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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
AUTOS LICKED UP BY FLAMES
Wealthy People Suffer Losses When
Repair Plant Is Destroyed
By Associated !

Philadelphia, April 1.-Automo-
biles and carriages, the property of
wealthy residents of the suburbs of
this city, were destroyed by fire yester-
day that burned the factory of @. w.
Scott & Company, at Bryn Mawr. The
vehicles were either being repaired or
rebuilt.
Among the automobiles destroyed
were those owned by Samuel Rea,
president of the Pennsylvania railroad
and Wayne MacVeagh, former At
torney General of the United States.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
vINcoME FIVE COMING
Fast Philadelphia Team Will Meet indie.
pendents

The Vineome team, of Philadelphia,
one of the fastest basketball organiza-
tions of the east, will close the local
season here Saturday night with the
Harrisburg Independents. The game
will be played in the Chestnut street
auditorium. On the Vincome s first
trip to Harrisburg the local won after
hard fight by the score of 80 to 26.
The visitors have McNamee and Pike
on the two forward positions; Long
street at center, and Zahn and Newman
at guards. Harrisburg will line UP in
their regular order.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
TO MEET AFTER so YEARS
Brothers Separated Half Century Will
Hold a Reunion

Shamokin, Pa, April Jacob Mar
tin received letter yesterday from his
brother, Henry M. Martin, Easton,
Miss. 1t was the first news he received
from him in ffty-one years. Another
brother, James Martin, who resides at
st. Josephs, Miss, has not communi-
Gated with Jacob Martin in forty-sev-
en- years.
When the Civil war occurred the
three brothers and their father enlisted
in the Union army, after which they
quit Pennsylvania for Ohio, from which
state Henry and James went south and
Jacob returned to this state. The
three brothers will hold reunion next
summer.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
Lebanon's New Chamber of Conn

Lebanon, April Members of
Board of Trade, in special session
solved themselves into the LelN
Chamber of Commerce and decid
award contract to the American,
Bureau, New York, to take hold
membership campaign in this city.
organization is devoted to city bull
and has the distinction of being sue
full in every city in which its r.
sentative, L. e. Wilson, has workt
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
SILVER FOXES AT 1912 A. PAIR
Government Sells Animals to Be Used
Only for Breeding

Washington, April 1.-The Depart
ment of Commerce has sold ten pairs
of silver gray foxes to the Alaska Sill
yer Fox and Fur Company at Fair
banks, receiving 1912 a pair for them.
These foxes were raised on the Pribi-
lof islands by the Government for
breeding purposes.
The fur company is obligated not to
kill them for their pelts, but to use
them for breeding.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
IDENTIFIES hMNESIA VICTIM
Friend Says St. Louis 'Lost Memory
Man Is Cine nnati Broker

St. Louis, April l.-A man calling
himself "M. w. Davies" and suffering
from lapse of memory was identified
here yesterday as NJ. w. Dfury, a
broker of Cincinnati.
The Identification was made by C. C.
Bell, of Boonville, Mo-, who saw the
picture of the "lost memory man in
a newspaper. Mr.. Bell long has known
Drury. Mrs. Drury and two sons living
in Chicago were notified by telegraph
of the Identification.
Mr.. Drury said his memory failed
before April, 1914.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
P. & R. Indicted by Grand Jury
By Associated Press.

Philadelphia, April IA grand jury
in the United States District Court
here yesterday returned three bills
of Indictment against the Philadelphia
& Reading Railway Company on the
charge of violating the Interstate Com
meree law in coal shipments to and
from Philadelphia.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
HAVE NOT PICKED PRINCIPAL
School Board Committee Will Not Re-
port Friday

No report of the special committee
having in charge the recommendation
Of successor to the late William S.
Steele, principal of the Central High
school, is expected to be sent to tN
School Board at its meeting to.mprNJ
night. This committee will meet ,Tl
week and likely return a recomme. m
tion to the board April 16. N
The regular meeting of the Fin u
Committee of the board will be IN
this evening. A
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
Hassler A. @. TO Practice Saturday

Candidates for the Hassler A. C. will
get try out on Island Park Saturday
afternoon. Players are invited to try
for the team. The following last year IS
regulars will be on hand: Lynch,
Gerdes, Boas, Andrews, Rhinehart,
Ross, Peters, Gardner, Kline, Murphy
and Sheafer.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
wilkes7Barre Has Paid Firemen

