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MS rrrw it ffw 9 i 2 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1913. Vol. LXXXII. No. 205 14 PAGES POSTSCRIPT I CITY SCHOOLS WILL BECAUSE HE IS LATE FOR SCHOOL? One Can Care For Babies and Business, Too! HALTED BY TT bassador.

Guthrie lias Narrow '4 AMBASSADOR GUTHRIE MEXICANS ra PHDOiJ OPEN TUESDAY WILSON FOR CALLING FATAL TO THOUSANDS Pittsburgh Man Stopped by Waist high Water Outside of Yokohoma, Japan 2,000 PERSONS ARE MISSING Train Hurled From Bridge; Many Homes Swept Into Sea by Storm By Associated Press Toklo. Aug. SO. Detailed reports regarding the typhoon which has raged over Japan for several days show that it was more disastrous than was first believed and that the fatalities perhaps will aggregate 1.000. There was a tidal wave at Myako, Northern Hondo, in which thirty per sons lost their lives, while a hundred persons are missing.

Hundreds of houses were swept out to sea. One hundred persons were drowned in the floods or killed in landslides in other portions of Northern Hondo and 2.000 are reported unaccounted for. Great damage was done at Hok waldo. Scores of fishermen were drowned. A train was hurled into the river by a washout in the tracks and seven persons were killed and forty injured.

The Inhabitants along the coast have fled to the hills and thousands are homeless and suffering. At many points persons on shore watching the high seas were caught by the waves and swept away. The monetary loss as a result of the storm will be heavy. George W. Guthrie, the new American ambassador to Japan, while motoring from Miyanoshita was stopped by waist high water outside of Yokohama.

He was forced to walk to the railroad station, whence he proceeded by train to Tokio. Lemoyne Man Has Fight With Big Rattlesnake in Snow Shoe Mountains Special to Tke Telegraph Snow Shoe, Aug. SO. One of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's engineers, John A. Vernon, of Lemoyne, who Is working with an engineering corps here, came off best in a fight with a mammoth rattler on Thursday.

Vernon, with several other engineers, were surveying in the mountains near Snow Shoe and the young civil engineer did not see the rattler until he had stepped over It. Whipping out a 22 caliber revolver. Vernon let go four shots, each of which hit the snake, but the reptile, maddened with pain, started a fight and madu several strikes at Vernon. The other engineers arrived when Vernon was dealing the death blow. A mountaineer skinned the snake and Engineer Vernon will take home a bunch of ten rattles and a fine rattlesnake skin.

The snake measured four feet four Inches. Hundred Harrisburg Firemen to Attend Big Convention at Chester The Susquehanna Fire Company with fifty men in line and the Camp Cur tin Fire Company, with forty men, will attend the State Firemen's Convention at Chester, Wednesday, September 2. The two companies have secured a special train to lfave the Philadelphia station In this city at 6.45 a. arriving at Chester at 9.40 a. m.

It will return to Harrisburg at 10.05 o'clock, Thursday evening. Persons desiring tickets can secure them from the following committee: E. Bowman, Chas. Downey, Harry B. Long.

Simon W. Goodyear, James E. Byrnes, Al. C. Hilner.

EXCURSIONIST HURT G. H. Rupple, aged 34 years, a printer, employed by W. O. Spangler, Waynesboro, had a lacerated hand dressed at the Harrisburg Hospital.

He said the injury had been Inflicted 1 with a knife. CAR JCMPS TRACK A Reservoir car bound for Market Square jumped the track at Cameron and Market streets this afternoon shortly before 1 o'clock. Traffic was tied up for a half hour. PENNST NEEDS SHOPMEN Workmen are at a premium In the Pennsylvania Railroad Company shops in this city and the company could give employment to many more than are at present engaged. The foremen report that the shops were never as busy before.

Xt ttS a tC 'v1 IN THETHAW FIGHT State's Attorneys Elude Prisoner's Lawyers and Secure Habeas Corpus Writ By Associaitd Prtss Sherbrooke, Quebec, Aug. SO. Harry K. Thaw will be produced in court here again on Tuesday morning next on a writ of habeas corpus obtained to day In behalf of Chief of Police Boudreau, of Coaticook, who arrested him after his flight, from Matteawan. Superior Judge Hutchinson granted the writ on the application of Samuel Jacobs, chief counsel for the New York State interests.

