THE WEATHEB CLOUDY TO-NIGHT AND TO MORROW Detailed Report. Pas* 8 ESTABLISHED DF.C. 4. I*7*. VOL. 77—NO. 145. CRACKSMEN; GET $661 BY BORIN6 SAFE Two Enter Wool worth's by Skylight and Slide Down Rope of Sheets USE BIG JIMMY IN THEIR WORK Woman's Screams Give Alarm as Pair Return Over Housestops to Hotel Annex. But Burglars Get Away— Dummy Safe as a Blind Two cracksmen gaining entrance to the Woolworth five and ten-cenr store, 40S Market street, early to-day. rolled the safe out of the office to a place in the center of the first floor anj after rigging a 'lummy safe out of pasteboard so their operations could not so easily be detected, ripped the real safe open and made away with s<>6l. They were seen when departing by way of roofs at 3 a. m. They escaped, although forced to leave behind shoes and some clothing they had gathered together and their burglar kit. The police say the men took rooms last night in the annex of the hotel, St. .Tamos, at 11 North Fourth street, and that one of them registered as Lewis Oreenthall, of New York. He is de acribed as tall and slender. With a pal. shorter and stouter, the police say, he made his way over roofs to that of the five and ten cent store. There the pSir removed a glass from a skylight and with two sheets tied together let themselves down into the store. They rolled the safe from the office ard turning it on its face drilled large holes in the back. With a sectional eteel jimmy, about four feet in length, they ripped the safe open and put the s*6l in a tan leather traveling bag and made their way back to the roof by means of a step ladder found inside of the store. iMrs. Frank Coe. a member of the Ferari Carnival Company, who is room ing in the hotel annex, saw the pair coming back over the roofs. She screamed and called her husband. Coe hurriedly dressed and aroused the other lodgers in the house. The pair, however, escaped with the bag of money. One of them was seen to run across Fourth street shoeless and without a hat. The details of-the robbery were not disclosed, however, until 7 o'clock this morning, when the store was o:«ned for business. Inside the store were found the tools the men had used in ripping open the safe. On the roof of the store were a hat, shoes, a collar and tie. A rope the men had used in making a fifteen-foot drop from the roof of the Busy Bee restaurant, adjoining the St. James' annex, to the roof of ths five and ten cent store, also was found. The brace and bits used in boring into the safe were picked up near it on the irst floor. Twenty-three dollars were left in the safe. The police believe the men intended returning for their tools and the rest of the money, but being surprised by Mrs. C'oe, changed this plan and ran away. Descriptions of the pair have been given to the police. FMJHTS IX AX AMBULANCE Man Apparently Crazed by Drug Struggles With Police While being taken to the Harris burg Hospital shortly after noou to day. Harry C. Sollenberger. apparently crazed from the effects of some drug, caused trouble for a squad of police men in the ambulance. Force was nec essary to hold the man down until he reached the hospital where medical treatment quieted him. He was re ported to be resting comfortablv late tnis afternoon. A hurry call was received at the J'oli -e Headquarters for the ambulance to go to the home of Mrs. Charles Schaeffer, Twenty-first an i Greenwood streets, at which house Sollenberger boarded. When the police arrived they found Sollenberger violent. Chicken Thieves Busy at Dauphin (Special to the Star-Independent.) Dauphin. May 22.—Chicken thieves entered the coop of 'Mrs. Elizabeth Mertz, on High street, last night, tak ing seven ininorca liens and a valuable zuoster. O* Star- &&&($& Independent BRITISH SAILING SHIP SUNK BY GERMANS: CREW SAVED Berehaven, Ireland, May 22, 1.20 P. M.—The British sailing <>len holm was sunk yesterday evening by a German submarine at a point lo miles off this port. The members of her orew have been landed here. The Glenholm was on her way from Chile to Liverpool with a cargo of nitrate. The submarine intereeptd the sailing ship and signaled to the ore-' - to aban don her. The ship was then ?unk, the submarine tiring 39 rounds from her gun before she went down. Bereliaven, or Castletown Bere haven is on the southern eo *t of Ire land on the north shore of B.mtry Bay. The point where the Glenholm was sunk is roughly not more than sixty miles from OKI Head of Kinsale, where the Lusitania went down. German submarines consequently are still ac tive in this vicinity. ATTACKS oTTHE ALLIES REPULSED SAY GERMANS Berlin. May 22, By Wireless to Sayville.