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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1914
Page
7
Reports from Paris describe an exciting air duel over Troyes. A German aeroplane bombed the city, a French machine pursued for about fifteen miles and overtook the craft near Pinney. The German plane crashed, killing its two officers, while the French crew escaped.
A London ambassadorial dispatch to the state department notes about 5 099 people arrived in London from the continent bound for the United States and about 16 000 sailed from English ports during the week. The relief committee in London gave financial aid to nearly 2 300 people that week, with total beneficiaries to date around 3 000.
The senate in executive session rejected the nomination of C. W. McBride for post master at Red Cloud, Washington.
An early 20th century advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a bloodstream based treatment. It includes endorsements from F J Cheney & Co and the National Bank of Toledo asserting trustworthiness. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Doan s Kidney Pills are praised for backache and kidney trouble relief. Mrs Peter Hanson of Potter Nebraska reports lasting benefit after two years use in her family and urges others to try the remedy priced at 50 cents at dealers.
German armies, after failing to pierce a retreat road toward Metz, renew a major offensive in northeast Paris region. Allied troops, reinforced, press to dislodge Germans amid a long, exhaustingfight. French critics say this second sustained engagement could shape future war progress as Germans hold a plateau with wooded heights.
A large congregation gathered for the annual mission festival at the German Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church. Visitors arrived from Higgins, Potter, Sidney Neb, Peetz, Iliff and Sterling Colo. Rev W Obermeyer preached in the forenoon on Acts 17 16 and Rev O W Juengel in the afternoon on Matt 9 36 38. Children led singing of German hymns and about $40 was collected for mission work.
St Patrick's Catholic Church under Father Link offers Sunday Mass at 8 and 10 with an evening service at 7 30. Instruction sessions are held each Saturday at 8 o clock.
White House announced American troops have been withdrawn from Vera Cruz. The move, urged by General Carranza, aims to end the occupation deemed unnecessary as Mexico’s leaders insist the continued US presence risks relations. Villa and Obregon backed the Mexican stance against foreign troops.
The London News correspondent reports vast destruction in the Maine valley from the war. He describes miles of devastation, dead horses, and bodies along the Marne, with fires smoldering over hastily dug graves and glimpses of grim field cemeteries marking German and allied dead.
Two German aviation corps lieutenants were captured at Orry la Ville after their aircraft broke down near Angers. A prominent prewar aviator led the flight, and the observation officer was a former Paris silk-firm accountant. Guarded by extra police, they faced a crowd at the station as a Taube bombed Troyes, wounding a cuirassier. a French biplane attacked the Taube, which vanished northeast of Troyes.
E. J. Hayes pastor leads Sunday school at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. League service at 7:15 p.m. Thursday prayer meeting at 8 p.m. Choir practice Friday 8 p.m. Ladies Aid Wednesday 2 p.m. Official Board meets last Tuesday each month at 8 p.m.
Christian church hosts a weeklong series with increasing turnout. Mr Dobbs, with 15 years pastoral work, leads sermons on sin and church themes while Miss Barnes enhances services with solos and chorus. Next week topics cover the New Testament church and its ordinances.
The general position at the Aisne river remains favorable. The enemy launched several counter attacks against the first army corps and was repulsed. German losses were heavy, and 200 prisoners were captured.
The Vienna war office said General Dankl's Austrian force pierced Russian defenses and joined with the main Austrian army. It admits heavy Austrian losses and reports ongoing combat as Austrians hold their former positions while Russian reinforcements are denied.
Twenty seven are estimated dead in the Frisco wreck near Lebanon Missouri when a locomotive baggage car and forward chair car plunged through a trestle over Brush Creek and submerged in the swollen stream. Most victims drowned in the chair car while a great number were women and children. About sixty five passengers were in the car. Identified dead include Henry Wagoner Harrison Ark W A Childers Clover Mo John Myers wife and daughter Thayer Mo J H Stock Stills Springs Morese Fosse Calvin Rumley Ark George Coxey Green Forest Ark H W Newkirk Hannibal Mo C Neal Kateham Okla Mrs Elizabeth Rostetter Alliance Ohio Daisy Perry Elsie Calvin Rumley Ark W W Naylor Springfield Mo August Wetner St Louis.
A telegram from Antwerp says an official casualty list will show at least 27 000 Belgian soldiers died defending Liege. It notes a German spy signaled the bomb run near the royal palace and was shot after being caught directing the airship.
Trinity Lutheran Church led by Pastor A H Trygstad announces Sunday morning service at 11, evening at 8, Luther League at 7, with a program by The Lutheran at 7 featuring Unjust Laws and Lawmakers introduced by Marius Christensen. Sunday school lesson is The Judgment of the Nations, Matt 25:31-46. Beginners class enjoyed their session last Saturday with Miss Nellie Dedrick.
Secretary Bryan and Mrs. Bryan depart Washington for Asheville North Carolina to spend several days at their summer home which the secretary has not yet inspected They plan to stay until next Wednesday and return after the visit
In Albion Nebraska on September 14 a automobile collision north of the city left Mrs John Peters with a crushed elbow and her grandson John Thompson with severe head bruises.
Official report from Petrograd confirms 4 000 German prisoners captured in Galician fighting. In addition, thirty heavy German cannon bearing the crest of the German emperor were taken.
London Sept 17 the house of lords completed all stages on the bill suspending operations of the Irish home rule and Welsh disestablishment measures in a decisive session and sent the package toward royal assent.
Washington September 17 Secretary Bryan announced Ambassador Morgenthau at Constantinople was instructed to protest to the Turkish government against its abrogation of the capitulations.
Services will be held in Sidney tomorrow at the Dunkard church beginning at 9 30 a m. QO W JUENGEL pastor.
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