THE WEATHER
FAIR TO-NIGHT
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BLUECOATTO
PEN. FOR 1?
TO 20 YEARS
Robert F. Scott, Patrol
man Who Killed Na
than Banks, Sentenc
ed by Judge MeCarrell
HAD NO RIGHT
TO USE HIS GUN
Court Cautions All Policemen With Re
gard to the Proper Use of Weapons
—Prisoner Sways As Sentence Is
Pronounced But Makes No Comment
Robert F. Scott, colored, the patrol
man who on August 1, last, shot and
killed Nathan Banks, colored, and v»ho
was convicted of murder in the second
degree, was this morning sentenced by
Judge MeCarrell to the penitentiary for
a term of not less than twelve years
and not more than twenty. The court
announced that the clemency recommen
dation of the jury alonq saved Seott
from getting the maximum sentence of
twenty years provided for second de
gree murder.
The prisoner spoke not a word while
in the court room. He spoke neither to
Judge Kunkel nor to Judge MeCarrell.
He had nothing to say even to his coun
sel. He gave some signs of nervous
ness, however.
Judge MeCarrell's presentence re
marks to Seott were in the nature of
a reprimand. This seemed to make the
prisoner nervous and caused him to
sway back and forth, indicating that
the ordeal was a trying one.
Seott's wife was in the big crowd
of spectators, occupying one of the
rear benches in the court room. She
departed immediately after her husband
w«s sentenced. During all the time
that his attorneys argued for a light !
sentence and during the court's revie'W
of the case, Scott stood up at the bar.
his hands folded in front of him and
his gaze fixeid on the floor. Ho looked
up only once and that was when he was
addressed by the court.
Says Witness "Made Eyes" at Lawyers
That there was sufficient evidence in
the Commonwealth's testimony at the
time of the trial to warrant a verdict
of murder in the first degree—which
would have carried a sentence of death
by electrocution—and that, if such a
verdict had been rendered, the Court
could not rightfully have set it aside,
was the gist of one of Judge McCar
rell's remarks.
District Attorney Stroup said he
thought the verdict might justly have
been one of murder in the first degree,
yet both the Court and the Prosecutor
announced that they had no criticism
of the decision of the jury.
W. Justin Carter, who, as counsel,
with Harry B. Saussaman, defended
Scott, thought differently and said:
'•The testimony of some of these
witnesses, most of whom were relatives
of the deceased, was pure, deliberate
perjury,''
Carter added that one of the Com
monwealth's witnesses made "Goo
Goo" eyes at him when she was,leaving
the witness stanJ during the trial.
Judge MeCarrell said he thought she
told a clear story.
"Well," said Carter, "she rolled her
eyes at me in a terrible manner when
she left the stand."
"Inexcusable," Says the Court
Besides saying that the murder of
Nathan Banks was inexcusable; that
Svott acted too hastily in firing his re
volver and that the defendant had no
reason for using his "mace and pistol,"
Judge MeCarrell said that the shooting
climaxed an argument which resolved
itself into nothing more than a dispute
over a personal matter.
'' There was no occasion at all for
you using your revolver," said the
court. "You had a personal quarrel
with Banks an'd for that yon had no
right to use any weapon. Police of
ficers are permitted to carry a gun and
Continued on Eleventh Page.
SCOTT WILL SUCCEED SCOTT
Man of Same Name Will Get Job of
Bluecoat Sentenced to Pen.
Now that Robert Scott, patrolman,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary
for a term of from twelve to twenty
years for the killing of Nathan Banks,
the question is raised of who will suc
ceed Seott on the police force.
City Commissioners declined this
morning to discuss the subject but it
was learned upon good authority that
Charles Seott, the policeman who now
is serving temporarily in Robert Scott's
place, will be appointed permanently.
The appointment, it is said, will be
made at the meeting of the City Com
missioners to-morrow afternoon.
Ie Star- 4tfStk Inkpctiknl
PEN. FOR TWO MEN WHO
SOBBED HALF WAY H USE
Terms of From One Year to Eighteen
Months Imposed on Pair Who Broke
Into Tom Nelley's Hotel—Negro
Pleads to Be Sent to the Pen
Tom Bonovie and John Skerbin, two
of the three foreigners who, it is al
leged, broke into and robbed the Half
Way House, the hotel of Tom Nelley,
in Steelton. pleaded guilty to burglary
charges before Judges Kunkel and
MeCarrell this morning and each was
sentenced to the peniteutiary for a term
of not less than oue year and not more
than eighteen months. The third de
fendant, alleged to be implicated in
this ease, will stand trial.
