be imbued with what Mr. Knox said was the "great obligation" resting upon the shoulders of voters this year. The speakers were liberally ap plauded. of course, from the time they came In escorted by the high-hatted members of the Republican clubs until they made their perorations, but down deep there was a" keen desire to get the facts and when it was all over a manifest conviction that the Demo cracy was putting over some damaged goods. Big Parade Previous to the meeting, tho Re publican clubs of tho city and county, including those of Penbrook, Steelton, New Cumberland and Mechanicaburg, held a parade. It was the largest in [Continued on Page 1-1] Cashier Whom Bandit Shot Stricken at Desk Altoona, Pa., Oct. 26. Adam P. Rupert, cashier of Union Bank, was Mricken with apoplexy while sitting at his desk yesterday. His condition is critical. P.YWNB GOLD TEKTH TOR BOOZK Chicago, 111., Oct. 26.—Joseph Hef fcrman, according to a verdict in the municipal court, had his teeth pulled to get the gold therefrom, pawned the product and bought whisky with the proceeds. THE WEATHER. For Hnrrlsburg anil vicinity) Fair mill colder to-night, with Imir.M temprratllre about 38 ilegreesi Friday fair. For Gastern Pennsylvania: Fair and eolder to-night; Friday fair; moderate west winds. River The Susquehanna river nnd nil It* branches will fall slowly. A stage of about 4.2 feet IN Indicated for Hnrrlsburg Friday morning. General Conditions The disturbance southeast of Florida in apparently moving northeastward. Light rains have continued oier the Florida penin sula nnd extended northward along the coast to Cape Hatteras. The storm that was central over the I.nke Superior region, Wed nesday morning, has moved rap- Idly off to the northeastward, fol lowed closely by the high pres sure area from the West Ilrancb. which has overspread the Central Valleys and the I.ake Region. A general rlae of 2 to 24 degrees la temperature has occurred gener ally over the western half of the country and In the Middle Atlun tle and New England States. Tempera tare i 8 n. m.. 40. Suns Rises, 0:28 a. m.; sets, T>:o9 p. m. Moon i New moon, flri|t quarter, No vember 2, 12131 p. in. River Stage I 4.3 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, HI. lowest temperature, 40. Mean temperature, SO. Normal temperature, 50. Baker-Wilson Patriotism —"The Same Sort of Men'* U=. ■—' 1 1 - ' i "They (Washington's Soldiers) Were Just as Baa Characters as the Mexitans.' '—Secretary Baker. Cartoon from the Cleveland Leader Published in Secretary Baker's Home Town. YOUNG AMERICA IS APPEALED TO BY MR. HUGHES Gives Five Reasons Why the G. O. P. Ticket Is Only One For Them to Vote COMPARES ACHIEVEMENTS Republican Efficiency Held Up Against Incapacity of Pres ent Administration New York, Oct. 26. Charles E. Hughes last night told an audience in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, why, in his opinion, the young men of the Nation should support the Re publican ticket at the next election. Five chief reasons were cited in an swer to the question: "What sort of country does Young America, vibrant with patriotism, de sire?" Mr. Hughes answered the question, in part, as follows: "First, he wants a country respect ed throughout the world. He wants a country which respects the dignity of its citizenship. "Second, Young America must de sire a country that is prepared for every emergency. "Third, Young America, looking ahead, must aesire that when peace is t Continued on Page 7] Eleven Perish and Twenty Are Missing in Fire Which Burns Hospital Earnliam, Quebec, Oct. 26. Six adults and five children at least, lost their lives in a tire which destroyed the St. Elizabeth Hospital early to-day. This forenoon the ruins were still blazing and it was impossible to ap proach them to search for from 15 to 20 persons reported missing. The institution was managed by the Grey Nuns and comprised two build ings, one for hospital patients, the other a school for children. More than 350 persons were asleep in the hospital when the blaze was discovered. Unable to make their way to safety by means of trie tire escapes, I nearly all of them jumped from win dows. i Twenty-five children who leaped from the third story