rlags of Allies Are Now Flying Over Foris at Entrance 1o Dardanelles HARRISBURG- TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 47 STEELER S WIFE ID EiW MORNING ROW Husband Held Today on Conspir acy Charge, in Fraudulent Passport Case MAGISTRATE FREES WOMAN German Newspaperman Reported Accused of Attempting to Dis robe Mrs. Stegler By Associated Press New York, March 1. —Mrs. Richard] P. Stegler, arrested to-day at the Gren- i ob'e Hotel on a charge of felonious us- j sauit made by Arthur Matelket, re-1 -porter for a German newspaper, was j discharged later in police court. Had I c ertain evidence been more definite, j the magistrate said, he would havej been inclined to send her accuser to the workhouse. Almost at the moment of Mrs. Steg- ; ler's discharge in police court, the fed eral grand jury returned an indict-1 ment charging her husband with con spiracy against the United States In obtaining an American passport falsi!-1 ly. Stegler is a German naval reser\ -j Ist. Two others were indicted with j him, Richard Madden, in whose name! the passport was issued and Gustavel Cook, of Hoboken, who it is charged, I participated in obtaining the passport. The. three men were to be arraigned! later in the afternoon. Mrs. Stegler spent the night in a I cell in the police station. Matelket, j who appeared against her, told the! court that she had attacked htm in a bedroom with a seltzer bottle and had liit him over the head with a cane. He | showed no marks of an encounter, | however. The testimony brought out the fact that Matelket and another man had accompanied' two women to the hotel, one of them Mrs. Stegler, that the party had remained In the ho tel parlor for some time and after wards had obtained adjoining rooms where they remained until 1.30 o'clock. Party Remained Together Mrs. Stealer testified that the party remained together during' the entire period they were at the hotel and that the two men had tried to disrobe her. At no time, she testified, were she and Mateiket alone. She characterized the charge against her as a "frame up." In dismissing the complaint the jnagistrate announced that he would ke inclined to send Mateiket and his r<tale companion to the workhouse if the testimony concerning their alleged attempts to disrobe Mrs. Stegler were more definite and clear. Mrs. Stegler has appeared promi nently in the passport fraud charges In the defense of her husband. It •was through her Influence, she said, that Stegler gave up the idea of being u German spy and caused him to make a confession in which he alleged that Captain Boy-Ed. the German naval at tache, was behind his activity for the German cause. Registered Last Night At the Grenoble hotel it was learned that the woman and Mateiket came to the hotel about 9 o'clock Sunday liight. They arrived in an automobile and were accompanied by another young man and woman. Both men carried suitcases, which, according to the hotel people, they guarded care fully, even refusing to allow bellboys to carry them to adjoining rooms which were assigned to the two cou ples after they had registered at the hotel desk. About 1 o'clock this morning a call for the police came from the room to which Mateiket had been assigned and when Detective Rurgess arrived he was asked by the man to arrest his companion. lie charged that • the woman hail thrown a seltzer bottle at him but that he had dodged it and that the woman had then beaten him over the head with a cane. According to the police, Mateiket showed no signs of the encounter. Detective Burgess says the woman was fully clothed when he entered the room to make the arrest. The young woman told the matron at the jail that she considered she had ben trapped. She said that a woman friend of hers, Anna Hoffman, had called her up by telephone and made an appointment to meet her in the evening as she had something impor tant to communicate. When they met her woman friend was accompanied by two well-dressed young men who in vited her into their automobile and later, she said, they went to the ho tel for dinner. It was later, when Mateiket, it is said, began questioning her regarding the passport fraud case that the row occurred. The police, when they heard the story of the carefully guarded suit cases, were inclined to believe that they sheltered telephonic, devices for recording conversations. The men car ried the grips with them when they left the police station. The police learned that during the night Mateiket several times called a German newspa per on the telephone and held con versations with some person in Ger man. I THE WEATHER] For llHrriMhurK anil vicinity: Fnlr tft-nlftlit unit TucNiltty. For F.n»tern I'cnnnylvnnln: Fair In-uluhl mid Tueaday j moderate iiortlmcat »vln«!x. River All river NIIIIIOIIN report falling ciindltloiiN, except lllnuhamton, irlilcli report* ItM river up one tenth. A HtdKe or nhoirl 0.5 IN In- I •Heated for ll'irrlNburjf by Tues day mornlnic. Cenernl Conditional The Influence of (he dliturhnnce In the northeiiHt hax PIINNCII and u well developed nreu of liluii prcNNurc In moving from the ■iiulhiveit, attended by generally fnlr and cool weather. Willi the eiiNtwnrd proKrem of the area of hitch preamire over the central Culled state* thl> vicin ity may expect fair weather with about normal temperature to night and Tueaday. Temperature: s a. m„ aa. Milli KINCM, 0:114 a. m.