James Duncan, a Middletown colored
man, Who one day had pugilistic pro
clivities and was fairly successful at
that "avocation" so long as he re
mained within his class, pleaded guilty
to a larceny charge and told Judge
Kunkel that he would like to go to the
penitentiary as the penalty for his of
fense. The Judge grve him six months
in jail, saying that the next time he
will be sure to go to the Philadelphia
institution.
•'I wish you would send me there
now," returned Jinn
Arthur Hughes, Duncan's accomplice,
also got a six months' jail term.
pair stole coal from Pennsylvania rail
road cars.
George W. Lewis, another 'Middletown
n.an, who has been up before the
Judges four times on charges of false |
pretense, got eight month* in jail. j
Lewis, while a solicitor for Harrisburg !
newspapers, appropriated to his own j
use money which had been giveu to !
him by prospective subscribers.
John Essig and William Brady,
hucksters, would not admit that they !
knowingly cheated their patrons while j
they were selling produce in this city, |
and* the Court would not accept their j
pleas to charges of false pretense.
They were remanded to jail and must j
stand trial.
TO PASS SUFFRAGE TO-DAYj
House Will Take Final Action on the
Measure, Which Will Then Be Sent
Over to the Senate
The Senate will meet to-night at
9.30 o'clock and the House at 9 j
o 'clock, whet. a regular calendar of j
bills will be taken up in each branch |
after the introduction of resolutions |
and new bills, of which many are ex
pected.
One ol the most important measures
that will come before the House for
final passage is the resolution propos
ing that an amendment to the Constitu
tion granting the right of suffrage to
women be submitted to the voters at
the polls next November. It is under
stood that the House will pass this
without serious opposition, but it is not
likely that its action will be unanimous,
as a number of Representatives have
expressed their intention to vote against
it. However, the Republican members
of the House say it is a platform meas
ure and as such should be passed at
once and gotten out of the road. It |
will be sent at once to the Senate and ]
referred to committee.
The House will also consider on final
passage the bill making an appropria- ]
tion of $550,000 to pay for the killing i
of cattle to prevent the spread of the j
foot and mouth disease.
* In the Senate tiie Clark bill provid- |
ing for the care and treatment, at the
expense of the county, of indigent per- |
sons who are habitual inebriates or j
drug fiends will come up. The Clark
bill requiring mortgages to be recorded ;
within ten in order to have prior- j
itv of lien will also come up in the i
Senate on final passage.
ODD ILLNESSJRIPS YOUTH
Boy Believed On Saturday to Be Drunk
Is Reported To-day to Be Losing
the Use of His Legs
Mystery to-day surrounds the case of
Howard Diller, colored, 16 years old,
who was found in a shanty on Cameron
street, late Saturday afternoon by two
men who took him to the Harrisburg
hospital. There he was believed on Bat
| unlay to be intoxicated and he was sent
j to jail.
Jail physicians became alarmed at
his condition this morning and asked
j the police to take him again to the
hospital, believeing heroic measures
were necessary if his life was to be
saved. Diller is gradually becoming
paralyzed, accordinig to a statement by
an ambulance patrolman. The bluecoat
said that by noon the boy had lost all
sensation in his legs below the knees.
Diller is suffering to a great extent
and is unable to tell muci about him
self except t(j assert that a man on
Cameron street, gave him some whiskey.
He does not know how he got to the
Cameron street shanty where he was
found. He lives alone at 1118 Hickory
street.
Physicians at the hospital this morn
ing admitted him to a ward for treat
ment. The belief was expressed at the
hospital to-day that whiskey could not
; have caused the peculiar illness that is
gripping the youth.
LaFollette's Peace Resolution
Washington, Feb. B.—An interna
tional conference of representatives of
neutral nations to discuss means of end
ing the European war, to establish neu
tral trade routes at sea and propose ul
timate creation of an international
tribunal for establishment of world
peace, was proposed in a resolution to
day by Senator LaFollette.
Trying to Avoid Extra Session
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. B.—President "Wil
son told callers to-Miay he was making
every effort to avoid an extra session of
Congress.
HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1915 14 PAGES.
