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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1916
Page
2
A dispatch from Copenhagen to Reuter’s Telegraph says German torpedo boats captured an American four masted schooner named x, likely carrying petroleum, and three Swedish steamers loaded with pulp south of Dragor Denmark. The vessels were taken to Swinemunde.
John N Garfield grandson of President Garfield becomes a full member of A troop Ohio Cavalry at Camp Willis Cleveland after earlier rejection for physical unfitness. He had faced public buzz over his war wedding to Janet Dodge. Garfield persisted with the medical officers and finally earned acceptance.
Mrs Kate Wiesz of St Louis identified clothes on the Jefferson Barracks riverbank. The bundle belonged to her husband Peter 283 years old. He left a death by own action note in a pocket, but she says he had done so before and then returned.
Mrs. Effie Beverly shot and killed her boy and girl as they slept at her father’s home near Milan Kansas. A note said she did not want her children to face the future and intended to kill herself afterward. She had been separated from her husband for years and was arrested and taken to Wellington.
The army medical department orders a ten car Pullman hospital train from the Pullman Company. Five cars house beds with large side doors for stretchers, two are sleeper type with medical cabinets and ice tanks, one carries a complete operating room, and another has a kitchen capable of serving 200 patients.
More than 100 hookworm cases are reported among Kentucky National Guard members stationed at Fort Thomas Kentucky. About 40 percent of enlisted militiamen are expected to be affected.
A consular report cites a Canal Zone census showing about 31 018 residents. It notes the population figure derived from a census taken by the Police Fire Division and references American residents living in the area.
Rapid progress to settle the railway and mining strike in Spain through arbitration urged by King Alfonso. It is believed the men will return to work soon.
Governor of the Federal Reserve Board Arles S. Hamlin will be renominated for a ten year term when his current term ends next month. Administration officials denied reports that Secretary McAdoo would replace him as chairman or move him from the board. Hamlin’s renomination is expected, but his chairmanship status remains unsettled.
The European war causes nickel shortages and higher metal value. The nickel content in the current U S five and ten cent pieces rises from about Lleents to several more, lifting coin metal value and the overall coin worth by about twenty percent.
Berlin appeals urge Germans to regain confidence in the army’s unwavering might and dismiss foreign reports. An issue in Berlin papers claims an appeal attributed to the Kaiser was inspired by generals after a conference. Tageblatt says the army trusts its fears and questions why believers should doubt.
Harriet Stanton Blatch of New York City sues Port Jefferson Electric Battery Company for 100000 claiming her husband William Weary Blatch died after an electric wire incident on August 2. She states Blatch earned 10000 annually as managing director of the May Brewing Company for nine years, and previously worked as an expert in the United Kingdom.
Officials of the National Stamping and Enameling Company Granite 7 admitted last Tuesday that striking laborers in the rolling mills were granted an increase in wages after walking out Monday. Reported turnout varied from 2000 claimed by union reps to 600 by company sources. Strikers said they won their twenty-fourth fight for an eight hour day recognition of their newly organized union and higher pay.
Company officials denied a general strike, calling the conflict purely local and saying it would not threaten to halt operations at Granite City metal plants, though tensions remain.
Dispatches from flood districts report sixteen dead and twelve or more missing across the Carolinas and lower Virginias. Property damage is estimated between 12 and 15 million dollars as waters recede but communications and traffic remain stalled in many areas.
Mrs Edna G Reakitt of St Louis in Wisconsin ordered 100000 cigarettes and 10000 packages of tobacco for the First Regiment of Missouri at Laredo Texas The first batch of 20000 cigarettes in packs of ten has been received and distributed to the men
Missouri Supreme Court declines to reopen the suit against the Board of Curators of the State University over authorizing Rolla School of Mines and Metallurgy to confer four civil engineering degrees. The court had earlier ruled the Legislature’s bill granting authority to the school as legal and issued a mandamus to the curators.
Miss Anne Morgan has accepted the chairmanship of the Membership Committee for the Woman’s Roosevelt League to work in New York City for the election of Charles E. Hughes. Mrs Henry A Wise Wood has been added to the league’s vice presidents list.
