THE WEATHER
FAXB to-night
AND TO MORROW
Detailed Report. Pace •
5& A ?"*" ED VOL. 77—NO. 81.
TWO U. S. WARSHIPS ARE
ORDEREDTOGOTOMEXICO
ASCRISIS BECOMES ACUTE
Wilson Administration
Begins Taking Steps
To Carry Out What
the Diplomatic Corps
Interpreted as an En
tire Change of Atti
tu d e Toward the
Whole Mexican Sit
uation
FEARS OUTRAGES
AT THE CAPITAL
Serious Condition of
Affairs In Mexico j
City Prompts Latest]
Move of Washington!
Officials to Carry
Out Plans For the
Protection of For
eigners
By Associated Press.
Washington, March I).—American
Consul Silliman telegraphed from Vera
Cruz to-day that he had been reliably
informed that the evacuation of Mex
ico City by the forces of General Obre
gon began at () o'clock last night.
Washington, March J>.—After a con-
eariy to-day with President
Wilson, Secretary Daniels ordered one
cruiser and one battleship of the Atlan
tic fleet from Guantanamo to Vera Cruz.
Rear Admiral Fletcher, commanding
the fleet, will choose the war vessels
that are to go to Vera Cruz to reinforce
the small craft already there. The only
specification Secretary Daniels made in
his order was that one of the ships
should be a flagship, in order to put
an officer of high rank in command of
the forces.
General Carranza in an oral reply to
Counsel Silliman when the latter pre
sented the note from the United States
on conditions in Mexico City, entered
a general denial that General Obregon
had prevented food from entering Mex
ico City or sent any supplies out of
the city.
Admiral Fletcher selected the armor
ed cruiser Washington, now in Haiticn
waters, with Rear Admiral Caperton,
and the battleship Georgia, command
ed by Captain Robert R. Goontz, now
at Guantanamo, to proceed to Vera
Cruz.
Both ships, starting to-day, should
be at Vera Cruz by Thursday night.
Awaiting Carranza's Reply. U. S. Acts
Washington, March 9. While await
ing a reply to the representations to
General Carranza to take steps to im
prove conditions in Mexico City, the
administration to-day began taking
steps to carry out what most of the
foreign diplomatic corps here inter
preted as an entire change of attitude
toward the whole Mexican situation.
Rear Admiral Fletcher, commanding
the Atlantic fleet at Guantanamo, was
Continued on Ninth I'njce.
SHE DIES FOR LACK OF DRUG
New Germantown Woman Victim of
New Federal Ban on Laudanum
(Special to the Star-Independent.)
Waynesboro, Pa.. March 9.—A wom
an, 45 years old. is dea l at her home
in New Germantown, near Favette
ville, who, according to her brother,
died because she could not obtain lau
danum any longer as a result of the
federal ban on such drugs.
According to her brother she had been
accustomed to drink a good deal of lau
danum, which she could buy without
any trouble. On March 1 she found out
she could no longer obtain the drug
and at once she began to fail. She con
tinued to decline until death took her.
STEELTON GETS BRIDGE JOB
Will Build Structure on the Trenton
Cut-off of the Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Steel Company, it
■was announced co-dav, obtained the
coutract yesterday" for the erection of
a steel bridge for the Pennsylvania
railroad on tflie Trenton cut-off*. The
material will all be made and the
bridge assembled at the Steelton plant
of the steel company.
This order is a comparatively small
one, but, in connection with the
y Memphis bridge contract, assures a con
tinuance of work in the bridge and con
struction department in Steelton for
several months.
3he Star- Mik Jtikpewktii
■TITUIi IS
RAPPED BT BROWN
Says That Under 11
Pennsylvania Can
not Be Ruled by the
People
IS WILLING TO
HELP REVISE IT
Attorney General Declares We Are
Woefully in the Rear" of Other
States in March Toward Fulfilling
of Hopes of Our Forefathers
Attorney General Brown, in a type
written statement that he handed out
to the newspapers this afternoon, de
clared not only that under the present
Constitution of Pennsylvania "we do
not hsve a government of the people, "
but that •'"we certainly do not and
cannot in this State, under the present
Constitution have a government by and
for them."
He added that Pennsylvania is "woe
fully in the rear'' of other states, and
offered to lend his assistance in the
preparation of a new Constitution.
