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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-05

May Take Him Out of Wharf.-The
state department in Washington is at
tempting to obtain the discharge from
the British army of William Chilcutt
of lola. Chilcutt, who is only II
years old, went to France with a ship
ment of horses several months ago.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-05

Kicked by Horse; May Die--Jacob
Ernest. a farmer living northwest of
Atehison. was probably fatally injured
when kicked in the stomach by a
horse He was taken to the Atchison
hospital and underwent a surgical
operation, but is in a critical condi-
tion-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-05

Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that 1t
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-05

Rev. J. NJ. IIiff Dead.-News has
been received at Mound City of the
death of the Rev ]. Nj. Iliff of Mound
City in South McAlester. Ok. He had
been a Methodist preacher fifty years
and was known throughout the state.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-05

Wheat Fields Turn YeIIow.-Reports
received by an Atchison grain dealer,
indicate considerable damage to wheat
along the Central branch. AT several
points the fields are becoming yellow
in spots without apparent reason in
this vicinity Chinch bugs are doing
some damage.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-05

Tooth Causes Mans Death--W- W
Bonar. auditor for tn Kansas City
Western Railway Company. and 6
member of the Order of the Mystic
Shrine in Kansas. is dead at Leaven
worth from the effects of trivial cut
inside his left cheek, caused by 6
sharp tooth He was SO years old
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-05

Shot From Ambush.-An assassin.
shooting from ambush. killed Henry
Payne. a tenant farmer and father of
ten children, near De Soto recently.
The murder was not discovered until
the next morning.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
H0VERTER PLEADS GUILTY
Accused Of Aiding Late Cashier Binner
to Wreck Schaefferstown Bank,
He Admits Charges
By associated Press.

Lebanon, Feb. ga. J. Hoverter
accused of aiding and abetting Cashier
Alvin Binner, of the First, National
bank of Schaetferstown, in the misap.
plieation of s1S,500 of that bank s
funds, was given a hearing before Unit
ed States Commissioner II. NJ. Schools
this afternoon and entered plea OF
guilty to all the allegations of the gov
ernment. Hoverter was remanded, after
declining bail in the sum of $4,000
He had no attorney.
Hoverter will be taken to Scrant tor
on March s, after spending day in
Harrisburg in custody of United States
Marshal Harvey Smith. The trial takes
place before Judge Wilmer, of the
United States District Court, Scranton
Hoverter is now available as witness
for the government and in expectation
of partial immunity, is expected tc
make full confession. He will not bs
sent to the Eastern penitentiary now
but will be confined in the federal'pris
on at Atlanta, Ga, when sentenced.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
Highway Department
Engineer and Former
Miss Bradley Were
In Peril at Sea
SHIP is NEARING
NEW YORK PORT
Honeymoon VesselWas in Grave Danger
When Rudder Broke in Violent
Storm Of Hatteras-Revenue Cut
ter to the Rescue

Colonel Samuel D. Foster, chief en-
gineer of the State Highway Depart
ment, and his bride, who was Miss
Helen Trego Bradley, daughter of Col
onel Walter t. Bradley, of Philadelphia,
will arrive by steamship in New York
Tomorrow after an exciting experience
while returning from their wedding
trip to this country. News of their
safety was received by wireless in the
Highway Department this afternoon.
Colonel Foster and Miss Bradley
were married in Philadelphia on Janu-
ary 25, and sailed for South America
on their honeymoon trip, their destina-
tion being Santa Marta, Colombia,
south of Panama.
On February they started back for
New York on the steamship Santa Mar
ta- They had fair weather until the
vessel reached Cape Hatteras, on Sat
urday, last, when terrific storm
struck the ship, tossing her so violently
that she lost her rudder.
A vessel off Cape Hatteras in a
storm such as sweeps that coast, even
though fully equipped with every safe
ty appliance, is considered in a perilous
situation, but vessel without a rud-
der is simply helpless. The Santa Marta
sent up signals of distress and sent out
wireless messages calling for help.
These were at last seen and heard by
government revenue cutter which
went to the rescue.
The cutter succeeded in getting a
Continued on Fifth Page.
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DROPPED DEAD AT HIS WORK
]. w. Duttenhofer Succumbed This
Morning From Heart Trouble
While Engaged at Almshouse

