Turkiye Fort Guns Banish Allied Ships In Dardanelles
Constantinople reports three Allied warships damaged after a seven and a half hour bombardment of the Dardanelles forts. The fleet withdrew toward Tenedos, while British and French forces claimed success and vow to press the campaign.
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London
Bachenelles
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France
Pardanelles
Con Manteople
Hisaferway
Sea of
Marmora
Mediterranean
Constantine Foley
Dardanelles
Marmara
Constantinople
Genets
Peo
Svielk
Uetrian
Bette
Berits
Bandersrath Bae
Germany
Mongolian In Distress Off Cape Race
The steamer Mongolian of the Allan Line bound for Glasgow from Philadelphia is 400 miles off Cape Race in distress and leaking badly. There are 200 passengers aboard and the Red Cross liner Stephans, 416 miles from Halifax, is rushing to aid.
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New York
Mongolian
Allen Line
Philadelphia
Glasgow
Cape Race
RED Cross
Stephans
Halifax
Revelations of Plot Tied to Lody Pass At Capital
Federal authorities probe an alarming claim by Richard Stegler’s counsel that Captain Boyed, Berlin’s naval attaché, provided an American passport to Carl Hans Lody, the London spy felled last year. The testimony links Stegler to plans to reach England and aid Germany, with payments arranged for his wife and travel advances discussed.
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New York
Charles Griffiths
Richard Stegler
Captain Boyed
Washington
Carl Hans Lody
Tower of London
Stegler
Boyed
Georgia
Griffiths
England
St. George's Channel
Franconia
Liverpool
Becker Denied Another Hearing
New York on February 26 reports former Police Lieutenant Becker had an application for a further hearing denied by the court. The brief item notes Becker’s ongoing legal situation without detailing subsequent actions or dates.
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New York
Becker
Indictments Against Haven Brink in Henry County
Thirteen indictments were returned by the Henry county grand jury against Haven Brink former cashier of the Farmers bank of Alpha. He faces embezzlement charges involving bank funds and school district funds in Oxford township. Three indictments allege perjury for false certificates of deposit to conceal embezzlements. The grand jury met in a special session to consider the Alpha man's case.
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Cambridge
Henry County
Haven Brink
Farmers’ Bank of Alpha
Brink
Oxford Township
State Auditors
Grand Jury
Japan Modifies Action in China Heads for Compromise
Peking reports progress toward easing Sino Japanese tensions. Tokyo signals it will drop some general demands, including Chinese consultation on foreign advisers and joint policing. Other waivers include arms purchases from Japan and special privileges in Fukien, with both sides narrowing to 12 remaining disputed points.
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Peking
China
Pukien
Japan
Is Bound Over For Stealing a Bicycle
John Weadon was arrested after noon by Night Desk Sergeant Bleuer on larceny charges for stealing a bicycle from Louis Alters at the Sil verman grocery on Seventeenth street. He was arraigned before Magistrate Smith and bound over to the grand jury with bonds set at 500 dollars.
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John Weadon
Bleuer
Louis Alters
Silverman «Rocery
Seventeenth Street
Alters
Wheadon
Smith
Grand Jury
Banker Killed as Haxtun Robbery Bandit Captured
John Brunke 24 assistant cashier of Farmers State bank Haxtun was shot and killed by a robber who entered during lunch. The bandit fled with cash, fired on a crowd, and was captured after a posse halted his horse eight miles east of Haxtun following a brief chase and gunfire.
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Haxtun
Lberty
Democrats Keep Up Their Battle In House Committees
Springfield February 26 Browne and anti Browne democrats have carried their factional fight into house committee appointments Speaker Shanahan struggles to satisfy rival leaders unable to reconcile differences Democrats demand the lion's share of committee favors.
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Springfield
Wheat Drops 1 4 to 3 4 Cents as Dardanelles Silence Sparks Selloff
Wheat in Chicago falls 7 14 to 43 8 cents a bushel in a half hour amid reports outer defenses of the Dardanelles were silenced. A foreign government cables Chicago to offer 15 000 16 00 bushels of No 2 hard winter for shipment in 40 days as a beneficiary of opening of the straits. New York reports Joseph Leiter testifies farmers have long sold below cost and the Liverpool exchange sets prices.
