Border Skirmishes Reported Around Doyle Wells
Six bandits believed Mexican attacked and pursued by U S cavalry near Doyle Wells fourteen miles south of Hachita New Mexico. One cavalry horse killed but no injuries. seven U S soldiers captured by Mexican bandits, cowboys scour the area hunting the bandits. later bullets hit the Santa Fe bridge immigration station in El Paso during tensions over a health service embargo.
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Texas
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Tlachila
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Douglas
Arizm
Seventh
United States Cavalry
Doyle Wells
New Mexico
Doolittle
Rio Grande
United States
Santa Fe
Gavira
Juarez
United States Health Service
Richards Law Now Appealed in Richards Primary Case
The final payers filed Monday to appeal the Richards primary ruling to the U S Supreme Court. The move aims to settle whether the legislature can repeal a people initiated act. A minority committee met in Pierre to choose a state ticket under old law. They argue their ticket is the only legally valid option for the June primary if federal action occurs.
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United States
War munitions control urged in Senate by Cummins
Senator A B Cummins of Iowa urged a resolution to create a special committee to study acquiring and building plants to supply the army and navy with arms ammunition ships and equipment and to bar private manufacture for war He argued private profit should not drive war and demanded a rebaptism in Americanism defending institutions and national honor.
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Washingston
D. C
Senate
A. B. Cummins
Iowa
Army
Cumming
Republic
Legal rights on ballot hinge on old law ruling
The speaker argues that the organization has as much legal right as any group to appear on the ballot. If not allowed under the old law, they have placed themselves to proceed as the sole ticket or as one of multiple tickets, per U S court holdings.
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United States Court
Night Riders Put On Trial in New Madrid Case
In New Madrid Missouri witnesses describe a southeastern Missouri night rider plot to burn towns and kill leading merchants and landowners. Defendants charged with assault with intent to kill and conspiracy defend against a Ku Klux Klan like band terrorizing the region after the Civil War. Witnesses Hobart Shipman Walter Willoby and George Perry recount the group’s Jerusalem password and deadly penalties.
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New Madrid
Missouri
Secert
Night Rides
Ku Klux Klan
South
Jerusalem
Night Riders
Hobart Shipman
Walter Willoby
George Perry
300 Serbian Refugees Quarantined Off New York Dock
The Greek liner Constantinos arrived from Athens with 300 Serbian soldiers and families. Upon reaching quarantine, twenty were removed to the quarantine hospital as doctors investigate the illness. nature of the disease not released pending diagnosis.
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New York City
Constantinos
Athens
Mexican Data Not Ready For Action In Senate Today
Fall's resolution on Mexican data remains stalled as Senate debate delays action. No agreement reached on timing or substance, leaving pending issues unresolved.
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Senate
Interventions Rise as Mexico Data Is Sought
Washington reports a stalled push for data on conditions in Mexico as Senator Fall’s resolution spurs more calls for information. President Wilson faces a choice on presenting details, while Senate leaders weigh military planning and potential armed intervention.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Stone
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fgl
Henry P. Pletcher
Mexico
Senate
Washington, D D. C
Santa Ysabel
Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Fall
Madero
Carranza
Wilson Repudiates Attacks on Mexico Policy
President Wilson defends the watchful waiting approach to Mexico amid bipartisan criticism in Congress. He expresses pride in his course, welcomes opposition views, and vows to explain his decisions when permissible to the public. Political tension centers on potential armed intervention proposals.
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State Department
Mexico
Wilson
Washington, D. C
Congress
Senator Kenyon Pushes Heavy Tax on American Expats
Washington senator introduces a bill to tax expatriates at about 30 percent on income from American properties. The measure targets wealthier expatriates and seeks to fund U S government finances and dowry income for American girls abroad. Kenyon claims a majority in the Senate supports enacting the law.
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Senator Kenyon
Washington, D. C
Senate
Town
Kenyon
United States
United State
Congress
Los Angeles Storm Toll Tops One Million in Floods
Three people were killed as heavy rainfall since Saturday caused extensive property damage totaling about 1 million dollars. The city faced severe flood disruption leaving parts nearly cut off from the outside world.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Severe Pacific Storm Floods Southern California
Torrential downpours and gales flood Taft oil fields and southern California towns. Homes, crops, and livestock are swept away as creeks turn to rivers. Banks of rivers flood Highland and Pomona causing extensive property damage and rescuing stranded residents.
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Taft
California
Ast Highland
Pomona
Lone Beach
Redfield Man Saw Death Come In Early Will Prologue
The article notes HM C Packard a Redfield businessman who died last week and had long been ill. His 1911 will prologue reflects on life, health, and preparation for death, urging acceptance of mortality and reflection as he nears the final journey.
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HM. C. Packard
London
England
Politikem
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Gustave
New York
Sweden
Great Britain
Hjalmar Branting
Swedish Chamber
Slavs and Turks Claim Victories in Caucasus and Galicia
Vienna reports claim of success by both sides in the Caucasus while East Galicia news is contested. Montenegrin peace efforts falter as Austria’s surrender terms are rejected by Montenegro. The Montenegrin King, royal family and diplomatic corps may travel to Italy.
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Austria
Montenegro
Italy
Caucasus Campaign Reports Clash as Russian Advance Stalls
London reports say Constantinople claims Ottoman forces reinforced check Russian progress on the Caucasus front. Petrograd counters that Russians hold strong positions with light losses, while Turkish forces suffer. Related notes cover Galicia battles ending January 15 with heavy Russian casualties and Austrian assertions of Russian reinforcements.
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England
Caucasus
Constantinople
Nicholas
Petrograd
Persia
Mesopotamia
Orient
Galicia
Bessarabian
Austro-hungarian War Office
Teutons
Balkans
Romania
Kiev
Lutsk
Volhynia
Riga
Vidsy
Bishop Describes Soissons Suffering Worse Than Babylon
In Paris Monsignor Pechenard bishop of Soissons compares his diocese’s misery to biblical captivity. He cites 150000 people displaced by war, including 70000 soldiers 68000 refugees and 12000 prisoners, with 45 priests taken as prisoners and aid urgently needed.
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Soissons
Babylon
Paris
France
Monsignor Pechenard
Devastation in Aisne Valley Amid Invasion
The text describes the Aisne valley in the department as devastated with churches, houses, factories, and buildings destroyed. Industry commerce and agriculture are paralyzed and the population dispersed, yet courage and confidence persist as people work to free the territory from the invader.
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Aisne
Department
Italy accuses Montenegro of bad faith in peace moves
A Rome based correspondent in Idea Nazionale charges Montenegro before the war with secretly ceding Mount Lovcen to Austria and claims Montenegro officials planned to yield Cetinje to Austria without resistance. He says Italy supplied Montenegrin and Serbian armies, but provisions spoiled on quay in Albania.
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Rome
Austria
Mount Lovcen
Idea Nazionale
Kue
Podgoritza
Guikanovitch
State Council
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