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WILL NOT CHANGE

% MEXICAN POLICY

CABINET DECIDES;

NO INTERVENTION

Renewed Indications Given

After Meeting That Ad

ministration Has No Inten

tion of Withdrawing Amer

ican Troops Until Danger

of Further Border Raids It

Removed

WILL ARRANGE MEN TO

MEET ANY EVENTUALITY

Calling Out of Additional

Guardsmen Not Contem

plated ; U. S. Generals

Leave For Their Head

quarters Following Failure

of Conference With Obre

gon; Assurance of Co-ope

ration Given

tf.v Associate,! I'ic .s

Washington, May 12. - Secretary

Baker announced after to-day's cabi

net meeting that no change in the

Mexican policy had been decided

upon. So new orders for militia or

ganizations to pro to the border were

in contemplation, he said, and indi

cated that no general intervention in

Mexico was being thought of at pres

ent.

Renewed indications were given

that the administration lias no inten

tion of withdrawing American troops

until it is definitely established that the

danger of further border raids has

been removed. The President will take

no further steps until General Scott

returns from the border. The admin

istration considers tiie next move up

to General Carranza.

Will Protect Border

In the meantime American troops

will be so arranged that they will be

ready to meet any eventuality and pro

leer the American border.

Secretary Baker laid before the

Cabinet latest information from Oen- 1

.

[Continued on Page 2]

* Chicago Hotels Jam Full

For Convention; Private

Houses Are Being Rented

By Associated rress

Chicago, ill.. May —The demand

for accommodations during convention

week, June 7, it was learned to-day,

has so exhausted the supply of roonis

in Chicago hotels that many visitors

Will live "In private homes, In some

cases entire houses being rented to

care for parties.

The firs' penson to take this step to

secure accommodations was John

Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, who has

taken a house of fourteen rooms.

Chimney Sparks Cause

Small Fire in West End

Fire caused by sparks from a

chimney, destroyed a small barn and

one-story frame house at IS2I George

street, occupied by Howard Clark and

his family.

The blaze was discovered by How

ard Clark, Jr., small son of Mr. Clark

who was playing near his home at the

time. An alarm was sent in by S. W.

Dodge, one of the neighbors, from

Box No. r.6, Cameron and Kelker

streets. The loss will not exceed S2OO.

Mr. Clark was nt work when the Are

started, and none of the furniture

was saved. No insurance was carried

on the contents. J. E. Heinperly,

owner of the property, has his loss

covered by insurance. The home of

Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Pilson, 1819

George street, was threatened at first

but after a hard fight, was saved by

the firemen. Mrs. Carrie Ward and

William Lawrence, two neighbors

rushed into the house when the blaze,

was discovered and rescued Reba and

Frances Clark, small children of Mr.

i'lark, and John and Mary Ward, chil

dren of Mrs. Ward.

WIM. NOT RKPIA TO NOTK

Copenhagen, May 12.—According to

the Berlin Tageblait. Germany will not

send a reply to the last American note,

but the German government will con

fer with Ambassador Gerard in regard

to it.

1 THE WEATHER]

For Marrlshuric nn<l vicinity: Fair,

eontlnued eool to-night and

Saturdays lowest temperature to-

II IK h < about IN degrees.

For r.nNtern I'eunsylvniiln: Fair to

night. probably light frost in

northern portion; Saturday fairs

moderate north went to north

w I ml*.

River

The SuN<|uehnnna river and nil It*

tributaries will fall slowly. A

stage of nhout 4.5 feet IN Indicat

ed for Harrlshurg Saturday morn

ing.

(•eneral Conditions

fv The northern*! disturbance In now

central off the North Atlantic

coast. Another disturbance of

consldernhle magnitude covers

the Southwest with its center

over Artvona. The northwestern

blub pressure area has spread

rapidly eastward to the Middle

Atlantic roast, eairwlng n teener a I

fall of li to 14 degrees In tem

perature over the eastern half of

the country In the Inst twenty

four hours.

Temperatures 8 a. ro.. 54.

Sun: nlses, 4:W a. in.( nets, 7:11

P. m.

Moons Full moon. May 17, I>sll

a. m.

River Staves 4.7 feet above low

water mark.

Yesterday's Weather

Highest temperature. 77.

I owest temperature. 07.

