THE WEATHER
RAIN TO-NIGHT
CLOUDY TO-MORROW
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nrT A ? L , I 'r" ED VOL. 77—NO. 70.
SECOND U. S.
SHIP IS SUNK
INNORTHSEA
Carib, From Charleston
to Bremen With Cot
ton, Strikes Mine Off
German Coast
OFFICIAL REPORT
OF THE DISASTER
American Minister Van Dyke Notifies
State Department of Loss of Carib,
Reported to Have Occurred Outside
Route Prescribed by Geiynans
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 24.—Official notice
of the sinking of the American ship
Carib was received at the State De
partment to-day in this message from
American Minister Van Dyke at The
Hague:
"Carib reported sunk in North sea
outside route prescribed by German in
structions. ''
Berlin, Feb. 24., Via London, 5.20
P. M.—A dispatch' received in Berlin
from the American vice consul at
Bremerhaven declares that all the mem
bers of the crew of the American
steamer Carib, reported yesterday as
having sunk in the North sea, have
been saved. It is understood, the vice
consul continues, that the Carib struck
a mine in the Bight of Heligoland the
afternoon of February 22.
Berlin, Feb. 24. —The American
steamer Carib has gone to the bottom
off the German coast in tlie North sea
as a result of running a mine. At the
time of the disaster the Carib was not
using the route laid down by the Ger
man marine instructions.
The German Admiralty has com
municated a memorandum to Command
er Walter K. Gherardi, the American
naval attache, pointing out that the
destruction of the American steamers
Evelyn and Carib was due tw their not
following the course prescribed by the
Get man Admiralty to a point northwest
of Heligoland. The memorandum reit
erates the assurance of the German
government as to the safety uf the pre
scribed course.
Captain Smith, of the Evelyn, has
been asked for a report as to the local
ity of the disaster This report is ex
pected to show whether the Evelyn
vandered within the defensive Herman
mine fields, or whether she struck
mines laid by a belligerent power other
than Germany.
Carrying Cotton to Bremen
For moie than ten years the Carib
ran with passengers and freight in the
service of the Clyde Line between
New York and Wilmington, N. C.,
Georgetown, S. C., and Brunswick, Ga.,
and later between Jacksonville, Fla.,
and Boston
!She was an iron single screw steam
er built under the British Hag at Po-rt
Glasgow in 1882. She was christened
the President Garfield, and later be
came the Austrian steamer Ximon.
Then she was bought by the Clyde Line
ainl put under the American tlag.
Two months ajro the Clyde Line sold
her to Walker, Armstrong & Co., of
Savannah, a firm of cotton brokers.
She sailed from Charleston for Brem
en with 4,600 bales of cotton on Janu
ary 27. The Carib was in-command of
Captain E. L. Cole and carried a crew
of twenty-nine.
She was of 2,087 tons gross, 288.4
feet long, 36 2 l'cet beam and 22.4
depth of hold. She registered from
New York.
In the service of the Clyde Line the
Carib, which had five bulkheads, met
with many accidents and adventures,
but was called a 'lucky ship."
Courses Which Vessels Should Take
Washington, Feb. 24.—The German
embassy to-day issued a statement giv
ing the courses which vessels bound
for German ports should pursue in or
der to he perfectly safe. The state
ment says that all circles interested
in shipping in the North sea and the
nearby waters are again advised to
follow the German Admiralty's in
structions recently announced .
LATE WARMS" SUMMARY
Another British steamer has been
sent to the bottom by a German sub
marine within the war zone established
by the decree of the German admiralty.
The Oakby was torpedoed off Rye, but
her crew was rescued. The loss of the
Oakby apparently was mentioned in a
dispatch from Lydd, England, last
night, though her name was not men
tioned.
In the fighting around Przasnysz,
Northern Poland, which has become the
storm center of the eastern campaign,
1,200 Russians have been captured, the
German War Office announced to-day.
Russian forces succeeded in effecting a
passage of the Bobr river at two places
but in one of the resultant engagements
are said to have been driven back.
