|F GOING OUT OF BUSINESS I if My Entire Stock of Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, Cut Glass, Etc., j WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION I m >An Excellent Opportunity to Get Commencement f Commencement Gifts AFTERNOON SALE II EVENING SALE Wedding Gifts j Diamond - 'cutG.ass, | }:: Watches, Jewelry, JOSEPH D. BRENNER Mahogany Clocks, Ij i I! Toilet Goods, DIAMOND MERCHANT AND JEWELER China, | French lvory , » . ► IN. Third Street 1 Harare |_ A DIAMOND RINQ RIVEN AWAY FREE AFTER |EACH SALE J 550.000.000 ROAD PLANJS ADVANCED. C«a tinned from First Pift prevent sickness. No good has ever come out of ilie .slaughter ot animals." \lr. Steedle, if Allegheny, stated that the operation on logs is necessary for the study if (.invention of disease. He advocated tin - measure for the sake of medical student* who obtain skill by practice. He said the animals are not treated cruelly. The Sproul road amendment to the constitution authorizing the State to issue bonds to the extent of $50,000,- 000 for the improvement of the high ways passed in the House by a vote ot 160 :o 24. The amendment must pass: tjie General Assembly in 1917 and! then go before the voters for approval j •not sooner than November, 191 S. This amendment was defeated by the voters in 1913 an 1 under a consti tutional provision cannot be voted on ngain until after a lapse of five years, it so happens that election day in 191 S» is just one day beyond the five-year 1 i in • t. Mr. Kuhn. of Greene, spoke against the amendment, saying that the de cisive defeat of 1913 showed the sen timent of the people. Mr. McClintock. «>f Philadelphia, sj.ok,- for the amend', llK'llt. 81.000,000 for the U. of P. The conference report on the appro ' priation i>ill granting $1,000,000 to [ the I'niversitv of Pennsylvania was adopted. Pennsylvania will reciprocate; with other States in the matter of reg | istration of nurses under terms of a| conference report passed this morning. ; The report also provides that after Au- I yiist 1. 19Iti. tlie registration fee fori ifoiM*s ftili \ie $1" instead of $o as at present and that the registration files j be kept in the office of the State IV j l>i»]tii!ent ot Health. The uniform cold storage bill was j amended to make a universal 12-month cold storage period, making the col fj -iora.-e temperature requirement 40 de-1 jitees. The bill a~ amended is agree-; able to the State Dairy and Food Com- j mission. The bill was ma ment of educational interests in this, i city. "With these unwelcome tidings' i ringiug in our ears, your educational j committee went to work to find a solu- 1 j tion to the problem now and believing) we h»ve foun'.i it we reported at the last meeting. Receiving the unanimous! I endorsement of the club and instruc-1 ■ tious to proceed with our investigations \ we come to you to-night prepared to I further enlighten you on the six-six I j plan." 2 VOTES SURE FOR CURFEW Republicans. However, Decline to Say How They Stand Toward Measure Errors in matters of form but not | of substance, contained in tire curfew I ordinance which is now pending before 1 the City Commissioners, make it nee j essary, it was sard 1 to-day, that the j measure be amended again at next Tuesday's meeting of the Commission, j I This means the ordinance cannot be \ considered on final passage before ! June 1. Mayor Royal yesterday announced at the Commission's meeting that he i will vote for the curfew ordinance. Fi ! nance Commissioner Gorgas formally announced to j lay that he, too, will vote for the measure. But one more vote | is needed to assure the passage of the ; bill. Some dependance is being placed in one of the Republican members for 1 that vote yet none of the majority j members would say publicly to-day how j he proposes to vote. ADJUTANT LEWIS SMITH DIES Superintendent of Rescue Workers Suc cumbs to Appendicitis Attack Adjutant Lewis Smith, aged 61 : years, for many years superintendent 'of the American Rescue Workers, died at his home, 1000 Cumberland street, from appendicitis at 9 o'clock last ! night. Surviving are his wife and seven children, Mrs. Lucy Wiley, Mrs. Bertha Seiple, 'Mrs. Ida Roush, Mrs. Mabel Houseman, Mrs. Florence Clark, Charles M. an.l James 11. Smith, all of this city, and fifteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at. 