ENTER AND YOU DIE THREAT PROMPTS GERMAN WARNINGS
Berlin reports a warning from the official government press bureau warning that penetrating the barred zone means death. British claims of submarine success questioned as Berlin notes secrecy over losses and German papers challenge British tactics. Three American ships sail for war zone ports as four large liners wait in New York harbor. La Touraine departs Bordeaux for New York. The Swiss deny any instruction from Washington on reopening talks.
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Government
U. S
New York
Berlin
England
Dancer
Navahoe
Glenoa
Mongolia
London
Northern
Avala
Patria
Fabre Line
Genoa
Marseilles
Orduna
Cunard Line
Liverpool
San Guguellor
Pierce Line
Naples
Rio de Janeiro
Para
San Juan
la Touraine
Bordeaux
Wilson
Nkfort Zeitung
Swiss Federal Council
Ritter
Washington
Swiss
Federal Council of Political Department
High Cost of Fish Paged in Mississippi Freeze
Davenport Iowa February 21. Millions of fish have perished in the Mississippi this winter as the river froze to depths of twenty five inches to four feet. In back waters where game fish shelter the ice has suffocated fish beneath its surface. Ice cuts reveal the river bed littered with dead fish.
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Davenport
Mississippi
Pershing Takes Command of Southern Department
General John J. Pershing succeeds Funston and assumes command of the Southern Department, directing regional troop operations and strategic deployments. The change appoints Pershing to oversee military forces across a broad southern theater.
U S Flag Still Flying At Brussels
The Overseas News agency says Brand Whitlock the American minister in Brussels and his staff will continue work for the relief commission. After relations with Germany broke, the governor general told Whitlock the relief work would be welcomed. The flag at the American legation was never hauled down and Whitlock has not discussed the matter with German officials.
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Berlin
Brussels
Brand Whitlock
Relief Commission
Germany
United States
Nowyeer
Whitlock
Pershing Likely to Succeed Funston in Southern Command
Major General John J. Pershing has automatically assumed temporary command of the army's southern department as the ranking officer. Secretary Baker will consider a permanent appointment soon with President Wilson. Pershing is viewed as the logical and highly regarded choice for the post.
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Washington
John J. Pershing
Frederick Funston
Southern Department of
Baker
Pershing
Wilson
Department
Father of Della Fox’s Father Sues Over Hotel Ejection
Edmund Eddy, 75, father of actress Della Fox, testifies in Chicago circuit court seeking 10000 damages from Briggs Hotel Co for injuries alleged when removed from the hotel on April 28 1916. Eddy, now at the county hospital with heart ailment, came to Chicago before the big fire.
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Chicago
Chicago Markets Report Hogs Cattle Grains Prices
Hogs receipts 26 000 at Chicago with light to heavy pork at 12 45 to 12 85 and 9 50 to 10 50 for pigs. Cattle receipts 9 000 with steers 10 50 to 11 50 cows 7 50 to 8 25 and dealers 12 50 to 13 00. Corn No 3 white 1 01 No 3 yellow 1 01 1 01 Oats 3 white 59 14 59 4 Butter extras 42c and related grades Eggs firsts 41c ordinary 39c extras 37c Potatoes 2 50 2 75. East Buffalo list shows cattle 125 cars steady, hogs 40 cars strong with heavy 12 90, Yorkers 12 50 12 80, pigs 10 75 11 25. Sheep 20 cars steady top lambs 15 25 15 50, yearlings 13 00 14 50, wethers 12 00 12 75, ewes 11 00 12 00. Veals 15 00.
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Chicago
East Buffalo
Dunning and Stevens
Livestock Commission
N. Y
Missouri Dry Fight Fails Refer to Committee
Missouri senate drys beat a move to send a bill back to the election committee. The measure would authorize challengers and watchers at constitutional amendment elections. The motion failed 15 to 14.
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Missouri Drys
Jefferson City
Missouri Senate
Election Committee
French Steamer Sinks U Boat in Atlantic Duel
The French Line steamer Guyane reports a 40 minute encounter with a German U boat off the France coast on January 22 ended with the submarine sunk. Officers aboard the Guyane arrived in New York from Bordeaux detailing the engagement.
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New York
France
Bordeaux
Germany asks all Germans to sell gold and jewels
Amsterdam February 20 The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Berlin prints an appeal by the president of the German Imperial Bank urging all German men and women to sell their gold valuables to the bank and to dispose of jewels held in neutral countries through a diamond agency as part of the necessary supply effort.
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Amsterdam
Worddeutsche Allegemeine Zeitung
Berlin
Imperial Bank
Senate Passes Espionage Bill With Harsh Penalties
Washington February twenty one. The espionage bill clears the senate by sixty nine to ten, carrying fourteen justice department measures and tightening penalties for spying on national defense. It proposes two years or ten thousand dollars fine in peacetime, twenty years in peace with foreign aid, and life or death in war, with the president empowered to add defenses beyond listed items.
