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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1916
Page
1
A British premier declares peace impossible without reparations and a complete defeat of Prussian militarism. He urges unity with allies, warns against vague phrases, and notes nationalization of shipping while Greece and Romania figures are touched in a broader war update.
Pair with lowest temperature 5 degrees and continued cold. Partly cloudy for eastern Pennsylvania with possible light snows Wednesday in the north portion. Susquehanna River at Harrisburg around 3.8 feet. winds moderate, river generally feebound and stationary. Temperatures vary. warmer in the Atlantic states, colder west of the Rockies. Moon phase and sunrise sunset noted. Highest 25, lowest 16, normal 22.
Scientists from the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History depart for the French Congo with Professor Richard Lynch Garner as decoy to lure gorillas. The team seeks skins and skeletons for mounting at the American Museum. Garner has a twenty word ape vocabulary from seven years living in Africa. The Chicago Line steamship carried the party.
Dispatch from Washington says 17,000 troops will be home early January. Pennsylvania guardsmen including the Governor's Troop, First Cavalry, Ambulance Company No 1, and Field Hospital No 1 return in three groups totaling about 16 6417 men by January 5. No replacements will join. Pennsylvanians make up the largest share leaving the border duty.
The People's Forum in Harrisburg will host an open house at Wesley Zion Church on Foster street. 500 boxes of candy and 500 oranges will be distributed to children in need, funded by contributions from white and colored supporters. Dr Charles H Crampton credits the effort to the league and aims to spread Christmas cheer.
The Chamber of Commerce will host a noon luncheon in the Board of Trade hall tomorrow for commercial travelers salesmen and sales department staff. Howard James Cattel will deliver the after dinner address. The event is expected to draw 200 to 250 attendees with more acceptances forthcoming.
Congressional panels in Washington focus on defense funding as the House Military and Naval Committee weighs Navy needs and National Guard expansion. Major General Hugh L. Scott presses the Senate sub committee for abandoning the National Guard as debate continues.
In Ossining New York on December 19 Charles Kumrow aged 20 from Buffalo and Stanley Millstein aged 19 from Utica were executed in the Sing Sing electric chair. They had asked for the sentence to be carried out earlier to lessen grieving by Christmas. Millstein had killed Officer John E Creedon of Utica and Kumrow had slain a Buffalo barge watchman.
An unidentified ship matching the German raider type followed the White Star liner Adriatic from Liverpool. Passengers reported sighting the stranger off the Grand Banks, after a wireless warning, as the Adriatic altered course. The ship bore away after a brief pursuit. the Adriatic carried a rear gun.
Judge Raymond MacNeille resigns from the Juvenile branch of Philadelphia Municipal Court and asks for reassignment. He accuses President Judge Charles Brown of obstructing work, ignoring him, and not consulting on needs, declaring conditions intolerable with effective date January 1.
Military reports show limited action with French Verdun bombardments and a Russian defensive buildup in southern Moldavia. Petrograd says Tuetonic offensives stalled. Danube retreat noted in Wallachia as the City Council debates 1917 revenues and expenditures and transfer of funds to the general fund to cap the tax levy at eight and a half mills.
City Commissioner Harry F. Bowman superintendent of public safety suffered a stroke while at his desk shortly after 2 pm He was carried to his home in a serious condition Clerk Warren E Lyme summoned aid and Dr J B McAllister treated him The episode sent shock through city and county circles as Bowman had been in good spirits earlier.
Thousands of packages from home flood to British Empire troops in France ahead of Christmas. Yet war continues with ceaseless shelling and bombardment along the front as orders and supplies keep moving despite harsh conditions. Prisoners report the constant artillery drive and fear, with letters home noting the terror of trench warfare.
Boston voters packed polling places in a heated liquor question election. Officials reported 118,110 men and 10,946 women registered with women voting for the school committee. Last year about 70 percent of 110,000 registered cast ballots, resulting in a license defeat by 14,248.
The Colored Law and Order League plans to file a petition with Mayor Mews to close crowded tenements in the colored quarter. President Charles H. Crampton says unsanitary dens house six to twelve families and must be eradicated with city help. A related note mentions a shooting last night as context.
Dauphin County Court placed Union Casualty Insurance of Philadelphia and Pension Mutual Life of Pittsburgh in the hands of Insurance Commissioner J Denny O'Neil as receivers and issued dissolution decrees after federal receiver appointments. The state seeks to revoke those federal appointments to gain sole jurisdiction.
In Pittsburgh, Miss Nettie Richardson, 40, former hotel cashier, won 170000 in a breach of promise suit against Henry Deniston, 78, a Swissvale recluse with a multimillion fortune. The verdict followed a weeklong trial in common pleas court and was read this morning. Deniston’s wealth is estimated in the many millions, with half a million in cash.
In Washington on December 19 the attempt by Adamson to extend the life of the Newlands railway inquiry was defeated in the House by Rayburn. Adamson then proposed a rule to push the resolution before the next Friday recess, arguing the committee could finish in thirty days if given full time.
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