It was an eleventh hour move taken to defeat Thaw's lawyers, who have succeeded In keeping him in Jail, safe from the immigration authorities. Those of the Thaw lawyers who were In town, Charles D. White and Harry Faser, bitterly opposed the application, but Judge Hutchison said he would thresh the matter out in open court at 10 a. m. Tuesday.

Thaw was ignorant of to day's developments. His lawyers even did not learn of it until a report of the contemplated move, sent out last night, was telegraphed back from Montreal. His chief lawyer. R. N.

Greenshlelds. immediately chartered a special train at Montreal in the hope of checking the proceedings. The writ had been issued, however, before his arrival. Boudreau asked for the writ on the ground that as the original captor of Thaw he might be liable to damages should Thaw's arrest prove illegal. W.

T. Jerome, who worked out this latest attack, was jubilant. He hopes that the writ will be sustained and that on Tuesday Thaw will be In the Continned on Page 9 Officer J. Beury Shoots Self Through Head Special to The Telegrafh Sunbury, Aug. 30.

John L. Beury, aged 45 years, a Pennsylvania Railroad officer, attempted suicide this morning at his home here by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. He Is dying In the Mary Packer hospital. It was shortly after 10.30 o'clock this morning that Mrs. Beury arrived home from a visit to Mount Carmel.

She was just entering the front door at her home when she heard a shot, and then the crash of a falling body. Hurrying up stairs she was horrified to find the body of her husband lying across the bed. He was still conscious, and replied to her question as to "why he did It" that "he did not know." TO NEGOTIATE SETTLEMKNTS By Associated Press Constantinople, Aug. 30. The Turkish government was officially Informed to day that Bulgaria was prepared' to send plenipotentiaries here to negotiate a settlement of all questions in dispute.

Mi SCORES Late News Flashes LIND REMAINS AT VERA CRUZ Washington, Aug. 30. The Mexican situation was unchanged today; John Lind, President Wilson's personal envoy, still was waiting at Vera Crui, and no advices or his plans had come to Washington. FRITZI SCHEFF IS BANKRUPT New York, Aug. 30.

FriUi SchefT, of footHght fame, filed a Tolnn tary petition In bankruptcy here to day. She owes approximately 3150,000. Her assets, including real estate at Big Stone Gap, home of her former husband, John Fox, are listed at $75,000. FIRE IN APARTMENT HOUSE A match stepped upon accidentally caused a small fire late tins afternoon in the Toomey apartment house, a two and a half story building at Wallace and Harris streets. The amount of damage conld not be determined, but will probably total $1,000.

Most of the Big Mills Hereabouts Will Work Full Time on Monday ROYAIi ITAIilAX BAND I AT PAXTAXG PARK Program: "Star Spangled Banner." "Kentucky Days," march. Perry Wenich "Cavalleria Rustk apa pietro Mascagni "A Dream," waltz B. Romualdi "Silver Threads Among the Gold," H. P. Banks "Napoli," march L.

Marchetti "Sognandotl," concert waltz, V. Biajichi "Venice," march B. Agnelletti "II Sogno Dl Primavera," waltz, A. Scarletti "Harrisburg," march Bianchi "America." The second annual parade of the Harrisburg Workhorse Association, in the. afternoon at 1.3 0 o'clock; two baseball games at the Island In the afternoon between Atlantic City and Harrisburg; a band concert at Pax tang Park in the evening, and the appearance of the Ben Greet Players at Hershey Park, will be the scheduled attractions in and about this city for Labor Day, Monday.

The banks and department stores and the city and county offices will be closed all day. The barbers of the city will close their shops at 11 a. m. and will go to Boiling Springs, where their annual picnic will be held. Contrary to their usual custom, the Continued on Page 9 20 Mutes See Speech of Harrisburg Man at Paxtang Park Picnic Twenty mutes to day held a picnic at Paxtang Park.

After an old fashioned picnic dinner this afternoon they saw a speech by Harry Wise, a mute of Harrisburg. The picnic party was organized by Mrs. Hattie Devlin, of 421 Swatara street, Mrs. Jennie Dunner and Mrs. Alice Hagy, of Steelton, In honor of Miss Hattie Dunner and Miss Edith Dunner, of Mount Airy, who are the guests of Mrs.

Devlin. Of course the party did not visit the theater, but just the same they had a splendid time talking to one another with the sign language. It Is the intention to organize a Mutes' Social Club for gatherings dur the winter. Girls May Get Reward of $100 For Reporting False Fire Alarm Ringers Henry Bitner, aged 11 years, and Abram Burkholder, aged 13 years, were arrested by Detective Harry White on information given by two girls, charging that the boys had sent in a false alarm of Are. The alarm was sent in from Box 37, Sixteenth and Boas streets, Thursday afternoon.

