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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1916
Page
6
Mrs Kate York, Illinois’s first woman elected mayor, files suit for divorce from William T. York. She accuses desertion amid marital strain while managing Kingston Mines city affairs. York, elected mayor in 1914 and re-elected in 1916, also runs a general store and drives her own automobile.
Mayor E G Ham of Greenville Mississippi ordered police to arrest women wearing diaphanous gowns after several young society women blocked sunlight Sunday afternoon. The incident prompted a citywide dress code complaint and a formal prohibition on such attire on Greenville streets.
An army of 12,000 British soldiers is sent to the Caucasus to cooperate with Russian forces against the Turks. The expedition, equipped with extensive supplies including tank motor cars for desert water transport, is reportedly moving from Archangel toward Tiflis.
Public health officials led by Surgeon General Blue asked Congress for a 100000 appropriation to fight infantile paralysis and to draft doctors from civil life. They met Monday to discuss urgent steps as Congress may grant immediate funds, noting the service currently has only 15000 available to combat contagious diseases.
The Russian hospital ship Vperiode of 858 tons and built in 1898, carrying 120 wounded, was reportedly sunk by an enemy submarine without warning while proceeding without escort to embark more wounded. Seven lives were officially recorded as lost.
Reports of plots to blow up the naval powder factory at Indian Head Maryland worry Secretary Daniels. He considers asking Congress for special funds to enhance protection. The Navy doubled gear and weighs fencing the plant at a cost of 25000 dollars to guard a facility valued at 5500000 dollars.
John T. Hayes, manager of the Babícora ranch in Chihuahua, fled with 110 horses and several Mexican cowboys to Colonia Diblan and reached El Paso after learning the Carranza government had confiscated the Hearst owned ranch and stock over alleged support for Pershing's expedition.
The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage says the National Woman's Party will stay in the ring until a plain federal suffrage amendment is placed before Congress by either major party. It warns of an independent ticket or alliance with Progressives if the amendment is not approved. The House Judiciary Committee has virtually rejected the measure and it seems unlikely to reach the floor this season.
The report says President Wilson will likely receive formal nomination notification from the St Louis convention at Shadow Lawn New Jersey in early August. It also notes former Justice Hughes would be notified on July 31 of his nomination by the Republican party.
Edward Righter of New Orleans elected grand exalted ruler of the Grand Lodge BPOE over Llova Maxwell of Marshalltown Iowa in a secret Baltimore session. Vote 985 to 388. Boston chosen for the next convention.
Dan Patch, holder of the world speed record of 1:55, died at Savare stables in Minneapolis Tuesday. Veterinarians cited an athletic heart as the cause. the champion is recorded as 20 years old.
Ernest Schiller, imprisoned for capturing the British freighter Matoppo and serving a life term at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, attempted an escape Tuesday by scaling the prison wall and dropping to a scaffold ten feet below. guards fired but reportedly missed.
A teamster tripped Schiller as he neared success and he was taken before the Warden. He stated he read of a U boat threat to the United States and wished to join its crew for freedom.
A general strike of railroad workers in Spain is threatened to start immediately as dispatches from the provinces report growing support in Madrid Barcelona Oviedo Valencia and Bilbao. In Bilbao clashes with the civil guard escalated into rioting leaving one dead and five injured.
The Interior Department announced a 5000 acre national monument on Mount Desert Island in Maine, the first national park east of the Mississippi. The Sieur du Monte tract was donated by its owners and lies near Bar Harbor with ten peaks and four lakes within its borders.
Gen. P. Elias Calles, commander of Sonora, told the AP that demobilization of border troops is ordered and all public offices along the border will reopen. He said there can be no break between Mexico and the United States and invited foreigners to return to Sonora with protection for their persons and property.
United States Ambassador Gerard will depart Berlin soon for a needed break since the war began. He will not return to the United States, instead taking a rest cure in Denmark and Scandinavia during his leave.
Lieut. W. H. Young of the aero squadron attached to the First New York Infantry abandoned a Dayton to Fort Worth flight due to engine trouble. He crated the biplane at Fort Worth and shipped it to Brownsville, planning rail to the border. He then went to Dayton to buy a new plane as the New York National Guard was called out.
The Austrian Admiralty says cruiser Novara encountered four or five armored British patrol boats near Otranto Road. All patrol boats were destroyed by artillery fire and sank in flames. three boilers exploded. Novara rescued nine British crew members.
