Lusitania Sinks Off Ireland After German Submarine Attack
The Lusitania sails from New York May 1 with over two thousand aboard and sinks off Old Head Kinsale May 7 after two torpedoes struck. Survivors reported vary but 658 were saved with 595 landed at Queenstown and many dead or injured. Captain Turner survived. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt reportedly among the drowned. Rescue efforts and inquiries follow amid calls for accountability from Germany.
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London
Cunard
New York
Admiralty
Queenstown
Dublin
Exchange ‘Telegraph Company
Lusitania
Old Head Kinsale
Liverpool
Great Britain
Atlantic
Line
Nantucket
United States
Germany
Surviving Crewman Reports Calm After Torpedoed Ship
Survivor Brocet Cowper of the Lush describes a panic free evacuation after the torpedo attack off Queenstown. He recalls orderly efforts to move passengers into lifeboats and continue the ship’s evacuation despite the peril.
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Ireland
Helen Smith
Queenstown
Brocet Cowper
Topodlo
Frohman Believed Lost With Lusitania Passengers
Charles Fordman a famed theatrical producer and others believed lost when the Lusitania sank. Fordman was aboard the liner and is presumed among the casualties alongside numerous cabin passengers.
Washington reels as liner Sustania sinks in war crisis
Destruction of the British liner Sustania with many losses shocks U S officials and grieves the nation. President Wilson studies dispatches and warns Germany of strict accountability for American lives aboard attacked vessels. Senate Foreign Relations leaders in Washington may be consulted as policy is decided. Reports reveal threats by the German admiralty to sink the Lusitania for psychological impact on Great Britain.
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Washington
Sustania
United States
Europe
Germany
White House
Wilson
Congress
Stone
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
German Attache Denounces Lusitania Sinking
In New York the German embassy attache Captain Pranzg von Papen quotes the Lusitania sinking as deplorable if true and accuses Cunard and Britain of carrying neutral passengers on a ship laden with explosives and munitions of war. He cites alleged cargo including nitric acid and other explosives.
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Lusitania
New York
Pranzg von Papen
New York World
Cunard Company
Great Britain
Steel Men Aboard Lusitania
Pittsburgh steam ship agents report twenty men from the district backed Vetenge aboard the Lusitania disaster. Of the 20, eight are in first cabin, six in second cabin, and six in third class passenger berths.
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Lusitania
Pittsburgh
Vetenge
Fatal windstorm wrecks near Huntingdos and Teno
Mrs Lee Buco and her child were killed and Mrs Hilliard was likely fatally hurt when their autos were struck by a windstorm near Huntingdos and Teno on Friday night.
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Huntingdos
Teno
Lee Buco
Mre &. Hilliard
Tomnes Sear Hus
Labor Leader Lawson Convicted of Murder in Colorado
John R. Lawson, noted labor leader, is condemned to life at hard labor for first degree murder in the death of deputy John Nimmo during a strike battle on October 25, 1913. A new trial motion may be filed. he will be released on a $20,000 bond pending action. Lawson emphasized the labor cause over his own fate.
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Trinidad
Colo
John R. Lawson
Colorado
John Nimmo
Lawson
Hillyer
Las Animas County
Horace N. Hawkins
Samuel Untermyer Wins Big in Bethlehem Steel Stock
Samuel Untermyer, longtime critic of the New York stock exchange, is among the largest winners in Bethlehem Steel stock. His 15,000 shares are described as an investment rather than speculative holding.
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Samuel Untermyer
New York Stock Exchange
Bethlshem Sites
German air attack harms American tanker Cush in North Sea
The April 28 aerial strike near The Hague damaged the American tanker Cush img in the North Sea claimed by German forces. The incident prompted inquiries into maritime safety and Allied wartime responses.
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the Hague
North Sea
Oppose Rise in Livestock Rates Testified in Chicago
T W Tomlinson secretary of the American National Live Stock association testified in the wholesale commodity rate case on Saturday against proposed advances in livestock rates.
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Chicago
T W. Tomlinson
American National Live Stock Association
Turkish War News From Transcaucasia and Armenian Turmoil
Reports from Tiflis say Khali Bey’s defeated Turkish force pursues Armenians in Khor Dilmen as Russians retreat to Magonzhio under heavy shelling. Bishop Nersus of Tabriz says Van endures dire shortages with 800 Turks and many Kurds active and famine looming after blocked crops. Erzerum reports 300 typhus cases.
