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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1916
Page
3
Tan Temple No. 169 Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan will install officers for the year Monday evening. Other important business will be transacted. All members are urged to attend. Telegram victorial department contact Bell 890 or Home 157- . Continued on page 5.
CHICAGO Feb 6 A motion to dismiss the Federal League suit against organized baseball was not heard Monday in U S district court as defense attorneys sought a hearing The decision followed a Friday filing by the defendants lawyers Washington Feb 5 President Wilson returned to the capital from a western trip and went to the White House Wayne s Berg Pa Feb fire destroyed half a city block injuring the business section with losses around 135000 The First National Bank was saved by volunteers from an advancing blaze
An advertiser recounts a December first illness cured in days by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The customer, identified as T, bought two bottles and recovered fully, praising the medicine as an effective cure for future colds. The ad indicates availability everywhere.
Miss Kiyoko Kachi a nineteen year old descendant of a leading Tokyo family has studied in San Francisco the bunny hug and fox trot and other modern American dances. She believes Japan should have the chance to dance the latest dances.
London reports no wreck sighting as British vessels conduct thorough search for the zeppelin after its disappearance in the North Sea. The text also notes a Manchester factory used gas to replace enmities and lamps in 1808, and mentions the il pasa being introduced into London two years later.
Major General Scott, chief of the army, told the House military committee the Hays bill to raise enlistments without new regiments is flawed. He argued universal training, continental army readiness, and budget cautions against using tactical diversions as a basis for expansion. He also addressed Dupont Page’s question on officers earning pay while having private munition interests, noting few retired officers hold such positions and no evidence of widespread conflict.
A second offense writ was issued against Cork by Magistrate Williams. Cork, jailed on a prior prohibition charge, waived examination and posted two $500 bonds. A new warrant cites a prior conviction and warns of a potential one to five year penitentiary if convicted again. The appeal bond had lapsed and sentencing to be decided at the next criminal court term.
Budapest reports Major Tapkovatch the Serbian officer accused of organizing the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand on June 28 1914 died from wounds after a Serbian campaign near Proslonil He was exhumed and positively identified by Serbians Austria cites him as organizer of the Sarajevo plot and notes his last command of a Serbian artillery battery near Gragufevatz where 200 men were reported.
The British ambassador presented a formal demand for the return to British owners of the liner Appain seized by a German prize crew. A new diplomatic controversy seems likely as the United States leans toward holding Germany responsible.
While his train runs between Baltimore and Washington, Wilson reads Berlin despatches on the Lusitania situation. He makes no comment though party members call the situation unfavorable, and officials say the president had not finished considering dispatches last night.
A new Nerve Worth endorsement promotes its use and credits relief to W. B. Barr of Avex in Charleston. The notice claims Barr, a traveling agent for the Incandescent Light & Stove Co. of Cincinnati, found relief after taking one bottle and praises the tonic as a general health booster. It urges others to try Nerve Worth and share the report.
Calcutta reports the small Nepali state on India's northeast frontier has presented the British government with a further gift of 100000 dollars for war expenses. It has already provided 100000 for Gurkha regimental comforts, over 80000 for the Indian Relief Fund, about 20000 for Gurkha distress, 25000 for the Price of Wales's Pipe, 6000 blankets, 40000 pounds of wool, and forty one machine guns, while placing military resources at Britain's disposal and sending troops to service in India.
Investigation began Friday into the failed Thursday night effort to dynamite the government levee at Pine Bluff. If successful the blast would have diverted Arkansas River floodwaters away from the town. The death toll remained fourteen as the floodwaters rose on Friday and pain intensified in the affected area.
Associated Press reports Phillips Shoot and Tin Plate Co with plants in Steubenville Brecksville? and Clarkaburg West Virginia announced a pay increase effective February 1 for about 4,000 workers. The exact rate was not disclosed but will match increases given to other independent plants.
The ad claims humors in the blood cause internal derangements and disease. It asserts Hood's Sarsaparilla has for forty years been more successful than any other medicine at expelling humors and removing their inward and outward effects, urging purchase by claiming uniqueness.
A circuit court jury Friday returned a verdict for Amon G. Parks for 208.95 against South Penn Oil Company over damages to employees at the Juduatria addition shops. The Pike News Company sought an injunction to halt Clarksburg advertising firm from entering bid board contracts. A temporary injunction blocked Resell Carter from interfering with Hope Nautigins Company employees.
Baltimore firms announce a record for punctuality of passenger trains Nos 6 and 11 on the Baltimore and Ohio system. In the last twelve months these eight hour runs between St Louis and Cincinnati covered 247070 miles and achieved 98.0 percent on time. The trains reportedly maintain a 339 mile terminal-to-terminal route with high consistancy across passenger service.
Ten BPRLIN Feb 6 reports continued and increasing Allied artillery activity along the Franco Belgian front. Friday's German war office statement notes the explosion of a British mine that destroyed one of the urine craters near Hulluch, recently occupied by Germans, and mentions inconclusive grenade operations nearby.
The war office released a brief statement noting no major events occurred Thursday night. It reports active artillery activity on both sides in the Vosges region and adds no other significant developments.
A sudden line in the Ohio River halted the hunt for five men missing since the Sam Brown explosion on Wednesday near Aanodar Huntington. State and federal inspectors cannot access the wreck, which remains fully submerged. The search will resume downstream as bodies are believed to have been carried by the flood.
February sale event announced by Business and to offer discounts on furniture items and related materials. The notice highlights reduced prices and emphasis on value through quality workmanship for shoppers.
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