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LXXXVI— No. 10 18 PAGES
GOVERNOR GIVES
THREATENING HOB
CHANCE TO KILL HIM
Kentucky's Chief Executive Leaves Capitol to Take Charge
of Situation in Outlying District Growing From
Threats to Lynch Circuit Judge and Commonwealth
Attorney After Murder Trial
ANGRY BECAUSE CONTINUANCE IS GRANTED
NEGRO ACCUSED OF KILLING WHITE MAN
Open Warnings Made That Attempts to Remove Jurists
From Place of Besiegement or Prevention of Trial
Would Place Life of Chief Executive inDanger; Howl
and Jeers Greet Verdict
Murray, Ky., Jan. 11.—In line with his announced intention to
give the mob "a chance to lynch the governor of Kentucky first"
Governor A. O. .Stanley arrived here early to-day and took charge
of the situation growing out of the threats made yesterday by a mob
against the lives of Circuit Judge Charles Bush and Commonwealth
Attorney Denny Smith.
Murray, Ky., Jan. 11.—In line with
his announced intention to give the
mob "a chance to lynch the governor
of Kentucky first," Governor A. O.
Stanley arrived here early to-day and
took charge of the situation growing
out of the threats made yesterday by
a mob against the lives of Circuit
Judge Charles Bush and Common
wealth Attorney Denny Smith.
To Protect Court With Body
"I have come here to uphold law
and order and to protect this court,
with my own body, if necessary," was
the declaration with which Governor
A. O. Stanley faced a crowd which
filled every available space of the cir
cuit court room of the Callaway county
courthouse.
With almost every available mem
ber of the Kentucky National Guard
mobilized on the Mexican border, he
was forced to rely on those of the
forces he could summon to his aid
after his arrival here for the main
tenance of order.
Deputizes Citizens
His first move after his arrival in
Murray was to deputize seventy-live
citizens and order them to prevent at
all costs any outbreak. His next move
was to make an address to the crowd
which filled the courtroom when court
convened. For more than half an hour
Governor Stanley explained his pur
pose in coming to Murray.
The negro to whom they referred,
I,ube Martin, is now in the city jail at
Paducah, Ky., and will not be brought
to Murray, it was announced, until
Governor Stanley himself gives orders
to that effect. After Governor Stanley
concluded his address it was announced
that the time and place for the trial
of Martin would be made public late
in the day. The greater part of the
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IDLE PLANT RESUMES
Pa., Jan. 11.—After an
idleness of ten years the Penn Iron
Company'will resume operations on
February 1. The plant has been sold
to New York parties and will be used
in the rolling of steel and iron bars.
The next few weeks will be used in
making necessary repairs.
BOY SCOI'T STOPS RUNAWAY
Paul McDonald, member of Troop
No. 4, Boy Scouts, has received a let
ter of thanks from Edward Putnam of
Beaver Station. On Monday night
when Mr. Putnam left his horse and
carriage standing in Sixteenth street,
the horse was frightened and ran
away. Mrs. Putnam and child were in
the carriage. The runaway was stop
ped in front of the New Idea Hosiery
Company plant by McDonald. No
serious damago occurred.
THE WEATHER
For llarrlshuric nnd vicinity: Fair
mill collier ta-nlulit, with lonrat
temperature uliout deicrcesl Fri
day, fair, continued cold.
For lOastern I'ennsylvanla i Fair and
colder to-nlKht; Friday fair, con
tinued cold) KtrouK northwest
winds.
Illver
The Susquehanna river and all Itn
branches will continue to full
slowly, except local rises will
probably occur due to Ice. Ice will
Increase rapidly and the streams
will become fror.en In many places
by Friday morning. A stave of
about 3.5 feet is Indlcnted for
HiirrlKhurg Friday morning.
