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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1917
Page
1
Portland Maine September 11 equal suffrage for Maine women was defeated two to one in a special election. With 438 of 635 precincts reporting including all cities the yes total was 17 035 and no 31 807. City votes were yes 7 444 no 15 597 towns yes 9 931 no 16 210. The amendment had been adopted at the last legislative session after forty years of effort by suffrage workers.
East St Louis Sept 11 Mayor Fred Mollnar and his secretary Maurice Ahern, among 38 indicted in a race riot case, were arrested on bench warrants but allowed to post bonds in the mayor's office. Mollnar posted 1000 bail for malfeasance, Ahern 8000 for conspiracy. Joe Brandenburg charged with rioting. The ministerial union urged resignation pending trial.
Three guards Michael J. Mark L R Shotwell and Charles W Lathers were stabbed during a Monday outbreak at Joliet Illinois State Penitentiary. Fifteen to twenty convicts led by Roy White and Thomas Van Buren assaulted them with knives from shops. guards and volunteers repelled the attack and five leaders were placed in solitary confinement. Warden E J Murphy ordered an investigation and hospital condition reports noted guarded but serious injuries. Wienand the prisoner shot Sunday night was in poorer condition, with a threat to Guard Clarkson lingering.
Belleville Illinois September 11 The first aeroplane flight at the government aviation field near Belleville was made Monday by William H Couch a civilian instructor from Stuart Iowa. He made three circuits of the field at a height of 500 feet and a speed of 0 to 65 miles an hour. Eighty students and instructors including Lieut. Paul Prevost of the French army witnessed the flight.
Washington reports a crisis as Gen Korniloff resignations and pushes for a dictatorship spark sweeping political tension. Kerensky appoints Klembovsky as commander, while Terestchenko calls revolt not dangerous. Kremlin hopes to stabilize front and prevent deeper disarray.
ETROGRAD September 11 The provisional government refuses to reveal details of Gen Korniloff's rebellion. Lyoff met Kerensky to demand surrender of power to Korniloff, backed by a group of duma conservatives and Moscow interests. Kerensky rejected the ultimatum and vowed to crush the conspiracy. Lyoff was arrested and ministers discussed measures, with six names proposed for a central government directory. Klembovskyy to stay in the north to aid troops and supplies to the Riga sector. The Russian embassy reports the crisis as very serious.
Judy the 9 600 pound elephant, long with a circus, was executed in railroad yards to end lockjaw suffering. A rope tied to a locomotive failed, a chain was tried, and after thirty minutes the animal died by strangulation. The carcass was skinned for the hide to be preserved by the circus. The elephant was about 50 years old.
Mrs Bianca Erraguriz the mother of Bianca Des Milles now jailed in Mineola for the murder of her divorced husband John L Des Milles arrived in New York from Valparaiso Chile. She was accompanied by her daughter Miss Amalia Errazuriz and son Guillermo Errazuriz.
Red Oak Iowa Sept. 11 Completion today of the jury to hear the Rev Lynn George J Kelly charged with the axe murder of eight at Villisca Iowa in 1912 was expected as adjournment ended. If all peremptory challenges are used six more jurors must be passed for cause before final selection. Judge Boies ordered an extra venire of 26 drawn for today. Final twelve to be sworn. if not completed, adjournment may be taken and opening statements postponed to Wednesday. Testimony will begin after opening addresses are finished.
Geneva reports the Berne Bund states the postponed socialist conference will be held in Switzerland at a yet to be determined place and date.
Russian troops attacked German forces near Zegevold, 32 miles northeast of Riga, as reports say a female death battalion repelled Teutons and forced a southeastern withdrawal. Petrograd moved to evacuate the city, empty institutions, and relocate private effects to ease subsistence pressures. Fires burned Saishev, Kazan province, amid suspected incendiary attack. prisoners were attacked and lynched, while in Samara wine stocks were set ablaze trapping two hundred.
