Tampico Not Yet Given Up By Federals
Reports from Tampico say federal troops still hold the city with heavy losses for rebels after repulsed attacks. Verification remains mixed as gunboat shelling continues and refugees are reported off American, British, and German vessels. Reinforcements are being sent to Presidio and Ojinaga amid border patrol fears.
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Mexico City
Tate
Federal War Office
War Office
Legations
Oi!er
Washington
Flecher
Orlock
Bravo
Constitutionalieta
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Ee River
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Baidings
Fletcher
Presidio
Texas
De 12
Ojinaga
Mexico
Iwlla
Chilwahua
14 Year Record Shattered in Six Day Race
New York reports the Anderson Hansen team, five laps behind, retired in a six day bicycle race as a 14 year record fell. The leading nine teams had run 1,994 miles in 101 hours, beating the previous 1,961 mile eight lap mark. by noon leaders reached 2,113 miles and four laps. In Calumet quiet reigned amid a copper strike district as deputies blocked a parade and six rifles were seized from a Western Federation store. Deputy Driscoll shot yesterday is expected to recover.
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New York
Anderson- Hansen
Calumet
Mich
Western Federation of Miners
Driscoll
Cotton crop tops six billion dollar value in 1913
A 1913 U.S. cotton crop reached 542,550,000 pounds excluding linters, per Agriculture Dept reports. It stands as perhaps the nation’s most valuable harvest, worth over 850 million dollars, with about 125 million more from seed and materials to follow.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Springfield seeks to oust guard amid state board dispute
Adjutant General Dickson says Illinois National Guard cannot be increased to meet War Department division strength. Governor Dunne plans an executive order to abolish the division and reorganize forces effective Jan 1. Dickson travels to Washington to discuss reforms. In Washington, Senator Lewis pressed Assistant Secretary of War Breckenridge on General Young’s divisional plea. Breckenridge refused. In Chicago Mrs Ella Flage Young, ex superintendent, becomes educational editor for the Chicago Newspaper Club. protests plan to oust school board members who did not reelect her.
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Springfield
Frank B. Dickson
E. F. Dunne
Ilinois National Guard
War Department
Dunne
Adjt
Dickson
Washington
Aet
Duque
General Assembly
Adjutant General
James Hamilton Lewis
Young
Henry Breckenridge
General Young
Illinois
Breckenridge
Lewis
Chicago
Ill
Ella Flage Young
Chicago Newspaper Club
Iowa farmer jumps from train and is killed in Ohio incident
Walter Frederickson, a Red Oak Iowa farmer, leaped from a moving train at West Steubenville and died instantly. No motive is given. Additional dispatch notes Vermont battleship reports a broken main shaft and flooded compartments as it nears Hampton Roads after an incident 600 miles from Bermuda.
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Iowa
Pittsburgh
Walter Frederickson
Red Oak
Weat Steubenvilel
Vermont
Washington
Hampton Roads
Bermuda
Pollard the Drunkards Judge Dies in St. Louis
William J. Pollard, famed for his parole system for drunken offenders who signed pledges, died at his home in St. Louis. The heart disease death ends a career noted for international work on alcoholism, including conferences in Milan where he once missed a ship after stopping to speak with a pledge signer.
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St. Louis
William J. Pollard
Pollard
America
Milan
Uniform express rates split at national conference
Prospects of irreconcilable differences between uniform rate advocates and state commissions raised at the National Association of State Railway Commissioners meeting in Chicago. State panels resist nationwide rates citing benefits from local reductions. Iowa Assistant Commerce Counsel D L Lewis led the opposition. In Chicago, a separate case saw a motion to quash indictments for four election fraud suspects overruled, affecting 66 others. A Peoria jury found Leo Beck guilty of murdering his brother in law John Weisemanl.
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Chicago
National Association of State Railway Commissioners
D. L. Lewis
Iowa
Beck
Peoria
Leo Beck
John Weismantel
Progressives of State to Rally in Chicago
Progressives of Illinois plan a Dec 16 rally in Chicago with Senator Albert J Beveridge Judge Ben M Lindsey Henry J Allen and Jane Addams among expected attendees. Raymond Robins chairs the state central committee which vows county representation and a full ticket next fall while considering amalgamating with the Republican party.
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Ciring
Chicago
Aretex
Albert J. Beveridge
Ben M. Lindsey
Henry J. Allen
Kansas
Jane Addams
Raymond Robins
Progressive State Central Committee
Ilinois
Robins
State Central Committee
Parlor Q
Grand Pacific Hotel
Chicago Progressive Resub
West Jackson Boulevard
State Central
Cook
Cook County
Chicago Progressive Club
Progressive Club
Illinois
Potatoes Seen Hitting One Dollar As Prices Rise
Fond du Lac Wisconsin December 12 four hundred fifty empty potato cars were counted on the tracks after growers refused to ship until prices advance. Reports of blight in the southern crop fuel the belief potatoes will soon sell for one dollar.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
Governor Dunne Praised for Stance on Sex Hygiene in Schools
Springfield Illinois governor Dunne has received hundreds of letters from prominent Illinois citizens commending his opposition to teaching sex hygiene and eugenics in public schools. The governor's position was communicated to President James of the University of Wincig.
