Pl EVIDENCE T MM SUSPECT 111 ' j; Police Busy on Case of : Swoboda, Charged : With Causing La : Touraine Fire • OFFICERS SEIZE N ■ 5 LARGE TRUNKS Villa Which Prisoner Occupied Near Versailles Also Searched and a Number oI Compromising Papers Seized, Say Secret Service Men L' By Associated Press. Paris, April 1, 5.10 A. M.—Addi tional evidence lias been foftnd, the po- Ht ice assert, to prove the pro-German r V sympathies of Raymond Swoboda, I £ charged with being responsible for the | J fire which threatened the destruction of ' * the steamer La Touraine. Secret service operatives learned yes- J terday that Swoboda left five large S' trunks in an office in the Avenue De * Jj'Opera, the use of which he had ob * tained through an introduction by the bioker Morrison. Tho trunks were (Beizcd and sent to Havre. Prisoner in German Uniform The villa which Swoboda occupied r.t Virotla yesterday, near Versailles, also was searched and a number of pa pers seized. 'Phese documents included, [the police assert letters of a highly compromising character, together with photographs showing Swoboda in a G/ r iiiau uniforu with two other officers. M. lvaguiet. Swoboda's business as sociate, declared in an interview last night that he believed Swoboda was a > Canadian, as he had excellent references from (Quebec, where he and his family f reside. Swoboda told Raguiet he had been brought up in Germany and made no attempt to hide bis sympathy for that nation, according to the interview. Pronounced German Sentiments ' "Swoboda*B German sentiments be came so pronounced about tho middle of July," said M. Raguiet, "that I de * cided to break off my relations with him. After July 15 Swoboda spoke of war being imminent between France und Germany. He wrote me about this time that it was a shame to deal on the Bourse since there never would be a k monthly settlement.'' B The "Figaro" prints the following ■ statement in reference to Swoboda's I attempt to attach himself to that pa- A " Daring the first days of the war Swoboda came to the 'Figaro' and of fered himself as a war correspondent. Ho said he could go everywhere and supply information nobodv else could get. One of our editors, Franz Raich- H el, who saw him, gained so poor an im- W jiression of the man that for the mo- K mont he seriously considered denouncing B him as a spy and refrained from doing j ■ so only because he was not absolutely | U. S. Probe of Swoboda's Passport Washington, April I.—Agents of the ißureau of Investigation of the Depart ment of Justice began an inquiry to day into the issue of an American pass port to Raymond Swoboda, under arrest in Paris charged with starting the fire on La Tonraiue, the French liner. The investigation is to determine whether L t'he issue of the passport was entirely i regular. The passport does not give ' Swoboda's occupation, merely saying he was to be abroad '' one year on busi ness. '' Severd.l inquiries have reached the I cStatc Department from Swoboda's j t friends in this country. Acting Seere- | received from Ambassador Sharp. I Davis telegraphed to the Do- | ment from New York, declaring j obodii was American born to his knowledge. MAY TL'IIX I'IUTES LOOSE ieral Scott Believes Leader Is Inno cent of Murder Charge By Associated Press. March I.—(Brigadier Scott, chief of staff of the y, returned from his successful ex it-ion bringing in the recalcitrant tes, impressed with the belief that their leader, is innocent the charge of murder, or that at t'he evidence is purely, cireum itial and [rossibly furnished by un ndly Utes. general, long a friend of tho In is, and who knows their nature tJbor- believes the Pi utes thought the rshal's posse, which they resisted, yaching party of cowmen. General ott found officials responsive to his presentations for leniency and thiniks •» others of tho party may be turned to join their tribes. The general pressed officials in the Piute country the Indians fdiould know they expect considerate and just treat ent in the courts. SPEAKER'S OFFICE CLOSED Leave to Join Champ Clark in Missouri 1 By Associated Press, i Washington, April I.—Speaker lark's office closed its doors to-day ;ntil the reconvening of the Sixty- Congress., Attaches of the of- loft to join the Speaker in Mis In a large box of personal relics ■ shipped ahead to the Speaker was a ■ massive inkstand, presented to him by H Representative Casey, of Pennsylvania, who represents a coal mining district. ■I Oarranza Men Ordered to Vera Cruz New Orleans, La., April I.