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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1915
Page
7
Mademoiselle Robert of Paris recounts guiding seven wounded chasseurs to safety during the Guise battle. With Germans approaching and no ambulance, she rode a bicycle past a dragoons cordon, pleading for help to reach the besieged men before nightfall.
London March 4 The new British pension plan will cost the government nearly 1 725 000 000 dollars before the last pensioner dies according to actuaries employed by the non partisans committee at the order of the house of commons The maximum expenditure in the first year will be about 280 000 000 dollars and the postwar year one cost will reach about 1 100 000 000 dollars These figures assume an army of one billion men two years war and ten percent deaths with twelve percent disability.
Des Moines reports the Iowa house reconvening after a week recess with forty five bills on the calendar. Among the measures of importance are repeal of appointive state superintendent of schools, modification of sterilization law, repeal of the road law, permission for absent voting, and authorization for teacher agancies.
Havana reports a long planned reform moving into operation. The Rural Guard is dissolved as a separate corps and merged into the regular army cavalry. The six cavalry regiments will include five rural police units and one regular unit, with Havana likely hosting the main force. Infantry regiments drop from two to one, garrisoning Camp Columbia. An artillery regiment plus coast defense batteries will train as infantry. The machine gun service is split into squads for integration with units.
Yokohama reports a mass meeting supporting dispatch of Japanese troops to Europe. A prominent Yorodzu editor warns Japan risks German victory and future danger if allied powers prevail. Parliament member Korehira Kurahara urges immediate action amid critical wartime period.
Readable fragments show temperature readings with times and dates, including midnight and morning values. The notes list numerical figures such as 25 and 1094 and reference yesterday and ranges like 14 to 41, but the text is fragmented and lacks a coherent measurement narrative or locations.
Berlin dispatch tells how a guard regiment on the Western front kept a lone shoot alive in a trench torn by French shell. A rose grew from the earth and flowered on Christmas Day, admired by soldiers who sent it to the emperor. Poet Richard Vos memorialized the incident in verse and shared copies with each regiment member.
The Standard reports that the oil company steamer Platuria, en route from Malmo Sweden, has been detained at Kirkwall Scotland by order of admiralty officials pending an investigation. The detention was ordered by admiralty authorities and confirmed in London.
New York March 4 The existence of many plots the police have been working on was revealed by Arthur Woods police commissioner in commenting on the grand jury indictment of Frank Abarno and Charles Carbone charged with attempting to explode a bomb in St Patrick's cathedral. Woods said the case does not go beyond Abarno and Carbone but there were other plots and other men the police were watching. Amedeo Paligani the young patrolman responsible for the arrest of Abarno and Carbone would have no part in exposing other bomb plots.
The German National Bank of Pittsburgh did not open this morning, with a sign stating it was closed by order of the Comptroller of the Currency. An advertisement references El Tovar Broadlear Havana.
Washington March 4 The Sixty third congress ended at noon after 637 days in session since April 7 1913. Democrats controlled both houses and many acts were enacted including the Underwood Simmons tariff act the Federal Reserve Act and the Clayton antitrust law. Many measures failed or were not finished and a new congress will consider remaining agenda.
London reports Graeme Thomson named director of the Admiralty Transport Department as the first civilian in the post. At 38 years old, praised as the greatest transport officer since Noah, Thomson rose from a supervising clerk earning about 4600 dollars yearly to lead the department within months behind wartime emergency gains.
Attorneys for forty one western railroads prepared to argue before Interstate Commerce Commissioner W M Daniels to boost certain freight rates across about ninety eight thousand miles. Railroads claim the increases would raise roughly nineteen million dollars in annual revenue. Chicago Northwestern solicitor C C G Wright led with statistics while Clifford Thorne opposed on behalf of state rail commissions and shippers. Opponents include American National Livestock Association and National Council of Farmers Cooperative Association among others. The hearings continue through March 30 with shippers heard afterward.
Hinton West Virginia March 4 The death toll from the Layland mine explosion remains uncertain at noon. Only bodies recovered have clarified the count though rumors of additional fatalities circulate among anxious relatives. The company lists 177 workers in the affected workings and officials cannot confirm how many were underground at the time. Little hope remains for survivors among the buried miners.
A newspaper carrier error or other cause prevented delivery by 6 o'clock. Readers are asked to phone 3330 for a replacement copy and to call 2059 after 6:30 for assistance.
Allied fleets resume bombardment of the Dardanelles while Cyrenaica proclaims siege to crush Libyan rebellion. Italian control tightens Tripoli as fortifications rise and troops reassess positions amid a wider war report from Vienna to Paris.
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