Guerrilla Chief Villa Reported Captured Near Hacienda San Geronimo
Special dispatch from El Paso reports Francisco Villa captured by Carranza forces at Hacienda San Geronimo. Maximiano Marquez credited with the capture, with other Villa generals detained. Confirmation from Mexican Consul Garcia and messages from Chihuahua City and Juarez indicate possible execution at the race track.
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the Commercial Tribune
UL Paso, Tex
Francisco Villa
Hacienda
Ture
American Smelting and Refining Company
Chihuahua City
Villa
Santa Ysabel
Carranza
Garcia
Jacinto Trevino
Juarez
Giabriel Gavira
San Geronimo
Hearst
Babricora Ranch
San Tomas
Madera
Maximiano Marquez
Maera
Jose Alexando
Cavazos
Mexican Malcontents Plan to Kill Americans
El Paso report from Terreon says malcontents urged killings of Carranza adherents and Americans and theft of property. About 300 Carranza troops are at Torreon, with surrendering Velardena soldiers reportedly killed by machine gunfire supplied to the malcontents.
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EL Paso
Tex
Terreon
Felix Diaz
Carranza
Torreon
Velardena
Hangs Daughters Then Kills Herself In Similar Manner
Lyons New York January 20 Mrs Edwin Payne 36 hanged her four year old daughter and two year old daughter and herself with three pieces of clothes line attached to a ceiling hook in the family home at Alloway three miles south of Lyons. Mr Payne found the bodies on returning home from work and the coroner noted the wife had been acting strangely in recent days.
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Lyons
N. Y
Edwin 2Ayne
Alloway
Payne
Britain Tightens Grip on Germany Through Trade Controls
London reports say changes to British orders in council will not loosen Germany’s containment but strengthen it. The Foreign Office delays a decision until a defense for current measures is presented to Parliament. Critics cite preexisting export figures and argue rigid enforcement, with cargoes for Sweden’s Stockholm liner Stockholms heading to prize courts. Beef pork from major Chicago packers and cocoa beans are among seized shipments.
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London
Germany
Foreign Office
House of Commons
Russia
United States
Argentina
Stockholm
Kirkwall
Liverpool
Chicago
Swift and Company
Nelson Morris and Company
Cudahy Packing Company
Armour and Company
Virginia
Gallagher
Daly
East Ohio
Cleveland
West Virginia
State Department to oppose British boycott on American firms
Ambassador Page in London reports Britain aims to bar trade with American corporations aiding the Teutonic powers. The State Department is expected to vigorously object if the boycott targets firms already in business before the war.
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Washington
London
State Department
Great Britain
Mrs Wilson Hosts First Informal White House Reception
Washington January 29 Mrs Woodrow Wilson wife of the President held her first informal reception since becoming mistress of the White House Her callers included Count von Bernstorff the German Ambassador Dr David Jayne Hill and many other prominent Washington figures.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Count von Bernstorff
David Jayne Hill
Wars Come Suddenly Say Daniels and Carter
Washington January 20. General William H Carter warned that wars come suddenly and the U S must be instantly ready to meet any attack citing Britain’s war with Germany and Japan’s attack on Russia as examples. Secretary Daniels told the House Naval Committee that U S readiness and shipbuilding give a stronger voice in future armament talks.
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Washington
William H. Carter
Senate Military Committee
Congress
Great Britain
Germany
Russia
United States
Daniels
House Naval Committee
House teeters on preparedness amid battle ship funding clash
In Washington on January 20, the House showed its split on preparedness as Minority Leader Mann led a showdown over a battle ships funding amendment. About 65 of roughly 100 representatives voiced support for preparedness while 6 opposed, with other speakers decrying militarism and urging international peace.
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Mann
Military service bill passed in Commons amid cheers
In London on January 20 the military service bill cleared its committee stage in the House of Commons at 11 o clock. Walter Hume Long defended the measure as preserving the present War Office framework with a new statutory form. Philip Snowden and John Dillon lauded the process and leadership of Andrew Bonar Law and Long, while Bonar Law thanked all sections for the restraint shown in committee.
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Walter Hume Long
Local Government Board
War Office
Philip Snowden
Blackburn
Andrew Bonar Law
Mr. Long
Bonar Law
John Dillon
Asquith
Long
Senate debate brands Germany murderer and Britain robber
Washington reporters note a fiery Senate exchange over European war issues. Senator Hoke Smith denounces Britain's interference with neutral trade and calls for an embargo on munitions and food for England while Germany is charged with murder.
