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IJ YEAR LI Budget Committee Thinks It Would Not Be Required TO ISSUE IN 1911 Councilmen Will Scale Down All Estimates to Keep Within Nine Mills The subcommittee of the council manic finance committee, which is preparing the 1910 city appropriation ordinance or budget for submission to Councils, does not contemplate placing In the Ordinance any items to provide for the fixed charges on any part of the $641,000 loan for paving, sewer construction, Paxton creek improvement and bridge building approved on Tuesday. This Is the present plan of the subcommittee, whose members are committed to a nine mill tax rate, and jwho, to avoid any increase of millage, propose to scale down all departmental estimates to approximately what they were in the fiscal year which will close on April 4 and not to carry any Items for the loan. This policy, if pursued through Councils, will have the effect of preventing any issue of bonds until after April 3, 1911, and will permit of only paving and small sewer construction during the present year and next spring. The other projects may have to wait. Cannot Reach $500,000 Members of the committee declare that they do not see any safe way of permitting the appropriations to reach $500,000.

The Increase of property valuations by reason of the triennial assessment will not run much above $2,000,000, it is said about city offices, and the financiers calculate that $450,000 is the limit for the ordinance a nine mill rate is to De maintainea. Last year's appropriation ordinance carried $428,379.99. The estimates presented to the committee aggregate $560,000. including $30,000 for the damages following the construction of the Mulberry street bridge. Large increases are asked by mayors department heoause ot demands for additional police: high way department, because of extension of street paving area; by the lighting committee, because of new territory and development, and by other branches of the city government.

The rrospects are that they will go by the board. Effect on Improvements Xo. bonds can be sold without provision for sinking fund, interest and State tax. As the construction of the interceptor and improvement of the Paxton creek valley would require money to be available at once, the only way the city could go ahead without issuing bonds would be to adopt the policy of 1902. when funds were transferred from the sinking funds, which were afterward reimbursed when bonds were sold.

In 1902 the city let a contract for the intercepter in the creek valley in September. The bonds were not sold until February 2 5. 1903, although they Continued on Page 11 Matrimony Makes Strange Family Mix Georgetown, Feb. 18. Jupt what relation is Miss Amanda M.

Waples' husband to her is a question that is puzzling her friends when they learned that she was married to John Sockrider, of Angola. Sockrider, the bridegroom, ds a brother to Miss Waples' stepmother, whom her' father married some years ago after the death of her own mother. According4o marriage relationship, John Sockrider thus became her uncle, although now he is her husband, making her stepmother also a sister in law. At the same time her own natural father, John Waples. becomes a brother in law to her through her marriage with Wsples' brother in law, John Sockrider.

Machine Oil Pastry Made SO Persons III Laurel, Feb. 18. A mistake In the delivery of two barrels of nearly caused fatal results here, when some fifty persons were made violently 111 by eating doughnuts served by a local bakery which had been prepared in machine oil by mistake for cooking oil. two instances entire families were on the dangerous list and the physicians had hard work savins' them. It developed that the machine oil had been ordered by a hardware dealer who received instead the barrel intended for the baker, and the mistake was not discovered until too late to avert the consequences which followed.

Will Address School Directors at Hershey President Harry Boyer, of the Harrisburg School board, will address the school directors of Dauphin county at the annual session at Hershey tomorrow. His subject will be "The equipment of a modern school." Nearly the entire Harrisburg School board will go Hershey to hear the president. She Remembers Mollie Pitcher Special to the Telegraph. Carlisle Feb. 18.

Mrs. Elizabeth TWufr of Carlisle, yesterday eelebrat id the 9 anniversary of her birth. She i one of Carlisle's most respected ctti ns remembers Mollie Pritcher, the heroine of the battle, of Monmouth, who lived in Old Carlisle. Local Guard Inspection manies I and D. Eighth reel ria will inspected on the evenings ti February 28 and ilarch 1.

