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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27

Grounds at which the Pirates were the attraction drew an attendance of 45,000. What about that New York writer who has been inquiring, Whats the matter with baseball? % The present eastern trip has been a nightmare for the Chicago Cubs. They have skidded from first place to an uncertain third and have taken lots of punishment. Most of their defeats have been one run.
 Charley Herzog is taking heroic measures in an effort to get the Gin cinnati club out of the cellar. He has suspended without pay. King Lear and Rube Benton of the pitching staff un- passes caused the Reds to lose the double. header in Philadelphia last Saturday. Lear is the former Prince ton pitcher. Herzog's next step will be to suspend outhelder who doesn't make a home run with the bases full.
 There were 132 people at the Colo niaI league game in Savin Rock yes terday In Hartford, where the at tendance has been the largest ofs the circuit, the fans are also turning out poorly.
 Jack Johnson write to a, friend in this country that he. will fight Bonn bardier1 Wells in London during the later part of August. Judging by the way the English papers have been roasting Johnson. he'll be lucky if they don't drive him out of the country be- fore the fight.
 Hugh McKinnon of this city. has lost his job as business manager of the, Hartford Co1onials. Perhaps there wasn't anything left to manage. Joe Shugrue says the stage never did anything to him but he's going to be an actor just the same. He has vaudeville act which opens in Water bury. Joe fights three fast rounds to see who wins the girl and we know who wins her.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
YALE ATHLETE IN
 MILITARY CAMP TO STUDY WAR TACTICS

New Haven. July 27-E.aJ J. Stack pole, IT,. of Harrisburg. who grad uated from Yale in June, is at the military camp of instruction at P1attsburgh, N. Y, and intends ito stay there until fall. MT. Stackpole went to the camp from this city, As secretary of the Yale Athletic associa- lion, manager of the track team and captain of the chanpi onshipN basket ball team. MT. Stackpole was one of the most Industrious young men in the athletic line that Yale ever had and his popularity was as greatNas his activity.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
DUNDEE AND JACK BRIT TON BOUT IS
 POSTPONED AGAIN

give the public a. poor show Bill Well man, manager Of the Garden A. \C., has postponed the. scheduled bout be- tween Johnny Dundee and Jack Brit ton, which was to have been staged on Thursday nght- Instead the boys will meet on Tuesday, August 3.
 The reason for the postponement is that Dundee received an injury to his eye in his bout with Joe Rivers in the bout recently at Ebbets Field. and Johnny wants more time to train.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
GILMORE SAYS MANY
 A. A. PLAYERS ARE FREE

Chicago, July 27-Pres1dent GiI- more, of the Federal League, asserted today that certain American Associa- tion players had. become free agents throuel1 the failure of their clubs to pay. their salaries for a month or six weeks.
 'I am informed. 3 said President Gi1mor that the players hold that this failure has rendered void their contracts.
 "I have not heard hat Burke and Kelly of the Indianapolis team have jumped to the Pittsburgh Federa1s.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
COMPO GUARDS
 BUY LUNGMOTOR

The members of the Conpo Life Guards. who have done good work during the summer seasons at Compo beach, saving persons from the surf, are planning for the purchase of a 1un ernotor, to add to their equipment Contributions are beng received from those interested in their organization and it's purpose.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
FEDS SNARlNG BEST PLAYERS
 IN BIG MINORS.

