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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1916
Page
1
A terse dispatch notes Montenegro under control of TRUTOMO allies as American mining operations proceed guarded. Sixteen shot incidents and passing checks by Mexican parties are mentioned in fragmented reports with limited verifiable details.
British and Russian dispatches from London report Montenegro under a brutal Austrian push toward the Adriatic. Bjount Laveen fell under gunfire with Austrian warships aiding the assault. Montenegrin lines face gas use and broad-front fighting as Berane evacuations unfold and Mesopotamia reports worry the British public amid Kut el Amara relief efforts.
Sixteen Americans shot in varied incidents sparks national concern. Montenegro supporters protest to President Wilson while Goodwin's case returns to debate. Youngstown strike called off as Nationalists abandon opposition. Also reports on divorce cases, Anaconda news items, a warehouse fire, Steve Matich shot, fresh eggs, public schools funding, and other regional notes.
Youngstown Ohio January 11 mediator Frea Croxton announced the strike of tube workers at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube plant had ended. Workers voted to accept a roughly 10 percent wage increase and return to work tomorrow. The plant employs 9500, not all on strike. Also noted was the Lansingsville plant resuming full operation tomorrow after a separate strike tied to the same dispute. Rockefeller interests were denied involvement in a proposed steel merger and related riots. Flynn offered to review Rockefeller sources if requested.
Santa Monica Calif Jan 1 Thomas H Ince president and eight employees at a motion picture camp near here were severely burned tonight as fire damaged several buildings. The blaze began in the film cutting room and spread rapidly. The men escaped via a blazing stairway and were taken to a local hospital. Loss estimated at eighty thousand dollars.
In El Paso on January 11 mining men gathered in hotel lobbies to circulate a protest addressed to President Wilson. They signaled readiness to cross into Chihuahua with protection of the de facto government and stated workers were returning to the border amid reports of an armed train capture and a fleeing party member T H Holmes who aided companions during a bandit attack near Kilometer 68.
Washington dispatches outline new complications in the Butte postmaster nomination for Phil C. Goodwin. Senator Walsh seeks Paisley report, standardizing committee action while Evans and Myers back Goodwin. Walsh denies collusion with critics as postmaster general delays final decision awaiting the Paisley findings.
Typhus fever has broken out in Juarez Mexico and has been raging for several days with numerous deaths reported according to an authoritative El Paso report.
London dispatch reports Nedmonds Party declaring not to oppose conscription as debate in the House of Commons centers on Ireland. Redmond and Carson split views amid calls for including Ireland in the bill, while Augustine Birrell defends Irish loyalty and wartime efforts.
A Bergen cable states 185 bags of parcel post were seized aboard the Norwegian steamer Lykke?fjord at Kirkwall after leaving New York Dec 24 for Bergen. The seizure follows wartime mail censorship by British authorities affecting U S to European neutral routes. Washington reports Ambassador Page delivered to the British foreign office the American note protesting detention and censoring of US mail. The note’s public release will await publicity arrangements in both nations. Also update from El Paso says Gen Victoriano Huerta’s condition remains unchanged with slight rally earlier.
The Progressive Party calls for a Chicago convention aligned with the Republican gathering to secure shared principles and leadership. It urges unselfish, courageous figures to draft policies and fight for them, aiming for joint support from Republicans and independents to guide the nation.
Clifton Arizona reports mass meetings of strikers from the Western Federation of Miners led to a unanimous renunciation of the federation. Local union charters will be sent to Denver, while Arizona's state federation plans to continue talks with managers through selected committees. Industrial peace remains a goal as the strike persists.
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