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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
Switches AWAIT OWNERS
Harrisburgers Who Gave Up Comb
ings" Can Recover Loss by Identi.
flying Them at Police Station

Nine bundles of hair nicely wrapped
and Labelled, esDeh one steom mbings'' for
the manufacture of hair "switches. y
are at police headquarters awaiting the
identification of Harrisburgers. The
hair was taken from w. E. Pelar, ar
rested here yesterday and taken back to
Altoona to-day to answer a false pre-.
tense charge.
The hair was collected, the police
say, for the manufacture of switches
for February delivery. Originally
there were eleven Harrisburg bundles,
two having been claimed Two trunks
full of bundles will be shipped to AL
toona. On tip furnished the Noun
tain City police by the local depart
ment the wife of Pelar was arrested
in Johnstown this morning. That, in
the opinion of the police, is all of the
persons who were working the scheme
in Altoona.
No charge can be brought against the
trio taken here yesterday because they
represented to the Harrisburgrs that
they were living at 329 Chestnut street,
and that is where they were found. Con.
trary to this plan, the police say, they
gave the wrong address in Altoona.
Pelar and the two women, Elise Bige-
low and Sarah McGuyre,. were taken To
Altoona by Policeman Houser this aft
ernOon.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
Stricken This Morning
With Heart Trouble,
He Succumbs Before
Station Is Reached
SERVED AS CITY
ASSESSOR 1896-oo.
A Resident of Harrisburg Most of His
Life, He Was Well Known Here,
Especially in Lodge Circles-State
Chemist Kellogg His Son-in-Law

While on train going between Blain
and Newport, early this morning, Ed
mund Smith Martin, 1871 Green street,
this city, became suddenly i'll and be-
fore Newport was reached, had died.
Heart trouble was given as the cause
of death.
Mr.. Martin was SO years of age, had
lived in this city most of his life, and
was especially we'll known in lodge cir
cles. He was city assessor from 1896
to 1899, and belonged to the Masons,
the Elks, the Modern Woodmen and the
Royal Arcanum.
For the past thirty years he had
been a travelling salesman for the
Young, Smith & Field Company, Phil
adelphia notions and dry goods firm
His territory was in this section of the
State He was on the road for the
firm at the time of his death.
He leaves a widow, one daughter,
Mrs. James w. Kellogg, and two sons,
William Richard and Edmund H., all
of this city. His son-in-law, James w.
Kellogg, is chief chemist of the State
Bureau of Chemistry at the Capitol.
Funeral arrangements have not yet
been made. Undertaken Hoover has
gone to Newport for the body.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
Late WAR news summary

Emperor William is % years old
to-day and although there is little in
formation of the days military activi-
ties the latest reports available made it
apparent that the Emperor troops
were endeavoring to win for him a
birthday gift in the shape of victory
at arms, Two days ago violent German
attacks were begun at several points.
They developed with greatest force
against the British along La Bassee
canal in France, near the Belgian bor-
der, and against the French further
south, in the region of Craonne.
To-day's official commune ations
from Paris and Berlin which deal with
yesterdays fighting show that on the
day before the Emperor's birthday, the
Germans won measure of success near
Craonne The French war office admits
that trenches were lost, but says that
some Of them were retaken later. The
German statement, however, claims
sweeping victories in this region, in
Guiding the capture of several points of
support along a section of the front
nearly mile in extent.
Concerning the fighting at La Bassee
Continued nm EsIaua,fl, Du-a
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
Pleads Not Guilty to
Charge of Conspiracy
and Trial Is Set for
February %
COUNSEL NOT TO
APPLY FOR BAIL
Supreme Court Justice Davis Denies
Motion to Have Thaw Sent to Belle
vue Hospital to Have His Sanity
Passed Upon There
By Associated Press.

