. ... • '. • -r Unsuccessful Attempt Is Made by Foitr Thugs to. Assassinate Japanese Leader, HARRISBTJRG WmSB TELEGRAPH LXXXVI— No. 22 14 PAGES HOLLWEG GIVES GERARD MESSAGE FOR PRESIDENT Urgent Wireless Missive Sent After Peace Conference With Chancellor RESOLUTION GOES OVER Senator Cummins Docs Not Press Rule to Set Aside Time For Senate Debate London, Jan. 25. The American embassador at Berlin, James W. Ger ard, was called to the foreign office yesterday, whither he was summoned by the imperial chancellor for a con versation respecting President Wilson's address to the Senate, says a Berlin dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company byway of Amsterdam. The conference lasted for more than an ho'ur and later the ambassador sent a long wireless message to Washing ton "at the urgent request of the Ger man government." In parliamentary circles, says the correspondent. President Wilson's speech Is generally considered a last move for peace, and that if it is un successful the President will be obliged to side finally with one of the bil ligerents. Washington, Jan. 23. The wire less dispatch reported to have been sent to the State Department by Am bassador Gerard from Berlin "at the urgent request of tho German govern ment" and containing the German offi cial view on President Wilson's peace address had not arrived to-day. Sec- [Continued on Page 4] Held Under $5,000 Bail on Charge of Shoving "The Queer" Made Here Calvin Balmer, of Reading, Pa., charged with circulating the counter feit money alleged to have been made in this city and Speeceville. was held under $5,000 bail at a hearing before United States Commissioner Long at Philadelphia yesterday afternoon. His associates. Joseph D. Ferry and Alvin M. Hornberger, were held under SIO,OOO bail each at the hearing be fore United States Commissioner Wolfe |* here last Friday. Alvin M. Hornberger, of Mohnton. near Reading, who secured bail, was at the hearing yesterday afternoon ready to give testimony, but was not called on. Ferry in an interview with a Telegraph reporter last week de clared that he had never seen nor heard of Balmer and that if he was circulating counterfeit money he had been induced to do so by another. Matthew Griflln, chief of the Secret Service men, insisted that Balmer sur render the remainder of the counter feit notes alleged to be in his posses sion. Balmer denied having any more notes and said that all the notes ex cept $2,230 had been destroyed in a furnace. These, with the exception of the one found on his person when ar rested, had been put into circulation. French Mother Who Killed Her Offspring of German Parentage Is Acquitted Paris, Jan. 23. -- It is not a crime for a mother to kill a child born as a result of the mother being violated by Germans in the invaded regions. A Paris jury so decided yesterday. The case in which this decision was reached was that of Josephine Barthelmy, 20 years old. One of her brothers has been killed while serv ing in the trenches in defense of France. Josephine's child was born on August 15, last, and she killed it im mediately. Only after the greatest difficulty was the woman persuaded to speak. Then she said: "I killed my child because the father was a German. I was a ser vant at the military hospital at Chiam bley, which is in the invaded regions. All the orderlies there were German soldiers. On December 20, 1915, at about 8 p. m.. six of these orderlies found me in the chapel of the hos pital. They spoke to me in German. T did not understand them. Suddenly they carried me off." CARDINAL GIBBONS HOPES IX)H VETO OF IMMIGRANT BILL Baltimore. Md., Jan. 25. ln a statement given out to-day Cardinal Gibbons expresses the hope that President Wilson will veto the immi gration bill, THE WEATHER For Harrlshurg anil lirinltr: I'alr to-night ll ml Fridayi colder to night, with IOWCMI temperature about SO degree*. For r.aatrm Penaaylvanla i Fair to night and Friday i colder to night! moderate west wind*. River The main river will remain nearly stationary to-night and begin to fall Frlda>| Its trllmtarlex will fall slowly or remain atatlonary. A atage of about H.O feet Is Indl i rated for Ilarrlsbnrg Friday p morning. General Conditions I'reaaure la below normnl over the eaatern part of the country and In the Far North went; It Is high over the Southwest and the la --elfle alope. Rain ha* fallen In the Fast Gulf and South Atlantic States, except the Florida peninsula, and In Tennessee and Virginia and light snow In the Ohio Valley, Middle Atlantic State*. In Michigan and generally along the northern bor der nnd at a few places In the West. Temperaturei S a. in., 30. Sum Rises, "t'iO n. m. Moon i First qunrter, January 21), HiOt a. in. Illver Staget 0.2 feet above low water mark. Yeaterday'a Weather Highest temperature, 34. I.oweat temperature. 