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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
Two TheaterS and Many Busi-
ness Houses in Heart of
City Destroyed
GIRLS NARROWLY ESCAPE
Flee From CaSket Factory
Amid Burning Paints and
NarniSheS
Rr 4s,ncini,G Pro,

Scranton. Pa, Feb. 5.-Fierce fire is
now sweeping through the Casey build
ing, on Penn avenue. starting in the
Miller Casket Company. The block is
occupied by several business concerns
and also includes the Lyceum Theater,
which at noon was enveloped in flames.
The loss will be heavy. The entire fire
department is in service.
The fire spread rapidly and at
O'Clock only the walls of the Casey
building, known as the Lyceum block,
were standing. The whole building
was gutted. Besides the theater the
business places of Allan X. Lawrence,
pianos Hotel and Household Supply
Company, Gately & Fitzgerald and the
Miller Casket Company, the latter oc-
cupying all the upper. floors were de-
stroyed.
The Snover block. occupied by the
National Casket Company, and the
Majestic Theater. is now threatened
and the firemen are working hard TO
save them.
The fire started in the basement OF
the Miller Casket Company among
packing material. and on reaching the
workrooms, where varnishes and oils
were used, spread furiously
Upward of fifty employees. mostly
girls, narrowly escaped being caught
in the workrooms. and excitement was
intense until all were known to he safe
The loss at noon was al least
S400,000. with the fire still raging.
The fire was under control al :
o'clock, the total loss reaching hall
a million dollars.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
President and Secretary Lans-
ing Will Not Begin Discussion
of Reply Until Monday
SITUATION YES
Believed Two Governments
Will Be Able to Find
Grounds For Agreement
Bv AsSocialcd Press

Washington, Feb. 5.-President Will
son and Secretary Lansing will not
begin discussion of Germany's latest
answer in the Lusitania case until
Monday.
II was said that the President all
ready has the proposal from Berlin
before him and wants to go over it
carefully before he begins confer
ences with the Secretary of State.
Officials in touch with the negotia-
tionr reiterated their statement that
the situation was unchanged. There
was an undertone of expectation that
the two governments would be able to
find common ground for agreement
in official declarations Berlin's reply
has not made the situation any more
serious.
President Wilson and Secretary
Lansing carefully went over a new
proposal presented last night by
Count Bernstorff, the German am
bassador. Until they have decided
there will be no change in the virtual
deadlock to which negotiations came
weeks ago-and, perhaps not then
Officials were emphatic in declaring
that whatever OF gravity there was in
the situation was potential.
Apparently the stumbling block OF
the situation is the word Illegal as
differently interpreted in this country
and Germany. The Berlin govern
ments answer proposes instead of a
fiat admission of illegality of the
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
Two Officers Of Camp
Hill Council to Quit

When Camp Hill borough council
meets next Thursday evening that body
will have to be prepared to receive two
designations. John c. Orr and Arthur
w. Lebo to-day announced they will
quit. Mr.. Orr is president and Mr..
Lebo secretary. Mr.. Orr has removed
to 1898 North Third street and Mr..
Lebo has also taken up his residence
here.
Steps may also be taken at the COM
ing meeting to have the councilmanic
committee on West Shore improve
ments reappointed. Since council re-
organized in January the organization
has been without that committee.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
OPPOSING ARMIES
ARE DEADLOCKED
ON ALL FRONTS
Decided Lull in Fighting;
Heavy Artillery Play
Continues
RELIEF ARMY STOPPED
British Mesopotamia Unable 10
Make Headway; Bulgars Fall
Back in Albania

There is a decided lull at present
along the various war fronts. Heavy
artillery play continues along the line
in France and Belgium but neither
here nor in any of the other import
ant theaters of operations have there
been infantry movements resulting in
exchanges of territory worth noting.
so far as the official reports reveal.
In Mesopotamia, the British relief
army under General Aylmer which has
been halted for some time a short dis
tance down the Tigris from Kut-El-
Amara, where General Townshend's
force is beleaguered, does not appear
to have been able as yet to make
further progress. Constantinople de-
clares that the British attempting to
advance from Felahier were repulsed
by d Turkish counter attack and COM
PEELED to fall back to their former
positions
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
TWO OF NINE NEW
GERMAN RAIDERS
SLIP BY BRITISH
Commerce Destroyers Salute
Warships as They Elude
North Sea Blockade
TELL APPAM PRISONERS
Masked Highwaymen of the
Atlantic Carry Concealed Bat
teries of Heavy Guns
S ~ S. &oON..

