Dutch Vessel Katwijk Sunk By German Submarine
Dutch government steamer Katwijk torpedoed at Noordhinder lightship while at anchor, 2046 tons, cargo of government corn from Baltimore to Rotterdam, crew of 22 with 11 drowned and 11 rescued. Reports also note sinking of Ptarmigan and torpedoing of Harpalyce in week ending April 14. Dutch outrage grows over German actions near Holland shores.
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London
Holland
Noordhinder
Rotterdam
Baltimore
Putoh
St Nichols
Kentyce
Aynland
Cuxhaven
Katwijk
Eeu Neracoe
Wieracytt Rotterdam
Tits Wankee
Ptarmigan
Lghtship
Admiralty
Harpalyce
Nelson editor of Kansas City Star dies at 74
W R Nelson editor and owner of the Kansas City Star died at his home in Xjusel City Missouri on Tuesday aged seventy four after months of illness. He was educated at Notre Dame and began in journalism after early work in Georgia and Indiana. He moved to Kansas City and founded the Evening Star in 1880.
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Xjusel City
Wiliam Rockhill Nelson
Kansas City Star
Arena
Nelson Va Karko
Fort Wayne
Spid
Notre Dame University
Georgia
Indiana
Kansans City
Evening Star
Great liner goes on rocks near Nippon coast
Five steamers and two Japanese warships rush to aid the American liner Minnesota ashore in the inland sea near Nippon. The Minnesota carried 200 passengers and 278 crew, bound Manila to Seattle under Captain Garlick. Mrs. Francis B Harrison and two children were aboard the ship. The Canfa Scattia rescued the passengers as the incident drew rapid international attention.
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Minnesota
S. O
Calla
Nip
Klushiu Spe
Butikoku
Manila
Seattle
Garlick
Francis B. Harrison
Philippina Ielanda
Ntwo
Caota
Blue Fugnel Line
Canfa Scattia
Sentences in Terre Haute election fraud case total 116
Indianapolis April 4. Maythr pina M Roberta one of 27 men convicted by jury in federal court for participation in the conspiracy to defraud the government in the Terre Haute election of November 1914 was sentenced by Judge Anderson on Monday to six years in Leavenworth and a $2000 fine. In all 116 men were sentenced with 88 pleading guilty. Other sentences ranged from two to five years and fines from $100 to $1000 for various officials and accomplices. Nineteen leaders appealed to the circuit court of appeals after judgment.
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Maythr Pina M. Roberta
Terre Haute
Anderson
Leavenworth
Dennis
Shea
Hl Redman
Etrcuit
Harry Montgomery
Terre Haute Board of Works
George Dhrenharat
Board of Works
Ed Driecoll
Thomas Smith
Hilton Redman
Willam
Crochett
H. Talbott
Lewis Nunley
John B. Green
Maurice Wajeh
Cqunty
Eet Axents
Fribatives
Dnp Orb
Olin
Mae
Charles Droughton
Joseph O'Mara
Htvaat
Alexander Aczel
Arthur Gillis
Joseph Strauas
George ‘Sovern
George Woodall
William P. O'Donnell
George’ Evans
John Clark
Sylventer Jordan
George Rouse
Clarence Stark
Frank Iset
Simon Stingley
Circuit
Court ‘of Appeals
War News Briefs From Europe and U S Ports
Reports from Copenhagen Hamburg bombardment casualties, Volkovisk vodka factory explosion kills fifteen in Volkovisk, U S export and import totals for week ending April 10, ships sighted near Christiansia, German warships seen sans flags, Little Colorado River drowning at Lyman reservoir in Apache County near St Johns.
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Hamburg
Petrograd
Volkovisk
Washington
United States
Christiania
Norway
Nort ‘Sen
Holbrook
Ariz
Bigat
Lyman Regervair
Little
Colorado River
St. Johns
Apache County
Broke
Mrs Roosevelt Undergoes Operation At Roosevelt Hospital
New York April 1 Mrs Theodora Roosevelt wife of former President underwent an operation at Roosevelt Hospital Thursday The operation was declared entirely successful Doctors including Howard C Taylonfva announced she would soon be on the road to recovery Colonel Roosevelt and Theodora Roosevelt arrived at the hospital a short time before the procedure and remained during the operation
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New York Hospital
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Sevententy Roosevelt
Roosevelt Hospital
Beya
Howard
C. .Taylonfva
Ropavelt
Theodora Roosevelt
Russians Attack on Mez Laborez Fails. Austrians Hold Crest
Lemberg reports a desperate Rusé attack on the right flank of the Austrian line at Mez Laborez, fifty miles south of Praemysl, after a 12 hour battle the Austrians force a retreat from their impregnable main crest. In London leaders of Monmouthshire miners vote for a national strike on April 22, with a 20 percent wage increase promised to consenting workers.
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Lemberg
Rusélang
Mez Laborez
London
Monmouthshire
Michigan mine pay raised at Calumet and Hecla
Calumet and Hecla Mining company and its subsidiaries announce a ten percent wage increase for about 12,000 workers across Calumet Michigan and affiliated properties. The move is expected to affect pay scales starting this pay period.
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Michigan
Calumet, Mich
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company
Zeppelin Raid Hits Northeast England Towns in 25 Minute Attack
Zeppelins raided the Tyne region hitting Blyth Wallsend and Wallsend areas with bombs in a roughly 25 minute raid from Newcastle to Beaton. One man injured near Choppingtown. Five bombs dropped at Wallsend. several detonations near a crowded train. Newcastle narrowly missed. Authorities recovered bombs from Fields and handed them to police. The raid underscored the industrial importance of Newcastle upon Tyne area in World War I.
