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Petrograd Announces Officially the Surrender
HARRISBURG &§«!& TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 66
AGED Ml BURNED
TO DEATH AS HIS
HOME BURNS DOWN
Accident, Murder, or Suicide?
Answer Being Sought by
Authorities
LIVED ALONE IN THE HOUSE
Had Savings, Belief; Neighbors
Find Charred Bones When
Fianies Die Down
Plain, Pa.. March 22.—Perry coun
t. officials this afternoon'are engaged
in an investigation to learn whether
Clinton D. Bixler. aged 60. Who re
sided on a larm eight miles from here,
fired his home early this morning and
then committed suicide; whether he
was murdered and the house fired by
his assailants: or whether the build
ing was burned accident illy and the
old man lost his life while asleep.
Bixler, who Is well-known through
out Perry county, has lived alone in
the house since last Fall when his
wife was taken to the Harrisburg hos
pital for treatment. She was dis
charg d recently and went to live
with a daughter, Mrs. C. H. Bair,
three miles front Boysville, to recu
perate. The husband remained at
the old home to take care of the farm 1
work. It is understood here that his
savings were kept in the house and
this lends color to the murder theory.
The house is situated in a lonely spot
and the closest neighbors are a good
distance away.
Find Charred Boner,
When they saw the smoke and
flames at 5 o'clock this morning they
hurried to the scene but could not
find Bixler. When the ruins cooled
they made a search and in the cellar
discovered some charred bones and
burned flesh. At noon to-day physi
cians were called at New Bloomtleld
and they will make an examination
of the bones and flesh in an effort to
establish Bixler's identity and learn
whether or not he was a victim of
foul play.
It is reported that some persons
who arrived early at the fire say that
ihrough tne cellar windows they could
see a chain dangling from a rafter
and attached to the end of the chain
they say they could see a body. This
import, however, has not been sub
rnantially verified.
Mj story Shrouds Death
The district attorney at New Bloom- 1
field was notified early this afternoon]
and he, together with his county offl-1
>ers, are now making an investiga-1
tion.
The death of Bixler is shrouded in
mystery for persons who know him
say that he had no reasons for taking
his life. He was in Blain Saturday
afternoon and appeared to be in the
best of health and spirits.
Bixler, it is said, announced himself
recently as a candidate for county
treasurer.
U. S. Does Comparatively
Little Export Business
By Associated Press
Washington. March 22.—The United
States does comparatively little re
export business compared to the other
great commercial nations—Great Bri
tain, Germany and France—according
to a statement to-day by, the Depart
ment of Commerce.
For many years the total of foreign
merchandise brought into the United
.'tates and sold again to foreign buy
ers has ranged between 533.000.000
and $43,000,000 annually in value.
During the fiscal year of 1914 the total
was $33,000,000.
Cireat Britain's re-export business
during the last calendar year totalled
5463.000.000 against $42,300,000
handled through the United States in
the same period. The British excess
of domestic exports over American
figures, however, was only one per
cent.
The great difference in re-exporta
-lion business is due in part to the
colonial posse»sio s of the European
countries whose business is handled
through the parent countrv. Thus
Germany In 1912 did re-exportation
business totalling 5159.000.000 and
Franco In 1912 $337,000,000 in prod
ucts chiefly of their respective colo
nies.
WOMEN PI,AN MEETING
fly Associated Press
New York, March 22.—Representa
tive- of women's organization in 21
States will attend a meeting o fthe ad
visory council of the congressional
union for woman suffrage here March
21. A business meeting will be held
at the home of Mrs. O. H. p. Belmont,
a member ot the executive commit
tee.
j THE WEATHER
For HnrHnhurie and vicinity:
« londy nn<l unaettled to-night
nnd Tueaday. with prolinbly light
Know to-night; not much change
In temperature.
For Kaatern I'ennaylvanln: Cloudy
a -d unaettled to-night and Tun
day, with probably anon In north
and wf»t portion*; partly cloudy
) In aoutheaat portion.
River
I.lKht anow la falling thin morning
over the river dlatrlrt at several
atatlona. There haa heen a alight
rise at a few atatlona. A atage
of about 4.5 feet la Indicated for
Harrtaburg on T a cad ay morning.