While at work on the stone crusher
at the Dauphin county almshouse, where
he is employed as engineman, John w
Duttenhoter, aged 81 years, dropped
over dead at $50 clock this morning
death being due to heart trouble. Prior
to his death he had not com claimed OF
feeling i'll and the news was quite IA
shock to employees of the place and the
board directors.
Mr.. Duttenhofer had been employed
as engineer on the erusher since last
May, being appointed to the position
by Director Walters. Previous to this
work he was employed as engineer at
the City. Star laundry for about seven
years.
Mr.. Duttenhofer was well known by
railroad men throughout the city, work.
ing for the Pennsylvania and Baltimore
and Ohio railroads, running many of the
fast passenger trains for both com.
panies.
He is survived by his aged mother,
with whom he lived, at 1926 Penn
street; one sister, two brothers and two
daughters, of Philadelphia. No arrange.
ments for the funeral have been made
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
MAY NOT Be PAID IN FULL
Men Whose Cattle Have Been Killed
May Not Be Entirely Remuner-
ated This Session

Only two bills remain in the hands
of Governor Brumbaugh for his ap-
prevail or veto, and these must be dis
posed of by tomorrow night, when the
time limit expires.
One calls for an appropriation of
$4,000 to pay the expenses incident
to the suppression of the foot and
mouth disease, the money to be ex-
pended by the State Live Stock SAM
tary Board. 1t is held that the amount
will be insufficient to pay the stockmen
whose cattle have been killed by the
State authorities, but if there is not
sufficient the stockmen will have to look
to future Legislatures to reimburse
them. The quarantine still exists in a
number of counties, and until it is
lifted there is no way of obtaining an
accurate statement as to cost.
The other bilf in the Governor s
hands authorizes the Secretary of In.
ternal Affairs to appoint an assistant
chief to the Bureau of Standards at a
salary of $4,000 and stenographer
for the Bureau at salary of 81, 200.
1t also increases the salary of Chief
Sweeney from $4,000 to $4,000.
The Governor has not intimated what
he intends to do with either bill, but
will dispose of them in the next TWEEN.
ty-four hours.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
7 escape The STONE-PILE
Migrants Sentenced by Mayor Royal
Break Down Door of A1mshouse
Prison and Get Away

Seven of the fourteen vagrants who
had been doing time on the stone pile
at the Dauphin County Almshouse, under
sentence of Mayor Royal, broke out of
their place of Imprisonment last night
and this afternoon were yet at large.
The escape was effected by breaking
down wooden door. The seven men
who remained could have escaped just
as easily but they preferred to stay.
The county authorities in the last
month had been remodeling the quarters
in which the "stone pile gang were
kept and expected to replace the wooden
door with a steel one tomorrow. The
windows have been barred and once the
new door is set up escape will not be
easy.
The authorities are of the opinion
that they either will be rid for all time
of the seven offenders who last night
escaped or that those same men will
be in the tolls within. the next several
days. All are old offenders, having
been "sent up either for drunkenness
or panhandling, and it is figured
that unless they leave Harrisburg they
soon will be rearrested.
Two or three of the men had but a
few days to serve while the rest had
just been sent out by the Mayor.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
british ADMIT GERMANS
DESTROYED A TRENCH OF
The FORMER near YPRES

London, Feb. %, 2.55 P. M.-The
British semi-weekly report on the prog.
ress of the fighting on the continent
was given out to-day and reads as
follows:
1.-The enemy continues to show con.
siderable activity; in the neighborhood
OF 4pres several attacks and counter
attacks have occurred. At O'Clock
IN the morning of February 21 the enc.
my exploded an elaborate series of
mines, which destroyed one of our
trenches. A new line was prepared
short distance in the rear and imme.
diately occupied. Any attempts at
further progress have been completely
frustrated
g Near Givenchy our infantry, after
successful bombardment, captured a
trench of the enemy and blew it up.
An attempted attack by the enemy
along Labassee canal was easily re-
pulsed by our artillery.
''To the south of the river L.ys there
has been an increase In artillery and
rifle fire, in which our troops showed
marked superiority. Along the re.
mainder of our front there has been
nothing more than artillery duels. The
thick weather has handicapped the
work of air craft. +"
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
City Commissioners.
by 3 to 2 Vote, Grant
Power CompanyN
eSSary Permission
GORGAS AND THE
MAYOR VOTE NO
Harrisburg Automobile Company Gets
Contract For Auto Truck-Not a
Single New Ordinance Introduced
At This Afternoons Session

