Verdun Front Sees Heavy Bombardment and Artillery Activity
Paris reports no infantry fighting near Verdun last night. French positions between Malancourt wood and Hill 304 endured heavy bombardment while near Corbaux wood and along the Meuse there were active artillery exchanges. In the Argonne and Mont-a-Mousson areas the French shell German positions and convoys as the war of artillery continues northwest of Verdun and east of the Meuse.
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Paris
Verdun
Malancourt Wood
Hill 304
Meuse
Corbaux Wood
Germany
le Mort Homme
Argonne
Mont-a-Mousson
Austrians Under Fire On Russian and Italian Fronts
The Austro-Hungarian war department reported Russian shelling along the lower Stripa Dniester and near Czernowitz with several engagements and a Russian capture of officers and men. On the Italian front Austro-Hungarians say they seized a position at Mrzhivih and repelled counter attacks while Italians suffered heavy losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Sayville
Lower
Stripa
Dniester
Czernowitz
Bugraz
Jaslovice
Czortkow
Archduke Joseph Ferdinand
Mrzhivih
Flitsch
Hontebra
Sugans
Movaledo
Ponale
Sperone
Adamello
Alpini
Dosson-Digenova
Monte Boorluzzo
Stilliser
French Attack Repulsed at Dead Man's Hill
German official statement reports French infantry attacked German trenches on Dead Man's Hill and westward after heavy artillery preparation. A few battalions briefly penetrated the lines but were killed in hand to hand fighting, with heavy losses on the French side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Dead Man's Hill
Four Railroad Brotherhoods Back Full Crew and Safety Bills
Legislative committees of the four big railroad brotherhoods adopted measures urging full crew and full switching bills plus hospital control and motor car crew requirements. Fort Worth was chosen as the 1918 meeting place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Tex
Great Britain to Call 18-Year-Olds to Colors
London April 15 report in the House of Commons lobby says Britain will soon mobilize eighteen year olds into military service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Great Britain
House of Commons
Mississippi Flood Rises as Water Passes Stage
Clinton Iowa April 15 The Mississippi River stage reached 16.1 feet above low water today up 0.4 foot in 24 hours. Flood stage of 16 feet was surpassed and a 16.3 foot level was predicted before the water begins to recede.
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Mississippi
Clinton
Mississippi River
Shenandoah Sunk by Mine En Route to London
The British ship Shenandoah has been sunk by a mine off London. Two crew members are missing. Built in Glasgow in 1893, owned in West Hartlepool, she sailed from St John New Brunswick on March 28 for London.
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London
Glasgow
Westhartlepool
St. John, N. B
Sailors Safe After Chic Sinking with Eight Missing
Six teen sailors from the London steamship Chic arrived in Queenstown after the torpedoing and sinking by a German submarine. Eight men remain missing according to a report. The Inverlyon, a Portland Oregon cargo ship, was sunk by submarine gunfire after fifteen minutes to abandon ship. two Americans survived, none unaccounted for. Early dispatches called the Inverlyon a British steamer.
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Queenstown
Chic
Washington, D. C
Inverlyon
Portland
Mule’s nature to kick reverses Pratt damages ruling
In Frankfort Kentucky the court of appeals reversed a $500 damages verdict against Consolidated Coal Company. Pratt a company employee was kicked when he stooped behind a mule and struck it with a whip. The court ruled a mule in its nature will kick and an employee cannot invite danger and sue for injuries. Pratt had only driven oxen before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Court of Appeals
Fred M. Pratt
Consolidated Coal Company
Pratt
Women Adopt Trousers for Army Wear
In New York on April 15, American women soldiers will wear trousers if they follow the lead of 200 members of the American Women's League for Self Defense. They have held weekly drills this winter. The vote on trousers passed by an overwhelming majority amid debate that dresses were a curse and a burden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Women's League For Self Defense
Governor Ferguson Attends Texas Strawberry Festival
Governor Ferguson, en route from Austin to Carrizo Springs for the annual strawberry festival, plans a brief stay at the King ranch near Kingaville before returning to Austin next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrizo Springs
Austin
Tex
Ferguson
King Ranch
Kingaville
Flores Given Life Sentence in Fort Worth Police Murder
Lewis Flores, a young Mexican, received a life sentence for the death of Policeman Pete Howard last August in Fort Worth. The trial lasted a week with Flores blaming a partner, Joe Estapa, who remains at large. Flores was in custody when the officer was stabbed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Tex
Lewis Flores
Pete Howard
Flores
Joe Estapa
No Report on Reyes Mission in Mexican Turmoil
The peace commission led by General Maycotte aiming to induce General Canute Reyes to surrender under a general amnesty is reported to be at Nazal with no definite results expected for several days. Torreon remains quiet.