'i o'clock from hi* home. LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY Continued Prom First Paso. of keeping Italy out of the war. Ev ery preparation for hostility has been made, the German and Austrian Am bassadors are ready to leave Rome and the Italian railroads have been placed under military control. It is said the final decision will be known quickly aft er Parliament meets to-morrow. Reconstruction of the British minis try apparently has been decided, al though it is believed the Unionist lead ers will seek the formal sanction of their followers at a party meeting be fore definite action is taken It Is as sumed in London that sweeping changes will be made in forming the coalition government. A dispatch from Mytilene says Brit ish troops have been landed by the al lies on the Asiatic side of the Darda nelles near the entrance to the straits. The Turks arc now said to possess an abundant supply of shells, after having been threatened for some time with a shortage. The British steamer Dumcree of 2,5(10 tons h&s been torpedoed in the English channel. Her crew was saved. Official announcement was made in London to-day that the allies are im proving daily their position on the Gallipoli peninsula. Their progress is slow, however, and the Turks are offer ing effective resistance. On the western front a lull has come after the heavy fighting of the last fortnight. Bad weather is interfering with military operations. The official French statement says there have been no new developments of consequence. GERMANY'S REPLY TO U.S. NOTEWILL PROBABLY REACH WASHINGTON IN 10 DAYS Washington, May 19.—Official in formation was received here to-day of Germany's reply to the American note will not be completed for at least a week and probably not reach Wash ington for at least ten days. It is now known with some definite- ! ness that Germany will indicate her | willingness to have her submarines act j toward all merchantmen just as de stroyers Or cruisers ami give ample time for passengers and crew to leave, provided merchantmen are unarmed or if passengers and contraband traffic are separated. That position is looked upon with some favor here, provided 't is suggested as a modus vivendi or temporary arrangement and does not | involve the relinquishment by the j United States of the tights of its citi- j zens to travel anywhere on the high j seas on enemy or belligerent unarmed ships. U. S. Will Insist on Demands There is an insistence ou the purt of the United States, however, that the principles of law and humanity ex pressed in its note must be recognized ' and admitted by Germany and that any intention to destroy American lives on the Lusitania must be disavowed. This the United States will stand firmly on the principles set forth in its note has been conveyed indirectly and inform ally to Germany since the communica tion itself left here. • Another factor in the situation j which is expected to be clarified in a day or two is that with respect to Great Britain over the embargoes pro claimed Toy the allies. Proposed Note for Britain. That a note has been in preparation on the subject and is practically com pleted is not known, but it is learned to-day that President Wilson probably will not make any move in that direc tion until Germany's reply is received. He is said to be unwilling to com j plicate the problem by new represen i tations aud is understood to believe that the issue between the United States anil Germany must be settled clearly on the questions presented in the note and that the United States should act without obligation and in its own way in the correspondence with Great Britain or other belligerents. ISAYS LUSITANIA'S VICTIMS . ! HAVE THEMSELVES TO BLAME Amsterdam, Via London, May 19. Captain Persias, writing in the Berlin "Tageblatt" regarding the United States and Germany, says: "If, in spite of the German Ad miralty's warning against entering the war zone, American citizens entrusted themselves to the Lusitania, the blame falls upon themselves and their govern ment. Can America guarantee that i neither guns nor ammunition were on board and, further, that a submarine, when emerging, was not exposed to be ing rammed by the Lusitania! If the answer is in the negative, as undoubt edly it must be, the American govern- ment. after calm deliberation, will un derstand it lias uo right to raise a pro test against the torpedoing of the Lusi tauia. "The German government, we ex pect, will have the firmness ta retract no step and should in this case be cer tain ot' the approval of the entire peo ple. We hope the lesson will be learned from the sinking of the Lusitania that 110 neutrals should entrust themselves to British ships or give them goods for tiansport." TO ADJUST MNGOFFRYE IN A GERMAN PRIZE COURT Washington, 'May 19. —Germany has sent to a prize court the case of the American sailing, ship, William I*. Frye, sunk in the "South Atlantic last January by the German auxiliary cruiser Priuz Eitel Friedrich, but it is understood that the German Admiralty took that action before it had received the American note insisting that the damages be adjusted directly through diplomatic negotiations in Washington. It is said by officials here that the reference of the case to a prize court will not necessarily prevent diplomatic • adjustment. The German government, ] it is said, probably finds it necessary, i under its legal methods, to develop cer- . tain facts through a prize court even j while negotiations may be in progress. As Germany has admitted in principle liability for the sinking of the Frye,; the State Department here will not feel concerned at this latest de- j velopmcnt. HOW U. S. CAN GKT GERMAN AID IN HUMANE WARFARE j Berlin, May 19.