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Tiflis
Transcaucasia
Khali Bey
Khor-Dilmen
Caucasus
Hanshta
Urmiah
Dilmen
Magonzhio
Nersus
Tabriz
Persia
Van
Erzingen
Abdul Hamid
Erzerum
Turkish Armenia
Wallis Pleads Guilty In Idaho District Court
James H. Wallis former Idaho dairy food and sanitary inspector pleaded guilty to one case charging him with certifying a deputy’s full month’s pay while the deputy worked elsewhere. Other cases were dismissed. A $1,500 fine was imposed and paid as he chose to avoid mounting defense costs.
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Boise
Idaho
James H. Wallis
Dairy, Food and Sanitary Inspector
State of Idaho
Wallis
Reform program beaten in Reno vote
Reno residents on Tuesday rejected a reform program that included an ordinance cutting liquor licenses in half from eighty to forty and imposing strict regulation on cafes and cabarets.
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Reno
Nev
Terre Haute Officials Conspiracy Convictions Denied Appeal
The United States Court of Appeals denied a motion to reduce and modify the heads of the eleven Terre Haute officials convicted of conspiracy in election fraud cases.
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Chicago
Sleven
Terre Haute
Lad
United States Court of Appeals
Germans Defeat Russian Forces On Carpathian Front
German Austro forces drive deep into west Galicia with continued good weather aiding their advance. Over 50,000 Russian prisoners reported as the front breaks and retreats along the Carpathians with Russian stores and troops falling back toward Tarnow and Wal Mountain while the Austro German line presses beyond the Goriice turnpike and Wisloka river.
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Chancellorsville
West
Galicia
Ing
Vienna
Russian Carpathian
Goriice
Wisloka
Zmigrad
Jaslo
Dukia
von Hoetsendorf
Radko Dimitrief
Carpathians
Lupkow
Tarnow
Wal Mountain
Biala
Dunajec
Wistoka
Court Schedule Changes for Supreme Court Recess
The court will not hear arguments after May 14 until the summer recess ends on October 12. From May 14 to the late June recess, decisions will be announced on alternate Mondays.
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Washington
Supreme Court
James McClintic A Texan State Leader and Dry Goods Operator
James McClintic a thirty acres old native of Texas has served in the Oklahoma house and senate and now seeks a district seat in congress. His career spans farm work commercial trade and political service from Snyder where he has run a dry goods store since 1904.
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James M’clintic
Congress
Texio
Oklahoma House
Senate
Snyder
Crow Picked Up by Schooner Plyer Near Coronado
Crow picked up near Coronado by the schooner Plyer while en route to their feacue.
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Crow
Coronado Islands
Plyer
Jewelry theft report tied to Mrs Francis case at Stewart
Jewels valued at 15500 dollars were reported missing from the hem of Mrs J B Francis skirt in a treasury of female sald. After her arrest at the Hotel Stewart she was recharged with related charges.
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Bao Francisce
J. B Francis
Stewart
China Faces Ultimatum From Japan Over Concessions
The Japanese legation presses China to accept twenty four demands or face war. Chinese officials, led by Yuan Shikai aides, discuss concessions on Shandong, Manchuria rights, and railway projects while consulting with the United States Britain Russia and France.
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Tsao Yulin
Winter Palace
Yuan Shi Kai
China
Shantung Province
Japan
Germany
Manchuria
Mongolia
Nan Chang-Chaochow-Fu
Great Britain
United States
Russia
France
Roosevelt calls it piracy after Lusitania sinking
Theodore Roosevelt denounces the Lusitania sinking as piracy on a vast scale. He cites the destruction of Louvain and Dinant and the loss of hundreds of lives, urging action to defend humanity and national self respect.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Louvain
Dinant
British Expect Lusitania Sinking to Force War Unity
The Times asserts Britons face a government burden as the Lusitania disaster presses the nation toward war. It says Wilson's ministry guards national honor and civilian lives, and the tragedy should spur liberal powers to join the war effort.
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Lusitania
Great Britain
Travelers Undamaged New York Steamship Arrives
The British steamer Transylvania has arrived in New York carrying travelers unharmed after a voyage. No injuries or incidents reported aboard.
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New York
Transylvania
Winter Wheat Crop Improves Washington Output Estimate
The winter wheat crop in Washington shows rapid improvement raising the April outlook by 74,000,000 bushels in the current estimate.
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Washington
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