US BIG
ECOMY PLEAS
Law-Makers Showing
Little Regard for the
*
Charities Board Rec
ommendations
PUTTING IT UP
TO COMMITTEES
Should Latter Bodies Cut Down
Amounts, Legislators Talk of Com
bining and Forcing Brumbaugh to
Weild Veto Ax
A glance at the appropriation bills
already introduced in the legislature,
in both branches, shows that members
of that Legislature are paying little if
any attention to the economy recom
mendations of the State Board of Chari
ties and the sums that Board recom
mended for the various institutions.
The Board announced that it wout l
recommend no buildings for amy state
or other institutions that it did not re
gard as absolutely necessary, and its
figures which show what was asked for
bv the institutions an j what was reeoni
mended by the Board indicate that in
almost every instance where money was
asked from the state to construct new
buiMiiigs the items were stricken out.
But that does not, apparently, con
cern the average legislator. In the ap
propriation bills thus far introduced it
is found that in almost every instance
where the board cut out the item for
buildings the bills, as presented to the
Legislature, restore them, and it will be
up to the Appropriations Committees to
sav whether or not these items s.hall bj
retained in the bills.
Some of the Legislators bave threat
ened that if the building items are cut
from their appropriation bills they will
form a log-rolling organization among
the members of the House and endeavor
to amend the bills by restoring the
'building items when the bills come up
on secoirtd reading. A bare majority can
amend, but in tliy case of private chari
ties it takes two-thirds of tie entire
House to pass a bill finally.
It is estimated that at the rate State
money is being asked for by private in
stitutions the amounts cut from similar
mea.-aures bv Governor Tener's veto ax
■at the close of the last session of 1913
will hardly be a marker to what Gov
ernor Brumbaugh will have to veto.
Told that they are in danger of hav
ing their appropriations cut down, some
of the legislators have rem irked that
it is no concern of theirs so long as they
get the bills through, and that it would
be up to the Governor to do the cut
ting.
Chairman Woodward, of the House
| Appropriations Committee, is endeavor
ing to stop the flow of such bills.
j'NOMEMIIBAUCH
Governor Intimates That Capitol Hill
Employes Who Are Making Good
Have Nothing to Fear
' Governor Brumbaugh said in effect
this afternoon that he plans no general
shake-up among Capitol Hill employes.
He said that in his letter to the de
partment heads asking for lists of at
taches he had not requested informa
nt n as to their political backing, but
| had merely requested information con
cerning who had recommended them.
He said that the matter of politics had
| not entered into the request.
i As to a story that his intention in
obtaining the lists was to have some
persons dismissed and others appointed
in their place, he said that it was pure
ly imaginary.
He intimated that attaches of this
administration who are qualified for
their positions and who perform their
| work faithfully will have no cause to
worry about the future, so far as he is
concerned.
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SAUL IS AFTEk RE-ELECTION
Announces To-day He Will Seek to Be
Returned to School Board
Millard F. Saul, whose term in the
School 'Boa.rd expires in December, this
morning announced his candidacy for
re-elecition. Saul was first elected to
the board in 1907 to fill a vacancy from
the Sixth ward and was later re-elected
from that ward. Under the act of 1911
he was elected for a term of four years
from the city-at-large.
George Kennedy, another director
whose term expires next December, re
cently announced his candidacy for re
election. Charles S. Pohl, the third
member of the board whose term ex
pires next December, lias not announced
whether he vill seek re-election.
KANSAS CITY BELLE TO WED WEALTHY CALIFORNIAN
srpi WIRT
New York, Feb. B.—Miss Sidi Wirt, charming daughter of the late Edward C. Wirt, of Kansas City, admits she
is engaged to marry John D. Spreckels, Jr., a wealthy resident of San Francisco. The story started in the baggage
room of a hotel in this city where she is stopping when a fine tiger skin, about sixteen feet ltmg, arrived there from
San Francisco. It was said that the name of John D. Spreckels, Jr., was on the box containing it. Miss Wirt, in her
apartment on the twenty-first floor, sitting in a chair with her tiny feet on the head of the tiger, was asked about this.
"Why, yes, that is perfectly true," she said. "But the formal announcement has not yet been made. You see, it is
only six months since that affair of his divorce."
VALLEY ill IS
si en wheat
John N. Foust of Ship
pensburg, on Way-
Back From West
With His Fortune
LEFT HIS HOME
20 AGO
Made Futile Quest of Gold in Alaska,
but Took Up Farming and Now Has
Become Immensely Wealthy by Up
ward Turn or Oram Market
(Special to tlie Star-Independent.)