Miss Eleanor Robson, the well known actress, who has just closed her theatrical season and will remain quietly in Xew York until her mar riage to August Belmont, the millionaire banker, horse racer and society man. Simultaneously with Miss Rob son's retirement her mother, also known on the stage as a. star of great talent tinder the name of Madge Carr. wil1 also retire, and it is expected wili live with her daughter. III LICENSE COURT Attorney Geyer Declares Rutherford Commissary Is Still Running AN EMPHATIC DENIAL John L.

Simone Seeks Li cense, but' Is Strongly Opposed About one hundred and forty retail and twenty five wholesale, together with five bottlers' six brewers' and distillers' licenses were granted today by the Dauphin county courts, it being the annual liquor license application day. Two remonstrances were heard during the morning, to the granting of a retail license to John L. Simone, at the Rutherford Heights hotel, and the other to the granting of a license to Joseph Armento, at 215. Walnut street. The latter case was not concluded during the morning and was continued until 2 o'clock, to be completed this afternoon.

Created a Sensation In connection with the application of John L. Simbrie, who seeks a license to sell liquor at Rutherford. John R. Geyer, his attorney, created a sensation by declaring that the commissary at that place, against which complaint was made last year, resulting in an order of the court closing the joint, is still running. He stated that Carlo Russ, proprietor of the commissary, who is awaiting trial in the Dauphin county prison on the charge murder, committed his Continued on Page 11 reading sold STOCK COMPANY BUYS OUT WEITZEL Captain Hprrj Barton or Fos ter Will Be Chosen as Manager Tomorrow By Associated Prss.

Reading, Feb. 1 8. The local Trl State league baseball team was today 'sold by Jacob L. Weitzel, to a stock company headed by ex Pro thonotary Edward J. Morris.

With the franchise the new owners get twelve players reserved by Weitzel. The new company will choose' a manager tomorrow. It will either be Harry Barton, last season's captain, or Clarence (Pop) Foster, who man aged the team in 1909. Catholics Require Written Betrothals Pittsburg, Feb. 18.

In a letter to priests 'of the Pittsburg diocese Bishop Canevin says: "According the custom now approved by the church, the betrothal or formal promises of marriage should be made in writing and signed by both parties and by the. parish priest or bishop. Private and informal engage ments are not prohibited or declared unlawful, but the church accepts only solemn and formal espousals made in writing. "Since the primary end of marriage is that children be born and edu cated, the husband or wife who shirks this duty from improper motive or in any unlawful way defeats the end of marriage, violates the right of chil dren to be born and to live, and reduces the family to an unnatural and unchristian level. SENSATION SPRUNG With Trees and Wires Ice Covered City Resembles Fairyland NATURE'S WILD MOOD Wires Snap Under Their High Wind Causes Havoc Harrisburg is a pretty good old town to look upon even at its worst.

Today the city looked like the realization of an artist's dream of fairyland. The trees and shrubbery were particularly beautiful. Sheathed from top to bottom by a quarter inch covering of ice, and tossed and swung by a spanking breeze, the trees shone in the brilliant sunlight as though studded by countless gems. The coloring was magniticent. varying from the purest steel blue ray of the diamond to the red of the ruby and the fires of the opal.

Iarge drops of ice where the branches met looked big as incandescent lamps on a Christmas tree and added to the gorgeousness of the spectacle. Rut rare as was the picture presented by the ice covered, sun enlivened landscape, pedestrians who made their way cautiously to work over the slippery pavements heartily wished the trees had been covered by leaves and that the gentle breath of spring had banished for many, many months the longest and most disagreeable winter Harrisburg has had in many years. Cold Wave Arrives The cold wave headed this way yesterday was sidetracked during last night, but it will arrive tonight, and there will be a big drop in temperature, reaching about ten degrees above zero. This will, of course, check the general breaking up of the river, which was looked for by tomorrow. "With last night's change in weather conditions came a brisk wind that traveled about twenty five miles an hour and helped to give the city its fairyland appearance.

