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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1916
Page
6
The Senate approved amendments to a revenue bill aimed at opponents of American trade. One provision lets the president withhold clearance from ships that discriminate against American shipments and suspend privileges for ships from hostile nations. The other allows denial of mail and communications services to citizens of nations that deny American commerce access.
Thomas A. Edison, famed inventor of Menlo Park, has declined to rejoin the Republican fold and openly supports the re election of President Wilson.
Federal agents recovered secret U S military maps from a Baltimore rooming house and confronted Herbert Sauer in New York jail over the mysterious death of Mrs. Caroline Tiarks. Sauer is accused of stealing maps from coast guard officers.
A Denver case reports an unidentified young woman placing her month-old baby inside the stomach of a just-killed cow at the stock yards. She claimed the infant would be nourished through the cow’s stomach as advised by a Denver physician.
War Department revokes order allowing discharge of national guardsmen with dependents. The change follows an army appropriation that funds aid for dependents and was issued in a circular from the Southern Division headquarters.
Mrs Amelia Walton seeks divorce from Bert Walton in Pueblo County Court on desertion grounds. Walton replies he already obtained a divorce from his wife two years earlier on the same grounds. attorney asks for case dismissal.
Richard C. Kerens of St. Louis former ambassador to Austria-Hungary died at his daughter's home aged 75. His estate, built from early West government mail contracts and later railroad ventures, is estimated at five million dollars.
King George awarded Lieut William Leefe Robinson of the Royal Flying Corps the Victoria Cross on Tuesday for bringing down a Zeppelin near London as the airship approached the city Saturday night.
In the Cruible Steel Company offices in Pittsburgh Edna Gamble 19 was shot by her husband James K. Gamble who surrendered to police. The couple married in 1914 and had been separated six months.
The Mexican Central railroad linking Chihuahua City to the border was cut near Villa Ahumida on Tuesday night. Villa followers are blamed. Juarez railway authorities have not assessed full damage. Villa’s main force of about 700 men is near Namiquapa, within fifty miles of Pershing’s southern outposts.
A masked man robbed H. W. McCall manager of the Liberty Theatre and G. Hoag of a musical comedy company during a Monday night performance. He escaped through the balcony and fire escape into an alley with $400, vanishing into the street.
Federal Judge Landis in Chicago Tuesday said Ed ward W. Morrison is being robbed of wealth estimated between 3 and 8 million dollars in bankruptcy proceedings. Morrison challenged the claim, while Landis asserted the fact and urged cooperation to stop the alleged theft by many.
France plans to ask the Chamber of Deputies for last quarter 1916 appropriations totaling 8.347 billion francs about 1.669 billion dollars, roughly 500 million francs more than current quarter. Since August 1914 total French government appropriations would reach about 61 billion francs or 12 billion dollars.
J M Humphreys, manager of a British nitrate corporation, said in San Francisco on Tuesday that Britain has purchased the entire Norwegian nitrate supply to prevent it from being exported for German ammunition manufacturing. He is en route to Chile.
A Belgian aviator dropped a bouquet of roses at the funeral for a US professor killed in aerial action over the western front. The inscription read a foe defeated in aerial battle. The gesture followed the professor’s earlier years as an exchange professor in the United States.
Dr. Earle Peck 24 longtime first assistant resident physician at Municipal Hospital Philadelphia died Tuesday from infantile paralysis after falling ill Friday. Despite heroic efforts by physicians his condition worsened. Peck resided in Newton Massachusetts and attended hundreds of children stricken with the disease.
Capt Richardson reports his American schooner Maracus L Urann was in Pensacola Florida port when a British cruiser halted the ship in the South Atlantic on July 21 and a crewman was taken. He had been returning from Pernambuco and says the incident occurred at sea.
The United States replies to the entente proposal by asserting the fate of each submarine depends on its individual characteristics. Meanwhile Norway Sweden and Spain reportedly banned merchant submarines in their harbors, deeming them indistinguishable from war crafts.
President Wilson signed the shipping bill Thursday authorizing a government corporation with up to 50 million dollars in capitalization to buy or lease ships. If private capital cannot lease them for operation the ships may be put into trade by the government.
