Massacre by Villa Strikes Mexican Farm Community
From El Paso report dated March 24 191?? detailing Francisco Villa and 150 followers attacking a Mexican farm settlement near Santa Barbara Chihuahua on March 14. Over 50 villagers including men women and children were killed. homes and crops burned. 25 survivors surrendered after heavy resistance. Some attackers reportedly slain.
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EL Paso
Texas
Santa Barbara
Chihuahua
Francisco Villa
Villa
Ex-Service Men urged to join I W W camp
Representatives of the American Legion urged a new soldier relief plan as agitators push ex service men toward the I W W. Utah Legion adjutant warned of nationwide I W W propaganda while ex service men in hospitals report persuasive pamphlets. Leaders called for relief including heirs of deceased servicemen and criticized the $60 discharge bonus as inadequate.
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I. W. W. Camp
Washington
American Legion
House
Ways and Means Committee
I. WW
Congress
E. Holden
Utah Legion
The
Chicago
Holden
Utah
Legion
Herman H. Birney
Philadelphia
War Mothers of America
Albert Bet
Peace Dove May Move Some Time This Year
Washington March 24 republican leaders of the house conferred on hastening action on the declaratory resolution. No final decision on form or timing, but an agreement likely within a few days.
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Washington
Senate
House
Constantinople Declares Independence Amid Hostilities
Adrianople reports its independence amid halted clashes in the region. In Europe, dispatches note a temporary ceasefire in the Ruhr as fighting subsides.
Bierce Report Claims Villista Firing Squad Death
James H. Wilkins, a special writer, reports in the San Francisco Bulletin that Ambrose Bierce, missing since 1915, was executed by a Villista firing squad near Icamoli on the trail to Monterey after returning from Mexico with evidence.
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San Francisco
Ambrose Bierce
Icamoli
Monterey
James H. Wilkins
Mexico
Bierce
Naval mutiny at Kiel detaches officers for republic
Advices from Berlin report Kiel naval units deposed Kiel Baltic station officers and Rear Admiral Evers and filled the posts with deck hands and Republican Officers league members. The units now take orders from the civilian governor.
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London
Kiel
Baltic
Evers
Berlin
Split in Liberal Party Rocks British Politics
London March 24 Herbert H Asquith declared against Lloyd Georges call for party unity to block labor and bolshevism He called the appeal a class cleavage and said liberals must choose between supporting Lloyd Georges coalition or Asquith He framed the Irish bill as a travesty of self government signaling a formal Liberal split and a new political era.
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London
Herbert H. Asquith
House of Commons
Paisley
Scotland
Lloyd George
Asquith
Mr. Asquith
Liberal Party
Labor Party
Freight rate hearings set across major cities
The Interstate Commerce Commission reopens the transcontinental freight rate case. Hearings will begin May 8 in New York, then Chicago May 10, Spokane May 17, and San Francisco May 24, with Salt Lake hearings to follow. A preliminary Salt Lake conference April 5 will align intermountain state shippers against carrier rates.
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Standard
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Eastern Shippers
Examiner Disque
New York
Chicago
Spokane
San Francisco
Salt Lake
Intermountain
H. W. Prickett
Chicago Strikes May Be Held Up
Chicago city council directed a substitute budget boosting appropriations by 4 million dollars to fund 10 percent raises for city employees and retain hundreds slated for dismissal. Teamsters and chauffeurs backed a 2 dollar daily raise and will return to work tomorrow affecting seven hundred workers. Clerks and stenographers rejected the 10 percent rise and planned a 25 dollar monthly wage strike Monday.
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Chicago
Finance Committee
Teamsters and Chauffeurs’ Union
Clerks and Stenographers' Union
Unions Withdraw From Centralia Labor Council
Three more local unions pull out of the Centralia central labor council after the council approved the not guilty verdict of the labor jury in the Mottanesco trial of J W W charged with killing W O Grimm.
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Centralia
Wash
Centralia Central Labor Council
Montesano
W. O. Grimm
Typhus Crisis Outlined by Red Cross Leader in Paris
Henry P. Davison, chairman of the League of Red Cross Societies, warned of 230,000 typhus cases in Poland and dire shortages of doctors and supplies across Central and Eastern Europe. He described ships carrying refugees barred from landing, proposed a Baltic to Black Sea cordon, and urged allied governments to provide food clothing and transport while Red Cross supplies doctors and medical aid.