- aela, p. in, Moon: Full moon, to-day, 5:4 M li. in. River Since: 8.7 feet above low water mark. Ve«teriln>'« Weather Hlwlieat temperature, ail, l.owcat temperature. Mean tempcriitu-e. an. Annual temperature, ;!J. BRITAIN ID FRICE TO STOP ALL SHIPS BOUND FOR GERMANY Announcement Is Made to State Department and Referred to President U. S. GOVERNMENT SILENT Authorities Not Prepared to Make Comment on New Situation at Present By Associated Press W ashington, March I. —France and [ Great Britain served notice tin the i United States to-day that they would j hold themselves at liberty to stop all! shipping hereafter to and from Ger-' many. A communication, outlining incus- j ures of reprisals on the part of the j allies for the submarine warfare on I merchant ships conducted by Ger-1 many was delivered to Secretary j Bryan by the French and British am- i hassadors, here, who called personally I at the State Department together fori that purpose. Secretary Bryan promptly apprised , President Wilson of the new move but declined to make any statement. What the nature of the step is, was not dis closed by the ambassadors, who inti mated that the State Department j [Continued on Page 10.] MAJOR EVANS TO BE BURIED Ml UNIFORM Long Time State Employe Had Interesting and Varied Military Career Major fiarton Darlington Evans, age 70, a former superintendent of public printing, and later connected with the State Department of Fisher ies, died at his home, at the Slgler Apartments, 30 North Second street, late yesterday afternoon. Death was due to a general breakdown. Major Evans has been confined to his homo I for eight weeks. One. daughter, Miss Elizabeth Evans, [Continued on l'age 7.] MATRIMONY VIES TO PROTECTRIVER BANK Hardy Plants Will Weave Roots Through Clay, Preventing It From Washing Plans for the planting of the newly made fill along the River Bank be tween Calaer and Maclay streets as outlined by Warren H. Manning, the city's landscape architect, are intended to protect the bank from high water like that of the past week, which has carried away earth from some por tions. It was to be expected that some of the loose earth would be washed away, but when Mr. Manning's plans have been carried out the new fill will present the same sort of resisting power to lloods mat characterizes the River Bank below Herr street. ! For the present Mr. Manning will I recommend the planting of hundreds of thousands of little matrimony vines 'along the slope, and nothing else, ut i least until this has attained a sturdy I growth. The matrimony vine is free | of all disease. It is hardy and tills and (■overs the ground with an intricate mass of roots and p'ems, all of which [prevent the surface from washing. It [is rather a pretty thing, flowering freely in the Spring. although not showy, but Its fruit is brilliant and beautiful in Fall and winter. The tree planting along the walk that is proposed to extend beyond the western curb line of Front street along the fill is to be similar to that farther down the river. The width of the bank from the curb line to the point where it starts to slope toward the wall will be made as uniform as conditions will permit, it was said to-day. Until the water recedes Commis sioner M. Harvey Taylor, superinten dent of parks and public property, said there is absolutely no way of deter mining what damage has been dope to the new "fill" on North Front street. He believes it will be very slight, how ever. The park commissioner's treatment of the slopes above "Hardscrabble" had been urged by the property owners in the upper end of the city and they are endorsing his method of filling in the banks. Scores or people who strolled along the bank to-day smilingly flout ed the stories of extensive damages to the new "fill" by the recent high water. , WARSHIP OFF GOLDEN GATE By Associated I'ress San Francisco. Ca!„ March I.