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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-06
Erie. Lake Shore and
Nickel Plate Accused
Of Ignoring States
Ban
OFFICIALS CAN
BE PUT TO JAIL
Attorney General Brown Threatens
Prosecutions of Three Big Rail-
roads For Alleged Violation of Di-
rections Given By Live Stock Board

Alleging that the Erie Railroad Com
pany, the Lake Shore & Michigan Cen
trail and the New York, Chicago and
st. Louis or "Nickel Plate,' the two
latter under the management of the
New York Central, have been violating
the order of the State Live Stock SAM,
tary Board of Pennsylvania which for
bids the shipment of cattle from the
West through Pennsylvania to Eastern
points, the Attorney Generals Depart
ment, by direction of Attorney General
Brown, this morning peremptorily or
dered the companies at once to cease
shipping the cattle. With the tele-
grams conveying the orders were com
munications to the directors of the rail-
road companies calling their attention
to the fact that the act of 1913 pro-
vides for a fine of 500 for a violation
of the order of the Live Stock SAM
tary Board, with fine of $500 for
each subsequent offense, and imprison.
ment for from 10 to 80 days, either or
both, for any of the company officials
from the president down to the person
engaged in the actual shipments. 1t is
the intention, the authorities here say,
that if the railroad companies persist in
their shipments of cattle from the West
through Pennsylvania, to prosecute at
once.
At the same time the companies were
advised of being liable to prosecution,
the government in Washington was re-
quested to decline to Issue permits for
the shipment of cattle from Western
points through Pennsylvania, and it is
understood win comply with the re-
quest.
Say the Pennsy Has obeyed
Some days ago when the foot and
mouth disease among western cattle
broke out with renewed virulence, the
State Live Stock Sanitary Board held
a meeting with Governor Brumbaugh,
Continued on Seventh Page
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ALL HAMMELBAUCH'S fault
This Is a Story of How An After The
atre Party Got Lost in the Biz
card on North Second Street

1t was all the fault of Daniel D.
Hammelbaugh.
Everybody who rides regularly on
the North Second street trolley line
knows that ''Dannie" Hammelbaugh,
secretary of the School Board, lives at
Second and Rely streets, and that he
always gets off the ear there. Moreover
Mr.. Hammelbaugh record for aceu-
racy in school board affairs as in all
other things is such that persons who
live north of Reilly, on Second, when
they see him on the ear, always wait
for him to get off before beginning to
look for their own stopping places.
Last night when the ears were
crowded, just after the theatres let out,
Mr.. Hammelbaugh got on one at the
square. Beside him sat Jimmy"
Miles, of the City Treasurer S office,
whose stopping place is just one block
north of Reilly street.
Like everybody else who counts the
blocks to his own street FROM the cor
ner where the school board secretary
alights, Miles didn t bother with keep
ing tabs on the streets as they went
by.
Pretty soon Mr.. Hammelbaugh push
ed the buzzer and got off at corner.
One square further on Mr.. Miles did
the same
Now almost as many people as know
that Hammelbaugh gets off at Reilly
street, are acquainted with the fact
that Miles gets off at Harris, so that
when Miles was leaving the ear with a
shout to his friends of "Here's our
station" the usual quota of Harris
street dwellers followed him out into
the storm.
Bing! Bing.!' went the conduc-
tors bell. The doors banged to at the
front of the ''pay-as- -you-enter, and
by the time the Harris street contin-
gent had got their bearings and learn
ed they had climbed out into the snow
at Verbeke street, three blocks too
soon, the ear was speeding toward the
Academy for dear life.
There was a brief mass meeting in
which it was voted unanimously that
it was all "Dannie' Hammelbaugh s
fault. There was no pity for him even
though a glance toward Cumberland
street, showed him alone bueking the
beating storm in the direction of his
Rely street home
For how were the rest of the people
to know that a sober and reliable man
like "Dannie' would miss his bear
ings by three blocks, even if there was
a blizzard
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SCRAMBLE FOR A POLICE JOB
Many Applicants for Chauffeur's Post
Which Mehring Will Relinuuish

