Wilson Takes Lead on Stronger Army and Navy Tour
President Wilson plans national speaking tours to rally support for army and navy expansion as Congress delays on appropriation bills. He seeks to unite Senate and House leaders, despite pacifist opposition, with plans drafted by War and Navy Departments. If needed, he may cancel the White House social schedule before Christmas.
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Wetern
Wiew News Service
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Congress
Senate
House
Representative Hay
Representative Padgett
War
Navy Departments
Bryan
Garrison
Daniels
White House
Secret Night Rider Plot Revealed in Missouri Court
Testimony from confessed night riders on trial for assault with intent to kill describes a Southeast Missouri conspiracy to burn towns and kill merchants and owners. The ring sought labor reforms and planned to strike Gibeon and Clarkton with killings and arson after prior arrests of sixty seven members.
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Missouri
Night Riders
New Madrid
Willoby
Shipment
Gibeon
Clarkton
Senate Debate Intensifies Over Mexico Duty
In Washington the senate debated the nation’s duty to Mexican citizens with new intervention proposals added amid Tuesday’s session. Republican senators assailed President Wilson’s policy while Democrats defended his approach as Stone and the foreign relations panel faced critiques and support over a bill.
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Senate
Washington, D. C
Mexico
Wilson
Stone
Foreign Relations Committee
Niles
William McKinley
House
California Floods Threaten Southland as Rain Lingers
Flood waters in the mountain regions threaten to worsen the massive property damage after a three day rainstorm that has paralyzed much of southern California. Flood conditions extend into Arizona with four drownings reported and widespread communication outages.
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California
Los Angeles
Cal
Arizona
Government Investigating British French Militarist Pressure
Washington government probes charges that agents of Britain and France seek to recruit militia members in the United States to join Allied forces. The state department is examining the issue amid the von Bernstorff note.
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Washington, D. C
Count von Bernstorff
State Department
United States
Pickles Kept Her Well Chief Diet Says 102 Year Old
In Binghamton New York Mrs Eliza Lathrop aged 102 has died. In an interview on her last birthday she said her chief article of diet was pickles and that their use kept her well.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Eliza Dhrop
Lathrop
Pankhurst Ordered Admitted To United States
Mrs Mameline Pankhurst the British suffrage leader detained by New York immigration authorities has been ordered admitted to the United States unconditionally.
Paid War Plotters U S Will Get Documents
London reports photographic copies of Capt. Frans von Papen’s financial records sent to Washington. Documents show payments by German officials to operatives linked to the St Croix and Seattle incidents, including a $70 sum to Werner Horn and a $2,000 transfer prior to a Seattle explosion.
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London
Frans von Papen
Falmouth
American State Department
Ambassador Page
Washington
St. Croix
von Papen
Ast
Captain von Papen
Werner Horn
Seattle
Amsick & Co
New York
Kuepferlain
Kuepferle
England
Victoriano Huerta Dies in El Paso at 62
Former provisional Mexican president Victoriano Huerta died in El Paso on January 15 after lung hemorrhages following final rites. Born in 1854, Huerta, described as distinctly Mexican and Indian in heritage, trained at Chapultepec Military School and rose under Porfirio Diaz, earning a feared reputation as a hardline commander.
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el Paso
Victoriano Huerta
Mexico
Chapultepec
Porfirio Diaz
Five Indicted in War Plot to Ship Rubber to Germany
Federal grand jury charges Edward Weber Paul Schmidt Max Jaeger Mrs Annie Dekers and Richard Wohlberg with conspiring to ship rubber secretly to the German government violating U S customs laws Jaeger allegedly acted as a German agent aiming to slip rubber past the British blockade Dekers and Jaeger allegedly tried to ship rubber as personal effects to Germany.
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New York
United States
Edward Weber
Alfred Weber
Deutsche Bank of Berlin
Paul Schmidt
Rubber and Gayule Company
Water Street
Max Jaeger
Annie Dekers
Holland
Richard Wohlberg
Dyestuff Bill Faces House Ways and Means Hearing
Washington January 17. Scores of experts testified before the house ways and means committee urging the package to establish and foster the dyestuff industry in the United States. The hearing highlighted the bill’s aims to build domestic production and secure strategic materials.
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Washington
Ways and Means Committee
House
United States
Honolulu District under martial law after large raid
Honolulu reports martial law in effect in the tenderioly district after a large raid involving about 500 United States troops from the Ninth Cavalry. The operation appears coordinated and aims to quell local unrest.
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Hawaii
Honolulu
Thh
Ninth Cavalry
Victory for Austria gains Adriatic control after armistice
Rome reports an armistice between Austria and Montenegro after the fall of Mount Lovcen. Austria gains control of the Adriatic Sea and Montenegro appears absorbed by German forces. Italy argues Austria sought peace talks while Montenegro’s capital Cetinje falls under Austrian dominance.
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Adriatic Sea
Mount Lovecen
Rome
Austria
Montenegro
Adriatic
Teuton
Serbia
Italy
Mount Lovcen
Cetinje
Nicholas
Austria denies submarine involvement in Persia sinking
Austria informs the U S that no Austrian submarine was near the P er sia when she sank and cites a mine or internal explosion as possible causes. The Austrian admiralty says all Med submarine crews deny involvement and locations remain uncertain.
