Ultimatum to Carranza and Mexican Crisis Escalates
New Orleans dispatch reports British steamer Wyvisbrook seized at Campeche with Captain Blair jailed. Washington notes quote a sharp note to Carranza, listing him as responsible for Obregon and Mexico City unrest. Projections show foreign nationals in Mexico and movements of cruiser Tacoma as war munitions scarcity affects Villa and Carranza.
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New Orleans
Wyvisbrook
Carranza
Campeche
Blair
Progreso
Washington, D. C
Bryan
Cecil Spring-Rice
State Department
John R. Silliman
Mexico City
Huerta
Madero
Obregon
Mexico
Tacoma
Port-au-Prince
Haiti
Vera Cruz
Villa
Doran Faces Fresh Allegations Over Liquor Board
Columbus Ohio March 8 still more sensational developments in the investigation of Governor Willis into charges by Bernard Doran that members of the State Liquor Licensing Board suppressed prosecutions of violations in Cleveland red light district. Doran filed formal charges against board members and said further charges would expose administration of the liquor system by Secrest Clendening and Allen. He details Cleveland prosecutions and says he was recalled from Cleveland and barred from testifying.
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Columbus
Willis
Bernard Doran
State Liquor Licensing Board
Cleveland
Red Light
Doran
J. H. Secrest
Byron M. Clendening
Democratic
Charles L. Allen
Levine
Frank Levans
Ohio
Evans
Air raid on Ostend reports bombs on submarine base
Six aeroplanes from the naval wing attacked Ostend in a March afternoon raid. Two aircraft returned due to frozen fuel while the remainder dropped eleven bombs on the submarine repair base and four on the Kursaal headquarters. Pilots returned with probable damage, despite no submarines seen in the basin.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Admiralty
Longmore
Ostend
Kursaal
Military
Belgium
Bucharest
Roumania
Abdul Hamid
Turkey
Smyrna
Persian Gulf
British Steamer Bengrove Sunk Off Ilfracombe
The Admiralty reports the British collier Bengrove was sunk by a torpedo off Ilfracombe ten miles northwest of Barnstaple. The Paignton rescued thirty three crew members, and local lifeboats brought them ashore amid cheers.
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London
Admiralty
Ilfracombe
Barnstaple
County Devon
England
Paignton
Liverpool
Labor Law Plan Would Expand Ohio State Industrial Commission Power
The Columbus report says lawmakers plan a sweeping labor bill to grant the State Industrial Commission authority over hours and wage rules. It would supersede Young and Archer measures, limit women to forty eight hours weekly, require cash wages, and allow municipal licensing of elevators. Support from organized labor exists, though debates on scope continue.
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Freeman T. Eagleson
Attorney General's Office
Young
Archer
Kennedy
Industrial Commission
Power of Conscience Surrender Near Honolulu
J Corbett, a coast artilleryman at Ft Ruger, surrendered to Honolulu police claiming he killed J Jautney in Indianapolis on February 12 1913. He said conscience compelled the confession.
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Honolulu
J. Corbett
Coast
Ft. Ruger
J. Jautney
Indianapolis
Ind
Corbett
Kin pumped man’s chest for 49 days in Wisconsin
In Washburn Wisconsin Lafayette Reuter a 28 year old man lived more than seven weeks with help from friends who kept him alive by artificial respiration. Relatives pumped his chest by hand while he remained conscious and directed the process daily until his death after paralysis affected his breathing.
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Washburn
Wis
Lafayette Reuter
Reuter
Passport Falsifier Sentenced in U S Court
Carl Burpede a German American and four German reservists pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obtain false passports in Federal Court. Burpede received three years in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary while the others were fined 200 each. A sixth indicted fugitive Hans Adam Von Weddell was captured and extradition negotiations are under way.
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The
Commercial Tribune
New York
Carl Burpede
United States
Burcede
Atlanta
Arthur Wilhelm Henrich Sachsse
Walter Muller
August Meyer
Herman Wegener
Hans Adam von Weddell
Scotland
Marshall
Smallest Homestead Costing Ten Cents in U S
Serena Helen Blue owns the smallest U S homestead, an eight hundredth acre triangle on Turtle Lake Minnesota. It costs ten cents and requires no residence for three years though she already has a house and grows tomatoes cabbage and clover. The Interior Department praised the unique homestead as a model.
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Washington
Serena Helen Blue
United States
Alleged Forger Arrested On Her Marriage Day
Miss Flor ence Cogwill, 25, arrested in Sapulpa for forging the signature of Charles Page Tulsa philanthropist on a $1,800 check. She blamed a man named Glenn denning and confessed after being questioned at the American National Bank Sapulpa. Cogwill said she was to be married today at Ottawa Kansas.
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American National Bank of
Sapulpa
State Auditor Donahey Reports Treasury Balances for 1915
State Auditor Donahey releases unencumbered balances as of February 15 1915 totaling 6 840 981 in various funds with 11 002 173 cash in treasury and 4 161 242 in department obligations. He projects receipts through 1917 totaling about 41 393 021 and notes the large cash balance. A 1 000 000 depository limit is cited for banks handling public funds. A censorship bill tightens penalties for uncensored films and a boxing licensing bill is introduced reversing prior opposition.
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Donahey
General Revenue
Treasury
Lovett
Adams County
Besaw
Portage County
State Censor Board
Censor Board
British Auxiliary Fleet Reported At 1500 Ships
Washington dispatch summarizes an American consul report from Cardiff noting Britain has 1500 vessels totaling over 3,500,000 tons placed on time charters by the Admiralty. The government bears responsibility and will return ships when received.
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Gallipoli
Asiatic
Mayor Robts On Trial For Election Fraud in Terre Haute
Special Dispatch to The Commercial Tribune Indianapolis March 8 Twelve men sworn in U S District Court to try Donn M Roberts Terre Haute mayor and twenty seven others charged in an indictment with conspiring to defraud the Federal Government through corrupting the November 3 1914 election in Terre Haute United States District Attorney Frank C Dailey read the law and began reading the indictment before adjournment until tomorrow morning
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
United States District Court
First Real Snowstorm in Twenty Years Reaches San Antonio
San Antonio experienced its first real snowstorm in twenty years with two hours of precipitation leaving as much as three inches of snow in several parts of the city.
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the Commercial Tribune
San Antonio
Tex
Thaw Goes on Trial for Conspiracy to Escape Matteawan
New York March 8. Harry Kendall Thaw faces a trial for conspiring to escape from the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminal Insane with five codefendants. The jury was completed after a day of testimony and opening arguments.
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The
Commercial Tribune
New York
Stanford White
Harry Kendall Thaw
State Hospital
Matteawan
John B. Stanchfield
Thaw
Stanchfield
Talesmen
George Carnegie
Josiah Thaw
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Greece
M. Venizelos
Athens
Straits
Rumili Medjidieh Tabia
Hamidieh Tabia
Mount Dardanus
Kin
Turtle Lake
Minne
Sota
Miss Blue
Blue
Homestead
Tulsa
Okla
Flor
Ence Cogwill
Charles Page
Philanthro
Pist
Glenn
Denning
Page
First National Bank
Jonahey
Ohio Assembly
Thompson
Franklin County
State Athletic Commission
Great Britain
Lathrop
Cardiff
Wales
Donn M. Roberts, Mayor
Terre
Haute
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