THE WEATHER SAIN TO-NIGHT AND TO-MORROW Detailed Report. Pace • VOL. 77—NO. 79. LA TOURAINE AFIRE 1,200 MILES ATSEA Disaster to French Li ne r. From New York to Havre, Re ported by Wireless THOSE ON BOARD REPORTED SAFE Five Steamers Go to Rescue of Hl- Fated Vessel—Doctors and Nurses Aboard Bound for France—Vessel Loaded With Much War Material By Associated Press, London, March 6, 10.20 A. M. —The steamship La Touraine is afire in lati tude 4 S Otj north and longitude 20.1-4 west, according to a wireless message received here. Five steamers have gone to the assistance of La Touraine, the message said. The message telling of the fire was received by Lloyds from the wireless station at Valentin, Ireland. In addi tion to giving ths position of La Tour nine. it stoted that the steamers Rotter dam, Swanmore, Cornishman, Arabic aud others were going to her assistance. The French liner La Touraine sailed from New York February 27 for Havre. The position given in the mess age is approximately 1,200 miles west from her port of destination. New York, March 6.—Shortly after 1 o'clock it was announced at the lo cal offices of the line that no informa tion as to the steamer was expected un til Monday and the offices were closed for the usual Saturday' half holiday. I.ondota, March 6, 2.35 P. M.—A message from Queenstown says that the fire on La Touraine is "fieree." Otherwise this message is a repetition " of the one received by Lloyd's from the wireless station at Valencia, Ire land. The London office of the Compannie Geaerale Trans-Atlantique, which owns La Touraine, is without special infor mation concerning the vessel. 84 PASSENGERS AND CREW OF 200 ABOARD THE VESSEL New York, March 6.—When the La Touraine sailed away from this port last Saturday she had aboard 84 passengers, of whom 38 were in the first caoin, the remaining '6 being in the steerage. The vessel was one of six big liners to leave this port the same day, the sailings being the heaviest recorded here for some time. At the local offices of the French ; line it was said this morning that no information regarding the Touraine naa been received. Maritime circles, how-1 ever, received word from abroad that all the passengers and crew were safe, but this information was not confirmed here. On board the Touraine were 4,594 cases of cartridges intended for use in the European war. First Cabin Passengers The first cabin passenger list fol lows: Auguste Goulet. Montreal. Gaston Levy, New York. B. Feinberg, Brooklyn. Br. J. L Wheelwright, New York. Dr. J. C. Walker, New York. Mrs. J. C. Walker, New York. Miss Cecile Wettach, Bainbridge, , Mass. Louis Gautrand. Poughkeepsie, X. Y. Mrs. Agnes Craib, Havana. Miss Helen Craib, Havana. dales Simon Trault, Montreal. Ralph Simpson, New Haven. Edmond Fravel, Montreal. Benoit Delpuch, Xew York. Eugene Moset, San Francisco. Joseph T. Maurer, New York. Entile Pares, New York. Mrs. Alice O. Andrews, Boston. Master Ralph Andrews, Boston. Francois Repusseau, New York. Wood Fosdick, New York. Robert Alplionse, New York. Raymond Rolf Swobada, New York. Paul Faguet, general agent French line, New York. Physicians and Nurses Aboard The following physicians and nurses bound from the French hospital in New ork City to the American ambulance in Paris were aboard the La Touraine: Dr. John S. Irwin. Dr. W. J. Braddock. Dr. A. O. Jimines. The Misses Florence Gordon, Eugenia € H. Lyons, Mollie McGrath, Dorothv O'Connell, Victoria rancfort, Cathlyn O'lianlon, Ellen O'Hanlon, Alina Marie IMeCormick, Nellie Burdette Parsons CMlliwd on Twelfth Pace. &i)c liAjk iiin mih iii TRAINS RUNNING ON TIME DESPITE 10 INCHES OF SNOW Heaviest Downfall for March Since 1891 Fails to Cause Any Great In convenience in the Operation of Steam and Electric Railroads That Harrisburg was experiencing to day an unusual March snow storm was proved by figures given out by the lo cal branch of the United States Weath er Bureau, which records a depth of about ten inches, the largest amount for this month since 1591. "The chances are that- the scow or rain will continue to-iuglut and prob ably to-morrow," said Acting Pore caster J. H. DeHarty, at noon to day. As the temperature is hovering about the 32-degree mark, a slight increase will be all that is necessary for the snow to turn to rain. The largest amount of snow in the month otf March since* the local Weather Bureau was established in 1881, fell ou the 14th of that month in 1891, when there was a total of 18 inches. Since that time numerous