THE WEATHER FAXB TO-NIOHT AMD TO-MORROW Detail** Report. Pact • S;T A ? , ;«V?. ED VOL. 77—NO. 85. BOTH AUTO SHOWS TO OPEN TO-K GHT All Floor Space Is En gaged Both In Relker Street Hall and In the Arena CARS BETTER; SOME CHEAPER Exhibitions Are Within a Few Blocks of Each Other—Doors Will Open at 7 O'clock—Music Is a Part of Both the Programs Gee! Isn't it awful be poort Two automobile shows, with scores of machiues, all better and some cheap er than last year, displayed for enlight enment of the general public—a source of envy for the unfortunate poor and a source of delight for those rich enough to enjoy a car this season! Actually, though, there are cars at prices to suit the pocket-books of every body—that is, everybody who ever con sidered buying an auto. Hard times avaunt! Two shows within three blocks of each other! Prosperity is in the air! The Harrisburg Automobile Dealers' Association will open its show in the Arena, at Third and Delaware streets, this evening at 7 o'clock and it will remain open until 10.30 o'clock.' The exhibition will continue throughout next week, opening daily at 10 a. m. and closing at 10.30 p. m. The Capital City Motor As sociation will open its show in the Kel ker Street Hall, Fourth and Kelker streets, at 7 o'clock and remain open until 11 o'clock. It also will continue all next week and be open from 10 a. si. to 10 p. m. dftily. The decorations in the hall include strings of incandessent electric lights and bunting and United States flags. The floor space is all taken and the show will prove instructive. A string orchestra will play during the hours of exhibition. The regular lattice work decorations of the Arena are supplemented for the show there with bunting and the effect is pleasing. Every bit of exhibition space in botih shows has been engaged. The acces sory booths are conspicuous as never before. In the Arena music is to be provided by a harpist and violinist. One of tie features of this show will be a Hudson machine mounted on a platform with all four wheels in mo tion, a feature which was arranged too late for the New York show. This is the sixth annual show of the Harris burg Automobile Dealers' Association. Few mechanical changes have taken place in autos in the last year. Among these the Ford machine shows a dif ferent dashboard. There was activity at the places of both shows tl.is morning as the dealers got their exhibits readv. "What looked at first to be a "jitney bus ' at the street hall proved to - be nothing more than a Stanley steamer 12-passenger mountain car. All types of machines, from the busi ness car to the luxuriant pleasure ve hicle, are to be shiwn at both places. CONSISTORY TO SPEND $5,000 Committee to Carry Out Improvements to Scottish Kite Cathedral Important improvements are con templated at the Masonic Scottish Rite Cathedral, North and Capitol streets, in the near future, if certain arrange ments can be made. At last night's meeting of the Con sistory a committee, consisting of Wil liam M. Donaldson, Henry W. Gough, William B. Bennett, Livingston V. Bausch and W. H. H. Baker, was ap pointed to carry out proposed altera tions to the interior. It is planned to take possession of the building adjoin ing the Cathedral proper, to the East, ■which is the property of the Consistory, and make use of it. The lower floor Iront will be attached to the office and the rear rooms will be aiLded to the present dining room as will also the rooms now used as social quarters. The second floor will be attached to the re tiring room adjoining the auditorium, making a roomy space, but the audi torium will not be enlarged. The sec ond and third floors will be used as the social rooms. The committee will look over plans and specifications, and if the alterations can be kept within $5,000, they will very likely be made, the work to" begin at once. Nothing will be done for the present with the Diven property which is di rectly on the corner, which is also the property of the Consistory, nor with the two properties i« the rear on Capi ta. street. Until the Consistory de cides to erect an entirely new cathedral these properties will be left as they are at present. Increase In Bank Reserve By Associated Press. New York, March 13.