—J , , | THE WEATHEfv? ' rxnt To-maHT ; AKD TO-MORROW 9IUIM HtHtt I'M* • * SEHW VOL. 7T—NO. 118. OPTIONBIIIBEATEN House This Aft ernoon Kills the Brumbaugh Bill by Decisive Vote of 128 to 78, Aft er Bitter Debate of Four Hours PERSONAL DEFEAT FOR THE COYERNOR All the Dauphin County Mem bers Cast Votes Against Measure —The Governor Praised and Criti cised Severely in Speeches Before the Balloting The Williams local option bill, en dorsed by Governor Brumbaugh, was ! defeated in the House of Representa tives this afternoon by a vote of 138 to 78. This was a personal defeat for the Governor at the hands of the legisla tors. It was the measure that the Govern or was more eager to have passed than any other in this session and he had declared that he would take the stump In the next campaign against any member of the House who voted against it. The decisive vote by which the bill "ell makes it improbable that any at tempt at reconsideration of the vote ' will be made In the present session of the Legislature or that any new option bill will be introduced before the next •ession. The four Dauphin county Represen tatives, Messrs. Swartz and Wildman, representing the city, and Messrs. Young and Nissley, representing the county, all voted against the bill. The roll call on the vote was started at 3.54 o'clock this afternoon after a long and bitter debate which started at 11 o'clock in the morning. The official vote was: for the bill, 78; against the bill, 128. Representative Maurer, Berks coun ty, president of the American Federa tion of Labor, did not vote. While the vote was being taken on the bill Governor Brumbaugh remained at the executive mansion. He had made no statement at time of going to press. The House adjourned, until 7.30 o'clock this evening, just after the vote was taken. Senator Vare, who was supposed to have held the balance of power in the local option vote this afternoon, said that he considered the local option question a moral and not a political one, and had not endeavored to influ ence any of the members of the Legis lature from Philadelphia. Of the Vare delegation in the House, four voted for the local option and 17 against it. The local option bill, favored by Gov ernor Brumbaugh, was taken up in the House this morning at 11 o'clock. Aft er first limiting the speakers to twelve minutes each this limit was withdrawn. Debate started immediately, and it will be late this afternoon when the question goes to a vote. It was fore casted at the opening of the session that the bill would be defeated, but the friends of tho measure would not con cede this. Long before the session of the House opened at 10 o'clock, which was one hour before the local option bill would be taken up on a special order of busi ness, every seat in the gallery was oc cupied by spectators. The side aisles and spaces to the side of the Speaker's desk were filled with friends and rela tives of the members and employes of the House. Chairs were placed in every available ■pace, some favored persons obtaining ' , ' '" ' " * • V v ," • - * V' * ; >•**'' * .*" v ; ' v .■' "* / ' X • " S\ax~ irtjltiir Jtokpcnktrt seats on the Speaker's rostrum. About a thir<i of the crowd were women. In all the crowd, which numbered as the bill was called, there were few who the white ribbon of the optionists or the small American flag of the "personal liberty" advocates. Air of Excitement Prevails There was an air of suppressed ex citement before the important local op tion measure was called, and the House entered into the work of clearing its second reading calendar with little en thusiasm. Representative lsadore Stern, of Philadelphia, at the start of the ses sion, presented the petition of the State Liquor Dealers' Association, containing 34 7,200 iiamos. Mr. Stern 9aid: '"This petition preys against the passage of the local option 1)111. It is a slight indication that there is senti ment on both sides of this question." The local .option bill, which was in troduced in the House of February 8 by Representative Williams, of Tioga, chairman of the Law and Order com mittee, which considered the measure, appeared before the House without amendment and is in the form in which it was introduced with the backing of Governor Brumbaugh. Efforts to change the unit of the bill from counties to cities, boroughs and township, failed by an almost unanimous vote on Monday night. Injured Law-maker in His Seat Representative Urick, of Lebanon county, was presented