THE WEATHER
BAIN TO NIGHT
AND TO-MORROW
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n" A ? , ''" ED VOL. 77—NO. 69.
AN AUTO BUS
LINE IN CITY
IS PROPOSED
Company To-day Seeks
Charter to Operate
as Rival to Trolley
System
FRONT ST. LINE
IS PART OF PLAN
Score of Harrisburg Capitalists and
Politicians Beady to Begin at Once
Bunnmg Jitney Vehicles Here and
in Steelton
A plan to introduce in Harrisburg
and Steelton an auto 'bus service to be
put into operation with fifty vehicles
within a week after a charter can bo
obtained from the State, was announced
this morning by Charles C. Stroh. as
counsel for about two dozen capital
ists and politicians, mostly local men,
who propose to form a company to be
known as the Jitney Transportation
Company.
Mr. Stroll said that application for
s charter will be made to the Secretary
of the Commonwealth late this after
noon and that a meeting of the incor
porators will be held either to-night or
to-morrow for the purpose of organiz
ing and electing officers. He said the
company will b* prepared to operate
with fifty "busses within a few weeks
from date if the charter is approved
*bv that time. While the charter ap
plication will specify the capital at
$5,000 it is understood to be the pur
pose to increase, tho amount ultimate
ly to $50,000 or more.
Mr. Stroh said that the names of
those who will appear in the papers as
the incorporators are: O. M. Copelin,
City Treasurer; Charles E. Covert, Au
gustus Wild ma n, Alfred H. Snavelv
and Harry M. Barnes, ail of Harrisburg,
and I. W. Copelin, of Toledo, Ohio, a
brother of the City Treas
urer, and Franklin Williamson, of Lan
caster.
Market Square As Terminal
In discussing the plan Mr. Stroh s3id
it is proposed to make Market square
the terminal point for lines of auto or
jitney 'busses which will run up Front
street and return; up Second street and
return; up Third street and return; up l
Sixth street and return; out Herr streetj
to a point on Allison Hill and return; 1
across the Mulberry street bridge and 1
Derry street and return, and a cross- i
town line on Allison Hill. It is intend
ed to make the fare 5 cents.
The 'busses, Mr. Stroh 'said, will be
of several types. Some will carry i
twelve passenger* and other twenty
four. It is probable that some of the!
cars will be double-deckers with roof
less second stories similar to the Fifth
avenue "busses in New York City. I
While the names of all those who
are backing the project are not yet
maJe public it is understood that most
of them are Harrisburgers, including
men who are conspicuous in political
life of the city. It is understood also
that some of thwe who propose to back
the jitney line are financially interest
ed in the Harrisburg Railways Com
pany which operates the trolley system
in Harrisburg, despite the fact that the
new service will be in competition with
the trollev svstera.
The cars will cost about SSOO each
and will be operated on a regular sched
ule from Market square where a term
inal station will be established. The
plan, as the lawyer outlined it, is to
make stops at anv places along the
various streets where passengers may
desire to get on or off.
May Get Charter in Five Weeks
Capitol Hill officials say it will take,
under the laws relating'to the grant
ing of charters to public utility com
panies, at least live weeks before the
charter ,-an be issued if there is no
hitch. The fact that the application
for a charter is to be made must be
advertised three weeks and it is then
formally filed in the State Department.
It is then sent to the Public Service
Commission, which requires two weeks'
advertising, and the Commission then
takes its time to consider the applica
tion after placing it on the calendar.
If the Commission approves the
charter, it is sent back to the State
Department and thence to the Govern
or, who has the last say. If the Gov
ernor approves the application, it is re
turned to the State Department, which
issues the charter of incorporation,
»ud the company can then do business. I
®he Ster- Inkwtikui
' NO CLUE LEFT TO WORK ON
IN CELLAR MURDER CASE
County Detective Walters Is at End of
His Rope in Trying to Solve My
stery of Bones Found Buried Un
der Fourteenth Street House
Having exhausted every clue they
have been able to uncover in endeavor
ing to establish the identity of the girl
whose skeleton was dug up in the cellar
at 133 South Fourteenth street, on
February 12, the county authorities ad
mitted to-day they are at the end of
their roipe in seeking to solve the mur
der mystery. They are reality to take
up the quest again only if definite in
formation is presented to show that
there is a girl missing who might have
been the murder victim. Until such
information of definite character is pre
sented they have nothing to work on.
