World news brief notes from capitals and battles afar
A compilation of global items reports from The Hague talks in progress Japan plans evacuation of Siberia and Sun Yat Sen’s capture Chinese forces reported. violence against foreign missionaries in Ukraine and pogroms, plus political shifts in Britain on health insurance and naval funding.
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Kianfu
Sun Yat Sen
South China Republic
United China Forces
Haichi
West River
Canton
Peking
Gov Len Small Acquitted In Illinois Embezzlement Case
Len Small governor of Illinois was acquitted of embezzling state funds after a nine week trial. The jury found he did not personally receive the money. They briefly debated conspiracy and the Grant Park Bank’s role in loans to Chicago packers.
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Waukegan
Ill
Len Small
Illinois
Grant Park Bank
Vernon Curtis
Fred Sterling
Small
Chicago
US DOJ probes Herrin massacre findings emerge
An investigator from the U S Department of Justice obtained a statement from Hugh Willis a Herrin area union district official detailing his account of the events leading to the killing of more than twenty non union strip mine workers and mine guards. Wounded men in hospital have given their versions of the storming and slaughter and the complete report will be sent to Attorney General Daugherty.
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Southern Illinois Coal Company
Bill” McCowen
Joe Barringer
Williamson County
Allen Findley
Herrin Hospital
McDowell
Herrin
Ill
Ouonited States Department of Justice
Hugh Willis
Herrin Sup
United Mine Workers of America
Willis
Department of Justice
Associated Press
Daugherty
Washington
Federal Judges Bill Expands Missouri Courts
Conferees from the senate and house have reached agreement on a federal judgeship bill adding new judges for the eastern and western districts of Missouri.
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Washington
Senate
House
Missouri
House Approves Wilson Dam Funding for Muscle Shoals
The House authorized appropriation of 7 percent million dollars for new construction work on the Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals Alabama and sent the bill to the Senate for conference.
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Washington
Senate
House
Kansas
House Committee On Claims
Wilson Dam
Muscle Shoals
Ala
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Oklahoma City
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Moore
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First Baptist Church
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Norris
Sir Henry Hughes Wilson
Imperial General Staff
Sinn Fein
London
Eaton Square
Britain
Allied Supreme Council
Wu Ting Fang
Sun Yet Sen
Reuter
Prince of Wales
Plymouth Sound
Plymouth Hoe
Take Ionescu
Rumania
Rome
Cc. M. Kendall
Linn County
Roy Nealy
First Christian Church
Albany, Ok
Dave F. West
Plainview
That County
Sir Henry Wilson
Irish Republican Army
Publicity Department
Army
Taiho
Kiangsi
Herrin, Ill
C. K. McDowell
Marion
Waukegan, Ill
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