Testimony in Ferguson inquiry ends as arguments begin
The Ferguson probe closes testimony with Governor absent and arguments set for 2 p m. Davis attorney M M Crane and Governor’s counsel W A Hanger lead the case as ex banker H C Poe and other witnesses are recalled.
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Austin
Texas
Ferguson
H. Davis
M. M. Crane
Davis
W. A. Hanger
Hanger
Crane
Cattlemen’s Convention
Fort Worth
T. H. McGregor
H. C. Poe
Temple State Bank
C. O. Austin
Banking and Insurance
Chester Thrasher
Teague
John S. Patterson
Harper
Thrasher
Williams
el Paso
Appellate Court
Temple States Bank
Poe
T. M. Campbell
W. A. Achilles
Achilles
Senate approves modified Colombia treaty for 25 million payoff
Washington reports the Senate foreign relations committee endorsed a revised Colombia treaty. The United States would pay 25 million to partition Panama with joint regret for incidents affecting ties. A separate article on canal zone title was dropped and Colombia must ratify anew. In Paso, troops guard Elephant Butte dam as a precaution.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Colombia
United States
Panama
Senate
Canal Zone
Paccuant Butte Dam
Paso
Tex
War Department
Elephant Butte Dam
Engle
N. M
Governor Ferguson Remarks to Cattle Raisers Association
Fort Worth Texas March 13 Governor Ferguson greeted the Cattle Raisers Association of Texas with humor saying a dipping vat could clean politicians of muck raking He praised the Legislature and defended spending as beneficial for school children farmers and stockmen He joked about bonds of sympathy with indebted members and urged farmers to tell creditors the governor supported their efforts to improve the state
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Fort Worth
Tex
Ferguson
Texas
James Callan
San Antonio Sends Large Delegation to Texas Cattle Meet
About 200 cattlemen and wives rode the Stockman's Special from San Antonio to Fort Worth for the Texas Cattle Raisers Association convention. The train carried Pullman sleepers and parade pennants reading San Antonio in 1918. Arrival swelled San Antonio's delegation to nearly 500, the largest ever to a cattlemen gathering. The I and GN train was led by J Wylie King and Charles Hanson handling freight and livestock duties.
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San Antonio
International & Great Northern Railroad
Fort Worth
Texas Cattle Raisers’ Association
International & Great Northern
J. Wylie King
Charles Hanson
German Blockade May Be Changed
London dispatch says Count von Bernstorff former U S ambassador in Europe sparks renewed Berlin talk on submarines blockade. Naval attaches and diplomats reportedly called to Berlin for conference. alteration rather than lifting considered.
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London
Europe
Count von Bernstorff
United States
Berlin
Norwegian Mercantile Shipping Gazette
Reuter
Christiana
Christiania
Germany
Reed Argues Steel Case Before Supreme Court
Final defense arguments were presented in the federal dissolution suit against United States Steel Corporation. David A. Reed of New York and C. A. Severance of St. Louis spoke for the defense as Solicitor General Davis prepared to close for the government tomorrow.
Weather outlook for San Antonio area tonight and Wednesday
For San Antonio and vicinity: Tonight probably fair and colder with frost likely. Wednesday looks fair and colder with continued frost risk.
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San Antonio
Home Weather For Tourists In Central U S Cities
Forecasts by The Light show St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City New York and Washington with temperatures ranging from 20 to 63 degrees. Wind trends vary from southeast to northwest with persistent cloudiness and chances of rain or snow in several cities.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Frontline actions intensify as Franco Belgian front buzzes
Reports indicate large scale operations planned with German troop movements beyond the frontier. In Champagne French repulse a German counterattack on hill 185 near Maisons de Champagne. Britain claims air supremacy efforts and aims to regain dominance on the Franco Belgian front.
