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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
No. 265 14 PAGES
LXXXV—
RIVERSIDE ASKS
• TO BECOME PART
OF MUNICIPALITY
More Than Enough Residents
Petition Harrisburg's Council
For Annexation
RIPRAP ORDINANCE
Gross Says He'll Advertise
Again; Drivers Want
More Money
Riverside to-day formally asked to
be annexed to Harrisburg.
The request was contained in two
Jetitions signed by more than 60 per
cent, of the taxable residents of the
growing little suburb to the north of
the city.
The next step necessary to include
Riverside within the municipal bound
aries will be the adoption of an ordin
ance by Council authorizing the an
nexation and City Solicitor D. S. Seitz
will be asked to prepare this legisla
tion as soon as he is able to return to
his desk. Upon motion of Mayor
Meals to-day the Riverside petitions
were referred to Mr. Seitz with in
structions to prepare the ordinance.
Pass Riprap Ordinance
Council unanimously passed on final
reading the Grots ordinance authoriz
ing the riprapping of the river front
slopes north of Hardscrabble. This
action followed Commissioner Gross'
report on the inadvisability of treating
the slopes with concrete rather than
riprapping. Mr. Gross said he will ad
virUse for bids this week. A few weeks
ago bids were asked but the sole pro
posal received was not considered.
Legislative authority for the work
was pending in Council at th-> time.
City fire drivers to-day petitioned
Council for a raise of salary and sug
gested that provision for more money
be incorporated in the 1917 budget.
The drivers now receivo S6O per
month. At the suggestion of Mr. Gor
gas the commissioners will consider
whether or not the city should carry
its own workmen's compensation lia
bility or whether it should be insured
by the State. The latter plan will
cost approximately $3,000 and pro
vision for this sum would have to be
made in the budget. The departments
have been paying the men their sal
aries while off duty because of injur
ies received on the job.
\nv Legislation
New legislation offered to-day in
cluded an ordinance by Mr. Gross
authorizing the transfer of $1,191.30
In balances accruing from Island rent
al. caoip, forester's salary, etc., to the
park contingent fund. This is neces
sary he raid in order that the depart
ment can "come out whole" at the end
of the year. Mr. Gross was also given
permission to sell the Good Will fire
horses as the apparatus is soon to be
motorized.
Mr. Lynch offered a resolution au
thorizing the surrender of the $25,000
bond of the Cumberland Valley
Telephone Company since it has filed
its substitute bond of SIO,OOO.
City Begins Month of
Thanksgiving With Tidy
Balance of $429,513.68
Harrisburg began the Thanksgiving
month with the tidy sum of $429,513.-
68 in its official purse according to the
monthly report for October as submit
ted to Council this morning by City-
Treasurer H. F. Oves. The balance,
October 1. was $434,41 3.44, the re
ceipts during the month were $63,236.-
70 and the expenditures were $67,-
136.46.
The. balance was distributed as fol
lows: Cash in office. $3,238.57; First
National, $91,275.11; Central Trust,
Commercial and Security Trust. $5,000
each: Allison Hill. Citizens and Sixth
street. SIO,OOO each; Merchants. $20,-
000; East End. $25,000; Harrisburg
National and Harrisburg Trust. $35.-
000 each; Union Trust. $45,000; Me
chanics. *60,000; Commonwealth
Trust, $70,000.
SINKING FTTND COMMISSIONERS
TO CLIP COUPONS OX THURSDAY
Some $6,800 in interest coupons will
be clipped by the sinking fund com
missioners of the city at a meeting to
be held for that purpose Thursday af
ternoon. The coupons will represent
the semiannual interest on $170,000
worth of bonds in the sinking fund.
The commission is composed of
Mayor E. S. Meals, City Commissioner
W. L. Gorgas, superintendent of fin
ance, and City Treasurer H. F. Oves.
THE WEATHER
For tlarrlaburK anil vicinity I Fair
and much colder to-nljcht with a
cold lowest temperature
about 25 degrees; Wednesday fair
and colder.
For Eastern Pennsylvania: Over
cast find much colder to-night,
probably snow flurrleM In moun
tain districts! cold nave In south
ern portions Wednesday fnlr and
colder) fresh northeast winds.
