Senate adopts curg on debate in arm ships clash
Washington Mar 9 The Senate inches toward an extraordinary session to empower President Wilson to arm American ships and defend sea rights by voting for a cloture rule The move ends unlimited debate except for three senators La Follette Gronna and Sherman who opposed the rule Sherman accuses the President of bias and omits parts of his claim Cummins decries the Wilful group and praises Stone's forceful speech without delay in the session
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Senate of the
United States
Senate
Republic
Union
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Wisconsin
Grenna
North Dakota
Sherman
Ilinois
Ta Follette
Gronna
Illinois
Cummins
Friends of
Senator Stone
Stone
Lloyd George Hits At Home Rule Standoff In Senate
Premier Lloyd George speaks during a heated session over Home Rule, denying accusations of conspiring to block a vote. He calls the measure unconstitutional, unpatriotic, and unwise, claiming eight years of effort to push for closure rules.
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Senate
Grand Jury Targets Divorce and Moral Reform
In Richmond Indiana on March 9 the Wayne circuit court grand jury summoned three women accused of contributing to divorce rates. They were warned to reform or face indictments. This marks the first instance of a Wayne county grand jury acting as a domestic relations body.
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Ind
Grand Jury
Wayne Circuit Court
Wayne County
Crand Jury
U S Airmen Seek Villa Bandits Across Mexican Border
Two planes left Camp Stewart to search for Villa forces near the San Martin ranch seventeen miles south of Fort Hancock. Brigadier General George Bell Jr ordered the pursuit. American guards reinforce the Juarez frontier with a machine gun unit ready to cross if bandits intrude. Fort Hancock hosts infantry and cavalry as a precaution.
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Tex
Camp Stewart
San Marthe Reach
Fort Hancock
George Bell Jr
Villa Trops
Saia
San Martin Ranch
Juarez
Dardanelles Inquiry Reveals Kitchener Role in Delays
London reports that a wartime commission on the Dardanelles campaign released a revised form. It says Lord Kitchener supported the project and his war council decision was treated as final. Troop dispatch to the east was delayed three weeks by his uncommunicated ruling. Churchill initiated the attack, naval advisers favored a joint assault, and war council deliberations were insufficiently informed.
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Dardanelles
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War Council
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Winston Spencer Churchill
Admiralty
Churchil
Russians Reach Kangaver After Hamadan Push
Russian forces in Persia continue to drive Turkish troops from Hamadan area. After seizing the Asabad summit they advanced southward and occupied Kangaver on Monday, per the war office.
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Petrograd
Persia
Hamadan
Asabad
Kangaver
Gerard at Havana After Saturday
The state department reports Ambassador Gerard and his party will arrive in Havana between Saturday and Monday after their Saturday schedule.
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Gerard
Havana
Washington
Mar
State Department
Fletcher to Leave Guadalajara for Mexico City
Henry P. Fletcher the American ambassador and Foreign Secretary Aguilar are to depart Guadalajara this week for Mexico City. General Carranza is expected to attend Sunday’s national elections in Guadalajara before heading to the capital.
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Guadalajara
Mex
Henry P. Fletcher
Aguiler
Mexico City
Carranza
Zeppelin King of Air Dies in Charlottenburg
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor of the dirigible, dies at Charlottenburg near Berlin after noon Thursday. Born 1838 in Württemberg, he served in the U S Civil War as a military observer for Württemberg, aided the Union with balloon observations, fought in the 1866 war, and later pursued aerial navigation, founding his airship experiments at Friedrichshafen.
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Berlin
Reuteris Telegraph Company
Reuter
Amsterdam
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Charlottenburg
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Wurttemberg
America
Carl Shhultz
Germany
Prussia
Austria
France
Federation Council of the Empire
Hie
Friedrichshafen
Irish Nationalists Declare War on Lloyd George Plans
A London front page reports a nationalist manifesto calling for active Irish aid to save the constitutional movement. It accuses Lloyd George of breaking faith on irish home rule and vows to send the manifesto to Wilson and dominion premiers. Andrew Bonar Law declines to resume the Irish debate as Nationalists maintain support for the Entente.
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Ireland
Dominions
United States
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Wilson
Andrew Bonar Law
British War Council
Germans Sink 48 Vessels in Recent Submarine Campaign
Berlin reports 21 steamships 10 sailing vessels 16 fishing craft sunk by German submarines totaling 91 000 gross tons. Paris says torpedo boat destroyer Cassini was torpedoed February 28 sinking in two minutes with the captain six officers and 160 crew lost.
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Admiralty
Paris
Cassini
Mediterranean
British Cavalry Near Bagdad Within Twelve Miles
British cavalry is within twelve miles of Bagdad per Major General F B Maurice. Turks offered little resistance after Ctesiphon fell and at Kut el Amara, with British advances nearing 100 miles since February 26.
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London
Bagdad
F. B. Maurice
War Office
Maurice
Ctesiphon
British War Office
Kut-el-Amara
Hogs and Cattle Prices in Chicago and East Buffalo Markets
Chicago live stock receipts are 26 000 hogs with light to heavy packers paying 12.00 to 14.75 dollars and 14 40 to 14 55 for light hogs. Cattle receipts 3 500 with steers at 11.00 to 11.75 dollars and cows 8.25 to 11.75 dollars. Grain and eggs quoted as Wheat 1.87 1.96, corn 1.09 to 1.14, oats 0.60 to 0.64, eggs 26 to 27 1 2 cents, potatoes 2.25 to 2.50. East Buffalo market shows cattle receipts five cars steady, hogs strong at 13.50 to 15.25, lambs up to 15.00, yearlings 13.00 to 13.50, ewes 11.25 to 11.50, veals 15.00.
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Chicago
East Buffalo
Dunning and Stevens
Livestock Commission
N. Y
Panama Plot Ties Villa to German Agents in Berlin
Panamanian plot details tie General Villa to German backing as Berlin directs attacks along the U S border and in the Panama Canal scheme. German agents promise gold payments to Villa to unleash small detachments, while Indian and Peruvian collaborators figure in the wider strategy. A separate arrest in New York and a Baltimore case involve conspirators aiming at President Wilson.
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Tex
Mar
Germany
Villa
Carranza
United States
Panama Canal
Washington
India
Teutons
Canal
New York
State Department
Secret Service
Guam
Philippines
Mexico
Central American
Peru
Wilson
Baltimore
Amos H. Panh
Supplee
Pauhl
Australian boxer Les Darcy denied in New York State bout
Albany March 9 Governor Whitman refused a personal plea by Les Darcy to reconsider his decision prohibiting the Darey Dillon boxing match in New York. The conference at the executive mansion yielded no change as the governor stated he had learned nothing to alter his stance and ordered the state athletic commission to prohibit the bout.
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Les Darcy
Whitman
New York State
State Athletic Commission
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