■IE WEATHER j lit TO-NIGHT / LND TO MORROW •IM Heport. } !"■«« • ■?J. L k H « ED ' VOL. 77—NO. 101. SPOORED in 'EIS IS SIRS ISEjN PERRY County Becomes r" To-day But ate Houses Are L Stocked USINESS IN T FEW HOURS 1 Bottling Works Sell All Surplus Supplies Except In is Close to Boundary Lines t Counties to the Star-lndepeiHlcnt.) , April 1. —Perry county rent dry at 10 o'clock last is destined to remain so ensuing year unless the 'ourt grants new liquor li ■ or more before the "dry" me effective lust night, T. f, proprietor of the only bot c and single licensed place t. aud incidentally the only orks in the county, had " and was ready to close didn't have a bargain sale it he did a laud office busi day and hail no trouble dis his entire supply. To-day |>ort people who were drink were doing «o because they an extra supply yesterday. Central hotel, Marysville, 'by G. W. Rhoads, and at several other Perrv county hotels, the sale of beer was heavy yesterday but Rhoads' supply was not entirely dis posed of. This morning Rhoads busied himself by runnimg the excess supply iof beer into a sewer. Rhoads removed the bung from three or four kegs-and stood by as the amber liquid tirckled down the "long lane." Other Perry rounty hotels disposed of their surplus fcoik ::i the same way. ■ Bought Beer By the Box the bystanders in Marys- Hl«. was 1 red-nosed fellow whose comment was "what a shame." the Central did not sell out its beer supply yesterday is due to the hotel being close to and Cumberland county where intoxicants now arc per mitted to lie sold. >< 'tn' interior of the county, how ■er, where the licensed h..t« *w and far between, business yester day was brisk and the hotel men only had a small amouut of beer to send awav bv the sewer route. Kutturff, proprietor of the Perry ■county bottling works, prior to yeater dav had bottled all of his remaining large supply of beer. It was not au un common sight yesterdav to see men ■« Continued on Kl.-w-nth Page. BARKER CASHES THAT CHECK Takes Salary He Once Rejected as Be ing More Than He Earned A check made out in favor of Jesse •I. Lyharger, Democratic candidate at the recent election for member of the House ot' Reprsentatives, to the amount of $175 aud dati.d Januarv, 1913. has been received at the State Treasury De partment for collection, according to a statement made at the Treasury. Mr. Lybarger had been eniploved on the Hill as a transcribing clerk i'n Jan nary, 1913, and at the time had made' ?i public statement to the effect that he did not feel justified in cashing his ' January check because he hail not j worked a full month. The check j was cashed, according to the record on I the back, some time in last February.' Mr. Lybarger. who until last week ' had been living at 1515 Berrvhill! street and had been conducting a Sing- ! er sewing machine store at 9IS North Third street, is now living in Reading, having been transferred to take charge of the Singer store in that city. j WILL INSPECT SALOONS | W. E. Wetzel Engaged by Liquor Deal | 1 ers to Report Law Breakers j I \ln an endeavor to "reform from the J 1 tide," the Dauphin County Liquor' | DVlers' Association has engaged J. | I E.n-nrd Wetzel, a former city police- j R niiiY. to inspect all licensed saloons in the Vmnty and report irregularities. Of-' fensrt to be included will be the sell-j ing ol liquor to minors and to drunken men. According to F. W. Ebel. president the tounty association, the inspector j will initrnct all liquor dealers in the' W county (O obey the law and will report j third ofenses for prosecution by the! association s attorney. The inspector i will especially look after saloons whose | proprietors figure in police courts. I .11 DUE HEMPHILL RESIGNS Chester County Jurist Sends Resigna- L tlon to Governor Brumbaugh I West Chester, Pa., April I.—Presi-; dent Jtidge Joseph Hemphill, of the cheste* county court, has sent his resig nation to Governor Brumbaugh to take effect at once. He retires because of ill health. •fudge Hemphill is nearly "3 years * old and has been on the bench 25 . jvears. He was admitted to the Chester K jfounty bar in 1 864 I J His successor is expected to be ap point*! soon by the Governor and there Bb is much interest here as to who the Governor will name. MR. LAMBERTON LEFT SSOO TO ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH Will Filed To-day Provides Also a S7(M) Fund to Perpetuate Lamber ton Oratorial Contests at Central High School—Rest Goes to Family Two public bequests—one of SSOO Ito