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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-01
Late WAR news SUMMARY

The German War Office ammo tnced
to-day that $4,000 Russians were cap
tured in March. II was said semi-offi-
cially in Petrograd that the German
siege of Casowetz had been definitely
abandoned. This was interpreted as
meaning that the German offensive in
the north had been given up. A Ber-
lin dispatch. however, stated that the
German forces were making progress in
the fighting along the east Prussian
border.
The holy war has resulted in a fur
ther massacre of Christians in Persia.
In one village the bodies of 72O Chris
tians were found by Russians. A gen.
eral massacre of the 10000 to 10000
Christians remaining in the Urumiah
district is feared.
Hostilities between Russian and
Turkish armies in northwestern Persia
have been resumed. In battle last
week 10000 Turks were killed, wound
ed or captured.
One of the German submarines which
recently have been operating so success
fully off the British Isles has sent an
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SON finds father dying
w. H. Sheetz Seeks Parent at Front
Door and Then Discovers Him
Lying on Parlor Floor

When her husband, Levi Sheetz,
1903 Logan street, who conducted a
candy stand at the Family theatre,
Third and Harris streets, did not return
home at his usual hour last night, Mrs.
Sheetz dispatched her son to look for
him Going to the front door and see
ing no signs of his father, the son
turned back into the house and saw
his father lying on his face on the
parlor floor.
DR.. Batdorf. local physician, was
summoned, but little assistance could be
given him, the man dying a few hours
later. Coroner Eckinger pronounced
his death due to apoplexy.
Mr.. Sheet was rs years of age and
is survived by his wife and the follow
ing children: Mrs. George NJ. Grau,
Mrs. Mary Wickenheiser and W. H.
Sheetz. The funeral will be held from
his home Monday afternoon at 2
clock. Interment will be in the Bald
win cemetery.
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BICELOW'S Second DEPUTY
ALSO IS LIKELY To RESIGN
Edward 4. Jones, 1t Is Reported, Will
Be the Next to Quit the Highway
Department and Many Others Will
Follow~-Foster' Resignation In

The resignation of Colonel Samuel
D. Foster, of Pittsburgh, chief en-,
gineer of the State Highway Depart
ment. is now in the hands of Governor
Brumbaugh, but its acceptance has
not yet been announced. If William
D. Uhler, assistant engineer in the
Bureau of Highways, Philadelphia,
will accept the place of chief engineer
he can have it, but when the job was
rendered to Uhler on Monday he ask
ed for a few days to consider the mat
ter.
AS yet the Governor has made no
announcement of his appointment of
a successor to Edward VI. Bigelow,
who retired as State Highway Commits
sioner to-day. 1t was thought that the
Governor would have before this an
nouneed the appointment of Robert ].
Cunningham, of Pittsburgh, as Mr..
BIgelow's Is successor, but it is said the
Governor still is giving the matter
consideration. Mr.. Cunningham is said
to have been asked if he would accept
the post if it were rendered him, and
it is considered that his appointment
is only matter of time.
A report was current on Capitol
Hill to-day that Edward A. Jones, of
Scranton, Second Deputy State High
way Commissioner, will soon retire by
resignation, and that this will be fol-
lowed by other designations, which
will virtually establish an entirely
new working force in the department
under the new commissioner. Mr..
Jones is one of the most active Re-
publican party leaders in Lackawan-
ma county, and, it is said, will be a
candidate for county Office in the
spring elections.
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So MUCH COLD makes
BANKER SHOW temper
Half a Peck OF IS, fOs and 20s, Fig
uring in 400 Real Estate
Transaction in the Recorders Of
fee, Excites Curiosity of Crowd

Envious eyes were cast on big
pile of gold coins,-enough 5s, los and
20s to fill a half-peck measure,-th
was being counted in the office of the
County Recorder this morning, the
money having changed hands in re
ality deal between Mechanicsburg
bank and the Central Trust Company
of this city.
John +. Dapp, of the Harrisburg
banking house, was handling the coins
in the "of1icial count. To Dapp's
right was Washington Shaffer, a repre-
sentative of the Mechanicsburg bank
Shaffer it was who produced the money
it was a $11,300 deal,-and as the
count was being made bystanders won
dered what it was all about. Dapp ap
peared to be out of humor, and pretty
soon he and Shaffer had wordy tilt
not understand.
"Huh, didn t you get it, asked an
attorney of man seeking an explana
tion. "Dapp wanted paper money and
instead Shaffer played real April foo
joke on him by giving him gold. Now
he has a load on his hands and pos
sibly thinks he needs a bodyguard. "
The transaction involved s11,300
and at first check from the Mechan
icsburg bank was Offered. Cash was
preferred by the Harrisburg banker in
view of the fact that if the check were
accepted the "county' bank, follow
ing custom, would not make the actual
transfer of cash for possibly fifteen
days. Shaffer, thereupon, produced the
gold.
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CARRY 1872 EGGS IN SKIRTS
Nine Women in Audience Get Away
With 80 Dozen without Baskets