were badly in- Mured when they landed on the stone I pavements. The hospital and a laundry were j destroyed and several adjacent build ings were damaged by smoke and water. The tire is believed to have I started in a defective chimney. Boy Purse-Snatcher on Bicycle Makes Heavy Haul in Short Time Riding on a bicycle which he is said to have stolen, a 15-year-old boy this morning snatched the pocketbook of Mrs. C. Ross Boas, 115 State street, as she was speaking to a friend ai Front and Harris streets. The youth, Mervin Mickey, was cap tured later and confessed. Mrs. Boas immediately after the purse had been snatched, called to Charles H. Berg ner, an attorney, who was passing in an automobile. He scoured the West End and saw the hoy at Second and Seneca streets, where he was caught. At police headquarters Mickey ad mitted he had snatched four pocket books from women in the West End, using the same unique method, of rid ing past them on a bicycle and grab bing the purse. Last night, according to the police, Mickey returned to the city from Maryland where he had been studying at a military training school. The po lice claim that he stole a bicycle last night from the Weaver confectionery store, and this morning stole another owned by E. A. Fisher, a clerk for the Pennsylvania railroad. The second bicycle was the one Mickey used this morning, the police claim. HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1916. CONFER ON CURBING LAWLESSNESS AMONG SOUTHERN NEGROES Quincy Bent, general manager of i the Steelton plant of the Bethlehem ! Steel Company, this morning met a J committee appointed by Mayor Meals, to discuss means of preventing law lessness among Southern negroes brought, here to work. * Chief of Police J. Edward Wetzel and Charle.s H. Crampton, president of the Colored Iw and Order League of tho city and Steelton, with members of the league discussed with Manager Bent the situation which has devel oped since the murder of Patrolman Lewis C. Hippie, in June. Recommends More Police Manager Bent outlined a definite policy, promised the hearty co-oper ation of the steel company and the po lice of the corporation and also recom mended that the police force of both Harrisburg and Steelton, be increased to adequate size. He told Chief Wetzel and the other members of the committee that the police force at the Steelton plant has j been doubled, together with guards at the gates, and that tho company VILLA STORMING SANTA YSABEL Carranza Sends Reinforce ments to Garrison; Holding Guard on Rorder Mexico City. Oct. 26. The war office announced yesterday that gov ernment troops had been dispatched from three points to reinforce the garrison at Santa Ysabel and to sur round the Villista force which is at tacking it. Santa Ysabel is an ad vanced outpost, and the garrison there has been attacked by a superior force of Villa's men, but is holding its own pending the arrival of reinforce ments. Villistas' Activity Will Serve to Hold Guard on Border For Long Time Washington. Oct. 28. Villistas' ac tivity near Chihuahua had the effect to-day of convincing officials here that no thought should be given soon to removal of guardsmen from Border patrol duty or withdrawal of General Pershing's column from Mexico, Fear was felt that if Villa should succeed in his apparent movement to capture Chihuahua, he might find it easy to get control later of nearly all north ern Mexico. The entire Mexican situation was regarded as more serious than for many month*. Conditions at Chihuahua were the subject of greatly conflicting reports. Mexican Ambassador Arredondo re ceived from Consul Garcia at. El Paso a denial of General Car ranza commander at Chihuahua, that he was short of ammunition or in tended to evacuate the city, rarranza losses In the tight with Villistas at Santa Ysabel had been slight, he said and 8,000 troops had arrived to rein force the garrison. War Department reports, however, were that Villa was encamped Ave miles from Chihuahua with a considerable force, after hav ing defeated Carranza troops severely [Continued on Page It] MTMJION' DRUG USERS New York, Oct. 26. More than a million persons in the United States are known drug users and as many more use