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HARRISBURG SfSlllli TELEGRAPH

LXXXV— No. 15

BIGGEST STRIKE

IN HISTORY OF

NATION'S STEAM

LINES IMPENDS

Four Great Unions Vote to

Demand After March 1 an

8-Hour Day or 100 Miles

Instead of 10-Hour Day—

Leaders Do Not Expect to

Get This

OPPOSE ARBITRATION

IF IT BE PROPOSED

Believe That in Presidential

Year the National Admin

istration Will Not Dare

Oppose Them; Roads Will

Appeal to Public

A simultaneous strike on every

„

steam railroad of the United States,:

tying up more than 250.000 miles oL

rack, and paralyzing the nation's,

"reight and passenger business is the

plan of leaders of the four great na

tional railroad unions, should de-:

niands to be presented to the rail-j

roads after March 1 be refused.

A detailed discussion of the de-;

mends will lie held in this city next

Sunday at a joint meeting of two of

the largest brotherhoods—the Broth

erhood of Locomotive Engineers and

the Brotherhood of Locomotive En

ginemen and Firemen. At least 1500

o:" the leading brotherhood men from

all lines oast of Pittsburgh are ex

pected to attend the session and it is

understood that much of the talk of

ine day will be on the possibilities of

a strike beyond anything in the his-1

tor.v of railroading.

Among the speakers at the meet-1

ins, which isj to be held in Chestnut'

street hall, will be grand lodge- otli-;

cers of both brotherhoods. These

officers will present the plan of cam

paign to the assembled delegates.

Vote Passed Overwhelmingly

January 10 a referendum vote was I

submitted to the 360,000 to 4000,000!

members of these four unions upon |

the question of authorizing the offi-1

• ials to present certain demands toj

railroad owners. Information reach-j

«d labor leaders in New York City i

yesterday that authorization had been

vrted by an overwhelming majority,

although the official count will not be

made until March 1.

The labor union leaders will he em

powered to ask for an eight-hour day

or 100 miles instead of a ten-hour

day or 100 miles, except in passenger

service, with pay for overtime at one

and a half times the new higher pro

rats rate instead of the old pro rata

rate for overtime.

Cani|>alftn Outlined

An official copy of the demands was

obtainable this morning as well as

an authoritative outline of the cam

paign which the labor leaders have

prepared to enforce them. It. is of

• ourse subject to such modification as

labor developments may necessitate,

but at present the essential points are

these:

Upon completion of the count of

tin* referendum vote union leaders

will present the demands to e\ery

steam railroad president in the

United States, allowing thirty days

for a definite reply.

Offers to arbitrate, if made, will

he mjeeted immediately, as will

first offers of compromise, if made.

If the railroads refuse to meet

the demands, as the union leaders

anticipate, tlicy will ask author

isation of their members, by vote,

to declare a nation-wide strike.

With this authorization nego

tiations will be resumed directly

with railroad heads, and no gen

eral strike will be declared until

the latter have been given "full

oiiportunity to do the right thing."

If tlie.v fail to do this, as union

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THE WEATHER

For Hiirvi«hur|t nn«l vicinity: Fair

to-nlsht an«l Turn«J:«y with Hmluk

temperature aliout frccslnjt to

n Ik lit.

For Knwtern I'mimy I vnnta: Fair

to-nlfcht and Tueaidity with rl*tnic

temperature: moderate Hindu be

coming aoutheaNt and nouth.

RJver

The .luniata and the upper portion*

of the %'orth and \\ eat hranehen

will fall. The* lower portion* of

the \ortb and Went hranehen an«l

the main river will rlne to-night

and fall Tuenda.v. A ntage of

ahout 7.S feet In Indicated for

Ifarrlnhurg Tucnday morning.

tienernl t'ondltlonn

The ntorm that WIN eeatral over

Ontario. Saturday mornlug. him

moved off northeaatward and an

area of high prennure non cover*

the enntern halt' of the country,

with ita center along the South

ern Xew England count. The

ntorm from the North Pacific

o<*ean ha* moved eantward with

fleer«-anlng ntrength. anil now

cover* the lllddle Mlnnourl aad

I pper lllnntnnlppl valley*. A new

high prennure area In moving

down from the Far Northwmt.

Rain han fallen generally went of

ilie liock) - Mountalnn, with *ome

mow along the northnent bor

der. *n precipitation hnn occur

red eant of the Hoeklen la the

lant twenty-four hourn, except

light rnlnn In Florida.