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Associated Press
Yser
Calais
Champagne
Paris
Maisons de Champagne
French War Office
Serling
Germany
Arras
House of Commons
Cavalry Occupies Kazmain on the Tigris River
British cavarly from Bagdad has occupied Kazmain on the Tigris River five miles above Bagdad. The advance occurred on March 11, marking a notable but not war turning event. The German press notes the fall of Bagdad as a British success yet sees Mesopotamia as a secondary front.
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London
Bagdad
Kazimain
Tigris
Koelnische Volks Zeitung
Amsterdam
Sinai Peninsula
Mesopotamia
British Attack Near Arras Fails. Heavy British Losses Reported
British forces attacked broadly south of Arras but were repulsed with heavy losses, according to today’s official dispatch from Berlin. Separately Austrian troops in a tunnel raid on the Italian front claim success, seizing one officer and 130 men at Cima di Bocche.
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Berlin
Arras
Cima di Bocche
Berlin Telegram Signals Expected Western Front Events
A Berlin telegram quoted an official statement via London saying a Havas Agency report reports events on the western front awaited in France with the greatest confidence. The message notes anticipation and confidence in forthcoming actions on the front.
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Amsterdam
London
Berlin
Havas
France
Cunard Steamer Folio Sunk Off Waterford
Preliminary dispatch from Consul Frost at Queenstown reports the Cunard non passenger Folio sunk off Waterford. Survivors landed at Dungarvon. The sole American aboard, boat's surgeon W. J. Core of Nashville Tennessee, was saved uninjured.
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Washington, D. C
Cunard
State Department
Frost
Quenstown
Waterford
Dungarvon
W. J. Core
Nashville
Tenn
Young Ship's Doctor Uninjured on Folio
Nashville Tenn March 13 Dr W J Core 26 the only American aboard the Folio escaped injury He is nephew of Dr W W Core superintendent of the Davidson County Asylum Core had recently become surgeon of the Folio His father J P Core received a cablegram from him dated Queenstown.
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Nashville
Tenn
W. J. Core
W. W. Core
Davidson County Asylum
J. P. Core
Quenstown
First Central Market Used Car Show Planned in Chicago
Chicago March 13. The Great Central Market Used Car Show will run May 5 to 13. No new cars will be exhibited and the event is billed as the first of its kind.
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Chicago
Great Central Market
Orders 10 Gun Crews Un Armed Ships Ready
The Navy Department completed and approved by Secretary Lansing new instructions for armed guards aboard American merchant ships in submarine zones. Instructions will be sent to commanders when ships sail, with no public release and efforts to suppress sailing dates or equipment details. Officials say no jurisdictional conflict will occur between shipmasters and gun crews.
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Washington, D. C
Armed Guards
Navy Department
Lansing
Navy
Naval Service
Prisoner Tells How Entire Family Was Killed
Thomas Metzler of Sparta Illinois testified a sworn statement detailed the murder of the George Douglas family near Coulterville Illinois on May 3 1910. He said Samuel Carter who had killed himself in St Louis a year earlier planned and carried out the killings after learning of $900 in the house and then set fire to the home to cover the crime. Carter allegedly killed George Douglas Mrs Douglas and three sleeping children before fleeing with $50 from the house. Metzler was later arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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George Douglas
Coulterville
Ill
Samuel Carter
St. Louis
Thomas Metzler
Sparta
Lil. Metzler
Carter
Douglas
Metzler
Douglas Farm
Colder Weather Forecast With Possible Rain Ahead
The forecast from the local weather station calls for significantly colder Tuesday night with no freezing temperatures. Wednesday morning may drop to around 40 degrees and rain, while unlikely, is more possible after the cold than before it. The March pattern shows irregular highs and lows across the country with a storm system over the Southwest and another over British Columbia connected by a high pressure zone.
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British Columbia
Officers Seek To Hold Accused Until Facts Known
Captain Karl Boy-Ed once the German embassy naval attache in Washington was in Philadelphia recently. Frank Garbarino head of the Philadelphia Bureau of Investigation said five Philadelphians including three prominent German Americans are under arrest in a smuggling plot tied to two German commerce raiders at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Authorities seek to detain suspects until all facts are established.
