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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1914
Page
2
A special booster period runs this week only. Every club contributing eight dollars in subscriptions will earn one hundred twelve thousand extra votes. The push aims to boost participation and support across clubs.
A local appeal urges every woman to build club subscriptions this week to boost votes in the Ford automobile contest. With two weeks left, active effort improves chances of winning the 1914 Ford Touring Car plus five diamond rings and five gold watches awarded across districts.
El Paso June 29 The Associated Press reports Constitutionalists say relations between Generals Carranza and Villa have broken down Villa, fresh from Zacatecas, returns to Torreon with his army due to ammunition shortage Carranza blocks Villa from importing munitions through Tampico the only port available to the Constitutionalists.
Louisiana Supreme Court invalidated the 1916 amendment related to kidnapping as unconstitutional. The court ordered Willican C Walters discharged, set aside the verdict and sentence for the Opeousas kidnaping of Robert Dunbar, and released him from further prosecution under the statute.
Winchester Kentucky June 29 an new chapter in the Breathitt County feuds opens as Thomas Davidson faces trial for complicity in the murder of Edward Callhan former Breathitt County sheriff Davidson already stands among nearly twenty defendants in the Callhan murder case with a prior trial ending in a jury disagreement last April.
Washington reports that efforts to restore peace in Mexico are stalled as Gen. Carranza asks for more time to consult his military chiefs on a conference proposal with Huerta's delegates at Niagara Falls. Mediators will send a reply within days.
Pueblo Colorado residents will decide tomorrow whether to abandon the commission form of government in favor of a mayor led system with eight commissioners. Voters will also decide on abolishing the civil service commission and the preferential voting system.
A pontifical mass at St Nicholas Church marked the opening of the eleventh annual Catholic Educational Association convention in Atlantic City New Jersey. The gathering aims to foster closer cooperation among Catholic educators and exchange plans to promote church ideals. Sessions run through Thursday with many leading Roman Catholic educators, college presidents, professors, clergy and laity in attendance.
The Lever bill to end gambling and cotton exchanges was approved by the House today by a vote of eighty four to twenty one. The Associated Press reports Washington dated June 29.
June 29 St. Petersburg reports show Russian papers denouncing Austria and condemning the killing. Editorials describe the archduke as having sparked a European conflagration and view the assassination as an opportunity for Austria to alter its course.
Mr. Ed Johnson, bitten days ago by a mad dog, will travel to New Orleans tonight for Pasteur treatment at Charity hospital. The dog died of rabies at Dr Collins infirmary after observation. The small white dog had lingered near the fire department and several other dogs were bitten before capture.
Associated Press reports on June 29 that House Majority Leader Underwood vowed to keep a quorum by sending home members who depart or ordering their arrest and return to the capital to expedite legislative business.
After Archduke Francis Ferdinand and Duchess Sophie were killed in Sarajevo, martial law was declared in the district. Authorities suspect Belgrade-based plotters and raise fears of harsher measures toward serfs, as bombs are found along the railway and conspirators are captured by police.
A thousand or more physicians from the United States and Canada attend the seventieth annual convention of the American Institute of Homeopathy in Atlantic City New Jersey. Committee reports and preliminaries occupy the day with main sessions starting tomorrow. Affiliated societies include physical therapeutics surgical and gynecological obstetrical neurology and psychiatric ophthalmological otological and laryngological groups.
Baltimore notes tomorrow marks Cardinal Gibbons ordination anniversary and 28 years since his cardinalate. He will be eighty next month and recently returned from Rome after being summoned to the consistory. He hinted the trip may be his last visit to the Eternal City.
Buffalo N Y June 29 Rt Rev William D Walker head of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Western New York celebrated his seventy fifth birthday Born in New York City he studied at Columbia College and the General Theological Seminary He was ordained in 1862 and served as vicar of Calvary Chapel New York for twenty years From 1883 to 1896 he was missionary bishop of North Dakota Since 1895 he has led Western New York with residence in Buffalo.
A notable addition to transportation facilities between Toronto and Montreal becomes available with the new Lake Shore line of the Canadian Pacific opening to passenger traffic. The line, two years in construction, cost about $12,000,000.
The eleventh annual session of the Millinery Traveling Men's National Association opened in Chicago at the Hotel Sherman. Hundreds of members from cities including Kansas City Indianapolis Cincinnati Dallas Minneapolis St. Paul Des Moines Denver and others gather for three days of talks on credits railway rates and road interests.
West Virginia joins nine states in enforcing nationwide liquor bans as the prohibition goes into effect Tuesday midnight. The new rule marks a broadening of dry standards across the United States.
Nine states and a local no license area form a 2 132 726 square mile dry belt with 46 620 759 people, nearly half the nation. West Virginia approved the dry proposition by a 2990 margin the largest for any state, about two to one. The result surprised prohibition backers despite strong employer support. West Virginia’s 1910 census reports a population of 1 221 119.
By Aasneinted Proaq Londonderry June 29 all passengers more than a thousand on the steamer Californis were taken off safely. The steamer lies in a precarious position.
Surgeor General Blue travels to New Orleans to lead plague control after one death and two cases. Louisiana Governor Hall and city officials plan rat and flea extermination and seek emergency funding. Charles Ludden and an inmate of the Volunteers of America Home die as health authorities act.
Brigadier General Evans, speaking at Governor's Island Securday night, was quoted claiming the United States is the most meddlesome of nations. An official inquiry was announced today in Washington.
A political figure named Memfus faces formal charges before the General Assembly amid allegations tied to the Peanu politics affair. Police and lawmakers await further disclosures as the case unfolds.
Special correspondence from Baton Rouge reports a flood of bills, with over eight hundred introduced and a calendar backlog. Senate keeps pace while House suffers delays, prompting charges of politics over policy and calls for earlier action.
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