THE WEATHER FAIR TO-NIGHT AND TO-MORROW ; OetiUci Report* Pate • ! I VOL. 77—NO. 83. ESTABLISHED OKf. 4 I*7H. FIX EARLY DATE TO ADJOURN TO TR BOTH Members of House Pass Resolution Calling For End of the Ses sion on May 6 SENATE LIKELY WILL CONCUR Impression Prevails on the Hill That This Move Is Taken to Prevent Action on Local Option and Other Brumbaugh, Measures By the overwhelming vote of 137 to 19 the House of Representative* went on record this morning as favoring an adjournment of the General Assembly, nine die, 011 Thursday, May 6, at noon. A concurrent resolution, introduced by Representative R. J. BaMlwin, of Del aware county, was passed by that voto after a debate of more than an hour. It being a concurrent resolution the measure will go to the Senate. The opinion prevails on the Hill that the Senate will pass this resolution on Mon day ntght. The tiglit for an early adjournment is said to have started among leaders of the upper branch of the General As sembly in the hope that in the final rush of the Legislature some of Gover nor Brumbaugh's measures will be re main not acted upon. Governor Brumbaugh's recent orders that the local option measure be not reported from the House Committee on Law and Order until some of his other bills are acted upon will delay the re port of that bill into the House until late this month. The oKWnary time consumed in getting a bill through both branches of Legislature will put this measure in jeopardy in the Sen ate, in the opinion of men experienced in legislative affairs. Governor Brumbaugh's comment on the adjournment resolution this morn ing was: . J "If the Legislature can get through' with its work by that time I will be satislied with an adjournment or if it can get through before that time I will be satisfied." Speaker Opposes Resolution Speaker Ambler was opposed to fix ing the date of final adjournment and when the measure was introduced by Mr. Baldwin he said it would lay ovet for printing "under the rules of the House." Mr. Baldwin objected and Speaker Ambler withdrew his decision. The debate started when Mr. Wit taker, of Chester, a member of the House Committee on Rules, moved thati the measure be referred to his commit tee, pleading that immediate action on it was unfair to the many members of tbe House who were not in their seats. "The men who are here and the men who have been here are the ones to act on this resolution and the meas ure should not go over until Monday night when the others come back," re plied Baldwin. "You men who are here are the interested parties and hero is your opportunity." Wittaker said his reasons for asking that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Rules was that the Im portant legislation of the session, to which the Republican party is pledged, would be on the calendars next week. Contlnnpd on Ninth rage. CITY TO BUY MARKET SCALES Ordinance Providing for Purchase of Three Is Being Prepared A City ordinance providing for the purchase of three sets of scales for use in the city markets by market patrons will be introduced, probably by Mayor Royal, at the next meeting of the City Commissioners, so Harry D. Reel, City Inspector of Weighits and Measures, announced this morning. The scales can be ready for installa tion in the markets within two or three weeks after the ordinance be comes a law —provided it is approved. The market houses in Which the scales will be placed are the Broad street, Chestnut street and Allison Hill mar kets. SWALLOWS NEEDLE AT DINNER Mrs. Hattle Weaver, of Speeceville, Got It In "Flannel" Cakes An X-rav examination was made at the Harrisburg hospital this afternoon to determine the location of a needle swallowed by Mrs. Hattie Weaver, of Speeceville, at dinner last evening. She believes that the needle fell into batter for "flannel" cakes while she was mixing it and she was unlucky enough to get the cake with the bit of steel in it. Her family physician sent her to the Harrisburg hospital this afternoon for an X-ray examination. When the posi tion of the needle is located an opera tion may be performed to remove it. Thaw'B Sanity Barred From Trial By Associated Press. New York, March 11. —Harry K. Thaw 'g attempt bo get evidence con cerning his sanity into the record of his trial for conspiring to escape from Mattea-van failed to-day. Stork Visits Governor's Family Albany, N. Y., March 11. —A son was born to Governor and Mrs. Charles 8. Whitman to-day. This is the fiTst boy in the Whitman family. There is one other child, Olive, 6 years old. mv ■ w S A m Stnr- |h|i 3nkpcnknt MRS. HOSIE. SHOT BY KEYS, RAPIDLY CAINS STRENGTH Her Father, Jeremiah Tost, Says He Will Make a Full Investigation of Circumstances That Led to Attack and Man's Suicide Mrs. Norah Hosie, who was shot in the jaiw yesterday morning at Wyeth