Cfnertj t'ondltlona
Cloudy and unaettled eondltlona are 1
general thla morning over the
eastern, middle and northwestern
portion* of the country. I.tght to
moderate snow la falling thla
morning at acattered atatlona |„
T'ennayl vanla.
Te nperatnre: S a. m.. 3«.
Sun: Rtaea, 6:07 a. m,; Beta 6tlg
p. m.
Moon: Full moon, March 31, 12i38
niver Staget 4.3 feet above low
water mark.
Yeaterday'a Weather
Highest temperature, 4S.
l,owent temperature. 32.
lleaa temperature, 38.
Aormal temperature, 441.
1,500 MEN ENDORSE
LOCALJPTION BILL
Xommend Action of Governor and
Pledge Him Their Support
at Mass Meetings
FRAME UP RESOLUTIONS
Speakers in Three Churches Yes
terday Afternoon Bitterly
Denounce Liquor Traffic
One thouand and five hundred men
took part in big local option demon
strations yesterday afternoon In Augs
| burg Lutheran. Fourth Reformed and
j Grace Methodist Churches.
Short addresses were made at all
lof the meetings, after which resolu
tions calling on representatives of the
city to give Harrisburg \oters the pow
| er to decide whether or not they want
j saloons were passed unanimously.
■ Delegations then took copies of the
! resolutions to the homes of Represen
tatives Swartz and Wfldman.
j The Rev. William N. Yates, pastor
|of the Fourth Street Church of God,
l spoke at the meeting in Augsburg Lu
itheran, the Rev. A. M. Stamets pre-
I siding. The Rev. P. H. Balsbaugh,
l pastor of the Sixth Street United
I Brethren Church, conducted the devo
i tional exercises.
On a Plane With Counterfeiting
I Professor F. F. Holsopple address
ed the meeting in the Grace Methodist
Church at which more than 300 men
were present. At the Fourth Reform
ed Church, the Rev. E. E. Curtis, pas
tor of the Westminster Presbyterian
Church, spoke to more than GOO men.
He declared the liquor business is
wrong, and is on a plane with counter
felting.
Delegations from men's Bible classes,
Sunday school workers, church mem
bers, and voters who want the local
option bill passed, were present and
voted in favor of the resolution asking
the representatives to endorse the
bill.
Question of Self Government
"It's not a question of whisky or no
whisky," the Rev. Dr. Yates said,
"but a question of the right of self
government. The taxpayers and the
people have the right to say for them-j
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NEW DORMITORY IS
PLANNEDOT ACADEMY
Rapidly Increasing Enrollment
Makes Another Building
Imperative
Plans for a new dormitory to accom
modate at least fifty boys, have been
started by the board of trustees of the
Ilarrisburg Academy, . according to
Headmaster A. E. Brown, who is in
charge of the school.
At present there are 142 boys
in the school. Within the past two
years the enrollment has increased 30
per cent., making it necessary to pro-
Yide more room for tne accommoda
tion of students, who come from other
parts of the country.
The plans are being made by Phil
adelphia architects and will be sub
mitted to the board of trustees this
week, it was said. Whether or not the
additional building will be erected it
once or not is uncertain but Head
master Brown said this morning that
if the number of students increases
this year as it has during the past two
years, a new dormitory will be neces
sary.
The material to be used in construc
tion end the dimensions of the pro
pose.! building are not definitely known
l-nt the building will be completely
equipped for comfort and will be mod
ern in every respect.
Winter Was Unusually
Wet; 31 Inches of Snow
"After a rainy winter follows a
beautiful Spring," runs an old proverb,
but the. weather man will not give any
authority for it. He does say, how
ever. that the winter, which officially
closed yesterday, had been an excep
tionally wet one, and comparatively
mild in temperature.
From November to the present time
nineteen inches of rain have fallen,
which is six Inches above normal. Total
snow fall was thirty-one inches; last
year it was forty-two. It has been
an "open winter" with no severe
storms or cold waves of unusual sever
ity. Tlie only period that snow re
mained on the gTound for any length
of time was from December 13 to
January 6.
The lowest temperature was 1 de
gree above zero on December 27. No
vember was unusually mild, with ->,n
average of 5 degrees higher than the
average for twenty-seven years; De
cember was 2 degrees above average;
January, 3Vi degrees, and February 5
degrees above average, one of the
warmest winter months on record.
March, up to date, has been the only
normal month of the winter.
