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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
NEW SUBSTATION
FOR STEELTON
improvements Involving $12,-
600 Underway; Enlarging
Excelsior Laundry

improvements now being made in
the borough involve thousands OF
dollars. Work on the erection of
a new substation to take care of tho
Steelton business OF the Harrisburg
Light and Power Company at the
rear of the electric light building In
Front street was started several days
ago. This. morning force of men
was put 30 work on improvements
and enlargements ut the Elcelsior
Laundry in Front street.
The electric light company is erect
ing n concrete brick structure 25x30
feet. The building will be completed
in about two weeks. The controlling
apparatus for the Steelton district
will be installed in this building. A
new switchboard will be among the
new equipment and additional space
is being provided for several trans
formers to be installed in the future.
The expense of this improvement is
estimated at 1000. For eight years
the substation has been located at
River alley and Mulberry street.
Z. f. Messenger, proprietor of the
Excelsior Laundry, has purchased
the property of Henry Kelker, ad-
Joining the laundry building, and will
build the two into one. All up-to-
late steam machinery will be in
stalled. The cost of the improvement
will be about $4,000. The building
was formerly occupied by Otto Deh-
ner, who conducted q restaurant,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
MIDDLETOWN

Luther Nauss. who has been at
Upham, N. D., for the past several
months, is in q hospital there in a
serious condition with tetanus as the
result of being kicked with a horse
on the leg.
Nelson Werlich. one of Uncle
Sans recruits, stationed at Gettys-
burg, spent Sunday in town.
Clarence Werlich, of Lorain. Ohio,
spent several days here.
Miss Ruth McNair. Miss Romaine
kennard and Miss Oma Lutz spent
Sunday at Reading.
Old folks day services and harvest
home services held in the Methodist
Episcopal Church yesterday morning
were largely attended.
John Gross, who had been at the
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia,
Tor several weeks. has returned.
The Mite Society of the Church of
God will hold its monthly meeting
at the parsonage on Tuesday evening.
Mrs. d. H. Palmer, of Columbia,
spent a few days here.
Fred Beck left, this morning for
Annville, where he will attend Leb-
anon Valley College.
Miss Sarah Davis spent Sunday at
Reading.
Mr.. and Mrs. Millard Nonemaker,
OIL onoppenSDurg, are spending sew
eral days in town.
The Rev. G.. Buckley Burus, dis
trict superintendent of the Methodist
Episcopal conference, will preach in
the Methodist Episcopal Church next
Sunday morning. Saturday evening
the third quarterly conference will be
held in the church.
The Boy Scouts attended the Meth
odist Episcopal Sunday school yes
terday morning in a body A new
leader has been asked for. as their
present leader, Joseph Mason, will
leave in october for Paulsboro. N. ].
Mrs. Alexander Conley, who spent
the past week in town as the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. N. c. Thurman, re-
turned to her home at Philadelphia
last evening. She was accompanied
by her son, Alexander, Jr., who spent
the past few days in town.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24

