The Courier from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 1

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HAGERSTOWN OFFERS HAVEN FOR ELOPERS Panama Canal Egineer and Bride Leave Penna. and Wed In Maryland TRIED IN VAIN TO GET LICENSE HERE Eugenic Law Barred Them by Reason of Age But Love, as Usual, Finds a Way Hagerstown, Jan. a license at Harrisburg under the new Pennsylvania eugenics law, because the bride was only 19 years old, John C. Merrick, 21 years old, of Chicago, boarded the first train out of Harrisburg last night with Miss Mary Elizabeth Smith, of Everett, eloped to Hagerstown and were married at the First Baptist parsonage by the Rev. Eugene Kincaid Thomas.

The bridegroom is a government engineer at Panama and is home on a leave of absence. He will take his bride with him upon his return to the Isthmus. The bride belongs to an aristocratic Bedford county family, When the government ordered him to the Panama canal zone Merrick tried in vain to obtain a license at the Harrisburg bureau, to marry Miss Mary Elizabeth Smith. She is a member of an artistocratic family of Everett, Bedford county, whence she eloped, but she is only 19 and hence the failure to get the license in Harrisburg. Undaunted however, the pair went on to Hagerstown.

Merrick just couldn't think of go. back to Panama a bachelor, but Miss Smith's mother objected to the wedding because of her youth, so they decided to elope. The pair met in Johnstown Thursday morning and came on to Harrisburg. Of course, Miss Smith couldn't take all her clothes at once--her mother would learn of thee lopement plans at once if she did when the couple arrived in this city they immediately sought a department store. There all the trousseau was purchased except a hat, butt hat wasn't material so the couple plans for the wedding.

They the local laid, marriage license bureau, just before the closing hour, but were turned away without the required permit because of the absence of the mother's consent, the bride-to-be being under age. Hagerstown, however, provided the happiness that Harrisburg denied. WILSON TO CONSULT ON MEXICAN CRISIS The President Summons Members of the Foreign Relations Commit. tee to the White House Washington, Jan. 24-Developments of importance in the Mexican situation are expected to follow a conference Monday night between President Wilson and the Republicans and Democrats of the Senate committee on Foreign Relations.

Many of the committee have received no intimation as to the subject of the conference, but they expect to hear something about Mexico. Since the Huerta government defaulted on the payment of interest on the national debt the internatioanl complications have thickened and many foreign nations are looking anxiously to the United States to bring order out of the chaos in Mexico. Joseph P. Tumulty, the President's secretary, said today that the President's engagement with the committee was made nearly a week ago and was not the result of any particular developments in foreign relations. He added that there was no crisis in any of the international problems.

confronting the administration but that the President desired to renew his conferences with the senators, in line with his policy of keeping touch with the progress of international question. SISH FROZEN FOR DAYS REVIVE IN WARM WATER Anaconda, Jan. a box: of fish was opened to supply customers at a local fish store, it was necessary to dump them, ice and all, into a tank of warm water, as they had been frozen into a solid mass. A few moments later they were all swimming about the pool as if they had never known what it was to be cold or frozen or dead to the world. The fish were trout and had been shipped here from some point in Washington.

They had been carried forty miles by stage and 250 miles by rail, and had been left packed in the ice for two days after their arrival here. The same store receives many boxes of fish each week, but this is the first time customers could go to the market and catch their own fresh fish in the water. OLD FIREMEN WILL ORGANIZE VETERAN CORPS Nen Who "Ran With The Machine" Years Ago To Hold Reunion Here PLANS BEING MADE FOR STATE CONVENTION Baltimore Company Will Bring With Them Engine Century and Half Old Activity on the part of Harrisburg's volunteer firemen in preparation for the big convention and celebration to be held in Harrisburg during the week of October 5, is stirring up many old timers and it has been proposed last evening to organize a veteran association to include firemen who ran with the machine a quarter century ago. A canvass of the various companies show thirty-five old timers who were numbered among the first firemen in Harrisburg, including George F. Corl, of the Friendship; William McCoy, of the Hope, and Colonel H.

C. Demming, of the Good Will. There are many still living who have seen 30 years and over in the volunteer service and it has been suggested that, it would prove a big attraction to have these veterans appear in uniform worn many years ago along with the volunteer associations from Philadelphia and Baltimore whose membership includes many old timers. Baltimore Vets Both the Baltimore Coming, Philadelphia vets will be the guests of the Hope company. The Baltimore company will bring with them the old hand engine which seen service 150 years ago.