and Basin streets, by Stephenson W. Keys, a chauffeur, who afterward com mitted suicide, was reported to-day to be slowly improving in the Harrisburg hospital." Attending physicians say the woman is out of all danger ami will soon be removed to her home. Since the statement she made last nitght to her father, Jeremiah Yost, when she -wrote on a pad that she had not known Keys, except that the fam ily employed him on one occasion to run an automobile, Mrs. Hosie has de clined to write anything further about the tragedy. The woman's father, who is known in railroad circles as "Jerry" Yost, •being employed as shop policeman for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, stated to-day that he intends making a thorough investigation of the quarrnl that led up to the tragedy. The rela tives of Keys have not yet an noticed the funeral plans. SOON TO GRADE MARKET ST. City Advertises For Bids to Improve Half Mile of Thoroughfare East of 21st Street With the abutting property owners to-day filing with the city notice of their agreement to waive all right to claims for damages incident to the im provements, William 11. Lynch, Oity Highway Commissioner, began adver tising for bids for the grading of Mar ket street, from Twenty-first street to the eastern city line. The proposals will be opened by the Highway Commissioner at noon on March 23 and the contract probably will be awarded by the City Commis sioners at their meeting on the after noon of that day. The improvement involves the grading of about half a mile of Market street and will be an expensive piece of work, due to the fact that a deep cut must be mnde at one point and some filling at another. The ordinance authorizing the work was passed by the City Commissioners several months ago but it was not de cided until to-day to go ahead with the work, all the affected property owners having given notice that they will not present claims for damages. SAYS MfIWISHER HUSBAND Scranton Woman Insists That She Was Married to New Haven Manufac turer in 1890 By Associated Press. Scranton, Pa., March 11.—Mrs. Flor ence Weeks Mayo, of this city, who claims to be the wife of Virginius J. Mayo, the New Haven, Conn., manufac turer whose marital affairs were re vealed through the suicide of his ste nographer, said to-day that her attor ney would take every legal steps neces sary to prove that she was married to Mayo on May 14, 1890, at Bingham ton, N. Y. According to a record made public here purporting to contain the details of the Binghamton wedding, it was Mayo's second marriage, ho being 31 years old at the time. Mayo, through his counsel last night, denied thnt he was ever married to the Mrs. Mayo of this city. The revela tions in the case have prostrated Mrs. Mayo and she is uuder the care oif a physician. J. E. RHOADS MAY LOSE FOOT Surgeons Plan an Amputation to Pro vent the Spread of Gangrene In an effort to save the life of Jo seph E. Rhoads, a prominent cement, coal and wood dealej, private physi cians in the Harrisburg hospital, this afternoon were preparing to amputate the left foot which is infected with gangrene. Mr. Rhoads, who resides at 12'01 North Second street, has been confined to his home since last August, suffer ing from a badly infected foot which, physicians say, was caused by the clot ting of a blood vessel. Mr. Rhoads has been connected with the coal and cement business at Cow den and Forster streets, for many years, having succeeded his father, the late Jamee M. Rhoads, who started business in 1880. The son has been identified with the finu from his youth. Doctors said this morning that unless the operation was performed Mr. Rhoads would be in danger of fatal blood poisoning. DEMOCRATS INVITE PRESIDENT Want Him and Other Prominent Party Men Here on Jefferson Day President Woodrow Wilson, Congress men Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama, and Claude Kitchin, of North Carolina, with Senator Ollie James, of Kentucky, are among those whom a special com mittee of the Central Democratic Club has invited to address the Dauphin county Democrats at tie coming Jeffer son Day banquet, April 12. Members of the committee made tlie announcement to-day and also state! that the committee making arrange ments for the banquet will meet this evening in the office of Howard W. Jones, in the Spooner building. The committee will fix the hour and place of the banquet and prepare a complete list of speakers. Among the Democrats it is said that there is a strong probability that the President will bo here for the dinner. HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1915—12 PAGES. sls PER MAN WAS GOVERNOR'S IDEA OF C9ST OF TRIP Thought That Would Be Plenty For 3»Day Jaunt to the Newport News Launching COMMITTEEMEN * WERE WORRIED Succeeded Finally in Convincing