Roumanians In Flight As Bucharest Falls To Teutons
Paris reports say Roumanians evacuated Bucharest in good order, saving their army as German forces capture camps and advance toward Cernavoda. Berlin proclaims 100000 Romanian prisoners interned, while entente nations react with gloom and blame over the catastrophe and diplomatic missteps.
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Teutons
Paris
Bucharest
Berlin
Near East
Ploesei
Sihaie
Ferdinand
Russian War Office
Wallachia
Lokal Anzeiger
Germany
Carpathians
Balkan
von Mackensen
Roumania
Hungary
Hindenburg
France
Russia
Petit Journal of Paris
Lord Grey
General Mackensen Captures Bucharest on Birthday Anniversary
On his 67th birthday anniversary General Mackensen leads forces to capture Bucharest. The report credits strategic maneuvering and decisive assault securing the city amid ongoing operations.
Cosson Starts Things at Keokuk
Forty seven indictments were returned against liquor law violators after a visit by Iowa Attorney General Cosson who called Keokuk the worst place in Iowa as he led an effort to clean up the city in December.
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Keokuk
Cosson
Iowa
Heroic Rescue Sparks Fire Alarm At Col umbus Home
In Columbus Indiana on December 8 Webber Miller and his family woke to sparks falling on their beds. Young Harold Miller twelve retrieved his younger brother four and sister two from the burning house escaping in their night clothes and saving them from the blaze.
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Columbus
Ind
Germany and Arabia dispute over sunk liner status
Washington notes Germany argues the British liner Arabia was a troop transport to be treated as a warship under international law. Berlin says it would make amends if the submarine commander erred, while the United States says the circumstances do not justify sinking without warning and no action will be taken without full facts.
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Washington
Germany
State Department
Arabia
Marina
United States
Americans killed by Villa in Chihuahua and Torreon raids
El Paso reports Howard Gray an American mining man fatally wounded by Villa bandits at Parral on November 5. Foster, a second American, was severely harmed and allegedly burned at the stake. other foreigners in Parral and Torreon regions are listed as fatally harmed or executed. The dispatch notes U.S. protests over Mexican military trials and border concerns.
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Howard Gray
Foster
el Paso
Tex
Parral
Chihuahua
Villa
Alvarado Mining and Milling Company
Gray
Bowman
Washington
Torreon
Carranza
Edgar Koch
Santa Rosalia
Theodore Hoemuller
United States
Brownsville
Ricardo Solis
Matamoros
Victoria
Mexico
Caballero
Carranza Isi
Johnson
Archbold Laid To Rest In Simple Funeral Rites
John Lt. Archbold president of Standard Oil was mourned in a home service in Tarrytown New York with Chancellor Day of Syracuse University officiating. The interment was at Sleepy Hollow cemetery guarded by four men day and night. A special train ferried mourners from New York including John D. Rockefeller Sr. and Jr. along with William Rockefeller and Alfred Bedford among others.
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New York
John Lt. Archbold
Standard Oil Company
Tarrytown
N. Y
Day
Syracuse University
Archbold
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
William Rockefeller
Alfred M. Bedford
Garment Workers Vote for General Strike in New York
Fifty thousand garment workers have approved another general strike at eleven mass meetings. The exact start hour and day are undecided, with a probable walkout Monday or Tuesday. The demand is a forty nine hour week and a one dollar weekly wage increase.
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New York
Chicago Markets Live Stock and Wheat Prices Summary
Hogs receipts 51 000 with light shipping at 9 60 to 9 85 and heavy packing 9 80 to 10 10. Cattle receipts 8 000 with good to prime steers 10 75 to 11 75 and cows 6 75 to 13 00. Chicago cash grain wheat No 2 hard 1 80 to 1 83 corn No 2 white 96 145 to 964 No 2 yellow 96 to 96 oats No 3 white 84 to 86. East Buffalo N Y livestock: cattle 10 cars steady. hogs 30 cars higher heavy 10 35 to 10 45 Yorkers 10 15 to 10 30 pigs 9 00 to 9 25. lambs 13 00 top, yearlings 10 00 to 11 00, wethers 8 50 to 8 75, ewes 7 50 to 8 00. veals 18 50.
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Chicago
East Buffalo
Dunning and Stevens
Livestock Commission
East Buffalo N. Y
Wilson Hosts Dinner for Vance McCormick and Campaign Committee
President Wilson hosted a White House dinner for Vance McCormick and about fifty National Democratic Campaign committee members. Guests included Progressives who backed Wilson and their wives, among them Mrs J A H Hopkins of Morristown NY, head of New Jersey’s Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage. The New Jersey activists urged action for suffrage but were rebuffed. The dinner took place in the state dining room and the list remained private.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
Vance McCormick
National Democratic Campaign Committee
J. A. H. Hopkins
Morristown
N. Y
New Jersey
Congressonal Union For Woman’s Suffrage
Capitol
Three Shot at Eviction in Connersville
In Connersville Indiana patrolman Harry Daniels is seriously wounded in the thigh. Robert Agee 45 is near death with two bullets in his back. Carl Agee 16 is seriously wounded after a pistol battle at the Agee home on Eastern avenue. Night Patrolman Adams fired after Agee shot at Daniels. Mrs Agee held a revolver but did not fire. Officers were sent to evict occupants from a rented dwelling.
