Petrograd Claims Mackensen Dash Overruns Russian Lines
The report from Berlin states General Mackensen occupies many Russian positions as German and Austro German forces press in Poland and Galicia. Attacks on multiple fronts advance with gains near Arras and east of Lowette as Belgium and Baltic fronts show activity. Prisoner counts and battlefield maneuvers are noted amid shifting lines.
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K. Mehl
Belgium
Diomede
Arras
Lowette
Dimtester
Te Galirtenine
Baltic
Street Railways Strike Paralyzes Chicago Transit
Chicago experts describe the street car strike as the largest in U S history with 14 000 workers idle 1 310 miles of track blacked out and drivers replaced by strike breakers and guards. Police guard car barns as officials plan to operate by the hour while businesses from stores to post offices brace for disruption and major downtown transit reorganization unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Chivags
Jace
Waleed
Ned & Wheel
Waton
Ofietale
Thompson
Wurikere
W.D. Mahon
Mee's Onion
Hnew
Tattenbe
Two Killed and Five Wounded in Riot Here
Riot erupts early today as officers try to halt a disturbance during an attempted arrest. A white man and a suspect were killed, and five officers were wounded, Sheriff Mood reportedly fatally injured. Gunfire shattered the scene. the conflict centered on securing Smith during the clash.
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Winastero
Mamet Misenbaser
Utes Seth
Secre
Sherif Mood
Mom
Smith
Turing
Sealth
Mrs Lucy Plum Slain by an Auto in Astora
Mrs Lucy Plum, a 65 year old prominent Astor society woman in Joliet, was knocked down and killed by an automobile driven by W Haviland, secretary of an association, amid the W. V. Plem estate context. The International Harvester representative figure is noted in the report.
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Lucy Plum
Astora
Jane
New Witness in Lusitania Case Arrives in New York
Heinz Hardenberg, latest government witness in the Lusitania affidavits probe, arrives in New York and heads to the Bureau of Information as the grand jury investigates conspiracy to defraud the United States by sworn statements claiming Lusitania carried guns on its last voyage. Hardenberg was seized by the government Saturday in Cincinnati. more than a dozen witnesses stand ready to testify.
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New York
Heinz Hardenburg
Lusitania
Bureau of Information
Department of Jesticn
Granu Fary
United States
Hardenberg
Cincinnati
Grand Jarry
Death of D C Dison on Chicago to Iowa train
D C Dison, 55, a manager of a large Superior Wisconsin manufacturing concern, died of heart disease on a Chicago to Iowa train. He traveled with his daughter and the pair were en route when the fatal illness occurred.
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Missouri Valley
Iowa
D. C. Dison
Superior
Wis
Two More Traders Lost In Zone In War News
London reports confirm two Danish schooners Katrine and Cocos Merstal were stopped by a submarine. The Cocos Merstal crew joined Katrine, and Katrine arrived at the Firth of Forth. A British steamer Hopemount, 3,300 tons, was torpedoed west of Saint Ives. crew saved. Arndale, 3,583 tons, struck a mine in the White Sea and sunk.
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London
Hopemount
Saint Ives
England
New Castle
Hopemount Shipping Company, Limited
Atlantic
Newport News
St. Nazaire
Firth of Forth
Scotland
Arndale
White Sea
Sunderland
T. Smailes and Sons Steamship Company, Limited
car= & cargo i hectennet
Arctic Ocean
High Court Outcomes Include Railroad Freight Rule Ruling
The Supreme Court upheld a 1874 Illinois requirement that railroads furnish freight and passenger cars promptly after notice. It also decided the Virginia debt share at 12,393,929 dollars and declined rulings on the International Harvester trust, Caminetti, and the Webb Kenyon liquor cases. The court left undecided the National Cash Register Sherman action and extended federal labor protections to brake personnel. The Des Moines 90 cent gas ordinance was sustained and the term recessed until June 21 ahead of October adjournment.
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Washington, D.C
Supreme Court
West Virginia
Virginia
International Harvester Trust
F. Drew Caminetti
Sacramento
Cal
Kentucky
Webb-Kenyon
Kenyon
Adams Express Company
Tennessee
Whitley County
Express
United States Drcuit Court of Appeals
National Cash Register Company
Des Moines
Ovens Expanded At Connellsville Coke Works
The H. C. Frick Coke company orders 1,000 more coke ovens in Connellsville district. Company now operates 12,895 ovens, out of a total 19,224.
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Connellsville
H. C. Frick Coke Company
4000 More Cars Planned for Rock Island Railroad
Chicago June 14. Receivers decide on extensive railroad equipment including 4000 freight cars. Judge Carpenter will be asked in federal court to approve the purchase costing between 3.5 and 4.4 million dollars.
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Chicago
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
Carpenter
Riots in Moscow over German ties tear city apart
In Moscow street riots and anti German demonstrations escalate over alleged German poisoning of factory water. Mob destroys shops and homes, fires ignite across districts, police fail to control crowds until troops intervene. Casualties reported as rioters are deterred.