Dr. Brumbaugh $48.57 a Head Will Be Needed Even With Hummingbird Tongues and Trimmings Eliminated There will be no sju,tus lines was introduced in the House late yesterday by E. E. Jones, of Sus quehanna, chairman of the Committee on Good Roads, which will consider the measure. Men interested in the pro posed "jitney" line in Harrisburg say its passage will be vigorously oppose i, and that if passed it would impose a heavy financial burden on this and oth er companies of the kind. The bill proposes a municipal tax of ten per cent, on the gross receipts of a company, an additional tax of fifty cents a month on each 'bus op erated and the filing of a SIO,OOO bond to cover damages in case of injury from a "bus, before a license can be issued for the cars. An affidavit must be filed specify ing the number of cars to be operated, the number of passengers to be carried and the proposed routes. The Public Service Commission is given power to supervise the TJUS lines. DOPE VICTIM HOSPITAL OPEN Already Five Patients at Temporary Institution at the Almshouse Five dope fiends who have suffered through their inability to get narcotics since the federal law on the sale of drugß became effective, to-day were admitted to wards in the Dauphin county almshouse for treatment. A county physician is looking after these patients and hopes to restore them to their former health by weaning them from the habit. At the office of the Directors of the Poor it was said that the department expects to be called upon to treat a* great many "dopewters" in. its tem porary hospital ward. One physician has advised the directors that he now has twentv such patients under treat ment. TURKISH CITY SORE L, Y •» VJEIW OF 4 SnYRNA.. _. Above is shown a view of Smyrna, Turkey, which, according to reports, is now being sorelv menaced by the British ships. Only throe Turkish land batteries are now replying to the fire of the British squadron, which has moved into the harbor and is shelling the enemy's guns high on the hills in the Turkish quarter of the citv. British occupation of Smyrna would be the first decisive victory in the naval war against the Sultan. With the Smyrna forts levelled marines will be landed under protection of big naval guns to seize the city. IMEgffi Fails to Survive Hard Times That Confront the Minors and Will be Disbanded BERTHS FOR THE LOCAL PLAYERS All Assured of Contracts in Other Or ganisations—Harrisburg Won 3 Pennants in One-time "Outlaw" Organization Formed in IDO4 The Tri-State Baseball League, it was officially announced to-day, is to be disbanded, and Harrisburg, which won the peunant last year, will have to take to independent baseball and a team in the Central Pennsylvania League for , its diamond sport in the coming season The Tri-State, tne orig inal "outlaw' organization, which was born in 1904, has diet] a natural death. Its official funeral will be held March 19, when the rep.escntatives will gath er to make a final disposition of every thing pertaini.ig to the Tri-State, ex cept the memory of some rattling good baseball. News of the league's demise was made public this morning by an official of the Pennsjlvania Exhibition Com pany, owners of the Harrisburg fran chise, after almost all of the players of last year's championship team had bten disposed of, the release of the last of the players, save two, having been signed yesterday. Emerson, Diet - /., Rudolph and O'Oon nor, all of whom were still in the local club's uossession, were released to '"Red" Calhoun, a former Harrisburg player, now manager of fhe Bingham tou club of the New York State League. Fox and Cruickshank were to-day re- ' leased to Scranton. The other players of the Harrisburg team of last year will be seen in the following places this season: Where Other Players Go Adams, Pittsburgh; Chabek, Brook lyn; Cockill, a National League um pire; Crist, Newport News; Whalen, Omaha, and Miller, Scranton. Keys and McCarthy were not the property of the local team. Disposition of the lease of the Is land Park grounds for the coming sea son has not yet been made, but it is expected that baseball and other ath letic sports will be staged 011 the grounds during the year. It is likely an arrangement will be made so that Continued on ««v*ntk Pace RAILROAD'S NOVEL SUIT Puts in Counter Claim for Damages to Locomotive By Associated Press. Newark, N. J., March 11.