heavy snows have fallen dilring March, but none reaching the depth of the preseut one. On March 31, 1911, eight inches fell, while on March 4, the tfay of the inaugura tion of President Taft, in Washington, there were 6 1-2 inches here. On that occasion conditions were bad over the eastern half of the country, it beins; a coastal storm accompanied by a high wind and heavy sleet. One of the most damaging March storms in history, for Eastern Pennsyl vania and New York, began March *l, 1914. and continued for three days. It resulted in a loss of several million dol lars to the railroads»and telegraph com panies. Railroads Escape Damage Owing to the lightness of the snow last night and to-dav, together with the low wind velocity, traffic was not much interfered with on the railroads here. The Pennsylvania and Philadel phia i Reading railroads reported all trains running on scheduled time. In ADD LA TOURAINE. Continued on Tnrlfth Pier. WILL ADDRESS POLICE CHIEFS Hutchison to Tell of Identification System in Use Here Chief of Police Hutchison will read a paper on the identification system in use in the Harrisburg police depart ment before the police chiefs who will gather here for the annual convention of the State Association March 13 and 14. The sessions will be held fn the .Board of Trade hall. During the course of his talk Chief of Police Hutchison will give a prac tical demonstration. City Detective Joseph W. rbach, in charge of the iden tification bureau, will assist him. De tective Tbach has a wide reputation as an expert in this work and has in nu merous instances given instructions in it to detectives of other cities. iCIiIISMILI OF 10 01 IB A HAH VOW Bold Youth Weds Widow of 2 Months Who is the Mother of 9 CEREMONY IN COURT ROOM , Baby Holds Sway on the Judges' Bench While Alderman Ties the Knot and County Officials and Lawyers, Full of Admiration, Act as Witnesses What's a trifling thing like facing the high cost of living as the guardian and chief support of nine small chil dren when Cupid is whispering the fatal word into one's earf That is what Stojian Roksanic, a young Austrian living in Steelton, ask ed himself after he proposed to Anna Cico, a comely German woman, who has been a widow of two months, and she blushinglv reminded him: "I have nine babies to look after." Although the woman's first husband died on January 6, last, the proposal was accepted, in consequence of which the couple were married in the main room of the Court House, by Alderman C. E. Murray, at 10.30 o'clock this morning. A group of county and city officials witnessed the ceremony. The optimistic bridegroom is 26 years old and his bride is 32. Her first marriage (jccurred nine years ago. Neither can speak English very well and when they applied for the marriage license Robert Rosenberg, a local attor ney, acted as interpreter. Jhe young est of the Cico Children, a bright-faced blue-eyeid l baby, not more than a year old, was snatched up by Roksanic and bounced on his knee while the neces sary papers were boing prepared. Husband Died January 6, 1915 The clerk in the bureau asked Mrs. Cico: "Have you been married beforet" Coatliurd oa Twelfth Pace, HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1915 12 PAGES. MOTS HAVE ran Foreign Corps Notify Respective Govern ments of Purpose to Quit Mexico City SITUATION NOW MObT CRITICAL General Obregon Maxes Threat to Leave Capital Unprotected With Water and Light Plants Out of Commission By Associated Press, Washington, March 6. —The foreign diplomatic corps in Mexico City has de cided to leave in a body. Dispatches telling of the decision were received here to day by European diplomatists aud forwarded to their home govern ments. The Mexican situation, topped bv this latest development, was admitted in all quarters to v ie more critical tliau it has been at any time since Huerta precipitated the landing" of troops at Vera C'rnz. Secretary Bryan had received to-day no word from tiie latest representations to Carrauza against General Obregon's decrees in Mexico City and his threat to leave the capital unprotected with wa ter and light plants out of commission i'Pd the attendant possibilities of loot ing and killing. Mr. Bryan did not comment further to-day Mian to say that the situation continued to be bad. Some definite development is expect ed in diplomatic circles as the result of the decision of the corps of Euro pean representatives to leave the Mex ican capital. Where tliie diplomatists would go