Several applicants for a position as
ehauffesr of the police auto patrol
came forward to-day when it was
learned that Wilhelm J. Mehring, who
holds that position, will resign from
the police force next Tuesday. Al
though Mayor Royal has not been in
formed officially of the intention of
Mehring to resign, two men already
have asked the Mayor for the appoint
ment
Other members of the City Commits
sion said this morning they have sew
eral names under consideration for the
place-those of men who have been
ON the waiting list for some time.
While Mehring's resignation will prob
ably go to the Commissioners on Tues
day, Commissioner Lynch intimat-
ed that the appointment will not be
made until March 16.
Policeman Buch, wagon man, who
has learned to run the auto patrol, is
acting as chauffeur since last Monday,
when Mehring went off duty on ac-
count of the death of his father. Meh-
ring will conduct his fathers whole
sale liquor business and for that rea-
son will resign his position on the po-
lice force.
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HARRISBURG, SATURDAY
BABY, weeks old. wins
PITY OF RELIEF WORKERS
Mother, .Thinly Clad and Hungry. Car
ries Youngster Wrapped in Shawl
Through Storm and Is Rewarded
With Food and Clothing

.Emaciated and wan, thinly clothed
little woman this morning edged timid-
ly into the hallway of the Home and
War Relief Committee IS headquarters,
Z South Front street. Her clothing
a thin skirt and ragged sweater for
outer covering-showed worn and
threadbare, She was cold and wet from
the storm. Even in the tempered air
inside the house she shivered frequent
E. Her black.ringed, sunken eyes
showed more deeply by comparison with
the pallor of her face. Alike, face
and body were thin to emaciation. In
her arms she carried a long bundle
wrapped in thin, ragged shawl. From
its size one might have supposed it
contained a bundle of sewn garments
which were being returned.
Slowly the woman mounted the
stairs leading tc the office of the Home
Relief Division. AT tine door she hesi.
tated, glancing around the room, which
Continued ON Twelfth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-06
Foreign Corps Notify
Respective Govern
ments of Purpose to
Quit Mexico City
SITUATION NOW
MOST CRITICAL
General Obregon Makes Threat to
Leave Capital Unprotected With
Water and Light Plants Out of
Commission
By Associated Press.

Washington, March 6.-The foreign
diplomatic corps in Mexico City has de-
cided to leave in body. Dispatches
telling of the decision were received
here to-day by European diplomatists
and forwarded to their home govern
ments.
The Mexican situation, topped by
this latest development, was admitted
in all quarters to he more critical than
it has been at any time since Huerta
precipitated the landing of troops at
Vera Cruz.
Secretary Bryan had received to-day
no word from tine latest representations
to Carranza against General Obregon s
DEGREES in Mexico City and his threat to
leave the capital unprotected with wa
ter and light plants out of commission
and the attendant possibilities of loot
ing and killing. Mr.. Bryan did not
comment further to-day than to say
that the situation continued to be bad.
Some definite development is expect.
ed in diplomatic circles as the result
of the decision of the corps of Euro
pean representatives to leave the Mex
lean capital. Where the diplomatists
would SO was the subject of some spec
ulation. Inasmueh as the conditions
which are forcing them to leave are
being imposed by Carranzas Command
er Obregon, it was pointed out they
hardly would go to Vera Cruz.
Villa Invites Diplomats to Chihuahua
? Villa has invited the diplomatic
corps to join HIM at his capital at
Chihuahua. To do so it was pointed
out, might be construed as recognition
of his faction.
Without diplomatic representatives
In Mexico City, the capital and a large
portion of the distracted country would
practically be cut off from the world.
While the foreign colonies in the MeA-
lean capital has greatly reduced in the
last year, there still are many foreign
ers In the country, among them man,
Americans and Spaniards. The Wash.
ington government has been making its
representations in behalf of all throuni
the Brazilian Minister, but with the re-
moval of the diplomatic corps it is
Continued on Twelfth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-06
Say the Pennsy Has obeyed
five KILLED ON THE Street
Lumberman Shoots Four Men to Death
and Is In Turn Killed BY a
Policeman

