London Bridekiller to Face Private Execution Friday
Geo Joseph Smith known as the modern Bluebeard will be executed in Maidstone prison Friday morning in private. He was convicted of murdering three of his six wives after marriages for money, with bodies found in baths and suspicions aroused after exhumations.
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London
Geo. Joseph Smith
Smith
Bath
Scotland Yard
John Lloyd
Margaret Lofty
Lloyd
Joseph
George Smith
Portsmouth
Alice
Burnham
Beatrice Mundy
Saskatchewan
Beatty Promoted to Vice Admiral in Gazette
The Official Gazette announces that Sir David Beatty has been promoted to vice admiral. Beatty, who commanded British fleets in the war, sank four German warships off Helgoland in August 1914 and defeated a German squadron in the North Sea in January of the following year.
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London
David Beatty
Helgoland
North Sea
Turkish cruiser Goeben torpedoed near Bosphorus
A Daily Telegraph dispatch from Athens reports the Turkish cruiser Goeben now Sultan Selim after German purchase was torpedoed by an Allied submarine near the Bosphorus. The crew reportedly ran the ship aground in a narrow creek.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Athens
Goeben
Sultan Selim
Germany
Turkey
Bosphorus
Inspector Suspended At Joliet Penitentiary
CHICAGO August 11 Captain John Lyon general inspector of clothing at Joliet penitentiary suspended yesterday by Acting Warden Lawrence Ryan. Charges filed with the state civil service commission accuse Capt Lyon of insubordination.
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Chicago
John Lyon
Joliet Penitentiary
Lawrence Ryan
Ryan
State Civil Service Commission
Lyon
Preacher Acquitted After 45 Years in Murder Case
Rev. W. H. McCart, who killed neighbor Dock Smith in 1870 near Starrsville Newton County Georgia, was acquitted on self defense after returning to Georgia. He had wandered the world as laborer secret service man and missionary before recent arrest by Deputy Bud Neely following discovery of the old warrant.
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W. H. McCart
Rev
Covington
Dock ‘Smith
Starrsville
Newton County
Smith
McCart
Globe
America
South Seas
Orient
Hawaiian Islands
Georgia
Bud Neely
Gallipoli area held by Allies nearly trebled says Sir Ian Hamilton
General Sir Ian Hamilton reports from Gallipoli that Allied area in the Anzac sector has nearly tripled. He says fighting continued with slight changes in positions and that the French battleship St Louis silenced five of six Turkish Asiatic batteries. Heavy losses inflicted on the enemy were noted to the north.
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London
Sir Ian Hamilton
Dardanelles
Gallipoli Peninsula
St. Louis
Tan Hamilton
Gallipoli
Villa currency payroll petition unsettles Juarez workers
In El Paso on August 11 representatives of foreign mining interests in Villa territory were handed a petition from Villa ordering payment of employees in Villa currency, revoking a decree that required silver payments. The move followed a meeting yesterday between Villa and General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the U.S. Army, outlining the action.
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EL Paso
Tex
Villa
Juarez
Hugh L. Scott
United States Army
Garner calls for martial law as bands cross border
Kingsville Texas August 11 congressman John N Garner after talks with citizens said he believed armed bands of Mexicans are crossing into Texas from Mexico He stated he would inform President Wilson and urge that more troops be sent into the disturbed districts and that the entire region be placed under martial law
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Kingsville
Tex
John N. Garner
Texas
Mexico
Garner
Wilson
Pardoned by President Wilson Relieves Danville Man
President Wilson pardoned John Sprouse who had been sentenced over a year ago in Danville Illinois to fifteen months in prison and a $5,000 fine for liquor revenue violations His wife, living with their five children in a Danville tent, is critically ill stories indicate the pardon came as Sprouse’s sentence loomed toward completion.
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Washington
Wilson
John Sprouse
Danville
Til
Sprouse
Evacuation of Dvinsk as front line moves southwest
A Reuters dispatch from Petrograd reports civilians fleeing Dvinsk, the key rail junction south west of Riga on the Petrograd War saw line. Government institutions are preparing to depart as the evacuat ion proceeds.
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Dvinsk
London
Reuters
Petrograd
Ravroad
Riga
Petrograd-Warsaw
Extensive Raid by Berlin Airships Bombards Thames and Humber
An official admiralty communication states German airships raided the east coast of England on Monday night and Tuesday morning. They bombarded warships on the Thames, the London docks, and torpedo boats near Warwick, with buildings also struck along the Humber.
