Russian Defeat Proclaimed in East Prussia Amid Bitter Weather
German forces claim a decisive nine day victory over the Russian army in the Mazurian lake district of East Prussia. More than fifty thousand prisoners, fifty cannons, sixty machine guns and large amounts of material captured. Russia enveloped by Austro-Hungarians in Bukovina. British and French air raids hit Ostend Zeebrugge and Bruges with bombs targets on gun posts and transport.
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Mele
London
Lake District
East Prussia
East Suwalk
Akgustowo
William
Mertin
Ostend
Middelkerke
Gur-telles
Zeebrugge
Belgium
Naval
Bruges
Zeebrugee
Ghistelles
Homim
Ostend Ghistelles Road
Keebrugge
Airship Over North Sea Reported Damaged
London reports a Parseval type airship, likely hit by gunfire, flew over Amsterdam at six hundred feet this morning. The crew struggled to maintain level flight, slipped into a vertical attitude, and drifted toward the Zuyder Zee arm of the North Sea. Telegraph wires tangled in a rope as the airship descended, later sighted without its gun doula.
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London
Amsterdam
Zuyder Zee
North Sea
Air Reso*eas
Tokyo Narrows Demands on China Growing Concerns
Feb 17 reports say Japan’s memorandum to U S Britain France and Russia drops several originally proposed 21 demands on China. The list was described as far reaching in politics and commerce with implications for the Anglo Japanese alliance and China’s independence.
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Legation
United States
Great Britain
France
Russia
Tokio
China
London
Europe
Japan
Manchester Guardian
Guardian
Commission form loses in Litchfield and Champaign votes
Litchfield reports the commission form of government defeated by 165 with men 553 for 7354 against and women 515 for 510 against, total 1098 for and 1266 against. In Champaign Alabama voters rejected the proposal for a commission form of municipal government by 428 votes, 3150 against and 1342 for.
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Litchfield
Champaign
Child Labor Bill Cleared House Policy Narrowly Passes
Washington Feb 17 The Palmer bill to bar products of child labor from interstate commerce passed the house 232 to 44 after a writ of arrest for absentee to suppress a filibuster. The measure bans shipments of goods made by children under 16 or under 14 in mills canneries workshops and factories, and limits those aged 14 to 16 to eight hours daily or six days a week or after 7 PM.
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Washington, D. C
Palmer
House
Senate
Byrnes
South Carolina
Jerome Collects Only $25 000 in Thaw Case
Albany reports William Travers Jerome played an active role in the Thaw case since 1906. He served without pay as a state special deputy in the first habeas corpus proceedings begun by Thaw, receiving only $600 for expenses. Total collected for his work in the case is under $25,000, despite rumors of up to $100,000.
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Albany
N. Y
Willam Travers Jerome
Thaw
Jerome
Turkey ready for finish fight says Talaat Bey
Constantinople February seventeenth Talaat Bey minister of interior finance and marine and a leading Young Turk told the Associated Press that Turkey will wage war to its end in Europe. He said Turkey fights only when defensive measures by Russia and Great Britain require it and that the holy war is a fact enemies of Islam should heed. He added Christian subjects in the Ottoman empire are not suffering under the present conditions and dismissed reports of urgent new war supplies as army matter. He praised allies as excellent and admirable despite uncertainties.
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Constantinople
Talaat Bey
Young Turk Party
Turkey
Associated Press
Russia
Great Britain
Germany
Ottoman Empire
Austria-Hungary
Berlin
Geereteatespres
Talnat
Erroneous impressions on food plus deportation order
President Wilson responds to a New York mayor about a wheat export embargo. He says the agriculture department holds all facts and will correct misunderstandings with clear statements soon. In Chicago, German subject Louis Berger, wanted in Toronto for larceny, will be deported to Germany per Federal Judge Landis order.
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Washington, D. C
Mitchel
New York
Wilson
Agricultural Department
Chicago
Louis Berger
Toronto
Can
Germany
Landis
Watson Named to Supreme Court Bench in Alabama
Albert Watson of Mount Vernon was appointed by Springfield officials to fill the unexpired term of the late Judge Alonzo Vickers on the Alabama Supreme Court. The Democrat assumes the position today in Springfield.
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Springfeld, al
Albert Watson
Mount Vernon
Supreme Court
Alonzo Vickers
Crozier Faces Probe Over War Material Ring Charges
Washington dispatch says General William Crozier, chief of ordnance, considers seeking a congressional inquiry into charges by Representative Tavenner of Minnesota alleging a ring of war munitions makers earning excessive profits and links to Crozier and other officers. Crozier defense notes his past stake in a patent sold to Bethlehem Steel, relinquished after appointment, with no foreign orders or compensation. He argues government manufacture under his tenure pressured private firms to cut prices.
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Chicago Tribune Today
Washington
Washington, D. C
William Crozier
Congress
Representative Tavenner
Tavenner
Crozier
Humphreys
Army
General Crozier
Taveimes
Taylor
Rock Island, II, Arsenal
Bethlehem Iron
Now Steel) Company
Bethlehem Company
United States
Weather Forecast for Rock Island Area
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with warmer temperatures above freezing and fresh winds. Temperature at 7 am 32, highest yesterday 41, lowest last night 31, wind 4 mph, precipitation none, humidity 54 at 7 pm and 47 at 7 am, water stage 9.5 rising 2.4 feet in 24 hours. Astronomical events note visible evening stars Mercury Mars Saturn Jupiter and morning star Venus. Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Christian penitential season.