was tihe subject of some spec ulation. Inasmuch as the conditions which are foning them to leave are being imiposed by Carranzas Command er Obregon, it was |>oiuted out they hardly would go to Vera Cruz. Villa Invites Diplomats to Chihuahua Villa has invited the diplomatic corps to join him at his capital at Chihuahua. To do so it was pointed out. might be construed as recognition of his faction. Without diplomatic representatives in Mexico City, tdic capital and a large portion of the distracted country would practically be cut off from the world. \\ hile the foreign colonies in the .Mex ican capital has greatly reduce! in the last year, there still are many foreign ers in the country, among tlieni ni.in Americans and Spaniards. The Wash ingtiHi government has been making its representations in behalf of all tllrou„. the Brazilian .Minister, but with the Re moval of the diplomatic corps it is Continued on Twelfth Pace. BURIED MANJOT SADLER Police Don't Know What Has Become of Williamsporter Whose Travel ing Bag Was Found Hidden Here The police, after investigation, said this morning they are satisfied tliiat tjlie unknown man found along the Philadelphia £• Heading railroad tracks at .Nineteenth street on Monday and buried in potter's field on Wednesday is not George M. Sadler, of Williains piirt, yet the mystery of the disappear ance of the latter man from his home three weeks ago is yet unsolved. It was the Undiug of Sadler's traveling bag concealed in a field along the Head' ing railroad at Cameron street tlhat gave rise to the belief yesterdav that I the missing Sadler might have been the j unidentified man found near there last | Monday. 1 The bag undoubtedly is Sadler 's, the i police say, but his present whereabouts are unknown. Concealed as it was in l an old boiler and covered with moss, i there was reason to believe t/lie owner had met with foul play. This theory i has not been abandoned by the police, notwithstanding they say they are con vinced the man buried in potter's field is not Sadler. The Williamsport police department last night sent a photograph of Sadler to Chief of Police Hutchison, of this city, together with a description of the musing man. He is about 6 feet tall, weighing between 170 and 180 pounds. The police, seeking a description of the unknown man found along the tracks, were referred to R. K. Spicer, under taker, by Coronpr Eckinger. Spicer's description of the unknown is that he was about 5 feet 7 ihches tall, slender and weighed about 128 pounds. The features were those of a foreigner. The Williamsport police gave no ex planation for Sadler's disappearance from home There was nothing in the traveling bag that indicated the owner himself had tried to dispose of it and the police believe that it was hidden away by another person to do away with incriminating evidence. Italians Called to the Colors March 6, 5.53 P. M.—The Rome correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph CpmpaJiy sends word that the reserve non-commissioned officers of four classes were called to join the col ors to-day. BABY, 4 WEEKS OLD. WINS Pin OF RELIEF WORKERS Mother, .Thinly Clad and Hungry, Car ries Youngster Wrapped in Shawl Through Storm and Is Rewarded With Food and Clothing Emaciated and wan, a thinly-clothed little woman this morning edged timid ly into the hallwiy of tho Home and War Relief Committee's headquarters, 7 South Front street. Her clothing— a thin skirt and ragged sweater for outer covering—showed worn and threadbare. She was cold and wet from the storm. Even in the tempered air inside the house she shivered frequent ly. Her black-ringed, sunken eyes showed more deeply by comparison with the pallor of her face. Alike, faco and body were thin to emaciation. In her arms she carried a long bundle wrapped in a thin, ragged shawl. From its size one might - - have supposed it contained a bundle of sewn garments whicih were being returned. Slowly the woman mounted the stairs leading tc the office of the Home Belief Division. At tne door she hesi tated, glancing around the room, which t ___ Continued on Twelfth Paire. allhammelbauchTfault j This Is a Story of How An After-The- I at re Party Got Lost in the Bliz zard on North Second Street It was all the fault of Daniel D. Hanuuelbaugh. Everybody who rides regularly on the North Second street trolley line knows that "Dannie" Ilammclbaugh, secretary of the School Board, lives at I Second "and Reily streets, and that he | always gets off the car