General Conditions
The storm that Mas central over
Western New lork Stole. Wed
nesday mornlnK. has moved east
ward off the Atlantic const, at
tended by precipitation in the
Ohio Valley and from the l.nke
IleKlon to the Atlnntic ocean, and
a cold wave from Canada him
overspread most of the country
enst of the Hocky Mountains, ex
cept Northern New Fniclun.l and
Southern Florida. Temperature
falls of 20 to 3<l deffrees occur
red In the last twenty-four hours
generally in the Centrul Valleya,
Fast Gulf and Middle Atlantic
States and over the southern por
tion of the Lake Iteglon.
Temperature* 8 a. m., 14.
Sunt Rises, 7:27 a. m.; sets, 5:00
p. m. i
Moon: Klsea, OtOS p. m.
Illver Singe: 5.0 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, .">O.
l.owest temperature, 114.
Mean temperature, 42.
Normal temperature, 20.
WAYNE MACVEAGH
FORMER CABINET
MEMBER IS DEAD
Married Daughter of Simon
Cameron and Resided in Har
risburg Many Years Ago
Washington, Jan. 11.—Wayne Mac-
Veagh, attorney general in the cabinet
of President Garfield and brother of
Franklin MacVeagli, former secretary
of the treasury, died here early to
day.
Mr. MacVeagh served in the Union
army during the Civil War and entered
public life in 1870 as minister to Tur
key. Six years later President Hayes
sent him to Louisiana as head of a
commission to straighten out the
electoral dispute in that State which
grew out of the celebrated Hayes-
Tilden contest.
President Garfield took him into the
cabinet as Attorney General but he re
signed when President Arthur suc
ceeded to office. He supported Grover
Cleveland in the next election and was
appointed ambassador to Italy, later
becoming chief counsel for the United
States, at The Hague in the Venezuela
boundary arbitration.
His summer home was at Bryn
Mawr, Pa. He was born near Phoenix
ville, Pa., in 1833. Mr. MacVeagh died
at his winter home here after a gen
eral decline of several months. He
leaves a widow, Virginia Cameron
MacVeagh. and three children, one of
whom was by his first wife.
Wayne MacVeagh was a resident of
Harrisburg for a period of ten years
about forty years ago. Mrs. MacVeagh
was before marriage Miss Mary Cam
eron, daughter of Simon Cameron and
sister of J. Donald Cameron. The
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"If Truth Were Known
About Belgium Neutrals
Would Not Hold to Words"
Paris, Jan. 11.—Cardinal Mercler in
a private letter printed in La Croix, the
official church organ, declares that if
the truth was known about Belgium
neutral nations would not confine
themselves to words. The Belgian car
dinal declares that Belgium is now
suffering as never before. He writes:
"We are all prisoners here, but if
the neutrals knew of the treatment in
flicted on us I do not believe that they
would confine themeslves to verbal
remonstrances. If they did. we should
have to despair of fraternal charity
and humanity."
The cardinal adds in a postscript
that although the Belgians are de
pressed, they are by no means dis
couraged, and few want peace with
out victory.
FIVE DIE IX FIRE
Montreal, Jan: 11.—Four children
and a maid of the family of Dr. J. H.
Leblane, a dentist, were burned to
death early to-day in a fire which de
stroyed their apartment above a mov
ing picture theater. The children's
ages ranged from 2 to 11 years. Their
parents were visiting friends and left
them In the care of the maid.
THY OUT MONSTER AIRSHIP
Geneva, Jan. 10, via Paris.—A new
monster Zeppelin, the L-40, made its
first trial flight over Friedrichshafen
and Lake Constance yesterday. It is
equipped with specially designed pro
pellers, which make virtually no noise.
There is a machine on board the craft
which when put Into operation quickly
covers the airship with smoke resem
bling a cloud, so that the aircraft can
not be seen from below. A gun of
larger caliber than those previously
used on Zeppelins Is mounted on top
of the L-40.
SHOOTS WOMAN; K11.1.S SEI.F
Lancaster, Pa.. Jan. 11.—Samuel
Ream, 40 years old, a chauffeur em
ployed at the Masonic Home, at ICllza
tiethtown. yesterday afternoon shot
Mtss Ida Kautz. 28 years old, who was
employed In the laundry at the home,
and then killed himself.
HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1917.
To the Readers of the
This is a little heart-to-heart talk with the readers of this newspaper.
Some fifteen years ago the subscription price of the Telegraph was reduced by
its present management from two to one cent per copy and from ten to six cents
per week. Conditions at that time were entirely different from those which con
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newspaper at the reduced rate. For a number of years it was possible to continue
the low subscription price and maintain the quality of the Telegraph with all its
interesting features.
By reason of the unprecedented increase in the cost of the paper upon which
this newspaper is printed, and all other materials entering into its production —in
addition to higher wages made necessary by the increased cost of living, the pub
lishers of the Telegraph are compelled to make an advance in subscription prices,
following a course that already has been forced upon newspapers everywhere, save
those still operating for a limited time under unexpired print paper contracts.
For months publishers generally have hoped against hope that the steady
upward trend of cost of materials would be checked, but this relief does not ap
pear to be in sight and one after another newspaper publishers have been com
pelled to ask their readers to bear a part of the heavy burden thrust upon them.
Already Allentown, Lancaster, Altoona, York, Hanover, McKeesport, Scranton,
Erie, Pittsburgh, Reading, Williamsport, Johnstown, Wilkes-Barre and other
cities in Pennsylvania alone are on the two-cent basis. The day of the one-cent
newspaper is practically at an end.
For these reasons, which we trust every reader of the Telegraph will appre
ciate, on and after Monday, January 15, the Telegraph will be sold at two cents
a copy and delivered to the home by carrier at 10 cents per week; by mail, $5.00
per year, in advance.
HARRYK. THAW
CUTS T
Philadelphia, Jan. 11.—Harry K. Thaw cut his wrists and throat
in a private house on Walnut street west of 52nd street here to-day
and was taken to St. Mary's hospital, according to Captain of De
tectives Tate, who has been searching for him.
Early reports did not indicate whether Thaw was dead or
dying.
According to Captain Tate, Thaw's whereabouts were learned
early to-day and the house was surrounded. When detectives en
tered the place, according to Tate they found that Thaw had cut his
wrists and throat. Thaw, Tate says, asked that Dr. Elwood Kirby,
a well-known physician of this city, be send for. When the doctor
arrived he ordered Thaw removed to St. Mary's hospital, where Dr.
Kirby is head physician.
St. Mary's Hospital is in the extreme northeastern part of the
city, several miles from the house where he was found.
Captain Tate later said, he had been informed that Thaw was
expected to die. What Thaw cut himself with, Tate said he did not
know.
The house where Thaw was found
Is within a short distance from the |
street where Thaw was in an automo
bile accident last May. It was a dam
age suit instituted against his mother, ;
the owner of the machine, that
brought Thaw here last Monday to
defend the action.
How the detectives learned that
Thaw was In West Philadelphia, they
do not say. When they were asked
by the New York authorities to appre
hend him on a warrant charging him
with assaulting Frederick Gump, Jr.,
of Kansas City, they made a search of
the city and were convinced that he
had left the city.
BRITISH TROOPS
PUSH FORWARD
TO PALESTINE
Start From Suez Canal and
Take 1,600 Prisoners
and Guns
British troops pushing northeast
ward from the Suez canal region on
the Sinai peninsula have carried their
advance to the border of Palestine.
They have captured there the de
fensive entrenchments of Hafa, thirty
miles northeast of El Arish on the
Mediterranean, taken by the British
last month, and about seventy miles
southwest of Jerusalem.
The attack was carried out by Aus
tralian troops and a camel corps and
was followed by the defeat of a Turk
ish relief force four miles east of the
Hafa position. In the operation 1,600
unwounded prisoners and four moun
tain guns were taken, according to the
British official report.
The campaign of Field Marshal von
Mackensen In northern Rumania con
tinues to be pressed with force and
nearly all along the line from the
Danube to Fokshanl the Russians have
been pushed back to the Sereth river.
