THE WEATHER FAI3 TO-NIGHT AND TO-MORROW Detailed Report* Face • n s K T A 4 M ,B?« ED VOL. 77—NO. 122. UHI BILL is sural It Will Figure Largely In the DeliberatiQns of the Senate in Present Week THE EFFORTS TO AMEND IT Workmen's Compensation and Full Crew Repealer Are Expected to Be Reported Out of Committee In Few Days—Appropriations Before House Both the Senate and House will meet to night at 8 o'clock, and the lawmakers are expected to work hard with the idea of possible adjournment May 13 or May 20. Public interest in the Senate this week is centered on what that body proposes to do with the child labor bill, which is yet in the Judiciary Special Committee, which is headed by Senator Snyder, of Schuylkill. He is said to be opposed to the Cox bill in the form in which it came from the House with the endorsement of Governor Brum baugh. The Cox 1 bill provides for a nine-hour day and a fifty-one-hour week for children between 14 and 16 years old, but there i:- a disposition to amend the bill in the Senate committee and make the day ten hours and the week fiftv-four hours. Another point of difference is that of the ages of newsboys and telegraph messengers. The Cox bill fixes the aje limit for news boys <•: 14 years au.i the opponents want the age limit at 10 years. The Cox bill places the ago of messengers at night at 21 years and it is sought to amend the bill bv making the messenger age 18 years at night. Other Important Bills Held Up The committee held a long session last Wednesday night, but took no ac tion. adjourning to hold another session this evening. It is possible, however, the major ty of the committee will agree on the amended measure and Sen ator Snyder will report it without the formality of another meeting. The workmen's compensation and full crew repealer bills also are held up in Senate committees, but are ex pected to be reported jut this week. The bill placing the payment Of the expenses of the primary elections on the various counties, introduced by Sen ator Sproul, will come up for final pass age in the Senate to-night. The bill removing Judges from the operations of the non-partisan ballot law will also come up in the Senate this evening on final passage. In the House to-night there are sev eral special orders, one of which is the consideration on final passage of the bill to consolidate the Western and Eastern penitentiaries in one building now in course of erection in Centre county. The bill provides for the modification of the plans of the pj-esent building, feo that they may be enlarged *o meet the consolidation. Should the bill pass and be approved by the Governor, the West ern and Kastern penitentiaries will both go out of existence, and all of the pris oners be confined in one institution. To Act on Appropriations A revenue bill an the special order calendar in the HOUSQ to-night imposes a tax of two per ent. on every SIOO of bonds, mortgages and other securi ties. Several hundred appropriation bills will come up on first reading in the House, and it is thought that all may be passed finally before the close of the week and sent to the Senate. It is understood that both branches will be at work this we*k until Thurs day, and that the business will be j rushed, the hot weather of the last few ; days warning the legislators that they 1 must hurry their proceedings. MACK* PUTS CLAMP ON BAKER I Head of Athletics Says He Is Through With Spectacular Third Baseman Boston, April 26. —Connie Mack, I manager of the Philadelphia Athletics j said in an interview to-day that so j long an he remained at the head of the | club, J. Franklin Baker, of home run tame, would not be a member of the team. "I am through with Frank Baker 1 «s a ball player," Mack added, "and it is my intention at the present time j not to allow him to 'become the prop erty of any other team in the Ameri can league. I would not sell him for $1,000,000 in cash." Late in the winter Baker announced bis intention of retiring'from base ball, but according to Mack, he played on the Upland team of the Delaware County League, Pennsylvania, on Sat urday. NEW PRINCIPAL ACCEPTS Prof. Dibble Gets Two Weeks' Leave of Absence From Lambertville Howard G. Dipple, of Lambertville, N. J., recently elected principal of the Central High school, will arrive here on May 15 to spend two weeks in Har risburg to become familiar with the workings of local school. He has formally accepted the Har risburg offer in a letter to Secretary Hammelbaugh of tho local board. He has received a two weeks' leave of ab sence in Lambertville and it is those two weeks he will spend here. He will return to his present school for a short while arriving here early in June to take op his permanent position. John