So far every bit of available infor
mation has been traced to the end with
out a single valuable result, according
to County Detective Walters, wh.»
made the investigation for District At
torney St roup.
The only family, of those that have
occupied the house at various times in
the past, concerning which the authori
ties had no information, at last ha*
l>fen located, but the authorities are
certain that family can give nothing of
value to help in identifying the bones.
A man named Mellish lived at 133
South Fourteenth street, at one time,
with a housekeper, the detective said.
Another couple are known to have
lived in the house at that time, but
there was no young girl who would
answer the description given by phy
sicians who examined the bones, is
kuown to have lived there during that
time. Mellish is now in Chicago, ac
cording to County Detective Walters.
The various anonymous communica
tions received by the District Attor
ney have given no clues which are re
garded by the authorities as of any
value.
UNEMPLOYED REMAIN IDLE
Letter About Summer Park Improve
ments Filed By City Commission
Park Commissioner M. Harvey Tay
lor in a letter to the Mayor and City
Commissioners this afternoon explain
ed what plans he lias for summer park
improvements, suggesting the communi
cation as a reply to the Mayor's letter
dealing with the "city's giving work
to its unemployed."
The letter was marked "received and
and filed uo comment was offered and
the unemployed of Harrisburg are just
as much out of work to-day, in so far
as the city is concerned? as thev were
three weeks ago, when the question
originally was raised.
Purse Citt From GWs Arm
Amos B. Rupp, 11 South Seven
teenth streef, has reported to the police
the theft of a handbag containing $2.75
troni his sister, while she was walking
lust night near Seventeenth and Derry
streets. The thief cut her handbag
from her arm witsb a sharp knife and
made awav with it.
No Hillings in Liquor Cases
The Dauphin county court up until
a late hour this afternoon had not
passed upon anv of the pending liquor
license applications. Bottb Judges Kun
kel and MeUarrell were engaged
through cut the day with the trial of
civil cases in Common Pleas court.
Ml I
iOEJW SAFE
Highwa3 r Department
Engineer and Former
Miss Bradley Were
In Peril at Sea
SHIP IS NEARING
NEW YORK PORT
Honeymoon Vessel Was in Grave danger
When Ruddei Broke in Violent
Storm Off Hatteras—Revenue Cut
ter to the Rescue
Colonel Samuel D. Foster, chief en
gineer of the State Highway Depart
ment, and his bride, who was Miss
Helen Trogo Bradley, daughter of Col
onel Walter T. Bradley, of Philadelphia,
willl arrive by steamship in New York
to-motrow after an exciting experience
while returning from their wedding
trip to this country. News of their
safety was received by wireless in the
Highway Department "this afternoon.
Colonel Foster and Miss Bradley
were married in Philadelphia on Janu
ary 25, and sailed for South America
on their honeymoon trip, their destina
tion being Santa Marta, Colombia,
souVn of Panama.
On February 7 they started back for
New York on the steamship Santa Mar
ta. They had fair weather until the
vessel reached Cape Hatteras, on Sat
urday, last, when a terrific storm
struck the ship, tossing her so violently
that she lost her rudder.
A vessel off Cape Hatteras in a
storm such as sweeps that coast, oven
though fully equipped with every safe
ty appliance, is considered in a perilous
situation, but a vessel without a rud
der is simply helpless. The Santa Marta
sent up signals of distress and sent out
wireless messages calling for help.
These were at last seen and heard by
a government revenue cutter -which
went to the rescue.
The cutter succeeded in getting a
C«allaue4 um Fifth Pas*.
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1915-10 PAGES.