Brunswick, Ca, March 6.-Four
men were shot and killed and five
others seriously wounded here to-day
by Monroe Phillips, lumberman, who
fred at random on the street.
Phillips himself was killed by a po-
liceman who sought to arrest him. One
of the men killed was H. F. Dunwoody,
a prominent attorney.
The others killed were w. NJ. Hack
ett, an undertaken; Rex beavers, a po
liceman and W. P. Padgett, a former
policeman. Several of the wounded are
prominent citizens of Brunswick.
Worry over financial difficulties
which he blamed on others, is said tc
have made Phillips temporarily insane
Phillips first went to the Office Of
Dunwoody and opened fire on the law
yer with shot gun, killing him almost
instantly. From neighboring street
corner, the lumberman then began
shooting at every one in sight. Those
on the street were panic stricken and
fled in all directions.
Hackett was killed as he was trying
to escape. beavers and Padgett wert
shot to death in the battle between
Phillips and officers who tried to cap
ture him.
Before he was killed, Phillips, in ad
dition to killing four men, had seriously
wounded five and slightly wounded
about fifteen others.
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HOVERTER MAY BE TRIED HERE
Probable Change in Plans for Trial of
Alleged Bank Wrecker

Lebanon, March 6.-Sheriff Harry
P. Strupp has received word from Unit
ed States Marshal Smith, of Harris.
burg, to the effect that the trial of
Arthur ]. Hoverter, of this city, former
life insurance agent, recently arrested
by the United States authorities for
having aided and abetted in misap-
plying the funds of the First National
Bank of Schaefferstown, will not be
tried at Scranton.
Hoverter was to have been taken to
Scranton for trial next Monday before
the United States District Court there,
it is now said that he will be tried
at the session of the United States
Court to be held at Harrisburg, prob-
ably not before May, unless special
term of the district court should in the
meantime be held before the regular
session.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-06
RUNNING ON Time
DESPITE 10 inches OF SNOW
Heaviest Downfall for March Since
1891 Fails to Cause Any Great In
convenience in the Operation of
Steam and Electric Railroads

That Harrisburg was experiencing to-
day an unusual March snow storm was
proved by figures given out by the 10,
cal branch of the United States Wealth
er Bureau, which records a depth of
about ten inches, the largest amount for
this month since 1891.
The chances are that the snow or
rain will continue tonight and prob
ably Tomorrow said Acting Fore
caster j. II. DeHarty, at noon to-day.
As the temperature is 'hovering about
the 32-degree mark, slight increase
will be all that is necessary for the
snow to turn TO rain.
The largest amount of snow in the
month of March since the local Weather
Bureau was established in 1881, fell on
the 18th of that month in 1891, when
there was total of Is inches. Since
that time numerous heavy SHOWS have
fallen during March, but none reaching
the depth of the present one. On
March 81, 1911, eight inches fell, while
on March 4, the day of the Inaugural
tion of President Taft, in Washington,
there were l-2 inches here. On that
occasion conditions were bad over the
eastern half of the country, it being
coastal storm accompanied by a high
wind and heavy sleet.
One of the most damaging March
storms in history, for Eastern Pennsyl-
vania and New York, began March /,
1914, and continued for three days. 1t
resulted in loss of several million dol.
lars TO the railroadssand telegraph COM
panies.
Railroads Escape Damage
Owing TO the lightness of the snow
last night and to-day, together with
the low wind velocity, traffic was not
much interfered with on the railroads
here. The Pennsylvania and Philadel-
phia & Reading railroads reported all
trains running on scheduled time. In
ADD LA TOURAINE.
Continued on Twelfth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-06
Bold Y ou t h Weds
Widow of 2 Months
Who is the Mother
of 9
CEREMONY IN
COURT ROOM
Baby Holds Sway on the Judges Bench
While Alderman Ties the Knot and
County Officials and Lawyers, Full
of Admiration, Act as witnesses

What's trifing thing like facing
the high cost of living as the guardian
and chief support of nine small chill
.dren when Cupid is whispering the fatal
word into ones earl
That is what Stojian Roksanic, a
young Austrian living in Steelton. ask
ed himself after he proposed to Anna
Cleo, comely German woman. who
has been a widow of two months, and
she blushingly reminded him:
81 have nine babies to look after"
Although the woman s first husband
died on January 6, last, the proposal
was accepted, in consequence of which
the couple were married in the main
room of the Court House, by Alderman
c. E. Murray, at 1890 O'Clock this
morning A group of county and city
officials witnessed the ceremony.
The optimistic Bridegroom is 26
years old and his bride is 80. Her first
marriage occurred nine years ago.
Neither can speak English very well
and when, they applied for the marriage
license Robert Rosenberg, local attor-
ney, acted as interpreter. The young
est of the Cleo children, bright-faced
blue-eyed baby, not more than year
old, was snatched up by Roksanie and
bounced on his knee while the neces-
sary papers were being prepared.
Husband Died January 8, 1915
The clerk in the bureau asked Mrs.
Cleo:
Have you been married beforei"
Continued ON Twelfth pnr~
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-06
insists ON A FAIR SHOW
FOR Local TRACTOR firm
Ono City Commissioner Is Opposed to
Letting an 0ut-of-town Concern Get
Contract at Higher Bid; at Least,
Until Harrisburg Product Is Tried