Bunny, Movie Actor, Die* New York, April 26. —John Bunny, the moving picture comedian, who made millions laugh, died at his home in Brooklyn to-day. He had been ill for about three weeks of a complication of diseases. fflie Star- Itikflfenktii FATHER OF STEELTI FIRE CHIEF DYIHC OF WOUNDS John Shupp, Victim of One of Three ' Remarkably Similar Accidents, Has Jailed to Regain Consciousness Since Fall in Hose House , No hope was held out at noon to-day for the recovery of John Shupp, fath- er of Steelton's fire chief, who was at the Harrisburg Hospital still uncon scious from injuries received in a fall down stairs in the Baldwin HOBS Com pany 's quarters, in Steelton, last Sat urday evening. » Mr. Shupp was the worst injured of 1 the victims of a trio of accidents re markably similar in character which occurred in Steelton on the same day. I The other two persons were women both of whom, though severely in jured, are expected to recover. ' John Shupp ia an old resident of the s borough. His son, John E. Shupp, Jr., the Steelton Fire Chief, is also vice president of the State Firemen's Asso ' | ciation. Just how the elder Shupp 5 met with the accident is not known, r but about 10 o'clock Saturday night i he was found in an uuconscious condi ; I tion lying at the foot of the steps i leading from the first floor to the base j | ment of-the Baldwin Hose house. South Front street. It is supposed he fell . I down "stairs. Blood was oozing from i Continued on Mnth ]'a«c, PULLED 10 DEATH BY COLT I Jacob Epler, 70 Years Old, Former Supervisor of Conewago, Meets With Fatal Accident (Special to the Star-Independent.) ! | Middletown, April 26.—Jacob Ep- 1 j ler, 7 0 years old, a retired farmer and j ! supervisor of Conewago township, was ; J almont instantly killed on Saturday j I afternoon at 2 o 'clock when he was | j jerked by a colt from a oarriago in j j which he' was riding homeward on the Falmouth Pike and suffered a fractur j ed skull. The accident occurred just ; east of Chestnut Hill, live miles east ' of town. Epler and his grandson, David Ep- j ; ler were seated in the carriage, and j j the elder man watt holding a halter i j str»ii attached to the colt that was j I running along behind. When au auto j j passed the Epler i>arty, the colt shied j ! and bolted and pulled the aged man i I backward out of the vehicle, his head | striking the ground with much force, j Mr. Kpler died shortly after the acci dent. The grandson escaped injury. Mr. Epler served as school director, ;of Conewago township for fifteen years and for many years also was a | township supervisor. His son, Simon Epler, formerly was a deputy mercan- I tile appraiser of Dauphin county. Mr. J Epler, also left two brothers, David, a ; Conewago township farmer, and Squire | .lolin Epler, of ElizabetMown, Lan caster county. Funeral services will be held at the home tomorrow morning at 9.30 o 'clock. 2 HURT WHEN CAR HITS AUTW A. H. Nuss and Wife Injured but Chil dren Escape in Middletown Crash ; Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Nuss, their two [daughters and a son, of 1715 State i street, this city, who were touring the , lower end of Dauphin county in an auto yesterday, narrowly escaped seri- I ous injury about 2 o'clock in the aft i ernoon when tlwir machine was struck jby a Harrisburg Railways Company trolley car at Main and Nissley streets, i Middletown. The auto was almost completely wrecked. Mr. Nuss received several cuts on his hands due to flying glass when the windshield was smashed. Mrs. Nuss suffered from shock but phy sicians say her condition is not alarm ing. The children escaped injurv. The | family returned to Harrisburg by trol ley car after the damaged auto was j placed in a Middletown garage. | Witnesses say the automobile ! "balked" on the track when Mr. Nuss I endeavored to shift from low to hieh gear. 8 LEGISLATOR'S SON QUITS JOB AS MESSENGER BOY "Buck" Mangan, Whose Father Makes Laws on the Hill, Relinquishes His j Post With Western Union Follow- * ing His Mother's Death "Buck" Mangan, 16 years old, son of State Representative William J. Mangan, of South Pittsburgh, who about seven weeks ago entered th« service of the Western Union Tele graph Company as a messenger boy in this city, despite the protests of his well-to-do father, quit the job this morning and left for his Pittsburgh 1 home. "Buck's" quitting, however, ' was not due to his tiring of the job but because of the death of his mother. 