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Newcastle
England
Tyngailie
Ollock
North Sea
Blyth
Horthenat
Caat
Hkirt
Pratt
Wallsend
Shields
Newdastro
Eppelin
Neighorhand
Choppingtown
Wallzend
Tyne
Weston and
South Shields
Beaton
Hlewick
Beaward
United Kingdom
Newcastle-an-Tyne
Britain
Armstrong Works
Elewick
Krupps
16 Killed in Car Crash in Detroit
Detroit records 16 dead and 39 injured after a collision between a Detroit United Railways street car and a freight train at West Jefferson Avenue near the Detroit Toledo and Ironton railroad. The westbound street car, filled with workers returning from shifts, was struck as the freight train backed onto the crossing, sending the car hurtling and wreckage cascading along the tracks.
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Detroit
Detroit United Railways
Weat Jefferson Avenue
De‘troit
Toledo, & Ironton
Thaw Case's New Illness Mentioned in New York
Deputy Attorney General Franklin Kennedy, tied to the Thaw case, is diagnosed with a nervous condition. He has been forced into temporary retirement as friends report the illness. Attorney General Woodbury confirms the diagnosis and notes Kennedy went away to rest.
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New York
Franklin Kennedy
Woodbury
Funston To Take Charge On Mexican Front
Major Frederick Funston, commanding American forces on the Mexican border, is en route from San Antonio to Brownsville to personally oversee actions there as tensions rise again. Also reports state Gladetone M P killed at the front, a grandson of a famous statesman, according to telegrams from Liverpool to the Hye Ning Beha.
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Washington
Gladetone
M. P
London
Liverpool
Beha
William
Ghynne
Charles. Gladatone
Ree
John Bunny in Critical Condition in Brooklyn Home
Noted moving picture comedian John Bunny lies near death at his Brooklyn residence from heart weakness and a disease of the Addueye. His condition is reported as grave and he struggles for breath as doctors work by his side.
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John Bunny
New York
Brooklyn
Riggs Bank Sues McAdoo Over Government Bond Interest
Riggs National Bank files suit in DC against Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller Williams seeking injunctions to halt alleged official acts harming the bank. The complaint cites a March 30 denial to pay $5,000 in interest on government bonds held to secure circulation, tied to alleged reporting failures and daily penalties.
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Washington
Riggs National Bank
McAdoo
Williams
District of Columbia Supreme Court
United States
Surrendered Villa Soldiers Executed Near Huisachito
Carranza officers report that about 850 Villa troops surrendered after the Huisachito battle near the border. The forces allegedly were executed by machine gun fire and bayoneted wounded, along with several Mexican women, ages ten to eighteen, in a brutal summary order by a Carranza general.
Japanese effort to save sunken cruiser Agaioa at Turtle Bay
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt dismissed a Los Angeles report that 4,000 Japanese marines and sailors had landed at Turtle Bay Lower California with five warships and were mining the harbor. He said the Japanese aimed to salvage the cruiser Agaioa, stranded weeks earlier.
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Washington
Roosevelt
San Diego
Los Angeles
Turtle Bay
California
Agaioa
Zeppelin In Trees Near Aasterburg Reported
A German airship, likely a Zeppelin, is said to have been caught in trees near Aasterburg close to Tirlemont and was fired upon by Allied troops. London reports total British casualties up to April 11 amounting to 199,347 including killed, wounded and missing per War Secretary Tennant in Parliament.
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Atsterdam
Aasterburg
Tirlemont
London
Tennant
Ex-Senator Aldrich Dies After Stroke in Providence
Nelson W. Aldrich longtime Rhode Island Republican leader and architect of tariff and currency policy died at his Providence home after an apoplectic stroke. Born 1844 in Foster he rose from Providence to the U S Senate 1881 1911 shaping tariff finance and interstate commerce policy including the Payne Aldrich tariff act.
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New York
Nelson W. Aldrich
United States
Rhode Island
Yan
Houe
Tel Avenue
Aldrich
Tery
Providence
F Aldrich
United States Senate
Senate
Slapla
Ron
John .D
Rockefeller
Foster, R. I
Rhode Island Assembly
Congress
Ambrose E. Burnside
Vienia and Petrograd Report Biggest World War Battle
War office says the four week clash near the Carpathians involved 3.5 million men and ended in a complete Russian defeat as the offensive was repulsed. Floods and mud hinder operations in the Carpathians, but renewed fighting is noted in northern and western Poland with Russian successes near Mlawa and areas west of the Vistula.
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Vigana
Carpathians
War Office
Petrograd
Ryasjans
Polepa
Mlawa
Vistula River
Nicholas
Boxer Killa Beat Friend in Ring Fight After Death
In New York on April 19 exonerated fighter Che is said to have boxed on a bench when a death occurred involving Arthur Estenkins who vows not to reenter the ring. Paris reports a German aeroplane was brought down by French forces on April 19 near Ypres, crashing behind German lines.
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Killa
Friend
New York
Paris
War Office
Ypres
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised
A Richmond Virginia testimonial extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for gynecological and nervous troubles. The letter claims improved sleep headaches and strength after taking the product, urging other women to try it and share their experiences.
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Richmond
Lydia
Finkham
Pinkhary
Frank
Lydia E.pinkham
Rae
Lydia Pinkham
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