New York, Jan. 27.-Harry X.
Thaw pleaded to-day not guilty to the
charge of conspiracy under which he
was brought here from New Hampshire
last Sunday. His trial was set for
February 23. Meanwhile he is to re-
main prisoner in the Tombs, his coun,
sci having agreed not to apply for bail.
No attempt will be made by the
State to have Thaw commit. ad to the
Matteawan asylum pending his trial,
unless his lawyers change their deci-
sion not to apply for bail. Deputy At
torney General Franklin Kennedy, who
is in charge of the States case now
that William T. Jerome mas dropped out
of the litigation, made this announce.
ment to-day.
In accepting Thaw s plea and fixing
the date for trial, Supreme Court JUS
tice Davis denied the motion made by
Thaw's counsel last Monday to have
the prisoner sent to Bellevue hospital
so that physicians there might pass
upon his sanity.
Thaw was elated to-day when his
counsel confirmed the news that Mr..
Jerome was no longer connected with
the case. cit is long lane that has
no turning" he said.
For the first time in nearly nine
years that the case of Harry K. Thaw
has been before the courts of this
State, William T. Jerome, former Dis.
trict Attorney of New York county
did not appear for the State to-day
when Thaw was brought before Justice
Davis. Mr.. Jerome's connection. with
the case ended yesterday, when he was
relieved from duty as special Deputy
Attorney General by Attorney General
Egburt F. Woodbury.. Franklin Kenne-
dy, Deputy Attorney General, will here
after have charge of the case for the
State.
John B. Stanchield, of Thaw's coun-
sci, said the removal of Jerome would
not in any way affect his plans for
the liberation of Thaw
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
court House EXCITED
BY "SMALL-POX" Scare
Monotony in Life of the Office of the
Directors Of the Poor Is Disturbed
When Visitor Is Suspected of Hay-
ing a Contagious Disease

You stay right there and don u
move out of that corner until you are
ordered to do so, or you will be iailedl
Hear meP'
The speaker was William D. Block.
city license tax collector, erstwhile
assistant city health officer, and he was
addressing a young man who was
standing this morning behind the desk
in the office of the Directors of the
Poor, awaiting reply to a request for
assistance TO get him to his home in
Indiana
The stranger was dumfounded. Miss
Rachel Staples, connected with the
poor board, was too badly frightened
to speak. Charles L. Boyer, one of the
Poor Directors, sat by, staring as
Block spoke on, and John P. Guyer,
clerk to the Directors, stopped
pounding" on typewriter to get an
"earful -
Then Block commanded Miss STABLES
to "call the City Health Department
and get Doc Raunick or Doc Ritzman
down here right away to examine that
man.
DIR. Raunick is the health officer and
Dr. Ritzman is his assistant. Miss
Staples obliged, but the Health Depart
ment It SO eager to put the Indi-
ana man and the Office of the Directors
Of the Poor under quarantine.
Send the man up advised the
health officer, eve ii give him the once
over"
But here was a man in the Office of
the Directors of the Poor, public of
flee, with red spots on his face and
something that looked like rash-it
might be smallpox-and Block was re-
luctant to accept the advice of his for
mer "boss -
Eventually, however, the stranger
was taken to the Health Department.
DR.. Raunick just laughed when he saw
him. What really was the matter with
the visitor was indigestion or something
no more contagious. Block got a
scowling glance from the stranger as
the latter headed again for the Office
of the Poor Board.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
French War Office Re-
port Claims KaiSer's
Forces Lost Two Full
BattaliOnS
OVER 400 BODIES
FOUND ON ROAD
In the Region Of Perthes Four Violent
Attacks Made by the Germans Are
Repulsed by the Allies, Says the
French Statement