SYLPHS 111 PI
TIGHTS STRUGGLE
HUES
Three of Them in Pic
turesque Unattire
Prove Any Woman
Can Have a Figure
LARGE CROWD
IS INSTRUCTED
Demonstrated Beyond All Question
That There Is No Excuse for the
"Sloppy Shapes"—But, Bemember,
Women Only Are Admitted
An eager crowd of women who for
two hours this morning sat agape iu the
demonstrating room of Bowman A:
Company while Miss Dougherty, au ex
perienced corsetiere, showed the possi
bilities of the human form divine, might
have attempted to paraphrase tnat
that grochiest of biographers, Dr. John
son—"Waste (waist) cannot be ac
curately told, though we are sensible
how destructive it is.'"
In the fourteen years since 1900 the
waist of lovely woman has been any
where from under her armpits to her
hips, aud her figure has verged from
au hourglass to a parallellogram at the
bidding of the modiste.
And now! Are we to begiu all over
again?
So it seems if the story of the very
latest advanced corset is to be credited.
Woman with good, natural lines rejoice!
You ueed no longer look like all your
sisters of any old shape, or shapeless
uess! Fashion has decreed that the fig
ure—the natural figure—is "in"'
again.
The corset of 1915 is a corset, not
a topless, shapeless almost boneless,
; mass of broehe, lace ami ribbon, suvh
as has been worn for several seasons
past. To-day there is decidedly more
i corset —at least five iuches above the
waist line—decidedly less length in
the skirt and—an even more decided
"nip" at the waist line which once
more is about where uature intended it
to be.
Tight Skirts Banished
In last Sunday's parade there was
no longer cause for complaint of tight
skirts. Woman this spring is flaring 4
her feet—is befritled and boned aud
| "stayed" just as was her grandmother
of ante-bellum days. The little tight
basque, flie strictly tailored suit, is
back with a vengeance.
Do you know what that means, —
you salt's who are "chortling in glee,"
—that at last woman is sensible oncj
more? It means that woman's waist
is to curve again.
How is it to be done? That is what
the demonstrator will make plain twice
a day, tomorrow and Wednesday, from
10.30 to 12.30 in the morning and
from 2.30 to 4.30 in the afternoon.
What if you have been comfortable
in your l>ox-shaipe? you eau be equal
ly comfortable in your seini-hourg as<
figure—if you will listen to advice and
allow yourself to have selected for you
the model that brings out-—ar ccnce. Is
your points.
Are you a "bag of bones" or sijih-
Contlnurd on Fifth I'aKr.
DROPPEDOPADAT HTs WORK
J. W. Duttenhofer Succumbed This
Morning From Heart Trouble
While Engaged at Almshouse
While at work on the stone crusher
at the Dauphin county almshouse, where
he is employed as engineman, John \V.
Duttenhofer, aged 57 years, dropped
over dead at 9.50 o'clock this morning,
death being due to heart trouble. Prior
to his death he had not com lained of
feeling ill aud the news was quite a
shock to employes of the place and the
board directors.
-Mr. Duttenhofer had been employed
as engineer on the crusher since lasft
May, being appointed to the positiou
by Director Walters. Previous to this
work he was employed as engineer at
the City Star laundry for about seven
years.
Mr. Duttenhofer was well known by
railroad men throughout the city, work
ing for the Pennsylvania and Baltimore
and Ohio railroads, running many of the
fast pussenger trains for both com
panies.
He is survived by his aged mother,
with whom he lived, at 1426 Penn
street; one sister, two brothers and two
•laughters, of Philadelphia. No arrange
ments for the funeral have been made.
Small Boy Scalded
Harry Bittinger, 3 years old, 216
South River street, was scalded about
the face and head last night when he
ran into his mot'her and knocked a ket
tle of water from her hand. 'He was
taken to the Harrisburg hospital for
treatment. His coudition is not seri
ous.
Bernhardt Passes Good Night
Bordeaux, Feb. 23, via Paris, 9.2 a A.
M.—lt was announced to-dav that
Sarah Bernhardt had passed a good
night. She slept continuously, and her
pulse and temperature are normal.
Madame Bernhardt 's right leg was am
putated yesterday.