1 After h« informed th e manager that he 1 was going home and that he would not 1 return to duty again the other mes- 1 senger boys gathered around him and 1 reluctantly said "good-bve." During his short period of service "Buck" had become very popular among the 1 other mercuries. I "Buck," whose father calls him "William," came to Harrisburg with j Representative Mangan at the opening 1 of the legislative session. For a month 1 or more he contented himself rambling 1 about the city, learning what he couM ' Coatlnurd on Math Paso. I HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 3915—12 PAGES. m on HAH IS SEIIT TO FEN. Mercer. Who Tried to Cheat Local Banks Out of Thousands, Gets 9to 15 Months SHORTER TERM FOR LEBRUN Court Sentences Him to Six Months in County Jail But His Inability to Pay Fine and Ooßts Will Extend Period to Nine Months H. B. Mercer, the New York crook with a criminal record, who was ar rested by the Harrisburg police three hours after he began trying to work a bad check game here on November 7, last, was this morning sentenced by Judge Kunkel to a penitentiary term of not less than nine months and not more than fifteen months' This sentence was imposed on one count charging forgery. On a similar count and three additional charges of false pretense Judge Kunkel said he would not pass judgment in view of the fact that county jail sentences only could be imj>osed as the penalties. The sentence, Judge Kunkel directed, shall be computed frotu January 15, last, the date of the defendant's conviction. j Fred Leßrun, the Frenchman, who j was Mercer's colleague in the Aim , flam game by which the New York I crook tried to work off two bogus j checks for SI,OOO each on banks in this city which Mercer called a "jay town," also went before Judge Kunkel this morning and got a sentence of six mouths in jail, the sentence to date from January 15, last. Chicago and Florida business men had informed the court that Leßrun previously bore a "good name." For sixteen years prior jto becoming Mercer's |>al "he was a cigar manufacturer in Chicago. Costs [ and a SSO fine also were imposed on j Leßrun and as he cannot pay them bis total jail term will actually be j nint" months, the three months addi tional representing the unpaid fines j ami costs. Says Mercer Falsified Judge Kunkel explained his reason for dealing more leniently with Leßrun than with Mercer by saying that Mer cer deliberately falsified on the witness stand. Also the court took into consid eration Mercer's record, which shows that he previously had been convicted of working the bad check game. Leßrun thanked Judge Kunkel for Continued on Ninth Pace. Hardscrabble Hearing April :tO Paul O. Smith, Karl Steward and James D. Saltsman, the "Hardscrab ble" viewers, decided definitely to-day on Friday, April 30, as the time for the next hearing at which testimony will be taken on the question of "Hardscrabble" property values. K. of C. Supreme Head Dies Chicago, April 26.—James Maher, national supreme director of the Knights of Columbus, died at his home here to day. He was a native of Illinois and was 55 years old. FOREST FLAMES ACAIN MENACE MOUNT HOLLY Spreading Rapidly In Cumberland Coun ty To-day Notwithstanding Efforts of Hundreds of Men to Check Them —Clay Works Are in Danger (Special to the Star-Independent.) Carlisle, Pa., April 26.—'Fire which broke out again in the South IMountain near Toland, Cumberland county, late yesterday afternoon, has to-day spread over an area of eight hundred aeres. It is making rapid progress in different directions despite the efforts of hun dreds of men who are fighting it con stantly. The flames are this afternoon ap proaching the lake at Mount Holly Park. The park is believed to be in danger for the second time within sev eral days. The efforts of the fire-fighters were concentrated last night near Barnitz Station, where buildings were threat ened. The Hames approached close to the saw mill of A. C. Gibler and the stave mill of J. Harvey Lime. The Philadelphia clay works and the South Mountain mining works, near 'Mount Holly are in danger this after noon and the employes have all desert ed their usual work to help fight the flames. The State forestry Commission this morning had no official reports of for est fires throughout the State other than those that had been received 'by noon on Saturday, but it was unofficially learned there that the Are that devas tated the region in the Cumberland Val ley up and ai-roes the South Mountain to Hunter's Run Valley and thence to Pine Grove broke out again yesterday. No reports have 'been received of tlhe damage done to State forestry reserva tions. Commissioner Conklin and Deputy Commissioner Williams will visit the Pine Grove, Caledonia and Mont Alto reservations this week to ascertain the damage done to State property. Mean time bills for service are coming in daily from tihe men who have been figthing the fires. GREAT BRITAIN'S ARMY CHIEF AT THE FRONT iH " i •&•'<;• /•-. *"-- v . ...• -r »-*?»