On the western front there has been
heavy fighting in Champagne and the
Voagee. To-day's official communication
from between states that several vio-
COB tinned on Elghlk Face. I
®ie Star- Mhtptnitnl
280 LIVES ARE LOST WHEN
BRITISH ARMED MERCHANT
CRUISER GOES TO BOTTOM
London, Feb. 24, 5.25 P. M.—The
officials information bureau announced
this afternoon that the Clan Mac-
Naughton, an armed merchant cruiser,
is missing. Vessel was last heard from
February 3 and it is feared that she
has been lost.
Two hundred and eighty men lost
their lives when the Clan MacNaugh
ton went down.
The text; of the bureau's announce
ment follows:
"The secretary of the admiralty re
grets to announce that H. M. C. Olam
MacNaughton, an armed merchant
cruiser, Commander Robert Jeffreys, R.
N., has been missing since February 3,
and it is feared that the vesoel has been
lost.
"An unsuccessful search has been
made aind wreckage supposed to be por
tions of this ship has since been dis
covered.
"The last signal received from the
Clan MacNaughton was made in the
early morning of February 3 and it is
feaTcd that she was lost during the
bad weather which prevailed at that
time."
From the fact that there is no reg
ular cruiser in the British navy named
Olam MacNaughton and that there is a
merchant steamer of that name, it can
safely be assumed that the British
naval authorities have taken the mer
chant vessel and made use of her as
an auxiliary warship.
The merchant steamer Clan Mac-
Naughton was 4(29 feet long. She has
been in the Indian service, for she
reached London from Calcutta Novem
ber 4, last year.
DOUBT WHETHER EVELYN'S
CAPTAIN HAS BEEN SAVED
Washington, Felb. 24.—Official ad
vices to-day seem to throw some doubt
on whether Captain Smith, of the Amer
ican steamer Evelyn sunk in the North
sea by a mine, was among the saved
ami whether it is not his boat which is
missing.
Ambassador Page, at Ijondon, to
day forwarded a Teport from the Amer
ican consul at Bremerhaven, which is
as follows:
"American steamer Evelyn ran on
two mines on the 19th,-4 a. m., near
I«|V Borkum. Sunk seven hours later.
Captain Smith, thirteen men and Dutch
pilot in one boat; 'First Officer Swan
son and thirteen men in other. First
boat said to have been rescued 10 a.
m. Saturday but present whereabouts
yet unknown. Latter boat picked up
by German scout ship Mass, four Satur
day afternoon and taken to (Heligoland.
Thirteen men brought to Bremerhaven
and put into Sailors' Home. Spanish
stoker, Hans Ilizo, frozen and buried at
sea, appears to be only dead. Other sur
vivors expected to-morrow. Those in
Bremerhaven out of danger."
No Report of Missing Evelyn Men
Washington, Feb. 24. —No report
had come to-day of the missing boat
load of men from the American steamer
Evelyn. Thick weather in the North
sea is believed to be one cause for
the lack of information, but officials
here feel that the chances are good
that if the second mate and his men
already have not landed on the Holland
coast at some point remote from tele
graph communication they have been
picked up by one of the many trawlers
which frequent, the waters off the
mouth of the Elbe.
The government war risk bureau,
which insured the hulls and cargoes of
the Evelyn and Carib, plans to reduce
some of its losses by salvaging their
cotton cargoes if possible. Secretary
Mc Adoo, of the Treasury Department,
and Assistant Secretary Peters, discuss
ed a plan with President Wilson.
Secretary MtelAdoo pointed out that
cotton was not easily damaged by
water and that if it were done it was
probable that the cause of the sinking
of the vessels would be definitely de
termined.
The war risk bureau will take no
! action until the owners have submitted
j proofs of the losses. Secretary Mc
| Adoo |>ointed out that no insurance was
i (granted by the bureau on vessels carry
ing contraband of war.