Chicago. July 27--A new raid by Ehe Federal League, which is likely to assume big proportions, has been started By the Gilmore circuit The new raid is planned almost entirely Feds are inning to strip this league of most of it's best talent
 So far the Feds have won Compton. the crack outdelder of the. Kansas City club, as well as pitcher Sanford B1rk ands o11t1e1der Kelley of the Indianapolis teams while the BrooklyR club also is sdickeFing with shortstop Wortman of Kansas City, known as Ehe MaranvaIIe of the Association. However, Wort1nans is holding back, as both thes Phiuiessa and Yankees are Afrerzhirn- Workman twas reported to hawesaccepted Manager s1fagee's terms yesterday. but offers from the Yankees and Quakers caused him to feconsider and delay action The of tarsswere made to ManagersHendricks Df Sthes Indianapolis club
 President Gilmore of the sFseds,. said That his league is only going after p1ayersnthe league hasya right to-. He gays a large number Of Association n1ayersehave become freef agents ow- Ing to the failure Of their clubs to paysealardea for per1ods4ranging from nzssaesatls te aix weeks
 IT annesinfornned.' .',A said President Fillmore. .that thekep1ayers. holding That this failure has rendered void Eaeirr+cs0ntEacts. believe they are at liberty ssIgn Z with @1s 4orS any one else&s
 Eoaaiszf1Ie sA Ky. July 27-Sanford Burk, Indianapo onsspfkcher has Junp- 1e6. toFthes Pittsburgh club of the Fed- erak League. accord1nga saS statement made here yesterday by Manager Hendricksyof the Indianapolis Ameri- car.SAssociationacE club s3urk left the tam last night at Co1umbus,' Hem drfcksasaid. ssbut1hisf reasonsfo doing 9osfs oSme.'s
 Burk has beenawithzthe sIndfanapo- dis teanns 1.-two years. He was pur- chased from thez St Louis Nationals. Ha at one time saIso <was a member of the Brooklyn Nationals
 Hendricks denied. a rumor that gCentrehe1der Joseph Kelly had de- serted the club. He~ declared Kelly will stick to the Indianapolis club
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
FRANK MORAN BEATS
 SIMS IN 9TH ROUND

London, July 27-Frank Moran. the heavyweight pugilist of Pittsburgh. ct Black Friars last night, defeated Cor don Sims, of Portsmouth Dockyards n the sixth round. Sims is a compare lively newcomer in the lighting game
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27

Now is the time to secure your pan arna hats, auto hats and caps. trim rned dress hats. shirt waists, petti- coats, sweaters, auto dusters, guaran- teed rain coats, and separate cloth skirts at E. H. Dillon & Co.'S, 1IO5 Man street, Great. Yellow Ticket Clearlnce Sale.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
GAMES TO-DAY.

Detroit in New York. St Louis in. Philadelphia. Cleveland in Washington Chicago in Boston.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27

Edward Morrel, aged 50. -of cla ton, N j.. received a post card Tes terday which was mailed to hfEa Efcr
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
srANDNG or THE .cIrBs.
GAMES TO-DAY.

Jersey City in Buffalo. Harrisburg in Rochester. Richmond in Montreal Providence in Toronto
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
GAMES TODAY.

Brooklyn in Kansas City. Newark in St. Louis. Baltimore in Pittsburgh. Buffalo in Chicago.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
LEAGUE.
YEsTERDAY,s. REsI1rns
STANDING or THE CLUES.

LYFORD BROS. SALE T
 Prices SIS and $22.5O TWO Custom Sl1its TRY 62:5 East Washington Aye O and 1858 State Street
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
INTERNATIoNAL LEAGUE.
International League.
YEsTRRDAY,s REsUTTs.

The Bufalo-J Jersey. City game was postponed until later in the season.
 The Toronto-Previdenc game was postponed on account of rain.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
K. O. K. A. CHALLENGE.

The K. o. K. A team would like to challenge the Rosebud, Jrs., the Crackerjack, Jrs-, Evergreens or any other 10 to Il year old team in the city. Answer@through The Farmer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27

Attendance at the Panama-Pacihc Exposition to date totals more than 5000. GOO.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
OF THE CLUES.
GAMES TODL

GAMES TO-DAY, New York in Pittsburgh. E Boston in Brooklyn. 5 Philad adelphia in Cincinnati.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
EDDIE BARTLETT, OLD TIME FIGHTER, AMONG
 VICTIMS ON EASTLAND

Chicago. July 27.-+The body of Eddie Bartlett, well known as a fighter in the bare knuckle days and no less re- nowned as a. runner, jumper and wrestler, has been identified among rhe victims of the East1and. He was employed on the boat. Bartlett pre- pared Hary Gilmore for his bare knuckle fight with Jack McAuliffe at Lawrence, Mass, in 1887. His last ring appearance was with Tommy Ryan at Whiting, Ind. in the early nineties.
 The London Stock Exchange will be
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
or THE CL,UBs.

