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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
Aged COlOred Couple
Leave Court to make Up"
at Judges Suggestion

When Edward Rouser was called this
morning to answer to President Judge
kunkel as to why he didn't support
his wife, an aged negro, silvery- haired
bar.
. His wife. also grayhaired and walk
ing with crutch, snapped out her
story of how one Saturday night ed. !,
put put on his best suit and left the house.
He aint come back yit," she finished
Ed. 1t appeared gave no reasons for
his abrupt departure. He was "jes
mad, Mrs. Rouser declared. This. she
added, made her mad"
Are. you mad now?" inquired Judge
Kunkel of Rouser.
Rouser glanced at stalwart deputv
nearby and at the prisoners cage he
had Just left. -"
No, sah," he grinned. mot now,
Are you mad now?" continued the
court turning to Mrs. Rouser.
No. sab, All amt mad now" agreed
Mrs. Rouser.
Then" suggested the court, sup
pose you go home and make up'"
And they left the courtroom to-
gether.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
Stanley H. Rose to
Address City c. of c.

There will be a luncheon meeting
of the members of the Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce at the Harris
burg Club at noon Thursday, August
IL. The speaker will be Commercial
Agent Stanley H. Rose, of the United
States Department of Commerce.
Mr.. Rose will explain the latest gov
ernment plans to aid American busi-
nessmen to capture world markets
heretofore controlled by Europe.
In an announcement mailed to its
members to-day the Harrisburg Cham
Der of Commerce calls attention to the
fact that every time such Harrisburg
industries as the Elliott-Fisher Com
pany, the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe
Bending Works, the Morton Truck and
Tractor Company. the Hickok COM
pany and the steel companies work up
an export order 1t means just that
much more money will be spent with
local merchants, and therefore export
business is of as much interest to Har-
risburg as crop conditions are in the
Lebanon valley"
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been ransacked. A number OF rings
and $1.1s, everything of value in the
house. had been stolen from Mrs.
Charles Hoffman and q number of
trinkets of value were taken from her
husband. Frank Froh. boarder, lost
small sum of money and some rings.
Some time shortly after 3 o'clock
this morning, Milan Putnic, John Put
mic and Martin Fesney, three men
who board with Mrs. Patterson, were
awakened by loud groans. Dressing
they went to their bedroom door,
crossed the hall and attempted to en-
ter the room from which the sounds
| came. The door was locked. After
pounding loudly they awoke S-year-
old Jennie Bowman, ward of Mrs.
Patterson. The child opened the door.
Inside the men found Mrs. Patter-
son laying with her head upon blood
reddened pillows. Her hair was mat
ted and little streams of red trickled
to the floor. She was unconscious.
DR.. b. T. Dickinson was called and
immediately ordered the woman taken
to the hospital.
Husband Somewhere I'm France"
The police were notified and Chief
q: z. Longnaker, Constable John
| GID and Detective L N. Durnbaugh,
eX-chief of police, were early on the
job. They learned that John Patter-
son, the injured womans husband, is
now somewhere in France" fighting
for the Fatherland. Some eighteen
| months ago the Pattersons learned
that they had fallen heir to q small
fortune in Germany. The husand sailed
to claim the legacy. Before his ship
touched the soil of the Fatherland
war clouds sprung up and the Euro
pean conflict was on. AS Mr.. Patter-
son was young and not yet outside the
kaiser's laws, he was pressed into
service. Now he's in France, accord
ing to the last letter to his young wife.
Nearly Dozen Victims
Last nights attack runs the
Hatchet Fiend's" list of victims up
to near the dozen mark and the peo-
pie of Steelton and South Harrisburg
are much excited over the strange visi-
| tors work.
Hundreds were attracted to the
scene or last nights crime to-day. Talk
OF forming vigilance committees was
nearo ana 1t is likely that the State
| ponce VIII be asked to aid in running
down the fiend. Detective I. N. Durn-
paugh, who has been working on the
case for weeks is following out a clue
and hopes to make an arrest.
Inc list OF victims so far includes
Mrs John Yosolowitz, Chambers
street ,Steelton. hit on the head with
some punt weapon; pretty Marie
| Wien, belle of the German colony in
NOM street, hit on the head with a
hatchet; two foreign women in Cham
| pers street, struck with an axe; Miss
kathryn Awatch, 90S South Ninth
street, Harrisburg, stabbed in the
cneek; sara Robenfnger, of 52S Mohn
street. struck with an AK and several
cases in which the women were not
seriously injured.
In each case the victims are youne
women, considered pretty, and every
| attack has been made while the vic.
| tins were asleep.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10