The management of the Colonial
Theatre, Third and Market streets. last
night placed a crate of thirty dozen
or 432 eggs on the stage, called five
women from the audience and told them
they could have all the eggs they could
carry,-but the management gave the
women nothing to use to carry them in.
The women filed their pockets but
they were at a loss to know where to
put the rest of the eggs that were left.
-Four more women were called and then
one of them hit upon the idea of lift
ing her skirt at the hem and thus max
ing receptacle.
The other women piled the eggs in
the big pocket thus formed and then
helped each other stock up in the same
way. The nine women, each carrying
-four dozen eggs in her uplifted skirt.
paraded through the audience, out
through busy Market street and to a
nearby restaurant where they obtained
paper bags in which to take the eggs
home.
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AUSTRIA PROTESTS TO U. S.
Objects to Workmen's Compensation
Bill in Pennsylvania Legislature
By Associated Press

Washington, April 1.-The Austro-
Hungarian embassy to-day presented
to the State Department note calling
attention to the workingmen & COM
pensation bill pending before the
Pennsylvania Legislature as being in
violation of the treaty of 1929 be-
tween the United States and Austria
Hungary. The contention was made
that discrimination against foreigners
would be permitted.
Objections was made to that section
which provides that nonresident wild
ows or children of alien workmen
would receive only 60 per cent. as
much compensation as those of Ameri-
can workmen, and also to that section
under which no compensation would
60 to nonresident parents or other de-
pendent relatives of alien workmen.
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German Su b m a rim e
Sends Steamer Emma
to the Bottom of the
English Channel
ONLY 2 OF THE
CREW ARE SAVED
No Warning of Any Kind Is Given
and the French Vessel Founders
In Three Minutes From the Time
She Is Struck

London, April /, 1.55 P. M.-Ths'
French steamer Emma, bound to Bord-
eaux, was torpedoed Wednesday in the
English Channel off Beaehy Head by
German submarine. Nineteen member
of her crew were drowned, only two
being saved.
The periscope of the submarine had
hardly been sighted from the Emma
when the torpedo from the undersea
boat struck the Emma in the engine
room. No warning of any kind was
given. The ship foundered in three
minutes from the time she was struck.
A British destroyer subsequently
picked up two men who had been in
the water for couple of hours, aud
at the same time recovered two bodies.
The Emma had a crew of 21 men. All
the others lost their lives.
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kBARGER CASHES THAT CHECt
Takes Salary He Once Rejected as Be-
ing More Than He Earned

A check made out in favor of Jesse
j. Lybarger, Democratic candidate at
the recent election for member of the
House of Representatives. to the amount
OF Slfo and dated January, 1918. has
been received at the State Treasury De
partment for collection, according to a
statement made to-day at the Treasury.
Mr.. Lybarger had been employed on
the Hill as a transcribing clerk in Jan
Alary, 1913, and at the time had made
n public statement to the effect that
he did not feel justified in eashing his
January check because he had not
worked full month. The check
was cashed, according to the record on
the back, some time in last February.
Mr.. LybargeT, who until last week
had been living at 1915 Berrvhill
street and had been conducting Sing
err sewing machine store at 91S North
Third street, is now living in Reading,
having been transferred to take charge
of the Singer store in that city.
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whole County Becomes
| Dry" To-day But
.Private Houses Are
Well Stocked
BIG BUSINESS IN
ZLAST FEW HOURS
Their Surplus Supplies Except In
Sections Close to Boundary Lines
of Wet Counties
Especial to the star-Independent)


