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Connecticut western news., 1915-02-25
LEGAL NOTICES

nISTRICT OF CANAAN, ss., Probate D Court, February 8, 1915.
 Estate of Laura M. Butcher, late of North Canaan, in said district, deceased.
 The Court of Protate for the District of Canaan hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof, for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for Sett ue"t. Those who neglect to present u cir accounts n"""- erly attested. within said time, will be debarred recovery. All persons in- debted to said Estate are requested to make imme iiate payI ent to
 Horace D. Humphr"' Al ministrator,
 Canaan. Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1915-02-25
Both Heard.

Clinton-Did you get in without your wife hearing you last night? Club leigh-No: nor without my hearing her either-Boston Transcript
Connecticut western news., 1915-02-25

Most Of Us C.. :@. om'til0o>, and to be brave, i1 1'i "u' fear is to show true courage.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-02
PROVIOESA TAX RECEIVER
Bill introduced by Senator Beidleman
Would Include Dauphin County
in It's Provisions M

Senator Beidleman to-day introduced
in the Senate his bill creating the office
of receiver of taxes in counties of be-
tween 10000 and 10000 inhabitants,
which includes Dauphin county.
The bill provides that the Governor
shall appoint such receiver of taxes to
serve until the first Monday of January,
1916, or until his successor is elected
or qualified. A receiver is to be elected
in 1915 and every four years there
after to serve four, years and the Gov
ernor shall fill all vacancies.
The receiver shall have a salary of
$4,000 year and may appoint two
deputies of $1,000 each. He shall havs
an office in the Court House and the
County Commissioners must furnish him
with all stationery, blanks and postage.
He shall collect all county, city, bor-
Tough and township taxes, and outside of
his work in the Court House shall spend
at least two days in each city, borough,
town and township for the purpose Of
receiving taxes.
The bill was referred to the Com
mittee on Judiciary Special.
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late WAR news SUMMARY

The French and German official COM
munications to-day agree that violent
fighting is under way in the Champagne
region, where the allies began an attack
several days ago and that the losses
have been unusually heavy. Berlin an
nounces that new French attacks, made
with strong forces, were repelled in
most cases and that the French losses
were enormous. The Paris statement
claims progress for the allies at several
points and asserts that the Germans
suffered very heavily. Apparently the
battle is the largest and most severely
contested of any along the western
front since the engagement at Scissors.
Minor battles have occurred in the
vosges and report from the British
commander, Sir John French says
ground has been gained by his army,
but operations in general along the line
are unimportant except in Champagne.
In Russian Poland the fighting ap-
parently has become less intense at
Przasnyss although the Russians assert
that they are conducting a general ef-
fective movement. The German official
report states that Russian attacks at
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WILHELM ]. MEHRINC dies
Well-Known Liquor Merchant Succumbs
to Peritonitis Following an At
tack of Appendicitis

Wilhelm J. Mehring, a prominent
wholesale wine and liquor merchant,
died at the keystone Hospital at $50
o. clock this morning from peritonitis
following serious attack of appen-
dicitis. He was 46 years of age and
was born at Hessen, Germany, May 10,
1868. He came to this country in 1880
and at an early age learned the shoe
making trade, which he followed for
many years. Later he was appointed a
city patrolman by Mayor Patterson,
serving until the close of that admins
tration.
Following this Mr.. Mehring entered
the hotel business, running hotel at
Oberlin for two years. He first started
business in this city at 933 Rose ave-
nue., about 10 years ago. Later he pur-
chased store at Sixth and Cumberland
streets, where some years ago he erected
a large three-story apartment building.
A few years ago he sold this building
and his business to John G. Wall and
erected new building at 1901 North
Sixth street, where he conducted busi-
ness up to the time of his death.
Mr.. Mehring is survived by his wild.
ow and one son, Wilhelm j., Jr., 419
Boas street; two brothers, Asper and j.
c.. Mehring, and one sister, Mrs. A. j.
White, all of this city. No arrange.
ments for the funeral have been an
nounced.
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P a tr I'm an Romich
Conducts Frightened
Workers From the
Fourth tory
FIRE QUICKLY
UNDER CONTROL
Flames Below Shirt Factory of J. L.
Shearer, 2O4-2O6 Market Street,
Attract Crowd in Shopping District
This Afternoon