Leininger. of the Department of State
has returned to the office after short
illness.
Mr.. Jones Here. = Representative
z. E. Jones, of Susquehanna county.
was at the Capitol to-day on business
connected with his district.
A Hundred Contacts. A serious
condition seems to have arisen in the
Skippack smallpox case. Dairyman
Ludwig had been serving milk to a ho-
tel which is much patronized by auto
mobile parties. Over 100 persons are
believed to have come into contact
Revoked License. - State Highway
Commissioner Cunningham to-day re-
voked the automobile license of Dick
Stiles, of Strongstown, Pa Informa-
tion had been received by the State
Highway Department that Stiles had
been fined 500 for operating a car
while intoxicated. He failed to ap-
pear at the Department when notified
and sent no explanation, in conse-
quence of which the State Highway
Commissioner revoked the license.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
STATE BONUS GOES
To THE TOWNSHIPS
State Highway Department Send.
ing Out Many Thousands of Dol
lars to the Districts

AS fast as accounts are certified I'd
the auditor general, the Bureau OF
Township Highways of the State
Highways Department is sending out
to the township supervisors the
amount due them from the State as
bonus on the cash tax basis. Accom-.
panying the remittance to the super
visors is q letter from Joseph W.
Hunter, first deputy State Highway
Commissioner. in charge OF the Blu
reau of Township Highways, in which
he informs the supervisors what usea
may be made of this money. The
amount sent to each board of super
visors through their treasurer, is fol
thirty per cent. of the total amount
due the townships during the years
1913 and 1914 and the treasurers are
told that they can depend upon ap-
proximately the same amount next
year If the annual report agreement
and certified copy of treasurers bond
are filed, as required by law. This
money is paid out under them
terms of act of Assembly No. 440, ap'
proved July 90, 1918.
Mr.. Hunter. in his letter. told the
supervisors that they can use this
money for the following purposes:
Buying and installing concrete, cast
iron or corrugated culvert pipe, in
cluding concrete or stone masonry
head walls
For construction of concrete cul-
verts and bridges built according to
the standard of the Bureau of Town
ship Highways or from plans APP
proved by the bureau.
For construction of steel bridges,
plans for which have been made or
approved by the Bureau of Township
Highways.
For permanent improvement of
alignment of road.
For permanent improvement OF
grade of road.
For permanently widening the road.
For construction of concrete roads.
macadam roads.
For construction of bituminous ma
cadam roads
For construction of Stag roads.
For construction of gravel roads.
For construction of flint roads.
For construction of concrete and
stone masonry retaining walls to sup
port roads.
For townships share of State-aid
roads.
Mr.. Hunter explains to the super
visors that in the construction of water
bound macadam. Stag, gravel and flint
roads, 1t must be understood that the
construction does not mean the patch
ing of holes in existing roads OF
spreading the material at disconnect-
ed points along the roads, but the
building of uniform roads to conform
with approved plans in continuous
stretches, even If these stretches are
only a few hundred feet in length.
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rContinued From First Page.1
months has been terrorizing Steelton
and South Harrisburg.
soundlv in an adjoining room and an
S-year-old child slumbered peacefully
a few feet away, the grim nocturnal
visitor gained entrance to the bed
chamber of pretty Mrs. John Patter-
son, of 401 Francis street, Steelton:
And while the entire household slept
the intruder fitted from room to room
ransacking trunks, bureau drawers
and trouser pockets as he went.
Hits Victim With AK
Then. in that strange, gruesome
manner by which he marks all of his
noidnight raids, the "Hatchet Fiend"
seized a long-handled, heavy pole ak
and brought it down with dull thud
upon the head of the sleeping Mrs.
Patterson. Before she could utter
even a groan, the frenzied fiend swung
the ak again. Not satisfied with his
work he struck several more blows.
Mrs. Patterson is in the Harrisburg
Hospital with deep decorations of the
scalp, possible fractured skull and
conclusion of the brain.
Then. as quietly and as mysteriously
as he came, the grim visitor left.
Moving noiselessly and deliberately,
he removed a long, light ladder from
the balcony, over which he had gained
entrance to the woman's room. car
ried 1t across the street and placed 1t
in a narrow alleyway alongside the
home of Walter Smith, of AT Chris
tian street, where 1t was found by the
police this morning.
This undertaking completed, the po-
lice think, the mysterious ffend walked
across to the home of Charles Hoff-
man, of 403 Francis street, the other
side of the double frame dwelling in
which the attack upon Mrs Patterson
was made. Anyway the midnight
raider, in some noiseless way, removed
the screen from a window of the
Hoffman home and gained entrance.
Again he fitted from room to room
over the entire second floor. Al
though number of persons were
sleeping in the house none were awak-
ened and none were disturbed.
Money and Jewels Gone
This morning when they awoke,
however, they found their sleeping
quarters in disorder. Everything had
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
Philadelphia Man Is
Found Guilty Of Forgery
By Associated Press

