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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-21

Baltimore conference meet IN annual
session in this city on March "A CONVEX
sOns for the year numbering more than
800 will be reported, according to esti-
mates made by the presiding elders OF
the eight districts. Winchester district
will lead, with some 300 conversions:
while Rockingham district is expected
to report about 1,Co0. The financial con-
dition of the churches is said TO be 1air'
Notwithstanding the general depression
which is said to have been felt especially
in those districts which depend upon coal
mining and upon the railroads
Asked as to whether IL would DC Wise
to transfer the raising of the missionary
assessments from the Sunday schools u
the churches. which policy mas peeh
adopted by the general board OF mis-
sions, the presiding elders RESPONDED
unanimously i'm the negative. Last year
the Sunday schools gave a per cent OF
the total amount secured Tor MISSIONS
and as the change to the new plan mas
not been made mandatory II is not hke-
~ to be adopted at present by the baltl-
more conference.
Risbons w. A. Gambler A. W. Wilson,
and Collins Denny will all attend the
conference il is announced. The sessions
will be held in the Mount Vernon Place
Church. at Ninth and X streets A list
of conference homes for clerical and lay
delegates is printed in the current num-
dist.
The congregational conference for the
territory including New Jersey. Mary
land Virginia, and the District or Co.
Iumbia will meet in the First ConGrega-
tional Church Of this city on April :" ana
~ Roy. Jav T. Stocking pastor of First
church. has appointed the following COM
rnittcc on cnterta inment: Mrs. Cook.
Mrs Barnes. Mrs. Miles. Mrs. y. y.
stcnhcnson Mrs Thrift and Miss John
son
.rro roi-hIorbood missionary meeting
,r ,Lo yy.sbincton Conrrerational con-
rorcr,c will he held Tuesday March 70.
congregational Church. Baltimore.
Rev rr. lay 7. Stocking. pastor Z"
day Of last week IN Ne" oIN ,.:,.o
attended the ni'eInE vi Nv. Hoo
committee OF th' oi'-l a, 'i1, 10 i
Missionary S"cl"'N' "i WING" "''E ~
secretary
a., c.rr..
In" women -N''",' manual
l nltarl"n h"'.h WA '".' 49, l.
meeting III me '"n''" WI -, /
=" Reports :" "nI''IS VII. =.
and an address w" ." ~" ~ ,rr
g. u. frr''c. vac "oS''S Wa
John r I-aSk">.
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Rev l'r. =. =. l'.h. .;.''''..
city secretary 90 w ''",iI, ~, ,,,.,,o,, vas
hEt"n protestant r-'lS0'!l'a' ,ic
IN" "hiS 'P"i-H !''"' 1,.,,,,,,. r,.
bishop John Gardner MurraL. head %,
tn" di"c"s" "i Haltlm"r". 10 '"r N'S'' :,
and advisory coun'nS o. inc - I;' 'p'
churches Of tn" diocese. MS II "'iI'''''
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-21

Vertical circles Of electric lights have
been erected at berlin To guide aviators.
who can tell how near they are to the
ground by observing the angles of the
circles.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-21
What Church People
Are Saying and Doing

BISHOP A. W. WILSON. of Bal
timore. who will attend Southern
Methodist Conference in this city.
beginning tuesday.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-21

Chile in 1918 exported ses.sss pounds OF
iodine. valued 1t N,S&.01
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-21
TOMORROW'S MENU.

IF the cream cheeses are white. far
whittier the hands that made them
Clough.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-21

Argentina has nf,y-six cooperative So
cieties.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-21
BREAKFAST.

BREAKFAST.
Oranges
Cereal and Cream.
Cornsd Beef Hash
Biscuits Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Chicken Shortcake
C-eam Chess
GapefrIi- in CUPS.
Cookies.
Ira
DINNER.
Baked Bean SOUP.
Broiled Lamb Chops
Faxed sweet Potatoes.
Peas.
Lettuce Salad.
Brown Betty Pudding
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-21