Wilkes-Barre, Pa, April 1.-Wilkes-
Barre now has a full paid fire depart
ment beginning with yesterday. All
former call men have lost their posi-
tions, and the appointment of fifteen
former call men to the positions of reg
ular fremen gives the department a
full Faid department. Eight reserves
have also been named.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
Lebanon Tradesmen Reorganize

Lebanon, Pa, April 1.-The Leba-
ron Board Of Trade has been reorgan-
lied, and win be known as the Lebanon
chamber of commerce. A campaign was
decided upon with view to booming
the membership to 400. The campaign
is to begin May /, aud is to be conduct
cd by experts.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
Woman, 80, Dying From Fall

Sunbury, Pa, April 1.-Thrown
from wagon near her home in Rookie
feller township Northumberland county,
when the horses ran away, Mrs. Harriet
Persing, so years old, received broken
arm and many decorations. 1t is feared
she cannot recover.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
VICE PRESIDENT EARNS 81
Turns Crank ON Movie Machine "Tak
ing" Egyptian Drama

Los Angeles, April 1.-Vice Presi-
dent Marshall got on the pay roll yes
terlay of motion-picture CON- any.
With several members of his party, the
Vice President visited a picture camp
where the movie men were filming an
Egyptian drama. just as the "veled
Princess entered the director called
upon the Wee President to turn the
crank of the camera.
Mr.. Marshall reeled Off several yards
of fiidn, and the director thereupon
handed him 81 for work as an extra.
The Vice President pocketed the dol
lar.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
ENDS LIFE BY WELL DIVE
When Bullet Failed, Farmer First Fired
Home. Then Plunged

Warren, Pa. April 1.-Diving into
a well, Adam Warren, aged 60 farm
or on Murray He'll, committed suicide
after failing by pacing the muzzle of
a revolver against his forehead and
pulling the trigger The bullet inflicted
only a slight wound.
Warren then fred mis- home after
which ne ran to his well and plunged
in headfrst, Before his wife and other
members of the family succeeded in get
ting him out he was dead
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
Aim to Acquire Game Preserve

Locust Summit, Pa, April 1.-The
Locust Summit Gun Club opened nego-
tiations yesterday with the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron Company
for 200a tract of mountain land
to be used as game preserve.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
Woman Die, on Day Set for Moving

York, Pa, April 1.-iMrs. Margaret
Corwell was fcund dead in bed yester-
day morning ON the day set for her to
change her residence. She had work
ell hard Tuesday presaring for the
fitting. Mrs. Corwell was 60 years old.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23
kRfTfSH ARE STILL
HOLDING HILL NO 60
Notwithstanding Desperate Counter
Attacks of the Enemy,

Il Paris. April %. 11.50 p. m.-The fol-
owing official statement was issued NV
the French war office tonight:
Near Langemarck. to the north of
Rpres, the British have repulsed two
#ttacks. At Hill go. near Zwartelene.
erman counter attacks whose yio-
knce seems inexplicable by the de-
Ire to repair the defeat that has been
4enfed by the official communications
be the imperial general staff, have def
hiteiy failed. The losses of the enemy
Ire higher than the figures indicated
yesterday.
'In the sector of Rheims there has
len an artillery duel
'Tn the Argonne, at BagatelIe. a
German attack Of no great Importance
was repulsed. Near st. Mihiel, in the
Forest of Apremont, we carried by as
$ault two successive lines of trenches
Il place called The Cows Head
which formed in our position a salient
That seriously embarrassed us. A yery
large number of German dead were
EFT on the ground. We took fifty
$risoners.
TN Alsace we have continued to
make progress on both banks of the
Secht. To the north we hold the con-
aence of the Fecht and it's left bank
7uent the Wurmsa; to the south we
I've reached Schliessloch, thus gain
liz ground toward the east in the di-
ection of Metzeral."
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23

