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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1914
Page
3
Western front fighting along the Aisne Oise and Woevre continues with French British and German units entrenched. Troops endure fatigue yet refuse to yield as close combat with bayonets replaces initial trench carnage. Civilians move supplies and livestock homeward behind advancing lines.
An official communiqué reports strong positions at Craon ne captured and Rheims advances with Bethany occupied. Verdun forts attacked and Germans cross east toward Lorraine defended by eight French corps. Northeast Verdun sortie repulsed. North of Toul French camping area shelled. Belgian and eastern fronts unchanged.
A Havas dispatch reports 260,000 Austrians engaged and routed by Serbian forces near the Drina. Serbians, having recalled troops from Syrmia, advance toward Svornik as Austrian retreat turns chaotic.
An Austrian detachment on the Save attempted to seize Shabatz, a town 40 miles west of Belgrade, but was driven back with heavy losses. The clash underscores ongoing fighting in the region.
Petrograd reports that Russian forces bombard Przemysl fortress as Austrian artillery fires back. In Galicia Russian troops repulse Austrian attempts near Baranow and Ranichow. Jaroslav fortifications are hit and Przemysl garrison answers with artillery. London dispatch notes a Saxon cavalry unit in East Prussia suffers heavy losses.
The eighth Linn county fair opened September 23. George M. Cole age 68 registered at the university of Oregon as a freshman. Michael Tynan longtime Roseburg resident dies at 87 in Roseburg. Klamath Indians and settlers from North Bend harvesting winter fruit from wild plum thickets. Cottage Grove Commercial club urges reestablishment of Oregon Normal at Ashland. State fish and game commission grants right of way at Bonneville Hatchery for Columbia Highway. Oregon hop industry and harvest shown at Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco. Douglas county fair youth industrial contest at Roseburg a complete success. C W Washburne pioneer in north Lane county celebrates 90th birthday near Junction City. John Warner Albany fire chief wins Albany Gun Club contests. 49th Columbia annual conference of Methodist church south convenes with Bishop Mouston in charge. John Tate Portland elected second vice president of National Laundrymen's association at Buffalo meeting headed to Portland for 1916. Lewis Langviech believed to be German noble and Franco‑Prussian War general dies at the state.
Ex convict Charles Earheart, 46, shot by Morrow County deputy Walter Cason 44 in front of the Palace hotel after Earheart drew a gun and challenged the officer. Cason fired one shot to the breast, killing Earheart instantly. Earlier, Earheart, drinking, missed twice as Cason acted to quell the threat. One fatal accident reported in Salem with 71 mishaps that week.
Astoria banks show deposits up more than one million dollars over the last 13 months while total resources rose by a nearly equal amount in the Lower Columbia river district.
Eight new members of the University of Oregon faculty arrive in Eugene to begin the year. They include H. B. Miller Ellis F. Lawrence and W. F. G. Thacher of Portland and Dr John E Gutberiet among others, as the university resumes academic work.
Government files to forfeit about 96 000 acres in Coos and Curry counties tied to the Coos Bay Wagon Road land grant now held by the Southern Oregon company. Testimony on the case is scheduled to begin September 28 or 29 in Roseburg, with argue over whether remaining lands should revert to the public domain.
Lillian Hendrickson seventeen died after being shot at a local cannery by fellow worker Peroli who then shot himself. Doctors Fulton and Forstrom fought to save her life. Peroli is improving in the hospital and is expected to recover.
In Klamath Falls Otis Hickman killed his brother in law Vivian Evans 35 during a dispute over calves pasturage. A coroner's jury acquitted Hickman citing self defense after his mother in law and wife testified the shot came amid threat.
Silver Lake residents report grain stacks and fields in the valley buried for a week by clouds of blackbirds driven from the uplands by heavy snows and cold weather. The birds are so dense that unthreshed stacks seem shrouded in an animated mantle of black.
Benjamin Selling, 83, a pioneer sheepman and uncle of Portland financier Ben Selling, was struck and killed instantly when he stepped in front of a moving locomotive at the Northrup street crossing in the Northern Pacific Terminal yards.
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