Klver
The Susquehanna river and all Its
branches will fall slowly or re
main nearly stationary. A ilatr
of about 3.7 feet Is Indicated for
IlarriaburK >Vedneduy morning.
General Conditions
The cold wave from the Northwest
has overspread the eentrnl pnrt
of flic country and its effects are
lieirliinliiN; to be felt In .New Knc-
Innd nnd In the western portions
of the Middle and South Atlaatle
States. Snow has fallen In the
St. I.nwrence Valley, .Northern
New England, the l.ake Region.
I'ppcr Mississippi Valley, In the
Middle Plains States and North
ern Rocky Mountain region, nnd
rain and anow In Tevaa, l.oulal
ana, In the Ohio Valley and the
Interior of Xew York State and
light rains In portions of the
Middle and South Atlantic Stntea
and In Tennessee.
Tempera tore i 8 a. m., .12.
Sunt Rlsea, otso a. m.s seta, 4i50
p. m.
Moon t l.nst quarter, Novenaber 17,
5 p. m.
River Stagei 3,(1 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday' Weather
Highest temperature, .">4.
l.owest temperature. 43.
Mean temperature, .10.
formal temperature, 42.
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TO INVESTIGATE
CAMPAIGN FUNDS
Senate Will Quiz Those in
Charge of Finances During
Presidential Race
Washington, Nov. 14. A senator
ial investigation of alleged misuse of
money in the presidential campaign
was announced definitely to-day by
administration officials. Preliminary
plans have been made and a resolu
tion providing the machinery for the
inquiry is ready to be introduced soon
after Congress convenes next month.
It was stated to-day that evidence
was being collected but its details
were not disclosed. The plan is to
call those actually in charge of cam
paign finances before the Senate
Committee and investigate the details
of their transactions.
Various reports concerning use of
money in certain states nave come to
Democratic headquarters as well as
Republican headqquarters.
Investigation into alleged attempts
to colonize illegal voters in Indiana
and West Virginia particularly was
begun several weeks before the elec
tion. In those states Democratic
leaders are planning to contest the
election of United States Senators.
Before the polls had closed last Tues
day charges of corruption were be-
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Norwegian Torpedoboat
Fires on German Ship
Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov. 14.
The Morgenbladt says a Norwegian
torpedoboat has fired upon a German
steamer which refused to stop when
passing Stavangcr.
The Norwegian fired a shot at the
rigging, tho newspaper says, then
boarded the steamer and dismantled
her wireless.
Since the beginning of the war for
eign ships have not been permitted to
carry wireless installation when in
Norwegian waters.
BEEF AT RECORD PRICE
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 14.—A rec
ord price for beef cattle was paid at
the local stockyards to-day when forty
head, averaging 1,357 pounds each
sold for $11.40 per hundred pounds.
The previous high price was $11.35,
paid in December, 1914.
COLGATE TO SUCCEED S.iOLER
| Trenton, N. J., Nov. 14. Governor
[ elect Walter E. Edge conferred with
Governor Fielder here to-day and af
terward the former announced that
the position of adjutant general made
vacant 1 y tho death of General Wilbur
F. Sadler, would be tendered to Austen
Colgate, of Essex, Mr. Edge's princi
pal rival for the Republican nomina
tion for Governor. Governor Fielder
will make an ad Interim appointment
and the new Governor will send Col.
Colgate's nomination to tho Jk-nate
for confirmation,
10 HURT IX SOUTHERN WRECK
Charlottesville, Va., Nov, 14.
David B. Johnson, president of Win
throp College, Rock Hill, S. C\, and
also president of the National Educa
tion Association antl eight other pas
sengers were injured, the engineer
killed and the fireman badly scalded
when a Southern Railway passenger
train from Augusta to New York was j
wrecked In a collision In the yards
here early to-day. Dr. Johnson suf- I
fered contusions and a sprained neck. '
DENY DUMBA IS DEAD
Vienna, Nov. 14. There is no
foundation for the report recently
published in the United States of the
death of Dr. Constantln Dumba, for
mer Austro-Hungarian ambassador to
the United States.
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1916.
