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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1916
Page
7
Rev. J M Cagie a prominent Baptist minister was shot and probably fatally wounded in Sherman Texas by Mrs Annie Faust who fired near Y Penison. She said the minister had consulted her.
Oklahoma House passed a joint resolution authorizing submission of a woman suffrage amendment to the state constitution by a 62 to 15 vote. The action moves the issue toward a state referendum and potential constitutional change.
We announce a limited time sale on enamelware hardware tinware and dishes. Call upstairs to view the goods offered by C. E. Harper.
Colonel Roosevelt departed New York aboard the British steamship Guiana for a pleasure cruise through the West Indies and plans to return by March 17. Miss Catherine Barstler of Omaha possibly fatally burned at Lincoln sanitarium while training nurses. a gas flame caught her cotton uniform and she was severely burned. Benjamin F. Sonner of Arthur faces contempt proceedings after an altercation with Walter Haythorne and two ranch hands. Sonner allegedly drove the men from disputed hay land and fired at a youth named Haythorne.
Delays in equipment postponed Home Economics cooking classes while stoves and tables were installed. Swimming instruction paused due to faulty pool paint now being replaced with better water resistant paint. Grade school moves to eight rooms in Central building and a new lunch room created from former sixth grade space. Declamation and debating classes grow with 25 declamation students and Miss Johnson leading debating efforts. January honor roll shows 64 on the high school list with other departments similarly improving.
A confession by Frank Ferrara, driver of the murder car, ties ten men to a New York murder plot that killed Barnett Baff, an independent poultry dealer. Separately, the Senate Naval Committee quickly approved a bill for a government armor plate factory after manufacturers warned of higher private-armor prices.
Washington weighs a German note announcing armed merchant ships will be treated as warships after February 29. Officials expect a quick U S policy decision as fourteen days remain before the change, with Vienna likely issuing a similar note. Entente powers resist disarming ships, rendering a U S shift a nonneutral act and raising prospects of warnings to armed American vessels. Congress may be asked to act to protect citizens abroad.
Secretary Garrison's resignation shifts congressional mood on national defense and Philippine independence. Lawmakers say it ends the continental army plan and prompts rapid move to federalize the national guard as a reserve defense, with Representative Hayehaffman already drafting a revised bill without the continental army.
A large uproar and demand for reprisals arise in Stockholm after Germany orders Swedish customers to cancel all contracts for aniline dyes unless they pay four times the contract price and the mark’s normal value.
Revolutionary successes in Yunnan province with the capture of Yuenchow are reported, signaling advancing momentum for insurgents against authorities.
Former President Taft told a New York audience that the United States is in the European war to the struggle itself and that neutrals rights count little as Germany and Austria violate laws. He argues neutrals may sell munitions but warns neutrals face growing belligerent enmity and calls for neutral consultation before war.
Dispatch from the French front reports Lieutenant Graham-White the British aviator has been gravely wounded. In American politics the preferential presidential primary could leave four Republican candidates Henry Ford H D Burton Senator Cummins and Theodore Burton as potential choices if no further filings occur.
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