Ellensberg, Wash., Feb. B.—When
John X. Foust left his home in Ship
pensburg, Cumberland county, about
twenty years ago he went north into
Alaska, hoping to make his fortune in
the gold fields, but failed. Subsequent
ly he became a wheat grower and has
now piled up a good-sized fortune be
cause of his foresight in holding onto
his grain, the price of which has sky
rocketed in recent weeks, having gone
!as high as $1 67 a bushel. Foust, who
now is immensely wealthy, plans sliort
| lv to visit the home in Shippensburg
j of his father, John A. Foust, who is
now on a trip west to see him.
Foust did not pan out very strongly
as a goldminer, according to his own
admissions, but he has made a remark
able record, according to his business
associates, since establishing himself
here a few years ago. He first took
hold of the telephone troubles of Kit
titas county when the lines were in a
bad way and service abominable. As
sociated with him at the time was C.
C. Churchill. Foust was in active con
trol and management and in a short
time he brought the system out of
chaos, rehabilitated the plant, lines
and equipment, established long-dis
tance connections with the Bell system,
and now controls, as well as actively
j directs, one of the largest independent
| lines in the State.
The telephone business, however,
: does not engage all of his activities,
j for lie has found time to engage in
| farming on a big ranch north of this'
| city, where he raises wheat, hay, oats,
I barley, horses, cattle and hogs on a
large scale.
According to business intimates "in
the know" —Foust himself is reticent
in regard to the killing he made in
wheat when the price soared —he was
more than amply repaid by his fore
sight that caused him to hold his wheat
when the war broke out.
Mr. Foust says he plans to visit his
j father in Shippensburg this summer,
! when he buys a new automobile. Like
| wise, he plans to plant much more
: wheat this year than last. Foust is
! married and lias tlire? children.
| BACKENTOSS IS A CANDIDATE
Mayor's Secretary Will Seek Demo
cratic Nomination for Alderman
Clarence O. Backenstoss, who was
secretary to Mayor McCormick and
Mayor Gross, and who is now secretary
to Mayor Royal, to-day announced his
candidacy for the Democratic nomina
tion for alderman of the Ninth ward.
This is one of the laj-gest wards in tho
city and there are usually a number of
candidates for the position. George A.
Hoverter, Republican, is the present al
derman.
Backenstoss was first appointed to
the police force by Mayor McCormick,
Democratic, in 1902 and was the young
est man ever to be appointed to that
position. He did district duty for six
months and was then appointed secre
tary to Mayor McCormick. He was re
tainetl foT a year by Mayor Gross, Re
publican, and was selected again for
the post when Royal became Mayor.
Local Option Bill For To-night
It is quite likely that the new local
option bill, as prepared under Governor
Brumbaugh's direction, will be intro
duced to-night in the House.
BANKER'S SUICIDE DUE TO
OVERDRAFTS OY PATRONS
Three Overdrew Accounts for $15,000,
Which Drove Cashier to Death—
Trio Concerned Trying to Balance
Up and Escape Litigation
Scliaefferstown, Pa., Feb. B.—While
the examination of the books of the
Sdhaefferstown National bank by J. M.
Logan, the examiner had not been
completed last evening, it was officially
announced that, so far as the investi
gation has proceeded, no evidence is at
hand to show that Alvin Binner, the
suicide cashier, had taken for his own
use one penny of the bank's funds. The
examination has, however, disclosed
(overdrafts amounting well into tho
thousands by at least three customers
of the bank, but the exact amount and
tho identity of these men are being
withheld until the work of Examiner
Logan has been completed.
This phase of the bank's affairs sup
ports the statement contained in tho
note penned by Cashier Binner and
addressed to his wife and children, just
before he carried out his plan of self
destruction. Binner wrote:
"I am wrong in my bank accounts.
I do not have a cent of the bank's I
money, but am caught by , I |
am sorry, but I coud not tell you. I !
am sorry for the disgrace, but must go. j
I'Good-bye to all."
j The blank space represents the names
of the men who Binner wrote, caught
him, and are beiu'g withheld both by
Mrs. Binner ami tie bank officials at
this time.
It is thought that the overdrafts will
Continued on Thirteenth l'nge.
P. W. WILLIS. LAWYER. DIES
Prominent Carlisle Official and United
States Commissioner Succumbs in
a Baltimore Sanitarium
(Special to the Star-Independent.)