HOTEL CATERING
• TO NEGRO, NEED
Dr. Crampton Says Colored
Man Is Often Shabbily
Treated
Careful census of all the colored
women of the Tenderloin who have
no "visible meaLns of support" is to be
kept by the Dauphin County Colored
Law and Order league and reported
to the Dauphin county courts at Janu
ary quarter sessions, according to Dr.
C. H. Crampton. president of the or
ganization.
Dr. Crampton, who was one of the
chief witnesses for Theo. S. Frye, the
State street hotel keeper, who is try
ing to get the court's permission to
transfer his license to 1012 North Sev
enth street In the face of vigorous op
position, discussed the league's pro
posed activities yesterday.
In the opinion of the league presi
dent. the trouble which certain ele
ments of the negro population may
give to the police authorities could be
localized If a hotel which catered par
ticularly to the negro element should
be permitted within the city limits.
Frye's hotel filled this demand, ac
cording to Dr. Crampton, and if his
petition for transfer is refused he will
be forced to close up "his business be
cause the State has acquired his prop
erty for Capitol Park extension pur
poses.
Furthermore, Dr. Crampton said
Frye was one of the hotel keepers
whose co-operaflon had been asked by
the league to break up the recent law
lessness which has been traceable to
lieexoes from other sections.
It was in speaking of the league's
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Troops Along Border Are
Feeling Effects of Cold Wave
Now Blanketing Country
Washington. Nov. 14. The cold
wave from the Rocky Mountain re
gion continued to move eastward to
day nnd freezing temperatures had
extended southward to the Mexican
border where the troops were feeling
their effect. The coldest, place to
day was Lander, Wyo.j where it was
10 degrees below zero. Pueblo, Colo.,
nnd Valentine, Neb., reported 8 below;
Charles City, la., and North Platte,
Neb., 4 below and Huron, S. D., 2
below.
The advancing cold was being felt
l throughout the Middle West and prac
| tlcally nil States east of the Mississ
. ippi river, hut it seemed to be losing
I its intensity as it moved eastward.
: Snow has been falling in New Eng
i land, interior Now York, the Great
■ Lakes region and the I'pper Mississ
ippi valley, while rain, sleet and snow
were falling in the Ohio valley and
Tennessee, sleet and rain in the west
gulf States and rain in the middle
States and southern New England.
Much colder weather Is predicted
to overspread the Atlantic and East
Gulf States to-nipht and Wednesday
and the upper Ohio valley and lower
lake region to-night. Cold wave warn
! ings were issued to-day. Middle At
i lantic States, except interior New
| York and the East Gulf and South
I Atlantic States, except lower Florida,
i El Paso, Texas, reported 22 degrees
San Antonio, 28; Del Rio, 30; Corpus
|Christi, 34. and Brownsville, 38. At
i Chicago, 18 degrees was reported
while St. Paul reported six, St. Louis
16; Omaha, ' 4 and Indianapolis, 20.
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TO TOUCH 25 TO-NIGHT
Cold weather to-night, with the tem
perature about 25 degrees, some snow
Hurries and more cold to-morrow, with
a slight rise in the temperature.
This, in brief, is what to-day's
weather map forecasts for Harrisburg.
The cold wave from the west will be
in full force to-night.
JUNIOR HIGH
IS DISCUSSED
Professor W. A. Geesev Shows
Advantages of System
to Youth
Some of the obstacles Harrisburg
must overcome in solving the junior
high school problem were interestingly
discussed in a general way this morn
ing by Processor W. A. Geesey in his
talk before the grammar and high
school sectional meeting of the Dau
phin county teachers' institute.
"Some Problems Arising Fiajm the
Junior High School" was I*ofessor
Geesey's theme, but his handling of
the subject was of especial interest to
Harrisburg folks in view of the recent
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German Embassy Does
Not Believe Master Spy
Got Letters From Oscar II
Washington. Nov. 14. The Ger
man embassy does not believe that
Karl Armgaard Graves, self-styled
international spy, secured from the
steamship Oscar 11, as he says, the
letters he Is alleged to have used in
an attempt to extort $3,000 from
Countess von Bernstorff, wife of the
German ambassador. Graves will be
arraigned for p. preliminary hearing
here to-morrow before United States
Commissioner Taylor.