—An unidentified warship with four fun- I neis was reported off the Golden Gate early to-day, accompanying northward u British tramp steamer. The war vessel, the first of any of the bellig erents to be sighted off this port in ntuny months, was believed to be British. HARRISBURG. PA., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1915. STUCK LATE.SMTH I r ' IT NOW -\F I, bONT" \ / "TWH \ MADAM CLARA PILL \T OOT IGO \ / m\> TWt SAN A V/UVAMT TD 3"A\L_-BOT I NEED I FRANCISCO FfMR — \ HELP TO FIGURE \T / SOT WHEN \T COMES TO J FORTUNE OOT-OCCULTA\D VS / \ WORKING TFlieo ®) 19/4'- 1 HTi_- 4VHO —6A<JW-MD —- EVEN STORK FINDS GREA T WAR IN EUROPE IS Official Business Clause Prevent s Wiring Important News to the Father on Faraway Coast Survey Ship The war in Europe is pretty tough. Several weeks ago William Julius, 59 North Eighteenth street, said good-by to pretty Mrs. Julius (Miss Ruth Creep that was) and sailed away across the seas to the West Indies in Upcle Sam's coast survey service to make maps and things of the Cuban coast. Julius from time to time must leave home for trips of more or less lengthy duration and he alwavs does so regretfully. He left on this last trip with more than ordinary reluctance, however. William Julius, Jr., as heir to the house of Julius became a husky, howl- GOVERNOR HIS FROM THE PEOPLE Says That Compensation Is Ac cepted Everywhere, but That Folks Disagree on Rates I Governor Brumbaugh said to-day that while ho was receiving many let ters from all parts of the State on the proposed workmen's compensation acts, he found no opposition to com pensation out only differences of opin ion on the rate. The Governor remarked that some lof the employers writing to him did not like the fifty per cent, compensa tion and that some of the labor people wanted more. One of the interesting matters was the subject of compensa tion for aliens, some writers thinking; that it should be less than for citizens of Pennsylvania. He also said that there had been objections made to the provisions for 500 weeks' compensation for widows. The suggestions, said the Governor, will be matters for the Legislature to consider. He called attention to the fact that an error in the printed draft made it appear that brothers and sis ters of parents living in another coun try were made beneficiaries. The op posite Is the case. When asked about the proposed full crew law repeal, the Governor said that he was getting many letters, but had 1101 taken any attitude on the matter. The Governor said that he might name a Judge for Philadelphia to j night, but was not certain. Pythians of John Harris Council Plan Benefit For "Quick Relief Fund" Widows and orphans and oven mem bers of John Harris Council, No. 198. Knights of Pythias, who may be In hard luck because of loss of a job! won't suffer during the cold weather if I the plans of the lodge for replenish ing its "quick relief fund" are produc tive. The order will meet this evening at its quarters in Union Square and fol lowing the nession the committee in charge of the big beneiit concert thai is scheduled March 10 in Technical high auditorium will meet. This com mittee consists of Harry A. Boyer. chairman; Harry U. Keel, Charles W. Erb. Joseph H. Benfer, Charles B. Lanletz and C. B. Oornman. The concert will be given bv the half a dozen or more pretty giri mu sicians who comprise the Hounds' Ladies Orchestra and Musical Special ty Company, and an elaborate program has been prepared. The committee has arranged a plan for distribution of tickets which will permit each Pythian to assume a proportionate share "of the burden. The. proceeds will be devoted to the council's "quick relief fund." ing. cooing, sleeping fact a short time after father's departure. On hoard the far-awny coast survey ship tho coming of William, Jr., had long been expected and elaborate plans for a proper celebration of the event had long since been under way. The tip, it was generally expected, would come by wireless. Hence the op erator's extra careful ear of late. But nary a flash about the Stork. The neutrality requirements of the United States prohibits the wiring of anything but official business to the ships at sea. So the mail, nearly two weeks later, had to carry the news. The war in Kurope is pretty tough. MCfILEB DISCUSSES FULL CREW MEASURE Phila. Division Head Declares Measure Works Against Efficiency "Forcing extra inen Into service with regular crews works against the safety and efficiency in railroad op erations," is the opinion of Superin tendent William 1!. McCaleb, of the Philadelphia division of the Pennsyl vania Itailroad. on the full crew ques tion. According to Mr. McCaleb, he has not found any increase in safety ill railroad operations since the taw has been in effect. He has jurisdiction over Harrisbuis, Philadelphia. Knola and West Morrisville territory, all parts of the Philadelphia division. Su perintendent McCaleb said this morn ing: "In the operation of flie Philadel phia division we move on an average 6,232 passenger trains, 0,52" slow fre ! ght trains ana 900 fast freight trains per month and it is obvious as a plain business proposition we could not afford to permit these trains to move improperly manned. Accidents and wrecks are costly and It is the con stint aim and study upon the part of myself and assistants to avoid same. "During the year 1914 It was neces sary to have a second hrakeman on each of the fast trains, which only had [Continued on Page 7.] "Dope" Selling Law Is Effective Today; Many Doubt Benefits of Bill By Associated Press Washington, March I.