Wilson to reveal national defense program in New York speech
President will unveil a multi billion defense program over six years to expand navy to 43 dreadnoughts and battle cruisers, coast defenses, and a trained army of 1.2 million, with notable contracts and fortifications planned along Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
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Washington
Wilson
New York
Manhattan Club
War and Navy
Navy
Continental Army
War’ Departments
Atlantic
Pacific
War
Navy “Department
War Department
Regular
Continental
Chesapeake Bay
San Francisco
Monro to Command Dardanelles Expedition hero
Major General Charles Carmichael Monro has been named to lead the Dardanelles expedition succeeding Gen. Sir Van Hamilton who returns to England. Allied reports say Serbians and Montenegrins resist Austro German and Bulgarian attacks as Bulgarians advance in the Morava valley and Strumitza offers strategic value by defending railways and southern approaches.
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London
Charles Carmichael Monro
Dardanelles
Sir van Hamilton
England
War Office
Strumitza
Enos
von Mackensen
Zlotokopska
Morava
Vranya
Dedenghatch
Nedenghatch
M Military
Balkans
Aegean
New Jersey Faces Test Vote On Suffrage Drive
In Newark and across New Jersey a fierce suffrage campaign peaks as women workers flood streets with banners and speeches from Cape May to the New York line. Polls open tomorrow with two other constitutional amendments on the ballot and results expected slowly.
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Newark
N. J
New Jersey
Cape May
New York Line
Wilson
Princeton
Lillian PF. Feickert
The
New Jersey Association
Coroner's jury pins murder on Lottie Hopkins in Mathews case
In Galesburg Illinois the coroner's jury finds Lottie Hopkins responsible for the death of Chief Lynn Mathews. Hopkins is held without bail. he is jailed in Peoria County for safe keeping after being taken from Knox County. The raid on a notorious negro gambling house led to a gunfight that killed Mathews and triggered arrests and a subsequent pitched battle with officers.
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Galesburg
Ill
Lynn, Mathews
Lottie” Hopkins
Hopkins
Peoria
Lynn
Mathews
Knox County
Butts
Hop. _kins
Builders' Week at Fair Opens in San Francisco
San Francisco on October 18 proclaimed American Builders' Week as thousands of leading contractors from many regions gather. City officials and exposition managers designate a series of conferences for contractors factory houses and others in the building trade to discuss matters of mutual interest.
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San Francisco
Cal
US note to Germany on Frye dispute signals life boat safeguard
Washington reports the United States rejects mere lifeboat escape as sufficient for any American vessel destroyed when carrying contraband. Secretary Lansing notes Germany agrees to a joint expert commission to fix damages and arbitration under The Hague convention. The note states no rights are waived during arbitration and seeks a summary, treaty-based arbitration instead of a permanent court proceeding.
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Washington
United States
Germany
William P. ‘Frye
Lansing
Frye
Prinz Eitel
Friedrich
Bertin
Berlin
Foreign Office
The
Hague
Heavy fighting reported in Ristovach Vranya area Serbia
Dispatches from Paris report heavy firing in the Ristovach Vranya district of Serbia with Serbians strongly reinforced. Telegraphic communication beyond Vranya is cut.
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Hes
Paris
Ristovach-Vranya
Serbia
Saloniki
Vranya
Shipwreck tragedy on Mal Pass rocks near Point Arena
Seven men and two women perished after escaping the Alliance No. 2 wreck on Mal Pass rocks. Rafael Mediner survived after being flung ashore alive. Only H R Jones and owner Miguel Abila survived the ship’s company of ten. The wreck occurred while the schooner sailed from Vancouver on October 9 for Bazatlan, Cinaloa. The vessel broke apart as waves swept crew from the hull. Abila, tied to Carranza, was transporting the schooner to Mexico for use in Carranza's service.
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Vancouver
B. C
Baz
Diais
Mediner
Point Arena
Jones
Abila
Carranza
Mexico
Danville Lawyer Charged With Graft
Ray B. Barnett a prominent Danville attorney was indicted on eight counts of extortion and bonded for 1600 dollars. He served as a white slave officer for the federal district attorney's office keeping records on women of the underworld and reporting white slave cases. Barnett says he collected money as a favor to a legal firm and remains confident of innocence.
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Danville
Ray BF. Barnett
Federal District Attorney's Office
Barnett
Increased Military Guard At Nashua Mill Strike
On Oct 18 an augmented national guard patrolled the Nashua Manufacturing plant after a strike disturbance left one man fatally shot and a woman bayoneted. Two guard companies from Manchester joined local troops within the mill gates. Adam Baxavitch lay critically injured. Alexandria Belek was wounded in the arm. Six other women were reportedly clubbed but not in danger. Police say the clash began when workers blocked a siding with women seated on the track holding babies.
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Nashua
N. IL
N Nashua Manufacturing Company
National Guard
Manchester
Adam. Baxavitch
Lexandria Belek
Carson Resigns from British Cabinet as Attorney General
London reports Sir Edward Carson has resigned from the British cabinet where he served as attorney general. The move triggers political implications in the government and prompts discussions on successor arrangements and cabinet stability.
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Carson
London
Sir Edward Carson
Diplomatic ties with Mexico to be renewed tomorrow
Washington Oct 18 Foreign recognition of Venustiano Carranza as chief executive of the de facto Mexican government will be formalized tomorrow by the United States and Pan American diplomats. Letters of recognition will be delivered through Carranza’s envoy Eliseo Arredondo as rail and telegraph repairs proceed and amnesty broadens peace prospects.
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Washington
United States
Mexico
Venustiano Carranza
Lansing
Brazil
Chile
Argentina
Bolivia
Uruguay
Guatemala
Carranza
Eliseo Arredondo
Vitta
Gen.Carranza
Gen. Carranza
Congress
New Haven Board Directors Face Sherman Act Case Opens
Government attorney Robert L. Batts outlined alleged unlawful methods used by New York, New Haven and Hartford directors to secure monopoly power in New England. He described concealment schemes, stock maneuvers, dummy companies, false securities sales, and attempts to influence Massachusetts officials, with William Rockefeller and others accused of criminal intent. The case traces acquisitions from 1890 using a map of ten principal railroads and cites Morgan involvement, Old Colony stock concealment, and Metropolitan Steamship transfers.
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New York
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
New England
Robert L. Batts
William Rockefeller
Lewis
Cass ‘Ledyard
Edward.d. Robbins
Road
Massachusetts
Boston
Canada
New Haven
William’ Rockefeller
New York and
J. P. Morgan and Company
Old Colony Steamboats ‘Company
Morgan
Old Colony Railroad
Edward D. Robbins
Robbins
Metropolitan Steamship Company
Portland
Maine
Charles F. Brooker
Mr. Batts
Connecticut
Hartford
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