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DECISIVE BASKETBALL GAMES ON THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE—ACADEMY'S RECORD
ACADEMY RECORD
SHOWS FAST PACE
Opponents Lead in Scoring;
Good Material For Next
Year's Team
Opponents of the Harrisburg Acad
emy outscored the locals by 14 points.
Coach Tatem's team, however, came
out in good shape in the number of
victories. The team came back strong
after electing Eddie Roth captain.
There will be good material to start
ne,xt season's team.
Roth, this year's captain, played an
excellent game throughout the season
11 nd was high point scorer for the lo
cal hoys. Phillips, also played s good
game, and helped materially in the
boosting of the scores. He will re
turn next year.
Rruce, the newly elected captain of
next year's team jumped a good game
at center all season, and was a good
point scorer. Kreider at guard helped
to keep down his opponents' scores
all the time, and played with Froeh
lich. the two were an excellent com
bination against more powerful op
ponents. Moore, the first substitute,
showed his grit by sUcking with the
team all season, getting into enough
games to give him his swswter. The
summary of games played follow:
December 11—Academy, 14, York
■ Collegiate Institute, 34, at York; 18,
Academy 40, Pottstown 20. at Cathe
dral Hall; January 8. Academy 21,
Schuylkill Seminary 39, at Reading;
15, Academy 43. York County Acad
emy 23. at Cathedral Hall; 29, Acad
emy 32, Gettysburg Academy 17, at
Cathedral Hall; February 5, Academy
34, York Collegiate Institute 19, at
Cathedral Hall; 12, Academy 18,
York County Academy 58. at York;
19, Academy 31, Schuylkill Seminary
.13, at Cathedral Hall; 26. Academy 21,
Franklin and Marshall 25, at Lancas
ter.
Disney Close Winner in
First West Fairview Shoot
In the opening target shoot of the
West Fairview Sportsmen's Associa
tion, held Saturday, "Had" Disney was
Jiigh scorer with 80 breaks out of
100. It was difficult to shoot and many
• racks from Harrisburg would not en
ter because of the high wind. Bretz
•was second with 79. Three moneys
were divided among the winners,
$12.60, $11.07 and $3.70. The en
trance fee was $5. The score:
Event 15 15 15 15 20 20 Tl.
H. Disney ... 11 10 11 12 18 18—80 !
Bretz 10 13 14 9 16 17—79
Stuart 9 10 12 9 15 16—71
W. A. Miller. 8 11 10 9 11 16—65
Dover 9 9 7 914 15—63
Hoover .... 7 1 9 11 12 14—60
C. Miller ... 5 11 8 8 14 12—58 ;
Wise 9 12 6 6 11 12—56
Sarvis . ... 12 712 7 9 9—56 j
Hassett Girls Winner in
Game With Temple Tossers
The Girls' division tossers of the
Hassett club, won over the Temple i
girls of Philadelphia Saturday, score
21 to 20. This victory gives the local |
i o-eds the right to the championship ;
title for Central Pennsylvania. The
llassett girls are ready to back up this
claim against any quintet in their
class.
The game Saturday was fast and ex
citing. Miss Devine at c.enter, was the i
big shooting star. Miss Sweeney was j
a close second. Miss Burns. Miss Em- 1
manuet, Miss McCarthy and Miss
Cashinan were factors in the good
•work. Miss Irons and Miss Messinger t
were Philadelphia stars. Between the
halves the Hassett Tessahs won from j
the Hassett Arrows, score 4 4 to 31.
WANT BASEBALL GAMES
The Mercury F. C., a baseball club j
lias organized for the coming season |
and is now arranging games with first
class amateur teams in Central |
Pennsylvania. Herbert Hunter, 1323 ;
Susquehanna street, is manager. The <
team Is particularly anxious to play
Steelton. Middletown, Hershey, Lan
caster, York and Enola aggregations.
MOTOR CLUB BUN IN JUNE
The annual run of the Motor Club ;
of Harrisburg will be held in June, j
committee is now at work on plans i
and will announce the program at the I
April meeting. Another committee |
is at work on plans to bring about the
abolishment of the toll gate on the j
Reading pike ( near Humnielstown.
BURIAL COMMISSIONER NAMED
New Cumberland, Pa., March 6.—!
