Leak Probe Fails to Tie Lawson to Bernstorff Meeting
New York on January 30 reports a Wilson peace note leak inquiry resuming with Archibald White denying arranging a meeting between Count von Bernstorff and Thomas W. Lawson. Pliny Fisk e and White denied boasting of influence over Secretary McAdoo and any Wall Street joint action. The witnesses’ denials shorten the investigation as Sherman Whipple’s bid to link Lawson with the German ambassador drew particular attention.
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New York
Count von Bernstorff
Thomas W. Lawson
Archibald 8
White
Edward McSweeney
Lawson
Pliny Fiske
Fiske
Wall Street
Secretary of the Treasury
Wilson
House Committee On Rules
Sherman Whipple
Whipple
Boston
Teutons Take 2700 Russians Captive at Aa Front
German forces report 20 officers and 2,700 Russian soldiers captured along the Aa river. The Overseas News Agency adds twenty-one machine guns and two mine throwers were seized in the operation.
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Berlin
Chicago Markets Report: Live Stock and Grain Prices
Hogs receipts 65 000 with light to heavy classes priced 9.75 to 11.55. Cattle receipts 24 000 with steers 10.50 to 11.25 and cows 7.60 to 8.25. Grain bids No 2 red 1.80 percent, No 3 hard winter 1.84 to 1.87. Butter and eggs quoted with varied firsts and seconds. East Buffalo livestock quote shows steady to strong market across cattle hogs sheep and veals.
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Chicago
East Buffalo
Dunning and Stevens
Livestock Commission
N. Y
George of Servia Crown Prince to Succeed if Father Is Deposed
Announcement states George of Servia would succeed his father on the throne if the monarch is deposed. The poised heir appears ready to assume duties should political upheaval remove the reigning ruler.
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Peter of
Servia
George
Deadwood Dicks Arrested in Chicago West Sides Incident
Charley Warnick of Columbus City Indiana and Fred Deardorff of Fort Wayne Indiana, both youths aged seventeen and fifteen, were found armed with revolvers and ammunition belts at the Wells street bridge. They declared desire for the West and cited Buffalo Bill or Nick Carter as influences. Parents notified.
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Chicago
Deadwood
Arizona
Charley Warnick
Columbus City
Ind
Fred Deardorff
Fort Wayne
Nick Carter
Warnick
James Cahill
Wells Street Bridge
West
New Constitutional Draft Faces House Hurdles
Springfield (Ill) January 39. The constitutional convention resolution faces stiff odds in the house with supporters fearing a defeat similar to two years ago. Senate passage was by eleven votes, while only ninety seven could be counted in the house. The house has 153 members, with fifty one minority representatives. Opponents warn minority representation could be eliminated if a convention is held.
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Springfield
Ill
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Goshen High School Hires New English Science Instructor
The Goshen city board selects A. E. Condon of Marion to replace Fred G. Allison as instructor in English and science after Allison quit following his arrest for brutal attack on student Raymond Hulery over gum chewing. Professor Watt also resigns after fighting with a student.
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Goshen
Ind
Goshen City
Rodin Stricken With Grippe In Paris At 77
Paris January 30. Auguste Rodin the famed sculptor is seriously ill with grippe. Bulletin says the illness follows its normal course but the artist is very weak due to age and the severity of the attack.
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Auguste Rodin
Paris
Poison Suspected in Winnipeg-St. Paul Dog Race
Hyurtur Hans son and other leaders Mike Kelly and Gunnar Tomasson said their six dogs grew ill in the Winnipeg-St. Paul race and they believed deliberate poisoning occurred. Hanson said an unidentified man followed them and offered whiskey. officials asked to be warned by telegram if he reappears.
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Fargo
N. D
Hyurtur Hanson
Winnipeg-St. Paul
Mike Kelly
Gunnar Tomasson
Hanson
Reynolds
N. C
Federal officials leave Evansville as grand jury subpoenas issued
Attorney Joseph Roach and Federal Agent James Timoney departed Evansville for Indianapolis after days of investigation. Deputy U S Marshal Oehlman served subpoenas as about ninety leading local business, professional men, and political workers were summoned before the federal grand jury.
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Evansville
Ind
Joseph Roach
James Timoney
Indianapolis
United States
Oehlman
Navy Bill Advances In House With Three Battleships Planned
The House Naval Committee approved the $351 million naval appropriation bill for the current year. It funds part of a three year construction program, including three battleships and one battlecruiser. The measure moves toward final House consideration as Washington cites urgent fleet needs.
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Washington
House
Naval
Largest Shoes Made For Des Moines Man in Brockton
In Brockton Mass on January 30 a local factory finished a pair of size twenty-one shoes for Bernard H. Koyne of Des Moines Iowa. He is nineteen, weighs 276 pounds, and stands 7 feet 9 inches tall in stocking feet. The shoes are blacher type with double soles and heels and will be fitted Monday to his rubbers.
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Brockton
Mass
Bernard H. Koyne
Des Moines
Kayne
Grain Dealers Protest Higher Freight Rates
E H Hitchcock secretary of the Illinois Grain Dealers association says the group joined with peers from other states and the national body to protest the Feb 15 freight rate hike on grain shipments to the seaboard. They request a postponement of the effective date.
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Decatur
Ill
E. H. Hitchcock
Illinois Grain Dealers’ Association
Dr George E Wil CNT New Rockefeller Foundation Head
Dr George E Wil CNT has been elected newly as head of the Rockefeller Foundation, in a move that leadership circles describe as a strong signal of ongoing strategic focus and international philanthropy.
