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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1916
Page
6
Report to Nogales states Yaqui Indians killed seven men and two women at Louis G. Giroux ranch. Mexican consul says attackers headed for the Chihuahua Mountains to join Villa. opium valued around 500000 dollars found in trunks and among party baggage.
Bodies of five Memphis crewmen from the armored cruiser Memphis wreck were laid to rest at Arlington Cemetery in Washington Monday. Mourners escorted by bluejackets and a firing squad accompanied the interment for Arthur F. Potter E J Quinn H M Townsend L Crozier and an unidentified severely mutilated sailor.
Rome dispatch reports Italy intends to implement a blacklist in principle. The lists already drawn up by France and England will be used with possible additions decided by the Italian government.
A Geneva to London Express dispatch cites a Hamburg telegram that the Danish escort vessel reports the submarine liner Bremen sank in the Atlantic nine days out of Hamburg after an accident. No other source confirms the report.
Leadville recorded Colorado's first snow of the season on Monday with about an inch. A light frost was forecast for Colorado, Arizona, and Utah as cold air moved through the region.
Maj. Gen. James B. Aleshire quartermaster general since July 1907 was placed on the retired list due to physical disability after a retiring board review. He entered the Military Academy from Ohio in 1876 and served with distinction in the Spanish war the Philippine insurrection and the Boxer campaign in China.
Jerome K. Jerome the English humorist aged 57 has been chosen as a motor ambulance driver by the Red Cross and will be assigned to service in Flanders. Rejected for army service due to age, he kept fit and proved skilled at the wheel.
Overseas News Agency dispatch says nearly all Russian divisions sent to France have been withdrawn from the western theatre and redeployed to Saloniki leaving only one division in France.
Berlin reports say German and Austrian foreign ministers will meet with Hungarian colleagues to address the food shortage. The situation alarms the central powers as supplies from Romania have been cut off, heightening concern over Hungary's food question.
The Palace of Merenpthah in Egypt, larger than previous estimates, was announced by the University Museum of Philadelphia led by Dr. Clarence S. Fisher. Weather halted full uncovering after outlining the ruins, drawing worldwide scholarly interest for potential links to the Exodus narrative.
United States consul Garrels in Alexander Egypt says a British directive authorizes the cruiser Des Moines to pass the Near East blockade carrying Red Cross supplies for Palestine. Des Moines was at Barcelona, Spain, at last report.
Coal operators conceded amid a threatened strike by 35 000 miners in Missouri Kansas and Arkansas. Key gains include a wage increase and the dropping of the hiring and firing clause from the old contract.
Chang Yoa Tseng, newly appointed minister of justice in China, has been arrested over a suspected opium smuggling plot that could destabilize the cabinet. He traveled from Yunnan to Shanghai with several MPs and officials en route to Pekin for government reorganization, with baggage search triggered by opium rumors.
Finance Minister Ribot told the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday that France should authorize a new five percent war loan similar to the 1915 issue. He urged each Frenchman to contribute part of his resources for national defense, asserting national confidence and the certainty of victory.
A Athens dispatch reports Premier Zaimis offered resignation to King Constantine citing inability to pursue crucial negotiations. After a request from the king and entente ministers, he withdrew the resignation. French flag hoisted at the legation was lowered in response to Greek opinion, while British officials decline a legation guard.
Gov Gen. Harrison report to War Department on Tuesday describes a British torpedo boat halting and examining the Philippine steamship Cebu inside Philippine territorial waters. The dispatch was sent to the State Department for a strong protest to Great Britain.
A personal note from Emperor William to President Wilson regarding famine relief for Polish inhabitants was received at the State Department from Ambassador Gerard on Tuesday. It was forwarded to the president via Gerard to avoid British censorship with a copy sent to German Ambassador von Bernstorff through the Berlin Foreign Office.
Dupont Powder Company to deliver 150 million dollars worth of guncotton to the allies. Most production to occur at the Hopewell Virginia plant where guards are doubled. About 23,000 men to be employed. Duponts reportedly refused a comparable contract months earlier over objectionable stipulations.
Immigration Commissioner Gaminetti reported on Wednesday that 8000 to 10000 U.S. citizens depart American ports each month, many bound for Europe as wartime ship shortages reduce passenger ships and travel abroad continues.
Hotel managers including Lyman T. Hay of the Jefferson and Planters hotels told reporters the plan to add a 10 cent extra for bread and butter with meals aims to offset higher costs for butter flour lard sugar and other baking materials.
A novel vessel arrives at Christiania for Christiansfjord yards. The ship, a massive barge like hull built entirely of concrete with steel ribs, is the first stone vessel ever floated. Proponents claim its hull resists damage better than steel or wood, enhancing safety.