RUSSIA ASKS FOR PITTSBURGH
PRICES ON RAILWAY MATERIAL
Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 24.—Inquiry
has been received here by the Pitts
burgh Foreign Trade Commission from
the Russian imperial government for a
huge quantity ot railroad material for
use in government railway lines and
extensions made necessary by the Eu
ropean war.
The authorities ask for prices on
5,000 pairs of axles and wheels, 30,-
000 to 60,000 ties, 30,000 rough axles
and 10,000 rough wheels. The order
is valued at near $2,000,000.
BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK RY
SUBMARINE, BERLIN REPORT
Berlin, by Wireless to London, Feb.
24, 9.35 A. M. —Official announcement
was made last night that the British
transport No. 192 was sunk by a Ger
man submarine off Beachy Head at
4.45 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
A dispatch last night from New Ha
ven, England, stated that eighteen
members of the crew of the Cardiff
steamer Branksome' Chine, a govern
ment collier, had landed there and an
nounced the sinking of their vessel ei
there by a mine or a torpedo in the Eng
lish channel twenty miles southeast of
Beachy Head about 2 o'clock yester
day afternoon. This probably is the
vessel to which the Berlin announce
ment refers.
HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1915—12 PAGES.
U.O.IIKE
IS ill FEET
Takes Workmen Only
7 Hours to Push Half
of the Big Structure
Up the River
TRAINS KEEP
ON RUNNING
No Interference With Schedules While
Pennsylvania Steel Company Force
Shifts Ten iron Spans to Make
Room for Concrete Viaduct
Half a mile of the steel bridge of
the Cumberland Valley railroad, from
Mulberry street, Harrisburg, to the is
land, was placed on rollers atop of ten
stone piers and moved northward a
distance of eight feet, six inches, in
seven hours yesterday. This was ac
complished without a mishap and with
out disturbing the train schedule, al
though during the morning the bridge
structure was temporarily raised nine
inches to permit the rollers to be placed
under it.
That part of the 'bridge between
the island and Cumberland county
shore will be moved as soon as the
weather permits. When the entire
ibridge has been moved northward ev
erything will be in readiness foi; be
ginning the construction of half of the
concrete double-track structure whioh is
to replace the present one-track steel
bridge. J. B. Fraim has charge of this
moving work for the Pennsylvania
Steel Company, which will provide the
steel that w'.ll be used in the concrete
structure. The contract for the con
crete work has not yet been awarded,
but the award will be made on March
17, bids having already been received.
Train? Run as Usual
The spans of the steel structure were
jacked up on the piers and two 70-
pound rails with 3fe*inch steel rollers
were placed on the top of each pier.
When this was completed heavy wood
en beams to provide leverage for large
capacity jacks were put in place on
each pier. This preliminary work re
quired two weeks. Just before 10
o'clock yesterday morning everything
was ready for t-he moving and the
signal was given to the three men on
each pier. Power was applied and
slowly the bridge was moved sideways
on the rollers.
This work was halted at times as
trains ran over the structure, but, de
spite such interruptions, the steel
structure on this side of the island was
moved to where the contractors wanted
it in just seven hours. Tho moving of
the western stretch of the bridge will
be done as soon as weather permits.
The plan is then to construct the
southern side of tne new concrete arch
bridge clear across the river. When
that is completed trains will be run
over that half, the present steel struc
ture will be removed and the construc
tion of the upper half of the concrete
bridge started. Workmen could give
no estimate as to the time it will re
quire to complete the new structure.
To Use Present Piers
The present piers will be a part of
the new bridge. They, with the excep
tion of a concrete facing, were made
ready for this work before the winter
set in, a competent inspector having
passed on their stability. The piers
have been in use for many years and
the new structure will be the third
bridge for them to support. The first
was a wooden arch viaduct similar to
the old camelback that formerly
spanned the river from Market street.
The trains ran on top of the box-like
structure. Once it was destroyed by
fire and subsequently rebuilt.
Twenty-nine years ago the present
one-track steel bridge was placed on
the piers. Traffic has grown so that
a double-track structure is now required
and it will be made of reinforced con
crete.