Mean temperature. #lO

Aoruia! temperature, 00. t

GIRL D 1 VES

RIVER BRIDGE ON

HER WEDDING DA Y

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Miss May O't.auglilin, pretty girl diver and swimmer who thrilled hundn

>f people at noon to-day just before she leaped from the Walnut street brie

uto the river. In the insert is Charles Talbert, of Baltimore, who will

narried to Miss O'l.aitghiin to-night. Miss O'Baughlin is appearing with I

libley carnival at Third and Roily streets, as a fancy diver.

Every performer of aquatic ability

who comes to Harrisburg makes it a

point to "conclude the performance"

with a more or less hazardous dive off

the Walnut street bridge. May

O'Laughlin, of New York fame, no less

than the others.

But May's skill and the fact that

there is a bit of a romance connected

with her dive at 12.30 to-day into the

swift Susquehanna makes her per

formance of this afternoon somewhat

more than ordinarily interesting.

The pretty little "diveress," who

holds any number of i harnpionships in

New York and elsewhere, both for

high, trick and fanes olving. and for

long-distance swimming, is a member

of a troupe of water nymphs enter

taining crowds in a carnival at Third

and Reily streets, for the benefit of

the Reily Hose Kirc Company. And

without casting any reflections on the

others. Miss O'Laughlin carries off the

honors of the week.

The water to-day wasn't any too

warm, but the glow of health on the

laughing face and bare arms of the

ASQUITH ARRIVES

IN IRELAND FOR

CONSULTATIONS

Will Confer With Depart

mental Chiefs mid General

Maxwell

Hv Associated Press

Dublin, May 11!. Premier Asquith

arrived in Dublin to-day and was

taken In an automobile to the

Viceregal lodge. The Premier's pro

gram tor the day was first a confer

ence with departmental chiefs and

afterward consultation with General

Maxwell in regard to the military

situation which is well in hand.

It is reported that in all likelihood

a proclamation will be issued shortly

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Foreign Delegates Report

Church Progress Despite War

By .l.uociated Press

Saratoga Springs. N. Y., May 12.

Representatives of fourteen nations

participated in a meeting to-day in

connection with the General Confer

«noe of the Methodist Episcopal

Church.

Native workers from Korea, Japan,

India, Denmark, I'ruguay and Mexico

reported that despite the war progress

had been made in church activities

during the last four years.

DAVID S. SCOTT, WIDEIA-KNOWN

PHILA. POLITICIAN, IS DEAD

Philadelphia, May 12. David S.

Scott, one of Philadelphia's three coun

ty commissioners, died suddenly at his

home early to-day from heart disease.

Mr. Scott presided yesterday at a meet

ing of his ward executive committee

and seemed to be ill good health.

Mr. Scott became a county commis

sioner early this year for a term of

four years. For many years he was a

police magistrate. He was identified

with the Vare wins' of the Republican

party In this city.

DRINKS EARACHE DROPS

IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT

Despondenl after an argument with

her sister, according to the police, Miss

Annie Weaver. 1216 Wallace street,

drank about, two ounces of earache

drops, in an attempt to end her life.

A call was sent in for the ambulance

but the girl refused to go to the hos

pital. She was treated at home and is

expected to recover.

HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1916.

bride-to-be showed that in her per

fect physical condition the elements

meant nothing to her.

Miss O'LaughHn is to be married

to-night between performances at the

small-scale circus. Alderman George

l). Herbert will perform the ceremony.

The lucky man is Charles Talbert, of

Baltimore, a former prizefighter of the

District of Columbia, whom she has

known for two years, and who lias

come up from Baltimore ".lust

'speshuly to marry her," as one of the

wide-eyed little observers of the diver

whispered in loud tones to an equally

diminutive companion.

May is only 19 years of age. but she

Is a past master in the art of diving.

A large crowd assembled to watch her

go off into the water, which she did

from the third pier, entering the water

in perfect form toward the Market

street bridge. A number of boats and

canoes encircled the spot where she

hit the water, ready to give her assist

ance, but the little lady preferred io

enjoy the swimming and came ashore

under her own power.

GERMAN DRIVE

AGAINST BRITISH

NOW UNDER WAY

Storm Lines Near Hulhich;

May Be Start of Offensive

Along Belgian Front

Berlin announces that German

Iroops have stormed several British

lines near Hulluch, which lies directly

north of Lens in Northern France,

about three miles distant from that

city. Hulluch was taken by the British

in the offensive of last September.