E. P. Ripley president of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway says the railway will not comply with the Adamson eight hour law until ordered by the Supreme Court. He calls the act an advance of 20 to 25 percent in wages for high earners in railway service.
The Grand Trunk Railway granted a wage hike of 5 to 8 percent to 4500 employees on Thursday and workers signed a one year contract. The increase covers all classes of railway employees except firemen and engineers.
The Farmers Educational and Co- Operative Union of America representing six million farmers ends its New Orleans convention by opposing the Adamson eight hour law and approving a message to President Wilson urging arbitration to settle the railway strike dispute.
Six masked men robbed the westbound Golden State Limited at Apache Station forty miles east of Douglas Arizona. They uncoupled the baggage car and after a half hour failed to blow the safe escaped on horseback. No passengers were harmed.
Casualty lists for the first two weeks of August show the British Army lost 600 officers killed 1702 wounded and 204 missing totaling 9506. Since the war began 38922 officers have been killed or died of wounds 24680 are missing or presumed dead and 112442 have died from wounds. In the fortress six lieutenant colonels were wounded.
The superdreadnaught Nevada completed final acceptance trials and joined the Atlantic fleet on southern oil grounds for target practice. She displaces 27,500 tons and carries ten 14 inch guns.
Two U S vessels reportedly sank in European waters as tensions rise. U S authorities confirm American crew members perished in the incidents while efforts continue to recover survivors and details.
The State Department will investigate two incidents after consular reports. Consul McCann at Glasgow said twenty eight Americans were aboard the British steamer Kelvinia sunk by a mine or torpedo on September 2 and all were rescued. Consul Hurst at Barcelona reported two probable Americans, James Andrews and Lon Bruce, among the crew of the Stella Delmare sunk by a submarine off the Balearic Islands on August 29.
Paris dispatch reports threats to blow up the U S cruiser Des Moines anchored at Barcelona Spain prompting arrests. Spanish destroyer Villamil alongside the Des Moines. Governor Alfau returning to Barcelona after learning of the plot. State Department in Washington says no information of an attack or menace reached them.
Donald of Memphis president of the National Association of Master Bakers urged eliminating the 5-cent loaf as flour costs rise. The executive committee in Chicago met to decide whether to continue manufacturing the 5-cent loaf.
In less than 24 hours after attacking teacher Rosa Michael in Richmond Missouri, 30 year old farmhand M B Pardue pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Judge Divelbiss noted that a death sentence was justifiable but Pardue received the long term.
Tokio dispatch reports Japanese press express satisfaction with Elbert H. Garys speech last Tuesday night. It notes Japan’s interest in U S policy toward China and whether the United States will back American capitalists in the five powers loan program.
Paratyphoid fever in the national guard camp at Mission Texas is believed under control per Gen Funston. A ten car hospital train returned Thursday with seventy six invalids. Sixty six wounded came from Brownsville district hospital at McAllen and others from Llano Grande. Several paratyphoid cases reported.
An army transport named Sheridan arriving from the Far East triggers extraordinary quarantines in Honolulu due to cholera. First and second class passengers must have passes to go ashore, and troops and crew are barred from landing.
Sergt. Edward P. Thomas of the Machine-Gun Company, First Regiment, St. Louis, was killed by lightning in his tent on the state military reservation at Nevada, Missouri, on Thursday afternoon. Four privates in the same tent were stunned.
The George B. Cluett expedition ship of Crocker Land, led by Donald B. McMillan, entered Battle Harbor Labrador on Thursday. The party began the three year search after Rear Admiral Perry's alleged sighting near Greenland. The motor schooner left New York in August 1915 to aid the MacMillan party.
Sixteen alleged mobers indicted for storming the Allen County Jail at Lima Ohio last week to lynch Charles Daniels. They tortured Sheriff Eley until the prisoner’s location was revealed. Thirteen of the sixteen have been arrested and are jailed under guard by about 100 police and deputy sheriffs. Sixteen All
Charles Edward Russel former New York governor candidate and Paris-based news correspondent failed to obtain credentials from the American embassy. The denial follows his recent attack on President Wilson in a letter to the Paris Herald condemning the birth day cablegram to the emperor of Austria and calling it deplorable.
