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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
A COMPLETE FRENCH DEFEAT
In CHAMPAGNE, SAYS MORAHT

Berlin, Via London, March II, 1885
A. M.-Major Moraht, military expert
of the "Tageblatr, explaining the sig
nificance of the French campaign in
Champagne, which, he says, closed with
a complete French defeat declares
the city of Vouziers Con the Aisne in
the Department of Ardennes) was un.
questionably the point which the
French sought to take.
"This city," he says, commands
to great degree the northern entrance
to the Argonne and this district would
have been evacuated by the Germans
if the French had taken it or else the
German front there would have been|
forced into an angle toward the west,
where it would have been exposed toI
attacks from both the west and south.
Another result would have been the
weakening of pressure OH verdun,
which the Germans then would have|
been able to menace only from the east|
and southeast TIC the material aspects|
of the victory must be added the phys
ical and moral effect on the enemy and|
their heavy losses.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
MRS. HOSIE, shot BY KEYS,
RAPIDLY Gains Strength
Her Father, jeremiah Yost, Says He
Will Make Full Investigation of
Circumstances That Led to Attack
and Mans Suicide

Mrs. Norah Hosie, who was shot in
the jaw yesterday morning at Wyeth
and Basin streets, by Stephenson w.
Keys, chauffeur, who afterward com
mitted suicide, was reported to-day to
be slowly improving in the Harrisburg
hospital. Attending physicians say the
woman is out of all danger and will
soon be removed to her home.
Since the statement she made last
night to her father, jeremiah Yost,
when she wrote on a pad that she had
not known Keys, except that the fam.
lily employed him on one occasion to
run an automobile, Mrs. Hosie has de-
clined to write anything further about
the tragedy.
The woman s father, who is known
in railroad circles as "Jerry' Yost,
being employed as shop policeman for
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
stated to-day that he intends making
thorough investigation of the quarrel
that led up to the tragedy. The rela-
tives of Keys have not yet anno,nced
the funeral plans.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
Grove CHARGES DROPPED
Settlement Is Reached in Suit in Which
City Building Inspector Was
Accused of Conspiracy

After a legal fight lasting many
weeks, the conspiracy charge lodged
against James Fl. Grove, City Building
Inspector, in the suit to restrain him
from carrying out his order to raze
the apartment house at 603 York ave.
nue., this city, because of alleged build.
ing defects, have been dropped and
the controversy will be amlcabIy ad-
justed. The court was so informed to-
day.
Grove and John Wagner, who is own
er of the York avenue property, Jointly
were charged by William F. Martin
and James j. Lynch, contractors, with
conspiring to cheat the latter two men
out of money they claimed for work
on the house. The controversy grew
out of bulged wall. The contractors
maintained that the wall was not un-
safe and that the order to raze the
building was made for no orner pur-
pose than to deprive them of their
money ON the contract.
Under the terms of settlement, the
wall will be torn down and replaced
and, it is said, the building in the
main can be preserved. The costs of
the court suit are to be paid by the
contractors, it is said.
Because of the plans for settlement,
the court hearing in the case scheduled
for to-day was indefinitely postponed.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
SOON TO Grade MARKET ST.
City Advertises For Bids to Improve
Half Mile of Thoroughfare
East of 21st Street

With the abutting property owners
to-day filing with the city notice of
their agreement to waive all right TO
claims for damages incident to the i'm
provements, William H. Lynch, City
Highway Commissioner, began adver-
tising for bids for the grading of Mar
ket street, from Twenty street to
the eastern city line.
The proposals will be opened by the
Highway Commissioner at noon ON
March 23 and the contract probably
will be awarded by the City Commits
sioners at their meeting on the after
noon of that day. The improvement
involves the grading of about half a
mile of Market street and will be an
expensive piece of work, due to the
fact that deep cut must be made at
one point and some filing at another.
The ordinance authorizing the work
was passed by the City Commissioners
several months ago but it was not de-
cided until to-day to go ahead with the
work, all the affected property owners
having given notice that they will not
present claims for damages.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
PROPOSES Taxes ON JITNEYS
Representative Jones Introduces Meas
ure Which Would Place Heavy
Burden on Line Planned Here