The Attorney General's statement
was given out in explanation of his
attitude in favor of holding a consti
tutional convention, as expressed in an
interview printed in the Star-Indepen
dent jeeierday, and is printed in full
as follows:
"When I suggested yesterday that
I thought the time was ripe for a con
vention I expressed my individual view
as a citizen and a lawyer, and did not
assume to express the views of the
Governor. What little talk I have had
with him thereabout has been casual,
and to declare the gre«t and in some
cases insurmountable difficulty, because
ContlßDfif oa Ninth I'RBO
MHORISmfED J-10-2
Republican Commissioners Reject His
Man for Police Patrol Driver and
Select Joseph Demma
By a 3-to-2 vote the City Commis
sioners this afternoon defeated Mayor
Royal's selection for chauffeur for the
police auto patrol, to succeed Wilhelm
Mehring, resigned, appointing Joseph
Demma, 310 South Second street.
Demma is a member of tthe Friendship
Fire Company.
Mehring resigned to take-over his
late father's wholesale liquor business.
Mayor Royal p.it in a resolution
naming C. W. Riffert for the vacancy.
Commissioner Lynch moved to amend
by substituting the name of Joseph
IVmma. The amendment was carried.
3-to-2, and the resolution as amended
was carried by the vote. Repub
lican Commissioners Lynch, Taylor and
Bowman favored Demma, and" Mayor
Royal and Commissioner Gorgas, Demo
crats, voted against him.
SI,OOO FUR STREET CLEANERS
Lynch Ordinance Calls for Purchase of
Sprinkler and Two Sweepers
Under an ordinance introduced at
the meeting of the City Commissioners
this afternoon by Commissioner uynoa,
SI,OOO is appropriated for the purchase
of a street sprinkler and two street
sweepers. The contract for furnishing
the city with 5,000 tons of coal was
awarded to J. Weiner, as previously
announced would be done.
The Dauphin County Medical Society
sent in a letter niging the building of
a municipal hospital. It was ordered
filed. As forecasted, the ordinances
providing for a watei main in Carlisle
street and making an appropriation to
]>ay the cost of street grading assess
ments were introduced.
BANK CASHIER A SUICIDE
Walter L. McJunkin, 60, Ends Own
Life at Clearfield
By As«ocia(cd Press.
Clearfield, Pa.. March 9.—Walter L
McJunkin, assistant cashier of the
! Clearfield National bank, committed
suicide in his room at a hotel last night.
The body was found in bed this morn
ing.
McJunkin was a bachelor, 60 years
old, and had been connected with the
bank for 20 years There is no known
reason for the suicide. The dead man
was widely known throughout Western
Pennsylvania.
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1915—12 PAGES.
U TRACTORS
TO HICK
Taylor Changes Plan to
Award Contracts To
day and Gives Mor
ton Co, Show
IT MADE THE
LOWER BIDS
Postponement of Purchase of New Fire
Apparatus Will Give Harrisburg
Concern Opportunity to Prove
Merits of Its Product
The Morton Truck & Tractor Com
pany, of this city, which submitted a
lower bill than the out-of-town concern
to which, it was reported, Park Com
missioner M. Harvey Taylor had
planned to award the contract for three
motor tractors, for the Harrisbarg Firo
Department, will be given an oppor
tunity to Idsplay a sample of its tra -
tors, one that now is beiug assembled
and, consequently, is yet considered in
the running for the contracts.
This developed to-day when Commis
sioner Taylor agreed not to ask the
City Commissioners, at their meeting
t.his afternoon, to aiwtwd the contracts
for the apparatus at this time. Pres
sure had been brought to give the
Morton people a fair chance to dem
onstrate the merits of their tractor, ami
Mr. Taylor said this afternoon:
"We want to inspect the tractor
which the Morton Company now is
building. 1 expect to make my recom
mendations for awarding the contracts
for the apparatus at the meeting next
Tuesday.''
It has practically been agreed among
the City Commissioners, or at least a
majority of that body, that the Morton
firm shall get the contracts for two
combination chemical wagons, of the
type now being used by the Friend
ship Company. In addition the three
tractors are to be bought, two for
steam fire engines and one for a ladder
truck. Although the Morton bid was
I untlnuril on Ninth
TAYLOR THMS PRICE RICH
Asks i<ynoh If It Is True McCormick
Estate Raised Figure on Plot When
City Started Negotiations
When the City Commissioners this
afternoon decided to postpone for twen
ty-four hours action on the ordinance
providing for the purchase of a South
(Ninth street plot from the Henry Mc-
Cormick estate, as a site for the mu
nicipal asphalt repair plant, Commis
sioner Lynch told his colleagues that
the $6,630 purchase price is more than
.SIOO higher than that for which it orig
inally was offered.
