23 Jan 1913
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1913
Page
1
The Turkish cabinet stepped down today as fighting persists, signaling potential continuation of the war party’s ascendancy and creating political turmoil at a critical moment.
In Constantinople the Turkish cabinet resigns after protests against yielding to European powers on the Balkan settlement. Mahmud Shefket Pasha is named Grand Vizier and Talaat Bey becomes Interior Minister, declaring the goal to save national honor or perish in the attempt and vowing to keep Adrianople at all costs.
London dispatch reports the Balkan Grand Council moving to peace with the Balkan allies. Hostilities between Turkey and Greece will halt and Turkish fortresses at Adrianople Janina and Scutari will surrender. Troop withdrawals begin though final treaty signatures are expected about a month away.
Budapest reports the demobilization of Austrian Hungarian forces called up over the Balkan crisis started today. The move affects troops diverted to the Balkans and signals a scale back of wartime mobilization.
Constantinople dispatch reports the Grand Council and the Ottoman government agreeing to accept the European powers peace proposals. Adrianople cession and Aegean Islands fate to be decided by the powers, with Turkish reassurance of safety and economic development. The decision followed brief discussion and near unanimous support.
A statement on the foreign situation was released by Foreign Affairs, followed by the Grand Council rendering its decision at the conclusion of the session. The report notes no further details on the content of the decision.
London January 23 Balkan rulers expressed pleasure at the decision of the Constantinople grand council to accept the powers advice. Indemnity remains a key dispute with estimates around 200 million dollars with Turkish debts to be annexed. Negotiations for settlement and territorial transfer will take weeks while Greece Bulgaria and Italy react to terms and potential islands and territories.
A summary of Standard Oil letters sold and the ninth cotton ginning report notes Mooney testifying before Senators as the Census Bureau announces figures, with Representatives tallying 13,091,264 bases ginned through January 16.
C P J Mooney former managing editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal testifies before the Senate Campaign Fund Investigating committee that Standard Oil letters he bought for the New York American show treason by senators and representatives. He says he paid less than 500 and rejects the 34000 figure as absurd.
Census Bureau reports 13,091,264 bales of 1912 cotton had been ginned before January 16, with Louisiana at 369,395 bales and Texas leading at 4,509,335. The ninth ginning report compares 1912 with prior years and details round and Sea Island bales and state totals. The final report is due March 20.
Beach B. Epting was found not guilty of complicity in the killing of Al G. Boyce Jr. Sneed, who fired the shot, will be tried soon for Boyce’s death in Memphis Texas.
Memphis Texas January 22 The case against B B Epting charged with complicity in the filling of Al G Boyce by J B Sneed at Amarillo last September was submitted to the jury at 10 pm. Jurors said they would not return a verdict before tomorrow morning after a closing argument by Senator Odell and a lengthy judge Nabors charge of thirty one sections with two special charges.
Miss Mary Field, a newspaper writer barred from the Indianapolis dynamite trial by District Attorney Miller and ejecte d from the courtroom by Federal Judge Anderson, attacked those men in a California address before the State Building Trades Council. The convention then made her an honorary delegate.
Nashville voters confirm John K. Shields as United States Senator starting next March and elevate him from Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court. Shields runs as an Independent Democrat reflecting a cross party appeal.
Representative Broussard of Louisiana charges the Federal Sugar Refining Company and its sales chief Frank C. Lowrey with pushing to obtain free sugar under the Wholesale Grocers' Committee. He introduces a resolution calling for an investigation.
Eight days after the last cerebro spinal meningitis case, the city is practically free of the disease. The two final cases are nearly discharged and normal conditions have returned with schools reopening and business improving. Travel with nearby towns has resumed and Bas Trop has lifted its quarantine against Monroe.
Dr. Rudolph Anderson, polar explorer and New York staffer at the national museum, married Miss Mai Belle Alstrand in Sioux City Iowa on January 23. Anderson returned from the Arctic regions on November 1 in company with V Steffannson.
Vicksburg Miss Jan 23 Assistant United States Engineer E C Tollinger said the Beulah crevasse situation on the Mississippi River has improved. Government forces concentrate at Beulah where officials expect the levee will be closed before the crest of the high water arrives.
Dr W R Dodson director of the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station urges farmers to submit garden and farm seeds for free testing of purity and germination. He writes to E M Adger special agent of Farm Demonstration Work at Belcher. The program aims to assist farmers statewide and improve seed quality.
Mr Dodson cites adulterated seed causing losses from poor stands and asks E M Adger of Belcher to cooperate in submitting samples for seed laboratory testing to aid farmers. He recalls Snowden's prior outreach and urges local support for the program to benefit agricultural interests.
The Louisiana Railroad Commission issued the program for a January 30 hearing in New Orleans to review block signal installations along trunk lines. Topics include interlocking plants, telegraph stations, and train protection rules involving Yazoo Mississippi Valley, Illinois Central, Texas and Pacific, New Orleans Terminal, and other railroads.
In Pittsburgh on January 23 the hearing begins in a ro Warranto action by Alexander P. Moore and others against the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company store. The move aims to end the widespread practice of company stores in mills mines and factories across Pennsylvania. Proponents contend the system robs workers and keeps families in poverty.
Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota and Dakota leaders arrive for a four state conference in St Paul. The gathering aims to keep the new party active and ready for four years of political action. The conference opens tomorrow.
Diamonds weighing 40 7 8 carats seized across the Canadian border by the government were auctioned in New York. A United States marshal sold them for 25 percent above government valuation, fetching $2,513 versus a government appraisal of $2,004.
Senate expected to see many new men as the 1Oth Congress prepares to convene soon after President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration.
Washington reports a largely new Sixty third Congress after inaugurations.184 members new total includes 23 Senators and 161 representatives. Reapportionment plus political upheaval reshapes the Senate with figures like Bailey, Cullom, Crane, Dixon, Foster and others to be replaced or advanced.
Bishop Fallows of Chicago, known for reform leadership, sailed from San Francisco to Manila to study self government in the Philippines. He intends to spend about three months examining educational, sociological, religious and political conditions there.
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