Patrolman William Romich, on traffic
duty at Third and Market streets, ran
into the J. l.. Shearer bnilding at 204-
206 Market street, at 2.15 O'Clock this
afternoon when cry of fire" was
raised, went through smoke-flled halls
to the fourth floor, where fifteen girls
were employed making shirts, led them
in safety to the street and averted
what might have been serious panic.
The girls were unaware that the
building was burning below them until
the bluecoat entered the room. He
warned them that there was little dan
ger if they remained calm and then he
led them in orderly file to the street
When they reached the landing between
the second and third floors, on the way
out, the girls, peering through the
smoke could see flames eating one of
the partitions, but though frightened,
they continued to follow the policeman
down the stairs.
The fire started in the partition be-
tween the stairway and the Owl pho
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Gross Earnings In
crease $2.O56 But
Net Income Falls Off
toExtent of Sal. .O27
OPER ATING COST
MUCH HIGHER
The 1913 Balance Is Drawn on to
Slight Extent to Meet Closing
Years Dividend Requirements
23,O61 ,3O1 Passengers Carried

Stockholders of the Harrisburg Rail
ways Company which operate the city
trolley lines and those of several sub
sidiary companies at their annual meet
ing this morning reelected to the di-
rectorate of the company the three
members whose terms expired to-day;
adopted the annual report showing the
company financial standing and then
adjourned. There was no discussion
of the threatened competition through
the recent organization of the Jitney
Transportation Company which expects
to operate fifty auto buses here be-
ginning early in the spring.
j. VI. Cameron, s. +. Dunkle and
Edward Bailey were reelected directors,
each for term of three years. The
eleven directors of the company will
meet on Thursday, elect officers and
lay plans for the new fiscal year.
The annual financial statement shows
the company's gross earnings during
1914 were $993,928.62 or $2,056.76
more than was received during the pre-
vious year, but the net income was but
s95, 5,027.84, decrease of $41,027.S4.
The balance at the end Of 1913 was
31,321.71, which, cdded to the. 1914
surplus account, made total surplus of
$126,615.5S. After deduction of div
idends paid and accrued there was a
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DUTIES ARE TO
REMAIN SAME
Sponsor for Measure
Asserts That Present
Act Is Unconstitu-
tional and That His.
Plan Removes This
Obstacle

A measure placing the Public Serv-
ice Commission under the head of the
Secretary of Internal Affairs, as bu-
reau of that departments; making five
commissioners instead of seven; redUc-
ing their salaries as well as the salaries
of the employees to the total extent OF
$4,000 year, was introduced in the
House this morning by Assemblyman
Joshua w. Swartz, of this city.
Mr.. Swartz contends that the Public
Service Commission, operating as it now
does as an Independent body unattach-
ed to any state department and not un-
der the direct supervision Of the Sec
retary of Internal Affairs, is at vari-
ance with the State constitution. This,
he said, was the principal reason for the
introduction of his bill =
While the measure on its face re-
peals the Public Service act which was
enacted at the last session of the Gen
eral Assembly, it actually re-enacts the
main features of that measure by MAX
ing the commission a bureau in the In
ternal Affairs Department to be known
as the Public Service Bureau of Penn
sylvania. Section IL, Article II, of the
State Constitution, to which it is held,
the present public service act does not
conform, is as follows:
What the Constitution Says
"The existing powers and duties OF
the Auditor General in regard to rail
ways, canals and other transportation
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ZOO CIVILIANS EXECUTED
BY AUSTRIANS IN CALICIA