C. H. Doherty, weather forecaster
for the Beading station, who has been
in charge of the Harrisburg offices dur
ing the illness of E. R. Demain, local
forecaster, will return to his home of
fice to-night. Mr. Demain has recov
ered from an attack of pneumonia and
is expected to resume his duties to
morrow.
600 Guests Invited to
Masonic Anniversary
On* of th« largest Masonic affairs of
the-year will take place Mondav night,
March 29. when Robert Burns UoSg-s,
No. 484. will celebrate Its fortv-flfth
anniversary with a banquet in the hall
on the top floor of the Masonic Temple,
Third and State street*.
Invitations have been sent to the
more than 600 members of the lodge
and a number of guests. Prominent
Masons have been secured bv Worship
ful Master Prank G. Fahnestock. Jr. i
io made addresses.
HARRISBURG. PA., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1915.
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is here denouncing "Billy" Sunoay who will start an evangelist revival meet
ing next week in Paterson. She calls him "a tool of the manufacturers
who tries to make men think of their spiritual welfare, thereby taking their
minds off their worldly condition."
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Lieutenant Commander Bricker
and Three Sailors Drowned
in Heavy Sea
By .Associated Press
Constantinople, via Berlin and Lon
don, March 22, 10.24 A. M.—Lieuten
ant Commander William F. Bricker,
of the United States converted yacht
Scorpion and three sailors named
Ford, Dowel and L#verings, were
drowned on the night of March 20
while attempting to reach their vessel
with a rowboat. The Scorpion was
anchored in the Bosphorus off Con
stantinople near the Doltmabaghcheh
Palace.
The rowboat was swamped in a
heavy sea thrown up by a south gale.
Lieutenant Herbert S. Babbitt and
one sailor, who were in the boat, were
saved.
Lieutenant Commander Bricker ar
rived at Constantinople only on March
16 to succeed Lieutenant Commander
Edward McCauley, Jr., in command
of the Scorpion.
The Scorpion is a converted yacht
purchased for the navy in 1896. Tt
has a displacement of 850 tons and
has been stationed at Constantinople
for some time.
Lieutenant. Commander Bricker,
who formerly was naval attache at
the American embassy at Paris left
the city on February 28 for Constan
tinople to assume command of the
Scorpion. He was born January 18.
1879, in Pennsylvania, and appointed
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Gasoline Yacht, Owned by
Millionaire, Destroyed
Off California Coast
fly Associated Press
Los Angeles, Cal., March 22.—The
gasoline yacht La Sota. with her mil
lionaire owner, Morgan Adams, his
bride of a month, and ten friends
aboard, all of this city, burned to the
water last night, sis miles oft San
Pedro. The party took to the life
boats and were picked up within an
hour by a motorboat from Catalina.
Back-flrlng of the engine caused the
blaze. The fire spread rapidly, de
spite a hard fight made by the men
aboard to sare the craft.
When it was seen that there was no
chance to check the flames, the
women were put over the side Into
the two tenders. The men In the
party and the crew followed them
into the boats with as much luggage
as they could rescue from the cabins.
They they rowed away and watched
the yacht burn to the water's elge.
RED FIELD HEBI'KES EMPLOYE
FOR COMPLAINING OF WORK
Washington. March 22.—Secretary
Bedfleld, of the Department of Com
merce has mildly rebuked ar emplove
of his department who is salt*, to have
complained recently that he was re
quired to do work beneath his posi
tion.
"I do not know what the kind of
work can be which Is beneath anv
man's position," the secretary wrote
the employe in passing on his case.
"I think there is no work of which
I know or have heard that Is beneath
my dignity to do. and l am glad to
say that 1 have done the plainest and
hardest and, what is sometimes mis
take ,ly called, the most mental work,
and am ready to do it again if there
Is occasion for it."
CITY SMS WOW
WITH GRAND RUSH
100 Men Given Employment on
Paving, Sewer and
Park Jobs
City Improvements started with a
rush to-day In spite ot the inclement
weather. Contractor William H. Op
perman placed a force of thirty men
at work on the new sanitary sewer in
South Second street and Market
Square. This work must be com
pleted within sixty davs.