Crosier Finds Johnny Jumpups
William Crozier, assistant city elec
trician, is responsible for this early
spring story. He says he found jo*hnnv
jumpups blooming at Nineteenth and
Chestnut streets this morning.
HOVERTER PLEADS GUILTY
Accused of Aiding Late Cashier Blnner
to Wreck Schaeffarotown Bank;
He Admit* Charges
B)i Amm itllrii Prtxs.
Lebanon, Feb. 23. —A. J. Hoverter,
1 accused of aiding and abetting Cashier
I Alvin Binner, of the First, National
■ bank of Sehaefferstown, in the mis&p
--| plication of $15,500 of that bank's
I funds, was given a hearing before Unit
j cd States Commissioner H. M. Schools
j this afternoon and eutered a plea of
i guilty to all the allegations of the gov
' eriunent. Hoverte.r was remanded, aiter
declining bail in the sum of $ 10,000.
j He had no attorney.
Hoverter will be taken to Scranton
on March 8, after spending a day in
Harrisburg in custody of United t*tates
! Marshal Harvey Smith. The triikl takes
place
United States District Court, Scranton. j
Hoverter is now available as a witness!
for the government and in expectation
jof partial immunity, is expected to
make a full confession. He will not be
sent to the Eastern penitentiary now
but will he confined in the federal pris
on at Atlanta, Ga., when sentenced.
MAY NOT BE PAID IK FULL
Men Whose Cattle Have Been Killed
May Not Be Entirely Remuner
ated This Session
Only two bills remain in the hands
of Coventor Brumbaugh for his ap
proval or veto, and these must be dis
posed of by to morrow night, when the
time limit expires.
One calls for an appropriation of
$523,000 to pay the expenses incident
to the suppression of the foot and
mouth disease, the money to bo ex
pended by the State Live Stock Sani
tary Board. It is held that the amouut
will be insufficient to pay the stockmen
whoso cattle have been killed by the
State authorities, but if there is not
sufficient the stockmen will have to look
to future Legislatures to reimburse
them. The quarantine still exists in a
uuuvber of counties, und until it is
lifted there is no way of obtaining an
accurate statement as to cost.
The other bilf in the
hands authorizes the Secretary of In
ternal Affairs to appoint an assistant
chief to the Bureau of Standards at a
salary of $2,000 and a stenographer
for the Bureau at a salary of $1,200.
It also increases the salary of Chief
Sweeney from $2,000 to $3,000.
Tlio Governor has not intimated what
he intends to do with either bill, but
will dispose of them iu the next twen
ty-four hours.
Bishop Talbot Here To-morrow
A union service of all the Episcopal
churches in the city will be held in St.
Stephen's church to morrow evening at
So 'clock. The sermou will be preached
by Bishop Talbot, of South Bethlehem.
UPHOLDS COPPER
AGIST CRITICS
I Chief Hutchison Says
Bluecoat Was Justi
fied in Using Force
On Prisoner
LIVELY STRUGGLE
IN MARKET STREET
Many in the Crowd Expressed Sympa
thy for the Captive, Whose Ftet
Were Knocked From Under Him—
Police Say the Man Resis .ed
Complaints made by policemen that
1 crowds interfere while they are nrnking
arrests in public places, as instanced
at 10.30 o'clock last night when Pa
trolman Kautz had a tussle with Jo
seph Orroll, at Third and Market
streets, caused Chief of Police Hutchi
son to-day to declare he intends to take
steps to discourage such interference.
The jwliceman received a complaint
that Carroll was "panhandling" on
Market street. When talcen by the blue
coat,' it is alleged, Carroll put up a
fight attempting, according to the re
port made to Chief Hutchison, to choke
the patrolman who then knocked Car
roll's feet from under him and, as Car
roll fell, pinned him to the sidewalk.
City Detective Harry White ordered
the auto [atrol and then helped hold
Carroll. Patrolman Kautz later put the
"nippers" on his prisoner's wrists.
A large crowd was attracted, during
the struggle, and made a demonstration
against the bluecoat. Many expressed
sympathy for the prisouer who, the
police say, Aid not deserve it. Some
of the crowd became indignant and
opinions differed to whether the blue
coat was using more force than was
neceacary.
