General Villa Becomes Political Leader in Mexico
General Francinco Villa assumes political authority and is celebrated by followers in Juarez as the convention favours him for president. Villa reports loyal troops defeated Carranza in Jalisco in a three day battle. he names a cabinet and plans to base his capital at Aguas Calientes.
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Francinco Villa
Juarez
Villa
Convention
Mexico
Carranza
Jalisco
Grace Baldwin speaks after Wean suicide case fallout
Grace Baldwin denies responsibility for Charles Wean s suicide in a signed statement she released from Pinto Virginia asserting he threatened to kill them both and she was not to blame. The body was held at Keyser awaiting relatives in Mount Jackson and notes found in a book confirm past affairs and planned self harm.
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Grace Baldwin
Pinto
Charles F. Wean
Cainberian
Charles Wean
Wean
Mr. Right
Robert Miller
Chertland
Mineral County
W. Va
Keyser
Mount Jackson
Harrisonburg
Modern Woodmen of America
Order
Red Men
Cumberland
Extra Cars for Teachers Meet at Frostburg
For teachers attending the institute at Frostburg the C and W Electric Railway will run two extra cars. One from Cumberland to Frostburg at 8:00 a.m. arriving 9:40 a.m. The other from Lonaconing at 8:18 a.m. arriving 9:00 a.m. Cars return at 4:00 p.m.
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Frostburg
C. & W. Electr. Railway Company
Cumberland
Lonaconing
Unidentified Austrian Woodsman Found With Belt Containing $6550
In Wikins West Virginia on February 4 a dead unidentified Austrian woodsman employed by the West Virginia Pulp and Lumber Company was found strapped to the body with a belt containing 6550 dollars. The man was killed on a skid way on Elks river.
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Wikins
W. Va
Elks River
West Virginia Pulp and Lumber Company
Old enough to vote inedible eggs tale from Newton
Mrs Wallace Douglas wife of an instructor at Columbia University bought a dozen eggs praised as strictly fresh by the grocer The first egg was sick the second hardy convalescent and a third bore the stamp May 6 1892 The item reads as a curious local nugget from Newton New Jersey dated February 4
Food scarcity and riots hit Italy and Mexico in reports
Riots erupt in Sassari over bread prices as troops are deployed to restore order. In Venice peasants head to Germany for work amid rising wages, while Italy warns against the risk of foreign labor. simultaneously official dispatches warn of severe food shortage in Mexico City with Carranza officials moving records to Vera Cruz.
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Italy
Venice
Germany
Washington
Mexico City
State Department
Carranza
Vera Cruz
Democrats and Progressives Said Chosen for Trade Commission
Washington rumors claim President Wilson will name three Democrats and two Progressives to the new federal trade commission with Commissioner Davies likely to be chairman. Harris will represent the South and Hurley will join the panel from Illinois. The body will study corporate activity, enforce the Clayton Act and trade commission provisions, and investigate alleged anti trust violations both in the United States and abroad.
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Wilson
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
William J. Harris
George
Causus
Corporations
Davies
The
Trade Commission
Bureau of Corporations
Trade Condi
Trade Commission Acts
German Town Refuses U S Gifts Amid War News
Amsterdam reports Zwickau war committee rejects gifts from the United States claiming neutrality is hypocritical. Paris cites Petrograd that a German destroyer was sunk by a Russian submarine. London notes German offensives near Warsaw La Bassée and in France show high casualties with limited gains as Hindenburg eyes Warsaw and potential Carpathian transfers.
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United States
War Committee
Zwickau
Dresden
Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Germany
Paris
Petrograd
Havas
Broken axle blamed for wreck on 6 0 near Woodlyn
Washington reports the derailment of a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train near Woodlyn Pennsylvania on September 19 1914 caused by a broken axle on the locomotive tender. The accident injured 88 people. In Elkins West Virginia Mrs George W Doyle and two children died in a Cass Pocahontas County house fire yesterday. Doyle and a child were rescued from a window while Doyle suffered burns. The Odd Fellows Hall and a picture theatre were saved by a bucket brigade.