—Germany army headquarters to-day gave out a report on the pro gress of hostilities reading as follows: "British and French attacks were repulsed yesterday to the southwest of Neuve Chapelle where colored Eng lish troops were taken prisoners and on the heights of Lorette. In some places the fighting is still going on. "Southwest of Lille and in the Argonne. the enemy made use of mines charged with poisonous ga^es. "In the ea*t of Windau, in Cour land, Russia, there have been cavalry eng«(>tements. •'At Shavli, in Kovno province, on the Dubysa river, Russian night at tacks were repulsed. Two tundred Rus sians were taken prisoner. "In the southeastern are .a of the war there are no changes of import ance." Bombarding Turkish Troops London, May 22. —The Exchange Telegraph has received fron. ts Ath ens correspondent a dispatch stating it is reported from Mytilene that a Brit ish squadron began Thursday a 36- hour bntnbardment of Turkish troops concentrated at Kara Burnu, near Smyrna. Austrians in Bukowina Retreating Paris, May 22. —The right wing of the Austrian army in Bukowina is re treating toward the Carpathians, ac cording to a Havas dispatch from Buch arest filed Thursday. The Austrian rear guard is reported to be making desperate efforts to cover the Tetreat and check the Russian offensive. FIVE KILLED IN EXPLOSION Twenty-five Others Injured By Dyna mite Intended to Raise Body of Drowned Lad By Associated Press. Syracuse. N. Y., May 22. —Five per sons are reported to be killed and twenty-five others injured here this afternoon when a case of dynamite in an automobile exploded shortly after 2 o 'clock. The explosives were to be need in dynamiting Onondaga creek to raise the body of three-year-old John Wil lex. who was drowned two days ago. The automobile was near the creek with a hundred persons nearby when the explosion ocurred. MAY RESORnoILD LAW TO CUT ARBITRATORS' FEES City Officials Are Seeking Advice as to Whether They Can Apply the "Dollar-a-day" Plan of Remunera tion for Men Who Made Award Despite the fact that the board of thiee arbitrators—Farney Gannett, Jo seph L Shearer, Jr., and Roy G. Cox —who awarded $22,767.09 to W. H. Opperinan for extra work in connection with his contract to build the river front intercepting sewer, have charged $1,500 each for their services, it was said to-day upon good authority that city officials are investigating to learn whether they can cut down these charges by resorting to an act of 1836 which, it is heid, prescribes $1 a day "for each day actually engaged" for arbitartors' services. It was unofficially reported, too, that the Board of Public Works has com municated with the arbitrators and has asked them to give a more detailed statement of their award to Opperman and also to state the exact number of days which the arbitrators spent in consideration of the case and the prep aration of their report. Coupled with this came the announce ment that the City Commissioners at their meeting on Tuesday will be ac quainted with every fact concerning the sewer disputes and the subsequent de cision to arbitrate. City Commission ers to-day declared that they yet have not been advised whether they have the authority, under the act of l"836. to fix the fees of the arbitrators at the dollar-a-day rate. They were unable to state, therefore, what action, if any, Coßtlaued on Ultvutk !'■««. HARRISBURG, PA.. SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1915 14 PAGES. 73 PERISH IN R. R. HORROR IN ENGLAND Casualties Will Proba bly Reach 400 as Result of Collision of Three Trains FIRE ADDS TO AWFUL SCENE Nearly All the Dead Were Soldiers Whose Troop Train Collided With a Local and Express—Many Pin ioned in Wreckage and Burned Alive By tssooioW Press, Carlisle, Eng., May 22.—One of the most disastrous wrecks in the annals of British railroading took place at 6 I | o'clock this morning on the Caledonian i railway at Gretna, near this city, when I i three trains came into collision. No j fewer than 73 |>ersons were killed, j and the final list may be considerably | greater, for it is believed that many I persons sustained fatal injuries. The' j total casualties probably will reach i -100, as the list of more or less seri j ouslv injured is very numerous, j By a o*'clock this afternoon 73 bod ies had been recovered from the wreck- i age. One of three trains was a troop train, | | another was a local, and the third was j .the express from Londou to Glasgow. ! Fire broke out among the wreckage j : and added to the horror of the scene. l Assistance arrived quickly. The fire lorce was called out, and after getting the flames uuder control the firemen 1 i joined in extricating the dead and the i j wounded. The adjoining fields soon had the ap pearance of an immense mortuary with I the dead, the dying and the injured j laid out in gruesome ranks. The dead mostly were soldiers. The. troop train j ! collided first with a local from Carlisle. I and before the occupants were able to get clear of