A bill designed to regulate jitney
bus lines was introduced in the House
late yesterday by E. E. Jones, of Sus-
quehanna, chairman Of the Committee
on Good Roads, which will consider the
measure. Men interested in the pro-
posed "jitney" line in Harrisburg say
its passage will be vigorously opposed,
and that if passed it would impose a
heavy financial burden on this and 9TH
er companies of the kind.
The bill proposes municipal tax
OF ten per cent. on the gross receipts
OF company, an additional tax of
fifty cents month on each bus op-
Grated and the fling of $4,000 bond
to cover damages in case of injury from
bus, before license can be issued
for the cars.
An affidavit must be fled specify
ing the number of cars to be operated
the number of passengers to be carried
and the proposed routes. The Public
Service Commission is given power to
supervise the bus lines.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
Thought That Would
Be Plenty For 3.Day
Jaunt to the Newport
News Launching
COMMITTEEMAN
WERE WORRIED
Succeeded Finally in Convincing DR..
Brumbaugh $4S.57 a Head Will Be
Needed Even With Hummingbird
Tongues and Trimmings Eliminated

There will be no $4,000 junket for
the Pennsylvania Legislature when the
big battleship "Pennsylvania" is
launched at Newport News next Tues
day.
In fact it was learned to-day that
Governor Brumbaugh, who has consist
entity been putting the brakes on un-
necessary expenditures of State funds
in view of the prospects for reduced
revenues in the next two years, thought
that SIS a man would be sufficient to
cover all the expenses of the trip that
will start Monday night and end ed
nesday morning.
This made those in charge of the ar
rangements for the excursion bit un.
easy. They got out their pencils and
pads and nnally convinced the Gov
ernor that, even with champagne and
hummingbird tongues eliminated from
the bill of fare, it would cost about
$50 a man to make the trip in ordi-
nary comfort, and it finally was agreed
that $1,000 or an average of $4S.57
for each of the thirty-fve excursion
lists, would not be an extravagant fig
Bill in 1897 Was $4,000
1t is certain, therefore, that nothing
like characterized the legislative pill
grimage to New York at the time or
the dedication of Grants Tomb, in
1897, when the entire Legislature went
on junketing trip and the State was
called upon to foot the bill, will be re-
peated. On that occasion the bill
amounted to something like $4,000,
the caterers share of which was vetoed
by Governor Hastings and was lever
paid until the man who furnished the
food and drinks was empowered to
sue the State for his bill. Even then
ne only received part of it.
Governor Brumbaugh believes that
the State of Pennsylvania can be prop
erly represented at the launching of the
battleship by smaller party of Penn
sylvanians, and that the cost can be
kept within reasonable bounds.
When the resolution providing for a
commission consisting of the Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Attorney Gen.
eral and Secretary of the Common
wealth, with several of the Governor S
personal friends and Senate commit
tee of ten with House committee of
fifteen, was adopted, it was expressly
stipulated that the expenses of the
trip should be paid out of the con-
tingent funds of the clerks of the Sen.
ate and House, but just how much it
was going to cost was what the Gov,
ernor wanted to know.
He is opposed to iunketing on gen.
Continued on Ninth Page.
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j. E. RH0ADS MAY LOSE FOOT
Surgeons Plan an Amputation to Pre-
vent the Spread of Gangrene


In an effort to save the life of Jo-
seph Il. Rhoads, prominent cement,
coal and wood dealer private physi-
clans in the Harrisburg hospital, this
afternoon were preparing to amputate
the left foot which is infected with
gangrene.
Mr.. Rhoads, who resides at 1901
North Second street, has been confined
to his home since last August, suffer
ing from a badly infected foot which,
physicians say, was caused by the clot-
ting of blood vessel.
Mr.. Rhoads has been connected with
the coal and cement business at Cow
den and Forster streets, for many
years, having succeeded his father, the
late James NJ. Rhoads, who started
business in 1880. The son has been
identified with the firm from his youth.
Doctors said this morning that unless
the operation was performed Mr..
Rhoads would be in danger of fatal
blood poisoning.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
VIEW OF SMYRNA.
late WAR news summary