with two tall vases of roses as the local option bill was called. Mr. Urick was injured re cently in a fall at his home and it was feared that he would not be able to be on hand to-day to vote. He is classed as a " wet. " One hundred and eleven members of the House favored a motion to lim it speeches for and against the bill to 12 minutes and that argument be ended in two and one-half hours. A motion to this effect had tho support of friends and opponents of the bill. Representative Williams,' of Tioga county, was announced as the chief speaker for the optionists. After he had been speaking for 12 minutes, Speaker Ainbler dropped the gavel to halt him. The House voted to allow him to continue and he finished his re marks. Mr. Williams stated at the outset that the people behind the bill were neither fanatics nor cranks on the sub ject of temperance, but were loyal, pa triotic ineu who considered that the time had come to make a change in the license laws. The Brooks law, he held, I'"sonic good features which were be ing retained. The law irv his opinion has outlived its period of usefulness and in all fairness he said judges should be relieved of the duty of acting on liq uor license applications. Defends the County Unit The bill, said Mr. Williams, contains the referendum and the recall and is a progressive measure. It allows the people to rule, to say in a fair way whether there shall be liquor sold in their counties. It is as fair, he con tended, as the bill presented by a Blair member to allow third class cities'to elect City Treasurers. Answering vfre contention that the unit shouid be smaller than the county he .said the county unit was the fairest method. The present law puts granting of li censes in the hands of the county courts. If the Legislature fails to enact a local option law, said Mr. Williams, the people will be heard from in 1916. Mr. Williams' time hanl expired be fore he finished and the Speaker called his attention to the fact. Mr. Gra ham, Philadelphia, offered part of his fime and Mr. Williams, was given an allowance of time to permit him to fin ish his speech. People in Erie, Lackawanna, Schuyl kill and other counties favor tho bill, said Mr. Williams. He ealled atten tion of Legislature to the mjiny peti tions filed as expressive of public sen timent. The Tioga man referred to the attitude of Woodrow Wilson, when Governor of New Jersey, on big meas ures and declared local option was now a moral issue in Pennsylvania. He predicted a non-partison uprisihg in Pennsylvania, not under the name Continued on Rlghtk Page, WRANGLE IMPERILS IRE CHILD LABOR MEASURES Child labor legislation, as it passed the House under the direction of Gov ernor Brumbaugh, may not be dead, but it pretty nearly received its quietus in a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Spe cial Committee lest night. The committee sat all afternoon list ening to arguments against the bill from Joseph R. Grundy and others con nected with the Manufacturers' Associ ation of the State, during which Mr. Grundy and Senator Vare had a run in as to what the manufacturers wanted two years ago and what they want r.cw, and after adjournment it was an nounced that an executive meeting would be held last night. All of the members of the committee were present at the meeting and for two hours they fought and wrangled in secret session. The opponents of the Brumbaugh bill wanted to amend it, making the hours of child labor 54 a week and 10 a day, while the friends of the bill wanted to hold the hours down to 51 a week and 9 a day, and it was on those points that the com mittee wrangled for two hours, after solemnly promising Governor Brum baugh that the bill would be Veported out to-day just as it passed the House. Finally, when it was seen that noth ing could be accomplished, the commit tee adjourned, and the bill was left hanging by the eyelids. Another meet ing of the committee will be held next Mondav night, when, the bill will again be taken up and some agreement reached. HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1915—14 PAGES. ASKS $25,000 FOR DEATH OF HUSBAND AT CROSSING Mrs. Carrie E. Brightbill Sues the Pennsylvania Railroad as a Result of the Fatal Accident in Dauphin on October 3, Last As a result of the grade crossing ac cident at Swatara street, Dauphin, on October 3, last, in which her husbaml John U. Brightbill, a dairyman, was instantly killed, his borse fatally in jured and the dairy wagon