Seventeen Die in Brandon Train Collision
In Brandon Manitoba a snow clearing train collided with a stock train in the Canadian Pacific yards. Seventeen workers were killed, fifteen fatally injured, and about twenty hurt as the cabouse was moved. The temperature was forty below zero.
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Canadian Pacific Railroad
Brandon
Man
Mercury
Winnipeg
Canadian Pacific Railway
English actress joins Engilahield hospital as nurse
Baltimore January 18 Miss Mary Forbes an English actress with a leading role in a Bernard Shaw production resigns from her company to become a nurse at an Engilahield hospital.
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Baltimore
Mary Forbes
Bernard Shaw
Engilahield Hospital
Vatican Arsenal Fire Suppressed After Sunday Outbreak
A Vatican arsenal fire on Sunday afternoon spread to the vestry but was controlled. No injuries reported and authorities traced the blaze to the Gwies birds area according to a dispatch from Rome dated January 18.
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Rome
Vatican
Conscription Bill Passes Second Reading in Commons
Irish support helps the government win a decisive 431 to 99 vote in favor of compulsory service in England. Premier Asquith declares unity with allies, while labor leaders threaten strikes despite ministers withdrawing resignations and Mineral Federation weighing a miners referendum.
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London
England
House of Commons
Aquith
Great Britain
Mineral Federation
United Kingdom
Labor
Arthur Henderson
Board of Education
William Brace
George H. Roberts
Home Affairs
the Treasury
Six British Flyers Killed In Latest Air War Actions
London reports say four British aeroplanes failed to return after missions and German forces claim two pilots Bocike and Emmmann downed a British craft northeast of Tourcoing and near Bapaume. Additional British losses occurred near Rowbaix and Ligny with six of eight officers killed or wounded.
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London
Armentieres
Lille
Givenchy
Berlin
Tourcoing
Bapaume
Rowbaix
Ligny
U S Soldier Taken Off Ship by Kingston Authorities
Washington reports that the government will not take action regarding Alfred Clarke of the Fifth United States Infantry who was removed from an American ship at Kingston Jamaica and examined for his nationality by British authorities.
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U. S
Washington
Alfred Clarke
Fifth
United States Infantry
Kingston
Jamaica
Tidal Wave Strikes Hamburg and Copenhagen
A tidal wave reported at Hamburg and Copenhagen on January 18 reached four feet, causing havoc in Hamburg shops and warehouses. Merchandise losses are estimated at 1,000,000 marka.
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Hamburg
Copenhagen
U S Soldier Ends Life in Brownsville
M. H. Walton twenty eight year old private in Company D Sixth cavalry killed himself near Brownsville Texas by shooting himself in the head. He enlisted at Kewanee Illinois.
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U. S
Brownsville
Tex
M. H. Walton
Sixth Cavalry
U. A
Kewanee
Explosion on U S Diver B 2 in New York Yard Kills Four
Four men died and ten injured in a submarine B 2 drydock explosion at the New York navy yard. Civilians James H. Peck J P Sechults Joseph Logan and electrician KR R Seaber were among the dead. Chief electrician L C Miles may die. Initial theory of an accident near knees is disputed by Rear Admiral Nathaniel R Washer who suspects possible outside interference.
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New York
New York Navy Yard
KR. R. Seaber
James H. Peck
Brooklyn
J. P. Sechults
Joseph Logan
L. C. Miles
Nathaniel R. Washer
Navy Yard
Carranza vows action after Santa Ysabel massacre
Washington reports Consul Silliman quotes General Carranza promising pursuit and punishment of those responsible for the massacre of 17 Americans near Santa Ysabel. Carranza links the atrocity to Villa forces and pledges protection of foreigners while denouncing premeditation by the attackers.
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Washington
State Department
Carranza
Santa Ysabel
John R. Silliman
Queretaro
Villa
One Killed In Church Riot At Du Pont
Pittston Pa Jan 18 in a pitched battle between 20 state troopers and a mob of 600 in front of Sacred Heart of Jesus church at Du Pont one trooper was killed and many rioters were hurt. Eighty rioters are jailed at Wilkes Barre. Thirty were held for contempt of court last week for interfering with services. Sheriff Busa with 12 troopers protected Pastor Lowszhoski amid factional church disputes over priest succession.
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Pittson
Sacred Heart of Jesus
du Pont
Pittston Hospital
Wilkenbarre
Sherif George F. Busa
Francis Lowszhoski
Guzwa
Hoban
Father Kurkoweki
Bergen Fire Leaves 20000 Homeless and 40 Million Loss
A fire swept the Bergen business district on Sunday causing property damage estimated at not less than 40 million dollars and leaving about twenty thousand people homeless. In London the Kaiser is reported to have completely recovered after a Zurich dispatch cited by Central News.
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Christiania
Bergen
Kaiser
London
Zurich
Central News
Wolff
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Ten Children Die After Air Bomb Blast At Gravel Pit
Ten children playing near Cologne aviation grounds in a gravel pit were killed when they handled an air bomb and it exploded. The device had remained unexploded and was discovered by the youngsters.
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Cologne
Jaw
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