82 Bodies Taken Out Of Wreck
Peoria Illinois July 9 with two more bodies recovered the Columbia disaster death toll rose to 82. Seventeen still officially reported missing. A boatman found Thomas Hancock grocer Pekin near Willow Point. The Lancater lifted wreckage and recovered four year old John Grewy Kingston. his wife and another child perished.
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Peoria
Columbia
Willow Point
Thomas Hancock
Pekin
United States
Lancaster
John Grewy
Kingston
Grewy
Rescues 21 Left On Iceberg In Arctic
Seattle July 9 The U S fisheries steamer Roosevelt rescued twenty one cannery workers marooned on an iceberg for three weeks and brought three vessels to safety. Ships Star of Chile Centennial and St Nicholas with crews and cannery workers were saved after Tacoma sank in Bristol Bay May 19.
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Seattle
Wash
United States Fisheries
Roosevelt
H. Bierd
Star of Chile
Barkentine Centennial
Alaska Packers Association of
San Francisco
St. Nicholas
Columbia River Packers’ Association
Centennial
Tacoma
Alaska Packers’ Association
Bristol Bay
Upheavals Suppressed After Mirbach Assassination
Fragments report the assassination of Count Von Mirbach and a strong Bolshevik uprising in Moscow. A Moscow dispatch says the mutiny was quelled by the garrison, with a social revolutionist capture of the telegraph office described as brief and the mutineers arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Count von Mirbach
Russia
Moscow
M. Araloff
Four Objectors Get Long Prison Terms
Four conscientious objectors to army service were sentenced to twenty years by court martial at Camp Grant. All four are from Chicago and their sentences were read to 150 other objectors held in the guard house at the fort. One objector, John T. Hadonsky, asked to don a uniform after hearing the verdict, and his request was granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockford
Fort Leavenworth
Camp Grant
Chicago
John T. Hadonsky
Ten indicted in Chicago for drugged drinks to non-tippers
Ten men were indicted in Chicago on charges linked to waiters who administered Micky Finn powders to non-tipping patrons at hotels and restaurants. Testimony from chemists said the powders contained drugs causing illness in diners.
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Chicago
Wire Control Bill Sparks Bitter Senate Fight
Washington July 9 The administration pressed to fast track the house wire control resolution authorizing the president to seize telegraph telephone cable and radio systems but the senate's interstate commerce committee and floor clashed over hearings and speed. The committee voted 4 to 3 to report the measure without amendment or recommendation. The fight to renew the drive moved to the Senate with plans for new action and possible discharge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Senate Inter- State Commerce Committee
Wilson
Interstate Commerce Committee
Smith
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Georgia
Commerce Committee
Posse Pursues Arkansas Draft Resisters in Hills
Local authorities report fights in the Heber Springs hills between alleged draft resisters and U S soldiers from the Fourth Arkansas National Guard and sheriff s posses from three counties. Resisters were said to flee and set woods on fire to obscure movements as pursuers close in. Governor Brough sent Col Ellis to Clebourne county to take command and pursuit would continue with few details of the alleged clash.
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Little Rock
Ark
Heber Springs
United States
Arkansas National Guard
Brough
Ellis
Clebourne County
Airman Killed in Tail-Spin Crash Near Belleville
Lieut. Richard H. Fawcett of Alexandria Virginia was killed instantly when an airplane ditched in a tail spin near Belleville Illinois. Cadet Lester H. Cox of New York City was slightly injured and later moved to a field hospital. doctors said he would recover. Fawcett had been Cox’s instructor. Cox walked a mile to summon aid after the crash and was in a field hospital hours later.
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Belleville
Richard H. Fawcett
Alexandria
Lester H. Cox
New York City
Lieut. Fawcett
Cox
Scott Field
American Pilot Hobbs Killed By German Gunfire
Lieut Warren T Hobbs of Worcester a member of the American aviation corps was killed by German anti aircraft fire June 26. He was 22 and an noted athlete holding the world record for the fifty yards high hurdles at Meadowhrack indoor track meet in March 1917 with a time of 3 4 seconds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Mass
Warren T. Hobbs
American Aviation Corps
Hobbs
Record of Boyan's 22nd air victory revealed
Paris reports official notice that Under Lieutenant Boyan shot down his twentieth enemy plane on July 1 and achieved his 22nd air victory on July 5. The record highlights rapid aces status with consecutive successes in early July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Ita
Lieut
Boyan
Thia
Senate considers near total prohibition law during war
The senate reported drastic changes to the Norris amendment in the emergency agricultural bill. The plan would ban sale of distilled spirits and restrict beer and wine for beverage purposes after December 31 1918, with prohibitions lasting through the war. Violators face fines up to 1000 dollars or one year in prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Shipping Board
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Secretary of the Treasury
Gore
United States
Socialist Calls For Peace In Reichstag
In the Reichstag on Saturday Deputy Matzinger of the Center party protested against further grain shipments to Austria. Deputy Wils, a socialist, urged that another ration reduction was unbearable as unemployment rose in Oberlin and wages failed to buy food. He said ending the war would bring greater economic gain than conquest of a province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Reichstag
Matzinger
Center Party
Austria
Wils
Oberlin
Water Power Bill Moves Through House in Washington
Unanimous consent was given in the house on Monday for consideration of the administration water power bill. Debate is expected to last several days and a final vote may not come until late in the week.