10. Mean temperature. Ufl. Normnl temperature, 23. SUFFRAGISTS MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY WITH RESOLUTION | Baldwin Asks if "There Is Real Demand" to Submit Ques tion to Voters ROAD LOAN IS COMING UP I Will Likely Be Given lo People > to Decide at General Elec tions in 1910 ! Woman suffrage advocates may have some difficulty getting tl\c legis lature to consider the resolution to ! submit to the people of the State in | 19 20 the proposed amendment to per | mit women to vote. Several of the t most influential lawmakers, including Speaker Richard J. Baldwin are un derstood to have declared that they • want to find out how the people feel •about the question of having an elec tion within five years on a question | disposed of by a decisive vote. The suffrage resolution was de feated in 1915 and if the legislatures of 1917 and 1919 pass the resolution the people will vote on it in 1920. The constitution bars the submission of a (question more than once in live years, jltvis estimated here that the last suf- I frage amendment cost the State ap proximately SBO,OOO of which $73,000 was for advertising and the balance for the ballot provision. < Speaker Baldwin's position is that I the advocates of suffrage must show a real demand on the part of the peo | pie to vote on the question and the i subject will be given serious con sideration in Republican party coun cils. Some of the antisuffragists are ; said to be as much in favor of sub mitting the question again in 1920 as I the prosuffragists, holding that they ;can defeat it next time by a still greater majority. The question is not iso much the propriety of bringing up I the qutstion in 1920 but as to whether j the people want to discuss it again. I The road loan proposition, which I went down to defeat in 1913 is likely !to come up again next year as the j resolution for the constitutional amendment was passed last session and will be put up to the lawmakers again this year. Rumor is that Representative Sam uel A. Whitaker, of Chester, will pre sent the suffrage amendment resolu tion. Movie Actor Seen Running jFrom Room in Which Woman Is Found Dead in Bed l>os Angeles. Cal., Jan. 23. A wo- I man identified by the police as Mrs. | Nell Harvey, of Exeter, Cal., was I found dead to-day lying face down i ward in a bed at the Leonide Hotel, j and Harlan J. Winter, a motion pic- I ture actor, was taken into custody at ! a rooming house where he ran, partly I dressed from the hotel. Winter, according to the police, j said the young woman died from nat ! Ural causes. He said they had regis tered at the hotel as Jlr. and Mrs. Harlan, of Sacramento, and that they ; were to have been married. The po j lice said the woman's body was I bruised. The body was found by the hotel proprietor, who said he heard •sounds in the couple's room which he ; thought indicated scuffling. Winter I said his father was a former district ; attorney somewhere in Xew York . State. | TWO KIRKS CAUSE SLIGHT IX)SS j A defective Hue at 521 Brown ave nue. occupied by Albert Mehuffle, I started a small fire about 10 o'clock jthis morning. The flames were ex tinguished before spreading. The ex- I tent of the damage will be about SSO. j Insulation rubbed from an electric light wire by its rubbing against an I iron pipe was the cause of an alarm |at 209 Briggs street early this morn ing. Wiremen repaired the break, be fore any damage was done. JOHN BLACK WORSE; j John Black, 201 South Seventeenth i street, who lias been ill for the past II wo years is in a serious condition at his home. He suffered a serious rc- I lapse yesterday morning and his cor.- idition has not improved since then. ! SAMLEIi KI'NKKIJ CRITICALLY ILL i Samuel Kunlyl, widely known in i financial and [folitical circles in the city, is critically ill at his home, 901 [Xorth Front street, suffering from an !attack of pneumonia, which developed j during the night. WHY THE RESERVOIR CARS ARE LATE TIME , Tuesday night, 11 i o'clock. PLACE—Fifteenth and Mar | ket. The front door has shut with a bang, following the exit of j passengers. There is a rip-rap on the glass, and a woman's voice appeals to the motorman to "wait just a minute, please." The motorman waits. Directly one lone woman of considerable weight appears at the rear door. She enters; the conduc tor rings go ahead . But the motorman waits. He sees the need for a green flag — more coming. One, two, three, four I — count 'em— four women ap j pear singly and wait expectantly on the rear platform. "All right. Bill," says the mo- I torman. "No," shrieked the chorus on the rear plaform, "Aunt Lizzie's not here yet." And