2t In 4 to 34 degreen colder than on

Saturday morning generally rant

of the Winnlnnlpp! and In Oregon

and \Vn*hlngton and in the Went

crn C anadian province*.

Temperature: a. m., 3..

Sun: Rlnea, 7:21 a. m. J net*. 5: 12

P. M.

>1 oon: I.ant quarter. January 27.

7tSB p. m.

River Stage: tl.ll feet above low

water mark.

VcMtcrday'a \. either

lllgheat temperature* 4f».

I.owent temperature. 3d.

>tcan temperature. fO.

Aormul temperature* 28*

G. 0. P. LEADERS

MAKING PLANS

FOR CONVENTION

j Committeemen Forecast Rea-j

I sonable Concessions to Se

cure Harmony

!

I INFORMAL CONFERENCES I

IMany Quiet Meetings Held; No:

i

Temporary Chairman

Is Elected

By Associated Prets

j Chicago, Jan. '2 4. Republican

1 leaders, members of the national com

mittee, subcommittee on convention'

arrangements, met here to-day and j

i i

I dist'ussed plans for the party conven- I

i tion which is set for June 7 in the

' Chicago Coliseum.

1 hough empowered by the National

Committee to select a temporary chair

man for the national gathering the

; committee members here declared

! that no such step would be taken at

j this meeting.

The subcommitteemen went into

executive session, Fred t'pham. ehair

i man of the Chicago convention corn

i mittee; Julius Floto, architect and C.

i Ft. Hawley. manager of the building

i met with them. Informal conferences

; of committeemen preceded the execu

j tive session and there appeared to be

la general disposition to forecast that

' all reasonable concessions would be

[ made to assure harmony in the ranks

i of the party which was divided after

(the 1912 convention.

None of the committeemen would

say that the harmony plans would ex

it cmi to the nomination of Colonel

Roosevelt as the Republican standard

bearer and none of the committee

would permit himself to he quoted as

i saying that such nomination should

[ not be made.

Franklin Murphy, of New Jersey

j was one of those most hopeful of har

| mon.v.

"I find there is a great disposition;

jto bring about harmony, if the pro-j

j gressives are not nasty." lip said. 'M

i think the convention will be able to

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Stenographer Plunges

Sixteen Stories to Street,

but Is Still Alive i

j By Associated Press-

I. Chicago, Jan. 24. Miss Minnie B. I

Werner. 24. a stenographer employed

by the Railway Age Gazette, plungedl

from the sixteenth floor of the Trans- ]

portation building in Dearborn street !

but still lives.

Her fall was broken by an automo

bile truck laden with paper boxes but

her skull was fractured and she was

internally injured. Physicians at the

hospital to which she was hurried said

she probably would die. An eyewit

i ness told the police that he saw the

j young woman raise the window and

j climb onto the window ledge. The

ipolice said they believed that she

| jumped.

Investigate Reports That

Siege Guns Foundations

Were Placed Around N. Y.

By Associated Press

New York, Jan. 24. Complaints

I that concrete emplacements for siege

| guns have been erected in more than

a score of places threatening the de

ijfenses of New York harbor, f.ong

Island sound or the Hudson river,

, I have been investigated by government

! agents within the last six months. In

!no instances were the suspicions of

jthe complaints verified.

Innocent Little Lunch

i Box Causes Near Panic

in Rockville Line Car

A near-panic occurred yesterday

I afternoon in * northbound RockVille

I car which had passed outside the city

! limits, when a loud sputtering and

crackling of sparks and flames com

| pletely tilled the front end of the car

1 and sent tlie passengers rushing in a

j frightened dash to the rear. The ear

was filled with smoke, but the scare

! lasted only a minute.

The cause of all the excitement was

j an innocent little lunchbox, contain

. ing, among other things, a luscious

1 bit of cake. This fact was ascer-

I tained after the confusion had died

! down by the discovery of a charred

; piece of that delicacy resting upon

j the floor. The mototman had thought

j lessly picked up the box, while the

; car was moving at a smooth pace.

• and placed it on the ledge in front of

him. The tin made a connection be

tween the switch and the control, ef

fecting a short circuit. The box was

j not strong enough to stand the force

of the current flowing through it,

i and thus the trouble was caused.

| After a few burning lunch cloths,

, brooms, etc., had been extinguished

I the car continued on Its way.

