Asquith Resigns as Premier of England
The resignation of Herbert Henry Asquith, prime minister since 1908, is announced amid a cabinet crisis. King George offered the post to Andrew Bonar Law, who has not accepted. if he declines, David Lloyd George may be named. A wartime coalition cabinet and faster war management are expected.
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London
Herbert Henry Asquith
Great Briin
Asquith
King George
Andrew Bonar Law
Law
David Lloyd George
Lloyd-George
England
Wyoming results show Wilson gains and big amendments
The report details Woodrow Wilson winning Wyoming by 6 618 votes over Hughes, Kendrick defeating Clark for the Senate by 3 066, Mondell ahead of Clark by 537, and various third party and amendment results. It notes total votes and county standings with county figures and mentions continuing results on page eight.
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Woodrow Wilson
Wyoming
Charles B. Hughes
John B. Kendrick
Clarence D. Clark
United States Senate
John D. Clark
Frank W. Mondell
Frank L. Houx
Wilson
Hughes
Kendrick
Clark
Jack Clark
Mondell
Allan L. Benton
J. Frank Hanly
Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Paul L. Paulsen
Campbell
Prohibition
George C. Bateman
United States
Orman C. King
Sheridan County
Laramie County
Thanksgiving dinner comforts Wyoming guardsmen on border
Wyoming guardsmen on the Mexican border enjoyed a hearty Thanksgiving with ample rations and morale. Major R Andersen reports the 600 strong unit fared well, praises cooks Leon and mess ser, notes a new commander Colonel B E Smith arrives, and bids farewell to Colonel Reichman as he moves to Ohio. Rumors of Villa activity loom as orders may come for duty.
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Wyoming
New Mexico
R. Andersen
Leon
Earth
Wyoming Infantry
BE. ¥. Smith
Smith
Wyoming National Guard
Camp Perry
Ohio
Reichman
Ohio National Guards
Retchman
Mexico
Villa
Railway Mail Service to Be Reorganized
Reports say the railway mail service will be reorganized at year start affecting Wyoming and the west. The Cheyenne to Pocatello line may be eliminated and a Cheyenne to Portland division created with Green River and Huntington as division points. Cheyenne runs would terminate at Green River and clerks plan to protest to Washington. More work will be handled at big terminals.
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Wyoming
West
Cheyenne-Pocatero
Cheyenne
Portland
Green River
Huntington
Ore
Washington
Bill to Expand Interstate Commerce Panel and Rail Use
The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee will take up Friday a measure to enlarge the Interstate Commerce Commission and empower the president to use railroads for military necessity. The bill follows President Wilsons call for further legislation after the Adamson Law.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Newland
Interstate Commerce Commission
McDaniel Acquitted in Wife Murder Trial
Oscar D. McDaniel, prosecutor for Buchanan County, was acquitted by a jury in Missouri's criminal court of the charge of murdering his wife Harriett Moas McDaniel. The jury deliberated two hours after finding her beaten and dying in her bedroom at midnight July 14. She died without regaining consciousness.
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Joseph, Mo
Oscar D. McDaniel
Buchanan County
Criminal Court
Harriett Moas McDaniel
PORMEER PROGRESSIVES SEEK VOICE IN REPUBLICAN PARTY
A Chicago statement after a conference with C H Rowell Gifford Pinchot Raymond Robins James Garfield William White and H L Ickes says permanent progressive advance through the democratic party is impossible and calls for a national conference of progressives and progressive Republicans to reorganize the GOP.
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Chicago
Republican Party
C. H. Rowell
California
Gifford Pinchot
Raymond Robins
James
Garfield
William A. White
H. L. Ickes
Resignation of Russian Premier Amid Insults in Duma
London dispatch reports Russian Duma president Michael Rodsianko resigned after being insulted by opposition leader Markoff who called him a babbling blackguard. The dispute highlights tensions within the chamber and political attacks in Moscow.
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London
Michael Rodsianko
Duma
Markoff
Reuter
Rodsianko
Miner Donnell Miller Killed in Poposia Coal Mine Incident
Donnell Miller formerly of Cheyenne now of Lander died at the Poposia coal mine near Hudson on Monday after seven cars collapsed in the mine striking him. His son Don Jr. narrowly escaped harm while working with him.
