Tax rate battle as city faces funding gaps
Rumors of opposition push Mayor Brown to recalculate budget needs and propose cutting three months of improvements to hold the tax rate at 1.98 per 100, despite officials seeking $2.05 and urging essential projects. Several commissioners seek re election, while others oppose a large rate hike. Taxable values are adjusted after clerical errors reduce city assessments by about 342 thousand, leaving total values at 109.9 million.
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Brown
Snme
Kearny
Lambert
Garland
Uhr
West End
Anderson and Bowman Estates
Highland Park
Flood Threat Escalates as Tennessee River Rises in Chattanooga
Flood conditions on the Tennessee River threaten Chattanooga with a gauge of 44.6 feet rising toward 46.6. Backwaters flood large areas, forcing relocation of many residents including factory workers. Churches and schools open to shelter the homeless as factories along the riverfront flood and close amid losses.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee River
South Chattanooga
River Front
Chinese in Tong War claims six dead in Pacific coast cities
Six Chinese are dead and several injured as fighting spreads from a peace meeting called by the Chinese Six Companies. The clashes occurred in San Francisco and four other Pacific coast cities including Stockton Oakland and San Jose with additional injuries in Seattle.
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San Francisco
Cal
Pacific Coast
Stockton
Oakland
San Jose
Seattle
Liggett Named Major General In Wilson Nominati
Washington March 6 President Wilson nominated Brigadier General Hunter Liggett as a major general to fill the vacancy caused by Major General Frederick Funston’s death. Colonel Francis J. Kernan of the Twenty-eighth Infantry was advanced to brigadier general.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Hunter Liggett
Frederick Funston
Francis J. Kernan
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Food investigation indictments issued naming many firms and individuals
A federal grand jury investigating high food and fuel costs returned two indictments naming 108 corporations and 55 individuals in the food case and ten coal firms and sixteen individuals in the coal case.
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Federal Grand Jury
New York
Federal
Amend Looney railroad bill faces Dayton amendment vote
Texas Senate takes up the Looney bill after efforts to sidetrack it. The Dayton amendment would require a prior conviction before receivership for railroads defying Texas Railroad Commission rates. Amendment approved 15 to 11 as senators paused for recess.
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Austin
Tex
Senate
Dayton
Texas Railroad Commission
Alderdice
Bee
Caldwell
Clark
Floyd
Hall
Harley
Johnston
Harris
King
McCollum
Page
Parr
Smith
Woodward
Bailey
Buchanan
Bell
Scurry
Docherd
Hudsteth
Hopkins
Johnson
Lattimore
Strickland
Sutter
Westbrook
Renomination of Dr Cary T Grayson Sent to Senate
Washington March 6 President Wilson sent to the Senate today the renomination of Dr Cary T Grayson as medical director in the navy with the rank of rear admiral. The nomination failed of confirmation in the Senate during the last session after a prolonged fight.
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Washington, D. C
Cary T. Grayson
Navy
Senate
Wilson
Rigdon Dismissed From Army After Five Year Sentence
President confirms five years at hard labor for Second Lieutenant Jack Rigdon of the Second Arkansas Infantry. Convicted on charges including AWOL bigamy and embezzlement. Rigdon is sentenced to Leavenworth penitentiary and dismissed from the army.
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Rigdon
Washington, D
Leavenworth
Jack Rigdon
Second Arkansas Infantry
Supreme Court Denies Caminetti Rehearing Bid
The Supreme Court refused to re open or re consider its Caminetti white slave cases ruling and denied F. Drew Caminetti of Sacramento a rehearing of its decree upholding his conviction.