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Berlin
Sayviles
Germany
England
Thames
London
Warwick
The
Humber
Admiralty
Refugees and Casualties Reported in East Prussia Invasion
Cologne dispatch cites East Prussia losses amid Russian invasion. Refugees total 190000 in Koenigsberg district and 360000 in Allenstein district. Estimates place total evacuees at 350000 to 400000. Civilians killed 1620 and wounded 433. those carried away number 5419 men 2587 women 2719 children. Many captives are older and vulnerable.
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Cologne
East Prussia
Koenigsberg
Allenstein
East
Prussia
Russia
Reservists Return To Paris Transformed By Front Service
Paris Aug 11 Reservists come home from a year at the front to a city that seems altered from within. They note new color in their own faces and muscles while Paris has changed in small revolutions that hit all at once. The crowd swarms to Gare du Nord and civilians become a curious study as supply lines shrink and transport folds reshape daily life.
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Paris
Gare ‘du Nord
Miss Lucille Woodson Returns from Quincy Visit
Miss Lucille Woodson of Quincy returned home yesterday after a brief visit in Hanibal.
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Lucille Woodson
Quincy
Fries
Hannibal
No Substitute Yet Devised to Replace Cotton for Explosives
London reports a meeting urged government action to declare American cotton contraband. Lord Beresford proposed purchasing the entire U.S. cotton crop and reselling at a loss if needed to cut German access. Sir William Ramsey argued cotton is essential for munitions and substitutes lack ballistic power.
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London
Lord Beresford
Germany
Atlantic
William Ramsey
Swithh
United States
Charles McCarn
Mexican Arrested in Norias Ranch Attack Probe
Corpus Christi reports Santos Rodriguez a Mexican charged as a leader in the Norias ranch attack. He was arrested at Kingsville late today, complicating the rapidly developing investigation.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Santos Rodriguez
Norias Ranch
Kingsville
American Novelist Henry James Becomes British Subject
After forty years in England, Henry James, famed American novelist and brother of the late William James, has naturalized as a British subject. He issued papers to prove allegiance to the Allies, noting he had not previously required a royal subject status.
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England
Henry” James
William James
Harvard
Huh
Mr. James
Thrilling episode in German trenches near Berlin
Aug 11 Berlin reports a Ninth company of a Rhenish infantry regiment facing a heavy enemy assault. Shrapnel rained as seven men were buried by an explosion and rescuers dug them out despite intense fire. Schnitzer from Rheydt fell to shrapnel while a buried comrade was finally saved.
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Berlin
Schnitzer
Rheydt
Schnitzler
Morocco Prospers Amid War in Casablanca Growth
As Casablanca rapidly expands under French rule, the wartime boom brings sewers water gas electric light and new quays and piers. The city, described as a mushroom town, grows skyscrapers avenues hotels stores and villas as German prisoners assist pavement finishing and local residents gaze in wonder.
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Asablanca
Morocco
Casablanca
Tign
Regithar
Dr King’s New Life Pills Offer Easy Pleasant Laxative
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as an easy pleasant laxative. Take with water at night for a comfortable morning bowel movement. No bad taste or gag reflex, stalls sleep, and leaves you feeling fine all day. Sold by druggists, 25c per bottle.
Brazilian Minister Leaves Amid Mexico Tension Report
Brazilian minister to Mexico, NERA CRUZ, departs as tensions rise over U.S. gunboat Sachiarento heading to New Orleans. The Aug. date hints at a diplomatic shift with Rio de Janeiro signaling policy moves.
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Nera Cruz
Sener Cardosa
Mexico
U.S
Sachiarento
New
Orleanas
Perilous trip to rejoin regiment ends in parole or capture
Morita Weil, a German accused of evading military service, testifies at a Strassburg military court that he fled to Europe aboard a French steamer on his mother’s passport. His journey included a Bordeaux stop and a stint in the French army before crossing to German lines and signaling surrender.
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Strassburg
Europe
Bordeaux
Weil
Paris
Belfort
Germans launch renewed offensive toward interior Russia
London reports a Petrograd Times correspondent says Germany is forging a fresh drive inland from the Vistula region. They aim to storm Kovno and widen the front from the Niemen to the Dvina while moving toward Riga Dvinsk and Vilna.
