War news and violent events across Europe and America
President Poincare defies German peace stance in Nancy. Dubrovnik torpedoed in the Adriatic. Irish rebels executed signatures and leaders. Berlin reports Boy Ed honored by Germany. Caucasus battle yields Russian retreat. Turkish airship chief killed. Fort Bliss fires probed. Florida wreck kills five. Boise quake shocks Idaho. YMCA delegates convene in Cleveland. Rail idle car surplus and Roosevelt as 1904 ticket. Mechanics slain at Webster plant. Santo Domingo evacuated after threats. Rickenbacker wins 150 mile race at Sheepshead Bay. Port Nassau minister demands Panama rifles. Aviation section modernized in New York. Murphysboro double murder tied to Black Hand. Child Sinclair injured in Champaign race meet crash.
Mexican Revolt Escalates Border Violence In American Exile
Mexican bandits raided the Polaris mining camp seven miles below the border, driving out Americans who fled to Nogales. American farmer Curtis Bayles was shot near Mercedes, Texas, as Mexicans escaped toward the Rio Grande. Obregon Scott talks failed at Juarez, with future talks to be handled by the U S secretary of state and Ambassador Arredondo. The Juarez consul ordered all Americans north of Chihuahua to leave Mexico immediately.
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Polaris
Lochiel
Nogales
Ariz
Curtis Bayles
Mercedes
Tex
Rio Grande
Juarez
Mex
Arredondo
Washington
Thomas D. Edwards
Mexico
State Department
German pledge over Sussex torpedoing and punishment
Secretary of State Lansing discussed with Ambassador Gerard the German foreign office view on punishment for the submarine commander who sank the Sussex. Germany accepts responsibility for the torpedoing and says the commander has been punished. Germany also offers indemnity for American injuries. In Congress, Lenroot's flood control amendment passes 65 to 64 delaying Mississippi levee work until local interests provide half the funding.
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Lansing
Washington
Gerard
Foreign Office
Sussex
Germany
United States
House In Committee
Lenroot
Mississippi River Commission
Osakan riot injures American aviator delaying flight
Arthur Smith an American aviator was injured by a stones from a mob in Osaka delaying a flight. His plane suffered damage and the shed was destroyed. He was taken to a hospital after the incident.
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Osaka
Japan
Arthur Smith
Smith
American Troops Pursue Bandits Near Laguna De Itascate
U S Army and Carranzista forces press into Mexican territory chasing bandits who raided the Big Bend. Major Langhorne seeks to rescue prisoners Jesse Deemer and Monroe Payne as Colonel Sibley’s column trails. General Pershing at advance base denies danger and reports full capability to respond.
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el Paso
Tex
Major Langhorne
Boquillas
Big Bend
Mexico
Sibley
Langhorne
Jesse Deemer
Monroe Payne
Obregon
Bell
Fort Bliss
Funston
Borbant
Sierra Blanca
Here
McKinney Springs
Douglas
Columbus
San Antonio
Pershing
U. S. Army
Laguna de Itascate
Mex
Namiquipa
N. M
John J. Pershing
United States
Ojos Azules
Two Die In Metropolitan Trophy Auto Race
Carl Limberg and mechanic R Pallotti were killed when Limberg's Delage burst a tire and crashed into the rail at Sheepshead Bay during the 150 mile Metropolitan trophy race. Eddie Rickenbacker won in a Maxwell finishing about two and a half miles ahead of Jules de Vigne. Ira Vail finished third in a Hudson.
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Carl Limberg
Delage
R. Pallotti
Sheepshead Bay Speedway
Eddie Rickenbacker
Indianapolis
Rickenbacker
New York
Maxwell
Jules de Vigne
Ira Vail
Hudson
Turns Against First Chief in Tampico Strife
General Dawson reports rising civilian uneasiness in Tampico Mexico due to General Majorette, once Carranzista, now operating independently. He is said to be levying heavy taxes on major oil well operators in the area.