Park Commissioner NJ. Harvey Tay-
lor to-day refused to confirm or deny
the report that in his recommendations
next Tuesday for the purchase of fire
apparatus he will ask the City Commits
sioners to turn down local factory's
bid and give the contracts for three
tractors to the Front Drive Motor Car
Co., of Hoboken, n. j., nor would he
say whether he proposes to favor Civ
ing motor combination wagons to the
Morton Truck & Tractor Company, the
local concern, as reported
The bids on the tractors submitted
by the Morton company is lower than
excuse advanced thus far for the ru-
mored intention to turn down the Har-
rsburg company on this bid is that the
Morton tractors are of the four wheel
variety. %
1t is learned that at least one City
Commissioner will insist on postpone.
ing awarding the contract for tractors
until the meeting on March 16-this,
he said, for the purpose of first in
speetimg tractor which the Morton
firm now is assembling in its Harris
burg plant, with the purpose of giving
the local concern fair try-out.
The Morton company is now mount
ing Lebanon fire company steamer on
one of its trucks, and the Commission
er expressed his belief that the prac-
ticability of that experiment should be
ascertained before awarding contract
for the tractors to an out-of.town con
cern at higher bid than that of the
local manufacturers. This apparatus,
he said, will be ready for inspection
within the next few days.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-06
GERMANS CHECKED BEFORE !
RHEIMS, IS French REPORT

Paris, March Ga German check
before Rheims is described in a semi.
official note issued last night by the
War Office which says:
"North of La Pompelle on the road
from Rheims to Chalons the possession
of little Inn at La Ferme Alger had
been hotly contested since September.
The Germans had tried every means to
dislodge us by the use of mines, pro-
jectiles and bombs from aeroplanes.
They made an exceptionally violent at
tack on March 2.
A violent cannonade was begun the
afternoon our positions were charged
the entire front. Rheims, Betheny and
Prunay were bombarded all night by
guns of every calibre. The following
afternoon oud positions were charged
by three detachments coming from diff
ferent directions. Only one of these
succeeded in reaching our barbed wire
entanglements where the charging sol
diers either were killed by our heavy
fire or made prisoners. The other two
detachments were stopped by our in
fantry and seventy-fves.' The Ger
mans retreated hastily, not waiting to
carry with them their dead and
wounded.
"Soon afterwards another attack
came opposite our extreme front direct
ly against Alger, which was repulsed,
the Germans beating hasty retreat. At
dusk third attack was made but this
likewise was repulsed by infantry and
rapid frers. The German loss was es-
timated at two-ffths of the attacking
force or approximately $50 men,
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late WAR news summary

Announcement was made by the
French War Office to-day that the ad-
vance of the allied troops in Cham
pagne was continuing and that efforts
of the Germans to halt the movements
by counter attacks had failed. London
reports the allies are making slow bus
consistent gains in this region, although
Berlin makes no such concessions.
The general staff of the Russian Oau-
casian army reported that further lad-
vance into Turkish Armenian had been
made by the forces which recently
moved forward from Batum along the
shore Of the Black Sea. This army Is
said to have cut off Turkish communi-
cations with Constantinople.
Petrograd dispatches state that the
Russian offensive In Galicia and Buko-
wilma is gathering force and that the
Austrians may be compelled soon to
evacuate Bokowina. It is believed at
Petrograd that the great Austro- Ger.
man encircling movement In this region
has failed and that the right tsing Of
the Austro- German Galician array is In
danger of being fanked by the Rus
slams.
There were Indications in to-day's
cable dispatches that the bombardment
Continued ON seventh Purx
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Desperate Opens Fire
On Wilmington Blue
coats as Latter At
tempt to Arrest him
is SUBDUED BY
SHOT IN BREAST
Accompanied by pal" VINO Is Ar
rested without Trouble-Police Be-
lieve Pair Visited Wilmington With
the Intention of Holding UP Bank