This bridge will be part of the gen
eral improvement plan of the Pennsyl
vania railroad and its subsidiary, the
Cumberland Valley railroad in South
HarriSburg, where a huge freight re
ceiving station is now being built.
CHICKEN BONE CHOKES HER
Woman Is Bushed to H&rrisburg Hos
pital at Early Hour for Treatment
Mrs. George 'Himes, of York Springs,
was taken from her home to the Harris
burg Hospital early this morning to
have a chicken bone removed from her
throat. She choked on it last evening
and the family physician was called. He
treated her but advised that she be
'brought to the 'Harris/burg Hospital.
She arrived there at 3.15 o'clock this
morning.
Mrs. Himes felt so well at
she said, that she wanted to go home.
She would not even remain for an X
ray examination. The treatment given
■by her family physician is believed to
•have removed the bone.
Elected to Archbishopric
By Associated Presi.
St. Johns, N. F., Feb. 24.—Monsig
nor Edward Patrick Roche, rector of
the Roman Catholic cathedral here and
administrator of the New Foundland
diocese since the death of Archbishop
Hawley last October, was notified to
day of his election to the archbishopric
by Pope Benedict. Mgr. Roche is 40
years old.
Two-Cent Postage to Honduras
Washington, Feb. 24.—A convention
has been concluded between the United
States and British Honduras for two
cent postage between the two countries
After M*roh 1.
ILL HEALTH DRIVES WOMAN
TO HANG HERSELF IN HOME
Mrs. Ambrose Nltrauer Once Before
Had Made Attempt On Her Own
Life—Husband Finds Body Dang
ling From a Rafter
(Special to the Star-Independent.)
Middletown, Pa., Feb. 24.—With a
doubled strand of thin binder twine,
Mrs. Ambrose Nitrauer committed sui
cide last evening by hanging herself to
a rafter in the attick of her home—
the tenant house on the J. D. Aldinger
farm, near Aberdeen, Conewago town
ship, and about two miles from Deo
ilate, Dauphin county. She was dead
when found by her husband on his re
turn from his work on the proposed
troHey line between Hershey and Eliza
bethtown. The husband called in Al
dinger, the owner of the farm, who cut
the body down.
Mrs. Nitrauer for more than a year
had been subject to melancholy apells,
due to a breakdown in health. She made
an unsuccessful attempt upon her life
a little less than a year ayo, her hus
band said. When found, Mrs. Nitrauer's
body was near a chair.
Mrs. Nitrauer was 44 years, 10
months and 7 days old, and the mother
of one child, a daughter, Mrs. Blam
Baker, of Conewago township. She
leaves the following brothers and sis
ters, all residents of Conewago town
ship: Samuel, Abram, Daniel, Andrew
and Martin Winters, and Mrs. William
Buck.
Funeral services will be held at the
home on Saturday morning at 9 o'clock.
Interment will be made in the Mt.
Ober cemetery, near Conewago.
RAD INDIAN EVADES ARREST
Efforts to Seize Piute Have Thus Far
Resulted in the Killing of
Six Persons
By Associated Press.
Durango, Col., Feb. 24.—Tse-Ne-Gat,
the I'iute Indian whose efforts to elude
I arrest by Federal officers on the charge
of murder have since Sunday resulted
in the death of five Indians and one
member of United States Marshal Neb
eker's posse, was still at large to-day,
according to reports received here from
Bluff, Utah. Marshal Nebeker and
the main body of his force were report
ed entrenched in tne rocks west of that
place and the fugitive Indian, with
his father, "Old Poik," and their band
of renegate Piutes, who have aided in
their fight with the government officers,
were believed to be somewhere in the
vicinity of Butler, about 8 miles west
of Bluff.
Mounted Indian police from Ship
rock are reported en route to Bluff to
reinforce the whites.
Another casualty was added to the
list last night, when Havane, son-in
law of "Old Polk" and one of six In
dians captured Sunday, slipped off his
manacles and leaped through a window
of the temporary prison at Bluff in an
effort to escape. Two members of the
posse detailed to guard the prisoners
opened fire and the Indian fell with
two bullets in his body. Havane is
said to be in a serious condition.
