Germany Britain and mail dispute drive foreign policy
Washington officials focus on Germany’s reply while preparing a firm note to Great Britain over interference with non contraband American cargoes and the Sweden minister’s claim that English mail is tampered with. Officials see potential for settlement though German language remains unknown. The state department closes the Meyer Gerhard incident and seeks assurances from Britain on non contraband shipments and lawful sea conduct.
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Theodore Tiller
International News Service
Washington
Great Britain
Sonora
Berlin
Meyer-Gerhard
State Department
Meyer-ierhard
Lansing
United States
Germany
Edward Grey
England
Ftermany
Parsons Reelected to Indian State Normal Faculty Post
International News Service reports William Wood Parsons, a longtime member of the Indians State Normal school faculty, re elected after forty years of service and thirty years in a president role. The notice notes his ongoing influence in the institution's leadership and teaching legacy.
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International News Service
Terre Haute Ind
William Wood Parsons
Indians
Htate Normal School
Black Hand Bomb Injures Several in Bayonne Drug Store
A bomb exploded at a Bayonne New Jersey drug store early today injuring Waiter Charles Sommers and Edward Weil seriously and Charles Gambette, another waiter, while destroying the storefront belonging to Alphonse De Marcurie. Two thousand dollars in damage was reported. The blast shattered windows for a block and marks a second Black Hand attack on De Marcurie within a month. De Marcurie said Black Handers had demanded 2,500 but provided no further details.
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de Marcurie
Arlington Hotel Fire In Petoskey Destroys Property
All occupants were believed saved from the Arlington hotel after a morning fire that razed the Grand Rapids owned property. Estimated loss amounts to 250000, with contents destroyed. Fire officials report extensive damage to the hotel structure.
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International News Service
Petoskey
Mich
Arlington
F. Taylor Peck
Grand Rapids
Gas Attacks by Germans Reported on Eastern Front
Petrograd reports extensive use of asphyxiating gas by Germany along a four mile front near Goumine. Russian forces retreat to the Drodeck lake line and defend Lemberg while Austro German assaults under Mackensen push from Tarnograd. Artillery clashes occur on the Bzura and Banka rivers as fighting shifts across the San and Pruth-Dniester corridors.
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Francis L. Murray
International News Service
Petrograd
Groumine
Russian War Office
Goumine
War Office
San River
Galicia
Poland
Tarnograd
von Mackensen
Drodeck Lake
Lemberg
Shavn
Marvievo
Windau River
Libiu
Bzura
Banka
Zozlovbis Coupt
Voliachidlovskaia
Coumine
San
Tanew
Crodeck
Pruth
Dniester
Bessarabia
Rasia
Wife of Becker to Appeal to Whitman
Mrs. Charles Becker said she would appeal personally to Governor Whitman after the state court of appeals denied a reargument. She insisted her husband is innocent and vowed to fight on to prevent his execution at Sing Sing. Martin T. Manton, Becker’s chief counsel, visited Sing Sing to confer with him.
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Becker
Whitman
Hinternational News Service
New York
Charles Becker
State Court of Appeals
Shover
Therman Rosenthal
Charles
Charlie
Sing Sing
Martin T. Manton
Floods follow furious storms in River Valley
International News Service reports heavy floods sweeping Missouri and Kansas after 48 hours of violent storms. Seventeen people killed and extensive crop and property damage across the Missouri river and Kansas river valleys. Weather stations issued warnings to Blue, Republican and Solomon valleys as Clay Center dikes strained. Train service improved but trains into Kansas City still delayed up to three hours.
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International News Service
Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Missouri River
Kansas River
Blue
Republican
Solomon River
Clay Center
Last Stand At Lemberg As Russian Defenses Fail
International News Service reports Vienna June 19 that Russian troops defending Lemberg Galicia are in desperate fight along the Grodeck lake line near Wereszyea Szkto and Luabczowka rivers. German Austrian howitzers rush to bombard forts. Tarnograd on the Tanew river reportedly captured by Austro German forces as Russians retreat from the San.
