Seventy Five Passengers Missing After Sussex Explosion
Reports from Paris and London describe the Sussex disaster near Dieppe with 75 or more missing. Survivors number about 250 in France and 90 to 100 at Dover, with 386 passengers and 50 crew aboard. Americans aboard include Joshua D. Armitage and Samuel Bemis among others. several injured or killed. The cause unclear whether mine or torpedo. The ship owned by French State Railways and managed by Brighton Railroad.
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London
Folkestone
Dieppe
Admiralty
France
Dover
Sussex
Captain’s Bridge
Boulogne
Joshua D. Armitage
J. M. Baldwin
Helen Baldwin
Elizabeth Baldwin
Gertrude L. Barnes
Charles T. Crocker
Samuel Bemis
Henry Deer
Ida Deer
Lillian C. S. Harde
Edna S. Harde
Edward Huxley
Dorothy Phillips Hilton
Edna Frances Hilton
Edna Hall
John H. Hearley
Edward Marshell
Wilder G. Penfield
George Henry Parker Jr
Alice W. Ruiz
Tolliote Sennell
Daniel Sargent
Tinglewoods Tulderson
Gertrude W. Nick Warren
Frances E. Drake
Miss Baldwin
United States Rubber Export Company
Francis E. Drake
Alice Ruiz
Colorado
Merton College
Oxford
Brighton Railroad
House plan to speed up legislation outlined by Wilson
In Washington on March 25, President Wilson urged a rapid congressional program to adjourn by late July or early August. Speaker Clark and Majority Leader Kitchin backed daily sessions, a full timetable, and key bills including appropriation measures, revenue reform, a tariff commission, ship purchases, rural credits, Philippine and Porto Rico bills, river relief, and a corrupt practices act.
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Washington, D. C
National Party
House
Clark
Wilson
Tariff Commission
Porto Rico
Panama
New Jersey
Kitchin
Ways and Means
Congress
Weather Report for San Antonio Tonight and Sunday
The Weather for San Antonio and vicinity notes tonight will be fair and colder with frost. Sunday promises fair skies and continued cold temperatures.
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San Antonio
Weather map for tourists across major cities
Forecasts by The Light show St. Louis at 64 with rain and colder winds 24 miles per hour. Chicago 58 with rain, Milwaukee 38 cloudy with east winds, St Paul 36 with northwest wind, Kansas City 50, New York 38 with rain likely, Washington 34 with possible rain Sunday.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Washington, D. C
Governors in Mexico call conference at San Luis Potosi
Mexico reports a conference of state governors has been called by the first chief with important matters pending. James Linn Rodgers arrives as new consul general after extensive service in Havana Central America Shanghai and Ohio. Thomas Dickenson named private secretary. Food money conditions persist with corn price around one peso per litre and 20 cars en route. Silver gains noted amid new ordinance restricting traffic in the metal.
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San Luis Potosi
Mexico
James Linn Rodgers
Coasul
Quercaro
Rodgers
Havana
Central America
Orient
Shanghai
Ohio
Thomas Dickenson
San Luis
Carranza forwards reply on protocol
General Carranza’s reply to the Washington note was handed to James L. Rodgers for transmission to Washington. The reply agrees in the main to American proposals but suggests a few unimportant changes.
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U. S
Queretaro
Mex
Mexico City
Carranza
Washington
James L. Rodgers
Senate Republicans hold border troop briefing
Senate Republicans met to discuss a plan for sending more troops to guard the Mexican border. The conference adjourned without action and will resume Monday with steps expected to be announced.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Republicans
No Qualified Army Fliers for Mexican Expedition Mission
Captain Arthur S. Cowan, commandant at North Island training institution, says no aviators are qualified for duty with the expeditionary forces in Mexico. Four North Island students await junior aviator tests but lack cross country flight experience and need training before deployment.
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San Diego
Cal
Signal Corps Aviation School
Mexico
Arthur 8S. Cowan
North Island
John Pershing
Tornado kills eight near Davis Oklahoma
Eight people died in a farm house two miles east of Davis Oklahoma when a tornado struck the area around 8 30 p m Friday night The tornado tracked eight miles. In Texas rain hail and wind disrupted communication and transport with the Texas Traction Company losing poles and wires near New Anna causing passenger transfers.