St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal i church, of which he was a vestryman, and the other of S7OO to the Harris ! burg School Board —are contained in I the will of James M. Lamberton, ■ which was probated this afternoon by 1 Roy C. Dauner. Register of Wills. Mr. Lamberton's death occurred last Sun day. The will was filed by John E. Pat terson, -as counsel. No value is placed on the estate, the bulk of which goes to Mr. Lamberton's moth ' er, Mrs. Robert A. Lamberton, who is 1 made executrix. The only other be- I quests are to Mr. Lamberton's sister ; and a niece. The gift to the school board is to I be preserved intact as a trust fund, I the interest to be used in perpetuating i the Robert A. Lamberton Memorial 1 Prize oratorial contests, which anuual 'lv are held in the Central High i school. I Except his mother, who gets the j bulk of the estate, the beneficiaries are to be exempt from the payment of | collateral inheritance tax, this to be , paid out of the general estate. The will in part follows: | "I give and bequeath to my sister, ! Nannie L Wilbur, wife of Rolliu H. I Wilbur, and to my niece, Dorothy Wil bur MacSherrv, each the sum of sl,- j 000, free of tax. "I give anil bequeath to the St. Stephen's P. E. church. Harrisburg, the sum of SSOO, free of tax. "I give and bequeath to the School Board of the city of Harrisburg the ; sum of S7OO, free of tax, in trust, to , pay from the income therefrom the amount, $25, of the prizes in the Hon. Robert A. Lamberton, LL P., Memorial Prize contest at the Harrisburg High | school annually, the balance of the in ' come to be invested so that theru may be always a capital sum sufficient to produce iuterest to pay these prizes. "All the rest, residue aud remainder of my estate, personal and mixed, I ; give, devise and bequeath to my be | loved mother, Mrs. Annie B. Lamber ; ton." SON FINDS FATHER DYINC W. H. Sheetz Seeks Parent at Front Door and Then Discovers Him Lying on Parlor Floor When her husband, Levi Sheetz, j-1 603 Logan street, who conducted a | candy stair! at the Family theatre, I Third and Harris streets, did not return I home at his usual hour last night, Mrs. Sheetz dispatched her son to look for him. Going to the front door and see ing no signs of his fhther, the son turned back into the house and saw his father lying on his face on the parlor tloor. Dr. Batdorf. a local physician, was summoned, but little assistance could be given him, the man dying a few hours later. Coroner Eckinger pronounced his death due to apoplexy. Mr, Sheetz was 76 years of age and is survived by his wife and the follow ing children: Mrs. Ueorge M. Grau, Mrs. Marv Wickenheiser and W. H. Sheetz. The funeral will be held from his home Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in the Bald win cemetery. BICELOWSSECOND DEPUTY ALSO IS UKELY TO RESIGN Edward A. Jones. It Is Reported, Will Be the Next to Quit the Highway Department and Many Others Will Follow—Foster's Resignation In The resignation of Colonel Samuel D. Foster, of Pittsburgh, chief en gineer of the State Highway Depart ment, is now in the hands of Governor Brumbaugh, but its acceptance has not yet been announced. If William D. Ciller, assistant engineer in the Bureau of Highways, Philadelphia, will accept the place of chief engineer he can have it, but when the job was tendered to I'hler on Monday he ask ed for a few days to consider the mat ter. As yet the Governor has made no announcement of his appointment of a successor to Edward M. Bigelow, who retired as State Highway Commis sioner to-day. It was thought that the Governor would have before this an nounced the appointment of Robert J. Cunningham, of Pittsburgh, as Mr. Biigelow.'s successor, but it is said the Governor still is giving the matter consideration. Mr. Cunningham is said to have been asked if he would accept the post if it were tendered him, and it is considered that his appointment is only a matter of time. A report was current 011 Capitol 'Hill to-day that Edward A. Jones, of Scranton,_ Second Deputy State High way Commissioner, will soon retire by resignation, and that this will be fol lowed by other resignations, which vvill virtually establish an entirely new working force in the department under the new commissioner. Mr. Jones is one of the most active Re publican party leaders in Lackawan na county, and, it is said, will be a candidate for a county office in the spring elections. HARKISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1915 U