The Reformed Church IN the United
| States is planning 10 raise $4,000 fol
| foreign missions to be called THE Prince
of Peace Fund This fund will help
make good some of the loss to mission
work through the present war.
The Commission on Christian Educa-
ton of the Federal Council of the
! Churches of Christ in America, has pre-
pared complete set of Sunday school
! lessons on international peace to DC
! placed in the regular Sunday schoo
courses and quarterlies of the various
| denominations. They were compiled by
| Norman L. Richardson. of Boston Uni
versity. under the direction of joint
/ committee representing the Sunday
I School Council of Evangelical Churches
: and the World Peace Foundation. TINS
/ commission has also appointed com
| mittee to investigate the various plans
/ for the coordination of the instruction
I of children in day schools and church
schools. The Gray plan will be speciai'
/ ly considered but the committee VIII re-
! port every plan which promises TO al
! ford systematic religious instruction un'
| der public school approval without Sec
tartan complications.
A movement is on the way to cree,
and equip a memorial building to the
/ late Fanny Crosby. site has already
| been given by the people of Bridgeport
Conn.,. her home city. for the work Of
her. fayorite institution. THE Bridgeport
| Christian Union" The organization IL
| nterdenominational, has been In opera.
ton five years. extending a helping hand
| 70 needy men from all parts of the
United States and other countries.
strong committee of business men snt
J Christian workers has the matter In
hand, with e. IL. Harrington. bridgeport
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
MYSTERIOUS FIRE IN
TECH HIGH SCHOOL
Blaze Discovered by Janitor Gur-
pert at GAS O'clock While
on First Round
ENGINEER LOSES HIS BOOKS
Steam Indicator Destroyed; Cell
ing Drops; Fireproofing Saves
the Building
ENGINEER LOSES HIS BOOKS

A fire, whose origin is battling the
school authorities. was discovered in
the southeast corner of the engine
room of the Technical high school
this morning by Chief Janitor Gum
pert at 6.45 o'clock as he was making
his first round of the building.
That the building was not consumed
may be attributed to the fireproof con-
struction of the building, against
which the flames could make little
progress A pile of valuable books
on history and mechanics belonging to
Engineer ]. Grant Koons, which were
in the corner and furnished fuel for
the flames. were destroyed. His loss
is $500. The damage to the building
is slight.
No theory has been advanced as to
the cause of the fire. which must have
taken place some time after 10 o'clock
last night. when Mr.. Gumpert left the
school. A hasty examination of the
electric apparatus indicates that 1t is
have been a mouse and match" fire,
the Tech ianitor says there were no
matches in the room.
The entire engineroom was smoked,
part of the ceiling in the southeast
corner being so badly parched that ii
dropped to the floor. About fifty
square feet of tiling also dropped to
the floor because of the heat. val
uahle steam indicator was destroyed
by lhe flames. Officials of the School
Board went over the situation to-day
with a fire inspector in an effort to
solves the mystery surrounding the
blaze The damage will be repaired at
once. ~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
CREIGHTON ANSWERS
CHARGES Of HOYER
Declares Former Mayor Did Not
Appreciate the Danger Of
the Uprising
By .4ssoeictei Press

Washington, d. c., May THE
Federal Industrial Relations Commits
sion to-day continued its examination
of witnesses as to labor conditions on
the Pennsylvania railroad when G. w.
Creighton, general superintendent of
that road at Altoona. Pa, resumed the
stand. He testified in answer to state
ments made before the commission
yesterday by Samuel II. Hoyer, former
mayor of Altoona, in connection with
the strike in the Pennsylvania shops
there in 1911.
Hoyer testified that the striking
shopmen were peaceful, but that
Creighton had repeatedly urged him
to arrest strike breakers and labor
organizers. He declined to do so,
however. he said. because he had no
right to do 1t. Hoyer told of his efforts
to settle the strike. saying that he sug-
gested to Creighton that he take the
men back, but that Creighton declined
to do so because the time limit for
them to return had expired. The wit
ness said he told Creighton that unless
he allowed the men to return to work
he (Hoyer) would lead the strike him
self This. Hoyer said, resulted in an
order to take the men back and that
most of them returned.
Replying to the testimony given by
Hover. MIR. Creighton disputed other
testimony that the Brotherhood of
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
PASSENGERS FATE IS
NOT YET ESTABLISHED
Believed, However, in New York
Offices That All on Board
We're Saved
By Associated Press

