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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1915
Page
1
Petrograd reports occupation of more villages in the Shavil district and areas east of Mariampol by German forces. The war office acknowledges continued fierce fighting along the San in West Galicia with fresh Austro German troops entering the battle.
Paria June 19 Lieut Reginald A J Warneford VC and Legion of Honor winner killed when he fell from his aeroplane at Duc France. American war correspondent Henry Beacher Needham, a passenger, also perished.
Nearly five thousand Turkish soldiers died when three transports were torpedoed in the Golden Horn harbor at Constantinople. A British submarine damaged none, and only a few survivors were rescued. Dispatch from Tenedos reported the loss on Thursday.
Grand Duke Constantin Constantinovitch, president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and head of the military schools department, died in Petrograd of heart disease at age 57.
Washington June 18 Surgeon General William G Gorgas was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Georgetown University in recognition of his work in canal construction and public health efforts.
Berlin reports say Karlsruhe bombed with civilian deaths and crews downed. In Chicago, Mayor Thompson named referee ending the street railway strike after a long night of locked in talks. arbitration board to include one rep for each side and the referee as third member.
President Wilson and Manuel Bonilla voiced optimism for an early peaceful settlement in Mexico. Bonilla said a peaceful arrangement is possible and Wilson noted the situation is taking shape. The State Department awaits General Carranza’s reply to Villa’s telegram proposing permanent peace talks.
Miss McAdoo daughter of the secretary of the treasury arrived aboard the Rochambeau after Red Cross service in France. She said she wished to stay and nurse wounded soldiers but her father would not allow it. I’m not quitter and I’m going back as soon as I can, she declared. She is a petite beauty weighing under 100 pounds.
Word from London reports the steamer Strathnairn torpedoed in the Irish Channel. Twenty two crew members are thought drowned aboard the 4,336 ton vessel. Dutch fishing boat Broskons blown up by a mine on the Belgian coast. four crew drowned.
Maribel Hammond aged twenty six, once called the heaviest woman in Kansas, died in Harlan on Thursday from a stomach ailment. She weighed 890 pounds.
Under convoy of the armored cruisers Colorado and Maryland submarines K-3 K-4 K-7 and K-8 will leave San Francisco shortly for their new station at Honolulu.
Captain James O'Dea Storen and Detective Sergeant Michael Weissbaum were found guilty of conspiracy to commit burglary by a jury in Judge Dever's court. Sergeant Frederick Roth was acquitted. Storen faces a $1000 fine while Weissbaum gets three years in Joliet penitentiary as witnesses testified to police protection payments to the Maxwell street precinct.
Berlin reports German admiralty confirms the sinking of the submarine U-14 as announced by A. J. Balfour in parliament. Bridge collapse in Cleveland kills six and injures up to twenty as steelwork on a new high level span over the Cuyahoga river gives way.
Cincinnati reports the seven year old Elizabeth Nolte found in her home rear yard wrapped in a sheet with the throat cut and signs of mistreatment. Police probe underway into the grisly death.
Six hundred marines and bluejackets are ordered from San Diego to aid about one hundred Americans near Esperanza in Sonora as Yaqui Indians threaten settlers. Rear Admiral Howard will command the expeditionary force with the Colorado, Raleigh, and Buffalo observing Guadaloupe-area actions.
Telegraphic notes report the Bridlal trawler Argyll sunk by a German submarine in the North Sea with seven crew members drowned. Other items note Bishop Alpheus W. Wilson's asthma confinement in Baltimore and John B Redmond's illness in London.
Washington reports a planned meeting between Ambassador Gerard and Kaiser Wilhelm before Germany responds to Washington on submarine warfare and Britain's blockade. Officials acknowledge the talk's high significance as Berlin had initially doubtfully considered US mediation.
The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed a Illinois statute that obliges railroads to provide care within a reasonable time after shippers offer property for transportation. The Mulberry Mill Coal Company of Freeburg won $716.92 against the Illinois Central Railway in state court, a judgment now sustained by the Illinois Supreme Court.
In Logansport Indiana on June 19 Mr and Mrs Fred Lorke were fatally injured when their automobile turned over pinning them to the ground. They were found unconscious and are dying in a hospital.
A Turkish aviator reports sighting a British warship of the Agamemnon type aground in Kafala bay on Imbros. The deck was mostly submerged, indicating severe damage or sinking.
Indiana boards report 9,034 paroles since 1897 with 5,422 finishing, 459 discharged on time, 154 dead, and 618 under supervision. Total savings from paroles reach $231,239 at reformatory, $221,481 state prison, and $1,696 by the women’s prison as ex-inmates earn wages and avoid public support.
At the midsummer gathering of the Indians Grain Dealers association in Indianapolis President H. H. Dean urged delegates to avoid futures trading unless closed out the same day. He noted grain prices were about thirty cents lower than a year ago while Secretary C. B. Riley warned that Indiana crops would be 20 to 83 percent smaller due to the Hessian fly, with southern areas possibly hit by 50 percent losses. Oil Inspectors Get Warning J O Behymer, state supervisor of oil inspection, ordered 58 deputies to meet a new efficiency standard after complaints that some have filed reports without testing oil and gasoline.
In Hammond a seventeen-year-old colored girl from Chicago traveling to Louisville disrobed while singing hymns on a Meg an flyer. She fought train crews who attempted to subdue her and was restrained at a cost. Physicians reported she had been drugged and removed to Louisville for care.
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