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Philadelphia
Karl Boy-Ed
Washington
Frank Garbarino
Philadelphia Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Smuggling Plot Tied to Chronometers From German Raiders
Federal investigators say the alleged plot to smuggle chronometers ashore from the interned German raiders Kronprinz Wilhelm and Prinz Eitel Friedrich may violate neutrality laws with wide implications. Arrests include five people led by Adelbert Fischer and his wife. nineteen chronometers were sent to a clockmaker for testing after an acid bath to reveal cipher messages.
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Philadelphia
Kronpring Wilhelm
Prinz Eitel Friedrich
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Philadelphia Mayor seeks removal of German crews from League Island
Mayor Smith of Philadelphia formally asked Secretary Daniels to remove the interned German raiders from Prinz Eitel Friedrich and Kronprinz Wilhelm at League Island Navy Yard. The seven hundred crewmen are cited as a threat to city safety while transfer to a suitable location is explored and crews remain under constant surveillance.
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Washington, D. C
League Island Navy Yard
Prinz Eitel Friedrich
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Daniels
Smith
Philadelphia
Berg Wireless Violation Evidence Reaches Justice
Evidence that Captain Berg of the German prize ship Appam violated U.S. neutrality while at Newport News has been given to Justice agents. The Appam's crew was sent to Philadelphia after the ship's prize award. Berg reportedly rehabilitated the wireless outfit and sent a message to a German ship as late as December 8, signaling ongoing contact with his government.
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Berg
Appam
United States
Newport News
Department of Justice
United States Supreme Court
Philadelphia
American withdrawals from Belgian relief amid submarine campaign
State Department forecasts near end of American relief participation with Storstad sinking near Skelligs and one American aboard killed. Consul Frost at Queenstown reports the Belgian relief ship Storstad was sunk by a German submarine after signaling and a brief shel lling, while the sole American, John Roy Christian of Seattle, survived. Germany’s refusal to safeguard relief ships spurs fears of relief work collapse.
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D. C
Grand Whitlock
Brussels
State Department
Storstad
Frost
Queenstown
Buenos Aires
Rotterdam
Skelligs
John Roy Christian
Seattle
Germany
Thaw Adjudged Lunatic by Philadelphia Court
Harry K. Thaw was found a lunatic by the Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia. He will be kept at St. Mary’s Hospital pending transfer to a Pennsylvania asylum and cannot be extradited to New York for trial on assault charges. The lunacy commission report and Thaw’s testimony led to the ruling, with counsel asserting the court now has custody of Thaw under Pennsylvania sovereignty.
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Philadelphia
Harry K. Thaw
Common Pleas Court
New York
Kansas City
Thaw
St. Mary's Hospital
Pennsylvania
J. G. Gordon
Court of Chancery
Thaw Extradition Will Not Hinder NY Request
New York reports that the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court ruling on Harr y Kenneth Thaw's insanity will not stop District Attorney Swann from seeking extradition of Thaw. Thaw could be brought to New York under two U S Supreme Court decisions, Assistant District Attorney Black says.
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New York
Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia
Harr Kendall Thaw
Swann
Brumbaugh
United States Supreme Court
Atrney Black
Rain Covers Large Midwest Panhandle Region
Rain with occasional snow flurries spread across Missouri Kansas Oklahoma parts of Arkansas and the Texas Panhandle last night and today. A little over an inch fell by 10 am and was similar to the region’s usual March pattern. Temperatures are expected to stay above freezing tonight.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Panhandle
Texas
Weather Bureau
Wind and hail devastate Chickasha peach belt
A severe wind and hail storm struck Chickasha Oklahoma late last night destroying the fruit crop in one of the state's best peach growing sections. Hundreds of birds including wild ducks were found dead this morning.
