Surrender of deposed ruler now reported
Reports from El Paso and Vera Cruz claim former President Carranza has surrendered with 800 men near San Marcos Puebla and Mazatlan. Rebel leaders report continued pursuit, with Carranza hemmed south of Apizaco and safe passage to Vera Cruz planned. Foreign consulates arrange transport under a white flag if needed.
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EL Paso
Tex
Carranza
San Marcos
State of Puebla
Mex
Juarez
New York
Revolutionary “Bureau of Information
Nogales
Sonora
Mazatlan
Vera Cruz
Apizaco
Manuel
Barranca
Hidalgo
United States
Celso Cepeda
Chalchicomula
Orizaba
Rocha
Guadalupe Sanchez
Esperanza
Glasgow
Des Cartes
Dolphin
Foster
Arthur Hogg
Mexico City
Zu‘verdiji
Tampa
Fla
Knox Peace Resolution Up Today
The senate will dispose of the Knox peace resolution today and is expected to adopt it and send it to conference with the house. Congressional leaders predict early agreement in conference, with Republicans aiming to forward it to the White House to secure a veto before the Republican convention. Voting begins at 4 p.m.
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Washington
Senate
House
White House
Wilson
Pfeifer Reconsiders Resignation as Price Commissioner
Columbus May 15. John Pfeifer fair price commissioner has reconsidered his decision to resign and will continue in office. The decision followed a conference with John Crumbley justice department special agent who commended his work and thanked him for service.
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Columbus
John Pfeifer
John Crumbley
Department of Justice
Washington
Crumbley
Pfeifer
Sermons at First Presbyterian on Outsiders and World
Hear Dr Wilcox Sunday morning at the First Presbyterian Church on Outsiders and Dean Voigt Sunday evening on Everybodys World.
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Dr. Wilcox
First Presbyterian Church
Dean Voigt
Rail Strike Dispatch Impacts Consumers and Builders
The current rail strike slows shipments causing shortages in cement wood and iron for builders and suppliers. Freight centers open and close with the strike, while some firms obtain goods by long truck hauls or through parcel post, which has surged as express shipments fall.
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Parcel Post
Fruit crop outlook uncertain after Friday freeze
In Athens county the freeze and frost may determine fruit prospects within a day or two. Castor Bobo of Waterloo reports higher ground fruit largely spared while wind and prior cold have damaged early buds. A high ground Ames township farmer noted 30 degrees at 7 am and said fruit on higher ground may survive.
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Athens County
Castor Bobo
Waterloo
Altho
Bobo
Ames Township
Fighting Near Monterey Reported by Cos Troops
Eagle Pass May 15 General Francisco Cos commanding revolutionary forces in Coahuila was en route from Piedras Negras to Monterey with three train loads of troops. He expects fighting near and at Monterey and will join General Villareal, commander of the three northern states and governor of Nuevo Leon, upon entering Monterey.
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Eagle Pass
Tex
Francisco Cos
Coahuila
Puedra Negras
Monterey
Cos
Villareal
Nuevo Leon
Athens paving bid for Carpenter and High streets awarded
Fred R. Beckier of Athens submitted the lone bid to the city service department for paving Carpenter and High streets from Congress to Lancaster and State to Carpenter. The bid was brick with sand and gravel base and awaits canvass with results due early next week.
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Fred R. Beckier
Athens
City Service Department
Carpenter and
High Streets
Congress
Lancaster
State
Carpenter
Governor names referee in dispute over Ohio traction company
Columbus May 15. Governor Cox named D. Hutchins of Columbus as referee in the dispute between the Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company and its employees.
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Columbus
Saved Fruit: Salem Orchard Survives Frost Night
Mr C S Tedrow manager of the New York Coal Company farming operations reports they saved their hundred acre apple orchard at Salem last night by burning smudge pots. He says surrounding country is white with frost and unprotected buds were likely killed. They plan to fire the orchard again tonight.
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C.S. Tedrow
New York Coal
Princeton Fire Destroys Dickinson Hall and Marquard Chapel
A May 15 blaze at Princeton University in Dickinson Hall and Marquard Chapel damaged McCosh Hall, totaling about 200000 dollars. Nearby towns aided Princeton fire crews while student and alumni volunteers helped fight the flames as social events continued nearby. Dickinson Hall was a former lecture site and Marquard Chapel was a New York Marquard family gift built forty years ago.
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Princeton
N. J
Dickinson Hall
Princeton University
Marquard Chapel
McCosh
Princeton Fire Department
Dickinson
Marquard
New York City
U S Weighs Reply to Mexican Provisional Government
Washington May 15 A cabinet meeting may decide if the United States should answer the Mexican revolutionary government’s note signed by Provisional President De La Huerta. Officials worry a reply would recognize the de facto regime while silence could ignore a friendly message. Carranza's forces falter as opponents consolidate control.