[Continued un Page 2]

Negro Kills Soldier and

Girl, Shoots Women Then

Makes Escape in Boat

Leavenworth. Kan. May 12. Set--1

(geant James <Jackson and Miss Ern

estine Brown. 22 years old, were killed

land an unidentified woman was dan-i

igerously wounded to-day by William

White, a negro, who had purchased

his release from the army mounted l

service school at Fort Leavenworth

near here yesterday. White escaped

across the Missouri river in a row

boat.

Sergeant Jackson, who was attached

to the mounted service school, was

killed at the school's stables. He was

shot through the heart.

Soldiers who were with him gave i

chase at once, hut they carried only

side arms, and White held them at

bay with a rifle until he got into a

rowboat he had hidden on the river

bank.

White first shot the unidentified

woman, who is known only as "Min

nie." He tired at her through a win

dow in the home where sh'- was em

ployed. She was shot tl jgh the

arm. Miss Brown, whom <te killed,

was shot nearly two hours later at the

quarters of Lieutenant William Green,

where she was at work She likewise

was shot through a window. Fifteen

minutes later he appeared at the

school, where he killed Sergeant Jack

son.

J. TATNALL LEA DIES

Philadelphia, May 12. J. Tatnall'

Len. 77 years of age. a leading cltizei

of Philadelphia, died In his apartment i

in a hotel here to-day following an

illness of several months. Mr. Lea I

was formerly president and director of

the First National Bank of Philadel

phia. and chairman of the board of

directors at the time of his death.

POWER BEHIND

RUSSIAN THRONE

ASSASSINATED

Word of Death of Rasputin

Roaches Here Same Time

as Story of Plot

HAD MYSTIC INFLUENCE

Exiled Leader of Masses Tells

of Plot to Kill Monk For

Peace Leanings

By Associated Press

New York, May 12.—The report

received yesterday by wireless from

Berlin through the Overseas News

Agency that Gregory Rasputin. the

Russian monk who is reputed to have

wielded n powerful myrtle in favor of

i ICmperor Nicholas, had lieen assassl-

I nated, is coincident with the receipt

here by the Associated Press of mail

i advices from iis correspondent at

j < 'hristiania, Norway, disclosing de

tails of a plot to murder Rasputin.

; They were revealed by Heliodorus,

j the "mad monk of Tsaritsyn," a fan

, tastic leader of the masses of the

| Volga region, who has figured promi

| nently in the Rasputin case.

Mad Monk a Refugee

It is disclosed tliat lleliodorus, who

j disappeared from Russia some time

| ago is a refused in Cliristiania. Al

[ Continued on I'age 8]

Austrian Passenger Ship

Torpedoed in Adriatic

Without Any Warning

By Associated Press

Berlin, May 12, by wireless. "The

| Austro-Tlungarian passenger steamer

j Dubrovnlk has been torpedoed and

Isunk by an enemy submarine in the

I Adriatic," says an Overseas News

Agency announcement to-day.

"The DubroMiik was not armed and

was torpedoed without any warning

j whatever."

A Paris news agency dispatch on

I May 10 told of Hie sinking by a French

submarine in the lower Adriatic of

"an enemy transport laden with war

material."

The Dubrovnik was a vessel of 4,238

tons gross, built in New Castle in 1912.

; Marine registers reported her last at

j Constantinople.

POVERTY AND

TUBERCULOSIS IN

CLOSE RELATION

Most Cases Traceable to Cheap

Lodging Houses and Had

Conditions

By .Associated Press

Washington, D. C., May 12. —The

close relation of poverty to tubercu

losis is emphasized in a report made

public to-day by the Public Health

.Service after an extensive investigation

in many cities. One-sixth of all tuber

culosis cases, it declared, develop in

, cheap lodging houses and one-fifth are

traceable to occupational hazards and

bad working conditions.

As examples, statistics gathered in

Cincinnati and Pittsburgh are cited,

j In the former city's tenement district

! tuberculosis was found to be three

times as great as in the better sections,

j and the average monthly income ot

'■ 107 families In which these cases were

i found was computed as sl7. Much

i the same condition was discovered in

Pittsburgh, where nearly 20,000 fac

tory workmen submitted to physical

examination in the course of investi-

I gat ion.

I The report points out that almost

without exception cities with a higher

percentage of Irish, Scandinavian and

German stock and those in which the

negro population is relatively large

have a corresponding high mortality,

while those of the Italian and .Jewish

element is proportionately great have

a low tuberculosis death rate.

; Unguarded Robbers and

Forgers Will Steal Bases

in Aid of Ohio Charity

,i Columbus, Ohio, May 12. Unac

j companied by guards, convicts, com

posing the Ohio Penitentiary baseball

I team, will go to the American associa

! tion baseball park here Thursday, to

I play an amateur local team.