—The act of Congress prohibiting all persons from selling or giving away habit-forming drugs without a physician's prescrip tion, or under direct Instruction of a physician was in effect to-day. These drugs include opium, cocaine leaves or any compound, manufacture, salt de rivative, or preparation made from such drugs. Remedies that cannot be! dispensed without a physician's orders ! include those containing more than ! two grains of opium, or more than! one-fourth of a grain of morphine or' one-eighth of heroin or one grain of! codeine. Violators of the law are subject to a fine of not more than $2,000 or impris onment for five years or both. A tax of one dollar a year Is fixed for all who sell such drugs. Enforcement of the law is vested In the commissioner of Internal revenue for which $150,000 is provided. Champions of the measure contend that it will greatly benefit the country at lurge and the drug user In particu lar, while others predict that it will work unlimited harm to drug habit ues. CHURCHES RESPOW TO RELIEF IPPEIL Home Division Now Has Enough Money on Hand to Carry on Its Work Another Month Prompt response to the appeal for funds with which to carry on the work of the Home and War Relief commit tee, was made yesterday by a big ma jority of the Sunday schools appealed to. Others will take action at special meetings tq be held this week or will appropriate money next Sunday. Classes of Grace Methodist Church gave $25, the scholars in Maclay Street Church of CJod contributed their en [Continued on Page 7.] WILL BUY SITE FOB CITY ASPHALT PLANT Commissioner Lynch to Offer Or dinance in Council Tomorrow Appropriating $6,630 Council's authority to purchase a site for the municipal asphalt repair plant will be asked at to-morrow's ses sion when Commissioner W. 11. Lynth. superintendent of streets and public improvements, introduces an ordin ance appropriating $6,630 for the pur pose. The plot is about three-quarters of an acre lying just north of Chanois strict and west of the Steelton branch of the Philadelphia and Heading rail road . The land is owned by the McCor mick estate and the negotiations were closed Saturday afternoon by Commis sioner I.ynch with Vance C. and Henry B. McCormick, trustees. No opposi tlon is anticipated. The plot, while somewhat costly, has never been used for anything since the old Ryder coal yards did business there. A branch siding with trestle bins for dumping materials extending to tho main line of the Steelton branch and this feature was considered hv the commissioner of streets and public im provements when he began negotia tions. The arrangements that were made with the McPormick estate trustees, provide for an option on the ground with a view to purchase to extend un til March 15. It is expected that the [Continued on Page 7.] I Here Is a Little Tip: Invest Your Hard Cash in Juicy Greenbacks | Do you want "greenbacks?" Get in | touch with Secretary E. L. McColgln of the Harrisburg Chamber of Com | merce at once. Me has inquiries from I New Orleans concerning a market in | Harrisburg for their products. Now don't get excited. Tills south ern enterprise, while a money maker, does not want to sell real money. They raise frogs and are ready to supply the world if necessary. Those kind of ••greenbacks" are plentiful in the South, ana can be shipped to Harris burg alive. Frog legs are a delicacy. According to the letter from New Or leans Harrisburg folks can have them at a small cost. VILLA FORCKS VICTORIOUS EI Paso, Texas, March I.—A battle between Villa and Carranza troops at; San Mateo, Chihuahua, and the cap- 1 ture of Acambaro, Ouanajauto Stale, is reported in a brief telegram signed b;- Francisco Villa, received here last night by the Associated Press. Villa men were victorious. 12 PAGES ALLIES STILL SMASHING FORTS OF DARDANELLES Rumania Ready to Enter War on Side of Great Britain, France and Russia; Germans Are Being Steadily Pushed Back, According to Reports From Northern Poland; Austrians Suffer Reverses in Eastern Gal icia; Turkish Forces Preparing to Oppose Attempts of Landing Parties to Advance on Constantinople The Rumanian minister of the in terior is credited with the statement that a representative of Ills country has made a formal agreement with Great Britain, France and Russia for entering the war with them. Bucharest advices say that ten classes of Ru manian reserves have been called out for March 13. It has been expected that should Rumania enter the war she would do so in the hope of enlarg ing her territory at the expense of Austria and with the particular object of obtaining Transylvania, which Is populated largely by Rumanians. A semiofficial statement from Petro-, grad deals with the Russian offensive movement in Northern Poland, near the Prussian border, where, it is said, the Germans are being pushed Iwk steadily. The fighting in this region is severe, possession of villages passing back and forth from one side to the other, but appt fiable progress each day Is claimed for the Russians. In Eastern Galicia, at the other extreme of the Russian front, the