Lemberg, Galicia, March 2.-When
the Austrians recaptured the town of
Stanislau, in Galicia, they condemned
to death and executed something like
200 civilians according to Trustworthy
information which has been brought
into Lemberg.
Among the men executed were two
Polish restaurant proprietors and a
number of railroad laborers. All had
been warned by the Russian authorities,
the Russians having been in possession
of Stanislau, to leave prior to the COM
ing of the Austrians but the men re-
fused, relying upon their Austrian
citizenship for protection. The Aus
TRANS are said to have come into Stan,
islau with prepared lists of citizens
upon whom they had decided 10 infict
punishment for alleged offenses against
the State.
Hundreds of prisoners including
Bosnians and Turks are arriving daily
in Lemberg from the south. Many of
them come in with their limbs partly
frozen. All except the Germans are half
clothed, their feet tied in rags.
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Another Big Disaster
Reported in the Coal
Fields of West Vir-
ginia To- day
RESCUE PARTIES
ARE ORGANIZED
After Repeated Attempts They Pene-
trate the Main Drift and Find One
Miner Unconscious With His Legs
Broken-victim Will Probably Die
By Associated Press.

Hinton, w. Va, March Am ex-
plosion occurred to-day in the mine
Of the New River and Pocohontas Con-
soldated Coal Company near Thur
mond, w. Va. The mine connects with
another mine, each employing so men,
all of whon are believed to have been
in the pits when the explosion oc-
Cured. Rescue parties were at once
organized, and the fans were set going
within fifteen minutes after the explo.
sion, but two hours later none of the
miners had been brought out.
Assistance was hurried to the mine
from nearby towns, and rescue car of
the Bureau of Mines was ordered to
the scene. After repeated attempts
one rescue party penetrated the main
drift at mine No. 3 for distance OF
about 100 feet and there found an un
identified miner living, but uncon
scious. His legs had been broken and
doctors said he probably would die.
The mine where the explosion oc
Cured is drift high up on QUINN
mont mountain and is in charge of H
M. Bertolet as general manager
AS the day wore on additional vol
unteers entered the mine and by nooi
two forces of twenty men each wer'
clearing away the fallen coal and rock
in the main entry of mine No. 8. Hall
mile from the entrance they came
across another miner badly hurt ant
unable to tell anything about the ex
plosion. Here they encountered mass
of debris and it was said that two ol
three hours must elapse before it coult
be removed and the workings beyond
penetrated
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-02
|ORI-.CI TO ASPHALT PLANT
PLAN FOR THE first ward
Two Voters Appear Before City Com
missioners With Protests Against
the Purchase of Plot offered By the
Mccormick Estate

Protests against placing the proposed
municipal asphalt plant on plot OF
ground owned by the Henry McOor-
mick estate, at Ninth and Shanois
street, in the First ward, were made to
the CITY Commissioners in session this
afternoon.
R. L.. Roberts and Frank HI. Downey,
two First warders, appeared before the
Commissioners after the Lynch ordi-
nance, which provides for buying the
Mccormick ground, passed first reading,
and said that First ward residents gen
orally are opposed to the plan.
The plant they said, would constitute
nuisance no less Objectionable than
existed before the Paxton creek i'm
provement work was started. If neces-
sary, they said, they would circulate a
petition among the First ward resi-
dents, obtain the signatures OF those
who are opposed to the plan and show
the City Commissioners that the oppo-
sition is not confined to few persons.
Lynch, the author of the ordinance,
said there is no intention to rush the
ordinance through and, since it first
must be passed upon the City Planning
NouiiHlSSlOHcISt tHS IL oh Wdlu lcoiucub bo
will have ample opportunity to make
further protests if they so desire.
Contracts for the construction of
sewers in Lexington, Reel, Fifth and
Wiconiseo streets were awarded to W.
f. Martin at his bid of $4,6SS. David
K. Elder, of Elizabethville, has been the
low bidder on these jobs, but he failed
to file the necessary bond
Mrs. Marian B. C. Watts was exon
Grated from paying the 1914 taxes on
her home and six-aere tract in the up
per end of the city which for years
have been used as the Maple Hill play
ground. Mrs. Watts has not charged
the city rental for the property.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-02
BY Associated Press.