The body of Capt. C. T. Boyd of the Tenth Cavalry killed at Carrizal was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Secretary Baker Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott and other War Department leaders attended. President Wilson sent a wreath. A War Department note says six unidentified negro troopers killed at Carrizal were sent from El Paso and would be buried at Arlington.
Dispatches from Amsterdam report Germany plans a Zemelin freight and passenger service. A new type super Zeppelin named Z Deutschland is expected to arrive at an American port mid August with dyes chemicals mail and possibly passengers onboard.
Forty two men of Company L Ninth Massachusetts Infantry from Natick become ill with ptomaine poisoning after consuming canned salmon in El Paso Sunday. Most are up and about. Sgt O Connor remains in danger. Separately former Senator William Lorimer plans a mass meeting of depositors hurt by the Lorimer banks failure to be held next Monday evening at the Second Regiment Armory. Receiver Niblack says a twenty five percent payout to depositors likely on August 1.
The American manufacturing boom tied to allied war orders is fading. Thousands of workers have been dismissed as plants built or expanded to produce arms and war material for England France and Russia close or cut back after early war contracts were filled.
An upcoming House committee bill plans omnibus public building funding totaling 25 to 30 million dollars. It includes post office sites in Detroit and Kansas City, adds an extra site in Chicago and a building in New York City, 650 thousand for Oakland, California, and 600 thousand for a San Francisco marine hospital.
Charles Andria, 12, son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Andria, is hospitalized in Conn Hospital after biting a golf ball and rupturing an acid pocket. Doctors report little hope for recovery as he may have swallowed corrosive fluid.
American soldiers digging a rifle trench uncover an Indian house believed to be at least five thousand years old. Authorities say the site may have housed a prehistoric race that preceded the Aztecs with a population in the thousands. Found were preserved decorated pottery samples.
Edward MecCaude, a curb market stakeholder in New York, offers 2 to 1 that Hughes will win the presidency and notes no Wilson money is in sight. Earlier the odds on the Republican nominee stood at 8 to 5.
Police in Chicago say they have busted a large auto thieves trust after arresting fourteen individuals. The scheme is alleged to have operated for more than a year in Chicago and suburbs, averaging one to two cars stolen daily. Indictments include the three Whitehead brothers, previously arrested for motor theft in Chicago and other cities.
Elmer Stafford of Kansas City was fined by Judge Kiernan for beating his 102 year old mother. Neighbors testified Stafford returned home after drinking Wednesday and slapped his mother several times as she sat on the front porch. the elderly woman could not attend court due to age.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Athens reports that forty five hundred French troops have been landed at Mytilene off the coast of Asia Minor.
Fremont Ohio resident John Carmody, once educated but lately unkempt after a troubled love affair, was forced to take a bath and subsequently died from pneumonia on July 4.
Carl Laemmle of Universal Film Company urged a new national board of trade for moving picture producers modeled on the baseball commission. He called for binding restrictions on actors and a ten day clause in all contracts, warning that Mary Pickford Honus Wagner Charlie Chaplin and Walter Johnson could be affected if plans from a Chicago meeting advance.
Miss Norah Barter twenty seven year old school teacher of Port Huron engaged to Dani Mosher assistant attorney general. She died in Lansing Michigan after swallowing mercury during a quarrel while Mosher walked with her. A revolver cartridges and a second vial of poison were found in her handbag.
Former actress Josephine Cohan, sister of George M. Cohan and member of the Four Cohans, known in the theatrical world as Mrs. Fred Niblo, dies in her New York City apartment at the Hotel Belleclaire after months of illness.
Five people from Loudonville, Ohio were killed when a Pennsylvania Freight train struck an automobile near Mansfield. The deceased are Mr and Mrs Simon Nau and son Albert, and Mr and Mrs Peter Baum.
The military training camp at Plattsboro New York extends its age eligibility from 21 to 45 years to 18 to 55 years. The change broadens who may apply for training at the facility.
A tornado struck Josephstadt, a Vienna suburb, on Monday killing 31 people and seriously injuring more than 100. Rescue efforts and investigations are underway as authorities confirm the disaster's human toll.
The Japanese Ministry of Marine outlines a program to build four superdreadnaughts as part of a continuous navy expansion through 1923, with total expenditure pegged at 125 million dollars.
Funeral arrangements for J F McCue in Farley Indiana proceeded with a graphophone and sacred records when no organ or singers were available. Friends provided the device and music for the service.