—The state ment of the actual condition of Clear ing House banks and trust companies shows that they hold $129,739,530 re serve in excess of legal requirements. This is an increase of $145,790 over last week. die Sttkpcnktii FUNERAL OF PROF. STEELE WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY Services at 2 O'clock at the Home- Teachers and Pupils Will Have an Opportunity to View the Body Earlier in the Day The funeral of Professor William Sherman Steele, principal of Central school, who died in L«akewood, N. J., on Thursday, will be held here Mon day afternoon at 2 o 'clock and will be in of the Masons. The services will be from the Steele home, 1622 State street. The body arrived in this city at 6.55 o'clock last evening ac companied by Mrs. Steele. Arrangements have been ma-J'e to enaible the close friends of Professor Steele as well as city teachers and the Central High school student body to view the body. Students may visit the home Monday morning between 10 and 12 o'clock, and the tesu'hers be tween 12 and 1 o'clock. The services will b e in charge - er Thompson, Richard J. Butler, Eugene Duffy and Thomas Flood, the four men who assisted him in his flight by automobile from Matteawan to Canada, likewise were acquitted. " The jury which acquitted Thaw had labored all night and until 12.20 o 'clock this afternoon in an effort to reach a verdict. As soon as the verdict was announced Thaw was given Ynto the custody of Sheriff GrifenhageiJ, of New York county. The four co-de fendants were discharged. A motion to have Thaw committed to Matteawan asylum as an insane per son was made by Deputy Attorney Gen eral Cook immediately after the jury had rendered its verdict. This motion was combatted by Thaw's counsel, who announced that, inasmuch as Thaw was brought? here on the conspiracy charge and found not guilty, he should be returned to the State of New Hamp shire as a sane man. Formal motion tkat he be so re turned was then made by Thaw's law yers. Justice Page announced that he would hear arguments on this motion next Monday afternoon, March 10. In the meantime Thaw was remanded to the Tombs. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1915—14 PAGES. SENISBVLLETI BRAII DIES Jacob RordnerCommits Suicide at Noon To day in His Enhaut Home WAS UNDER A DOCTOR S CARE Watchman Employed by Pennsylvania Steel Company Gets Sick Leave and Soon Afterward Fires Shot That Takes His Life Broken in henlth, due to rheumatism and nervous trouble from which he had suffered three years, Jacob Bord lier, 40 years old, of Front street, En haut, at noon to-day took advantage of his wife's aibsence from the house when she went to a nearby telephone to summon Dr. William 11. Seibert, the family physician, and blew his brains out. He placed a pistol to his head, back of the right ear and pulled the trigger. He died almost instaintly. Bordner for many years was a moulder employed in the steel foundry of the Pennsylvania St/el Company, in Steelton, but since his breakdown in health he had been engaged as a pa trolman at the steel works, being sta tioned at Xo. 10 watchbox, at the B. and C. department. On his way to work at 6 o'clock this morning be obtained medicine from I)r. Seibert, of Steelton, to whom he complained bhat he was ill. At 10.30 o'clock, at his own re quest, he wa-s relieved from duty at the watchbox by John O'Brien, the Steel company chief of police, and on his arrival home advised his wife to hurry dinner preparations. Later, how ever, he complained of suffering much pain and his wife went to summon the physician by phone. That was nbout 11.50 o'clock and at noon his body was found lying in a pool of blooa in the "summer kitchen." Dr. Seibert arrived ten minutes later. Bordner leaves his widow, who was his second wife, one son and an adopted daughter. MEXICO CITY REPORTED QUIET U. S. Officials Expect Conditions to Im prove Under Zapata Washington, March 13.—Mexico City was reported quiet to-day and of ficials here expected all conditions to improve with the occupation of the Zapata forces. Secretary Bryan said: "I think we are in pretty good shape. Carranz* has promised to [>ermi't people leaving the capital to travel over the portion of tiho railroad he controls, while the Za; ata general in command there has undertaken to admit food sup plies." No further reports were received to day on the killing of John B. McManus bv Zapata troops. With the assurances from the Zaj-ata commander that the guilty men would be punished, officials awaited tfhe result of the detailed in quiry, and a response from the Zapata authorities to the American demand for indemnity to the American's family. FALLS FROM C. V. RnlDtiE Harry Appenzellar Suffers Depressed Fracture of Skull Harry Appenzellar, 35 years old, of Chambersburg, eugaged on moving the steel bridge of the Cumberland Valley Kaliroad Company at Mulberry street, who was thrown' forty feet from the bridge late yesterday afternoon when a jack he was helping to operate slipped, was slightly better at the Harrisburg hospital to-day, having regained con sciousness. He struck a stone in falling and suffered a depressed fracture of the skull, which lacerated the brain tissue. He was removed from the water by fellow workmen, who embarked in a boat from the Cumberland county shore, and taken to the Harrisburg hospital, where he was operated on immediately. Scopolamin, a local anesthetic, known as "twilight sleep," was used for tihe operation. This anesthetic has been used several times before. MAY INV ESIH,AIt LLIHOAI Mayor to Decide If Further Inquiry Is Necessary in Case of Phillips Mayor Royal late this afternoon had not decided whether in his opinion fur ther investigation of the allegation that Patrolman George Phillips was in toxicated when on duty is warranted by tihe facts in possession of the de partment. If the Mayor decides it is Phillips will have a hearing. The policeman was called in from his 'beat early this morning after a telephone message regarding him had been sent to Lieutenant Warden, but the lieutenant afterward sent Phillips back to duty. Warden later reported the incident to Chief Hutchison. Two Sentenced to Death nh^ r Lancaster, Pa., March 13.