one woman leaned far out of the car: "Oh, Aunt Lizzie," she pleads, "please hurry, Aunt Lizzie." "Aunt Lizzie" finally appears. The car starts at last. "And some folks wonder." growled the motorman, "why , the Reservoir cars are late. I'm going to turn brute and start I lcttin' 'em wait for the next one." HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1917 SADLY IN NEED OF PROPS i W 'N BAH SHAPt —BUT V A FEW MOI?t /, : T % I &00D PROPS SOCIETY WILL PATR NEWSBOYS' CONCER AT CHESTNUT Newsboys and their patrons will rub elbows at what promises to be a bril liant social affair as well as a concert of more than ordinary merit this eve ning in Chestnut Street Auditorium. The big hall lias been hired be cause the boys feel sure it will be needed, if all the friends go who have promised to turn up for the enter tainment. which is to be given for the benefit of the new building fund of the Harrisburg Newsboys' Associa tion. Arrangements for the affair were TO MUSTER OUT HARRISBURG BOYS IN THIS CITY Co.'s D and I With Eighth Reg't Headquarters Detachment Coming Here San Antonio, Tex., .Tan. 25.—Mus tering out stations for all the National Guardsmen of the States in the east ern department which are to be sent home under the recent order of the War Department were announced here last night by Major General Funston, commanding the southern depart ment. Among them are: Pennsylvania: Third brigade head quarters to the armory of the Fourth infantry at Allentown, Pa.; Sixth in [Continued on Page 9] GETS J7TII PLANE Paris, Jan. 25.—Lieutenant George Guynemer has brought down his twenty-seventh airplane, ths war of fice announces. FAKE SOLICITORS WORKING HERE? Women Claim They Are Col lecting For Orphanage Which May Not Kxist What may prove to be one of the cleverest fake soliciting schemes ever put over on residents of Harrisburg was unearthed this morning, when Daisy Williams, colored, called at the office of the County Directors of the Poor asking for funds for the mainte nance or an orphans' home at 1101 North Seventh street. Clerk J. William Bayles at once ques tioned the woman at length, as the house [Continued oil l'aac li!] Mrs. R. V. Fair lamb Dies Suddenly From Pneumonia Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Fairlanib, aged 52, wife of Robert V. Fairlamb, the tobacconist, died to-day at her home, 1827 North Second street. Death was due to pneumonia. Mrs. Fairlamb was ill but one week. The survivors are her husband, and the following children: Joseph V., Hobert 11., Philip M„ Thomas M„ Frederick and Catherine Fairlamb. Three brothers, Mark Mumma, County Treasurer; Norman N. Mumma, Steelton, and Charles Mumma, Paintersville; and three sis ters, Mrs. William Critchluy, Steel ton; Mrs. Luther Miller. Center county, and Mrs. Keller, Steelton, also survive. Mrs. Fairlamb was a daugh ter of the late Key. J. C. Mumma, for many vearp pastor of the St. John's Lutheran Church at Steelton. The funeral will be hold Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Services will he conducted by (he Rev. Rollin A. Sawyer, pastor of St. Stephen's Protestant Kplscopal Church. Burial will be made in lialdwin Cemetery, Steelton. in the hands of the Rev. K. P. Robin son, "the newsboys' friend," but he became suddenly ill and is in the llar risburg Hospital unable to help, so the little fellows had to assume the burden themselves and for the past few days they have been concert managers, advertising 'writers, news story writers and press agents in gen eral. To-day one little chap, deputized to provide the Telegraph with a closing [Continued on I'agc -I] JAP HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS DISSOLVED Emperor Takes Action in Po litical Crisis Following Ap pointment of Premier | Tokio, Jan. 25. —The emperor has 1 dissolved the house of representa : tives. ! By the drastic step of dissolution Premier Terauchi dramatically ended : the existence of the house of repre ' sentatives before even an opportunity was given for a vote of lack of con fidenr-e in the ministry. Following the excitement caused by , the attempt to assassinate the leader lof the Constitutional party, Yukio Ozaki, who had a narrow escape, the lower house was packed with spec ' tators and the session was a tumul tuous one. Takeshi Inukai, leader of the Kokuininto (National) party, led [Continued on Page 12] ATTEMPT TO KILL | JAPANESE LEADER Four Men Try to Assassinate M. Ozaki When He Demands Resignation of Premier Tokio, Jan. 2:., 10.55 A. M. —An at , tempt was made to assassinate Yukio | Ozaki, former minister of justice and leader of the Constitutional party, | while he was addressing a mass meet ing called to demand the resignation ' of the cabinet. While M. Ozaki was speaking two men