Carlisle, Pa., Feb. S.—Paul W. Wil
lis, formerly borough solicitor and town
elerk and for eleven years a memlber of
the Cumberland county bar, died in a
Baltimore, Md., sanitarium yesterday
afternoon from a complication of dis
eases from which he had suffered for
more than a year. His illness began
with a breakdown of his nervous sys
tem.
Willis was 34 years old. He was
married and the father of one e-hild. a
son', Paul. He was a graduate of the
Dickinson Law School, and until a
short time before liis death was solici
tor for the borough of Mt. Holly and a
United States Commissioner.
Besides liis wife and child, he left
one sister, Mrs. Lillie Junken, of Lvn
dale, Georgia, awl three brothers,
James, of Washington, D. C., Wallace,
of Pen Argyl, ami Bruce, of Palmer
Lake, Colorado.
Funeral services will be held here to
morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Tho
burial will be in Shippenslburg.
P. R. R. ORDERS 68 CARS
Additional Hen to Be Hired in Early
Spring
An order for 68 all-steel passenger
and baggage cars was placed at the Al
tooua car shops by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company Saturday. The or
der is divided into the following
classes: Forty-eight class P-70 passen
ger cars, eight class M-B-M baggage
mail carß for steam service, two class
M-B-M baggage-mail cars for electric
service and ten class B-60 baggage cars.
It was stated by company officials
that they intended building these cars
last year, but owing to the business de
pression the order was held up. Mate
rial for constructing them is now being
assembled and, commencing some time
in April, the cars will be turned out at
the rate of four a week.
Kansas City Jumps Federals
By Asaociatcd Pros.
Kansas City, Feb. 8. —J. A. Gilmore,
president of the Federal League, con
firmed the report that Kansas City
would not be represented in his organi
zation next year in a telegram received
here to-day.
HATES OF HE
INTERRED ALIVE?
Startlingßumorin Con
nection With Deaths
of Aged Odd Fellows
at Yonkers
CORONER PROBES
HORRIBLE STORY
Embalmer Confirms Statement of Fred
Mors, a Nurse, Who Confessed He :
Caused the Deaths of Eight Persons
in Institution
By Associated Press.
Yonkers, N. Y., Feb. 8. —To the
story that eight feeble inmates of the
German Odd Fellows' Home here had
ben put to death because they were j
aged and required much attention, was |
added to-day the suggestion that two
i other iumates might have been buriel[
alive while still under the influence of ,
an anaesthetic. It was, believed that'
at least two of the bodies will be ex-1
humed.
The coroner to-day began an inves
tigation of this suggestion. There was I
little tangible evidence for him to work I
on except reports founded in the fears
of tine present inmates with whom they
held a long talk yesterday. The New
York undertakers who took charge of
the bodies were to be questioned as to
what steps they had taken to make suro
that life was extinct before burial.
Henry Blum, an embalmer questioned j
to-day by the coroner, confirmed a sitate- i
ment imputed to Fred Mors, a former
nurse, who told the District Attorney he i
had caused the deaths of eight iumates, j
in relation to the death of Henry Horn !
December 20. Blum told the coroner, it i
was said, that when lie took charge of
Horn's body he noticed a bum on the j
mouth and asked Mors atyout it and
that Mors explained it ha»l been made
by a cloth saturated with an anaesthe
tic tied about the dead man's face to
hold his mouth shut.
The bodies of all the eight inmates!
who Mors said were put to death were
embalmed before burial, Blum said.
LATE iR NEWS SUMMARY
The German army in the Argonne
has begun another of the repeated at
tacks which have made that section of
Eastern France one of the most bitterly
contested battlefields of Europe. The
I official German statement of to-day an
nounces the capture of a portion of the
allies' positions in the Argonne. The
French war office says that one German
attack was repulsed and that the fight
ing is still in progress.
In Northern France, near Labassa,
there was a violent artillery engagement
yesterday but along the western front
as a whole it was comparatively quiet.
Slackening of the attack along the
Warsaw front by the Germans and their
transfer of troops to East Prussia, are
expected in Warsaw to lead to a general
onslaught by the Russians in the en
deavor to clear Poland of the invaders.
A forward movement already has been
undertaken in one section of the line,
near the Bzura river, and is reported
to have won some successes for the Rus
sians.
