Allies Halt German Drive At Ypres Front
Paris and London reports say French retook Het Sas on the Ypres canal while British forces pushed near St Julien. Belgian authorities announce recapture of Lizerne. Hartmannsweiler Kopf summit retaken by French. Berlin admits Lizerne evacuation and holds new lines amid costly British assaults.
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Hartmannsweller Kopf
Berlin
London
Calais
Ypres
Het Sas
British War Office
St. Julien
Legation
Lizerne
Hartmannsweiler Kopf
Argonne
Combres
Ailly
Meuse Heights
Priestwald
le Pretre Forest
Banker Flees with 15000 From Dugger Bank
Edward J. King, cashier of the State Bank of Dugger Indiana, is missing with 15000 allegedly stolen. A 500 reward is posted. King, about forty and married, drove wrecklessly in Dugger then disappeared after seen leaving town in a red touring car. He may have traveled to Indianapolis with a young woman and onward to Canada.
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Sullivan
Ind
Edward J. King
State Bank of
Dugger
Heres
Wave
King
Terre Haute
Lee Bays
Indianapolis
Canada
Italy Calls Envoys to Meet in Rome
Italian ambassadors in Paris London Vienna and Berlin summoned to Rome to confer with Foreign Minister Sonnino. Signor Tittoni arrived from Paris after a brief stay in Rome, while Marchesi Carlotti to Petrograd will not return due to distance, a messenger sent instead.
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Rome
Italy
Paris
London
Vienna
Berlin
Sonnino
Signor Tittoni
France
Marchesi Carlotti
Petrograd
Dynamiter Legleitner Paroled From Leavenworth
Henry W. Legleitner, one of the 1912 Indianapolis dynamiters in the Ironworkers' conspiracy, was paroled by Attorney General Gregory after serving a three year term at Leavenworth. The warden was telegraphed to release him immediately. Carranza claims Morelia occupation in Michoacan. report says Carranza forces control the state.
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Henry W. Legleitner
Indianapolis
Washington
Gregory
Leavenworth
Carranza
Michoaca
el Paso
Tex
Darnell to Face Mann Act Trial May 11 in Milwaukee
In federal court it was announced that James Morrison Darnell a Kenosha pastor known as the passionate preacher will be tried on Mann Act violation charges on May 11 in Milwaukee.
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Rev
Darnell
Milwaukee
James Morrison Darnell
Kenosha
Detroit City Council Bribery Case Dismissed
Prosecuting Attorney Charles H. Jasnowski moved to dismiss the bribery indictments against 11 Detroit city council members. The action was announced in Detroit Michigan on April 29.
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Detroit, Mich
Charles H. Jasnowski
Detroit
Forest fires threaten vast Big Timber tract in Ridgeway
Thousands of acres of virgin timber, the largest tract in the state, burn fiercely along Bear Creek seven miles from Ridgeway Pa. Fire crews fight the wildfire as the blaze spreads through the remote forest area.
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Ridgeway
Bear Creek
Italy will remain neutral in the war says official
An Italian government official told the International News Service that Italy will stay neutral to gain a greater victory than joining either side. The claim follows a Rome conference involving Sonnino and von Buelow and signals a forthcoming parliamentary statement on May 12.
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Brixton Allaire
International News Service
Rome
Italy
Berlin
Vienna
Sonnino
Prince von Buelow
Foreign Office
Baron von Macchia
Signor Sonnino
Roosevelt Testimony Details 1910 Albany Libel Suit
Col Theodore Roosevelt testifies in the Barnes libel suit that his fight with William Barnes at the Saratoga convention in 1910 was urged by Governor Hughes. He says he sought Boss Platt's counsel to secure affirmative legislation and control in the Senate.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Wiliam Barnes
Saratoga
Charles E. Hughes
Roosevelt
Barnes
Platt
Albany
Death pact ends in attempted double murder confession
Lincoln Illinois nineteen year old Daniel Hurley a farm hand is charged with murdering his seventeen year old sweetheart Katherine Roller. Hurley confessed after a sleepless night in solitary confinement and a grilling by State's Attorney C E Smith claiming a death pact between lovers dictated both must die.