Jacob Wtimer has been appointed by '
the Cumberland country commission-1
ITS as commissioner for the burial of 1
soldiers and their widows for Elk- j
wood precinct. Lower Allen township
and the borough of New Cumberland. '
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More Fight Seats
Means Cash Increase
Spscial to III* Trie graph
New York, March 6.—The re
modeling of Madison Square Gar
den has increased the total seat
ing capacity for the Wlllard-Mo
ran fight to 12,000. The prices for
the seats range from $3 up to $25.
If all the seats are sold, the "gate"
will total *146.000.
SEATS FOR GARDEN FIGHT
Total seating capacity 12,900
1400 seats at (25 each .. . .*35.000
-000 seats at S2O each .... 40,000
1000 seats at *ls each .... 15,000
2000 seats at |lO each .... 20,000
i 2000 seats at $7 each 14,000
4000 seats at $5 each .... 20,000
600 scats at *3 each 1,600
12,900 Total $146,600
Invitations Issued Today For
University Banquet March 15
"Ton are cordially invited to be one
of a gathering of university and col
lege men from your own and other
colleges at a banquet to be held at
'the Harrisburg Club, on Wednesday
J evening, March the fifteenth, at seven
o'clock. The speakers will include
! President Edwin E. Sparks, of State
- College; Dr. J. George Recht, secre
tary of the State Roard of Education;
Dr. Arthur H. Quinn, dean of the col
lege department. University of Penn
sylvania, and others."
Such In substance is the form of
the Invitation which was sent out this
afternoon to well over 350 alumni of
the numerous universities that are
represented in Harrisluirg and near
by towns. It Is planned to make this
dinner an annual affair, provided suffi
cient interest is taken In the one to be
held on March 15. The purpose of
the gathering is primarily to throw
the graduates of different universi
ties closer together and provide some
sort of basis for future gatherings of
like nature. If there be any accredited
college graduates in the vicinity of
Harrisburg who will not have received
invitations before Thursday of this
week, it is the wish of the committee
that they send their name and ad
dress, college and class to Mark T.
Milnor, 1 North Third street, and invi
tations will be sent them.
The committee on nrrangements is
composed of Henderson Gilbert, Ar
thur E. Rrown, John Fox Weiss, Mark
T. Milner, John T. Shirley, Edward J.
Stackpole, Jr., Dr. Harvey F. Smith,
Dr. Frederick E. Downes, Dr. William
L. Keller, Frank P. Snodgrass, Carl W.
Davis, Eugene Miller. John P. John
son, Percy L. Grubb, Albert A. Wert,
Dr. D. I. Rutherford, Paul G. Smith,
Robert T. Fox, Dr. H. M. Kirkpatrick,
P. R. Price, A. Ross Walter, James K.
Jackson, Croll Keller, John C. Her
man, J. Douglas M. Royal, William S.
Middleton, Roy G. Cox, Earle R. Smith
and William H. Ernest.
REFUSES LICENSES
TO 6 HOTELS
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the public morals, were urged by the
remonstrants as reasons for refusing
the re-licensing of more than a score
of places, the violations of the Rrooks
high license law In the way some of
the hotel winerooms were conducted
furnished highly sensational reasons
for basing objections.
The investigations, particularly
those confined to the city hotels, were
made by E. H. Dodge, an Indiana
newspaper man, brought here for the
purpose; John P. Guyer, field secre
tary of the Law and Order League,
and the Rev. Harvey Klaer, pastor of
Covenant Presbyterian Church, and
president of the No-License League.
Kl>ol License Granted
Both Ebel and Strlplin are forced
to vacate the National and Lerov
properties respectively because the
State has acquired them in the exten
sion of the capitol park zone. Ebel's
request for a re-llcense of the National
however, was granted and lie can con
duct business until the State actually
takes the property. Striplin Jia.il
originally filed tin application for the
re-licensing of the Leroy in order to
protect his liquor business until such
time as the State would take his hotel
also, but at the opening of license
court he withdrew this request and
based his tight wholly on his hope of
securing the privilege for North
Sevanth street.
Fishmun's hotel is in the busiest
hotel district of Market street and
| while his petition for the privilege
was testified to by thirty or more wit
nesses, businessmen, manufacturers
, and other citizens of the ward de
clared against it.
