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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
15
Athens December report states the blockade of Greece begins at six o clock Saturday morning. Members of the British naval mission have been ordered to embark on the Greek liner King Constantine. The Greek government says troop movements have ceased in response to Entente demands for explanation.
Paris reports German forces driven from trenches on Hill 304 at Verdun after heavy action. On the Macedonian front three Serbian counterattacks by German and Bulgarian troops near Sturviow were repulsed, with ongoing heavy fighting in that region.
French troops attacked the Verdun front on Thursday to recapture trenches captured by the Germans on Hill Ltd but the assault failed, according to an army headquarters statement. On the Russo-Galician front the Russians attacked on Thursday but did not gain ground, the official report says.
A war office report says Russian troops attacked in the Lodova region and the Trotus valley were repulsed with heavy losses. Romanian forces retreating from Predeal and Alischanz passes were cut off, with many captured. In western Romania, Austro German forces continued the pursuit, taking over 10,000 prisoners.
WARSHIP. LOST imylammocyyep re PARIS, Dec. 3 rHe" Battleship Suffern, which left port on Novem ber 24, has' not been 'heard from since and the ministry of marine considers the vessel lost with all on board. The Suffern sailed from' Lorient, a Wrench naval station in Brittany. The Suffern displaced 12,750 tons. Its normal complement was 730 men. It was 410 feet long and seventy feet st beam. Last year the Suffern took part to the bombardment of the Turkish forts at the Dardanelles. It entered the Birajts to attack Turkish batteries, and, according to an official Turkish state ment, was damaged seriously and withdrew in flames. It was sent back to Toulon for repairs.
Andrew J. Peters said to resign after March 4 to attend to personal affairs in Massachusetts. Rumors swirl about McAdoo Houston and Gregory resigning. White House cautious. Senate proceeds on prohibition bill to bar liquor manufacture and sale in the national capital, Sen Sheppard initiating debate.
Gara Matheney J M Saunders and Richard Mosby were tried before Magistrate Jackson V Carter on various charges. Matheney and Saunders were convicted and sentenced to sixty days on the county roads with costs. Matheney previously faced a ten month term for felonious assault and had escaped, later recaptured. Saunders received six months for interfering with an officer, later sent to Pennsylvania and back to finish his sentence, then retried for escaping. Mosby got six months for violating the anti weapon law, escaped, recaptured in Cumberland, then given sixty days to start after finishing his original term.
President Wilson commutes the contempt sentences of Frederick Ledvinka James Oats Hiram Stephens and Fannie Sellens awarded in Philippi West Virginia on April 25 1915 for disobeying a court injunction during a long ago car strike. They had served about three months, and the president without Judge Dayton opposition declares further punishment unnecessary.
Berlin reports the German government defends sending Belgian laborers to Germany as a social necessity. It argues the move aids idle workers amid British embargo impacts, with 665000 fully or partly jobless and 1.56 million Belgians including dependents needing public aid.
Zurich despatch to Matin reports King Constantine in very weak condition as his old side wound continues to suppurate and stay open. The health anxiety follows German sources, with Paris noting the king’s ongoing ailment on December 8.
Washington reports a potential new note to Germany on submarine policy as U S seeks data on the Arabia incident and confirms the Marina was not a transport and enjoys neutral merchant immunity. Germany shows willingness to offer amends if pledges are broken.
A Christiania despatch cites the Norwegian ministry of commerce announcing that in November nineteen Norwegian vessels totaling 32,593 tons were lost. Reports also note the Greek steam ship Spiros of 1,084 tons sunk by a German submarine near Las Palmas, and the Norwegian steamship Stettin of 412 tons sunk by a submarine near Stavanger.
Testimony in the Jamison mine No. 7 explosion inquiry at Barracksville started in Fairmont on December and paused until Monday. Officials testified safety appliances were used and blamed a gas buildup for the unavoidable blast.
A Wireless Press despatch says Germany and Austria offered land communication services to Greece if it joins the Entente war. In Rome an official admiralty statement reports two Italian seaplanes raided Thriest dropping five bombs on naval sheds with no damage to crews.