demolished, Mrs. Carrie E. Bright>bill this morning filed a suit in the Dauphin county court (femanding $25,000 damages from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mrs. Brightbill has retained' Harvey E. Knupp as her legal adviser and the attorney filed the papers. The company is charged with negligence and care lessness, it being charged it operated a special train through the borough of Dauphin on the morning of the acci dent and no signal or notice was given at the unprotected grade crossing of the special's approach. Within a year before the accident, it is alleged, the railroad company re ceived notice from the Dauphin bor ough authorities to protect the grade crossings with watchmen and it is charged that it disregarded that order. Brightbill was about 50 years old. His horse and dairy wagon were struck about 10.40 a. m., the horse was hurled to a lot alojig the railroad and the lifeless body of the dairyman was carried on the pilot of the engine for a distance of two or more blocks. So great was the force of the im pact, it |s charged, that the dairy man's shoes were knocked from his feet and hurled to one side of the rail road while other wearing apparel was strewn along the opposite side of the tracks. HOHL'S CAPTOR GETS |SOO S/lem Chief of Police Receives Reward for Arrest of Elusive Bandit (Special to the Star-Independent.) Altoona, Pa., April 21.—The SSOO reward offered by Blair County Com missioners for the capture of Frank G. Hohl, of Harriitouri*, the auto bandit j who held up the Inion bank here ir? year ago, shot the cashier and a dc- j jiositor and escaped with $2,800, was yesterday awarded by Judge Thomas J. Baldridge to C. E. Cook, chief of police of Salem, O. Cook arrested Hohl when the rob ber., and his wife went to Salem on a visit to the' wife's relatives. Mrs. Laura Coffee, sister of Hohl's wife, find Frank B. Abel, a Salem fireman, who ] assisted in the arrest, each petitioned for the reward Hohl, following his capture by the Salem chief of police, escaped from the Blair county jail by soaping his body and squeezing through a narrow win dow. Subsequently he was shot to death by the polico of Cincinnati aft er he had robbed two banks there and fatally wounded a bluecoat. BOY FOUND NEAR HIS HOME Vincent Basehore Causes Parents and Police Much Trouble Little ten-year-old Vincent Basehore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Basehore, who wandered away from his home, 25 46 Lexington street, Monday, was found this morning at the. home of a neighbor, just a few doors from his home. Following a search Monday night and Tuesday revealed the fact that the boy passed the night with a family on Camp street, who took him in at a late hour. The boy left this house, but in stead of going to his home he went to the home of a neighbor, who knew nothing of his disappearance. Police were notified by the lad's father yesterday to be on a sharp look out for him, as it was feared he may have been kidnapped. This morning, however, all parties were relieve-d when the father .called the police station, stating that the boy had been found. 15 TOWNS IN DRY COLUMN South Dakota Election Shows Gain For Cold Water People Aberdeen, S". D.,. April 21.—Anti saloon forces scored important vic tories in yesterday's municipal elec tions in South Dakota, reports show ing that fifteen cities aud towns had changed from wet to dry columns while only one shift from dry to wet was reported. The most important towns to vote out saloons were Mitchell, Madison, Bapid' City, Custer, Mildbank, Platte and Leola. Salem was the only town reported to have changed from dry to wet. In Aberdeen, now wet, there was a tie according to unofficial figures. Representatives of both sides said a recount would be demanded. LIGHTNING FATAL TO WOMAN Mrs. Mary E. Martin Instantly Killed on Btre«t at McSherrystown York, Pa., April 21.—The only stroke of lightning during a brief storm struck down and instantly killed Mrs. Mary E. Martin, 50 years old, on the main street at McSherrytown last evening. The woman was ftn the way home from a visit to her mother's residence. She was seen to fall at the flash and when picked up her face was found to be deeply discolored. Her shoes had been torn off and one thrown entirely CMCOM the street. FOREST FIRE RUINS DOZEN STRUCTURES Twelve Persons Injur ed While Flames do , $70,000 Damage In Cumberland County TWO HURT WHEN CAR OVERTURNS Doctor and Companion, Speeding to; Give Aid to Victims of Blase at Laurel, Upset and Are Pinned Be neath Auto (Special to the Star-Independent.) Carlisle, April 21.