PAGES. STEAL ELK LODGE SLEEPS Oil City Clubmen Pur loin Stuffed Speci men From Its Har risburg Home THE ASSAULT IS MADE AT 3 A. M. Animal, Seized Only Last Saturday in Reading, Is Taken From Its Ab ductors Here and Shipped to West ern Pennsylvania The SSOO stuffed oik, abducted last I Saturday by four members of the Harrisburg Lodge of Elks from its i home in the Heading lodge, did not i stay loug in Harrisburg. At 3 o'clock this morning hands were foreely laid upon it in the grill room ot' the Har ! risburg lodge, 216 North Second : street, and it is now being rushed by express across the State to the of the Oil City, I'a., Elks. The stuffed elk originally was stolen from the Tacoma, Wash., lodge, aud has briefly been the property of Elks lodges that have purloined it, in cities the way across the continent. Said elk some time ago found 'its way to the. home of the Reading lodge and last Saturday night four members of the Harrisburg lodge, with malice aforethought aud with a view to put | ting one over on the Reading lodge, did surreptitiously seize and carry : off that elk and bring it to the home j of the Harrisbury Elks. There it was given the place of | honor 011 the stage in the grill room, i Everybody was charged to keep an ! eye on the animal, for it had been j whispered that certain Western Peun . svlvania members of the order had I cast covetous eyes on the stuffed beast ! and had made vows that thev would ! in turn seize it and ship it to their i home. Invade Lodge at 3 A. M. About 3 o'clock this morning, when all was peace and quietness, I sentative Cassius Alexander, of Corrv, Erie county; Dr. Harry Reinecke, of Contlnnrd oa Thirteenth P*»«- POLICE FIND (AVE DWELLERS Gang of ' Bums" Live As Primitive White Man Living in the primitive method of the pre historic cave dwellers, Charles Sisco and George Mathews, known as professional "bums," of the city, were routed out of their happy home this morning and lodged in a more modern ! structure at 223 Walnut street. Both the men were discovered lodged in a damp and dismal cave along the PaxtonVreek, south of Pax ton street. W hen asked what thev were : doing there, they replied it was their I home, which to them seemed better j than paying rent. It is believed by the police that the | cave served as a rendezvous for a | gang of noted "bums," and that •Toll 11 Murray and William Conway, who escaped from the almshouse, ' where they were sentenced yesterday by Mayor Royal, also belong to the gang. CARRY 432 EI.GS IN SKIRTS Nine Women in Audience Get Away With 30 Dozen Without Baskets The management of the Colonial Theatre, Third and Market streets, la<t night placed a crate of thirty dozen or 432 eggs on the stage, called live women from the audience and told fhem they could have all the eggs they coul i carry,—but the management gave the women nothing to use to carry them in. The women filled their pockets but they were at a loss to know where to put the rest of the eggs that were left. Four more women were called aud then one of them hit upon the idea of lift ing her skirt at the hem and thus mak ing a receptacle. The other women piled the eggs in the big pocket thus formed and then helped each other stock up in the same way. The nine women, each carrying four dozen eggs in her uplifted skirt, paraded through the audience, out through busy Market street and to a nearby restaurant where they obtained paper bags in which to take the eggs home. STILL SOME FOOLS ALIVE Perhaps You Encountered Some of Them on This—the First of April Did you call up "368" this morn ing and ask if somebody wanted you? Did you gaze out the window to look at a Taube aeroplane to which your at tention had been called by a "friend 1" Did you receive a message that a rich relative had died and you were the sole heirf Did you take some proffered candy with some red pepper concealed in itf Why I Oh, nothing. It was just that the usuaj number of jokers were celebrat ing All Fools Day in ways other than by moving. It might be well to add that the 'phone number referred to above is that of the Insane Asylum. Dr. W. H. Handle Critically HI Philadelphia, April I.—Dr. W. H. Randle, a prominent physician of rh:» city, who was a member of the commis sion created by Congress in 1878 to stamp out yellow fever in the Soubh, is jn a critical condition from an opera tion in a hospital here. fIOUS KILLED i OJURE . Native Christians RoundedUpand Slain By Turks In Haftde wan Village 15.000 IN DANGER .1 NOW AT URUMIAH i Verbal Messages From Latter Place Confirm Earlier Reports That More Than MOO Persons Already Have Been Killed There | Tabriz, Persia, Wednesday, March ! 