Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-31

Vernon township In Lake county
nj, IL guaranteed 80 strictly, because
Of fresh and virulent outbreak OF the
foot-and-mouth disease. that armed
federal guards are stationed at al
cross roads to prevent travel, farmers
i are forbidden to visit each other, gro
GERS, butchers and other merchants
are forbidden to deliver supplies and
i the government at Washington has
forbidden mail carriers to traverse the
roads. {.
James Conner Roche, an Irish drar
matist, actor and poet, died in hos-s
pital at New York. He was seventy.
! two years old.
Governor Dunno of Illinois has on
dered part OF the Fourth regiments
| Illinois National Guard, to Murphys-l
boro, to protect Deberry, negro, who!
will be placed on trial on a charge Of
killing Mrs. James H. Martin.
| The governors conference in ses-
sion at Boston unanimously and en-
Enthusiastically adopted resolution
pledging their united support to any
action President Wilson may take in,
the international crisis.
Rev. Edmund Kayser. prominent
| minister Of Gary, Ind, was found MUIR
dered under mysterious circumstances
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Of which he was pastor.
Hanover, Pa, which in three weeks
will celebrate the centennial Of it's In
corporation, suffered serious disas-
ter when whirlwind with the veloc-
ity of western cyclone struck 1t and
in two minutes did damage to prop
erty estimated at fully 100000. No
lives were lost.
Men prominent In the political and
business life of Berrien county. Mich,
were caught in raid by Sheriff
Franz and Prosecuting Attorney
O'Hara on the charge Of being viola
tors Of the local option law.
That the annual dairy show held at
Chicago will not be held there and
that all similar shows in other parts
OF the West will be given up tenn
porarily, was announced by the con-
vention bureau Of the Merchants and
Manufacturers association at Milwau.
kee, Wis.
Sporting
Rube Marquard, once the hero Of
New York fans, was sold by the Giants
to the Toronto club of the Internar
tional league.
Evansville. Ind, won the 1915 Gem
trail league baseball pennant. The
season closed Tuesday. 3
Foreign
The American Red Cross society has
decided for financial reasons to with
draw its units from Europe on Octo-
Der l. Major Patterson. chief Of the
American Red Cross bureau at Lon
don, has notified the warning nations
that the entire hospital personnel II
to be withdrawn from Europe. 49,
Washington
II II was due to the action Of 4 Ger.
man submarine that American citis
Gems lost their lives in the torpedoin9
of the steamship Arabic such action,
was contrary to the intentions Of the
German government. according to ON
cial advices received at New York BY
the German ambassador from Berlin
and telegraphed by him to Washing-
ton. It was also said that Germany
will deeply regret such : .. .s. Of mo
and would tender tthhee sincerest SYM
pathies to the American government.
The interstate commerce commits
sion at Warrington rejected the pro-
posals Of the big railroads in the
southwest to Increase rates on packing
house products, fresh meats and pro-
Nasioos UosWeen pOl"Ss ~ ss sSs
tory. IL
Present rates ut the Evansville-H Hen.
derson river crossing were declared
unjustly discriminatory by the tnssRS
state commerce ccemnissisr =
ingtQn, The cupp~> 1t Wasn-
In that ter.s -.--.slon ordered roaos
~Ates - tory to establish through
n.y. Henderson providing for re-
.lling Of grain from Illinois points
to Virginia cities on the same basis -
rates via Louisville
The American government has -ad-
dressed the government Of Haiti. ex'
pressing It's desire that there be 40
cepted without delay the draft Of =
convention for ten years under which
1 there shall be established an effective
control Of Haitian customs az well -
administration Of the finances Of the
country, under receiver general and