—Augus tine and Tony Vitale, found guilty of the murder of Tony Collato, a fruit merchant, near this city, on October 31, 1913, were sentenced to death in the electric chair this moriltng by Judge Landis. Rocco Tassone, convict ed of the same crime, was electrocuted > last Monday. WOMAN UP ON CHARGE OF SCALDING RER NEIGHBOR Inquiry Scheduled for This Afternoon Based on Allegation That Minnie Davis Threw Bucket of Hot Water on Isabella Temple Minnie Davis, charged with throw ing a bucket of hot water on her neighbor, Isabella Temple, 108 Christy court, scalding the latter woman about tihe face, back and arms, was scheduled for a hearing late this afternoon before Alderman Laudis in Police Headquar ters. Her arrest was made yesterday by Constalble Wil«s and Detective Diehl, at the instance of Chief of Po lice Hutchison who, with District At torney Stroup. took a statement from Isabella Temple in her cot at the Har risburir hospital, where she had been since Friday a week ago. It is alleged a fight took place in the home of Minnie Davis, at 110 Christy court, during which she threw the hot water on the Temple woman. The latter says a man, who haipipened to be in the house at the time, parted the two nomen and Chat as she was departing the scalding water was thrown upon her from behind. The authorities say the Davis woman contends that she was attacked by both the mail and the Temple woman and that she used the hot water in self-defense. The fight occurred last Friday night, according to the police, ! and the burned woman was taken to j the Harrisburg hospital in the police ambulance. "HAD IT ALL WED OUT' ' Note in Book in Pocket of Suicide Who Shot Woman Given Out by Widow The contents of a note presumed to have been written by Stephenson W. Keys, 1117 James street, before he shot Mrs. John Hosie, 1624 North Sixth street, and then committed Bui cide at Basin and Wyeth streets at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning wfcs given out by .Mrs. Keys yesterday aft er the effects taken from the body of her husband were turned over to her by Coroner Eekinger. The note, which reads. "Lady name, Mrs. Johl£» Hosie, 1H24 North Sixth street; my name, Stephen W. Keys, 1117 James street; we had this all planned out,'' is »aken to indicate that Keys planned to shoot the woman and then commit suicide. Xo statement was made by Mrs. Hosie, who is still in the Harrisburg hospital. Her condi tion continues to improve. Funeral services for Keys were hc.ld this at 2 o'clock at the home of his brother, Martin Li. Keys, 31 South Court street. Burial was made in the Knola cemetery. OFFICIALS GET NEW TRIAL Court of Appeals Reverses Lower Trib unal in Conviction of National Cash Register People By Associated Press, Cincinnati. O. March 13. —The United States Court of Appeals to-day reversed the lower court in tthe ease of the government against John H. Patter sou, president, and 26 other officials or former officials of the National Cash Register Company, of Dayton, 0., and remanded it back to the district court for a new trial. Mr. Patterson and his associates were found guilty of violating the Sherman anti-trust law and sentenced to serve prison terms and fined E(i(JS DROt* TO 2J CENTS Custard Pie and Queen o' Pudding m To-morrow's Menu The hens roundaibout Harrisburg that furnish eggs for local consump tion put one at-ross on the farmers by laying something terrific in the past week despite the cold weather. So great was the supply of etitgs this morning that the prevailing price in all of the markets was twenty cents a dozen. Custard pies, cakes with real eggs in 'em, queen o' pudding and other deli- I cacies will be on the Sunday menus now. The ancient and honorable game of "holdup" is again the absoS)ing pastime among the youth of the city. P. K. R. ORDERS 100 CARS Contract for Freight Equipment Placed With Altoona Shops Altoona, Pa., March 13.