The boys will be given a hearing by Mayor Royal Thursday afternoon. The girls may receive a $100 reward. Girl Wants Permit to Masquerade as Man New York, Aug. 30. From a cell In the Raymond street Jail, Elizabeth iTrondle.

a Brooklyn girl, appealed to day by letter, to President Wilson Issue her a permit to dress as a man. "If I can appear as a man and do a man's work I shall be more respected and better paid," reads her letter to the President. "It's no crime for a female to wear male attire, yet I am locked up In jail because I did so. I want a permit from you or some one to wear the costume I have adopted." Miss Trondle, arrested for masquerading as a man, had been working In male attire at a book bindery. She claimed that because of her dress she 1 received far better wages than a wo man and refused to promise to dress like a woman hereafter.

Her case WORK HOUSE PARAD FEATURES LABOR DAY comes up next Tuesday. 10 TU A PUPILS Two Session System to Be Used at Central High to Avoid Crowding VACCINATION IS NECESSARY Three Hundred First Grade Pupils Will Get First Slate on Opening Day In the average HarrlsbuTg home today there is just one all absorbing subject SCHOOL. Sammy is once more pushing his toe stubbed reet into his hoes and his sister Mary is wondering what color of hair ribbon Helen Smith will vi'ssr T.1(1fll. For Tuesday is the day that school opens. At least ten thousand bovs and girls will be back at their desks when the bells ring at 9 o'clock In the public schools of the citv and a thousand more will be present at the opening exercises of the local Parochial schools.

According to the Scimni nm cers the public school enrollment will be at least 10,000. At the last roll call in June there were 9,117 pupils en i iwu nunarea and fifty of this number of course were graduated from the Central anA Tnhni.i ntu "iiU JLip.l schools. However, nt laat ann tint grade students um onto. ctui 11 UV 1 .111 September 2. The Two Session System The two sessinn civtem tral High school will be watched with considerable interest by the school authorities With a vIotv in.

I scheme will remedy the crowded con uniua a mat institution. According to the plans formulated by Princlnnl sttic w.vcm, ic; Dcinvi, junior, sophomore and freshman classes will be divided numerically in half so that one half of the bovs and one half of the girls enrolled in the class will attend the morning session from 8 o'clock until noon. Then the other half of the class will report at the class rooms at 12.45 and will remain until 6.15 o'clock In the afternoon. BV this Brrflnireimanf Tl pil8 will be accommodated with desk room and the crowding which at present exists Will ri' v. a T.

will mean that the pupils will "have" to do I 1 i i men oiuuying ai nome ana froressor Steele says the hearty co operation of the parents is necessary in seeing to it that when the students are at home that they are engaged at their work. Downs to Make Report Frederick E. Downes, the superintendent of city schools, will return from the International Conference on School Hygiene at Buffalo, N. Y. Superintendent Downes is expected to report on standard conditions in other cities that will show Harrisburg far behind municipalities of its size in high school facilities.

All pupils entering school for the first time will have to present a certificate from a physician certifying that they have been successfully vaccinated. Any child who will be six years of age before January 1. 1914, will be admitted at the school opening. Pupils of all schools, primary, grammar and high, will report at their Continued on Page 9 1,600 Waynesboro Folk Come to Harrisburg on Third Annual Excursion Waynesboro folk came on an excursion to Harrisburg to day. Two special trains were run from Waynesboro to Harrisburg this morning, bringing to this city 1,600 people.

It was the third and last excursion of the season from the Cumberland Valley. The Waynesboro shopmen had charge of the big crowd to day. In order to allow all employes to take in the excursion, all shops in Waynesboro shut down to day and many of the stores will be closed until 8 o'clock this evening. A large majority of the visitors went to Paxtang Park after a visit to the Capitol, and some spent the day at Hershey. The first train home will leave at 8 p.

m. and the second section at 11 p. m. HALDAXE AT WEST POINT By Associated Press New York, Aug. 30.

A visit to West Point was foremost to day on the program of Viscount Haldane, Lord High Chancellor of England, who reached here yesterday for a five days' visit to America. After a reception and luncheon at the home of Colonel Townley, superintendent of the Military Academy, and a review of the corps and cadets. Lord Haldane expected to leave on a special train for Albany. TWO DEAD IN STORM fly Associated Press Philadelphia, Aug. 80.