Park Commissioner Taylor, who
queried Lynch on the subject, saying
that rumors are afloat that the price
was boosted after it became known that
the City wanted the ground, declared
that the price is too high.
'•I am not prepared to-day to vote
on this ordinance," said Taylor.
"1 have nothing otlicial to show that
the ground originally offered for sale
for a lesser sum than $6,630," said
'Lynch, " but I can say that Rafobi Sam
uel Friedman, acting as agent for the
owners, first advised me that the ground
could be bought for (6 500. Later he
came to me saying that the owners
would not pay him his commission and
he said it would be up to the City to
pay it. Later I received that letter
which fixes the price at $6,630.""
Fully a hundred voters in the First
precinct of the First ward, in a petition
to the City Commissioners, protested
against placing the repair plant on the
South Ninth street plot. The Commis
sioners decided to postpone action on
the ordinance until to-morrow afternoon
at 1 o'clock. After their meeting to
day they inspected the site.
LIKES CHAIRMAN'S DRESS SUIT
Salus Asks Senate to Require Kline to
Wear It Every Time He Presides
Senator Kline, President Pro Tem.
of the Senate, was one of the guests
who last night attended the dinner
given by Governor Brumbaugh at the
Executive Mansion to the membera' of
the Superior Court, anil because of
this he appeared in the Senate to pre
side attired in evening dress of the
latest cut. Such a vision of sartorial
effulgence has seldom been seen in the
Senate, and it so impressed Senator
Salus that he offered the following
resolution:
" Be It Resolved, That in the inter
est of dignity due the Senate of Penn
sylvania, that the President Pro Tem.
of the Senate be requested hereafter
to appear at all evening sessions in
full evening dress."
The handsome presiding officer
heard the resolution read and explain
ed that his reason for appearing in
evening dress was because of the Gov
ernor's dinner. He said he could not
find it convenient in the future to
comply with the resolution. / In the
meantime, he said, he would refer it
to the committee on Law and Order.
The laugh was on Senator Situs.
Military BUI Is Report 9d
The new bill for tJie reorganization
of the National Guard along the lines
o>f the regular army as proposed by the
Unite*! States Wnr Department, was
reported favorably from the Military
Committee in the Senate this morning.
Senate then took a recess until 8
o'clock this evening.
LEADING CHARACTERS IN THE TROUBLE IN GREECE
Th:it Rrm Is at the parting of the ways, with her King exerting his Influence to maintain the neutrality of
his country ID opposition to Mr. Eleutherios Venlßelos, the retiring Premier, and the man to whom Greece owes lier
revival. Is the opinion of Europe. Mr. Venlzelos announced the resignation of himself and his Cabinet, as King (.'on
stantlne did not approv: the policy of the government. Mr. Venlielos clearly Indicated that the difference betx.een
him aud the monarch was over the question of peace and war. He said he had advised the King to select as a iie\r
Premier, Mr. Zatm.j, governor of the National Bank, who, he said, would follow a policy of neutrality which hi
hoped would not endanger Greece's newly acquired territory. Mr. Alexander Zaimls was Governor of Crete from
the autumn of 1906 until 1911. succeeding Prince George of Greece at the mandate of the European Powers. lis
career has been brilliant He bears, moreover, a name which la honored in Greece and which he has enhanceu 1 y
the possession of a large fortune and the exercise of administrative talents of a liigb order.
ID HUT OF
LfIIMIFIRE
Life Belts Distributed
and Boats Prepared
For Instant Use As
Flames Rage
SENT S. O. S. CALLS
AS A PRECAUTION
No Disorder and No Panic Among the
Passengers, Who Accepted the Sit
uation Calmly in Belief That Blaze
Would Be Conquered
Bp A jynrin tni Press,
Havre, March 9.—A rigid inquiry
already has been begun iuto all phases
; of the (ire at sea oc board the French
! Line steamer La Touraine, wfiich
! docked here at 4 o'clock yesterday aft
■ ernoon and lauded snfely all her pass
i engers. Admiral Charlier, of the Min
j istry of Marine, and Director Duorol,
! of the Compagnio Generale Transatlant
| ique, boarded the vessel upon her ar
| rival and started the investigation at
! once. The report of Admiral Charlier
| will be submitted to the government.
