Defense Opens Past Life Evidence in Black Case
At Galveston, the Copeland defense sought to prove anti-Catholic lecturer William Black was not a priest by introducing a deposition from John H. Black and testimony from Rev. James M. Kirwin. The judge allowed some evidence and reserved others, while ruling on admissibility of related judgments in the Winn and O leary cases.
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Galveston
Tex
John Copeland
William Black
Black
District Court of
Harrigan County
Harry Winn
Copeland
Texas
Stubbs
Clay Stone Briggs
Kirwin
Marsene Johnson
Johnson
M. L. Wiseman, & Marshall
William Orville Black
John H. Black
Palmer Township
Washington County
Ohio
Waterford Township
Bellaire
Belmont County
Zanesville
Anna A. Baxter
Ellaire
MecConnellsville
Oregon
Christian Church
Sadie Black
H. S. Boyd
James M. Kirwin
Harrison County
Frank O'Leary
Marshall
Briggs
Winn
O'Leary
Galveston County
British Steamer Sidmouth Sunk Off Cardiff
Lloyds shipping says the British steamer Sidmouth of 4045 tons gross and built in 1903 was sunk with her crew safely landed. The ship, owned by Anning Brothers of Stockholm, sailed from Cardiff when the loss occurred.
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London
Sidmouth
Lloyd’'s Shipping Agency
Cardiff
Anning Brothers
Stockholm
Weather Forecasts From Multiple Cities
San Antonio tonight and Friday fair. St Louis 40 clear with west wind 8 miles. Chicago 86 clear with west wind 10 miles. Milwaukee 84 clear with west wind 10 miles. Washington 48 clear with northwest wind. Temperatures include lows near 40 in San Antonio and highs in the 50s to 60s elsewhere.
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San Antonio
Vicinity
ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Canada Ready for New Settlers and Expansion
New York Oct 26 Baron Shaughnessy president of the Canadian Pacific Railway predicts a greater Canada after peace with unprecedented immigration and stronger political role in the British empire. He cites vast Atlantic and Pacific sea traffic and ongoing trade development as essential to postwar growth.
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New York
Canada
Baron Shaughnessy
Canadian Pacific Railway
Europe
Kroonland
Dominion
Dominions
Atlantic
Mr. Shaughnessy
Pacific
Cotton Sags After Sharp Opening in New York Market
The cotton market opened with renewed nervousness after yesterday's sensational break. March futures rose to 19.26 cents during the session, then fell back to 18.91 cents as renewed liquidation pushed prices down about $1.70 per bale from last night’s close.
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New York
Neral
Detectives Recover $13000 in Detroit Payroll Theft Case
Detectives in St. Louis recover $13,000 of $32,000 stolen from a Burroughs Adding Machine payroll in Detroit on August 4. The money was found in two safety deposit boxes at Mercantile Trust Company opened after the boxes were rented three days post robbery. Boxes’ keys came from Dallas and the funds were turned to Leigh Turner, insurer for the payroll.
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ST. Louis
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Detroi
Mercantile Trust Company
Dallas
Trust Company
Leigh Turner
Chicago recruits next week open recruiting station
A new large United States army recruiting station opens in Chicago next week. Enlisted men under Captain Kenney plan moving picture shows dances and basketball games to attract recruits. Captain Cathro to help sweep Illinois Wisconsin and nearby states aiming for one recruit per thousand inhabitants.
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Chicago
United States Army
Kenney
Illinois
Thomas Cathro
Wisconsin
Police Detail Changes in Chicago Reflect Indictment Threats
Chicago October 26 Threats of further indictments in the citys Hasl police scandal target a leading member of the legal department. State s attorney Maclay Hoyne announced a reorganization sending officers away from his office and revoking licenses of a major cabaret resort while barring new detail entrants to his investigative team.
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Chicago
Ill
Maclay Hoyne
Healey
Wilson Urges Spiritual Unity at Cincinnati Reception
President Wilson spoke in Cincinnati urging spiritual unity to ready the nation for greater work. He delivered four speeches and enjoyed a full program including a reception lunch and dinner with arrangements by the Non Partisan City Club. Mrs Wilson accompanied him as crowds cheered from windows and sidewalks.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Wilson
Chamber of Commerce
United States
George Puchta
Women’s City Club
President Wilson Greets Cheerful Crowd in Ohio
President Wilson arrived in Chillicothe Ohio on October 26 and was welcomed by a large crowd including hundreds of railroad shopmen. A wreath was given to Mrs. Wilson and the president joked about fun here as a youngster while a woman in the crowd urged keeping the country at peace.
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Pent Wilson
Chillicothe
Wilson
President Wilson Tours Ohio Towns En Route to Cincinnati
President Wilson, en route to Cincinnati, greeted crowds in Martinsburg and Cumberland and planned brief stops in Chillicothe and Greenfield as his special train moved through Ohio and West Virginia. He declined to give a speech at Martinsburg, saying he would rather work, and expressed pleasure at the warm greetings from fellow citizens.
