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Finance Section Theater News Railroad News Magazine Section Comics ft News Pictorials NEWS OF THE THEATERS HARRISBURG, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1927 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION reatens Uixieers ive uccor 1 Who Arr to Family IS FIRST BILLS TO Labor and Industry, salary $10,000, was born in Philadelphia, February 17, 1892, and lives in Germantown. He is a son of Daniel F. Waters, president of the Master Dyers' Association. He was educated at St, Mother and Four Children Taken to Hospital After Shanty Door Is Battered 4 the Pinchot administration reappointed by Fisher, Secretary of Banking Cameron was originally appointed to head the department by Governor Sproul in 1923 and has served continuously since. Nathan Buller, Commissioner of Fisheries, a noted authority on fish culture, was appointed first in 1911, serving successively under four governors, and Adjutant General Bean', first appointed in 1917.

will Frozen Body of Stricken Woman Found in Doorway YORK, Jan. 17. The frozen body of Mrs. Anna Shultz, a widow, 76 years old, residing alone here, was found yesterday in the doorway of her home by neighbors. Death was caused by paralysis.

It is believed that the woman had attempted to leave the kitchen of her home, when, she suffered an attack of naralysis. She fell in the, door County, September 10, 1876. After leaving Rochester University, where he completed his education, he served as clerk to his father, Judge David Cameron, and was appointed a State bank examiner in 1902. For several years Mr. Cameron was engaged in banking and other business and returned I to State service as an examiner in 1911.

Governor Fisher appointed him as second deputy commissioner of banking during his own administration of the Banking Department. He was apointed by Governor Sproul as head of that branch and was reapointed in 1923 by Governor Pinchot. fl 111111 IMlffll 11111 Ml I II I 1 1 I nf 1 1 1 UrIE I VlUUU 111 I ULI LU PROCESSION TO JOVE AT 12.45 From Page One' grand stairway and headed by the officers of the two legislative branches, will join the procession to the inaugural stand. Live Elephant Coming The first of the marchers are expected here tonight, but most of them will arrive tomorow morning. The political clubs will bring with them many bands and some will have floats.

One is expected to bring along a live elephant, emblematic of the G. O. P. There will be squads of singers to head some of the organizations. The military part of the parade will have commands from every branch of the National Guard in line, nearly 1300 men being in this section.

The Harrisburg Fire Department in its entirety, according to long-established custom, wju lorm the last of the divisions, being always located there so that it can break ranks in case of fire to respond to alarms. The city tomorrow will contain more visitors than at any one time in years, for not only will the inaugural ceremony bring men and women here from all parts of the State, but the meeting of twenty-five agricultural organizations and the State Farm Products Show will also attract many more thousands of visitors. The Republicans of some sections wjll be accompanied here not only by the usual bands but also by floats indicative of the industries that has made the sections noted. Washington Representatives Washington County will make a showing tomorrow in the inaugural parade with a view to demonstrating in this part of the State its importance as a wool-crowinG-. oil-producing and coal-mining community.

Sixty wool growers, each wear ing pieces of wool and headed by a Washington County sheep on a float, will march in the line. The wool worn is from the flock of William Horn. The Manufacturers' Light and Heat Company, a subsidiary of the Columbia Gas and Electric Com-' pany, will have a miniature oil def-1 rick pumping Washington County IV. VV" Heu wunin tne city oi iiiiA i a Washington while the gas used tolfllU flMl-PIPAFJv APPEAR TONIGHT IN LEGISLATURE The Legislature will get down to real work when it reconvenes tonight at 9 o'clock. The first bills of the session will probably then he presented, although there Is no necessity for speed in this respect until the committees are named.

The personnel of the Senate and House committees has been selected but may not be announced until tomorrow. The patronage of the two legislative branches has been agreed to and will be announced this evening. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh will set most of the important committee chairmanships. C. J- McBride, Allegheny, will head the House Committee on Appropriations.

