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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1915
Page
6
A compact brief highlights major global happenings for busy readers. It surveys politics economy and culture with quick notes on notable developments and shifts around the world.
The Austrian war office reports repulsed Italian attacks at three front points and Berlin notes regret over American lives lost on the Arabic but rejects any indemnity. Petrograd cites Russian successes in Galicia and prisoners captured near Tarnopol. London telegrams mention a Zeppelin loss and London bombing toll. Municipal weather and other items follow in rapid-fire dispatches.
Mexico's First Chief Venustiano Carranza replies to the Pan American note declining to join a conference of faction leaders. He resents international meddling in Mexico's internal affairs and expresses polite refusal to participate.
Goffredo Gaetani a lieutenant of the Alphini and Baroness Waldes sen Reugers daughter of the Dutch minister to the Quirinal died together in a suicide pact at Sorrento Italy. A separate dispatch reports British forces occupied Bushire on the Persian Gulf after the killing of two British officers and the Persian government’s failure to punish tribal chiefs.
A local notice confirms William J. Bryan welcomed a grandson to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lewis Hargreaves. Grace Bryan is named as the mother in the report.
Washington reports after talks among President Wilson Secretary Lansing and Count von Bernstorff that Berlin may need about ten days to respond while the U S insists on no arbitration of matters affecting American lives The note suggests Germany may disavow the submarine commander if the case is limited to indemnity and not a broad arbitration of principles.
Secretary Daniels unveiled the panel of experts from eleven societies to aid the American Navy. Edison will chair the board, which meets October 6 at the Navy Department to translate inventive work into congressional action.
A mixed jury, including farmers, was chosen to try Mayor Joseph E. Bell in the 1914 election conspiracy case in Indianapolis. One juror, Alvin Johnson, was excused for illness, and Stanley M. Timberlake was accepted after examination by counsel.
President Wilson may not appear as a speaker before the Indiana State Teachers Association in Indianapolis on October 29 following his response to a Virginia delegation. The tone of his reply suggests cancellation is possible if travel or scheduling conflicts arise.
German authorities seize a portion of a railroad line moving toward Petrograd. The Anglo French Commission pushes for an outright loan from the United States without collateral. Romania massing troops to deter anticipated Austrian assault. Rumors of conscription spark a potential British cabinet shakeup. A steamer suffers fire and is put out to sea. Miners national convention planned in Indianapolis replacing St Louis.
Delegates at the seventh annual Indiana Electric Light association convention in Terre Haute elected E. J. Condon of Angola as president and Sam W. Greenland of Fort Wayne as vice president. T. F. Grover of Terre Haute became chairman of the executive committee with other officers including Thomas Donohue of Lafayette as secretary treasurer.
Gary hosts the State Fire Prevention Association gathering with about one hundred members. Inspectors, under Deputy State Fire Marshal Ralph Richman, checked public and business buildings while John T. Noble and John Fitzgerald spoke. Fitzgerald told Emerson school pupils safety comes from fire protection. Burton H. Stubbs spoke at the theater as films played. A Gary Commercial Club banquet closed the day.
Hammond scene as Arthur Schutz finds Russell Carins dead in the Kankakee river near a township bridge. The young farmer, last seen driving to Lowell, had money on him but none found. Authorities consider foul play as a speeding motorist may have forced him from the narrow bridge.
South Bend, Sept. 11. Squire Collier, 71, a famed farmer of Cass County, Michigan, was murdered by his son-in-law, William Kramer, 38, of South Bend. Kramer allegedly confessed to the crime and to intending to kill his wife, who has lived with Collier since leaving him two years ago. Collier was stabbed four times in the back with a butcher knife.
Survivors of the Wilder brigade will hold a 1916 reunion in Frankfort with R. C. Clark elected president and W. H. Benefiel secretary. The Olney Illinois gathering closed with 175 members attending and General Wilder, age eighty five, active in events.
Mrs. William Kuper, 62, died of heart failure after a thunderclap shocked her at home in Linton. Her husband, the only witness, reportedly lost his mind from fright and did not notify neighbors. Hours later daughter Rosie returned and found the tragedy.
Jacob T. Stank ard aged fifty eight a painter was found dead in bed in Frankfort on September 11 with organic heart disease cited as the cause of death.
An Illinois Farmer report notes dynamite used to blast holes for planting trees. Light charges break soil and create fissures improving pre transplant root growth. Better root systems lead to faster fruit production. two illustrations support the method for readers planting fruit trees this spring.
The Nebraska Agricultural College horticultural department clarifies orchard spacing. Do not plant trees 15 feet apart. recommended distances are 20 feet for cherries and peaches, and 30 to 40 feet for apples, with upright varieties like Whitney crab and duchess at 25 feet. Proper spacing aids cultivation, spraying, and yield.
Professor Bailey of Cornell declares bees are far more important for pollination than wind and warns their absence is deleterious. A department of agriculture bulletin urges mixed varieties and ample bees nearby to visit blossoms. Professor Waugh, testing as a fruit grower, shows bees outperform wind as pollinators, using glass panes with viscous fluid to catch pollen with little success.
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