31, via Petrogrnd, April 1, 11.20 A. ' j M., and Loudon, 2.25 P. M.—l'reced | iug the "'occupation by the Russians of Salinas Plains, in Azerbaijan pro vince, northwest of Urumiah, hundreds of native Christians were rounded up by the Turks in the village of Haftde wan and massacred. Many of these were searched out for the homes of friendly Mohammedans who tried to hide them. The Russians on entering the village found 720 bodies, mostly naked and i mutilated. The recovery of bodies i from wells, pools and ditches and their burial kept 300 men busy for three i days. Wailing Women Intensify Horror The wailing of women intensified the horror of the scene. Surviving widows who were able to identify the bodies of their husbands insisted upon digging graves and burying the bodies. Some of the victims had been shot. In other cases they were bound to ladders and their heads, protruding through, were hacked off. Eyes were gouged out , and limbs chopped off. A general massacre of the 10,000 or 15,000 Christians remaining in Urumiah is expected, unless it should be averted by orders from Constanti nople. Verbal messages from Urumiah con firm earlier reports that more than 800 persons already have been killed lin that neighborhood and that more thim 2.000 have died of disease. These messages also confirm the reports of , the maltreatment of the Rev. Dr. P. T. Allen, an American missionary at Uru i | miah. Recent Associated Press dispatches ' from Persia indicated that the Rev. Robert M. Labaree, an American mis sionary and son-in-law of Samuel W. Fleming. Assistant Postmaster, of this c:tv, may be in the disturbed area at Urumiah. It is probable that Mrs. La bnree. who was Miss Mary Fleming, is safe with her three children in Ta briz. British Capture Dutch Cargo Boai 811 Associated Press. London, April 1, 12.21 P. M.—A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from New Haven, a |>ort on | tlie English channel in Sussex, savs a j Isrge Dutch cargo boat, the Lodewijk Van Nassau, has been brought into New Haven by two British torpedo boats un j der the suspicion that she has been i supplying German submarines with fuel | oil. CHARLES A. BiSBRQW DIES AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS Prominent Manufacturer and Financier Is Victim of Cerebral Meningitis in One Week Him—Funeral on Saturday Charles A. Disbrow, prominent in financial and manufacturing circles of j this city, died at his home, 1815 North I Front street, last evening at 6.30 | o'clock following a short illness of eere i bro meningitis Mr Disbrow first be i came ill Wednesday, .March 24, when 1 ... ; ■ 1 I| C. A. Dl 3 BROW 1 attacked with influenza. On the follow ing morning he went to his bed, after ( which his strength rapidly failed until last Monday morning, when he became unconscious. On Tuesday morning he gained consciousness for a few minutes, but again relapsed into an unconscious state. After that he passed into a more profound stupor until death oc curred. Mr. Disbrow WHS born October 17, 1849, at White Plains, N. Y. He re ceived His early education there, finish ing it in New York City. Prior to com ing to this city Mr. Disbrow spent three years at Galveston, Texas, 1870- 72. He came to 'Uarrisburg in 1873 Caatlaaed on Thlrtecath Pace. WOMAN WHO IS SUING FORMER DIPLOMATS SON FOR DIVORCE ijP* jk jKap< : - ' \ Philadelphia, April I.—The long series of charges and countercharges in the family of Charlemagne Tower, former Ambassador to Germany, came to a point when action for divorce was begun here by Mrs. Georgiana Burdick Tower, whose announcement that she had been married to Charlemagne Tow er, Jr., son of the one-time Ambassa dor, was followed by her entering suit SO MOCK COLD MAKES BANKER SHOW TEMPER Half a Peck of ss, 1()s and 20s, Fig uring in a $1 l,;tOO Real Estate Transaction in the Recorder's Of fice, Excites Curiosity of Crowd Envious eyes were cast on a big pile of gold coins, —enough ss, 10s and 20s to fill a half-peck measure, —that was being counted in the otlice of the County Recorder this morning, the money having changed hands in a re ality deal between a Mechanicsburg bank and the Central Trust Company, of this city. John F. Dapp, of the Harrisburg banking house, was handling the coins in the "oflicial count. To Dapp's right was Washington Shaffer, a repre sentative of the Mechanicsburg bank. Shaffer it was who produced the money, —it was a $11,300 deal, —and as the count was being made bystanders won dered what it was all about. Dapp ap peared to be out of humor, and pretty soon he and Shaffer had a wordy tilt, the subject of which the crowd could not understand. "Huh, didn't you get it," asked an attorney of a man seeking an explana tion. "Dapp wanted paper money and instead Shaffer played a real April fool joke 011 him by giving him gold. Now he has a load on his hands and pos sibly thinks he needs a bodyguard." The transaction involved $11,300 and at first a check from the Mechan icsburg bank was offi .