—Orders for 100 steel flat cars of the F-21 type were placed with the Pennsylvania Railroad shops here yesterday. The type was adopted for the M. W. serv ice in 1910 and the cars have a ca pacity of 100,000 pounds. They are 40 feet long and have drop sides. Ma terial will be assembled and work com menced on the order May 1. Injured In Fall From Bicycle William Holbert, 446 South Four teenth street, an employe of the El liott-Fisher Company, suffered a frac ture of the right hand and wrist at noon to-day when he was knocked • from his bicycle by an auto truck be longing to the Bell Telephone Com pany. He was treated at the Harris burg hospital. ' Hardscrabble Viewers to Meet Paul G. Smith, Karl Bteward and James D. Salts man, the viewers named to assess damages and benefits incident to the razing of "HardacrabMe" properties, will hold their first meeting on the ground of the proposed im provement on Monday, beginning at 10 a. m. TUB BITEL'S COMMANDER AND THE WIFE OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE FRYE ■Off MM That the action of the Gferman converted cruiser Prlnz Eltel Frledrich in sinking the American merchant ship William P. Frye ultimately will be settled by the German government making reparation to the American owners of the ship and cargo to the extent of their losses, atid by repudiating the action of Captain Thierlcbens In ordering the destruction of the ship. Is the opinion expressed by officials in Washington, based on the evidence already presented The picture shown above, which was taken on board the Pritiz Eltel Friedrlch shows Captafn Thierichens. of the Prinz Eltel Friedrlch. and Mrs. H. 11. Kiebne wife of the captain of the Krye. IT BE APPEALS IN PEWIT Depends on Whether Judge Seibert files Opinion in the Liquor Cases WHOLE STATE IS INTERESTED, Recalled That Harrisburgers, Until a Few Years Ago, Used Forms of Application That Are Now Declared Faulty The printed forms for liquor license applications which Judge W. N. Seibert of the Perry county courts yesterday held are not strictly in accordance with the liquor laws and on the strength of which ruling the applications of four teen of the seventen Perry county ho tels were rejected, are the same forms that were in use in Dauphin county for well on to half a century prior to 1905, HarrisAmrg lawyers said to-day. Some of the forms are for applica tions for "tavern licenses," while others are for "restaurant licenses." George R. Barnett, a Harrisburg law yer, representing remonstrants, attack ed the Perry county hotelmen's appli cations, contending they were not in proper legal form and tihe law judge sustained him. Judge 8. W. Bernhisel, the associate or "lay" member on the bench, however, felt disposed to grant the licenses, but because of the disagreement between tiho court none of these fourteen licenses were allowed, and Perry county is to go dry, three other licenses having been rejected for other reasons. It was in 1904 when the State ap pellate court pointed out the flaws in the "tavern" and "restaurant" li cense applications, this decision coming when John T. Brady, a local attorney, appealed from the decision of the Dau phin county court which had rejected his client's application for "retail" liquor license for a restaurant at tbe Philadelphia and Reading station, this city. New Forms Adopted Here For many years prior to that time here, and, Ln fact, in most of the coun ties of the State, the practice had been for the courts to grant the "tavern" / Coatinncd on Twelfth Plfe. CREW OP BRITISH BARK SUNK BY DRESDEN IS AT VALPARAISO Valparaiso, March 13.—The crew of the British bark Conway Castle, sunk by the German cruiser Dresden off Corral (a seaport of Chile) on her way to Liverpool with a cargo of bar ley, was landed here to-day by the Peruvian ship Larton. The Conway Castle., a ship of 1,591 tons left New Castle, Nerw South Wales, September 11, for Valparaiso, where she arrived November 28. Her movements after that date are not re corded in the maritime records. The sinking of the Conway Odstle is the first exploit of the Dresden reported since the naval battle off the Falk laads in which she took part. sll OF IKE FRYE DEFENDED German Ambassador Stands Ety Captain of Cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich FRENCH CAPTIVES TO BE CARED FOR Two Cruisers Supposed to Be British Used Searchlights Off Coast At Virginia Beach Last Night, Say Besldents By Associated Press. Washington, March 13. —The full story of how the American sailing ship William P. Frye was sunk in the South Atlantic with her cargo of wheat by the German commerce raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich, was officially laid be fore the American government to-day by the Frye's commander Captain Kiehne. When Captain Kiehne's formal statement is made before Stete De partment officials, the United States will decide upon its course, which prob ably will be a deinamd for an expres sion of regret from Germany and pay ment for the loss of the ship and cargo. Gorman Ambassador Defends Action Washington, March 13. —Count Bernstorff, German ambassador in dis cussing with State Department of ficials to-day the sinking of the Ameri can ship William P. Frye defended the action of Captain Thierichsen of the German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, contending that the captain under the declaration of London, which was that