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Oklahoma
Chickasha
Okla
Food Up 19 Percent in Year to January 15
Washington reports a 19 percent rise in retail food prices for the year ending January 15, led by onions and potatoes up over 50 percent. Notable increases include butter 18 percent, flour 38 percent, potatoes 57 percent, onions 58 percent, and eggs 32 percent.
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Washington
D. C
United States
Bureau of Labor
German Soldiers Turn on Officers Amid War Riots
Reports from Namur and Ray indicate large numbers of German troops arrested for insubordination as unrest spreads. Food riots in Bremen see police chief wounded and troops unable to quell crowds before firemen intervene with water hoses. A rioter who severed a hose receives a ten year term.
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Amsterdam
London
Namur
Ruy
Telegraaf
Holland
Ray
Bremen
German envoy von Bernstorff prepares Zimmermann note reply
Copenhagen March 13 Count von Bernstorff the dismissed German ambassador to the United States has prepared a statement on Germanys dealing with Mexico It will be sent to the Berlin foreign office and if approved made public through the Wolff Bureau The statement reportedly explains how Zimmermanns instructions to the German minister in Mexico City were obtained by the American government
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London
Count von Bernstorff
United States
Germany
Mexico
Berlin
Mysterious Trunk Aboard Frederick VII Sparks Probe
London reports a mysterious trunk tied to Count von Bernstorff aboard the Frederick VII. The trunk, sealed by the Swedish consulate in New York and addressed to Stockholm, was held at Halifax after seals broke and is to be sent to England for inspection by British officials and the Swedish legation. The Express speculates the trunk carried secret von Bernstorff documents.
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Frederick VII
Count von Berne Storff
United States
Copenhagen
Express
Stockholm
New York
Halifax
England
Count von Bernstorff
Carranza Reestablishes Mexico City as Capital
General Carranza issues a decree declaring Mexico City the capital of the Republic. He reportedly received 1,500,000 votes nationwide in last Sunday's presidential election.
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Queretaro
Fletcher to Give Reception in Mexico City
Juan Sanchez Azcona and Rafael Zubaran were elected senators from the Federal District in last Sunday's elections. Henry P. Fletcher, the American ambassador, will host an official reception for the diplomatic corps Friday.
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Fletcher
City
Mexico
Juan Sanchez Azcona
Spain
Rafael Zubaran
Henry P. Fletcher
Diplomatic Corps
Dancing Causes Divorce in Chicago Court
Mrs Carrie Ratcliffe testified in Circuit Court that her husband locked her in a basement for three days during January because she loved to dance. She sought freedom rather than alimony, and the judge granted the divorce.
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Chicago
Carrie Ratcliffe
South Side
Railroad Brotherhoods Notify Wilson of March Talks
Washington March 1% The four big railroad brotherhoods informed President Wilson of a conference with railroad representatives set for March 15. They expressed hope for a satisfactory adjustment of wage and hour disputes and pledged full wartime cooperation if the nation enters conflict. A statement on the conference results was expected late today.
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Washington
D. C
Wilson
New York
No Compromise on Eight Hour Day, Rail Labor Threatens Nationwide Strike
New York reports that rail managers vow no compromise on the eight hour day as four railroad brotherhoods prepare a staged strike plan. If Thursday talks fail, strikes would roll out from March 16 with freight crews first on major lines then broadening to passenger crews nationwide.
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Four Brotherhoods of
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National Conference Committee
Comeposed
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Erie
Atlantic Coast Line
Southern Railway
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Lackawanna
Jersey Central
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Long Island
Maine Central
Delaware
Hudsson
Reading
Railroad brotherhood chiefs meet in St Louis to avert strike
Four Southwestern railroad brotherhood chairmen attend a general conference in St Louis on March 13 to seek settlement of the eight hour day controversy. They deny reports of a strike and discuss recommendations for resolving the dispute with the Mn, Kans and Tx and Missouri Pacific Railways represented.
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Four Brotherhoods of the Southwestern Railroads
M Rn, Kansas & Texas
Missouri Pactii Railways
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