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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1916
Page
2
Recap of global events from wartime reports with notes on British casualties for January and military movements. Includes Japan England treaty rumors and displaced troops in Albania and the Caucasus. Reports also mention emperors improving health and key naval officers killed or captured.
Secretary Lansing says Col. E M House is unpaid beyond expenses while touring Europe as Wilson’s rep. The Supreme Court adjourns to Feb 21. Emerson to push aid for starving German babies, shipping condensed milk. Flood introduces 10 percent war munitions tax bill. Lusitania optimism returns amid new talks. Wilson to Army plans debate. embargo petitions surge. Daniels tests Kolster wireless. Wood warns fleet at risk in sixty days.
Prices rose in Tennessee with a 1 cent gain to 20.5 cents a gallon. Villa reportedly encircled near El Valle as Carranzista forces push in Mexico. Ottawa issued a charter for Chalmers Motor Co Canada Ltd with 1 million dollars capital. Pullman Co adds 1000 workers to reach 9000. Chicago meat shipments last week total 50 617 000 pounds. Crude oil up 5 cents to 75 cents at Healdton Oklahoma. Philadelphia refiners and Prince Eric of Denmark reached New York aboard Helig Olav. Eric will study agriculture in Canada. Greene County Illinois flooded after Illinois river levee break at Hartwell. Baltimore and Ohio orders 3000 steel hopper cars. Crane Paper Manufacturing Co announces 5 percent wage rise for 800 employees. Noordam arrives New York from Rotterdam. 1053 bags of mail left Palmouth en route. Oklahoma battleship returns to Camden yards after trials.
Reports include the Carranza government base at Queretaro lasting a year, a New York burglary of 600 dollars, a Paterson weavers wage hike, and West storms damaging wheat. Also: Mar tin enters NJ governor race, Lincoln engraver Struck dies in Orange, Wilson’s preparedness speech, and more across railroads, ships, strikes, and stock market moves.
Detroit writer notes Reds pitcher Fred Toney stays fit by throwing stones from his right hand. Princeton crews prepare for Childs cup races on Lake Carnegie amid multiple spring events including Harvard, Penn, Columbia, and Naval Academy meets.
Reports list the Canadian firm increasing capital from 7.5 million to 15 million dollars. Rome notes the American Academy offering Villa Mirafiori to Italy for blind and mutilated soldiers. Copenhagen cites 25 000 mobilizing workers.
Paris reports a German air raid in two waves within two hours killing nine women and injuring 14 others with 54 total casualties. A family mourning scene in a ruined Zouave’s home highlighted the destruction. London notes a separate night Zeppelin raid across eastern counties with no major damage.
A Dutch employee of the British censor service was sentenced in London to three months imprisonment for stealing postal orders from letters addressed to British prisoners. He admitted destroying the letters to conceal the thefts.
The British hold at Kut-el-Amara tightens as relief efforts stall for over two weeks. French columns push inland to seize Ebelwon near the Gongo border. Russian forces gain ground around Erzerum after two weeks of attacks. British troops enter German trenches near Kemmel-Wyt schaete road. January British casualties total 1 079 officers and 19 624 men. Berlin sees food riots with six killed and seven wounded in clashes.
London reports Norway will not notify Great Britain France Russia or Germany about ending the 1907 treaty guaranteeing independence and territorial integrity. The decision, announced by the Norwegian Foreign Minister, appeared in the Christiania Journal via a Copenhagen Reuters despatch.
German raider Moewe captured the British liner Appam off the Canary Islands and sank seven ships off Africa. Appam with 451 aboard including 138 survivors, 155 Appam crew, 116 original passengers, and 22 in the prize crew arrived in Hampton Roads. Four wounded sailors were aboard from the Clan Mac Tavish.
Senator Overman acting chair of the Judiciary Committee has referred Louis Brandeis’s Supreme Court nomination to a subcommittee comprising Democrats Chilton Fletcher Walsh Clarke and Cummins, with hearings to be conducted by the panel. No charges have been filed against Brandeis’ confirmation.
The Sherman act case against John H Patterson and 26 other NPC officials is dropped with $40,000 in costs assessed to defendants. Henry Morgenthau left Constantinople for a vacation. The U S Supreme Court orders two years for “The Wolf of Wall Street” in Atlanta. Kweichow Province seeks relief as rebels march toward Chung King with Monocacy on the Yangtze.
President Wilson addresses crowds in Des Moines Des Moines Chicago Milwaukee Racine and other cities urging national defense readiness. He advocates a strong navy expanded coast defense and a volunteer citizen army to defend the nation and control war prices while seeking an international peace tribunal after the conflict. He warns against domestic disunion and notes the campaign year context.
Topeka Kanegans face travel outside the state to view The Birth of a Nation after W D Ross State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State movie censor rejected the film for an invited audience. The legal fight seeks to enjoin the State Board of Censors from prohibiting its showings.
Representative McDowell proposed a broad House inquiry to determine if the segregated Standard Oil companies are boosting gasoline prices. The resolution seeks to examine production transport refining and marketing of pipeline and other petroleum products and the causes of price advances.
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