—Damage to the amount of $70,000, it was estimated to-day, was doue last night by the forest fire in the vicinity of the village of Laurel, Cumberland county, which destroyed a large ice house belonging to the United Ice and Coal Company, of Harrisburg, and its contents of seventeen thousand tone of ice, along with timber covering several hundred acres. Six cottages, two barns, one garage, one boat house and three freight cars. The flames, which were under con trol this morning, endangered the lives of many residents who were hemmed in by them. A dozen persons met with injuries including a physician and a friend, whose auto rtras wrecked when they were rushing to give aid to per sons suffering from burns. Men who were badly burned in fighting the flames are Jacob Speidle, owner of one of the barns destroyed, and two other residents, Bowman and Sowers. Members of the family of F. E. Mans and several guests, half a , dozen in all, were scorched while try- ' in-g to escape from the flames when the Maus cottage caught Are. They tried to reach the unharmed cottage of H. R. McCartney, but were driven back by the intense heat. They, however, found shelter at E. M. Biddle's boat landing, where, bv constantly wetting their clothing and j their faces they were saved from suf- i focation. Rescuers Pinned Under Auto A hurried call for medical assistance ! sent to Mount Holly when the fire was j at its height brought Dr. Irvin, of that I place, accompanied by William Rinkeu- j baugh, on the road to Laurel in an au tomobile. Near Hunter's Run the ma chine upset and the two men werej pinned beneath it. They were unable to release themselves but were rescued' I by an automobile party passing that' way several minutes after the accident, j Dr. Irvin was badly bruised but i treated himself and hurried on to the scene of the fire where he attended to the burns of those injured. Rinken baugh's head was cut and his right leg broken, and he was taken on to Pine Grove for medical treatment. The properties 'destroyed by the fire included the barn of Jacob Speidle; j house, of Joseph Fuller with its con tents; Conodoquinet cottage with gar age and outbuildings; Greenwood cot tage; barn and house of Oscar Bar bour; barn of F. E. Maus; cottage of Continued on Slxtl. Pave. PLEAD FOR DETENTION HOME Representatives of Civic Club Sug gests Two Properties to County Commissioners Contending there is need for a | house of detention where juveniles may be kept while awaiting trial in criminal cases, Dr. Martha H. Pollock, Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert and Mies Fan nie M. EJby, representing the Civic Club of Harrisburg, this morninig ap peared before County Commissioners, Isaac S. Hoffman and Samuel S. Miller i and urged that such quarters be pro vided at once. In the absence of Commissioner John H. Bby, who is ill, the commis sioners announced they would take the matter under advisement. The Civic Club committee presentedi two propositions, one to buy the St. Aug ustine Mission, Thirteenth and Herr streets, and another to buy the Dodge mansion, on Nineteenth street. It was suggested, however, that to obtain the latter property likely would mean an expenditure too heavy to be borne Iby the county at thie time. Be lief was expressed that the mission building can be bought for $4,000. The commissioners agreed that the de tention house must come sooner or later. Schley's Aunt Killed by Auto Atlanta, Ga., April 21. —Mrs. Vir ginia Schley, 75 years old, an aunt of the late Rear Admiral Schley, was struck and killed by an automobile in front of her home here last night. THE COLONEL AS HE TESTIFIES IN BARNES' LIBEL SUIT FOR $50,000 Pr^ ( * -jJW V <' c I^SB \ i^it- 1 HMyjPßrjML^- * # • * '*-' 1 ss'! let $& mWMmfcsmm& v 1. s!&£££*** u* -T*^4HHHIHHHHE3S3SSMNIHBMN^^^^6^MM Theodore Roosevelt DEALS AT ALBANY TOLD BY COLONEL Roosevelt, on Witness Stand.DescribesCom bine Between Repub licans and Tammanv HOW BARNES AND HUGHES FELL OUT Tails About Fight Combined Demo cratic and Republican Machines Made Against Direct Primaries Leg islation—Racing Bill Defeated By AsaockitPd Press. Syracuse,' April 21.