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Paris
Henry P. Davison
League of Red Cross Societies
Europe
Poland
Baltic
Russia
Red Cross
Black Sea
Montenegro
Czecho-Slovakia
Red Cross League
Wilson's Veto Blocks Peage Declaration Attempt
In Washington on March 4, Senator Thomas of Colorado argued Congress cannot override a presidential veto to declare peacetime with Germany. He warned a joint resolution would be ineffective since the president, by the constitution, holds wartime powers and must participate in termination of the war.
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Washington
Congress
United States
Germany
Thomas
Colorado
Senate
City weighs legality of wartime phone rate hike
Butte councilors ordered City Attorney Clinton to probe Postmaster General Burleson's wartime rate increase and assess if prayers for refunds can be pursued. Montana's Public Utilities Commission backed the raise, with protests filed. state supreme courts in other states ruled the action illegal and ordered refunds in those cases. The exact refund amount remains undetermined.
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Burleson
Clinton
Supreme Courts
Alderman Wilson
Butte
Montana
Montana Public Utilities Commission
Montana Commission
General Wood Leading in South Dakota Primary
Sioux Falls March 34 General Wood leads in the presidential endorsement vote with 23 385 for Lowden and 1 786 for Johnson as returns from 60 percent of precincts are tallied. Compiled results show 14 counties complete with 20 near complete, highlighting the state’s major population centers.
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Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Wood
Lowden
Johnson
United States Opposes Ruhr Action With Allies
The United States plans to join Great Britain and Italy in resisting any military move by allied governments to preserve orders in the Ruhr valley as Ebert's government faces a revolutionary challenge.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Italy
Ruhr Valley
Ebert
Delaware Campaign and Connecticut Dilemma Over Woman Suffrage
Connecticut Governor Holcomb rejects a special session to ratify the federal suffrage amendment, while Delaware lawmakers begin ratification debates. Delaware sessions feature hearings by suffragists and opponents, with national figures and local leaders predicting outcomes.
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Hartford
Conn
Marcus H. Holcomb
Connecticut General Assembly
Republican State Convention
New Haven
Connecticut
Holcomb
General Assembly
Dover
Del
Delaware
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National Woman's Party
United States
Spencer
Missouri
Sterling
South Dakota
McKellar
Tennessee
National Association
Henry D. Thompson
Ice Gorge Dams Islands Cause Major Damage
Ice in the St. Louis River near Fond Du Lac creates a 20 foot gorge uprooting trees and wrecking six cottages. Damage estimated between 5000 and 10000 dollars.
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Duluth
Minn
St. Louis
Fond du Lac
Syrians and Arabs Order British and French to Leave
Dispatches from Beirut report Emir Feisal, newly proclaimed king of Syria, has demanded the French depart Syria by April 6, while Arabs have ordered the British to quit Palestine.
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Constantinople
Associated Press
Beirut
Feisal
Syria
Palestine
Stock Exchange Board Adopts Daylight Saving Change
New York March 24 Board of governors votes to conform to the new state daylight saving law effective at 2 a m next Sunday.
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New York
Board of Governors
the Stock Exchange Today
New Railroad Officials Arrive in Butte
W L Booth named Great Northern contracting freight agent and F O Hara named Northwestern traveling agent arrive in Butte along with KE Brittan as chief clerk. Additional Northwestern staff to join soon as offices prepare to resume competitive freight and passenger business in Montana and North Dakota.
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Butte
Great Northern
Northwestern
W. L. Booth and Co
F. O'Hara
Rooth
Mr. O'Hara
White Sulphur Springs
KE. L. Brittan
Moccasin
O'Hara
St. Paul
Northwestern Road
Western Territory
Duluth
Hohenzollern Leaves Castle on Secret Doorn Visit
Former Emperor William, guarded by two police, left Bentinck castle for a quiet trip to Doorn to view progress on his future residence. This marked the first permitted departure since the Kapp rebellion.
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Amerongen
Associated Press
William
Bentinck Castle
Doorn
Squadrons of air patrol for Northwest forests
Helena March 4. State forester J. O. Van Hook has word the war department will supply five squadrons of air patrols for Northwest forests. A letter from A. Chapman of the Western Forestry and Conservation Association confirms patrol. Montana will fund upkeep of landing bases at Helena and Missoula and a Montana committee will meet in Helena to discuss plans.
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Helena
J. O. van Hook
War Department
Northwest
Mr. van Heak
A. Chapman
The
Western Forestry and Conservation Association
Portland
Ore
State Board of Land Commissioners
Montana
Missoula
Eb, Boorman
Kalispell
J, OC
van Hook
State Forester
Kenneth Ross
R. H. Rutledge
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Newton D. Baker
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Wilson
Pado
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