New York, Feb. 5.-lndentity of
the masked highwayman of the At
lsntic which captured the British liner
Appam off the Canary Islands on Jan
uary 10 and sent her to Norfolk Ger
man prize of war was made known last
night by officers of the other British
steamships she captured and sank,
when they arrived here with the APP
pam s passengers from Norfolk on the
.Old Dominion liner Jefferson
These officers went on board the
raider and had ample time to look
her over from stem to stern. They
agreed as Lieut.. Hans Berg, who took
the Appam to Norfolk has insisted,
that the captor was the Moewe. But
she was not the surveying ship Moewe
or any other Moewe known in mari
time circles She was a new freight
steamship equipped with guns, and as
one of the sailors from her in the de-
tail to the Appam told Mrs Francis
Fuller, wife of the Commissioner Gen
eral af Ashanti, who was an Appam
passenger, the raider was one of a
fleet of nine such vessels fitted out by
the Germans to prey on British mer-
chantmen, two of which already have
made their way out of the Kiel Canal
to the high seas.
Salutcd British Warships
Mrs. Fuller said she talked with this
German seaman on the Appam several
times and that he confided to her one
day about the nine craft saving that
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05

Count August Seymour, who in the
summer of 1913 told a Telegraph re-
porter that he lived years and years
ago. and was Petronious, special guard
to Caesar, and later was reported to
have died, is very much alive. This
news came from New York, where
the Count last night told a thrilling
tale.
Shortly after leaving Harrisburg
last year, Count Seymour was re-
ported to have died from an overdose
of anablosa and contrablosa prepara-
tions of his invention used for cold
storage purposes. 1t was claimed that
a dose of these new preparations
properly taken would permit a man
to freeze himself and remain in cold
storage for 1000 years, and wake up
a rich man, providing he would put
his money in the bank before going
in cold storage. The New York Sun
to-day says:
Looking the picture of health,
Count August Shappelysly de Muk-
lladel de Castellane Seymore Che
wrote it out himself) came into The
Sun office yesterday to say that the
reports of his death were greatly eX-
aggerated and to tell a story that
could not possibly be exaggerated. The
Count, it seems, was not dead, but
sleeping.
every one think ! am dead, said the
Count earnestly, twirling his Kaiser
like mustache. / have to take twenty
minutes every time | meet u gentle
man friend to persuade him ! am alive.
Now if you print that ! am alive and
all your Observation-Disclosures of thu
sands-of readers read it, it will save
me the twenty minutes.
So The Sun assures its readers that
the Count really is very much alive,
even though The Sun printed in it's
issue of January 2, 1914. that the
Count had been hoist by his own pet
ard, had died while experimenting
with a suspended animation serum
which he hoped would prove that
death was easily deprived of its
sting.
What follows is the counts own
story of how the genie in little black
bottle containing bourbon whisky
charmed him back to life after an un-
dertaker had seen his big toe wiggle.
also an authentic account of his ex-
ploration of Tibet, the crocodilephant,
the pelligiraffe. anabiosa and contra
biosa and other prodigies.
The counts story is particularly in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
USEN JR. TAKES
WHOPPER OF 4 HOT AIR BATH
Denies His Anabosa Killed Him and Tells Amazing Tales in
NeU York: Promoted Cold Storage Hotel Here in 1918