YESTERDAYS REsUITs. No games were scheduled.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27

The London Stock Exchange will be closed next Saturday and Monday
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27

Farmer Want Ads. one Cent word
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27

!, Hugh McKinnon of this city has lost his job as business manager of the, Hartford Co1onials. Perhaps there wasn't anything left to manage.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27

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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
NO SHAKE-UP'- '-DRUMBAUCH
Governor Intimates That Capitol Hill
Employees Who Are Making Good
Have Nothing to Fear

Governor Brumbaugh said in effect
this afternoon that he plans no general
shake-up among Capitol Hill employees.
He said that in his letter to the de-
partment heads asking for lists of at
taches he had not requested informa-
ticn as to their political backing, but
had merely requested information con-
cerning who had recommended them.
He said that the matter of politics had
not entered into the request.
AS to story that his intention in
obtaining the lists was to have some
persons dismissed and others appointed
in their place, he said that it was pure
ly imaginary.
He mtimated that attaches of this
administration who are qualified fol-
their positions and who perform their
work faithfully will have no cause to
worry about the future, so far as he is
concerned.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
P. ". Willis. lawyer. dies
Prominent Carlisle Official and United
States Commissioner Succumbs in
Baltimore Sanitarium

Especial to the Independently
Carlisle, Pa, Feb. S.-Paul w. Will
lbs, formerly borough solicitor and town
clerk and for eleven years member of
the Cumberland county bar, died in a
Baltimore, Nd, sanitarium yesterday
afternoon from complication of dis.
eases from which he had suffered for
more than year. His illness began
with a breakdown of his nervous sys.
tenn.
Willis was "a years old. He was
married and the father of one child, a
son, Paul. He was graduate of the
Dickinson Law School, and until a
short time before his death was solici
tor for the borough of Mt. Holly and a
United States Commissioner.
Besides his wife and child, he left
one sister, Mrs. Lille Junken, of Lyn
dale, Georgia, and three brothers
James, of Washington, d. c., Wallace
of PEN Argyll, and Bruce, of Palmer
Lake, Colorado.
Funeral services will be held here to
morrow afternoon at o'clock. The
burial will be in Shippensburg.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
StartlingR Rumorin Con-
nection With Deaths
of Aged Odd Fellows
at Yonkers
CORONER PROBES
HORRIBLE STORY
Embalmer Confirms Statement of Fred
Mors, Nurse, Who Confessed He
Caused the Deaths of Eight Persons
in Institution
By Associated Press,

YonRers, N. Y, Feb. S.-To the
story that eight feeble inmates of the
German Odd Fellows Home here had
ben put to death because they were
aged and required much attention, was
added to-day the suggestion that two
other inmates might have been buried
alive while still under the influence of
an anaesthetic. 1t was, believed that
at least two of the bodies will be ex-
humed.
The coroner to-day began an inves
tigation of this suggestion. There was
little tangible evidence for him to work
on except reports founded in the fears
of the present inmates with whom they
held a long talk yesterday. The New
York undertakers who took charge of
the bodies were to be questioned as to
what steps they had taken to make sure
that life was extinct before burial
Henry Blum, an embalmer questioned
to-day by the coroner, confirmed state.
ment imputed to Fred Mors, a former
nurse, who told the District Attorney he
had caused the deaths of eight inmates
in relation to the death of Henry Horn
December 20. Blum told the coroner, it
was said, that when he took charge of
Horn s body he noticed a burn on the
mouth and asked Mors about it and
that Mors explained it had been made
by cloth saturated with an anaesthe
tic tied about the dead man s face to
hold his mouth shut.
The bodies OF all the eight inmates
who Mors said were put to death were
embalmed before burial, Blum said.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
Late war news SUMMARY

The German army in the Argonne
has begun another of the repeated at
tacks which have made that section of
Eastern France one Of the most bitterly
contested battlefields of Europe. The
official German statement of to-day an
nounces the capture of portion of the
allies positions in the Argonne. The
French war Office says that one German
attack was repulsed and that the fight
ing is still in progress.
In Northern France, near Labassa,
there was violent artillery engagement
yesterday but along the western front
as whole it was comparatively quiet.
Slackening of the attack along the
Warsaw front by the Germans and their
transfer of troops to East Prussia, are
expected in Warsaw to lead to general
onslaught by the Russians in the en-
deavor to clear Poland of the invaders.
A forward movement already has been
undertaken in one section of the line,
near the Bzura river, and Is reported
to have won some successes for the Rus
slams.
Premier Asquith announced in the
House of Commons that British losses
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
odd ILLNESS GRIPS Youth
Boy Believed On Saturday to Be Drunk
Is Reported To-day to Be Losing
the Use of His Legs