Nine wheat growers around Abilene Kansas formed a cooperative company to buy and use electric threshing equipment. They purchased the outfit and will receive current via a transmission line to power their threshing operations.
The Rock Island Iron Mountain and Cotton Belt railroads opened a new railroad bridge over the Mississippi at Memphis. It cost 7 million dollars and is seven miles long with double tracks and a free wagon way on each side.
Blanch Toland aged 17 traveled 1600 miles to Eagle Pass Texas to wed John Dean a private in Company H first Kansas Infantry at 20. They married in the courthouse with parental consent and a license. Mrs Dean plans Red Cross nursing and to join her husband if his regiment goes into Mexico. Dean and Toland are from Baldwin Kansas.
A baby described as a millionaire has joined the widow of Charles C. Gates, now Mrs Harold Lee Judd of Minneapolis. Mrs Judd will place nearly $1,000,000 of Gates' fortune into her son's account.
Arab rebels seize Mecca after a Cairo dispatch reports the Turkish garrison of about 100 officers 2500 men and 150 civil officials surrendered. The holy city, central to Mohammedan faith, is now under rebel control.
Reports from Innsbruck say Francis Joseph is ill and summoned to Schoenbrunn. Several specialists attend the aged ruler while authorities withhold news of the war from him.
Representative J H Davis of Texas has begun mandamus proceedings to compel election officers to print his nickname Cyclone on the congressional ballot for November. Davis previously ran with the nickname listed as J H Cyclone Davis on the ticket two years ago.
Mrs Wess Harvey, 23, of Denver Colorado, collapsed on June 28 after doctors tried to awaken her. She remains in a deep slumber with shallow breathing and appears otherwise healthy. Nourishment is given by liquid diet.
The Mexican bell weevil has destroyed large sections of Florida cotton, according to the state chemist's office. The infestation threatens yields and regional agriculture as authorities study impact and control measures.
In Common Pleas Court at Zanesville Ohio artist Howard Chandler Christy and his wife Maybelle Christy saw their divorce case dismissed after Christy lawyers filed a formal request.
Friday's official report from the allied command notes small engagements in the Mayaday zone and a cannonade along the front. Greek troops tried to force transport to Kavala, five hundred men of the Sixth Division stormed a train and were fired upon by pickets, then dispersed.
Dense underbrush concealment as fifteen shots hit Col. Joseph B. Sanborn’s tent at Camp Tilson San Antonio. Sanborn escaped injury. snipers fled. Militia officers think Mexican laborers behind the attack.
Miss Leona Foster died and Rex Wise and Clyde Grove were injured when an automobile racing an interurban car turned over and rolled into a dwelling near Joplin Missouri. Wise may die as the wrecked car lay nearby.
Six unidentified negro troopers killed at Carrizal were buried in Arlington Cemetery Washington with full military honors. A Second Infantry squadron escorted the bodies to the cemetery as Secretary Baker and Maj. Gen. Scott attended the service conducted by Chaplain George L. Bayard. After taps a National Memorial Association wreath covered the graves.
The Department of Agriculture announced that American sheep raisers will receive about 75 million dollars for this year’s wool crop. June averages show prices about 28.7 cents per pound higher than in many years.
Mrs. E R Thomas wife of a New York banker and newspaper owner reported a thief snatched her handbag in Montreal. The bag contained a necklace valued at 18000 dollars and 700 dollars in cash.
Travellers report Trieste as abandoned with famine stalking the streets. The city’s population halved from 250000 to around 100000 in two years as trade and factories shut down. Railways serve the military. the port is desolate. shops closed. alms funded by government. All able-bodied men are conscripted.
Acting Secretary of State Polk presents Carranza’s proposal to President Wilson. The plan calls for a commission of three men from each section to settle the Mexican problem. Wilson reportedly approves the plan.
Fires swept the country estate of King Constantine and the crown prince’s residence, destroying the royal mausoleum of King George and nearby barracks. Several people, including army officers, were burned to death. King Constantine reportedly injured on the face and legs while jumping from a bridge. the royal family narrowly escaped.
L Ginnell independent Irish Nationalist member of Parliament was arraigned at Bow Street Court London. He faced charges of obtaining access to Knutzford detention barracks under false pretenses and was arrested under the defense of the realm act. Detectives testified he used the alias McFinfie while seeking to see imprisoned Trish prisoners. Ginnell claimed McFinfie was Gaelic for Ginnell.