'teresting at this time, for within few
days he departs, he says, to seek
Colonel RooseVelt's River of Doubt In
the past the count has done marvellous
things, such as promoting a corner in
skeletons. a hotel for suicides and
seeking in vain an American bride to
share a S150,000 inheritance. But for
his story:
You see, you have printed that DR..
/. =. Daley telegraphed Mayor Ed
ward Stetson Grifiing, OF New Rochelle
Il live in New Rochelle-that | died
in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky on
the first of January, 1914, from an in.
lection OF anabiosa. my suspender of
animation" he said. DIR. Daley
thought / was dead and called an un-
dertaker, but that undertaken saw my
toe wiggle.
by George he said, he's alive!'
and he gave me some bourbon whisky
out OF u little black bottle, and sure
enough. | was alive. Animation had
just been suspended a few hours longer
than we expected, that's all. My ana
biosa needed just something more to
make it work properly.
We'll, | went to Tibet-emphasis
on the bet as in a wager-on the
steamship Empress of China. L eX-
plored the country-and it is the land
of opportunity. They are 500 years
behind the times, and all the poorest
workmen wear jewelry, rings, gold,
precious stones everywhere, but to con-
tinue-
DR. Daley and l go to Batany, n
town near the coast, and from there
we explore the interior and find ami
mails. Oh the most miraculous ami
mails. Listen, and l will tell you.
Oh, Such Animals!
There was the crocodilephant, with
a head like an elephant, a long neck
and a body like a crocodile. Here, 1
TCOntinued on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
Fate of WOrmleysburg
Grade Crossing May Be
Kept Secret Ur Ill May

Carlisle. Feb. j.--Viewers appointed
by the Cumberland county court to
decide whether or not the grade cross
ing at Ferry street. Wormleysburg
should be closed, appeared in court
this morning while attorneys on both
sides endeavored to reach an agree
ment. 1t is said that a few days ago
it appeared as though everything had
been settled and that q new road to
the farms beyond Wormleysburg
would be laid out through the private
subway at Walnut street. However.
some complications have arisen and
the controversy has been reopened.
1t was hinted shortly after noon to-
day that the court would likely grant
a postponement of the case until the
May term. If this is not done then
the viewers will make their report in
court Monday morning. as the result
of the view was made returnable Feb
ruary I.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
Body of Chambersburg Man
Taken From Ruins at Shore

Atlantic City, n. J.. Feb. 5. - The
bodies of Mrs. Thomas Mott, mother
of Richard Mott, proprietor of the
Hotel Overbrook, scene of the s15O.-
600 blaze which yesterday morning
took toll of six lives and Paul G.
Hendricks, of Chambersburg, Pa,
were taken from the ruins during the
night, leaving only that of Edward
Phillipsen, of White Plains, n. Y,
still missing.
John Mccoy and George Brincker.
two of the survi, ors in the city hos
pital, one with a punctured lung and
the other with internal injuries, are
in precarious condition. All others
are out of danger
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
Anthracite Miners Must Be
Treated Fairly, Umpire Rules
BY .4ssociafed Press

Hazleton, Pa. Feb. 5.-Coal COM
panies of the anthracite fields must
protect miners from over-zeaIousness
on the part of foremen in meeting the
requirements of six-inch topping on
cars according to a ruling handed
down to-day by Charles P Neill, of
Washington. d. c., umpire of the con-
clliation board. in the grievance of
the Shenandoah City colliery men
against the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company.
The men complained that they were
often the victims of injustice on the
part of bosses who required over
loading of cars without allowing any
extra compensation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05

Attorney ]. Clarence Funk, one of
the younger members of the Dauphin
county bar, has been appointed clerk
to the federal courts for the Middle
district. with offices in this city.
Mr.. Funk succeeds Frank Snodgrass,
of the law firm of Snodgrass SS Smith.
He had served as clerk for the district
for many years.
announced yesterday from Sunbury by
Federal Judge Charles B. Wilmer.
The new clerk to the federal courts
has figured prominently in the local
courts and represented the United
States government in its anti-white
slave Investigations year or so ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
Big Attendance and Singing of
Children Feature Opening
Sessions
DISCUSS FRUIT GROWING
Farm Drainage and Water
Supply Is Another Inter
esting Topic
BY ROBERT T.. GoRMAN

Linglestown, Pa. Feb. 1.-Two hun
dred farmers and their wives residing
in the vicinity of Linglestown, and
residents of this town crowded into
Union Chapel fast evening to hear
the Farmers Institute speakers sent
here by the State Department of Ag-
riculture. The sessions were opened
yesterday afternoon and a big crowd
was present at the initial meeting
Sessions were held this morning and
this afternoon and the closing meet
ing will be held this evening. One OF
the big features OF the institute is
the singing of the school children oil
Linglestown. The three teachers, Miss
Ella Good, John Unger and II. b. KinG
arranged the musical program and the
children were greeted with prolonged
applause as they finished each mum
ber.
George w. Shriner is chairman o.
the local meetings and the institute
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
Woman Seriously Burned
While Cooking; May Die

