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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1915
Page
1
London and Berlin reports clash over new dreadnought designs as the American Pennsylvania and Maryland class ships loom in discussion. The French and British fleets push speed and firepower, with the Pennsylvania slated for 1916 readiness and the Dardanelles campaign drawing in Turkish guns and British losses.
Harry K Thaw will be sent back to Matteawan unless service of legal papers calls for detention in New York. a habeas corpus writ stalls his return to New Hampshire until Friday. Sheriff Grifenhagen arms 20 deputies to guard against abduction as Thaw remains in Tombs and fresh moves loom on sanity proceedings and possible federal court action.
Rome March 16 official quake report lists 29,978 dead so far with many more dying from injuries and subsequent furies and fitness caused by the disaster. communes damaged and lumbered.
March 16 fire destroys plants of Hayton Pump, Stationers Manufacturing and Deyton Dick Magneto, all in a single building at 146 teat. Loss estimated at 150000 dollars.
Four young men were injured when a railroad gasoline speed er on the Milwaukee and St Paul tracks at Wadeworth avenue crashed into a freight train. Injuries include a jaw fracture, a broken arm, punctured lungs from broken ribs, and a dislocated shoulder.
London dispatch reports a few miles from Warsaw near Blone as the closest German advance yet seen toward the Polish capital. The fight line between Warsaw and Skierniewice yields thousands dead and wounded as multiple assaults unfold. Italian neutrality looms amid reports of fleet concentration near Taranto and Dardanelles bombardment yields limited results.
In Waukegan Illinois on March 16 Patrick Ludlow 65 of Highland Park died at home around 1 PM. His brother James 58 of Wilmette died at Alice Home hospital Lake Forest from injuries after being struck by a Chicago and Milwaukee Electric car. An ambulance stood ready at the railroad station to transfer Patrick to the county hospital upon word of James death.
President Wilson declined to discuss the British order cutting off trade with Germany until he reviews the official text. Officials warn the measure creates new neutral commerce problems in maritime war and a formal protest from the United States may stress adherence to international law. Washington weighs a firm position amid ongoing foreign affairs focus.
In Terre Haute Indiana three members of William C Balding family were killed and two children severely injured after an attack while asleep. Mrs Mary Balding aged around 40 and children Thomas 10 Celesta 7 died. Irene 3 and a 12 year old child unconscious. Neighbors alerted police after children failed to attend school. A suspect is in custody.
Washington D C March 16 The battleship Connecticut broke one of her shafts while maneuvering in Guantanamo bay Sunday and is now bound for Philadelphia under her own power The hull was uninjured and cooperation was bury.
Fair tonight and Wednesday with a slightly colder night, low near 25 degrees. Temperature 7 a.m. 31, yesterday's high 41, low 30. Wind velocity at 7 a.m. reported, precipitation 0.06 inch. Humidity 95 percent at 7 p.m. and 77 percent at 7 a.m. Last 24 hours stage of water 5. Astronomical events list Mars and Saturn as evening stars, Jupiter Mercury Venus as morning stars, with bright star Alpherat and Mercury visible northwest at about 8 p.m.
Springfield Michigan March 11 the house amended the Burns bill to require primary election nominations for all judges by eliminating the emergency clause. The amendment, offered by Graham Republican of Aledo, passed 77 to 28. Judges to be elected in June will be nominated by the convention system.
The American steamer Dacia was passed by three warships before the French cruiser Europe boarded her 40 miles from Hrost. Officers and crew arrived on the Rochambeau. a prize crew was sent aboard after halting the Dacia at about ten o clock on February 27.
In Philadelphia on March 15 50 year old Fred Cassman killed himself in a hotel. He claimed reform after 20 lashes at Newcastle Delaware in 1895 for a crime he said he did not commit. After his wife and son died he left the west and feared old companions would draw him back to crime.
A hoard of jewels valued up to five hundred thousand dollars lies under guard in New York customs. The relics, ap parently from the Sixteenth century, were brought from Mexico City by a priest who fled via Vera Cruz, then to the steamer Montevideo. Officials say Carranza may abandon Progreso blockade. Wilson expects punishment for McManus killing and indemnity to the family.
Express companies American Adams Southern and Wells Fargo ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for a rehearing of the express rate case. They say the new rates caused a deficit of 2.8 million dollars in the first ten months and claim to handle 95 percent of U S express business. Lincoln Central Public School in Lincoln closed after fire marshal condemnation as a fire trap with about 500 pupils.
Dallas, March 16. At the opening hearings on the American land question Charles Holman for the federal commission of industrial relations warned that European land policy copycats threaten U S ownership. He urged land commissions as economic courts as tenants on southern farms face wage labor status. Bloomington Illinois James P Wilson sued for slander by Harry Emerson of Oregon seeking 10000 damages over cattle herd slaughter tied to foot and mouth disease on the defendant's farm.
Seattle March 16 Russian reservists in the Pacific northwest ordered home to join the colors. Twenty five thousand will be affected, according to the Russian consul.
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