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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1915
Page
6
A compact roundup of notable happenings domestically and internationally. Highlights cover political, economic, and social developments, naming key figures and places involved while signaling broader implications for readers.
An official Petrograd statement claims 70,000 prisoners and about 900 officers taken on the Carpathian front between March 19 and April 12. British losses include the torpedo boat Manitou and the submarine B-15 plus 24 drowning on Manitou. London reports failed Austrian Italian accord and German aerial raids near London. American and Canadian war material orders and various battlefield actions are noted across Europe and the Pacific.
Gen. Maclovio Herrera overseeing Nuevo Laredo was killed by his own troops who mistook him for Villa forces. Villa defeated at Celaya with 14 000 dead and wounded and 8 000 prisoners. Huerta in New York denies involvement in Madero’s death. Funston heads to Brownsville to assume direct control amid renewed border threats.
A Tennessee post office inspector uncovered a half gallon can labeled Virginia Olive Oil that contained brandy instead. The can arrived by parcel post branded Made From Selected Olives and was turned over to District Attorney Lee Douglas in Nashville. Officials noted the oil claim was false and alcohol odor suggested whisky with brandy scent, amid state prohibition era tensions.
In New York’s West Sixty seventh street a cooperative Hotel des Artistes will rise as a 17 story Gothic complex led by Penrhyn Stanlaws. It combines studios and living spaces with centralized kitchens maids and on site ice making, offering sunlit south facing artist rooms and north light workspaces with 18 foot ceilings and mezzanines.
In Maxwell Street court Judge Caverly hears two new defendants. Delma Guerin describes meeting Frank Schaefer in Chicago and touring offices with court plaster packages sold for ten cents each. Schaefer is fined $100 as Guerin is discharged.
The late Nathan Mayer Rothschild’s estate is provisional at 12 500 000 pounds sworn in London. Tokyo cabinet sets November 10 for Emperor Yoshihito coronation with 4 000 000 yen allocated for ceremony expenses. Edwin Bliss, noted fiction writer, dies suddenly at the Hotel Van derbilt in New York at age thirty.
Burwell Ronayne, in Syracuse New York, declares food is a thought and says a diet of pure air and fresh water can replace eating. After 19 days fasting he describes meals as glasses of water and breaths, claiming improved health and a way to defeat the food trust amid rising living costs.
Terre Haute April 19 The board of public safety ordered the police to begin an immediate citywide cleanup targeting public gambling illegal liquor sales women in saloons winerooms and West end hangers on. The directive stresses a decisive crackdown not a wink and bans gambling paraphernalia from all buildings with no back room use in the future.
In Lafayette on April 19 Rev John Ryves and Rev Frank Ryves attended the sixtieth anniversary of William and Mrs Mary Ryves. More than fifty relatives gathered as the couple, long married since April 16, 1855 in New Albany, were honored with mass at St Laurence church and prayers of thanks for seven decades together. The Ryves have lived in Lafayette for twenty years.
US postal authorities and South Bend police seek the author of a letter to Rev. Alexander Varlaky pastor of St. Stephen's Catholic Church threatening to burn the church unless he stops criticizing the Independent Sacred Heart Catholic church. The note signed Joseph Erdo is believed false.
Miss Sarah Brumfield eighty one fatally burned at her brother Alonzo Brumfield's south of Connersville. Clothing caught fire from a stove and niece Blanche Brumfield smothered the flames after the flesh was burned from head to foot. Bloomington report: Mrs Catherine Roberts ninety recalls nine buried as her last child Mrs Mary Pungape seventy dies of heart disease after witnessing deaths.
A Crawfordsville revival led by a brass band marched through the streets on April 19 with the phrase Onward Christian Soldiers. Reported attendance exceeded 1,500 participants, including many converts joining the procession.
Leavenworth federal prison opens its gates for Terre Haute mayor Don M. Roberts and 20 co defendants after federal court in Indianapolis convicts them of election fraud. Each sentence ranges from one year to six years with other officials also jailed in the same cohort.
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