New York. May THE Cunard
Liner Lusitania, one of the fastest
steamships afloat was torpedoed and
sunk this afternoon off the coast of
Ireland ten miles south of Kinsale.
She had aboard 1853 passengers.
She sailed from this port last Satur-
day, May 1, and carried in addition
to her own large passenger list 163
passengers transferred to her from
the Anchor liner Camperonia.
The news of her sinking was an
nounced by the local office of the
Cunard Line and was based on cable
advices received from the home Of
flee of the company in Liverpool.
Three dispatches received in the or
der named, were made public by the
line and read as follows:
I'VE received from the Lands
End wireless station news of re-
peated distress calls made by the
Lusitania asking for assistance at
once. Big list. Position ten miles
south of Kinsale. Subsequently
received the telegram from
Queenstown that all available
craft in the harbor had been dis
patched to assist"
The second message to the local
Office read:
Queenstown. 4.5s P. M.-Wire be-
gins about twenty boats of all sorts be-
longing to our line are in vicinity
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07

Peking, May 7. P. M.-Eki Hioki,
the japanese minister to China went
to the Chinese Foreign Office between
8 and 4 o'clock this afternoon and
presented the Japanese ultimatum
which insists that China accede to the
demands presented by the Toxic gov
ernment.
Previous to this action on the part
of the minister the secretary of the
legation visited the Foreign Office and
informed Vice Minister Thao Yulin
that the ultimatum of the Japanese
governr0 ont contained certain modifi-
cations R.f the twenty-four demands
presented by Toxic.
Picking. May 7. sos P. M-There
is good reason to believe that China
is prepared to ooncede everything de-
manded by Japan. realizing that the
situation is hopeless.
This possible outcome to the pre-
sent tense situation is not generally
comprehended in Peking; consequent
ly a number of foreign residents, as
we'll as Chinese themselves, are to-
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
Foreigners in Rome See
Early Entrance Into War
By Associated Press

Paris, May "A Havas dispatch
from Rome saws the Austrian ambas-
sador is reported to have handed to
Foreign Minister Sonnino at confer
ence yesterday afternoon the Vienna
cabinets final proposals to Italy con-
tanning the extreme concessions the
dual monarchy is willing to make
While the utmost secrecy is observed
regarding these concessions, Austrians
and Germans in Rome have lost con-
fidence in a favorable outcome of the
negotiations. Prince Won Buelow, the
German ambassador also called upon
Baron Sonnino Yesterday afternoon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
$4,000 FIRE SWEEPS
ENOLA FRAME ROW
Two Houses Burned to Ground;
Another Pair Badly
Damaged
CITY COMPANY ASSISTS
Girls Screams Arouse and Save
Family. Who Rush to Street
...... in Nghtclothes

Fire. believed to have been of in
cendiary origin, swept through a row
of frame houses in Enola early this
morning. burning two completely to
others. The loss Is estimated at
$4,000. practically covered by insur-
ance.
One of the houses totally destroyed
was occupied by c. e. Kuntzleman,
who lost all of his furniture. The
other was unoccupied. The homes OF
Carl Snyder and Robert Kautz were
badly damaged. Most of their furni-
ture was removed before the flames
reached it. The row. located in Perry
street was owned by Zinn & Frank,
of Newport.
To the Friendship Fire Company,
which made a record run from this
city shortly after 2 o'clock with the
motor apparatus, credit is given for
saving the entire row from ruin. The
flames, which were then raging beyond
control, were soon placed in check by
the higher pressure streams.
Girls Screams Arouse Parents
For some time the building at the
western end of the row has been va
cant. Soon after ! o'clock Miss Helen
Kuntzleman. the 17-year-old daughter
OF Mr.. Kuntzleman, was awakened by
the odor of burning wood and dense
smoke. She screamed for ner parents
and the three fed from the house in
their night clothes. Flames were then
raging on the first floor Of their home
and within a few minutes the roof of
the vacant house, next door, cola psed.
The Enola fire department and the
Pennsylvania Railroad apparatus was
called out and the fire whistles were
sounded. Before anyone arrived the
fire had virtually destroyed the
Kuntzleman residence. 1t spread to
the home of Carl Snyder. but before
II had made any great headway the
furniture was removed.
Realizing that with their hose and
apparatus ii would be impossible to
check the flames. members of the
Enola fire company telephoned to this
city for aid. The Friendship com
pany rushed to the scene. Before it
arrived the fire had spread to the
home of Robert Kautz. There the
flames were extinguished with the aid
of the motor apparatus. Furniture in
all three of the homes was fully in
sured The Kuntzlemans are in the
homes of friends. They did not save
any of their clothing.
Efforts are being made to discover
the origin of the flames. County OIL
cials are now conducting an investi-
cation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
Bombardment ofDandanelles'
Forti6cations by British
and French Proceeding
Successfully, According to
London Dispatches
AUSTRIA PREPARES TO
MEET ITALY ON FIELD
Hopes That Differences Ex-
listing Between Two Coun.
tries Would Be Settled
Peacefully Are Reported
to Be Fading; Germans
Leaving Rome