the wreckage of this ac- I cident the express from London to! Continued on Mftatk Page. DRIVER OF MILK WAGON IS KILLEHT CROSSING Daniel Schriver, 70 Years Old, Struck by Beading Passenger Train Near Boiling Springs—Horse Attached to His Wagon Dies Instantly (Special to the Star-Independent.) Boiling Springs. Pa., May 22. While driving toward the creamery here with a wagonload of milk, Daniel j Schriver, 70 years old, was struck by 'a passenger train on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad at 7.15 o'clock .this morning and thrown several feet ! from the wagon. He was injured in a t way that resulted in his death shortly afterward. The horse was instantly 1 killed. The milk cans were hurled in all directions. Schriver had been employed as a farm hand, for a number of years, by Lewis Otto, a farmer who resides about two miles west of this town. This morning he left the farm with a one horse wagon loade-i with cans of milk which he had been in the habit of tak ing daily to the Boiling Springs Cream ery. Arriving at a grade crossing about a mile west of this town Schriver was delayed a short time by an eastbound freight train. When the rear of the train passed he whipped up his horse and started to cross the tracks but was struck by train No. 92, a Harrisburg and Gettysburg passenger train, due to arrive in Harrisburg at 7.45 o'clock. It is said that of late Sehriver's hearing hail begun to fail and that he did not hear the approaching passen ger train. When picked up he was bleeding from several wounds and his skull was fractured. He was carried to a nearby farm house where he -died at 8.11 o'clock before medical aid could be obtained. The Cumberland county authorities will investigate the accident. Governor Motors to Philadelphia Governor Brumbaugh left Harris buiig this morning in his automobile for a journey to Philadelphia. He will return Monday afternoon. The Govern or will entertain the members of the Supreme Court at dinner on Monday night, along with a number of cab inet officials and prominent attorneys from the middle district and the judges of the Dauphin county court. Covers will be laid for thirty at the Execu tive Mansion. Tot Injured in Fall From Cradle Kussell T. Painter, 2-year-old son of E. Painter. 1938 Brookwood street, fell from his cradle this morning and suffered a laceration of the face. After treatment at the Harrisburg hospital the baby was sent horns. urn ma WIN EARL! HEATS Track Athletes From Many Cities Com pete For Honors Here This Afternoon NEW RECORDS ARE EXPECTED Cinder Path Pronounced In Good Con dition Despite the Heavy Bains- Tech., Last Tear's Victor, Strives to Retain Its Laurels The annual Pennsylvania High : school track and field meet given un- ' der the auspices of the Harrisburg. Track Athletic Committee was started ! at Island Park this afternoon uuder | unfavorable weather conditions, but ; was marked by much enthusiasm. ! Weather conditions were responsible ! for the crowd being much smaller than usually attend these meets and also I delayed the start of the field events. One of the heats in the 100-yard dash marked the opening of the meet. Results of the early events were as follows: 100-Yard Dash First Heat Won by Kime, Waynes boro: second. Evster, Technical. Time, 10 and 4-5 seconds. Second Heat—Won by Davies, Tech nical; second, Heft'ner! Waynesboro. Time. 11 seconds. Third Heat—Won bv Heff'elfinger, Technical; second, Smeltzer, Central. High. Time. 10 and 4-5 seconds. Fourth Heat—Won by Nagle, Ijeb anon; second, W. Starisnic, Steelton. Time. 11 seconds. Fifth Heat—Won by Beck. Tech nical; second, P. Hocker, Steelton. Time, 10 and 4-5 seconds. Half Mile Run Oue Heat—Won by Whiteman, Wil : liamsport; second, H. Sellers, Steelton; third. Demming, Technical; fourth, Columbia; fifth, Stiteler, , Technical. Time, 2 minutes 6 and 4-5 seconds. 123 Yard High Hurdles First Heat——Wostofficc at 10 o'clock this morning. He was captured in a sensational man ner by Detective Allen, attached to the | headquarters staff in New York, and City Detective Harry White, of this city. Jaekson, who ie known as a "bad j mail" iu the "jungles" in New York, | was ordered to throw up his hands and two revolvers were leveled at him as he asked for a letter at the general delivery window. Feariny that shots I would be fired a number of Harris- i burgers in the postoflice hastily beat a retreat. Jackeon had no gun and he submitted to arrest without resistence. For more than a week the police say, Jackson had been living in a house on Cowden street, hiding from the New York police. Detective Allen got information that the man was in j llarrisburg and came here this morn ing. The vigil at the postoflice had lasted only ten minutes when Jackson | walked in, accompanied by 'another New York negro. According to Detective Allen, Jackson was detected in selling co caine in New York bv Patrolman Michael J. O'Connor who attempted to arrest him. Jackson, it is charged, hid behind a door and slashed O'Con nor when the bluecoat pushed the door open. Then Jackson made his escape. O'Connor wats cut about the face and chest. Jackson was committed tA jail here and will be taken to New York, to night by Detective Allen. Increase In Bank Reserve By Associated Press. New York, May 22.