! RAISING MONEY FOR

IRISH WAR BABIES

By Associated Press

| Washington, Jan. 24. l„ord Aber

deen, former viceroy of Ireland and

{ Lady Aberdeen, leave late to-day for

New York where they begin the first

'of a series of lectures to help raise a

ffund of $50,000 to supply food for

! babies in Ireland.

| The Aberdeen tour will include visits

Ito Florida, Pennsylvania, New Kng

| land and the Middle West.

SWIM IN ICY WATERS

Special to the Telegraph

! Dauphin, Pa., Jan. 24.—Yesterday

| afternoon, Edward Roth, Howard

i Kreider and Jerry Nutter, pupils at

jthe liarrisburg Academy, came to

I Dauphin and during the stay took a

I swim among the floating Ice In the

j Susquehanna river. The boys built

a tire along the shore and warmed up

i alter the plunge.

HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1916.

WHEN FOREIGN ORDERS FAIL

MORTON TRACTOR CO. SEES

GREAT DOMESTIC OUTLOOK

K «l HSE

Great shipments of armored trucks for the Russian army have been sent across the Atlantic by the Mor

ton Truck and Tractor Company of this city. The armored ftutos seen In the group shows just a few at tlie

big traitors turned out at the local plant. The picture on the upper left gives a fair idea of the pulling power

of the hip four-wheel drives, when It comes to hill climbing'. On the upper right are pictured a few of the

trucks jacked and marked with the official Heal of the Russian agent.

TOWER CITY HAS |

SELF GOVERNMENT j

PLAN IN SCHOOLS

!Children Will Soon Have Play

ground Apparatus; Bor

ougli Is Busy

j

By ROBERT GORMAN

| Tower City, Pa., Jan. 24.—Taking

j advantage of ever> opportunity pre

sented, Tower City, in the heart of the

j coal mining district, is fast becoming

, one of the most progressive boroughs

iin Central Pennsylvania. The East

! and West Brookside collieries are

! located within a few minutes Walk of

,the town and furnish the chief source

jof employment here but there are

j other industries in the borough, too.

' The school system is among the best

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Right Under Sleuth's

j Window, Bold Burglar

Man Breaks in and Steals

j Jimmying open a window directly

'beneath the of Detective I.

i N. Durnbaugh, ex-chief of police at

Steelton. thieves entered the cigar

! store and poolroom of Haralambus

' Rros.. 177 North Main street, yester

jdav morning. They made away with

| about Sls in small cliunge and a box

| of 10-cent cigars.

Durnbaugh is on the case.

150-Year-Old Squaw, Last

of Almost Extinct Race

of Centenarians Dies

By Associated Press

i Bakersffeld. Cal„ Jan. 24.—Mary

ITecuyas, an Indian woman reputed to

i be 150 years old, who died yesterday,

i will be buried to-day by the few re

j maining members of her tribe.

! The aged squaw was the oldest

; member of an almost extlr.ct tribe,

j known as the Tejons, who live in a

canyon near here. The tribe is said

jto include fifteen Indians who are

| more than 100 years old.

President Now Favors

Permanent Tariff Body

By Associated Press

Washington, Jan. 24. President

| Wilson soon will recommend the en

laclment of legislation providing for a

i permanent tariff commission. "

I An administration bill for the

creation of such a commission virtually

iis ready now and may be laid before

' Congress In a special message by the

| President. The objects of the com

(mission woudl be to gather data on

'the tariff and .to co-ordinate similar

[powers now believed to be held by ex

iisting governmental agencies,

i The legislation is designed partieu-

I larly to meet conditions which are ex

ipected'to arise when the war ends.

Harrisburg's Big " War Bride" Will Seek American Trade

Just as Soon as Gigantic Russian Contract Is Filled,

Officials Announce; Great Shipments of Armored

Trucks Have Been Sent Across Atlantic by Local

Concern

With work, only partly finished on

a large foreign order for truckß and

tractors, and a steady increase in busi

ness, the Morton Truck and Tractor

planl will be kept running practically

full time for weeks to come, announce

officials of the company.

