General Huerta rails at inefficiency over Mexican war efforts
In Mexico City Huerta told American chargé d’affaires O'Shaughnesy-Corpseto that generals are inefficient, singling out General Mercado. He claimed no court exists in the deaths of Madero and Suarez, and ordered Mercado shot. Reports from El Paso and Washington note uncertain fates of Orozco and Salazar amid border tensions and neutrality trials.
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Huerta
General Mercado
O'Shaughnessy
Madero
Suarez
Mercado
Ojinaga
Blanquet
Mercardo
Washington
Orozco
Patro Clengas
Mexico
War Department
Wiles
Salazar
Trust message on trust legislation to be read
Washington January 17 President Wilson will read his message on trust legislation to Congress next Tuesday. The House Judiciary Committee will begin hearings on proposed measures later in the week. Wilson spoke with Chairman Clayton and Representatives Carlin and Floyd at the White House. Clayton said he may publicly announce several wills pending before the committee soon. No hearing schedule has been released, but invitations to affected interests or individuals are expected.
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Washington
Wilson
House Judiciary
Clayton
Carlin
Floyd
House
White House
Portland Police to Work Eight Hours
Portland Labor Commissioner Moff orders Mayor Albee to place police and fire department members on an eight hour day basis. The move necessitates adopting a three platoon system for the Portland fire department and adding patrolmen. The note ends with a cynical remark about money.
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Salem
Ore
Moff
Albee
Portland
Police and Fire Department
Portland Fire Department
More Scientific Methods Urged on Sheepmen
At the National Woolgrowers Association convention in Salt Lake City a program blended hopeful forecasts with calls for wool industry reform. A committee was authorized to work with cattlemen in Denver for federal livestock legislation, and J E Corgriff urged adoption of cooperative marketing and modern sheep-raising techniques, noting an Australian expert would be brought to the United States for a year.
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Ealt Lake City
Jan
Woolgrowers’' Association
Denver
JE. Corgriff
Salt Lake
Australia
Train Robbery Near Atlanta Stirs Passengers
A masked bandit robs about a score of Western and Atlantic train No 1 passengers near Atlanta. About $1200 in money and jewelry stolen. Deputy Sheriff C Heard aboard wounded slightly after a duel plot and shots fired. A Bolton man was arrested later but denied involvement and no items recovered.
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Atlanta
Vinings
Gau
Motlon
C. (. Heard
Bolton
Pasenger
Rabber
Heard
Submarine A-7 Missing as Rescue Efforts Continue at Plymouth
Eleven crewmen feared dead as 12 hour submersion capable A-7 vanishes in Whitsand Bay Plymouth Sound. Navy salvage tugs divers and flotilla comb the area while crowds gather along docks. In Detroit, Grand Army of the Republic plans its fortyeighth encampment for the week of August 31.
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England
Admiralty Office
Plymouth Sound
Whitsand Bay
White
Bay
G. AR
Detroit
Grand Army of the Republic
G. A. Kk Executive Committee
Polaris Aground Near Point Reyes In Heavy Seas
The four masted schooner Polaris with 16 crew is aground on Duxbury reef near Point Reyes. The steamer Iroquois cannot launch due to high seas while Point Reyes lifesavers assist. Gale threatens wreckage. reports say all crew escaped to shore though unconfirmed.
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San Francisco
Duxbury Reef
Point Reyes
Beardsley siege intensifies at barricaded home in Summerdale
In Summerdale New York a cordon of deputy sheriffs heavy reinforced surrounded the Beardsley home and began to close in on the barricaded house. A National Guard callout may follow as the siege enters its fourth day with bitter cold and snow. The farmer shot County Poor Master Putnam after Putnam sought to take his nine children to the poor house.
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Summerdale
New York
Beardsley Home
National Guard
Putnam
Sheriff Anderson
Pease
Lampasas Grounding Off Key West Does Not Damage Ship
The Mallory steamship Lampasas bound from Tampa to New York via Key West ran aground off Key West for hours. Passengers were transhipped to another vessel, then returned to the Lampasas which was not seriously damaged and refloated. She resumed her southward voyage.
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New York
Lampasas
Tampa
Key West
Witow Dies Week After Husband
PHILADELPHIA Jan. 17 Mrs 8 Weir Mitchell widow of the author and physician who died only last week herself succumbed to pneumonia.
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Witow
Philadelphia
Weir Mitchell
Train robbery near Atlanta escapes with cash and gems
A train robbery near Atlanta, Georgia, ends with the thief fleeing the scene taking about 300 dollars in money and jewelry from passengers. Separately, various incidents and investigations fill regional news, including a ship breakup, a submarine sinking, a volcanic alert, a barred farmer siege, and a legal case in Freewater.