Newport, April 1.-Perry county
officially went dry at 10 O'Clock last
night and is destined to remain so
during the ensuing year unless the
Superior Court grants new liquor Ii
censes.
An hour or more before the "dry"
order became effective last night, L.
II. Butturff, proprietor of the only bot
tling works and single licensed place
I'M Newport, and incidentally the only
boftling works in the county, had
Spld out" and was ready to close
xSButturtf didn't have a bargain sale
Sf beer, but he did a land office bust
ness yesterday and had no trouble dis
posing of his entire supply. To-day
those Newport people who were drink
ing beer, were doing so because they
had put in an extra supply yesterday.
AT the Central hotel, Marysville,
conducted by G. W. Rhoads, and at
several other Perry county hotels, the
sale of beer was heavy yesterday but
Rhoads supply was not entirely dis
posed Of This morning Rhoads busted
himself by running the excess supply
of beer into a sewer. Rhoads removed
the bung from three or four kegs and
stood by as the amber liquid tirekled
down the "long lane" Other Perry
kounty hotels disposed of their surplus
Mock in the same way.
Bought Beer By the Box
Among the bystanders in Marys-
e, was a red-nosed fellow whose
comment was "what shame. -
1t the Central did not sell out its
re beer supply yesterday is due
Ilmably to the hotel being close to
|risburg and Cumberland county
6ns where intoxicants now are per
tilted to be sold.
In the interior of the county, how
Ter, where the licensed hotels were
Nw and far between. business yester-
day was brisk and the hotel men only
had a small amount of beer to send
away by the sewer route.
Butturff, proprietor of the Perry
kcounty bottliTg works, prior to yester-
|day had bottled all of his remaining
large supply of beer. 1t was not an un-
common sight yesterday to see men
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POLICE FIND CAVE JEWELLERS
Gang of BUNS Live AS Primitive
White Man

Living in the primitive method of
the prehistoric cave dwellers, Charles
Sisco and George Mathews, known as
professional "bums, of the city, were
routed out of their happy home this
morning and lodged in more modern
structure at 22S Walnut street.
Both the men were discovered
lodged in a damp and dismal cave
along the Paxton Ncreek, south of Pax
ton street When asked what they were
doing there, they replied it was their
home, which to them seemed better
than paying rent.
1t is believed by the police that the
cave served as rendezvous for a
gang of noted buns" and that
John Murray and William Conway,
who escaped from the almshouse,
where they were sentenced yesterday
by Mayor Royal, also belong to the
gang.
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MR.. LAMbERTON LEFT $500
TO St. Stephens Church
Will Filed To-day Provides Also a
500 Fund to Perpetuate Lamber-
ton Oratorial Contests at Central
High School-Rest Goes to Family

Two public bequests-one of $500
to st. Stephen S Protestant Episcopal
church. of which he was a vestryman,
and the other of $500 to the Harris.
burg School Board-are contained in
the will of James NJ. Lamberton,
which was probated this afternoon by
Roy c. Danner, Register of Wills. Mr..
Lamberton s death occurred last Sun
day.
The will was fled by John f. Pat
terson, as counsel. No value is
placed on the estate, the bulk of
which goes to Mr.. Lamberton S moth
er, Mrs. Robert \. Lamberton, who is
made exeeutrix. The only other be-
quests are to Mr.. Lamberton S sister
and niece
The gift to the school board is to
be preserved intact as trust fund,
the interest to be used in perpetuating
the Robert A. Lqmberton Memorial
Prize oratorial contests, which annual
ly are held in the Central High
school.
Except his mother, who gets the
bulk of the estate, the beuefciaries
are to be exempt from the payment of
collateral inheritance tax, this to be
paid out of the general estate.
The will in part follows:
Il give and bequeath TO my sister
Mamie l.. Wilbur, wife of Rollin H
Wilbur, and to my niece, Dorothy Will
bur MacSherry, each the sum of ST..
600, free of tax.
Il give and bequeath to the St
Stephen 5 P. Z. church, Harrisburg, the
sum of $500, free of tax.
81 give and bequeath to the School
Board of the city of Harrisburg the
sum of $500, free of tax, in trust, to
pay from the income therefrom the
amount, s25, of the prizes in the Hon
Robert A. Lamberton, LII. D., Memorial
Prize contest at the Harrisburg High
school annually, the balance of the in,
come to be invested so that there may
be always capital sum sufficient to
produce interest to pay these prizes.
IAN the rest, residue and remainder
of my estate, personal and mixed,
give, devise and bequeath to my be-
loved mother, Mrs. Annie B. Lamber-
ton. -
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Oil City Clubmen Pur-
loin Stuffed Speci-
men From It's Har-
risburg Home
THE ASSAULT is
MADE AT 3 A. M.
Animal Seized Only Last Saturday In
Reading, Is Taken From It's Alb
ductors Here and Shipped to West
ern Pennsylvania

