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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
3
Terrible suffering of soldiers as Bulgarians press siege on Adrianople with brutal sorties and heavy casualties. Turks fight for bread and faith while rains worsen disease and famine amid negotiations for peace and broader European diplomacy.
Vienna Reichpost cites Russian troop mobilization and frontier war footing while Archduke Franz Ferdinand visits Berlin. Reports claim Germany's Moltke and Austrian staff officials react with keen curiosity as censorship tightens. Diplomacy and Balkan talks hint at plenipotentiary meetings outside the Tchatalja lines with Bulgaria aiming to keep the lines in Turkish hands.
A Greek torpedo boat entered the harbor of Aivaia Sunday and attacked a Turkish gunboat. Turkish sailors abandoned their vessel after opening its stop cocks. Greek marines boarded but could not stop flooding, then the Turks blew up the gunboat with a torpedo.
Paris reports a Belgrade correspondent says Turkey seeks admission to the Balkan confederation while keeping prewar territory. The proposal is semi official and shocks Servian officials, who view the Ottoman attitude as one that acts only when pressured. A belief persists that Russia would defend Serbia against Austria.
Rome reports Austria has pressed Italy to honor the 1899 convention with Marquis Ivenosta pledging not to occupy Albanian territory and not to support changes unless Albania becomes autonomous. Italy thus remains officially pledged to back Austria despite sympathy for Balkan states.
London reports Turkish and Bulgarian forces clash at Silivrie port near the Sea of Marmara. Turkish ships fire as Bulgarian right wing near the Tchatlja lines comes under threat. After an hour of fighting the Bulgarians retreat.
The American mission distributes food to 8,000 Moham medan refugees in Saloniki. Small pox spreads among Greek troops and a quarantine is declared against Constantinople. Seven hundred prisoners remaining in prison have been released.
Eugene V. Debs Socialist presidential candidate, Fred D. Warren editor of Appeal to Reason, and attorney J. J. Sheppard were arrested in Fort Scott Kansas on a federal indictment alleging obstruction of justice by inducing witnesses to leave the country.
Fort Worth officials report the Federated Women's Clubs of Texas adjourned after adopting resolutions urging compulsory education, state funding for schools, women on university boards, travel libraries, tree planting on highways, and preservation efforts. The group backs Arbor Day timing changes, national park creation, tuberculosis hospital initiatives, equal property rights for married women, and international peace. The convention commended Fort Worth hospitality and honored local leaders.
Albert T. Patrick, sentenced to death then life for the Rice murder, is pardoned by Governor Dix. He spent four years in Sing Sing including four years in the death house, and Higgins earlier saved him from the electric chair. The pardon follows appeals by citizens and officials, and Patrick plans to return to New York to pursue a claim to the Rice estate.
Waxahachie Texas. O E Dunlap chairman of the subcommittee on the fabrication of cotton into cloth reports on establishing cotton mills in Texas. He cites low local consumption of cotton, compares Southern states, notes advantages of cheaper labor money and fuel, and urges mills with at least 10 000 spindles and ample capital with strong backing for debt.
Palacios Texas delegates push Congress to fund an intercoastal canal nine feet deep and 100 feet wide from the Mississippi to the Rio Grande. The convention calls for shifting funds from armed forces to internal improvements, endorses waterway development, and backs surveys for Arroyo Colorado and Laguna Madre channels.
Work started to lay bitulithic macadam on Mirick Avenue in Denison adding over a mile to the city’s paved streets.
Greenville Texas figures by Booster Club secretary Jno H Erickson show ten miles of paved streets cost 450000, one hundred miles of concrete sidewalk amusement park 30000, water works 135000, twelve miles of street railway 300000, and two additional fire stations.
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