SIO,OOOIDOiSESHINCES
ON A CHOCOLATE CO. SUIT
Contention of Former Hershey Employe
That He is Entitled to Share in
Dividend, Is Said to Be a Test
Case For One Hundred Others
When tihe suit of Paul Snyder
agains-t the Hershey Chocolate Company
of Hershey, goes to trial in the locail
court late this afternoom or early to
morrow morning, the attention of the
Dauphin county judges will be called
to an action, the like of which never
before has been tried in this county
or State. But two similar suits have
j been decided in other Spates of the
I Union.
It is a suit to recover a bonus on net
! earning—a twenty per cent, dividend
| on employes' wages which the Hershey
Company annu:Ulv for years has declar
ed. Snyder was deprived of a bonus in
1911, but contends he is entitled to it.
He says he worked for the concern
eleven aud a half months in that year,
but was not actively employed by the
company when the dividend was de
clared.
Snyder's claim is for sllß, which he
says is a pro rata bonus on his year's
W4»ges to which he contends he "is en
titled. The suit is brought as a test
case. More than a hundred other
former chocolate conipany employes
are interested, because, like Snyder,
ttiey too contend, they were thrown out
of work less than a month before the
dividend was declared and got no bonus
for that year
The plaintiff contends he is entitled
to a dividend because he never was dis
charged from the employ of the com
pany and was under a temporary sus
pension when the bonus was allowed.
About twenty-five of the more than
one hundred men who allege they got
/io bonus are aiding Snyder in finan
cing his suit. The action was begun
more than three years ago and did not
go to trial earlier because of the ab
sence of a material witness, Oscar Fox,
who, it is said, gave the "lay off" or
der to the men.
More than a year and a half was
spent in finding Fox for the purpose
of getting his testimony. His deposi
tions finally were taken and Fox is
now visiting near Hershey, it is said,
and will remain here until the close
of the trial. The search for him was
extended to St. Louis, Mo., Portland, 0.,
Omaha, Neb., Hot Springs, Ark., and
San Francisco, Cal.
The claims of the hundred former
employe* amount to well on to J 10,000,
so it was said to-day.
hms
TOE BE JOB
Davis, of Lancaster,
Gets Post Sought by
Both the Van Dykes,
of This City
NAMED TO-DA^X
BY PRESIDENT
Local Men, Who Lose Out, Had Strong
Backing, but Wilson Selects Candi
date for Oollectorship Who IB Ac
ceptable to the Two Factions
The long political controversy as to
who shall be Collector of Internal Reve
nue in the Ninth Pennsylvania illistrict,
including Harrisburg, was settled to-day
when President Wilsen sent to the Sen
ate the appointment of Benjamin K.
Davis, of Lancaster, to that position.
Mr. Davis is a prominent business man
and has for several years been chair
man of the Lancaster county Demo
cratic Committee. He is known as a
" Reorganize^'' but was on frien'.ily
terms witlh the Old Guard, and his nomi
nation is regarded as a compromise.
The appointment settles a contest in
the Dauphin county Democratic ranks
that has been quite spirited for some
time. Warren Van Dyke, the present
secretary of the Democratic State Com
mittee, who removed here from Carbon
county about three years ago, au'd T.
Kittera Van Dyke, a member of the
Daupihin county bar, were the two moet
prominent aspirants for the position.
Warren Van Dyke, it is understood,
had the backing of National Commit
teeman A. Mitchell Palmer; Vance C.
MdOormick, recent candidate for Gov
ernor; James I. Blakeslee, Fourth As
sistant Postmaster General, and the
members of the Democratic State Com
mittee generally.
T. Kittera Van Dyke had the sup
port of Samuel Kunkel, treasurer of the
Democratic State Committee, and a
number of other local Democrats, and it
was also said that so far as he took part
in local appointments Secretary William
Jennings Bryan gave his aid to T. Kit
tera, the latter being one of the Brvau
in this city at a time when
many of the prominent local Democrats
repudiated the "Great Commoner's"
free silver LJieas.
