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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-05
another QUAKE IN italy
Shock Felt in Central Part. Causing No
Fatalities and Only Slight Ma
terial Damage

Florence, Via Rome. March a
slight earthquake shock lasting four
seconds which was felt in Tuscany and
other sections in the central part of
Italy at 7.56 o clock last night, caused
no fatalities and only slight material
damage according to reports received
here from various points where the
earth tremor was observed. A panic
was caused among the people in the dis
triets where the shock was felt and it
was feared it might presage a repeti-
tion of the recent disaster in the Alb
bruzzi diSrsiet. The fact that the
tremor was accompanied by suhter-
ranean rumblings has given rise to the
belief that il was of volcanic origin.
Reports from Tuscany and a portion
of the Emilia region say the shock was
felt everywhere in those sections with
more or less severity. At Piza the
first shock was followed soon after
wards by another. both were undulatorv
from the north to tbe south and were
by underground rumblings
Many of the residents. of the city rush
ed TO the celebrated Nathedral fearing
the effect of the shock upon the leaning
tower.
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AID SERVIAN sufferers
National Committee Headed BY Bishop
Darlington Active in Relief
Work

The work of collecting contributions
to the Servian Relief Fund, ''for the
forgotten poor of Servia,' was begun
in this country month ago, and last
week more than $1,000 was sent to the
stricken country according to Bishop
James Henry Darlington, national
chairman of the committee in charge
of the movement. The committee is
composed of bishops from many parts
of the country. The committee says in
its appeal;
This dreadful conflict has fallen
upon this little nation when its re-
sources are well nigh exhausted by the
late Balkan wars. Women and children
are starving. multitudes are facing
ahounds, This committee has under
taken TO secure funds which will be
forwarded through Fr. Sebastian Da
bovitch, the leading Servian Christian
in this country to the proper aceredit-
ed committees of distribution in Ser
via, Hungary and the Balkans
Next Monday night, Bishop Darling
ton will preside at a concert to be
given in the white and gold room of
the Plaza hotel. New York. Among the
notables on the program will be Mile.
Grouiteh, wife of the under secretary
of foreign affairs of Servia, Ken
lucky woman. and Mile. Augette Foret,
who will sing Servian folk songs. It is
hoped that more than $1,000 may be
raised at this meeting for the benefit
of Servian non-eombatants.
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F0RCERS Give UP FIGHT
Mercer and LeBrun Decide Not t.
Make an Appeal and Will Be
Sentenced Tomorrow

Counsel for H r. Mercer and Fred
EeBrun, the convicted foreers who,
thinging Harrisburg "jay" town,
came here only to Be caught five hours
after trying to work crude "skin
game, have decided not to press their
applications for new trials and the de-
PENDANTS will be called for sentence at
a session of motion court on Monday.
John +. Gibb and Albert Heagy, of
Steelton, have pleaded guilty to
charges of robbing j. H. Higgins, OF
Austin, Pa, former Sheriff of Potter
county and personal friend of former
Senator Baldwin, and they, too, will
be sentenced on Monday. Others upon
whom the court will pass sentence, in
criminal cases, include the following:
Clayton Jones, larceny; Frank John
son, assault and battery; Paul Bates
and Thomas Procasco, felonous entry
and larceny; Charles Prater, gaming
house; Samuel Weaver, false pretenses,
five charges; Richard Williams, fe.
lonious entry and larceny, three
charges; Charles l.. Daughter, felonious
entry and larceny; Virgil Brown, sure
ty of the peace; Eugene DeWalt,
Charles H. Jones, Walter E. Kerstetter,
Clarence R. Bayley, Howard Croft and
Hugh w. Norris, non-support; Allen j.
Silks, larceny, eight charges; Daniel
Frederick, serious charge.
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How to Gain Weight
A Pound a Day