In the court's refusal to allow Ebel
! a transfer to the North Fourth street
I location, the Eleventh ward people
; won another signal victory. Only a
| year ago Leslie B. Potter made a
■ strenuous effort to remove his hotel
from the Eight ward to the West End.
Hearings Were Sensational
| The action of painted girls of the
I tenderloin, the obvious purpose for
, their presence, the fact that intoxi
icated men and women were served
; with liquor—these were only a few
|of the reasons upon which the
I remonstrants based their objections
against regranting most of the city
i licenses. In only the St. Charles,
I Savoy and Aldine cases, however, did
the testimony in the court's opinion
'warrant refusal on these grounds.
The hearings on the remonstrances
began on February IS and final argu
ment was heard on Friday. March 1
all the licensees who had been grant
ed the privilege in 1915 necessarily
' had to close down pending the final
action of President Judge Kunkel and
Additional Law Judge McCarrell. Of
these four will not open again.
Tlie Licenses Granted
; Following are the hostelries against
which remonstrances had been filed
but which were granted the privilege
to-day:
1 Harris House. 20 North Third, Geo.
Rovai; Columbus. 229-33 Walnut,
' Maurice E. Russ: Lynch Hotel, 325-27
Verbeke, Thomas J. Sullivan; Katz
man, 314 Verbeke, David Katzman;
National, State and Fourth streets,
Fred W. Ebel; Victor, 24 Grace, Jos.
Giustl; William H. Bowman, Berrys
! burg,- St. Lawrence: Coxestown Hotel,
Coxestown, Frederick Hosslnger; John
jF. Snyder, wholesale liquor store, 232
| Union street. Second ward, Middle
town.
MINISTERIAL BODIES MEET
The Rev. S. L. Rice, pastor of the
Marysville Lutheran Church, at the
morning session of the Lutheran Min
isterial Association of the city and vi-
I cinlty, read a paper on "Rook Rc
| view; Footings For Faith, by Merrill."
> The pastors held an all-day pre Lenten
| session in Zion Lutheran Church and
discussed plans for services during
Lent. At the Methodist Ministerial
meeting this morning at the Y. M.
C. iA.,'the Rev. Rt W. Runyan read a
paper on "Essential Qualification For
General Conference Delegate."
PRESIDENT QUITS
George G. Swainbank, former presi
dent apd general manager of the
ChaiMes F. Hoover Furniture Com
. pany, sold his interest In the business
lon March 1, and will have some an
nouncement to make soon as to his
.plant' for the future.
LEAGUE GAME IS
UP TO READING
i'
|lf Lawson Lands Lauer Park,
Harrisburg Will Lose Out;
FarrelPs Plan
Definite Information as to whether
: Reading wants a New York State
j League franchise is expected to-day
|or to-morrow. On the decision at
! Reading depends Harrisburg's chances
j for league baseball this summer. Own
ers of Lauer's Park, it is said, control
| the situation.
President John H. Farrell of the
| New York State League wants a ten
i club circuit and would like to add
I Harrisburg and Reading. If A 1 .Law
son fails to go through with his plans
j for the Atlantic League by taking in
Heading, an opportunity would be
opened for President Farrell to offer
a franchise to both Reading and Har
risburg. A Wllkes-Barre dispatch
says:
"There is no other chance of Har
risburg and Reading getting State j
League baseball. The eight cities j
which made up the league last year'
will stick during the coming season.]
Wilkes-Barrc and Scranton pair off;
Elmira and Ringhamton also pair off!
i with Syracuse and Utica as rivals and
(Troy and Albany on the Eastern end.
I "Reading and Harrisburg would
form another good pair. The ten
club league has been talked about for
; some time. President Farrell favored
j it from the start, but when Lawson
(stepped in and got an option on the
j grounds for Ills Atlantic League a halt
had to be called."
Washington Street Car
Strike Forces Thousands
to Walk to Their Work
By Associated Press
Washington, March 6. The Cap
jital of the United States realized fully
to-day that it had a street car strike
j on its hands.
When the companies began running
| cars this morning with the few men
| who stuck to their posts, and recruit
crews of inspectors, clerks, machin
ists and former employes they man-
I aged to give a service equal to about
j 25 per cent, of the normal.
The result was that between 8 and
,9 o'clock when not less than 100,000
folk move to their day's work, the few
j cars operating were hopelessly over-
I loaded in the early stage of their
] trips and tens of thousands walked.