#• '«;.- ..&?» w. WL: x- •• i Z.Tr-Jtc- >*&&&& ■>■■..> '-.• - ■*| — nrni'mmmimmmniv w»tan 11 —a iinHwiix 'in iubmh uumu .- tto-utustuu 3KU&&/*** FIELD MARSHA!. S IB JOHN FRENCH WITH HIS OFFICERS IN FRANCE. "Sir John" is here seen (on the left of the group) standing on the pnve in the middle of one of (he long, flat roads leading to that portion of the western battle line which Is under British control. He was born at Ripple, In Kent in 1852. and was christened with the names John Denton Pinkstone. He entered the army in 1874. He hag steadily risen in his profession and as leader of the cavalry division in South Africa won special distinction. He is now one of the eljj&l flfld marshals of the British army anft is the* treated leader of all the British forces in France and Flanders. It will be noticed that some of the officers are wearing tlie new soft crowned caps. RECORD BREAKING HEAT LURES TO SWIIIINC BOLES Mercury Touches 03 Degrees, the Highest for This Month in the 37 Years the Harrisburg Weather Bu reau Has Been in Existence There is little in the weather situa tion to-day to indicate early relief from the record-breaking temperatures, according to Weather Bureau officials, who carefully scanned the maji in quest of cooling blasts from the north, which did not materialize. The tem perature to-night and to-morrow will remain far above the normal for April. It is hardly likely, however, that the April record for twenty-seven years, which was established yesterday with a maximum of 93 degrees will be broken. The highest official temperature to day was 91 degrees at 1 p. in. At 2.30 o'clock this afternoon the thermometer registered 89 degrees. The Washington office of the Weath er Bureau predicted at least forty eight hours more of the hot spell. The territory affected is east of the Missis sippi river. The absence of rain, ex cept for scattered showers, is being felt in niany sections anil crops are suffer ing. When the mercury touched the maxi mum of 93 degrees at 4 o'clock yester day afternoon it broke by one-half a degree the April record of 92'/ a which was established on the 18th and 19th of the month in 1896. The general conditions which brought about the high temperature changed little in the forty-eight hours preceding noon to-day, hence the dis appointing forecast, which savs "con tinued warm." There nre three well defined low pressure areas, one in the St. Lawrence valley and two to the west. Probably because the hot spell came on Sunday, when J'here was a minimum number of out-of-door workers, the suf fering was not so great as it otherwise would have been. By to-day many per sons had accustomed themselves to the hot weather. Many sought relief In canoe rides and not a few venturesome youths went swimming yesterday. Thousands of au tomobilists went into the country for a cooling breeze and scores of straw hats •blossomed forth. AUTO SPEEDERS BEWARE ! New Police Motorcycles Will Go «5 Miles an Hour After this week auto scorchers will have to go some to get away from the motorcycle policemen, who will be mounted on special police motorcycles guaranteed to make sixty-five miles an hour. Two special machines have been or dered and it is expected will berreeeived by the local agent for the department some time this week. The cycles are equipped with special motors to stand the strain of poliee work. In addition to being unusually fast the motors are flexible and will not be damaged by the frequent stops and starts the policemen are compelled to make. TO PUT CONCRETE CAPS ON FOUR P.SR.BRIBCE PIERS Company to Erect Temporary Trestles So That Traffic Will Not Be Stoppod During the Work—Hall road Engineers in Charge Extensive repairs to four of twen ty-three piers in the Philadelphia & Heading Kailroad bridge over the Sus quehanna river, north of Vine street, arc contemplated by the railroad com pany and within a short time work will beglu. From four to six courses of stone atop these four .piers have cracked slightly and these will be replaced with reinforced .concrete in much the same way that repairs were effected on the Walnut street river bridge. An engineering feat of no mean pro portions will bo necessary to effect the repairs without halting" the heavy freight traffic over the bridge. Trestle's will have to be built strong enough to support the bridge load while the stone courses ar„ removed and the concrete placed. The bridge is higher than any of the other bridges over the river at this point and the steel structure will have to be firmly braced to prevent side play. pier on this end of /the bridge was repaired in this manner last sum mer and during this summer it is hoped the remaining four that need repairs will be fixed. The work will be done under