Russian Flyers Bomb Reserves and Battles Across Front
Petrograd reports Russian aviators dropped bombs on mobilized German reserves near Rawa Zarsecze and Nogauyece. Fighting along the Vistula intensifies with heavy losses to the enemy, including assaults on Lipno Bejune Goumine and Borji. Roumania orders ammunition from Italy amid European war activity. Romanian military attache killed in Rome by a bomb explosion.
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Zarsecze
Noguaeyce
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Bling
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Goumine
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Carpathians
Geneva
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Poland
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Vosges Mountains
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Rotiter
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Rome
Michel
Bryan to Speak in Indiana on Railroads and Business
Secretary Bryan arrived in Indianapolis for a two day visit delivering eight addresses. The keynote talk will be at the Transportation Club banquet on the topic Railroads' Relations to the Business World. He is also set to address the Indiana legislature tomorrow.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Secrence Bryan
Transportation Club
Intana
Salvation Army Leader Evangeline Booth Ill With Peritonitis
Cincinnati reports Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army is ill with peritonitis. Her physician says the condition may not be serious.
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Evangeline Booth
Cincinnati
Ohio
Salvation Army
Million Bundles For Gotham Poor
New York reports mass charity drives with 1500 wagons collecting clothing bundles for distribution to the needy and children. Officials estimate more than 3 million bundles may be gathered across city sections for the aid effort.
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New York
Illinois rail rate push faces full hearing before Dunne
Springfield report says Illinois lawmakers may study increasing maximum passenger rates to 2 1 2 cents per mile. Governor Dunne backs a full fair hearing and separate inquiry, while rail executives push for a public airing of needs and public sentiment. Local rebels in Africa report surrender of Bezuidenhout and Vandenburg to British forces at Upington.
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Illinois
Senate
House
Ilinois
General Assembly
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Trinois Central
Chan
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Quan, Funk
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Lucey
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Illiois
Edward F. Dunne
Alnois
Interstate Commerce Com
Clark Unopposed for Speakership
Washington D C Feb 4 New Democratic members of the Sixty fourth congress and reelected members will caucus tonight to reorganize the house for the next congress There is no opposition to the reelection of Champ Clark and the entire list of house officers The real fight of the caucus promises to be between Saunders of Virginia and Foster of Illinois the chairman of the democratic caucus For chairman of the ways and means committee there is no opposition to Kitchen of North Carolina who automatically becomes democratic leader to succeed Underwood senator elect
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House
Champ Clark
Saunders
Virginia
Foster
Illinois
Ways and Means
Kitchen
North Carolina
Underwood
Three Sarajevo conspirators slain in archduke assassination
A Berlin dispatch reports three conspirators executed at Sarajevo for the Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassination. Veljko Dubrilovic Micko Jovanovic and Danelo Itc were put to death while Jakov Vilovic and Nedjo Kerovic had sentences commuted to life and twenty years respectively. Gavrilo Princip remains imprisoned for twenty years.
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Amsterdam
London
Berlin
Francis Ferdinand
Bosnia
Veljko Dubrilovic
Micko Jovanovic
Danelo Itc
Jakov Vilovic
Nedjo Kerovic
Gavrio Prinzip
Archduke
Findings of No Fraud Evidence in Eighteenth Illinois Inquiry
Federal investigators reported no evidence so far of violations of federal election laws in the November probes of Illinois Eighteenth district. Officials said the case focuses on conspiracies to deprive rights. land or bribery cases remain state matters.
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Washington
Eighteenth Hlinois
Department of Justice
Miss Mollie Fancher Begins 50th Bed Year
New York reports Mollie Fancher a 67 year old Brooklyn invalid who started her 50th year in bed and answered messages from friends nationwide while supporting herself by embroidering. Separately Kewanee to Muscatine Iowa standard gauge steam railroad talks focus on closing in New York per M J Healy to Kewanee Civic Club.
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New York
Mollie Fancher
Brooklyn
Kewanee, al
Kewanee
Muscatine
Iowa
M. J. Healy
Doctor Killed by Georgia Posse in Evans Incident
Augusta Georgia Feb 4 Dr A B Culberson of Evans Ga was shot dead today by a posse of citizens who had searched for him since last night on a charge of assaulting a young married woman daughter of a Martine leading citizen according to a report
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Augusta
A. B. Culberson
Evans
Martine
Horn Case Puzzles White House Extradition Move
Werner Horn, a German officer, was arrested in Vanceboro Maine on a charge of injuring a building after a dynamite blast under the St Croix international bridge. Washington officials say Britain’s extradition request is unusual and will take time amid legal questions. Horn plans to fight extradition claiming German subject status and this river boundary case challenges Canadian soil ownership.