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Reyes
Torreon
el Paso
Peace Commission
Maycotte
Canute Reyes
Nazal
Local Forecast for San Antonio Shows Showers Tonight
The syndicated forecast for San Antonio and vicinity calls for showers tonight and Sunday. A wet weekend is expected with light to moderate rainfall possible and patchy clouds remaining afterward.
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San Antonio
Vicinity
Weather forecasts from The Light across major cities
Forecasts list temperatures and conditions for St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City New York and Washington. Winds vary from southeast to northwest with rain or fair and colder trends and high temperatures reaching up to 78 degrees in Washington.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
United States Prepares Berlin Note in German Submarine Crisis
Washington reports the government prepares a formal note to Berlin amid the Sussex incident and other submarine cases. Secretary Lansing and President engage on the American case as Germany seeks to avoid severing diplomatic ties while awaiting affidavits and further evidence. American sailor John Harrison aboard Margam Abbey is confirmed saved after the ship went down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
United States
Berlin
Sussex
Germany
Washington
Lansing
St. Paul
John Harrison
Chicago
Margam Abbey
Skinner
State Department
Harrison
Cardiff
Wales
Lizard Head
England
U. S
London
Hague
Exchange Telegraph Company
Count von Burian
von Bernstorff
Wilson
Governor Grants Full Pardon to Camp Mabry Convicts
Governor Ferguson pardons 30 convicts paroled to clean Camp Mabry after successful completion of their mission. Not one violated parole. Each pardon bears a notation praising meritorious conduct and urging support for reintegration as honorable citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Ferguson
Camp Mabry
James E. Ferguson
Texas
Secretary of State
Captain James M Fulton dismissed for pledge violation
Captain James M Fulton of the coast artillery at Fort Grant Panama was dismissed from the army after a court martial for violating an abstinence pledge. President Wilson approved the sentence Fulton, a Virginia native, was commissioned in 1902.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
James M. Fulton
Coast Artillery
Fort Grant
Panama
Wilson
Fulton
Virginia
Army
Fine Rain Brings Hope for Crops at Lavernia
A light rain fell in Lavernia Texas this morning ending a long drought. Farmers welcomed the moisture as it promises better corn and other crops and relief from dry conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lavernia
Tex
Rain Leads to Better Pastures Across Texas
Heavy rainfall covered much of Texas Friday night with San Antonio reporting 1.11 inches. The system spread to East Texas and the coast, bringing cooler air and relief for crops, while rail lines from Glidden to Del Rio noted good rains. Temperatures fell to 55 in San Antonio from 68, as North Texas and New Mexico faced freezing conditions.
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Texas
New Orleans
San Antonio
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Abilene
Dallas
Taylor
Houston
Southwestern Telegraphs and Telephone Company
Austin
Cotulla
Cuero
Flatonia
Laredo
Luling
San Marcos
Lockhart
Uvalde
Eagle Pass
Realitas
Boerne
Hondo
G. H
8. A
Glidden
del Rio
Winchester
Giddings
Kerrville
Lexington
Waco
Kenedy
Pettus
Normana
Crystal City
Carrizo Springs
Fowlerton
Corpus Christi
North Texas
New Mexico
Allen Buell
Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountains
North American
Winnipeg
North
General rainfall hits Dallas and state wide
Rain began last midnight across Texas with many sections receiving heavy showers. The local weather bureau forecasts unsettled conditions tonight and Sunday over most areas with more than an inch of rain reported in Gainesville and Fort Worth and Dallas tally near one and a half inches. A rise is anticipated in the Trinity river within the next 24 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
Gainesville
Fort Worth
Wut
Trinity River
Rain brings near inch at Beeville in April
A splendid rainfall of nearly one inch fell at Beeville Texas this morning the first rain of consequence since October. The rain was general and accompanied by a cold north wind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beeville
Tex
Gale at Baltimore injures two children in storm
A 40 mile gale sweeping Baltimore and Chesapeake Bay yesterday afternoon and last night caused damage. Sophie Dover, ten, and her sister Lillian were roller skating when blown into an automobile. Sophie died from a broken neck. Lillian was badly hurt and several others were injured.