Thin men and women who would like
to increase their weight with 10 or 10
pounds of healthy "stay there" fat
should try eating a little Sargol with
their meals for while and note results.
Here is a good test worth trying. First
weigh yourself and measure Yourself.
Then take Sargol--one tablet with
every meal--for two weeks. Then
weigh and measure again. II isn't n
question of how You look or feel or
what your friends say and think. The
scales and the tape measure will tell
their own story. and most any thin man
or woman can easily add from Ave to
eight pounds in the first fourteen days
by following this simple direction. And
best of all. the new flesh stays put.
Sargol does not of itself make fat.
put mixing with your food. it turns the
rats, sugars and starchcs of what YOU
nave eaten. into rich, ripe fat produc.
ing nourishment for the tissues aud
piood-prepares il in an easily assim.
iiated form which the blood can read.
lily accept. All this nourishment now
passes from your body as waste. But
Sargol stops the waste and does il
quickly and makes the fat producing
contents of the very same meals YOU are
eating now develop pounds and pounds
of healthy flesh between your skin and
bones. Sargol is safe, pleasant. efficient
and inexpensive. &. A. Gorpas and
other leading druggists in Harrisburg
and vicinity sell it in large boxes
forty tablets to a package--on a guar.
antee of weight increase or money back.
ADV.
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$4,000 AWAITS ARTIST TO
Finish CAPITOL PAINTINGS
Money Has Been Appropriated but AL.
exander Has Not Delivered tho
Pictures-Board on Tuesday VIII
Decide What to Do

The Public Grounds and Buildings
commission at its meeting next Tues.
day will take up the matter of tho
paintings for the fourteen blank lu-
nettes on the wall of the corridor in
me north wing of the capitol, The con.
tract for this work was let to John w.
Alexander, of New York, who was to
do the work for John II. Sanderson.
contractor for the decorations of the
new capitol, for $4,000, and Alexan-
der gave bond for the performance of
the work. When the capitol graft
scandal came to light and all decorative
work was ordered stopped, work on the
Iunettes had not vet been started.
In 1911 second contract with AL.
exander was prepared by Attorney Gen.
erat Bell, accompanied by bond in the
sum of $11 900, or 80 per cent. of the
contract price, and the Legislature an.
propriated $4,000, but nothing was
heard from Mr.. Alexander. The appro.
priation was carried in the 1913 bud.
get, but although Alexander has re.
peatedly been requested to take some
action in signing the contract he has
not yet done so. 1t is said that Alex
ander declines to give n new bond,
~A"'hS that the pOnu ne gave sander
son still is valid.
This year the $4,000 is not en-.
oraeed in the appropriation budget and
superintendent Rambo will refer the
matter to the Board of Public Grounds
at its meeting on Tuesday with notice
that Alexander has not yet complied
with the contract, and if the Board de-
cides to go ahead with the work under
another contractor the appropriation
VIII have to go before the Appro2ri-
ahons Committee again.
Alexander obtained his canvasses in
England long time ago, and, it is
said, has made preliminary sketches for
the work.
- should like very much to have
the lunettes in place. said Superin.
tendent Rambo, "for | desire that the
art program be completed
The Senate and Supreme Court room
pictures, to be painted by Miss Violet
oakley, are not yet completed, but
Miss Oakley writes that she is at work
and the detail has consumed more time
than she thought would be necessary.
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French Claim They have
RETAKEN LOST TRENCHES

Paris, March 5, Via London, 3.25 p.
M.-The developments at the front
yesterday are recorded us follows in
statement this afternoon from the
War Office:
ITO the north of Arras, near Notre
Dame De Lorette, we have recaptured
most of the advance trenches we lost
the day before yesterday. We took $50
prisoners. The enemy again lombard.
ed the Rheims cathedral.
I'm Champagne to the north of
Souain, Mesnil, there has been nothing
fresh to report since yesterday even
ing's communication.
In the Argoune, at Vauguois, we
have repulsed two counter attacks and
made new progress, intlicting appreci-
able losses upon the enemy and taking
many prisoners. We are masters 81 the
greater part of the village
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CALGARY RAISES LOAN HERE
Canadian City Gets S2,OOO,OOO on {
Per Cent. Treasury Notes