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Connersville
Ind
Harry Daniels
Robert Agee
Agee
Carl Agee
Adams
Agees
Daniels
Eastern Avenue
Remedy Car Problem Urged
The Interstate Commerce Commission urges Congress to adopt radical changes in railroad regulation to address a nationwide car shortage. The report says rapid business growth requires new powers to control freight car movement and prevent shortages at key points, plus expanded terminal facilities at major cities and ports.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Californians expect Heney to be interior secretary pick
Californians expect Francis J. Heney to be appointed to the cabinet to succeed Franklin K. Lane if he retires as secretary of the interior. He dined at the White House on December 7, meeting with Vance McCormick and associates of the Democratic national committee.
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Francis J. Heney
Franklin K. Lane
Interior
Mr. Heney
Aisne
Vance McCormick
Democratic National Committee
Waterway Ruling Expected By January
Springfield, Dec 8 A decision is expected in the Dunne waterway case at the close of the December term of the supreme court. W A Hubbard of Carrollton, a Democratic member of the general assembly, contests the waterway act which the Sangamon circuit court held unconstitutional by tying a barge canal to a $20 million bond issue. The same term may rule on Fergus suits about committee expenses, with the lower court ruling favoring the state and Fergus appealing.
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Springfield
Dunne Waterway
Supreme Court
W. A. Hubbard
Carrollton
General Assembly
Sangamon
Fergus
Sentenced to play baseball in Decatur youth case
Two sixteen year old boys, arrested for stealing brass from the Wabash railroad at Decatur, were sent by Judge J. H. McCoy to play baseball. The judge lectured on honesty and fairness, and said, I sentence you to continue playing baseball, and learn the lessons of fairness taught by the game.
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Decatur
J. H. McCoy
Mystery Woman Katherine Denton Dies in Burns Near Hopkinsville
The Evansville woman Katherine D Denton lies in an undertaking establishment in Hopkinsville Kentucky after burning suffered when a deserted negro school was destroyed near the town Her identity and purpose in Hopkinsville remain a mystery as she wandered to a local home barefoot and scorched claiming to seek work.
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Evansville
Ind
Katherine D. Denton
Hopkinsville
Kentucky
C. H. Tinsley
Funston Orders 5767 National Guard Troops Home
General Funston designates 5767 national guard troops for release from border service under War Department orders. The removals affect units from New York and Pennsylvania as of December 8 in San Antonio Texas.
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San Antonio
Tex
National Guard
Funston
War Department
New York
Pennyslyvania
Lloyd George Forms New Cabinet Plan With 12 Members
London reports Lloyd George has accepted the premiership and will form a 12 member ministry with five Unionists five Liberals and two Labourites. Labor to hold two cabinet seats and one war council seat, while Liberal opposition foreshadows friction over coalition fallout. A full cabinet list is expected by week’s end as Liberal and Labor talks continue at the War Office.
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London
David Lloyd-George
Lloyd-George
Lord Northcliffe
The
Times
George Nicoll Barnes
Black Friars
Glasgow
Arthur Henderson
Board of Education
Asquith
Labor Party
War Council
Labor
War Office
Lloyd. Jorge
Henry Clay Arbuttle Back in Milwaukee After New York Arrest
Henry Clay Arbuttle, a youth dye expert, returns to Milwaukee after being arrested in New York on a charge of stealing 10900 dollars worth of platinum from the International Dye company. He defied reporters at the depot, says he will fight to clear himself, and claims to have recovered all stolen goods with 4090 dollars on his person. He planned a trip to Granada, West Indies to visit relatives and perhaps start a dye firm.
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Milwaukee
Henry Clay Arbuttle
New York
International Dye Company
Eoods
Arbuttle
Frances Knapp passes in Waterloo obituary
Mrs Frances Knapp aged sixty four died in Waterloo Iowa at the home of her daughter Mrs Guthrie McConpell. She was widow of Charles Knapp a noted St Louis newspaper man and longtime rector of the Associated Press.
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Frances Knapp
Waterloo
Pr. Knapp
Wicer Charles Knapp
St. Louis
Associated Press
Guthrie McConpell
Paso Real bandit raid accomplice sentenced in Texas
Ramon Pidena from Browneville, Texas, found guilty as an accomplice in the Paso Real raid of August 16, 1915. He received a fifteen year sentence from the district court.
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Browneville
Tex
Ramon Pidena
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Greece
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American Press Association
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Peril
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Ste
Fotztoes
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Mrs. Hopkins
Congressional Union
Secretary of Interior
Sir Edward Carson
Mystery Woman
Penn State
George
Laborites
Cabinet
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