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Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
Sophie Dover
Lillian
Sophie
Interior Department fights Indian self rule bills
The Department of the Interior opposes Hastings Johnson and Lane bills in Congress that would give Indians greater land sale rights and self governance. Officials warn these measures could strip Indians of lands to oil and power interests and invite corruption through elected trustees and misused trust funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Department of the Interior
Lane
Congress
Interior Department
Five Civilized Tribes
Hastings
Philippine
Philippines
Department
Bandits murder four Americans near Mazatlan
A band of nine Mexican bandits shoot and kill F C Burke Roderick Davidson and Walter Wallace and a Spanish railroad conductor as they travel by push car toward Rosario Sinaloa. W H York survivor describes the attack while his family clings to him. Five hundred Carranza troops depart Mazatlan to pursue the gang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mazatlan
Mexico
Associated Press
F. C. Burke
Roderick Davidson
Walter Wallace
Rosario
W. H. York
York
Burke
Sinaloa
Acaponeta
Southern Pacific of Mexico
Wallace
Davidson
Roderigo
Carranza
Dr C H Brough Heads Sociologists Past and Present
Dr C H Brough of Fayetteville Ark was elected president and J K McCulloch of Nashville was re elected general secretary of the Southern Sociological Congress at its New Orleans session. Invitations from St Louis Baltimore Asheville Macon and Birmingham were noted as next meeting hosts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
C. H. Brough
Fayetteville
Ark
J. K. McCulloch
Nashville
Southern Sociological Congress
St. Louis
Baltimore
Asheville
N. C
Macon
Orion C. Baker
New York
D. H. Ramsey
C. J. Hatfield
National Association For Study and Prevention of
R. B. Watrous
Washington
American Civics Association
United States
Bomb Plot Higher Ups Not Yet Found
Federal investigators made little progress in April in identifying the financiers and directors of an alleged fire bomb plot aimed at destroying ammunition ships. authorities note the German agent network is highly compartmentalized with leaders remaining undisclosed. The chemist Walter T. Scheele, tied to a Hoboken fertilizer plant used to fill the bombs, remains unlocated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William M. Offley
Department of Justice
Captain Offley
Walter T. Scheele
Hoboken
Buildings Razed at Epworth League Grounds
Corpus Christi, April 15. Scores of buildings from tent frames to a fifty room structure are being razed on the former Epworth League encampment site. The property sold for 35000 dollars with the League authorities to retain ownership until the dismantled buildings are sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corpus Christi
Tex
Epworth League
League
Kenedy City election set on bonds for water works
Kenedy Texas officials announce a May 16 election on issuing bonds totaling 32000 dollars to finance the construction or installation of a water works and sewer system for the municipality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenedy
Tex
Commissioner Sells says he will not run for Congress
Indian Commissioner Cato Sells announced in a letter he will not seek the Congress seat in Fort Worth Texas. The move ends speculation that he would oppose Oscar Callaway in the race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Tex
Cato Sells
Congress
Oscar Callaway
Convicted Raiders To Die In May Execution
Jose Buenrostro and Melquiades Chapa, recently convicted of murdering A. L. Austin and his son Charles at Sebastian in August, are scheduled for execution on Friday May 19. The district court fixed the date for execution today in Brownsville Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Tex
Jose Buenrostro
Melquiades Chapa
A. L. Austin
Charles
Sebastian
Carranza Arrives in Mexico City as Lights Illuminate Welcome
April 15 Mexico City celebrates General Carranza arrival with illuminated public buildings and crowds. He meets ministers at the national palace and, two hours later, speaks from the palace balcony with General Obregon nearby. He vows sovereignty and dignity of Mexico and urges patriotic reconstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
General Carranza
Carranza
National Palace
General Obregon
Mexico
Sunshine Special to Run to El Paso
Texas & Pacific Railway filed with the railroad commission to abandon trains three and four between Fort Worth and El Paso and replace them with the Sunshine Special providing a faster through link from St Louis to El Paso. westbound time cut to 21 hours 30 minutes and eastbound 20 hours 15 minutes with extensions of trains thirteen and fourteen from Abilene to Sweetwater. Motor service also to Fort Worth Mineral Wells with 9 30 a m departure and 11 30 a m arrival from Fort Worth and 2 00 p m departure return reaching Fort Worth at 4 00 p m. Competitive pressures drive the Sunshine Special expansion.