ofhcial announcement is made in a
dispaucn from Constantinople that
severe losses have been inflicted on the
French and British troops which land
ed on Gallipoli Peninsula. 1t is said
one entire battalion was annihilated
in an attack on the left wing and that
in another engagement the British
lost heavily, both in men and war
munitions.
Reports reaching London from the
Dardanelles, while containing no new
details of the land fighting say that
the bombardment by the allied fleet
of the Turkish fortifications is pro-
ceeding successfully. Some of the
forts at Chanak and Kilid Bahr and
probably others on both sides of the
straits up to the narrows are said to
have been silenced.
Results Still in Doubt
The exact status of affairs in the
great battle of Western Galicia re-
mains in doubt German and Austrian
reports of a spectacular victory are
increasingly optimistic They state
that the resistance of the Russians is
being broken down steadily and that
the whole Carpathian army of the
huSSldnS mas Deen placed In a precar-
ious situation. Petrograd advices.
however, while conceding a measure
of success to the Teutonlc allies, say
these claims are greatly exaggerated
The Russian war office announces a
victory in a battle near Stry, in the
Carpathians further east than the
scene of the present main battle
Hopes that Italy would settle peace
fully her differences with Austria ap-
DaTentlV are fading as Snpedi1v tbaN-
were revived a few days ago. The
Austrian governmtnt is reported to
have informed Italy of the extreme
concessions it is willing to make, and
Austrians and Germans in Rome are
represented as having lost confidence
in a favorable outcome. A German
school in Rome was closed on receipt
of telegram from Berlin and the
exodus of Germans from Italy is con-
tinuing in increasing numbers. Aus
tria is making energetic military prep
arations for possible attack by Italy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and vicinity, Rain
this afternoon and Tonight; SAT-
uFday fair and somewhat cooler
For Eastern Pennsylvania; Rain
tO-nightT Saturday partly cloudy
and somewhat cooler; moderate
TO fresh southwest to west winds.
River
The main river will rise slowly or
remain nearly stationary. The
tributaries Will probably rise as
result of the general rain in
dfezted for the Susquchanna Val.
ley in the next tVenty-fOur
hours. A stage of about As feet
may be expected for Harrisburg
Saturday morning.
General Conditions
The storm that wns central over
West Texas, Thursday morning.
has moved rapidly nOrtheastward
and now covers the Lake Re-
EfOn and the Central Valleys with
It's center over Wisconsin. II has
caused general rains east of the
Rocky Mountains I'm the last
txventy-fOur hours, except I'm the
Atlantic States.
Temperature; a. m. Bs.
sun: Rises. 4iO9 n. m, sets. 7tO4
sIocni New moon. May 1s, 1881
River stages 40 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterdays weather
Highest temperature, ~.
Lowest temperature, 80,
Mean temperature. 80.
Normal temperature, 30.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
TAKE RED CROSS MONEY

London. May IA dispatch from
Havre to the Daily Telegraph says
Prince de Ligne. president of the Bel
gian Red Cross, reports that General
Won Bissing. the German governor of
Belgium, has dispossessed the Red
Cross from its powers and seized funds
amounting TO 100000 francs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
AUSTRIA READY FOR ATTACK
Rv Attocinted Pee,

Paris. May S.-Austria is continuing
TO make extensive preparations for de-
fense against a possible attack by
Italy. according to a dispatch to the
Petit Parisien from Turin. Railway
service was suspended for six hours
last Friday and Saturday at Graz and
Pabache to permit the passage of mill
tary trains carrying artillery and am
munition to Trieste.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
PASSENGERS WERE
WARNED BEFORE BIC
STEAMER SAILED
Told the Lusitania Would be
Sunk; Precautions to Exclude
German Spies
THE LUSITANIA