Egorts are being made to locate the old hand engine once used in Harrisburg and have it overhauled up for the big parade during the October celebration. It is probable that one of the prizes to be offered will be for the oldest apparatus in line and there is likely to be a lively competition for this prize as several companies from the western part of the State boast of the old time fire apparatus among their equipment. Another historic company that has accepted an invitation to be present is the Humane Company of Norristown. This organization is one of the oldest in Pennsylvania and on its membership list is the name of Thos. J.

Stewart, adjutant general of Pennsyqlvania, who has promised his comrades that he will be with them in line on that memorable occasion. The Sara Zane company, of Winchester, Virginia, a company of volunteer firemen that much attention at celebrations will come here. This company was a big feature in the parade during the meeting of the State Firemen's Association in 1885. The organiation is 125 years old and has some old relics which they will bring to Harrisburg. Railroad Fire Fighters An interesting feature promised will be an army of firemen who have been responsible in saving much valuable property for the Pennsylvania RailCompany along the main line and branches.

Pennsy firemen will come from Chambersburg, Enola, Philadelphia, Renova, Altoona and Pittsburgh and will be the guests of Harrisburg's P. R. R. firemen. The railroad men expect to show many new things in fire fighting apparatus and several companies will enter the running contests.

The Firemen's Union will send out more invitations this week, there will not be a fire company or department in Pennsylvania that will be overlooked. Increased activity was reported by the local workers during the week in efforts to provide funds to pay for the entertainment of the visitors. The Friendship bazaar was a big success, and No. 1 boys will shortly announce another interesting event. The Reily company will have a fair within the next three weeks, and the Armory and other halls have been engaged for dances and balls by the various companies, to be held between now and summer time.

Committees from the Exempt company, of Buffalo, N. and the Trojan Company, of Troy, N. are expected in Harrisburg within the next two weeks to arrange for hotel acommodations. These New York companies include in their membership many millionaires who will be in line in the big parade. Both New York companies have included the big celebration in Harrisburg as a part of a two weeks' trip.

Officers Installed At the regular meeting of Harrisburg City Lodge, No. 238, I. O. B. held in the Cameron building last Sunday the following officers were installed by District Deputy Grand Master Eli Goldstein: President, Solomon Keron; vice president, Max Williams; treasurer, A.

Abramson; recording secretary, Abe Duben; financial secretary, Dr. Paul Husick; first trustee, Alex Harrison; second trustee, Rubin Reemer; third trustee, Isaac Marcus. Prisoners of General Villa, After Battle of Ojinaga, About to Be Shot, as is the Custom in the Warfare There When they capture prisoners in one of the is done by civilized nations. If they did the they were kept any length of time they would cording to all Mexicans, is to shoot the prisoners Since most of these warriors have a heavy istics of the redmen who fought on American and of course they did not live long after the W. F.

HANLEN DIES IN READING Former Harrisburg Man Passes Away Aged 45 Years, After Illness of Some Weeks Walter F. Hanlen, son of the late Israel Hanlen, of the firm of Hanlen Brothers, liquor dealers, died at Reading yesterday, aged 45 years, after an illness of several weeks. A wife who was before marriage a Miss Ford, of Harrisburg, is the only survivor. The funeral arrangements will be announced later. "Walt" Hanlen, as he was known, had been engaged in the liquor business in Reading for the past twelve years.

Following the death of the elder Hanlen brothers, Walter Hanlen with Fred and Irvin Hanlen conducted the business under the name of Hanlen Brothers until the dissolution when Walter Hanlen removed to Reading where he conducted a successful business up to the time of his death. Prior to taking up the liquor bustness Walter Hanlen followed the trade of a printer and was one of the best typos in the business. He worked on The Patriot for many years, during which he was married to Miss Ford, who was a bookkeeper for The Pr triot. The funeral will probably take place on Tuesday and burial made in the family plot at Marietta. BIRD CARRYING BELL 30 YEARS IS SEEN AGAIN Old Residents of Russelville, Remember Buzzard Which Appears in Northern Georgia Bristol, Jan.

