British airship raids five Tyne towns with minimal damage
An airship bombed Blyth Wallsend Seaton Burn and Cramlington near Newcastle in a twenty five minute raid. Bombs fell near Wallsend and a train line, a farmer recovered two unexploded shells, and one person was lightly injured by shrapnel. The raid disrupted the Tyne area but caused little structural damage.
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Zeppelie
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Gughand
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15 Killed in Car Crash in Detroit Night
Detroit reports 15 dead and 39 injured after a broadside collision between a streetcar filled with workers returning home and a freight train on West Jefferson Avenue near the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton line. Many workers were buried from the wreckage, with mangled remains scattered along the tracks.
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Weat Jefervon Avenue
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton
BusS Wins in Carpathians in Desperate Russian Action
In the Carpathians near Pravmynl Hungarians repelled a Russian assault. Austrians, within the East Deskid range, fought a 1½ hour battle to force a retreat from Mero Labores. The main event at Wis Mietrich was viewed as impregnable by Austrians but fell to Russian pressure.
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Global War Bouts and官 Misc News From April Reports
April dispatches describe Maj Gen Frederick Puneton on the Mexican border near San Antonio to Drewaville, submarine activity near Bruges and Zeebrugge, novelist and editor Edwin Bites’ death in St Louis, French battleship Ht Lovie shelling a Turkish camp near Gaz.Paleiti, Turkish awards to Sultan Kalper Ashburnham, Ashburnham Academy fire at Cushing, and Bulgarian pressure against Serbia with clashes at Zaacks and Malecht.
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Frederick Puneton
Metican
Toen
San Antonio
Drewnavtile
Gets 6 Years in Cell Chrenic Judge and Indiana Officials Sentenced
Indianapolis April 1 Major Donn M Roberts one of the 116 men convicted by a federal jury for participating in a cocapiracy to defraud the government in the Terre Haute election of November 5 1914 was sentenced by Judge Anderson to six years in Leavenworth and a 2000 fine. Other sentences: Sheriff Dennis Shea five years 1090. KM Redman circuit judge five years 1000. Harry Montgomery Terre Haute board of works president three years 540. George Ehrenhardt board of works member three years 500. Ed Drivcon assistant city engineer three years 500. Thomas Smith city judge three years 500. Hilton Redman two years 100. Liam Crockett two years 790. B B Talbott assistant city comptroller two years 100. Lewis Nibley two years 100. Dr John B Green two years 100. Maurice Walsh weights and measures one year 100. John M Massetink one year 100. Charles Houghton one year 100. Joseph O Mara street commissioner one year 100. Alexander Aczel one year 100. Arthur Gills one year 100. Joseph Strauns liquor salesman six months 100. George Sev ern gambler one year 100. Saloonkeepers Woodall O Donnell Evans Clark Jordan Rouse Stark Kiser Stingley. Fred Morrison Terre Haute engineering dept employe seven months in Marion county jail and fined 1500. Court adjourned as judgment completed against 116 conspirators. defense for nineteen appealed to circuit court.
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John Clark
Sylvester Jordan
George Rouse
Clarente Stark
Frank Kiser
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Flyers From the Wire Reported War Actions and Trade
News briefs from multiple cities report French aviators bombing Hamburg with bar racks set on fire injuring Germans. An explosion at Volkoviak killed fifteen and destroyed the factory. U S exports for the week ending April 10 reached 50 253 813 while imports were 22 054 566. Norway ships sighted ten warships in the North Sea near Christiania, suspected German foes.
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Volkoviak
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Christiania
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Bitter Killed by Auto in New York City
Karl Bitter, noted Vienna born sculptor and chief of sculpture at the Panama-Pacific exposition, died in a New York hospital after an auto accident on Broadway that also injured his wife Mrs Bitter. He was 47, arriving in 1881 from Vienna. his home was in Vienna.
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Theodore Francis Bitter
Bitter
Broadway
Vienna
Invasion Halt Reported as Austro German Front Holds
Austrian war office says Russian offensive toward Preemysl on the Carpathian front is checked by counterattacks. German reinforcements reach Cracow region. fighting persists along the eastern Carpathians with village Kisiourka and hill 902 meters held amid ongoing shelling and Russian pressure from East Prussia toward Ossowicz trenches.
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Raider in U. S. Port Newport News April 12
The Kronprinz Wilhelm, last of Germanys cruisers, seeking sanctuary in Newport News after 255 days at sea, reports sinking 12 merchant ships including British and French vessels. Commander Thierfeldt describes frequent close escapes from British patrols, a crew stricken by beriberi, and plans to repair the ship locally after a quarantine inspection.
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New York Harbor
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Norman R. Hamilton
Hal McCafferty
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Old Point
Belgian relief ship Harpalyce sinks in North Sea
The British steamer Harpalyce, relief ship for Belgium, was torpedoed or mined in the North Sea. Twenty two crew members were rescued by the Dutch steamer Elizabeth, five by Constance Cath erina, leaving 26 feared drowned. The vessel had 53 crew aboard, and the cargo had most likely been unloaded before the return voyage. Eight Grimsby steam trawlers were sunk.
