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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1916
Page
1
A train explosion near Puebla leaves 23 dead as Zapata adherents are blamed for the deed. In El Paso a shooting occurs at San Lorenzo Ranch near Juarez, with a U.S. man killed in a separate nearby incident.
Texas Representative James Harvey Davis, nicknamed Cyclone, is pictured wearing a dress collar for the first time in twenty years, after years of eschewing neckwear. His beard has long shaded his opposition to cravats, and his wife urged the change. The next day he donned a stiff collar and a necktie despite his reluctance.
A bold act in Chicago's Loop led to the death of a police officer as a bandit named Luut3 Cook AglNly committed a deadly assault. The incident prompted a major police response and ongoing investigations.
In Chicago on January 21 a bandit aided by a woman robbed the Thomas tourist agency during a broad daylight incident. Lawyers fail to hear key testimony as cross-examination proceeds and the state plans to rest its case on Monday.
A. Cook & Son wounded a cashier and killed a policeman during a bold late night robbery on a busy street. The city calls it the most daring crime in years as officers pursued the suspects through Providence. The report comes as the second week of Mrs. continues.
Northern Illinois endures record flood conditions as Des Plaines and Fox River basins spill over. Rockdale Joliet Aurora and ElginOttawa areas report inundations and ruined bridges while Chicago issues boil water warning and crews pump flooded basements. No deaths reported.
Washington session features attacks on administration's foreign policy by George L. von Meyer Henry A Wise Wood and J Hampton Moore. Rear Admiral Colby M Chester defends the President while a committee talks universal military training and wartime naval needs as Senator Chamberlain cautions on defense and the Monroe Doctrine amid Pacific peril concerns.
Theodore Roosevelt attacks pacifists in a Metropolitan Magazine essay urging nationwide preparedness. He cites Jefferson and Monroe Doctrine lessons, warns against appeasement, and argues defense spending is vital despite cost. He appeals to workers, families, and citizens to support strong national defense.
Military reports say Francisco Villa is at El Rucia thirteen miles from Pears on guarding Carranza troops and capture is expected. A separate dispatch from El Paso notes 23 killed when a Puebla bound passenger train was blown up reportedly by Zapata adherents with one survivor.
Special Dispatch from Lexington Kentuckys The Commercial Tribune reports ack Trisler paroled after serving two years of a twenty one year sentence. He had been convicted of murdering John W Mitchell, brother of Neal Mitchell, though records say he killed Neal. Officials and Mitchell were surprised by the error and Trisler is to return home.
Harrisburg Pa Jan 21 Gov Srumbaugh issued a reclamation urging Pennsylvanians to set aside Thursday Jan 27 as a day to donate for the Jewish people in war torn countries.
Five persons drowned as floods from rain swollen streams hit Oklahoma today. The disaster damaged Murray County and the Healdton oil fields while train service was disrupted and property losses mounted.
Ice from a warm rain surged down the Kansas River and struck the under construction Twenty third street bridge at Kansas avenue. The event toppled 120 feet of false work and bent piles, with the west end dropping ten feet and fears the span would fail.
Phoenix dispatch reports George McLearan B Johnson Miss Helen McCauley and Ollie Dever crowned today at Winkleman while attempting to cross the flooded Gila River. Thirty families rendered homeless by the floodwaters.
German Austrian Turkish and Bulgarian consuls at Saloniki to be released by Allied authorities after detention on a French warship in the harbor.
Louis Bianchetti, arrested in New York and linked to the Dolores Evans murder in Cleveland, was brought by train to the County Jail amid 5,000 cheering, jeering bystanders. He collapsed on arrival and is held on first degree murder charges.
Chicago dispatch reports state evidence in the Updike family murder plot case. Nellye de Onsone Updike, Spanish cabaret singer, who disappeared after the brothers’ arrest, was found and questioned. She admitted eloping with Herbert Updike and alleged a prior marriage to Louis Hinckley under an assumed name.
Sylvester Ga January 21 The coroner rules five black men killed by unknown assailants were strangled and shot after being taken from the jail by a mob seeking revenge for Sheriff Moreland's death. A sixth man remains unidentified.
Ignacio Enriquez says Francisco Villa has married in Western Chihuahua and rides with a bride in a coach. Three Carranza columns pursue Villa, with warnings of U.S. intervention and questions of amnesty. Enriquez reports only a few loyal followers remain.
Greek leaders under Allied pressure attempted to sever ties with Germany amid the war outlook. King Constantine faced political strain as moves to disjoin aligned powers were reported, signaling ongoing realignment debates.
A Rome dispatch reports a British submarine sank an Austrian hydro aeroplane in the Upper Adriatic and an Austrian torpedo boat that went to aid the scene. The crews of both crafts were captured and taken prisoner.
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