The House Judiciary Committee is to be headed by J. H. McClure, of Allegheny, and the Ways' and Means Committee, another of the "more important," is slated to go to Philip Sterling, of Philadelphia. Charles F. Armstrong, of Ami-strong, will again head the House Law and Order Committee, he being one of the few rural members to be recognized.

Miss Alice Bent-ley, Crawford, is another, having been given again the chairmanship of the committee on education. George T. Weingartner, Lawrence, is to succeed Senator Plymouth W. Snyder, Blair, who was defeated in the last primary, as chairman of the Senate Law and Order Committee. Augustus F.

Daix, of Philadelphia, is to be chairman of the Judiciary General Committee, succeeding Samuel W. Salus, who has been named president pro-tern of the Senate. The chairmanship of the education committee, headed in 1925 by Senator C. M. Barr, Allegheny, is to go to William D.

Mansfield, of the same county. Senator Horace Schantz, of Lehigh, will retain his post as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Frank Baldwin, Potter, will be at the head of the Finance Committee. CHAPLIN ILL IN LAWYER'S HOME NEW YORK, Jan. 17. While the condition of Charley Chaplin, film comedian, was somewhat improved today, following a nervous breakdown suffered Saturday, he will be confined to his bed for ten or twelve days, attending physicians announced.

"He is highly unstrung. His mental and physical condition are both affected by his breakdown," declared Dr. Gustave Tieck. The physician said the breakdown was largely brought on by nervous strain resulting from the divorce suit against Chaplin by his wife, Lita Grey, in Los Angeles. Complete rest was prescribed for the film comedian.

He remained in bed at the apartment of his attorney, Nathan Burkan, denied to All visitors and not permitted' to answer the telephone. Chaplin's illness, however, did not interfere with his plans to fight his wife's divorce action. While the comedian rested in bed his lawyers were busy preparing his case. Burkan telephoned to Chaplin's Los Angeles attorney that the screen f-tar would not leave New York until his presence is required in California. Starkeys Visiting Here Mr.

and Mrs. W. Taul Starkey, former Harrisburgers, now living in Philadelphia, are spending several days in the city. They have rooms at the Penn-Harris Hotel. YORK BUSINESS MAN DIES YOKK, Jan.

17. John P. Julius, 70 ypars old, for many years in the music business here, died yesterday utter a long illness. He is survived by a wife. Parking Restricted During Inaugural The parking of automobiles in a number of city streets will be prohibited tomorrow from 11.30 a.

m. until after the inaugural parade, according to special traffic regulations issued by Chief of Police Thompson. The areas in which parking will be prohibited include the following slreets: Second street, between Forster and Market; Market street, between Second and the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks; Fourth street, between Market and Walnut; Walnut Btreet, between Third and the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks; Third street, between Walnut and Reily, and State street, between Second and Third. This covers the entire route of the parade and some streets for the benefit of participants. The parking restriction in Walnut ftreet will not be lifted until after the National Guard units have finished occupying the space.

Joseph's College and the Univer. sity of Pennsylvania, and is a lawyer. Mr. Waters was a member of the first training camp at Fort Niagara, and vwas later at Camp Meade, being made an officer in the Transport Corps Depot of the Expeditionary Forces at Baltimore. He was named assistant chief of the corporation bureau of the Auditor General's Department, when Samuel S.

Lewis became head of that branch of the government, the appointment having been made at the instance of the late Senator Edwin II. Vare. Promotion to deputy auditor general, whichplace he now holds, followed. Mr. Waters married Angela Marie Hicks, and has three children.

Dr. Theodore Appel, Secretary of Health, salary $10,000, is a resident of Lancaster where he wa3 born in September 8, 1871. His father was professor in mathematics in Franklin and Marshall College and he is a nephew of Dr. T. G.