Two men were killed, several buildings and barns in the suburbs were set on fire by lightning and considerable damage was done by the storm which passed over Philadelphia and vicinity last night. GATHER TOGETHER THE REMAINS OF THE FLY This week a London scientist announced that many of the diseases to which animals and family pets are subjected are directly traceable to the dangerous fly. Children very often take the disease from some pet animal. Therefore, It appears that the fly Is a menace from still another viewpoint. get ride of the fly! Trap him! Slay him! Gather his remains together and present them on September 27 to the Civic Club, when the second fly contest will end.

Help to make Harrisburg a healthful city! Vljf i III 1 siiirtiftiiife Iff if MRS. AUGUSTA MONTEGRIFFO New York, Aug. 30. "Any woman who loves her home and her children and who plans a business career on the outside will find neither a. burden if she Is ambitious," said Mrs.

Augusta Schwartz Montegriffo, who has just been admitted to practice law in the federal courts of this district. "Besides attending to my law practice I find plenty of time to attend to my home and my two young children and still have plenty of time to spare. I look on both as valuable assets, and therein, perhaps, lies the secret of my success. Any woman who looks on these subjects as I do can make just as much of a success in both as I pride myself with making." House Falls on Alderman, But He Only Sustains Bruises Police Worked an Hour and a Half and Found Him in Debris Little Injured By Associated Press Flint, Aug. 30.

Alderman Fred Behrendt had house fall on him yesterday. As a result he will probably be confined to his home until Monday. He sustained several bruises. The alderman's two story home, supported on one side by cedar posts, is located on a hillside. Recently heavy rains undermined the posts and Thursday the house began to slide Preparing to Light Up "White Way" in City Business Section With the possible exception of some of the special cable and the big, round, white Tungsten globes that will top the ornamental standards, the proposed new lighting system for the city's business section is practically Installed.

The failure of these materials to get here in time may mean that the lights cannot be turned on Monday night, but it is certain that most any night thereafter Harrisburg's citizens will have an opportunity of seeing the new "white way" all ablaze. By the middle of the week it is hoped to have the connections completed and the standards and wires in shape to switch on the current, and forces of men of the Harrisburg Light and Power Company are hustling day and night to that end. "By the middle of the week, or before the end of the week at any rate, we hope to have the system In shape and ready to switch on the current," said an official of the compnay to day. Daniels in Favor of Army Navy Game By Associated Press Washington, D. Aug.

30. Secretary Daniels expressed himself as heartily In favor of the Army Navy football game being played this year as usual. He added that while he had called a conference on the subject he did not intende to dictate. He declines to give any opinion as to where he thought the game should be played. AUTHOR STABBED TO DEATH By Associated Prtss Washington, D.

SO. William L. Altderfer, a special writer and author, was stabbed to death last night in his home In Chevy Chase, a suburb, and William J. Fisher, connected with the Isthmian Canal Commission and for ten years a boarder In the Altderfer home, early to day was arrested and taken to the county Jail at Kocuviu. slightly downward.

Yesterday it moved again, so Mr. Behrendt decided to anchor it more securely. Armed with jackscrews, he crawled under the building, placed the screws in position and turned one. Then it happened. The house slid forward and Behrendt was pinned against a pile of debris.

He screamed. The police worked an hour and a half to dig out Behrendt He sustained, a few minor bruises. Boating Clans Discuss Plan For Blasting the Rocks From the River The weather, swimming possibilities, won't be the principal subject for general discussion to morrow when the canoeist and motorboating clans get together at the Dintaman and Ber rier landings for the usual Sunday the progress of the rock blasting campaign in the Susquehanna will be the burning question of the hour. i Boatmen from all over the are evincing a lively interest in the movement inaugurated by the Board of Trade through a special committee to raise a fund to have themore cumbersome rocks blasted from the canoe, motorboat and steamer channels. At least 300 is necessary, and as the work will have to be started at once, as the water 'is in prime condition for the purpose, this means that the funds will have to be raised speedily.

Contributions in any amount will be gladly welcomed by the committee. At A. P. Dintaman's boat pavilllon $3 from a canoeist was acknowledged. Moving Picture Theater at Lykens Is Rebuilt Lykens, 30.

