Mexicans Fire On Border Troopers in 45 Minute Battle
Battle took place near San Jose in Big Bend country Texas between 23 US Sixth Cavalry Texas National Guard troopers and about 30 Mexican attackers. Fire exchanges lasted 45 minutes from cover on both sides by the Rio Grande. No American casualties reported. Mexican losses unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Bend Country
Texas
Frontier
San Antonio
San Jose
Big Bend
Funston
Joseph Gaston
Gaston
Sixth Cavalry
Texas National Guard
Presidio
Ruidesa
Cudington
Rio Grande
United States
Ruidosa
Panic over would-be jumper near President Wilson
Pittsburg officer say Richard Cullen, 22, machinist, tried to jump onto a running board as President Wilson rode by Friday. He was examined and ordered to the city home at Mayview for observation. Cullen denied harming the president and claimed he sought discussion on foreign policy. A bottle of liquid in his bag was found to be medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Richard Cullen
Wilson
Mayview
Cullen
Bo Medicing
Poce
French Force in Athens Tightens Grip After Greek Unrest
Paris reports a planned attack by loyal Greek troops from Lamia and Chalces. France and Britain respond with strong measures in Athens, pledging harsh penalties for rioting and sending marines and bluejackets to the capital and Piraeus. Censorship on the allied press is imposed to suppress inflammatory articles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Lamia
Chalcs
Athens
Piraeus
Woman Kills Youthful Clerk Then Ends Her Own Life
Seattle Lee G Pratt an 18 year old clerk at the Canadian Bank of Commerce was shot and killed by Mrs Edwin C Sobel 30 who then killed herself A motive cited in one report claims Sobel accused Pratt of telling her husband stories reflecting upon her character
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Seattle
Lee G. Pratt
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Edwin C. Sobel
Bayonne Strike Ends as Plants Reopen after Riots
Bayonne New Jersey sees a return to work as the standard of industry and other plants resume operations. The strike caused rioting and three deaths with about 12 000 workers idle. by Friday most had returned to their posts.
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Bayonne
N. J
Man Killed in Barber Shop Style Shooting
Arthur Loeb a salesman was shot and killed as he stepped toward a chair inside a west side Chicago barber shop. Police hold six persons in the shop who offered statements about the shooter.
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Chicago
Arthur Loeb
Farmers National Congress closes in Indianapolis
The thirty sixth Farmers National Congress ended in Indianapolis after a four day session. The final business session centered on electing officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ National Congress
Indianpolis
Field Force to Strike Villa in Chihuahua
General Carlos Ozuma departed Friday with a 2000 cavalry column, two machine gun sections, and sanitary corps in strong supply to take the field against Villa near Chihuahua City Mexico.
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Chihuahua City
Mexico
Carlos Ozuma
Villa
Exporte Make New Record in September Trade
American exports reached a new high in September at 512 million dollars, with shipments abroad totaling 512,847,067. The month set an all time record, surpassing the prior peak and exceeding previous monthly exports.
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Washington
Cunard Liner Alaunia Sunk Off English Channel
Lloyds reports the Cunard steamer Alaunia sunk by a mine while en route from New York to London. 243 passengers, including 21 Americans, were landed at Falmouth. 153 crewmen were saved after a trawler rescued most. The ship carried about 11 000 tons of merchandise and war supplies, with rubber copper goods and chemicals among cargo. Built 193, 520 feet long, 13406 gross tons.
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London
Lloyd's
Cunard
New York
English Channel
Falmouth
Newport
Nantucket
Elephant Butte Dam Dedication Attracts Congress Attendees
Elephant Butte New Mexico dam, completed at a cost of 5 million dollars, was dedicated Thursday. A. A. Jones, personal representative of President Wilson, led the ceremony with 350 delegates from the International Irrigation and International Dry Farm congresses in attendance.
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Elephant Butte
N. M
A. A. Jones
New Mexico
Wilson
International Irrigation Congress
International Dry Farm Congress
Will of Henry Miller Leaves $25,000 to Germans
In San Francisco a public notice reports Henry Miller, famed as the cattle king and Pacific coast land baron, left $25,000 to the poor of Brockenheim Germany in his will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Brockenheim
Germany
Henry Miller
West
Pacific Coast
Wilson Visits Chicago Delivers Speeches and Campaign
President Wilson arrived in Chicago on Thursday to explain his views on national problems. He gave three speeches, joined several street demonstrations, and reviewed western campaign plans with his managers at headquarters.