Palmer for Warren Van Dyke
The Scranton revenue district, whidh
was abolished several years ago and
its office removed to and merged with
the Lancaster or Ninth district, was
recently restored and Fred C. Kirken
dahl, who was appointed to succeed
Harry L Hershey, Republican, was
transferred to the Scranton headquar
ters, leaving the place of Collector of
the Ninth district open, and it was said
that one of the maiin reasons for re
storing the old Scranton district was to
leave the Lancaster district open for
the appointment of Warren Van Dyke,
he being especially favored by Con
gressman Palmer who engineered the
affair.
Meantime the candidacy of T. Kit
tera VauDyke was advanced and his
friends began to do things and to take
Secretary Bryan into their confidence
in Mr. T. K.'s behalf, using the argu
ment that he had been a Bryan sup
porter when it took foititude to 'be a
Bryan supporter in this neck o' the
wcods. Secretary Bryan looked with
favor on the appointment of his
staunch ally, and the affair began to
get serious. It looked very much as
if there would be a deadlock.
At this, juncture the name of Mr.
Davis, of Lancaster, was brought forth
quietly in connection with the appoint
ment and last week it was laid before
President Wilson, who saw a happy so
lution of a matter in which his Secre
tary of State was involved on one
side and his chief Pennsylvania sup
porter in the Baltimore convention was
concerned on the other side. Think
ing it all over, the President to-day
sent in the name of Davis.
To "Take Care" of Warren VanDyke
It was said by prominent Demo
crats this afternoon that Warren Van-
Dyke will bo cared for in some way
with "something equally as good" and
that he will be looked after by Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Blakes
lee, who brought Mr. VanDyke from
his Carbon county home to take the
place of resident secretary of the Dem
ocratic State Committee.
Since the Democratic State Commit
tee headquarters were removed from
Market square, in this city, to Phila
delphia, Warren VanDyke has had
charge of the resident office here, but
inquiry for him to-day elicited the fact
that the telephone at the branch State
headquarters in the square had been
"detached" and there was no longer
any telephone service there.
ELLEN TERRY UNDER KNIFE
Famous Actress Has Cataract Removed
From Right Eye
By Associated Press,
New York, Feb. 24. —Ellen Terry,
the actress, who underwent an opera
tion yesterday for the removal of a
cataract from her right eye, was re
ported to be improving rapidly to-day
and it was expected that she would be
able to leave the hospital in two weeks.
Miss Terry is 67 years old, two years
younger than Mme. Sarah Bernhardt,
who on Monday lost her right leg by
amputation.
Bernhardt'B Condition Satisfactory
By Associated Press.
Bordeaux, Feb. 24, via Paris, 11.10
A. M. —The bulletin issued to-day on
the condition of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt,
whose leg was amputated a few days
ago, says that she -jl&ssed a good night
and that the general state of her health
continues satisfactory.
WORK ON THE POSTOFFICE
COMES TO A STANDSTILL
Halted Until It Is Decided By the Gov
ernment Whether to Permit Bond
holders of Contractors to Finish it
Or to Award Job to Another Firm
Work on the addition to the post
office, the contract for which was in
the hands of Pennock & Company, liae
come to an absolute standstill with no
prospect of an early resumption of
operations. The Pennock Company, with
numerous contracts on its hands, it was
recently announced, has gone into the
hands of a receiver, one being appoint
ed last Friday.
Postmaster Sites has had no infor
mation or instructions concerning
future operations on the building and
is waiting to hoar from the United
States Treasury Department which has
cJiajye of all operations conceming pub
lic buildings.
There are two ways in which the
work on the building may be complet
ed. The bondsmen for Pennock & Com
pany may finish the work or the Treas
ury Department may reimburse the
Pennock firm for the work it has done
up to date and then let a new contract
for the completion of the work as con
templated, to somo new contracting
firm.
The Pennock Company obtained tlie
first contract for the addition in the
rear, but subsequently Congress appro
priated $75,000 to elevate this addi
tion to the height of the original struc
ture. The contract for this last work
has not been awarded although the
plans are finished. They also include
some interior alterations.