The Oscar II arrived at New York
November 1, having left Copenhagen
October 22. According to the German
embassy the latest date on the docu
ments taken from Graves is September
6.
The packet containing the papers
probably was sealed at the German
Foreign Office on that date. It is un
believable, embassy officials declare,
that the packet could have been
kept in Europe nearly a month and a
half before being dispatched. Extra
ordinary efforts (tre being made to de
termine the identity of the messenger
who brought the packet to the United
States and the ship he traveled on.
The era bass; feels that the messenger
hav.ing. Jost the packet through acci
dent or theft, might have feared to
report the loss.
"Just Gotta Carry Gun"
Says Southern Negro
If you are a colored man from the
South, you just gotta carry a revolver,"
declared Thomas Brown, six foot tall
who hails from Atlanta, Gn., this after
noon during a hearing at the police sta
tion.
Brown was arrested at noon by Pa
trolmen Bryne and Hylan. He had in
liis possession a 38-ealiber automatic
revolver and a quart bottle of whisky.
Brown said:
"These Northern darkles don't like
us fellows from the South. They rob us
and make trouble for us whenever they
can. judge. 1 was held up in the subway
last Saturday and houg;it tiie revolver
for protection." Brown was held for
court.
INDIAN EXPERT DEAD
New York. Nov 14—Robert G. Val
entine, expert on Indian affairs, died
at the Hotel Manhattan early to-day
from heart trouble. He had been
stricken a short time before while
dining.
Valentine was the expert who in
vestigated conditions at the Carlisle
Indian School some time ago.
EX-CONGRESSMAN GEORGE niES
Washington, Nov. 14. Former
Congressman Henry George, son of
Henry George,, of Single Tax fame
died here to-day after a long Illness.
He formerly represented the Twenty
first congressional district* of New
York. He was flfty-four years old
and maintained his home In New
York City.
HIGH SCHOOL FOR
THREE BOROUGHS
Lemoyne, Camp Hill and
Wormleysburg Hoards May
Proceed
A joint high school for Lemoyne, j
Camp Hill and Wormleysburg may be I
the outcome of a meeting of school j
boards of these districts in the offices I
of Robert I. Myers in the Lemoyne j
Trust Company building next Monday |
night. Residents of these districts are ;
agitating a school for the trio of bor
oughs and are appealing to the dl- ;
rectors to proceed without West Falr
\ iew and East Pennsboro township, I
the districts that defeated the loan. !
A proposition for the joining of the
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Identifies Man as One
of Blackmailing Gang
Who Procured $5,000
| Cincinnati, 0., Nov. 14. lt be
came known to-day that Thomas J.
| Corcordn, of the Corcoran - Victor
j Company of this city, recently ldentl
i fied George Bush in New York, as one
1 of three men who on October 13, 1915,
i obtained $5,000 from him. Bush is
; being held in New York in connection
with blackmailing operations.
Corcoran said that three men rep
resenting themselves as Federal offi
cers called at his place of business on
October 13, 1915. and served him
with a warrant charging him with
violating the Mann white slave act.
Corcoran insisted that he was not
guilty but the alleged officers started
to take him in jail. While on the
way to the jail they explained to him
how lie could get out but that it would
take $5,000, and he consented. After
securing the money Corcoran said, "I
beckoned to an officer as I was pay
ing over the cash, but he stood as if
! lie didn't see me. Before I could at
tract his attention the men had fied."
Bush who is held in New York is ex
pected to be brought to Cincinnati for
trial in the Corcoran case.
Too Much Wilson, So
He Gives Up Citizenship
Helens. Mont.. Nov. 14—The Rev.
Francis Von Clafenbeck. of Tillamook,
Ore., has sent his naturalization papers
anil a letter resigning bis citizenship
to the District Court clerk here.
The letter in part said that "to see a
man returned to power aftnr an admin
istration and policy such as we have
seen during the past four years is too
much for me."
Three Killed, One Hurt
When Engine Blows Up
Easton, Pa., Nov. 11.—Three men
| wore killed and one was seriously in
ijured and later died when an engino
lof an eastbound freight train on the
| Uelnwnre, Laci<nwt'.nna and Western
railroad blew u;> near Hainesburg,
N. J„ to-day.
The engineer, fireman and head
brakeman were killed outright. An
injured trainman died at the power
house at Slatoford, Pa., where he was
taken.