"belled buzzard," the jingle of whose bell was TWo recently heard in north Georgia, and which is said to have been seen by a number of persons, is believed to be the same bird that was captured by three Tennesseans' near Russellville, in county, in 1883. These men wired a ball to the buzzard's neck. For several years after 1883 the jingle of the bell was heard around Russellville, but later the buzzard migrated, returning to its old haunts occasionally, however. It is several years since the tinkle of its bell has been heard in Tennessee, and the residents of the Russellville community are convinced that the "belled" buzzard seen in Georgia is the Tennessee product, and that it has been one of the active members of its species all these years. If this is the same buzzard, it may now be considered upwards of 40 years old, for it was grown when captured.

NIGHTLY TRIPS TO GOAL CARS HALTED James Carter, colored, of Sibletown, was arrested early last evening by Railroad Officer Eshenbaugh in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards at North street, just as he was about to leave a coal car with a bag of coal on his shoulder. For the past week the railroad police have been watching for a colored man who has been taking bags of coal away nightly from the cars in the yards but he succeeded in eluding the officers. Carter is believed to be the man who made the trips every night. He will be given a hearing before Alderman Hoverter tomorrow. Cherry Street House Is Raided by Police; Chief Won't Relax Vigilance Chief of Police Hutchison and Detective John Murnane last evening arrested Ruth Clark on a charge of keeping a bawdy house at 308 Cherry street, and also held Mabel Peiffer and Margaret Wilson as inmates and frequenters.

These were the first arrests of scarlet women in the city since Colonel Hutchison made his report of the disorderly houses to the court two weeks ago. FOLLOW LEAD OF CHUMS; ELOPE AND ARE WEDDED Horace Maeyer, of This City, and Miss Edith Miller Married In Baltimore WERE CLOSE FRIENDS OF ROCKEY AND BRIDE Young Woman Listens to Lover and Acts on Example Their Two Friends Set For Them Baltimore, Jan. 24. Horace Maeyer, of Harrisburg, and Miss Edith Miller, of Mechanicsburg, eloped to this city from Harrisburg today and were united in marriage this afternoon. The young people wired of their wedding and were so sure of being forgiven that they are already planning to return home.

They say they will reside in Harrisburg. Miss Miller is said to be a daughter of Samuel Miller, of Mechanicsburg, a wealthy warehouse owner. News Reaches Harrisburg Friends of young Maeyer, mentioned in the foregoing dispatch as having eloped to Baltimore with Miss Edith Miller, of Mechanicsburg, admitted last evening that they had been notified of the marriage and did not seem to be very much surprised thereby. Maeyer is a son of Hummel K. Maeyer, of 1714 Green street, this city, and his bride is a daughter of Samuel Miller, of Mechanicsburg, being engaged in the warehouse business.

A curious coincidence may be found inthe fact that Maeyer and his bride followed the example of Frederick V. Rockey, of Lebanon, and Miss Marita Wolfe Hummel, of Harrisburg, who ran away to Baltimore last Tuesday and were wedded. Maeyer and Miss Miller were close friends of Rockey and the girl he ran away with. When their marriage was announced Maeyer urged Miss Miller that they no longer postpone their own marriage. Friends of the two are quoted as saying that they "expected as the two were seen much in each other's company and the young woman is said to have remarked that she thought "Marita Hummel did exactly the right thing," and that "when she decided to get married it would be in just that way." BURNING OVERCOAT GIVES FIT EMAN RUN But When They Got to 1322 Wallace Street They Were Nit Needed A burning overcoat gave a number of fire companies of the city a chase to 1322 Wallace street early last evening exhere their services were not needed.

The house is occupied by Katie Shunk. An overcoat was hanging in the kitchen over the stove. It slipped from the pail on which it was hung and dropping to the stove, was soon burning. Some person passing the house at the time saw smoke issuing from the kitchen and going to Box 24 at Sixth and Cumberland treets sounded alarm. Before the fire bells had stoppea ringing the coat had been thrown into a rear yard and the danger of damage to the house was gone.

Got Too Close to Wheel While working at a cog wheel in the granite plant of I. B. Dickinson yesterday Walter Hinkle, of Penbrook, sustained lacerations of the upper and lower right eye lids and of the face when he got too close to the wheel. He was taken to the Harrisburg hospital to have his injuries dressed. Although the wounds are serious, it is said that he will not lose the sight of his eye.