—iFjf- V teeu Oarranza army oflicorn arrived V here last night from' Matamoras to sail ■ to-morrow for Vera Cruz. They s:iid ■ they had been ordered to Constitution- ist headquarters by General Oarranza but declined to say for what reason. ■ Further Reduction in Oil Prices ■ New York, April I.—The Standard W Oil Company, of New York, to-day an- B nounced a further reduction of ten J points in refined petroleum, making cases ten cents per gallon, tanks four . cents and standard white 7.50 cents. 53,800 RUSSIAN PRISONERS , TAKEN BY GERMANS IN MARCH Berlin, April 1, Via London, 3.03 P. M. —The German headquarters staff, in its report to-day on the progress of hostilities, makes the statement that f in the month of March the German western army took 53,800 Russian pris oners, including officers and soldiers, and captured also nine cannon and 61 machine guns. The text of the report follows: . "In «He western arena of the war: During the capture of the hamlet of Klosterbook, which was occupied by Belgians, and n small point of support nt Dixmude, we took one officer und •44 Belgian soldiers prisoners. ! "The fighting to the west of Pont A Mousson and to the south of the forest of Lepretre came to a standstill last night. French troops have peno • trated a small portion of our outer | trenches. The engagement is being ' j continued to-day. i "I>uring outpost engagements yes terday to the northeast and east of Luneville, the French suffered consid erable losses. Jn the Yosges only ar tillery duels took place yesterday. "In the eastern arena: The situation in the Atigustowo and the Suwalki districts remain unchanged. Russiau attempts made at night to cross the I Rawka river at a point southeast of Skierniewicz resulted in failure and Russian attacks on Opoemo were re pulsed. During the month of March the German eastern army took alto gether 53,800 Russian prisoners, and captured nine cannon and 61 machine guns. - POINTS IN U. S. NOTE TO JAPS ON THE CHINESE QUESTION Tokio,, March 27. —(Delayed In Transmission) —The American govern ment 's note recently forwarded to To kio conce- jing negotiations now in progress etween the Japanese and Chinese governments, dwelt lengthily and in particular, according to reliablo authority, on the points in the de mands made by Japanese on China. Of these three points the first con cerned the selection of foreign advisers by China; the second was in regard to the purchase of munitions of war by the Chinese government and the third dealt with the question of foreign loans. The Washington government, it is understood, submitted that if Japan insisted on the right to be consulted by China in the selection of foreign ad visers it might be a violation of the sovereignty of China. ft is further contended that if Ja pan insisted on the purchase by China of munitions of war in Japan, and insisted that she be consulted with re gard to certain foreign loans in tho province of Fultien in south Manchuria and in Eastern Mongolia, this course might be a violation of tho principle of equal opportunity stipulated in the agreement reached between Baron Ta kahira when he was minister to the United States anil Elihu Root, at that time Secretary of State. That agree ment provides for maintaining the in dependence and integrity of China and the equality of commercial opportunity in the country. BRITISH OFFICIALS KILLED IN NEW OUTBREAKS IN INDIA Berlin, April 1 (By Wireless to Say viile). —The News Agency to day gave out the following: " Reports have 'been received in 'Ber lin Of two new outbreaks in India. At S'urat three 'British officials we/e killed. At Kurraciiee two (Mohammedan sol diers shot two British officers. "Replying to English reports tha/t the (British fleet resumed bombardment of the Dardanelles forts on March 23, the "Vossische Zeitung" publishes a ■ special dispatch from the Dardanelles saying t'he report is a pure invention. I It says furthermore that Anglo-lFrench j reports of the concentration of large landing forces on Greek Islands are un founded. "The Swiss Colonel Mueller, after inspecting the German military institu tions, says the army's sanitary condi tion is good. Cases of infecti >us dis j eases are carefully isolated. He praises ] the methodical strengthening of con valescents by gymnastics." WOMAN ARRESTED IN FRANCE ON A CHARGE OF ESPIONAGE Paris, April 1, 5.10 A. M.