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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1915
Page
1
A foreign representative in Mexico City filed a formal complaint describing deplorable conditions. The report cites severe urban distress and calls for international attention.
The Swedish Charge D Affaires in Mexico City reports deplorable Zapata occupation conditions and ongoing plunder of Swedish and other foreign houses. Fears rise in Mexico City and Manzanillo with many seeking passage to Vera Cruz and urgent protests to Carranza over Manzanillo troops.
Assistant freight traffic manager I I Spens of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy testifies before the Interstate Commerce Commission. He cites current livestock shipping rates as a key reason railroads lack sufficient revenue to operate profitably as forty one western railroads petition for a two and one half cent per hundredweight rate increase.
A federal court jury hears charges against Berge, Madden, and Cook for aiding German naval merchant Stegler in obtaining a false American passport. Stegler testified he sought passport fraud and paid Madden one hundred dollars for help.
In Dalhart Texas two more defendants admit guilt to forging instruments. George Stephens pleads guilty and seeks deferred sentence. jury recommends it and the court grants two years in the penitentiary. N B Brubblefield pleads guilty to passing a forged instrument and requests leniency. case proceeds. Grand jury reconvened with Bingham of Texas as foreman.
Local welterweight Leo Kelly of St Louis defeats Willcat Perry of Kansas City in a six round decision. The bout ended early in the sixth round to avert a knockout.
The Missouri Pacific stock holders meeting in St Louis signals a shift in American railroading as Nicholas S Brady enters steam operations and gains control once led by George Jay Gould. Rubin Loeb & Co. steer the purchase while the Brady fortune grows with this influential transfer of influence and power.
Witnesses in Terre Haute reported that U S District Judge An deron was told he had been fixed in the federal election fraud case. The judge questioned a Vigo County sheriff and pressed a second witness who testified about talks claiming arrangements with the judge.
Matthew Schmidt and David Caplan, charged as key figures in the Los Angeles Times bombing, face criminal court today for murder in the Times building wreck. Indicted with the McNamaras and Ortie McManigue, they evaded arrest for years. Schmidt was captured in New York. Caplan was found on Whidbey Island Washington. Caplan used the Miller alias. papers show heavy California money sent to him.
The Senate passes a bill banning hunting and fishing on private property without permission, signaling stronger limits on trespass. The measure emphasizes property rights and penalties for violations, aiming to reduce conflicts between landowners and trespassers.
In Austin the House killed a joint resolution for a graduated tax on lands and struck out the delinquent tax board clause. It passed bills to move common school election to the first Tuesday in April and to empower the attorney general to investigate land frauds. The Senate also passed the auditing system for all state institutions and a land enclosure hunting restriction.
Albany reports Dorothy Miller a 14 year old shop girl says living on six dollars weekly in New York is simple if one eats less. She testifies to a legislative committee reviewing minimum wage standards. Other witnesses criticize the proposal as scientific or economical, and necessary.
London reports postering safety guidance urging the public to run and hide when German aircraft appear. Posters show silhouette images of German and British craft, with instructions to seek basement shelter if the machine seems German, and notes British planes sometimes cruise at night.
Milwaukee March 16 Jack Dillon of Indianapolis shaded Gunboat Britt in ten rounds to win by decision. Sports writers at ringside praised Dillon's work and controlled pace in the lightweight contest.
Dallas March 16 witnesses testifying before the opening session of the land situation hearing conducted by the U S Industrial Relation Commission declared a general increase in the cost of renting from land owners. They urged removal of legal restrictions argued to hinder farmers from borrowing money at low interest under the Own your own farm movement.
A rare war photograph shows General Joffre, commander of the French, giving an order on a road battlefield in France. The image captures his command presence amid the wartime scene.
In Chicago on March 16 railroad men presented statistical exhibits to refute railroad worker pay claims. They argued southeastern railroads paid less than western roads, while the engineers’ witness George M. Dee Cucie testified for the union and James M Sheean for the railroad cross examined.
Local consignors from the Groom vicinity loaded a car of fat hogs and headed to the Oklahoma City market on a Saturday night report. Farmers anticipate a favorable harvest outlook after a season of heavy snow and difficult conditions.
A fragmented weather page lists temperatures and conditions for cities including Dallas Avella Longview San Antonio Houston Waco El Paso Fort Worth Palestine Denison Texarkana Paris Sherman and Lawton. Notes show clear cool to cloudy, with highs from the 30s to 60s and scattered winds.
An application for a rehearing on modification of the general order of the Interstate Commerce Commission fixing express rates rules and practices was filed today. The Adams American Southern and Wells Fargo participated in the filing claiming the February 1 1914 order caused a net deficit of nearly two million dollars and reduced their gross income by twelve million dollars.
A vessel flying the German flag, the Witthoncoline liner Germania, owned by the elder engineer of an interned Hamburg America line, completed a trip from Cristobal to Panama and back through the canal amid wartime tensions.
Berlin reports its population excluding suburbs dropped below two million as of January led by war losses. Officials note departures to suburbs and distant districts, with 1,082,154 counted yet excluding men at war.
At Newport News Virginia on March 16 the battleship Pennsylvania lies moored at the yard awaiting completion after a successful voyage. Secretary Daniels and Governor Brumbaugh led a distinguished party and Miss Elizabeth Kolb named the ship.
The report notes Allied lines gaining in subsequent actions with unconfirmed Belgians reappearing in the arena and claiming success, though the main gains remain unconfirmed.
The Rome report says the Italian fleet is assembling and entry into war may not be long. A Red Cross crew from the warship Dresden near certainly saved, with the American ambassador lodging protests against Germany. London dispatch notes renewed Allied activity on the western front as British, French, and Belgian forces bolster lines near Neuve Chapelle St Flor Arras Argonne Vosges.
Reports say the Russians are more active with offensives in the east and near Przemysl. Both sides claim gains as Adaea and Gaipathlaan are cited in bulletins. Russian actions extend to Bukowina and the Caucasus with Turkish forces retreating along the Black Sea coast.
Allied fleet presses operations in the Dardanelles and off Smyrna with no official updates for days. Reports claim British cruiser Amethyst penetrated to Nagara and was hit by three shells with crew casualties. Some expect Turkish surrender if the fleet breaks through to Constantinople.
Rome dispatches report Italy is near a decision on its future war course. A large Italian fleet is assembling and final tests of guns are underway. The people are said to cry for war, though Austrian dispatches claim Italy will not gain Austrian territory.
Fifteen wounded Germans from the cruiser Dresden reached Valparaiso today. They report three crew killed and nineteen missing. The commander and 330 men came out of the fight uninjured.
Berlin reports Germany asked the U S ambassador to protest to London over the British admiralty’s decision to treat captured submarine crews as not receiving normal prisoner of war privileges.
President Wilson signaled a strong protest by the United States against Britain's new order restricting neutral commerce. Senator Walsh Montana, an international law authority, backed the view, noting the action lacks precedent and a formal protest will follow once the order and notes are published tomorrow.
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