The wind made trouble for the trolley lines and on the railroads. The ice covered wires retarded the trolley car movements and caused a general mixing up of the schedules. On the Philadelphia and middle divisions of the Pennsylvania railroad the ice broke some of the wires and made it necessary to move the trains slowly. The telephone lines also suffered, but not to any great extent. One of the fire alarm wires at Fourth and Walnut streets, on Xo.

6 circuit, broke at 2 o'clock this morning, but was soon repaired, the single tap calling out Assistant Electrician Diehl. High Wind Causes Damage The high wind played havoc. At the northeast corner of Second and Pine, streets a large tree was blown down and fell across the trolley wires, tearing them loose. At Lochiel a number of sheds were blown down, and throughout the city where the wind had a good sweep fences suffered. By 7 o'clock this morning most of the damage had been repaired and no further trouble was looked for.

The river came up during the night and this morning there were some local movements of ice on the river. The ice broke at Renovo, but gorged before moving far. Here the ice moved out of the west channel and below the bridges and was moving at noon at the foot of Verbeke street. Xo further changes in river conditions are likely to occur because of the big drop in temperature looked for tonight. A disturbance from the Xorth Pacific coast has overspread most of the western half of the country, attended by light rains and snows generally west of the Rocky mountains.

This will result in colder weather tonight and fair weather with a slight rise in temperature during Saturday. Arrest for Threats at Gate of Prison By Associated Press. Philadelphia. 18. As he stepped from the gate of the eastern penitentiary here today after serving six years for a murderous assault on his "wife at their home in Bernice, Sullivan county.

Max Sliwoskt was arrested on the charge of writing the woman threatening letters from his cell in the prison. A few weeks ago Mrs. Sliwoskt received a letter from her husband which he had smuggled into the mails in some manner not known, telling her as soon as his term had expired he intended finishing the job of killing her. The letter was turned over to the authorities. Sliwoski has served an aggregate of twenty nine years in prison on various charges of, assault and battery and Jail breaking.

Congress Would Have Peary Show Proofs Washington, Feb. 18. Members of the House may demand that Robert E. 'Peary exhibit his proofs to the world in general before voting, him a gold medal and the tnanKs er congress. It was learned yesterday that the naval committee was not entirely unanimous on the proposition of be stowing honors upon the discovery of the pole.

School Boy Badly Hurt in a Fall Gerald Dye, aged 12, a school boy of 1119 North Cameron street, was admitted to Harrisburg hospital this morning about 9.30 clock with a badly cut left knee. Young Dye slipped on the icy pavement while on the way to school and cut his knee on a broken bottle. Will Attend Electrical Show Mayor Meals went to Philadelphia today to attend the electrical show at the First regiment armory. He will return this Building Permit Issued Sara Erenncr was granted a permit today to erect a 2 story frame house at 550 South Tenth street to cost $800. ARRISBUBG nrro 3 EGBAPH Perkaps if Tkey Knew They Vould Tell Tk cm on Next to Last Page Vol.

LXXIX, Xo. 42. HARRISBURG, FRIDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 18, 1910. 1 16 PAGES ONE CENT NO BOND ISSUE IS Miss Eleanor Robson SHERIFFS DEPUTIES AT CAIRO KILL LEADER OF MOB SEEKING PRISONERS HARRISBURG DONS CUI1ERING GARB CONTEMPLATED Washington Star. RELIEF PLAN FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL Building Committee to Pur chase St.