Tho dead Include Patrick Gallagher,
the engineer. All the dead men re
sli'ed at Scranton. The engine was
pulling a train of 70 loaded curs and,
was assisted with a pusher ensine.
When the train neared Hainesburg,
the boiler of the front engine explod- I
ed and was blown off the track.
The trainman who was badly In
jured was placed on the pusher and
started for the Stroudaburg hospital,
but the man died when the engine
reschfd Slats Ford, Pa. The bodies
of the dead men were taken to Sran
tcn.
CITY VALUATION
FOR 1917 LIKELY
OVER 52 MILLION
City Assscssor Thompson Fin
ishes Tentative Computation
of Properties
PREPARING FOR BUDGET
Increase in Improvements Will
Probably Total More
Than $700,000
Harrisburg's assessable valuation
upon which the city's mill rate for
1917 will be based for budget purposes
will total approximately $52,000,000
according to tentative figures compiled
to-day by City Assessor James C.
Thompson.
The valuation last year was ssl
865,000.
Assessor Thompson anil his assist
ant, C. 11. Townsciul, aro hurrying as
much as possible on the assessment
figures in order that they may present
the city commissioners with a good
brills upon which to begin the 1917
budget preparation and within a few
days the exact figures will be available.
Close to $300,000 had to be lopped
off the city's revenue earning prop
erties, the decrease being chiefly in
the Second, Fourth and Eighth wards.
In the Second ward the elimination of
properties to make way for the new
Fennsy freight station and warehouses
—improvements by the way from
which the city derives no income—
will mean a loss or approximately
$35,000; in the Fourth ward, the
chief loss will be noted in the trans
fer by the McKee estate of the prop
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President Cancels Cabinet
Meeting to Clear Up Routine
Washington, D. C., Nov. 14,—Presl
dent Wilson canceled the Tuesday
Cabinet met ting artil all other engage
ments to-ilay so he could dispose of
the pile of routine work which has
accumulated during the campaign.
The executive offices were thronged
with visitors. Word has gone out that
very few new appointments will be
made.
The President, it was said to-day,
would like to find places for some de
feated senators and representatives,
but cannot appoint them to boards
and commissions created by Congress
because of legal restrictions against it.
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BRITISH CAPTURE
STRONG GERMAN
POINT IN ANCRE
Beaumont-Hamel Falls Before
Attacks in Continuation
of Drive
TAKE 4,000 PRISONERS
Salient in Teuton Line Now
Much Sharper; Russ Hold
ing Own
With important ground on a five
mile front already won from the Ger
mans on the northern edge of the
Sommc region and across the Ancre
brook in Northern France, the British
are lighting on in their new offensive.
Already they have taken more than
4,000 prisoners and the number is re
ported increasinK considerably.
London officially confirms the news
ol the capture of Mcaumont-Hamel,
north of the Ancre, one of the strong
est points in the German defensive
line in this region. British' troops
stormed this heavily fortilied position
and further south advanced to the
edge of Beaueourt-Sur-Ancre.
Apparently the British are not re
laxing their pressure, now that they
have succeeded in materially sharpen
ing the salient in the German line by
their advance up the Ancre valley, as
London reports the battle continuing.
Mlraumont, on the Albart-Bapuumo
railway, and ultimately Achiet-le-
Grand, an important railway junction
point northwest of Bapaume, seem
ingly are the British objectives.
Paris reports German activity in tho
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GIRL. SWALLOWS BICHLORIDE
But She Took Overdose, and May
Recover
Miss Minnie Parting, aged 2 4 years,
."143 Atlas street, is in the Harrisburg
Hospital awaiting the results of swal
lowing twenty-three grains of bichlo
ride of mercury tablets.
Phe says that, seeking a remedy for
a headache, she went to a cupboard
and took three mercury tablets by mis
take. The doctors say she may. re
cover.
The physicians at the hospital are
of the opinion that tho young woman
intended suicide.
Because the girl took twenty-threo
grains, an overdose, her life may be
saved. When a large quantity of the
poison is swallowed the stomach ex
pels It.