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Davis, Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Okla
Davis
Texas
Dallas
Tex
North
Texas Traction Company
New Anna
van Alstine
Sherman
Denison
Rainfall and Gale Hit Texas Towns on March 25
Light rain fell in Galveston, marking the first shower since January 2 and totaling .30 of an inch. The yearly rainfall runs over eight inches below normal. In San Angelo a sixty mile per hour gale damaged trees and small buildings across west Texas.
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Galveston
Tex
San Angelo
West Texas
Eloping Couple Captured After Sheriff Giles Slain
Paul Hadley and his Kansas City bride were tracked for hours by a large posse through McIntosh county until surrounded in an Indian’s farmhouse nine miles southeast of Checotah. Giles died on a Missouri Kansas and Texas train when the couple fled with revolvers.
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Muskogee
Okla
Paul V. Hadley
Kansas City
Jake Giles
Beaumont
Tex
Checotail
MclIntosh County
Hadley
Giles
Checotah
Eufaula
McCune
McIntosh County
Hiram Early Mountain
Mountain
No Raid Found Near Gibson's Ranch in New Mexico
Reports of Mexican brigands raiding eight miles from Gibson's Ranch, killing three Americans, were unfounded according to investigators in Gibson, New Mexico. Douglas officials had not confirmed a separate claim of two American women and a man killed near the Gibson ranch southwest of Columbus, New Mexico.
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Columbus
N. M
Gibson
Douglas
Ariz
Gibson Ranch
Emperor William to inspect Vilna operations
Reuters dispatch from London reports Petrograd papers say preparations are underway for Emperor William to arrive at Vilna. He will supervise the direction of important operations.
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London
Petrograd
Reuter
William
Vilna
AEROPLANE BRINGS WORD FROM PERSHING
Lieutenant Herbert A. Dargue of the First Aeroplane Squadron arrived in Columbus New Mexico after a 165 mile flight from Mexico. He carried dispatches to headquarters and from front correspondents. Dargue reported poor flying conditions and a descent to fifty feet due to rare air. He noted freezing cold in the mountains and a flight time under two and a half hours.
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Columbus
N. M
Herbert A. Dargue
Mexico
Dargue
German Raider Grief Sunk in North Sea By Alcantara
London reports a German raider Grief sunk in the North Sea after a February 29 clash with the British armed merchantman Alcantara. Five German officers and 415 seamen were captured. Alcantara, 570 feet long and 15100 tons, was sunk by torpedo. British losses stood at five officers and 69 men.
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London
North Sea
Greif
Alcantara
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Belfast
Glasgow
Bremen
Verdun in Flames in German War Update
Berlin reports Verdun is burning in an official German army statement while Paris says the Verdun region remains quiet east and west of the Meuse. Artillery duels continue in the Woevre region overnight.
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Berlin
Verdun
Paris
Loncon
Meuse
Woevre
Roosevelt discovers new bird in Trinidad with cave-dwelling habits
From New York March 25 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt returns from the West Indies reporting a new bird in Trinidad named the Guacharo. He says it is barn owl sized, nocturnal, cave-dwelling and nut eating. He plans to notify the New York Zoological Society and may write about it.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
West Indies
Trinidad
Roosevelt
New York Zoological Society
George W. Perkins
Oyster Bay
Germany Seeks Extended War Financing Says Helfferich
German finance official Helfferich declares the empire’s war financing assured for another half year. He notes Germany, isolated, has covered total war costs with long term loans and a third loan of over ten billion marks demonstrates strength and unity toward final victory.
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London
Reichstag
Imperial Treasury
Reuter
Amsterdam
Helfferich
Germany
Washington considers steps to halt rumors on Mexico crisis
Officials weigh legal action and censorship to stop reports that could spur war between the United States and Mexico. Secretary Lansing drafts a formal statement as Wilson administration eyes measures against inciting rumors while awaiting word on Villa and his outlaws.
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Washington, D. C
Mexico
United States
Wilson
Herrera
Letcher
Chihuahua City
Congress
Villa
War Department
Funston
Pancho Villa Reported Fleeing West from Encirclement
Pancho Villa was reported fleeing west in the San Miguel country after eluding the ring formed by American and Carranza forces. The retreat was described as underway from El Valle but could not be confirmed at Fort Bliss or by Mexican officials.
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EL Paso
Tex
Pancho Villa
San Miguel
el Valle
Fort Bliss
Crcles
El Paso Fears for Border as Villa Rumors Spread
Reports from Mexico City and Chihuahua stir uncertainty as Villa and Herrera move amid Carranza and American forces. El Paso readies at dawn with troops bolstering police, patrols, and guards amid tension along the border.
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