Appel, former president of Franklin and Marshall, and a of the present president, Dr. Henry II. Appel. He was graduated from the Lancaster high school, Franklin and Marshall College land the University of Pennsylvania in 1894. He was president of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania in 1910, and has been a trustee of the Society ever since.

For five years he was assistant surgeon of the National Guard of Pennsylvania; commissioned captain in June, 1917, and was director of the School of Gas at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis. He served throughout the war and was pro moted to major ana then lieutenant-colonel. He is nbw a colonel in the medical reserves. Doctor Appel is married and has five chil-J aren. James Lyall Stuart, Secretary of Highways, salary $12,000, was born at St.

Louis April 7, 1873. He is the grandson of James Stuart, fam ous architect or bcotland. Whenl the family came to the United States some members changed the spelling to Stewart, but Mr. Stuart's father retained the Scottish spelling. Mr.

Stuart attended public school in St. Louis and was graduated from Washington University as a civil engineer. He entered the employment of his father and Alexander M. and James C. Stewart with the James Stewart Company, contractors, who had harbor building and river construction work in all Darts of the United States.

Mr. Stuart came to Pittsburgh in l'JUO to take charge of work there for the company in the erection of many buildings. In 1906 Mr. Stuart entered busi ness for himself as a designing and building engineer. Mr.

Stuart de-1 signed and built the suspension bridge at Parkersburg, W. and 1 the Bascule span bridge over the Elizabeth River between Norfolk war, Mr. Muart was active in construction work for the United btates Government. Mrs. E.

S. U. McCauley, Secretary of Welfare, salary $10,000, wue oi vi. in. a.

it. McCauley, of Beaver, was bom in Mexico, N. where she was educated in the public Bchools and the academy. She was graduated from Cazenovia Seminary in 1894. Mrs.

McCauley had two years of college work in science and was graduated in 1898 from Rochester Homeopathic Training School for Nurses. Mrs. McCauley had from girl- nooa planned to study medicine and her original plan has been pursued privately during her married life. She has for more than twenty years given time and talent in the interest, of civic betterment throughout Pennsylvania. She was one of the small group in Beaver to establish and maintain for eight years a public kindergarten prior to its being made a part of the public schools.

She was elected a school director in Beaver in 1915, and --elected in 1921 and at present is serving as president of the Beaver Board of Education. Mrs. McCauley is the only woman in Pennsylvania to serve as president of the Pennsyl vania otaco jscnooi directors' Asso ciation. She was appointed bv Governor Sproul a member of the State Council of Education in 1921 and was reappointed in 1923. Mrs.

McCauley has served for many years as a trustee of the Slippery Rock Normal School. She is an active club woman, life-long member of the W. C. T. has been identified with the Pennsyl vania League of Women Voters and was chairman of the Women's Re publican Committee in charge of tho campaign of Governor Fisher in Western Pennsylvania.

Mrs. McCauley was appointed a member of the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee by Senator William E. Crow and was elected bv her constituents at the following election. Mrs. McCauley is now a member or tne executive committee of the Republican State Committee.

Her daughter is a senior at Swarth-moro College. Peter G. Cameron, reappointed Secretary of Banking, salary was born in Wellsboro, Tioga LANCASTER, Jan. 17. Ignoring! threats of violence, three officers and Summer V.

Hosterman. assistant district attorney, battered down a floor on a crude shack, near Ephrata, and read a court order giving them custody of Mrs. Ivan Huf ford and her four children, who, the authorities oioicu, were living in unDenevaoie squalor. Tho mother and children were brought here to the county hos- pita, where they will be cared for The husband and father, said by police to be "indiffetcnt" regarding the plight of his family, refused to accompany his wife, staying in the windy ghack and saying he intended to "make repairs." Humane Officer Harry L. Martzall snd Agnes Fcrritcr, of the police department, investigated the Hufford family early last week, but Hufford reused to accept their proffered aid.

haturday an order was granted by the court, permitting them to intercede. Accompanied by Hosterman and Janus McCloud. chief of police of Ephrata, the officials went to the house. A low fire in a rickety stove supplied the only heat. The foirr children, the oldest only 5, became terror-stricken when the authorities battered down the door after Hufford had.

refused to open it. They said Hufford was armed with a club, but that he was warned by his wife not to strike the officials. A dozen half-starved cats and dogs darted to cover as the party entered the one-room thack. The children were scantily clad, and several were suffering with colds. Hufford told the officers he paid a month rent for the shanty, and that he proposed to make repairj and purchase it for a permanent home.