armed with short swords sprang ; on the platform and tried to stab him. I They were overpowered and arrested. .Two other men then tried to assault I the former minister and were badly beaten by the audience. M. Ozaki demanded Premier Te rauchi resign on the ground that his I administration was unconstitutional. ' A heavy police guard is In attendance i for to-day's session of the diet. Yukio Ozaki was formerly mavor of Toklo. lie visited the United States | in 1910 and a dinner was given In his < honor at Washington by President ITaft. He became minister of justice I in the Okuma cahinet in 1914. Search in Other Cities For Men to Collect Ashes Unsuccessful in his tour by auto- I mobile to nearby towns for men to I collect ashes. Edward P. Bailey, repre sentative of the American Surety Com pany, bondsmen for the Pennsylvania I Reduction Company, to-day beqt his efforts toward procuring enough ex perienced men from Philadelphia, Wllllamsport and other large cities to come here until the present situation Is relieved. It Is possible that no re port will be made to Council until Monday. RUSS REPULSE GERMAN DRIVE TOWARD RIGA Reserves Fall on Teutons Siruggling in Swampy Region and Cause Heavy Losses The heaviest fighting now in prog ress in any of the war areas is on the Russian front in the Riga sector, where the Germans recently took the offensive and drove back the Russians a mile and a half in the region of Great Tirul Marsh that long has barred the way to Riga for the German forces. Berlin announces io-day that the attack netted the Germans strong Russian positions on a front of about six miles, with more than 1,700 pris oners and IS machine guns. Russian reserves hurriedly brought up were able to check the advance. Dislodge Germans Attempting again to advance over tho frozen ground which has made the effort in this swamp region pos sible. the Teutonic army has sustained reverses, according to Petrograd to day. Northwest of the marsh they opened a heavy artillery fire and then attacked, but failed to make any head way against the Russian defense. A similar result met attacks between tho marsh and the river Aa and here. In a counter attack the Russians dis lodged the Germans and drove them back. The fighting extended to the south east of the river Aa. near Kalnzem, which lies twenty miles southwest of Riga. Here the Russians, after taking the offensive, were caught in a counter offense and were compelled to retire iortliwarrt a third of a mile. Elsewhere there has been little but artillery, patrol and air fighting. Kn tire quiet apparently prevails all along the Rumanian front, where the severi ties of the winter weather have i checked all operations except sporadic bombardments and skirmishes. HEAR LICENSE TRANSFER CASE Remonstrance Against Petition of Fred W. Ebel; No De cision Today That there is no need for another licensed bar in the vicinity of the western entrance of the Market street subway, was one of the principal points brought out this morning by the Dauphin County Court by the remonstrants against the transfer of the liquor license of the National Hotel, held by Fred W. Ebel, to the Metropolitan Annex, in Market street, at the subway. Harry B. Saussaman, attorney for [Continued on Page 12] $461,288 Apportioned For Improvement of Pa. Rural Post Roads Washington, D. C., .Jan. 25.—Ap portionment of $10,000,000 to aid the States in the construction of rural post roads the second annual distribu tion in accordance with the Federal aid road law, was announced to-day by Secretary Houston, of the Depart ment of Agriculture. The funds are the apportionment of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. j| To meet the cost of administering the law, $300,000 has been deduced.* Delaware receives $16,368; Mary land $88,094; N'ew Jersey, $1 18,423, and Pennsylvania, $461,288. In addi tion, $1,000,000 will be apportioned for the development of roads and trails within or partly within the na tional forests. The law provides that $16,000,000 shall be apportioned in the fiscal year of 1919: $20,000,000 in I*2o and $25,000,000 In 1021. I i Single Copy, 2 Cents POSTSCRIPT SOUTH MOUNTAIN FRUIT BELT HAS BROKEN RECORDS Reading Lines Carried Mprc Orchard Products Than Ever Before During 1010 1,230 CABS SHIPPED Millions of Pounds of Apples, Pears and Peaches Sent East and West The South Mountain fruit belt broke all records for production during the past year and with new orchards com ing into bearing next summer will again pass the high water mark for apples, pears and peaches produced in the York, Adams, Cumberland, Frank lin county districts served by the Har risburg and Gettysburg and the Phila delphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh branches of the to figures anonuneed here to-day by Division Freight Agent E. D. Hllleary, of the Reading. More than 1,230 cars of pears, peaches and .apples, mostly apples, have been shipped out of the district [Continued on Paso 3] German Raider Is Now Believed to Be Hamburg Liner Cap Ortegal Monteveido, Jan. 25.