This is the second occasion within
a month when such a demonstration oc-
Coatlaued oa FUtk Paae.
NEW DEATH CHAIR
NITIATED TO-DAY
WMUDEII
John Talap, Wife Mur
derer. First to Pay
Penalty By Electro
cution in This State
THREE CHARGES
TO RILL VICTIM
Current Turned on at 7.14 and at 7.21
Death Is Pronounced Execu
tion Without Hitch—Twenty Oth
ers in State Await Simiiar Fate
By Assoctafrd Press.
Rockview. Pa., Feb. 23.—The first
official electroeutiou in Pennsylvania
under the new law substituting the
ehair for the gallows took place in tdie
new death house of the Western peni
tentiary at 7.14 o'clock this'morning,
when John Talap, friendless, paid the
extreme penalty for the murder of his
wife in Montgomery county.
The execution was without a hitch
or blunder. Talap, whimpering, was
helped to the chair by two ueputy war
dens. He was in the chair oue minute
and ten seconds before the current was
applied. The flick of a white handker
chief in the orange-colored gloom was
the signal that sent 2,300 volts
through his body. At 7.17% the sec
ond charge was hurled into him. At
7.20, after the doctors had detected
signs of life, a third charge of 2,300
volts was applied.
Up through the stillness, in which
the guards and witnesses were now do
ing Uio suffering, the tiny metallic song
came from the wall apparatus, the
sound of the automatic switch that
dropped the charge gradually to 600
vclts in six seconds.
Pronounced Dead in Seven Minutes
At 7.21 Dr. R. J. Campbell, one of
the resident physicians at the New Jer
sey State penitentiary, pronounced
Talap dead. Twenty-three porsons, in
cluding witnesses, newspaper men and
attendants, saw the man die. Talap
was convicted of murdering his wife at
Norristowu in August, 1913. lie was
about 38 years old.
Talap's death was staged in a gray,
bare room and had one stately accom
paniment. He was preceded into the
death chamber by a tall, straight-shoul
dered young priest. This was the Rev.
Antonio Ulanitizky, who presides over
a Greek parish at Remey, Pa. The
priest, the one calm man present,
strode into the room, dropped to his
knees on a mat at the feet of the con
demned man and. with u smile like a
child's, lifted his crucifix before the
anguished eyes of the victim. There
he held it even after the heavy leather
mask had been fitted over the man's
face. No tremor of emotion touched
the priest's countenance. Even after
the first shock flung the body of the
condemned man outward against the
straps with a snap like a whip crack,
ha remained motionless on his knees,
Continued on Sixth PnO.
1 ESCAPE m STONE-PILE
Vagrants Sentenced by Mayor Royal
Break Down Door of Almshouse
Prison and Get Away
•Seven of the fourteen vagrants w'ho
had been doing time on the stone pile
at the Dauphin County Almshouse, under
sentence of Mayor Royal, broke out of
their place_ of imprisonment last night
and this afternoon were yet at large.
The escape was effected by breaking
down a wooden door. The seven men
who remained could have escaped just
as easily but they preferred to stay.
The county authorities in the last
month had been remodeling the quarters
in which the "stone pile gang ' were
keipt and expected to replace the wooden
door with a steel one to morrow. The
windows have been barred and once the
new door is set up escape will not be
easy.
The authorities are of the opinion
that they either will be rid for all time
of the seven offenders who last night
escaped or that those same men will
'be in the toils within the next several
ilavg. All are old offenders, having
been "sent uip" either for drunkenness
or "panhandling," and it is figured
that unless they leave Harriaburg they
soon will be rearrested.
Two or three of the men had but a
few days to serve While the rest had
just been sent out by the Mayor.
THREE MEET DEATH IN BLAZE
Eight Others Injured in a 9200,000
Fire in Birmingham
Birmingham, Ala., Fe".>. 23.—Three
unidentified persons, probably more,
were burned to death and eight others
were injured in a $200,000 fire which
early to-day Bwept the business sec
tion. destroying several commercial
buildings and the Windsor hotel, a
small old structure.
