Mexican Row Deepens As Bandit Chieftain Is Executed
A bandit chieftain is executed publicly and the body of Rodriguez is shown as a warning that foreigners may be targeted. The report notes Carranza firing squad and a ritualized display amid a broader foreign threat. President Wilson and Secretary Lansing discuss possible U.S. intervention in Mexico without alliance constraints.
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Ommercial Tribune
Washington
Wilson
Lansing
Mexico
United States
Pampered Updike Sons Sought as Plotters Hidden by Police
Chicago dispatch reports Furman D. Updike denounces bail for Irving and Herbert Updike the Oak Park residents accused in a family murder plot. Police fears arise they are hid in the station basement while Chief Lee hints at possible hospital examination to prevent bail. The case includes marriage rumors to cabaret artist Nellye de Orsonne and the ailing father with cancer of the eye.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Irving
Herbert Updike
Furman D. Updike
Oak Park
George Remus
Father Updike
Chief Lee
Irving Updike
L. B. Schmidt
Crown Point
Nellye de Orsonne
Updike
Mr. Updike
Wilson to lead drive for stronger army and navy
President plans public addresses and talks with Senate and House leaders to build support for military expansion. Congress faces six weeks to two months before bills on army and navy funding are ready, while administration measures on water power, mineral leasing, and stock raising homesteads await Senate action.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Sen
Representative Hay
Representative Padgett
House Military and Naval Committees
War and Navy Departments
Senate Military Committee
War Department
Garrison
House Committee
Leonard Wood
Department of the East
Carter
United States
Aleshire
House
Scriven
Ferris
Senate
Farmer in Love Was a Rude Awakening
Miss Loda Yine Miller and her brother J C Marien Miller were found guilty in Chicago of operating a confidence game. They swindled Thomas T. Foulkes of Danbury Ind out of 11312 and two farms valued at 40000, under a promise of marriage. They were granted bonds pending a new trial set for February 11.
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Chicago
Loda ‘ Yine* Miller
J. ¢ Marien Miller
Argu
Millers
Thomas T. Foulkes
Danbury
Foulkes
Miss Miller
Working Conditions Named as Causes for Riots in Ohio
A report by the Committee on Industrial Relations links the Youngstown strike and riot of January 7 to wages and hours. It states 1915 steel wages averaged 500 dollars yearly, with a suggested living wage of 700 dollars, and cites U S Steel increases as preventing wider uprisings.
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Ohio
Committee On Industrial Relations
Youngstown
United States
United States Steel Corporation
Coast Guardsmen Brave Storm to Save Ferry Crew
Ludington Michigan January 18 The Ludington Coast Guard battled a fierce winter storm and heavy seas for four hours in a blinding snowstorm to rescue seventeen of the Pere Marquette ferry crew of forty. Two trips brought ashore seventeen as darkness fell. twenty three more were to be taken off at daybreak. The vessel suffered a broken steam pipe and is valued at about seventy five thousand dollars. No passengers were aboard.
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Ludington
Mich
Ludington Coast Guard
Pere Marquette
Coast Guard
Fortified ultimatum to sever ties with central powers
A stern diplomatic demand orders immediate severance of relations with central powers within forty eight hours. It signals swift consequences and potential escalation if terms are ignored. International partners monitor closely as pressure mounts.
Entente forces edge Greece toward war and Greek capital moves
Reports from London indicate France and England have given Greece forty eight hours to sever ties with the central powers while massing 400000 troops. Allied landings around Athens and Corfu unsettle the capital as King Constantine faces possible exile and martial law looms amid the Balkan crisis.
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The
Commercial Tribune
London
France
England
Greece
Corfu
Phaleron
Piraeus
Orphani
Kavala
Athens
Larissa
Constantine
Balkan
Germany
Montenegro
Austria
Francis Joseph
Roumania
Villa aide Enrique Perez Rul renounces Mexican activities
Enrique Perez Rul secretary to General Francisco Villa escapes through the Carvas in El Paso and renounces further revolutionary activities in Mexico.
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EL Paso
Tex
Enrique Perez Rul
Francisco Villa
Ranzaines
Mexico
Execution of Colonel Baca-Valles Near Juarez
The Carranza firing squad executed Colonel Miguel Baca-Valles at a cottonwood tree near the Juarez railway station after a court martial for involvement in a massacre of Americans near Santa Ysabel. General Rodriguez was killed nearby in a separate display of order to deter attacks on U.S. nationals.