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Elkins
W. Va
George W. Doyle
Cass
Pocahontes County
Mr. Doyle
Odd Fellow's
Texas debated plan to divide into three states
Austin, Tex February 4 A joint resolution to amend the state constitution to divide Texas into three states was introduced by Senator W L Hall of Wharton County The proposed states would be North Texas with capital Palestine West Texas with capital Abilene and South Texas with capital Austin
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Tex
Texas
North Texas
Palestine
West Texas
Abiliene
South Tex
United States Consuls to Distribute Food in Germany
Ambassador Von Bernstein transmitted to the State Department that American consuls in Germany will supervise distribution of U.S. foodstuffs aboard the Wilhelmina to prevent aid to German armies. Germany warns that US insistence on shipping food may threaten US neutrality and Britain threatens to seize the Wilhelmina’s cargo.
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Wilhelmnion
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Third Health Inspection Trips Made This Evening
The health team will conclude another inspection tour through poverty areas at 3 pm with Health Officer Max J. Cotton and Police Chief J Thomas Heisenhauer leading. Yesterday three overcrowded deteriorating homes on Frederick Street housed families including tuberculosis patients and a seven person household. Health Colton may order renovations and repairs to these dwellings. Also, five residents of a boarded up Window Street house were arrested for disorderly conduct and held for trial.
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J. Thomas Heisenhauer
Health Department
Sta
Colton
William Keel
Jennie Booth
Polly Brant
Sumners Brant
Samuel Shaw
Window Street
Heck
Van Horn Arrested on Warrant by Local Officials
Werner Van Horn, the German bridge wreck er, was arrested today in the immigration room of the station on a warrant sworn by Justice George Smith for wilful and wanton injury to town buildings. He faces trial at 3 p.m. The case arose after local officials moved to force release despite pending instructions from the attorney general. The Nitro glycerine blast damaged windows and bric a brac but not the bridge itself.
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International News Service
Vanceboro
Werner van Horn
George Smith
Rose
Pattongal
Augusta
van Horn
No Full Moon This February Marks 1846 Repetition
A Columbia University professor explains February can lack a full moon when the month has 28 days. History notes February has seen moonless periods only in 1846 and now repeats, with two full moons occurring last month and two expected next month.
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Prof
Jacoby
Columbia University
Socialists Disavow Liebknecht Over War Credit Vote
Berlin February 4. Der Liebknecht faced sharp disapproval from party colleagues in the Reichstag at a meeting called by Liebknecht to address his December vote against the war credit and his later criticisms of the party leadership. He was not expelled. The vote drew strong denunciations from Socialist unions and the party executive as deputies met to consider measures against him.
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Der
Kurl Liebknecht
Reichstag
Liebknecht
War
Chamber
Socialist Party
der. Liebknecht
Horne May Get Life Sentence
The extradition case of Werner Van Korn from Vanceboro Me is outlined by New Brunswick Attorney General J B M Baxter under Section 282 of the Criminal Code. It defines an indictable offence with life imprisonment for damaging railway assets to injure or endanger travelers. If brought to Canada and indicted he would be tried in Charlotte county New Brunswick.
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Werner van Korn
Vanceboro
J. B. M. Baxter
New Brunswick
Ma Baxter
van Horn
Canada
Charlotte County
Portugal Enters War On Active Basis Reports
London reports Portugal joins World War I actively, with Berlin dispatch noting German officials killed in Angola and Lisbon confirming more Portuguese troops are being sent to Africa. The entry marks Portugal as the eleventh nation in active participation alongside the Triple Entente.
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Berlin
Angola
West Africa
Lisbon
Portugese
Africa
Portugal
Germany
Tripele Entente
Aged Woman Burns to Death in New Castle Home
New Castle February 24 Mrs Maggie McKinney 70 of Newport near here was burned to death last night her charred body found in the ruins of her large home neighbors reached the scene too late to save the woman McKinney leaves a brother in Newport
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Maggie McKinney
Newport
Here
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