Funeral Held Up Until Probe Made Into Man's Death
New York January 17 The body of Richard D Lankford late president and secretary of the Southern Railway was to be shipped to Princess Anne Maryland for burial Coroner Ernest Wagner ordered the body returned to Lankfords home after finding papers in a strong box held by Public Administrator Smith that may shed light on Lankfords death whose nude body was found in his apartment bathroom with the gas jet on The cortege was halted two blocks from the house and later resumed toward the Pennsylvania station after delays Coroner Warner released the funeral and it proceeded to the station
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New York
Richard D. Lankford
The
Southern Railway
Pennsylvania
Manhattan
Princess Anne
Maryland
Ernest Wagner
Lankford
Demond
Smith
Warner
Pennsylvania Station
Strikers Bomb Train Attack in Lisbon Vacuum
Strikers in ambush behind a viaduct threw three dynamite bombs and fired on a train under guard by soldiers. High railroad officials inspected the track. three soldiers were wounded while several strikers were arrested attempting to flee.
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Lisbon
Prominent resident bound over on obscene mail charge
Hen sel a respected local figure connected with a 1913 case faces grand jury action after a federal court bound him over on a charge of sending lewd material through the mail to Mrs Annie Halverson. Deputy Marshal Fulled arrested him. he awaits further action in county jail or transport to Portland.
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United States
U.S
U. S
Newberry
Hensel
E. A. Johnson
Annie Halverson
Halverson
Portland
Caruso Recovers After Seven Curtain Calls
Enrico Caruso, the tenor, collapsed after singing Vesti La Giubba and seven curtain calls in New York. He showed improvement after the incident and was attended by medical staff.
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New York
Enrico Caruso
Mendil Bellis Abandons America Plan for Jaffa Farm
Jan 17 in Kief reports Mendil Bellis abandoning plans to move to America and beginning a journey with his family to Jaffa Palestine where Baron De Roths child has purchased a small farm for him.
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Kief
America
Mendil Bellis
Jaffa
Palestine
Baron de Rothschild
Indicted miners victims of stock scheme in Umatilla County
Federal grand jury in Spokane indicted Russell G Belden and A Eugene Wayland for selling allegedly worthless mining stock to Umatilla County farmers three years ago. Victims include John S Vinson Freewater William J Wood Waitsburg and John Neiderer Summerville Ore. The charges allege they misrepresented stock value and profits, using the International Development company to push sales.
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Umatilla County
Russell G Belden
Eugene Wayland
Spokane
Belden
Bank of Montreal
John S. Vinson
Freewater
William J. Wood
Waitsburg
John Neiderer
Summerville
Ore
Crown Coal & Coke Company
Crows Nest & Northern Railway Company
Michel Coal Mines, Limited
International Development Company
Chamberlain introduces Pendleton federal building bill
Senator Chamberlain introduces a bill to raise the Pendleton federal building cost limit by 80,000 dollars to include quarters for the federal court and other offices. The measure, favoring local needs, was referred to the public buildings and grounds committee after its January 12 introduction.
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Chamberlain
Pendleton Federal
Commercial Association
Senate
Sinnott
Attorney General
Gress
Committee On Public Buildings and
Sakurajima Eruptions Kill Nine On Island
Fresh volcanic activity on Sakurajima Island caused lava and ash emissions overnight. Official reports list 11 dead so far, nine from collapsing walls and two by drowning, with many unaccounted for. About twenty thousand residents live on the island, and earthquakes prior to the eruption warned inhabitants to flee to the mainland.
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Tokio
Japan
Sakura- Jime Island
Sakurajima Island
Fire Claims Four In Cabin Near Malta Montana
Spokane, Jan 17. J Curd his two children and his wife’s sister died in a cabin fire near Malta Montana last night. Curd and his wife escaped with serious burns but he returned to rescue the others and was burned along with them. Mrs Curd was fatally burned.
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Spokane
Wash
Curd
Malta
Montana
Pendleton Round-Up Dates Set for Sept 24 25 26 1914
The fifth annual Pendleton Round-Up is scheduled for September 24 25 and 26 1914. Directors and stockholders choose the last full week of September to give farmers time to finish harvests. Publicity Manager Prairie is notifying railroads and Northwest festival groups of the fixed dates.
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G. W. Hensel
Freewater
U. S
Chamberlain
Spokane
George Forrest
Pendleton
Oregon
Association
Prairie
Northwest
Election Dates for Registration and Nominating Petitions
A historical notice lists key election deadlines including January 6 opening of registration books by county clerks, April 10 last day for nominating petitions to secretary of state, April 15 final filing with county clerks, May 1 registration books closing until after the primary, May 1 primary nominating election for Democratic Progressive and Republican parties, July 1 last day for initiative petitions, and November 1 general election day.
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Secretary of State
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