Infected Hand Dressed Miss Irene Freedman, aged 18 years, 1700 North Third street, had an infected hand dressed at the Harrisburg Hospital yesterday. After the dressing she was discharged. The Clark woman had kept a house on Dewberry street, which Colonel Hutchison had reported so she moved to the Cherry street address. The women will be given a hearing before the Mayor tomorrow afternoon. Colonel Hutchison said last evening that he will continue his work of ridding the city of disorderly houses and as fast as he can obtain sufficient information against the occupants of places, he will make, or order arrests.

KATE EDWARDS WILL BE FREED WITHIN WEEK MuTate so-called battles prisoners would become expensive, in cold blood. strain of Indian plains for many operation. This of the Mexican trouble they don't parole them as sneak back into the ranks and begin firing again. If for food is too costly. The easiest way out, ac- blood in them they show some of the characteryears.

The Indian usually scalped his prisoners, photograph was taken by the Mutual Film Co. IS DRIVEN MILES TO THE HOSPITAL Littie Mary Crone Got Button Hook Up Nose; Physicians Take It Out Mary Crook, aged three years, who lives with her parents near Penbrook, had a shoe buttoner removed from her nose at the Harrisburg hospital yesterday afternoon. She was playing with the buttoner and sticking it up her nose was unable to extract it. The child was driven three miles from her home to the car line and then brought to this city from Penbrook with the buttoner hanging from her nose After the buttoner was removed the injury which it has caused to the nose was dressed. FORCE CRISIS UPON HOSPITAL PATIENT Pneumonia Sufferer First to Undergo Such Treatment at Harrisburg Hospital One of the most peculiar cases, that ow forcing a crisis on a pneumonia patient, ever treated in the Harrisburg hospital was recorded at that institution this week.

The patient, George Moore, 3030 Water street, Philadelphia, who boards at 107 South Second street, while in Harrisburg was taken to the hospital suffering from pneumonia about two weeks ago. At the end of nine days when a patient is supposed to reach the crisis, there were no signs of a change in Moore's condition. The tenth day brought no change and the eleventh day found his condition the same. Physicians at the hospital then gave him a hypodermic injection of succinamide mercury and in less than seven hours Moore took a change for the better. The injection was given about the middle of the week and now the patient is on? good road to recovery.

His temperature is normal and an exceptionally high fever has left him. The injection simply forced the crisis and it is said that had not that means been taken the patient would have died. Like cases have never been recorded here before but a few treatments of the kind have been reported in Philadelphia hospitals. ANOTHER STUDENT SUICIDE AT U. OF P.

Raymond F. Feldman, of Second Year Law Ends Life By Gas in Room Philadelphia, Jan. 24. Following closely upon the suicide of Wardwell T. Towneley on Thursday and the tragic death of Addison H.

McCollough last Saturday both students at the University of Pennsylvania, Raymond Francis Feldman, of Tunkhannock, near Wilkes-Barre, a second year student in the Penn Law School, ended his life this morning by inhaling illuminating gas in his room at 214 South DeKalb street. Feldman was of quiet disposition, with a strong tendency to hold aloof from his class mates. He was a hard working, but not brilliant student, and, as was particularly true.in the case of Towneley, had been brooding much of late and seemed despondent and pre-occupied. Incidentally Feldman knew neither McCullough nor Towneley. Most Remarkable Womae Pritoner Will Soon Be Turned Out of Jall Recital Of Her Crime KILLED HUSBAND WHO THREATENED HER LIFE Is a Changed Woman and Promise to Live Life of Law Abiding Personage CHINESE NEW YEAR IS 2465 And The Third Year of The Young Chinese Repuplic; Week's Celebration Coming If your favorite Chinese laundry.

man meets you today, smiles, bows and salutes you with a Hey," Do not display your ignorance by asking him what he means. He is merely wishing you a happy new year and it is up to you to "bong hey" back at him, Thus you will at once show your good manners and display your knowledge that this is the Chinese New Year's day. She year that began at midnight last night is 2465 of the Confucian calendar and the third of the Chinese republic. The celebration will continue one week. UTAH MAN EATS 250 OYSTERS IN CONTEST Defeats Missourian Who Gulps 198 Bivalves Without Wavering St.