BY vote of to 2 the City Com
missioners this afternoon passed finally
the ordinance giving the Harrisburg
Light and Power Company permission
to build coal wharf on the Hargest
Island. The Republican members
Bowman, Lynch and Taylor, voted af
firmatively and the Democratic mem
ibers, Mayor Royal and Gorgas, voted
against it, saying they preferred first
to hear from the members of the City
Planning Commission, who disapproved
the plan.
Members of the Planning Commits
sion were expected to attend the Com
missioners meeting to-day and explain
their attitudes on the coal wharf propo
sition, although all remained away. B
F. Umberger, the secretary of the com
mission, it was explained, was prevent
ed from attending because of a death
in his family and Edward s. Herman
president of the board is now in the
south.
Light company officials after the
Commissioners meeting said the com.
pany win go Hght ahead with its plans
and have the wharf built in the short
est possible time. The material has been
ordered; it will be shipped at once and
work ON the project will be begun
within day or two. Immediately be-
fore the passage of the ordinance the
Light Company deposited $50 cash
Continued on Fifth Page.
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Late war news summary

The famous cathedral at Rheims,
which was damaged early in the war,
has suffered further injury, the French
War Office announced to-day. The Ger
mans are charged with having made a
special target of the cathedral during a
violent bombardment of the city, and
ed roof gave way.
The Berlin communication reports
further progress in the Vosges, where
the Germans have been taking town
after town during the last week. The
capture of another town, near Muehl
bach, is announced to-day.
In the recent battle of the Mazurian
lakes district in East Prussia, which
resulted in the expulsion of the Rus.
slams from German soil, 300 cannon, in.
cluding ten pieces of heavy cahbre were
captured, the Berlin commune alton
states. In regard to the present phase
of the campaign Russian staff officers
are optimistic, believing that the Ger.
man advance in Northern Poland has
been halted definitely.
Another vessel was sunk to-day in
the naval war zone established by the
decree of the German Admiralty. A
Norwegian steamer was sent to the bot
tom on the English channel by either
submarine or a mine.
Heavy losses were sustained by the
Austrians in the recent lighting, the
Russian general staff announced in a
statement claiming several victories in
Gaicia. In Northern Poland also, it is
said, q successful stand has been made
against the German army which drove
the Russians from East Prussia. These
reports are not in agreement, however,
with official communications from Ber-
lin and Vienna, both Of which tell of
reverses suffered by the Russians and
their loss of great numbers of men.
On the western battlefelds there are
no signs Of returning activity and ap.
parently neither side desires to take the
initiative at this time. Official an
nouncements show that comparatively
small numbers of men take part in the
actions at various points over the line
and apparently these engagements are
Of merely local significance.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
John Talap. Wife Muir
derer. First to Pay
Penalty By Electro
cution in This State
THREE CHARGES
TO KILL VICTIM
Current Turned on at TIA and at 7.21
Death Is Pronounced - Execu-
tion without Hitch-Twenty 9th
ers in State Await Similar Fate
By Associated Press.

