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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1915
Page
6
Berlin reports explicit orders to submarine captains not to attack passenger ships that follow the maritime code while British union leaders warn of unrest if conscription is enforced. Victories and troop movements spread from Vilna to Dvinsk as German and Austro German forces press forward and the Dardanelles see heavy Allied reinforcements.
Stockholm dispatches report Socialist deputy Tcheidse and 17 Russian duma members arrested after protests against the proroguing of the duma. The czar prorogued the duma at Petrograd as liberal reformists push for cabinet resignations amid a shifting political scene.
A report by Mrs. Medill McCormick to the National American Woman Suffrage Association says 206 of 435 representatives will back the federal amendment. The tally was presented at a special New York meeting of the organization.
In Syracuse a rumor spread that iron crosses, the Prussian military decoration, were being manufactured by E. C. Stearns for German societies. Stearns denied making them for the Kaiser but acknowledged thousands were produced and shipped to Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Cincinnati and other cities for use as paper weights and presents.
In Lafayette on September 20, Francis Obenchain died from a broken neck after a tank scrap. His father Abraham Obenchain sues Purdue University, claiming officials organized and conducted the brutal event and coerced his son to participate under threats of coercion and loss of status.
William, the champion pacer, set a new record at the state fair track in Syracuse New York while beating the world wagon record amateur drivers. He paced a mile in 1.59 percent while securing another mark as Seattle claimed the season title.
The Pan American conference on Mexican affairs in New York urged each diplomatic representative to push their government to recognize a Mexican government, not yet chosen. A U S soldier died in Brownsville from a Mexican bullet as border warfare continues. British consuls in northern Chihuahua and Sonora were told by the Washington embassy to discuss with American officials whether to withdraw with them to the United States.
Eight year old Richard Carey left his Santa Rosa farm to study at the San Francisco Normal School. Largely self taught, he has mastered astronomy chemistry history geology botany and botany crossbreeding. His parents guided his studies focusing on nature and books.
Governor Ralston commuted Roy McCorkle from life imprisonment to a manslaughter range of two to twenty-one years for the killing of an Italian laborer in Putnam County. After eight years in prison he becomes eligible for parole by trustees. the case followed a clash between negroes and Italians at a construction camp. Trial judge John M. Rawley and prosecuting attorney James P. Hughes urged the commutation.
Harry R. Wallace, secretary of Globe Fuel and Supply and former city controller and mayor of Indianapolis, died of heart disease in the Hotel English building. He collapsed in the office of William E. English after a stroke, with A. B. Hanson Fred B. Akin and Edward G. Sourbier present.
A burglar attempting entry at 3912 North Hoyne avenue fled after a pet monkey named Jocko hurled shoes a straw hat a hairbrush and a water pitcher from the bedroom window Fredericks the owner described the monkey’s charge and chase as it fired more items until the intruder escaped keeping the family awake and safe.
Indiana officials announce three additional townships in Illinois are not under foot-and-mouth disease quarantine while Posey county remains a restricted three mile area. Local authorities credit farmer cooperation and efficient disease control across the state.
Columbus reports two serious injuries from separate incidents. Mrs. Jane Miller, sixty six, widow of Hope, was scalped when a horse-drawn buggy was struck and she fell. Walter Dixon, nine, of Hope, was scalped after an automobile driven by Frank McMillan of Old St. Louis struck him, both in critical condition with extensive scalp loss and additional injuries.
Thirty watermelons tied up thirty trolley cars on Chestnut street for 30 minutes at noon. The line stretched from the Ritterhouse hotel at Twenty second street to the Chestnut Street bridge. An argument erupted between the melon cart youths and trolley crews before a volunteer melon brigade cleared the road as a police officer advised partners to move the wagon.
Crafty is jailed in Brookville charged with the murder of his father in law Moses Whitney at the Crafty home near Metamora. A self inflicted gunshot wounded Crafty just above the heart and lodged in the back. he is believed to recover. The shooting followed a domestic quarrel.
Dr Carl N McCaslin a 39 year old physician from Earl Park died in a Chicago hospital of peritonitis. He was a Benton county physician and is survived by his mother in Indianapolis. He belonged to the Lafayette Lodge of Elks and to Mason and K of P lodges.
Spencer reports a small cloudburst following extreme warmth flooded streets to several inches. A severe electrical storm caused damage including damaged wires to Spencer Light and Heat company infrastructure.
General Miles, famed for fending off cranks, receives a visiting inventor with a bulletproof army coat. The general orders a test and the guard captain to load a rifle, then the inventor suddenly hesitates and slips away, unsettled by the spectacle.
Squire Peavy questions a colored citizen accused of straying from the straight path. The reply pleads for mercy with justice, asking to be turned loose and offering future good behavior in return.
Nutritional basics note the need for minerals like potash sodium lime and iron for muscles brain and nerves, yet white bread and many other foods lack sufficient amounts.
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