« I. Cash was preferred by the Harrisburg banker in view of the fact that if the check were accepted the "county" bank, follow ing custom, would not make the actual transfer of cash for possibly fifteen days. Shaffer, thereupon, produced the gold. BOYS KIND BODY OF BABV Come Across It While Playing in Dun kle's Woods This Horning Boys playing in Dunkle's woods, Twenty-seeond ( and Swatara streets, at 11.30 o'clock this morning found the body of a baby girl about 1% months old along the bank of a small creek which runs through the wood. There were no marks of violence on the body and no indication that the child died by drowning. Th« body was taken to the funeral chapel of Undertaker R. K. Spicer, 313 Walnut street, where the opinion was expressed that the child died a natural death and the body was placed there by its parents to avoid paying funeral expenses. The body was unclothed and there is no clue to the parents. The bedy had apparently beeu lying in the water since Tuesday night. $78,000 IN BONDS REDEEMED School District To-day Pays Out $1)1, 000, Including Interest Through a redemption of bonds and the payment of interest on the bonded debt, Harrisburg's school district to day paid out a total of $94,000. The total amount of the bonds re deemed was $78,000, representing is sues of the years 1901, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1908 and 1910. The interest 011 indebtedness totaled $16,000 This was the biggest bond redemp tion and, incidentally, the largest out lay of cash in one day that the school district has made for several years. against his father for alienation of affections. She asked damages in the amount of $200,000. The action never enme to trial. At the time this alien ation action was begun, November, 1913. the Towers denied that their son was married. It is understood that this will bo their contention in the present action for divorce. In her present ac tion Mrs. Georgiana Burdick Tower al leges desertion as ground for divorce. LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY The German War Office anno >nced to-day that S:UM>o Russians were cap tured in March. It was said semi-offi cially in Petxograd that tlie German siege of Casowetz had been definitely abandoned. This was interpreted as meaning that the German offensive in the north had been given up. A Ber lin dispatch, however, stated that the German forcer were making progress in the fighting along the east Prussian border. The holy war has resulted in a fur ther massacre of Christians in Persia. In one village the bodies of 720 Chris tians were found by Russians. A gen eral massacre of the 10.000 to t5,000 Christians remaining in the Urumiah district is feared. Hostilities between Russian and Turkish armies in northwestern Persia have been resumed. In a battle last week 12,000 Turks were killed, wound ed or captured. One of the German submarines which recently have been operating so success fully off the British Isles has sent an- Cniitinueri on Seventh I'HK«\ y. S. NOTE ONSINKING BF FRYE IS SENT TO GERMANY Washington, April 1. —The Ameri can note to Germany over the destruc tion of the American sailing ship Wil liam P. Frve by the Gemarn raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich, has been dis patched to Berlin. Acting Secretary Lansing of the State Department said to-day the note would be made public here as soon as it had time to reach its destination. The representations of the United States concern only the vessel and do not discuss the question of cargo which the State Department is satis fied was not American owned. The note contends there was no justifica tion for the sinking of the Frye; that a neutral vessel carrying a cargo of wheat, not confessedly contraband, was sunk when a release of the vessel would have involved no vital conse quences to the Prinz Eitel Friedrich. While no German official vtould dis cuss the question