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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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"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
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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
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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.