The passengers apparently were
j none the worse far their thrilling ex
j perience. The tire, which was confined
to one of the holds, was extinguished at
1 midnight Sunday and the last stage of
the voyage was completed without inci
! dent.
Life Belts Were Distributed
Life belts were distributed among
I the passengers and the boats were pre
' pared for instant use as soon as th-)
| flames were discovered, but at no time
was there any real danger, according to
j u statement made by Captain Caussin,
who declared tihe 8. O. S. calls for as
! sistance were sent out merely as a
measure of precaution. There was no
disorder and no panic, he said, the
passengers accepting the situation calm
! ly in the belief that the fire would be
conquered and that other steamers
would reply promptly to the wireless
summons.
The steamer Rotterdam, one of the
vessels which answered La Touraine's
Continued on Sixth Pace.
FILL PROPOSITION POSTPONED
Taylor Withholds Plan to Buy Dirt
From Company Giving It Away
I Park Commissioner Taylor this after
j noon decided to postpone for one week
j bis proposed request on the City Com
| missioners for an appropriation to pur
j chase additional dirt for the river bank
till along Front street, between Calder
1 and Mac lay.
Taylor's reported plan was to get
the dirt from the Br.'wn-King Construc
tion Company, contractors who are
! grading the railroad freight station
; site. These contractors are atbout to
be j-aid $4,000 for 15,000 cubic yards
'of dirt thrown over the river bank,
, dirt which originally, as nhoA-n by the
! Star-Independent, wc.s to have been
j dumped and graded, without cost to
I the owner, on a piece of South Harris
burg ground owned by the Henry Mc-
Oonnick estate.
The City Commissioners this after
: noon decided to print departmental re
| ports covering the last year's work.
These are to substitute the voluminous
"annual reports" which had been got
ten up yearly by the City Clerk.
910,000 STATE COLLEGE FIRE
Residence and Valuable Library of Reg
istrar Destroyed
State College, Pa., March 9. —The
residence and valuable library of A. 11.
Esipenshade, registrar of the Pennsyl
vania State Colifge, was destroyed by
fire to-day.
Sparks from a chimney ignited tho
shingle roof. The loss is said to be
SIO,OOO.
Need Beds for Poor Family
Social workers for the Dauphin coun
ty board of poor directors are in need
of two full sired beds for a poor fam
ily. The directors will be glad to send
for the beds if they learn of any that
will be given for this work.
USE APPROVES
TREASURER BILL
Passes Measure Per
mitting Third Class
Cit3 r Voters to Elect
Financial Officer
LIVELY DEBATE
FOR HALF HOUR
Amendment to Clark Commission Gov
ernment Act Goes Through Lower
Branch by Vote of 121 to 01—
• Harrisburg Members for It
The Rininger bill amending the Clark
Commission Form of Government act
for third class cities by requiring that
the City Treasurer be elected by the
people instead of by the City Commis
sioners was responsible for a debate of
half an hour in the House of Repre
sentatives this morning before it was
passed on third reading. It now goes
to the Senate where, politicians say,
its chances are not considered good. The
vote in the House was 121 for and 61
against.
Tne Harrisburg. members voted for
the measure and worked for its passage.
City Solicitor Seitz, of Harrisburg, was
in the hall when the measure was be
ing discussed.
Mr. Ramsey, of Delaware, opened lire
l on the bill, pleading that the Clark act
has not had a suflicient tryout. He said
the City Treasurer is merely a tax re
ceiver.
Mr. Rininger, of Blair, the sponsor
of the bill, laid stress on the fact that
the City Treasurer administers the
school funds over which the City Com
mission has no control. When his mo
tive was assailed by Mr. Spangler, of
York, as being selfish, and when the
statement was made tnat a local con
dition brought out this bill, Mr. Rining
er said he had the unanimous backing
of the electorate of Altoona before he
consented to introduce the measure.
Half a Dozen Join Debate
Mr. Spangler said that the Third
Class League, composed of mayors and
city solicitors from all parts of the
State, met in Harrisburg and decided
on amendments to the Clark Act which
were thought neeessary and those
amendments did not include this one.