—Marie Louise Welscli, said to have been asso ciated with Naval Ensign Ullmo, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1908 for selling French naval plans to a foreign government, has been ar rested on a charge of espionage. Charles B. Ullmo, an ensign in the French navy, was found guilty in 1908 of attempting to sell naval secrets to Germany and was sentenced to life im prisonment in a fortress. Later in the same year he was removed to Devil's Island. Ullmo made a partial confes sion and asked for clemency on tho ground that he was a victim of the opium habit and that lie had fallen un der the power of an unscrupulous wom an, for whom he had squandered his fortune and ruined his life. 56 SURVIVORS OF SUNKEN VESSELS REACH NEW YORK ' New York, April I.—The steamer Manhattan arrived here to-day from 1 London with fifty-six survivors of the steamer Denver, abandoned at sea March 23 in a sinking condition. Forty nine of the number were of the Den ver's effw, the other seven were pas sengers, five of them being of the crew of the steamer Carib and two of' the license applications a fortnight or more ago. > Two hotelmen already have appeal ed from the county court's refusal to grant licenses and have petitioned j Chief Justice Rice, of the State Su . I perior court, to hear their casets at the , next term of the appellate court which [ j will be hcM in Pittsburgh on April 19. j Judge Rice has not yet fixed the . I time for hearing but it is believed [ here that he will dispose of the peti- I tion, presented to him for that pur pose, within the next few days. It also is believed that the Superior Court r will file decisions immediately follow ing the arguments, should the cases be . taken up at the Pittsburgh session of • tho court, so that if the county court | is reversed and the licenses are grant . Ed, there is the possibility that the hotels can reopen for the ui'le of liquor by the* first week in May. THE EITEUSM COALING Commander of German Cruiser at New port News (Jives No Intimation of Vessel's Sailing By Associated Press. Newport News. Va., April I.—Ac tivity continued to-day on board aud about the German converted cwiiser Prinz Eitel Fried rich, w'hose three weeks' stay at Hie shipyard dock here is expected to be terminated within a few days. Coaling of the vessel under super vision of officers of the United States navy, which 'began late yesterday ami ■continued throughout the night had not been completed at 8 o'clock this morning and there still was a consid erable part of the 1,600 tons of fuel to be taken aboard. At an early morn ing hour a tug with more barges of coal reached the Eitel's side. At night a part of the crew of the cruiser had worked at filling the ship's bunkers and a fresh lot of men took up t'he laibor at sunrise. That Commander Thierichens was not preparing to move his ship immediately, at least, was apparent early to-day be cause the vessel was known to have only reserve boilers in action. Smoke was coming from only one of the ship's fun nels, indicating . fire was lighted only for heating and cooking purposes. So letters from Fortress M-onroe who had guarded the Eitel's pier all night, were relieved 'by others this morning and in the James river a navy launch, manned by sailors from the American battleship Alabama, patrolled tho wa ters adjacent to the German raider. No one without official authority was permitted to enter the ship yard. That Commander Thierichens has no intention of leaving his neutral refuge for some days at least, despite the fact that hurried coaling of the Prinz Eitel indicated a purpose to go, was authori tatively learned here to-day and it also became known that he is negotiating for supplies. It is probable that quan tities sufficient for a fifteen days voyage will 'be taken aboard. Collector Hamilton conferred with Commander Thierichens on board Hie Eitel to-day but the nature of the con ference was not revealed. STATE HAS $5,199,880 Balance Left in State Treasury at Close of Business Lant Night If there had not been a respectable balance iu the general fund of the State Treasury at the close of business in February, the receipts for March would not have helped to mnl»e a very big showing nt the close of business for March. The receipts for 'March were $2,975,227.97 and the expenditures of the general fund were $3,392,338.52, or about half a million less than the payments, which is something unusual. The balance in the general fuud at the close of business last night was $5,- 199,880.32. L'roin the general fund all daily payments for running expenses are made. Other receii ts for t'he month were as follows: Sinking fund, $814,5'29.05; State school, uninvested, $6,454.38; au tomobile fund, $770,628. AT ST. PAUL'S CHURCH Services to Be Held oil Good Friday and on Easter Eve At St. Paul's Episcopal church serv ices will be held to-morrow as follows: II o'clock, morning prayer; 12 to 3, commemoration of Christ upon the cross; 7.4'5, evensong. Easter eve, Saturday, 7.45 a. m., Holy Communion; 4.30 p. m., Holy bap tism. Alternate Referee Named By Associated Press. Havana, April 1. —M. J. Hinikle, of Cleveland, was to-day named alternate referee for the Johnson-Willard fi.ght next Monday. 