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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1914
Page
7
G D Smith wireless operator of the Mazatlan told Rear Admiral Pond that the German cruiser Leipzig was coaled and supplied near Magdalena from the Mazatlan, which left Aug 13. The report, dated San Francisco October 5, appears in the dispatches.
Smith testifies that the Mazatlan carried mail and supplies to the Leipzig before coal was transferred to another vessel. He refused to communicate with the Leipzig and damaged the freighter’s wireless. After correspondence with Washington, Mazatlan with 900 tons of coal sailed from San Francisco for Guaymas on Aug 13 under bond. Captain Jebsen and others were taken on at San Pedro. coal was moved to Guaymas and then to the German steamship Marie and Leipzig. A British cruiser sighted the operation but the Leipzig escaped. The Mazatlan, once Mexican, was later German registry during Mexican revolutions and European war.
Rome reports a Milan demonstration in favor of war against Austria led by Socialist deputy Signor Battisti. Crowds marched past the Montenegrin consulate and Garibaldi monument while a petition urged Parliament to unite Austrian Italian provinces with Italy. Albanian front favorable to Italy with Berat reoccupied and Epirotes defeated. Railway union denies planned strike over mobilization. Tribuna analyzes Germany's defense stance and Italy's neutrality in context of the Triple Alliance.
Edwin D. Mead of the World Peace Foundation addressed 350 Boston Baptist Social Union members at Ford Hall on international peace. President G Stanley Hall of Clark University Worcester urged that the European war should not end prematurely.
Mr Mead and President Hall debate world organization versus a decisive European war. Hall argues against immediate peace, urging a drawn clash to force arbitration of future quarrels. He envisions a disastrous war waking nations to abandon war and accept universal arbitration in time.
A. Henry Savage Landor, the British explorer who disputed Roosevelt's River of Doubt discovery, is reported missing after venturing beyond Antwerp fortifications. Friends fear he was captured by Germans as no word has come from him for two weeks at his Antwerp residence.
The United States Oxygen Company offices were shut yesterday as creditors seized furniture. Promoter Sir James Carlton and Lady Carlton face an immigration case for being undesirable aliens before D J Leonard. Bonds of 2000 were posted and the couple are believed gone on a return voyage to England. Lawyers and stockholders fear their investments are lost.
Offices opened to find Sir James Carlton alias Jerome J Weldon facing mass debt. Furnishings seized, a typewriter claimed by an agent, staff salvaging scrap paper. Creditors and officials dispute sums owed, including £500 for services, $210,000 stock issues, and several unpaid salaries and loans. Names include Warren of Worcester, Cyrus Sargent, Coakley, Lewis, Tolman, Byrne, Robert Douglas Company, H L Long, Eller, A C Woodside, Beeler.
Francis X. O Leary of the Burns Detective Agency weighs the Boston murder in Conan Doyle s Valley of Fear serial. He outlines a modern detective approach to solving the case as Holmes would, using clues and practical deduction.
Manager of the Boston branch William J Burns Detective Agency critiques the first two installments of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Valley of Fear in the Boston Sunday Post. The piece reflects on the detective school approach and notes the scarce material available for deduction. It references a cipher message by Porlock and Holmes’ reactions to it.
A Holmes tale fragment analyzes Douglas’s murder at Birlstone Manor. Inspector MacDonald confirms the homicide while comparing Barker and Ames testimonies. The writer weighs Moriarty’s possible involvement, appraising the evidence, a secret society mark, and the likelihood the killer was an inside assailant. The narrator forecasts further instalments.
The forthcoming edition promises full facts for readers to analyze the crime with the information available to Sherlock Holmes. Holmes himself will also shed light on key clues in the investigation.
Six teen men are dead and 12 injured after a pocket gas explosion at the Mulga mines of the Woodward Tron Company near Ensley Alabama. Rescue work continues as bodies are recovered slowly with nine of the dead brought out by evening.
In Rumford Falls on October 5 15 year old Colin Hayes died after being shot in the head while hunting with two other boys. The bullet from a rifle reportedly went off in the hands of Napoleon Cyr one of the companions who fired at a bird. Hayes mother, a widow, believed he was in school.
London reports an official inquiry into movements of several vessels leaving American ports carrying coal. Britain will not fault U S efforts to curb German warship coalings, aims to prevent a repeat of the Karlsruhe incident.
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