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Washington
Administration
Senate
Department of Justice
House
National Defense
United States
Pernstorff Papers Searched Aboard Frederick VI
Canadian officials conduct a near completion examination of Count von Pernstorff and his suite aboard the Frederick VI. The ship is guarded closely with patrols and shore sentries. Lights near the anchored vessel are forbidden at night and US-bound telegrams are censored before delivery.
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Halifax
N. S
Count von Pernstorff
United States
Frederick VI
Anchorage
Hauses
Cencor
Justice Arrested After Parole Break Promise
In Anderson Indiana on February 20 a parolee named Orville Justice was arrested twelve hours after authorities were told by Superintendent Peyton of the Jeffersonville reformatory that he would be released if officers had no objections. He is charged with stealing a horse and buggy.
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Anderson
Ind
Peyton
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Orville Justice
Justice
Arsenal Employee Killed in Philadelphia Mystery
Philadelphia Feb 20 The murder of Samuel Jenkins an armed employee of the Frankford arsenal was shrouded in mystery. Detectives aided by all city police stations pressed to identify two young men believed to be the killers.
Westenhaven Named Judge in Ohio by Wilson
Washington February 20 D C Westenhaven of Cleveland was nominated by President Wilson as United States district judge for the northern district of Ohio to succeed J B Clarke recently elevated to the United States Supreme Court.
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Westenhaven
Ohio
Washington
D. C
Enrique J Varona Urges Island Ruler
Cuban Vice President Enrique J Varona pressed the island’s ruler on policy matters amid tensions. Varona voiced concerns over governance and called for clarity on leadership decisions during a high level meeting.
U S Probes Austria U Boat Pledges Amid War Moves
Washington reports the United States asked Austria to renew pledges not to employ U boats illegally. If Austria refuses, officials say the U S may sever diplomatic relations. Ambassador Penfield delivered the aide memoire in Vienna seeking clear stance on the Ancona case assurances and Germany’s wartime decrees.
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Washington
United States
Austria
Frederik C. Penfield
Vienna
State Department
Ancona
Germany
Italian saloonkeeper slain over fifteen cents in Illinois
Ernest Ecoppi a 42 year old Italian saloonkeeper at Freeman Spur near Herrin Illinois was shot and killed by miner Sam Veago who fled by car. Police from Franklin and Williamson counties search for Veago after a quarrel over fifteen cents led to Ecoppi being shot three times and dying at the hospital.
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Herrin
Ili
Ernest Ecoppi
Freeman Spur
Sam Veago
Franklin and
Williamson
Ecoppi
Veago
Italians Seize Konitza as Greeks Withdraw
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Athens reports two Italian battalions occupying Konitza in western Greece near the Albanian border. Greek authorities at Konitza reportedly withdrew southward to Janina, with the occupation announced officially.
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Konitza
London
Greece
Athens
Janina
Sisters Die In Fire in New York Apartment House
Two sisters Mrs Addie Craver and Mrs Elizabeth Graves died in a three story New York apartment house fire on February 21. Two others were injured as flames swept through the building.
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New York
Addie Craver
Elizabeth Graves
Six Die in Alberta House Fire Family Burned
Taber Alberta February 21 Six members of the family of Fred Dose a wealthy German farmer were burned to death when a stove overturned and set fire to the home.
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Taber
Alta
Fred Dose
Women Lead New York Food Riots Over High Prices
Hunger riots led by women with crying babies swept several areas. 2000 women stormed City Hall and overturned pushcarts demanding relief. At East Broadway a meeting called for keeping children home from public schools as protest against rising costs.
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New York
East Side
Bronx
City Hall
Mitchel
East Broadway
East
Mitchell
Europe
Charles Pape
Wall Street
Joseph Hartigan
Cuban Rebels Take Towns in Cuban Revolt Report
Dr Orestes Ferrara speaker of the Cuban house of representatives stated he received cablegrams from Santiago de Cuba reporting success for liberal forces in the revolt. The messages claim taking Batre and Viguant with plans to seize Plaza Bayamo and then Manzanilo and Chaparra.
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New York
Orestes Ferrara
House of Representatives
Liberal Party
Farrara
Santiago de Cuba
Rafael Fernandez
Batre
Viguant
Plaza Bayamo
Manzanilo
Chaparra
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Kaiser
Dalbeattie
Mayola
Netherton
Dorothy
Iowa
Funston
Southern Department
American Press Association
U.S
Della Fox Sues
Havana
Enrique J. Varona
Bernstorff
Enrique J, Varona
Urgedas Island
Cotham
New York City
Island
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