Platt and into attempts to establish
new machines of their own. Then
the end. They have collapsed
= they allowed themselves to
Of joint with that general party
1T which has gradually center
JGnd Platt as a leader and which
has acquired such strength under his
leadership as to make departures un-
der new ambitions impracticabIe. The
thing fear is that these plausible and
poisonous mugwumps will at some time
or other involve you in some Of their
good government entanglements, in
tended, as they always are, to help the
democratic party and to create dis
honest prejudice against decent repub-
HcanS."
RooseveIt's Reply.
Colonel Roosevelt's reply, dated
Sept. II. 1898, in part was as follows:
Your representation of what 1 said
was substantially correct, that is, it
gave just the spirit. But don't like
the wording of some of your sentences.
At first. on account of this, hesitated
how to reply, but finally came to the
conclusion that the last sentence of
your report covered the whole matter
sufficiently. I shan't try to go over
your different sentences in detail, and
ther are various verbal changes to
which l think you would agree. Then
I wish you could have brought out the
Ae1Ol ll4dL lI1SS6 statements were not IN
the nature of bids for the nomination
or pledges by me, and that you made
no effort to exact any pledges, but
that they were statements which L
made freely when you asked me what
my position would be if nomination
and elected.
Il know that you did not in any
way wish to represent me as willing to
consent to act otherwise than in ac-
cordance with my conscience.
'P. s.: I want to make clear that
there was no question of pledges or
promises, least of all question Of bar
gaining for the nomination, that
promptly told you the position would
take If elected governor and suggested
what I thought it would be best for
| both Senator P1att and myself to do
SO as to prevent the chance of any
smashup which would be disastrous to
the welfare of the party and equally
disastrous from the standpoint of good
government"
CONTINUED on page eighty
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23

lmpendins operations in the North
Sea are thought to be foreShadoWed py
HE incrrrsion of British submarines IN
HeIgoland bay and the embargo on an
shipping between England ana do4-
Hand.
During the past week the activity OF
Ehe German submarines has decreased
40 a marked degree, and colncldentalIy
British submarines, of which nothing
ad been heard for months, have put
h an appearance and apparently are
Operating along the German coast and
around Helgoland. The German ad-
kniralty's report announcing these op-
.erations says that one of the British
Underwater craft was sunk on April IL.
1 The fact that Great Britain has al
ready sent more than 100000 men
across the channel to France, as an
bounced by the chancellor of the ex-
kheQuer in the house Of commons, may
Indicate a temporary cessation OF the
Transport of troops to the continent,
With q consequent release Of some OF
he warships that have been guarding
Inc lane.
Il Whatever the intention of the gov
Eminent, the British people are con-
Finced that important naval events are
likely to occur within comparatively
brief period.
ho engagements that affect the situa-
lion. In Alsace the French continue to
bush forward along the Fecht river
IN the direction of Colmar. In Bel
Edum the British and Germans are
Fighting sava9ely for the important
Rtrategic point near Ypres known as
I'LL 60, which the British captured
ome days ago. with heavy losses to
10Th sides.
In the eastern zone the two armies
the Carpathians are engaged at
arious points along the front in de-
ermined efforts to better their posi-
Hons, notwithstanding the difficulties
be the ground, and while the Russians
lay claim to having repulsed many
austrian attacks, the Austrian war Of
Ice reports successful counter-attacks
by the Austrian infantry around
Jzsok pass, in which many Russians
we're killed and 1,200 were captured.
An intermittent bombardment of the
DardaneIles is being carried on by the
llied warships, while transports load
ed with troops are on the seas or al
ready have sreached their destination
preparatory to the Inauguration of op-
erations by land against Turkey.
Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord
f the British admiralty, and Victor
Augagneur, the French minister of ma
fne, had a conference recently on the
ubject of the Dardanelles. M. Augug-
eur. according to Paris despatch
Hectares that the forcing of the straits
is perfectly feasible and before Ions
pc object so ardently desired will be
ttained."
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23
$4,000 ANNUALLY NOT ENOUGH
TO SUPPORT THREE CHILDREN
Of Persifer Frazer of Philadelphia
Guardians Ask for $45,o00.

Philadelphia, April 22.-An annual
allowance of $4,000 was not sufficient
to properly support the three children
of Persifer Frazer, Jr., according to
the testimony before the Orphan court
here yesterday and the court upon
the petition of the children's guar
dians increased the amount to $4,000
year. The income from trust es-
tate left by the children's grandfather,
John Lowber Welsh amounts to $105,-
600 year. The guardians. who were
appointed by the court upon the death
of the children's mother, in a petition
presented to the court set forth that
the wages of servants and other
household expenses amount to SIS, 900,
the rent of their town house to s2,500
and country place to $1,000. Tuition
amounts to $4,000 and clothing to a
similar amount, while $4,000 was re-
qutred for travelling and automobile
expenses. This was exclusive of any
sums spent for amusement and en-
tertainment.
The children are Marie, aged 15;
Persifer Sd, IA. and Isabella, aged 10.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23
BY BRITISH
CRUISER AT TARGET PRACTICE
Residents Along Coast of New York
Harbor Rushed From Dinner Tables.

