Villa advances as rebels regroup toward Chihuahua
Washington reports indicate the Constitutionalists have checked their southward march while federal forces in the north redeploy. Orozco’s 1500 Federal troops push toward Villa’s line, with other generals concentrating on Chihuahua to trap Villa. Villa plans to enter Chihuahua by noon, backed by Carazza’s troops as needed.
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Mexico
Tierra Blanca
Texas
Villa
Ojimega
Chihuahua
Orozco
Carazza
United States
Garrison
Huerta
Juarez
Mex
Mexico City
Republic
Salvador Mercado
Torreon
Zacatecas
Mercado
Rebels Threaten Border as Train Carries Silver Heist
Civilians flee toward the border while a bulging train laden with 2,500,000 dollars worth of silver from Paral deserts behind rebel lines. Paral has lacked train service for months and managers plan to move the metal by rail to safety at the border.
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Boder
Ojinago
Paral
Sherman law should stand in antitrust plans
President Wilson and Chairman Clayton will discuss antitrust strategy on Monday as Democrats debated the congress program. The White House favors keeping the Sherman Law as the core while pursuing supplemental, carefully framed legislation. Hearings will begin Tuesday after the president's meeting. Dressmakers appeal to Huerta seeking jobs making army uniforms in Mexico City as 200 idle workers and families seek relief.
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Washington
Wilson
Clayton
House Judiciary Committee
Congress
Ome
Huerta
Mexico City
National Palace
Slayer of Six Men Has Probably Escaped
Search of the Utah Apex mine for Ralph Lopez, a Mexican desperado who killed two deputies, continued through the night after poisonous gases used to asphyxiate him were cleared from passages. More than two hundred miners returned to work as the mine reopened in lower levels.
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Bingham
Utah
Ralph Lopez
Lopez
Senate Passes Baker Bill On Hetch Hetchy Water Rights
The Baker bill granting San Francisco water supply and power rights in the Hetch Hetchy valley of Yosemite National Park passed the Senate 43 to 25. It had earlier cleared the House in identical form and goes to the president for signature.
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Senate
Washington
San Francisco
Hetch- Hetchy Valley
Yosemite National Park
House
Chicago Americans Win Game In Japan Exhibition
The Chicago Americans defeated the New York Nationals 4 to 2 in a late arrival exhibition in Tokio. President Kamada pitched the opening ball as the teams reached Japan after a rough voyage from Vancouver.
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Chicago Americans
Tokio
New York
Vancouver
Kamada
Japan
Chicago
Postal workers push for fifteen percent wage rise
Delegates from 22 000 postal and telegraph members pledge to press demands for a 15 percent across the service raise. They reject a government report and may unite with miners and transport unions while preparing for a general vote on a Christmas strike.
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Leicester
Eng
Government Commission
Mat
Ostal
Judge finds contempt in Calumet strike case
Circuit Judge O'Brien held 141 Allouez cop and strikers guilty of contempt for violating an injunction against picketing. Sentences were suspended and the writ of attachment issued October 3 was dissolved, ending wholesale arrests for alleged contempt.
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Calumet, Mich
O'Brien
Allouez Copper
Chilton Neely and Moss Elks Orators to Speak at Memorials
Senator Chilton and Congressmen Neely and Moss left Washington to deliver memorial service addresses Tomorrow at Parkersburg Wheeling and Huntington They expect to return Monday Congressman Brown sick confined to his room but likely to be well soon Former Senator Watson visited to lobby for committee assignments for Neely and others in Washington
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Washington
Chilton
Neely
Moss
Elks
Senator Chilton
Parkersburg
Congressman Neely
Wheeling
Mos
Huntington
Congressman Brown
Watson
Champ Clark
Oscar Underwood
Dean of Sacred College Luigi Oreglia Dies in Rome
Cardinal Luigi Oreglia, dean of the Sacred College, died in Rome yesterday at age 85 from pneumonia. He was the sole surviving cardinal created by Pope Pius.