—1t is reported here that tfie German raider that has been operating off the Brazilian coast is neither the Moewe nor the Vineta but the Cap Ortegal. a Hamburg South American liner. The Cap Ortegal is said to have evaded the British fleet after leaving Hamburg in disguise. According to this story, the converted liner captured two British steamers which had sailed from the river Platte, took them to a port on the west coast of Africa where they were armed and manned, and then started them out to raid the South Atlantic shipping routes. The Cap Ortegal is a vessel of 7,819 tons. She was built in Hamburg in 1904, and prior to the war plied regu larly between Hamburg and South American ports. R. I-. PROPOSALS BEFORE WILSON W,: v.; an, Jan. The railway brotherhood lead* cis to-cLy l:i: I before President Wilson in writing their proposals t.-r .j compromise on his railway legislation pio gram and he began considering them. The labor leaders propose ins' ad of a law to prevent a strike or lockout pend ing an investigation that the provision be made for investi gation by . mixed board of employes and employers. CAPTURE MURDER SUSPECT Harris bur Private Doutrich, of the State Police, this afternoon arrested buscovitch Schwetko, at Palmyra, who answers in every detail the description of the man for whom the police have been searching for the murder of George Savage at Duncannon, on Monday night. • LAUNCH SUPERDREADNAUGHT Newport News,"Va. Jan. Jj.—The superdreadnaught Mississippi wa. successfully launched to-day in the presence of Secret.!:, Daniels, other distinguished visitors and more than 15,000 spectators. AUTO STOLEN FROM COURTHOUSE Harris irj A five passenger Buick, belonging to S. W. Shoemaker, 1545 North Sixth street, was stolen from in front of the courthouse this aiternoon. .The license num ber it, 90708. Newport, R. 1., Jan. *5. An unidentified submarine heavily n it. lying off shore between Point Judith and Beavci J il vherc she arrived a little after Z o'clock this afternoon, ihc submarine lay some distance off shore and because cf th- mist was difficult to make out her lines. Ob servers r :d the opinion that the craft was the Gerrfian merchant .u. marine Deutschland which has been expected at New London. The stranger was larger than'thc German fighting s übir.arinc U-53 and showed two periscopes and a conning tower Her flag could not be made out. The vessel submerged at 3 o'clock. Cincinnati, O, Jan. 25. Six sealed indictments nam ing 99 individuals as defendants were returned here to-day by the federal grand jury which has been investigating the alleged election frauds. MARRIAGE LICENSES Jnnrph Henkovlrli nnd Hnrlmrn Toinnxlr. Slrrltun. Itrurr Clinton Itrliok and Shillp Klluhrth l.nurr, llnrrlnliur*. Morrlw linos Mnllc> nnd llvtc I'.dua McGurvrv, Iliirrlaburg. PROF. SMYSER IS CHAMPION POTATO AND CORN GROWER Member of Faculty of Central High Carries Off First Honors at Show /, WINDING LP SESSIONS Breeders, Horticulturalists and Growers Hear Plea For Hon est Representation Honest representation of products was the general theme of the discus- 1 sions that marked the closing sessions of the agricultural associations to-day. At the exhibition of the State De partment of Agriculture Dauphin county carried off the individual championship honors for corn anct lirst prize for the best county exhibit was awarded to Greene county, other prize awards were announced lata this afternoon. Professor James 11. Smyscr, of the- Central high school faculty, this city, won the individual prize for the best ear of corn and was declared the champion potato exhibitor, for whicli he was given lirst award in this con test. The breeders and dairymen heard lectures of milk production. Champion Corn and Potato Exhibit Prizes Carried Off by Prof. Smyser of C. H. S. Harrisburg has the champion corn and potato grower. His name is James A. Smyser. He is teacher of physical geography and biology in Central High School, and resides at 123 North Eighteenth street. To-day Prof. Smyser was awarded (lrst prize for the champion ear of corn, and for the best exhibit of pota toes. TV.e county championship for ! corn raising went to Greene county [farmers. Other awards were an nounced late this afternoon at tho Agriculture Exhibit in the Emerson- Brantingham building, Tenth and Market streets. The champion ear of corn brought [Continued on Page 4]
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