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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1915
Page
2
The Dutch and British orders in council prompted a U S stance to suspend talks with British officials on cotton payments and shipments. The State Department advised it will not recognize or be bound by the embargo provisions affecting Germany and neutral routes.
A Caledonian line collision at Gretna Carlisle leaves at least seventy three dead and many injured. A troop train local and London to Glasgow express were involved as fire worsened the disaster and total casualties are expected to near four hundred.
Rome via Paris reports Italy at war with Austria Hungary after a general mobilization order. The government proclaimed war in provinces bordering Austria and Adriatic towns, effectively placing those areas under martial law as a prelude to the formal declaration.
Eighteen thousand extra harvest hands are needed in Nebraska with total plains state demand estimated at 116,000. A central Kansas City depot under C. L. Green will coordinate workers from Iowa Kansas Oklahoma the Dakotas and Minnesota to meet the season's wheat harvest.
Germany has referred the American ship William P. Frye to a prize court after it was sunk in the south Atlantic last January by the Prinz Eitel Friedrich. The action occurred before Germany received the American note demanding direct diplomatic settlement in Washington. The move to a prize court is not seen as blocking potential diplomatic adjustment.
A Berlin meeting of the Deutscher Wehr verein adopted a resolution demanding discontinuance of German exports of items used in American war efforts, notably dyestuffs, and urging limits on American imports until the objectionable trade is halted.
Lincoln Nebraskas Emil Muzik was to be executed September 15 for the murder of his wife. He was brought to the state penitentiary by Deputy Sheriff Ed Palmer. Muzik severed his wifes throat with a table knife and became terrified when mistaken as he was led to the chair expecting the electric.
Diplomatic dispatches report outlaws threaten foreigners and government is powerless amid loathsome conditions in Mexico City. The International Relief Committee has bought about 2,500 tons of cereals for distribution, contingent on transport guarantees.
Italian resentment grows after detentions as relief supplies are prepared by Belgian relief commissions. Early war actions see Austrian air forces bomb Italian Adriatic towns including Venice and Tyrol border clashes. Editor of the Aurora Republican, former St. Paul Republican owner, Nebraska press leader Perkins noted for his railway commission service before returning to journalism.
The University of Nebraska and Lincoln citizens stage a June 5 pageant showing Nebraska history from pioneer days to the grasshopper era. Over 300 students perform scenes including the Spirit of Progress and the founding of Lincoln with flourishes of songs and dances.
Lassen peak’s seething caldron boiled over last week sending a mud river down the mountain slope into Hat Creek valley in eastern Shasta County. Farms and several houses were destroyed while residents fled in time. no lives were lost. Forest ranger Fred Seaton gave timely warning to settlers.
The Charleston house of delegates approved a joint resolution urging Georgia Governor to commute Leon M. Frank's sentence to life imprisonment. The action aims to alter the existing death penalty outcome.
Dr Alexander Graham Bell receives the Edison medal at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers annual meeting. The award honors meritorious achievement in electrical science and is funded by Edison trust funds for a North American resident with significant electrical engineering or arts contributions.
Montgomery Alabama convicts are no longer used as domestic servants for state officials or as laborers at the capitol and other state institutions following an executive order by Governor Henderson. The move ends convict detail work in Alabama government operations.
Heavy rains across Kansas and parts of northern Oklahoma and western Missouri push hundreds of streams beyond banks and swell creeks and rivers toward flood stage. District reports two to five inches of rain with heavy damage noted by truck farmers and orchard growers.
London reports the French steam trawler St Just of Arcachon was torpedoed and smashed to pieces near Dartmouth. The fate of the crew is not specified in the available text.
Copenhagen correspondent reports from Berlin that Germany plans a call up of two million men. The Daily Mail cites an authoritative Berlin source as the basis for the claim.
Charge d Affaires Magnus of the German legation in Mexico City was attacked and stabbed by a robber near the legation. He reported the incident to the German embassy in Washington but said it had no political significance and that he was not seriously wounded.
Guards report firing first shots as contact begins. The campaign aims for a rapid, decisive defeat to deter Italian forces, with German forces under Field Marshal von Hindenburg expected to lead the main effort.
London reports the warehouses of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium at Rotterdam and other centers are well stocked to withstand supply interruptions. The main challenge was belligerent nations blocking purchases of foodstuffs inside their borders for Belgian sufferers.
Rome reports that Germany and Austria have stopped 30,000 Italians from leaving their territories, a claim met with skepticism in Rome. The Giornale d Italia doubts the report, arguing it would clash with national rights and noting Italy previously allowed and protected departures of Austrians and Germans.
Large orders for military stores and foodstuffs for Italy are reported in the market. The Italian government has been drawing supplies from the United States despite hostilities. Shipments of coal and wheat to Italy have been extensive in recent weeks. Many ships loaded with horses for the Italian army have been reported, and an order for 50,000 more horses is believed awaiting acceptance.
Rome reports the Alps border region will host tough combat as Austrian and Italian forces fortify their positions. The armies have prepared defenses on their sides of the line, with the Italian fleet largely stationed in the Adriatic.
Geneva correspondent reports Austrian and Italian forces nearly a million men each facing at the front in northern Italy. Austro-German HQ staff arrive at Trent as artillery opens in the Stelvio pass. Tyrolean troop trains push toward the Swiss border.
Between 16 000 and 18 000 harvest hands will be required this season in Oklahoma, the Oklahoma City labor commissioner told the Bureau of Immigration in Washington via the Postmaster in Lincoln. The harvest season in Oklahoma starts June 5.
Government reclamation project moves to south site unit with orders expected within a week. Lincoln Land Company deeds cover 8,000 acres, aiding progress. The new line will expand irrigated land by about 107,000 acres and plans seek extension into Creighton and Horseshoe valleys adding 14,000 more acres.
The Lake Mohonk conference on international arbitration hosted a heated debate over arms between Secretary of War Garrison General Leonard Wood and Norman Angell of New York. Angell, a leading disarmament advocate who just returned from hospital service in the war zone, challenged the views voiced by the secretary and the former army chief of staff.
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