Should the Treasury Department de
cide to let the contract to another
party it will also include the work of
elevation and alteration, making the
entire work but one contract in the
hands of one construction firm. A con
ference between the receiver and the
government authorities will have to be
held in order to arrive at a conclusion.
JITNEY LM APRIL 1
That Is the Prediction of Those Inter
ested in Company Proposing to
Install Auto Buses Here
Attorneys and city officials who
were questioned on the subject ex
pressed the opinion to-day that the
Jitney Transportation Company, a con
cern to be organized by local capital
ists for the purpose of operating a
line of 50 ai'to buses in the city in com
petition with the trolley line, will not
be compelled legally to ask the City of
Harrisburg for a franchise before it
can operate on the city highways.
However, as the proposed conipany
is in the class of public service corpora
tions, permission to do business must
first be given by the Public Service
Commission before the charter of in
corporation can be granted by Govern
or Brumbaugh. Notice have been filed
to the effect that formal application
for the charter will be made to the
Governor on March 18.
Oil that day the petition will be cer
tified to the Public Service Commis
sion and, if possible, a hearing will be
held a day or so later. Members of
the proposed company to-day said they
hope to have the "jitney" line in op
eration by not later than April 1. The
incorporators will ho d a business meet
ing before the close of this week, at
which officers and directors will be
elected and plans made for buying the
necessary auto buses. «
RILLEDAS HEPLAYSBftLL
Son of a Former Lebanon County Jury
Commissioner Victim of an Acci
dent This Morning
(Special to the Star-Independent.)
Lebanon, Pa., Feb. 24.—John Achey,
a married man, 33 years old, son of
former Jury Commissioner Samuel
Achey, of near Reistville, Lebanon
county, was accidentally killed to-day
by a Lancaster county young man
while engaged in playing "corner" ball
at the public sales conducted by John
Haisey in the eastern end of the county.
Achcy was hit above the heart by a
hard pitched ball.
TAFT AID KILLS HIMSELF
Captain A. E. Harding Commits Sui
cide in Philadelphia Club
By Associated Press.
Philadelphia, Feb. 24.—Captain A.
E. Harding, ot the United States ma
rine corps, shot and killed himself to
ilay at the Racquet Club, of whioh he
was a non-resident member. The po
lice have thus far been unable to as
sign a cause for the suicide.
Captain Harding was an aid to
President Taft. He was born in Illi
nois in 1873 and was appointed to the
marine corps from that State in 1889.
Captain Harding had been Btaying at
the cluba few days. He was found dead
on a bed when a valet went to his room
delphia navy yard, While he was in the
adjutant to Colonel Waller, now in
command of the marines at the Phila
del navy yard, while he was in the
Philippines. For some time Captain
Harding had been attached to t he office
of Judge Advocate General of the
Navy at Washington. He was married
a few months ago and his wife was ex
pected to arrive here to-day. Captain
Harding's home was near Chicago.
Cameron Street Store Bobbed
The general store of R. Remmer, 12'20
'North Cameron street, was entered last
night by thieves who gained entrance
•by cutting a panel from the rear door.
Six pairs of trousers, five pairs of
gloves and quantities of tobacco and
some canned goods were taken. The
roibbery has been reported to the po
lice.
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PRICE, ONE CENT.
GITS ALL BUT 3
LIOTIORLCEDSES
Court Withholds Its
Decision in the Cases
of White, Eckinger
and Bowman
RUSH MADE TO
GET RENEWALS
Judges Will Take Additional Testi
mony on the Application of the
Berrysburg Hotel When the Hear
ing Is Resumed Next Monday
All except three of the 172 appli
cations for the lenewal of liquor li
censes held by hotel men, distillers,
brewers, wholesalers and bottlers in
this county —we.e granted this morn
ing; by the Dauphin county court. The
j three cases in which licenses were not
I granted have not yet been passed upon.