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House
Washington
Rumely Arrested In Perjury Probe Over Mail Stock Deal
New York police arrested Dr Edward A Rumely vice president of the Mail and Express on perjury charges linked to a report to the alien property custodian. Prosecutors allege German government funds totaling 1 361 000 were used to buy the Mail and Express in 1917 with concealment of details until jailhouse investigations. The case ties Rumely to Count von Bernstorff and Dr Heinrich Albert, with Mrs Adolphus Busch questioned in related matters. Bondholders plan to take control of the Evening Mail and promise patriotic alignment in its pages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edward A. Rumely
Mail and Express Company
New York Evening Mail
Lewis
Mishel Palmer
Rumely
Count von Bernstorff
United States
Heinrich F. Albert
Germany
Henry L. Stoddard
Department of Justice
Busch
Adolphus Busch
St. Louis
M. Rumely
University of Notre Dame
University of Heidelburg
University of Feriburg
Evening Mail
Wenry L. Stoddard
Venice Liberated After Intense Piave Delta Fight
Italian forces drive Austrians from the Piave delta in Venice liberation battles. About 200000 Austrian casualties and prisoners amid 37 battalions and Orient corps units. Navy gunboats and brave soldiers blocked a flanking move. night attacks through canal and mud conditions. Italy gains nearly forty square miles and a shorter front. New York actor James Morrison aids 3000 wounded Italians with Red Cross refuge work amid bombardment mishap at Mestra station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Venice
Piave
Orient Corps
Palestine
Jerusalem
Lagoon
James H. Morrison
New York
Hundred Operators Out In New Orleans
More than 100 telegraph operators at the New Orleans office of Western Union Telegraph were dismissed after union affiliation was acknowledged. The company carried out the action Monday morning and again when the night shift reported for duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America
New Orleans
Western Union Telegraph Company
SINK NORSE SHIP. CREW ABOARD ADOFT AFTER U-BOAT ATTACK
The Norwegian steamer Augvald, bound from a French port to Baltimore, was sunk by a German submarine on June 23. Eleven of 27 crew survived after eleven days adrift, subsisting on seaweed and rainwater. Captain Egge and twelve crew escaped in a boat. a second boat capsized, three drowned, others saved. Rescue occurred July 4 aboard a trans-Atlantic liner. Warnings of hostile U-boats were issued as of July 5 in lat 42.32 N, long 43.50 W.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augvald
Baltimore
Atlantic
Egge
Fight and Pray appeal calls for prayer for U S arms
New York July 9 Cardinal Gibbons Farley and O Connell publish an appeal titled Fight and Pray urging united American Catholic support for the war effort. It calls for daily prayers for victory, unity, and peace while the nation fights and supports the armed forces. Russians Sink Many Ships in Black Sea headline reports 36 merchant ships sunk near Novorossiysk with Turks occupying the Black Sea coast toward Batum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Cardinals Gibbons, Farley
O'Connell
America
Holy Father
S.S. Peter and Paul
Jesus Christ
Black Sea
Amsterdam
Tuly
Novorossysk
Vienna
Berlin Tagblatt
Touapec
Novorosiysk
Batum
Advance Line Along 2 Mile Front On Aisne
Paris reports French forces advanced about 1200 meters on a two mile front northwest of Longpont near Retz forest. They captured 347 prisoners, including four officers, as the war office records the assault on Monday morning and the occupation of Chavigny farm and surrounding ridges. Austrian positions remained withdrawn.
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Paris
Longpont
War Office
Aisne
Retz Forest
Chavigny
Albania
Vienna
London
Vagusa
Monte Pertica
Avalona
French Attack Expands Front Near Longpont and Amblony
Allied war report details a French assault southwest of Soissons pushing to create a new front from Longpont to Amblony, capturing Chavigny farm and gffe slopes and taking hundreds of prisoners. Australian forces advance east of Amiens and north of Hamel, driving Germans back over a mile along the Somme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Soissons
Retz Forest
Longpont
Chavigny Farm
Gffe
St. Pierre Aigle
Amblony
Somme River
Amiens
Hamel
Berlin
Clingon
Marne
Rheims
Pershing Details German Front Activity July 6 1918
General Pershing’s bulletin released by the War Department recounts July 6 reports from the American Expeditionary Forces. It notes patrols near Vaux and Role Des Rochet capturing two German prisoners, ongoing artillery and sniper actions around Belleau Bois Bonnes, Cantigny, and Picardy, and movement of rear-area traffic including horses and wagons amid sporadic air activity and occasional enemy bombardments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pershing
War Department
American Expeditionary Forces
Belleau
Bonnes Bois Ronnes
Plaisance
la Tartre Givry
Epaux
Etrepully
Chateau Belleau
Vaux
Role Des Rochet
Picardy
Cantigny
Bois de Grand
Grivesnes
Mont Didier
Fontanna
Mulhouse
Railschwiller
Nore
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Arctic
Pacific Port
POSSE
Arkansas
N.Y
Macedonia
Avlona
Brest-Litovsk
William
Foreign Office
Italy
Trentino
Venetian
Pershing’s Bulletin
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