World News Capsule From War Fronts And Domestic Events
Global reports show Russian submarine Tulen capturing German commanded Turkish transport Ridusto, with Allied attacks on the Somme failing to break German lines. Bulgarian forces repossessed Brod, while Scheidemann urged peace terms based on national integrity. Infantile paralysis germ traced to milk or water.
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Petrograd
Tulen
Schasropol
Somme
War Office
Berlin
National Election Fraud Probe Urged After October Seventeen
U. S. agents in Onhengo ordered to report evidence of fraud in registration for the national election after October 17. Other items note diplomatic disputes over submarine harbors, hurricane damage in the Danish West Indies, and a university war training plan discussed with Secretary Baker.
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Department of Justice
Washington
Onhengo
Payne
St. Thomas
Danish West Indies
Foreign Senator Muipescu Die, War Pressure Prevailed
The foreign senator Muipescu dies in Bucharest. Vilipescu and M. Ienescu allegedly pressured Premier Bratianu into Romania joining the war. An American ambulance section held a service for units serving with the French army on the Balkans front.
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Muipescu
Cocmer Diittister
Bucharest
Vilipescu
M. Ienescu
Premier Bratianu
Belug
Roumania
Balkans
Parka Ferba Sulaniki
Roumanian Armies In Transylvania Suffer Heavy Losses
Berlin reports say the Roumanian second army lost about two divisions during a retreat through Transylvania after the Hermannstadt battle. The First army and much of the Second may have been virtually annihilated as Austro German forces pressed and aviator reports aided the enemy plan. Transylvania is now clear of Roumanians except near the border.
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Berlin
Transylvania
Overseux
Hermannstadt
Torzburger
Bucharest
Iallavian
von Falkenhayn
Roumiania
Lolistoca
Mob Executes and Burns Two Black Men in Paducah
In Paducah Kentucky Oct 18 a mob of about six thousand men gathered to abduct two Black men from jail and on the street. One man was identified to a white woman then killed by hanging while the other was lynched after his companion was identified as the attacker. The crowd then burned the bodies at a location two miles from the woman’s home.
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Paducah
Fire at State Hospital for the Insane Premises Burns Four Barns
Chicago October 18 hundreds of patients panic as fire tears through four barns at the rear of the State Hospital for the Insane formerly Dunning institution eight thousand seven hundred seventy seven patients were housed there at the outbreak. Some men fled and beat on doors while others dashed buckets of water to the farm ward building to wet its sides amid the blaze.
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Chicago
State Hospital For the Insane
Dunning Institution
Gen O
Wolgen
Farm Ward
Fire at Chicago Stockyards Kills Twenty Horses
A major blaze at the Union Stockyards and Transit Company in Chicago starting Monday in barn No. 24's hay loft killed twenty horses and endangered a section of the stockyards. The barn, a one and a half story brick structure 209 feet long by 6 feet wide, was consumed by flames.
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Chicago
Union Stockyards
Union Stockyards and Transit Company
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