The $500 stuffed elk, abducted last
Saturday by four members of the
Harrisburg Lodge of Elks from its
home in the Reading lodge, did not
stay long in Harrisburg. At o'clock
this morning hands were forcely laid
upon it in the grill room of the Har'
risburg lodge, 216 North Second
street, and it is now being rushed by
express across the State to the lodge
of the Oil City, Pa, Elks.
The stuffed elk originally was stolen
from the Tacoma, Wash, lodge, and
has briefly been the property of Elks
lodges that have purloined it, in cities
the way across the continent.
Said elk some time ago found its
way to the home of the Reading lodge
and last Saturday night four members
of the Harrisburg lodge, with malice
aforethought and with a view to put.
ting one over on the Reading lodge,
did surreptitiously seize and carry
off that elk and bring it to the home
of the Harrisburg Elks.
There it was given the place of
honor on the stage in the grill room
Everybody was charged to keep an
eye on the animal, for it had been
whispered that certain Western Penn
sylvania members of the order had
east covetous eyes on the stuffed beast
and had made VOWS that they would
in turn seize it and ship it to their
home.
Invade Lodge at 3 A. M.
About 3 O'Clock this morning, when
all was peace and quietness, Eapre.
sentative Cassius Alexander, of Cory,
Erie county; DR.. Harry Reinecke, of
Conttnned on Thirteenth Pngs
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Turks Preparing for Bulgaria

Sofia, Bulgaria, April /, Via London.
lilo A MA concentration of
Turkish troops al Adrianople, the near.
est important Turkish town. to the Bul.
garian frontier, is interpreted in Sofia
as Turkish precautionary measure in
the event of war with Bulgaria. In adj
dition to this concentration, Turkey is
increasing the pieces of artillery on tho
Adrianople Notifications.
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WILL INSPECT SALOONS
I. E. Wetzel Engaged by Liquor Deal
ers to Report Law Breakers

\ In an endeavor to ''reform from the
hside," the Dauphin County Liquor
DRlers' Association has engaged ].
EdEard Wetzel, former city police.
mai, to inspect all licensed saloons in
the Runty and report Irregularities. Of.
fenstf to be included will be the sell.
ing OF liquor to minors and to drunken
men. !
Accprding to T. w. Ebel, president
'of the county association, the Inspector
will instruct all liquor dealers in the
county TO obey the law and will report
third ofenses for prosecution by the
association s attorney. The inspector
will especially look after saloons whose
proprietors figure in police courts.
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STILL SOME FOOLS ALIVE
Perhaps You Encountered Some of
Them on This-the First of April

Did you call up 1858" this morn
ing and ask if somebody wanted you9
Did you gaze out the window to look
at Taube aeroplane TO which your at
tention had been called by ''friendP'
Did you receive message that a
rich relative had died and you were the
sole heirf
Did you take some proffered candy
with some red pepper concealed in iti
Whyi
Oh, nothing. 1t was just that the
usual number of jokers were celebrat-
ing All Fools Day in ways other than
by moving.
1t might be well to add that the
phone number referred to above is
that of the Insane Asylum.
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JUDGE HEMPHILL RESIGNS
Chester County Jurist Sends Resigna
tion to Governor Brumbaugh

West Chester, Pa, April 1.-Presi.
dent Judge Joseph Hemphill, of the
Chester county court, has sent his resig.
nation to Governor Brumbaugh to take
effect at once. He retires because of
i'll health.
Judge Hemphill is nearly 79 years
old and has been on the bench %
years. He was admitted to the Chester
feunty bar in 1854
His successor is expected to be ap-
pointed soon by the Governor and there
is much interest here as to who the
Governor will name.
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Native c Chri S ii a n S
RoundedUpand Slain
By Turks In Haftde-
wan Village
$4,000 IN DANGER
NOW AT URUMIAH
Verbal Messages From Latter Place
Confirm Earlier Reports That More
Than 500 Persons Already Have
Been Killed There

