World News Roundup From the War Era Headlines
European leaders and battles fill a global news page. M Marghilomen seeks war on Germany before King Ferdinand in Bucharest while Haig is named to command British forces in France and Flanders. Bulgarian and Greek moves stir Saloniki defense amid zeppelin losses and frontier clashes.
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M. Marghilomen
Ferdinand
Bucharest
Roumania
Germany
Saloniki
Paris
Rome
Engagement of Earl Kitchener to Minto’s Dowager Countess Foreseen
Personal announcement notes Earl Kitchener of Khartum set to wed the dowager countess of Minto, widow of Hari Minto who died in 1914, with London attention drawn to the pairing and its social prominence. Capt Edward O Meagher Condon, Fenian era activist and Civil War veteran, dies in New York at 74. Viscount Alverstone, 13 years lord chief justice of England, dies in London after resigning two years earlier due to ill health.
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Earl Kitchener of Khartum
Countess of Minto
London
Hari Minto
Edward O'Meagher Condon
New York
Ireland
Viscount Alverstone
England
Mining code panel urged to free U S industry
The Interior Department report recommends a three expert committee to draft a new mining code for Congress. Secretary Lane argues the move would liberate mining. The piece notes foreign nations will employ industrial war tactics to curb American industry postwar.
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Congress
Secretary of the Interior
Lane
Washington
Redfield
United States
Quiet wedding seals Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt
Washington reports a hush wedding at the Galt home with only immediate family present. President Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt were joined by relatives as Bertha Bolling attended the bride and the ceremony proceeded to a flowered altar. The couple left for a southern honeymoon after the event.
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Washington
Wilson
Edith Bolling Galt
Galt
Twentieth Street
William G. McAdoo
Bertha Bolling
Marine Band
Panama
W. A. Bolling
Louisville
Margaret Wilson
Helen ‘Woodrow Bones
White House
Miss Bones
Norman Galt
Gait Home
Union Station
National
Congress
Edith Bell
Hamburg line official Koenig and Lendecker held on canal plot
Paul Koenig former Hamburg American line head of its investigation bureau and Richard Lendecker antiques seller were arrested by Justice Department agents. They allegedly conspired to blow up the Welland canal and admitted border proximity but said they did not cross into Canada. Charges cite Section 13 of the U S penal code for planning a military expedition against a foreign power.
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Union News Service
New York
Paul Koenig
Secret Service
Richard Emil Lendecker
Department of Justice
Welland Canal
New York City
Frederick Metzler
Hamburg-American Line
Jersey City
Koenig
Broadway
Steamship Company
Bureau of Investigation
United States
Lendecker
Fifth Avenue
Canada
Italian War Losses Include Destroyer Intrepido
Rome reports the Italian transport Re Umberto and destroyer Intrepido sunk in the Adriatic. Intrepido was blown up by a floating mine as it rushed to rescue Re Umberto after the steamer struck a mine. Captain and crew stayed aboard until the last moment. Commander aided by Military Chaplain Father Pio Parolin, relative of Pope Pius X.
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Rome
Adriatic Sea
Pio Parolin
Pius X
Windstorm Claims Four Lives in Meridian Area
Four people are dead and many hurt as a windstorm tears through East Mississippi and adjacent parts of Alabama, demolishing numerous homes and causing widespread damage.
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Meridian
Miss
Mississippi
Alabama
Cincinnati Markets Pulse Wheat and Corn Prices
Market report lists grain prices for wheat corn rye with varied No numbers and grades. It also covers mill feed hay butter eggs poultry cattle hogs bulls calves and sheep pricing across shippers farmers and markets in Cincinnati.
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Douglas Haig
John French
France
Flanders
French
United Kingdom
Amsterdam Koelnische Zeitung
Greece
Schleswig
Copenhagen
Kalkan
Libau-Homin
Petrograd
Kenneth D. McKellar
Memphis
Malcolm R. Patterson
Tennessee
Charles Moore
Parnell
Moore
Belt Line Railway Company
Road
G. W. W. Hanger
United States Commissioner of Mediation and Conciliation
Jesse Seligman
Gloversville Leather Company
Charlottesville
Phyllis Brooks
Reginald Brooks
Brooks
H. A. Mudge
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Marshal Pass
John J. Halpin
Chicago
Mra
Lulu Comstock
San Diego
Cal
Anton Meyerhoffer, Jr
San Diego Bay
Majestic
Point Edward
Ont
Frank C. Dailey
Indianapolis
Dalley
George Horn
Irvine
Edward Barry
Josie Barry
Aaron Barbara
East Grand Avenue
American League
Gilmore
Cubs
Weeghman
Whales
Jess Willard
Fred Fulton
New Orleans
Oscar II
Henry Ford
Kirkwall
Vienna
Cologne
Exchange Telegraph Company
Amsterdam
Nish
Berlin
Republican National Committee
St. Louis
David F. Horaton
Secretary of Agriculture
Bride
Miss Wilson
Mrs. Galt
John Wayles
Martha Skelton
Wayles
Jefferson
Dolly Madison
James Madison
Martha Washington
John Tyler
Letitia Christian
Virginia
Long Island Sound
Church of the Ascension
Grover Cleveland
Frances Folsom
Cleve
Mrs. Wilson
U.S
Cincinnati
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