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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1915
Page
7
Wounded front line reports reveal a nineteen year old girl among Polish campaign casualties. The text notes deception about enlistment and a St George cross awarded amid wartime claims and political sentences.
Great Britain seeks Werner Van Horn for planning to blow up a Canadian Pacific bridge at the U S border. He allegedly boasted of explosives used to damage the St Croix railroad span and evaded capture after a failed attempt, later surrendering to Canadian authorities. Washington awaited formal extradition action as German and U S authorities weighed charges and evidence.
Amid a flurry of legislative maneuvers in the state senate and house, lawmakers discussed a range of topics from salary provisions and constitutional amendments to school textbooks, hospital inspections, and traveling expenses. Debates centered on reform text and the balance of power between county and state authorities.
Conflicting dispatches from London and Petrograd describe renewed German pressure near Warsaw as fronts shift across central Poland. Russian and German reports claim gains and counteractions as fighting grows in Carpathians and along the Vistula, with broader Allied theater updates including Arabian operations and Austro Austrian plans.
Ten thousand men in factories around Wheeling and twice that many along the Ohio river from here to east Liverpool lose work today as Hood river floods drive residents from homes. Wheeling island is almost underwater with thousands displaced and considerable inconvenience reported. An unidentified foreigner drowned at Mingo, Ontario due to the rapid river rise.
The weather bulletin warns of snow likely tonight in New England and New York with a wob of stormy conditions for South Dakota. It predicts colder changes overnight across the middle Atlantic and upper Midwest while high temperatures rise Thursday along the Great Lakes region.
Chicago trading saw May wheat dip to 1.05 before rebounding to 1.06 as rumors about the Dardanelles intensified pressure. Traders noted rumors of forts falling and shifting sentiment, but the down move proved temporary with prices quickly recovering.
Washington reports the British fleet was ordered to treat grain and flour shipments bound for Austria as conditional contraband subject to seizure. The move follows Germany’s decree to confiscate grain and flour to conserve supply. The Wilhelmina case is singled out for exception. other similar shipments face seizure without compensation. The State Department weighs how to respond amid evolving neutral shipping rights and German exemptions.
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