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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1916
Page
2
An Overseas News Agency report states a steamer arrived at Sayville carrying German internees from Flushing New York. One crew member reportedly perished and another was rescued after the vessel's crew abandoned ship.
In Wheeling officials urged a $1 wage increase and price boost for cigars and cigarettes, prompting about 1,400 workers to meet. Stogie manufacturers pledged to comply, with cigars priced at five cents, rising to ten, and singles increasing similarly, as the cigar industry faces higher costs.
Reports from the Somme and eastern fronts indicate German forces achieving gains, pushing towards Schwaben redoubt and Seizures near Chaulnes, with French positions at Saillisel and Bapaume-Peronne road repulsed in parts. Central powers advance along the Danube front. Romanian and Russian prisoners taken, battles rage across multiple theaters including Gallia Volhynia and the Balkans. Count Karl Sukrht was reportedly shot in Vienna, and a German Kothen cruiser was torpedoed by a British sub.
A severe gale swept Lakes Erie and Huron today causing the loss of six fishermen. The barge D. L. Filer of Chicago and steamer Marshall Foote of Michigan City sank after hours of adrift. Captain John Mattison of Muskegon, master of the Filer, was the sole survivor.
A birthday observance marked the opening anniversary of the West Tike Street barber shop. Proprietor Austin Myers led a midnight gathering with about ten staff members, a musical program, and remarks by local figures. Attendees heard political chatter and local leadership praise, while guests enjoyed entertainment in a bygone era social setting.
In Wheeling on October 21 President J B Atkinson of the Tri-state Milk Producers Association announced fourteen cows were milked. The gathering failed to act on a proposed raise in milk prices paid by depots to producers. A further meeting will be called in a few days. The United Dairy Company, the city’s largest dairy, is reportedly preparing to oppose an increase.
A report to army officers says four American soldiers were under arrest on the Mexican side of the border near Juarez. The incident was reported in El Paso at mid October. The article notes the location and the foreign jurisdiction involved in the arrest.
School notes show total enrolment for the month rising by 125 at Washington Irving high school and up nine at Water Street high school. First grades total 321 beginners, with 197 boys in the drawing and mechanical department and 247 girls in sewing while 154 study cookery.
Dallas police arrested 22 year old James Walton of 311 Krause Street St Louis Mo for a robbery at the Turroughs Adding Machine Company in Detroit weeks earlier. Walton, with two companions, planned and carried out the heist and remained near the scene days after. A confession implicated two others. police recovered $400 in cash, cartridges, heat instruments and a pistol at Walton’s suburban room, with about $180,000 unaccounted for and a companion wounded in the exchange.
Harrisburg warns dairymen to expect a ban on reusable milk bottles in favor of single use destructible containers. Dr Samuel G Dixon, health official, argues lingering contamination risk from bottle tops and rims handled by multiple people.
Samples, a prominent local lawyer and Democratic activist, criticizes his party after long study of politics. He argues the Democrats aren’t best suited to protect public rights and indicates he will switch affiliation and campaign across the county.
In Sturgeon Bay a three year old attempted to shave his infant sister while parents were away. The child struck the baby on the face twice and caused a deep cut on the hands. The incident occurred in the Franklin family home.
A Plymouth Rock hen in Indiana, Pennsylvania, survived twenty-two days without food or water after being placed in a bugey and forgotten. The hen emerged skeletal but recovering, shocking observers and highlighting the poultry’s endurance. Names such as Josep Lathringer and Arthur Sawyers appear in the report.
A thirteen year old Minneapolis boy, Morton Grant, has created a shower alarm to wake the maid and close the windows when it rains at night. He wires a bell with rain-activated paper that becomes a conductor and completes a circuit to ring the bell.
In Lewistown a Pennsylvanian eighteen hour train arrived with a four inch hole in its glare cover after a live pigeon struck it. Inspectors reported the bird survived with a damaged eye and wing. Separately Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will speak in Chicago on October 25 to back Hughes and Fairbanks.
Governor Henry D. Hatfield completed a two day automobile tour of Hampshire Hardy and Grant counties delivering twelve speeches to large eager crowds. At Romney he was greeted by a welcoming committee while some Democratic leaders stayed away. The tour sparked intra party tensions as opponents criticized Hatfield and a Fayette county machine politician. In Romney and other towns, some Democrats pledged to vote straight Republican, signaling shifting support across multiple counties.
Wireless New York message received by Clyde line officials reports the steamship Araphoe disabled in a Thursday storm off Cape Lookout is safe with all 100 passengers aboard and towed to this port, expected to reach early Monday morning. Meta Smith of Fairmont is visiting her aunt, Mrs Rose Caywood of Virginia avenue.
wartime dispatch reports British troops attacking along a front near Le Our, with infantry advancing in good order after bombardment. The attack secured a trench and other positions as German resistance appeared light. About 200 prisoners were captured with light British casualties.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered the rate case reopened for traffic between the Pacific coast and the east. Hearings are set in Chicago on November 20, Salt Lake City November 28, San Francisco December 4, Portland December 6, and Spokane December 10. The core issue is long versus short haul under the interstate law, affecting many commodities but not citrus fruit under blanket rates.
John B. Deville American delegate in Belgium for the Belgium American Alliance in Chicago sailed today on the Riyndam bound for Belgium. He will arrange the sending home of 300 Belgian boys and girls under fifteen orphaned by the war who will be cared for by American relatives. He carries 1,500 letters and funds for war stricken relatives sent by Belgians in the United States and Canada.
A Vienna based count born in Graz in 1850s rose through Austrian state service, becoming a ministerial director and later head of a department. He participated in cabinet reshuffles since 1904 and faced a ministerial crisis. American press noted his call for moderation amid Teutonic expansionist talks during wartime.
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