Cabinet May Resign Over Ireland Row
London reports that Prime Minister Asquith resisted Colonel Seeley’s resignation amid army crisis in Ireland. Seeley defends actions while Churchill faces questions over naval moves near Ulster and government warnings that the army could be used to enforce order if needed.
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London
England
Seeley
Winston Spencer Churchill
Ulster
House of Commons
George
Ireland
Seele
Commons
Asquith
Paget
War Office
Beresford
Lord Beresford
Irish
Admiralty
Churchill
Bonar Law
House
New Member of the Diplomatic Set Opens Social Circles
Madame de Fonseca, wife of the Brazilian embassy's new military attaché in Washington, joins a cosmopolitan social circle. The piece also relays wartime Irish affairs, resignations, and correspondence on Ulster operations, with Seeley outlining limits on force and the ethical duty to obey only reasonable orders. It ends noting a German ferry disaster near Koepenick and the death of Frances Squire Potter in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madame de Fonseca
Washington
Law
Paget
Andrew Bonar Law
Commons
General Paget
Ulster
War Office
Cough
Ireland
Seeley
Villa's Army Driven Back by Federals
Dispatches from multiple Mexican cities report continuing fighting near Torreon with rebels repulsed at heavy cost and rumors of executions and missing Americans. The embassy notes Velasco ready for attack as officials confirm no clear details on Torreon’s status.
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Villa
Juarez
Mexico
Torreon
el Paso
Texas
Miguel Diebold
Mexican Federal Consular Service
Town Quieted by Martial Law in Gould Coupler Strike
Depew New York March 25 quiet prevailed as martial law held the Gould Coupler works. Four shots were fired at daybreak from beyond the Erie railroad gate where special deputies guarded the plant. No injuries reported.
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Depew, N
Gould Coupler Works
Erie Railroad
Off icers accused in royal benefit society treasury looting
Springfield March 25 state Insurance Superintendent Potts filed an answer in the Sangamon county case against the Royal Benefit Society accusing officers of treasury looting and seeking dissolution of an injunction. He says 134 unpaid death claims totaling 43509 and treasury funds used to create dividends for American Insurance. Hearing set for April 6 on a motion to appoint a receiver to take over management. Henry Phipps resigns from steel directory and finance committee to focus on private enterprise and philanthropy in New York.
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Treasury
Springfield
Rufus M. Potts
Sangamon County
Royal Benefit Society
Insurance Department
Potts
Society
American Assurance Company
Creighton
Sidney S. Breese
Phipps
New York
Henry Phipps
Steel Corporation
Directorate
White Wolf Captures Lung-Chu-Chai and Slays 230
Pekin dispatch reports White Wolf the Chinese brigand and his followers seized Lung-Chu-Chai in Shan-Si killing 230 residents and wounding and capturing hundreds more. Thousands of regulars are said to be in the field against him.
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Pekin
China
White Wolf
Lung-Chu-Chai
Shan-Si
Big Fire Drill On Disasters Date In New York
New York on March 25 staged a citywide fire drill to mark the Triangle Waist Factory disaster anniversary. 3,500 workers from a tobacco factory in Brooklyn were evacuated in two and a half minutes as officials highlighted fire prevention progress.
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New York
Adamson
Brooklyn
Weather Forecast For Rock Island Area Tonight And Thursday
Mostly cloudy and unsettled tonight and Thursday with colder air and a low near freezing. Winds shift briskly, 7 a.m. temperature 51, yesterday’s high 52 and low 47, precipitation 0.12 inch, humidity 51 percent at 7 p.m. and 80 percent at 7 a.m., water stage 3 feet with a 1 inch fall in 24 hours. Astronomical notes list Mars Venus Saturn as evening stars and Jupiter Mercury as morning stars, Aldebaran sets near 11 p.m.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Mars
Venus
Saturn
Jupiter
Mercury
Aldebaran Tred
Constellation
Taurus
Escaping Girls in a Freight Car
Mary Puckett and Bertha Smith both 15 escaped Geneva Industrial School for Girls in NL and were found in a box car at Northwestern railroad yards. They were fed, returned to authorities, and Geneva officials recaptured them that afternoon. Puckett is from Abingdon and Smith from East St. Louis.