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Washington
Dawson
Tampico
Mex
State Department
Majorette
German Peace Talk Aims to Put Wilson as Mediator
Washington May 16 a Senate resolution urged President Wilson to extend his mediation offer and push neutrality steps as Germany signals openness to peace talks. Berlin reports note a drift toward negotiations and a growing pacifist view that the US could press belligerents toward an end to war within six months.
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Washington
Senate
Gore
Oklahoma
Berlin
Germany
Wilson
United States
England
Public lynching and execution reported in two states
In Waco Texas Jesse Washington a Black youth accused of attacking Mrs Lucy Fryar was seized from a courtroom and burned publicly in front of City Hall before a crowd of about 10000. Washington confessed to the murder. In Columbia South Carolina Joe Grant a Black man convicted of the 1906 Johnston killing was hanged at the state penitentiary proclaiming his innocence.
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Waco
Texas
Jesse Washington
Lucy Fryar
Columbia
S. C
Joe Grant
Jessie T. Durst
Johnston
Four Persons Drowned In Gasoline Launch Accident
Four persons drowned when a gasoline launch overturned on Reel Foot Lake in Hornbeak Tennessee. The victims listed include Mrs Frank Dane Mia H F Keller John Hamilton and an infant named Hazel Burst.
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Hornbeak
Tenn
Reel Foot Lake
Frank Dane
Mia
H. F.keller
John Hamilton
Hazelburst
Indiana News In Brief From Across The State
Indiana towns report actions and events from 1874 church demolition to state guard plans. Notables include deaths of Rev. W. H. Shephard and Mrs Angeline Jones, a Lincoln highway update in Elkhart, and Curtis W. Jones’ passing. Also: Knights Templars parade, Holiness Christian conference, and medical association officers elected.
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Columbia City
Curtis W. Jones
Whitley County
Connersville
Carl Quenzer
Lake Erie
Mary K. Woods
Indianapolis
Knights Templars
Elwood
Holiness Christian Church Conference
St. Joseph’s Staats-Verband
Warsaw
Company H
Indiana National Guard
Roosevelt
Fairbanks
Evansville
Women’s Relief Corps
Genevieve Frantz
South Bend
Mary Roberts
Duncan
Bedford
California
Kokomo
Huntingburg
Third District Medical Association
H. S. Knapp
William R. Ryan
French Lick
H. M. Baker
Holland
Joseph Heitzer
What are luxuries and why keep them in war times
The Detroit Journal argues against wartime austerity that aims to strip away comforts. It defends luxuries like carpets, music, books, and meals as essential for civilization, noting that production and consumption fuel happiness and progress. It calls instead to abolish war and war debts.
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Europe
Detroit Journal
Monkey’s final blaze ends mischief career in York
Ralph Gregor’s trained monkey Ralph started a career of mischief including peeping through bedroom windows and jabbing tin roofs with a knife. While confined at home the animal allegedly found matches in a coat pocket and started a fire. Firemen contained the blaze to one room but Ralph’s charred remains were found in the ruins.
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Ralph Gregor
Ralph
Jack
Gregor
York
Dispatch
Philadelphia Record
Lonton Submerged and the Thames Lava Flood Prophecy
A prophetic piece cites Grant Allen and Oscar Frichet predicting a future where London and nearby towns are swallowed by a giant earth fissure in the Thames valley. Lava would race down the valley and harden, creating a vast desert landscape.
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Lonton
Grant Allen
Thames Valley
Cookham
Merry England
Thames
London
Finis
Oscar Frichet
National Magazine
Manna From Bitlis Exports Highlight Regional Trade
Bitlis now under Russian control is noted for its manna exports. The saccharine exudation from local trees is debated by science versus local belief that windborne Arabian aromas deposit manna on plants. Two types are shipped: white manna dried from leaves and green manna soaked in water.
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Bitlis
Arabia
Congregation Deliberates Over Visiting Clergyman Wife
In Escondido the Congregational church invited a visiting clergyman but first inspected his wife. She preached to the congregation, leaving them unsure whether to hire her husband or her wife. They chose to call the husband but to convey their high regard for his wife.
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Escondido
Congregational Church
Los Angeles Times
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