Paul's Episcopal Church $30,000 BOND ISSUE Will Be Added to the Loan of $279,000 fori Other Purposes The matter of the crowded high school building will be thoroughly taken care of if the present plan of the building committee of the School Board Is approced and carriedut. It is. no less than the purchase of the plot at the corner of Sixth and Forster streets, now occupied by St." Paul's rrotestant Episcopal church, the temporary use of the church edifice as an addi tion to the high school. 10 cover me cost or tins purcnase the finance committee last evening, in addition to the $279,000 worth of bonds to De issued ror other purchases, decided to issue an additional $30,000 for this. The plan is to place the business department of the high school In the church and a small trame dwelling ad joining, which will also be purchased.

me rnurcn win. cost ana tne frame property belonging to Mrs. Tate, will cost The plan will go before the board Monday. The committee prepared a list of bonds which will have to be Issued to cover recent purchases and building operations. The list; will be submitted to the School Board at a special session to be held Monday evening.

The following debts will have to be taken care of: i Technical high school, in eluding architect's fee Miller Long plot. Eighth ward 9.000 John P. Melick Tenth ward 14,375 Lynch Jennings plot, Second ward 17.500 Eastmere building. 12,365 i Total Although the total amountt runs to $279,740, it was said at the committee meeting that the $740 would not be tacked on to the bond issue, but would be taken care of from the regular revenues of the district. The borrowing capacity of the board at the present time is $324,900, but under the new assessment it is expected to be raised to about $60,000 more.

When the $279, 000 Is taken from the sum it will leave a balance of $105,000 as a borrowing caapcity. Subtracting $30,000 for the high school from this will leave $75,000 as a borrowing" capacity. 4 Dr. Scofield Will Speak at Rally Sunday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, In Fahnestock hall, Y. M.

C. A. building. Second and Locust streets. Dr.

C. I. Scofield, the eminent Bible teacher, will address a great men's Bible study rally similar to the one held last Sunday. The association extends the most cordial invitation to all pastors and Christian 'workers of whatever name or denomination in Harrisburg or surrounding towns to be present. This will be the crowning service of what has been the most successful Bible conference ever conducted under association auspices.

Five hundred men no doubt will hear Dr. Sco field deliver his special message, on the closing day of fiis visit to. this city. Train Striken Tree By Associated Press. Reading.

Feb. IS. As a train was speeding along tiar Iochland. nine miles south of Slatington. this morning, the locomotive crashed into a tree, which had been broken down by the weight of tee.

Samson E. King was badly cut about the face. Those Kidnaped Keys iTHOSE KIDNAPED KEX FLEET LOST BOATS. AXD FLATS MV EFT AWAY WHE ICE BREAKS IP Martin Hewart, of West Falrvlew, Will Probably Lone Several Hundred Dollar The ice in leaving the west side of the Susquehanna this morning did not pass away without doing some damage. At least one man will lose several hundred dollars.

Martin Stewart, of West Fairview. a riverman, had his sand fleet anchored along the river near the Oonodoguinet creek and to insure its safety he had the boats and flats tied together with heavy ropes, and a strong cable held them close to the shore. The ice breaking, however, soon snapped the cable and cut the 'ropes, allowing the fleet to float away. Near Independence island the boats stopped and at a late hour this afternoon were still there. The fleet was composed of two sand flats, a pump boat and a steamboat.

Mr. Stewart is unable to give the exact amount of lfls loss. Last year Mr. Stewart lost five sand fiats when the ice broke along the west shore. Davis Selects Warm Future for John D.

Washington," D. C. Feb. 18. "The only place I would consent that a pipe line might' be constructed to carry the oil and fras of the Standard Oil company would 'be from here straight to hell, and I would have John D.

Rockefeller, the old he trust magnate of them all, there to receive it. to let it sweep around him let its flames engulf him for sooner or later that result will happen." In these conservative and temperate words Senator Jeff Davis, of Arkansas, suggested a bright and pleasing future for John D. Rockefeller and the pipe line' which it is proposed to construct across the public lands in the State of Arkansas. Senator Davis kicked over a pot "of vitriol on Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, and the bitter exchange of personalities reached a culminating point seldom wit nessed where personal violence does not follow. Each repeatedly called the other a liar, and there was but little limit to the observations made respecting their relatives reliability friendliness.

