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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1915
Page
2
British forces attack German naval bases in the North Sea and bomb Metz and St Privat in France. Russian advances at Cracow and Warsaw continue amid shifting front lines as Albania faces turmoil. US ship confiscated to evacuate British and French consuls. Libknecht joins German army. Domestic clashes include tea house fires in MacDonaldton and a large political arrest sweep in Terre Haute with 93 officials detained.
Secretary McAdoo left Washington with Mrs McAdoo for San Diego to open the Panama California exposition on December 31 returning January 10. A rumor says Senator Stone may replace Bryan as secretary of state amid a 1916 presidential race.
The Naco siege ends as Gov Maytorena lifts the siege and U S line stabilizes. Gutierrez completes a cabinet with Villa and Zapata adherents amid Carranza Villa fighting near Vera Cruz.US and Mexican leaders discuss peace after high level talks.
In Rome a royal declaration states the king and queen of Italy will name their newborn daughter Maria. In Tokyo the imperial diet dissolves amid political upheaval and the Japanese lawmakers dissolve. In London it is announced that the stock exchange will reopen on January 4. A Rome rumor claims Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary is dying and has received the last sacraments.
Washington reports the United States issued a strong note to Great Britain demanding earlier improvement in treatment of American commerce by the British fleet. The document, prepared with input from Wilson, Bryan, Lansing and Johnson, says public criticism rises over detentions and seizures harming US rights and industry.
Associate Justice Lamar of the U S Supreme Court on Monday granted Leo M Frank’s appeal in the Mary Phagan murder case. The decision means a stay of execution until the high court rules on the constitutional questions raised, delaying any hanging.
The German government informs the American state department that Belgian consuls must be acceptable to German military authorities and proposes withdrawals for the present.
Across Illinois reports include William B. McKinley gifting $14,000 to the University Y M C A, a gardener found frozen to death near Decatur, and a Jefferson county teacher arrested for aiding prison escape. Other items note a water test for trains, a corn husking record, a family felled by scarlet fever, and Christmas provisions at the penitentiary.
The Canadian government plans to urge non-resident landholders in Western Canada to put idle holdings into cultivation. It argues high productivity with proper hard work, notes rising grain prices will boost related farm sectors, and urges buyers or lessees, including offers of 160 acres free, to improve returns. Government agents in the United States assist this push.
Noted detective William J. Burns receives praise from a New York reporter after a recent triumph. Burns declares that knowing the color of the suspect’s beard made the rest easy and warns that a little knowledge is dangerous if a capable detective has it.
A concise aside notes that a woman cannot keep another’s secret but she can typically guard her own, reflecting on privacy and discretion within personal relationships.
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