Paris, Jan. 81, 2.40 P. M.-The
French report given out by the War
Office this afternoon records yesterday
the customary artillery exchanges, and
says that on January 25 the Germans
lost near Ypres what amounted to a
battalion and half of men Gone Ger
man battalion contains 1000 men).
The French claim that check was ad-
ministered to the Germans near La
Bassee yesterday. Here the losses of
the Germans are placed at two bat
talions. The statement follows:
SIN the sections OF Nieuport and of
Ypres there were artillery engagements
yesterday. A German aeroplane was
brought down within the lines of the
Belgian army. Statements made by
prisoners establish the fact that it was
not battalion but brigade which, on
January 20, attacked our trenches to
the east of Ypres. The enemy lost in
this affair what amounted to a bat
IaIlon ana nail or men.
''It has been confirmed to-day that
near La Bassee, Givenchy and Guinchy
the Germans yesterday suffered a great
check. On the road from La Bassee to
Bethune the bodies of six officers and
400 men were found The losses of the
Germans consequently must represent at
least two full battalons.
''F'rom Lens to Scissors yesterday
saw artillery fighting. In the region of
Craonne we maintained ourselves in
the trenches recaptured by us during
our counter attacks of January 90.
''In the region of Perthes, Hill No.
800, four violent attacks on the part of
the enemy have been repulsed. In the
Argonne, in the vicinity of st. Hubert,
German attack was repulsed with the
bayonet. At st. Mihiel we destroyed
new foot bridges thrown over the
Meuse by the enemy. Yesterday passed
quietly in Lorraine and in the
Vosges.'
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
Women on Hand at the
Capitol When Meas
ure Is Presented in
the House To-day
SEEMS CERTAIN
TO BE CARRIED
Would Give Voters Right to Decide at
the Next General Election Whether
There Is to Be Equal Suffrage-Ad-
journment Until Next Monday

The Woman s Suffrage amendment,
which political leaders say is practically
assured of passage in this session of the
Legislature, was introduced in the
House this morning by Representative
William H. Wilson, of Philadelphia.
There were a number of suffragists
from the Central Pennsylvania Associa-
tion and from the State Suffrage head
quarters at work in the hall during the
session.
The amendment calls for the sub
mission of the question of whether
women can vote, to the people at
general election, and during the next
two months spirited battles are ex-
Pected to be waged for and against the
passage Of the amendment by the suf-
fragists and the antis.
One of the heaviest appropriation
bills ever introduced for extraordinary
expenses was that fathered by Repre-
sentative. Hess, of Lancaster, calling
for the appropriation of $55S,000 for
expenses in eradicating the foot and
mouth disease and for the control ot
transmissable diseases in animals. The
United States government has appro-
priated half of the amount needed to
pay for the expense incurred in stamp
ing out the foot and mouth disease
which recently infected cattle in almost
every section of the State.
Proposed New Legislation
Through bill introduced by Rep.
will be a misdemeanor to issue check
without funds in bank, and fines and
imprisonment for persons found guilty
are provided for. The bill allows a
period of twenty days for restitution
before suit can be brought.
Representative Cans, of Philadelphia,
introduced bill providing for the in.
corporation of trackless trolley com
panies.
Representative Hess, of Lancaster,
introduced an appropriation bill pro-
viding $390,000 to the several State
Normal schools under State control.
Through a bill introduced by Rep
resentative Showalter, of Union, Dor.
oughs owning electric light plants will
be authorized to supply current for
power purposes. Representative Dunn,
of Philadelphia, offered an amendment
to the school code which extends the
pension requirements to janitors.
Adjournment Until Monday
Other bills introduced are: Dunn,
Philadelphia, providing for semi-month-
ly pay for public employees in cities of
Continued ON Ninth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
COLD WAVE is COMING HERE
Material Drop in Temperature Expect
edo Below in Northwest Today

A cold wave is headed this way and
will arrive here tomorrow night or
Friday morning, according to the esti-
mates of E. R. Demain, Harrisburg s
forecaster, made this afternoon.
The coolest weather of the season is
covering the Northwest to-day with
temperatures as low as 40 degrees be-
low zero. While it will show its effects
in the East, Mr.. Demain was not pre-
pared to say that it will be anything
like that cold in Harrisburg. There is
a disturbance in the Southwest which
may intervene and prevent this city
feeling the full effect of the present
very low temperature in the North
west. The mercury is expected to
touch 2S above zero here tonight and
go lower tomorrow night or Friday.
dispatch from Winnipeg says a
1916 weather record was made there
to-day when the mercury went to So
below zero.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
AUSTRIANS INFLICT heavy
losses IN several FIGHTS

Vienna, Jan. 27-(By Wireless to
London, 9.32 A. M)-The official Au-
strian communication issued to-day re-
ports successes in the fighting in the
passes leading into Northeastern and
Northwestern Hungary. The statement
follows:
Gin the valleys of ing, Latorcza
and Nagy-Szamcs the enemy has been
forced to evacuate some important
heights after repeated and fruitless
counter attacks which cost the enemy
heavy losses"
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
TRIES TO END LIFE WITH RIFLE
Miss Mary E. Kennedy in Critical Con
dition at Harrisburg Hospital