Mystery to-day surrounds the case of
Howard Diller, colored, 16 years old,
who was found in shanty on Cameron
street, late Saturday afternoon by two
men who took him to the Harrisburg
hospital. There he was believed on Sat
urday to be intoxicated and he was sent
to jail.
Jail physicians became alarmed at
his condition this morning and asked
the police to take him again to the
hospital, believeing heroic measures
were necessary if his life was to be
saved. Diller is gradually becoming
paralyzed, according to statement by
an ambulance patrolman. The bluecoat
said that by noon the boy had lost all
sensation in his legs below the knees.
Diller is suffering to a great extent
and is unable to tell much about him.
self except to assert that a man on
Cameron street, gave him some whiskey.
He does not know how he got to the
Cameron street shanty where he was
found. He lives alone at Ills Hickory
street.
Physicians at the hospital this morn
ing admitted him to a ward for treat.
ment. The belief was expressed at the
hospital to-day that whiskey could not
have caused the peculiar illness that is
gripping the youth.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
owners OF WILHELMINA
willing TO Sell TO j. s.

London, Feb. s, 1.57 P. M.-Indica-
tions are more favorable to-day that
the American Commission for Relief in
Belgium will be successful in its efforts
to purchase the American steamship
Wilheimina and her cargo of food sup
plies, which the vessel is taking from
New York to Hamburg. The owners of
the Wilhelmina are said to be willing
to sell the vessel and her cargo, but
the price has not yet been agreed upon.
The American Relief Committee is
badly in need of the grain carried by
the Wilhelmina and also needs the
ship because of the scarcity of bottoms.
1t is generally believed in London that
the American owners will sell the ship
and her cargo at reasonable price be-
cause of the sympathy felt in the Unit
ed States in the movement to prevent
the Belgians from starving.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
BANKERS suicide DUE TO
OVERDRAFTS BY Patrons
Three overdrew Accounts for $4,000,
Which Drove Cashier to Death
Trio Concerned Trying to Balance
UP and Escape Litigation

Schaefferstown, Pa, Feb. S.-While
the examination of the books of the
Schaetferstown National bank by j. NJ.
Logan, the examiner had not been
completed last evening, it was officially
announced that, so far as the investi-
cation has proceeded, no evidence is at
hand to show that Alvin Binner, the
suicide cashier, had taken for his own
use one penny of the bank s funds. The
examination has, however, disclosed
overdrafts amounting well into the
thousands by at least three customers
of the bank, but the exact amount and
the identity of these men are being
withheld until the work of Examiner
Logan has been completed.
This phase of the bank s affairs sup
ports the statement contained in the
note penned by Cashier Binner and
addressed to his wife and children, just
before he carried out his plan Of self
destruction. Binner wrote:
81 am wrong in my bank accounts.
l do not have cent of the bank s
money, but am caught by -, l
am sorry, but l coud not tell you. l
am sorry for the disgrace, but must go.
Goodbye to all"
The blank space represents the names
of the men who Binner wrote, caught
him, and are being withheld both by
Mrs. Binner and the bank officials at
this time.
1t is thought that the overdrafts will
Continued On Thirteenth Page
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
TO PASS Suffrage TODAY
House Will Take Final Action on the
Measure Which Will Then Be Sent
Over to the Senate

The Senate will meet tonight at
$50 O'Clock and the House at 8
O. clock, wheL a regular calendar of
bills will be taken up IN each branch
after the introduction of resolutions
and new bills, of which many are ex-
pected.
One of the most important measures
that will come before the House for
final passage is the resolution propos-
ing that an amendment to the Constitu-
ton granting the right of suffrage to
women be submitted to the voters at
the polls next November 1t is under
stood that the House will pass this
without serious opposition, but it is not
likely that its action will be unanimous,
as number of Representatives have
expressed their intention to vote against
it. However, the Republican members
of the House say it is platform meas
ure and as such should be passed at
once and gotten out of the road 1t
will be sent at once to the Senate and
referred to committee.
The House will also consider on final
passage the bill making an appropria-
tion of $4,000 to pay for the killing
of cattle to prevent the spread of the
foot and mouth disease.
In the Senate the Clark bill provid-
ing for the care and treatment, at the
expense OF the county, of INDECENT per-
sons who are habitual inebriates or
drug iends will come up. The Clark
bill requiring mortgages to be recorded
within ten days in order to have prior
ity of lien will also come up in the
Senate on final passage.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-08
Lawmakers Showing
Little Regard for the
Charities Board Rec
concentrations
PUTTING 1T UP
TO COMMITTEES
Should Latter Bodies Cut Down
Amounts, Legislators Talk of Com
bining and Forcing Brumbaugh to
Weld Veto AK

