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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1916
Page
1
Debated topic on typhus fever in Mexico crosses into Texas, with donors urged to react and conditions discussed. Officials and observers weigh measures and possible responses as the situation unfolds.
A compact notice batch reports on mining and financial topics, weather delays, local playhouses, and police activity in Butte while noting international and regional items from Bergen and El Paso. It mentions a body found beside tracks and various society notes, Horoscopes, and broader mining updates.
Chihuahua City Mexico January 18 All Americans and other foreigners at Madera in Western Chihuahua are safe according to a telephone message received today from Cusihuiria The message includes Roy and Bert Kramer who with their father Dr.
Providence January 16 The Mohr murder trial resumes with Cecil V Brown and Henry H Spellman charged in the death of Dr C Branklin Mone and wounding Miss Emily Burger. Attorney General Rice says evidence will show the two men acted under Mrs Mohr to shoot the doctor and escape on a motorcycle. George M Healis the Birns chauffeur will be introduced as a key witness after pleading to a manslaughter charge. Jurors were allowed church visits and long walks today.
Irving Updike and Herbert Updike, sons of Farman D. Updike, millionaire Chicago board of trade figure, were arrested in Oak Park on charges of plotting to murder their parents. Confessions say Irving coerced his 30s-year-old brother into the plan. Motive said to be inheritance. Secret garage meetings triggered suspicion as two rifles and a shotgun with a silencer were found. The scheme reportedly planned a nighttime shooting into their parents’ room with a ladder entry and disposal of weapons afterward.
Vienna reports cited by Overseas News say the French submarine Foucault sank an Austro-Hungarian Novara class cruiser on January 1, implying a misdirected strike on an Entente vessel. Rome announced January 13 that Foucault, part of the Adriatic fleet, attacked an Austrian scout cruiser on January 1 in the Adriatic Sea.
Rome reports from the Vatican say Emperor William had an operation last Thursday. The outcome is described as successful but a week is needed to declare him out of danger. The note adds he returned to the war theater on Sunday afternoon.
San Francisco January 16. About sixty thousand revolutionary troops defeated Yuan Shi Kai's forces of the Chinese government in Sichuan province. A Shanghai cablegram to Tong King Chong, president of the Chinese Republic association, says Teuechowfu was captured and Chengtu threatened. Reported losses totaled around 1000 killed or wounded.
Three people were killed and a fourth seriously injured when a Rock Teland passenger car stalled on a track in Alvo Nebraska today. Driver HH Forman was seriously injured and reported the car stalled before the collision. Names Belle Forman Alma Godry and Forman are mentioned in the report.
Ottawa reports William Boyer of Tacoma Washington killed in action January 5. The overseas casualty list released by the militia department confirms his death.
London reports Ford peace delegates led by Dr Charles Aked and Mrs Htosiea Schwimmer stranded in The Hague after German minister refused entry for the Scandinavian peace party. Twenty five subjects from Denmark Sweden and Norway seek to return via the North Sea but are barred as undesirables. Hastings Lyndhag, Stockholm mayor, warns he may lose position if not allowed home. Schwimmer wired Berlin urging lifting of the embargo.
A massive blaze in Bergen, Norway, left about two thousand people homeless as the city’s seaport and major buildings burned. The fire consumed stores, a newspaper plant, and telephone exchanges. authorities fought the flames as surrounding structures were protected. No lives were reported lost.
The report notes Turkish troops retreating along both banks of the Tigris below Kut El Amara as British and Russian offensives press. Russians push in the Caucasus and East Galicia while German troops join Turkish defenses. Ottoman forces suffer heavy casualties and losses including officers and machine guns.
London dated dispatch reports Turkish forces on both sides of the Tigris River near Kut el Amara in Mesopotamia withdrawing after heavy fighting. The official press service notes the Turks began retreating on January 16 after the hard engagement earlier in the day.
Miller Reese Hutchinson, Edison chief engineer, says the Edison storage battery was not responsible for the submarine E-2 blast at New York Navy Yard. An official inquiry, led by a Navy board, held secret proceedings while injured crew receive treatment. Hutchinson’s interior inspection found no battery damage or need for design changes.
Official telegrams report British artillery against Lille near Belgium with limited damage to German headquarters. An Austro-Hungarian statement notes Hungarian troops trenching near Tolmino and increased artillery activity at Mount San Michele. Russian defeat on the Jerusalem frontier prompts a pause with intermittent Austro-Hungarian patrols continuing.
In Du Pont near Scranton on January 18 rival factions clashed at the Sacred Heart of Jesus church. One man died, another was fatally injured, two others injured, and at least a dozen more hurt. Knives, rocks, and clubs fueled the riot as state troopers tried to restore order during attempts to hold Mass.
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