Miss Mary E. Kennedy, go years
old, 529 Filbert street, who attempted
to commit suicide last evening by
shooting herself in the head with a
twenty-five calibre rifle, is in very
critical condition at the Harrisburg
hospital and physicians entertain little
hope for her recovery.
She is believed to have been de-
spondent over i'll health. She went to a
store room at the front of her home and
seizing the rifle placed the barrel
against the right side of her head and
pulled the trigger. The bullet frac-
tured the base of the skull Her step
father, George Lewis, heard the shot
and later found her in the store.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
MOVIE MEN INVITED
TO join NATIONAL BODY
Newly-formed State Organization De-
cides to District the State for the
Purpose Of Establishing Branch Lo-
cals-Law Committee to Be Named

This mornings discussion in the
convention in the Bolton House of mo.
tion picture exhibitors of the State who
yesterday decided upon the formation
OF a Statewide body centered largely
upon the methods to be adopted in car
rying out the purposes of the organiza-
tion, which has chosen as it's name
The Motion Picture Exhibitors )
League. of Pennsylvania
1t was decided to-day to appoint. be-
fore the adjournment of the conven-
tion, committee to prepare proposed
laws for submission to the Legislature.
One of these laws will call for the
repeal of the law which created the
Pennsylvania board of censors, it being
the sense of the delegates that even in
an amended form the act would be un.
fair to the motion picture business. 1t
also was decided to appoint commit
tee which will district the whole State
for the purpose of creating local
branches of the new State league.
There was also discussion OF the in.
vitation submitted yesterday by Marion
s. Pearce presi tent of the national
league of exhibitors, for the new Penn
sylvania league to become affiliated
with the national body. At noon to-.
day no definite action had been taken
on this proposition, but the general
opinion seemed to be in favor of joining
the national league.
Last evening the men who are at
tending the convention held smoker
over which J. Fred Harrington, Pitts
burgh, presided. About 20 Senators or
Representatives were in attendance.
There was an informal discussion of the
censorship law and among other things
that were said, Senator Slime, of Pitts
burgh, declared that if the exhibitors
have a just cause iu desiring to have
the censorship law repealed, that can
Continued On Eleveuth PAGE.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
KAISER ISIS UES TWO AMNESTY
DEGREES ON 56TH BIRTHDAY

Berlin, Jan. q, BY Wireless to Lon
don, 9.37 A. M.-Two birthday de-
crees of amnesty were issued by EN-
peror William to-day, the fifty-sixth
anniversary of his birth
The first releases the active military
from the disciplinary punishment in
ticted upon them by court martial with
in limit of six months Imprisonment;
the second decree annuls the prosecu-
tion of soldiers for offenses committed
previous to the receipt of their call to
arms.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
RESCUED BY POLICEMAN
Man Found Hanging BY Foot in Cellar
way Gets 30 Days

Harry Lauterbach, sentenced to
thirty days in Jail by Major Royal this
afternoon, probably owes his life to
Policeman Zimmerman, who arrested
him last evening according to the lat
ter's testimony in police court this aft
ernoon.
He was found dangling head first
over celiarway at Cameron and Mar
ket streets, being supported only by
one foot which had caught son STEP
The policeman testified that Lauter-
bach was intoxicated.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
WALL STREET CLOSING
By Associated Press.

New York, Jan. 27.-selling was re-
newed in the later trading, but rallies
of point In Union Pacific and Read
ing impaired q better tone to the final
dealings. The closing was weak. Unex-
pected suspension of United States
Steel common dividend provoked heavy
selling and sharp declines in to-day's
stock market. Losses of to 4 points
were general, leading shares showing
the greatest weakness.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
Wilson Congratulates Kaiser
By Associated Press.