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Chicago
Jil
Dardanelles
New York
Joseph Leiter
Liverpool
Riots in Italy Over Intervention Sparks Casualties
In Ventinigua Italy a demonstration for neutrality collided with an interventionist counter demonstration. One person was killed and many injured including police as carabineers charged crowds. In Milan radical deputy Mosti Trotti collapsed and died while speaking in favor of intervention.
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Ventinigua
Italy
Milan
Mosti-Trotti
Weather Summary for Tonight and Saturday
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Lows near freezing, 25 at 7 am, high yesterday 34. Winds calm, no precipitation. Humidity 76 percent at 7 pm, stage of water 0.3 with 0.7 rise in 24 hours. Evening stars Mars Saturn. morning stars Jupiter Venus Mercury. Aldebaran in Taurus near mid even south. J M Sherier Local Forecaster.
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J. M. Sherier
Mars
Saturn
Jupiter
Venus
Mercury
Aldebaran
Constellation
Taurus
Three Crew Lost As American Steamer Carib Sunk
War dispatches report three members of the crew of the American steamer Carib killed when the ship sank in the North Sea likely due to a mine. Amsterdam notes a Swedish steamer Svarton damaged by a mine or torpedo with a large hole in her starboard side. Paris reports the destruction of French torpedo boat Dague in the Adriatic.
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North Sea
Amsterdam
Svarton
Rotterdam
Ymuiden
Holland
Paris
Admiralty
Adriatic
Kenosha Opens School to Educate Housemaids
Kenosha Wisconsin announces a new municipal program to educate housemaids. Fifteen young women from various nationalities joined the first class aimed at break making table service housekeeping and other domestic arts. Two teachers and public funding support the effort with an employment bureau to follow. The first lecture titled The Dignity of Serving. Champaign Illinois John N Burr prominent local figure dies aged about 87.
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Kenosha
Wis
High Court Gets Leo Frank’s Plea
The Supreme Court heard Leo M. Frank’s lawyers argue that mob violence and absence from trial tainted his case and violated due process, urging release from custody. Louis Marshall led the defense as justices questioned coercion and trial fairness. The hearing follows a Georgia court verdict for Frank in the Mary Phagan murder.
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Washington, D. C
Leo M. Frank
Mary Phagan
Atlantic
Sxiven
Frank
Supreme Court
Louis Marshall
New York
Federal District Court of Georgia
Marshall
Roan
Justice Pitney
Justice Holmes
Mr. Marshall
Seat of Justice
State Supreme Court
Holmes
Murder Mystery in Aurora Linked to Glove and Gas Pipe
In Aurora Illinois a murder in a fashionable Lake street district is tied to an old woolen glove and a gas pipe, with a bloodhound tracing scent from the glove toward the Northwestern tracks and Fox River. Forty two suspects are held, including a tall man in a long overcoat linked to a prior case.
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Aurora
Exima Peterson
Fashionable Lake Street
Jennie Miller
Michels
Miss Miller
Miss Peterson
John Mason
Theresa Hollander
Tony Petras
Decatur
Elgin
Fox River
Wade for Federal Judge Iowa City Man Nominated
Washington reports the president nominated Martin J. Wade of Iowa City to be federal judge for southern Iowa, to succeed McPherson, with the nomination sent to the senate on February 26. Paris reports 64 American artists in Paris had passports refused as birth certificates are required, per Washington instructions. In Champaign, Rev Benno Blaschke, pastor of St John’s Catholic church, is transferred to Lewistown and will oversee churches at Rushville Bushnell and Table Grove.
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Iowa City
McPherson
Washington, D. C
Senate
Martin J. Wade
Iowa
Paris
Washington
Champaign, I
Benno Blaschke
St. John’s Catholic Church
Dunne
Lewistown
Rushville
Bushnell
Table Grove
Reid Holds Road Is Not Burdened
Daniel G. Reid, head of the Rock Island control group since 1901, told the Interstate Commerce Commission that two holding companies with a combined capitalization of 350 million dollars added no extra burden to the Chicago Rock Island Pacific railway during cross examination about the road’s finances.
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Washington
Daniel G.reid
Rock Island Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
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