Glenn Springs Raid Fights by Nine Cavalrymen Endure Mexican Onslaught
Alpine Texas May 7. Valista bandits about seventy crossed the Rio Grande and raided Glenn Springs, attacking Troop A Fourteenth Cavalry. Three troopers and a boy were killed, two wounded, one missing presumed dead. Deemer and Compton carried across the river, throat injuries reported. Nine American cavalry held a mud-walled adobe against heavy fire for hours, repelling the attack as the bandits burned buildings and fled toward Boquillas. Troopers Cohen Coles, and Rogers were killed. Tyree missing. Local officials seek aid and U.S. troop reinforcement.
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OS Fort 18
Texas
Sergeant Smith
Glenn Springs
Boquillas
John Deemer
Louis Compton
Alpine
Valista
Rio Grande
Troop A. Fourteenth Cavalry
Hoy
Coahuila
Mexico
J. A. Deemora
Compton
Marathon
Villistas
William Cohen
Stephen J. Coles
New Fork Cits
Hudson Rogers
Dan Ville
Gumb
Privat J. Birck
Frank Defree
Birck
Defree
Esirab Ding
Bouquillas
William Bilis
Speath
Hoquilias
J. Deemer
Deemer
Maraths
Smyth
Fourteenth Cavalry
Black
Sergeant Smyth
Croaker
Croskem
Witte
Ber Smyth
Andits
Toylis
Cohen
Maine
Coloe
Doro
Rogers
Tyree
W. K. Ells
Ella
Foomin
A. M. Turney
Brewster County
Ferguson
Austin
United States
Shepperd
Culber Son
Suffrage Envoys Arrive in Butte
Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch addressed a large audience at the Auditorium in Butte urging Democrats to push for woman's suffrage. She cited a plank endorsing submission and said delegates would press a national approach, aiming to influence the president and House. The event featured noted representatives of the Congressional union.
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Harriet Stanton Blatch
Butte
Farge
Congressional
Unio
Suffrage Delegation Arrives in Butte on Special Train
The Congressional Union suffrage caravan arrives in Butte escorted by local leaders. Mrs Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, leads a tour with 20 national leaders and deputies from New York and other states. Delegates emphasize women paying their way and deny Republican funding.
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West
Butte
Great Northern
Hele
America
Blateh
Izabeth Cody Stanton
Mra Blateh
Congresional Union
Women's Poitical Union of
New York
Henry Brewster Stanton
London
Lucy Burns
Congressonal Union
Vassar
John Rogers
National Advisory Council
John Alflen
Roger Sherman
Helen Todd
Kirkland School
Chicago
The
International, Child Welfare
Peace efforts by Gerard amid crisis in Europe
Fragmentary report notes Gerard's efforts to keep Germany and America at peace during a crisis. It mentions Berlin and London, with phrases about misunderstandings and a desire to avoid countermeasures. The text is garbled but centers on diplomatic actions and assurances.
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Gerard
Berlin
London
Germany
America
Interview extracts on peace aims and false allegations
Amsterdam May via London reports an Inter ambassador's text from the Neues Wiener Journal. He declines comment on American conditions due to time away and limited information. He hopes for peace, rejects claims of urging war or personal munition interests, and condemns malicious stories about his wife and his motives.
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Amsterdam
London
Inter Can
Neues Wiener Journal
Vienna
America
Sta
Berlin
Washington
Ger
United States
Unter den Linden
Germany
Cardinal Gibbons Signals Hint of Peace Efforts
Baltimore May 7 Cardinal Gibbons said when asked about steps toward peace among warring nations that there is something in the air. He warned it would be presumptuous to describe what mediators are doing but acknowledged a hopeful atmosphere surrounds peace efforts.
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Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Irish Countess Georgina Marko vicz Sentenced to Death
Dublin May 7 Countess Georgina Marko vicz prominent in Irish revolt was sentenced by a court martial to death but commuted to penal servitude for life. The sentence affecting Heney co commuted. George Plunkett and John Plunkett, brothers of Joseph Plunkett, received ten year terms. Plunkett and his wife arrested. Count Plunkett has papal title and was active in philanthropy and art.
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Dublin
London
Georgina Markovicz
Heney Co
George Plunkett
John Plunkett
Joseph Plunkett
Plunkett
George Plunket
Count Plunkett
Harcourt named successor to Birrell as Ireland chief secretary
The report states Lewis Harcourt, first commissioner of works, will succeed Augustine Birrell as chief secretary for Ireland. A crowd of about 1,000 prisoners left Dublin for England, mostly from rural districts. The Sinn Fein arms and ammunition orders end today under Maxwell. Civilians deaths in the revolt are unconfirmed, with 150 believed accounted for.
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Lewis Harcourt
Augustine Birrell
Ireland
Dublin
British Submarine E-31 Sunk by German Fire
Berlin reports British submarine E-31 sunk by German fire off the west coast of Denmark on May 5. The German admiralty also says a hostile aircraft was destroyed near the Flanders coast and another aircraft captured by torpedo boats. The Zeppelin 17 reportedly failed to return from a reconnaissance mission.
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Berlin
Denmark
Admiralty
Flanders
North Sea
New Verdun Chief Named for Local Operations
Paris May 7 Gen Robert George Nivelle appointed to direct Verdun area operations succeeding Gen Henri Philippe Petain promoted to commander in chief of central armies in the sector between Soissons and Verdun.
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Verdu
Paris
Robert George Nivelle
Verdun
Henri Philippe Petain
Soissons
Texas Raid Draws Two Hundred Participants From Border
May 7 El Paso reports two hundred Mexicans joined a Big Bend raid with three American soldiers and a 10 year old boy killed. Two Americans were kidnapped as a Mexican bandit force of about seventy five crossed the Rio Grande near Terlingua. Major Funston ordered four cavalry troops to reinforce detachments from Presidio Alpine and nearby points.
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el Paso
Tere
Feral Funston
Presidio
Alpine
Down
Solliers
Fort Biso
George T. Tang
Foursteenth Cavalry
Port Clark
Prederick W. Sibley
Fourteenth
Punston
C. Bye
Fourteenth Cavalry
Marfa
Mover
Rio Grande
Terling
Texas
Obregon
Glenn Springs
Ware
Villa
Ojinaga
Y Yu
Mexico
Big Bend
Eral Obregon
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Washington, D. C
National Service School
Chevy Chase
Daughters of 1916
Francis Newlands
Nevada
Columbia
Iris
Columbus
Carranza
Mendment
Louis
Tacoma
Missoula
Anaconda News
Christian ‘Deavors
Wilson
Davies’ Review
Insurance Reports
Ag—Insurance Report
the Standard
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