Santa Cruz, Cal, Aug. 10.-D. NJ.
Morgan. of Philadelphia, pleaded
guilty to a charge of forgery. He will
be sentenced later.
Morgan is accused of victimizing
merchants here to the extent of sew
eral hundred dollars by means of
forged checks. According to the po-
lice. Morgans arrest followed a trip
during which he passed forged checks
of the Panama-Pacific Tours Corpo-
ration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
S1OO Reward, $1OO

The readers of Il paper will be pleased to
learn that there r. at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages. and that IS Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
Is the only positive cure now known to the med,
1eal fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system, thereby destroying the foundation
or the disease, and giving the patient strength
ture In doing fits work The proprietors have
50 much faith in its curative powers that they
oner One Hundred Dollars for any case that II
fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. ]. CHENEY CO., Toledo. o.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
MRS. WILLIAM CRULL
Long Member of Bethlehem Lutheran
Church

Mrs. William Crull, aged 73. died
Yesterday at her home, 263 Cumber-
land street, following a short illness
lehem Lutheran Church of this city
and was we'll known among the older
residents of the city. She is survived
by her husband. two daughters, Mrs
Johnson. of Philadelphia and Miss
Margaret Crull. of this city. and son,
Charles, of this city. Funeral services
Thursday morning at 1890 o'clock,
conducted by the Rev. J. Bradley
Markward. pastor of the Bethlehem
Lutheran Church. Burial will be made
in the Harrisburg Cemetery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
Hiram Maxim Has Device
to Raise Deadly Fumes
By associated Press

Paris, Aug. 10, 5:05 a. m.-Hiram
Maxim is credited by the London cor
respondent of the Petit Parisien of
having invented a simple and mex
pensive contrivance to protect soldiers
from the effects of deadly gases en-
ployed in battle. This device is de-
signed to cause the gases to rise and
pass over the heads of the men
against whom they are directed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
Two Band Concerts Daily
by Clover Clubs Band

Daily band concerts will be a fea-
ture OF the Glover Club carnival open-
ed last evening at Front and Franklin
streets, 1t was announced by John A,
Parthemore, chairman of the commit
tee in charge, this morning.
The concerts will be given by the
Royal Italian Band under the dirac.
ton of Philip opposite, leader The
hrst concert will be given at Second
and Locust streets at 3 o'clock and
the second concert will be held at the
same place at o'clock.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
YOUNGEST SOLDIER DIES

Ellwood City. Pa. Aug. 10.-Henry
Parker, aged 6S, claimed to have been
the youngest enlisted soldier from
Pennsylvania and one of the young
est from any part of the Union to
serve during the Civil War, is dead al
his home here. He was 13 years and
eight months old when he enlisted
He was wounded five times, once SER
iously,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
GET CHILDREN vACCNATED
DR.. Raunick Points Out Need of Hav-
ing It Done Soon

ing 1t Done Soon
Parents who have children whom
they wish to start in the public schools
in September are advised by DR.. ]. NJ.
j. Raunick, city health officer, to have
tho boys and girls vaccinated several
weeks before school opens so that the
physician can issue a certificate.
In the monthly health bulletin issued
by the city health department the re-
portable diseases for the month of
July this year were less than for the
some period of 1914. Eighteen of the
7S cases reported, however, were
typhoid fever patients. Births for the
six months ending July 81 this year
decreased IS compared with the fig
ures for 1914 for the six months end
ins July 81. Nine more deaths are re-
ease causing IL and heart disease IL
of the total. No deaths resulted from
the IS cases of typhoid.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
SHORT STORY WRITER DEAD
Rr I4ttocintcd Prctt

