Piles of Dead Cover Ground Near Verdun Front
Paris February 25 official dispatch says front north of Verdun held but both wings drawn in. Artillery duels continue with no infantry attacks. heavy bombardment and ground littered with dead between Meuse and Ornes. Russian-style bombardment around Samogneux, Malancourt, and Fromescy reported. fronts withdrawn behind Samognieux and south of Ornes.
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Paris
Verdune
Meuse
Noere
Verun
Exeuse
Fromezey
Malincourt
Cuse
Ornes
Samognieux
London
Frederick William
Estern
Verdun
Races
Samoogeux
Malancourt
Ft Bank
The
Brabant
Havont
Samogneux
Beau
Fromescy
Champagne
Argonne Forest
Fraine
St. Martin
Hutch
Frelingheind Boesinghe
National plan to control floods under federal board
Washington Feb 25 Plans for treating flood prevention as a national problem with a federal water control board are under consideration by a inter-departmental committee. The plan would keep Mississippi river commission and others but place overall supervision and funding under a president appointed board. A countrywide river study will assess needs of flood districts. The river and harbor bill, near forty million, passed committee but faced minority criticism as wasteful and indefensible.
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Washington
Wilson
Mississippi
Roosevelts Travel Through Barbados and Demerara
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt arrived in Barbados on Thursday and proceeded to Demerara British Guiana. They will sail to Trinidad, then take a steamer directly to New Bath. The Roosevelts are reported in good health.
Ten Soldiers To Every Yard
Paris reports Temps says German front lines north of Verdun stretch eight miles from Brabant to Ores with ten infantrymen per three feet at the fiercest point. The review suggests the action is a broad attack across the front rather than a Verdun siege, with multiple defensive lines behind the first and more substantial, built to be completed away from direct fire.
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Paris
The
Temps
Verdun
Brabant
Ores
Alderman Sparks Turmoil at Chicago Welfare Hearing
Testimony on split salary charges in the city welfare department was heard by two investigating bodies. Alderman De Priest enraged the council at the hearing opening while Mrs Page Waller Eaton testified about payments to Louise Osborne Howe and others. Witnesses included Mrs Eaton and Alderman Rodriguez who reported seeing money in an envelope given to Mrs Rowe. Indictments may follow as the committee urges the attorney general to present the case to the grand jury for action.
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Chicago
City Department of Public Welfare
de Priest
Louise Osborne Howe
Council
Page Waller Eaton
Welfare Department
Eaton
Civil Service Commision
Thompson
M. E. Mivelaz
Fred Lundin
Alderman Rodriguez
Rowe
Rodriguez
Civil Service
Fulton Gardner
Council Committee On Schools, Fire and Police and Civil Service
City Council
Louise Osborne Rowe
Japs Deny Sending Troops To Russia
In Tokyo on February 25 Baron Ishii Japan's foreign minister denied in the diet that Japan intends to send troops to aid Russia. Rumors of Japanese troops in Europe were dismissed as false. Japan has supplied heavy artillery crews and engineers to Russia but not as official Japanese units.
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Russia
Tokio
Baron Ishii
Japan
Europe
Mediterranean
Bank Failure at Essen Shakes Krupp Workers
A Zunch dispatch to Exchange Telegraph reports the collapse of an important Essen bank. It is believed many Krupp workers have lost their savings, signaling wide financial distress among key industrial employees.
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London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Zunch
Essen
Germany
Krupp Works
Pacific Fleet Seen Vulerable to Single Enemy Hit
Admiral Winslow warned the Pacific fleet could be easily knocked out by one strong enemy battleship. He noted the force is wholly inadequate even with reserves to meet a likely foe in the Pacific, while details of navy plans remain confidential. The House military committee advances an army bill to increase regulars and federalize the National Guard, with a public release expected soon.
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Winslow
House Naval Committee
Washington
House Military Committee
House
Naval Committee
Cameron McR. Winslow
Stephens
California
Pacific
Navy Department
Atlantic
Army
Hay
Skull bones found in ruins of burned Illinois home
In Jerseyville Illinois a deputy coroner found skull bones near the stove site and other bones elsewhere in the ruined farm house where Minnie Ahrling was killed and dismembered before the blaze. The coroner's jury continued inspection as a rusty saw and axe with blood traces were recovered from the ruins.
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Jerseyville
Ill
Minnie Ahrling
Hear Arguments for Higher Rates in Chicago Rail Trade
The state public utilities commission heard evidence on a proposed rate increase of half a cent per hundred pounds for shipments to team tracks in Chicago from Calumet district stations of the Elgin Joliet and Western Railway Belt Line and Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad. The advance was suspended pending investigation.
