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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1915
Page
4
Mr and Mrs Grossemeyer married the previous evening were riding in a down top car when it toppled at Twenty first and State streets. They were thrown clear as the car rolled, Mrs Grossemeyer suffered internal injuries and a sprained back, while the vehicle was badly damaged and a gasoline flame burst as it turned over.
Macomb county reports no new cases of foot and mouth disease for the first time, offering rare good news. The disease had been spreading locally, with prior reports indicating continued activity in the area and neighboring counties.
Havana dispatch reports Regla mayor on Havana Harbor’s east shore requesting police files as authorities fear a possible black uprising. The warning comes as regional tension rises and security measures are discussed by city officials.
ST. PAUL September 15 Fire believed to be incendiary caused extensive damage at John Martin Lumber Company yards late tonight with losses exceeding $50,000.
Jim Coffey the Dublin giant defeated Jack Reed of Toledo in the third round of a ten round bout held in Montreal on September 15.
Mailings outline a meeting of the Western Illinois Teachers association formerly the Military Tract association to be held in Monmouth October 7 8 and 9. Dr Otis W Crandall from Chicago University Education Department will speak on opening day. Dr Caldwell and Dr Downing from the same department are prominent in education and connected to last summer’s commencement.
Community notes announce Thursday 7 30 pm Chamber of Commerce lecture on the Knight Motor by Overland expert Hower. Public invited. Local updates include farm namings in Adams county and illness notices, travel plans, and residents visiting or departing from Mendon, Park Place, and nearby towns.
A new manual training teacher from Peoria, U. R. Sewrey, aged about 27, is hired to replace R. F. Barnes. Sewrey has taught the field in Austin Minnesota and Centerville Iowa and other places, will begin immediately, and will relocate his family to Quincy.
Sept 15 Colmar reports the entire Wybrant herd, fine cattle owned by James Wybrant near Colmar, were killed today due to hoof and mouth disease. Quarantine halts shipping and farm business is at a near standstill as authorities enforce restrictions.
The county board discusses buying an automobile for Sheriff Coins and his force. Funds from the Farmers Institute and poultry show groups are referred to committees. County home reports $504.65 receipts and $100 balance. Township bridge bids include Walnut Comer Men don Ellington Forty-eighth street Lima Columbus Gilmer. State aid funds cover half of State street work.
Paris reports French colonial troops with British allies have made remarkable advances in Africa since last September. German East Africa may soon be German only in Europe. French columns have covered over 600 kilometers, forming three sided junctions and surrounding the enemy as Anglo French forces move from coast inward.
In Barry Sept 15 Decatur Wabash division maintenance crews digging for a pipe on the present line near Chapin uncovered relics of an 1839 Naples to Jacksonville railroad. Strapped iron rails still intact, anchored to wood strips with sunk spikes. The finds will be kept at division headquarters as a relic of those days.
News records Squadron Commander John Cyril Porte of the royal navy aviation depot at Hendon spending eighteen days in the United States and Canada on a British government inspection tour. He visited Hammondsport New York aviation factories then Toronto to witness the Canada aerial destroyer test, supervised by Porte, and discuss its 95 mile per hour speed, heavy armament, two propellers and low vibration engines. He is due in Liverpool tomorrow aboard the White Star liner Atlantic.
Lightning struck the John Gibson general merchandise store in Hadley after midnight on Tuesday night, causing total loss of building and stock. Insurance covers about half. A Bayliss livery barn owned by Ed Hill also burned, with losses around 3000 dollars though no livestock were burned.
British and French bankers arrive in the United States to borrow one billion dollars. They are received by J. P. Morgan, acting as agent for the British government. Baron Reading leads the British commission, titled baron after becoming lord chief justice. Mr. Blackett visited last year with Sir George Paish on British loans and finances.
At Arcadia station near Indianapolis, a robber boarded Lake Erie and Western No. 25 as it departed. He held the messenger at gunpoint and stole fourteen packages, including cash and jewelry, from the express car, then escaped in a car with two accomplices near Cicero and headed toward Noblesville.
Frank A. Vanderlip, president of National City Bank of New York, told a Spring Lake audience that new U S financial ties demand thrift as an American duty. He urged individuals to be the spring of capital for the world, saying traditional capital sources may not return soon.
New York sweltered as a heat wave persisted throughout the day with no let up, numerous prostrations reported across the section in the latest heat alert and weather brief.
Prominent financiers in New York, mostly of German descent born in the U S, resent exclusion from a major loan to the Allies and urge politeness in invitations. Dr Charles J Hexamer appeals nationwide to oppose a 1 000 000 000 loan aiding England, warning the Anglo American money interests seek to rob Americans of savings. Aged Mrs Eva Net, 91, dies in St Marys Hospital after long illness. survived by five sons and three daughters.
New York September 13 refined sugar sales for export to the British commission were about 10 600 tons. Prices quoted around 4.05 per hundredweight for granulest about 5 points below yesterday’s 35 000 ton sale to the same buyers. Domestic business remained quiet as buyers held off amid unsettled raw sugar markets and unchanged list prices.
A Baltimore doctor popularized Resinol ointment and resinol soap as a safe skin remedy for eczema ringworm and itching. The resinol treatment is claimed to stop itching instantly and heal eruptions quickly at low cost, with free samples offered by Resinol in Baltimore, Maryland.
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