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Uinternational
Vienna
Lemberg
Galicia
Grodeck Lake
von Mackenson
Wereszyea
Szkto
Luabczowka
Tarnograd
Poland
Tanew River
von Mackensen
Wreck Observation Post Near Avi Burny in June Wreck
Turkish forces wrecked an Anglo French allied observation post near Avi Burny. Right wing units report capture of a Sedd el Bahr feeble gunfire continues. Military observers confirm the post damage and ongoing combats in the vicinity.
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International News Service
Constantinople
Avi Burny
Railway Tracks Out In Nebraska Floods
Eighteen miles of Burlington railroad tracks between Axtell and Holdrege were washed out by floods overnight. Service on both the Burlington and Union Pacific lines in western Nebraska was disrupted.
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Omaha
Neb
Burlington Railroad
Axtell
Holdredge
Meb
Burlington
Union Pacific
Nebraska
French Prisoners Captured as Axis Advances Reported
French soldiers were captured and two hundred more prisoners taken. Russians are said to have been driven back south of the Ker river in Galicia. In the eastern theatre German attacks continue and the village of Wolkowiazy has been taken by storm.
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Ker
Galileia
Wolkowiazy
Deadlock in great battles across west Flanders and Alsace
Paris dispatch reports a continued deadlock in west Flanders northern France and Alsace with French war office noting no change from last night. Latest French communique cites progress in the Fecht valley and a fierce artillery duel near Arras. In Wisconsin Judge Elbert Osborne Hand, 84, a prominent jurist, died of paralysis in Kenosha.
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International News Service
Paris
West Flanders
France
Alsace
French War Office
Comjonas
Fecht
International Pews Service
Kenosha, Wis
Elbert Osborne Hand
Wisconsin
Frank Frank Awaiting Fate Next Week In Atlanta
In Atlanta on June 19 Leo M. Frank will not know his fate until at least Monday afternoon, possibly Tuesday morning. Governor Slaton said no reprieve, the court's judgment should guide the prisoner toward death. Frank remains hopeful, writing letters as hearings continue and his health remains steady in his cell.
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Slaton
L. M. Frank
Frank
Mia
No Settlement Now of Carpenters Strike
Chicago June 19 Hopes for a peaceful early settlement of the 16 000 carpenters strike that has left more than 150 000 building trades workers idle in Chicago faded after Mayor Thompson forced a railway strike and seemed near a settlement before the push to end the build trades dispute stalled.
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International News Service
Chicago
Til
Thompson
Reverses for French Forces Near Arras Reported
Unclear or damaged text notes another reversal for French forces north of Arras with official dispatches from Berlin dated in June. The fragment mentions international news shuvicr and a June timing, but details are unreadable.
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International ‘News Shuvicr
Berlin
Fywich
Arras
aoe _ ee Uiaay
Th ii
Italian Attack Reports On Isonzo Front And Alpine Fortresses
Italian war office dispatches describe raids on Gorizia railway targets and military camps in Austria. Fighting on the Isonzo near Plava grows into a major engagement as Malborghetto fortresses see continued bombardment. attacks on Tyrol Trent and Cadore fronts yield mixed results while Italian naval aviation hits Duino, Divaco and Monte Sano positions, with dirigibles bombing trenches and railway stations.
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Brixton D’' Allaire
International News Service
Rome
Gorizia
Natal
Italian War Office
Plava
Isonzo
Malborghetto
Tyrol, Trent and
Cadore
Tyrol
Trent
Carnia
Monte Nero
Duino
Navy
Divaco
Divarca
Trieste
Biums
Monte Sano
Gradisca
Volojadraga
Gorixzia
Dorburg
Emmanuel Visits Front Lines With Italian Troops
King Victor Emmanuel traveled to the Austrian battle front and visited the firing line near Gorizia on Friday. He shared a noontime luncheon in the trenches with Italian troops, signaling morale support from the monarch.