Philadelphia, Aug. 10.-Charles
Heber Clark, who wrote under the
name of Max Adeler, died to-day at
Eaglesmere, Pa. He was widely
known as a writer of humorous books
and short stories. He was also known
as a tariff expert. Mr.. Clark was a
manufacturer in Conshohocken, near
here, where he lived. He was as years
old
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
SUBSTITUTE BEING USED
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
London. Aug. 10.-Details of a new
process developed by German chemists
for the utilization of wood pulp as a
substitute for cotton in the manufac-
ture of explosives are given by the
Chronicle. which says the substitute
already is being used successfully at
three large factories in Mannheim.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
Heavy Storm Strikes
Delaware Fruit Belt
Rr A,,nrintcd Prett

Laurel, Del, Aug. 1O.-This section
was visited by a severe thunderstorm
last night. Fruit orchards were
stripped of fruit and many trees up
rooted. In the town the electric light
service was stopped by wires and poles
blowing down and at the moving pic
by hard work.
At Seaford several houses were
struck by lightning, but no loss of life
or personal injury is reported any
where.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
STORM CAUSES $3.50, 900 LOSS

Tulsa, Okla, Aug. 10.-A severe
electrical storm yesterday caused a
loss of more than s25O.00O in the oil
fields near Tulsa. The sky was illumi-
mated for miles by burning oil tanks.
The Gulf Pipe Line Company lost
two $4,000 barrel tanks and six 1900
barrel tanks.
Many other losses were reported by
oil companies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
GRANDCHILD FOR PROF. TAFT

Bar Harbor, Maine, Aug. 10.-An-
nouncement of the arrival of ex-Presi-
dent Taft's first grandchild was made
last night. The child, boy was born
to Mrs. Robert Taft at her summer
home here last Saturday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
sTEELTON SNAP SHOTS

OeIeDfdteS Birthday. Mrs Mari
grette Gundon celebrated her Goth
birthday anniversary in a quiet way
at the home of her daughter. Mrs. j.
w. Bricker, 1S North Third street, to-
day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
HEAT WAVE CAUSES DEATHS

Madrid, Spain. Aug. 10, via Paris,
5.45 p. M.-Several deaths have been
caused at various points in Spain by a
heat wave of unusual intensity. The
temperature rose to 1913 degrees
Fahrenheit in the sun at Seville and
10S at Madrid.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10

UNTITLED TONNAGE INCREASES
New York, Aug. 1o.-The untitled
tonnage of the United States Steel
Corporation on July 81 totaled
4,92S.640 tons, an increase of 250,344
tens over June.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
STEELTON WOMAN
IS LATEST VICTIM

tcontinued From First Page.1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
SUMMER SCHOOLS
CLOSE THIS WEEK
State viii Hold An Examination
For Its Prospective Vocational
School Teachers
The States sum-

The States sum-
mer s C h o o | s at
which candidates
for places as teach
ers in the continu-
alton schools to be
opened during the
coming winter have
heen receiving spe-
cial instruction will
close this week.
About 400 applica-
tions, men and wo-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-10-01
CoNFEssIO rs OF A WIFE i:

