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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1916
Page
2
London report details 1915 as record year for steamship sales amid prize court disposals. Germans, Austrians sidelined, British admiralty demand grows. prices soar, with vessels like Saint Fillans and Borothea changing hands at dramatic gains.
Rome reports Premier Miouchko vitch said Montenegro arranged a truce with Austria to gain time for a retreat into Albania. After Mount Lovcen fell, the plan aimed to join Serbians and defend Scutari as refugees from Montenegro, Albania, and 60 Serbian deputies arrive in Bari and Brindisi.
New York January 24 British consulate protest over the escape of Ignatius T. T. Lincoln the German spy from a Brooklyn restaurant after a pursuit by US officers. Justice officials insist Lincoln may be recaptured, while British and Scotland Yard officials accuse lax enforcement and probe possible aiding parties. Lincoln was spotted on Fulton Street hours before the escape, with Deputy Marshal Johnson under fire for negligence.
The state laboratory of hygiene announces free smallpox vaccine using Noguchi method. Distributed through county and city health officers with tubes and vials for individual or group use. The board says vaccination is the only safe protection and that public funds should not be expended for those who can protect themselves.
A Republican organ named Truth will circulate from the Thomasville post office this week and weekly thereafter edited by W A Jones of High Point. Printing will be at the Times office and F F Vogler, former Yadkin Valley Pilot editor, joins the Times. The Thomasville Chair Co plans to reopen after acquiring Cramer Chair property and moving offices to Creamer Furniture factory. In Washington, deputy U S marshal F J Johnson who oversaw German spy Senacius T T Lincoln rescinded from duty by order of Attorney General Gregory.
Information from Rome via Paris states the Austrian scout cruiser of the Novara class sunk a week ago was the Helgoland. The vessel had been based at Cattaro since the war began.
New York January 24 Albert T Sam known as Chief Sam led about 69 negro followers from Galveston Texas aboard the Liberia to the gold coast of Africa with plans for a black colony He is now held by British authorities in Africa on manslaughter charges tied to deaths from steps on the voyage the party’s Galveston member Mrs William H Lewis said she arrived in New York from Liverpool on the Symric reporting the case.
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