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Fulton
Mary Puckett
Bertha Smith
Industrial School For Girls
Geneva
Northwestern
Puckett
Abingdon
Smith
East St. Louis
Seidel Seeks Milwaukee Mayoral Victory After Primary
Milwaukee voters nominated Mayor Bading and socialist Emil Seidel at the city’s first non partisan primary. With most precincts counted Seidel led Bading by 1,024 votes, and indications pointed to six socialist aldermen at large joining the slate.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Bading
Emil Siedel
Seidel
Gunness Clew Is Run Down Tale Echoes In Canada
La Porte Indiana March 25 Deputy Prosecutor Worden won permission to send a man to Neville Canada to interview the woman under surveillance suspected to be Mrs Belle Gunness of the murder farm notoriety. The Gunness house fire in 1908 yielded four bodies including Mrs Gunness and her three children. Ray Lamphere convicted of setting the fire died in prison. Clint Cochrane and Worden backers expect him to depart for Saskatoon. In Iowa Eugene McCullom 30 Des Moines arrested for obtaining money from about forty banks under false pretenses. In Illinois postmasters named by the Senate. Lloyd Bits berger and Bert Adams escaped from federal prison then recaptured. They again escaped from solitary through a sewer and were recaptured after robbery at Atchison.
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la Porte
Ind
Tilden
W. H. Worden
Neville
Canada
Belle Gunness
Worden
Ray Lamphere
Gunness
Waterloo
Iiona
Eugene McCullom
Des Moines
Middle West
McCullom
Iowa
Minnesota
Interstate Business Men's Accident Association
Council Bluffs
le Mars
Winterset
Northwood
Grinnell
Leavenworth
Kan
Lloyd Bitsberger
Bert Adams
Omaha
Atchison
Mines Ready to Close Across States by Midnight March 31
Delegates say bituminous coal mines in Illinois and neighboring states likely shut at midnight March 31 when current contracts expire. Union seeks wage hikes and local settlement rights while operators offer to renew terms for two years. Up to 200,000 miners may lose work, with 80,000 in Illinois, and rail carriers fear revenue drops.
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Chicago
Ill
Hanois
Ohio
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
West
Madison Street
Illinois
Ants barred by law enter ban on Morse ants
New York March 25 A bill to bar meadow ants brought to the United States last week by Mrs Charles W Morse wife of the former will prevent their entry under a federal act forbidding the importation of injurious insects. Springfield March 25 One thousand automobiles registered in Illinois between Jan 15 and 23 up from 37 000 last year. Panama tolls exemption provoked uproar in the lower house causing a quick adjournment without action.
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C. Ellis
Joliet
Chicago
William Cheney Ellis
Sherman
Joliet Penitentiary
Ellis
Will T. Davies
Chamberlain
Washington, D. C
Panama
Carnegie
Great Britain
United States
New York
Charles W. Morse
Congress
Springfield
Ilinois
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Colonel Seeley
Iondon
Secretary of War
Gough
Field Marshal French
Wday
Shee
War Office Fn
Sionever
Curragh
Koepenick
Germany
Frances Squire Potter
Madame da Fonseca
Velasco
Bermejillo
Gomez Palacio
Terrazas
Huahua
Luis Terrazas, Jr
General Vila
Laredo
Arthur Walls
Nuevo Laredo
New York City
South Bend
St. Casimir’s
W. A. Slick
George Banaszac
Steve Banaszak
Leo Michor
Ignatz Kinmic
Andrew Groczyak
Superior
John S. Gustafson
Gustafson
Duluth
Marseilles
France
Frederick Mistral
Fodegaray
Roosevelt
Ottawa
Dunne
Starved Rock State Park
San Francisco
Republic
Amos P. Wilder
Shanghai
Dr. Wilder
Industrial School
Fulton Yards
St. Paul
Self
Joseph Smith
Richmond
Gunness Clewis
Laporte
Far
Senate
Charles E. Duvall
Aledo
James L. Parks
Carbondale
Luther E. Robinson
Carterville
John A. O'Neil
Chatsworth
Chauncey M. Gilmore
Colfax
Perry F. Hathaway
Menard
Charles A. Brandenberg
Milan
Clement L. Butler
Sheldon
Charlies B. Taylor
Tuscola
Charles M. Webber
Urbana
Mlinois
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