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Sacred College
Rome
Luigi Oreglia
Pius
Seminole Beached at Puerto Plata to Prevent Sinking
The steamship Seminole of the Clyde line ran aground at Puerto Plata Santo Domingo to keep from sinking after developing a leak. The incident was reported from New York on December 6.
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New York
Seminole
Clyde Line
Puerto Plata
San Domingo
Senate Debates Currency Bill and Hetch Hetchy Passage
The Senate met for a thirteen hour session reopening the currency bill debate and considering a good roads committee bill. Hetch Hetchy water rights legislation passed 43 to 25 and heads to the president for signature. House convened at noon with naval holiday bill discussion and train stop device hearing. adjourned to Monday.
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Senate
Congress
Sheppard
Lane
San Francisco
House
Commerce _committee
Refugees Near American Border After Mexican Evacuation
Three thousand refugees from Chihuahua, including women and children, are nearing the United States border at Presidio Texas. American mining engineer H B Freeman who crossed at Ojinaga reports daily travel of about twenty five miles by wagon carriage or on foot. US troops and the Mexican consul at El Paso arrive to supervise the crossing.
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Newark
N. J
Margarie Grass
Armand Megaro
New York City
Jeanette Clark
United States
el Paso
Presidio
Texas
Chihuahua
H. B. Freeman
Ojinaga
Freeman
Formal charge in Belcher murder tied to coal strike figures
The military commission probing Colorado coal strike disorders found that Lewis Zancanelli murdered detective Geo. W. Belcher in Trinidad on November 20. Zancanelli confessed and is jailed. organizers A. B. McGary and Samuel Carter are not yet rotated.
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Trinidad
Military Commission
Colorado
Lewis Zancanelli
Geo. W. Belcher
A. B. McGary
Samuel Carter
United Mine Workers of America
Zancanelli
McGary
Carter
Belcher
Bauer Confesses as Driver in Riot Attack Case
Indianapolis police report Lewis Bauer admitted he was the driver for the shotgun squad in the gray automobile from which four men fired on two non union teamsters. Edward J. O Leary, a structural iron worker, was arrested on assault and battery with intent to kill charges related to the confession. O Leary denies being in the car.
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Indianapolis
Lewis Bauer
Edward J. O'Leary
O'Leary
Rightward heart anomaly found in backward-walking girl
London reports Birmingham physicians solved the puzzling abnormality of a girl who writes from right to left by X-ray revealing her heart is on the right side and several other organs, including the brain, are displaced.
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London
Birmingham
Alsace Regiment Leaves Zabern Under Col. Von Reuter
The ninety fifth infantry regiment led by Col. Von Reuter march from Zabern toward Hagenau and Bitsch to occupy uncomfortable camp quarters.
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Zabern
von Reuter
Alsace
Hagenau
Bitsch
Republican Committee to Meet and Fill Vacancies
Washington December 6 The Republican congressional committee will be called together on December 12 to fill three vacancies including a member for North Carolina.
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Washington
Republican Congressional Committee
North Carolina
West Virginia Weather Forecast Trusts Weekend Rain
West Virginia forecast calls for rain on Sunday with warmer, increasing clouds and possible shower in the afternoon and night. Monday stays fair but cooler with generally mild conditions.
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West Virginia
Direct Government by People Urged at National League Meet
Secretary Bryan and lawmakers pressed direct democracy reforms at the National Popular Government League conference in Washington. They backed presidential primaries initiative referendums and easier constitutional amending methods as paths to nonpartisan, majority rule. Bryan narrowly avoided a suffrage ambush when a California suffragist challenged him, but he declined to comment, and he left the hall.
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Washington
Dec
Bryan
Congress
National Popular Government League
United States
Joseph W. Folk
State Department
Norris
Nebraska
Kelly
Pennsylvania
Penrose
Owens
Oklahoma
League
Human Brotherhood
Helen Todd
California
Mr. Bryan
Japan's Last Note Still Unanswered
Washington reports that diplomatic exchanges between Japan and the United States over the California alien land law have been exhausted without result. The last note from Japan remains unanswered as the two powers hold firm on treaty rights versus U S arguments.