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Springfield
Dunne
Illinois
James
University of Wincig
Mona Lisa Found After Long Search In Florence
Mona Lisa, Da Vinci's famed painting missing from the Louvre since August 1911, was located in Florence. An Italian suspect was arrested on theft charges. The work, considered priceless, is valued at over five million dollars and linked to model Lisa del Giocondo.
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Florence
Italy
DaVinci
Louvre
da Vinci
Lisa del Girondo
France
Francis I
Ziegler Estate Case Moves Toward New Testimony
In New York, Justice Cohalan ordered Hugh O Neill to take testimony in Chicago from George W Brandt William Ziegler Jr and Dr Vincent J Price regarding Florence L Brandt s claim to half of a 12 million dollar estate The action hinges on an alleged oral agreement and the estate s total value is about 17 million with Ziegler Jr s share near 12 million The plaintiff seeks to prove her right to half the estate through these testimonies while defendants question the alleged agreement and the witnesses’ relevance.
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New York
Florence L. Brandt
Florence L. Ziegler
William Ziegler
Supreme Court
Cohalan
Hugh O'Neill
Chicago
George W. Brandt
William Ziegler, Jr
Vincent J. Price
Ziegler
Florence L
William
Schmidt Plans to Wed Recalled in Trial
New York December reports Dr. Leo testified Hans Schmidt and Anna Aumuller planned marriage last April. After the September murder Schmidt sought treatment for a hand wound, wept in court, begged forgiveness from his father, and was comforted by family members before returning to custody. Fire in Manly, Iowa, threatened business district. aid dispatched.
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New York
Leo
Hans Schmidt
Schmidt
Anna Aumuller
Whitman
Germany
Elizabeth Schaddler
Weather forecast for Rock Island area
Fair tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Low near freezing tonight, 36 at 7 am yesterday's high 51, last night 35. Winds light west, no precipitation. Humidity 66 at 7 pm and 87 at 7 am. Water stage 3.7, up .1 in 24 hours. Forecaster J M Sherier reports. Astronomical events note visible constellations and planetary positions for the evening.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Bank Sustained in Landis Ruling
Chicago on December 12 Miss Elsie DeWolfe failed to win a federal ruling challenging the constitutionality of the income tax law. Judge Landis dismissed her petition seeking a writ of mandamus against Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank to pay her interest on 30 bonds. The case concerned a collection action, not a federal question, and the bank’s demurrer was sustained. The judge said the matter belonged in civil state court. The plaintiff's attorneys said they will seek the Supreme Court to settle the issue.
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Chicago
Elsie DeWolfe
United States District Court
Landis
Miss DeWolfe
Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank
Levy Mayer
Mayer
United States Supreme Court
High Court
Mr. Mayer
W. Bourke Cochran
New York
Colin C. H. F
Party Members Stand By Caucus In Currency Debate
In Washington on December 12 the senate opened debate on the currency bill with defense of the democratic caucus as the method to carry party pledges into effect. Newlands supported the caucus while Borah assailed the bill, citing a Chicago banker claim that 12 men controlled the country’s finances. He argued currency control is a government function.
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Washington
Senate
Newlands
Hitchcock
Borah
Idaho
George M. Reynolds
Continental and Commercial National ‘Bank of Chicago
Reynolds
Bomb Explodes in New York Bottling Plant Office
A dynamite bomb mailed to the Thomas McCabe Bottling Co. exploded in an uptown office, killing Ida Anusewitz, 18, and injuring two male coworkers. Police link the blast to alleged plant dismissals, but no sender is identified.
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New York
Express
Ida Anusewitz
Uptown
Thomas McCabe
Judge Rosalsky
Helen Mackay Victim of Ether at Private Hospital
New York reports the coroner investigates the death of Mrs. Helen Mackay widow of Rev Donald Mackay longtime head of Reform churches of America. She died under ether during a private hospital operation where she had registered under the name Mrs J H Stone of Boston. A heart failure under anesthetic caused her death. Her real name was learned from a paper in her bag.
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New York
Helen Mackay
Donald Mackay
General Reform Churches of America
J. H. Stone
Boston
Mass
J. G. Smith
Vermont
President Remains in Bed With a Cold
Washington December 12 The president's cold is better but he stays in bed by doctor's orders and likely will not be outdoors before Monday. Springfield Illinois December 12 Colonel O T Trippp to Greenville Monday to muster out Company E Fourth Infantry Illinois National Guard due to lack of interest. Wheaton Illinois December 12 George Schmidt named as a bank robbery suspect linked to the Addison State Bank he was identified by a bank officer in Nashville Tennessee.
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Washington
Springfield
O. Tripp
Illinois National Guard
Greenvile
Fourth Infantry
Carnegie at White House on health and world peace
Washington December 12 Andrew Carnegie visited the White House to inquire about the president’s health. He discussed world peace with Secretary Bryan and praised Senator Root’s Nobel Peace Prize award. He urged Republicans to nominate Root for president.
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Washington
Andrew Carnegie
White House
Bryan
Root
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