'Ho will referee in case Jack Welsh is for any reason unable to reach ilavaua in time. If Welsh does get here it will be Hinkle's duty to sit at the ringside ready to step in anil relieve Welsh in case the latter should be knocked out by a stray punch, or suffer from sun sickness. Miners Observe To-day as Holiday By Associated Press, Hazleton, Pa., April 1. —Mine work ers throughout the anthracite coal field observed this as eight hour day in com memoration of the granting of the eight hour concession in the central competitive bituminous district April 1, 1898, and elsewhere, but not yet asked for nor effective in the hard coal belt. Adopt U. S. Form of Treaty By Associated Press. Washington, April I.—Chile and Uruguay have signed a peace treaty identical with Secretary 'Bryan's peace commission convention between the United States and Chile. It is the first instance of the adoption of tfhe new American form of treaty between for eign nations. Five Hen Killed in Explosion Alton, 111., April I.—Five men are reported to have been killed in the ex plosion in the glazing mill of the Equitable Powder Company at East Al ton, five miles from here, to-day. The shock was plainly felt in this city. The reported dead include the superintend ent,. James A. Coburu. "BOY WITH SSOOJO EARS" k, ijyf ,v v'' v . rj W ' " \i. ' "TEDDY" SLINGSBV NC.7 York, April I, —"Teddy" Eugene Slingsby, four-year-old son of Lieutenant Charles H. R. Slingsby, of the British navy, and known as the "boy with the $500,000 ears," has ar rived here from England. The remark able similarity of "Teddy's" left ear to that of his mother won for himself and hise father the $1,000,000 estate of the Rev. Charles Slingsby, the boy's great-uncle, after a two-year fight in the English courts. OUIGGIs UPTOOLDTRICKS Escapes From Stone File at Almshouse Second Time in Two Weeks With Companions For the second time in two weeks, Levi along with two of his com panions, as on the previous occasion, escaped from the stone pile last night at the Dauphin county almshouse. A little more than a week ago and two companions made their escape by breaking a hole through an eleven inch brick wall For some time they were all free, but Monday night was found in a drunken condition rambling about (he Eighth ward. He was picked up bv Foliceman Parsons and lodged in the basement of the po lice station for safe keeping. When given a hearing before Mayor Royal Tuesday afternoon it was discovered he still had sixty days to serve, so the 'Mayor gave him thirty additional days. Quigg returned to the pile Tuesday with a depressed look on his face, but yesterday he war given company when John Murray and William Conway were sentenced to the same place for sixty days. The three men, however, soon saw they were facing an easy prob lem, for last night they made their escape by digging a hole beneath the wall which enclosed the in. MUSIC AT SALEM CHURCH Canticle Will Be Sung by Choir To-mor row Morning At the Reformed Salem church, Third and Chestnut streets, to-morrow morn ing, IMrs. C. W.'Myers will sing "There Is a Green Hill Far Away." There will be a Good Friday canticle by the choir. Greer Prefers Four Years in Hell By Associated Press. Montgomery, Ala., April 1. —"I would rather "spend four years in hell than four years in a turpentine camp," declared Len F. Greer, asso ciate member of the State Board of Convict Inspectors to-day in describ ing to the legislative investigating committee, conditions in the turpen tine camps of South Alabama. Greer said that he would recommend that all contracts for lease of £»tate con victs to persons operating in South Alabama be cancelled. Mrs. Mary O. Franck Mrs. Mary C. Franck, aged 66 years, wife of George J. Franck, died this morning at her home, 1046 South Ninth street. Funeral services will be held at Trinity Lutheran church, of which she was a member, Saturday aft ernoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. R. L. Meisenhelder, pastor of the church, will officiate. Interment will be in Harrisburg cemetery. Alexander Stober Alexander Stober, aged 44 years, dieil last night at 11.45 o'clock at the Harrisburg Hospital of septicemia. He was admitted to the hospital March 7. For many years Mr. Stober was an en gine inspector for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Funeral arrange- | ments have not been completed. Ambassador Naon Dines Cabinet By Associated Press. Annapolis, Md., April I.