' Members of Congress, government
| clerks and everybody else took even
! chances on getting transportation,
i Processions of hurrying workers
j trudged down the main avenues, every
available motor conveyance was press
ed into service, jitney busses, were
| brought from Baltimore, taxlcabs,
| motor trucks, and even horses and
buggies were pressed into service,
j The men demand a minimum wage
,of 30 cents an hour, and 10 hours'
work within 12 consecutive hours.
One company now pays 22 Vfe cents
and the other 25 cents.
Automobile Suit First
Common Pleas Case Is
Settled; Panel Excused
Postponed for a week because of
| the long session of license court,
February Common Pleas Court open
s ed to-day with President Judge Kun
j kel hearing the assumpsit action
I brought by Robert E. Cameron, and
the Commonwealth Trust Company,
j his committee in lunacy, against An
i drew Redmond, an auto dealer. Ad
j ditiona.l Law Judge S. J. M. McCar
| rell sitting on the trespass action
I brought by John B. Rider, against the ;
: York Haven Water and Power Com-I
I pany.
j The Cameron-Redmond action was!
j settled shortly after the jury had been
picked.
Following the settlement of the;
case the remainder of the Common
| Pleas panel was dismissed until to-
I morrow.
DANVILLE MINISTER ACCEPTS
CALL TO MILLERSBURG CHURCH !
Special to the Telegraph
Millersburg, Pa., March 6.—At a
congregational meeting of the mem
bers ot St. Paul's Lutheran Church
. held last evening, the Rev. J. H. Mus
' selman, of Danville, was unanimously
elected pastor of the church. This \
' church has been without a regular j
j pastor since the death of the Rev. Mr. [
White early in January. However,
preaching services were held each j
Sunday, the pulpit being filled by sup
piles. The Rev. Mr. Musselman is a j
young man and has accepted the 6all.
He will move to Millersburg in the I
near future.
COMMISSIONER JACKSON TO i
INTRODUCE MRS. CATT
The suffragists of the State,who will;
convene tn party conference to-mor
row at the Board of Trade Hall, an- |
nounced that John Price Jackson,
j State Commissioner of Labor, will in- I
troduce Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt 1
when she speaks at the mass meeting
to-morrow evening.
KOTUR'S DEFENSE COST *171.53
Dauphin county paid exßecorder O. I
G. Wickersliam and S. Duncan Wylie, \
counsel for the defense In. the Nicolo i
I Kolur murder trial just $75 apiece
for their services. The two attor-1
I neys were appointed by tile court and]
the compensation as allowed this
| morning by the county commissioners!
was the fee fixed by the court. For,
services of subpenus, etc., $24.53 waui
allowed.
CHARTER CEMETERY
In a brief decree handed down this
morning the Dauphin county court:
chartered the Stoverdale Memorial
Cemetery Association of Derry town
ship. The income will not exceed
$5,000 annually and the incorporators
are: Edward Stover, Charles C. Kerns,
Mary Stover, M. S. Kelder and Jerome
Ricker. •
COLONEL NOTT DIES
By Associated Press
New York, March li. Charles C.
Nott who was appointed to the United
States Court of Claims, by President
Lincoln, and Chief Justice of the court
1 Ky President Cleveland, died here to
day at the age of 89. Mr. Nott served
in the.Civil War and gained the rank
of Colonel.
<•11111/ BURNED
Edith Long, aged 22, a domestic at
923 Capital street, was severely burned
about the face, arms and chest this
morning, when some paper which she
had put in the stove blazed up and
set Are to her clothing. She was ad
mitted to the Harrisburg Hospital for
treatment. 4
HARRISBURG SsSjSSfc TELEGRAPH
Bits From Sportland
| Herbert Barnet of Middletown will
! manage the Royalton A. C. baseball
j team this season. A strong schedule;
is being arranged.
Toledo will get the American Asso
; eiatlon Cleveland team. The franchise
will be transferred to-day.
"Hal" Chase, the baseball player,
; lias been sued for nonsupport of his
{child.
Camp Hill High tossers dropped a,
| game to York Collegiate Institute!
[Saturday, score 81 to 6.
The Lebanon Valley College basket
ball girls defeated the Ephrata girls
! Friday night, score 61 to 4.