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Commercial Tribune
OSS Paso
Miguel Baca- Vailes
Villa
Juarez
Carranza
Mexico
Baca-Valles
Santa Ysabel
Boca-Valles
General Rodriguez
Villista
Rodriguez
Madera
Alejandro Regimio
Coronel Baca-Valles
Baca-Valdes
Reginie
Cobarde
Tiaca-Vailes
Parral
Regibie
Miners Convention Opens With Opposition to Preparedness
In Indianapolis fifteen hundred delegates from over three hundred thousand miners began the United Mineworkers of America biennial convention. John P. White urged labor against preparedness while welcoming officials and ministers, with talks on wages, war opposition, and policy stances set for discussion over two weeks.
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John P. White
the Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
North America
United Mineworkers of America
Tomlinson Hall
Clovernor Ralston
Bell
Charles A. Bookwalter
Chamber of Commerce
Wilson
Colorado
White
Grief Breaks Down Mind of Stain Girl's Father
A. M. Rossow, Perry Hotel strangler victim Dolores Evans's father, identified the body as his daughter Minnie and frenzied at the Last Fifty-fifth Street Depot. The girl's funeral was held at Woodlawn Cemetery as police seek Louis Biancchetti in New York. Mayor Davis criticizes Cleveland police handling of the case.
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Stain Girls
The
Commercial Tribune
Claveland
Rossow
Garretsville
Dolores Evans
Perry Hotel
Minnie
Fifty-fifth Street
Erie Railroad
Pittsburg
Ufel Ss
Woodlawn
Cleveland
New York
Louis Bianchetti
Lou Whits
Harry L. Davis
Armored Plate Price Cut Promised by Bethlehem Official
E G Grace president of Bethlehem Steel testified before the Senate Naval Committee promising a substantial price reduction on armor plate if Congress adopts the administration five year naval building plan. The testimony supported Senator Tillman’s bill to authorize a government armor factory.
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Washington
Senate Naval Committee
E G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Company
Conkgens
Grace
Prohibition Clause Ties Philippine Self Government Bill
The Senate approved a provision banning the manufacture importation or sale of all intoxicating drinks or habit forming drugs in the Philippine Islands with native beverages the exception by a 35 to 23 vote late today.
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Washington
Philippine Islands
Senate
Mrs Pankhurst Admitted to United States
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, the British suffragist leader held by New York immigration authorities, was ordered admitted to the United States unconditionally.
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Washington
Emmeline Pankhurst
New York
United States
Oldest Telegraph Operator Alfred Weller Dies in LaPorte
Alfred Weller aged 80, one of the first Morse code readers by sound, died in LaPorte Indiana. He served sixty years with Western Union and claimed to be the oldest telegrapher in the country. He learned telegraphy in Marshall Michigan.
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Laporte
Ind
Fred Weller
Floods Ravage San Bernardino County Here in California
Heavy rain and flood across San Bernardino County cause about 1 million dollars in damage over three days. More than 100 people lose homes as flood waters swamp lowlands and thousands of acres of crops are submerged. The County Prison Camp is damaged and eleven prisoners escape during the chaos.
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Los Angeles
San Bernardino County
San Bernardino
Say Von Wedell Believed Dead In Passport Conspiracy
New York January 18 Hans Adam von Wedell indicted February 4 1915 as head of an alleged conspiracy to furnish American passports is believed dead according to an announcement by federal prosecuting authorities today
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New York
Hans Adam von Wedell
Jury in Flight as Courthouse Fire Breaks Out
Gulfport Mississippi January 18 twelve members of a murder jury locked in a room escaped death by fleeing in night clothes when a courthouse fire destroyed the building.
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Gulfport, Miss
Widow says Dr Mohr deserved to be killed in testimony
Providence Jan 18 Mrs Elizabeth Mohr denied complicity in her husband Dr Mohr's murder and allegedly said he deserved to be killed James Wallace Barrington Constable testified at the Providence station stating Mrs Mohr claimed the world sympathized with her and that she deeded back her share after ill treatment Healis the chauffeur described as the key witness was moved to solitary confinement pending his impending testimony and the court limited references to the alleged confessions of Brown Spellman and Healis
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The
Commercial Tribune
Providence
R. L
Eizabeth Frances Mohr
James Wallace
Barrington
Dr. Mohr
Wallace
Charles F. Stearns
Cec
Victor Brown
Henry Spellman
George Healis
Mobr
Healis
Mo Br
Trenegro
Mohr
Cold weather to worsen grip epidemic says health service
The U S Public Health Service warns that cold weather will intensify the grip epidemic. Assistant Surgeon General Dr W Rucker cites indoor crowding and sneezing as the main drivers of the surge.
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U.S. Health Service
Washington
United States Public Health Service
W. ©. Rucker
Dr. Rucker
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