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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1915
Page
5
The Iowa supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the Iowa employers' liability and workmen's compensation act in the case George Hunter versus Colfax Consolidated Coal Co. The decision reverses the lower court for misapplying the statute and confirms that employers may show blamelessness even as they are covered by the act.
Secretary Daniels announced steps to build battleships 43 and 44 in government yards after private bids exceeded Congress cost limits. The Navy seeks 62 million pounds of structural steel and delivery dates, with yard estimates near seven million dollars, excluding Mare Island overruns.
Douglas Ariz November 24 Advices from Cananea confirm the killing of Engineer Bean by Villa officers. He aided, under compulsion, in General Jose Rodriguez troops escape from Cananea. Bean's body expected at Naco today. Villa troops looted two American homes and Cananea Consolidated Copper Co stores. American Consul Montague ordered to open bank vaults. Preparations to reopen Cananea El Tigre and Naco mining camps underway.
New York Nov 24 Democrats favor an early convention according to Wm F McCombs chairman of the national committee. He says the convention would likely be held in the first two weeks of June and bids have been received from Chicago St Louis Dallas and San Francisco. A full committee meeting is planned in Washington Dec 7 to decide time and place.
A police officer and an unknown man were shot during a running clash with holdup men in San Francisco. Four men robbed a residence, taking about $750. Patrol officers returned fire. Corporal Pred Cook was wounded in the stomach and a robber in the lung. Three robbers fled. Thanksgiving bazar at St. Maury’s Armory offers dinners and dancing tomorrow.
Washington residents were told guards at entrances to the state, war and navy departments building would question and search anyone with a package. The expansion follows a Capitol explosion last summer and ongoing bomb plot concerns. Guards also patrol the Potomac river tunnel and bridge approaches as a security precaution.
London dispatch reports from Herne Bay that Emperor William may propose peace to President Wilson after his state entry into Constantinople. The Pall Mall Gazette cites undoubted foundation for the claim and notes the Turkish capital as the setting for the peace overture.
London, Nov. 24. The Earl of Derby, in charge of British recruiting, called for a censorship by the Lords and condemned freedom of speech after Lord St Davids directed criticisms at the British headquarters staff. He argued information to the enemy should be punished as severely as treasonous prose in Parliament. He sought stock exchange backing for his loyalty scheme.
Chicago reports no official statement yet but circulating rumor claims about fifty indictments have been voted in labor slugging cases with more on the way. The item appears from the criminal court district and notes temperatures listed for November 24.
Albany reports the Court of Appeals fixed the week beginning January 1 for the electrocution of Hang Schmidt the unfrocked priest convicted of slaying Anna Aumuller in New York in 1913. The filing notes the case involves the Navy and appears in a November dispatch.
Admiral Winslow of the Pacific fleet was sent from San Francisco to Topolobampo Mexico aboard the cruiser San Diego with 276 marines to protect Americans. The gunboat Annapolis, cruisers Raleigh and New Orleans are nearby. Reports cite mistreatment of Americans at Los Mochis, blamed on Villa followers including Mayo Indians, prompting the move.
Milwaukee reports differing German and English versions of Dr Wiexamer address. German papers condemn all sowing radical discord named Theodore or Woodrow. The notice notes a Park Armory meeting with a 30 cent dinner, 3 to 7:30 chicken dinner, 35 cent dance, and Myers' orchestra.
Waterloo bank clearings for the week ending Thanksgiving show totals of 1,462,910.08 with daily figures ranging from 24,368.89 to 277,862.79 and comparisons to the same week in 1914 and 1913. Transfers, deeds, mortgages and instruments filed to date are listed with weekly totals and year over year increases.
Telegrams from across the country flood the White House urging a conference to end the world war. Mrs Henry Bord donated 10000 to the women peace party for the telegraph drive as leading women peace advocates prepare to meet President Wilson. A delegation of women peace delegates will call on Wilson Sunday. Kelly ordered extradited to Canada over Winnipeg parliament building contract allegations in Chicago.
Albany N Y March 24 The Court of Appeals upholds the judgment convicting former New York priest Hane Schmidt of the murder of Anna Aumueller. Schmidt must now die in the electric chair.
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