The repairs, he said, would consist of the lowering of the celling so it would not require so much fuel to warm the place. Martzall said Hufford does not have permanent employment. meeting, but it is not yet finished. It will be offered at the meeting one week from tomorrow. RIOTING CAUSES CHINESE ATTACK uii MifiLiiiur.nu r.y Vnited Prem SHANGHAI, Jan.

17. Rioting at Fushow which resulted in attacks on the Y. M. C. A.

and the Spanish Dominican Holy Childhood Orphanage, were caused by discovery of the bodies of several Chinese children who had died at the orphanages, dispatche here said. reaching Learning of the removal of the bodies, Chinese mobs, recruited largely from the soldiery, attacked the Y. M. C. two mission churches and mission residences.

The mob accused the orphanage authorities of murdering the children: Looting of their quarters and the inability of the authorities to cope with the mob have forced tho sisters and priests to flee to Hong Kong. Bv Vnited Prcs 1IONG KONK, Jan. 17. A tense situation, resulting in a request for an American gunboat, developed in Swatow, Chin3, today, after pr. attack upon the Rev.

H. Page, treasurer of the American Baptist mission college, by six armed students. Doctor Page, who was injured by his assailants, repulsed the attack, according to the students, with a shotgun. Mrs. Page, the students charged, joined her husband, and, with a revolver, aided in beating off the charge.

Her shots wounded two of the attackers, it was said. York Cadets to March in Inaugural Parade Here YORK. Jan. 17. The York Cadets Military Academy, Capt.

Vf. C. Kraber rommander, and the Twenty-eighth Military Police Company, Capt. Joseph E. Tkice commanding, will march in the inaugural parade at Harrisburg tomorrow afternoon.

The Cadets will march In one of the battalions of the parade as 'part of the military section. SEEK BALLOTS IN PITTSBURGH International ut StrvWt PITTSBURGH, Jan. 17. District Attorney Samuel H. Gardner today awaited the arrival of John J.

Mc-Grain, deputy sergeant at arms of the United States Senate, sent here to seize all billot boxes in Allegheny County used in the recent general election, as the next step in the special grand Jury Investigation into alleged fraud In the election in this county. While Gardner waited to aid the federal deputy in seizing the ballots, the Jury prepared to question Jerry Sullivan, election Judge of the Pittsburgh district where a missing ballot box brought a temporary halt to the investigation. The Jury was to decide whether to delve further into the election here. to In way and was frozen probably after death occurred. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs.

George Shannon, of Merchantvlllc, N. J. FISHER CABINET IS ANNOUNCED From Page One tion, Dr. John A. H.

Keith, Indiana, Indiana County. Adiutant General, Frank D. Beary, Allentown, Lehigh County freaonointed). Insurance commissioner, c.ol. Matthew II.

Taggert, Northumberland Borough, Northumberland County. Secretary of Banking, Peter G. Cameron, ellsboro, Tioga County (reappointed). Secretary of Agriculture; Dr. Charles G.

Jordan, Yolahte, Lawrence County. Secretary of Forests and Waters, Charles Dorworth, Bellefonte, Center County. Secretary of Labor and Industry, Charles A. Waters, Philadelphia. Secretary of Health, Dr.

Theodore B. Appel, Lancaster. Secretary of Welfare, Mrs. E. S.

