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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1912
Page
7
Federal forces under General Huerta push north from Bellano after defeating Or o zo co's rebels. About 3 000 of 8 000 insurgents remain in danger as 800 or more dead and wounded are found and bridges are destroyed in the retreat.الج
Special report from San Antonio dated May 24 describes Waco’s extended hospitality for Waterloo visitors. A two dozen story Metropolis tour, luncheon, club events, a cotton palace park gathering, and a grand seven course dinner hosted 1200 men and 400 women. Music, cakewalks, and southern songs marked the lively reception. Mrs. Joseph H. Cameron hosted a welcoming musicale as guests arrived. Peterson notes all are well.
A band of armed mounted insurgents attacked El Silo plantation about 15 miles from Santiago and seized horses, provisions, and plunder. The government sent troops to Guantanamo and chartered steamers due to rail disruption. Insurgents also attacked Santa Lucia sugar plantation near Gibara with employees resisting.
Herbert Lacy aged 2 years is the measles epidemic’s second fatality at the Davenport Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home. About 600 children are affected with constant care from Davenport physicians aiding the home as staff work to treat the sick.
Chicago May 25 A Mrs John Kuhns wife of an Illinois Central official struck a bargain with a burglar in her Tuella Avenue home. She slept while he rifled trousers, emptied children's banks and took valuables to the front door sparing her husband and kids from harm. The tale recalls a prior Roc ka land road case where a thief was hanged on fingerprint evidence.
Emmeline Pankhurst and Mr and Mrs Pethick Lawrence, noted suffragette leaders and Votes for Welten editors, were found guilty at the Old Bailey Sessions in London and sentenced to ten months imprisonment for conspiracy and inciting followers to damage property.
Senator Bacon introduces a resolution urging Cuba policy legislation to authorize intervention under the Platt amendment. Washington learns the Navy will concentrate battleships near Key West to protect American property amid Cuban unrest. The Nebraska sails toward Hampton Roads to join a precautionary fleet at Key West, with Marines aboard for rapid deployment. Two Atlantic fleet divisions head to New York and Hampton Roads as tensions rise.
Col. Roosevelt told a Lakewood park audience that New Jersey faces a strenuous time and that people will err in governing themselves, but far fewer mistakes than the horses would make in ruling them.
The Cuban government reportedly aims to open negotiations with rebel groups offering amnesty as the basis for a peace arrangement. Enlistment slows as few negroes volunteer while rumors spread of armed bands near Marianao and other provinces. A veteran column, led by General Emilio Nunez, may reach 10 000 men to reinforce Oriente. Officials anticipate favorable front reports tonight as a longshoremen strike looms and could cripple customs revenue and military mobilization.
Minneapolis May 25 on the third ballot W P Fvnland president of the Williamsport Pennsylvania church seminary was chosen missionary bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church for far southeastern Asia He received 540 votes with 494 accessories
Washington reports Senator Louis Lorimer of Illinois may resign as a senate poll shows 40 likely for him, 9 opposed and 16 doubtful. Vice President Sherman’s Chicago trip is linked to Lorimer’s fate, with doctors restricting Lorimer’s contact and no new support name added.
New Jersey agog with presidential campaign events as Roosevelt Taft and La Follette tour the state. Voters prepare for next Tuesday's primary while crowds gather at stations and halls to catch trains and speeches amid ideal weather and high political fervor.
London May 25. Lares numbers for car men augmented the ranks of the striking transport workers. It is calculated that by tonight 126,000 men will have ceased work. Some friction is threatened as employers seek clerks to fill strikers’ tasks, but no disorder has yet occurred.
The Iowa State Conference of Congregational Churches adopted a resolution praising Senator Kenyon for supporting the Kenyon Shipherd interstate commerce bill aimed at prohibiting liquor shipments into dry territory and opposing passage of related bills at the upcoming legislature session.
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