North of Fokshanl the Russians
have been making a stand on the river
Putna, protecting the main Sereth po
sition, and are fighting to retain the
railroad junction at Marestl, where
the lateral line joining the two north
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EXPECTED TO DIE
Lieutenant Scanlon, of the detective
bureau, said that Thaw was found in the
house shortly before 2 o'clock. Sean
lon said that he had learned that while
Thaw was unconscious he was expected
to live.
Surprise was expressed that Thaw
should be taken so far away when
there were nearly a dozen hospitals
nearer the West Philadelphia house
where he was found.
Detective headquarters were not ad
vised In their early reports whether
Thaw was taken to the hospital in an
automobile patrol or the doctor's auto-
I mobile.
COLDEST NIGHT
OF WINTER TO
HIT HARRISBURG
Mercury Will Fall to 5 Degrees,
Forecast; River to Close
Again
The coldest weather of the season
will reach Harrisburg to-night send
ing the mercury down to 5 degrees
and closing the Susquehanna river
again.
This forecast was made to-day at
I the local weather bureau office by
(Government Forecaster K. It. Deipain.
Since yesterday temperature drops
| ranging from 20 to 35 degrees have
been reported in practically every sec
tion of the country from the Middle
West to the Atlantic seaboard.
With a big drop in temperature to
night there will probably be skating
to-morrow at Wildwood. The Susque
hanna will become icebound again at
many points, it was predicted.
The cold wave reached here late last
evening tumbling the mercury to 14
degrees where it remained until this
morning. Strong northwest winds will
accompany the cold weather which
will continue for several days. Weath
er forecasters are not positive whether
a storm over Saskatchewan,or another
cold wave west of the Kocky moun
tains will follow the one now settling
over the eastern part of the country.
At Chicago. Detroit and Bingham
ton at 8 o'clock this morning the offi
cial thermometers registered 4 de
grees. Zero weather was reported at
Des Moines while in some of the
southern cities the mercury dropped
below freenins'.
MAYOR HOLDS OUT
FOR ROAT; GROSS
TO REOPEN CASE
Records of Greene County
Courts Show That Case
There Is Still Pending
"If Koat is a fugitive and the
Greene county aullioritics want
him we'll help them to get him
unil if he is taken out there aiul
convicted his place will he re
iillcd. Otherwise his appointment
as a patrolman will remain as it
was continued by Council."—
Mayor 10. S. Meals.
"Not only will the matter he re
opened hut reconsideration of
Council of the apiioiiitmciit with
a view to dropping Koat will be
made in Council Tuesday if my
efforts mean anything." Park
Commissioner K. Z. Gross.
"For my part I prefer not to he
quoted. I acted, like Mr. Gross,
on the recommendation of an
other departmental head as I had
no reason to question it."—City
Commissioner W. 11. Lynch.
These in brief are to-day's develop
ments In the case growing out of
Council's action on Tuesday in con
llrming as a city patrolman Mayor 13.
S. Meals' appointment of Abe Koat,
Jr., in the face of general opposition
of officers and men of the department,
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j FALLS INTO ICY WATERS
OF I'AXTON CREEK
Joseph liedman, 1215 Swatara
street, an engineer on the Philadel
phia Division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, was taken from Paxton
creek almost frozen early this morn
ing. He fell into the creek late last
night and was unable to climb to
safely. The timely discovery by
Patrolman Bush, who pulled him out
saved his life. . '
ALLIED REPLY
DOES NOT CLOSE
DOOR TO PEACE
Answer While Not Made Pub
lic, Shows Further Steps
Are Possible
Washington, .Tan. 11. The entente
reply to President Wilson's peace note
begun arriving this morning at the
State Department. As fast as it was
decoded It was laid before President
Wilson and Secretary Lansing.