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Riggs Bank Sues McAdoo Over Alleged Pressure
Riggs National Bank files suit in the District of Columbia supreme court asking for temporary and permanent relief against Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller Williams. The bill claims over a year of persecution ending March 20 when a refusal to pay $5 on government bonds affected bank circulation. The bank alleges the penalty stems from missed special reports demanded by the comptroller.
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Bart
Great Liner Goes On Rocks Near Inland Sea
Tokyo reports the American liner Minnesota ran ashore in the Inland Sea while en route from Manila to Seattle. The ship carried 200 passengers and 278 crew. Captain Garlick commanded the Minnesota. Governor General of the Philippines Francis B. Harrison and his wife and two children were aboard. The Canfo of the Blue Funnel Line rescued the passengers.
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Nelson Edits Kansas City Star Dies at 74
W R Nelson editor and owner of the Kansas City Star died at his home in Kansas City on Tuesday aged seventy four after months of ill health. Born March 11, 1847 in Fort Wayne Indiana he started as a contractor then owned Fort Wayne Sentinel before moving to Kansas City to launch the Evening Star in 1880.
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Evening Star
Sick of the Thaw case diagnosis forces retirement
The April New York dispatch reports Deputy Attorney General Franklin Kennedy diagnosed with sick of the thaw a nervous condition has prompted his temporary retirement. Attorney General Woodbury confirms Kennedy wrote hard on the Thaw case and will rest away. Meanwhile Calumet reports a mine wall collapse with two dead and four others believed dying at Hecla branch. Grimsby notes long overdue British trawlers feared sunk by mines or subs.
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Franklin Kennedy
Woodbury
Kennedy
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Calumet and
Gov Will Act If Necessary
The report notes the governor will take action if required as sickness and old age insurance is under consideration and charges will be filed.
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Anti-Trust Law Bill and New Taxation Measure Rise in Ohio House
Ohio legislators pursue an anti trust reform by Rep Behm proposing a six member panel to set prices or rents and a new administration taxation plan led by Sen Garver to replace the Bartlett Whittemore scheme. The House and Senate finance committees back bigger state institution funding while a debt clearing mechanism and debt relief proposal head debate. Delegates to national charity conference named as Willis plans parcel post terminal protest continues. Ohio institutions seek larger appropriations and earnings rise hints at higher personal property listings.
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State Exam Applicants Face High School Requirement
Applicants for state dental examinations must have a high school education under the Lloyd bill passed by the house and awaiting the governor’s signature. The measure also bans extravagant claim advertising and requires listing the dentists in charge when firm names are used.
Practicing Courtesy and Courtesy In Wealth Debate
A Carlyle quote questions whether courtesy should favor the rich or be due to all. Old Jesuit college precepts celebrate civility, stressing rights of others and self-control amid prosperity. The piece contrasts civility with a modern oil stock promoter's evasive replies as a controversial venture stalls near the state line.
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Dutch Steamer Katwijk Torpedoed Off Noordhinder
A German submarine torpedoed the Dutch government steamer Katwijk at anchor off Noordhinder lightship, nearly 2,048 tons, bound for Rotterdam from Baltimore with cotton. Eleven of her 22 crew died, 11 rescued by the lightship, as a second torpedo ended rescue attempts. The sinking sparked deep Dutch resentment and prompted calls for reparations.
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Chicago carpenters strike signals building industry clash
In Chicago on April 16 sixteen thousand union carpenters walked out demanding a raise from 65 to 70 cents an hour. The strike portends a broad fight with contractors and could pull in 100000 building trades workers as other trades strike. Independent contractors may retain some carpenters but could face wider action. A prolonged stoppage threatens paralysis of Chicago's large building sector.
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Michigan mine pay raised in Calumet and Hecla
Wage increases affect 12000 workers at Calumet and Hecla and subsidiaries restoring prewar rates after 10 percent rise. Insets: annexation defeat in Indianapolis. aeronaut Atherholt dies of jaundice. Dr Gin Fuey May arrested for opium sale. Captain Woodson S Marshall dies. John Bunny near death in New York.
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Death’s Door
Panama Canal Losses Outpace Revenues Since Opening
Panama reports that since the canal opened expenditures exceed revenues by about ten percent due to maintenance and operation costs. In Lima, Durance S. Riddle, a machinist, confessed to killing 16 year old Buele Soleman, whose body was found there.
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Lima
Issues are faced on tariff and direct taxes in 1916 race
The article argues that the tariff and direct taxes must be confronted in the 1916 presidential election. It claims the Republican record under Wilson’s tariff worsened unemployment and poverty, criticizes soup kitchens and bread lines as outcomes of Democratic policy, praises potential Republican leaders like Root, and notes strident opinions on Mexico and domestic finance. It also discusses party finance, government extravagance, and calls for accountability ahead of the next vote.
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