The U S Senate confirmed President Wilson's nomination of Representative James Hay of Virginia as a justice of the Court of Claims. Hay will resign from Congress at the end of the current session to accept the post.
A central Amsterdam dispatch reports a severe earthquake in Flume, a Hungarian Adriatic seaport city of about 40,000. The quake caused terrible panic in Flume and part of a pattern of recent Adriatic seismic disturbances in southern Italy and Sicily.
Eight thousand national guardsmen stationed at Laredo Texas will be shifted to other border points after local citizens described the sanitation in camps as horrible and intolerable. General Funston said he had not heard of such conditions until reported and would move the troops at once.
William Jennings Bryan spoke at Granite City Illinois closing day of a chautauqua. The former secretary of state and three time presidential candidate favored equal suffrage while avoiding direct political references.
Rosetta Irvin, 10, of Bremen Indiana, displayed hundreds of wheat straws forcing from her hand over a month. Initial infection between fingers led to lancing and repeated straw emergence. South Bend physicians examined with X rays, finding no abnormality. second infection healed and no further straws appeared.
Premier Asquith told the Commons the home rule bill would be introduced before recess. He said a permanent settlement of the Irish question would be considered at an imperial conference after the war.
Beryl Hannah Lovejoy of Sabetha Kansas aims to be the first U S woman admitted to the ancient University of Peru South America. Two years earlier she served with the Foreign Mission Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Buenos Aires Argentina. She is a University of Kansas graduate.
A Superior Court, Los Angeles suit seeks 50 feet of property near the Palaz Church based on a verbal lease dating from six decades ago. The action is brought for A L Abrahams as administrator of the estate of Senora Benancia Sotelo de Dominguez, who died.
On June 15 1865 the land was leased to a church to serve as a burial ground until a permanent site could be obtained. The claim states that after a new cemetery was bought in 1875 the property was not returned to the Dominguez heirs.
Reginald McKenna in the House of Commons warns that Britain's daily war expenditures have surged to 30 million dollars, up from about 25 million. He states borrowing powers could be exhausted by Thursday if no action is taken.
Norman Walt Harris longtime head of Harris Trust and Savings Bank Chicago and president of Harris Forbes & Co New York and N W Harris & Co Boston died at his Lake Geneva Wisconsin summer home from a heart ailment He was 70.
A Lapaz radio reports growing hunger in Mazatlan and Acapulco as military officials seize food for the army. No outside imports reach the region, while efforts to evacuate Americans continue. Six Spanish nuns aboard the Jason say Mazatlan schools are closed by the military commander.
The United States bought 6 042 289 pounds of Argentine meat in April per Secretary of Commerce William C Redfield. Other sources supplied Brazil 205 984 pounds Canada 1 029 183 pounds and Uruguay 20 214 pounds.
Police hunted S L Richards charged with passing a forged Osborne name on a 2000 check at the National Bank in Baltimore last Friday. Two former New York convicts tracked Richards, caught him, and will escort him to Baltimore. Osborne says Richards was taken by the captors and will surrender to authorities.
The Berliner Tageblatt reports Emperor William will pension seven Prussian generals. Five generals Von Bredow Von Wienszkowski Glokke Cramer a and Von Buer are to leave the army while Von Kliest and Krahmer receive home commands. No reason for retirement is given.
President Wilson signed an executive order granting civil war veterans in federal service leave with pay to attend the Grand Army encampment in Kansas City Missouri from August 26 to September 3.
The United States will lodge a vigorous protest with Great Britain over the trading with the enemy act. Washington maintains Britain cannot cross the Atlantic to forbid American citizens from conducting business while conceding Britain may restrict its own subjects.
Suits totaling 1 450 000 were filed in Chicago federal court by relatives of 145 Eastland disaster victims. Each claim seeks 10 000 with 360 suits overall. Defendants named are Chicago St Joseph Steamship Company owners and Indiana Transportation Company, lessees.