there. Moreover ! Mr. Hammelbaugh's record for aceu i racy in school hoard affairs as in all j other things is such that persons who | live north of Reily, on Second, when j they see him on the car, always wait i for him to get off before beginning to j look for their own stopping places. Last night when the cars were i crowded, just after the theatres let out, ] Mr. Hammelbaugh got on one at the t square. Beside him sat "Jimmy" Miles, of the City Treasurer's office, : whose stopping place is just one block | north of Keilv street. Like ever) body else who counts the blocks to his own sueet froui the cor ner where the school board secretary alights, Miles didn't bother with keep ing tabs on the streets as they went by. Pretty soon Mr. Hammelbaugh push ed the biixzer and got off at a corner. One square further on Mr. Miles did the same. Now almost as many people as know j that HammelatroT, is acting as chauffeur since last Monday, Mlhen Mehring went off duty on ac count of the death of his father. Meh rikz will conduct hie father's whole sale liquor buisness and for that rea son will resign his position on the po lice force. Mehring License Goes to Son The liquor license held by the late Wilhelm J. Meihring, proprietor of a wholesale house at 1901-03-05 North Sixth street, to-day was transferred by the court to the son. Wilhelm J. Meh ring, Jr. The son for several months had been driver of the police patroj. He took charge of his father'« business to-day. Rublee Gets Recess Appointment By Associated Press. Washington, March 6.—President Wil»on to-day gave a recess appoint ment to George Rublee, of Cornish, N. H., as a member of the new Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Rublee's nomi nation was not confirmed by tibe Senate at fee last session. 3 THROUGH LINES (111 II) St ■IMTILE Erie, Lake Shore and Nickel Plate Accused of Ignoring States Ban OFFICIALS CAN BE PUT TO JAIL Attorney General Brown Threatens Prosecutions of Three Big Rail roads For Alleged Violation of Di rections Given By Live Stock Board Alleging that the Erie Railroad Com pany, the Lake Shoro & Michigan Ceu tral ami the New York, Chicago and St. bonis or "Nickel Plate," the two latter under the management of the New York Central, have been violating tho order of the State Live Stock Sani tary Boar«t of Pennsylvania which for bids the shipment of cattle from the West through Pennsylvania to Eastern points, the Attorney General's Depart ment, by direction of Attorney (>eneral Brown, this morning peremptorily or dered the companies at once to cease shipping the cattle. With the tele grams conveying the orders were com munications to the directors of the rail- I road companies calling their attention to the-fact that the act of 1913 pro vides for a flue of SIOO for a violation |of the order of the Live Stock Sani tary Board, with a fine of SSOO for ! each subsequent offense, and imprison ment for from 10 to 90 days, either or ' both, for any of the company officials I from the president down to the person ' engaged in the actual shipments. It is the intention, the authorities here say, I that if the railroad companies persist in : their shipments of cattle from the West ' through Pennsylvania, to prosecute at : once. At the same time the companies were i advised of being liable to prosecution, ' the government in Washington was re quested to decline to issae permits for ; the shipment of ottle from Western | points through Pennsylvania, and it is ■ understood will comply with the re quest. Say the Pennsy Has Obeyed Some days ago wheu the foot and mouth disease among western cattle broke out with renewed virulence, tho | State Live Stock Sanitary Board held | a meeting with Governor Brumbaugh, Continued on Seventh Pas* FIVE KWj THE STREET Lumberman Shoots Four Men to Death and Is In Turn Killed By a Policeman Brunswick; Ga., March 6.—Four men were shot and killed and five others seriously wounded here to-day by Monroe Phillips, a lumberman, who fired at random on the street. Phillips himself was killed by a po liceman who sought to arrest him. One of the men killed was H. F. Dunwoody, a prominent attorney. The others killed were W. M. Hack ett, an undertaker; Rex Deavers, a po liceman and W. P. Padgett, a former policeman. Several of the wouiuled are prominent citizens of Brunswick. Worry over financial difficulties, which he blamed on others, is said to have made Phillips temporarily insane. Phillips first went to the office of Dunwoody and opened fire on the law yer with a shot gun, kilting him almost instantly. From a neighboring street corner, the lumberman then began shooting at every one in sight. Those on the street were panic -strivken and fled in all directions. Hackett was killed as he was trying to escape. Deavers and Padgett wero shot to death in the battle between Phillips and officers who tried to cap ture him. Before he was killed, Phillips, in ad dition to killing four men, had seriously wounded five and slightly wounded about fifteen others. FIRE IN BROOKLYN THEATRE Matinee in Progress When Firemen Are Summoned to Playhouse By Associated Press. New York, March 6.