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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1915
Page
1
Patois crowd reels as political prisoners executed after assault on the Executive Presidential Palace. Rebels strike back at the government in Port au Prince with swift retribution. Guillaume reported shot after flag insult amid widespread terror and palace destruction.
A mob in Port au Prince killed President Vilbrun Guillaume after seizing him from the French legation. Dozens of political prisoners were executed the day before, including General Oscar Rozes and the Dominican legation’s governor. The U.S. cruiser Washington with Rear Admiral Caperton sailed for Port au Prince to assess action and press for a ceasefire.
Berlin July 28 American consulate clerk Charles Wilson jailed in Berlin awaiting inquiry into the escape of a British resident on a fraudulent American passport. Wilson allegedly certified applicant as American citizen thus enabling the document. He vanished from Berlin when the affair surfaced, later arrested at the Swiss frontier and brought back. Washington inquiry begun into Harry L. Wilson of Oregon, a consulate clerk in Berlin, arrested on the Danish frontier while trying to leave Germany without a passport. State department will not comment awaiting reports. Wilson has been in Berlin about five years.
Eureka, July 28. A Humboldt county jury hears a claim by BL R Freeman that former Governor Richard Yates of Minnols introduced the Chautauqua kiss to his wife and caused marital rupture. Freeman testified Yates caressed Mrs Freeman at a station and urged her to go to the end of the railroad. Tickets were bought and the couple reportedly traveled to San Francisco with Yates. The plaintiff seeks divorce. Advertisement for Havana cigars follows.
British patrol boats drove off a pursuing submarine after the Cunard liner Carpathia reported a near encounter off the Irish coast. Passengers described seeing a periscope while 120 travelers aboard the Carpathia arrived in New York from Liverpool.
Battle ships Missouri Ohio and Wisconsin carrying 850 midshipmen of the Naval Academy reached San Diego harbor today. They proceed to the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, expected August 1, with festivities planned through August 13. An Ohio propeller loss on the Mexican Pacific coast delayed their arrival.
In Chicago, Father Mathey of St. Augustine's Catholic church describes a near tragedy as thirty parish children planned a river trip. After a mass at 6:45, a girl suggested a later boat and the group changed plans, arriving at the river dock only moments before an accident occurred.
London reports terrible artillery fire on the Isonzo front as Italian forces press toward Gorizia Trieste and Podgora. Austrian retreat appears imminent with guards overwhelmed around Trieste and most of the Carso plateau captured. Veronese forts respond to aerial bombs causing limited damage.
New York July 28 Eskimo Steve Na tuck garbed in walrus skin and fur cap rode the rapids of the great white way and appeared in Yorkville police court with a hangover He said he would return to Alaska and the judge released him The item reads like a humorous slice of city life with a colorful character and casual dialogue
London reports a vast German advance from the Baltic toward Vilna and Warsaw. Estimates suggest 500,000 casualties while German forces battle on Narew and Lublin Chelm fronts. Russians defend, while Austro German efforts struggle near Lublin Chelm railway. Italian and French gains noted in other theatres.
Report from Petrograd via London notes an imperial decree urging youths born in 1396 to mobilize as a general war effort. A pending triple threat mobilization is mentioned, with focus on Siberia and broader war roles.
If the newspaper is not delivered to your home by 6 o'clock please phone 4330 and a copy will be sent. After 6 20 o'clock call 443.
Chicago mourns Black Wednesday as 600 plus victims are laid to rest. State's Attorney Hoyne says at least six indictments for responsibility will be returned, with charges possible for criminal carelessness or manslaughter. Coroner's inquest details ballast tank actions and crew testimony.
Frederick Boegle of the Burbank experiment farm near Hayward California announces a crossed banana cactus fruit that supposedly has a sandpaper like coat. He says the fruit preserves banana flavor and could be dropped on sidewalks without danger to pedestrians.
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