Compromise Solution Seen If Torreon Defeat Changes Talks
Reports from multiple cities on March 19 describe troop movements to Laredo and Eagle Pass as Huerta and rebels face Torreon. Washington weighs proposals for peace while Me xico battles intensify with mutinies executions at Jojulla and a Bryan birthday event in Lincoln.
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Washington
D. C
White House
Huerta
Veraraz
John Lind
Torreon
Juarez
Mexico
Mazatlan
Villa
Obregon
Pacific Coast
Mezatlan
West Coast
Uncovering New Lobby in Capital
The senate lobby committee will investigate charges that an organized lobby is working to defeat the Hughes bill to regulate shipments of convict labor. The Burnett Immigration bill with a literacy test was favorably reported to the senate. The committee will meet tomorrow to address the Colorado and Michigan strike troubles and examine Rockefeller's connection to the Colorado Fuel and Iron company and the Calumet & Hecla Copper company.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Lobby Committee
Hughes
Burnett Immigration
Senate
Colorado
Michigan
Rockefeller
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Calumet Hecla Copper Company
Vollmer Attacks Woeful Jeremiahs in Maiden Speech
In his maiden House address Henry Vollmer Democrat Davenport Iowa railed against the woe criers of calamity urging a return to serious sober facts and agricultural prosperity. He urged Congress to discard a mood of dismal dreams and focus on practical policy.
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Washington, D. C
Henry Vollmer
Davenport
Iowa
Living after 37 hours entombed in St Louis ruin
Thomas Burke survived 37 1 2 hours buried under debris at the St Louis Seed company building after the Missouri Athletic club wall collapsed in a fire. He was rushed to a hospital in weakened condition but died later. Six other victims were recovered from the Seed ruins and thirty lives were lost in the club fire. William G. Young, managing editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, died.
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St Louis
Thomas Burke
St Louis Seed Company
Burke
Missouri Athletic Club
Missouri Club
Two Miners Die in Buxton Dust Explosion
Buxton Iowa March 19 two men were killed and much property damaged by a dust explosion in mine No 12 during the hot firing period followed by a cavern Nineteen mules were killed in the blast and mine workings.
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Buxton
Iowa
Here
Indiana Democrats Favor State Wide Primary Plan
Indianapolis March 19 Democratic state convention endorses a state wide primary for all offices with counsel to run the party. Governor Ralston lauds President Wilson's records and Mexican policy as Shively wins renomination. Berlin reports weak signs of a shipping accord as trans Atlantic traffic allotments loom.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United States
Shively
Resolutions Committee
Bell
Wilson
Samuel M. Ralston
Indiana
Ralston
William Jennings Bryan
Mexico
Questin
Unemployed Army Hoots Sheriff in Sacramento Camp
About 150 jobless men from General Kelley’s army mocked Sheriff Ahern as deputies moved toward a ranch camp four miles north of Sacramento. A legal contract for the purchase of an acre with a $70 down payment halted the deputized force, while leaders boasted of housing a thousand men on the site with strong financial backing to sustain the operation.
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Sacramento
Cal
Kelley
Ahern
Sacramento County
Powder Plant Blast Rocks Illinois Towns
An explosion at Equitable Powder company in Alton Illinois shook a 100 mile radius. Night watchman Henry Miller was missing and presumed killed. Shocks were reported in Decatur Assumption Orleana Centralia Mount Vernon Vandalia Illinois with doors rattling in Centralia. The incident did not cross the Mississippi River into Missouri. A Big Four passenger train wreck at Marton Indiana produced no reported injuries though doctors were summoned.
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St. Louis
Equitable Powder Company
Alton
Ill
Illinois
Mississippi River
Missouri
Henry Miller
Decatur
Assumption
Orleana
Centralia
Mount Vernon
Vandalia
Rome Professor Burned to Death
Professor Giusseppe Mercalli director of the observatory on Mount Vesuvius was burned to death in his bedroom in Naples Italy. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
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Naples
Italy
Giusseppe Mercalli
Mount Vesuvius
Weather Summary for Rock Island and Vicinity
Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Tonight low around 15 to 20 degrees, northerly winds becoming variable. 7 am temp 23, yesterday high 34, low 23, wind 12 mph, no precipitation, humidity 87 at 7 am, 45 at 7 pm. Mira the bright westward star at about 8 pm. J M Sherier local forecaster. Astronomical events note evening stars Mars Venus Saturn and morning stars Jupiter Mercury.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Mars
Venus
Saturn
Jupiter
Mercury
Mira
Constellation
Cetus
Dog Barks Save Many From Fire at Windsor Hotel
Milwaukee reports a hotel fire at the Windsor and adjacent Evening Wisconsin office. Two score guests fled in night attire as flames and smoke damaged the Western Newspaper Union plant. No injuries reported. editorial staff displaced. paper to be issued from another plant.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Windsor Hotel
Western Newspaper Union
Wisconsin
Wilke
Granite
Oklo
Oklahoma Reformatory
Makers of Oleo Are Held Guilty
John F. Jelke president and eight company officials and former employes were found guilty in federal court of conspiring to defraud the government by evading oleomargarine tax. A clerk was acquitted. The trial featured testimony from over eighty witnesses including retailers with immunity.
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Chicago
John F. Jelke
John F. Jelke Company
H. P. McFarland
William M. Steele
Francis M. Lowry
Hugh D. Cameron
Milwaukee
Jones backs up on tolls charge in Senate clash
Senator Jones urged Wilson on the fisheries bill and was told he was skating on thin ice after implying the president would wait to read his Panama tolls message. Jones later returned to the Senate and presented the president's denial, saying he misread reports.
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Washington, D. C
Jones
Wilson
Congress
Panama
Lionel Carden
Mexico
White House
Capitol
Senate
Mrs Woodrow Wilson Nears Full Recovery
Washington reports Mrs Woodrow Wilson is on the road to complete recovery after a slight operation to correct a bruise sustained on the White House rug. The injury is described as entirely local and the First Lady's condition improving steadily.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Robber Steals 350 From Detroit Hotel and Flees
A masked armed man robbed Night Clerk Burns at the Hotel Metropole in Detroit, obtaining 350 dollars. He forced the driver to take him to the suburbs and left the car, later claiming the Chicago job would compensate for a missed 500-dollar heist.
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Detroit
Mich
Burns
Hotel Metropole
Chicago
Smith
Cadillac
Houston
Center
Texas
Martin
Beaumont
Silsbee
Helbig
Loss of Three Masted Schooner Sunk in North Sea Collision
Bremen March 19 an unidentified three masted schooner sank after colliding with the liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse bound for America. The crew perished and the steamer remained nearby for two hours but found no survivors.
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Bremen
Germany
North Sea
America
Storm Salutes Pope Named Day in Rome
Pope Pius woke to a terrific storm with lightning and thunder in Rome on May 19. He celebrated mass with invited guests including his sisters and niece as guards marked the occasion.
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Rome
Italy
Pope Pius
Corpa of
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Little Rock
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Ninth Infantry
Laredo
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Ohio
Atlanta
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Mexico City
Jojulla
Huertabax
War Department
Scott
Mee
Bryan
Macoln
Neb
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A. N. A. Recorder
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St. Louis Seed Company
Cedar Rapids
William G. Young
The
Cedar Rapids Gasette
Berlin
Tre
Oost
Marton
Quaker Oats Company
Great Western Cereal Company
Briggs House
Tex
Reb” Martin
Gulf, Colorado &Santa Fe
G. A. Taft
Wells Fargo Express Company
Storm
Pope
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