New York, March 2.-An attempt to blow up st. Pat
rcks Cathedral with bomb to-day and the arrest of two
by detectives who had been informed for months of
their activities followed by announcement made at
police headquarters that the arrests had baked
archis plot to kill with bombs Andrew Carnegie, John D.
Rockefeller, John d. Rockefeler Jr and other wealthy
Thereafter the anarchists according to the police
to inaugurae in New York City reign of terror
comparable only to the days of the French Revolution
1t part of the plot the police assert for gangs of
armed with rifles and revovers to appear smutane
ousy in various parts of the city to shoot and to page
the biggest banks of New York City to be blown
and many wealthy to be slain.
Signal for Murder and Lootng
The wreckng of the cathedral to be the signal for
the opening of the elaborate campaign of murder and loot
ing The next according to the police to place
bombs in the homes of Andrew Carnegie the Rockefeers
and Cornelius Vanderbilt So far had the plot progressed
toward this end that the manufacture of the bombs the
police say, had already been started.
With these and other capitalists disposed Of the
arcss planned according to the police to invade the
financial district and lay their bombs in the ctys biggest
banks. General looting to follow.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-02
French and British
Fleets Temporarily
Suspend Action on
Account of Storm
WILL RESUME
OFFENSIVE SOON
Essad Pasha Placed in Command of
Turkish Forces at Gallipoli, Flank
ing Straits-Russians Claim to Have
Repulsed Two German Army Corps

London, March 2, 1910 P. M.-Oper-
ations of the French and British fleets
| against the Turkish Notifications on the
Dardanelles, which during the past week
had taken the warships of the allies
some fifteen miles through this well-de
| Tended and narrow waterway, are at a
standstill to-day on account of gale
of wind accompanied by heavy mist
which hinders the efficient marksman.
ship of the naval gunners necessary to
reduce the second line of forts con-
cealed by the hills.
This respite is likely to prove of
benefit to the Turks bat the allies, real
izing the necessity of pushing any ori-
entail offensive movement with energy,
will resume the attack as soon as pos
sible.
Hero of Janina in Charge
From Athens comes report that
Essad Pasha, of Albanian Game, the
Turkish soldier who made his reputation
as strategist by the defense of Janina
in the Balkan war, has been placed in
! command of the Turkish forces at Gal
lipoli, hanking the straits.
Petrograd reports the completion of
Russian military operations around
Przasnysz and claims to have thrown
back to the frontier at this point two
German army corps. Petrograd an
nounces also the resum ton of the of
fensive by the Russian forces in
| Galicia.
Berlin Reports Russians Repulsed
Berlin officially announces the re-
pulse of Russian attacks north of
Lomza and northwest of Ostroenka, but
| says that otherwise there is nothing TO
report along the eastern front News
dispatches reaching here from Berlin
say that certain degree of pessimism
| prevails there on account of the report
| ed reaction in favor of Russia all along
the eastern battle line. Vienna. more
| communicative than her allies, reports
successful action in the western sector
of the Carpathians and artillery engage
ments in Galicia, where the Russians
are said to have been heavily rein
forced.
British Press Praise Asquith
The British press is virtually unani-
nous in praise of Premier Asquith s
announcement yesterday of Great
Britain s reprisals against the sub
marine warfare of Germany. The only
discord in the chorus of praise in the
criticism that possibly neutral protests
might. have been obviated by pfoclama-
tion of formal blockade.
The only reported activity in con-
nection with German 5 submarine vigil
is provided by a story from British
collier, which claims to have rammed
a German submarine in the channel aft.
er the undersea boat had made an un-
successful attempt to strike her with
| a torpedo.
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WALL STREET CLOSING
By Associated Press.

