Britain Violates Niceties Angers England in Public Response
Washington reports Germany answered the US on the war zone after noon. Secretary Bryan said a public statement would follow. Britain’s Premier Asquith warned England may violate international law niceties, prompting expected opposition reactions here.
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International News Service
Washington
Germany
United States
Bryan
Presson
Asquith
Great Britain
England
England Will Refuse U S Suggestions
London reports say British papers doubt the United States proposals to modify the blockade. The Standard criticizes the US stance and argues Britain should ignore US suggestions, stating the US has not spoken for humanity and no law forbids Britain's blockade of Germany.
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International News Service
London
Great Britain
United States
Standard
Germany
German Press Endorses Berlin Naval Policy Reply
Berlin reports the German reply to the American note of February 22 is approved by the Berlin press. The Dissesche Zeitung says Austria may offer compensation to Italy to keep Italy out of the war, and views Germany's diplomacy as seeking U.S. friendship and support.
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Berlin
Germany
England
Dissesche Zeitung
Austria
Italy
U. S
Interment Planned for C C Green in Huntsville
The dead body found near the Dadeville railroad tracks last Thursday has been identified as C C Green former Decatur and Huntsville resident. Russell Green son of the deceased identified him. Green was a predecessor of Mobile and North Mobile Improve Company banker and landowner. He disappeared from Mobile January 11. The body will be sent to Huntsville for interment. No light shed on death. Green moved to Mobile from Madison county in 1911.
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Ala
C. C. Green
Decatur
Huntsville
Russell Green
Decaturs
Mr. Green
Mobile
North Mobile Improve‘Company
Green
Madison County
Russell
Stanley Green
Waynesboro
Miss
Werner Van Horn Indicted Three Times
Boston March 3 United States district attorney Anderson announced that a federal grand jury returned three indictments against Werner Van Horn for attempting to blow up the international bridge over the St Croix river at Vanceboro Maine. He will be arrested on a capias March 7 as he leaves Machias jail.
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International News Service
Boston
United States
Anderson
Werner van Horn
St. Croix River
Vanceboro
Maine
Horn
Capias
Machias
Bud Billings dies in Nashville railroad days
The sudden death of Bud Billings, well known conductor at Nashville Tennessee, shocks friends here. For years he led on Nos 2 and 83 and was a popular, highly esteemed railroad employee on this division.
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Bud’ Billings
Nashville
Tenn
Mr. Billings
Bernhardt's Indomitable Will Blamed for Leg Loss
A French letter claims Madamme Sarah Bernhardt refused to spare herself during the Jeanne d Arc role and caused the amputation of her left leg. It notes she declined a minor operation and rest to fulfill a planned American visit, comparing her sacrifice to soldiers at the front.
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Madamme
Sarah P Bernhardt
Jeanne D’arc
Ma Cateil de Mendes
Preuech
Decaturs Tdéday
Menles
Serah
Jeanne dAre
America
Export Trade 15 Hurt by Blockade
International report notes foreign trade between the United States and Europe faces disruption as Allies threaten to halt all commerce with Germany. Germany's imports to the U S total about 149.4 million dollars and U S exports to Germany amount to about 158.3 million.
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International
News Service
Washington
United States
Europe
Germany
Malone Coal & Grain Company Sells Lime for Sanitary Use
A carload of lime has been bought by the Malone Coal and Grain Company for sanitary use. The lime is advertised as a disinfectant highly recommended by sanitary experts and will be sold to property owners seeking epidemic precautions. The ad notes a way to save a ten cent piece in lime purchases.
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Malone Coal & Grain Company
Miscreants Ransack Gordon School Building
Miscreants entered the Gordon School building last night and ransacked teacher desks. A few cents were stolen while papers and objects were scattered across the floor. Police officers are in charge and arrests are expected.
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Gordon School
Dozen Auto Owners In County Pay Taxes
About one dozen of 300 in Wye County have paid their state automobile license, announced Back Tax Commissioner B. P. Wallace. T. A. Mooring of the state tax commission, in Decatur, is investigating back taxes in the county and will likely spend the rest of the week there to aid in collecting taxes that have escaped.
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T. A. Mooring
Wallace
Wye County
B. P. Wallace
T.A. Mooring
State Tax Commission
Decaturs
Impeachment Proceeding Abandoned Against Judge Dayton
Washington March 2 The Hose Judiciary committee voted to abandon the impeachment proceeding against Judge Alston Dayton of West Virginia. After a preliminary investigation the committee found misconduct sufficient for reprimand but not impeachment.
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International News Service
Washinon
Hose Judiciary Committee
Alston Dayton
W. Va
Representative Neely
West Virginia
Dayton
Lecturer charms Decatur audience with Civil War era speech
Dr James A Duncan spoke at Decatur City Hall on The Cabin and the Great House. He praised slave era figures and dialect rich portrayals from Thomas Nelson Page Old Virginia and Joel Chandler Harris. The crowd listened intently as he argued slavery was humane and servants belonged to masters.