—The statement of the actual condition of Clearing House banks and trust companies for the week shows that they hold SIBO,- 314,560 reserve in excess of legal re quirements. This is an increase of $7,- 073,330 over last week. Injured by Bursting Steam Cock Frank Hemminger, 1819 Briggs street, was painfully brrned about the face ami eyes in Roundhouse No. 2, when a steam cock on a locomotive on i which he was working burst. He was 1 treated at the Harrisburg hospital. VAST CROWD CHEERS KINC OF ITALY BEFORE PALACE: U. S. FLAC IN PROCESSION Rome, May 21. via Paris, May 22. —Almost the entire population of Rome, except the aged ami invalids, gathered this evening on Capitolino hill where Prince Colanna. the Mayor, had convoked a tv»lemn sitting of tho municipal council to consecrate, in the heart of the capital, the now war. The Mayor delivered « patriotic address which provoked tremendous applause from the throngs gathered in the senatorial hall, the square below and in the surrounding streets as far down as the forum on one side and the Caffarelli Palace, now the home of the German emlbaesv, on the other. After his address Prince Colanna. surrounded by aldermen and the muni cipal council and preceded by the standard of Rome, started for the yuirnal to pay tribute to Victor Em manuel as the personification of Italy. Rivers of Humanity Veritable rivers of humanity pour- | ed through the streets leading to the palace of the king. Thousands were paced into the great (juirnal square. I The scene which was enacted when His Majesty and the members of his fam ily appeared upon a balcony over looking the sqiure has few parallels in the history of Rome. It is estimated j that the crowd numbered several hun- ! dred thousand. The multitude was so vast that all the people could not enter the square, j From the crowd came a sound like the j roaring of the sea. The windows on a balcony of the " Quimal palace were opened and i red damask covering was thrown over the parapet. This was a sign that the king was about to appear and the impatience Coatlniiril on I'llrirntli I'nKr. MARCONI SAILS TO SERVE HIS TERM IN ITALIAN ARMY New York, May 22.—William Mar-j ! coni, inventor of the wireless, sailed to- j i day on the steamer St. Paul in response I to a summons from the King of Italy,; : to serve his term of military service in the Italian army. Mr. Marconi, who ! is a member of the Italian army and j I adviser of King Victor Emmanuel, is a j reserve officer in the engineering corps. He said he expected to complete his j term of service and return to America t by next September, but would not ven -1 ture a prophecy as to whether the war would end by that time. "I suppose that 1 shall be called on for service," the inventor said. It is fair to surmise that at least some por tion of the Italian army will 'bo dis j patched to the assistance of the allied | forces operating against the Darda | neiles. but I am speaking without any ! authority when 1 say this. Both the j Italian army and navy are well i equipped and I have no doubt they will give a good account of themselves. !UEHMANY TO CALL 2,000.000 MEN TO COPE WITH ITALY London, May 22, 4.05 A. M. —The | Copenhagen correspondent of the "Dai ly Mail'' says he has learned fram an I authoritative Berlin source that Ger ■ many is about to call up two million more men. Berlin official circles, he stated, be t licve that an army of half a million will be sufficient to cope with Italy. POPE WILL IROE NEUTRALITY OF HOLY SEE IX ITALY'S WAR Rome May 21, 6.30 P. M.. Via i Paris, May 22. —Deep regret is felt j by Pope Benedict that Italy has de i cided for a war which lie, as head of j the church, hoped might be averted, i Although Italy is involved in the con flict, the Holy See will remain strictly j neutral, although no effort will be made j to restrain Italian Catholics from fol- I lowing the dictates of their conscience, i A papal document outlining this posi- I tion is expected soon. It is announce!! that because of tho ! gravity of the situation the consistory j which was to have been held this month to fill veancies in the College of Car dinals has been postponed indefinitely. KlNti EMMANUEL APPEALS TO ! ALL PEOPLE TO DO THEIR 1H TV Rome, May 21, via Paris, May 22, 4.25 A. M.