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Caminetti
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Diggs-Caminetti
F. Drew Caminetti
Sacramento
British Claimants Win Appam Case at Supreme Court
The British owners of the German prize ship Appam and cargo win their suit at the U S Supreme Court to regain possession of the vessel and cargo in Newport News Virginia The court held treaties with Germany do not grant indefinite asylum for German prizes without the captor warship and upheld American jurisdiction over the Appam
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Washington, D. C
Appam
Newport News
Supreme Court
United States
Germany
Waddill
Virginia
Hampton Roads
Hans Berg
Moewe
State Department
British & African Steamship Company
Berg
von Schilling
Norfolk
Virginia Court
von Bernstorff
Lansing
Horn Loses Habeas Corpus Bid Over 1915 Bridge Dynamite Case
Werner Horn a German reservist loses his habeas corpus suit in the Supreme Court seeking to免 prosecution in Boston for alleged explosives transport on passenger trains. The court dismisses the appeal as unauthorized. the case linked to the 1915 attempt to dynamite the Canadian Pacific bridge at Vanceboro Maine and the St Croix River crossing.
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Washington, D. C
Werner Horn
International Bridge
Vanceboro
Supreme Court
Boston
Horn
Canada
State Department
St. Croix River
New York
Massachusetts
Putnam and
Hale
Maine
Morton
First Circuit Court of Appeals
Weather forecast for San Antonio and vicinity
Tonight unsettled and colder. Wednesday remains colder with continued unsettled conditions across the San Antonio area.
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San Antonio
Weather forecast for travelers from The Light
Stormy to mild regional forecast with city temperatures and winds. St Louis 30 cloudy 26 mph S rain or snow. Chicago 28 clear 24 mph S probably snow. Milwaukee 20 partly cloudy 12 mph SE probably snow. Kansas City 36 partly cloudy 14 mph SE probably rain or snow. New York 20 clear 22 mph W colder. Washington 24 partly cloudy 8 mph NW colder.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Horn seeks U S Supreme Court relief in dynamite case
Courts and immigration officials in Bangor and Portland sent Horn to Boston for possible discharge or return to Maine. He faces trial for illegally carrying dynamite on trains to blow a dam in Canada. Horn claims immunity as a German reserve officer, arguing no US authority can punish him, while German responsibility remains unacknowledged.
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Bangor
Portland
Boston
Horn
Surpreme
United States
Maine
Vanceboro
Landwehr
Reserve Army
Germany
Vardaman and Kenyon Explain 10 Senate Action
Senators Vardaman of Mississippi and Kenyon of Iowa defend their 10 vote stance as not blocking the armed neutrality bill. Senator Williams rebukes them, agreeing President Wilson was right that a few senators made action impossible in the nation’s crisis.
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Washington, D. C
Vardaman
Mississippi
Kenyon
Iowa
Senate
Wilson
Williams
Congress
United States
Old Senate Rules in Flux as New Senate Convened
The new Senate met at noon and Senator Owen of Oklahoma said no new members are bound by old rules. He declared all bills on the Sixty-fourth Congress calendar dead and warned the old rules do not bind incoming lawmakers. Senator Lodge re introduced the armed neutrality bill, while Vice President Marshall ruled Congress was not in session. Senator Martin of Virginia was chosen majority leader by the Democratic caucus.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Owen
Oklahoma
Lodge
Massachusetts
Foreign Relations Committee
Thomas
Colorado
Congress
Marshall
Martin
Virginia
Milwaukee Veteran Seeks San Antonio Map for Imagined Walk
Elmer V. Croth of Milwaukee requests the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce mail him a map of the city and Fort Sam Houston. He recalls fondly his time serving with the First Wisconsin Infantry and now, home from service, hopes to walk the streets again in imagination.
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San Antonio
First
Wisconsin Infantry
Elmer V. Croth
Milwaukee
Chamber of Commerce
Fort Sam Houston
President Wilson Begins Second Term as Inaugural Change Debated
London press shows sympathy as Wilson starts his second four year term. Vice President Marshall presides over Senate session. Washington National Committee on changing inauguration day proposes moving to the last Thursday in April. Weather and constitutional hurdles cited.