I So far as is known by Columbus pri

json olficials, it will be the first game

j ever played by a team of convicts out

! side of prison walls and without the

j presence of armed guards. Proceeds

i from the game will go to local charity.

Paul Helt'ner, serving an indeter

j minate term from Loraine county for

j nonsupport, will pitch for the prison

team, and Percy Hanley, Hamilton

county robber, will catch. Other mem

bers of the prison team include burg

lars, forgers and would-be murderers.

TWO ARE KILLED WHEN

FAST TRAIN JUMPS TRACK

By Associated Press

Raleigh. N. C., May 12. A flag

] man and a negro fireman were killed

when the Seaboard Air Line's New

York-Florida express was derailed at

Mansion last night. Engineer Ste

! phenson, of Raleigh, was scalded. No

| passengers were injured.

DUTCH SAILORS MUTINY

; Amsterdam, May 12. Mutiny has!

] broken out on board three Dutch bat-1

tleships at Java, according to dls-;

patches from Batavia to the Tel'egraaf. I

IThree hundred sailors deserted the 1

ships and paraded t lie streets of Welt- I

vreden. a suburb of Batavia. The sol-'

diers of the garrison captured 60 of!

tl.e mutineers who have beun pun

ished. j

PHILA. ORCHE

OPENS CITY CHORAL

SOCIETY

.

m

iMAY EBREY, HOT*

Soprano Soloist Who Wi II Sing in "Atonement."

Before a crowded house, the Phila- 1 Fred Wolle, of Bethlehem, will render

delphia orchestra, under the direc-1 Coleridge-Taylor's "Atonement." as

tion of Leopold Stokowski. gave a | sisted by the Philadelphia orchestra,

symphony concert In the Orpheum the-j and Mrs. May Ebrey I lotsoprano;

ater. as the opening of the annual | Earle Waldo Marshall, tenor, and

Spring music festival of the Harris-. Henry llotz, bass.

burg Choral Society. | At the symphony concert this after-

The orchestra arrived in the city noon the orchestra was enthusiast.ical

thls morning from Syracuse together iy received, and from Indications a

with distinguished soloists and held record crowd will be present this even

a rehearsal at 10 o'clock. The re- ing when the Choral Society sings

hearsal was a concert in Itself and "Atonement."

everything is complete for the big Assisting the Philadelphia soloists

choral concert this evening when the

society, under the direction of Dr. J. | [Continued on Page 11]

D. P. & S. STORE

VOLUNTEERS FOR

CITY BEAUTIFUL

i ~

Wm. 11. Bennethum, Sr.,

Heartily Commends Flower

box Campaign

j The big department store of Dives,

i Pomeroy and Stewart, extending for

; almost a half bloek along Market

i street and a full half block deep in

| Fourth, joined the Telegraph Porch

i and Window Box Campaign this

i morning.

Wm. H. Bennethum, Sr.. general

j manager, said he had the matter un

| <ler consideration for some time and

I was only waiting until his carpenters

| and painters connected with the store

had time to get the work under way

before announcing his intention. Mr.

j Bennethum has been identified with

i every movement in recent years for

the betterment of conditions in Har

risburg and he said to-day that It gave

him great pleasure to enroll the firm

I of Dives, Pomeroy and Stewart in this

city beautiful movement. He person

ally went over the ground with the

carpenters and decorators to-day and

J Kave orders that the work lie rushed.

He said that from the manner in

which the store's /supply of window

boxes lias been selling he feels sure

that. Harrisburg is going to be well

decorated with plants and flowers dur

ing the coming summer. The addition

jof this big store to those that will

have flower boxes this year will add

greatly to the appearance of the busi

| ness district during the summer

months.

| The first window boxes In the

downtown district appeared yester

day. They were set up by the Berry

! hill Nursery in front of the offices of

| the Tlarrisburg Feed and Grain Com

pany, 14 South Market Square, and

were conspicuous there to-day. James

M. Barker who ordered the boxes to

be placed, said he is greatly pleased

with them and hopes to see all Mar

ket Square a mass of bloom before

very long.

Among those who announced to-day

that they will enter the campaign

are:

Mrs. White, 208 Nortii Third street.

Mrs. Ralph J. Baker, 2011 North

Second street.

Mrs. H. C. Kunkle, 2013 North Sec

ond street.

DR. WHITE INAUGURATED

By Associated Press

Wooster. Ohio. May 12. Dr. J.