—A rail road's counter claim for damages to it 9 locomotive figured in the trial of a $25,000 accident suit in the Supremo Court here to-day instituted by Frank W. Wilkinson who was struck and se verely injured by an Erie railroad train in Bloomfield last year as he was driv ing a milk wagon across the tracks. Wilkinson's hips and several ribs \yere broken and he was injured internally; his wagon was smashed and the mules which drew it were killed. He claimed the train approached without proper warning. The company in its counter claim al leged that by careless driving he struck the locomotive and "bent, broke and destroyed divers, slats or frames of the pilot or co>w catcher, and bruised, abrased, mutilated and destroyed paint and polish on the locomotive." The road asked SIOO damages. LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY An important battle, of which only the barest details are given in the of ficial communications of ,to-day, was fought in Flanders yesterday as the re sult of a British attack on German po sitions along an extended front. The Trench war office announces that about 1 1-2 miles of Gorman trenches were captured by the British. The German statement that merely the British made advances at some points. A report from the official observer at British headquarters in the field characterizes the Germnn army as "in tensely brave, determined and well or ganized," and says there is 110 reason at present why the German troops should be discouraged. It will be im possible for the allies to defeat tho Germans decisively, the observer be lieves, except for "ever increasing pres sure of vast numbers of men and guns throughout the coming months." No extended reference is made in the official report from Berlin to the new German advance toward Przasnysz | in Northern Poland which Petrograd; says has led to a great battle that is: still to be decided. The reports says, however, that the German forces made j progress north and northwest of I Przasnysz. The British plan for attempting, in co-operation with France, to stop trade to and from Germany has been decided upon and embodied in an order in council. King George signed the order, which will soon be gazetted. Field Marshal Von Hijudenburg has Continued on ISfnth I'niso. GROVE CHARGES DROPPED Settlement Is Beached in Suit in Which City Building Inspector Was Accused of Conspiracy After n legal fight lasting many weeks, the conspiracy charge lodged against James H. Grove, City Building Inspector, in the suit to restrain him from carrying out his order to raze the apartment house at GO3 York ave nue, this city, beca.ise of alleged build ing defeats, have been dropped and the controversy will be amicably ad justed. The court was so informed to day. Grove and John Wagner, who is own er of the York avenue property, jointly were charged by William F. Martin and Jaines J Lynch, contractors, with conspiring to dheat the latter two men out of money they claimed for work on the house. The controversy grtnv out of a bulged wall. The contractors maintained that the wall was not un safe and that the order to raze the building was made for no orner pur pose than to deprive them oif their money on the contract. Under the terms of settlement, t'he wall will be torn down and replaced and, it is said, the building in the main can be preserved. The costs of the court suit are to be paid by the contractors, it is said. Because of the plans for settlement, the court hearing in the case scheduled for to-day was indefinitely postponed. 4 SPANIARDS ASSASSINATED Slain in Mexico C'ty. Is Report of Spanish Ambassador to U. S. Washington, March 11.—Senor Ri ano, the"Spanish Ambassador, informed the State Department to-day that four Spaniards had been assassinate*! in Mexico City and presented reports of the looting and burning of private resi dences in the outskirts. , He made no specific request for ac tion. Mexican Situation More Hopeful Washington, March 11.—General Oarranza's reply to the American note was lai'd before President Wilson to-day and afterward it was indicated in ad ministration circles that the situation looked more encouraging. 27 Head of Infected Cattle Killed Lebanon, March 11.—The slaughter ing squad of the State Livestock Sani tary Board yesterday afternoon killed twenty-seven head of infected cattle on the farm of It. S. Werner, near Ann ville. Sine IF IE U. S. Will Make Search ing Probe Into De struction of Ameri can Sailing Ship VESSEL'S CARGO NOTCONTRABAND Act of Prinz Eitel Friedrich in Destroy ing the Ship Classed as Unfriendly and May Result in Diplomatic Ex changes With Germany I By Associated Press, Washington, March 11.—The follow ing statement was issued at the White j House to-day: "The President when aaked regard ing the sinking of the American sailing shij) William P. Prye by the German auxiliary cruiser Priuz Eitel Friedrich said: " 'A most searching inquiry will be made and whatever action is taken will be based upon the result of that in quiry.' " Washington, March 11.—The neu trality board has made a report, which, it is understood recommends that tho Prinz Eitel Friedrich be permitted to make such repairs ns would make her "seaworthy,'"' under supervision of American naval authorities, if the com mander of the German ship requests it. Await Story of Frye's Captain Washington, , March 11.