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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1914
Page
2
Washington and foreign dispatches summarize delays in a general peace plan, naval and diplomatic moves, and escalating tensions. Reported items include Secretary Daniels on desertion penalties, Grey proposing Servian mediation, and Carranza and Villa relations in Mexico.
Delegates from Democrats Republicans progressives and populists discuss strategy at a regional convention. Prohibitionists also participate outlining policy stances as tensions rise over platform priorities and upcoming elections.
Democrats in Nebraska endorse a harmony program at the state convention in Columbus, praise the Wilson and Bryan era, and vote for resolutions committee members. The gathering, about 600 delegates strong, commits to reforms including uniform taxation, a five sixths jury verdict, and public warehouse law, while supporting Gov Morehead’s administration.
The Nebraska Republican convention endorses repealing the direct primary law for major offices. It recommends to the next legislature amendments to improve the primary system, while affirming Republican principles and calling for tax reform, irrigation, highways, and university research support.
The Nebraska prohibition state convention adjourned after a brief session. Longtime leader A G Wolfenbarger retired, Frances Heald of Osceola elected to replace him. The party pledges abolition of liquor manufacture and sale, equal suffrage for women, anti trafficking in women, harsher enforcement of drunkenness and Sunday laws, and support for good roads and bridges.
At Lincoln the Republican resolutions committee, formed by seven members, includes four who opposed President Taft in 1912 and three who supported him. The group convened Tuesday to chart party platform directions ahead of the state convention.
Milwaukee reports Judge A C Backus says John Schrank, who tried to assassinate Colonel Roosevelt in Milwaukee in October 1912, may never face trial. Physicians in the state prison at Waupun report his mental condition worsening. the assault with intent to kill charge remains pending.
Hastings Neb voters at the state convention adopted a platform backing constitutional woman suffrage and five sixths jury findings in nonfelony civil and criminal cases. It calls for a fifteen member senate and forty five member house, joint committee consideration on key bills, redrawn legislative districts, and endorses Bryan Wilson Hitchcock and Morehead while supporting country schools to tenth grade.
The Nebraska Progressive convention with about 300 attendees endorsed a broad reform agenda including woman suffrage recall election primaries public ownership of utilities and a nonpartisan tariff and industrial commission. It criticized Republicans and Democrats as driven by non progressives and backed Theodore Roosevelt. The piece also notes Austro-Hungarian mobilization orders affecting US residents.
Two hundred Nebraska delegates gathered in Beatrice to dedicate the flag of the Beatrice Kriegerverein on the Central school grounds. Delegates came from Falls City Johnson Plymouth Claton Ia DeWitt Seward Onitha and Cortland for impressive services with members who served with Moltke in the 1870 war.
George M. Reynolds of Continental and Commercial National Bank and John Shedd of Marshall Field & Co. testified before the federal commission on industrial relations that much of the pessimism about business conditions is politically driven and not grounded in reality.
Rioting and protests erupt in St Petersburg with about 200,000 workers idle in sympathy with strikers in Baku and other cities. Cossacks in the Viborg quarter clash with demonstrators. revolvers fired but streets are cleared without bloodshed.
A London dispatch from St Petersburg via Reuters says observers in Russia expect Austria to declare war on Russia. The report notes that if war begins, Emperor Nicholas may travel to Moscow to stage a warlike move against Kursk and the Russian embassy. other details remain unclear and unconfirmed.
A Vienna dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph reports that after heavy bombardment by the Danube gunboats Austrian troops occupied Belgrade on Wednesday.
German war department orders reserve officers and soldiers to prepare for mobilization. Regular army officers already instructed to ready their units. Foreign Office officials say the crisis has worsened as Russia mobilizes to support Serbia, implying Russian intent to enter the conflict against Austria Hungary.
Telegram from Nish dated July 29 reports Belgrade shelled overnight with shells striking several quarters. Frane Bank of Franco-Servian and Andrevitch banks sustained damage and protest lodged at the German legation. An artillery duel continues at Vidhnitza downstream from Belgrade.
St. Petersburg reports it is probable that if Russia goes to war Emperor Nicholas would become generalissimo of the Russian forces with Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch and General Soukho mlinoff as seconds in command in a centralized leadership setup.
Berlin reports the German emperor and Emperor Nicholas of Russia have exchanged telegraphic communications regarding the international crisis.
In Vienna the formal declaration of war on Servia triggers intense relief and a fervor described as nearly religious. Citizens acknowledge Russia might intervene but say Austria will not waver or delay its course.
Berlin reports women in Servia and Montenegro volunteering to support frontier defense against Austria. Dispatches indicate strong local action as efforts to assist the Serbian frontiers escalate.
Reports from London Berlin and Vienna describe Austria Hungary and Serbia inching toward full war. Edward Grey warns Britain of escalating tensions as Austria accuses Serbia of propagandistic acts and involvement in the Archduke assassination. Street demonstrations flare in Berlin and Vienna with banking closures and rising fright as European powers mobilize.
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