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Austin
Tex
Railroad Commission
Texas & Pacific Railway
George D. Hunter
A. R. Enders
Fort Worth
el Paso
St. Louis
Abilene
Sweetwater
Texas & Pacific
Mineral Wells
Illinois Republican seeks embargo on arms to Mexico
Representative Rodenberg of Illinois introduced a resolution banning shipment of arms and munitions into Mexico. He condemned the Wilson administration and said General Carranza has shown treacherous character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Rodenberg
Illinois
Mexico
Wilson
Carranza
Grand jury raids liquor dens in Hot Springs
In Hot Springs Arkansas on April 15 members of the county grand jury rushed from the courthouse during a session and raided an alleged blind tiger across the street. With a deputy sheriff they visited two buildings suspected of selling liquor and seized a large quantity of beer and whisky, ordering the sheriff to destroy it. No arrests were made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
Ark
Woman Fires At Liebknecht In The Hague
Amsterdam dispatch reports a woman fired two revolver shots at Dr Karl Liebknecht while he walked in The Hague from Berlin. Both shots missed and the assailant was arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Amsterdam
Hague
Berlin
Karl Liebknecht
Reichstag
Bradbury murder trial ends in hung jury in Pine Bluff
After twelve hours the jury in T S Bradbury's murder trial for P G Jenkins near Sherrif on December 26 failed to agree on a verdict and was discharged. The jurors stood seven for conviction and five for acquittal. Judge W B Sorrells reset the trial for June 19 and denied bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Bluff
Ark
T.S. Bradbury
P.G. Jenkins
Sherrif
W. B. Sorrells
Bradbury
Attorneys Seek Early Supreme Court Hearing in Caminetti Diggs Cases
Attorney General Gregory asked the Supreme Court for an early joint hearing on the Diggs and Caminetti white slave cases. F. Drew Caminetti and Maury I. Diggs, both in California, are convicted of violating the white slave law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caminetti
Washington, D. C
Gregory
Supreme Court
Diggs
F. Drew Caminetti
Maury I. Diggs
California
Parrel fighting reports leave Mexican issue unchanged
Secretary Lansing says no imminent change in Mexican situation with Parral clashes unconfirmed by official reports. Ferried by General Funston, Pershing has not spoken for days as Carranza negotiates withdrawal terms while Villa pursuit continues and Parral attack accounts vary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Lansing
Funston
Parral
Baker
General Pershing
War Department
Pershing
Villa
Mexico City
Carranza
Mexico
Eliseo Arredondo
Cars Ranza
Cuernavaca
Zapata
State Department
el Paso
Francisco Villa
Parra
Wilson
Herrera
Gutierrez
Amador
Fungton
Letcher
Chihuaehua
Poverty in Mexico Threatens U.S. Restoring Order
An El Paso report cites returning Americans who warn that Mexico's economic misery poses a greater threat to stabilizing the region and preventing friction with the United States than its political conditions. The travelers' tour covered key areas and underscored urgent need for cross border cooperation to avert crises.
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EL Paso
Tex
Mexico
United States
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