~ srooUI7FtFttU
Washington, Jan. 27.-President
Wilson to-day sent message to EN-
peror William of Germany, congratu-
lating him on his 56th birthday. His
message was as follows:
"1n behalf of the government and
people of the United States, I have the
pleasure to extend to Your Majesty
cordial fluctuations on this anniversary
of your birth, as well as my own good
wishes for your welfare.''
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
U. s. Wants colored Recruits

captain r. G. Williams, in command
of the local recruiting station in the
Berrgner building, received instructions
to-day from the War Department to ac-
cept desirable colored applicants for
enlistment in the infantry branch of
the United States army. All such ap-
plicants accepted are forwarded to Co.
lumbus barracks, O., for assignment to
duty.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
Duluth shivers at 81 Below
IA, A..oci,,t,,,s p....

Duluth, Minn., Jan. 27.-Street ther-
mometers at 5 o'clock this morning
showed from 27 to 81 below zero, the
coldest of the winter. On the iron
ranges the cold was reported five to
eight degrees lower than in Duluth.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
Standard Oil Reduces Prices
By Associated Press,

New York, Jan. 27.-The Standard
Oil Company, of New York, to-day re-
duced the price of refined petroleum
for export, 25 points, making oil in
cases 1925 cents per gallon, in the
tanks 4.25 cents and standard white,
IT'S.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
Pennsy Declares Regular Dividend

Philadelphia, Jan. 27.-The direc-
tors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany to-day declared the regular qua.
terly dividend of / IL per cent.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
German Colonel Killed in Africa

Cape Town, via London, Jan. 27,
s.44 A. M.-Colonel Seydebreck, com
manding the German forces in German
Southwest Africa, has been killed at
Windhoek, according to advices receiv-
ed here. He was examining hand gren-
ades when one of them was accidental
ly exploded and caused his death.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
The District Attorney
Takes Part Of Defend.
ant for Justices"
Sake
ROW is ABOUT
HUNTERS TAG
County Prosecutor Surprises the Court
by the Attitude He Assumes in De-
Tense of Man Who, Stroup Believes,
Ought Not to Have Been Fined

Rather than have what he regarded
as an injustice done to the defendant,
District Attorney Michael E. Stroup, in
court this morning, forgot all formali-
ties and in the face of the Judge IS sug-
gestion that he might be overstepping
his official duties, undertook to defend
George +. Fleck, a North Cameron
street man, who Is accused of violating
the game laws, whom Stroup had gone
into court prepared to prosecute.
Stroup thought Fleck should go free
and expressed that opinion to the
court.
The District Attorney, of course, did
not offer to shirk any part of his off,
cial duty, but he repeatedly said he
wanted to see Justice" done to the
defendant, whom, Stroup figured, had
been the victim of an overzealous con-
stable. Fleck had been fined $40 and
costs by Justice of the Peace +. B..
Dunkle, of Susquehanna township, on
a charge of refusing to show his hunt
er's license tag, and the case was
brought into court on an appeal from
the summary conviction. The court
took the papers.
The arrest of Fleck was made in
November by Deputy Game Warden
John A. Smith, who is the superintend-
ent of the +. B. Mitchell farms in Sus-
quehanna township. Fleck maintains
that he had the license tag on his arm
and offered to show it to the deputy
by throwing up his arm. He ran, he
said, "when Smith ordered me to come
over to him and show him my num-
ber.'
District Attorney outspoken
Smith himself said that he did not
make his identity known to Fleck until
after the chase in which Smith cap
tured the defendant. The order to
"show your license" both said, was
made by Smith while he was seated in
Continued on Ninth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27
Three TURKISH army CORPS
ARE MARCHING ON EGYPT

London, Jan. 81, 3.17 P. M.-Dis-
pathes from Cairo state that great
military activity prevails at the Suez
canal. Troops and warships are being
assembled and all inhabitants are leav-
ing the vicinity of the canal. Important
reconnaissance are being made.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27

Denver, Col, Jan. 27.-Miss Eugenia
Campbell, who was married in this city
to John Pieter scholten a young Danish
engineer now located at Samarang,
Java, is now on her way to meet her
husband. The marriage which made
them one took place after special dis
pensation had been obtained from the
Queen of Holland, so that the young
woman would not be subject to the i'm
migration laws of Holland when she
reaches Java, which is in its province.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-27

Athens, Jan. 27, Via London, 3.17
P. Mt is reported here that three
Turkish army corps (about 10000
men) are marching on Egypt in com
mand of Djmte Pasha.