Mrs. Katherine McAllister, aged %
years. wife of William McAllister, 101S
Berryhill street, was badly burned at
her home this afternoon. She is in
the Harrisburg Hospital in a critical
condition. Mrs. McAllister was cook
ing when her clothing caught fire from
paper in the ashpan of the stove.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
WEST END BOY A HERO

Campbell, S-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Emory Campbell, of this place.
narrowly escaped drowning when he
was pushed into the river by several
companions. Robert Bolden, his
S-year-old cousin, of 1888 North Sew
enth street, Harrisburg, jumped in
after the boy and dragged him to
shore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
All Missionaries in West
China Are Reported Safe
By Associated Press

New York, Feb. 5.-The American
Baptist Foreign Mission Society an
nounced to-day the receipt of a cable
gram stating that all missionaries in
West China are safe.
The cablegram says that the rebels
have not interfered in any way with
the missions,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
OttawG Munitions Plant
Is Destoyed by Fire

Ottawa, Feb. 5.-F'ire of unknown
origin last night destroyed the plant of
Grant, Holden & Graham Company,
Ltd, which has been engaged in
manufacturing clothing for the mill
tary department. Eight employees were
in the building when the fire started.
but all escaped. The loss on the
building alone is fixed at $50. 900. No
estimate has been made of the value
OF the stock. but a large supply was
ready for delivery
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
FIRE SUSPECT RELEASED

Windsor, Ont, Feb. 5.-Charles
Strony, the opera singer arrested here
last night on suspicion of having been
connected with the fire in the parlia-
ment houses at ottawa on Thursday
night was released to-day here on
orders from the Dominion govern
ment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
BRANDEIS' PUBLIC HEARING
TO COMMENCE WEDNESDAY

Washington, Feb. 5. = Public hear
ings on the nomination of Louis d.
Brandeis of Boston. to the Supreme
Court bench will be held by the Senate
judiciary Subcommittee, beginning
next Wednesday.
The first thing to be taken up II
was said would relate to Mr.. Brandeis'
former connection with the United
Shoe Machinery Company, and later
regarding his attitude toward the re-
cent five per cent. railroad rate case.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
Bulgars Fall Back

In Albania where a mixed situation
prevails the Bulgarians are reported
been obliged to fall back toward the
Drin river near the Eastern frontier.
The occupation of strategic points by
the forces of Essad Pasha and by Ser
bian troops who have reformed at
Durazzo is believed in Athens to make
a new Bulgarian expedition toward
the coast difficult.
The advance of the Austrians down
the Albanian coast continues the
latest advices apparently indicating
that they were some twenty miles
northeast of DuranZzo. The arrival of
1000 Montenegrin troops at Durazzo.
after fatiguing retreat, is an
nounced.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
Continued on Page 12.l
LABORERs GET RAISE
BY associated Press

Pittsburgh. Feb. 5.-Five hundred
workmen employed by the Pittsburgh
Plate Glass Company at Ford City, Pa,
and by the Heidenkamp Glass Com
pany at Springdale, Pa, were to-day
notified of an increase of 10 per cent.
in wages. The men affected are prin-
cipally laborers, of whom there is a
pronounced scarcity in this district.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05