II. McCauley, Beaver. Secretary of Property and Supplies, Benson E. Taylor, Brockway, Jefferson County. Secretary of Highways, James Lyall Stuart, Sewickley, Allegheny County.

Commissioner of Fisheries, Nathan R. Buller, Pleasant Mount, Wayne County (reappointed). Go to Senate Tomorrow The names of the cabinet appointees will be presented to the State Senate in one of the first official acts of the incoming Gov ii'" ernor after his inauguration, list is expected to be submitted for "PPJ I 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, All of the appointments are fof a period of fours and, with exception of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, are subject to removal at the will of the Governor. FT' A 1 i 1 1 ine oupennienaeni oi i-UDiic in-. Btrucuun ls o.uy constitutional office in the State and removal may be only effected for cause, after Senate confirmation.

In the two unfilled cabinet posts, it was explained that the post of ff TVfirma vi a Voin cr Viol A I up pending changes in the department to be recommended by Fisher to the Legislature. The department, as at present constituted, is entirely under the direction of one adminis trative official and has been the case of friction between the anthracite and bituminous industries. The incoming Governor, it was understood, will recommend to the Legislature, the creation of two bureaus in the department, one to administer each branch of the industry. Pending this legislation, it was said, Fisher will withhold appointment of a mines head. Joseph J.

Walsh, of Nanticoke, is the present incumbent. Appointment of Superintendent of State Police, a place now held by Maj. Lynn G. Adams, Greens-burg, will be made shortly after Fisher assumes office, it was said. Houck Favored No announcement on the workmen's compensation board was forthcoming at this time, Hamilton announced on behalf of his chief.

Paul W. Houck, Schuylkill County leader, it was believed, would be reappointed and designated chairman of the board. The hotly contested appointment of Secretary of Welfare finally devolved upon Mrs. McCauley following a factional battle in the Re publican ranks. Mrs.

McCauley was appointed following the withdrawal of Dr. Mary Wolfe, head of the Institution for Feeble-Minded Women at Laurelton, who had the support of the Council of Republican Women and that of Mrs. Worthington Scranton, vice-chairman of the Republican State Committee. The Pennsylvania League of Women Yoters, headed by Mrs. John O.

Miller, urged reappointment of Dr. Ellen C. Potter, incumbent, on the basis of her record in tho office. Mrs. McCauley is a member of both women's organizations and was chairman of the Women's Republican -in charge of tne Fisher campaign in Western Pennsylvania.

Normal School Principal Doctor Keith as Superintendent of Public Instruction, was a surprise appointment, as it was generally believed the Governor-elect leaned strongly toward Dr. Frank Lee Wright, of Boston, a well known educational authority, for the post. Doctor Keith is principal of tne State Normal School at Indiana. Appointment of Judge Baldrige as Attorney General had been expected as it bad been known that Fisher favored him for the post and he had the backing of Sen. David A.

Reed and other leaders in the western part of the State. now have served under four admin istrations. Sketches of the cabinet officers follow: Charles Johnson, Secretary of the Commonwealth, salary $8000, is a native of Plymouth Township. Montgomery County. He is a mem ber of the firm of Brown, Cloud Johnson; president of the Peoples' National Bank of Norristown, and a director of the Norristown-Penn Trust Company.

1 Mr. Johnson served as sheriff of, Montgomery County, resident clerk of the House of Representatives, insurance commisisoner and as deputy auditor general in the Snyder, Lewis and Martin administrations of that department: Judge Thomas J. Baldrige, Attorney General, salary $12,000, is a native of Hollidaysburg, born April 5, 1872. He was educated in the schools of Hollidaysburg, Andover Academy, Bucknell University and the University of Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar in 1895, and appointed by Governor Stuart as judge of the Blair County courts in 1910, elected to the full term in 1911 and re-elected 1921.

