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Posted inUS Civil War

February 3, 1863 – Civilians Defend Deserters

Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.

Indianapolis, Feb. 2, 1863.

On Friday last a small squad of soldiers were sent to a village named Waverly, in an adjoining county, to arrest some deserters. Upon their arrival there they were fired upon by some of the citizens, and informed that the deserters would be protected, and under no circumstances would they be surrendered.

Posted inDaily News Maritime & Naval History

Britishers Acclaim Liner Roosevelt In Rescue Of Antinoe Crew

Plymouth, England. Jan. 31.—(AP)—British conservatism went by the boards when the storm-battered United States liner President Roosevelt entered Plymouth Sound at 10 o’clock this morning carrying 25 members of the crew of the British freighter Antinoe, whose lives the Americans saved after a four days’ battle in mid-ocean.

The whistle and sirens of hundreds of ships and factories greeted the men whose valor transcended national lines and has focused the eyes of the world on Captain Fried and his gallant crew. Their work of mercy succeeded, though it cost the lives of two gallant rescuers.

“Well done,” was the signal hoisted on two tenders which steamed out to meet the Roosevelt coming in with empty davits, indicating the position of the lifeboats which had been battered to pieces in the cruel sea through which the Roosevelt‘s men sought to reach the Antinoe crew clinging to the sinking freighter.

Posted inDaily News Maritime & Naval History

Submarine Disabled Off Florida Coast

T-3 Anchored Six Miles Out—Relief Boat Ordered to Tow Craft to Port.

By the Associated Press.

KEY WEST, Fla., January 30.

The submarine T-3 was reported late tonight as anchored off the Florida coast near where she was disabled today when trouble developed in her fuel line and caused an exhaustion of the oil supply.

The submarine T-3, commanded by Lieut. J. P. Compton, has run out of oil off Florida and is in need of assistance, the Navy Department was informed in a message last night from the commandant of the seventh naval district at Key West.

The first message received said the T-3 was off Bethel Buoy, with her lubricating oil system leaking badly and her supply low. An effort was being made to reach Miami. A later message said:

Posted inDaily News Humor True Crime

Breaks Into Basement of Bank of England

Intruder Makes History by Entering Impregnable Financial Institution.

By the Associated Press.

LONDON, January 30.—The bank of England, hither-to considered impregnable as the Rock of Gibraltar and absolutely burglar-proof, was broken into some time after midnight on Saturday.

History of a sort was made in Police Court today when Timothy Phillips was arraigned on a charge of “breaking and entering the premises of the Bank of England with intent to commit a felony.”

Posted inDaily News Maritime & Naval History Shipwrecks & Nautical Disasters

Rescue of 54 Men Thwarted By Gale

Two Freighters Sinking. Boats Standing by Helpless in Heavy Storm.

By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. January 27.—The fate of 54 men, members of the crews of the British freighters Antinoe and Laristan, which have been in distress in a storm at sea for three days, was still In doubt today.

Six men of the were rescued yesterday by the German liner Bremen, leaving 24 aboard. The United States liner President Roosevelt, which has lost two of its crew in efforts to aid the Antinoe, was still standing by today.

Five of the dozen passenger liners that have been battling toward Atlantic ports front one to two days late in the teeth of the storm reached port yesterday. They were the Transylvania, Duilio, Giuseppe Verdi, Mount Royal and Regina.

Posted inDaily News Immigration

See Menace in Bill For Alien Deportation

WASHINGTON—Another effort will be made during the present congressional session to pass the drastic alien deportation bill, the adoption of which was attacked in the last congress as certain to bring about a virtual reign of terror among the 5,000,000 adult aliens resident in the United States.

The bill already has been given another hearing before the house immigration committee, although it has not yet been reported to the house, such a report is deemed certain, however, inasmuch as the same committee reported it out last year with only two dissenting votes.

The measure, in fact, passed the house vote of 213 to 39, and was prevented from becoming law primarily because it became lost in the senate’s legislative jam.

At this session, however, it is expected to get an earlier start, and consequently a better chance of passage.

Posted inDaily News Local Histories

Mercury to Drop to 7 Above Zero

Winter’s Record to Be Set Tonight—Relief Next Week Indicated.

A cold wave sweeping in from the West put an end today to the comparatively balmy weather the Capital has been enjoying for the past week and, if the weather man’s predictions are borne out, will drive the mercury down to the seven-degree point tonight, a new low record for this Winter.

The only solace the Weather Bureau had to hold out against a prospect of two or three days of frigid temperature was that it sees no prospect of snow accompanying it. While the thermometer is flirting with the zero point tonight the sky will be cloudy and probably will continue that way tomorrow.

Posted inDaily News Local Histories

Johnstown Mayor Bans Sunday Trade

Will Even Block Choir Singers to Probe “Absurdity’’ of Blue Laws.

By the Associated Press.

JOHNSTOWN. Pa January 20 —A much perturbed and a little defiant citizenry tonight faced a Sunday without movies, sodas or gasoline as Mayor Eddie McCloskey prepared to show the people just how “ridiculous’’ blue laws are anyway.

Every business house got orders from policemen today to “pull down your blinds tomorrow and keep them down” under an edict of the mayor that a blue law of 1913 will be enforced to the last letter.

The mayor said he will back up the old law so well “that the paid choir singers will not be permitted to appear in the churches.”