An important battle, of which only
the barest details are given in the Of
fetal communications of to-day, was
fought in Flanders yesterday as the re-
suit of a British attack on German po-
sitions along an extended front. The
French war office announces that about
1-2 miles of German trenches were
captured by the British. The German
statement that merely the British made
advances at SOME points.
A report from the Official observer
at British headquarters in the field
characterizes the German army as Gin
tensely brave, determined and well or
ganized,' and says there is no reason
at present why the German troops
should be discouraged. It will be i'm
possible for the allies to defeat the
Germans decisively, the observer be-
heves, except for lever increasing pres
sure of vast numbers of men and guns
throughout the coming months.''
No extended reference is made in
the official report from Berlin to the
new German advance toward Przasnysz
in Northern Poland which Petrograd
says has led to great battle that is
still to be decided. The reports says,
however, that the German forces made
progress north and northwest of
Przasnysz.
The British plan for attempting, In
cooperation with France, to stop trade
to and from Germany has been decided
upon and embodied in an order in
council. King George signed the order,
which will soon be gazetted.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg has
Continued on Ninth Page
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Says mayo IS HER HUSBAND
Scranton Woman Insists That She Was
Married to New Haven Manufac-
turer in 1890
BIZ Associated Press.

Scranton, Pa, March 11.-Mrs. Flor
enee Weeks Mayo, of this city, who
claims to be the wife of Virginius ].
Mayo, the New Haven, Conn.,, manufac-
turer whose marital affairs were re-
vealed through the suicide of his ste
nographer, said to-day that her attor-
ney would take every legal steps neces-
sary to prove that she was married to
Mayo on May IA, 1890, at Bingham
ton, N. Y. According to record made
public here purporting to contain the
details of the Binghamton wedding, it
was Mayo $ second marriage, he being
81 years old at the time.
Mayo, through his counsel last night,
denied that he was ever married to the
Mrs. Mayo of this city. The revela-
tions in the case have prostrated Mrs.
Mayo and she is under the care of a
physician.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
Fails to Survive Hard
Times That Confront
the Minors and Will
Be Disbanded
FOR THE
LOCAL PLAYERS
All Assured of Contracts in Other Or
ganigations-Harrisburg Won 3
Pennants in One-time "Outlaw"
Organization Formed in 1904

The Tri-State Baseball League, it
was officially announced to-day, is to
be disbanded, and Harrisburg, which
won the pennant last year, will have
to take to Independent baseball and a
team in the Central Pennsylvania
League for its diamond sport in the
coming season The Tri-State, the orig
inal "outlaw' organization, which was
born in 1904, has died natural death.
It's official funeral will be held March
10, when the representatives will gath
er to make final disposition of every
thing pertaining to the Tri-cJate, ex-
cept the memory of some rafting good
baseball.
News of the leagues demise was
made public this morning by an official
of the Pennsy ylvania Exhibition Com
pany, owners of the Harrisburg fran
chise, after almost all of the players
of last years championship team had
been disposed of, the release of the last
of the players, save two, having been
signed yesterday.
Emerson, Dietz, Rudolph and O'Con-
nor, all of whom were still in the local
club IS possession, were released to
"Red' Calhoun, former Harrisburg
player, now manager of the Bingham,
ton club of the New York State League.
Fox and Cruickshank were to-day re-
leased to Scranton The other players
of the Harrisburg team of last
year will be seen in the following
places this season:
Where Other Players Go
Adams, Pittsburgh; Chabek, Brook
lyn; Cockill, National League UNI
pire; Crist, Newport News; Whalen,
Omaha, and Miller, Scranton. Keys
and Mccarthy were not the property of
the local team.
Disposition of the lease of the Is
land Park grounds for the coming sea-
son has not yet been made, but it is
expected that baseball and other ath-
letic sports will be staged on the
grounds during the year. 1t is likely
an arrangement will be made so that
Continued on Seventh PAGE
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RAILROADS. NOVEL SUIT
Puts in Counter Claim for Damages to
Locomotive
By Associated Press.