with observation-disclosures. among the
most powerful explosives known.
one-fifth Of each being sufficient to
tear up a trailroad track. In the
other box We're bottles of liquid,
found to be civilizations of the mi
crobes, of anthrax and glanders. 1t
bore seal showing 1t came from
the German consulate at Kronstadt,
Hungary, and inside was found a
typewriter note in German. saying:
Enclosed phials for horses and
for cattle. To be employed as for
merly arranged. Each phial is suffi-
cient for 20 head. To be introduced,
If possible, directly into the animals
throats; If not, into their fodder.
Please make a little report on the
success obtained there; in case of
good results. the presence of Mr..
kostotf for one day here would be
desirable"
Rumanian Sends Proof
Foreign Minister Perumbaru ac-
companied his letter with documents
to prove the origin of the boxes and
their contents.
1T has been possible to prove in
an indisputable way" he said, that
before our declaration of war to
Austria-Hungary, when observing
strict neutrality and keeping up nor
Alii tSiotlOliS WIFI the Gill
pire, the personnel of the German
legation, violating all rules of neu-
trality and all duties of diplomatic
missions, introduced clandestinely
considerable quantities of an eX-
tremely powerful explosive and cul-
tlVations OF microbes destined to in
feet domestic animals and in conse-
quence susceptible of provoking ter
rfble epidemics also among the hu-
man population.
There can hardly be any doubt
about the way by which these sub
stances were introduced into Ruman-
ian territory. The very stringent
police measures at all frontier sta
.tions taken by the royal Rumanian
government since the outbreak of
the war and continually made strict
er since, prove sufficiently that these
explosives and microbes cannot have
reached this country otherwise than
by diplomatic courier.
"On the other hand, there can be
no doubt the final object of the I'M
portation into Rumania as well as
about the use to which they were as
'signes. The explosives and the mi
crobes were destined to be used in
Rnmania, very probably in time of
peace. From all this 1t results that
In time of peace members of the Ger
man legation, covered by their i'm
munity, prepared in concert with the
Bulgarian legation the preparation
on the territory of a neutral and
friendly state plots directed against
the safety of this state and against
the lives of it's subjects.
1.-THE royal government makes 1t
its duty to protect against these
criminal practices, and especially
against the use of the microbes, an
illegal weapon and certainly worse
than poison, the use of which was
formally forbidden by the Fourth
convention of The Hague, as we'll
as against this violation of the duties
and of the loyalty which interna-
tional law imposes upon diplomatic
missions as an exchange for the
privileges which are guaranteed to
them"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24

Training Battalion (balance enlisted
to One Hundred Twelfth Infantry.
From Company f, twenty Ave en-
listed men. to Company B. Nintn
Training Battalion (balance enlisted
to One Hundred Twelfth Infantry.
From Company G. twenty-five en-
listed men, to Company c. Ninth
Training Battalion (balance enlisted
to One Hundred Twelfth Infantry.
From Company H. twenty-five en-
listed men, to Company c. Ninth
Training Battalion (balance enlisted
t. One Hundred Twelfth Infantry.
From Company I. twenty-five en-
listed meh, to Company A, Tenth
Training Battalion (balance enlisted
to One Hundred Ninth Infantry.
From Company x, twenty-five en-
listed men, to Company B, Tenth
Training Battalion (balance enlisted
to One Hundred Ninth Infantry.
From Company L, twenty-five en-
listed men, to Company c, Tenth
Training Battalion (balance enlisted
to One Hundred Ninth Infantry.
From Company M, twenty-five en-
listed men, to Company D, Tenth
Training Battalion (balance enlisted
to One Hundred Ninth Infantry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
GERMANY SOUGHT TO
USE u. S. AS TOOL
CONTINUED from First Page.1

foreign office for authorization tn
spend $4,000 to influence congress
The'late5t story is told in report
to the State Department from VIII
liam Whiting Andrews, secretary of
the legation at Bucharest, and a let
ter from Foreign Minister Porum-
baru, of Rumania.
Rumanian Suspicious Verified
Parcels and boxes taken into the
German consulate at Bucharest with
display of great. precaution aroused
the suspicious of the Rumanian gov
ernment. On August 81, 1916, the
evening prior to the date of Ru-
mania's declaration of war, some of
the cases were taken to the German
legation, located in a different build
ing from the consulate.
Convinced that the boxes were not
taken away from the legation by the
German diplomatic mission on its de-
parture from Bucharest, the Ru-
manian authorities later ordered the
police to find and examine their con-
tents.
The police communicated with
American Minister Vopicka, then in
charge of German interests, who re-
luctantly assigned Secretary An
drews to observe the search. The
boxes were found buried in the gar
III,
German Agent Admitted All
The report of Secretary Andrews
says: Upon my return from the ex-
animation which resulted in the dis
covery of the explosives and of the
box of matches, both of which the
legation servants admitted having
placed in the garden, the former
confidential agent of the German
minister, DR.. Bernhardt, who had
been left with the legation at the
German minister's request, to assist
in the care of German interests. od-
mitted his knowledge Of the explo-
sives placed in the garden: told me
that none were in the garden than
had been found: that a still larger
quantity had been buried in the
house of the legation: and that still
worse things than this box of mi
crobes were contained in the lega-
ton, and insinuated that they would
have been found even in the cab
inets OF dossiers which 1 had seal
ed.
"Dr. Bernhardt also stated that all
these objects had been brought to tho
German legation after our legation
had accepted the protection of Ger
man interests, which agreed with the
statement of the servants. A SINH
lar confession was made to the min
lister by this man.
"The protection of the United
States was in this manner shame
fully abused and exploited. In this
instance, at least. the German gov
ernment cannot have recourse to its
usual system of denial"
Fifty-one boxes were taken from
the ground in the garden, Fifty of
them contained each cartridge
filled with trinitrotoiuene saturated
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24

