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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1915
Page
8
Joliet Illinois August 6 Edmund Allen resigned as warden of the state penitentiary citing nerves from living inside prison walls where his wife was murdered. Governor Dunne accepted the resignation, which he had previously refused to grant.
Dispatch from Laibach reports Italian artillery shells hitting two Borgo Levico trains en route to Rovereto. The first train carried troops with 500 killed by fire. the second train, carrying ammunition, exploded after eight cars ignited.
Brownstile Tex August 6 Mexican outlaws raided the village of Sebastian thirty seven miles north killing a man and his son United States cavalrymen from Harlingen have gone to Sebastian in response to the attack The paper notes delivery errors for late readers and provides phone numbers for rerouting copies.
New York readers note Elsie Janis, musical comedy and film star, arriving on the St Louis, denies being a poetess over her poem Where Are You God about the Lusitania disaster. The piece drew attention in the United States and England where she has spent months.
Erie Pennsylvania Aug 6 troopers patrolled wrecked districts enforcing health orders and city rules while workers scoured Mill Creek debris for bodies. Rumors of looting prompted police action after a reporter shot a man linked to abandoned houses. Fear of another flood spread as residents fled to Fisherground. the armory sheltered many homeless with private homes aiding others.
The Federal Reserve Board approved rediscount rates for several banks. San Francisco accepts up to 60 days at 3 percent and 60 to 90 days at 3 1/2 percent. Boston 60 to 90 days commercial paper at 4 percent. Dallas accepts up to 60 days at 3 1/2 percent and 60 to 90 days at 4 percent.
Waterloo will entertain the forty seventh annual grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias of Iowa and the Pythian Sisters in August 1916, drawing 1200 to 1500 delegates and visitors. Des Moines and Burlington also contended, Waterloo won by 274 votes to 71 for Des Moines and 193 for Burlington. Delegates returned from Des Moines report a harmonious session with progress on a home fund for widows and orphans and for aged members, approved after Senator Clem F. Kimball’s compelling appeal. The meeting also advanced changes in statutes, including the membership examination plan and the abolition of the printed ritual.
Washington Aug 6 Latin American diplomats working with the United States held a series of secret conferences at the Argentine embassy and Secretary Lansing's office to craft a proposal for all Americas to back. The talks focus on persuading Gen Carranza to join peace efforts, with views split: two or three republics support recognition and backing Carranza, while others push to remove him from Mexican affairs.
Centerville Se Aug 6 Glen Mc Connell age 15 years was instantly killed when his automobile ran into a sandpit. Three years nearly to the day McConnell was blown up in a traction engine explosion and nearly lost his life. The Russian war office allocated 25 million dollars to move Warsaw mills and factories inland.
Philadelphia Aug 6 United States Senator Bowes Penrose declared at a dinner that he will introduce at the opening of the next congress a tariff bill with 18 to 20 percent reductions on many Payne Aldrich duties while strengthening others to support industrial growth and national defense amid looming European war risks.
Amsterdam via London reports Major Moraht of the Berlin Tageblatt stating the lasting Russian offensive is no longer expected in the near future. He asserts the Russian defense will crumble as fires and machine guns lose adequate support, and questions the possibility of reorganizing the army during the war.
Chandler Aug 6 The jury in Claude Sawyer charged as one of the men who robbed two Stroud banks last March had not brought in a verdict by noon today. The case went to the jury at midnight.
Len Perrin, paying teller at Cedar Rapids National Bank robbed of 209 dollars by a lone bandit, travels to Chicago to help detectives form a crew to catch the suspect. Perrin and investigators carried a photo of a man tied to a prior incident, hoping for positive identification.
Report describes the fall stretching across a second point with a Muscovite retreat. Russian columns under Grand Duke Nicholas resist and fight back toward Russia. The situation threatens a large Teuton movement and Riga’s looming fall as autonomy for Poland is pledged.
Russian fortress Ivangorod on the Vistula fell to Austro German forces as the German onslaught nears Warsaw. Reports say Warsaw's occupation and a semi autonomous Polish state under joint Austro-Hungarian rule are planned, with Russia retreating across the Vistula and destroying bridges.
The article describes Russian forces pulling back from Warsaw amid stubborn Polish resistance. It notes three principal railways crucial to retreat, with the southern line via Geblin and Cholm cut by Austro German forces under Archduke Joseph Ferdinand and Von Mackensen, while von Bulow threatens the Petrograd line and von Hindenburg crosses the Ni flow and Vistula toward Brest Litovak.
London reports cabinet plans to inaugurate conscription to raise new British armies by late October or early November. Key ministers Lloyd George and Churchill push for compulsory service, with Grey supportive and Kirn opposed to full reliance on volunteers. In Paris, Gouraud is replaced by General Sarrail as commander of the Dardanelles expedition. A French eyewitness recounts successful actions in the Vosges near Fontenelle and Launais on July 16 25.
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