Revolt Reported in Constantinople Amid Balkan Tensions
News dispatches indicate unrest in Constantinople as balkans terms are rebuked. Officials report anger at submission while petitions suggest revolution may ensue.
23 Jan 1913
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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1913
Page
1
News dispatches indicate unrest in Constantinople as balkans terms are rebuked. Officials report anger at submission while petitions suggest revolution may ensue.
An unofficial dispatch reports a revolution in Constantinople with the Young Turks seizing control of the government and holding the city.
Constantinople reports Kiamil Pasha resigns as grand vizier amid pressure over surrender terms for Adrianople. Mahmud Shevket Pasha named successor with power to form a new cabinet. Soldiers on the Chatalja lines vow revolt if Adrianople is handed over. Talaat Bey named interior minister and pledges no surrender. In London, Daneff announces Romania gains Silistria, while Russia prepares demobilization. Diplomatic efforts continue as the peace conference resumes.
Arch ie Johnson son of the California governor will not box six rounds tonight with Ernie Clark amateur welterweight champion of the state. The Olympic Club officials cancelled the bout at the governor's direct request after he learned of the stir it caused. Archie, a local attorney and skilled boxer, had refused to call it off until the governor pressed directors to cancel.
Evansville Ind January 23 All night rain halted the fall in the Ohio River and a continuing downpour spread despair to hundreds of families driven from their homes for nearly two weeks. Wa bash River confluence near Shawneetown and along the Wabash across Indiana and Illinois show serious flood conditions. Appeals for help swamped relief committees as suffering seemed greater. The steamer Hopking carried wood and fuel upriver for Grand View and Enterprise. Reports from Ashbury small pox district indicate refugees breaking quarantine in terror of small pox.
Hartford Jan 23 Prof Willard C Fisher Wesleyan University professor and former Middletown mayor urged closing churches for a period as an experiment. He argued for more liberal Sunday laws saying religion is about doing good by fellow men and enjoying Sunday activities.
Lieutenant Otto Schlegel, an army aviator, died instantly when his military biplane failed under an adverse air current near Burg in Prussia. The plane collapsed during a sharp curve and plunged to the earth, leaving no chance to avert the tragedy.
APPROVE WISCONSIN BUILDING WASHINGTON Jan 23 The senate approved public building appropriations for Rhinelander Wisconsin 91000 and Mineral Point Wisconsin 60000.
Charles P. J. Mooney testified before the Clapp investigating committee that he bought for 500 dollars photographs of part of the Standard Oil correspondence. He described one letter from a Pennsylvania congressman asking a Standard Oil official to invest 1,000 dollars in another member, linked to a past Memphis speech criticizing Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Standard Oil.
Oscar Bat tling Nelson former lightweight champion and Fay King the Denver cartoonist were married in Hegewisch Illinois with a holiday declared. The ceremony was performed by Rev Walton Larson after a morning train arrival and a celebratory breakfast and shopping tour followed. Nelson described his wooing as decisive and full of resolve.
G S Speer of Chicago reports that bondowners for La Crosse Water Power and related railways favor the Henry L Doherty plan over Clement C Smith's receiver plan. Owners totaling over 1 million dollars signaled preference, with many telegrams in support. The bondholders meeting in Chicago was delayed and now likely to be held next week.
Fort Worth Texas January 23 B B Epting charged with complicity in the murder of Al Boyce in Amarillo September 14 was acquitted by a jury after a two week trial. The acquittal is seen as a forecast for J B Sneed's upcoming trial for Boyce murder.
Three car loads of barley from Minneapolis to Newport News were seized by federal officials for alleged adulteration under the pure food act. More carloads were expected to be seized today.
In Minneapolis on January 23, University of Minnesota astronomers plan a playful experiment to bottle gases from the Westphal comet. A row of bottles will attempt to catch the gases as the comet's tail passes, with corks driven home by agile researchers. Prof. Leavenworth predicts a rewarding success and the imagined pleasure of uncorking comet gas at state events.
Mary Wood from London's East End told David Lloyd George that she works over sixty hours a week in a sweatshop and earns seventy five cents for six days to support a sick husband. Other suffragists followed with similar stories of low wages and harsh toil as they urged the woman suffrage amendment amid debate in the House of Commons.
