Wide Variance in Price of Milk Over
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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
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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
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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'*
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"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
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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
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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-
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GREAT MAJORITY
FOR SCHOOL LOAN
Only Two of 28 Men Ballot
Against It in "Straw
Vote"
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"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
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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-
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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.
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, 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-)<Unr ilnckn, Steelton, nnd I'nullne Kutelle Mathfa*, city*
( hiirlpa Arthur YVritfht and Anna Kllxabeth Itudolpb, city.
\Mllur H. .Ion CM, l(ON>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<it Price Up
Many replies were received front
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EGG STOVE WANTED!
The Associated Aids Society has uiv
der its care a poverty-stricken fam
ily consisting of an aged father who
I is very ill, his daughter, a widow, and
j her little boy. They have 110 way of
I heating their meager room and the
[Society wishes to make an appeal from
I some charitably inclined person for a
j contribution of an egg stove that may
be used for warmth and cooking.
I Further information may be obtained
I from the offices of the Aids Society.