A man identified as about 32 years old walked up to Bursby in a Chicago street and slipped a revolver from his pocket, then shot himself. A. E. Hanson of South Omaha was nearby.
A body recovered from a creek near Jacksonville is believed to be Miss A King of Detroit who vanished from a hotel on Monday. King had toured Florida towns this summer and appeared well off. She arrived last week. her absence was noted Monday. A room search found considerable money. relatives could not be reached.
George M. Cohn plans to back President Wilson in his bid for re election. He discussed the support with Democratic National Chairman McCormick in New York and said he would mobilize key backing from the theatrical profession for Wilson’s campaign.
Senator Lewis accused the State Department of silence on the Far East and urged inquiries into why the United States has little information. He warned that Japan and Russia may force America out of the Orient and pressed for stronger insistence on American rights in China.
Winifred De Wolfe a 20 year old dancer sought by secret service forces of three nations for more than four months was found in Kansas City Missouri. Information received in New York Thursday telegraphed to her mother in San Francisco by a lawyer. She disappeared April 26 and is daughter of Elsie De Wolfe former actress.
President Wilson told Senator Husting that his plan is to speak only before nonpartisan groups during the campaign. He will not address delegations in Long Branch or travel to Wisconsin or other parts of the country for political speeches, he said.
Italy increases railroad freight rates by 10 percent to cover $4,000,000 in higher wages granted after war cost of living complaints. Government railroad revenues are projected to rise about $3,000,000 annually. Newspapers urge measures to aid other workers displaced by the war and those on the firing line.
The London Times cites a competent English observer noting rapid Sinn Fein spread after the rebellion. In southern and western counties Sinn Fein colors flags literature and songs appear widely with rebel portraits seen in shop windows and public response described as strong.
A Department of Agriculture report shows 221 firms hold nearly 5 million cases of eggs in cold storage totaling about 1.716 billion eggs. The figures are about 10 percent lower than last month’s report.
The superdreadnought Pennsylva nia and Oklaoma recently returned to Hampton Roads Pier Sounth after target practice at 20,000 yards the longest range yet by an American warship. Wyoming Minnesota and Michigan also reported excellent hit records.
The average cost runs about 15 million dollars monthly for 100000 state troops and 45000 regulars on the border and in Mexico. Expenditures exceed 70 million to date with an estimated 50 million more needed.
A dispatch from Saioniki reports Bulgarians employ dogs as sentinels, kept chained by day and released at night. The source, British in tone, describes the dogs as descendants of ancient war breeds and notes a strategic use amid tensions.
Theodore Roosevelt denounces President Wilson for failing to pose the duty question Lincoln asked in 1860. He claims Wilson appeals to rhetoric instead of moral idealism and urges Americans to demand concrete deeds over empty phrases.
Charles Evans Hughes, Republican presidential candidate, spoke at the Salt Lake Tabernacle urging firm tariff protections to strengthen national greatness and competitiveness as the postwar world begins to take shape. He emphasized lasting foundations for economic strength during ongoing competition among nations after the current conflict ends.
A statement arguing the national party should, within the United States framework, promote American enterprise and open doors for honest achievement wherever practicable.
The speaker recalls the tariff bill's effect, noting halted enterprise and widespread unemployment. Three hundred thousand were jobless in New York City, and cities nationwide faced shortages. Charitable organizations strained to feed the unemployed. the episode remains a recent, unforgettable memory of American enterprise failing to advance.
The speaker argues that prosperity and wage protection rely on a well drafted tariff to shield U S industry from postwar competition. An honestly devised tariff is essential for American enterprise to meet future challenges.
The speaker argues the Democratic party cannot be saved by European conflict. They warn that postwar conditions could revert to earlier poverty unless nations return to work. Millions of returning soldiers are ready to reengage, leveraging factories, plants, and discipline to fund peace and push production.
