Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
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Washington-All fear that Ambas-
sador Francis might have been eX-
PEELED from Petrograd by the Boil
sheviki, was dispelled to-day by the
receipt of a cablegram from the Am
bassador dated February 5. In his
message the Ambassador made no
reference to any conflict with the
Petrograd authorities.
Spartanburg - Colonel Cornelius
Vanderbilt, commanding the One
Hundred and Second Engineers, has
been designed as acting chief of staff
of the Twenty-seventh division, sue
ceeding Colonel Bandholtz, who has
been prom oted to be brigadier gen.
eral.
Amsterdam-Gener Won Liebert,
writing in the Taeglische Rundschau
of Berlin, after praising the achieve
mcnts of German arms and accom-
plishments of German generals, con-
cludes by saying: Every German
soldier now is certain that an end
must be made in 1918"
Trenton-Governor Edge issued
statement to-day warning consumers
an ice famine may develop next
summer and urging people to cut
and lay in natural ice now.
Washington-Repr Mel
son, of Wisconsin, in a speech to the
House. to-day made his first formal
answer to the recently quashed in
dictments against himself and his
son, Byron, which charged them
with conspiring to evade the draft
law.
Hartford Announcement was
made here to-day that the German
Fire Insurance Company. of Pitts
burgh, had changed it's name to the
Globe Insurance Company, of Penn
sylvania.
Wheeling-The great ice gorge in
the Ohio river. extending from New
Martinsville, w. Va, to Wellsburg,
w. Va. began moving at Wellsburg
early to-day under pressure eXerted
by the rising river.
New York. = \ secret service
bureau to combat German activities
announced to-day by. the Mayors
Committee on National Defense.
Rome. : Military authorities are
inquiring into the cause of the big
retreat of the army last October on
the Isonzo front. according to an an
nouncement made to-day.
Paris. The trial of Bolo Pasha
on a charge of treason is progressing
with great rapidity and those in
touch with the case look for an early
termination. Many of Bolos witnesses
are not i'm France and it is expected
the lawyers will begin their argu-
ment next week.
Washington. = Acting on a report
from General Pershing that aviation
is not extra hazardous. service, Secre-
tary Baker to-day submitted to the
Senate Military Committee a bill to
repeal all extra pay allowances in
the flying service. The bill would
also create a new grade of flyer to
"a RIla1 hXE Ol1nIinn1 pitizanG i'll 01
a month.
Boston. - A heavy snowstorm off
the New England coast ihterfered
with the reach for the Cross Rip
lightship, missing from it's station in
Nantucket Sound since February l.
Officers of the lighthouse service said
it was not believed the crew was in
danger, as stock of provisions and
fuel, sufficient for month, had been
taken aboard.
Washington. - The keel of the first
he built by the Henry Ford Company
was laid just twenty days after the
contracts were awarded Secretary
Daniels announced to-day. The keel
was laid Thursday and that the side
frames We're ready to go up.
Pittsburgh. - With a warm rain
falling the nine miles of ice gorges
In the Monongahela river at Browns
vile, Pa, and Morgantown, w. Va,
were expected to let go during the
day. Warnings have been sent out
to people in the river districts to
protect their property.
An Atlantic Port. = A call for inn
mediate assistance from steamer i'm
distress, far out at sea was picked
up to-day by the Cape Race station
and sent broadcast
New York. Unified orders of the
United States Steel Corporation on
January 81, were 9.477,S5S tons. ac-
cording to the monthly statement is
sued to-day. an increase of 96,135
tons over the orders on December 81.
Amsterdam. - Emperor Williams
decree in which he thanks those who
addressed congratulatory messages to
him on his recent birthday is pub
lished in the Berlin Reichsaneiger. In
it the Emperor. according to a tele-
graph from. Berlin dwells upon 'the
relations of confidence between the
crown and the people," his twenty
six years of peace efforts" and the
progress of the German people
New York. The actual condition
of Clearing. House banks and trust
companies for the week shows that
they hold sss.sO5.2sO reserve in ex-
cess of legal requirements. an in
crease of S26,9979s0 from last week.