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George E. Wil
CNT
Rockefeller Foundation
George Vincent
Minnesota University
Berlin Claims Big Ship Sunk In Mediterranean Action
Berlin reports a German submarine sunk a troop transport in ten minutes on January 25 in the eastern Mediterranean about 250 miles east of Malta. It also sank the armed steamer Garfield bound from Malta to Port Said. the Garfield captain was taken prisoner. Other ships including Theresedal Donstad Egret Matheran were reported sunk or believed sunk.
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Berlin
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Garfield
Malta
Port Said
Northern Petroleum Tank Steamship Company
Sunderland
London
Theresedal
Las Palmas
Reuter
Canary Island
Lloyd's Shipping Agency
Donstad
Egret
Lloyd’s
Matheran
Belfast
T. & J. Brocklebank, Ltd
Liverpool
Former Official Drowns Near Taylorville
The body of Dallas Clark fifty eight a longtime constable deputy sheriff and jail turnkey was found head and one shoulder submerged in the south fork of the Sangamon river south of Taylorville. A coroner jury returned a verdict of drowning. His wife survives. While viewing Clark's body Patrick Larkin sixty eight a Wabash railroad section foreman was struck by a passenger train and killed.
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Pana
Ill
Dallas Clark
Christian County
Sangamon River
Taylorville
Clark
Patrick Larkin
Appendix Will Come Back If South Dakota Enacts Law
Pierre South Dakota January 30 Under a bill to be before the legislature a surgeon who removes an appendix not diseased will not be paid for the operation. All veriform appendices removed would be sent to the state laboratory for examination and returned to the owner with a report. If not diseased the patient is relieved of financial liability to the practitioner.
Roumanian King Flees to Russia
Roumanian King changes residence from Jassy to Potemkins palace in Yekaterinoslav Russia. Government to reside partly at Cherson and partly at Yekaterinoslav per Nishkoye Slovo report via press bureau.
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Russia
Berlin
Roumania
Jassy
Potemkins Palace
Yekaterinoslav
Nishkoye Slovo
Cherson
Tolono widow claims eight bachelor sons in Illinois
Mrs. Catherine German of Tolono declares eight sons remain single, defying romance. Local lore says this may be the largest such bachelor brood in the state.
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Tolono
Catherine German
Cupid
Ruth Law Seeks French Army Aviation Role
Pioneer aviator Ruth Law reportedly plans to join French Army airmen amid ongoing 1918 era war efforts. Her movement signals expanding roles for women in military aviation and international collaboration.
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New York
Ruth Law
U. S
Chicago
Des Moines AG Opposes Further Prohibition Amendment Action
Des Moines Iowa January 30 Attorney General H M Havner holds the constitutional amendment for prohibition is correct and constitutional as worded and needs no further amendment before the house of representatives acts. The amendment and the submitting resolution have already passed the senate.
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Des Moines
H. M. Havner
House of Representatives
Senate
Stone urges tough U S stance on Mexico policy
U S Senator William J. Stone says the United States should “give Mexico a little thrashing” to enforce behavior. He criticizes President Wilson for too much patience and predicts drastic measures may be needed to restore peace in Mexico. He spoke with reporters at the Planters Hotel in St. Louis.
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St. Louis
United States
Mexico
William J. Stone
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Planters Hotel
Wilson
Senator Stone
Sherman’s Sister Dies in Springfield After Illness
Miss Sylvia Sherman sister of U S Senator L Y Sherman died in Springfield after a three year illness. Senator Sherman travels from Washington. Survived by brother, sister Miss Jennie Sherman in Colorado and adopted daughter Miss Myrtle Mitchell of Wheeler Illinois.
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U. S
Springfield
Ill
Sylvia Sherman
United States
L.Y. Sherman
Senator Sherman
Washington
Miss Sherman
Jennie Sherman
Colorado
Myrtle Mitchell
Wheeler, Ill
Preserve Black Hawk Haunt Moves in Illinois
Rock Island Illinois January 30 a movement to buy state lands on a Rock River bluff once Black Hawk s haunt The plan calls for a series of parks to preserve state historical connections led by Theodore Jesup of Chicago in a drive to acquire the tract for a public park.
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Black Hawk
Rock Island
Ill
Rock River
Theodore Jessup
Chicago
Riots At Juarez Bridge Injure US Soldiers
Rioting in Juarez over quarantine rules resumes with hundreds of women and more men involved. Two non commissioned officers suffer injuries from a bottle and a rock as Mexican cavalry drive demonstrators from the bridge. US troops prepare to cross back into the United States next Monday as Funston reports progress.
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el Paso
Tex
Juarez
International Bridge
United States
Andres Garcia
Carranza
Villa
Mexico
Viva Villar
Maximo Torres
U. S
Washington
War Department
Funston
British Extend Sea Bars Against Kaiser
The Berliner Tageblatt via The Hague report says Britain has extended a blockade of Helgoland Bight affecting parts of the Dutch and Danish coasts. The aim is to hinder German submarines entry and exit from the area. Washington notes a warning expanding the North Sea zone as dangerous for shipping from Jutland to seven miles off the Netherlands.
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London
Berliner Tageblatt
Hague
Helgoland Bight
Washington
North Sea
Jutland
Netherlands
German North Sea
Helgoland
Francis Burton Harrison to Resign as Philippines Governor General
Washington reports Francis Burton Harrison of New York will resign as governor general of the Philippines, with a resignation expected before March. The move follows extended service in the role and is pending formal announcement from the administration.
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Francis Burton Harrison
Washington
New York
Philippines
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