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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1916
Page
6
The Russian offensive expands with more captives and gains in Czernowice and Volhynia. Prisoners total around 105 000 since the drive began, while Greece demobilizes 150 900 men. News notes sinkings, ships lost, and political moves in Greece, Italy, and the United States.
Domestic dispute over the late publisher McLean's estate pits son Edward B. McLean against the estate’s vast personal property and income. Treasury officials find Longworth filed charges against Internal Revenue Collector Gilligan baseless. Detroit prepares for five days of events as the American Medical Association convenes its sixty seventh annual meeting. A trial date looms for a presidential plot case tied to the Welland canal. Judge Welverton in New York overrules a demurrer to the indictment awaiting further action.
Reports from northern Mexico show growing anti American sentiment at the U S state department via consul messages. Bandits led by Luis de la Rosa raid near Laredo Texas. two attackers were hanged in Deming New Mexico. A mob attacked the Chihuahua and Chip Chihuahua consulates, burning buildings and injuring Americans as US trains pursue raiders toward the Rio Grande.
Chief Justice White assigns Washington Justice Brendels to the Second judicial circuit covering Vermont Connecticut and New York from former Justice Hughes. Supreme Court Washington upholds legality of increased grand jury assessments on Knights of Pythias members with fourth class insurance certificates. Federal Trade Commission opens gasoline price inquiry with major oil producers to testify in Washington. Ambassador Gerard in Berlin confirms interview authenticity with Munich paper while denying a similar Berlin Evening National Zeitung report. President Wilson nearing completion of a draft Democratic platform highlighting administration achievements and maintained peace.
A Tokyo dispatch reports the Japanese government will send two additional battalions to Tientsin and Peking. It states Japan is augmenting forces at these positions by one battalion withdrawn from Darien on the Lisotung peninsula near Port Arthur.
Warrant from Red Ona District Court seeks William Staat alias Insane Blakie for eight Villisca family killings dating to June 1912. Kansas City detectives link similar axe crimes to letters mailed before Iowa’s primary. J N Wilkerson of Barnes agency describes crime motive as jealousy and payments.
The department of torture unveils a new method for preparing anti hog cholera serum. It enables economical production of a clear sterilized product and claims the serum can be quickly heated to kill all germs of foot and mouth disease. The result is a serum that is reportedly safe even if taken from a hot ridh Wig Garver and mouth disease shows no infection signs.
Lincoln received orders to report at Douglas, Arizona, on July 17 to join the Twenty second Infantry. He is uncertain if his duties will be in Mexico or along the border. Lincoln arrived in Ames in 1914 to work with his father in the cadet corps at the college. a successor will be appointed when the school opens in the fall. General Lingala has been consulted about the assignment.
State Department of Agriculture reports alfalfa acreage rising in Ames area as farmers expand plantings..^2 The annual crop value reaches into the millions with totals increasing from prior years, signaling a stronger forage sector and broader regional impact.
Dexter Mrs. 3 and Leonard Ball of Halock Minn were killed when their car was struck by a fast frebe Stella McLeary 19 received broken leg brain contusion and internal injuries Vernon Mears 19 sustained minor injuries while driving the car at Rock Inmind crossing east of here.
Thief enters Riverside Methodist Church minister Rev Stephen Lumley's home during Sunday evening services and rifled three pocketbooks. About 185 dollars stolen, with 25 to 30 dollars from the morning collection left disturbed on Lumley's desk. A hole was cut through a latched screen door.
The Rock Island wreck at Packard adds seventeen dead with Mrs N. EF Thoen of Kinsell among the deceased. Fred Kimball of Des Moines remains missing and is believed to have been aboard the train.
Major Philpot, running against W F Hohn, would be the sole Iowa sheriff wielding National Guard command if elected. His career spans war correspondence in the Spanish American and Boer wars and the Boxer uprising, plus prior roles as a St. Louis prison warden and Buffalo police official.
Four thousand badges in four varieties will be issued to G A R delegates and allied bodies at the forty second annual encampment in Marshalltown in June 2022. The G A R badge features a red white and blue ribbon with a bronze soldier medallion. the Ladies of the G A R badge shows a red white and blue ribbon with Mrs Lillian Clark Care of Subuone at the bottom. The W R C badge is pure white with its insignia. A visitor badge resembles the G A R design but lacks a medallion.
The Sheep and Wool association organized last fall with twenty-ove members for selling wool and lambs to better advantage has proven successful. Members have sold their wool for 2,599, receiving several cents more per pound than before. They had 935 fleeces weighing about 7,002 pounds with an average of eight pounds per fleece for the native stock.
In Johnson county this week Wim Anrons and Son of Morse claim second national championship in high cattle sale records. A two year old bull named Donnie Bras, purchased by Overton Harris, a farmer and banker of Harris, is among the notable consignments. Mo unclear.
W B Macthy longtime secretary of state and public spirited businessman of Des Moines Iowa died after three months of declining health. He had led in politics philanthropy and civic affairs for nearly half a century and remained active until his final illness forced retirement from office.
Inwe City-Teles Ole MeGovner, law professor at the University of Missouri, accepts the dean's post at the University of Iowa College of Law. Formerly dean at Tulane University in New Orleans, he will assume duties in September.
A large feed shed was destroyed in a Newton fire that also touched nearby sheds where a carload of afl exploded, sending embers toward nearby homes. Firefighters prevented spread, with losses estimated around 15000.
Minnie Murphy is new chairman of the prohibition state contact committee, succeeding the late Roy L. Williams who died in the Penn College fire. The annual state convention will be held here July 3 and 4, and Murphy is expected to be made permanent chairman.
A Danish government bulletin from 1915, by Dr. Martin Hegland of Waldorf College, reviews the Danish people's high school system, its origin and methods, and praises Denmark's educational development for Scandinavian and Norwegian American educators. It notes curiosities about Sweden, Norway, and regional education policy while detailing school curricula and efficiency.
Shelton Anderson, ex teller at First National Bank Sheldon, pleaded guilty to embezzlement. Federal Judge Henry T. Reed sentenced him to five years in Leavenworth. He was charged with taking 1900 dollars, with alleged total defalcations reaching 24000 dollars.
Mrs Harriet Kenyon, mother of Senator W B Kenyon, aged 76, has improved wonderfully and doctors say her recuperative powers are astonishing. Chances for recovery are better than they have been for some time in Fort Dodge.
Jowan To Trenches reports that Traer native Traer-Harry Driscoll has enlisted from Calgary in the British army and will soon head to the trenches in France. He serves as chief drummer in the Hillie band of thirty six pieces. his mother was Canadian.
Lestie Wilson of Poweshiek County, nephew of Tama Jim Wilson, shown dairy enthusiasm. Joan Wilson, student in dairy husbandry at Iowa State College, won the Hugh Van Pelt gold medal for high score in dairy cattle judging among seventy seven competitors, the contest spanning the spring semester.
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