Contractor J. A. McKelvey with his
forces broke ground for the new golf
house and lockers at Reservoir Park,
and William H. Murphv & Son began
the construction of the bridge in Cam
eron Park and also resumed work
on the entrance to Reservoir Park at
Twenty-first street. Improvements are
also under way at the Friendship en
ginehouse.
One hundred men will have employ
ment for some time on city jobs. The
new sewer will be placed at a depth of
22 feet, starting at Chestnut street.
The contract calls for a sewer on both
sides of Market Square, running north
ward to Strawberry street. In Market
street the new sewer will run to within
100 feet of Front street. This work
will be under the direction of Com
missioner William H. Lynch.
Park Improvements
Commissioner of Parks M. Harvey
Taylor will direct the work in the
parks. The new entrance to Reservoir
Park includes the widening of the
street and some grading and mav be
completed within three weeks. The
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Catholic Societies in
Philadelphia Unite to
Aid State Movie Censor
Philadelphia. March 22. Resolu
tions opposing any change in the laws
now governing moving picture censor
ship. passed yesterday by the Phila
delphia Diocesan Union of Holy Name
Societies, open new possibilities in the
fight between film exhibitors here and
what they term the "tyranny" of J.
Louis Breitingcr, the chief censor.
Bishop John J. MCort, State Senator
Farley, and 246 delegates, represent
ing 82 church organizations with a
total membership of more than 50,-
000, attended the annual meeting of
the Holy "amc Union In Annuncia
tion Church Hall, Tenth and Dickin
son streets, and Indorsed the work of
Mr. Breitlnger. Any effort on the
part of film men to pass anticensor
ship legislation will result in petitions,
public meetings and possibly a great
demonstration in favor of censorship
by Catholic societies in Chester, Mont
gomery, Bucks, Delaware and Phila
delphia counties.
Pastor B. H. Hart May Be
District Superintendent
Shamokln. Pa.. March 22.—1t was
gossiped about the Methodist confer
ence this afternoon that the Rev. B. H.
Hart, pastor of Fifth Street Church,
Harrisburg, for the past fourteen
years, will be made district superin
tendent of the Harrisburg district and
that District Superintendent B. 11.
Mosser. of the Juniata district, would
be appointed to Fifth Street Church as
pa.stor. This would necessitate the re
moval of Superintendent A. S. l<'asick
to the Willlamsport district and Su
perintendent K. M. Stevens to the
Juniata district. The report could not
be a* the appointment copi
mittee was not nearly ready to report.
WOULD GIVE MORE
POWER TO EH
Charles H. Hoffman, of This City,
Advocates Many Reforms
Before M. E. Conference
CHURCH SHOULD ADVERTISE
Asserts Layman and Minister
Should Assume Same Rights of
Debate and Voting
Special to The Telegraph
Shamokln, Pa., March 22.—At a
meeting of the Daymen's Association
of the Central Pennsylvania Confer
once of the Methodist Episcopal
church on Saturday, Charles 11. Holt- j
man, president of the association, j
made some stirring remarks on the:
duty of the laity to assume greater!
burdens In the church.
He roferred to the fact that the lay- !
man does, of course, hold the power
of the purse, hut unless he wishes to
always leave the power of legislation
and of control to the ministry, the lay
man must assume new rights, new
duties, new powers. "The place of the
layman is at the main conference, lay
man and minister assuming the same
rights of debate and voting," Mr. Hoff
man said. "It is a case now of a sen
ate of real power and a very much
lower house of suggestion, despite the
fact that the layman must assume the
financial responsibilities of the
church."
"These new ideas orv the part of the
laymen of the Methodist church are
growing to large proportions," con
tinued Mr. Hoffman. "Laymen believs
that their rights to take part in the
administration of church affairs should
not be questioned and that they should
have some part in the selection of
ministers, believing that the young
• man should be given a chance to show
his ability regardless of the fact that
he may have been in the niintstry but
a few years, and that he should not
be required to take a less desirable
appointment, in order that some other
minister might be taken care of and
who would not be as acceptable to the
church as the younger man."
Mr. Hoffman also referred to the
advertising feature of the church, de-
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PUBLIC HEARING Oil
LOCAL OPTIOOI BILL
Will Meet Republican Platform
Legislative Committee Tonight;
Compensation Hearing
"I have written to Chairman Wil
liams of the House law and order
committee that both sides have asked
for a hearing on the local option bill
and requested that he grant one. I
think he will do so." said Governor
Brumbaugh this morning when asked j
whether there would be a hearing
on the bill. The Governor said in re- I
sponse to questions that he did not |
know when the hearing would be held !
and that he did not think the local I
option would get before the Housed
much before April 1.