Rockview, Pa, Feb. 23.-The first
official electrocutiou in Pennsylvania
under the new law substituting the
chair for the gallows took place in the
new death house of the Western peni.
tentiary at ia o'clock this morning
when John Talap, friendless, paid the
extreme penalty for the murder of his
wife in Montgomery county.
The execution was without hitch
or blunder. Talap, whimpering, was
helped to the chair by two deputy war.
dens. He was in the chair one minute
and ten seconds before the current was
applied. The flick of white handker.
chief in the orange-eolored gloom was
the signal that sent 2,3O0 volts
through his body. At 7.17h the see.
ond charge was hurled into him. At
7.20, after the doctors had detected
signs of life, third charge of $500
volts was applied.
Up through the stiffness, in which
the guards and witnesses were now do
ing the suffering, the tiny metallic song
came from the wall apparatus, the
sound of the automatic switch that
dropped the charge gradually to 600
volts in six seconds.
Pronounced Dead in Seven Minutes
At 7.21 DR.. r. j. Campbell, one of
the resident physicians at the New Jer'
sey State penitentiary, pronounced
Talap dead. Twenty-three persons, in
ciuding witnesses, newspaper men and
attendants, saw the man die. Talap
was convicted of numbering his wife at
Norristown in August, 1918. He was
about SS years old.
Talap's death was staged in a gray
bare room and had one stately accom-
paniment. He was preceded into the
death chamber by tall, straight-shoul-
dered young priest. This was the Rev
Antonio Ulanitizky, who presides over
Greek parish at Remey, Pa. The
priest, the one calm man present
strobe into the room, dropped to his
knees on mat at the feet of the con.
demned man and, with II smile like q
child's, lifted his crucifix before the
anguished eyes of the victim. There
he held it even after the heavy leather
mask had been fitted over the man s
face. No tremor of emotion touched
the priest s countenance. Even after
the first shock flung the body of the
condemned man outward against the
straps with a snap like whip crack,
he remained motionless on his knees,
Couttuued On sixth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
Chief Hutchison Says
Bluecoat Was JuSti-
fled in Using Force
On Prisoner
LIVELY STRUGGLE
IN MARKET STREET
Many in the Crowd Expressed sympa-
thy for the Captive, Whose Feet
Were Knocked From Under Him.
Police Say the Man Resisted

Complaints made by policemen that
crowds interfere while they are making
arrests in public places, as instanced
at 1890 O'Clock last night when Pa
trolman Kautz had a tussle with Jo-
seph Carroll, at Third and Market
streets, caused Chief of Police Hutchi-
son to-day to declare he intends to take
steps to discourage such interference.
The policeman received a complaint
that Carroll was panhandling on
Market street. When taken by the blue.
coat. it is alleged, Carroll put up a
fight attempting, according to the re-
port made to Chief Hutchison, to choke
the patrolman who then knocked Car
roll s feet from under him and, as Car
roll fell, pinned him to the sidewalk.
City Detective Harry White ordered
the auto patrol and then helped hold
Carroll. Patrolman Kautz later put the
"nippers on his prisoners wrists.
A large crowd was attracted, during
the struggle, and made demonstration
against the blnecoat. Many expressed
sympathy for the prisoner who, the
police say, did not deserve it. Some
of the crowd became indignant and
opinions differed to whether the blue
coat was using more force than was
necessary.
This is the second occasion within
a month when such demonstration oe-
Continued on Fifth Paxe.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
WAR INCIDENTS DISCUSSED
AT BRIEF CABINET Meeting

Washington, Feb. 23.-The charge
by Germany and Austria that subma-
rines are being manufactured in the
United States for Great Britain was
discussed to-day at the Cabinet meet
ing, but without action, because Secre.
tary Daniels had not finished his in
vestigation. Recently the State De.
partment discouraged American manu-
facturers from taking similar con-
tracts.
The sinking of the Evelyn and the
international situation generally were
discussed at the Cabinet meeting, which
was the briefest in months. 1t was in.
dicated that no further action would be
taken until further details were OBJ
tanned and the Administration saw
nothing in tho incident liable to cause
international complications. II was
said to be practically certain that nc
replies will be sent to the latest Brit.
ish and German notes.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
NO Clue LEFT TO WORK ON
IN CELLAR MURDER Case
County Detective Walters Is at End of
His Rope in Trying to Solve Ny
stery of Bones Found Buried Un-
der Fourteenth Street House

Having exhausted every clue they
ing to establish the identity of the girl
whose skeleton was dug up in the cellar
at 1873 South Fourteenth street, on
February IL, the county authorities ad-
mitted to-day they are at the end of
their rope in seeking to solve the muir
der mystery. They are really to take
up the quest again only if definite in
formation is presented to show that
there is girl missing who might have
been the murder victim. Until such
information of definite character is pre-
sented they have nothing to work on.
So far every bit of available infor-
nation has been traced to the end with
out single valuable result, according
10 County Detective Walters, who
made the investigation for District At.
torney Stroup.
The only family. of those that have
occupied the house at various times in
the past, concerning which the authori,
ties had no information, at last has
been located, but the authorities are
certain that family can give nothing of
value to help in identifying the bones
A man named Mellish lived at 1873
South Fourteenth street, at one time,
with housekeper, the detective said
Another couple are known to have
lived in the house at that time, but
there was no young girl who would
answer the description given by ply
sieians who examined the bones, is
known to have lived there during that
time Mellish is now in Chicago, ac.
cording to County Detective Walters.
The various anonymous eommunica-
tions received by the District Attor.
ney have given no clues which are re.
garded by the authorities as of any
value.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
UNEMPLOYED REMAIN IDLE
Letter About Summer Park Improve
ments Filed BY City Commission