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Lincoln
Daniel Hurley
Katherine Roller
C. E. Smith
Logan County
All His Comrades Lost Hoggett Survivor of F-4 Crew
James M. Hoggett an electrician was the sole survivor of the submarine F-4 crew. He was on shore leave at Honolulu when the vessel began its fatal voyage, leaving the rest of the crew lost with the ship.
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James M. Hoggett
Honolulu
Notable Algerian Leader Delivers Sons to Front Lines
Gen. L arhs Melloul commander of the Legion of Honor and many decorations has shown devotion to France by sending several of his sons to the front. He recently visited them in the trenches and remains a prominent figure in Algiers.
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L’aghis Melloul
Legion of Honor
France
Algiers
John Bunny Dies at Fifty Two in Brooklyn Home
New York reports the death of actor John Bunny at his Brooklyn residence after a three week illness. Overwork is blamed for a nervous breakdown. Bunny, born in New York, began as a stage performer in 1883 and entered films about eight years ago as a top earning screen actor.
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New York
John Bunny
Brooklyn
Bunny
Paris
Belasco
Argentine Refuses Offers for Moreno Dreadnaught
The Argentine government rejected offers from Greece and Italy for the superdreadnaught Moreno built at Damien New Jersey and sent to South America.
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New York
Greece
Italy
Damien
N.J
South American Republic
U. S. Seeks End to Armenian Massacres in Turkey
The state department told the Turkish government it has learned of reported Armenian massacres and urged measures to prevent further outrages. The note came from Washington on April 29.
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U. S
Washington
State Department
Turkey
Blockade of German Cameroon Colony Announced
A blockade of the German Cameroons colony on the west coast of Africa was announced by the French governor on behalf of the allies in a Paris report by Ambassador Sharpe.
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Washington
Cameroons
Africa
Sharpe
Paris
Noted publicist Claxton Wilstach found dead in Rome hotel
Claxton Wilstach a prominent theatrical publicity man in the United States was found dead in his room at the Hotel Georgian in Rome on Monday of natural causes. He was forty years old and well known in show business circles.
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Rome
Claxton Wilstach
United States
Berlin Bread Policy Affects Cake Consumption
Berlin mayor warns that a limited white flour allowance for cake is not a free pass to cake overuse. Citizens who cling to cake as a bread substitute may face official action if the habit continues.
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Germany
Berlin
Oak leaf bath towels from New Jersey waste woods spark industry
Oak leaves from south Jersey waste woodland are cured and shipped to New York to be made into bath towels. Jewish farmers in Salem Cumberland and Atlantic counties gather the twigs two feet long, packing 5 000 to a bale. Prices range from 40 to 600 dollars per ton. The leaf trade supports farm purchases as war markets shift.
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Garden of Eden
South Jersey
New York City
Salem
Cumberland
Atlantic
Leon Gambetta Sunk in Strait of Otranto
Paris reports the French cruiser Leon Gambetta was sunk by Austrian submarine U-5 near the Otranto canal entrance. Of 714 crew, 578 were lost. 136 sailors were saved by Italian vessels in a dire condition. The ship went down in ten minutes after two torpedoes, with officers remaining at their posts.
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Paris
Strait of Otranto
Adriatic Sea
Ministry of Marine
Otranto Canal
Leon Gambetta
Gambetta
Jules Ferry
Dardanelles
Twin Cities Case Decided on Rail Rate Scales
The Interstate Commerce Commission rejected a ninety cent scale for east of the Mississippi north of the Ohio traffic to St. Paul and Minneapolis and ordered eighty three cents maintained. A proposed Minneapolis Duluth differential was denied with twenty one cents kept. East to Duluth shipments via St. Paul and Minneapolis will incur twenty one cents more. The Twin Cities Case is among the commission’s most important recent decisions affecting western railroads.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mississippi
Ohio
New York
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
Twin Cities
Turks Claim Big Victory At Gallipoli Landing Bid
Halil Bey in Berlin reports from Constantinople that 8000 French and British troops were driven to the sea and 12000 captured as Allies failed to land to attack the Dardanelles fortifications. British admiralty says Allied troops hold Gallipoli and push forward. War minister cites General Simon van Sanders claiming center and right wings defeated with hope for the left.