The Governor added that he did not j
know anything about the reported |
movements to bring delegations |
here when the hearing was held as j
the suggestions came from other men. i
Workmen's Compensation
Dr. Brumbaugh said that he
thought workmen's compensation
would attract much attention this
this week and looked forward to the
hearing planned for to-morrow. He
expressed the opinion that, there would
be much debating of the provisions of
the bill on the floor of the House as
men have honest differences about
the important points and would nat-
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Centennial Celebration
at Allegheny College
Meadville. Pa., March 22. —Educa- ;
tional leaders from all parts of the;
country will gather at the centennial j
celebration or Allegheny College here j
in June to discuss college matters ,
among which will be a plan for the .
standardization of courses of study. •
The program for the conference will
he devoted to the ideals and achieve
ments of the American college, what
enters into its curriculum, its place in
education and its future. Sessions will !
begin June 22. Among the speakers ,
will be the Rev. Dr. William H. Craw- ;
ford, president of Allegheny college:
Abraham W. Harris, president of
Northwestern University: Dean
Charles H. Haskins, of Harvard Uni
versity; Provost Edgar S. Smith, of
Pennsylvania University: John H. I
Finlcy, former president of the college '
of the City of New York; W. 11.
Paunce, president of Brown Univer
sity; P. P. Claxton, United States
Commissioner of education; Charles:
F. Thwing, president of Western Re- j
serve University: Prof. Alexander
Mciklejohn. president of Amherst col- '
lege and Henry C. King, president of :
Oberlin College.
Serbia Is in Urgent
Need of Assistance
I An appeal for relief for Serbia has
[ just been sent to the people of Amer
ica by Demetrius, archbishop of Bel
grade and president of the principal
committee in aid of soldiers and fami
lies and other sufferers from the war.
Among the local contributions al
ready sent for Serbia's aid. was JSOO
by the Serbian church of St. Nicholas
at Steelton. The Serbian relief fund
of America of which Bishop Darling
ton is chairman, has also sont between
two and three thousand dollars. The
Home and War Relief of Harrisburs
has sent a number of boxes of sup
plies.
The suffering In the little country is
said to be intense. Typhoid fever has
broken out among the armies and
among the 100.000 Austrian prisoners,
and has killed sixty-five of the doctors,
who were fighting the disease.
RUSS FORCES
TAKE PRZEMYSL
Fall Is Must Important Development in Great War For
Many Days; Austrians Are Now in Possession of
Only One Important Fortified City; Bad Weather
Delays, Temporarily, Attack on Dardanelles
Garrison at Beginning of Struggle Numbered Between
60,000 and 80,000 Men, but This Number Was
Greatly Reduced by Death; Many Prisoners Fall
Into the Hands of Besiegers When Fortress
Is Surrendered
The most Important development of
the day in the European war was the
official announcement from Petrograd
of the surrender of the Gallcian fort
ress of Przemysl which had been be
sieged by the Bussians for several
months.
Simultaneous offensive movements
against the German, Austrian and
Turkish armies from the Baltic to the
Black Sea have Doen undertaken by
the armies of Russia, and in some sec
tions definite progress is reported.
In the extreme north the Germans are
retreating from Memel, East Prus
sia, and the Bussians are believed to |
have begun another drive at Tilset. j
in Poland there is activity all along
the front, but apparently the general
I battle which Petrograd expects has
; not begun.
j The Russian army in the Caucasus
i has announced a victory over .the
'Turks In the fighting along the Black
; Sea coast in Turkish Armenia,
j After several months of inactivity,
hostilities have been resumed between
Austria and her small neighbors. Ser
bia and -Montenegro. A dispatch
'from Cettinje states that the Ans
jtrians made an artillery attack last
ing several days against Montenegrin
positions all along the front, but that
efforts to follow this with infantry ad
vances wene defeated. An artillery
battle between Austrians and Serbians
also to reported. These signs of in
creasing activity have no parallel on
the western front, where no large i
movements are under way.
The attacks on the Dardanelles also
has been stopped temporarily, owing
to bad weather.
