Plot Foiled Revolt Plotters Among Italians Arrested Northwest
Federal agents arrested over 100 Italians in Seattle Portland Spokane Tacoma and other cities in a roundup led by Immigration Commissioner H M White. The group tied to the Corcola Studi Sociali allegedly planned to aid Germany by fomenting revolutionary activity in Italy and within the United States.
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Seattle
Corcola Studi Sociali
Portland
Spokane
Tacoma
H. M. White
Germany
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Wociety
Cleelum
Roslyn
Easton
Kittitas County
Northern Pacific
Federal
Cromaca Sower Siva of
Lynn
Mss
Italian anarchist plot arrests reported in Inland Northwest
Spokane officials said six Italians tied to an alleged anarchist group were targeted. One suspect was seized at Walla Walla, another at Lind, and four more were to be taken into custody near Spokane after a Seattle alert to federal immigration inspectors.
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Spokane
Seattle
Walla Walla
Lind
Russian Front Gripped by Hunger and Mutiny Reports
Dispatches from Petrograd Copenhagen and London describe extreme food shortages among Russian troops on the northern front with soldiers starving in trenches and mutinies reported. General Kal edine is said to control grain territories and command a disciplined army stabilizing the situation.
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London
Reuter’s Limited
Petrogrid
Copenhagen
Russia
Volka Narodna
Kaledines
Ion Cossacks
Petrograd
Morning Post
Tacoma Telephone Strike Continues Amid Mediation Talks
Tacoma telephone workers strike persists in defiance of initial termination hopes. Local union officials urgently telegraph Secretary of Labor Wilson and the president's mediation board asking for guidance and intervention.
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Tacoma
Wilson
President's Mediation Board
Wilson's mediation panel halted by Secretary illness
Labor Secretary William B. Wilson heads a mediation commission in Portland but activities are paused indefinitely due to Wilson's illness. The breakdown from overwork confines him to his private car, delaying any investigation into lower lumber industry troubles.
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Portland
Mediation Commission
William B. Wilson
Wilson
American newspaper man Littauer decorated in Belgium
Kenneth Proctor Littauer, an American newspaper man and former metropolitan writer, has been decorated by King Albert of Belgium with the order of Leopold II and the rank of chevalier after joining the Franco-Belgian escadrille. He previously served as a London and Paris staff correspondent and earned the French War Cross for valor.
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Kenneth Proctor Littauer
Albert
Belgium
Littauer
London
Paris
World War II era war news brief summary
Surgeon General selects Fox Hills Staten Island as military hospital site to distribute wounded to reconstruction centers. British casualties numbered 30 314 in week to Nov 27. Aceteon crew of 58 with 26 naturalized Americans sunk off Europe. 21 survivors reached Port Camaninas Spain. Red Cross Christmas packets shipment postponed to Dec 15. Austrian and German frontiers closed. Switzerland now seals all four frontiers. Caucasus government forms in protest against Russian chaos. Five Toledo bandits steal 35000 from Huebner Brewing paymaster. Former Colorado governor Peabody dies at 65. American Truth Society head O Leary indicted under espionage laws. Michigan coal operators warned Gov to fix price or government takes over mines. Cuban artillerymen board a Cuban cruiser to train in US coast defense gunnery. Ayer reported killed in action in Canadian casualty list. Samuel Gompers reelected AFL president in Buffalo. Cadet Simpson saves plane after loss of control from 2500 feet, injured slightly.
Bomb destroys Milwaukee police station in church basement
A November 26 explosion at Milwaukee central police station killed eleven people including seven detectives and two officers and a woman. The bomb designed to destroy the Italian Evangelical church was found in the church basement and carried to headquarters where it exploded during shift change.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Vpolice
McKinney
Edward Spindler
Arthur van Pieterson
Otto Gerlach
Lieutenant Flood
Teutons Offer Peace to New Russian Government
Stockholm reports the central powers propose peace to the new Russian revolutionary government. A Russian diplomat has left Stockholm for Petrograd with orders to present peace proposals.