Non combatants leaned back in their mahogany chairs and laughed until tears rolled down their coat sleeves. It was a fierce controversy, but ended without bloodshed. It was all about a pipe line bill to which Davis objected. Senators to Probe the Cost of Living Washington, Feb. 18.

Vice President Sherman has appointed as the select committee to investigate the increased cost of living Senators Lodge, chairman; Gallinger, McCumber, Smoot, Crawford, Simmons and Clark, of Ar tin sa Chairman Lodge will call his associates together as soon as possible to consider the best method of procedure. Personally he is of opinion that more can be accomplished by calling to the assistance of the committee experts in the various executive departments who have special knowledge of the many subjects to be probed. It was stated by Mr. Lodge that the investigation will be thorough and will cover fully the wide scope provided for In the resolution reported from the finance committee. He said that if the tariff is responsible for the increased cost of necessaries of life the committee will not hesitate to bring out all the facts.

Spanish Count Weds Yankee School Ma 'am Feb 18. Miss Helen Steele Brown, a comely young school teacher of Bellevue, a suburb, and Count Anthony Joseph de Souza of Madrid, Spain, were married in the United Presbyterian church there by Rev. J. M. Ferguson.

fThe couple started for San Francisco immediately. Miss Brown and the count met on a train near Seattle last when she went with friends to the Alaska Tukon exposition. Count de Souza struck up an acquaintance as ordinary travelers will do. SAND GOVERNOR CAN NAME, SAYS I0DD Attorney General So Advises on the State Treasurer ship POWER IS GIVEN Mr. Sheatz Declines to Make Any Statement Regarding His Course Governor Edwin S.

Stuart has been, offiially advised by Attorney General M. Hampton Todd that he has authority under the. constitution and under the laws of the State to appoint a State treasurer to fill the office at the expiration of the term of State Treasurer John Sheatz. This question has been agitating Capitol Hill for weeks, in fact ver since the death of ex Senator J. A.

Stober, State 'treasurer elect, who died at his home In Lancaster county last month and who would have become State treasurer by virtue of his election on the Monday of. May. The governor wrote to Todd soon after the death of Mr. Stober, asking "will you please advise me whether or not the governor is authorized to appoint, a State treasurer to serve on and after the first Monday in May. 1910?" Mr.

Todd's Keply To this letter the attorney general made the following reply: i our letter of the third instant, in which you ash to be advised whether or not, owing to the death of State treasurer elect, the Honorable J. A. Stober, before being inducted into his office, you have the power to appoint a State treasurer to serve after the expiration of the term to which the Honorable John O. Sheatz was elected, which term expires the first Monday in May, 1910, has been received, and in reply thereto beg to advise you that I am of opinion that you have such power, and that you should make such appointment at your convenience. "The commission of your appointee should be issued to take effect on the first Monday of May, 1910." Mr.

Sheatz Silent When State" Treasurer Sheatz was asked this afternoon what he proposed to do in the event of an appointment being made by the governor, he said: "That is a matter which I cannot discuss at present. It is some time in the future." It Is believed about the capitol efforts were made to have the question determined by the courts In an amicable proceeding, but no one in authority will discuss any such move, which is now believed to be impossible in view of the attorney general's advice to the governor. When Mr. Sheatz was asked whether the subject has been broached, he said: "I will not discuss any rumors, letters or opinions. I have absolutely nothing to say." i Mr.

Todd was in Philadelphia today. Crete Shaken by Severe Earthquake Cinea, Crete, Feb. 18. A severe earthquake was felt throughout Crete at 6.38 o'clock this morning. It was accompanied i with violent subterranean explosions.

In this city a number of buildings were damaged and a. minaret of the mosque crashed through the dome. In the village of Varipetro a house collapsed, burying six persons in the ruins. CROWD Son of Former Mayor Lies Wounded for Hours in Cold MILITIA ON GUARD Intended Victims Negroes Charged With Robbing Women By Associated Press. Cairo, 111., Feb.