Waynesboro High school five won
iover the Blue Ridge college quintet'
Saturday scores 36 tp 18. The Alpha I
second team defeated the Y. M. C. A.
score 39 to 38.
The Cubs of the Mt. Pleasant Press
League bowled victory over the White
Elephants Saturday, scores 1,217 to
1,067.
The St- Louis Nationals yesterday
won from the San Antonla team,
score 11 to 9.
The Lebanon Valley Scrubs defeated
Mlllersville, score 31 to 26.
Cleveland won from New Orleans, j
score 9 to 6.
Hershey High school defeated Car- j
lisle High quintet Saturday, score 19 l
to 11.
In the Evangelical League series
the Where team won from the Who
five, score 976 to 571; and the When j
bowlers defeated the What team, score
1039 to 1010.
DR. DIXON TALKS
ON BREAKFASTS
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State Com- j
mlssloner of Health and a student of
dietetics, takes a rap at the common !
practice of eating grapefruit and other I
acid fruits on an empty stomach in
the course of a health talk issued here j
to-day on the proper way of eating. |
The commissioner calls attention to •
the danger of bolting food and re- |
marks in the course of his discussion ■
of that common and detrimental prac
tice that while fruit is a wholesome J
diet feature, it should be remembered
that It is dangerous to use it in many ;
delicately organized digestions.
The commissioner says:
"Man ts an omnivorous animal and :
cannot afford to permit himself to be i
hurried at meals. It is impossible to !
bolt such food as the average person 1
eats without injuring the health. With j
the animal kingdom the sense of smell, !
as well as the sense of taste, enters
largely into the enjoyment of the meal.
This should be the case with mankind.
Odor and taste, if properly exercised,
have a tendency to stimulate the fluids!
essential to proper digestion.
"The proper flow of the digestive
fluids is essential to good digestion. A
-liberal portion of fruit is suggested by
most dietitians and it is a common be
lief that fruit is a wholesome food. It
should be remembered, however, that
acid fruits are often irritating to the
mucous membrane and if the habit is
long continued on a naturally weak
digestion or with babies it will still
further Interfere with digestion. Al
most everyone who Is using grapefruit
or other acid fruit for food makes a j
mistake bv rating it before breakfast
or at any time on an empty stomach.
It should be eaten after breakfast in
stead of before, as is the habit."
NEWTON D. BAKER
NEW WAR SECRETARY
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Baker in Cleveland and had a long
talk with him. Mr. Baker has been
In Washington frequently of late.
The thirty day period for which
Major General Hugh 1... Scott, chief
of staff was designated Secretary of
War ad Interim, will expire March
11. It is expected Mr. Baker's nomi
nation will l>e sent to the Senate be
fore that time.
Mr. Baker is 44 years old. He was
born In Martinsburg, W. Va., and at
the ago of 25 was appointed private
secretary to Postmaster General Wil
son in President Cleveland's cabinet.
In ISS7 he began the practice of law
at Martinsburg, but not long there
after moved to Cleveland where he be
came city solicitor in 1902. Ho held
this office for ten years until his elec
tion as mayor. In 1914 he was re
elected mayor for a two-year term.
Mr. Baker In July 1902 married Miss
Elizabeth Leopold, of Pottstown, Pa.
For years Mr. Baker has been close
ly identified with the reform move
ment In Cleveland and has taken an
active part in the street railway con
troversy there. When Mayor Tom
Johnson died Mr. Baker took up the
light for lower street car fares in
Cleveland, argued the case before the
supreme court and finally brought
about an adjustment of the street
railway franchises in Cleveland.
Baker was a student under Presi
dent Wilson when the latter was an
Instructor at John Hopkins University.
Baker Is Believer in
National Preparedness
Cleveland, 0.. March 6.—Mr. Baker
is a thorough believer in national pre
paredness and has stood valiantly by
the President through all of the recent
discussion.
Baker was known as the original
Wilson man in Ohio. At the time of
the Baltimore convention in. 1912
Judson Harmon, former governor of
Ohio, was a candidate for the presi
dential nomination and controlled a
majority of the Buckeye delegation,
but Baker was for Wilson and swung
with him a number of Northern Ohio
delegates. The successful light which
he personally led on the floor of the
convention to prevent the adoption of
the unit rule saved these Ohio votes to
Wilson and did much to make pos
sible his nomination.