Half a dozen other members got iuto
a debate on whether the electors are
able to choose their public otlicials to
better advantage than the City Com-
Contlnned as Seventh Pace
FLEMING MANSION HKAItINGSET
Court Will Pass on the Civic Club's
Claim, Without Jury, on April 5
Hearing in the suit brought by tho
Harrisburg Civic Olub against Frank
Payne and the Central Trust Company
of New York City, in an effort to es
tablish the Club's title to the Fleming
mansion on North Front street, will
toe conducted by Judges Kunkel and
iMtfCarrell, without a jury, on April 5,
next.
This was decided this morning when
attorneys in the case announced tho
questions of fact virtually have been
agreed upon so that a .jury trial will
not be necessary and the court will
have only the legal issue to deal with.
The sole question is whether the
property grant contained in the will of
the late Virginia Fleming, which pro
vides that the Fleming home shall go
to the Civic Clu/b, shall continue in
force since the club was not a corpor
ation at the time the will became ef
fective. Mr. Payne is now living in
the house and his only connection with
the case is bhat he doesn't know whJ
is entitled to receive the rent from
him.
Wants Vaccination jftade a Crime
Representative Horace W, Cromer, of
Alleghenv, introduced a bill in the
House this morning prohibiting vaccina
tion and fixing a fine of SSOO or im
prisonment for six months as the pen
alty.
CALLS HIS WIFE
"Li" 111 HI
"Youth Is Reprimanded
By Judge Who
Threatensto Jail Him
For Contempt
LIVELY FAMILY
ROW IS AIRED
Mrs. Howard Croft Testifies That Her
Mother-in-Law Ordered Her and
the Baby Out of the House "Never
to Return"
"You're a liar, ' snapped Howard
Croft this momiiig when his pretty
bride of a year, wbo was before .ludges
Kunkel and McCarrell pleading that
she has been neglected by lier husband,
related her side of a "too much mother
in-law story" and charged Croft with
being overbearing and bossy.
The youthful husband's face became
flushed and he seemed about to say
something more, bat he was silenced by
Judge Kunkel, who said:
"We don't allow people to talk
that way here. We will commit you
for contempt if yon don't be careful.
Don't you know better than that?''
"Yes, sir,'' tho youth replied,
meekly.
"Is that the kind of language you
used at hornet" was another question
of the court.
"No, sir," the youtfli replied. .
"Yes, he does," rejoined Mrs. Croft,
"and his mother uses that kind of
language, too."
"So that is the kind of a man you
are," commented Judge 'McCarrell.
Wife Blames Mother-in-Law
The young couple in their testimony
agreed that there has been much inter
ference from the young man's mother.
\ The wife declared that she was ordered
] from the house "never to return
! again" by the mother-in-law. March
Contlniml on Mnfh l'.ic».
IRE THAN 18,080 TURKS
| CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS
j London, March !), 5.15 A. M.—Since
| the beginning of the war with Turkey,
, says a Petrograd dispatch to Reuter's
j Telegram Company, the Russians have
[captured four Turkish pashas, 337 of
fers and 17,675 soldiers.
A Russian .official report from; head
quarters in the Caucasus issued dn
Jnnuarv 5, in describing what purport
-1 eid to be a complete victory over the
i Turks at Sari-Kamysh, said :
"We have beaten two Turkish army
; corps and made the entire Ninth Turk-
I ish army corps, including its com man-
I der and three division commanders,
I prisoners.''
An army corps is composed of ap
i proximately 40,000 men.
LATE WARIEWS SUMMARY
Both the right and left flanks of the
German forces in Northern Poland have
| been dislodged, Petrograd dispatches
state, from the positions they took up
;on the advance from East Prussia. The
I German right wing it, said to have
! beaten a hasty letreat to within eight
miles of the border. To-day's official
! report from Berlin, however, states
that the Russian offensive is being met
successfully. Several Russian assaults
in this region are said to have been re
pulsed.
The battle In Champagne has become
less violent. Snow has interrupted
fighting in the Vosges and elsewhere
along the western front there is no
great activity. The day's official re
ports from Berlin and Paris mention
only local engagements of comparative
ly small Importance.
A further advance by the Russian
Coßtlnned Math Pace.
POSTSCRIPT
PRICE, ONE CENT.