—The Brooklyn fire department was called out at 3.15 o 'clock this afternoon to answer an alarm of fire turned in from the Grand Opera House, at Fulton street and Elm Place, Brooklyn. A matinee was" in progress at the opera house at the time. SAYS NEIGHBOR SCALDED HER Mrs. Charles Templer Receives Injuries at Close of an Argument Mrs. Charles Templer. 128 Christie court, is being treated for scalds of the face, back and shouiders at the Harrisburg hospital. She was admitted last evening and said that a neighbor bail thrown scald ing water from a tea kettle after an argument in the neighbor's house. Her condition is not serious. INSISTS ON A FAIR SHOW FOR LOCAL TRACTOR FIRM Ono City Commissioner Is Opposed to Letting an Out-of-town Concern Get Contract at Higher Bid; at Least, Until Harrisburg Product Is Tried Park Commissioner M. Harvey Tay lor to-day refused to confirm or deny bhe report that in his recommendations next Tuesday for the purchase of fire apparatus he will ask the City Commis sioners to turn down a local factory's bid nnd givo the contracts for three tractors to the Front Drive Motor Car Co., of Hoboken, N. J., nor would he say whether he proposes to favor giv ing motor combination wagons to the Morton Truck & Tractor Company, the local concern, as reported. The bids on ttoe tractors submitted by the Morton company is lower than tie Hoboken firm's bid aud the only excuse advanced thus far for the ru mored intention to turn down the Har risburg company on this bid is that the Morton tractors are of the four-wheel variety. It is learned that at least ono City Commissioner will insist on jiostpone ing awarding the contract for tractors until the meeting on March 16-—thin, ho said, for the purpose of first in specting a tractor which the Morton firm now is assembling in its ll.irrls burg plant, with the purpose of giving the local concern a fair trv-out. The Morton company is now mount ing a Lebanon fire company steamer oil one of its trucks, ami the Commission er expressed his belief that the prac ticability of that experiment should bo ascertained before awarding a contract for the tractors to an out-of-town con cern at a higher bid than that of tho local manufacturers. This apparatus, he said, will be ready for insij>ectioii within the next few days. HOYEKTKR MAY BE TRIED HERE Probable Change in Plans for Trial of Alleged Bank Wrecker Lebanon, March 6.—Sheriff Harry P. Strupp has received word from Unit ed States Marshal Smith, of Harris burg, to the effect that the trial of Arthur J. Hoverter, of this city, former life insurance agent, reeent'y arrested by the United States authorities for having aided and abetted in misap plying the funds of the First National Bank of Schaefferstown, will not be tried at Scranton. Hoverter was to have been taken to Scranton for trial next Monday before the United States District Court there, it is now said that ho will bo tried at the session of the United Stats* Court to be held at Hnrrisburg, ptob aibly not before May, unless a special term of the (tisrtriet court should in the meantime be held before the regular session. III'CM FATALLY SHOT IK HAM Desperado Opens Fire On Wilmington Blue coats as Latter At tempt to Arrest Him IS SUBDUED BY SHOT IN BREAST Accompanied by "Pal" WTio Is Ar rested Without Trouble—Police Be lieve Pair Visited Wilmington With the Intention of Holding Up a Bank Wilmington, Del., March 6.—ln a running chase after a suspicious man whose appearance attracted the atten tion of a policeman, shortly after noon to-day, Policeman Frank Tiernev was shot and killed, Policeman Horace Mc- Donnell was shot aa.i mortally wound ed, and Policemen James P. Scott and Willard Sharpless were wounded se verely. Kobert Man love, a railroad em ploye, also was shot and slightly wounded. Officer Sharpless accosted the stran ger at Sixth and Market streets, next