Washington, March 5.-Samuel C.
Reat, Consul at Calgary, Alberta, Cam
ada, has reported to the Department
of Commerce that the city of Calgary
on February 16 got a loan of $4,000
600 in the United States on Treasury
notes bearing 6 per cent. interest. The
notes, he says, which are payable in
three years, sold at SO.
Municipal bonds amounting to 81
$4,000 are hypothecated with local
bank as security. The city also gives a
bond with the debentures to the local
bank as trustee. Interest on the loan is
payable through the Mechanics and
Metals National Bank, of New York.
The turning of this Canadian city to
the United States for money is another
evidence of the shifting of financial bal
ance in the favor of the United States
since the war began.
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As to Electrocution

James Boyd, Philadelphia murder
er, is to be electrocuted at the Centre
county death house next week, .and
when Warden Francies, who has charge
of the electrocutions, requested the
Sheriff of Philadelphia to send Boyd to
the scene of electrocution, he was me,
by the answer that Boyd was not in
the keeping of the Philadelphia Sheriff,
but was in charge of the keeper of the
county prison. Warden Francies then
asked the Attorney Generals Depart
ment whether it was his duty to apply.
for Boyd from the prison keeper and
was to-day informed that he should pur-
sue that course. Boyd will be taken TO
the death house this week.
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P|MP[ES ON FACE
ITCHED TERRIBLY
Scratched Until Became Larger.
So Disfgured Ashamed to Be
Seen. Could Hardly Sleep at
Night. One Cake Cuticura Soap
and One Box Ointment Healed.

r. F. ID. No. 1, kutztown, Pa.-"At
hrst small pimples were visible upon my
race They would itch so terribly that I
would scratch them until they became larger
and larger They were almost as large as
ten-cent piece. My face was SO disfgured
.nat was ashamed to be seen. 1 could
hardly sleep at night.
tried many salves and cold creams but
none seemed to help me. saw the adver-
tisement of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and
Immediately sent for free sample. used
these and got relief in a few days. 1 pur-
chased cake of Cuticura Soap and box
OF Cuticura Ointment and in short time
! was completely healed" (Signed) Miss
Katie M. Heffner. Oct. 15. 1914.
Remember in Cuticura Soap you have
three soaps in one. complexion soap, q
skin and hair soap and a fragrant toilet and
nursery soap. IT you are not aware of this
fact let us send you free sample.
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Can't Force Bridge Building

IN declslon filed this afternoon
Judge George Kunkel dismisses the
writ of mandamus obtained by the
City of Harrisburg against the Dau.
phin County Commissioners to compel
them to build three bridges over PAX.
ton creek, one at Walnut, one at Cum.
berland and the other at Reilly street.
The court holds that the section of the
act under which the suit was brought
is unconstitutional, because the subject
matter of that section is not contained
IN the title of the act. In another
opinion the court decides that the
Pottsville Water Company is liable to
the State for tax amounting to
S7,357.47.
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HOUSE
WANT NEW COUNTY BRIDGE
Commissioners Want Viewers to Pass
Upon the Question

Believing the iron bridge over Wico.
nlseo creek connecting the borough of
Lykens on the east side with Wiconisco
township to be unsafe, the County Com
missioners this afternoon decided to Pc
ttion the Dauphin county court to ap-
point board of viewers who shall
pass upon the question of necessity for
a new structure.
1t is the plan of the Commissioners,
II the viewers report favorably, 20
have the March Grand Jury approve
the project and then advertise for bids
for the construction of single span
concrete bridge. The new structure is
to not cost more than $4,000.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-05
ASH FOR NAVAL GOLFERS
Manila Dealers Want Them to Trans
port Their Goods

Manila. March 5.-Dealers in sugar,
hemp and other products have petit
toned Governor General Harrison
through the Manila Chamber of Com
meree to request the government to en-
play naval colliers as transports TO
move goods. The shortage of tonnage
at the ports in the Philippines has be-
come acute, involving the most serious
economic consequences.
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GRADING COSTS CITY $1,IS9
Ordinance viii Be Introduced to Meet
Benefits Assessed