Dan Lally once a star out fielder for Minneapolis dis missed a $100,000 alienation suit against lumberman Joseph Burkholder in exchange for transportation to Milwaukee. After years of hardship, Lally, then living at Salvation Army headquarters, agreed to settle for car fare and today the stipulation was filed and the case dismissed.
Madison Wis Jan 23 Assemblyman Don C Hall a Republican returned to the assembly with word he won the case brought against him in Stevens Point circuit court for alleged corrupt practices act violation. The suit was brought by his Democratic primary opponent W A Watson.
Madison Wis Jan 23 The senate tabled the appointment of L A Anderson the governor s candidate for insurance commissioner to succeed Herman L Ekern On motion of Senator Killeen the appointment was laid over for two weeks
Washington inquiry into the New York garment workers strike may be decided soon. Representative Berger seeks evidence on speeding up, unsanitary conditions, and wages for women workers. In New York the United Garment Workers union announces a revised demands schedule, expecting temporary agreement with manufacturers and return to shops.
In Chicago on January 23, reports suggest an immediate strike is less likely as several firms return goods destined for New York. Despite this, union organizers prepare detailed strike plans and say workers can be called out at a moment’s notice.
Rochester, N Y. Jan 23 A general strike vote at a mass meeting last night has tied up the city’s clothing industry Adler Brothers workers, several hundred strong, walked out today and more plants are expected to join later.
Six children of Ida Demsky were found in a bare house at 218 Vine Street without food or heat. Judge John Brindley ordered five to be placed at St Francis orphanage, with the oldest in isolation hospital for typhoid. The mother, recently from Viroqua, has limited funds to support them.
Police across the United States were asked to locate Frank O. Fredrickson who allegedly embezzled 8766 from Evanston State Bank. Fredrickson is said to have confessed to bank officials that the theft was to finance a car to keep up appearances.
Grand jury returns indictments against five men tied to the arson trust. Three public insurance adjusters are among those charged. Names not released.
A rush of applicants is expected at the Ontario provincial secretary office for posts as liquor tasters under a government supervision plan for drinkables sold in public bars and hotels. Tasters will tour bars daily to inspect liquor quality and curb watered or inferior stock, a move welcomed by many thirsty patrons.
Fifty fishermen in Little Sturgeon Wisconsin were stranded for over four hours when an ice floe broke from the main sheet and drifted into Sturgeon Bay. Boats could save only some. younger men ferried back to rescue others until night. Four men remained on the floe, but rescuers reached them as the floe finally broke up and all were saved from the icy water.
Prince Adelbert, third son of the Kaiser, is seriously ill in Berlin with pneumonia and measles. A experts’ consultation was called but recovery is confidently expected. He is 28 years old.
The New York state senate adopted the woman’s suffrage amendment by 49 to 1. The measure requires women who become citizens through marriage to reside in the United States five years before they may vote.
Nashville January 23 Chief Justice John K Shields won the long term U S senator seat on the first ballot this afternoon M T Bryan of Nashville was elected the short term senator with 54 votes in the same balloting context The event marks swift partisan Returns in Tennessee politics with Shields and Bryan securing the two vacancies on the same day
Mrs. Elizabeth Verse of 1231 South Fifteenth street died at home yesterday at 4 30 pm after a week long illness. Age 89. Born in Seine Germany she came to the United States in 1844 and to La Crosse in 1859. She married in Milwaukee in 1857. husband died 33 years ago. Survived by four daughters Mrs Lehnen Mrs Towne Mrs Hefty and Mrs Bachman and three sons John Nickolas and Anton Verse and a brother Carl Mitchell. Funeral Friday at 2 pm from home and 2 30 pm at German Lutheran church. Interment Oak Grove cemetery.
A court verdict closes the Munson Anderson case with charges substantiated. Anderson did not deny circulating a story alleging malfeasance in office, finalizing a high profile legal confrontation.
In La Crosse county Wisconsin the Munson Anderson libel suit concluded with a jury awarding Crawford county district attorney N R Munson one dollar in damages for defamation. The case grew from Andersons accusations of malfeasance and a conspiracy to influence a divorce and a saloon case, prompting Governor McGovern to seek investigation. The trial featured extensive testimony and a special verdict detailing eleven counts.
Weather summary reports fair conditions across Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa with cold waves tonight and Friday. Temperatures vary by region with rising temps Friday in the west and colder readings in the east while a second low pressure area sits north of Montana and high pressure covers the Atlantic and north Pacific states.
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