Panic over infantile paralysis drives New Jersey and Connecticut towns to turn away hundreds from Greater New York. On Saturday 125 New Yorkers were blocked by Mountainview New Jersey officials and slept at a railroad station. Additional groups from New London Connecticut and Rhode Island travelers faced quarantine and delays.
National Railways will serve on a mixed commission to settle tensions between Mexico and the United States. Pani, former secretary of the Department of Public Instruction under President Cárdeno, is involved. The commission is expected to meet in Montreal within ten days.
Posters posted in Ghent barracks claim Germany must evacuate Belgium for a $1,000,000,000 indemnity and announce that negotiations have begun between the United States and Germany over Belgium’s handover.
A Saturday cabinet session, rare in normal times, met to address urgent matters including the Irish situation and the impending vote of credit in the Commons. Irish Nationalists arrived in London to join the Irish party gathering.
Lloyds reports the British steamer Yser, sailing from Portland Maine on June 15 to Cette France, was sunk. The 3300 ton ship carried 257,730 bushels of oats and had three American crew members aboard. The Wolf, a 2443 ton liner, is also reported sunk likely by a German submarine in the North Sea, with records noting its presence in the Tyne on June 13.
The German superdreadnought Deutschland remains at its guarded Baltimore dock awaiting favorable weather or reduced Allied patrols to depart for Germany. Customs filed the clearance papers at 11 55 am as officials warned a post closing decision is possible. Captain Koenig and fourteen crew members were honored by Baltimore’s German Red Cross supporters at Canstatter Park.
Advices from Gen Pershing's field headquar ters report several negro troopers captured near Nuevas Casas Grandes were ordered to be shot at an adobe wall. They endured insults from Carranza's troops and heard they would be killed like gringo dogs before cavalry from Pershing's command rescued them.
The State Board of Health reports sixty six recorded cases of infantile paralysis in Illinois with four deaths. Eight new cases have been reported but not yet authenticated.
James Alfonso 75 and Gastava Gentele 72, both Sicilians, fought with stilettos in a box car in Hammond Indiana over a dead Italian girl loved fifty years ago. Alfonso stabbed near the heart and Gentele lost an ear and nose. They fought after Garibaldi era suitors, returned from war, and met again to settle who loved her.
The Rockefeller Institute will study subnormal mind conditions in Cook County starting August 1 after the Tuesday tragedy in which Henry P. McIntyre, described as a negro fanatic, killed six people including himself. Legislation to address conditions will be drafted for the Illinois Legislature.
The Hague correspondent reports that neutral Socialists from around the world will meet in The Hague on July 31 to discuss peace, in a conference arranged with the Exchange Telegraph Company in London.
Geneva dispatch reports Munich Nachrichten Berlin dispatch stating German postal authorities plan submarine mail service between Germany and the United States with new charge scales. The proposal aims to speed transatlantic correspondence via U boat routes.
Lieut James Fairweather of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, with long Dundee whaling industry experience, is placed in command of the Shackleton relief ship per the London Daily News.
The Interstate Commerce Commission set new rates and rules for pedigreed livestock transport. Minimum weights determine freight charges for cattle sheep and swine with carrier liability fixed at specific amounts for horse mule colt ox bull cow calf hog sheep and goat.
Ford will shut its Detroit automobile factory for two weeks to allow the office staff to finish an inventory valued near 100 million dollars. The Ford Company announces expansion of the sales department with 34 new branches, boosting total branches to eighty five, effective August 1.
A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company reports about two hundred fishermen dead after a monsoon disaster off the coast of Colombo in Ceylon. The event prompts urgent appeals and widespread sorrow among coastal communities and maritime authorities.
A royal decree from Saloniki retires Greek army officers implicated in the wrecking of the Rizousis newspaper offices and the editor’s mortal wounding. Private soldiers to be court-martialed. Paris says eleven officers were arrested by French authorities at Saloniki after the attack.
A new Oyster Exchange organization is announced at New Haven Connecticut by industry men from Connecticut New York New Jersey Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The capital shown totals about 15 million dollars.