Newark, N. j., March IA rail
road counter claim for damages to its
locomotive figured in the trial of a
$4,000 accident suit in the Supreme
Court here to-day instituted by Frank
w. Wilkinson who was struck and Sc:
verely injured by an Erie railroad train
in Bloomfield last year as he was driv-
ing milk wagon across the tracks.
Wilkinson IS hips and several ribs were
broken and he was injured internally;
his wagon was smashed and the mules
which drew it were killed. He claimed
the train approached without proper
warning.
The company in it's counter claim al
legged that by careless driving he
struck the locomotive and "bent, broke
and destroyed divers, stats or frames
of the pilot or COW catcher, and bruised,
abrased, mutilated and destroyed paint
and polish on the locomotive
The road asked 500 damages.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
Is Captured From Ger
man Forces Under
Fire of Heavy French
Artillery
1000 PRISONERS
AND GUNS TAKEN
Most Important Advance For the
Allies Reported From North Of
France in Several Months-Is Re-
garded of strategical Importance

London, March II, 11.56 A. NJ
Under cover of the fire of heavy
French artillery British troops have
captured Neuve Chappelle, IL miles
north of La Bassee. This success, in
cluding the taking of 200 prisoners
and several machine guns, makes it
the most considerable advance report
ed from the north of France for sew
eral months past. This advance, if
made in force, is strategically of great
Importance, as the position commands
the road between La Bassee and Lille.
Furthermore it makes the German hold
on La Bassee insecure and gives hase
for operation for the Strengthening of
the allies lines in front of Lille.
The Advance Unexpected
This advance was unexpected, as
lately the principal activity reported
from the British front has been in the
direction of the other end of the line
near Ypres. The British are now
within two miles of the furthermost
point gained by General Sir Horace l..
Smith -Dorrien last October when, with
one army corps, in an effort to gain
Fournes, on the road between La Bas-
see and Lille, he forced his way as far
as Abuers, two miles to the northeast
of Neuve Chappelle, but after d Rr-
ate fighting against tremendous {odls
was forced to retire
Przasnysz Fighting Favors Germans
News dispatches reaching here from
Berlin report the failure of the Rus
sian attempt to break through the
German lines at Augustowo, while the
battle of Ostrolenka continues. Accord
ing to this information which is from
official sources, the fighting to the
northwest and west of Przasnysz is
developing favorably for the Germans.
The British admiralty continues
silent concerning the operations in the
Dardanelles, but reports given out in
France set forth that armored ships
have penetrated the narrows of the
straits. 1t is not considered likely
however, that the attack will be press
ed until land forces occupy both sides
of the straits. That such land forces
are almost ready for this task is indi-
Gated by the report that great
French transport fleet has been sight
ed off Malta.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
DEMOCRATS INVITE PRESIDENT
Want Him and Other Prominent Party
Men Here on Jefferson Day

President Woodrow Wilson, Congress
men Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama,
and Claude, Kitchin, of North Carolina,
with Senator Ollie James, of Kentucky,
are among those whom special com
mittee of the Central Democratic Club
has invited to address the Dauphin
county Democrats at the coming Jeffer-
son Day banquet, April IL.
Members of the committee made the
announcement to-day and also stated
that the committee making arrange.
ments for the banquet will meet this
evening in the Office of Howard w.
Jones, in the Spooner building. The
committee will fix the hour and place
of the banquet and prepare complete
list of speakers.
Among the Democrats it is said that
there is strong probability that the
President will be here for the dinner.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
CITY TO BUY MARKET SCALES
Providing for Purchase of
Three Is Being Prepared

A City ordinance providing for the
purchase of three sets of scales for use
in the city markets by market patrons
will be introduced, probably by Mayor
Royal, at the next meeting of the City
Commissioners, so Harry D. Reel, City
Inspector of Weights and Measures,
announced this morning.
The scales can be ready for installa-
tion in the markets within two or
three weeks after the ordinance be-
comes law-provided it is approved.
The market houses in which the scales
viii be placed are the Broad street,
Chestnut street and Allison Hill mar
kets.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
DOPE VICTIM HOSPITAL OPEN
Already Five Patients at Temporary
Institution at the Almshouse

Five dope fiends who have suffered
through their inability to get narcotics
since the federal law on the sale of
drugs became effective, to-day were
admitted to wards in the Dauphin
county almshouse for treatment. A
county physician is looking after these
patients and hopes to restore them to
their former health by weaving them
from the habit.
At the Office of the Directors of the
Poor, it was said that the department
expects to be called upon to treat a
great many "dopesters' in. its tenn
ponary hospital ward. One physician
has advised the directors that he now
has twenty such patients under treat
ment.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
4 SPANlARDS ASSASSINATED

Slain in Mexico City, Is Report Of
Spanish Ambassador to U. s.
Washington, March 11.-Senor Ri
ano, the Spanish Ambassador, informed
the State Department to-day that four
6paniards had been assass,narea in
Mexico City and presented reports of
the looting and burning of private resi-
dences in the outskirts.
He made no specific request for ac-
ton.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
WALL STREET CLOSING
BIZ Associated Press.