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California
Washington
Japan
United States
State Department
President Wilson's Cold Improves. Signs Commissions
Washington reports President Wilson's cold improved today. He dictated letters at the executive offices and signed commissions, but did not receive visitors.
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Washington
Wilson
Wilson Declares War Report Suppressed in Mexico City
A San Luis Potosi journal prints what it calls a Wilson war declaration against Mexico. The paper notes Congress would be needed to sanction any such move and raises questions about its authenticity and implications for US Mexico relations.
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Wilson
Mexico City
War Declaration Outlines Ten Articles
The document details ten articles justifying war, lists reasons for action, and provides instructions on blockade strategy and campaign outlines. It directs American troops to avoid bloodshed and to protect noncombatants in any incidents that occur.
Flood Death Toll Mounts Across Brazos Trinity Valleys
A Texas flood report from Welborn and Bryan cites 53 dead, with scores missing as Brazos and Trinity rivers overflow. Thousands seek higher ground or shelter on upper floors amid widespread property damage estimated near four million dollars.
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Bryan
Tex
Dee
Hrazos
Trinity
Texas
Brazos
Gulf
Cripple Creek Hit Hard by Deep Snow Storm
Denver reports a blizzard delivering over three feet of snow that paralyzed Cripple Creek and surrounding districts. Power plant burned leaving the town in darkness. fifteen feet of snow, six shops destroyed, and many homes damaged. Coal and provisions began moving again as wagons and sleighs navigated narrowed streets guarded by police.
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Denver
Colo
Cripple Creek
Sermon Then Umpire Game Proposed by Dr Scudder
Dr M T Scudder of New York, speaking at the New Jersey Sanitary Association annual meeting in Lakewood, predicts ministers may umpire Sunday baseball games within a decade. He argues open schools and playgrounds on Sunday are proper and urges churches to sanction and promote outdoor sports.
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Lakewood
N. J
M. T. Scudder
New York City
New Jersey Sanitary Association
Scudder
Wreck Near Bucharest Kills About One Hundred
Reports from Cosesti southwest of Bucharest say a collision between a passenger and a freight train last night resulted in about one hundred deaths or injuries. The incident was confirmed early today in Roumania.
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Roumania
Bucharest
Costesti
Cold Weather Suffering In Brazos River Refugees
In Bryan Texas on December 6 a cold night worsened conditions for flood refugees in the Brazos river bottoms. Hundreds, many of them Black, spent about forty eight hours in trees as they endured intense exposure and deprivation.
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Bryan
Texas
Brazos River
Arson Squad Active in Britain amid Pankhurst Arrest
Militants continue revenge campaign after the arrest of Mrs. Emeline Pankhurst. An arson squad burned exhibition buildings at Liverpool and Manchester, escalating tensions and drawing police response.
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London
Emeline Pankhurst
Liverpool
Manchester
Train Explosion Kills Fireman Charley Verts near Willis
A morning explosion on passenger train No. 15 near Willis, Virginia, kills Fireman Charley Verts of Roanoke and lightly injures Engineer Warren L. Linkous. The crown sheet blast hurled Verts 75 feet into a field while Linkous survives.
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Willis
Charley Veriz
Roanoke
Warren L. Linkous
Verty
Linkous
Engineer Linkous
Vertz
Radford
Bluefield
Senate Plans Thirteen Hour Daily Currency Debate
Force Long Sessions Washington December 6 Democratic senate leaders with ten Republican votes pushed a currency bill into thirteen hour daily sessions. Two hour evening recess from 6 to 8 will be the only break from 9 am to 11 pm.
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Washington
Senate
Funeral for Col David Dubose Gaillard in Washington
The funeral for Col. David Dubose Gaillard will be held in Washington Monday afternoon. He will be buried with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 6.
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David Dubose Gaillard
Washington
Arlington National Cemetery
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Navasota
Allen Plantation
John Harker
Welborn
M. I. Scudder
Charley Verts
Col. Gaillard
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