Earthquake Devastates Avezzano Sorrow Grows Across Italy
Amid Rome dispatches and dire reports from Avezzano and Sora, tens of thousands are feared dead or injured as the Italian earthquake devastates towns across central Italy. King Emmanuel guides relief, while American aid contemplates a relief committee. Rescue crews race to reach buried survivors as avalanches and ruined aqueducts compound the disaster.
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King Emmanuel
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Sora
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Locies
Alps
Italy
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Santa Muerta
Count Resta
London
the Chronicle
Exchange Telegraph
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San Benedetto
Livi
Paris
Messazero
Avezxzano
Sioux City Blaze Draws $200000 Loss At Trimble Block
Sioux City Iowa January 15 Fire at the Trimble block caused a $200000 loss. Principal claimants include W S Gilman owner Nash Hough Furniture Overland Sioux City autos Schultz Auto Supply. Hospital patients were moved without disorder. Rescue efforts and relief actions in Avezzano and Rome are noted with international aid and hospital offers.
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Sioux City
Iowa
W.S. Gilman
Nash & Hough Furniture Company
Overland Sioux City Company
Schultz Auto Supply Company
St. Vincent's Hospital
British to Free Ships Held as Prizes on Bond
Washington reports the British government will permit release on bond of ships detained in British prize courts if the judge approves. The British embassy urged the State Department against a Carranza embargo on Tampico oil exports, noting damage to Tampico oil fields.
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Washington
State Department
Tampico
Night Cabinet Meetings Begin In Washington
The president announced nightly cabinet discussions beginning tonight with informal talks held every Friday at 8 p m to discuss government business. Representative Beakes of Michigan proposed a constitutional amendment to extend the presidential term to six years.
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Washington, D. C
Beakes
Michigan
May wheat price soars at Chicago opening trading
Chicago Jan. 15 wheat shot to a war price high in the first minute of trading May selling at 1.43 percent, then rising quickly to 1.44 percent. Dispatches described a 40,000 strong Turk army threatening the Suez canal and Utah Idaho wheat fetching 1.69 a bushel as export demand pushed prices higher. Flour, rye and corn also gained on vast export activity.
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Chicago
Ill
Suez Canal
Utah
Idaho
California
Lodge Urges Cutting Posts to Build Adequate Armed Forces
Washington reports Senator Lodge declares defects stem from Congress and urges trimming army posts navy yards and stations while postponing nonessential public buildings river and harbor projects to free funds for a capable army and navy without raising taxes Clinton reports Clinton Young Men’s Christian Association debt free after one year of operation with backers pursuing $30,000 bequest through higher courts.
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Congress
Senator Lodge
Clinton
Young Men’s Christian Association
Deadlock Holds Up House Speaker Election in Forty Ninth Assembly
Springfield reports the Forty ninth general assembly faces a protracted speaker vote with 62 Republican votes for Provine and 17 holdouts as both parties grapple over wet and dry issues. Democrats threaten to boycott caucus while some call for bipartisan action as senators clash over election contests and seating disputed Democrats.
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Fortyninth General Assembly
Provine
Anti Browne
Senate
Chamber
Retired farmer ends life with shotgun in cellar
Ephraim Tomlinson, 75, a respected former farmer of Geneseo, in poor health and despondent over aging, fixed a block under a carpet, attached a double barrel shotgun trigger to his right foot, and blew his head off in his basement. An inquest recorded suicide. he leaves a wife and three children, including Daisy Young and John Tomlinson.
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Argus
Geneseo
Ephraim Tomiinewa
Pearl Street
C. S. Young
J. J. Johnson
Cambridge
Daisy Young
John Tomlinson
A. Rishel
Unsettled Weather With Rain Or Snow Likely Saturday
Forecast warns unsettled conditions tonight with the chance of rain or snow and a chilly night around freezing. Saturday will be colder with fresh winds. 7 am temperature 27, yesterday's high 41, last night 25, wind 12 mph. no precipitation and humidity near 86 at 7 am. Nebula and planets Mars and Venus visible after evening swim. Andromeda nebula described as an irresolvable ellipselike body south of Cassiopeia.
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Venus
Andromeda
Cassiopeia
Inquiry on graft charge roils Iowa legislature
In Des Moines Iowa two senate resolutions demand action on Governor Clarke's graft charge. One seeks an investigation by a five member committee with three Republicans. The other calls to expunge offending words from the governor's message. The oath of office was given to Clarke and Harding. a reception followed.
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Iowa
Iowa Senate
Clarke
Willj
Quigley
Clayton
Democrats
Doran
Harding
Deemer
Supreme Court
Light concern attorney held on bribe charge
Attorney A. Leo Weil of Pittsburgh, rep for Manufacturers' Light and Heat, released on 25000 bail for hearing next Tuesday on a charge he offered a 10000 bribe to Public Service Commissioner C. H. Bronson. Weil was arrested near Parkersburg while in West Virginia over sale of action against the company. Bronson is Governor Hatfield's brother in law.
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Charleston
W. Va
A. Leo Weil
Pittsburgh
Manufacturers’ Light and Heat Company
Public Service
C. H. Bronson
Weil
Parkersburg
West Virginia
West Virginia Public Service Commission
Germans Driven A Mile Nearby Labassee In France
British forces reportedly struck entrenched German positions near Labassee on January 10 driving the enemy back with heavy losses and advancing about a mile. French and Russian fronts show mixed progress as weather and river flooding hinder operations.
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Berlin
St. Omer
France
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Soissons
von Kluck
Aisne
London
Belgium
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Flanders
St. Mihiel
Poland
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St. Paul
Arras
Petrograd
War Office
von Hindenburg
Tabris
Porte
Persia
Russia
Geneseo Pioneer Businessman John Dedrick Dies
Geneseo Newfoundland and Labrador Geneseo pays tribute to John Dedrick pioneer merchant and Civil War veteran who died at his South Center Street home after a brief illness. Survived by wife and five children Henry M. Janesville George B. Oak Park Flora Campbell Chicago Jessie Eva at home. Funeral at his late home Sunday 2 p.m. in Geneseo.
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Geneseo
John Dedrick
South Center Street
Dedrick
Dedrick & Gustus
Dedrick & Lawrence
Flora Campbell
Oak Park
Jessie
Chicago
Eva
Attorneys Sentenced in Chicago Conspiracy Case
Chicago was the scene as attorney Jan Dickinson and E Malone received five years in prison while Frank P McMahon drew four years for conspiring to obstruct justice. They were found guilty of offering perjured testimony in the John P Cummings case, a manufacturer indicted on a brow.
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