ARKANSAS CITY. INUNDATED
Arkansas City, Ark, Feb 5-Arsansas City is flooded
deeper than any time its history and last night the
works and electric light plants
sion The entire town is inundated.
HYDROPHOBIA QUARANTINEs
Harrisburg The State Livestock Sanitary Board Of
Agriculture has ordered general quarantine in sections of
Armstrong, Carbon and Clarion counties following an out
break of rabies hydrophoba among the dogs of those
districts
ACADEMY LEADS YORK COLLEGIATE
HarisburgAt the end Of the first half of the basket
ball game Cathedral Hall this afternoon the score was
Harrisburg Academy, 20; York Collegiate Institute S
FRENCH AIR RAIDS ON 'BULGARs
Pars-An official Bulgarian report forwarded from
Athens Temps says that 40 men were killed and ore
than 500 wounded during the recent attack by French aero
planes Bulgarian camps.
WANT WILSON TO SPEAK IN SOUTH
Washington, FEB. I5-Invitatious for President VIII
visi, the South arrived White House
to-day large numbers. Governor Harris elegraphed ask
ing him go Georgia. Senator James invited him to
Paducah and Louisville Ky, Senator Sheppard urged
him visit Dallas Galveston points in Texas
REPULSE HAND GRENADE ATTACK
Berlin Feb 5.-By Wireless. The breakdown Of 4
French hand grenade attack south of the Somme the
repulse of British attempt advance south Of La Bassec
canal announced by German army headquarters to-day
TO RAISE WAGES AT CENTRAL IRON
Harrisburg-Employes of the Central Iron Steel
Company will receive increase in wages effective Feb
ruary it is understood. Just how large the increase will
be- officials unable say to-day Eight hundred men
will be effected.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and vicinity:
Cloudy, probably snow tO-nIghtt
sunday partly cloudy and colder;
warmer Tonight with IoNyeht
temperature about 20 degrees.
Fer Eastern PenBsyIVaniat snow In
northern and cloudy in south por-
tlOn tO-niGhti warmer Tonight,
sunday partly cloudy and colder;
fresh sOutherIy winds.
River
p The SuSquehanna river and all Ita
branches Will fall slowly or re-
main nearly stationary. A stage
of about 80 feet Is Indicated for
Harrisburg Sunday morning.
General Conditions
4 disturbance of moderate energy
has moved down over the LIKE
Region and In now central near
Chicago. 1t has caused snow In
the last twenty-fOur hours in the
Missouri and Upper MissiAaIppi
valleys, the Lake Region and in
the interior of New York state,
A general fall OF to 20 degrees in
temperature has occurred in the
Missouri Valley.
Temperatures 8 n. M, %.
STUNT Rises, 7i12 n. M, sets, 5,2s
%. NJ.
Moor; First quarter. February 10.
River Stage; 6.5 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterdays Weather
Highest temperature, 20.
Lowest temperature, II.
Mean temperature. ~.
Normal temperature, IS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
General Conditions
.e .I--.x

Yesterdays Weather
Highest temperature, 70.
Lowest temperature, II.
Mean temperature. ~.
Normal temperature, rs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05

Continued on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05
MARRIAGE LICENSES

George smith Anna
William DeckmRn Nellie DevictOr, city.
Charles Walter Springer Sober. city.
Charles Edward LOcknrd Werlich, MiddetOwa.
Martin Luther Hoffman Toledo SeidIe,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05

LContinued on Page 81
American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1916-09-23
THOSE WEEDS AGAIN
communicated

We are glad to know tina, so,,.
OF our people are bcInning TO fbfpt
OF the weeds weeds are an upsipb,
~ thing. especially to people entor
ing our town. Did you ever visit 4,
town, say about the size of Am,ric,,
Fork, and feel that you frs, wanfad
to stay because everything was so
clean and well kept? There are small
towns whore you will find cvervtbi,c
in such order that you at once toko
on an at home feeling. Tho vritor
has heard such remarks as. 81 ncv,,.
saw such a pretty clean little town f"
You could not see an unsightlv vacant
lot or delapidated building In tb,
whole town. It looked as If every
mousse was occupied by It's owner and
also that the owner was a home Low
err. Cwhen I say home lover 7 mean 81
person who keeps his place Of dbodc
clean and attractive looking. No mat
49, ''''' hhAllbl' wv hN'lllllH. W.
they would even fine you If YOU ar..
ever so little, on the sidewalks III.
cows were driven very orderly through
the strects-you would never sec re
voting dirt on the walks. caused bv
letting the COWS range in the streets
rs soon as n buildir~ was good for
nothing, II was torn down and re
moved and all the debris cleaned
away. Why there wasn't dumping
ground in all the town. Evcrythinp
had to be taken beyond the city lin
its. Well the town looked 50 inviting
and the people seemed 50 energetic
| just decided 10 build home and
live right there the rest Of my days
DON'T FORGET TO SWAT THE
Fly. SUBSCRIBER.