GREECEAND
Bulgaria IN
WAR CRISES
Both Countries Now In
Tumult Over Differ
ences Concerning the
European Struggle
RADOSLAVOFF
IS OVERTHROWN
Bulgarian Premier Reported to Have
Been Ousted Because He Desired
to Take Immediate Action Against
Turkey by Reoccupying Adrianople
Paris, March 9, 5 A. M.—A tnin
ifterial crisis similar to that in Greeco
has occurred in Bulgaria, according to
information renehing I J aris. Premier
Radoslavotf is reported to have been
overthrown by the influence of King
Ferdinand and the followers of Dr.
GhenailiefT, former foreign minister, ba
cause he desired to take immediate ac
tion against Turkey by reoccupying
Adrianople.
Radoslavoff's opponents are said to
have declared this policy, which would
have placed Bulgaria in opposition to
Germany and Austria, was too ad
venturous.
Although this information has not
been definitely confirmed it is generally
believed 'in French ollicial circles that
Hndoslavoff had resolved to march on
Adrianople if Greece pronounced for
the triple entente and that Venizoloa
made such an announcement at Atheus
wheu the question of intervention oaina
up.
To Form New Cabinet in Greece
Athens, Via I'aiis, March 9, 1.43 A.
M. —M. (iounaris, deputy for patras,
has consented at the request of the
King Const,'intine to undertake tho
task of forming a new Cabinet. It
reported thai M. BfUt«dj.U, who yv;i»
foreign minister in the Theotokin Cabi
net, has consented to take that pot'fc
folie under the leadership of M. (ioun
aris.
M. Gounaris lias submit his
ministers to the king and it is under
stood ol>thi 11 e. Lan agreement that the
chamber shall be dissolved if the sup
porters of the ministry are in tha
minority, which is considered highly
probable. The new premier is expected
to favor the continued neutrality of
Greece.
Greece h«is been facing a Cabinet
crisis since the end of last week, when
M. Veni/.elos, the premier, who favors
Greek partici|>a.tioii in the war on the
sido of the allies, resigned because his
policy did not meet with the u-pprovjl
oif King Coustantine, who desired that
the country remain neutral.
To Vote on Urgent Measures
Paris, Mirch S, 9.30 A. M.—A Hav
as dispatch from Athens contains'the
following quotation from the "Patris,"
which is pullished in the Greeiau cap
ital:
"King Ooustantine wrote M. Veni
zelos emphasizing the necessity of the
convocation of the Chamber of Deputies
to vote on urgent measures. M. Ven
izelos replied that ho had consented,
in view of the abnormal conditions re
sulting from his resolution, that the
new Cabinet might appear before the
new Chamber without conforming to
the constitution and gave his assurance
that he would not insist upon the dis
solution of the Chamber if the new
Cabinet obtained a vote of confidence.
"Further than (hat, M. VenizelOs
said he would make no concessions. He
declared that he could not, as the chief
of tihe majority, consent that his party
should support b/ its votes a policy
that the outgoing- Cabinet had declared
was disastrous for the country."
German Press ou Greek Situation
Berlin, Via Amsterdam and Ixmdon,
March 9, 3.45 A. \1. —The German
newspapers discuss the Greek situation
on the assumption that. M. Venizelos,
the retiring Premier, wanted Greece to
participate in the war, while the King
and General Dus-iianis favored con
tinued neturality. Theodor Wolff, ed
itor-in-cJiief of fhe. "Berliner Tage-
blatt," says in his paper:
"The Kind's bold step has not freed
him permanently from the war enthusi
asts, as M. Venizelos has :i majority of
the Parliament The majority of the
newspapers an<l the eoffee house orators
favor England and if another Darda
nelles fort falls, a great popular dem
onstration will be seen in Athens. How
ever, BfC soon as the budget pusses, tho
King can send Parliament home. Sine*
he has the army's support, the dema
gogues are not sc formidable as they
appear.''
Third Judgeship Bill Advanced
The Nissley bill providing for a third
judge for Dauphin county passed sec
ond reading in the Senate this morning.
It already ha« passed the House.
WALL SI REET CLOSING
Bit Associated Press.
New York, March 9.—Diversion of
speculative interest to the special class
caused renewed selling of leading
stocks, particularly Reading, Ste«l and
Amalgamated. The closing was heavy.
Stocks moved irregularly to-day, with
the Mexican situation acting as » re
straining influence.