Specializing on four-wheel drive

trucks, the company had just com

pleted Installing equipment for their

manufacture, when a big Russian war

WILSON PREPARES

FOR SPEECH TRIP

Defense Expected to Come to

Forefront in Congress as

Result of Campaign

By Associated Press

Washington, D. C.. Jan. 24. —Presi-

dent Wilson, apparently refreshed by

his two-day trip down the Potomac

aboard the naval yacht Mayflower, to

day began the task of clearing up all

pending routine business preparatory

to starting Thursday on a speechmak

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Digging in 60-Foot Snow

Pile For Persons Killed

When Slide Hits Train

By Associated Press

Seattle, Wash., Jan." 24.—Three

hundred men, working under the di

rection of officials of the Great North

ern railroad, continue digging to-day

in the huge pile of snow and debris

which marks the spot where an aval

anche Saturday wrecked two cars of

the westbound Cascade Limited train.

The men are seeking the bodies of

Mrs. Fern Wallace and her baby, of

Lyons, Wash.; Ralph Patterman, of

Wenatchee. Wash., and an unidenti

fied passenger, who were lost when

the cars were destroyed, causing the

death of eight passengers.

Other gangs of men. assisted by ro

tary snow plows are striving to clear

away the slides which block a part of

the Great Northern's transcontinental

line. The snow in some places is piled

sixty feet deep.

Sixteenth Child Is Born #

to York County Couple ;

Eight Boys and Eight Girls

Special to the Telegraph

Dillsburg, Pa., ian. 24.—Mr. and

Mrs. Peter Zinn. of Franklin town

ship, announce the birth of a son,

which is the sixteenth child, eight I

girls and eight boys, all of whom arc

liv ing. I

order was received which to date has

: consumed practically the entire out

put of the big plant, in this particular

line of machines.

The work and power of the big

trucks with four-wheel drive equip

ment was carefully tested before the

monster machines were put on the

market. No sooner were they offered

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'HEAVY DAMAGE IN

WESTERN FLOODS

Residents of Peoria, 111., Flee

to Safety; Pacific Coast

States Inundated

By Associated Press

Peoria. 111., Jan. 24. —With the Illi

nois river still rising, residents along

the lowlands to-day were fleeing to

safety. Hundreds have been rescued

! from their homes by boats. In many

j places dikes have broken and valuable

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Seven Brewing Companies

Charged With Conspiracy

, By Associated Press

Sulphur Springs, Texas, Jan. 24.

Conspiracy to fix the price of beer,

allot trade territory among themselves

and other violations of the law are

charged against seven Texas brewery

companies in a state antitrust suit on

trial hero to-day.

In addition to the conspiracy charge

the breweries are accused of having

collected assessments at the rate of

$1,200,000 a year for the last five years

with which to promote antiprohibition

legislation and of having paid the poll

taxes of thousands of voters that they

might vote against prohibition.

MURDERER ATTACKS

JAILER AND ESCAPES

By Associated Press

Greensburg, Pa., Jan. 24.—Charles

Douglass, a negro held in the county

jail here under sentence of death for

murder, attacked his guard early to

day, and beat liim Into insensibility.

He then took the guard's keys and

opened a door, escaped with two other

prisoners.

LECTURE ON HOLY LAND

| The Rev. Henry W. A. Hanson,

I pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church

I will give an illustrated lecture on "The

j Holy Land," Thursday evening at 8

j o'clock In the St. Matthew s Lutheran

Church. The Rev. Mr. Hanson has

traveled over this territory twice and j

will use a large number of slides dur-1

ling his talk. [

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NO MORE TEARS

WILL COPS SHED

OVER "TOOTSIES"

Neither Need They Fume and

Fret at Runions Long Ago (

Over-ripe

FOOTEASE FROM MEALS

New Mayor Appoints Dr. Lawr

ence as Official Chiropo

dist of Force

No more need Harrisburg's police

men worry about their "lttle tootsies!

No more must they fume, ouch! and

fret, whimper and weep, as they

hobble o'er their wearisome beats be

cause of murderous bunions, soul

piercing corns and the anything but

benevolent callous spots that seem to

serve no other purpose than to harass

the life of their long-suffering pos

sessor.

Yea, even ilie treacherous ingrown

toenail will no longer cause the stout

men of the force to attempt the im

possible feat of touching their feet

with their billy slingers.

For now all the ills that the cop

per's feet is heir to are as nothing.

And wherefore? Here you are!