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London
Russia
Petrograd
Times
Vistula
Kovno
Niemen
Dvina
Riga
Dvinsk
Vilna
Made Peace Overtures in War-Torn Europe
The Nove Vrevma reports that Germany offered Russia Galicia and the Dardanelles with a frontier guarantee, demanding Russia not oppose Egypt’s cession to Turkey nor interfere with Germany’s peace terms with Russia’s allies.
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Petrograd
London
Novee Vrevma
Russia
Germany
Galicia
Dardanelles
Egypt
Turkey
Gellmans
Polish faction calls for a kingdom of Poland in Austria
The Polish faction in the Austrian parliament issued a manifesto advocating the creation of a kingdom of Poland with its capital at Warsaw, to be an integral part of the Habsburg monarchy.
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Vienna
Sta
London
Kingdom of
Poland
Warsaw
Canal Re opens after slide blocks Panama passage
Panama canal re opens allowing ten ships to pass, while twenty vessels remain delayed due to a slide. The reopening restores normal traffic as authorities clear debris and assess conditions at the canal.
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Panama
Two More Ships Attacked by Submarines
London reports two more ships the Russian bark Baltser and the British steamer Rosalie attacked by submarines within 21 hours. The Baltser was sunk. captain and crew reached land. The Rosalie was in a sinking condition and was beached.
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London
Baltser
Rosalie
Trading of Quincy In Vannihat Westerdy Details
In Vannihat westerdy, G, EL tarding of Quincy focused on business matters as part of local commerce. The fragment notes routine activities tied to daily trades and financial concerns in the area.
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EL Tarding
Quincy
Vannihat Westerdy
Regulations Based On Board's Report Form Naval Experts To Inspect Vessels
Secretary Redfield ordered changes in steamboat rules after the Eastland disaster inquiry. A board of expert naval architects will supervise inclining tests and verify passenger permits after vessel inspection. A committee from Atlantic Pacific Gulf coasts and Great Lakes districts will study Great Lakes service for passenger safety and propose rule changes.
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Washington
Great Lakes
Redfield
Department of Commerce
Chicago
Board of Inquiry
Department ‘of Commerce
Steamboat Inspection Service
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf Coasts
Increase of Ten in Buffalo Herd
Washington Aug 11 The government herd of buffalo on the Wichita national forest in Oklahoma, a federal game preserve, has been increased by ten calves. The herd now numbers 62 almost extinct bison, in good condition and expected to rise rapidly. Eight calves are females, bringing heifers and cows to thirty. Bulls total thirty two and are kept in a newly fenced pasture.
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Washington
Wichita National Forest
Oklahoma
Forest Service
International Typographical Union session features Baltimore convention pick and Lynch attack
The Los Angeles report notes William B. Wilson secretary of labor addressed labor conditions past and present. Baltimore was selected as the 1916 convention site. A sensational attack by former President James M. Lynch on delegates opposing the current administration was a major feature of the session.
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Los Angeles
William, LB. Wilson
United States Department of Labor
Baltimore
James M. Lynch
International Typographical Union
Prominent Chicago women killed in streetcar crash
Mrs. Alice G Randall of Oak Park wife of a Chicago broker and Miss Harriett Blakeslee a noted social worker died when their automobile crashed into a streetcar late at night. Passengers on the streetcar were injured and several cut by flying glass in the crash.
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Chicago
Alice “G. Randall
Oak’ Park
Harriett Blakeslee
Treasure Quest Reopens at Bloomington Yard
Bloomingpeon RL Aug. TL Members of a local cult pursue a Civil War era treasure rumor. They currently halt operations at a Bloomington lumber yard where $35,000 in gold is said to be buried by the Trotter family. The night search will resume once curiosity subsides.
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Bloomingpeon
Aug
Leider
Bloomington Lunder Yard
Eastland disaster no federal inspectors indicted
In Chicago on August dLe no attempt will be made by state graded pucy to indict any federal inspectors connected to the Eastland disaster. They are regarded as under federal jurisdiction. The federal grand jury remains in session concerning the Eastland disaster.
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Chicago
Eastland
Trawlers Sunk Add Six More to Submarine List
London dispatches report six additional British trawlers sunk today in submarine attacks, extending a day of submarine sightings and losses. The totals deepen wartime pressures on coastal fishing fleets and maritime defense actions.
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London
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