] did not find Dick at the Office and
Mr.; Selwin seemed much surprised to
see me therezas.I do not believe i have
entered Dick place Of! business more
than a half dozen times since we
have been married.
rs there anything particular you
want to'see Richard about, Margaret
no asked. -. .sa5.s
Nothing. Mr.. selwin, except that I
have what ] consider a splendid oppor.
tunity to invest part OF that ten
thousand dollars that Aunt Mary left
me and / wanted to know II the money
wonld be available today.
Mr.. Selwin smiled.
You perhaps don't understand, Mr..
selwin, that the part OF the estate
left to me was mostly money In the
savings bank. As Ifunderstand 1t six
thousand dollars was in the savings
bank and the other four was in govern.
;.ent bonds"
why don't;you leave your money in
the savings bank. Margaret? have
always thought that one OF the safest
places for woman's money"
Because can only get four per
cent. on savings at the bank and am
able today TO buy some munipical
bonds that pay five and half at SO
much below par that they will pay me
nearly six and half per cent. until
they mature ten years distant"
"Dick told me the other day that he
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thought that you would want to buy
some stock in the book concern .
II do not know why Dick should say
that, Mr.. selwin." said. Il hope my
voice did not express the heat l felt at
Dicks assumption OF disposing OF my
money without consulting mel
I'VE have now
you mean YOU have" interrupted
SMr.selwin. "the stock Is all In your
name" He said this with great deal
of emphasis. as though TO impress me
with Dicks generosity In giving me
the stock. He did not know all the
money paid for'it was mine-money
that my mother had left me and that /
had earned myself-except the divi.
dends from the stock which we had ap.
piled.
"You have now. he continued,
ten thousand dollars paid up stock
and fifty shares on which you have
paid twenty-five hundred dollars.
think your dividends during the next
three years will take care Of this. You,
] believe, are also lending twenty-five
hundred dollars to the concern on a
call note at seven per cent"
Let me ask you question, Mr..
-Selwin. Would you want Mrs. Selwin
to put this ten thousand dollars into
the company II 1t had been left her:
Oh. know that the company has
made and will probably again make
fifty per cent. on. the invNtment. But
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HUNlN|GT0N1GETS
/ U.D.G. CONVENTION
Election of New Officers
Closes the Session at
Clarksburg.

Huntington was chosen as the next
place Of meeting of the United paugh.
tiers OF the confederacy of West Viz.
gtnta at the annual meeting which
concluded yesterday in clarksburg.
Officers for the West Virginia dl.
vision OF the organization were elect.
ed as follows:
Miss Jennie S. Price, president, Blue.
field Mrs. R. v. Campbell, first vice
president, Bluefeld; Mrs. George c.
Stone, second vice president, CIarks.
burg; Miss Sally Lee Powell, record.
ing secretary, Shepherdstown: Miss
kinnie e. Smith, corresponding score.
tary, Parkersburg; Miss Mary c. Strib,
ling, treasurer. Martinshurg; Miss
Ora Tomlinson, historian. Charleston;
Mrs. Bruce Yokum. registrar. Lewis.
burg; Mrs. Florence Carter, recorder
cross Of honor. Fayetteville; Hrs.
Charles L. Reed. director OF children's
auxiliary, Huntington.
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HEALTH HINTS
SMALLPOX.

The fall and winter months usual,
~ bring increased numbers OF small.
pox cases.
Smallpox, due to careful control
and persistent vaccination is no longer
the same serious disease that 1t was
years ago. That is, 1t no longer is
fatal In large numbers OF cases.
Smallpox, like most other communi-
cable disease, is filth horn. This
means that the disease is most likely
TO originate In homes that are dark
or unclean or poorly ventilated. II
means that It will more usually affect
persons living in improper surround
ings; thus, those whose systems are
physically debilitated and unable to
throw off the germs OF the disease.
Smallpox may spread from unclean
places to surroundings that are seem
ingly sanitary. Its origin. however,
usually is among unsanitary condi'
tons.
Care OF home surroundings, bodily
cleanliness and general health will
help render US immune against small
box. Perfect cleanliness will help to
check the spread of this and other
communicable diseases.
The best time 10 cure a disease is
before 1t occurs.
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EMS Homestead association OF Bos.
ton made the suggestion OF placing all
pretty stenographers and Office girls
inside wire cages TO prevent employ.
or husbands from flirting with them.
Just as soon as the stenographer
enters the Office the employer ogles
her, draws out box of candy and
gets nearer" Mrs. Smith asserts.
That's entirely untrue" snaps
back Miss Fielding. 81 don't know
what Boston girls will submit to, but
Los Angeles girls certainly won't go
inside wire cages. It's silly and in.
sulting.
ALSO no Irritation would ever be
stopped by wire cage. An employer
could stick chocolate cream through
wire cage into pretty girls mouth
just as easily as he could hand her
whole box.
Mrs. Smith evidently doesn't know
bean about working girls, or the
fact that just as soon as they enter
an Office they become strictly profes.
sional business persons who keep
their social affairs and their boxes Of
candy for other times than office
hours. Mrs. Smith has probably new.
or done hard days work in her life
and doesn't know that employers
pay for business and not Irritation.
Besides" and Miss Fielding tilted
a saucy black head, "if l were wife
wouldn't like to admit publicly
! couldn't hold my husbands affections
by the presence of a wire cage in his
Office"