to-day, it was learned recently that the German ambassador, Count Bernstorff, had recommended the reimbursement of the owners of the Frye for its full value and since then officials of the Washington gov ernment have assumed the case would 'be settled without difficulty. AUSTRI A PROTESTS TO V. S. Objects to Workmen's Compensation Bill in Pennsylvania Legislature By Associated I'regs. Washington, April 1. —The Austro- Hungarian embassy to-day presented to the State Department a note calling attention to the workingmen's com pensation bill pending before the Pennsylvania Legislature as being in violation of the treaty of 1829 be tween the United States and Austria- Hungary. The contention was made that discrimination against foreigners would be permitted. Objections was made to that section which provides that non-resident wid ows or children of alien workmen would receive only 65 per cent, as much compensation as those of Ameri can workmen, and also to that section under which no compensation would go to non-resident parents or other de pendent relatives of alien workmen. POSTSCRIPT PRICE, ONE CENT. FRENCH SHIP TORPEDOED; 19 DROWNED German Submarine Sends Steamer Emma to the Bottom of the English Channel ONLY 2 OF THE CREW ARE SAVED No Warning of Any Kind Is Given and the French Vessel launders In Three Minutes From the Time She Is Struck Ijoiulod, April 1, 1.55 T. M.—Thrf French steamer Knmia, bound to Bord eaux, was torpedoed Wednesday in the English Channel oil Beaehy Head bv • German submarine. N'ineteen member of her crew were drowned, only two being saved. The periscope of the submarine had hardly been sighted from the Emma when the torpedo from the undersea boat struck the Ktnma in the engine room. No warning of any kind was given. The ship foundered in three minutes from the time she was struck. A British destroyer subsequently picked up two men who had been in the water for a couple of hours, and at the same time recovered two bodies. The Emma had a crew of 21 men. AU the others lost their lives. TURKS LOSTROOOIEN IN "ERSIAN BATTLE, MARCH 25 Tabriz, ■ Persia, Wednesday, March ill, Via Pefrograd, April 1, 11.20 A. M., and London 2.25 P. M.—llostili ; ties between Russian and Turkish j forces in Persia have been j On March 25 the Russians I the Turks in a sanguinary battle j Atkutur, north of Oilman, in Nortß I western Persia. The Turks lost 12,000 lin killeil, wounded and prisoners ns I well as many guns. Turks Preparing for Bulgaria Sofia, Bulgaria, April 1, Via London, I 11.10 A M.—A concentration of j Turkish troops a' Adrianople, the near est important Turkish town to the Bid garian frontier, is interpreted in Sod\ ns a Turkish precautionary measure in the event of war with Bulgaria. In ad dition to this concentration, Turkey is j increasing the pieces of artillery on tho j Adrianople fortifications. BURY BrSHOI' I>l SATURDAY ! Body to Lie in State Three Hours at Harris Street Church The body of Rudolph Dubs, one of : the three bishops of the United Kvua- I gelical Church, who died Tuesday night at his home, 22S Harris street, will lie ' in state at the Harris Street United Evangelical chu.cli from 10 to 1 o'clock Saturday. The funeral services will be in charge of a numbei of prominent Evangelical I ministers. Interment will be in the | Paxtang cemetery. HELD FOR STRIKING GIRL Harry Green Charged With Aggravated Assault and Battery Harry Green, colored, was this aft j ernoon at police court fined $25 for ! reckless driving and held for court un -1 der SSOO bail on a charge of aggravat i ed assault ana battery, j When driving a ear jiast Fifth and : Roily streets on the January 20 he struck Miss Jessie GaW.her, who was badly injured. For seve'n weeks and two days, according to the testi mony, the young woman underwent treatment at the Ilarrisburg hospital, ACTRESS FTES ON STAGE Effle Leflingwell Expires While Playing "It's a Long Way to Tippcrary" By Asinciatrrf Prcutt, St. Louis, Mo., April I.—Mrs. Kffie : beffingwell (Effle Darling), an actress, I died on the stage here Inst night while ' playing in "It's a Long Way to Tip | perary.'' WALL STREET CLOSING By Associated Press. New York, April I.—New York Central regained its dividend in the final hour on excellent February earn ings, but the movement otherwise was reactionary. The closing was Irregular. Mixed conditions prevailed during the greater part of to-day's market. Early gains in minor railways and specialties were lost later.
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