—Pour chapters of Albany politics were related by Theodore Roosevelt on the witness stand to-day. The former President, gave what he claimed to je the details of the election by "Barnes Republi cans" assisted by "Murphy Demo crats" of an official leader of the Re publican party iu New York; the cause of the hostilities between William Barnes and Governor Hughes; the de feat of the Hart-Agnew racing bill by the Republican organization and the ifight he said the combined Democratic and Republican machines, the latter led by Mr. Barnes, made against direct primaries legislation. He also identified a letter written by Mr. Barnes in which the latter told him "the idea of getting rid of bosses is absurd so long as you have party government." • The Race Track Legislation Colonel Roosevelt was on the stand •during the entire forenoon session of court. He was to continue the story Continued on KlKhth I'nur. STEEL WORKS WILL STOP DURING BENT FUNERAL Every Wheel Will Cease Moving for Five Minutes To-morrow Morning —Whistles Will Blow and Church Bells Will Be Tolled in Steelton The entire Steelton plant of the Pennsylvania Steel Company will cease operations from 11 to 11.05 o'clock to morrow morning, at the time of the be ginning of the funeral services at Over brook for Major Luther Steadmau Bent, who formerly was superintendent of the plant. Major Bent's death occurred on i Monday. He was in his eighty-sixth year. Many Steelton and Harrisburg men will attend the fuueral. During the 5-minute interval the whistles will be blown for the space of one minute and an effort will be made I to have all churches in the borough that are equipped with bells to toll thfm for one minute. Major Bent was president of the School Board for nine years from the organization of the borough in 1880 to 1889, and to bis generosity and farsightedness more than to the in fluence of any other individual'is due the system of schools that Steelton now possesses. To honor his memory, all flags on the borough school build ings will be at half mast to-morrow. LOCAL FIREMEN GET SSO GIFT Recommended and Rewarded by Mrs. M. L. Oraupner for Excellent Work Harrisburg firemen were highly com mended and a reward of SSO given for the Harrisburg Firemen's Relief Asso ciation by 'Mrs. Mary L. Oraupner, for the excellent work performed in saving her property on South Tenth street Sun day afternoon when the Montgomery warehouse burned. The check was re ceived by the chief of the Harrisburg Fire Department, John C. Kindler. JAP CABINET IN A LONG CONFERENCE Believed Tokio Govern ment Will Press for Reply From China in Given Time LATTER MARES ANNOUNCEMENT Says Translation of Demands Made by Japan Upon Ohina, as Published in U. S., Was Same as Japan Pre sented to Foreign Office in Peking By Associated Press. Tokio, April 21. —The crisis which has come in the negotiations with China ! as to the acceptance of the demands of the Tokio government has been followed by a protracted of the cab inet. The members of the "(ieuro," or the Elder Statesmen of Japan, have been communicated with on the sub ject. The semi-official press expresses the belief that Japan has brought the un settled clauses of her demands down to the irreducible minimum, and that in the event of further procrastination on the part of China, she probably will press for a reply within a given period of time. The members of the cabinet this afternoon conferred with the Elder Statesmen concerning the Chinese ne gotiations. interest in the situation in Peking is increasing. Peking, April 21. —Official announce ment was made to-day by the Chinese government that the translation of the full text of the demands made by Japan upon China, as already published in the United States was the official transla tion of the Chinese text as the Jap anese themselves presented it to the Foreign Office here on January 18, in both the Japanese and Chinese lan guage. This announcement was made by rea l son of the fact that the Japanese gov ernment had repeatedly protested bo- Contlnuril on UlKlith Page. CARRANZAINJGUADALAJARA City Is Reported Captured By His Forces—Fighting in Progress Around Navajoa By Associated Press. On Board U. S. S. Colorado, La Pas, Mex., April 21, By Radio to San | Diego, C'al., April 21.—Guadalajara I has been captured by the Carranza I forces according to an authoritative ' report received here late last night, j The city is said to* have been taken by troops under General Dieguez. Fighting in reported to be in pro gress around Navajoa in the state of Sonora. ' The United States cruiser Raleigh, at ManzanUlo, is taking steps to pre vent the sale of the property of Chi nese which was confiscated by the Car ranza forces. TWO PIKES AT CARLISLE Early Morning Blaze in Warehouse Causes Xioss of S3OO Carlisle, April 21.