Park Commissioner NJ. Harvey Tay-
lor in a letter to the Mayor and City
commissioners this afternoon explain
ed what plans he has for summer park
improvements, suggesting the communi-
cation as a reply to the Mayor letter
dealing with the ''eity's giving work
to its unemployed.
The letter was marked received and
and fled no comment was offered and
the unemployed of Harrisburg are just
as much out of work to-day, in SO far
as the city is eoneerneds as they were
three weeks ago. when the question
originally was raised.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
Three of Them in Pic
tur e S que Unattire
Prove Any Woman
Can Have a Figure
LARGE CROWD
is INSTRUCTED
Demonstrated Beyond All Question
That There Is No Excuse for the
Sloppy Shapes But, Remember.
Women Only Are Admitted

An eager crowd of women who for
two hours this morning sat agape in the
demonstrating room of Bowman X
Company while Miss Dougherty, an ex.
perieneed corsetiere, showed the posi-.
bilities of the human form divine, might
have attempted TO paraphrase that
that groehiest of biographers, DR.. John
son" Waste (waiSt cannot be ae-
eurately told, though we are sensible
how destructive it is.
In the fourteen years since 1900 the
waist of lovely woman has been any
where from under her armpits to her
hips, and her figure has verged from
an hourglass to parallellogram at the
bidding of the modiste.
And now! Are we to begin all over
againl
So it seems if the story of the very
latest advanced corset is to be credited.
Woman with good, natural lines rejoice!
You need no longer look like all your
sisters of any old shape. or shapeless-
nessl Fashion has deereed that the fig
ure-the natural fgure-is Sin
again.
The corset of 1915 is corset, not
a topless, shapeless almost homeless,
mass of broehe, lace and ribbon, such
as has been worn for several seasons
past. To-day there is decidedly more
eorset-at least five inches above the
waist line-decidedly less length in
the skirt and--an even more decided
''nip' at the waist line which once
more is about where nature intended it
to be.
Tight Skirts Banished
In last Sundays parade there was
no longer cause for complaint of tight
skirts. Woman this spring is flaring IL
her feet-is befrilled and boned and
"stayed y just as was her grandmother
of ante-belmm days. The little tight
basque, the strictly tailored suit, is
back with a vengeance.
Do you know what that means
YOU sages who are 'chortling in glee, -
that at last woman is sensible once
more' 1t means that woman's waist
is to curve again.
How is it to be donel That is what
the demonstrator will make plain twice
a day, tomorrow and Wednesday, from
1880 to 1880 in the morning and
from $50 to 4.30 in the afternoon.
What if You have been comfortable
in your box-shape' You can be equal
ly comfortable in your semi-hourg ass
fgure-if YOU will listen to advice and
allow yourself to have selected for you
the model that brings out-or conce5ls
your points.
Are you ''bag of bones or sigh.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
THREE MEET DEATH IN BLAZE
Eight Others Injured in $2OO,0O<
Fire in Birmingham

Birmingham, Ala, Feo. 23.-Three
unidentified persons, probably more,
were burned to death and eight others
were injured in $200,900 fire which
early to-day swept the business Sec
tion, destroying several commercial
buildings and the Windsor hotel, a
small old structure.
The ruins of the hotel are being
searched.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
GERMAN AFFRONT TO u. s.
FLAG REPORTED In LlEGE

London, Feb. 23.-The Amsterdam
"Telegraaf, = according to advices yes
terday to the Exchange Telegram Com
pany, has received dispatch from
Liege stating that recently several
German soldiers snatched the American
colors from the breasts of a number Of
citizens and threw them in the mud.
Fourteen of the burehers protested
to the American Consul against the ac-
tion.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-23
Bernhardt Passes Good Might

Bordeaux, Feb. 23, via Paris, 9.25 A,
Mt was announced to-day that
Sarah Bernhardt had passed good
night. She slept continuously, and her
pulse and temperature are normal.
Madame Bernhardt's right leg was am
putated yesterday.