the supervision of the Philadel phia & Heading railway engineers. MONEY FOR BAM) CONCERTS Three Contributions Sent in Before So licitors Start Out The Harrisburg Baud Concert Asso ciation, which proposes hand concerts ,in local parks throughout the summer months, got a flying start this morn ing in its campaign to get the $1,500 necessary to run the concerts. Before the officers of the association started out to gather funds three voluntary contributions were made. J. X. Kinnard was first with $5; Rob ert .VlcC'ormiek, second, with J25, and a third contribution was cash, sl. The officers are sanguine of success with money coining in before it has been so licited. It is expected that the board of directors of the Harrisburg Railways Company will hold a special meeting to decide on a contribution to the fund. Clarence O. Backenstoss, secretary to Mayor Royal, is treasurer of the asso ciation. < Will of Louis Fink Probated The will of tbe late Louis Fink, 312 North Second street, late manager of the Livingston store, 9 South Market square, was admitted to probate this afternoon. Letters were granted to his wife, Sarah Louise Fink, who is made sole beneficiary. The value of the es tate ,was not fixed in the will. Sentence of Simpson Suspended Sentence was suspended o-i Edward Simpson in court to-day on his own plea for leniency. He ' was charged with robbing gas meters. ALLIES BEGIN NEW ATTACK ON DARDANELLES. IS REPORT London, April 26, 4.25 P. M, —The following- official announcement was given oitt in London to-day: "The general attack on the Darda nelles by the fleet and the ariuy was re sumed yesterday. '"The disembarkation of the army, covered by the fleet, began before sun rise at various points on the Gallipoli peninsula, and in spite of serious oppo sition from the enemy in strong en trenchments protected by barbed wire, was successful. "Before nightfall large forces were established on shore. The landing of tile arinv and the advance continue." GREATEST BATTLE OF WAR IS NOWJNALONG YSER London, April 26, 12.20 P. M.— What some military critics arc inclined to pronounce the "greatest battle of the war" is now under way on the Yser canal. Official reports are both meagre and contradictory, but it generally is be lieved in London that the Germans again are makiug desperate efforts to break through to the French channel ports. Some such recrudescence of the German offensive has been anticipated by the war experts but this movement, forestalling the iong predicted allied of fensive, comes as a distinct shock to the general public. It is impossible as yet to get a clear idea of the extent of the German move ment, but some special dispatches to London papers descri'be it as so im portant that the Germans are even credited with bringing Field Marshal Von Hindenburg from the east to con duct the operations, and Kmperor Wil liam himself is reported as proceeding to the Yser front. Ask Wilson's Aid to Resist Japs Honolulu, April 26.—Chinese resi dents of Honolulu at a mass meeting last night decided to send an appeal by cable to President Wilson and to the British 'Foreign Office at London, asking their good offices to assist the Chinese to resist the demands of Japan to the end that China may avoid war with ihoDor. American Correspondent Threatened Washington, D. €., April 2"6. Philip E. McCleary, an American news paper correspondent at Vera Cruz, has been imprisoned and sentenced to be shot by authorities for hav ing sent out unauthorized news dis patches. Secretary Bryan received an appeal for aid to-day from John W. Roberts, another American correspond ent there, and instructed Consul Silli man to take the question up at once with General Carranza. No. official re port on the affair bad reached the de partment. POSTSCRIPT PRICE, ONE CENT. AUSTRIA IS READY WHEN ITALYFIGHTS Former Fortifies Entire Frontier, Expecting Attack From Hum bert's Troops VILLAGES READY FOR THE COMBAT Diplomatic Negotiations Will Prob ably Offset Apparent Trouble Be tween the Dual Monarchy and Italy —Still Hoping For Settlement , Relluno, Italy, April 25, 9.50 A. M., via Paris, April 26, 9.38 A. M.— Italian refugees from Austria report lliat Austrian troopw have fortified the entire frontier, even building entrench ments of concrete and cement behind which have 'been placed cannon of large calibre. Officers are paid to have declared that if policing is begun. Hie villages ncnrest the lines from Selva (east of Lake (Jarila in Italy) to Laste, Italy, (20 miles to the uorth ot Selva) will be razed. This information ban done much to counteract the effect of reports that Austria is disposed to conduct diplo matic negotiations regarding the ce»- sion of the territory to Italy. Verona, Italy, April '2