DEFIANT UNTIL UK HEARS OF
VICTIM'S FATHER'S WRATH
Among the prisoners to plead
guilty at the regular session of sen
tence court next Monday morning
may be Robert E. Johnson, who was
brought yesterday from Warrehton,
Va., for criminally attacking the 15-
yeqr-old daughter of a farmer near
Harrisburg in whose employ the ne
gro- had been a trusted servant for
years.
Johnson was more or less defiant
with County Detective James T. Wal
ters who brought him from Virginia—
until he reached the companionway
steps in Unibn station. The officer had
mentioned on the way up that he
thought it quite possible that the
girl's father "might be waiting for
us." And the handcuffs jingled with
the trmebllng of the prisoner's hands
as he was led tip the steps.
ATTACKED lilßl,, CHARGE
Albert, alias "Mooney" Campbell, of
Greenwood street, was arraigned be
fore Alderman George Sprout this af
ternoon to answer a charge of attack
ing 12-year-old Mary Shaffer, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Prank Shaffer, 1020
Glrard street.
WIFE-BEATER ARRESTED
Ben Pino, charged with beating his
wife. Mrs. I.cna Pino, so that she was
unable to'walk,' was arrested yester
day by the police.
DECISIVE GAMES
ON WEEK'S BILL
Reading High Plays Central
Friday; Victory Is Important
in League Race
Games played this week by local
teams in the Central Pennsylvania
basketball league will determine the
championship. Reading High Avill
meet Central on the Auditorium
floor Friday night, while Saturday
the "Dutch" play at Steelton.
If the visitors can win one of these
games, they will finish the season at
the top of the ladder. Two defeats
will tie Reading with Central for the
championship. Friday night
Tech tossers will meet Coach Oaff
ney's Steelton tossers on Kel ton Hull
floor. Central Co-eds will play the
Girls' team of the Chambersburg High
school Friday night.
In the lower end of the county Mid
dletown High will close its season
Friday night with Hanover High in a
contest to be played at Luna rink.
Another contest in the Central Penn
League will be played Saturday be
tween Lancaster and Lebanon in the
latter city.
This Is the Birthday
Anniversary of—
«■
Hi
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"UNCLE HENRY" HOUCK
Secretary of Internal Affairs, and the
best loved young-old man in Pennsyl
vania. He is 80 years old and he
spent the day at his desk .at the Capi
tol. In his office were huge masses
of flowers from clerks and officials,
congressmen and senators. His old
friend. Governor Brumbaugh, and Mrs.
Brumbaugh will be guests at a family
dinner in his honor at Lebanon this
evening. The Telegraph joins his
thousands of friends in wishing "Uncle
Henry" many happy returns.
ADOPT ACTION
ON WARNING
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; headquarters to-day at a hotel nl-
I most under the shadow of the Capi
tol and conferred at a luncheon with
! many congressmen who are rated as
! Bryan men. All of them strongly
| favor a resolution to warn Americans
I off armed ships.
Friendly Gathering
Mr. Bryan insisted that the lunch
eon was only a "friendly gathering."
Representative Bailey's view at the
same time was that it was a "meet
ing of those opposed to preparedness
and favorable to warning passengers
against taking passage on armed
ships." He was especially enthusias
j tic in his declaration that no con
i splracy was on foot,
j President Wilson appealed directly to
i Representatives Bennet and Lenroot,
: Republican members of the House
I Rules Committee, to-day to consider
the armed ship issue without partisan
| bias, and assist in getting a vote on a
I resolution warning Americans off
armed ships. Kor an hour ho dis
' cussed the foreign situation with the
! two Republican members and told
them of the necessity of demonstrat
ing that reports abroad that the ma
jority of Congress was not with him
are erroneous.
After the conference, Mr. Lenroot
1 said the Republicans had no Intention
! of bringing party considerations into
! the issue. Both he and Mr. Bennet
i refused to discuss the details of the
i conference. Thev left the White
; House to attend a meeting of the
! Rules Committee.
Col. House Tells Wilson
There Are No Further
Prospects For Peace
By Associated Press
Washington, March 0. Colonel E.
IM. House who returned yesterday
I from Europe is understood to have
j told President Wilson to-day that he
found no more prospects tor peace
i during his recent visit to the capitals
of belligerent nations than he did on
I his visit last Spring.
