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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
1
Washington reports the United States has notified Great Britain and France that it will not tolerate ongoing mail seizures and censoring of neutral mails. It demands a radical policy change restoring full neutral rights and signals future claims for losses already sustained.
Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw married her longtime dance partner Vigil James Montani known as Jack Clifford in Ellicott City Maryland. The ceremony followed a swift return from New York after a quick license and was performed by Rev J Edward Snyder. The couple planned to leave for Clifford's Adirondack camp soon.
London reports Sir Edward Grey, foreign secretary, telling the House of Commons that peace talks are premature while the Allies stand firm. He denounces German lies and says France has a right to speak for peace, urging diplomacy to sustain allied unity and joint naval and military measures. Ponsonby urged exploring peace possibilities and questioned obligations to allies.
Willis J. Hulings finished third in the Republican congressional race and filed a detailed expense report in Franklin County. He lists costs for stamps and stationery, clerk hire, printing, automobile hire, poll books, circulating petitions, and personal expenses totaling 1077.39 with unpaid bills of 204.45 to local newspapers and printers, noting no spending on information dissemination or “boodlers.”
Washington report says President Wilson issued a proclamation calling on the nation to celebrate Flag Day on June 14 with patriotic exercises and to rededicate Americans to an America that cannot be corrupted divided or drawn away from its ideals.
From Berne on May 31 the report states Germany expects an exceptionally poor harvest this year because of a shortage of saltpeter.
The J N 8 aeroplane with Aviator Victor Carlsstrom and Allan R Hawley on board completed the 225 mile trip from New York to Washington in 3 hours 7 minutes. They departed Sheepshead Bay at 7 23 am and landed at Potowace Drive at 10 30 am after circling the White House delivering messages from the Aero Club of America to President Wilson and officials. The craft is to be shipped to the New Mexico National Guard for border patrol duty.
Canadians and Americans serving in the British army form a baseball league of eight teams. The season opens the second week in June with many Americans in London attending last year and expected to rise. Baseball gains popularity among Britons through these army matches.
Federal officers seized records from the office of Dr. C. L. Katz in Wichita Kansas. Katz is jailed in Kansas City Missouri while investigators probe alleged extensive trafficking in habit forming drugs supplied from Wichita to individuals in St. Louis Missouri Des Moines Iowa Omaha Nebraska and Kansas City Missouri.
The first large postwar German drug consignment reached the United States via the Nieuw Amsterdam for Farbwerke Hoechst. The $500 000 supply, a remedy for blood diseases, required months of State Department negotiations with Britain and France before passage was allowed.
Mrs Alfred G Vanderbilt, daughter of Capt Isaac E Emerson, contributes $100000 to the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital to erect and equip a babies ward.
A two year wage scale affecting 15 000 Eastern Ohio coal miners was signed in Cleveland by the Pittsburgh Vein Operators Association and the union miners officials. Details will be published this week.
Lieut. Clarence Alvin Richards of the United States Navy was killed by electricity at the Sag Harbor Light and Power Company substation in Sag Harbor New York. He ignored a warning to see the superintendent before entering and touched two live wires to a transformer, the full current passing through his body.
Avon Illinois resident Ethel Spurgeon Darnell faces divorce denial due to failure to produce a license legalizing her marriage to James Morrison Darnell. He serves a three year term in Leavenworth Penitentiary for Mann Act violations, affecting proceedings.
A parrot joins the suffrage effort at the Illinois Suffrage Association headquarters in the Tower Building Chicago during the first week of June. Polly is trained to greet passing women at the entrance and urge them to register while a boy teaches the bird to say Votes for women.
Louisiana Senate approves a resolution under Governor Pleasant to have legislators participate in the preparedness parade in New Orleans on June 3. The action directs a show of state support and civic mobilization.
Mrs. Mary Gabbert 70, worn from a 100 mile walk to seek a pardon for her son, waited in Little Rock as Governor Hays promised release from a three year grand larceny sentence. She aimed to walk 35 miles to the state farm to deliver the pardon herself, but was discouraged. Her 8-year-old grandson accompanied her on the three week trek from Dermott Ark.
Police Sergeant John J. Marriarity was shot and killed while attempting to arrest an alleged counterfeiter for the murder of his two confederates. The suspect barricaded in a bay front shack for hours as a force of 1000 officers pressed a siege. When entry finally occurred the shooter was found dead, likely by his own hand or by police fire.
Two women in McLeansboro Illinois publicly horsewhipped J. B. Wooldridge a respected merchant and farmer accused of making advances to their daughter. Mrs. Charles Johns and Mrs. Charles Coin led the punishment with the help of Mrs Coin’s husband tying Wooldridge to a tree in a town square before the beating.
North Carolina Democrat and House leader Representative Kitchin filed a statement showing no money spent in his primary bid for renomination.
Bert Hall of Eagle Pass Texas a member of the American flying squadron engaged three German airplanes over the Verdun front Driving the trio off he closed on a German aviator at four thousand meters altitude and killed the pilot with his machine gun watching the craft crash to earth French observers note continuation on page eight
Chicago May 28 Chairman Charles D Hilles of the Republican National Committee outlined a brief convention platform centered on Americanism preparedness and tariffs The plank set includes Americanism preparedness for defense a non partisan tariff board a protective tariff and a navy expansion with hearings for suffrage and other policy items.
Bethlehem May 24 Charles M. Schwab announced a gift to Bethlehem of a $100000 concert hall to seat 2500 people.
The Warren County order adopts a 1915 state dog tax law requiring all dogs to wear metal collar tags issued by the county after payment of a license. Assessors will record dog ownership, publish lists, and penalties may include killing unlicensed dogs after a 30 day notice period.
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