enlisted men to One Hundred Ninth
Infantry.
From sanitary detachment. fourteen
enlisted men. to One Hundred Tenth
Infantry.
From Headquarters Company (band
section not included), thirty enlisted
men, to One Hundred Tenth Infantry.
From Headquarters Company (band
section), twenty-eight enlisted men.
tn Fifty-third Depot Brigade.
From Company A, twenty-five en-
listed men. to Company A. Eighth
Training Battalion (balance enlisted
to One Hundred Tenth Infantry.
From Company b twenty five en-
listed men. to Company B, Eighth.
Training Battalion (balance enlisted
to One Hundred Tenth Infantry.
From Company G, twenty five en-
Listed men. to Company C. Eighth
Training Battalion (balance enlisted
to One Hundred Tenth Infantry.
From Company D. twenty-five en-
listed men. to Company D, Eighth
Training Battalion (balance enlisted
to One Hundred Twelfth Infantry.
From Company e. twenty-five en-
listed men, to Company e, Ninth
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
Steelton Snapshots

Birth Announcement - Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry C. Deik, AIS Lincoln
street, announce the birth of a son.
Saturday, September %. Mrs. Deik
was formerly Miss Dorothea Tie
mann.
Rally Day Plans-Rally Day will
be observed in the Main Street
Church of God Sunday afternoon at
O'Clock. The Rev. DIR. William N.
Yates, of Harrisburg, will be the
principal speaker.
Stceiton Personals-Mr. and Mrs.
d p. Baker and children and Miss
Sarah Kades, who is visiting at the
Baker residence motored to Shamo-
kin yesterday. John Vernon en-
listed in the Regulars, stationed at
Gettysburg, visited at the home of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. R.
Vernon, Sr., Walnut street, yester-
day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24

rect. they are unlikely to see foreign
service.
List of Officers Transferred
Thus the following colonels are
transferred to the depot brigade. their
commands having passed out of ex-
istence: Colonel Edward C. Shannon.
of Columbia. of the Fourth Infantry;
Colonel Thomas Biddle Ellis, of Phil
adelphia, the Sixth Infantry; Colonel
MeLrice E. Finney, of Harrisburg, of
the Eighth Regiment; Colonel Ezra FL.
Ripple Jr., of Scranton. of the Thir-
teenth Infantry; Colonel George C.
Richards. of Oil City. of the Eight
ecnth Regiment.
Sweeping Changes
The following table shows how
sweeping are the changes in each
company of the Eighth Regiment
eliminated from the division and the
new commands to which enlisted men
and privates are transferred:
From Machine Gun Company. sew
enty-four enlisted men, to One Hun
dred Eighth Machine-gun Battalion.
From sanitary detachment. four en-
listed men. to One Hundred Third
Trench Mortar Battery.
From sanitary detachment. fifteen
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
NEWS OF. STEELTONi
Busy Week For St. Johns
Lutheran Church Members

Members of st. Johns Lutheran
Church have a busy week in church
circles :. The schedule of events and
meetings Is as follows: This evening
a meeting of the mission study class
will be held at the home of Mrs. John
c, Craig, Pine street; tomorrow
evening meeting of the Woman's
Home and Foreign Missionary So
ciety will be held in the church at s
o'clock; a meeting of the Boys Club
will be held at s o'clock, and a meet
ing of the ushes' association will be
held at T.45 o'clock. Thursday even
ing a reception for parents of chill
dren attending school in the junior
and intermediate departments of the
Sunday school will be held in the
church. An excellent program is
being arranged,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
Loan Brokers Will
Discuss Liberty Bonds