The ruins of the hotel are being
searched.
Street Intersection Index Boards
Fourteen hundred index boards will
be placed on street intersections urn iter
a contract which Highway Commis
sioner Lviwh plans to have the Citv
Commissioners a*want on March 16
Bids for the street signs will be re
ceived by Liyndi up to noon of March
10.
WAR INCIDENTS DISCUSSED
AT BRIEF CABINET IHEETINC
Washington. Feb. 23. —The charge
by Germany aud Austria that subma
rines are being manufactured in the
United States for Ureat Britain was
discussed to day at the Cabinet meet
ing, but without action, becuuse Secre
tary Daniels had not finished his in
vestigation. Recently the State De
partment discouraged American manu
facturers from taking similar eon
tracts.
The sinking of the Evelyn and the
international situatiou geuerallv were
discussed at the Cabinet meeting, which
was the briefest in months. It was in
dicated that no further action would be
taken until further details were ob
tained and the Administration saw
nothing in tho incident liable to cause
international complications. It was
said to be practically certain that uo
replies will be sent to the latest Brit
ish and German notes.
LATE WARJTO SUMMARY
The famous cathedral at Rheims,
which was damaged early in the war,
has suffered further injury, the French
War Office announced to-day. The Ger
mans are charged with having made a
special target of the cathedral during a
violent bombardment of the city, and
It is said that the interior of the vault
ed roof gave way.
The Berlin communication reports
further progress in the Vosges, where
the Germans have been taking town
aftsr town during the last week. The
capture of another town, near Muehl
bach, is announced to-day.
In the recent battle of the Mazurlan
lakes district in East Prussia, which
resulted In the expulsion of the Rus
sians from German soil, :too cannon, in
cluding ten pieces of heavy calibre were
captured, the Berlin communication
states. In regard to the present phase
of the campaign Rus ; ian staff officers
are optimistic, believing that the Ger
man advance in Northern Pol«tna has
been halted definitely.
Another vessel was sunk to-day in
the naval war zone established by the
decree of the German Admiralty. A
Norwegian steamer was sent to the bot
tom on the English channel by either
a submarine or a mine.
Heavy losses were sustained by the
Austrlans in the recent fighting, the
Russian general staff announced in a
statement claiming several victories in
Gallcla. In Northern Poland also, it is
said, a successful stand has been made
against the German army which drove
the Russians from East Prussia. These
reports are not in agreement, however,
with official communications from Ber
lin and Vienna, both of which tell of
reverses suffered by the Russians and
their loss of great numbers of men.
On the western battlefields there are
no signs of returning activity and ap
parently neither side desires to take the
initiative at this time. Official an
nouncements show that- comparatively
small numbers of men take part in the
actions at various points over the line
and apparently these engagements are
of merely local significance.
Paul Erb Moved on Stretcher
Paul Erb, the boy who was badly
burned hist July 3 by an electric
sparkler, was to-dav transferred on a
stretcher in the ambulance from 23rt
Charles street to 1804 North Sixth
street. The family is moving ami the
boy is still in too weak a condition to
be aibout unaided.
CO AL WHARF PL AH
FINALLYPASSES
City Commissioners,
by 3 to 2 Vote, Grant
Power Company Ne
cessary Permission
GORGAS AND THE
MAYOR VOTE "NO"
Harrisburg Automobile Company Qets
Contract For Auto Truck—Not a
Single New Ordinance Introduced
At This Afternoon's Session
By a vote of 3 to 2 the City Com
missioners this afternoon passed finally
the ordinance giving the Harrisburg
Ligiht and Power Company permission
to buiild a coal wharf on the Hargest
Island. The Republican members,
Bowman, Lynch and Taylor, voted af
firmatively and the Democratic mem
bers, Mayor Royal and Gorgas, voted
against it, saying they preferred firet
to hear from the member* of the City
Planning Commission, who disapproved
the plan.
Members of the Planning Commis
sion were expected to attend the Com
missioners' meeting to-day and explain
their attitudes on the coal" wharf propo
sition, although all remained away. B.