Launched at Glasgow, June I,
1906.
Cost S7,OOO.OOO.
Tonnage, $1,000 tons.
Best speed, % knots.
Engines horsepower, 10000.
Built to carry passengers as fol-
lows:
First cabin. $50: second cabin,
500; third cabin, 1900.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
JAPAN'S ULT|MATUM
PRESENTED TO CHINA
Delivery Made to Foreign Office
by Japanese Minister This
Afternoon
DEMANDS ARE MODIFIED
Peking Dispatch Says China Is
Prepared to Concede
Everything
EMANDS ARE MODIFIED

Washington. ID. c., May - The
United States, within the last twenty
four hours, through IFS ambassadors
abroad. has consulted Great Britain,
France and Russia, as the allies of
Japan. to learn their attitude toward
the present status of the Japanese
Chinese negotiations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
ALL PASSENGERS ON
BIG CUNARDER ARE
BELIEVED TO BE SAFE,
Vessel Sailed From New York SATURDAY
Cunard Line Officials Say They Will Cir 2
Full Details as Soon as Received

Liverpool, May 7, 5:35 p m.-The Echo has been in
formed that message the Cunard Line reads fol
lows:
"The Lusitana was torpedoed and sunk at 2:33 p.
off Knsale. There is word of her passengers
who number over 900."
London, May 7, 555 p. ma dispatch from Liver
pool the Exchange Telegraph Company says it not
known how many of the Lusitanias passengers were
saved
London THE Cunard line Lustania from New
Liverpool 1858 passengers board
pedoed this o'clock point about miles off Old
Head, Kinsae Ireland, and later down.
passengers safe No details OF how
rescued however, hand One message
known how the Lusitania
sengers saved
When the passengers
the publication
morning papers of Saturday of advertisement warning intending
existed between Germany and
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
(By international News service)


New York, May THE NewaYor
office of the Cunard Steamship Com
pany to-day received from it's Liver
pool agents an unconfirmed report
that the great liner Lusitania has
been torpedoed off the coast of Ireland
by German submarine.
The following statement was issued
at the Cunard line office at 1905
o'clock this afternoon:
The Cunard Steamship Company
has received an unconfirmed report of
the Lusitania having been torpedoed
by a submarine off the Irish coast
ANY information positively con-
| firming or denying this report will be
promptly notified by the Cunard COM
pany."
Many wild and conflicting reports
were in circulation when the state
ment was issued by the Cunard line.
One was that the Lusitania had been
torpedoed at $3.50 o'clock this morn
| ing. Another was that the liner had
! been torpedoed at o'clock this after
noon and had sunk in thirty minutes.
In giving out the statement, Cunard
officials emphasized the word "uncon-
! firmed," but stated that they were
making every possible effort to ascer-
tain the truth or falsity of the report.
That they believed it true was indi-
Gated by the fact that they imme-
diately transmitted cable to England
the full passenger list of the Lusl-
tania.
The Lusitania sailed from New
York for Liverpool last Saturday with
1888 passengers. the largest number
carried eastbound by any trans Allan
tic liner leaving New York this year.
Just prior to the sailing of the Lusi-
tania the German embassy had
warned persons against going abroad,
because of the dangers from subma-
rines and the following advertisement
was inserted in the New York news
papers,:
The big Cunard greyhound was com
manded by Captain W. T. Turner, of
the British Royal navy reserve, with
Captain j. c. Anderson acting as his
staff officer Both were rated as the
best seamen in the trans Atlantic trade.
daring yet cautious.
Passengers Warned
Just before the Lusitania pulled
away from her New York pier stew
ards reported that fifty passengers had
received kilograms warning them to
cancel their passage. At the same
time, it was said, mysterious men,
speaking with foreign accents, had
passed among the passengers warn
ing them that a trip on the Lusitania
meant death. Later it was denied that
any tSlc6idHlS idu beeu EeCGtNeu by
passengers, but warning had been
given in other ways.
Extraordinary precautions had been
taken by the Cunard line to prevent
German spies from getting on board
and to keep mysterious packages,
which might contain explosives, from
getting upon the ship. -
Each passenger had to identify his
own baggage before the ship sailed and
all luggage was inspected. At the last
minute 1913 persons, who had booked
passage for Europe from New York
on the Anchor liner .Cameronia were
placed on board the Lusitania, the
sailing of the Cameronia having been
cancelled. She was chartered by the
British admiralty Just a few hours be-
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