—Fire in the warehouse of Cochran and Alcock at 4 o 'clock this morning -did damage to the amount of SSOO. It is believed by the local authorities that the build ing was purposely set on fire since a pile of boxes had been arranged at the side of the wall where the' blaze origin ated. A fire in the stable of Harry Spahr yesterday is also thought to have been incendiary. An investigation has been started. POSTSCRIPT PRICE, ONE CENT. BIG LAND AND SEAATTACK IS EXPECTED 20,000 Allied Troops Landed Near Enos For New Assault on the Dardanelles SHIPS AND FORTS IN HEAVY FIRING Troop Transports Arriving Dally at Lemnos and All Indications Point to Strong Action Against the Dar danelles at an Early Date Berlin, Via Wireless to Sayville, April 21.—The "Tages Zeitung" to day publishes a special dispatch, the origin of which, however, is not given, saying that 20,000 British and French troops have been landed near Enos, in European Turkey, on the north side of the Gulf of Saros. A heavy cannon ading took placo between the Turkish batteries around Enos and the warships of the allies. A dispatch received in Berlin froni Athens says great activity has been noted among the British forces on the island of Lemnos, which lies to the west of the entrance to the Dardanelles. Troop transports are arriving daily at Lemnos from Alexandria, Egypt; the censorship is more rigid, and all indi cations point to strong action against the Dardanelles at an early date. A dispatch received in London yes terday from Dcdeagatch, Bulgaria, a short distance west of Enos, said a vio lent cannonading occurred on the Gulf of Saros Sunday evening. The tiring was so heavy that buildiugs at Dedea gatch wore shaken. Constantinople, April 20, Via Wire less to Berlin and London, April 21.- An officiul statement issued to-day by the War Office says: "It is now definitely known that six torpedo boats attempted to penetrate the Dardanelles Monday night." There has been no previous an nouncement of a concerted effort Mon day night by vessels of the allied fleet to run the straits, and the above dis patch fails to disclose what was the result of the operation. GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS REPULSED BY THE PRENCR Paris, A;>ril 21, via London, 1.40 P. *M.—The French War Office this after noon gave out a report of the progress i of hostilities which reads: "A cannonade of some violence took place in the region of Arras yester day. Between t). Oise and the Aisue, between the Meuse and the Moselle and in the wood of iMontmare, close to the Flirey-Essey high road, not only did our attacks mako some slight progress but two German counter attacks on the line of trenches we had succeeded iu winning April 20, were successfully re pulsed. "Belgian avjators have bombarded the arsenal at Bruges and the aviation ground at Lissevegh." Death of Sultan's Would-Be Assassin Cairo, Eigypt, April 12(1.—The young Egyptian merchant named Khalil who on April 8 made an unsuccessful at tempt in Cairo to assassinate Hussein Kamel, the Sultan of Egypt, was to day sentenced by a military court to death by hanging. LATE WARIMIMRV A land and sea attack on the Dar danelles on a larger scale than at any time since the allies began their effort to win Constantinople apparently 1b im minent. Berlin reports that 20,000 British and French troops have been landed on the north shore of the Gulf of Saros. European Turkey, indicating that land operations are actually under way. This force presumably will be employed for an attack from the rear of the Turkish fortifications along the European side of the straits at the same time that a bombardment from the sea is undertaken by the allied fleet. Ad ditional British troops are arriving daily from Egypt on transports at the island of Lemnos, west of the entrance to the Dardanelles. No heavy fighting has taken place since the attempt to force the straits a month ago, in which two British and one French battleships were lost. An Continued on KlKkth Face. WALL STREET CLOSING New York, April 21.—Increasing weakness In the Southwestern railway shares fell from 3 to 6 points, precipi tated further selling of the market. The closing was irregular. Alternate ad vances and declines, the result of mixed buying and selling, accompanied to day's active market. Copper were the strongest features.
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