F. Uniberger, the secretary of the com
mission, it was explained, wan prevent
ed from attending because of a death
in his family and Kdward 8. Herman,
president of the board is now in the
south.
Light company officials after the
Commissioners' meeting said the com
pany will go ahead with its plans
and have the wharf built in the short
est possible time. The material has been
ordered; it will be shipped at once and
work on the project will be begun
within a day or two. Immediately be
fore the pas'sage of the ordinance the
Light Company deposited SSO cash
Coatlaaed on Fifth !>■««.
POSTSCRIPT
PRICE, ONE CEKT.
NORWEGIAN
SHIP SUNK
OFF DOVER
The Regin Goes Down
In Ten Minutes After
Being Struck This
Morning
THE CREW OF 22
MEN IS SAVED
Not Known Whether Disaster to Vessel
Is Caused by Either Submarine
or Mine—Four Norwegian (Steam
ers In All Lost
By Associated Press.
London, Feb. 23, 1.25 P. M. The
Norwegian steamer Begin was sunk off
Dover this morning by either a sub
marine or a mine. The crew of twenty
two men was saved.
The Regin. which was carrying coal
from the Tyne to Bordeaux sank ten
minutes after "he was struck.
The Regin is the second Norwegian
steamer to encounter ;i submarine or a
mine in the English channel since Feb
ruary IS, when the Cierntan submarine
blockade against British ports went into
effect. Die tank steamship Belridge
was torpedoed by a Uerman submarine
off I'olkstoue last week. She was not,
however, very seriously damaged, for
aftdr being beached at Walmer she
later made her way to port. The Begin
was of 1,107 net tonnage, 2t>s feet
long and was built in 1913.
Disaster has overtaken two other
Norwegian steamships in the last low
days. The Nordykn went down in the
Baltic last week, probably as a result
of striking a mine or being torpedoed,
and the Cuba, a freighter bound from
London to Rotterdam, sank February
J 21 in the North sea after a collision.
BRITISH ADMIfGERIHANS
DESTROYED A TRENCH OF
THE FORMER HEAR YPRES
London, Feb. 23, 2.55 P. M. The
British semi-weekly report on the prog
ress of the lighting on the continent
was given out to-duy and reads as
follows:
"The enemy continues to show con
siderable activity; in the neighborhood
of Ypres several attacks and counter
attacks have occurred. At ti o'clock
in the morning of February :>1 the ene
my exploded an elaborate series of
mines, which destroyed one of our
trenches. A new line was prepared a
short distance in the rear and imme
diately occupied. Any attempts at
further progress have been completely
frustrated.
"Near Givenchy our infantry, after
a successful bombardment, captured a
trench of the enemy and blew it up.
An attempted attack by the enemy
along Labassee canal was easily re
pulsed by our artillery.
"To the south ot the river Lys there
has been an increase in artillery and
riile fire, in which our troops showed
marked superiority. Along the re
mainder of our front there has been
nothing more than artillery duels. The
thick weather has handicapped the
work of air craft."
TURKS DRIVEN BEYOND RIVER
IN FIGHTING IN THE CAUCASUS
Petrograd, Feb. 23.—A report on
the fighting in the Caucasus received
to-diy from the headquarters of the
Kussian commander of that region says
that on February 21 there were engage
ments with the Turks in the vicinity
of Tchouruk, as a result of which the
Turks were driven beyond the river.
There was no fighting elsewhere on this
date.
GERMAN AFFRONT TO U. S.
FLAG REPORTED IN LIEGE
London, Feb. 23. —The Amsterdam
"Telegraaf,' 1 according to advices yes
terday to the Exchange Telegram Com
pany, has received a dispatch from
Liege stating that recently several
Gorman soldiers snatched the American
colors from the breasts of a number of
citizens and threw them in the mud.
Fourteen of the burghers protested
to the American Consul against the ac
tion.
WALL STREET CLOSING
New York, Feb. £l.—New points of
weakness developed in the late trad
ing, particularly in the specialties. The
closing was heavy. Steady selling, large
ly for the short account, caused further
, price depressions in the stock market
1 to-day.