The speaker urges studying the plan to apply a guiding principle and secure adequately protective measures for American industries nationwide.
In a Lewiston speech delivered on behalf of Charles E. Hughes, Theodore Roosevelt argues for Hughes over Wilson, praising Hughes’ directness and public-spirited record. He contrasts Wilson’s elocution with deeds and warns of four hard years ahead, urging Americans to choose proven integrity and action.
The Houston Post argues it favors the president’s Mexican policy over defining it. It suggests Senator James Hamilton Lewis might explain that the Rome that was too proud to fight failed badly.
The Boston Transcript questions who should bear the expense of Carranza financing amid ongoing political fundraising debates. It suggests the Democratic campaign committee may be responsible for such costs.
The passage argues that Democrats oppose no heavy spending for the army navy and internal improvements and expect Republicans to raise revenue to cover costs for the next four years.
Hughes proposes a six month period to investigate the administration citing he needs time, while administration officials assess his performance as satisfactory and progressing smoothly.
The text notes that the same policies that cause a judge and others to feel deep shame have led many Americans to die. It frames the moral impact of policy choices on lives and the broader societal cost.
The president shifts stance on troop deployment, signaling a retreat from earlier expansion. The reversal aligns with prior patterns of changing positions in foreign policy and leaves the administration recalibrating its strategy.
The statement quotes Tom Taggart urging Democrats to curb extravagance and focus on economy, signaling a political stance on fiscal policy and party discipline.
The Hughes smile is beginning to attract favorable attention as observers note its charm and potential appeal in public appearances and social settings.
President amuses some guests while others receive lighter attention as a social gathering unfolds. The event includes notable discussions with several progressive figures in attendance, highlighting political currents of the era.
Democratic papers attack Hughes for claiming he is "100 per cent a candidate" while Wilson papers favor a balanced approach with a fifty fifty stance.
The president says he seeks no party affiliation beyond using it as a tool for progress. He questions why he chose the Democratic party if it serves as a poor instrument for his aims.
In a pointed comparison, Carranza is praised for advancing American preparedness in three weeks, a pace the text claims surpasses Woodrow Wilson's three years of effort. The remark highlights rapid action and domestic readiness implications without detailing specific policies.
A wry remark notes the idea that Democrats cut living costs has revived talk of the baker's dozen. The line plays on political costs and everyday pricing in a pointed, humorous contrast.
Critics target Mr Hughes for frequent use of the word now. His sense of immediacy alarms observers who prefer delaying actions until tomorrow.
Rural families affected by mail service curtailment are informed that Postmaster General Burleson has forwarded Secretary McAdoo a check totaling 5 200 000 dollars as surplus postal revenues.
The article notes Mr. Gardner urges against quoting Mr. Wilson during his Princeton presidency. It states Wilson has barred his own statements within seven days, indicating self-imposed limits on public remarks.
The Democratic presses express ongoing concern over Phat man Hughes and demand to oversee the campaign management, signaling persistent discontent with his leadership.
The piece notes that the Democratic press finds Mr. Hughes' speeches unsatisfied, implying they are effectively strong speeches despite opposite appearances. It frames the paradox and points to the influence of his rhetoric on party messaging.
The passage notes Secretary Baker evolving quickly in shifting positions, aiming to win favor from his observer. It highlights his flexible stance as a strategic tactic in a dynamic political dynamic.
A critical view declares the Wilson administration incompetent either in overfunding an unnecessary navy or in neglecting a necessary one. The speaker says the administration must admit a fault, as either path proves it wrong.
Mr Hughes advocates efficiency as a campaign watchword and hints it will guide his White House tenure once elected. He frames governance as streamlined and effective, aligning political rhetoric with administrative aims.
The speaker criticizes the shifting labels applied to Hughes calling him an iceberg then a mud slinger, arguing he cannot be both and suggesting Democrats react with cries of mud and treason.
The text cites Colonel Theodore Roosevelt speaking in Lewiston Maine on May 11 1974 in support of Charles E Hughes. He questions President Wilson and labels the dead marines at the navy yard as part of a war of service to unspecified interests.
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