A government inquiry is ordered into the death of Irish writer Sheehy Sheffington who was shot during the Dublin uprising without a court martial. The officer responsible was later court-martialed and found insane. Home Secretary Herbert Stanley told Commons that up to the date 860 Irish prisoners, including two women, have been recommended for release.
London reports that Germany will start large scale synthetic rubber manufacture early next month. The process has been observed and production cost is estimated at 1.25 to 1.50 dollars per pound.
Fifty-three cigar and tobacco dealers pled guilty to failing to keep sales books and affix revenue stamps. They received one day in prison and fines from 10 to 150 dollars, totaling 1,965,000 dollars paid to the government under an arrangement with the Independent Tobacco Manufacturers' Association, of which they were members.
Ambassador Francis in St Petersburg cables that Premier Saranoff promised prompt consideration of Poland relief by the government. This is the first of five nations appealed to with replies from the other four expected momentarily.
The Kansas City Park Board rescinded its order establishing the Adamless garden at Prospect Point after a petition from local property owners. They argued the park should remain a neighborhood space and not exclusive to women, countering claims that men object to girls having a private area.
R. W. Hutchinson a wealthy Pittsburgh tourist and former Pennsylvania Railroad man called an undertaker in West Palm Beach to order a hearse then traveled to Jacksonville Florida where he told the man he knew of a body to meet him. He then went behind a shanty and shot himself.
Dispatches from Amsterdam to Berlin report British sea forces seized all the first class mail on the Dutch liner Noordam while it was en route to New York.
A brief note discusses the existence of a billion dollar claim or fortune attributed to John D. The item mentions wealth magnitude but provides few concrete details or context about source or ownership.
A balance sheet drawn ten days before John D. Rockefeller's 77th birthday reportedly shows his private fortune, excluding endowment funds, at over one billion dollars. Authorities in Cuyahoga County, Ohio hold the document as evidence in a pending tax case seeking Rockefeller taxes on holdings over 300 million.
Indiana gains spotlight in national politics as J Frank Hanly is nominated at St Paul to lead the Prohibition party. Former governor and lawyer who battled liquor interests, he is 58 and lives near Charles W Fairbanks and Thomas R Marshall.
A German admiralty statement reports six British trawlers sunk by German submarines off the English coast on July 17. A Lloyds dispatch from Algiers confirms the sinking of the British steamship Karma of 2354 tons and the French steamer Cettois of 1200 tons.
Washington anticipated acceptance of Carranza proposals for a joint commission to settle U S Mexico difficulties. A timely announcement was expected as Mexico considers amendments. Wilson favors broader discussion beyond the July 11 Mexican communication made public in Mexico City.
Arthur E. Reimer of Boston Socialist Labor party candidate for president was fined $10 in Butte Montana Municipal Court for speaking in a downtown street. The fine was suspended by the magistrate.
Two jointed oxtails, one quart sliced carrots and two onions form a rich stew. Brown meat and onions then cover with boiling water. Add carrots and season, simmer slowly two hours. Thicken the gravy with browned flour for serving.
Recipe directs 21.4 pounds chopped beef from the round two small onions finely minced three-quarters of a quart tomatoes one tablespoon chopped suet and a quarter pound macaroni cooked. Blend well and bake in oven for 45 minutes.
Take 1.5 pounds neck beef 1 onion 1 bay leaf 2 quarts string beans broken small. Cook until beans tender. Thicken gravy with 2 tablespoons flour add 1 tablespoon sugar and 2 tablespoons vinegar.
A vintage cooking instruction explains grinding one pound round steak with salt pepper and onion, binding with an egg. It guides layering hamburger and bread dressing in gem pans, baking until done, turning onto plates and garnishing with parsley.
A 1 1/2 lb beef neck cut into chunks is browned in hot fat. Layer a casserole with six cubed potatoes, place the meat in the center with two chopped onions and two chopped carrots. Add a quart of boiling water and bake for three hours.
The article describes a simple pan broiling technique for pork chops. Place chops in a pan with a small amount of water, par boil uncovered until water evaporates, then the chops brown and stay juicy and appetizing.
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