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TEUTS
Stockholm
Tidningen
Petrograd
Late Market Reports From Chicago And Minneapolis
Chicago and Minneapolis grain market summaries show corn oats and wheat activity. Corn prices range around 1.20 to 1.22 per bushel with varying highs and lows, while oats trade around 0.71 to 0.73 per unit. Minneapolis notes receipts and bids for wheat corn oats flax barley and rye with specific price points.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Omaha Livestock Market Report for Hogs Cattle and Sheep
Omaha Livestock, Omaha, Nov 28 reports receipts of 8 000 hogs 11 000 cattle and 16 000 sheep with market steady across all classes. Heavy hogs 17.40 to 17.70 mixed 17.50 to 17.60 light 17.40 to 17.70 pigs 12.19 bulk 17.50 to 17.60 native steers 9.15 cows and heifers 6.25 to 9.25 canners 5.25 to 6.26 stockers and feeders 6 to 12 calves 9.50 to 12.50 lambs 10.25 to 16.75 yearlings 18.50 to 13.25 wethers 11 to 12.50 ewes 9.50 to 10.50.
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Omaha
St Paul Livestock Market Reports Prices and Receipts
Hogs receipts 12 000 market 10c lower range 16 50 17 bulk 16 80 16 90. Cattle receipts 4 800 killers 15 to 25c lower steers 15 50 cows and heifers 6 8 calves steady stockers slow 25c lower 5 10. Sheep receipts 2 000 lambs 50c lower sheep steady lambs 8 16 wethern 87 12 ewes 5 10 0.50.
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St. Paul
South St. Paul
Wethern
Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts Report
Chicago livestock market shows unsettled hogs with mixed price ranges and weak cattle demand. Hog receipts around 22,000, mixed and heavy hogs selling between 16.70 and 17.90, pigs at 13.16. Cattle receipts 17,000 with native and western steers around 6.15 to 17.75, cows and heifers 5 to 11.65, calves 7.28 to 18.50. Sheep receipts 12,000 with firm market. wethers 8.18 to 13.00, ewes 7.70 to 11.40, lambs 18.60 to 17.
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Chicago
Harris named to head Emergency Fleet Corporation
Washington November 26 Rear Admiral Frederick R Harris chief of the navy bureau of yards and docks has been named to succeed Rear Admiral Capps as general manager of the Shipping Board emergency fleet corporation which directs Americas shipbuilding program Admiral Capps asked to be relieved because of health He was named by President Wilson to succeed Major General George W Geethals who resigned after differences with William Denman then chairman of the Shipping Board
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Capps
Washington
Frederick R. Harris
Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks
Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
America
Wilgon
George W. Geethals
William Denman
American Troops Pouring Into France On Schedule
Washington reports that American forces are moving to France as fast as training, equipment, and ships allow. Secretary Baker avoided exact troop counts but said arrivals meet early expectations and that official numbers in France are not expected to be released during the war.
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Washington
France
War Department
Baker
Pershing
McIntyre
London
Colonel House Declares United States At War In Earnest
Paris reports Col. House and the American mission rapid arrival from London to Paris aboard a special train. They were met by Commander Sayles Baron Berckhem Maurice Casenave and others. House said the mission brings encouragement from American mobilization in factories farms and military fields and that France can count on all resources of the United States.
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Paris
BE. M. House
London
Sayles
Theodore Berckhelm
Maurice Casenave
Foreign Office
France
House
French Republic
Fate of Negro Mutineers in Hands of Court Martial
San Antonio Texas November 27 The fate of 63 Negro soldiers of the Twenty fourth infantry charged with murder mutiny and rioting after the Houston uprising August 23 lies with a court martial of 13 officers at Fort Sam Houston Completion of findings may take several days to a week and then go to General John W Buckman for approval with penalties time and place to be fixed by him.
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San Antonio
Tex
Twentyfourth Infantry
Houston
Ft. Sam Houston
John W. Buckman
Southern Department
First New Merchantman Launched
The Shipping Board launched the first 8,800 ton steel merchant ship at a Pacific coast yard as part of its ongoing fleet building program. Additional ships will follow in a steady launch schedule.
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Washington
Pacific Coast
Shipping Board
Military sentence for Norwich man in draft case at Devens
Military authorities at Camp Devens announced a sentence of X years in the federal prison at Atlanta for Toney Petroshki of Norwich Conn. Convicted by court martial for failure to report with other drafted men from his district in Ayer Mass on November 22.
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Slacker
Ayer
Mass
Camp Devens
Atlanta
Toney Petroshki
Norwich
Conn
Spokane Women Urge Clemency for Butte Murderers
The Good Government league of Spokane County has passed a resolution asking Governor Sam W. Stewart of Montana to grant clemency for Sherman A Powell Frank Fischer and John O'Neill who were convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death in Butte.
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Spokane
The
Good Government League
Sam W. Stewart
Montana
Sherman A Powell
Frank Fischer
John O'Neill
Butte
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