drugs in secret, the mem bers of the American Medical Editors' Association were told at a meeting here yesterday. The speaker was B. C. Keith, chief of the Miscellaneous Division of the Internal Revenue Bureau, who said also that drug ad dicts were to be found in every dis trict of the country, even in those sparsely settled. lias started plans to provide reading rooms, sanitary quarters, sanitary bar ber shops and clean amusement for the Southern negroes who are colon ized at the eastern end of Steelton. Manager Bent in speaking of the co-operation of the company told Chief Wetzel that the Harrisburg po lice department may visit the plant, and go thfougK f)u> negro quarters at any time. He told the committee that the Southern negroes are here to stay and that the colored residents of the North with their advantages can give mufh aid in helping to educate the Southern negroes and to teach them that the law is supremo and will be enforced. To Stop Gun Toting He urged Chief of Police Wetzel to take immediate action to prevent in discriminate sale of liquor and to learn where the negroes are obtaining : firearms. The entire committee with Manager Bent agreed that the prac tice of oarrylng deadly weapons must Ibe stopped. The steel company mana- I [Continued on I'agc 12] GREAT MAJORITY FOR SCHOOL LOAN Only Two of 28 Men Ballot Against It in "Straw Vote" i ' F "For—26. : | "Against—2." I Tlhre, in just four words, you have the expression of some of Allison Hill's i leading citizens on the question of the proposed million and a quarter new | high school loan—as expressed by the i first "straw" vote of the campaign. | The "balloting" followed a little In formal meeting of the Men's Bible ; Class of Stevens Memorial Church. I Several members of the high school | committee, including John T. Olmsted together with School Director Harry M. I BretK, Secretary I). D. Hammelbaugh j and City Superintendent F. E. Downes, ! wont out to the Bible class meeting for 1 a little visit. And the guests were invited to say [Continued on Pajro 7] 141 Merchantmen With Tonnage of 182,000 Sunk By Germans Last Month Herlin, Oct. 26 By Wireless) The Admiralty to-day made the following announcement: "In September 141 hostile merch antmen aggregating tonnage of 182,- 000 were Runk, brought in by submar ines or destroyed by mines. Thirteen captains were taken prisoner. Thirty nine neutral merchant ships aggre gating 72,600 tons were sunk." COWBOYS 'IX) GREET T. R Chicago, Oct 26.—A squadron of cowboy cavalry recruited from the stock yards will escort Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt from his hotel to the pavilion in the stock yards district where he will deliver an address to night. The pavilion has been arrang ed to seat. 16,000 persons. Plans were made for giving Mr. Roosevelt a warm welcome upon his aVrival here at 2 o'clock Uiis afternoon from the West. He will address a mass meeting of women at 4 p. m. EIGHT-HOUR DAY FOR TKACHKRS Reading, Pa., Oct. 26.—Peclarlng the work of the teacher to be of far greater importance than that of the railroader, Reuben Poet Halleck, a Pouisvillc. K"J'., writer, at the Berks county teachers' institute yesterday, advocated a call upon the President of tho United States to obtain passage of an eight-hour law, providing for com mensurate wages. DEFEATED ALLIES IN RUMANIA ARE | HOLDING ONRUSH Situation Less Critical as Pres sure of Von Mackensen's Armies Weakens BRIDGE DOMINATE Teuton Guns Trained on Great Structure Across Danube; Forces Are Divided The situation of the defeated Ttusso- Rumanian army in Dobrudja uppears slightly less critical in the light of to day's official report from Petrograd \yhich described the pressure of Field Marshal Yon Mackensen's armies as somewhat weakened. Unofficial dispatches from Berlin re port that the entente forces were split into two parts with the fall of Toher navoda some of the troops escaping over the great bridge across the Dan ube, while the others fled northward in Dobrudja. Apparently the sections remaining in the Black Sea province have finally been able to make something of a stand against the onrush of the Bul garians, Germons and Turks, north of the Constanza-Tchernavoda line. Von