More Briton Vessels Lost In Deep Waters
British and Allied ships suffer multiple losses in the Channel and North Sea. The Deptford, 1200 tons, sank after hitting a mine or torpedo near Scarborough with seven crew lost and others rescued by the P ulgens at South Shields. The Western Coast, a small coasting steamer, was sunk by a mine or torpedo in the English Channel. crew landed at Portsmouth. Berlin reports all hands from Evelyn saved at Bremerhaven after mine strike in the North Sea. Submarine activity increases in the Adriatic and Mediterranean as German boats reach Pola. British uniforms found among wreckage and French insurers donate to aid rescued crews.
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Comton
Deptford
Ste Tees
Scarborough
South Shielde
Weamer Pulgens
South Shields
English
Head Mead
Portsmouth
Berlin
Evelyn
North Sea
Tremerhaven
Mediterranean
tHieneva
Polafeblef
Austri- Nengary
Tribene
Adriatic
Medierranean
Fertin
Pet's
Noreenlen
Orla
English Channel
New Oxygen Invention Aims to Cut Tetanus Deaths
New York February 25. Announcement by the Roche Institute claims an invention and a new method to treat tetanus in wounded soldiers in Europe. Twenty machines already sent to Europe and patents granted to manufacturers. The statement calls tetanus the greatest war danger. Receiver for Securities in Trenton NJ February 26. Temporary receiver appointed for American Finance and Securities Company. The 1914 report shows issued capital stock of 5 000 000 dollars.
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New York
Roce “Tetee Institute
Europe
Trenton
N. J
American Finance and Securities Company
Mulct repeal becomes law in Iowa January first
Des Moines Feb 25 Governor Clarke signed the mulct bill repealing the fee on certain property. The measure returns Iowa to statutory prohibition effective January 1 next year. Both chambers adjourned until March 4. A senate graft inquiry committee was discharged after its report.
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Les Moines
Iowa
Clarke
Senate
The War Today: German Advances and Global Strife
Associated Press reports Przasnysz fallen to German forces with about ten thousand Russians captured. British ships loss grows as two more sunk, while submarines extend warfare to the Adriatic and Mediterranean. London notes torpedoing off Beachy Head with casualties. Allied proposals for ending unrestricted warfare await Germany’s reply. Russian retreat claims disputed by Berlin and Moscow, with heavy losses noted in Dukla Pass. Constant battles unfold in northern Poland and the Carpathians as Turks counter Russian attacks east of Artzin. Downing of the Royal Navy is killed in London. Grey signals Britain’s sympathy with Russia’s Constantinople aims. Russians invade Bukowina. Austrians push toward Czernowitz to meet renewed attack.
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Associated Press
Przasnysz
Russian Poland
Berlin
Germany
Deptford
Pola
Adriatic
Mediterranean
London
Harpalton
Ni News
Beachy Head
New Haven
England
East Prussia
Poland
Carpathians
Dukla Pass
Constantinople
Artzin
Downing
Royal Navy Flying Corps
Flying School
Grey
Great Britain
Russia
Manornita
Roumania
Bukowina
Sadagera
Czernowitz
Europe Buys B16 a Seven Months
Bread stuffs and meats valued at 277 million dollars were sent abroad in the last seven months ending January, up 150 million from 1913. Wheat, corn, beef, flour, gasoline, and other commodities rose, while cotton exports fell by 2.5 million bales from last year.
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Washington, D. C
Sea Hobo Is New Columbus Title
Washington D C Feb 25 Jem Davis founder of Hotel De Gink for unemployed in New York asked President Wilson to set aside public land in Arizona for a Farm De Gink for the unemployed and later spoke with interior department officials He classed the unemployed into hoboes tramps and bums urged aid for hoboes and likened Columbus to a sea hobo Four Lose Lives In Fire East St Louis Ill Feb 25 John Stutzman grocer his two daughters and a son died when their home burned Dean 17 escaped by leaping from a second story window
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Washington, D. C
Jem Davis
Hotel de Gink
New York
Wilson
Arizona
Interior Department
Davis
Christopher Columbus
America
East St. Louis
John Stutzman
Dean
Taft Endorses Expert Panel for School Standardization
Yale professor William H. Taft urged expanding the U S Bureau of Education into a university of experts to audit school systems nationwide. He claimed public education requires thorough evaluation of discipline, knowledge, and spending and proposed periodical independent exams for certificates and degrees.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Bureau of Education
William H. Taft
Yale University
United States
Department of
Naonal Education Association
Washington
Five Special Defense Boards Are Abolished
Washington D C Feb 25 Five special defense boards are abolished by war department orders promulgated today. Work these boards previously have done will hereafter be directed by a general board of review composed of from five to seven officers on detail in Washington who from time to time will make recommendations regarding the country s defense.
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Washington, D.C
War Department
General Board of Review
Washington
Shanahan In Jolts 10 Pay Roll Drones
Springfield February 25 Speaker Shanahan announced that all house payrolls will start when the payroller begins work rather than at the session opening. The rule excludes a few on duty since convening. He ordered daily attendance or immediate discharge for all employees during sessions.