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Vanceboro
Werner Horn
St. Croix River
Horn
United States
Canada
St. Croix
van Horn
Anti Catholic Lecturer Shot Dead in Texas Hotel
William Black traveling lecturer and John Rogers contractor are dead after a shooting in Black's hotel room in Marshall Texas. Bank cashier John Copeland is not expected to live. Hall linked to the case was detained as police investigated the affray following Black's anti Catholic lecture.
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Marshall
Texas
William Black
John Rogers
John Copeland
Black
F. S. Hall
Rogers
Copeland
Hall
Weather Forecast for Rock Island Area
Rain or snow tonight and Friday with colder temperatures. Tonight near freezing and winds strong with a 34 degree temperature at 7 am. Prevailing humidity 33 percent at 7 pm and 91 percent in the morning. Astronomical notes list Jupiter Saturn Mars Venus among the evening and morning stars.
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Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
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Saturn
Mars
Venus
Leo
Steamer Caught in Ice Sunk Off Chicago Harbor
The Goodrich Transit steamer Town of Chicago sank three miles from Chicago harbor after being caught in ice. About 50 people, including crew and one passenger, escaped onto the ice. Rescue efforts by tugs and life savers followed as the Iowa and Kansas faced ice to the south. The Iowa's crew reached the breakwater after a perilous ice walk. Cargo valued at 50 000 to 75 600 dollars was insured. The Iowa split in two with the hull beneath the ice while the hurricane deck remained above.
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Til
Goodrich Transit Company
Arizona
Kansas
Iowa
Lake
Emperor William praised for patience in face of slander
Neueste Nachrichten quotes Dr. Ludwig Ganghofer on his visit with Emperor William at the imperial field headquarters. The emperor remains measured under criticism, extolling courage of German opponents and warning against English provocations while highlighting German conscience and kultur.
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Germany
The
Neueste Nachritehren
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William
Ganghofer
Dr. Ganghofer
England
Neneste Nachrichten
Germany warns ships to avoid French coast
The German government told the United States to urge American vessels to steer clear of the north and west coasts of France. Washington said the warning is not a blockade and aims at mines rather than a declaration of war. Germany also proposed that the American consul oversee food shipments on the steamer Wilhelmina bound for Hamburg to ensure aid reaches German civilians. Britain plans to seize and pay for the Wilhelmina’s cargo and permit its departure.
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Germany
State Department
France
Washington, D. C
Wilhelmina
Hamburg
Great Britain
Wet Repubs to Win Rage for Speaker in Illinois House
Springfield reports the fiftieth roll call for speaker produced no result as Republicans push for a wet candidate. Browne, a Democrat, contemplates crossing to back a wet Republican with neutrals to reach 77 votes, while Scholes Shanahan and Smejkal loom possible pivots. The plan hinges on 69 or 70 votes in early ballots.
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Springfield
Ill
House
Lee O'Neill Browne
Browne
Robert Scholes
Peoria
Davia Shanahan
Chicago
Edward J. Smiejkal
Shanahan
Smejkal
Til
Stpreme
Meyer J. Stein
Patrick J. Carroll
Wilson Prediction Drives Wheat Rally
Wheat prices jumped after President Wilson’s speech highlighted expected heavy U S demand for wheat. May futures rose near four cents to around 1 62 per bushel as buyers were encouraged by the prospect of increased government purchases.
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Chicago
Til
Wilson
United States
Three more plead guilty in million dollar swindle case
Three more defendants Samuel Brown Jacob L Liebovitz and M M Liebovitz pleaded guilty in the Great Western Jobbing case. They helped rings leader Charles L Greenfield set up seven stores in six cities and steer them into profitable bankruptcies. Novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon dies in England.
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Great Western
Samuel Brown
Jacob L
M. M. Liebovitz
East St. Louise
Charles L. Greenfield
Sentifty How Brown
Liebovitz
Japanese Cruiser Ashine Sinks 800 Men Off Port Bartolome
Rear Admiral Howard reported by wireless that the Japanese cruiser Ashine with 800 men was wrecked 350 miles south of Port Bartolome and breaking up. He is sending assistance. fate of the crew was not stated.
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Ashine
Port Bartolome
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