Judge Baldrige was a member of the commission to codify and revise the law of decedents estates. He is married to Anna Dean, daughter of the late Justice Dean of Hollidaysburg, Dr. 'John A. Keith, Superintendent of Public Instruction, salary $12,000, was born at, Homer, 111., November 28, 1869, was graduated from Illinois State Normal University at Normal, 111.., in 1894 and took degrees at Harvard in 1899 and 1900. He was given the honorary degree of doctor pedagogy by Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1919.

Doctor Keith is principal of Indiana State Normal School at Indiana. Pa. became a teacher in the training department of tne Illinois School ar.d for seven eyars after that was ttacher of pedagogy and psychology iu Noithern Illinois State Normal school, De Kalb, 111. He also directed the teacher train 0v, fn, 190? Doct Keith was elected cff School at Oshkosh, coming to Indiana State Normal School in 1917. He is now its head.

Doctor Keith gave courses in normal school administration at teachers college, Columbia University, New York City, in the summers of 1925 and 1926. Doctor Keith married Miss Re becca A. Foley, Oak Park. and they have two children, mary Lee, a graduate of Goucher College, now teaching in Indiana, and John a it i 1 1. a.

ii. rveim, junior at iiaver ford College. Dr. Charles G. Jordan, Secretary of Argiculture, salary $8000, is a native of Lawrence County, where he was born on a farm and now operates one of the largest farms in the county.

Doctor Jordan was graduated from Westminster College, New Wilmington. and at Princeton Theological Seminary. He served as pastor of Presbyterian Churches in Pennsylvania and Ohio and was for a number of years on tho evangelistic and lecture platforms. On the death of his father Doctor Jordan took charge of the home farm and has conducted various branches of farming as well as ex tensive stockraising. He served for two terms as a member of tho Pennsylvania Legislature from Lawrence County and was chairman of the committee on agriculture of thfr House.

Frank D. Beary, Adjutant General, salary $8000, served as head of the military department since October 4, 1917. This is his third reappointment. General Beary is a native of Allentown. He enlisted in the National Guard of Pennsylvania in 1888, and rose to be major.

General Beary's active service was as a member of the old Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry. He served in the Porto Rican campaign and on the Mexican border. He. was named deputy adjutant general in 1911. Charles E.

Dorworth. Secretary of Forests and Waters, salary $8000, was born in, Bellefonte in 1876, educated in the Bellefonte high school and the Bellefonte Academy, and since 1909 has been publisher of the Bellefonte Republican. Mr. Dorworth had newspaper experience in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh as a political writer. In addition to publishing, he has other business interests.

In the Sproul adminixtration lie was chairman of the water and supply commission of Pennsylvania, during which period Governor Pinchot, then forestry commissioner, and later, Robert Y. Stuart. were ex-officio members of the commission. Mr. Dorworth married May Sullivan Crider, and has two children.

Charles A. Waters, Secretary of i 111 1 1 I ft ft 111 I Vl I I 1 1 IN LAIUU 111 A II I 1 1 1 I I II UULlllLLri MEXICO CITY, Jan. 17. Guerilla warfare in twelve Mexican states from the Texas border south beyond Mexico City has involved 10,000 men and caused more than 100 executions during the first two weeks of 1927. Nineteen insurrectionists have been killed near Juchitlan, State of Oajaca, according to a late dispatch received here.

Other messages say-that Federal troops defeated insurrectionists, taking a small arsenal in the state of Jalisco. Arms, ammunition, horses and supplies were captured in the raid in Jalisco which was reported from Guadalajara. FARMER GOES ON TRIAL IN DEATH OFPEDESTRIAN Trial was begun in Dauphin County criminal court today of W. A. Simmons, 58, Hummclstown farmer, who is charged with invol untary manslaughter, failure to stop and render assistance and op erating an automobile while intoxi cated.