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Chicago
Wilson
Coroner's Jury Finds Grand Trunk Responsible in Fatal Crossing Crash
In Detroit a coroner's jury determined the Grand Trunk railway liable for the grade crossing disaster on October 1 that killed ten people and injured more than twenty.
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Detroit
Grand Trunk Railway
McDaniels Trial Postponed in Wife Murder Case
St. Joseph Missouri judge Thomas Ryan grants a continuance until next Monday in the case of Oscar D McDaniels Buchanan county prosecuting attorney charged with murdering his wife.
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St. Joseph
Thomas Ryan
Oscar D. McDaniels
Buchanan County
P. Davis Oakey Holds Congress Seat and Club Presidency
P. Davie Oakey is identified as a member of Congress from Connecticut and serves as president of the Bald Head Club of America. The notice highlights his dual roles and ties to the organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Davie Oakey
Congress
Connecticut
The
Bald Head Club of America
Hope for Bremen Abandoned as German Submarine Feared Lost
Washington reports that German officials concede the merchant submarine Bremen is almost certainly lost after a month overdue. Germany still plans to send merchant submarines to the United States, with Deutschland or others expected to reach an American port within a month, despite the Bremen setback.
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Washington
Bremen
Teutonic
Berlin
America
Bremerhaven
Germany
United States
New Point Raised by Suffragists in Massachusetts
Boston reports a testing expedient for voting rights. Women resident in Massachusetts who previously voted in California Colorado or Oregon have formally demanded registration as legal voters in their current cities.
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Boston
California
Colorado
Oregon
Massachusetts
Villa Seizes San Andres. Villa Band Patrols Near Cusihuiriachic
Francisco Villa and part of his bandit force seize the mining town of San Andres, burn houses, and terrorize inhabitants. Panic spreads as Villa's 400 men push north, with Salazar reported nearby. General Trevino orders 2000 troops to pursue along the Mexican Northwestern railroad.
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Chihuahua City
Francisco Villa
San Andres
Here
Villa
Trevino
Santa Ysabel
Cusihuiriachic
Jose Ynez Salazar
Cusihuirachic
Carlos Ozuna
Bandits Hold Up Train Near Bliss Oklahoma
A passenger train north of Bliss Oklahoma was held up Wednesday night. Express clerk Percy Norman was shot to death. The express car safe was blown open and rifled of its contents. Bandits fled in waiting cars on the west side of the track. The amount stolen could not be learned due to the wrecked car and the clerk’s death.
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Bliss
Okla
Here
Percy Norman
James E. Martine Nominated Senator in New Jersey Primary
Senator James E. Martine receives renomination from the New Jersey Democratic Party defeating Attorney General Wescott in the state nominating contest. The result shapes the party’s ticket for the upcoming campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
James &. Martine
Democrate
New Jersey
Wescott
Furloughs To Be Refused By Army Officials
Secretary Baker will not approve furlough requests from reserve soldiers under the national defense act as all available regular army personnel are needed for active service.
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Washington
Baker
Miners Entombed After Jamison Coal Blast
Six men are known to have been entombed and nine others are missing after a coal dust explosion in Mine No. 7 of Jamison Coal & Coke at Barrackville near Fairmont West Virginia.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Jamison Coal & Coke Company
Barrackaville
Fatal Crash at Riverdale Crossing In Ogden Utah
Don Carlos Bassett of Salt Lake City was killed when his car was struck simultaneously by two Union Pacific trains near the Riverdale crossing, four miles south of Ogden, Utah.
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Ogden
Utah
Don Carlos Bassett
Salt Lake
Union Pacific
Riverdale Crossing
Here
Mint Official Links Gold Influx to Rising Living Costs
Washington Director Engkie of the Mint blames the surge in the cost of living on a large influx of gold now entering the United States and being coined into American currency.
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Washington
Engkie
The
Mint Cave
United States
Street Car Official Dies of Pneumonia in East Lake City
Joseph Wella secretary of the Utah Light and Traction company died at his home Wednesday morning from pneumonia contracted days earlier. The death removes a longtime city official and businessman from East Lake City. He was known for his work with the street railway and urban utility affairs.
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East Lake City
Joseph
Wella
Utah Light & Traction Company
Sugar Prices Rise in San Francisco Market Brief
Sugar climbed in San Francisco with a 10 cent per hundred pound advance. Granulated sugar cans set at 7.46 dollars, driven by higher raw sugar costs.