Dr. J. B. Lawrence, 204 Market

street, this morning was appointed

official chiropodist for the Harris

burg police force by Mayor Ezra

S. Meals,

Mayor Meals explained his gracious

act this morning to a corn-stricken

reporter thus: "I'm tired seeing a lot

of hobbling cops in this burg. From

now on every officer with sore feet will

have them promptly treated."

UNION PACIFIC PRESIDENT

HURT WHILE SKATING

By Associated Press

Omaha, Neb., Jan. 24. —A. 1,.

Mohler. president of the Union Pacific

Railroad sustained a slight concus

sion of the brain while ice skating

here yesterday, failing backward when

he lost his balance.

At a late hour last night attending

physicians gave out a statement that

nothing serious would develop and

that he would be out of the hospital

in a day or two.

€ FIFTEEN KILLED IN EXPLOSION

% Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 24.—Fifteen workmen were killed M

I : more probably fatally expk -ion W

\ at the Kelker Blower Com;:. larrisOn ■

% afternoon. Without warning the boiler in ■

m force and he three-story #

| ibled to the ground, burying the two score C

% wor ruins Few escaped uninjured and the - M

\ the work of rescuing their less fortunate eor.*. • (f

J tin the irms brought K

9 , '.he city to the scene. $

j roke every pane of glass in school No. 26, /

■ reet from the wrecked factory and threw the C

■ several h ndred pupils into a panic. The school fire alarm I

j i the children marched out without dis- ft

■ order. v/as hurt. C

1 ME TAX LAW IS UPHELD /

f an. 24.—The Supreme Court to-day up- C

r jtionality of the income tax law. £

J VILLA PREPARING FOR CAMPAIGN {

F El Paso, Jan. 24.—Arrivals from Madero, Chihuahua, £

r today reported General Villa was at Santa Ana on Babricorn ■

£ ranch, tl property, making preparations for n ex- f

r tensive campaign. It was said that he had gathered 1,000 V

■ men and had taken 500 colts from the ranch for mounts and X

/ was killing 250 head of cattle daily, and drying the flesh for J

M provisions. a j

I SUGGESTS RESURVEYING IN RUSH J

r Harrisburg.—The county commissioners this afternoon •

■ suggested that property owners in Rush township, who dis- |

& pute the township boundries, petition the court to appoint a '

C board of view ts ot make a resurvey. '

I FIRE INCENDIARY ?

C ' Royalton.—Fire believed to be of incendiary origin de- m

C stroyed a stable on the Thomas Holand estate early thin £

C morning'. Half a dozen families nearby were compelled to #

C "flee v/hri! ■ 1 ■■? fhui.es UircateneJ thcli liumes. £

MARRIAGE LICENSES I

% John PenMon and Annn May Fields, Stctlton. «

CITY EDITION

GREAT ENGLISH

PORT OF DOVER

IS BOMBARDED

German Plane Drops Bombs

on City Through Which Main

Line of Communication Runs

DISARM MONTENEGRINS

Teutons Progressing Along All

Fronts in Balkans; French

Attack Monastir

Dover, the great English channel

port, through which the main line ot

communication between Great Britain

and France runs, was raided by a

German naval aeroplane Saturday,

night, the German admiralty announc

ed to-day. This raid Is the one an

nounced from London yesterday as

having been made on "the east coast

of Kent."

The German statement reports that

bombs were dropped from the machine

on the station, barracks and docks of

Dover. The British account gave the

casualties In this air raid as one killed

iand six wounded. London later re

ported a second attack in the same

locality by two aeroplanes. No men

tion of this is made in to-day's an

nouncement from Berlin. •

Accounts of aerial activities vir

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When Does Barber

Really Violate Old

Sunday Blue Laws ?

is the barber who shaves a patron

011 Sunday guilty of violating the old

Sunday "blue laws" of 1794? Alderman

George A. Hoverter says he is.

Is the barber wlio doesn't work with

razor and strop, but spends a goodly

portion of his Sablmtli bunting up evi

dence of Sunday violations. equally

guilty? Alderman K. J. Hilton says he

is.

Charles Williams, proprietor of the

Union Station barber shop, was the of

fender in the first instance. Thrice lie

paid $4 line and costs. His informer*

were, John Atticks, J. E. O'Donnell and

1,. E. Wagner.

Saturday afternoon the trio were

. haled before Alderman Hilton on the

same, charge—they had "worked on

Sunday digging up evidence," Williams

charged. Alderman Hilton fined each

• $4 and costs, JNOW the three will appeal

to court.