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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1916
Page
5
December report on Panama Canal expenses and revenues through June 30 shows expenses far exceeding canal receipts. Including Panama Railroad revenue narrows the deficit to 6.77 percent, with depreciation and interest absent. Suez rates rose this year and are set to increase January 1, while Panama tolls remain at 2.20 and 0.72 dollars per ton.
Buffalo witnesses reveal John Edward Teiper considered abandoning plans to buy Orchard Park brickyard in lease and facing a murder charge against his mother. Prosecution links 40000 motive to crime as Elizabeth Bassel and Mrs Spaceman testify to cordial Teiper family relations. Court pauses tomorrow with Grace Teiper testimony continuing at her home.
New York life insurance company bought Madison Square Garden for 2.9 million in a foreclosure sale the sole bid. Tex Rickard said he is negotiating to lease the building for a five to seven year period and offered to take over the theater pending talks with new owners.
In Washington the Senate debates liquor policy as talks on prohibition continue. Senator Under outlines that draft referendum provisions are being prepared to address sale and use of intoxicants in the capital city, with votes anticipated after further discussion.
A terse report notes an immediate wipe of a scene shortly after a person named Relling returned to a location. Details are sparse due to damaged text, but the fragment suggests swift action following a return. No clear dates or supporting organizations are visible in the readable lines.
Paris reports that the French battleship Suffren, which departed November 24 for L Ohent, has not been heard from and the Minister of Marine fears it is lost with all on board. The vessel, 2,750 tons, 420 feet long, carried four 12 inch guns and torpedoes, and last year participated in bombardment of Turkish forts at the Dardanelles before repairs at Toulon.
Lalifax Nova Scotia reports Allied shipping warned to watch for a raider believed to be operating near Scotland. The vessel intercepted December 2 near the northwest coast and allowed to proceed, mistaken for the Dutch steamer Gramma which was at Kirkwall on December 2 and 3. Identity of the raider unresolved. Admiralty fears a hostile craft may carry mines toward port, a key British naval hub and departure point for Canadian troop ships. The ship could reach the area by tomorrow.
Sir Ernest Shackleton plans a December 16 voyage from Dunedin to the Ross Sea to rescue ten marooned crewmen from the Aurora and the Antarctic expedition. He will sail with the auxiliary ship Aurora, targeting Captain Mckintosh and nine Aurora crew members stranded after the ship broke away in a blizzard twenty one months ago with scant provisions.
New York December 8 more than 30000 members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America empowered union officers to call a strike unless a eight hour day is adopted. The vote followed a demand for an increase of two dollars a week in wages and a reduction of working hours. An agreement granting higher wages was urged but no action was taken on the hours issue.
In Chicago on December 8 an embargo was announced restricting front shipments of commodities for export from Atlantic perik or for Eastern consumption. The measure affects Pennsylvania lines and railroad east of Chicago, with special provisions for perishable transit and goods hauled in loaded freight cars.
Operatives at cotton mills press for wage increases amid industry talks. About a hundred workers in Maine are involved, signaling broader wage pressure across the mills.
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