Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-27
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Philadelphia. - Manager Griffith
and Germany Schaeffer of the Wash
ington American League team were
to-day notified by President Bar
Johnson that they had been indefinite
ly suspended for their part in the af.
fair at Shibe Park yesterday which
resulted in the umpire forfeiting the
game to Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh.-The most important
move in the Westinghouse strike since
1000 men and women left the shops
three weeks ago, was made to-day
when notices were posted at the elec-
trio and machine plants announcing
that all empl"yes who do not report
for duty by June 80 will be considered
as having left the employ of the COM
pany.
Sandy Hook, n. J.-Captain Thomas
Keys of the tug Lamont, reported to-
day that school of whales was in the
vicinity of the Scotland lightship off
the hook. One whale, he said, was a
hundred feet in length and came up
spouting close alongside the Lamont.
Seldom are whales seen so close to
New York harbor.
TOrquay, Eng.-Shamrock ~, Sir
Thomas Lipton's new challenger for
the Americas cup, had another sue
cessful trial in the channel to-day.
She beat the old Shamrock by four
minutes 81 seconds corrected time
over thirty mile course in a brisk
breeze.
Vienna.-The police authorities to-
day prohibited the further enrolment
OF volunteers among the retired Off
GERS and men of the Austro- Hungarian
army, many of whom were being re-
cruited to go to Albania to protect
Prince William of Wied.
Paris.-The body of Mrs Edith
Winship Stewart, wife of David Stew
art, of Baltimore, remained in the
morgue to-day. waiting the autopsy
ordered by the city physicians after
her sudden death in a hotel here
Thursday night.
&C .ceptiOn, Chile. The British
steamer Dorothy, from Antofagasta
June % for New ork, has gone
ashore in Arauco bay, near here The
bottom of the vessel is badly damaged
and she lies in a critical position
Washington, ID. G. = Democratic
leader Underwood told the House to-
day the new tariff law would produce
1922, 100000 for the year, twenty-five
millions more than the estimates. The
income tax this year, he said, would
produce S5,000,000, ten millions less
than the estimates.
Washington, d. C-Administratio
officials, particularly those in the
State Department, are interested.
mildly amazed, and in some doubt
over reports from abroad that George
Fred Williams, of Boston, minister to
Greece, had officially condemned, in
emphatic terms, the present govern
ment in Albania. No such report has
reached the department.
Washington, ID. C.-The Admins
tration fully expects the Constitution
alists to confer with the Huerta dele
gates, regardless of intimation that the
plan may not succeed. That was made
plain to-day by officials close to Pres
ident Wilson after receipt of a long
message from the American delegates
at Niagara Falls, which reported the
results of conference between the
American delegates and Minister
Naon.
Washington, ID. C.-Chairman Over
man, of the Senate Lobby Committee,
had before him to-day a special report
of post office inspectors alleging that
the government was deprived of $57,-
600 in postal revenues when certain
so-called beet sugar lobby literature
was circulated free under the frank of
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,.
Washington, ID. Cat the White
House to-day another quantity of let
ters and kilograms from business men
in different parts of the country prais-
ing President Wilson's stand on busi-
ness conditions and antitrust legisla-
tion was made public.