New York. March 11.---Automobil
shares and low priced railroad stocks
were bought in the late dealings. Profit
taking occurred in steel and other ia
vorites. The closing was firm. Stocks
displayed general steadiness to-day
with increased activity and higher
prices in the specialties.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
Members of House Pass
Re solution Calling
For End of the Ses-
sion on May 6
SENATE LIKELY
WILL CONCUR
Impression Prevails on the Hill That
This Move Is Taken to Prevent
Action on Local Option and Other
Brumbaugh, Measures

By the overwhelming vote of 1877 to
on record this morning as favoring an
adjournment of the General Assembly,
sine die, on Thursday, May 6, at noon.
A concurrent resolution, introduced by
Representative R. j. Baldwin, of Del
aware county, was passed by that vote
after debate of more than an hour.
1t being concurrent resolution the
measure will go to the Senate. The
opinion prevails on the Hill that the
Senate will pass this resolution on Mon
day night.
The fight for an early adjournment
is said to have started among leaders
of the upper branch of the General AS
sembly in the hope that in the final
rush of the Legislature some of Cover
nor Brumbaugh s measures will be re-
main not acted upon.
Governor Brumbaugh's s recent orders
that the local option measure be not
reported from the House Committee on
Law and Order until some of his other
bills are acted upon will delay the re-
port of that bill into the House until
late this month. The ordinary time
consumed in getting bill through
both branches of Legislature will put
this measure in jeopardy in the SEN
ate, in the opinion of men experienced
in legislative affairs.
Governor Brumbaugh's comment on
the adjournment resolution this morn
ing was; =
eff the Legislature can get through
with it's work by that time | will be
satisfied with an adjournment or if it
can get through before that time | will
be satisfied"
Speaker Opposes Resolution
Speaker Amber was opposed to fix
ing the date of final adjournment and
when the measure was introduced by
MIR. Baldwin he said it would lay over
for printing ''under the rules of the
House." Mr.. Baldwin objected and
Speaker Ambler withdrew his decision.
The debate started when Mr.. Wit
taker, of Chester, member of the
House Committee on Rules, moved that
the measure be referred to his commit
tee, pleading that immediate action on
1t was unfair to the many members of
the House who were not in their seats.
Inc men VINO are mere ana the
men who have been here are the ones
to act on this resolution and the meas
ure should not go over until Monday
night when the Others come back" re-
piled Baldwin. "You men who are here
are the interested parties and hero is
your opportunity"
Whitaker said his reasons for asking
that the resolution be referred to the
Committee on Rules was that the i'm
portant legislation of the session, to
which the Republican party is pledged,
would be on the calendars next week
Continued on Ninth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
SWALLOWS NEEDLE AT DINNER
Mrs. Hattie Weaver, of Speeceville,
Got It In Flannel Cakes

An X-ray examination was made at
the Harrisburg hospital this afternoon
to determine the location of a needle
swallowed by Mrs Hattie Weaver, of
Speeceville, at dinner last evening
She believes that the needle fell into
batter for "fiannel' cakes while she
was mixing it and she was unlucky
enough to get the cake with the bit
of steel in it.
Her family physician sent her to the
Harrisburg hospital this afternoon for
an X-ray examination. When the posi-
ton of the needle is located an opera
tion may be performed to remove it.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11
Eighteen Killed in Train Wreck
BN Associdted Preas

Madrid, Spain, March IL, Via Paris,
1880 A. M.-Eighteen perons lost
their lives and many others were Sc
verely injured last night when the mail
train from Vigo to Madrid was wrecked
in deep defle in the province of AS
turias. The accident is believed to
have been due to landslide.
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stork Visits Governor's Family

Albany, N. Y, March 11.-A son
was born to Governor and Mrs. Charles
s. Whitman to-day. This is the first
boy in the Whitman family. There is
one other child, Olive, years old.