The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
Telegraph Tips


San Antonio. Tex, March f7.-The Ma
tional Guard organisations which left the
! border today for home included the
Second North Carolina Infantry, Com
panies A and B, North Carolina En-
gtneers. and the Thirteenth Pennsylyanis
Infantry.
Harrisburg. Pa. March n-Ths Her
shey Chocolate Company today an
nounced an increase In wages amounting
to 10 per cent The company employs
L5oo men.
Augusta, Me-, March 1.-THE legisla-
ture has adopted q resolution condemn
ing any action on the part of citizens
which would result in railroad strike
at this time and urging the nation to
protest against 1t.
Paris, March 17.-section MG. Of the
American Field Ambulance, composed o.
has started for the French fighting front
The section Is in command Of A. H
Muir. Of Philadelphia.
st. Louis. Mo-. March H-Because OF
the threatened railway strike which
would cut of the shipment Of news
print paper to St Louis, the principa!
only eight pages instead Of the Gus
tomary twenty-four.
Amsterdam (via London), March IL
! A Vienna telegram reports the arrival
| there OF the German chancellor, DR.. Won
Bethmann-Hollweg, who visited Emperor
Charles, Foreign Minister Czernin and
Premier Clam-Martinic. Of Austria
sprinrneId Mas, March 17-Epi.oonaI
elergymen OF the western Massachusetts,
diocese have passed resolutions offering
their services to the governor for any
| service he may ask for state or nation,
and praising Preside4t Wilson for his
hrm stand v the international crisis
Baltimore. March H.-construction of
an eight-foot stockade. topped with
barbed wire has been begun by the
\ Western Maryland Railroad about its
immense freight terminal at Port Gov
! ington, on the harbor front Omcials Of
the company said they were preparing
for any eventuality.
Baltimore, Nd, March TIT has be-
come known that about 1900 tons Of
wood pulp for paper stored here are
partly to blame for the congestion in
terminal warehouses. The imports have
come from Gothenburg, Sweden. and
have increased fve times over normal
| ysarA
Philadelphia. Pa. March IA coro-
| ner's Jury. after listening to the testi-
mony OF nearly fifty witnesses, has rem
] dered a verdict that Mazie Colbert, ad-
| vertising model. found dead in her apart
ments here December 30 last was
stransied BY . person or persons un-
| known
London. March 1.-THE British govern
ment regards the production Of food Of
greater importance at the present time
than the sending OF additional men into
the army, Chancellor Bonar Law said in
response to questions in the House Of
Commons. that the cabinet had Informed
the war office and the board Of agricul-
ture that this was its view.
London. March 1.-THE Graphic, Lon
don's leading pictorial publication, will
| issue today Q special American number
| surpass any similar publication In re-
| cent years. sympathetically picturtng and
discussing American conditions. men and
women.
Providence. r. l.. March r1.-Mrs. Mar
garet Claffery, 100 years old, Ia dead
In this city. whore she resided six
ty-six years. Mrs. Ciaffery was born
in County Rosconmon. ireland, March
q. 1s16. 1t was said she had never missed
attendance at Sunday service In the
church for ninety-seven years
Kharkoff. Russia (via London).-rne
population Of Kharkoff is supporting the
new government fully. There is great ex-
citement here, but no disorder has oc-
Cured.
Ottawa, March TI.-Canadian exports
| for the first eleven months of the hscal
year ended March 81 totalIed 81 .o2s $50 600
and imports for consumption S742 ssS, 900, q
grand total Of an ,s65, 900 The total IN
the same period last year was q, ,oes,-