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Berlin
Halil Bey
Constantinople
Dardanelles
London
Gallipoli
Amsterdam
Gultan
Simon van Sanders
Army transport Buford sails to Cristobal with troops and horses
United States Army transport Buford sails from Galveston for Cristobal on April 30 carrying 413 officers and soldiers to reinforce the canal garrison and 283 horses under Captain Francis H. Lomax.
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Canal Zone
Galveston
Tex
United States Army
Buford
Cristobal
Canal
Francis H. Lomax Ifs
German Plane Drops Bombs on Nancy Center
A German aeroplane at high altitude dropped three bombs on Nancy’s central quarters. Three people were killed and six wounded, according to a Temps dispatch from Paris dated April 30.
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Paris
Nancy
The
Temps
Tenement Fire Destroys Five-Story Building in New York
A dramatic blaze at No. 236 Sixth Street leveled a five story tenement in New York on April 28. Fifteen families became homeless and about twenty people suffered minor injuries in the flames.
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New York
No. 236
Sixth Street
Campbell Will Case Resumes In St Louis Court
The trial to determine the validity of the will of traction magnate James Campbell was resumed in the circuit court in St Louis Missouri. The estate is valued at about 16 million dollars.
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Campbell
St. Louis
James Campbell
Terre Haute Mayor Removed by Impeachment Vote
Donn M. Roberts was ousted as mayor of Terre Haute after a 7 to 8 council vote on impeachment. James Gossom became acting mayor and R Voorhees Newton was named to replace Judge Thomas Smith, who is in Leavenworth. Governor Ralston voiced support for cleaner municipal governance.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Donn M. Roberts
Roberts
Leavenworth
Ohm
Menninger
James Gossom
Kan
Ralston
R. Voorhees Newton
City Court of
Thomas Smith
Ian
Indianapolis
Resigned alderman faces ten-year forgery sentence
Frederick, who quit as president of the board of aldermen after a spring election by 22 000 votes, pleaded guilty to first degree forgery and was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. He will be taken to Jefferson City at once.
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St. Louis
HH. Frederick
Board of Aldermen
Jefferson City
Tabriz
Vilayet of
Van
Lake van
Philadelphia
United States
Canada
Jamaica
The
Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip
Deal
England
London
Noordam
Hague
Rotterdam
German cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm interned at Newport News
Newport News authorities announced that Captain Thierfelder of the German cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm would intern. The decision followed a telephone report to Assistant Secretary Peters and confirmation by the Navy that the raider was interned at Newport News.
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Kronprinz Wilhelm
Newport News
Courts
Port Hamilton
Thierfelder
Crons
U.S. N
Washington
Hamilton
Secretary of the Treasury
Peters
Navy
Roosevelt
Divorce Leads to Shooting in Morrillton Ark
Sam Bell, a young cattle buyer, shot and killed four members of his wife's family and escaped after his wife divorced him and joined her father Richard Fryer. Four killed include Richard Fryer aged 54, his 17 year old son Amos Fryer, his daughter Mrs Hard Bear den, and her husband. The incident followed the divorce and separations.
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Morrillton
Ark
Sam Bell
Richard Fryer
Amos Fryer
Hard Bearden
Bell
Fryer
British Honor Heroes Award Victoria Crosses in War
The London Gazette announced on Wednesday afternoon that Victoria Crosses have been awarded to five noncommissioned officers and men in the British and Indian armies.
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London
London Gazette
Major General Von Seydewitz Killed in Action
Berlin report lists Major General von Seydewitz, commander of a reserve infantry regiment, among casualties. He was killed April 25 and held the Iron Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
von Seydewitz
Berlin
Editor Shot by Fugitive in Ebensburg Mountain Range
James L. Berkibile editor of a local newspaper in Ebensburg Pennsylvania was shot and seriously wounded during a posse raid aimed at capturing Wayne Ohsell at his mountain home. The incident occurred as authorities attempted the arrest and Berkibile was among the posse members.
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Ebensburg
James L. Berkibile
Wayne Ohsell
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