I They are tho.-e of Harry White, pro
| prietor of the Ann Street hotel, Mid*
j dletown; Harry F. Eckinger, for the
; Paxtonia Inn, Lower I'axton township,
] and William 11. Bowman, proprietor of
. the St. Lawrence hotel, Berrysburg.
| A further hearing in the Bon man
case will bo he'd on Monday, the court
I desiring to get additional information
I on the charge set up by one W. S.
I Htraub, which was in effect that Bow
man has sold intoxicants to habitual
j drunkards. The Berrysburg hotel eon
! sequently will be closed on Monday,
I since the 1914 liquor license year ends
; next Saturday at midnight. If the
i hearing in that case can be ended on
I Monday, the court at once will make a
I ruling on the application, so Judge Mc
(Jarrell announced from the bench,
j Hotel ner. anu their attorneys
; rushed to get the licenses renewed this
morning immediately after the court
announced its intention to grant all
except three of the applications.
No Opinion Yet Tiled
No opinion was tiled by the court in
any one case, but it is "believed that
| the Judges will tile an opinion when
they dispose finally of the Eckinger
and White cases, in which remon
strances were iil.'d and in which testi
mony has been taken.
The Paxtonia Inn hud no lieouso
last year, but prior to that had been a
I liceused ''inn" for more than a cen
i tury. Eckinger's predecessor as pro
' piretor made no application for a license
j for the place last year. The new ap
| plicant this year offered to show the
Ineed for a bar at that place. The
question of necessity was the only ono
raised in the remonstrance against the
I Paxtonia Inn and against the Ann
Street, Middletown, hotel.
As matter, now stand only one of
Dauphin county 's present liquor estab
lishments is certain to go out of busi
ness with the close of the license year
next Saturday. It is the bottling
works of John Mackert, Lenkerville,
near Millersburg. Mackert withdrew
his application for the license renewal.
Wiconisco Hotels Win
The live Wiconisco township hotels,
which 119 residents of that district
declared in a remonstrance are not nec
essary, all will oe relicensed.
The court has permitted the with
drawal of the remonstrance filed to the
application of Theodore B. Frye for his
hotel at Fifth and Short streets.
Edward G. Hoffman, proprietor of
the Hoffman House, Market street, this
city, who was accused by a traveling
man of having permitted women to
frequent his place of business, made an
answer which satisfied the court and
he will get a license for the new year.
The Paxtonia Inn was the only place
that applied for a license which did
not have a license in the present year.
OPERA HOUSE PLOT SURVEYED
Attorney for Owners, However, Has No
Information to Give Out on Subject
A now survey of the plot of ground
at Third and Walnut streets, the site of
the old Grand Opora House, which was
destroyed by fire in 1907, was male
yesterday by local civil engineers, a
proceeding that gave rise to a rumor
that the long vacant plot was to be
sold and a building of some character
erected on it.
Local attorneys who had the survey
made said they had no idea for what
purpose the new pLan was being pre
pared. They said they had been re
quested to have it done for the owners
od; the ground.
The plot is owned by the Welghtnmn
estate, of which Mrs. Frederic 0. Pen
lield, of Philadelphia, wife of the Unit
ed States Ambassador to Austria, is an
heir, and has been idle ever since the
iire except that it has been used for
bill boards.
Former Attorney Oeneral Hampton
L. Carson, of Philadelphia, who is the
j attorney for the estate was asked by
I telephone this morning the significance
| of the survey.
"At present," said Mr. Carson,
"there is nothing to be said regarding
the disposal oif the property, and should
anything develop the Harrisburg people
will be informed. J have no informa
tion regarding any kind of a building
that might be erected on the grouni,
and cannot say anything concerning its
probablo sale. The survey taken of the
property yesterday was for my own in
formation in order that we may have
the data should occasion arise to use
it."
WALL STREET CLOSING
New York, Feb. 34.—The higher
level was maintained for the better
part of tho afternoon, with some re
cessions in the final dealings. The clos
ing was firm. More steadiness was
shown by to-day's stock market, the
result in part of short covering.