A glance at the appropriation bills
already introduced in the Legislature,
in both branches, shows that members
of that Legislature are paying little if
any attention to the economy recon-
mendations of the State Board of Chari-
ties and the sums that Board recon-
mended for the various institutions.
The Board announced that it would
recommend no buildings for amy state
or other institutions that it did not re-
gard as absolutely necessary, and its
figures which show what was asked for
by the institutions and what was recon-
mendei by the Board indicate that in
almost every instance where money was
asked from the state to construct new
buildings the items were stricken out.
But that does not, apparently, con-
cern the average legislator. In the ap-
preparation bills thus far introduced it
is found that in almost every instance
where the board cut out the item for
buildings the bills, as presented to the
Legislature, restore them, and it will be
up to the Appropriations Committees to
say whether or not these items shall be
retained in the bills.
Some of the Legislators have threat
ened that if the building items are cut
from their appropriation bills they will
form log-rolling organization among
the members of the House and endeavor
to amend the bills by restoring the
building items when the bills come up
on second reading. A bare majority can
amend, but in the case of private chari-
ties it takes two-thirds of the entire
House to pass bill finally.
1t is estimated that at the rate State
money is being asked for by private in.
stitutions the amounts cut from similar
measures by Governor Tener's veto az
at the close of the last session of 1918
will hardly be marker to what Gov.
ernor Brumbaugh will have to veto.
Told that they are in danger of hav.
ing their appropriations cut down, some
of the legislators have remarked that
it is no concern of theirs SO long as they
get the bills through, and that it would
be up to the Governor to do the cut
| ting.
Chairman Woodward, of the HOUSE
Appropriations Committee, is endeavor
ing to stop the flow of such bills.
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John N. Foust of Ship
pensburg. on w ay
Back From West
With His Fortune
LEFT HIS HOME
20 YEARS AGO
Made Futile Quest of Gold in Alaska,
but Took Up Farming and Now Has
Become Immensely Wealthy by Up
ward Turn Of Grain Market

Especial to the Independently
Ellensberg, WASH, Feb. S.-When
John n Foust left his home in Ship
pensburg, Cumberland county, about
twenty years ago he went north into
Alaska, hoping to make his fortune in
the gold fields, but failed. Subsequent
iy he became a wheat grower and has
now piled up a goodsized fortune be-
cause of his foresight in holding onto
his grain, the price of which has sky.
rocketed in recent weeks, having gone
as high as $1.67 bushel. Foust, who
now is immensely wealthy, plans short
ly to visit the home in Shippensburg
of his father, John A. Foust, who is
now on a trip west to see him.
Foust did not pan out very strongly
as a goldminer, according to his own
admissions, 5ut he has made a remark.
able record, according to his business
associates, since establishing himself
here few years ago. He first took
hold of the telephone troubles of Kit.
titas county when the lines were in a
bad way and service abominable. AS.
sociated with him at the time was c.
c. Churchill. Foust was in active con
troll and management and in short
time he brought the system out Of
chaos, rehabilitated the plant, lines
and equipment, established long-dis
tance connections with the Bell system
and now controls, as well as actively
directs, one of the largest independent
lines in the State.
The telephone business, however
does not engage all of his activities
for he has found time to engage in
farming on a big ranch north of this
city, where he raises wheat, hay, oats
barley, horses, cattle and hogs on g
large scale.
According to business intimates "ir
the know '-Foust himself is reticent
in regard to the killing he made in
wheat when the price soared-he wa:
more than amply repaid by his fore
sight that caused him to hold his wheat
when the war broke out.
Mr.. Foust says he plans to visit hi:
father in Shippensburg this summer
when he buys new automobile. Like
wise, he plans to plant much more
wheat this year than last. Foust il
married and has three children.