Premier Asquith announced in the
House of Commons that British losses
Continued on Thirteenth Page.
Chicago Cattle Quarantine Lifted
By Associated Pre si.
■Chicago, Feb. B.—The Ohi-cago Union
Stock Yards, whi<-li have been under
jiartial federal quarantine since Janu
ary 29, .because of a threatened out
break of foot and mouth disease, were
reopened to-day for the interstate ship
ment of cattle.
POSTSCRIPT
PRICE, ONE GENT.
RUSSIANS IK
PURSUIT UF
AUSTRIANS
Hard Fighting Contin
ues in the Carpa
thians With Advan
tage to Czar's Troops
TAKE MORE THAN
2,500 PRISONERS
Petrograd Also Reports Capture of Ad
ditional Troops After a Retreat
North of Uzsok Pass Where Au
strian Attacks Wore Repulsed
Petrograd, Feb. B.—Hard fighting
continues in the Carpathians with suc
cesses of consiil'era.ble importance for
the Russian troops according to an of
ficial communication issued here to-day.
A pursuit of the Austrians after their
resistance had been broken at these
fortified positions near Mezolaborez is
said to have resulted in the capture of
more than 2,500 prisoners. The cap
ture of additional troops after a retreat
north of Uzsok Pass also is recorded
while it is stated Austrian attacks were
repulsed at other mountain passes.
Minor Russian victories are claimed
in East Prussia and Northern Polanld.
The text of the communication follows:
"On the right bank of the Vistula
some skirmishes favorable to us have
taken place. On a broad front near
the village of Nadroz Cossacks attacked
a squadron of the enemy supported by
infantry capturing twenty Hussars.
Bayonets Dislodge Germans
"Our cavalry at 3 o'clock in the
morning dislodged by a bayonet attack
the Germans from villages of Podlesijo
and Prondystary capturing a quantity
of arms, ammunition and wire.
'An important encounter took plaice
on the road from Sierpec. to Ilypbi
where we delivered a successful night
attack in the vicinity of the village
of Urszulewo.
"On the loft bank of the Vistula,
on the Bzura and Raw a rivers, can
nonading continued on February 5 but
neither adversary undertook active op
erations. In the region of the village
of Kamiony we began an offensive
and made some little progress in spito
of an obstinate resistance by the enemy.
"Our artillery successfully bombard
ed a column of Germans who were mov-
Continurd on Thlrtrrnth 1 '■(«.
OWNERS OFWILHELIWINA
WILLING TO SELL TO 0. S.
London, Feb. 8, 1.57 P. M.—lndica
ti<ns are more favorable to-day that
the American Commission for Relief in
Belgium will be successful in its efforts
to purchase the American steamship
Wilheimina and her cargo of food sup
plies, which the vessel is taking from
New York to Hamburg. The owners of
the Wilheimina are said to be willing
to sell the vessel and her cargo, but
the price hag not yet been agreed upon.
The American Belief Committee in
badly in need of the grain carried by
the Wilheimina and also needs t/he
ship because of the scarcity of bottoms.
It is generally believed in London tlhat
the AmeYican owners will sell the ship
and her cargo at a reasonable price be
cause of the sympathy felt in the Unit
ed States in the movement to prevent
the Belgians from starving.
Steamer Dacia Ready to Sail
Norfolk, Va., Feb. B.—The steamer
Dacia was ready to start on her long
heralded voyage to Rotterdam with cot
ton from Galveston for Bremen. Caiptain
McDonald took out his clearance papers
early to day and said he would sail be
j fore night on the usual steamer lanes.
! Five members of the crew left the shiiip
here.
British Casualties Thus Far in War
London, Feb. 8, 3.30 P. M.—Premier
Asquith, speaking in the House of Com
mons to-day, said the British casualties
in all ranks in the western area of-the
war from the beginning of hostilities
to February 4 amounted to approxi
mately 104,000 men. This includes
killed, wounded and missing.
Kaiser Inspects His Troops
Amsterdam, Via London, Feb. 8, 5.18
P. M.—A telegram received here from
eßrlin says that Emperor William yes
terday inspected the German troops
who pre fighting in the Baurka-ltawka
river district.
WALL STREET CLOSING
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. B.—Reading declin
ed again in the late trading, the entire
list reacting with some recovery in the
final dealings. The closing was firm.
Stocks were dull and irregular during
the greater part of to-day's session.
Specialties gained 1 to 8 points.