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James A. Duncan
Decatur City Hall
South
Marie George
Virginia
Nelson Page
Joel Chansie
Still Change for Muscle Shoals in federal appropriation
Senator Bankhead reports special provision for Muscle Shoals in general government bills with a $30,000,000 appropriation for the next fiscal year. He says Congress will pass the measure before adjournment and Alabama will be generously treated. The Tennessee Valley area awaits the outcome amid past lobbying in Montgomery.
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Bankhead
Alabama
Washington
Tennessee Valley
State Senate
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Jefferson
Alabama Power Company
Montgomery
Congress
Boston divinity student fatally shot stealing at Rochester plant
Walter Marison twenty three, a Boston divinity student, was shot and probably fatally wounded by a night watchman in a struggle during a robbery attempt at the Gonic Manufacturing Company in Rochester New York. He had been preaching in New Hampshire towns on vacation and said he sought money for tuition.
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International News Service
Rochester
N. Y
Gonic Manufacturing Company
Walter Marison
Boston Theological
Marison
New Hampshire
Pearl in Oyster Turns Up in Mrs. McGowan
In New York on March 3 Dr. Jacob McGowan placed a $100 pearl in a plate of oysters at the Hotel Astor for his wife who then swallowed the pearl by mistake. The tale centers on the misplaced gem in a domestic dining episode at a landmark hotel.
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International News Service
New York
Jacob McGowan
Hotel Astor
Hoboes Seize Dishes From West Side Charity Cafe
Four hoboes were hunted by police today after allegedly stealing all dishes and cooking utensils from a west side charity restaurant, disrupting operations and triggering a city inquiry.
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International News Service
Chicago
West Side
Final lap of the sixty third congress ends
Washington March 3 the sixty third congress pushed through a long grind to clear calendars with no recess planned until noon tomorrow. The Senate stayed up all night on Indian appropriations and Wilson nominations to the trade commission. Only George Rublee remained unconfirmed facing possible recess appointment as Gallagher vows to oppose. Submarines and other fighting craft steam out of naval base.
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International News Service
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Sixty Third
Senate
Indian Appropriations
Wilson
Trade Commission
George Rublee
New Hampshire
Gallagher
Rublee
Nine Bodies Found in Leyland Mine Disaster
Rescue teams searched the Leyland mine at Henton West Virginia after an explosion. Ten miners were rescued alive and nine bodies recovered as efforts to explore the depths continued.
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International News Service
Henton
West Va
Mrs. Bessie Going Returns to Father After Vagrancy Release
Mrs. Bessie Going, after fleeing to Huntsville to visit C. L. Locke, was released from jail by order of the Law and Equity court. She agreed to return to her father in Shiloh Tennessee. Locke remains jailed on vagrancy charges.
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Bessie Going
Huntsville
Law and Equity Court
Going
Shiloh
Tenn
C. L. Locke
Locke
Northwestern Plans First Coed Baseball Team
Northwestern University announces that coeds will play baseball this year marking the institution’s first foray into mixed gender baseball. The move reflects expanding athletic programs at the university.
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International News Service
Chicago
Northwestern University
Combination Attacks Britain as Air Raids Hit Merchant Ship
The British steamer Dundee reported arrival today after being attacked off the Essex coast by two German Taube planes. Both dropped bombs but none struck. This marks the first air assault on British merchantmen since the bread war began. The vessel carried a jute cargo from Calcutta.
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Dundee
Essex
Daldlak
Calcutta
Three cornered fight looms at Dardanelles
Reports from London on March 3 say a six submarine Austro German force from Pola heads for the Aegean to attack the allied fleet. Heavy shelling at the Dardanelles signals renewed bombardment while Turkish units rush 100000 troops and heavy guns to Constantinople forts.
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International News Service
London
Dardenelles
Pola
Acean Sea
Dardenelles Straits
Constantinople
Allies Land Troops at Kumkale in Dardanelles
Six British and three French warships shelled inner Turkish forts in the Dardanelles and landed troops at Kumkale. The Turkish garrison was driven off and the Besika telegraph office building was burned.
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Kumkale
Turkey
Athens
Dardenelles
Besika Island
Germans claim gains in both theaters of war
German dispatches report successes on both fronts. British attacks south of Ypres were repulsed after fierce close combat. French assaults in Champagne failed. Northwest of Ville-sur-Tourte Germans won 350 meters of trenches. Northeast of Badonvilliers further gains reported. In the east 1600 Russians captured near Augustowo.
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International News_ Service
Berlin
Ypres
Ville-Sur-tourte
Badonvilliers
Augustawo
Arrest of Anarchists in New York Plot
New York March 3 arrests of Frank Abarno and Charles Carbone are expected to be followed by indictments under a statute giving a 25 year sentence for placing explosives in a building with intent to damage or destroy and endanger lives. The District Attorney presented the case to the grand jury as evidence is turned over to Police Commissioner Woods. Carnegie Vanderbilt and other financiers receive special guards.
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New York
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Frank Abarno
Chas. Carbone
Carnegie
Vanderbilt
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