Wilmington, Del, March 6.-In a
running chase after suspicious man
whose appearance attracted the atten-
tion of policeman, shortly after noon
to-day, Policeman Frank Tierney was
shot and killed, Policeman Horace Nc
Dannell was shot and mortally wound
ed, and Policemen James P Scott and
Willard Sharpless were wounded Sc
verely. Robert Manlove, a railroad en-
ploye, also was shot and slightly
wounded.
Officer Sharpless accosted the stran-
ger at Sixth and Market streets, next
door to the police station. The man
ran and Sharpless pursued him, the
other officers joining in the chase. The
fugitive started the firing and the Of
ficers responded. The chase continued
for four blocks, when, at Fifth and
Walnut streets, the stranger took ref
uge in stable, and from behind ve-
hicle opened fire on his pursuers. 1t
was here he fred the shots which did
such execution.
The policemen responded to his fusil-
lade, and after disabling him by bull
let, which struck him in the breast, Sc
cured him and took him to the police
station. His wound is not regarded as
serious. Policeman Tierney was hur-
ried to hospital and died soon after
reaching there. Policeman Mcdaniel
also is at the hospital, but his death is
expected.
The desperate was accompanied by
another man who was arrested without
trouble. He said his name was Charles
Monmeitz, but refused further infor-
nation and also refused to give the
name of his companion. The latter
was searched at the police station, the
search revealing four automatic revol-
vers and two gold watches. 1t is be-
lieved the men came here with the in
tention of holding up bank.
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BURIED MAN NOT SADLER
Police Don't Know What Has Become
of Williamsporter Whose Travel
ing Bag Was Found Hidden Here

The police, after investigation, said
this morning they are satisfied that
the unknown man found along the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad tracks
at Nineteenth street on Monday and
buried in potter's field on Wednesday
is not George NJ. Sadler, of Williams.
port, yet the mystery of the disappear.
ance of the latter man from his home
three weeks ago is yet unsolved. 1t
was the finding of Sadler's travelling
bag concealed in field along the Read.
ing railroad at Cameron street that
gave rise to the belief yesterday that
the missing Sadler might have been the
unidentified man found near there last
Monday
The bag undoubtedly is Sadler 3, the
police say, but his present whereabouts
are unknown. Concealed as il was in
an old boiler and covered with moss.
there was reason to believe the owner
had met with foul play. This theory
has not been abandoned by the police.
Notwithstanding they say they are con-
vinced the man buried in potter s field
is not Sadler.
The Williamsport police department
last night sent photograph of Sadler
to Chief of Police Hutchinson, of this
city, together with description of the
missing man. He is about feet tall,
weighing between ITO and $50 pounds.
The police, seeking description of the
unknown man found along the tracks,
were referred to R. X. Spicer, under
taker, by Coroner Eckinger. Spicer $
description of the unknown is that he
was about 5 feet Z inches tall, slender
and weighed about 12S pounds. The
features were those of foreigner.
The Williamsport police gave no ex-
planation for Sadler disappearance
from home. There was nothing in the
travelling bag that indicated the owner
himself had tried to dispose of it and
the police believe that it was hidden
away by another person to do away
with ineriminating evidence.
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WILL ADDRESS POLICE CHIEFS
Hutchison to Tell of Identification
System in Use Here

Chief of Police Hutehison will read
a paper on the Identification system in
use in the Harrisburg police depart
ment before the police chiefs who will
gather here for the annual convention
of the State Association March 13 and
IA. The sessions will be held In the
Board of Trade hail.
During the course of mis- talk Chief
of Police Hutehison will give prac-
teal demonstration. City Detective
Joseph W. Tbaeh, in charge of the iden-
tiieation bureau, will assist him. De.
tective Ibaeh has wide reputation as
an expert in this work and has in nu-
merous instances given instructions in
it TO detectives of other cities.
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One-Third of the Dis
tance Through the
Straits Now Free of
Deadly Explosives
WARSHIPS KEEP
ON BOMBARDING
Allied Fleets Are Still Pounding the
turkish Forts on the European Side
While Workers Are Busy Clearing
Out the Mines

Paris, March 6, 4.25 A. M.-The
Dardanelles now has been cleared of
mines as far as Chanak Kaleisi, about
a third of the distance through the
straits, says Tenedos dispatch to the
"Petit Parisien" dated March 5.
The mine workers are working under
the protection of the allied warships,
which are keeping up steady lombard
ment of the forts on the European
side.