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Germany
Great Britain
England
Hoke Smith
Georgia
United States
Borah
Idaho
Senator Smith
Senator Williams
High Seas
Smith
Congress
Updike case moves to indictment in murder plot
Chicago January 20 State's Attorney Hoyne says Irving and Herbert Updike told him separately they were watching each other and feigning agreement to kill their parents and sister. Indictments for conspiring to murder Furman D. Updike, their mother, and sister were returned. Bonds set at 30000 each and they are jailed. Herbert confirms marriage to Nellye de Gonsone. Hoyne says she admits Herbert spoke of the plot.
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Chicago
Irving
Herbert Updike
Maclay Hoyne
Hoyne
Furman D. Updike
Updike
Herbert
Nellye de Qonsonne
Crown Point
Ind
Chauffeur Testifies in Mohr Trial Contradicts Self
George W. Healis the chauffeur and key State witness in the Mohr murder case remained steady under cross examination in Providence Rhode Island. Healis repeated that Mrs Mohr hired him and two Black defendants to kill Dr C Franklin Mohr and Emily Burger for five thousand dollars while denying a deal with prosecutors and admitting telling reporters Mrs Mohr had no role.
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Providence
R. I
George W. Healis
Elizabeth F. Mohr
Henry H. Spellman
Cecil Victor Brown
C. Franklin Mohr
Healis
Sleeping sickness victim in Brooklyn home dies threatened
Dr Albert C Pervail, bitten by an African tsetse fly in Congo five years earlier, lies in a coma at his Brooklyn residence with physicians predicting death. He sought care in Paris at the Pasteur Institute and after further Congo travels, returned to New York in August as the disease progressed.
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New York
Albert C. Pervail
Brooklyn
Pervail
Congo
Paris
Pasteur Institute
Africa
Moulder Becomes Millionaire After Bucyrus Death
P. J. Carroll, an iron moulder who came from Ft. Wayne thirty years ago, died on his fifty fifth birthday in Bucyrus Ohio after grippe. He founded Carroll Foundry and Machine Co and led the Ohio Locomotive Crane Co. He served on several bank directorates and leaves a wife and three children.
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Bucyrus, CO
P. J. Carroll
Bucyrus
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Carroll Foundry and Machine Company
Ohio Locomotive'Crane Company
Carroll
Grippe
Cleveland faces potential gas shortage amid large water main break
Jan 20 report details a flood from a major water main break in Cleveland's west side affecting 100000 residents during dinner prep. Separately gas supply concerns arise as East Ohio Gas admits a serious shortage, prompting factory shutdowns and possible permanent reliance on coal and auxiliary heating, with officials declining immediate fixes.
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Cleveland
The
Commercial Tribune
R. W. Gallagher
East Ohio Gas Company
M. B. Daly
Pittsburg
Big West
Wheel ing & Lake Erie Road sale postponed yet again
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad auction postponed for the fifth time in two years due to lack of bidders. Special master Edwin Drake rescheduled the sale to March 8 at the request of Central Trust Company of New York. The trust holds a mortgage on the property, with William Duncan as receiver. The purchaser must pay 18.5 million dollars and assume similar indebtness.
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Cleveland
Ing &Lake Erie Railroad
Couple Found Dead in Boarding House Embrace
In Lexington Kentucky Frederick Berry a 38 year old painter formerly of Hamilton Ohio and his wife Annie 40 were found dead in a small room of Mrs J T Bohannon 501 West Main street police report a double death by self destruction theory The couple entered the boarding house yesterday afternoon and the room was found locked with gas jets burning A post mortem will be conducted.
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Lexington
Frederick Berry
Hamilton
Annie
J. T. Bohannon
West Main Street
J. T. Berry
Berry
Neutrals Invited to Two White House Diplomatic Dinners
Washington January 20 neutrals from all nations were invited to two White House dinners this winter. The first will host entente ambassadors and the second Germany and her allies, with about eighty guests at each event. The neutral corps will attend both due to the earlier plan being abandoned.
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Washington
White House
Germany
Legation
Jusserand
France
Hand to Hand Fighting on the Austrian Front
Violent Russian attacks with reinforced armies press against Austro-Hungarian lines along the Bessarabian frontier with hand to hand combat reported between Russian and Austrian troops. The British and Ottoman fronts show activity as Kut El Amara and Essin near a large battle. Colonel E M House leaves London after talks with British officials.
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Bessarabian
Toporoutz
Boyan
Teutons
Czernowitz
House of Commons
Tigris
Kut-El-Amra
Essin
Kut-El-Amara
Kut-El- Amara
King Nicholas
Podgoritza
E. M. House
Wilson
Great Britain
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