—Officials of the United States government to day awaited a decision by the neutral ity board on problems rinsing from the destruction of the American sailing ship William P. Frye by the German converted cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, now at Newport News, before deciding on what action to take A report was expected to-day from the Collector of the Port at Norfolk, before whom the Frye's master and crew were to appear to tell their story of the vessel's cap ture and destruction. Meanwhile an immediate decision by tho board was looked for on Mic ques tion of how long the German raider might remain in port to undergo repairs and what disposition cau be made of the more than 300 survivors of the var ious ships she had captured. Every in dication, it was said, led to the belief that the cruiser's captain would elect to intern the ship until t'he end of the war. Ship Not Subject to Seizure Official Washington was stirred by the sinking of the Frye. It was held that the vessel's cargo mf wheav, bound for Queenstown, could not be classed as contraband and that, therefore, the ship was not subject to seizure. Some offi cials asserted that tfhe incident on its face bore the prints of an unfriendly act which must result in diplomatic ex changes with Germany. If the destruction of the Frye were considered an unfriendly act, it is un- Contlnurd on Seventh Pas* M'ADOO HAS APPENDII'IITIS Secretary of the Treasury Goes to Hos pital tot Operation By Associated Press. Washington, March 11.—Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo went to a hos pital to-day to be operated on for appendicitis to-night or to-morrow. The Secretary was at his office early to-day and it was said no compila tions had appeared. / POSTSCRIPT PRICE: ONE CENT. THE BRITISH TAKE NEUVE CHAPPELLE Is Captured From Ger man Forces Under Fire of Heavy French Artillery 1,000 PRISONERS AND GUNS TAKEN Most Important Advance For the Allies Reported From North of France In Several Months—ls Re garded of Strategical Importance London, March 11, 11.56 A. M. — Under cover of the fire of heavy French artillery British troops liave captured Neaive Ohappelle, 3 1-2 miles north of La Bassee. This success, in cluding the ♦aking of 1,000 prisoners and several machino gnus, makes it the most considerable advance re'port ed from the north of France for sev eral mouths past. This advance, if made in force, is strategically of great importance, as the position commands the road between La Bassee aud Lille. Furthermore it makes the German hold on La Bassee insecure and gives a base for operation for the straightening of the allies lines in front of Lille. The Advance Unexpected This advance was unexpected, as lately the principal activity reported from the British front has been in the direction of the' other end of the line near Ypres. The British are now within two miles of the furthermost point gained by General Sir Horace L. Smith-Dorrien last October when, with one army corps, in an effort to gain Fournes, on the road between La Bas see and Lille, he forced his way as far as Albuers, two miles to the of Neuve Chappelle, but after dWWr ate fighting against tremendous TodiTs was forced to retire A Przasnysz Fighting Favors Gernnuis News dispatches reaching here from Berlin report the failure of the Rus sian attempt to break through the German lines at Augustowo, while the battle of (.totrolenka continues. Accord ing to this information which is from official sources, the fighting to the northwest and west of Przasnysz is developing favorably for the Germans. The British admiralty continues sdlent concerning the operations in the Dardanelles, but reports given out in France set forth that armored fillips have penetrated the narrows of the straits. It is not considered likely however, that the attack will be press ed until land forces occupy both side* of the straits. That such land forces are almost ready for this tank is indi cated by the report that a great French transjiort licet has been sight ed off Malta. A COMPLETE FRENCH DEFEAT IN CHAMPAGNE, SAYS MORAHT Berlin, Via London, March 11, 10.35 A. M.—Major Moraht, military expert of the "Tageblati," explaining the sig nificance of the French campaign in Champagne, which, he says, (tlosed with "a complete French defeat," declares the city of Vouziers (on the Aisne in the Department of Ardennes; was un questionably the point which the French sought to take. "This city," he says, "commands to a great degTee the northern entrance to the Argonne and this district would have been evacuated by the Germans if the French had taken it ur else the German front there would have been forced into an angle toward t