In Springfield on September 11 five thousand coal miners and shopmen on the Wabash and C P and St. L railroads have refused to work. All bakers ice men butchers and sheet metal workers will strike after police and military actions broke up a protest parade for the street car workers. The strike extends from Monday morning with a broad union coalition forming a strike committee to refuse work until constitutional rights are guaranteed.
Minneapolis millers said wholesale flour prices likely fall about fifty cents a barrel as the new wheat crop hits mills. A Food Administration statement suggested a $3 barrel decline, implying old prices $3 above current levels won’t return. Fancy patent flour quoted at 11.50 a barrel on the local exchange.
War department reports two members of the 110th Engineers wounded by shell fragments in France, marking the first American casualty announcement of the war. Russian forces push northeast of Riga with a women’s battalion defeating Teutons, while the Senate passes a war tax bill near 2.4 billion dollars as Petrograd begins evacuation for subsistence needs amid the war.
Washington officials and foreign diplomats study the impact of Lan sing disclosures on German dispatches via the Swedish charge at Buenos Aires. Sweden faces pressure to define neutral positions while the allies push for a broad embargo on neutrals including foodstuffs. Argentina’s wheat surplus and potential shifts in policy loom as key factors in the evolving crisis.
A Norwegian steamship relayed news that the Italian warship Umberto I was sunk by a mine while convoying merchants in the Mediterranean. The vessel, a converted merchantman, was reported lost near an Atlantic port on September 11.
Springfield UL Sept 1 Lemuel A Wagg of Barry I filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the district court listing liabilities of 5000 and assets at 1539. He listed real estate valued at 700 and claimed exemption on 1200.
Petrograd dispatch reports Korniloff supporters marching from Luga toward Petrograd as the government council sits in session. Foreign Minister Terteschenske says the Korniloff force likely numbers only a few hundred. Luga town and railroad station are under Korniloff control.
Washington reports Sergeant M. G. Collerwood and Private W. F. Brannigan of Camp F. 110th engineers were slightly wounded by shell fragments on duty in France. It marks the army's first casualty release besides medical corps casualties from a hospital bombing.
Pershing's first war department report on the France hospital bombing lists three privates mortally wounded and names Privates Woods of Kansas City and Rubino Jr and Oscar C. Tugo among medical corps personnel. The earlier note from the London attache reported a death but did not mention the wounded.
Burlington Iowa Sept 11 officials of the Rock Island and Burlington railroads blamed Louis Arnold switch tender for the wreck near Burlington last Saturday. He admitted he forgot to close the switch after side tracking a Rock Island train allowing a Burlington train to pass. The Burlington train crashed into the open switch and into the Rock Island train injuring four seriously and several others slightly. Fireman R Scukup of Cedar Rapids was in critical condition and may not live.
Leroy N. Bundy, a Negro dentist, indicted for murder tied to East St. Louis riots. He was denied a writ of habeas corpus in Cleveland after arrest there. Bundy allegedly led a Negro mob that killed two detectives on July 1, triggering subsequent violence. Ohio authorities weigh requisition papers at governor’s request.
Leavenworth Kansas September 11 The Rev James Morrison Darnell was released Monday after completing a three year federal prison term for transporting Ruth Soper of Owatonna Minnesota from Chicago to Kenosha Wisconsin in violation of the Mann act.
Ernest J. Lehmann, owner of The Fair in Chicago, his wife, and two others were hurt when their car was struck by an electric interurban near Waukegan on Monday. The accident occurred on the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee line as the party traveled from Chicago.
East St Louis September 1 1924 Armours Gen Manager Robert D Conway announced a 25 cent per day wage increase affecting 5800 workers at packing houses. He said the raise was not in response to union agitation and urged peaceful implementation.
The 2 billion war levy, described as the largest tax bill in U.S. history, cleared the Senate 69 to 4 after four months of work. The measure funds war costs through income, corporate, and war profits taxes, with major cuts to consumption taxes and changes to postage and inheritance plans. The bill now returns to the House for conference, ahead of enactment anticipated within ten days.
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