Colonel House did not complete his
I report to the President this morning
' but planned to go over the European
situation thoroughly with him late
I this afternoon. It was. understood
that although the Colonel's primary
mission to Europe was not to investi
gate peace prospects he listened care
fully to everything said to him on the
subject and therefore had much of
interest to tell the President.
I Colonel House .is understood to
i have told the President there Is con
stant danger in the negotiations with
Germany because of feeling there
oyer the submarine issue. Varying
opinions over the use of submarines
exist He told the President that the
faction favoring using submarines to
the limit t regardless of protests of
j neutrals Is a strong one, and connot be
j disregarded. Generally speaking,
however, he found no sentiment in
favor of war with the United States.
PROVIDES FOR GRAVE'S UPKEEP
In his will probated to-day by Reg
istrar R. C. Danner, Anselm W. Ben
net, formerly of this city bequeathed
his estate to his widow Leah with the
exception of SIOO. Tills he left In
trust with the Central Trust company
for the upkeep of his grave In the
Mt. Zion cemetery of Cumberland
county.
ASBVLANCH OUT UK MI2HVU M
The anfibulancfc and police patrol wan
out of service to-day, and all hoapital
canes were taken care of by private
ambulances. The remodeled 'bus for
inerl.v used- (of ambulance • work, was j
used for police calls.
MARCH 6, 1916.
I WELLYSg&GORNER
The baseball war may break out
again this week. Baltimore backers
of the Federal League deny that a
settlement was reached, and that the
National Commission had agreed to
bring about a satisfactory adjustment.
A dispatch to-day from Baltimore
says a suit will be entered against
organized baseball this week, to re
cover money said to lie due on the
transfer of the Federal franchise.
This week promises to be important
In basketball. The Oreystocks of the
Eastern League must win one more
victory to make certain this year's
pennant. Princeton and Penn are tied
up for first, place In the Intercollegiate
race. Roth teams play Cornell. Ry
taking two games the Itliacans can
tie up the series.
By the end of the present week all
major teams will be In training. The
Phillies reached St. Petersburg,
Florida, to-day after a stormy sea
voyage. Connie Mack will start his
aggregation to-morrow. In the Mack
crowd will be "Red" Crane, the Har
risburg boy who looks like a regular
this season. Crane left for Philadel
phia to-day. He has been keeping
himself in good condition and is ready
to play shortstop, second base or at
third sack.
COAL GAS CAUSES
DEATH OF WOMAN
Mrs. Henry Cocklin and Her
Husband Overcome by
Fumes From Stove
Special to the Telegraph
Bowmansdale, Pa., March 6." — Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Cocklin were over
come by coal gas from a stove at their
home here early Friday morning and
Mrs. Cocklin died on Saturday with
out regaining consciousness. Mr.
Cocklin was also In an unconscious
condition when found and at a late
hour yesterday had not recovered.
Mrs. Cocklin was 80 years old and her
husband is aged 79. Dr. S. E. Mowery
of Mechanicsburg, was summoned and
is attending Mr. Cocklin.
Mrs. Cocklin married two brothers,
her first husband being Andrew Cock
lin, and after his death she married
Henry Cocklin. She is survived by
her husband, two daughters, Mrs. E.
W. Yohn, of Harrisburg, and Mrs. E.
P. Sayres, of Lancaster: two sons, M.
G. Cocklin, of Harrisburg, and Mervin,
who is at home; two brothers, Wil
liam L. Gardner, of Harrisburg, and
Prof. David Cocklin, of York; three
step-sons, George Cocklin, of York;
Ross and William Cocklin, of Harris
burg; one step-daughter, Mrs. David
Myers of Bowmansdale.
SNOW OR RAIN TO
CONTINUE 24 HOURS
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broadside when the mercury dropped
to 5 above zero on St. Valentine's day.
Continued cold weather, with rain,
sleet and snow at odd intervals during
the month knocked the bottom en
tirely out of the groundhog predic
tion. The goosebone prophets,' who
said last Fall that the winter would
be most severe In February and
March, are wagging their heads with
a wise "I told you so" and the ground
hog theorists arc hunting excuses.