Highlands. N. J., April 22.-One of
the British cruisers doing patrol duty
off the entrance of New York harbor
alarfed residents in this vicinity short
1y after noon today by opening fire
with her heavy guns, causing detona-
tions which shook windows along the
coast. The cruiser was apparently en-
gagged in target practice.
The firing was very heavy and in
salvos, coming from the port batteries.
The projectiles could be seen striking
the water two or three miles distant
from the ship. The cruiser was about
23 miles east oof the Highlands, head
ing east.
Two other cruisers were in the vi
cinity.
Residents along the coast rushed
from their dinner tables to witness
the firing, which lasted twenty min
utes. Wild rumors circulated that a
German submarine had appeared and
was being attacked, but marine OBJ
servers saw no sign of any vessel in
the vicinity except the cruiser.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23
RELIEF EPEDITiON
FOR ARCTIC EXPLORERS
Donald B. MacMiIIan's Party Not
Heard from Since Last August.

New York, April ga relief ex-
pedition for Donald B. Macmillan and
his group of explorers, who set out
two years ago to discover Crocker
Land in the frozen north and which
have not been heard from since last
August when they. were at Etah, will
be sent out in July by the American
Museum of Natural History, it was
announced here tonight 1t was ex-
planned that no fears are felt for the
safety Of the party, but that the relief
expedition, which will be fitted out at
a cost Of $4,000. will be sent as a
precaution because the second winter
in the Arctic generally has the most
telling effect on explorers.
The relief party will sail aboard
the Glendale, an auxiliary ship. which
will coal and provision at Sydney. N.
S., and will be boarded there by the
party the first week in July OFF,
cials Of the museum said tonight that
full details of the relief expedition
had not yet been completed.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23
BUMPER KANSAS WHEAT
CROP is PREDICTED
BY Secretary of the State Board of
Agriculture.

Topeka, Kas., April 22.-Another
bumper Kansas wheat crop in 1915
was predicted by ]. G. Mohler, secre-
tary of the state board Of agriculture,
in a report made public today, The
condition of the 1915 crop he estimated
at 92.8 per cent. on a total acreage of
1856, 300. A year ago the crop esti-
mate was 96.5 per cent. on S,5SO,000
acreage.
A wheat crop second only to the
1S1, 100000 bushel yield of last year is
indicated, Mr. Mohler asserted. Less
than per cent. of the entire acreage
Of the state-estimated last fall at
8,S70,000 acres-was destroyed during
the winter months.
In only II of the 105 counties of the
state are conditions estimated at less
than 80 per cent. good. Sixteen coun-
ties report 100 per cent. conditions.
Reports indicated that 9.5 per cent.
Of the entire 1914 yield, or 1900, 900
bushels. is still in the hands of the
Kansas farmers.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23
STILL A FACTOR
IN MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
Planning for Another Battle With
General Obreson.

washington, April 22.-Consular des-
patches received by the Washington
government from various points in
Mexico indicate that while temporarily
dlsorganized by the defeat sustained
at Celaya, General Villa and his forces
have by no means been removed as a
formidable factor in Mexico's civil war.
Officials at the state department are
guarding closely the reports received
from consuls in the territory occupied
by General Villa, as 1t is not desired
to give out military information, but
tie with General Obregon, the Carranza
commander, are proceeding rapidly.
Villas chief difficulty, it was learned
officially, is his lack of ammunition,
and until he replenishes his supply he
probably will not risk another engage
ment. When he met Obregon at CeIaya.
Villa had sent forces to attack Mata-
moros, Neuvo Laredo, Tampico and
west coast towns, greatly depicting his
main force. Indications now are that
he intends to concentrate all these
forces in central Mexico for another
supreme effort against Obregon. The
Carranza forces are reported to be
well supplied with ANN lnition and
pressing the Villa army closely north
OF Irapuato. Carranza officials here
claim the Villa movement has been
given crushing blow from which il
never will recover.
In the meantime, many rumors Of
counter-revolutionary movements have
been current, although they are not
credited by the American government.
Many former sympathizers of Huerta
have been in Washington, but most of
them deny that Huerta intends to. take
the field again. Manuel Calero, former
ambassador to Washington under the
Madero administration, visited the Ar
gentine and Chilean ambassadors to-
day. discussing the Mexican situation
In general. 1t was said his visit was
without significance.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE OF
METHODIST BOOK CONCERN
Rev. Z. w. Conner of Pittsburgh Sue
ceeds DR.. John A. .Patten.