Austrians are reported to have suffered reverses. These claims, however, have not been borne out from either Berlin or Vienna. Bombarding Forts The great Anglo-French fleet is still smashing at the Dardanelles forti fications. Although Constantinople ad mits that some of the forts have felt the effects of the bombardment, it has not confirmed the statements of the British admiralty concerning the re duction of the outer defenses. A large force of Turkish troops is said to have been assembled on the Isthmus to op pose nny attempts of landing parties to advance on Constantinople. Launch New Assault A new attempt to force back the German line in France apparently is under way, in tho Champagne region, and although no definite results have been achieved, a battle of considerable importance is developing. Attacks of the allies along this section of the front have been proceeding tentatively for several days but the communica tion from trie German war office to day indicates that an assault in force has now beon launched. It Is said that at least two army corps of French BISHOP DUBS REPORTED SINKING i Physicians at the bedside of Bishop Rudolph Dubs, ■ late this afternoon reported that his condition is rapidly % growing worse. Bishop Dubs has been ill for several J Berlin, March 1, by wireless to London, 2.55 P. M.— % The official announcement of the progress of the war given out in Berlin it that the Fren forces have begun the use of a special artillery shell which spreads a poisonous gas on exploding. Washington, March I.—House RepubMcans filibuster the administration ship bill off the program for to-day at » least and probably for the remaining three days of the ses- J sion, When the bill appeared in the form of a conference # report the Republicans locked it so successfully that ad- ■ ministration leaders abandoned their pains of putting it # through to-day. # London, March 1, 1.22 P. M.—"Germany has driven her i opponents to adopt retaliatory measures to prevent commo # dities of every kind from reaching or leaving Germany," I said Premier Asquith in the House of Commons to-day J FIRE IN GARAGE C Fire late this afternoon in the garage of E. J. Miller, the % undertaker, 528 Race street, caused damage amounting to ■ SSO. The origin of the fire is not known. Mr. Miller w, % out with one of his automobiles and the other was saved % WILSON SIGNS PENSION BILL ' I • / ( Washington, March 1. —President Wiison to-day signed I the Pension Appropriation Bill, carrying approximately I $164,000,000. It was the of the large appropriation bills ' to reach the President. 1 Chicago, March 1. —Announcements that Great. Britai- ( ' had declared a blockade on all the coasts of her enemies i i tended to demoralize the market to-day. The close was F ! excited at 5% and 6% under Saturday night. Just before ■ the final gong some sales showed losses of as much as 7 1 /j, B May touching $1.46. F New York, March I.—Dr. Bemhard Dernberg, former C German Colonial minister, characterizes as untrue to-day a K report that Count Von Bernstoff, German ambassador to & the United States, would be recalled. C MARRIAGE Ll| C. M. Olierly, Wilmington, nnd Fern Dauber, Mlddlelun n. 7} limik liilloiio nail Kmllln Honato, <•!<>-. Geo rue W. Klehl untl Un.-cn May, city. /) IJ * POSTSCRIPT. were engaged and that they were re pulsed after fierce lighting at close quarters. In the Argonne, Berlin reports, tho French made five efforts to break through tho German positions, bein-f thrust back in each instance. The French statement asserts that the al lies made slight progress in the Yos ges. In the House of Commons, Premier Asquith announced that at no time previously had the British government been more confident that the allies would achieve victory. UNIDENTIFIED STtvV.MDII AFLOAT By Associated Press New York. March I.—An uniden tified steamship with oil propeller blades shorn off was adrift last week near the middle of the Atlantic, ac cording to the log of the American. Bine steamer New York, which reached here to-day from Liverpool. KNKMY DRIVEN BACK By Associated Press Petrograd, Feb. 118.—The following statement was issued to-night by tho general staff of the Army of the Cau casus: "Our advance forces, driving the enemy before them, have reached the river Kliopatchai. There is no change in the situation on the other fronts." PIANO IIDCKNTLY INSTALLED IN KOKOMO CHURCH SILENT « By Associated Press Kokomo, Ind„ March I.—Services were held yesterday in the Walnut Grove Christian Church, when James McKillip, who procured a shotgun and took possession of the. building two weeks ago, allowed the congregation to worship without molestation. McKil lip took possession because a piano was installed in the church. McKll llp's father gave the property to tho congregation twenty years ago, but stipulated in the deed that no musical instruments were to be used in the building. The piano was silent yes terday.
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