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Moscow
Petrograd
London
Carroll Bill Is Called Up Again
Springfield Illinois June 14 sportsmen push to pass the Carroll boxing bill before adjournment. The senate has approved it with a referendum provision. the house previously killed a similar measure. The bill sets 10 round bouts under a state athletic commission with five percent of receipts to the state and a $5,000 yearly salary for commissioners. An amendment lowering salaries to $2,500 and changing the state’s share to 7 4 percent was in the senate but dropped by error. if added it returns to the senate for concurrence. The house and senate leaders expect adjournment by Thursday or Friday with sine die soon after amid limited floor action due to quorum issues.
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Springfield
Senate
House
State Athletic Commission
Greece Votes for War Candidates
Athens dispatch says M Venizelos party candidates won in the capital and partisans were successful elsewhere in Greece. King Constantine remains anxious awaiting results. A ministry change will be blocked until parliament meets, possibly after 40 days, keeping the cabinet in power until late August.
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Paris
Athens
Havas
M. Venizelos
Constantine
Weather forecast for Rock Island area with showers likely
Unsettled and warmer tonight with probable showers. Tuesday cloudy and warmer. Temperature 7 am 55, high yesterday 67, low 53, wind 7 mph. Water stage 7.5, up 0.3 in 48 hours. J M Sherier, local forecaster. Another Bryan Statement reports ex Secretary Bryan plans a new proposal to end the war.
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J. M. Sherier
Engine Fails Over Dam Drowning Two Boys
Mount Pleasant Iowa June 14 Bert Faulkner and Joe Schaffner two young men of this city were drowned in the Skunk river near here Sunday afternoon when the engine in their motor boat failed and they floated over a dam Tom McMillan also of this city in third occupant of the boat managed to reach shore Faulkner's body was recovered by searchers.
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Mount Pleasant
Iowa
Bert Faulkner
Joe Schaffner
Skunk River
Here
Tom McMillan
Faulkner
Two Die When Yacht and Steamer Clash
A collision between the steam yacht Vanadis and the Bunker Hill on Long Island waters left two men dead. John J. Brown of Boston and George H. Kendrick of Boston perished, their bodies recovered as the Bunker Hill returned with a gaping hull. In Atlanta, Leo M. Frank's bid for commutation to life imprisonment continued before Governor Slayton, Solicitor Dorsey opposing.
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New York
C. K. G. Billing
Vanadis
Glen Cove
Long Island
John J. Brown
Boston
Bunker Hill
Metropolitan Line
George H. Kendrick
War shortage of male farm laborers in England to be filled by women
London June 4 Correspondence of the Associated Press There is a war shortage of 176000 male agricultural laborers on the farms of England Scotland and Wales according to a report from the board of agriculture During the next two months the board hopes to fill virtually all these vacancies with women.
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London
Associated Press
England
Scotland
Wales
Board of Agriculture
Carranza Seizes Mexico City Risk Reported by Villa Leaders
Dispatches from New York and Washington detail Carranza plans to seize Mexico City as Villa’s forces hold the capital. An armistice offer arrives from convention delegates, while Carranza commander Gonzales receives 48 hours to relay terms. Maytorena defends border towns and urges restraint to avoid U S danger.
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Washington, D. C
Washington
Mexico
Carranza
Villa
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Pablo Gonzales
Convention Party
Mexico Capital
Gonzales
Convention
Carothers
Har Dayal Arrested as Undesirable Here in San Francisco
San Francisco June 14 Har Dayal a high caste Brahmin with a large Hindu following in America was arrested as an undesirable alien by government officials. He had been mentioned in Lahore India court testimony during trials of 81 people accused of overthrowing British rule by force. Dayal claimed officials of the British government suggested his deportation to be tried for spreading revolutionary propaganda among Hindus in the United States.
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San Francisco
Cal
Har- Dayal
Lahore
India
Dayal
United States
America
Guillaume Target of New Revolution
In Cape Haitien on June 14 government troops hold Milot and Suzanne while Grande Rivere forces fall back to Lacombe. Fighting persists near Cape Haitien as the gunboat Lord Alexis shells Fort Picolet rebels led by Dr. Bobo to oust President Guillaume. No decisive outcome yet.
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Cape Haitien
Haiti
Milot
Suzanne
Grande Rivere
Lacombe
Alexis
Fort Picolet
Bobo
Guillaume
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Poland
Berlin
Gen. Mackensen
Erie
Juan
Lievin
Asvas
Rex
Carter
Charl
Gescote
Maxkesers
Cyer- LaVk
Mescaim
Amd
le Ewemyr
Seriswn
Ander Gemms ‘Og Liesinges Eed Generel von der Marwits
Progrese
Cinime of
Galicia
Ree Fo
Kile Pace
Electric Hore
Halle
Bustmeee
Wasewall
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Evanston
Northwestern Elevated
Wilson Avenue
Division Street
Heine Nardenburg
Stes
Rock Island
Przemysl
Lemberg
Cyerniawa
Mosciska
Sieniawa
San
Carroll Bill
Greece
Venizelos Party
Polis
Davenport
Moline
Vicinity
Bryan
Friends Here
Francisco Elias
Alvaro Obregon
Elias
Lagos
Leon
Paso
Texas
Juarez
George C. Carothers
Villa Territory
Miguel Diaz Lombardo
Villa-Obregon
Maytorena
Douglas
Ariz
Jose Maytorena
Sonora
C. M. O'Connor
United States Border Patrol
Agua Prieta
Urbalejo
Acosta
Trujillo
Har-Dayal
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