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J. M. Sherier
Mercury
Mars
Jupiter
Venus
Shanahan Confirmed Speaker Amid GOP Dissent
Springfield Ill Feb 17 The House finalized the election of David Shanahan as permanent speaker as several dry Republicans objected to his selection. A Republican caucus failed to unify behind a slate, while radical dry members resisted Shanahan. London waters become a German war zone with neutral ships warned, flags to be painted for identification. Washington noted Britain might reject a German submarine blockade proposal. Berlin’s note to Washington and the U S reply regarding food shipments were made public.
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London
United Kingdom
Germany
Washington
Great Britain
England
Berlin
United States
British Isles
Gerard
Washington, D. C
Count von Bernsdorff
State Department
Havre
Dulwich
Cape de la Here
Fecamp
Admit election fraud in Big Terre Haute case
Indianapolis Ind Feb 17 Three names were added yesterday to the list of those pleading guilty to the federal indictment charging conspiracy to corrupt in last November s election in Terre Haute. Thomas Brady Jack Stingley and Harry Hickman are the defendants who changed their pleas in Judge Anderson s court. This makes a total of 87 who have pleaded guilty and 29 not guilty. Trial of the 29 including Mayor Donn M Roberts is set for March 8.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Terre Haute
Thomas Brady
Jack Stingley
Harry Hickman
Army officer ordered to explain statements on war unpreparedness
Washington D C Feb 17 Secretary Garrison instructed Brigadier General Scott chief of staff to summon Captain William Mitchell of the general staff to explain published remarks attributed to him regarding the United States lack of readiness for war.
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Washington, D. C
Garrison
Scott
William Mitchell
General Staff
United States
Tailor Breaks Sixty Day Fast After Wife’s Urging
Louis Roth, a Palo Alto tailor, ended a sixty day fast after a physician urged a few spoonfuls of orange juice. He had believed the fast would cure a digestive disorder but, after initial pangs, planned to continue until appetite or tongue cleared until his wife persuaded him to eat again.
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California
Palo Alto
Cal
Louis Roth
Roth
Dunne Urges Illinois Water Way Plan to St Louis
Governor Dunne told Illinois Grain Dealers in Bloomington that his message to the legislature would propose building a dam near Starved Rock on the Illinois River to supply water for a canal from Chicago to St Louis, enabling a large ship waterway at an estimated cost of 3 million dollars.
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Bloomington
Hil
Dunne
Ilinois
Starved Rock
Illinois River
Chicago
St Louis
Firemen Die in Danville Blaze at Odd Fellows Building
In Danville Newfoundland the February 17 fire razed the Odd Fellows' building in the business district. Two firemen were killed by falling walls and five were seriously injured. The loss is estimated at $70,000.
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Danville
Odd Fellows
Britons Slain in Naval Battles on the High Seas
London reports in the House of Commons that British naval casualties since the war began total 6,570. Churchill lists Killed 3,248 officers and 5,312 men. Wounded 45 officers and 1,252 men. Missing 8 officers and 5 men. Add First Royal Naval Division losses at Antwerp: Killed 5 officers and 36 men. Wounded 4 officers and 154 men. Missing 7 officers and 868. Interned 39 officers and 1,524 men.
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London
House of Commons
Winston Spencer Churchill
The
Admiralty
Churchill
Antwerp
War zone scare trims July wheat as fears rise
Chicago, Feb 17. July wheat futures fell up to five cents as export demand faded amid vessel risk fears from the war zone. Trading centered on the July contract with closes down 23 4 to 43 8 from yesterday. In Champaign, Walter B. Reilly announced candidacy for circuit judge against F. H. Boggs, with a county primary likely to nominate.
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Chicago
Ill
Champaign
Walter B. Reilly
F. H. Boggs
Senate Ship Purchase Bill Goes To Senate Fight
Washington Feb 17 The administration compromise ship purchase bill moved to the senate after a house passage at 1:20 this morning by 215 to 121. Democratic leaders hoped it would reel in insurgent Democrats and avoid a new session, while Bernard Baker testified on ship purchase feasibility and German owned liners.
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Senate
House
McAndrews
Buchanan
Gallagher
Tavenner
Hexworth Stone
FitzHenry
O'Hair
Rainey
Graham
Baltz
Foster
Fowler
Hill
Stringer
Williama
Borchers
Maiden
Mann
Britten
McKenzie
Thomson
Hinebaugh
Copley
Sabath
Gorman
Wilson
Tette
Congress
Bernard Baker
Baltimore
McAdoo
Baker
Shanahan House Dean, Serving His 11th Term
Springfield I Feb 17 David B Shanahan who yesterday elected speaker of the lower house of the Illinois legislature is a Republican a wet and represents the Ninth senatorial district comprising the union stock yards district in Chicago He is the dean of the house in point of service now serving his 11th term He was first elected to the legislature in 1894 Speaker Shanahan is a real estate and insurance broker He was born on a farm in Lee county Illinois in 1862 and moved to Chicago at six months He has served on all major committees and chaired the insurance municipal corporations appropriations and Republican steering committees He was temporary Speaker of the Forty third general assembly and has led the appropriations committee since first elected He was Republican floor leader of the Forty eighth general assembly
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Springfield
David B. Shanahan
Iinois
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Shanahan
Lee County
Minois
Forty-third General Assembly
Forty Eighth General Assembly
Arbitration board to rule on western road wage scale
Chicago Feb 17 Award of the board of arbitration in the wage movement of engineers, firemen and hostlers on 48 western railroads will be handed down April 20. The decision will determine pay scales for key railroad workers across the region.
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Chicago
Board of Arbitration
Iowa Red Light Law Invalidated by Supreme Court
Des Moines Feb 17 The Iowa Supreme Court ruled the Cosson red light district injunction law valid because Guy Feely, speaker of the Thirty-fourth assembly, failed to sign it. Attorney General Cosson has a near identical bill likely to be enacted. the statute has inspired copies in many states.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Supreme Court
Cosson
Guy Feely
Thirty-fourth Assembly
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