Three year notes paying six percent will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange in a one hundred million dollar loan to France by a group of American bankers. The American Foreign Securities Company will float the loan and J P Morgan & Co reports the issue will be secured by government bonds from Argentina Sweden Norway Denmark Switzerland Holland Uruguay Egypt Brazil Spain Quebec and by shares of the Suez Canal Company.
The United States Naval Militia sails on a two week practice cruise with nine reserve battleships and two cruisers. About 270 officers and 4200 sailors participate alongside regular personnel. Rear Admiral Heims leads the Eastern force with ships departing from Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Norfolk to Block Island Sound, while West Coast units head to Sitka Alaska. The Alabama joins Illinois and Maryland units and Rhode Island aligns with Missouri Minnesota Ohio and First Pennsylvania.
Regis S. Post, former governor of Porto Rico, announced Col. Theodore Roosevelt has abandoned his plan to raise a division of volunteer troops for the present due to war seeming unlikely.
Four alleged bandits named Jose Antonio Arce Jesus Maria Cerda Paulino Sanchez and Vincente Lira face capital punishment after being charged with murder in the death of Corp William Oberlies of M Troop. The men claim to be self styled members of the Mexican constitutionalists army.
Members of the Fourteenth United States Cavalry were found guilty and sentenced to death in a Laredo Texas court. The case details and jurors’ findings are recorded in the official proceedings.
Augustine Chapa, a young Mexican man angered by Julia Mendez’s alleged refusal to marry him, went to her home near Rosita Texas, shot her with a rifle, and then killed himself.
The Spanish Government set military censorship on all press dispatches after a railway strike grounded operations in the northern system. Martial law was declared and a Madrid dispatch noted a general strike planned for July 16.
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized all major trunk railroads in New York City and other Atlantic ports to compel exporters to move goods to port promptly to avoid congestion. Taxes ranging from one half to six cents per 100 pounds could be charged on goods not moved from storage within thirty days.
Dr. Arthur Cleveland Cotton prominent Chicago pediatrician and dean of specialists in children’s diseases died of heart disease at his home in Chicago. The 69 year old Griggsville native, born 1847, graduat ed from Illinois State Normal University, served as a Civil War drummer boy, and authored many books.
Flames from a burst radiator at the Standard Oil plant in Whiting Indiana caused damage estimated at $250000. Seven thousand employees fought the blaze as storefronts and equipment were affected by the fire.
Mrs. Bertha Dietz jumped from a ferry into the Hudson but her bloomer skirt buoyed her and she floated. Knickerbocker Hospital treated her for the scare, while the rescuer police officer earned praise as the outcome looked favorable.
The War Department estimates the United States spends about 10 million dollars monthly to maintain the border military establishment. It costs 310 dollars per year to feed clothe and pay a private, 250 dollars more for ammunition and camps, water systems and incinerating plants. Hospital corps upkeep is put at no less than 50 dollars per man.
Chicago's population reaches 2 550 000, an increase of 112 474 over 1915, according to figures submitted by W L Bodine superintendent of compulsory education.
Edward Diez of Atlanta was arrested in Denver and faces removal to Baltimore on charges of belonging to a gang that stole 1,000,000 in unsigned bank notes from a Baltimore and Ohio train at Central Station in West Virginia last October. He discarded 1000 of the notes after being cornered at the Y M C A in this city where he lived as Joseph Meyer. Diez was noted for studious quiet habits since arriving at the local Y M C A in June.
Three men were killed and five others possibly fatally injured when a shed attached to the Semet Solvay Company plant near Buffalo was struck by lightning during a rainstorm. Chemicals in the shed exploded after the strike, with several other workers lightly hurt.
A German protest against alleged neutral acts by Edward Higgens, United States consul in Stuttgart, led to his reassignment to Bahia Brazil. George H Ifft of Butler City Pa will replace him at Stuttgart posting.
Gen Cipriano Castro former Venezuelan president who entered the U S in 1918 was refused admission upon arrival from Port of Spain Trinidad. He was detained six weeks on Ellis Island and held for a hearing by a special board. Immigration officials cited charges of moral turpitude similar to three years ago.
Philadelphia announces a new Pennsylvania Naval Militia unit to be established by graduates of the school ships Adams and Saratoga. Following a meeting of 2,000 graduates, officers say an entire division may be recruited from those who served on the ships, with enough interest to form several companies.
A notice invites readers to subscribe to the Warren Mail for $1.00 per year in advance, outlining the cost and payment term.
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