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Chicago
State Public Utilities Commission
Calumet
Elgin, Joliet and Western Railway Company
Belt Hne
Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company
Attack on freight train carrying arms for Russia in Tacoma
In Tacoma Washington on February 25 six or eight men attacked a Great Northern freight train in the Great Pacific yards near Union station. They cut air hoses and split the train into four sections before being repelled by the crew led by Conductor Mc Loughlin. Two attackers were captured naming Sam Rusky and John Ross as Austrians. The train allegedly carried automobiles and other war supplies destined for Russia.
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Tacoma
Wash
Great Northern
Russia
Seattle
Great Pacific Yards
Union Station
McLoughlin
Sam Rusky
John Ross
Northern Pacific
Portland
Spokane
Vancouver
Officials Gave Full Approval for Sisal Venture
Washington February 25 officials of the Pan American Commission corporation formed to finance Yucatan sisal marketing testified that the justice treasury and state departments approved the enterprise before it began. Lynn H. Dinkins New Orleans banker and vice president said they submitted details to the comptroller of the currency and state and justice officials who all expressed full approval. Dinkins charged with others that International Harvester pressured banks to block loans by threats to remove their directors from Continental and Commercial National Chicago and National City Bank New York to hamper the venture.
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Washington
Pan-American Commission Corporation
Yucatan
Senate
Justice, Treasury and
State Departments
Lynn H. Dinkins
New Orleans
Dinkins
Sisal Corporation
Sol Wexler
New York
Enterprise
Department of State and Justice
International Harvester Company
Harvester
Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago
National City Bank of New York
Brandeis Legal Activity Hearts Senate Hearing
Senate judiciary subcommittee examined Brandeis actions in the Ballinger Pinchot inquiry and the Harriman Fish proxy fight over Illinois Central. Witnesses included Mark Sullivan of Colliers Weekly and Austen Fox. Catchings described a tense 190S interview where Brandeis agreed to the proxy effort but instructed his firm to do nothing.
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Washington
Louis D. Brandeis
Ballinger- Pinchot
E. H. Harriman
Stuyvesane Fish
Illinois Central Railroad
Gillette Safety Razor Company
Senate Judiciary
Brandeis
Supreme Court
Mark Sullivan
Colliers’ Weekly
Colliers
Ballinger-Pinchot
Austen G. Fox
L. R. Glavis
Land Office
Waddill Catchings
Sullivan and Cromwell
New York
Catchings
Lfe
Massachusetts Legislative Committee
Harriman
Sullivan
Cromwell
Eight more Ford peace delegates return from Europe
Eight delegates who joined Henry Ford's peace expedition return to New York aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam. Ford meets the cutter at Quarantine as costs reach $400,000. Dr. Jenkins Jones reports four neutral countries were impressed and calls for Hague cooperation with anti war and permanent peace groups. Remaining delegates attend Stockholm conference while urging a reorganization and quieter diplomacy.
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New York
Europe
Henry Ford
Nieuw Amsterdam
Mr. Ford
Gaston Plantiff
Ford
America
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Chicago
Hague
Anti
Joseph Fels
C. PF. Aked
John Barry
Stockholm
Frank letter shows support for diplomacy and restraint
The speaker pledges loyalty and counsel to Secretary Lansing, seeking frank talks and to be kept advised on events. He aims to prevent any moves by senators or members that could embarrass negotiations, insisting he should stay free to act diplomatically and help rather than hinder.
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Lansing
Educators Select Kansas City for 1917 Convention
Detroit Feb 25 The department of superintendence of the National Educational association chose Kansas City Mo for its 1917 convention and elected John D Shoop city superintendent of Chicago as president. Other affiliated associations will gather in Kansas City for round table meetings of six divisions with talks on compulsory education and child welfare.
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Detroit
Department of Superintendence
National Educational Association
Kansas City
John D. Shoop
Chicago
Tiurdaugv
Killing At Rockford Draws Iowa Man to Court
Charles City Iowa February 25 Frank Reams of Rockford Iowa shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Gowers and wounded his mother who tried to stop the shot while resisting arrest at Reams home for the earlier wound of Coroner Yeneritch.
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Charles City
Iowa
Frank Reams
Rockford
Gowers
Yeneritch
Peace at Any Price But Honor Washington
President Wilson, after two days of agitation in congress over armed merchantmen, wrote to Senator Stone saying he cannot abridge American citizens rights. He warned that the nation’s honor is involved, and we will seek peace but not lose honor. He hoped explanations of central powers’ plans to sink armed ships would ease the obstacle. The letter, sent Thursday night, will be repeated to Speaker Clark and others on Friday.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Stone
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senator Stone
Capitol
United States
Germany
Clark
Representative Kitchin
Floud
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House
America
Sam
Woodrow
President Cannot Consent to Any Abridgment of Rights
President Wilson writes that the United States must not abridge American citizens rights during war. He emphasizes preserving honor, liberty, and international law, warning that conceding rights would weaken freedom and undermine the nation’s standing among civilized peoples.
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Charleston
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Justice, Treasury
North Coast Limited
Covington
Tampa
Fla
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S. Petersburg
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