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Washington
United States
de la Huerta
Mexico
State Department
Wilson
Colby
Carranza
Canton Stores Cut Clothing Prices
Eight leading Canton clothing stores cut prices by 20 percent effective immediately as part of a nationwide movement to reduce the cost of living. Merchants say the reduction marks a response to rising prices and aims to ease shoppers’ burden.
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Canton
Treaty Will Be Enforced After Spa Conference
An official statement from Hythe reports that the peace treaty with Germany will be enforced in all respects including disarmament. It notes a conference between Lloyd George and Millerand in Hythe and postponement of the Spa conference to June 21. Millerand agrees to a definite German reparation sum.
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Hythe
Eng
Germany
Lloyd George
Millerand
Spa
Pairs Arrested in Auto Theft Ring Across Two Ohio Counties
Athens and Franklin county officers captured William Breaker and Vance Douglas in Pomeroy after a multi county auto theft spree tied to Chauncey and The Plains. Breaker, 35, has a long prison record and faces charges in Probate Court. Douglas will face auto theft charges in Athens and Franklin counties. Deputy Beahrs aided the effort, locating the pair as they walked along a road and surrendering under gunpoint.
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Ohio
Parker
McKinley
Bolin
Pomeroy
William Breaker
Vance M. Douglas
Plains
Athens
Franklin
Bill Breaker
Breaker
Chauncey
Douglas
Columbus
Groveport
Ohio River
George Beahrs
Meigs County
Athens County
Beahrs
Hobson
Phillips
Franklin County
Althout
Reformatory
Webster
Athens School Tax Study Seeks Three Year Levy
The Athens city board of education and the Chamber of Commerce educational affairs committee hold meetings with business leaders to determine the district’s financial needs before proposing a three year extra tax levy. They seek salary increases, more classroom space and equipment, and aim to present a definite proposition after compiling data from major taxpayers.
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Athens City
Athens
Board of Education
America Demands Peace Highlighted At Boston Dinner
At the Home Market Club annual dinner in Boston Senator Harding of Ohio urged peace as a goal beyond political campaigns. Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin also spoke, criticizing President Wilson for the current unsettled industrial conditions and urging that peace be secured first.
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Boston
America
Senator Harding
Ohio
Home Market Club
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Harding
Wilson
Five Killed in Collision at Sea Off Sandy Hook
Five men died when the steamer Buenos Aires collided with the bark Wildthornsh off Sandy Hook. The Wildthrush sank in three minutes. Captain Griffith Roberts and his 11 year old son survived aboard the Buenos Aires. Donald McDougal James Rice Janes Jackson Julius Backman perished. Gustave Pearson died later from exposure.
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New York
Buenos Aires
Sandy Hook
Griffith Roberts
Boston
Montevideo
Donald McDougal
James Rice
Janes Jackson
Julius Backman
Gustave Pearson
Wood Alcohol Claims Three Victims In Toledo
Following the death of three wood alcohol victims in 24 hours, police raided a rooming house across from the central police station today. Neo liquor was reported. The victims are Ben R. Mitchell 46 whose home is thought to be in Port Clinton, William Fanning 50, and Jack Thompson.
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Toledo
Central Police Station
Ben RR. Mitchell
Port Clinton
William Fanning
Jack Thompson
Arrest Young Check Thief in Toledo Case
Paul Huberich aged 18 was arrested in Toledo for stealing 35000 in checks from Ohio Savings Bank on April 13. Detectives say he passed 2000 dollar checks to Toledo and Bowling Green banks, deposited via mail, altered payments by removing paid stamps and changing amounts. He confessed and most checks were found in his room. he will be turned over to federal authorities.
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Toledo
Paul Huberich
Ohio Savings Bank
Bowling Green
Huberich
Man Drops Dead in Market After Hearing Potato Price
Minneapolis on May 15 saw I L A Grave, 40, collapse in a city market after being told potato prices. Coroner reports heart disease as the cause of death.
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Minneapolis
Minn
L. A
Government Victory in Parliamentary Diet Majority
The government led by Victor Toroio secured a majority in the Diet after the May 10 election. The result marks a clear win for the government in the parliamentary contest.
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Victor Torio
Diet
Days Bandit Had Planned Many Holdups
In Chicago Horace Walton aged 24 was slain after a successful Illinois Central mail car hold up. Authorities link Walton to a Santa Fe mail car robbery near Lexington Missouri on April 8. The loot ranged from 18000 to 60000 dollars and investigations note similar methods and marked railroad timetables.
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Horace Walton
Illinois Central
Walton
Lexington
Chicago
Sugar Dealers Face Mandatory Sales Bill in House
A House bill introduced by Representative Stevenson of Minnesota would compel sugar dealers to sell their stocks at uniform prices filed with the federal trade commission or pay a two cent per pound tax on all sugar sold.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Stevenerson
Minnesota
Montreal broker Browne kills self after bond theft arrest
W Graham Browne a Montreal broker tied to a $50 000 bond theft shot and killed himself in a washroom after being arrested near Coteau Junction while fleeing toward New York Police said Browne had no link to the New York bond thefts and had long been sought by authorities entangled in a prominent financial circle in Montreal/filed with Chicago and Boston University clubs.