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Washington
D. C
Wilson
Capitol
Senate
National Committee
Congress
Wilson address and Senate tactics elicit sympathy in London papers
London reports echo sympathy for President Wilson amid his inaugural address and Senate battles. The Post lauds his instant resolution, while The Express calls his appeal an Entente inspiration. The Times urges broader world policy framing and notes the break from historic American isolation.
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London
Wilson
Senate
Lincoln
Congress
The
Express
Times
America
the Times
Daily News
Bearded Groom Keeps Whiskers Over Bride
In Chicago on March 6 Joseph Mikuleo chose his blonde whiskers over marriage when Mary Medric demanded either the beard or the bride. After a heated argument she declared Me or your whiskers and he chose the whiskers, so no wedding bells.
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Joseph F. Mikuleo
Chicago
Mary Medric
Mikaleo
Miss Medric
Joseph Mikuleo
Thieves Use Rural Church as Hidden Loot Rendezvous
Police traced a trail of burglaries targeting wealthy Chicagoans to a small Lake Forest church. The robbers used the frame edifice as a meeting point to melt and divide stolen silver plate among themselves.
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Lake Forest
Fil
Supreme Court Upholds Workmen’s Compensation Laws
The Supreme Court sustained New York and Iowa compulsory workmen’s compensation laws as constitutional. Washington state’s compulsory industrial insurance statute was also upheld.
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Washington, D. C
New York
Supreme Court
Iowa
Washington State
Wilson to Arm American Ships as Congress Stalls
President Wilson will seek legal means to arm American merchant ships and defend them from U boat threats despite Senate failure to grant explicit authority. An extra Congressional session before July 1 seems likely if armed neutrality legislation advances, with ships at New York docks awaiting clear direction.
Zimmermann Defends Mexico Japan War Plot for US Invasion
German foreign secretary Alfred Zimmermann defended a Reichstag plan to involve Mexico and Japan in a war with the United States in the event of conflict with Germany. He called the dispatch of coded instructions and their leakage to America a necessary precaution for patriotic interests.
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London
Mexico
Japan
United States
Germany
America
Reichstag
Alfred Zimmermann
Reuter
Amsterdam
Railroad man wounded in clash with four Mexicans
Cr J Jordan joint agent at Fredericksburg Junction for Sap and Fredericksburg railroads was seriously wounded after a morning encounter with four Mexicans. He shot and killed one assailant and wounded another, crippling two more. He was struck in the face and found by his family. A special train carried him to San Antonio for treatment. his recovery prognosis was poor.
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Cr. J. Jordan
Fredericksburg Junction
Sap
Fredericksburg
Jordan
San Antonio
Smallpox Outbreak in Berlin and The Hague
Berlin and its vicinity see compulsory vaccination ordered by military authorities as eighty cases are reported. Ninety percent of cases involve residents over 45. The outbreak is believed linked to arrivals from Volhynia via a Berlin telegram.
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The
Hague
London
Berlin
Texas Declares March 10 Clean Up Day
State Health Officer Collins issued a proclamation urging Texans to observe March 10 as clean up day across the state.
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Austin
Tex
Collins
Texas
Austria Note on Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Looms
Washington March 6 Austria’s note pledging adherence to unrestricted submarine warfare offers little hope of avoiding a U S break with Vienna. The cabinet, meeting Friday, may decide the course of U S policy. Berlin presses Austria to endorse Germany’s stance and risk a rupture with the United States.
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Washington, D. C
Austria
United States
Vienna
Penfield
Germany
Austria and Britain clash over neutral rights in submarine war
Vienna dispatch to Reuters quotes Austro-Hungarian reply to American note on Ancona and Persia. It argues neutrals bear losses when entering war zones where enemy submarines operate and asserts belligerents may decide measures against enemy sea traffic.
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Vienna
Reuters
Amsterdam
Ancona
Persia
Washington Cabinet
Reuter
Austria-Hungary
Great Britain
Hague
Holland
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Reak
Associated Press
United Kingdom
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