San Francisco, April 22.-Rev E. w.
Conner of Pittsburgh today was named
chairman of the book committee of the
Methodist Book Concern by the COM
mittee at it's annual meeting here.
Rev. Mr.. Conner succeeds DR.. John A
Patten, whose resignation was accept
ed at today s meeting.
DR.. Patten is proprietary medicine
manufacturer. He lives at Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn. His resignation was tender
ed, he wrote, because he did not wish
to 'embarrass" the committee by his
connection with it. Medical and other
journals have written articles about
them.
James A. Joy of New York, assistant
editor of the Christian Advocate, the
leading publication of the church, was
made editor, succeeding DR.. George
Echman, resigned.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23
ANOTHER PLAN TO KIDNAP
HARRY KENDALL THAV
To Be Carried Out During Hearing
on His Trial in New York Yester-
day.

New York, April 22.-Tnother plan
to kidnap Harry Kendall Thaw from
the authorities of New York state by
bundling him into an automobile was
disclosed by an investigation made
in Norfolk. Va. by an agent of Sher-
if Griffenhagen of New York, ac-
cording to a despatch today from Nor
folk to the Tribune The scheme was
frustrated, says the despatch. through
a letter written to Frederick J. Groehl
assistant district attorney general
here, by a resident of this city, who
said he was offered $1,000 to seize
Thaw, but refused because the money
was not forthcoming.
The attempt to kidnap Thaw and
get him outside the state, preferably
to Virginia, via New Jersey. was to
be made. the despatch says, during
the hearing on Thaw's case in this
city today.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23
Movements Of s.eamships

Kirkwall, April 21-.Arrived, steam
er Kristianiafjord. New York for Ber-
gen.
Liverpool. April 21-Arrived, steam
er Cymric. New York; sailed, steamer
Megantic, New York
Glasgow. April 21-Sailed, steamer
Sandman, Philadelphia.
New York. April 22.-Steamer La
Touraine, Bordeaux for New York
signalled. Dock o. m. Friday. sail
ed. steamer United States, Copen-
hagen.
Lizard. April 22-Passed, steamer
Noordam. New York for Rotterdam.
-Fayal, April 21.-Sailed. steamer
Madonna. Providence and New York
New York, April 22-Arrived
steamer Rotterdam, Rotterdam.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23
UNIVERSITY OPERATIVE
IN A PRISON CAMP
Thousands Attend Lectures on Law,
Art and Theology at SouItau. Prus-
sia.

Soultau, Prussia, via London, April
%, 10 p. ma regular university is
in operation in the prison camp here,
which contains several thousand pris-
oners of war. Lectures are being
given in departments of arts. law and
theology and in the commercial school
There ais is preparatory department.
The university owes it's origin to
the fact that the Belgian prisoners
include many professors and the stu
dents Of four Belgian universities The
students desired an opponent to con-
tinue their studies. The classes were
opened also to other prisoners The
attendance in the preparatory depart
ment is particularly large.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-23

more than So divisions of troops on
the continent and that the output Of
munitions has been enormously in
creased, Mr.. Tenant today speaking
on behalf of the secretary Of war,
Lord Kitchener, declared that recruit
ing had been most satisfactory and
gratifying; that the health of the
troops was splendid and that the
wunded were in the London hospitals
"a hours after they were stricken in
France. He. wished to impress upon
the country the necessity of increas-
ing the supply of artillery ammunf-
ton, adding:
There is no limit to the amount
required"
The frankness Of the cabinet min
listers in making known the number
of men at the front and the reports
that reach London from various
sources have convinced the people that
at last the big effort against Germany
and Turkey is about to commence.