New York, March 2.4-Extensiye
buying of Reading resulted in another
general rise in the final hour. The no.
table exceptions were distillers issues,
the stock and bonds scoring five point
declines. The closing was steady. Stocks
pursued an uncertain course to-day, the
foreign situation giving rise to renewed
apprehension.
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For months central office detective
had worked in the inner circle of the
anarchists, according to the police
story, and had kept the detective bu-
reau advised of all their plans. The
detective, Frank Baldo, assisted in the
manufacture of the bomb with which
the attempt was made to-day to blow
up the cathedral. The detective accom-
panied the bomb thrower to the edifce
and sat with him while he lighted the
bomb and hurled it at the altar.
Cathedral Alive With Detectives
Immediately the cathedral, in which
500 persons sat at worship, became
alive with detectives whose presence
had been unsuspected by the bomb car
rier. Baldo, sitting beside him, placed
him under arrest detectives sitting in
the pew behind dashed into the aisle
and stamped out the sputtering fuse.
The congregation hardly realized what
had happened when it was all over
There was no panic.
At police headquarters the alleged
bomb thrower said he was Frank Abar
no, photographer, "a years old. Soon
after he was taken to headquarters de-
tectives acting upon information given
them by Baldo, arrested Charles Car
bone, an eighteen-year-old boy, and
charged him with completely in the
plot and with helping to make the
bomb.
Detectives AS Scrub Women
When Abarno entered the cathedral
door, his bomb in package under his
coat and Baldo at his side, he walked
on to a stage whose every setting had
been placed there by detectives. Two
scrub women on their knees in the
vestibule through which he passed
were in reality central office detectives.
The white wigged priest who met them
at the door and took them to seat
down. near the front of the church and
close to the altar was sergeant of DO
lice. Just behind Abarno there enter
ed the church, quite casually, two more
detectives who followed the pseudo
priest and took seats at his bidding in
the pew behind. 1t was these men who
saved the cathedral from damage by
beating out the fire in the fuse.
Anarchist Quickly Arrested
Abarno realized the identity of his
companion moment after he had light
ed from the glowing end of cigar the
fuse of the bomb which he carried un-
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-02
AGREES ON SUFFRAGE MEASURE
Judiciary General Committee Decides
to Report It Favorable to Senate


By vote of s to the Senate Ju-
dietary General Committee, at a special
meeting this morning decided to report
favorably the woman suffrage amend
ment to the constitution.
1t was said that there will be no
public hearings while the measure is on
its way through the Senate, but it will
go through the regular course and be
considered as it comes up on the cal
endar.
The vote in committee to report the
measure out was as follows:
For-Clark, Hoke, Schantz, Sproul,
Patton, jenkins, Phipps, Hindman-s
Against - Beidleman, Buckman,
Salus, Daix, Thompson, Magee, Tomp-
kins.-7.
The bill was reported favorably to
the Senate by Daix, Of Philadelphia,
after which the Senate adjourned to
meet next Monday night at o'clock.
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Liquor Decisions still Withheld

At 3 O'Clock this afternoon the Dau.
phin county court had not yet disposed
of the liquor license applications of the
Paxtonia Inn, Paxtenia; Ann Street Ho-
tel, Middletown, and st. Lawrence Ho-
tel, Berrysburg, which have been held
over since last week.
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der his coat. The missile had barely left
his hand, to lie for moment on the
carpet at the foot of the altar, when
Baldo pinioned Abarno's arms behind
him, told him that he was under arrest
and started to leave the church. Abar-
no permitted himself to be handeuffed
to his captor without resistance and
walked meekly down the aisle with
other detectives surrounding him.
Baldo had lived with the alleged
anarchists since last December. He had
obtained Abarno's complete confidence
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Harrisburgers Attend Hensel Funeral

A number of prominent Harrisburg
ers along with many State Senators
and Representatives attended the fu4
neral of William Uhler Hensel. at Ian
caster, this afternoon. Two special ears
were coupled to train No. 2, which left
this city at 1.50 o'clock.
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ANARCHISTS IN DIABOLICAL PLOT
TO MURDER AND LOOT IN NEW YORK

Attempt to Blow Up St. Pot
rick s Cathedral Fails as De-
tectiues Grab and Extinguish
Lighted Bomb Hurled at
the Affair." Blowing Up of
Church Was Intended to Be
Signal for the Killing of
Carnegie, the RockefeHers
and Other Wealthy Men and
the Start of Reign of Ter
ror in New York City,
Biggest Banks of the Me-
tropolis Marked for Destruc-
tion and Pilage
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PUTS THE SERVICE BOARD
UNDER DEPARTM'T HEAD:
CUTS SALARIES $4,000

Swartz Bill. introduced
This Morning. Re-
duces the Number Of
Commissioners From
Seven to Five and
Transfers Them to
Proposed Bureau of
Department of Inter-
nal Affairs
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Anarchist Quickly Arrested

Abarno realized the identity of his
companion moment after he had light
ed from the glowing end of cigar the
fuse of the bomb which he carried un-
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