official's only guide as to the disposition of prizes. Count Bernstoff did not presemt any note to the State Dei*artment, ho said he received no instructions from his government. He said he called to dis cuss the question informally and to learn what was the view of the United States. Followed Declaration of London In defending the action of Com mander Thierschsen, the ambassador contended that when the officer left Tsing-Tau at the ouflbreak of the war last August, he had nothing to follow but the Declaration of London in de ciding what to do with vessels he might seize. For that reason the am bassador argued, he had a riijfht to sink the Frye, as its cargo of wheat was consigned "to ordei " and destin ed to a fortified port Of the enemy. So long as there was no port into which he could take his prize he had a right, the ambassador contended, to destroy not only the cargo but the vessel it self. Furthermore, the ambassador argued that the commander of the.Prinz Eitel, when he sank the Frye, did not know that a German prize court on August 3 had held that the mere fact that a merchant ship was bound for an enemy port was not sufficient proof that her cargo was destined for the enemy. The case of the Frye, however, the ambassador said, would have to be set- Contlnued on Seventh Pift POSTSCRIPT PRICE, ONE CENT. NEWATTACK BYGERMAHS DEVELOPING Artillery Battle Now in Progress In Attempt To Recapture City of Przasnysz PLACING NEWLY ARRIVED TROOPS Kaiser's Forces Under Cover of the Ar tillery Endeavoring to Clear the Arena for the Advance of the Ger man Infantry Petrograd, March 13, Noon, via Lon don, 1.05 P. M.—The Germans appear to be setting the stage with much de- for the new attempt on the city of Northern Poland, against which their new and formidable attack is directed. An artillery engage ment now in progress evidently is in tended to feel out the Russian positions and clenr the arena for the advance of the German infantry. Under cover of the artillery fire the Germans are placing newly-arrived troops. The Russian general staff is alive to these preparations and expresses confi dence as to the outcome of this new phaso of the campaign. Oontem poraenoitsly with their artillery attacks the Germans are putting out flanking columns to the right and left. Russian forces have come into contact with the coiumn protecting the German right wing in the Plonsk district at the vil lage of OheJtonaw, four miles east of Plonsk, at which place there was a lively fckirmieh yesterday. In the Carpathians the Russians have dislodged the Austro-German forces from their fortified positions at L»ap "if'W and Siholnik, driving back their opponents toward the mountain pass commanding that district. In East Galicia the efforts of the Austrians to turn the Russian position in the region of Stanislau have been de feated. ' SERVIAN ARIYINHEARDOF AND DISEASE IS RAMPANT London, March 13, 12.32 P. M.— There is considerable speculation in England as to what has happened to the Servian army, concerning which nothing has been heard in weeks. The official announcements from Nish ceased some time ago, and it is not known what, if any, operations the Servian army is engaged in. Disease is rampant throughout Serv ia, according to special news dispatches, one of which describes this sinister at tack as far worse than the first Aus trian invasion. The city of Nish, whither the Servian capital was re moved when Belgrade was bombarded, is said to be overcrowded with the sick and the dying. Everywhere hospital conditions are piteously inadequate, and the country faces devastation worse than war. COUNT WITTE, FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF RUSSIA, DIES London, March I' 3, 9.3*6 A. M.— Count Sergiua Julovich Witte, Rus sia's first prime minister, died last night, says a Petrograd dispatch to Reuter's Telegram Company. Count Witte, wbo was bom June 29, 1849, at Tiflis, wae one of the Russian plenipotentiaries at Ports mouth, New Hampshire, in the ( nego tiations for peace' with Japan in 1905. He afterwards waß made a count and appointed president of the new min istry but retired in 1906 and held 110 important post after that time. IATEWARIWS SUMMARY The British army, to 'which has been assigned the task of leading the pres ent attack on the western battle front, is still attempting to push forward, and thus far German efforts to drive it back apparently have failed. To-day's official report from Berlin says that an effort to recapture Neuve Chappolle made progress for a time but was abandoned later when the Germans en countered superior forces of British, The correspondent of a Paris news paper telegraphs that the British artil lery fire was so accurate that the Ger mans moved their headquarters from Lille. • Spasmodic fighting; was in progress yesterday in Champagne and the Vos ges, but apparently the French army is leaving the initiative to the British, Cuatlnned OH Twelfth Pace,