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San Francisco
Tragedy in Canton as suitor is shot then killer ends life
In Canton Ohio Victor Roderick 19, suitor to a daughter, was shot at his home by W G Brittson once a noted baseball pitcher who then died by suicide. The event ended in Brittson taking his own life after wounding the youth.
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Ohio
Canton
Victor Roderick
W. G. Brittson
Flying boat makes trial over Lake Keuka
An enormous flying boat modeled after the America design and carrying eleven passengers plus the pilot completed a trial trip at an altitude of 600 feet over Lake Keuka.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Lake Keuka
Rumanians Stop Teutons Advance in Galicia Front
Violent fighting continues across Galicia as Romanian forces halt Teutonic advances along the border. French troops claim fresh gains north and south of the Somme, taking Sailly-Sallisel and pushing back German positions toward La Maisonnette Blaches. Battle reports also note Russian help and Italian gains in Trentino.
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Galicia
Somme
London
Berlin
Vienna
Bucharest
Ferdinand
von Falkenhayn
Transylvania
Narayuvka
Lutsk
Volhynia
Nicholas
Carpathians
Petrograd
Sailly-Salllisel
la Maisonnette
Blaches
Quake and Hurricane Hit Georgia and Gulf Coast
An earthquake and strong winds battered Georgia Alabama and Tennessee as a hurricane lashed the gulf coast. Roofs were torn from homes in Pensacola Florida and ships sank in the harbor. One person died.
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Atlanta
Gulf Coast
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Pensacola
Fla
Britain Will Await US Move on Submarine U-53 Controversy
Viscount Grey states in the House of Lords that Britain will not make any official representation to the United States about the German submarine U-53 until Washington announces its stance. The démarche reflects pending US policy amid the submarine dispute.
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United States
London
Viscount Grey
House of Lords
Wheat farming profits from dry methods urged at irrigation congress
Dr. F. B. Harris of Logan Utah told delegates in El Paso that wheat grown by dry farming can be more profitable than irrigated farming. He urged careful study of irrigation as much wheat will always be grown on irrigated lands.
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el Paso
Texas
F. 8. Harris
Logan
Utah
Mining properties to be operated by American syndicate
Douglas, Ariz. Adolfo de la Huerta governor and Gen. P Kilias Callies military commander of Sonora consented to the operation of all idle mining properties in the state by an American syndicate headed by J Wilkerson, according to private messages received from Nogales.
Princess Marie Therese of Hohenlohe Marries Otto Kohleisen
The Frankfurter Zeitung reports the marriage of Princess Marie Therese of Hohenlohe to Otto Kohleisen of Innsbruck an apothecary and descendant of a humble Austrian family The princess nursed Kohleisen while he was in a hospital.
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London
Frankfurter Zeitung
Marie Therese of
Hohenlohe
Otto Kohleisen
Innsbruck
Kohleisen
Bank Robbery in Centrata by Four Bandits
Four bandits entered Centrata Oklahoma in a car late Wednesday and robbed the First National Bank of about $6000 before fleeing. Local officials reported the hold up and the escape is under investigation.
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Centrata
Okla
First National Bank
New Dreadnought Named by Acting Secretary Roosevelt
Acting Secretary Roosevelt announces a new battleship designation named Colorado Maryland Washington and West Virginia for the coming era. The announcement signals military build up and deployment plans across the named states and regions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Colorado
Maryland
West Virginia
Robber Steals From Clothing Shop But Gets Countered
A young man with flashy clothes loots a Chicago clothing house but is caught when cashier Cohen spots a missing $400 pay roll and returns $11 from a cash drawer plus the rest of the balance. The firm’s Morris Snower jokes about mislaid funds and media interest.
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Chicago
Til
Mr. Lipp
Columbus
Charles Cohen
General Store
Bill O' Goods
Lipp, Jr
Cohen
Rix
Snowet
Badge Saves Policeman in Dallas Shooting
Dallas officer Jared McConnico narrowly survived when a bullet struck his metal badge worn on the front of his coat. His roommate John J Gleason fired at him through a window as McConnico entered to retrieve items, wounding the officer but not fatally. he is said to be in stable condition at a hospital.
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Dallas
Tex
Jared McConnico
John J Gleason
Jaurglur
McConnico
Rool
Jett
Gleasson
Thylly Hospital
Lineman Faces Narrow Escape On Live Wire Pole
A lineman named Henney endured a near fatal shock after contact with a five wire line while on a high pole. He was knocked from the pole and the wire caused severe eye injury. Henney returned home hours later to a life changed by the incident.
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David Hehney
Wells
Tod Henney
Kore
Lila
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Goldier
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