The "old moving picture theater known as the "Theotorium," owned by Richard Budd, proprietor of tha Glen House, is being remodeled and enlarged. The new room will be the largest In the town, which supports three pie ture shows. About a year ago Frank Dietrich and son built the "Twin Arch," an up to date house, and brought to town a very high class of pictures. The room will seat nearly five The new theater will be opened 'in about ten days. WOMAN OBTAINS DIVORCE FR0M HER NINTH HUSBAND Oregon City, Aug.

30. Mrs. Ellen Deerlng Grangerow, a wealthy Umatilla Indian, obtained a divorce yesterday from her ninth husband, Grand Nicholas Grangerow, and vol untarily settled upon him astral mony the sum of' JL charged wilful ft' AMERICANS TO U. President of Senate Declares Great Damage Would Result in Their Absence SAYS COLONY IS SATISFIED Senor Camacho Asserts President Wilson Is Ignorant of Present Proceedings By Associated Press New York, Aug. 30.

Senor Sebastian Camacho, president of the Mexican Senate, has sent a telegram to James A. Serymser, of New York, president of the Mexican Telegraph Company, requesting him to protest to President Wilson against the withdrawal of American citizens from Mexico. The message, made public here to day, declares that the Amerl i can colony In Mexico "is satisfied and tranquil and that "tremendous damages" will result from its withdrawal. "There is great alarm here," reads the telegram, "over the American government's order for the withdrawal of all citizens of the United States residing here. You will understand that there is no reason for this order.

"The American colony of this republic is of the most numerous of those among us. In its totality and with very few exceptions it is satisfied and tranquil, dedicated to its work and attending to the necessities of its life, being respected and esteemed throughout the country. It would be seriously prejudiced in Its welfare and its financial interests were it to abandon a country in which It is considered and esteemed and where it haa acquired numerous and cordial relations. "The present government of Mexico is a constitutional government, whose public powers in most part have been in operation since 1910, and, in the Senate, In the Supreme Court of Justice and in the public offices, and in all parts, many of the public functionaries have been figuring first with the government headed by General Diaz, later with that of Madero. Very few exclusive privileges have been granted by the present government, which latter Is advancing daily in the re establishment of peace in the greater part of the national territory.

"The army now counts eighty thousand men with an armament and command truly notable, through which it has triumphed and continues triumphing In the daily combats with the enemy, who are disappearing, or submitting to the legitimate authority of the republic. "I do not doubt that the President of the United States and his truly Just government will consult with the prin Continued on Page 9 For Harrlnburn and viclnityt Fair and slightly cooler to nlgh ii Sunday fair end warmer. For Eaotern Pennsylvania! Fair anil NliK'htly cooler to night! Min )ay fair and narinen moderate went to nurthnrKt wind. General Condition The storm tout was central over the northern part of 'the Lake rr srlon Friday morning is moving down the St. Lawrence Valley, it cnuard unsettled weather Friday over the greater part of the enatern half of the country.

Showers occurred along the northern border of the Great I.nhea and generally along and near the Atlantic coaat from Northern New England to Florida. A Ho In the Kant Gulf States nnel In Tenneaaee, the heaviest rainfall reported, 1.44 Inches falllnK at Washington City. Genernlly fair wea ther prevailed In the Grent Central Valleys and throughout the West, except In portions of Texas, Utah, Nevada and Wyoming, where where there were some local showers. It is cooler In the Ohio Valley and Tennessee and thence eastward to the A tlantlc coast and slightly cooler In New York State. Temperature changes In the West have heen Irregnlart they are higher generally In the Plains States and lower In the Rocky Mountain region and along the Pacific coast.

Temperntnre: 8 fl. 60; 2 p. SO. Suni Rises, 5i22 a. in.) seta, 6t56 p.

rn. Mooni New moon, August 31, 8:37 p. rn. River Stage i Five tenths of foot above low water mark, Highest temperature, 85. Lowest temperature, 71.

Mean temperature, 78. Normal temperature, 70. (Detailed deaths inside pages') Vacation Days Are Ending Soon be time to think of get ting the children ready for school time to think of new clothing, of books and furnishings and a hundred and one things. Time also to think of fall housecleantng, of getting the house In order, etc, 1 At no season of the year are the advertising columns of dally newspapers like the Telegraph', more helpful. Merchants have anticipated your wants and are using their advertising to tell you what they have to show you.

Save' v.me and by reading the advertising. Buy to the best advantage by posting yourself on the bual ness news of your city. Make your brain and your eye save your legs and your dollars. Don't worry Think..