Partial results show Gov Richard Mann ing renominated over former Gov Cole L Blease by an estimated 3000 to 7000 vote margin. About 129000 votes reported from 150000 registered. Manning 67467 and Blease 62390. Representative Wyatt Aiken appears defeated by F H Dominick in a tight race.
Fremdenblatt of Homburg reports Roger Casement was buried beside a burglar in a French prison yard after execution. Relatives later sought to disinter and bury him in Ireland, but police halted the coffin at Glasgow and cited a British decree delaying transport until a year after the war ends.
One man dies and sixteen are injured when the roof of a tunnel under Lake Erie caves in early Wednesday. In a separate section weeks earlier, a gas explosion killed nineteen men in the same project.
Charles Jefferson Harrison of San Antonio Texas confessed to leading a gang that halted a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train at Central Station West Virginia last October and escaped with 102000 unsigned bank notes. He was sentenced to twelve years in Atlanta Georgia by Judge Dayon in United States Court at Martinsburg West Virginia on Wednesday.
Net revenues from railroad operations for the year ending June 50 reach 176,804,001 for all railroads with annual enues over 1,000,000, against 850,402,438 in 1915. The net avenue per mile is 134 this year versus 3763 last year. Total railway operating revenues amount to 3,396,808,234 with expenses 2,220,004,233 and idle revenues 807,720. Operating tax accruals total 146,754,477. incollect income 01,029,241,804. For June alone net revenues from railway operation are 103,451,443.
Walter Eldridge 23 assistant trainer was killed by an elephant at a Kingsport Tennessee circus show. The animal, led to water after a performance, seized him with its trunk and pounded him to the ground before thousands as spectators fled in a stampede and several women fainted.
The Navy General Board will visit a majority of proposed sites from 125 cities for a government armor plate plant. Some locations will be dropped as not meeting the law requiring safety in time of war, a key issue for employment and payroll impacts.
Austrian aeroplanes raided Venice early Thursday for the seventh time since the war began. They bombed the Church of SS John and Paul in an effort to destroy the edifice, a landmark after St Mark's in the city.
Greek coalition ministry plans with former Premier Zaimis at the helm collapsed on Thursday. King Constantine summoned M Dimitragopoulos who requested 48 hours to canvass the situation and decide whether to accept the post.
A fire at the Detroit Industrial Home for Men and a Salvation Army branch killed Albert Tracy 52 and Carl Tucker 65, plus two unidentified inmates. Seventy five escaped, two injured leaping from second-story windows. The building was gutted and flames spread to the Salvation Army section trapping Louis Suskind 48 and John Hilton 45, who jumped and broke their legs.
The war Department directed the Tennessee militia to proceed to the Mexican border on Thursday as part of border security operations. The move involves state military units mobilized by federal authorization to reinforce frontier defenses.
A four story brick building on Summit Street Detroit collapsed Wednesday night narrowly missing more than 100 people in a crowded street of shoppers and theatergoers. The crash was heard blocks away.
Manuel Veto, third and last of the Veto brothers from Williamson County, was shot to death Thursday from a weed patch near Peabody Mine No 3 in Murphysboro Illinois. The killing is linked to a long standing blood feud with the rival family.
Six people were killed and three injured when an ammonia tank exploded at the Interstate Milk and Cream Company plant in Newark New Jersey. The tank had just been installed. Samuel Botkin president of the firm was among the dead, and Barry Lutz an engineer at the plant was also injured. Potkin family member Kale Lbs Winentz is listed among the dead.
A Black man named Charles Smith was beaten by a posse of about fifty men in Monroe City. The incident details describe authorities or residents organizing vigilante punishment, with Smith struggling to defend himself as the mob administered whip abuse.
A black man and a white hotel employee fled Hannibal Missouri after being arrested by a deputy sheriff. A posse tracked them to the Fairy Grounds where the flogging occurred before the pair escaped. The girl also left Monroe.
Following a quarrel with a street car conductor in New Orleans Seymour Clay, a Black man, opened fire striking Fortune Paubert a wealthy merchant and wounding four others including a police officer. Posses hunt the gunman.
Lord Northcliffe writes in the London Times about his Spain visit noting general prosperity, with Portugal showing jealousy yet Spain and its industry thriving. He claims in thirty years of visits he has not witnessed such prosperity in Spain as at present.
The Remington Arms and Ammunition Company plant at Bridgnort Conn. was crippled Thursday as 36 barrel straighteners walked out over cut piece-work prices. The nonunion workers said they would stand together and oppose the revision.