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Montreal
Que
W. Graham Browne
Royal Bank of Canada
Browne
Coteau Junction
Ottawa
New York
Chicago
Boston
John T. Dooling
Vengeance of No 19 Feared in Vicksburg Escape Case
In Mississippi on May 15 officers rushed Jesse Watts an escaped prisoner on death row to the state prison at Jacksonville to prevent mob violence Watts with seven other inmates escaped Warren county jail Wednesday night but surrendered to his uncle Ed Watts at Red Wood after hunger forced him from hiding Watts was convicted of murdering Dr C A Alverson whose mutilated body was found buried near here Watts allegedly accused the doctor of performing an illegal operation on Mrs Watts
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Vicksburg
Miss
Jesse Watts
Jacksonville
Watts
Warren County
Ed Watts
Red Wood
C. A. Alverson
Capper Doubts Sugar Shortage Seeks Government Action
Senator Capper challenged claims of a sugar shortage and said imports this year will exceed last year by two billion pounds. He urged government seizure of sugar stocks and rationing through the post office if no better plan is found.
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Capper
Washington
Master mind suspect surrenders to authorities in theft case
Nicky Arnstein, linked to bond thefts from Wall Street firms, turned himself in to District Attorney John T. Dooling with his actress wife Fannie Brice. Bail set at 75000. Arnstein to appear in federal court as investigators pursue case amid prior hotel sightings and bail efforts by Ziegfeld associates.
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New York
Nicky” Arnstein
Wall Street
John T. Dooling
Arnstein
Fannie Brice
Dooling
Fannie
Pittsburg
Nicky
Florenz Ziegfeld
Government readies stern Irish measures amid unrest
Webb Miller reports from London that government officials plan strict actions in Ireland with reinforced police barracks after widespread arson. The Times and Telegraph note harsh policy stakes, citing 100 barracks burned since Wednesday and over 400 since Easter, plus court house and post office attacks, car seizures, and two brothers kidnapped in bank-robbery suspicions.
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Webb Miller
London
Ireland
Telegraph
Britain
Sinn Fein
The
Times
Cashel
County Tipperary
Dungarvan
County Kilkenny
Dance at Eagles Hall Promises Music and Gentlemen’s Admission
Monday night dance at Eagles Hall features lively music. Admission for gentlemen is 50 cents and ladies 25 cents, offering a social evening with pep py music.
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Eagles’ Hall
Mill workers win 15 percent wage increase across mills
Lawrence Mass May 15 Following American Woolen Company announcement a 15 percent wage rise to take effect June 1 all mills employing 500 or more followed with a sliding scale increase averaging 15 percent More than 40 000 mill workers are expected to benefit and a meeting will decide formal acceptance in the near term Wood alcohol poisoning blamed for a death at St Louis convention of the wholesale grocers association involving Robert E Collins of Birmingham Alabama.
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Lawrence
Mass
American Woolen Company
ST. Louis
Robert E. Collins
Birmingham
Ala
Collins
Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Bolshevik Counterattacks Repelled In Kieff Region
Desperate Bolshevik counterattacks in the Kieff region were repulsed with heavy losses, four armored Bolshevik ships sunk in the Dneiper, and more than 2,000 prisoners taken, a Warsaw communique said. Premier Skulski announced possible reopening of peace talks with the Soviet Government. Harrisburg report notes a Reading man seeks his wife described as a bleached blonde with the Lord's Prayer tattoo on her back.
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London
Kieff
Warsaw
Dneiper
Skulski
Poland
Harrisburg
Harry Buchanan
Reading
High Alumni to Meet Next Monday
The Athens Hi School alumni hold their first get together Monday at 7 30 PM in the First Methodist Church parlors. The social gathering aims to form charter members of the Athens Hi School Alumni Association. Dues of 1 will be collected, with talks by Supt Morgan and Dr Studer and music by the Athens High School orchestra.
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Athens Hi School
First M. . Church
Athens Hi
Supt. Morgan
Dr. Studer
Association
A. H. 8, Orchestra
Akron launches Own Your Own Home campaign
Akron real estate board opened the builders show today and launched an Own Your Own Home campaign. Builders said remedies for Akron housing problems may be devised during the event. May 15.
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Akron
Builders
Akron Real Estate Board
Wilson Critics Taft and Roosevelt Naval Policies
Secretary Daniels testifies before the Senate naval committee praising President Wilson for rebuilding the U S Navy. He says Roosevelt and Taft policies ceded global naval ranking while 1913 to 1916 saw record peacetime gains in personnel efficiency and material. Daniels notes Taft failed to recover ground and Congress later funded a larger program than Germany.
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Washington
Daniela
Roosevelt
Taft
United States
Germany
Wilson
Senate Naval Investigation Committee
Daniels
Congress
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