—'Secretary Bryan and other Cabinet members with their wives came to Annapolis to-day as guests of Ambassador Naon, Argen tine representative at Washington. The party upon arriving at the Naval Acad emy boarded waiting launches and with Admiral Fullani, superintendent of the Academy and his staff went out to thi! Argentine battleship Moreno for luncheon. Expert Divers to Work on F-4 By Associated Press. Washington, April I.—Expert divers from the New York navy yard to as sist in raising the submarine F-4 in Honolulu harbor are expected to leave with their equipment to-day for San ' Francisco, where the cruiser Maryland will be waiting to take them. Mean while Rear Admiral Moore, command ant of the naval station at Honolulu, will continue his efforts to raise the submerged craft. FOSTER CHILDREN'S RIGHTS Declared to Reßt on Outcome of U. S. Supreme Court's Decision in Case Now Pending By Associated Press. Washington, April 1. —Rights of adopted children in many States are de clared to rest on the outcome of the Supreme Court's decision of the case of the twin daughters of the late General John B. Hood, who seek to share in the estate of the late George T. McGehes, of Mississippi, their father's friend and their father by adoption. Briefs for the daughters and for the "heirs" at law were filed to-day in the court, outlining the conflicting claims. The appeal will be. considered by the court shortly after Easter. Ida Rich ardson Hood and Odile Musson. Hood Holland now reside in New York. The contest is over the inheritance of real estate in Alabama owned by McGehee. The twus rest their claims to the real estate on being that under tho contract of adoption in Louisiana they became the sole heirs, as if they were natural children, of McGehee's porpertv, no matter where situated. The Alabama Federal courts, however, held the Alabama law determined the heirs of real in that State. At torneys for the twins in their brief argue that the Federal courts have made a "mere seiap of paper" of the Louisiana adoption laws. Another ground on which the two daughters claim the land is the turning over to McGehee in 1894 of $8,600, their share of n fund created by the voluntary contributions made through out the Southern States for the benefit of the children of General Hood. At torneys for the blood relations of Mc- Gehee assert that if the transfer of the $8,600 was a gift, it merely evidenced the generosity of the twins, and if a loan, merely created a debt against the estate, but in no way determined the legal heirs to the land. STRIKECRIPPLES TROLLEY Services at Wilkes-Barre Tied Up When ;155 Motormen and Con ductors Quit Work To-day By Associated Press. Wilkes-Barre, April I.—For the first time since 1888 a trolley car failed to move on any of the lines of the Wilkes-Barre railway company in the Wyoming Valley to-day when 3*55 motormen and conductors struck for increased wages. Seventy-five cars I are operated daily by the company with special cars during the rush Hours at night. Tne tie-up is so com plete that business suffered, the ve hicles which were pressed into service failing to carry the crowds. Both sides remain firm. The men demand 28 cents an hour and the com pany is not willing to give more than 26. W. D. Mahon, international presi dent of the Carmen's Union, has asked the strikers to accept the services of the federal and State Departments of Labor for the purposes of mediation. John A. Moffitt, of the federal bureau, and John A. Stcese, of the State bu reau r conferred with traction com , pany officials to-day. The outcome is not "known. NISSLEY WANTS ALL STATE'S PAYMASTERS TO BE BONDED Representative Nissley, of Dauphin, 1 this morning introduced in the House a bill providing that every employe who shall dispense money shall be required to give a good and sufficient bond for fhe