22 Feb 1916
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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1916
Page
1
City police admit bafflement over arson wave in the big residential district. A $50 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the firebug behind the new outbreak of incendiary acts. Private watchmen and detectives are on the job to aid investigations.
Telegraph offers $50 reward for evidence leading to arrest and conviction of the incendiary or firebugs in Allison Hill. A second $59 reward strengthens this call to identify the arsonist responsible for fires at schools factories stables and other buildings. City officials hope private funds join to fund prosecution as residents live in fear after multiple outbreaks. William L. Windsor leads the city department addressing the danger.
Philadelphia telegram reports Owen Wister released a verse directed at Woodrow Wilson dated February 22 1916. The poem mocks Wilson’s public persona claiming rulers who wield satire fail to bite him while warning that even dead Washington might confront his complacency.
An early morning blaze in a theatre district boardinghouse above a restaurant killed five people. Four men and a woman perished, later identified as employees and proprietor Thomas Keratsas.
A reflective meditation by Anna H. Wood for the Telegraph imagines George Washington confronting today’s grave issues. It ponders readiness for conflict and the balance between peace and strength, invoking Valley Forge and Lexington to frame a timeless question about national virtue.
The nation pauses as government agencies halt, with President Wilson and other leaders attending a Continental Memorial Hall ceremony under Associated Patriotic Societies. Congress suspends business as Senators and Representatives read Washington's farewell address, highlighting warnings against insidious influence.
Maisie went to the big show in fox furs and then called Flossie after waking. The conversation begins with concern that Flossie hadn’t finished breakfast and peters into a phone exchange about the prior evening’s outing.
AP dispatch from Pinsk reports the Pripet swamps near the German Eastern front showing heavy machine gun activity. The milder winter aides movement and defense along the line, with tactical implications noted for ongoing operations.
Milford Conn Feb 22 at least five people were killed and more than fifty injured when the Connecticut river special from Springfield to New York collided with a second train near Indian River Bridge. A flagman who tried to warn the stalled train died in the crash. Engineer Curtis and Fireman McGinnis among the dead. A freight train on the adjacent track was drawn into the wreck and a passenger coach was crushed against it.
A man believed to be John Grodnic on South Front Street staged an improvised revival after “seeing the red wine.” He was arrested by Patrolman John Wynn after a struggle that left the officer scratched and bruised. Grodnic claimed religious persecution and knelt at Front and Locust before being placed in a passing beer wagon and later jailed. Colonel Hutchison is improving after throat surgery at Fountain Springs Hospital. The New York liner New York arrived from Liverpool with two deaths blamed on the voyage: Mrs. S. A. Wallace of Everett killed by heart failure and John Haughey, a coal passer, crushed by coal dust.
London on February 22 reports King George has fully recovered and his medical advisers have cleared him to resume visits to troops in training. In Allentown Pennsylvania on February 22 George E B Miller, longtime general superintendent of Lehigh Valley Transit Company, died of pneumonia at age 49. He was a prominent Pennsylvania railroad man, born in Pottsville.
Greencastle Ind Feb 22 Fifty Depauw University students are suspended for a week after violating the college rule against dancing at a ball held three weeks ago during midyear recess. Miner dies at 107 in Hazelton Pa
A quirky snippet argues if a voice called for George Washington in the Capitol, residents would answer with a local laborer named George Washington at 412 Filbert street. The note hints there may be other Georges, ignored by Boyd in his red book. A separate brief reports: the steamer Arracan at St John’s was slightly damaged by fire early today while ready to sail.
The search for Bally Mullins, accused of killing Quincy Dye and wounding R A Mattox at Paris, ended when Mullins and an unidentified man were struck and killed by a Louisville and Nashville train near Elkins Kentucky. In Lancaster Pennsylvania a will leaves 350000 for an indigent elderly home on Jacob Peacock's farm.
In a dramatic testimony at the Supreme Court in New York on February 22, Justice Clarke heard a witness recount a remarkable life involving Mme Gourand Miskinoff and Prince Alexander Miskinoff of Kahedia. The scene centered on the witness chair as details of personal associations and alleged affairs emerged during the proceedings.
Petrograd dispatch reports Turkish losses at Erzerum estimated at 40,000 killed wounded and prisoners as Russians pursue westward and north and south. Ottoman groups are cut off from each other while Russian lines solidify and advance further.
Miss Sarah K. Taylor of Saltillo, Pa., jailed in Lycoming County on charges of sending defamatory material via mail. Bail set at 2,000. she faces trial March 13 in Scranton. Authorities say she copied Scripture passages onto a postal card, including an insult to a woman of ill repute, aiming to reform.
Alderman William J. Rodriguez accused Mrs. Page Waller Eaton lecturer author and head of the Bureau of Social Survey of being forced to turn over about one third of her salary in cash to Mrs. Louise Osborne Rowe Commissioner of Public Welfare for the benefit of a needy relative of Mayor William Hale Thompson. The sensational graft claim centers on payments alleged to be monthly and cash only. LEPERS DRANK WOOD ALCOHOL FIVE DEAD. Honolulu leper settlement on Moloski island reports four men and one woman dead and several others ill after drinking wood alcohol from a tin.
The Dauphin County license court heard the Savoy case amid lengthy remonstrances against relicensing hotels for 1916. John P. Guyer and Rev. Starvey Klaer described the Savoy’s pink lit fifth floor “green room” and singer Mabel in testimony that startled courtroom observers.
Ministers and lay delegates from three districts of the East Pennsylvania conference of the United Evangelical Church arrive tomorrow for the 22nd annual session. The Missionary Society meets at 2:30 P M with an 7 30 P M address by Rev Agide Pirazzini, Hebrew Exegesis professor at the Bible Teachers Training School New York City.
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