The blinding snow which began
falling shortly after 8 o'clock this
morning continued until in the aft
ernoon, and more than 2 inches fell
In four hours. The center of the storm
which is spread over practically all
of the United States is located over
lowa. Snow or rain fell to-day in a
large part of the country.
Traffic Suffers
This morning traffic on the subur
ban lines of the railway companies
was maintained on schedule time, but
in the afternoon the depth of snow
made steady progress impossible. The
railroads suffered slightly, but no
trouble was reported In telegraph and
telephone communications.
Just one year ago on March 5,
shortly after six o'clock, in the eve
ning, snow began to fall and before 8
o'clock the next morning, the city was
buried under a blanket of snow 9
inches deep. Six Inches of this melted
in a little more than 24 hours.
GET ANOTHER CHICKEN THIEF
Frank Ross, accused of aiding In
robbing chicken coops and refrigera
tors in the West End, was arrested
Saturday night by city police and
lodged in Jail for a hearing before Al
derman Hilton. Two of his accom
plices were held under S3OO ball for
court after a hearing on Saturday aft
ernoon. Several charges of larceny
have been brought against the trio
of raiders. •
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the SUPERIOR QUALITY
and RELIABILITY of
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5c CIGARS
You will be some Jay.
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Reading High (ossein won Satur
day's game at Lancaster, score 30 to
21. There is one black against
the Berks aggregation. Central
pects a hard game when Reading plays
here Friday night. The local lossers
realize that it is necessary to win
every game on the schedule.
The llarrlsburg Academy shooting
squad started Saturday afternoon.
Coach Alien had 12 shooters working
at Second and Division streets during
the afternoon. Kddlc Uolh showed
the best skill in breaking targets. The
other boys showed pluck and made
good scores.
Hazleton's Central Pennsylvania
l.eague teum handed n defeat to the
Harrlsburg Independents Saturday
night, score 36 to 31. Hole lead in
the scoring for the local live. Geisel
and Ford were factors in the scoring;
while MeCord, Geisel and McDonnell
were big helps.
State College Freshmen walked all
lover the Central High five Saturday,
i at State College winning by a score of
31 to 12. Thomas and VVallowcr were
the only local players who could show
aipr class.
AGRICULTURE AND
NOT AMUSEMENTS
Secretary Patton Has Some
Ideas Regarding Features
of the County Fairs
A move to make lie county fairs
nnd agricultural exhibitions 1IP!<1
throughout Pennsylvania, particularly
those which receive pecuniary aid from
the State Treasury, more agricultural
than amusement affairs is to be under
taken when the annual meeting of the
State Association of County Fairs is
held in Harrisburg on March 13-14.
Fourth Annual Debate
at Academy March 10
The fourth annual Greek-Roman
debate will be held in the auditorium
of the Harrisburg Academy next Fri
day evening. March 10, at 8 o'clock.
The subject is "Resolved, That the
Prosperity and Peace of the United
States Will Be Best Maintained by
Immediate and Substantial Strength
ening of National Defenses." The
affirmative team, captained by Chester
A. Good, will also include P. Boyd
Rutherford and Earle E. Bortell, with
Paul Zimmerman as alternate, while
the opposite side of the question will
find the Romans led by Gilbert Span
genberg and the remainder of the
team composed of John S. Wallis and
Lane S. Hart, 3d, with Nathan W.
Stroup, 2d, as alternate. *
J. E. B. Cunningham, W. S. Sny
der and Roy G. Cox will act in tho
capacity of judges for the debate. Tho
names of the winning team will bo
inscribed on the prize cup and tho
gold medal will be awarded to the
one adjudged the best speaker. Both
are the gift of Edward J. Stackpole
and are contested for annually. Tho
program will be as follows: Piano
solo, Dunbar Allen Eberts; first round
of prize debate; music; rebuttal round
of debate; music; award of prizes;
address, J. E. B. Cunningham.
There's no agreement
reached between operators
and miners on April 1 who
can tell whether there will he
a strike.
The miners demand num
erous concessions the grant
ing of which it is said will
cause coal prices to advance
—and the consumer will have
to foot the bill
Kelley has thousands of
tons of good coal stored in
the yards and is ready to fill
all orders.
The future is too uncertain
to take chances unless you
are indifferent as to the qual
ity of coal you buy and the
price paid for it.
H. M. KELLEY CO.
1 North Third Street
Tenth anil State Streets
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