An ordinance carrying appropria-
tions to cover the city's share of the
cost of grading four street sections
something like $1,1S9-win be intro
dueed at the Tuesday meeting of the
City Commissioners, probably by Mr..
Gorgas, it was announced to-day. The
greater part of the money represents
benefits assessed against school prop
erty, for which the city is liable.
For the grading of Hildrup street.
in front of the Forney school building.
the assessment is $500; Nineteenth
street, $3.50, and Chestnut. s101.2O.
The balance due Santo 4 Peace incl
dent TO the opening of South Front
street, between Iron avenue and Pax
ton street, amounting to s67.S5, also
viii be paid.
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FIVE YEARS FOR OPIUM MAKER
Mayor of New York's Chinatown Crie,
False Evidence
BIZ Associated Press

New York, March 5.-Tom Shiyan,
president of the Chinese Merchants AS
soeiation and known as the mayor of
New Iork's Chinatown. was sentence
to-day in the Federal District Court to
five years Imprisonment in the p.nitea.
tiary at Atlanta, for manufacturing
opium.
The prisoner claimed that he was in
nocent and that a rival Tong had ac-
complished his conviction by false evil
denee: He said ne would appeal to
President Wilson.
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Husband Killed, Wife Sues

A charge of negligence is contained
in the $4,000 suit which Mrs. Bessie
Downey has launched against the Cen
tral Iron and Steel Company and its
receivers, growing out of the death of
her husband, Daniel w. Downey, on
April l, 1913. Mark Mieholovich, la.
borer, employed by the Central, it is
charged, turned steam into boiler in
which Downey had been working and
he was fatally scalded. Besides his
widow, Downey left three children.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-05
Jap Cruiser Asama to Be rloated

Seattle, Wash., March 5.-The Jap
anese cruiser Asama, which recently
went ashore at the entrance to Turtle
Bay, Lower California, will be floated
soon, according 20 a report brought
from the south by the British naval
collier Protesilaus, which returned to-
day TO tae British naval station at Es-
quimalt. B. c.
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A. L. Croft to Leave for china

Having received an appointment as
manager of the mission headquarters of
the Baptist Publication Society at Can
ton, China, A. L. Croft, of Old Orchard.
will leave with his wife within a
month for their new home at that
point They expect to reach China in
June, after visiting many places of in
terest on the way
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Austrians Evacuate Czerowitz

London, March 5, sos P. M.-The
Bucharest correspondent of the Gwen.
ing News" telegraphcd to-day that
the Russian offensive movement in Ca
hcia had forced the Austrians to evac-
uate Czernowitz, the capital of Buko.
wilma. The dispatch adds that the main
Austrian forces in this region have re.
tired in the direction of Franzenthal
to the south of the Carpathians.
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Reservists Taken PRISONERS

Nice. Via Paris, March 3, 5.35 A.
MA French torpedo boat cruising
off here yesterday stopped Spanish
steamer and an officer inspected the
passengers. Among those on board
We're four Austrian reservists and one
German, who had taken passage to Italy
in the hope OF being able to join their
regiments at the front. The men were
taken prisoners and have been sent to
Marseilles. -
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U. S. Observing Strict Neutrality

Washington, March 5.-President
Wilson was told to-day. by Representa-
tive SABBATH, of Illinois, that the ma
iority of foreign born people in the
United States believed the administra-
tion was Observing strict neutrality
and the President replied that he was
convinced that ultimately the worlu
would agree that the position of the
United States has been strictly impair
tial.
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MANY VISITORS Inspect
RELIEF COMMITTEE WORK
County and City Officials Among Guests
at Open House at Headquarters
To-day-An Divisions Under Re
view