Mackensen's guns are now said to be dominating the bridge. Situation Precarious As a whole the situation for Ru mania is considered by military com mentators in Berlin as increasingly precarious, in connection with the op erations in Dobrudja and the Austro- German successes in the mountain passes on the north. Petrograd, how ever, asserts that the Teutonic pres- [ Continued 011 Page 11] 4 Giant 400-Gallon Tanks Basis of City Disinfection Plants barrel-tanks, each with a capacity of 400 gallons, were pre pared and set up on light platforms at two points on the city's sewage sys tem 1o serve'asteinporarv sewage dis infecting plants in accordance with the orders of Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, the State health commissioner. Two of the tanks were put In posi tion over the manhole at the foot of Paxton street; the other two were placed on the manhole on the Iron alley cross section of the Paxton creek Interceptor at Coal alley, a short dis tance below Dock street. The disin fectant is now being prepared and City Commissioner W. It. Lynch ex pects to have the temporary plants in operation within a day or two. The tanks are four feet high and four feet nine inches in diameter. The temporary systems had been ordered by Dr. Dixon in order that. Hnrrisburg could treat its sewage dur ing the typhoid epidemic as a pro tection against other towns further down stream. One Drowns, Another Has Narrow Escape When Boat Capsizes Above Dauphin Puncannon, Oct. 26.—Augustus Pill, age 24, of this place, was drowned in the Susquehanna river shortly after noon to-day. A boat in which lie and Ralph Zigler were returning from a hunting trip above Dauphin capsized, when an oar caught between two rocks. Zlgler was rescued by men working on the William Penn Highway. Pill's body had not been recovered up to a lute hour this afternoon. The men had been hunting on ttie mountains and wore about 300 yards from the Paqphln county shore when the accident occurred. Pill leaves a widow and one child, SIDMCH'TH SI'.VK Pondou, <>ct. — The British steamship Sidmouth has been sunk and her ct;ew has been safely landed, reports Lloyd's shipping agency. Borrows Lantern to Rob Owner's Chicken House Bethlehem. Pa.. Oct. 26. Surass ing nerve was exhibited by the thief who robbed the hennery of William 11. Lilly,' of Howertown, of forty prize winning fowls during the night. Two sons of Lilly were studying downstairs when they heard a whistle outside near the pump Investigating they encountered a man who asked for the use of a lantern stat ing that he had an auto down the road that needed repairing. The lantern was handed out and the Lilly family thought 110 more of the incident until morning came, when they found the hennery robbed. I I I f i n * ■ , , i I 1 | L ' n ! ° n C -' ? - • ' '' •* ''■'••• " ! v,<: ' '• ' " sel j | h iy-thns . .rrtbe ft! ihlifl w eper's j tng at tne American troop pne ana gr auai evacuan n 01 J ' Mexican territory by the United States army, Americans d i I 1 < 1 I l the Dover-Rossvill ' , Company, a "trackless trolley", line to operate •in York "1 I count \. This i.> th* fu t " srkleos trolley" m the State. ■ MARRIAGE LICENSES Jnn'fN I-)lan, nml I.aura KllaNbeth Weber. Woodbury. , William llcury '1 uchohkl, lircNlcr f and Annex Jeancttc Deck, Enhaut. 14 PAGES CITY EDITION MILK CANVASS ! SHOWS PRICES HIGHER OVER ENTIRE STATE Careful Investigation by Har risburg Telegraph Dis closes Wide Variance in Prices; Minimum Cost Is 6 Cents Per Quart; High est 10 RECENT ADVANCES AVERAGE TWO CENTS Prices Lowest in Cities Situa ted in Dairy Districts Where Farmers Market Own Product; High Food and Labor Cost Responsi ble For Raise Here Retail milk dealers in the city served notice yesterday on the pub lie that on and after November 1, milk will sell at eight Instead of seven cents a quart, due to an increase in price by the producers. When the Harrisburg Telegraph learned that the milk dealers had practically decided on an increase, communications were sent to leading newspapers in practically all of the third-class cities in Pennsylvania, ask ing for information concerning the retail price of milk and cream, and the advance in the last two years, if ■ any. I/OC