18. Thirty militiamen, members of Company of this city, this morning patrolled the side walk in front of the Alexander county court house, where shortly before 1 a. m. Alexander Halliday, leader of a mob attack on the jail, was shot to death by deputy sheriffs, several of whom are negroes. Four other two of them not members of the mob, were wounded.

The mob sought two arrested for snatching purses from women. Halliday, son of a former mayor of Cairo, lay for three hours dying be side the court house steps, with the temperature a few degrees above zero. During that entire time Sheriff Nellis, acting on orders received by telephone from Governor Deneen, refused to permit any one to remove the wound ed man, or to allow a physician to enter the enclosure. The sheriff says he believed the man was dead. Militiamen, who removed his body at 4 a.

say it was warm, indicating that death had come but a short time before. The Dead and Wounded The dead: Alexander Halliday, 35 years old, dairyman, son of ex Mayor' Thomas W. Halliday, of Cairo; wounded in head and body. The wounded: Samuel Wessinger, former policeman, wounded in head and shoulder. John Maloney, brother in law of Mrs.

Rose Maloney, whose purse was snatched by one of the negro prisoners sought by the mob; slight wound on cheek. Horton Crehan, wounded in ankle; had stopped to see what the trouble was. George B. Walker, the associated Press correspondent, wounded in the leg. Eight of the twelve deputies, whose shots killed Halliday and wounded the others, were negroes.

This fact was not definitely known to the crowd which stormed the court house, but it was suspected and the supposition helped to arouse the racial feeling that spurred on the crowd. First Fired In Air The deadly volley which the sheriff's men fired from the windows of. the sheriff's and circuit clerk's office, on the first floor of the court house, was fired in answer to scattering shots from the crowd, and after the deputies, in obedience to the sheriff's or. der, had fired one volley in the air. Une of the bullets fired from the crowd grazed the sheriff's right hand, causing a blister, but not breaking the skin.

Others fell near him. It was after this, he says, that his men fired directly into the crowd. The mob fell back to two saloons adjoining the court house and jail and remained there until the saloons were closed, shortly after 3 a. on an order of Mayor Parsons, caused by a message from the governor at Spring field. Mob Spirit Rife The mob spirit has never died here since the murder of Miss Annie Pel ley, a shopgirl, last November by a negro and the subsequent lynching of a negro and a white man.

The double lynching, which aroused the anti negro sentiment in Cairo, culminating in the mob outbreak last night, took place on the night of November 11 last. John Pratt, one of the negroes in jail, was arrested yesterday, and. It is said, confessed that he had snatched the purse of Mrs. Maloney. He was indicted by the grand jury, after he had been identified by Mrs.

Maloney. When the men were turned out ot the saloons, it was too cold to remain outside and another attack on the court house was not ventured. The militia company, ordered by the governor at midnight, did not succeed In assembling until 4 a. and at that hour the militia relieved Nellis' deputies. Petty Crimes the Cause The mob attack on the jail was the outgrowth of public indignation over petty crimes, particularly purse snatchings and annoyances to women.

Mrs. Rose Maloney's purse was snatched Wednesday evening. She drew a revolver and fired at the negro, but he escaped with her purse. In her purse was a silver dollar to which a postage stamp had become attached. Mrs.

Maloney told the police of this fact, and when a negro offered such a coin in a drug store yes terday he was arrested. The prisoner, John Pratt, confessed that he had taken Mrs. Maloney's purse and also that of Mrs. Accord. He said Lincoln Wilson was his accomplice and Wilson, a negro, was arrested.

Sheriff Nellis heard talk of mob law yesterday afternoon and at 10 p. m. Continued on Pace 11 WEATHER FORECAST By Associated Press. Wanhingloa, Feb. 18.

Weather fore cant for eastera PennaylTaalat Fair tonight ana Saturdays colder toalfhtl UW porthwt wlnii dbalalsatagi A.