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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1916
Page
6
An 18 month old boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otho Turner of Loraine, was severely burned after pulling a shelf can containing sulphuric acid onto his face and chest. He is at Blessing hospital with swelling and eye risk. doctors strive to save his sight as the child’s condition remains hopeful.
Indianapolis January 22. UMWA leaders in biennial convention report the scale committee may recommend a ten cent per ton wage rise for bituminous coal. Proposals range from 5 to 20 cents, but a high increase beyond ten is not expected. The report may include mine run payment check off uniform day and wage scale for all classes of labor.
Local shoppers are drawn to a 43 price sale on boys and children's suits and overcoats at Jonas Meyer Co. The notice lists frequent visitors and local names amid remarks on illness and recoveries, with references to nearby towns and businesses.
Ice gorges backed water onto four miles of bottom lands between the North and South Fabius rivers near Taylor. Officials debated dynamiting gorges, but decided against it unless conditions worsen. A month of drainage work is planned to relieve backwater and prevent future flooding once conditions normalize.
The Wabash Railway announces Feb 1 shifts under new passenger department head J D McNamara. F D Hammer rises to division passenger agent in St Louis. H M Dressell resigns. Hammer’s Houston district post filled by H S Gardner. Gardner’s St Louis post filled by George Kottenstette. C W Ford becomes traveling agent in the southwest. Thomas Turner succeeds him. No general passenger agent named and the office may be abandoned.
Miss Bertha Leenerts married John W Cassens in the German Lutheran church on January 22 at Golden Mt The wedding party included bridesmaid Senta Gronewald and best man Henry Cassens The couple will reside on a farm near Golden Both families are described as old and respected The bride is the daughter of William Leenerts and the groom is son of C L Cassens of Golden
The final image shows Charles R. Watson, general manager of the Cusi Mining Company, identified as the leader among nineteen mining men slain by Villa loyalists.
Federal agents received information that Ignatius T. Lincoln, a self confessed German spy and former British MP, was aided in his escape from a U. S deputy marshal last Saturday by Group B, a powerful organization of European political refugees. Agents believe Lincoln never left New York City and that his boast of walking Manhattan streets since escape is true.
In Toronto on January 22 the bricklayers masons and plasterers organization defeated a resolution to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. The convention opted to join the Canadian trades congress. The group expressed disdain for certain cited individuals while accepting praise from others.
Women can easily clean rib bons silks satins laces furs dresses and many other fabrics with gasoline and Solvite sold at drug stores. Five dollars of work per hour, no pressing, bright fresh results. Use outdoors due to gasoline flammability.
Belgrade reports describe the neglected Belgrade chapel where King Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga lie unmourned. The chapel shows battle damage and abandoned crosses mark the vanished royal tomb, recalling the 1903 regicide and Alexander's disputed rule and marital scandal.
Sir Anthony Bowlby reports at the Royal College of Surgeons that modern casualties differ from the Boer War. He notes new wound types from shells and bombs, contaminated by trench soil, and reduced infection thanks to trench networks.
The Hippodrome presents High Jinks on Jan 26 and The perfume plot features in the performance with an American Paris doctor. Little Lost Sister stars Virginia Brooks on Sunday Jan 23. Potash and Perlmutter, a three act comedy from Montague Glass material, opens Jan 27 with many laughs.
Indiana car works at Michigan City transferred to an eastern syndicate led by W. E. Carey and Frank A. Vanderlip. The deal cited ten dollars and other considerations, but revenue stamps totaling 4,832 suggest a price of 4,832,000 dollars.
El Paso reports that twenty three persons died in a train explosion near Puebla. A. J. Trumbo, a wealthy Oaxaca mine owner, says Zapata adherents were responsible and arrived in El Paso on Friday to confirm the account.
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