Louis, Jan. George C. Monroe of Salt Lake City, Utah, is one of the best oyster eaters of the age. In a catch-as-catch-can, go-as-youplease contest in a local cafe, he defeated Albert H. James, of Palmyra, by eating 250 oysters ti his opponent's 198.

Palmyra man had a good reputation: as a glutton but he was not in the same class with Monroe, who swallowed 250 honest-to-goodness bivalves without wavering, coughing, choking or calling in the hospital corps. However, James led, up to the one hundred and fiftieth oyster, when he began showing signs of distress and a few other things. George Deal, a St. Louis saloon man, holds the local record with a perfect score of 300 clean swallows with a big fat oyster for each gulp. However, it is likely that Monroe could equal Deal's record for he was strong when his contest with James was stopped, he having won by a wide margin.

DOG MOURNS PIGS SHE NURSED AS HER PUPS Pittsburgh, Jan. the Boston bull terrier at No. 51 engine house, Troy Hill, is not only mourning the loss of her litter of pups, but a pair of suckling pigs she had adopted. Nellie has the maternal instinct strong within her breast, and when her puppies were taken from her last week and scattered far and wide she would not be comforted. Captain William Higgins of the engine company visited the stockyards at Herrs Island, where he was presented a pair of wee motherless pigs.

Captain Higgins took the pigs to the engine house, fixed them a bed and hied himself to a drug store for a couple of nursing bottles. These he had filled with warm malted milk. But when he got back to the engine house he found no use there for his nursing bottles. Nellie, meanwhile, had found the orphan piggies. When they were taken from her and sent to a Reserve township farmer she showed as much concern and grief as she did when her own babies were taken.

Kate Edwards, the Berks county woman who murdered her husband, will be a free woman before the end of the week. Members of the Pardon Board said last evening that they are merely waiting on proper letters from Reading, to the effect that responsible persons will guarantee the future good behavior of the woman. This case has attracted widespread attention. The story leading up to the tragedy is one of the most tragia in the history of crime in Pennsylvania. Mrs.

Edward's was committed to the Berks County prison on July 9, 1901, and has, therefore been confined for a period of 12 years and six months. Her case was one of the most remarkable ever tried in the history of Berks county, and in some respects one of most widely known ever tried in the United States. She was charged with the murder of her husband, John Edwards, who was found in a small cistern near the small house about a mile above Stouchsburg, this county, on the morning of July 4, 1901, obviously killed by blows upon the head. Edwards, a white man, had been in the habit of entertaining a number of negroes at his house, and he had procured a keg of beer the day before, with the intention of having party at his house on the Fourth. It was at first suspected that he had been killed in a drunken brawl and his body disposed of in a manner intended to simulate an accidental death from falling in the cistern.

This sugpicion was soon dispelled by the birth of a mulatto child to Kate Edwards in the Berks county prison on July 13, 1901, four days after her commitment and from that time the commonwealth proceeded on the theory that the actual killing had been done by a negro named Samuel Greason, the alleged father of Mrs. Edwards' child. Both Kate Edwards and Greason were victed of murder in first degree in 1901. Following their conviction their cases underwent numerous changes, until finally Mrs. Edwards, who had testified against Greason at his trial, on the eve of her execution, which had been set for February 16, 1905, made a confession and declared that Greason had done nothing to do with the crime and that she alone and her daughter Mary had committed the deed.

Greason was a dozen of times least under sentence of death, the execution being avoided in each instance by some new move in the case. He was finally acquitted in 1905. Applications Refused In Mrs. Edwards' behalf there was an application made to the board of pardons in May, 1902, for commutation of sentence. This was refused in December, 1902.

In January, 1903, a rehearing was granted, and a commutawas again refused in December, 1904. Following this occurred her confession and on February 15, 1905, the day before the date set for her execution, a new rehearing was granted on her application, which was again refused in June, 1905. This left her case in a remarkable situation. Following the refusal of the board of pardons to commute her sentence to one of life imprisonment it would have been customary of the governor of the state to issue his warrant to the sheriff of Berks County fixing the for her execution. Samuel W.

Pennypacker, the governor of the state of Pennsylvania, never issued such a warrant, and Governors Stuart and Tener, his successors, following his precedent; have not as yet done so. The present (Continued on Page 5).