A meeting of the pennsylvania As
sociation of Loan Brokers will be
held in the rooms of the University
Club. Market and Front streets. to-
morrow afternoon.
National Secretary George Kehr,
of this city, has suggested that the
subscription of the Liberty Loan
the meeting. Prior to the meeting a
banquet will be held at l D. m. at
the Senate Hotel. Delegates from AL
Ientown, Reading. Scranton, Chester,
Pittsburg, York and other cities
throughout the state have sienified
their intention of attending.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
Many Motorists Warned
About Speeding in Town

The borough police department is
again trying to break up speeding in
the borough. Yesterday after fifteen
motorists were told about violating
the speed laws and warned about the
second offense. The mum bers of the
cars were taken and on the second
onense the owners will be summoned
and fined. Burgess Wigfield fined
three violators of the traffic ordi-
nance at police court hearing Sat-
urday evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24

Weir Kilmore, the 5-year-old son
of Merl Kilmore, a farmer of near
Shepherdstown, was kicked on the
head by mule at his home yestcr-
day afternoon. He was brought to
the Harrisburg Hospital, where an
examination proved that the boy had
suffered serious injuries.
An operation was performed in an
effort to save the lads life, but his
condition is considered critical.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
SERVICES CLOSE

The Goff Evangelistic services which
have been held for ten days in the
First NJ. r. Church closed last night
At the morning service twenty-nine
persons were taken into the church
and six children were baptized
During the day there were four con-
versions, bringing the stotal for the
campaign up to forty. Prof. Cover,
EVangeistic singer from Highspire,
and Frank Wieger violin soloist, as
sisted in the chorus at last nights
services. Next Sunday the Rev. Mr..
Goff will open a campaign in Down
ingtown.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
FIRE. CHIEF MALEHORN
TO INSPECT APPARATUS

Fire Chief o. E. B. Malehorn will
go to Elmira, n. Y, in a few days
to inspect the three pieces of fire
apparatus which are to be shipped to
the borough shortly. The chief will
look over the apparatus and receive
some definite information as to when
1t will be shipped.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
LEAGUE TO DISCUSS
ORGANIZING RESERVES

Organization of Home Reserves
will be taken up at a meeting of
the Municipal League this evening.
This is the first meeting of the
League after the summer vacation.
1t is not likely that anything more
than discussion of the organization
OF the Reserves will come up at this
session.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24

which It was alleged that the latter
company had encroached upon terri
tory of the former in defiance of an
agreement. The opinion says there is
no evidence of any Agreement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
BRESSLER POSTMAsTER

Robert S. Shultz has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Bressler to
succeed B. F. McNear, Sr., according
to an announcement from the Post
Office Department at Washington.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
III. CULP WITH WNT STROTsE

Heist Clup, who for a number of
years. has been identified with the
mems clothing business is now asso-
ciated with the new store of VIM.
Strouse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
rEER HUNTING
PROMISES WELL
Many Animals Are Reported
From Various Sections of
Pennsylvania Already
Pennsylvania is

Pennsylvania is
going to have
good deer hunting
his fall accord
ing to reports
which are COM
mencing to reach
the Capitol from
districts in vicin-
ity of the game
pr e S e rv e S and
mountain counties
where there are
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
EIGHTH REGIMENT is
DISBANDED In GEORGIA

[Continued from First Page.]
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24
MAY DIE FROM KICK

Sc McNeirs Pain Exrerminator-Ad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24

Resinol Ointment and ResinoI
Soap contain nothing that could
injure orirritate the ekeNdeyeIfs skin.
They clear away pimples, redness
and roughness, stop dandrun, and
form a most valuable household
treatment for sores, chahngs, cuts,
burns, etc. Sold by all druggists.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-01-27