Russians 1 /opc Memel
The siege of Prisenivsl came to an
end to-day and the Austrian defend-j
ers of the Galician fortress surrend-i
ered to the Russian forces which have!
been investing It for months. The t
I fall of Przemysl deprives Austria
her last important fortress In Gallclat
WILSON WILL NOT CALL SESSION
\ ing. an, March 22. Ferial innouace»eat wur,
made ihe Whit* Meuse to-day tket Pr: :iJ«at Wilsea h
no in lliag an extra sessiea of the Smtt er of
Con„ic j.>. as.said that .he President sees ae prefects o.
any coi agency arising which weuld cause hi* te alter his
present intention.
LONBON HEARS OF FALL
| .'iarck 22, l.l'j P. M.—Tke Iritisk efficial pre- j
bhrc rx««ca i:-; ued tke fellewing stat*«*emt: "In
form: :i bee* received tkat tka fortress ef Preemysl
has . that tke garrison kaa surrendered te Russian
arms."
V>. .SON WRITES TO LITTLE BELGIANS
v» ' >n, March 22. —An exchange of letters be
tween , ; ..dent Wilson and two little Belgians in Brussels
in wl i the children than ed the President for food sen
by' A: ~nd the P*endent expressed his appreciation
for th .,r l atitude, was made known to-day at the Whitf
House.
HELD UNDER RECENT ORDER * *
V/; hir.gton, March 22. The Hamburg Americai
liner r stopped from leaving San Juan, Porto Rico,
yestc:.. j j shots across her bow, is being held under '{he
recent ccng reodudon empower jug the Presidenl
to prevent supplies going from American ports to ships oi
the European belligerents at sea.
SIX FIREMEN BADLY HURT
Washington, March 22. Six firemen were badly in
jured to-day when a Mortar ladder truck turned over in a
collision with" a motor car on Pennsylvania avenue, near
the Capitol.
BIDS WILL BE OPENED APRIL 7
Harriaburg—Bids for the construction of the municipal
repair plant on South Ninth street, will be opened April 7.
RAILWAY FREIGHT TRAFFIC STOPPED
London, March 22, 5.50 P. M. The Central News
States that the .Italian government to-day stopped all rail
way freight traffic with Germany by way of Switzerland.
MAKIUHUL LlCbNUtii
Jaroli MrCorkel and Mary Saavel?, llorkrmvillr.
Hlpplr, Ml<ldlrt»«Y», and Annn M. Allrmnn, nlffhuplre.
\V illlnni H. Martin and RMbrr M. Horklr;, city.
William V. Tomllaann and Manrir U. t oh, ( harah»r«bnr«.
Morrla H. Strohm and Kmrai ,|, Meffonnel, I'lkftovrß.
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t with the exception of Cracow, near
the German border, which the Rus
sians have made several unsuccessful
attempts to capture.
The German war office announced
that the city of Mcmel, ori the Baltic
Sea in the northern tip of Kast Prus
sia, had been retaken from the Rus
sian force which captured it last week,
following a iiattle near tiic city. Tho
German announcement contains tho
assertion that Russians looted the city
while they were in possession.
Perry County Hotelmen
Appeal From "Dry" Ruling
Perry county hotelmen to-day ap
pealed to ?ne Superior Court from tho
decision of Judge W. X. Reiliert mak
ing the county "dry." The appeal.-*
liied do not include all of the licenses
refused a week ago, but are those oC
ten men whose applications were held
to be defective because of advertising
details. The other six were refused
for cause and have as yet taken no
steps to contest the decree, which
becomes effective on April 1.
The appeal, which is to be made a
test, is that of Howard A. Keim, oC
New Oermantown, behind whom nine
hotelmen stand. The appeal is fixed
for the nixT sitting in Harrisburg.
which will be in 1910. but it is believed
that it will be advanced to Pittsburgh
land argued during the sitting com
j menclng in the western city oil April
19. The Tioga county license appeals
arc due to bo presented at that time.
TURK OFFKSSIVE HAI.TRD
Petrogtail. March 21, via I.ondon,
March J'J. 2.44 A. .M. -An officii.! com
munication fnur headquarters of the
i army of the Caucasus sas: "We have
i repulsed attempts of the Turks to take
• the offensive In the coast region. In
the district of Tchoiiik, after an en
gagement the Tur':s were driven
toward Artvln."