faithful performance of his duties, t)he bonds to be approved by the At torney General. Two normal school 'bills were intro duced by Mr. Love, of Westmoreland, one providing that the work of tho senior year starting in 1916 be finished before May 1 of each year and provid ing that all graduates of the teachers' training course be given provisional teaching certificates. Among the bills passed on second reading were: Authorizing borough councils to fix by ordinance the salaries of burgesses. Authorizing the free distribution of maps issued by the State Highway De partment. Only first and second reading bills were passed this morning, and after a session of but half an hour the House j adjourned to meet Monday night at 8 o'clock. No vacation over Easter' Mo nday will be taken. 3,000 PAINTERS ON STRIKE Work on Which They Were Engaged Is Left Unfinished . Chicago, April 1. —Three thousand union painters and decorators struck to day. Work on which they had been engaged in various down town build ings was left unfinished. The strike or der was issued after the unions and employers failed to reach an agreement over the new form of contract. Conferences continued to-day be tween contractors and representatives of building trades other than the paint ers in an effort to come to an agree ment which would prevent a general strike or a lock out of workers. Rochester, N. Y., April • I.—Union painters and paper hangers went on strike here to-day, tioing up fifty-six firms. The painters demand an increase of 2'5 cents and the paper hangers 36 cents a day. Employers declared condi tions do not warrant granting the in crease. ! Pittsfield, Mass., April I.—Sixty journeymen painters to-day went out on a strike following the refusal of the master painters to grant their re quest for $1 a day instead of the present $3.50 wage scale. To Publish U. 8. Note April 7 Washington, April I.—At the re quest of the British Foreign Office, the American note on the order in council, instead of being published simultane ously to-morrow morning in the United States and England, will not be pub lished until the morning of Wednesday, April 7. It was explained that the week-end Eastei; holiday- in England rcade the postponement desirable. China Concedes More to Japs Pekin, April 1. —The negotiations between China and Japan looking to the acceptance by the republic of the demands presented by Tokio shortly after the Japanese occupation of Kiao Chow were again saved from disaster to-day by the fact that the Chinese statesmen made further concessions to Japan. FINANCE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS Furnished by H W. Snavel;, Broker. Arcado Building, Walnut and Court btreets New York, April 1. Open. Close. Alaska Gold Mines ... §4% 34% Anial (Jopper 62% 62 vi Amer Beet Sugar .... 44% 44% American Can 31 Va 31% tlo pfd 95% 95% Am Car and Foundry Co 4 7 4on me. Could this Edgar Thornton be the person I had met? That per son was to remain over in Cleveland at a hotel. The accused claimed to have been on a train. A human life might depend on ray action. 1 took a train for Buffalo and when I arrived went to the courtroom where the trial was being held. In tho prisoner I recognized my fellow trav eler. I called for his attorney, told my story nnd was put on the stand. I testified that on a certain date—the evening of the murder—l had entered Cleveland with the accused and had loaned him a silver dollar, which I described. The prisoner produced the identical dollar I had given him with the initials and date I had scratched on It. Tbero was a sensation in the court room. \ A man who was about to be convicted of murder was acquitted and was heir to a fortune. When I asked how he happened to have been on a I train instead of in a hotel In Buffalo he said he had found passage on a combination milk and passenger train. Mrs. Ferguson had perjured herself to be revenged on the man to whom she had lost her fortune. When Edgar Thornton went to his home on his release he found it filled with flowers from sympathetic friends. I have the pocket piece, more valued than ever. New Reservoir for Hagerstown •Ilagerstown, Md., April I.—(Stock holders of the Washington County Wa ter Company at a meeting yesterday voted to increase the capital stock of the company from $320,000 to $870,- 000. The increase of the capitol stock, is desired in order that a new reservoir may be constructed for Hagerstown and additional improvements to the water system mude.