Tabriz, Persia, Wednesday, March
81, via Petrograd, April /, 1920 A.
NJ, and London, 2.25 P. M.-Preced-
ing the reoccupation by the Russians
of Salinas Plains, in Azerbaijan pro-
vince, northwest of Urumiah, hundreds
of native Christians were rounded up
by the Turks in the village of Haftde-
wan and massacred. Many of these
were searched out for the homes of
friendly Mohammedans who tried to
hide them.
The Russians on entering the village
found 720 bodies, mostly naked and
mutilated. The recovery of bodies
from wells, pools and bitches and their
burial kept 500 men busy for three
days.
Wailing Women Intensity Horror
The wailing of women intensified the
horror of the scene. Surviving widows
who were able to identify the bodies of
their husbands insisted upon digging
graves and burying the bodies. Some
of the victims had been shot In other
cases they were bound to ladders and
their heads, protruding through, were
hacked off. Eyes were gouged out
and limbs chopped off.
A general massacre of the 10000
or $4,000 Christians remaining in
Urumiah is expected, unless it should
be averted by orders from Constanti-
nople.
Verbal messages from Urumiah con,
firm earlier reports that more than
500 persons already have been killed
in that neighborhood and that more
than 2,000 have died of disease. These
messages also confirm the reports of
the maltreatment of the Rev. DIR. F. t.
Allen, an American missionary at Uru-
miah.
Recent Associated Press dispatches
from Persia indicated that the Rev.
Robert NJ. Labaree an American mis-
sionary and son-in-law of Samuel w.
Fleming, Assistant Postmaster, of this
city, may be in the disturbed area at
urumiah. 1t is probable that Mrs. La
baree, who was Miss Mary Fleming, is
safe with her three children in Ia
briz.
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WALL STREET CLOSING
Bu .Associated Press.

New York, April New York
Central regained its dividend in the
final hour on excellent February earn
ings, but the movement otherwise was
reactionary. The closing was irregular.
Mixed conditions prevailed during the
greater part of to-day's market. Early
gains in minor railways and specialties
were lost later.
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BOYS FIND BODY OF BABY
Come Across It While Playing in Dun
kle's Woods This Morning

Boys playing in Dunkle's woods,
Twepty-seeond, and Swatara streets, 1T
11.30 O'Clock this morning found the
body of baby girl about 11s months
old along the bank of a small creek
which runs through the wood. There
were no marks of violence on the body
and no indication that the child died by
drowning.
The body was taken to the funeral
chapel of Undertaken R. X. Spicer, 31S
Walnut street, where the opinion was
expressed that the child died a natural
death and the body was placed there
by its parents to avoid paying funeral
expenses. The body was unclothed and
there is no clue to the parents. The
body had apparently been lying in the
water since Tuesday night.
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TURKS Lost $4,000 men IN
PERSIAN BATTLE. march Is

Tabriz,t Persia, Wednesday, March
81, Via Petrograd, April l, 11.2O A.
NJ, and London 2.25 2. M-Hostili.
ties between Russian and Turkish
forces in Persia have been resumeaVll
On March 25 the Russians defeiS
the Turks in sanguinary battle
Atkutur, north of Dilman, in Mort
western Persia. The Turks lost 10000
in killed, wounded and prisoners as
well as many guns.
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BURY BISHOP DUBS SATURDAY
Body to Lie in State Three Hours at
Harris Street Church

The body of Rudolph Dubs, one Of
the three bishops of the United Evan
gelical Church, who died Tuesday night
at his home, 22S Harris street, will lie
in state at the Harris Street United
Evangelical chu,ch from 10 to l
O'Clock Saturday
The funeral services will be in charge
of number of prominent Evangelical
ministers. lnterment will be in the
PaXtang cemetery.
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HELD FOR STRIKING GIRL
Harry Green Charged With Aggravated
Assault and Battery

Harry Green. colored, was this aft
ernoon at police court fined $25 for
reckless driving and held for court un-
der $500 bail on charge of aggravat-
ed assault ana battery.
When driving car past Fifth and
Reilly streets on the evening>of January
20 he struck Miss Jessie Gather, who
was badly injured. For seven weeks
and two days, according to the testi-
mony, the young woman underwent
treatment at the Harrisburg hospital.
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attacked with influenza. On the follow
ing morning he went to his bed, after
which his strength rapidly failed until
last Monday morning, when he became
unconscious. On Tuesday morning he
gained consciousness for few minutes,
but again relapsed into an unconscious
state. After that he passed into a
more profound stupor until death oc-
Cured.
Mr.. Disbrow was born October IT,
1S49, at White Plains, N Y. He re-
ceived his early education there, finish
ing it in New York City. Prior to com.
ing to this city Mr.. Disbrow spent
three years at Galveston, Texas, 1870
~. He came to Harrisburg in 1873
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