There has been quite a bit said ABOUT
the work which is being done byfthe
local Home and War Relief Committee,
but the random accounts cannot begin
to give the public comprehensive idea
of the activities at the headquarters, Z
South Front street. The $50 or more
visitors who took advantage of the
Ss'open house'' here to-day saw for
themselves Just how extensive are the
operations being carried on in this city
for the relief not only of the war suf-
ferers abroad but also of the needy in
sHsETiSUuN.
although the headquarters are open
every day for inspection. and visitors
are always we'll cared for. special eff.
forts were to-day made to show men
and women the inside workings of the
relief system. Among city and county
officials who inspected the building
were County Auditors Riegle and Hus-
ton. Poor Director Bower. Deputy Coun.
" Controller Holtzman, Deputy County
Treasurer Rutherford. Deputy CITY
Treasurer Weber and County Solicitor
Frederick Oft.
The public inspection takes in the
Foreign and Red Cross divisions where
materials are packed for shipment
abroad. the supplies division. where ina.
terials are distributed and the finished
garments received, and the Home Relief
division, where orders for garments are
issued and the needy women workers
given their pay. Hand painted posters
done by girls of Irving College. VINO
are taking lively interest in the relief
work are much in evidence in the Red
Cross room.
A statement made this afternoon
showed that there is now a total n,
sl,f0O in the treasury of the commit.
tee. $500 of which has been eontribut.
ed by Sunday schools If donations con.
tinue to come in at the same rate. it "a
expected that the work will continue AZ
least until April /.
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Woman Sues Her Landlord

Because the railing surrounding the
balcony at her home, 6SS Boyd avenue.
gave way in October, 1911, resulting
IN her falling twenty-five feet to the
ground and sustained serious injuries.
Mrs, Ida Cope charges Jacob SNYDER.
her landlord, with negligence and she
mas brought damage suit against him
TO recover $4,000. Edward NJ. Cope
also has filed an action against Sny-
der. retaining $4,000 for the loss of
his wife's eompanionship and services
during her illness.
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Cavalry Disperses Lisbon Crowds

Paris, March ., 5.10 4. M.-Dem-
monstrations made by crowds which
assembled several times in the vicinity
of the Parliament buildings at Lisbon
yesterday were dispersed by cavalry,
according to dispatch to the Havas
Agency. The Democratic deputies are
said to be arranging meetings but it IS
understanding will not be held in the
chamber.
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canadians Attack German Trenches

Paris, March 5, 11.2O A. MA
dispatch to the Havas Agency from
Bethune says that on March bold
attack on German trench was made
by Canadian troops. The Canadians
lost one killed and one wounded and
are said to have inflicted a consider
able loss on the Germans.
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Register Case Argued

FURTHER argument on the question of
whether Miss Neva Dearborn right
fully holds the position of Register of
Vital Statistics in Philadelphia was
presented to Judges Kunkel and Nc
Carroll this afternoon.
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German Reserves For Alsace

Basel, Switzerland, via Paris, March
5.-The Germans are sending new
formations of reserves into Alsace. The
new troops are from garrisons in Wur-
temberg and Bavaria. Ordinary traffic
on the railroad lines in this section has
been suspended.
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Michael shaffer Dies at Dauphin

Dauphin, March 5.-Michael Shaffer
died yesterday morning at O'Clock at
his home on High street. He is sur
vived by three children, Jacob Shaer
fer, of Sunbury; Miss Sarah and wal
ter Shaffer, of this place. The funeral
have not been announced.
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Contractor Paid

). W. Shoemaker 4 Son, the con,
tractors who graded Wieonisco street.
from Front to Sixth, to-day were paid
$o,o2S.6o, the full cost of the improve.
ment' 1t is understood that property
owners all have paid their pro rata
share of the total cost.
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U. s. Treaty With France PROMULGATED

Paris, March 4. 11.30 p M.-The
treaty signed at Washington on Sep
tember 15. 1914, to facilitate the set
tiement of disputes which may arise be-
tween France and the United States was
officially promulgated ts.day.
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Chicago Board of Trade Closing

Chicago, March 5.-Close:
Wheat-May, 1.3S; July, 1.12%.
Corn-May, 1873; July, 74%.
Oats-May, 55M; July, 51%.
Pork-May, 1897; July, 17.75.
Lard-lMay, 1887; July, 1852.
Ribs-May, 9.92; July, 1925.
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President Postpones Trim to Fair

Washington, March 5.-President
Wilson practically has decided not to 90
to San Francisco Exposition this month,
but will go later in the summer. He
wants to stay in Washington to keep in
close touch with the European situation
at the present stage
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