—The "Vossische 1 Zeitung" says: "If America succeeds in bringing it about, that the British merchant | vessels shall no longer sail under false | flags, that England shall cease arming . merchant vessels and that contraband i cargoes shall no longer be protected | by American passengers, then the Unit- j ed States will find Germany on her side in an endeavor to lead submarine war into more humane channels, "If America fails to influence Great Britain thus, the United States will j have to put up with submarine war, as 1 at present waged. She must take care I that her citizens enter as little into the ! naval war zone as they would into the | firing line near Arras, Lille or j Permysl. VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER RETURNED AGAINST KAISER ; Ramsgate, Eng., May 19. —-A cor oner's jury to-day returned a verdict of j "wilful murder" Against Emperor Wil- 1 liam, in the case of John Smith, who l died as the result of shock following j injuries sustained in-the Zeppelin raid j on Monday. The coroner suggested that the jury ! fix the responsibility on the other per- I sons whom it regarded as being to j blame for war waged in this manner. German Commander Dies of Wounds London, May 19. —The Cairo corre- j spondent of the "Times" says he is iuformed that General Weber Pasha, j the German commander of the forts in ; the Dardanelles, has died of wounds. | Speyer Title Irrevocable London, May 19.—Sir Edgar Speyer j cannot divest himself of his baronetcy, which in his letter to Premier Asquith j he asked to have revoked. "Once aj baronet, always a baronet," said an j official of the College of Arms yester- | day. "Sir Edgar may cease to call himself a baronet, but he still remains j one, and, if he had any sons, the eldest | would succeed him all the same." Jesse McCarty to Be Burled at Dauphin (Special to the Star-Independent.) Dauphin, May 19. —Jesse McCarty, aged 85 years, formerly of Dauphin, died at Williamsport last evening of paralysis. The body will be brought here to-day to the home of Lewis Con rad. Funeral services will be held there to morrow afternoon at 12.30 o'clock and further services will be held in the Presbyterian church at 1 o'clock. The Rev. R. F. Stirling, pastor of the Presbyterian ehureh, will have charge of the services. Interment will be iu the Dauphin cemetery. Two in Hospital With Typhoid Elias Holmes and Abraham Clouser. aged 35 and 39 years, respectively, of Newport, both Pennsylvania railroad employes, were admitted to the Har risbur'g hospital yesterday suffering with suspected typhoid fcveT. The c-ase of Mr. Holmes has already developed. DEFERS NAMING COMMISSIONERS! (outiituril From Klrnl I'lticr. the extras. Since the' arbitrators' fees I and the other costs of arbitration will run close to $7,000. the actual amount that will have to be found by the city 1 is placed by officials at about SIB,OOO in excess of the $12,000 balance. ; Whether the city will raise any (pies- j tion as to the size of the fees asked I by the three arbitrators could not be • learned to-dav. They each asked for I $1,500. City Has Borrowing Margin Finance Commissioner Gorgas point- ' ed out this morning that while no definite plans have been made for rais- | ing money to cover the SIB,OOO dc- j licit, there are at least two methods, J either of which could be adopted to j get the necessary money. One is to have the city confess judgment and j pay interest 011 the deibt to Oppornian ( until it can be paid from revenues in ' another year. a.. 42'.. 42% | Chi, Mil and St Paul .. S!) 89% j Oliino Con Copper .... 12 42% Erie ->5% 25% Erie, Ist pfd 40 40 Goodrich B F 42 42 Great Nor pfd 117 117% | Great Nor Ore subs .. . 32 31% j Intcrboro (Met 20• 20% Interboro Met pfd .... 70% 69 j Lehigh Valley 116 116 Mex Petroleum 67% 66 | Missouri Pac 11 1 /. 10% National Load 57'. 58% Nev Consol Copper ... 14 14 NY, N H and H 61 % 61% Norfolk and Western .. 102 102 Northern Pacific 103% 104 Pennsylvania R. R. ... 107% 106% j Pittsburgh Coal 21 21 j Press Steel Car ...... 42 43'/. ! Ray Con. Copper 22% 22% i Reading 142 142% Southern Pacific 86% 86 Southern Ry 16% 16% Tennessee Copper 32% 32% Union Pacific 124% 124 !U. 8. Rubber 60% 60 j U. S. Steel 52 52% do pf'.l 106 105»', Utah Copper 63% 63% | W. IT. Telegraph 65 65 | Westinghouse Mfg. ... 87% 88% j Chicago Board of Trade Closing | Chicago, Mav 19. —Close. I Wheat—May. 151%; July. 125%. | Corn—'May, 72%; .July. 73%. Oats—May, 51; July, 50%. I Pork—July, 17.92; Sept., 15.22, ! Lard—July, 9.60; Sept., 9.85. j Ribs —July, 10.47; Sept.. 10.72. Suffering From Appendiceal Abscess John Kingburn, of Mechanicsburg, aged 54 years, was admitted to the Harrisburg hospital yesterday suffer ing with a ruptured appendiceal ab scess. His condition is considered se rious. Three More Lusitania Bodies Found By Associaled Press. Queenstown, May 19.—The bodies of three victims of the Lusitania dis aster, two men and one woman, were recovered from the sen yesterday. Swat the Flies Swat the flies before they are born. You can do that my swatting the filthy places where the flies are hatched and brought into existence by the hundred thousand to torment humanity.—Pitts burgh Dispatch.