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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1914
Page
1
London dispatch reports German raiders bombarded Hartlepools Scarborough and Whitby killing 74 and wounding 174. Naturalized Germans in Sunderland were arrested. Wires cut impeded casualty tallies, while Britons rally home defense plans and evacuations.
Berlin papers praise the German bombardment of English towns along the North Sea coast as a bold naval display following the Falkland Islands clash. Reports from Hartlepool recount Earl Kitchener’s new army facing shell fire, with militia in trenches suffering casualties and a near miss on a trench officer.
A Buenos Aires dispatch says the Argentine cruiser Pueyrredon, after a hot chase, has seized the German steamer Patagonia in the Gulf of San Jorge. The incident was reported in London at 1:26 p.m. local time.
A letter from Robert Fulton to General William Duane dated March 1, 1813, detailing nine torpedoes with concussion fuses and clockwork locks intended to deter foreign invaders of New York harbor was sold for 92.50 at Adrian H. Joline’s estate auction. Buyer was George D. Smith.
Serious cases of ptomaine poisoning are reported among English troops stationed at Black Heath in Kent. About 150 troops fall ill as medical experts are summoned and measures are taken to cope with the outbreak. Black Heath covers 207 acres and lies five miles east of St Paul’s, London.
Reports from South Shields and Scarborough describe three steamers sunk by mines near Flamborough Head, one possibly a passenger ship named Waterwater. Twelve crew saved, seven lost on Waterwater. Princess Olga, a 438 ton coaster, also struck a mine near Scarborough, crew landed safely. British authorities halted traffic between Flamborough Head and Newcastle.
An auto bandit robbed two Cincinnati banks on December 11, wounding cashier George Winters at the Liberty and Freeman avenues bank and cashier Edward Hughes at the Provident Savings bank. About $8,000-8,100 taken from the first bank, with thousands from the second. The bandit fled in a car, fired on police, and was wounded in a gunfight before being captured and hospitalized alongside a wounded officer.
Senate hearings continued on the water power site land leasing bill and on charges of coal rate discrimination against South Atlantic ports. House testimony featured Rear Admiral Fiske before the naval committee with remarks and questions.
German claims a major victory while Berlin reports Russian offenses breaking down in Silesia and Posen. British and German accounts differ on western battles in Belgium and France. East coast mines sink four steamers and casualties rise with 74 killed and 147 wounded. German maneuvers threaten Russian lines along the Vistula and in Galicia as Austro German forces push in the Caucasus region.
A Rome dispatch via Central News reports the Austrian training ship Beethoven was sunk by a mine. The official priest announcement says the loss includes the crew and all cadets aboard. No naval references confirm the ship's existence.
A Greek naval officer attached to the Greek legation in Constantinople has been court martialed and sentenced to death on charges of spying related to steamship departures. The Greek minister to Turkey protests and demands the condemned man be turned over to the Greek legation.
Colonel Goethals told the war department that aside from wireless misuse reports he sees no neutrality violation in the Panama Canal zone. He suggested neutrality could be breached without detection unless ships patrol the waters. Cruiser Tacoma heads to the canal zone to enforce neutrality, leaving Cuba for Cristobal. Secretary Daniels had no further canal zone word, noting another vessel may be a destroyer from San Diego. The Minnesota is to Philadelphia for overhaul. Secretary Garrison said Goethals’s U S visit is to appear before Congress on canal appropriations and has no link to neutrality, with navy orders to deploy ships to assist zone authorities in preserving neutrality.
A raging fire in Pottsville Pennsylvania destroyed twenty stores and major buildings on an entire block between Centre Second Norwegian and Mahantongo streets. Water shortages and power outages hampered efforts. insurance coverage was limited, with large holiday stock losses reported.
Chicago. A new confession substantiating part of Barney Bertsche and others regarding confidence games and police graft was made to States Attorney Hoyne. Ben Caldwell, a Negro lookout, and Clarence Class, linked to Bertsche’s enterprises, testified before the grand jury today.
A German claim says Russians were routed as Turkish troops faced bombardment by a British squadron near the Gulf of Saros. Reports from Petrograd cite Russian victories and Turkish demoralization in engagements around the Euphrates and Van. A German ship Derentie was sunk off Kerasunt after orders to abandon ship.
Indianapolis December 17. Twelve of the thirteen officers and employes of the 1513 legislature including Lieutenant Governor William P. ONeil Homer Lockett speaker of the house in 1913 pleaded not guilty to indictments charging them with signing and presenting illegal claims for payments by the state. An agreed statement of facts was read as the trial commenced. The defendants did not deny signing or presenting the claims. Legal argument was expected to occupy most of the day.
The French liner Floride, 39 passengers aboard, reported by wireless about 100 miles east of Sandy Mook at 7:25 this morning. She was delayed by rough seas and light cargo. no accident reported and all aboard are well. Floride usually makes the crossing in sixteen days but has taken twenty three on this trip.
Unsettled weather expected tonight and Friday with likely light snow. Temperature in Muscatine at 7 p m shows 2 degrees below zero as the system moves through the region.
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