t,ustraIian Correspondent Of American
Union Against Militarism)
MELBOURNE, Jan. 6.-P Peter
Joseph Liddoll, student of Shexton.
District of Osborne, New Zealand. is
the name of the first conscripted New
Northumberland incidentally the first
man actually conscripted by ballot in
the British Empire. What dis
tinction." Today his name goes Off
cially in the records as Marble No.
l55, Box 90, Military Division No. 10.
A girl of under twenty years of age.
with no apparent knowledge of the
cnormity of the situation, drew the
fatal marble from the box, and evi-
IDENTIFY enjoyed the task.
1t was on November 16 that the
ballot was drawn in New Zealand-in
the city of Wellington. \ set of Off
cials conducted the ballot, which was
drawn by fifty girls, while represen-
tatives of the various newspapers
were present to witness the event.
The cards used in the drawing of
the ballot, We're the identical cards
that were used in the collection of the
national census-which proves that
the opponents to the census were
right when they said that the taking
of the census was but the prelude to
conscription. fact that was strenu-
ously denied by the New Zealand gov
ernment. There We're 1914 boxes, each
holding 500 cards, so that with the
blanks there were about $4,000 cards
in the boxes. These were divided in
to groups of ten by index cards with
raised numbers, while the cards in
each box were numbered from one to
500. There were two barrels, one con-
tanning consccutivcly numbered 1914
marbles, corresponding to the number
of boxes, and the other containing 500
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-01-27
OFFENDS A JUDGE
WORKER WHO TAKES PHOTOS
is CITED FOR CONTEMPT.
Federal Judge Killets Again Displays
His Antagonism to Organized
Labor by Ohio Ruling.

Federal Judge Killets' injunction
against striking electrical workers at
Toledo, Ohio, has been violated, and
international Vice President Bugnia-
yet of the Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers has been cited for contempt
of court.
The trade unionist took pictures of
strikebreakers at work and his honor
holds that this is violation of his
reference with the company's prop
erty.
The telephone girls suspended work
to enforce living wage scale and the
Electrical Workers struck in sympa-
thy. Judge killets is most insistent
that strikers have the right to picket
in peaceful manner, but he has the
notion, apparently, that there is no
police statutes governing violence, so
he has protected society against this
oversight of lawmakers.
Attorneys for the strikers are de-
manding that Judge Killets define
pleads not to crowd him too far lest
he may be forced to pass on the con-
stitutionality of the Clayton law,
which, he hints, creates a favored
class in this country. The court is
most insistent that telephone service
be continued for the benefit of the
public, but when his attention is called
to the cause of the strike-the strug-
gle of working girls for a wage in
excess of Sc a week.-Mrs. answer is
that the court has nothing to do with
this phase of the question.
Judge Killets' attitude toward
trade unionism was illustrated last
May while a delegate to the confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church
at Saratoga Springs, when a conf
mittee. after lauding the work of or
ganized labor, reported that "a pref
erence should be shown to il" in the
church's printing offices. This rec
ommendation was stricken out by the
conference after a lengthy discussion.
The opposition was led by Judge Kill
lets, whose denunciations of organ
lied labor could not be excelled by
the most avowed anti-unionist. While
no scholar or thinker uses the term
open shop" in connection with econ
omic questions, Judge Killets' repeat
ed use of these words indicate that he
is yet unacquainted with the purposes
of a trick term that has been invented
by trade union opponents in an effort
to garb union hostility with the cloak
of frothy patriotism.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-01-27
CONSUMPTION In NEW ZEALAND TOLD
BY THE FIRST MAN CAUGHT IN THE NET
Cards Used Collection National
By Government Statistician and Winners" Are
Sent Into the Shadow of
Glory of Commercial War

marbles also consecutively numbered.
sponding to the number of cards
in each box. The marbles were
checked by member of the judiciary
before starting, then locked in the
barrels.
Names Drawn From Barrel.
The first barrel was then spun by
girl, unlocked by the magistrate.
and the marbles were drawn one at n
time by the government statistician.
The boxes whose numbers correspond
ed were taken from their drawers
and placed on two rows of tables,
stretching from one md of the room
to the other, in the order of which
the numbers were drawn. These box
es were then checked, and the fifty
girls were then called upon to do
their task of selecting which among
the single men Of New Zealand
should be sent to the trenches to feed
the Moloch of War.
The second barrel was now brought
into action. a female attendant spun
it, after which it was unlocked by the
judge present, and the statistician
drew marble. The number of the
first marble drawn was 1856. Com
mencing with this rs an index num-
Der, and this number was turned up
in the 1874 boxes, the exposed portion
of the card showing in large figures
the number of the military district
which contained the home of the man
who had signed the card in the ma
tional census, Next, the winning
cards were lifted from the boxes and
placed on n tray according to their
respective districts. All blank cards
were replaced in the boxes by the
Judge and a blank was also inserted
in place of the winning" card taken.
And by this procedure, Peter Liddell