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Springfield
Shanahan
Sprivefield
Dacia 400 Miles From Lands End
New York reports the steamship Dacia, en route from Norfolk to Rotterdam with cotton, was 400 miles west of Lands End on Feb 23 and would pass through the English Channel unless seized due to its German ownership at war onset. A second item notes police determined a supposed dynamite stick at the Panama-Pacific Exposition was a toy.
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New York
Norfolk
Rotterdam
Atlantic
Lands End
England
English
San Francisco
Palace of Manufacturers
Weather Summary for Tonight and Friday
Partly cloudy conditions prevail with little temperature change. Tonight’s low near freezing and 7 am temperature at 30. Latest high 34 yesterday and no precipitation. Humidity around 71 72 percent, wind light, water stage rising 0.4 inch in 24 hours. Astronomical notes list Mars Saturn evening and Jupiter Venus Mercury Procyon Sirius morning.
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J. M. Sherier
Mars
Saturn
Jupiter
Venus
Mercury
Sirius
Man Seizes Indiana Church Over Music Ban
James McKillip of Newark Ohio arrested for trespass after taking possession of the Church of Christ at Bend Indiana to dispute a deed provision barring musical instruments. He paid a $50 bail and kept a shotgun by his side claiming court will rule against the congregation for allowing instruments in worship.
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Kokomo
Ind
James McKillip
Newark
Ohio
Church of Christ
McKillip
McKilip
Spereahey
Senate panel to back Wilson trade board nominees
The Interstate Commerce Committee plans a favorable report Saturday on President Wilsons Federal Trade Commission nominees. Expect confirmation by the full Senate as Gallinger eases objections to Rublee and Reed-side disputes ease. Georgia reps settle on Harris. Hurley and Parry issues also resolved. In Champaign Illinois grocers and butchers plan a cooperative delivery system inspired by Ann Arbor Michigan.
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Senate Committee
Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Senate
Wilson
Federal Trade Commission
Gallinger
New Hampshire
George Rublee
Reed
Georgia
W. J. Harris
Lewis
Edward N. Hurley
Jones
W. H. Parry
Champaign
Ill
Ann Arbor
Mich
Rock Island Road Deficit Reported in 1914 Assets
Testimony in a Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific inquiry before the Interstate Commerce Commission stated the 1914 annual report listed assets of 26 million dollars but the examiner found only 1.7 million in value. The company then faced an 11 million dollar deficit due to worthless securities it owned.
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New York
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Frederick Sharod
Havana Settled as Battle Scene for Johnson Willard
Toronto report says Jack Johnson called off the March 6 Juarez fight and will meet Jess Willard in Havana, aiming for a match drawing on the Jeffries Johnson contest. Tom Flanigan received Johnson’s message from Havana stating the bout will occur there and no Mexico trip. El Paso notes Tom Jones stating Willard must fight in Juarez or not at all.
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Toronto
Canada
Jack Johnson
Jess Willard
Juarez
Willard
Havana
Tom Flanigan
Johnson
Jeffries
Jeffries-Johnson
Mexico
el Paso
Texas
Tom Jones
Jaurez
Motion for New Becker Hearing in Rosenthal Murder
In New York on February 25 a motion for a new trial was filed for Charles Becker, the former police lieutenant convicted in the Herman Rosenthal murder case. The papers include James Marshall's affidavit disputing portions of his testimony from the second trial.
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New York
Charles Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Supreme Court
James Marshall
Marshall
Federation protests over a new canal order
Washington February 25 representatives of the American Federation of Labor protested to President Wilson against an executive order requiring Panama canal employees to pay their own rent fuel and light after March 1 and complained that negroes were displacing whites on the canal zone. They were referred to Secretary Garrison.
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Washington, D. C
American Federation of Labor
Wilson
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Garrison
England Not to Quit Even If Left by Self
London reports that in the house of commons Premier Asquith affirmed Britain would keep fighting to the bitter end, even if France and Russia withdraw. Other dispatches note Russian forces captured at Augustowo and Pryasnysz, German claims of Antwerp siege, French positions in Champagne, and prisoner exchanges imminent in Berne with Swiss hospital transport for invalids.
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London
House of Commons
Asquith
Admiralty
Churchill
Great Britain
France
Russia
Westminster Gazette
Germany
Berlin
Augustowo
Antwerp
Pryasnysz
Vistula
Przasnysz
Petrograd
Przasnyss Ts
Warsaw
Paris
Champagne
Grey
Berne
Switzerland
Federal Reserve Notes To Be Printed For Banks
Washington announces printing of 500 million federal reserve notes to be issued to federal reserve banks on demand. The move aims to supplement Aldrick-Vreeland issues before June 30. In St Louis, James Austin, former St Louis Americans third baseman, says he will play for the Americans this year after signing with the Pittsburgh Federals.
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Washington, D. C
McAdoo
Federal Reserve
Austin
St. Louis
James Ausetin
St. Louis Americans
Pittsburgh Federals
Davis Order To Count Chicago Ballots In Reconciling Recount
Federal Judge Landis granted J McCan Davis of Springfield an order directing the Chicago election commission to turn over ballots cast for congressman at large in the last election for a recount. Davis, a Republican, claimed many votes for him in Chicago were not counted.
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Chicago
Landis
J. McCan Davis
Springfield
Chicago Election Commission
Davis
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