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International News Service
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Austria
Gorizia
Naval activity renewed bombardments in Adriatic
International News Service reports renewed naval activity in the Adriatic with bombardments on both Austrian and Italian coasts. An Italian dirigible attacked the Aries ammunition factory at unknown location near Maria Greco.
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International
Rome
Adriatic
Admiralty
Fee Se Aries
Ican
Maria Gree
Austro Italian naval actions reported with Allied response
Reports describe bombardments of Tromento and Tamaria and Salvores lightship. An Austrian cruiser bombarded Monopoli and a dirigible attacked a Trieste ammunition factory. The steamer Maria Grazia was sunk in the Adriatic but all crew were saved. Three nephews of Pope Benedict, sons of his sister, are fighting with Italian forces.
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Tramento
Tamaria
Salvores
Monopoli
Trieste
Adriatic
Benedict
German U boat U-29 sunk by British ship ram
Berlin reports the loss of U-29 after being rammed by a British tank steamer flying the Swedish flag. London notes the 2000 ton steamship Duicie was sunk off Suffolk with one life lost, and the Ailsa timber freighter from Leith was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea with the crew saved.
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International
Berlin
London
Duicie
Suffolk
Ailsa
Norway
Leith
North Sea
Tha Ailsa
England
Authorities Seek Clue To Pensacola Murder
In Pensacola Florida June 19 county authorities search for a motive and murderer or murderers of Peter Wyman and his wife found shot to death in their country home thirty miles from Pensacola. They were Illinois natives and parents of Lieutenant Wyman US Army now in the Philippine Islands. The couple had been dead at least two days. Robbery is suspected as motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Pensacola
Fla
Peter Wyman
Wyman
United States Army
Philippine Islands
Illinois
Fort Barnacas
Ohio farmer commits atrocious murders in Hardin County
Upper Sandusky Ohio June 19 Harry O Dysinger a farmer hid in his home and fatally shot his wife in the head with a 22 caliber rifle then killed his daughter Esther 17 and wounded son Herbert 16 who escaped with a rifle and hatchet. Herbert later disarmed his father and Kenneth 11 was saved by a neighbor. Dysinger then shot himself. He left a note asking for burial by the Odd Fellows without explanation.
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Dysinger
Hardin County
Odd Fellows
Kenneth
Herbert
Esther
Carranza cabinet resignations mount in Mexico
Foreign Minister Uretia and Finance Minister Cabrera resign in Vera Cruz as Consul Canada reports Carranza may sever ties with his advisers. Four of the president's top aides have quit within two days while Carranza relocates his office to the old fortress at San Juan de Ulloa near Vera Cruz harbor.
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International News Service
Washington
Carranza
Uretia
Cabrera
Canada
Vera Cruz
State Department
Zus baran-Capmany
Justice
Verdugo
San Juan de Ulloa
Vera Cruz Harbor
Zubaran
Ranza
Ganerid Burney
San Liecom
San Liecom and Ther Oomaet
Teanhl
Oklahoma
Chareas
Refugees report anarchy in Guanajuato as Villa disclaims reply
International News Service reports refugees arriving in El Paso Texas describe Guanajuato as overrun with bandits destroying property. A telegram from General Francisco Villa repudiates responsibility for a hostile message sent to President Wilson by Senor Charrases, stating Charrases acted on his own.
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International News Service
EL Paso
Texas
Mexico
Guanajuato
Francisco Villa
Wilson
Senor Chazares
Chazares
Conventionist
Mexico City
Daring Robberies Around Town and Abroad
June 19 report from Berwichi Chicago details a bold automobile theft linked to Carlo Ames. The car was stolen from in front of a location described vaguely, followed by a hold-up and scattered phenomena. Names and precise details are incomplete due to damaged text.
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International News
Berwichi
Chicago
Carlo Ames
Ig Tr
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