On the night of December 13 an automobile, following a zig-zap-course on the William Penn High way irom iiershey to Swatara Station, broke through a detour barrier, fatally injuring Charles Nei-j wender as he placed red lanicms' on the barrier, collided with another automobile, forced several other vehicles off the road and caused a traffic jam in the Swatara Station highway subway. Shortly after the automobile had made its wild dash, Simmons was arrested by State police as the alleged owner end driver of the car. It is alleged he was under the influence of liquor while operating the machine. A verdict is expected late today. Adjourn for Inaugural To permit jurors, witnesses court officials and the judges to at- ienu me inaugural exercises tomor- row criminal court will adjourn at; 11.

JO clock tomorrow for the day. A jury today convicted Dewey Gaines, Harrisburg negro, of burglary in connection with thf robbery of the home of Turney Perry' in Edgemont. Joseph Buck-ins, who was indicted with Gaines, pleaded nolle contendere. The court reserved decision in the case Buckins. The two men are alleged to have stolen three revolvers from the Perry home.

Charles Tambler, of this city, was convicted of issuing worthless checks with intent to defraud. He has not been sentenced. A verdict is expected late today in the case of Stanko Vasevic, of Steelton. charged with operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor. LEAGUE PROBES OPIUM TRAFFIC Tty Vnited PrtM GENEVA, Jan.

17. Opium and means of suppressing the traffic in the drug, took first place in business of the League of Nations today with the meeting of the League's permanent advisory opium commission. The United States was represented by Stanley Woodward, of the State Department, who substituted for Pinckney Tuck, the American consul here. Arthur Woods, formerly police commissioner of New York City, who was attached to the commission as an expert in behalf of the League, did not participate in today's meeting, although he was represented by his personal secretary, Frank Dunham. It was understood that Woods abstained because the' commission Inst year refused to consider any of his suggestions for suppressing the drug traffic.

Woods was appointed the commission by the League as an expert on police methods. Pigs and Cows Get Drunk On Mash of Illicit Still YOKK, Jan. 17. Raiding officers who returned to the Anthony farm East Hopewell Township, near Sfewartstown, where a gigantic moonshine still was recently discovered, found that pigs and cows were running around drunk, they having been eating the mash which had been discarded. The queer antics of the anime'i mused the visitors for some time.

WAR Col. Matthew II. Taggart, Insurance Commissioner, salary $7500. resides in Northumberland borough, and is an attorney with offices in Sunbury. Ho was born on a farm in Northumberland Countv.

Sep tember 4, 1878, and was graduated lrom Northumberland High School. He read law with Gen. Charles M. Clement and was admitted to the bar in 1900. For many years he has been an officer in the National Guard, serv ing in the Spanish-American War and in the World War.

He was inspector general of the 28th Division and participated in all of its campaigns. He also served in the Army of Ocupation in Germany and did personal work for General Pershing. Colonel Taggart served as executive secretary to the Commission to Revise the Constitution. Benson T. Taylor, Secretary of Property and Supplies, salary $8000 is a resident of Brockway, Jefferson County, and has been active in mercantile, coal, banking and other lines since 1880.

He resided for a time in Elk County, and then removed to Jefferson, where, he developed coal interests. Mr. Taylor is. president of the Citizens' Banking Trust Brockway, and of the First National Bank of Sykesville. He has served as director of the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce and has been an active spirit in the Buffalo Pittsburgh Highway Association.

Mr. Taylor is a trustee of the Presbyterian Church of Brockway. He has one son Vernon F. Taylor, of Indiana, and two aaugnters, Mrs. Paul S.

Red and Miss Alice Taylor. Nathan R. Buller, reappointed Commissioner of Fisheries, salary $4500, is a native of Lancaster County and one of the foremost fish culturists in the United States, his familv havincr been eno-aireH in that line lor many years. Mr. Buller was appointed Commissioner of Fisheries September 1, 1911, and reappointed by four Governors.

He has specialized expansion of the State fish hatchery system and the development of the fish prop- agation work of the department. EX -EMPRESS OF MEXICO DYING By Vnited Pros BRUSSELS, Jan. 17. Charlotte, former empress of Mexico, is critically ill and was not expected to live today. A severe heart disease has stricken the former empress.