The utmost secrecy was maintained
at the State Department but the im
pression prevailed that while the en
tente has been perfectly clear in stat
ing its position the door to peace had
not been utterly barred. In some
quarters it was pointed out that
whether President Wilson will take
a further step depends not alone on
the actual terms of the note Itself, but
also on his personal estimate of the
situation and confidential advices to
him from abroad. The note, it was
thought, had been drawn to meet a
wide variety of viewpoints as it is ad
dressed not only to the President for
his own future guidance but as well
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R AII,ROAD HKAD WARNED
New York, Jan. 11.—Unless the New
York Central Railroad Company pro
hibits within a week, the sale of liquor
on trains, or restricts It to "wet" ter
ritory, the Antl-Saloon League of New
York will ask for the arrest of Alfred
H. Smith, president of the road, it was
announced hero.
HUIIMELSTOWN MAN
HELD AS MURDERER
OF HIS INVAUD SON
County Authorities Charge Harry Miller With Having
Starved Boy to Death Because He Was Hopeless
Cripple Boy Not Fed For Some Time, It Is Alleged
EXAMINATION OF STOMACH ORDERED BY THE
CORONER; TO BE USED AS BASIS OF EVIDENCE
Young Man Weighed Less Than 40 Pounds; Bedfast tor
Five Years; Mother Declares He Had Partaken of
Hearty Meal Late as Monday
•
Harry Miller, of near llummelstown, was arrested this morning
by County Detective James 1. Walters, charged with the murder ol
I his son, Clayton Miller, aged 21, a hopeless invalid, who was starved
j to death, county authorities claim.
Young Miller died on Tuesday.
Coroner Ecklnger was notified and or
dered an investigation at once. Yes
terday an autopsy was held and the
stomach of the invalid was removed.
Tiie organ was thoroughly examined
by Drs. K. 1... Perkins and J. 11. Miller
to determine whether death was due
to neglect and whether young Miller
received enough nourishing food.
A lengthy investigation has been
started and it is understood that the
report of the physicians will be the
most important part of the case which
the authorities are working out against
the youth's father.
Invalid Hecrast Five Years
According to information obtained
through the district attorney's office,
it was learned that young Miller had
been bedfast for more than five years.
The body weighs less than forty
pounds, according to \V. Karmany &
1 RESTORATION OF REE K GD< MS ASI 1
T London, Jan. 11. —It le !
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A restitution of territories previously severed from allied * •;
I nations by force or contrai to the wi hes of their popu- I
I lations. This is considei ' :learly • fet to j i
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DETRIGH DEC: i ES APPOINTMENT h
Harrisburg—Before ' , L
Inoor, Governor Brumba • :•. =<• . • • iti.in < • .iper- j
intendent of public printing to A. Nevin Detrich, former 1 I
Bull Moose leader; but Mi*. Dctrich declined the appoint- II
ment. !!
{Commission met this afternoon at the Capitol and wound |
up business. Of the $227,000 appropriated, the sum of Jl
$5,051 is still in the State T To this will be added , !
SI,BOO in cash which the < mmi < I
* realized from the sale of material from the Pennsylvania j
I building at the exposition : 'uria! • ."'.n:, vaj..:ed $lO,- I '
000 were brought back ar. 1 in the Capitol" ' -■
Harrisburg. The d jury this afternoon found J I
twenty-eight true bills a r.st Lewis H. Faust, on charges
of burglary. , M
Harrisburg.— Loomi; * 'ichael ua fined SSO. and John \ I
Knisely $25 and costs thi fternoon by Judge Kunkel, for ,
short-weighting. Two c! rges . were brought against ' ;
Michael. . |||
MARRIAGE LICENSES
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Son, undertakers, of IJummelstown,
and is little more than three feet in
length. The legs and arms were drawn
into unnatural positions and could not
be straightened. Burial was made this
afternoon.
County authorities in investigating
the case are endeavoring to learn
whether the youth received proper
medical treatment during tlie last two
years. When the stomach was re
moved from the body it was empty,
they claim. Young Miller's mother
told the authorities that the youth had
partaken of a hearty meal on Monday,
the day before his death.
Miller, father of the invalid, was
brought to the Dauphin county jail
by County Detective Walters and will
be held for a hearing pending the re
sult of the investigation. He is father
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