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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1914
Page
1
Washington reports a bureau of mines casualty list showing 3 651 miners killed in the previous year with injuries not less than 100 000. Dr Joseph A Holmes calls the death rate excessive and disgraceful and urges improved cooperation among agencies to prevent needless deaths.
The North German Gazette asks press restraint in wartime due to Treitschke's claim that war is a sacred matter. It notes caricatures of King George the Fifth, the Czar, and President Poincare appear in shop windows and urges Germany to excel not only on the battlefield but also in intellectual warfare.
A correction clarifies that the Corona pig celebration committee will consist of Mayor W J Pentelow and Fs Mueller. The prior notice naming B F Smith as a member was incorrect and an error. The event accompanies the opening of the new electric line for public traffic.
The Methodist Brotherhood held a meeting at First M. E. church with over fifty attending an oyster supper. Officers were elected for the coming year and Rev. Vanarman of Riverside delivered a lecture on The Up-to-Date Man. The Booster’s Creed urged optimism and active support for Brotherhood efforts.
Police Captain James Halpin Lieutenant John Tobin and former Detective O'Brien have been indicted tied to the graft confessions of Barney Bertsche and the Ryan Brothers. The brothers ran clairvoyant swindles.
Chicago December 5 Jessie Cope, complainant in a white slave case against Charles Alexander a wealthy island manufacturer, has been arrested on a charge of attempted bribery. Her bond is set at 50000 dollars and authorities allege she planned to extort 50000 dollars from the millionaire.
In Cleveland on December 5 negotiations to settle the eastern Ohio coal miners strike were broken off after a joint conference adjourned without agreement. About 15 000 men have been out since last April, with both sides holding to their initial wage demands.
Jacksonville Florida, Dec. today Professor William T. Sedwick of Boston was elected president of the American Health association Rochester New York selected for the 1915 convention as the result of a business meeting held here. Dr Charles S Slade of New York City Department of Health urged universal medical examinations to guard the wealth of the employe and population. He cited 700 medical exams showing over 40 percent had undetected diseases or defects and over 25 percent showed early signs of digestive or kidney problems. Universal exams could lower death rates in the prime years.
General Weaver, chief of coast artillery, told the House Military Affairs Committee that 410000 more men and 564 officers are needed for coastal defense. He said the coast defenses are inefficient due to manpower shortages and out of date fortifications designed in 1890.
London dispatch reports that the entire Portuguese cabinet has resigned en masse, a development received from Lisbon. The decision signals a major political shift amid ongoing turbulence.
Washington dispatch reports the State Department sent a reply to Governor Hunt following protests by England and Italy against Arizona’s anti alien law. Officials asked whether she believed further steps were needed to block immediate enforcement of the statute.
Senator Meyers of Montana after a state department conference on American copper shipments to Europe said Britain would soon adopt a more favorable attitude to U S copper producers. If not, some mines would have to close.
In Riverside open court the 1915 grand jury was drawn. Judge Densmore set December 14 for impaneling. Sixteen names listed including A F Kimball Perris Alger Fast Hemet A N Younglove Riverside and others. C D Hamilton Beaumont excused from service.
London December 5 A heavy storm drove the British cruiser Venus ashore its bridge carried away while four other ships faced distress. The Norwegian steamer Waterlock foundered off Lazard Head with three saved and others missing. The steamer Anthony bound from Layergool to Para is disabled fifty miles north of the Lizard. An unidentified steamer grounded near Mersey as three lifeboats aid.
Rev. F. W. Reynolds of the Baptist church delivered a stereopticon lecture at the Christian church last night. The audience enjoyed the vivid pictures and engaging talk, with Reynolds presenting the subject His Eyes to Whatner in a striking illustrated manner.
Washington December 5. The Italian ambassador protested to the state department against Arizona’s law requiring at least 80 percent of state employees to be American citizens. The British ambassador has filed a protest. The cited issue is violation of treaties guaranteeing English and Italian citizens equal rights to work and travel. The Italian case is described as stronger than the English.
A romance begun in The Independent office in January 1911 ended with the marriage of Miss Jara Cash to Harold Hull this afternoon. They married in Los Angeles at the bride’s sister’s home, with Hull’s relatives present. The couple will reside in Downey where Hull has bought a newspaper and job printing plant.
Corona will host a large opening celebration for a new electric line with sanction from the Pacific Electric company. The Arlington Chamber of Commerce had planned a separate event but has abandoned those plans and will join Corona to make the celebration here fitting and lasting.
Dec 5 dispatch reports brutal fighting near Lodz where German units, trapped and outnumbered, forced a bayonet passage for about fifteen miles to join the core army. Many officers were killed or wounded, with heavy German reinforcements noted as battles rage. Meanwhile French attacks near Argonne fail and East Prussia reports 1200 prisoners taken.
British ambassador reports a Mexican government letter claiming Carranza plans to destroy the British owned railroad between Vera Cruz and Mexico City by blowing up tunnels. The note also says Carranza seized a large quantity of British cotton at Vera Cruz and other shipments bound for interior mills.
The great tunnel near Tekija has been dynamited severing the link between Servia and Roumania and halting Russian transports on the Danube bound for the Servians.
Reports from Berlin say hostile aviators dropped four bombs in the Freiburg im Breisgau area near the Swiss frontier aimed at destroying a railroad bridge. The attack failed to achieve its objective.
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