Physicians announced at 9.50 today that she had little chance for recovery. Charlotte has been in seclusion for many years, troubled with mental illness. The former Empress of Mexico, Chariot whose full name is Mane Charlotte Amelia Auguste Vic- born in 1840. Since the assassination of her husband, Emperor Maximilian, in 1867, after his three-year term as emperor of Mexico, tho Empress Charlotte has been in seclusion. Her husband was vthe first emperor of Mexico and also the Archduke of Austria and a brother of Franz Josef the first.

His spectacular reign terminated when he was assassinated by the Indian leader Juarez, miraculously escaper injury when Poor Patronage Causes Theater to Close Doors Station WMBS, Ilarrisburg's new 600-watt broadcasting station, may easily be tuned out by use of a wave-trap, according to W. S. McCackren, owner and manager of the station. As a result of the twenty-hour broadcasting period, McCackren told the Rotary Club at their weekly luncheon today, Harrisburgers have learned that this station can be tuned out with out employing extra equipment, nut a greater number have learned that they do not wish it tuned out. Floyd Hopkins, manager of the Wilmer Vincent interests in Harrisburg, who had charge of today's a.

1 a pruKruui, t-xpiiuneu mat tne Majestic Theater is closed due to small patronage and the almost prohibitive cost of the major productions. Hopkins introduced the man agers of the various theaters and his office staff. A number of the artists now playing at the State Theater concluded the proeram with vocal and instrumenal num bers. Thirty-five visiting Rotar-ians were the guests of the club to day. i i propel the engine is also from the county.

The Washington Gas 5 company nas sent a Half-ton of bituminop "nl p'o a mine within the city. Washington and Jefferson the oldest educational institution west of the Alleghenies, will also be represented. Fisher to Delay Other Appointments Few Days international Si-rvire INDIANA, Jan. 17. With mem-; bers of his cabinet named.

Gover- ii. yumi ri.sner win await his inauguration and will dispose of routine matters attendant on his taking office before he gives consideration to appointments to the posts of Secretary of Mines, State Athletic Commission, Workmen's Compensation Board and Superintendent of State Police, he announced today. "I have not had time to give those positions my consideration, and in the rush of events, I do not expect to tako time until after I have been in office a few days, at icum, l.sner said. lhcse Pst3 arc deserving of mv ci0TOjt consideration, and not until I have had lots of tim to think things over will I be ready to maKe my nt punuc, he said Tho Governor-elect made a l.ito visit to his office today, as he pre- Eared to board his special train, ut it was apparently mainly for the purpose of dodging the host of calls he received concerning his intentions regarding the additional appointments. He was gieatly interested in editorial comments on his appointments, but remained silent on th m.

Orchestra Will Play At Fisher Reception The l'pdegrove Orchestra of forty pieces will furnish the music during the reception to Governor John S. Fisher in tho rotunda of the Capitol tomorrow afternoon. The program: Overture "The Barber of Seville" Hessini; nocturne 3. "Licbestraum," Franz Liszt; trumpet solo, "Gypsy Love Kong," Victor Herbert; musical melange, "Creme do la Oremc," Tobani; reverie, "Visions," Tsrhaik-owsky; romance, "Arahian Night," Mildenbcrg; selection, "The Student Prince," Kumberg; selection, "Lucia 1 romance, i nussian, I rial; selection from Faust, Gound. A number of popular numbers will aho be played.

Tomorrow Half-Holiday In CityOfficcs and Schools Tomorrow, Inauguration Day; will be half-holdiay for the schools and for city employes. All public schools will be dismissed at 11.80 a. and the city offices will close for the day at noon. But closing city offices at noon will not Interfere with the regular weekly session of City Council scheduled for 10 a. m.

Commissioner Burtnctt had planned to introduce the Improvement loan ordinance at tomorrow's.