London dispatch reports that Prime Minister George will push for an immediate solution to the war crisis through an informal conference, a move described as not unlikely by informed observers.
Unofficial returns show wets carried Marietta by a narrow margin in the wet dry election. Total vote 439 precincts 13. Wets won seven precincts while drys won six. Both sides call it the closest wets and drys contest in years with no street celebration and cautious optimism from both camps.
Sheriff Ross F. Stout announced that any vehicle owner found violating the law requiring front and rear license tags will be prosecuted. The West Virginia statute imposes escalating fines for offenses, from up to 25 dollars for a first offense to 50 to 100 dollars or up to ten days imprisonment for a third offense.
Chicago reports a fall in wholesale creamery butter quotations after boycott agitation and a federal price investigation. Dealers blamed reduced consumption and higher supplies, noting declines of about half to one cent on several grades.
Evansville mayor Bosse runs the municipal market to fight high food prices. On Friday prices ranged from twenty five to thirty percent below retailers, with potatoes at 1.65 per bushel butter 0.35 a pound eggs 0.40 a dozen. Tomorrow twenty dressed hogs listed at 0.12 per pound and rabbits shipped in hundred lots sold rapidly at 0.15 each.
Mass. Levy reports from Berne via Paris on December 8 describe the German hundred-marie bid dropping by a point and a quarter on the Geneva Youre and by one point and three quarters on the Zurich Dourse. It now stands at seventy-nine francs and eighty francs twenty-five centimes. Analysts link the decline to Germanys new mags levy, warning it may curb the nations economic life and trigger broader instability.
An official Berlin statement says weather was unfavourable but aerial forces achieved great successes in November. Allied losses totaled 31 aeroplanes across western eastern Roumanian and Balkan theaters. German and Allied losses are contrasted with 71 enemy planes downed, 42 captured and the rest seen to fall behind the lines.
Samuel O M Taylor longtime American consul general at Birmingham England died Thursday night at age 60. He once served in the Ohio general assembly and as secretary of state and held consular posts in Glasgow Peru and Nottingham before Birmingham. A second item notes the war office reports surrender of 8000 Roumanians in Friday’s official statement.
William McSherry, reportedly pan and footwear lacking, was taken to a county jail after disturbing Wolf Summit residents by entering homes without permission. He claims to be a pipeline worker en route from Bedford, Pa., and will be detained for lunacy proceedings to decide future action.
Mrs Mary Warden Harkness widow of Charles W Harkness of Standard Oil died Friday in New York City hospital after an operation. Her husband’s estate was appraised at 48 566 896 with more than 12 million left to her. Her Madison New Jersey home is noted.
Robert G. Martin sues Ross F. Stont sheriff alleging $6,000 in damages for injuries from December 1, 1915 when Clarence Vannort shot Martin in the left side during an arrest attempt. The suit contends Vannort acted as the sheriff's agent making the sheriff responsible for the harm.
Washington officials move toward possible prosecution of coal speculators for contributing to rising prices. Boston reports a cotton mill wage increase of about ten percent will start January 1 after a Thursday conference of mill owners and agents. About 15,060 workers are employed in Maine mills.
The Anchor line steamship Caledonia of 9223 tons gross is believed sunk, an announcement at Lloyds Shipping Agency said. The Caledonia, long in British government service, measured about 500 feet by 33 feet.
In a squalid kitchen beneath a pool hall on Baltimore near Fifth, Louis Carboni is killed and Frank Candiloro is charged with murder after a jealous confrontation over a painted woman. Salvatore Nantunlo wounded as bystander. Candiloro claims self defense while police tie motive to jealousy and a past extortion. Carboni’s body moved to a local undertaker, Candiloro jailed awaiting magistrate Kidd’s trial. Police seek witnesses among two women present. investigation notes prior raid for whiskey ended in minor charges.
Fragmentary text from a 1919 era newspaper discusses press claims on the Bucharest text and the German victory assertion, noting disproof and the controversy surrounding Chancellor von Hollweg’s stance. The readable portion is uncertain and incomplete.
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