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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1916
Page
11
Chancellor argues for victory and a peace that would save Europe from desolation. He proposes restoring Belgium and France and freeing Poland, asserting Germany and its allies seek a lasting peace with power and liberty for all four nations.
The note from Germany and allies to Entente governments urges peace talks to end the war. It states aims to protect national rights and evolution, praises military efforts while seeking to avoid further bloodshed, and asks neutral powers including Spain the United States and Switzerland to convey the message.
The October Health News reports on the state health board public service guide for physicians and laymen. It describes the central and field laboratories in Springfield Chicago Vernon Urbana and Galesburg offering free tuberculosis diphtheria typhus and syphilis tests. Water and sewage testing is being established and vaccines and eye nitrate kits are provided.
Leonard A. Busby president of the Chicago surface Hnex told the legislative committee studying home rule that street car earnings this year total 2 700 000. The sum will be deposited in February into the subway building fund, a detail that highlighted the session.
Chicago reports reveal a loan shark trust affecting 160000 people. A mutual protection network uses mystic words and numbers and coordinates 138 agencies. It handles about 11800000 dollars annually with women leading agencies and luring borrowers into excessive debts.
Edward Klunder and John Zuta exchanged shots in Zuta's saloon on West Lake Street. Klunder lay dead from a head wound after patrons fled the scene. Police learned Klunder had fired five more bullets earlier in a separate attempted holdup at Harry Finkelstein's saloon on North Paulina Street.
Probate court refused to admit the will of Jebo Schrenkler in Freeport. The document left nearly all of his estate to Mrs. Samuel Hildreth of Sheephead Bay, Leo Mayer of New York, and J Moo Murphy of Saratoga. His brother and sisters asked that a prior will naming them as heirs be probated. Schrenkler amassed a fortune breeding race horses.
Thomas Lans a former church janitor confessed with two accomplices to the killing of Louis Lachtenstein and wounding of jeweler Emil Noel during a $25,000 jewel haul. Lans and Albert Chase were captured in Milwaukee and Springfield authorities pursue others.
A Chicago jury in Judge David's court awarded Mrs. Fannie Mitchell $2,000 damages in a street car crash case. The plaintiff testified prayer was used to treat her injuries rather than a plaster cast. Attorney Weymouth Kirkland argued prayer is not legal medical treatment, but the jury supported the plaintiff's claim of using prudent judgment in treatment.
In Chicago the assistant state’s attorneys refused to prosecute 27 saloonkeepers charged with violating the Sunday closing law. They granted continuances and declined jury trials, citing a “passing the buck” policy and asserting the mayor, not the office, leads Sunday enforcement.
Chicago police widen a 24 hour crime wave hunt with 150 men on a city dragnet. Sixteen holdups reported, along with burglaries and at least one shooting. Victims beaten, many incidents unfolding hourly as authorities chase two or three organized bands.
A Fulton county chancellery master ruled against the Thompson Lake Hunting and Fishing Club over the lake and adjoining land titles, dashing hopes that the state would win in the case. In Chicago three would be intruders were stopped by police as they drilled a safe, loaded with a potential explosion, then covered by wet blankets before officers intervened after a passerby alerted them.
Claude Pendley a sign painter from Pri las Texas formerly with a New York advertising firm was freed of murder charges related to the death of Charles Heam Stites. Attorney Lewronan said after jury selection that evidence existed to convict but Pendley was acquitted amid a case noting Hean fell from a Wayne hotel third story window and Pendley claimed a drunken scuffle with Kens.
Sam A. Ziegler of Albion has been elected a class A director of the Federal Reserve bank of St. Louis to succeed Oscar Fenley of Evansville Indiana. Fenley’s term ends December 31 and Ziegler will serve a three year term. Eight Americans and one foreigner were fatally burned in a Logan Coal Company mine explosion near Benton as gas pockets ignited during mining.
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