Campbell White, for ten years head of

the laymen's Missionary Movement of

the United States and Canada, was

Inaugurated president of Wooster Col

lege to-day.

POI.ICE WATCH CYCI.ISTS

City police, owing to the number of

minor accidents, for which reckless bl- j

cyclists are largely responsible, have '

been instructed by Chief of Police J I

Thomas 55e1l to keep a close watch on

all riders of these vehicles and to en- '

force the law requiring them to sound 1

a warning at street Intersections.

GERMAN COMPOSER DEAD

By Associated Press

Amsterdam, May 12.—The Tripsin j

Tageblatf announces the death of Di.j

M;.\ lleger. one «f the leading con

temporary German cuiuyoaera, j

GREEKS LEAD ROMANS AT 4 O'CLOCK

Greeks lead the Romans, 37 to 30 at the Academy in the

annual track meet held this afternoon, with six events still

to be run off. Jack Froehlich has broken the broad jump

record with over 19 feet.

Philadelphia, May 12.—A contract for 75 freight loco

motives of the Mikado type for £he Pennsylvania Railroad

lines east of Pittsburgh has been awarded the Baldwin

Locomotive Works, it was announced to-day. The order

represents an expenditure of $3,000,000.

Washington, May 12.—President Wilson left this after

noon for a week-end trip down the Potomac river on the

yacht Mayflower. He expects to return to the capital late

Sunday night or early Monday morning.

Amicable proceedings to determine whether actual

proof of the death of a husband and father must be pre

sented before payment may be made under the State's

mother's pension system were begun in the Dauphin county

court to-day at the instance of the board of trustees of the

Philadelphia mothers' pension fund.

GET MEXICANS WHO KILLED AMERICAN

Brownsville, Tex., May 12.—Three Mexicans who killed

Curtis: Bsyles, an American, near Mercedes, Texas, last

night, were surrounded to-day, one was killed and the other

two ciiptUFed according to a report received to-day at Fort

Brown.

BANDITS IN ANOTHER RAID

Tucson, Ariz., May 12.—Mexican bandits are reported

to have raided Polaris, a mining camp, seven miles below

Lochicl, on the border yesterday, driving out the Americans

who escaped to Nogales in Automobiles. Colonel Sage,

commandant at Nogales, sent a company of infantry and

twenty cavalrymen to guard Lochiel, Washington camp

and other towns on the American side.

CARRANZA TROOPS CHASE RAIDERS

Washington, May 12.—The State Department received

woid late to-day that General Trevino had ordered 1500

Carranza cavalry and infantry toward the border to pursue

the bandits responsible for the recent raids at Glenn Springs

and Boquillas, Texas.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

•lolui Da* id KUiiHine nml Kntlirr Kl|-/.«bcth Smith, city#

22 PAGES CITY EDITION

YEGGMEN BLOW

POST OFFICE AND

MAKE BIG HAUL

Lililz Boused by Two Heavy

Explosions; Town Watch

man Captured

CET SI,OOO IN STAMPS

Take -B;ig Willi Begistered

Mail; "Not Bobbing Poor Man

bul Uncle Sam"

Hy Associated I'rest

Lancaster, Ha., May 12.—While one

of their number held the town's night

watchman. I'hauncey Krclder, at the

point of :i revolver, ycggnien blew

the safe in the post office at latitat early

thih inorrting.

The townspeople were aroused by

two heavy explosions which wrecked

the building, but before their capture

could bo effected they had escaped,

taking with them the night watchman.

Kreider was hurried about a mile and a

half into the country I efore the yegg

' men released him with a flourish of

jthiir revolvers and a command to

I "beat it."

Hetween S7OO and SI,OOO in stamps

and money was taken from the safe,

in addition to a mail bag containing

registered mail.

"Wo are not robbing a poor man.

but Uncle Sam,'' the robbers told tlio

v atchintin.

6,000 Delegates at Big

Y. M. C. A. Convention

By Associated Press

Cleveland, Ohio. May 12. With

1 Grays Armory tilled to capacity by

the six thousand attending delegates,

the thirty-ninth triennial international

corvention of the Young Men's chris

tian Association was called to order ai

j 10.80 a. in. to-day.

IlKCORI) I'KH'K I OH WOOL

By Associated Press

Pendleton. Ore., May 12.—What Is

, sail! iiere to be the highest price ever

paid in the Pacific Northwest for Wool.

[ 30 cents a pound, was received by twn

| sheep companies, it was learned to

day.