—King Victor Emmanuel will issue a proclamation to the people countersigned by all the ministers to morrow (Saturday). The document will explain how Italy has been driven to take up arms and will appeal to all citizens to do their duty in such a way that victory will be assured. Another royal proclama tion will be addressed to the army anil to the fleet. Great Distress At Triest On the Italian Frontier, May 22, via Parin, May <2>2, 4.2-5 P. M.—Re ports received from Triest say there is milch distress in that sea.port. The city is virtually without bread and even cornmeal for the "polenta'' or porridge of the people is extremely scarce. Very few Italians in Tric«t have been able to get away. Agree on Pumping Station Wall Following a conference to-day of Mayor Royal, City Solicitor Seitz, City Commissioners Oorgas and Bowman and Joel D. Justin, chief engineer of the Board of Public Works, it was decided that Commissioner Bowman has author ity to build a retaining wall and "steps" along the river front at the city pumping station at North street. The work now is being done by the Stucker Brothers Construction Com pany. POSTSCRIPT PRICE ONE CENT. AUSTRIA AND ITALY START WAR MOVES Without formal Decla ration Both Countries Engage in Various Acts of Warfare AUSTRIANS CUT RAILWAY LINES Train Going From Milan Toward Aus tria Seized on Latter's Territory- Military Authorities of Italy to Take Control of Italian Railroads London, May 22. 12.01 P. M.—No for ma I declaration of war by Italy igainst her former partners in the triple ulliance lias been yet reported, but main incidents have occurred of u •haracter indicating imminence of any ictual state of war. A lienevn telegram reports that Bar >n tiurian Von Hajecs, Austro-Hungar lan Premier, lias resigned, but Emperor Krancis Joseph is said to have declined to accent his resignation. London, May 22, 2.43 P. M.—A dis patch from the Stelano News Agency, »f Koine, says that King Victor Em manuel signed to-day an act conferring extraordinary powers on the govern ment "for the duration of tlie war." Korie, May 22.—The "Official Ga zette lias published a decree empow ering the military authorities to take control of all Italian railroads. This L ondition went into effect last night. London, May 22. —A Rome dispatch lo the Exchange TelegraJ'h Company which reports the cutting off of railway 'ominuuication by Austrians at Udine states that one train from Milan going toward Austria \>as stopped and seized mi Austrian territory. The erew of the train is reported to have been ar rested. Geneva, Switzerland, May 22, Via Paris. 1.10 P. M.—The "Journal" publishes a dispatch from Konie an nouncing that the Austrians are con •entrating large forces along the upper Adige river. The Adige Mows from the r.vroleso Alps into Lombardy and en ters the Gulf of Venice. Casus Belli Claimed for Italy Paris, May 2 2.—lt is considered that Austria's action in destroying the bridges and cutting telegraph and tele phone lines at Pont Caffaro and Co tlrone can be held to constitute a casus belli, making Italy tree lo open hostili ties without further diplomatic formali ties. says a "'Ciaulois" dispatch from Turin. Pont Caffaro is a short distance north of Kiva, the extreme northern point in Austria on Lake (iarda. Aus trian troops were withdrawn after the civil population had been forced to evacuate Kiva and other sections of Vemv.ia under Austrian rule. When the Milan express reached a point near Pont Caffaro, where the lino had been cut, the train was seized by the Austrians anil the crow was arrest nil. It is supposed the same fate has befallen another train from which no news has been received since it crossed the Austrian frontier. Keep Italians From Going Homo Koine, May 22, via Paris—Advices received in Home from Basel, Zurich ind other Swiss towns with Germany iini Austria are that thousands of Ital ans are being prevented from retimi ng home by the German and Austrian uithorities. It is asserted that the em ployers of Italians in Austria and Ger man are refusing to pay the men their wages. LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY King Victor Emmanuel will issue to day a proclamation to the Italian peo ple stating that Italy has been driven to war and appealing for popular sup port for the government's policy. An other royal proclamation will be ad dressed to the army and navy. Although Italy and Austria-Hungary are virtually at war no reports have been received thus far of actual hos tilities. A train which crossed the fron tier from Italy,was seized by Austrian* who arrested the train crew. Great patriotic demonstrations were held last night in Rome and Vienna and the opening of war is expected quickly, perhaps without the exchange of form al declarations. Aside from the Italian situation the point of greatest interest at present is Central Gallcia, where a battle of Continued on Eleventh P«r».