More than 400 Industrial Workers of the World members at a meeting near Scranton Pennsylvania defied Sheriff Phillips orders. They were marched to Scranton under guard and arraigned. The mine workers threaten many persons. no preliminary hearings given and all prisoners remanded to County Prison for hearings.
Copenhagen dispatches report British ports crowded with wounded and dead transports. Business at several ports suspended as ships carry home casualties from the French front.
Investigators from the Department of Agriculture report milk distributing firms in major cities controlled by monopolies and the Department of Justice plans to join a nationwide antitrust probe. Complaints pour in nationwide as rural dairying areas also see monopolies freezing out rivals to control farmer milk markets.
Lieut Herbert Dargue and Lieut William Robertson of the North Island aviation school barely escaped when a boomb throwing incident caused a side slip from 1560 feet. Earlier a 5 pound illuminating bomb was dropped from 5000 feet, exploding over warships in the bay at 2000 feet.
An American outpost at Sycamore twelve miles east of Del Rio Texas was fired on by Mexicans across the Rio Grande on Thursday. Army officers are investigating as details remain scarce.
In incomplete returns from Thursday's general election, British Columbia voters appear to approve women suffrage and prohibition. The Conservatives led by Premier W J Bowser seem decisively defeated with Liberals carrying the Legislature 33 to 14.
The battleship Pennsylvania earns a world record with its twelve 14 inch rifles delivering five hits on a small target eleven miles away in one salvo. It is the first battleship to mount main batteries three guns per turret, seen as final proof for the three gun turret design. Nevada and Oklahoma also feature three and two gun turrets but trail in scores.
War Office bulletin reports Russians enduring severe cold on the Caucausus front with frost and heavy snow. In some sectors more than 70 centimeters of snow has fallen, complicating operations.
First snow of the season was reported at Little Falls Montana on Friday as temperatures stayed below freezing. Early crops and late vegetables continued to be described, with continuation noted on Page Seven.
Amos Strunk, 27, outfielder for Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics, remains a standout when in form. A Philadelphia native, he began professionally with the Atlantic league in 1908, joined the Athletics that year, was farmed to Milwaukee, led the league there, and since 1909 has been with the Athletics. Meanwhile, Ted Meredith and Jo Loomis will represent the United States at a Stockholm meet in mid October with the A A U secretary selecting a third member after Newark trials. The trio sails Sept. 28 aboard the Oscar II, arrives Oct. 9, trains, and competes around Oct. 15 with returns set for Oct. 29 in New York.
The St. Louis Browns under Fielder Jones rise to pennant contention. With George Sisler Derrill Pratt Armando Marsani and Bert Shotten the club is seen as faster and heavier hitting than the old Chicago White Sox, drawing belief they may win the pennant despite doubts about Jones.
A man fixes a picture in a parlor at 9 30 as the girl's father questions him about the time. The youth answers I was just going and hurries out without his coat. The father is astonished by the request and the quick departure.
Mrs Newlywed complains about flour sent to her, the grocer defends it as his best stock. She retorts the flour is 89 tough and her husband cannot eat the biscuits she made with it. The exchange captures a humorous domestic dispute at a local shop.
A raw country youth hired as the office boy at a large Aberdeen firm answered the telephone with nods to each greeting. After four inquiries he angrily shouted through the line, “Man, a’ ye blind? I’ve been noddin’ me head off for the last half hour!”
The scene has Baker asking why he takes vacation before others. Jones replies that it prevents others from urging him to go where they went, implying avoidance of peer pressure to imitate colleagues’ trips.
Joe Tinker of the Chicago Cubs declares the swap of Frank Schulte and Fischer to Pittsburgh for Art Wilson the best deal, praising Wilson as one of the major leagues’ top catchers and predicting time will prove the claim.
Roger Hornsby joined the St. Louis Cardinals for under 750 dollars revealing the value of scouting every prospect. The note highlights how inexpensive talent can pay off in baseball history.
Umpire baiting is a common alibi for poor play while fans often support the bad ball game and imitate players. The piece links on-field behavior to crowd reaction and calls for discipline to curb unsportsmanlike conduct.
Jimmy Johnston of the Brooklyns stands out among the Dodgers’ recruiting scouts. Brought to fame by Charles Ebbets, Johnston has excelled in the Dodger outfield this season with strong defense speed and smart baserunning, valued as the team’s premier outer gardener.
A farmers advisory extols using crude oil to treat poultry houses and hog houses. It describes oil as a germicide and disinfectant, effective for killing pests around troughs and on floors, and as a wood preservative and paint substitute for perches, walls, and foundations. It claims crude oil outperforms kerosene in sealing cracks and reducing moisture.
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