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Donnell Miller
Cheyenne
Lander
Poposia
Hudson
Don, Jr
Central Powers Press On Toward Bucharest In World War I
The battle report states central powers close in on Bucharest from the southwest as Russian forces push toward the capital from the west and northwest. Rumanian resistance falters with official claims of Russian assaults failing. Petrograd notes gains on the Moldavian front while Danube flank holds. Artillery duels continue in France and Belgium amid Polish and Balkan maneuvers.
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Carpathians
Petrograd
Moldavia
Carpathian
Berlin
Bulgaria
Macedonia
France
Belgium
British Board of Trade
British Isles
German War Office
von Mackensen
Targoviste
Petrostta
Argenul
Tarnopol
Krasne
Augustowoka
Russian War Office
Ploeshti
Germans Safe Says Trevino
In El Paso Texas General Trevino stated in response to a State Department message that Carlos Ketelden German vice consul at Chihuahua City and other Germans were safe. He said the only deaths during Villa's occupation were a few Chinese.
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Paso
Tex
State Department
Carlos Ketelden
Chihuahua City
Trevino
Villa
John Archbold Dies in Tarrytown President of Standard Oil of N J
John Archbold president of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey died at his home in Tarrytown New York early today following an operation. The funeral will be held on Thursday.
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Tarrytown
John ©, Archbold
Standard Oil Company of
N. J
Palermo torpedoed off Spanish coast. Americans aboard
The Italian steamship Palermo was torpedoed off the Spanish coast with 25 Americans aboard. One American was wounded and died in a Palafrugell hospital. three others were wounded. The ship had departed New York November 15 for Italian ports carrying 47 Americans’ cargo and munitions including horses and explosives.
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Palermo
Madrid
Palafrugell
Spain
New York
General Boycott Would Send Prices Down Says Officers
Chicago officials from the city’s five largest storage warehouses told U S district attorney representatives that recent egg and butter price rises were aided by an unorganized boycott. They warned a broader boycott would collapse the market and push prices lower.
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Chicago
United States District Attorney's Office
Colby Girl Faints At Trial
Miss Edith Colby, a Colby reporter, fainted in Thompson Falls court during a prosecutor Wheeler argument. She was carried from the courtroom unconscious, revived soon after and the trial continued.
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Thompson Falls
Mont
Edith Colby
Atwood
Thomas
Wheeler
Carpentier to Box Here for War Relief Fund
New York December 5 tentative arrangements for Georges Carpentier the French heavyweight idol to appear in the local boxing arena for the French war relief fund are expected to be completed within forty eight hours Tex Rickard is said to be trying to arrange Carpentier to meet Jess Willard or Lew Dacey in a ten round no decision bout.
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New York
Georges Carpentier
Tex Rickard Ia
Carpentier
Jess Willard
Lew Darey
Wyoming Sugar Co. Plans Factory Near Lander
The Wyoming Sugar Co. signs with the Lander Commercial Club to build a beet sugar factory near Lander as the territory develops. Riverton and Worland projects surface with rival Western Sugar interests and surveys by Great West. Farmers in Lander and Riverton to be paid same prices as Worland growers.
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Lander
Wyoming Sugar Co
Lander Commercial Clu
Riverton
Kemis Western Sugar Company
Denver
Great Westerm
Wyoming Sugar Company
Amakkamated Sugar Company
Haye
Worland
Talander and
Hiverton
President Wilson Address Marred by Suffrage Banner Display
In Washington on December 5 the president's congressional address was interrupted by organized militant protest as a suffrage banner was unfurled in the galleries. Miss Mabel Vernon of Nevada signaled the display, which drew cheers from many Republicans and Democrats alike. The banner asked, President Wilson, what will you do for woman suffrage, though suffrage leaders later protested the focus on Porto Rican suffrage.
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Wilson
Congress
Cortsin
Mabel Vernon
Nevada
Caroline Spenser
Colorado Springs
William Jennings Bryan
The
Union
Commerce Commissi
Interstate Commerce Commission
House of Representatives
Aenat
Aenat ‘Nm
Pope Urges U S Children to Aid Belgium’s War Children
A Vatican appeal via Cardinal Gibbons urges American children to back a fund to aid Belgian children suffering from famine and malnutrition. Pope Benedict XVI’s autograph letter describes the dire scene of starving Belgian infants and calls for a ten thousand life donation campaign.
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U. S
Belgium
Baltimore
Apontolivace
Rome
America
Pope Benedict
Cardinal Gibbons
Almerivat
Herbert Cutloover
Commission
Celles
Velaium
Commisson Fief
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