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Wilson
Parkersburg
W. Va
Cincinnati
Ohio
Chillicothe
Greenfield
Martinsburg
Cumberland
President Wilson greeted by crowds in Ohio towns
President Wilson was greeted by cheering crowds at Greenfield Blanchester and Loveland as he traveled to Cincinnati. He thanked the people for coming out to see him and Mrs. Wilson appeared with him in Greenfield and Blanchester.
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President Wilson
Loveland
Ohio
Wilson
Greenfield
Blanchester
Cincinnati
Hoyne's Wings Clipped by Chicago Police Chief Healey
State's Attorney Hoyne loses police detail after Chief Healey indicts him for conspiracy and malfeasance in office. Healey replaces 25 officers with eight of his own selected men who report to him instead of Hoyne. Hoyne orders the eight to leave, calling for no stool pigeons around the office.
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Chicago
Hoyne
C. Co. Healey
Healey
Danube Bridge Blown Up Report From Bucharest
A Rome dispatch to the Wireless Press says that after the Russians and Roumanians evacuated Tchernavoda the Roumanians blew up the Danube bridge at that point.
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Danube
London
Rome
Bucharest
Tchernavoda
Eleven Die in Quebec Hospital Fire
Fire at St Elizabeth Hospital in Farnham Quebec killed eleven and left fifteen to twenty five others missing as 350 patients fled by windows. Two young women died in a separate New York factory blaze on East Houston Street with heavy damage and several unaccounted for.
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Farnham
Quebec
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Grey Nuns
New York
Houston Street
Kaiser Urges Army to Hold Out On Somme Front
Emperor William spoke to troops on the Somme front in France thanking them for four months of hard fighting and urging them to endure. He praised their unity and valor, invoking divine blessing and a just cause as the war drags on.
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Berlin
London
William
Somme
France
Tageblatt
East Front
Million Americans Named Drug Users Challenge
New York a gathering of the American Medical Editors' Association heard B C Keith of the internal revenue bureau say more than a million Americans are known drug users and many more use drugs secretly. He noted users exist in every district, including rural areas. Dr Frank Sabbot urged society to treat drug victims like alcoholics and pressed for standardized national and state laws for users.
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New York
United States
American Medical Editors’ Association
B. C. Keith
Internal Revenue Bureau
Frank Sabbot
Brooklyn
California
Association
Fifth Avenue Corner Bottleneck Counts Traffic Peak
New York reports a Fifth Avenue and Forty second Street corner traffic study by the Fifth Avenue Association. During ten business hours 17 151 vehicles move north and south, the busiest city corner.
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Fifth Avenue
Forty-second
New York
Fifth Avenue Association
Forty-second Street
China Mail Steamship buys two new ocean liners
The China Mail Steamship Company, operator of the China, has purchased two large ocean steamers under construction at Wallace Ship Yard in Vancouver BC for 2.5 million dollars each, adding to its trans Pacific fleet a year after starting with the China.
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San Francisco
Cal
China Mail Steamship Company
China
Pacific Mail Company
Wallace Ship Yard
Vancouver
B. c
Officials Hesitate as Mexican Crisis Deepens Near Chihuahua
Washington reports on Villa bandit activity near Chihuahua preserve border guard presence and Pershing’s column. Carranza forces suffer losses while reinforcements arrive. officials warn Chihuahua could shift control of Northern Mexico and threaten Juarez Torreon Monterrey Saltillo.
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Washintong
D. C
Chihuahua
General Pershing
Mexico
Villa
Arredondo
Consu
Garcia
el Paso
Trevino
Carranza
Villistas
Santa Ysabel
War Department
Fanta
Juarez
Torreon
Monterey
Saltillo
Bell
State Department
Ozuna
Palomas
Inez Salazar
Columbus
N. M
Obregon
Huerta
Madero
San Antonio
Tex
United States
British Intercept Letters From German Ship Willehad
Two intercepted letters reveal German plans involving the Willehad ship and its mission near American waters. The Willehad sailed with four months of provisions and would act as a telegraph station for submarines within three miles of the U S coast. The Willehad and Koln were in Boston and New London, with the Willehad later moved to a dock prepared by the Eastern Forwarding Company.
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London
Germany
Max
East Eighth Street
South
Boston
Gustav
Willehad
Jachens
New London
Koln
Lloyd
Eastern Forwarding Company
Koth
Bremen
Atlantic
Eastern
Deutschland
Baltimore
Captain Denies All Knowledge in Letters Intercept
NEW LONDON Conn Oct 26 Captain Jachens denied any knowledge of the letters intercepted by the British His sole reply to questions was I do not know anything about it.
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New London
Conn
Jachens
British Mine Sweeper Genista Sunk in Torpedo Attack
The mine-sweeping vessel Genista was torpedoed and sunk as announced by the British admiralty. All officers and 73 crew members perished while twelve survivors were rescued.
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London
Admiralty
General Mann Chosen Chief of Militia Affairs
Brigadier General William A. Mann, commanding the army division based at Laredo, was selected to head the War Department division of militia. The appointment fills the post left vacant by the death of Major General Albert L. Mills and Mann will assume duties immediately.
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Laredo
General Mills
Washington, D. C
William A. Mann
Army Division
War Department
Albert L. Mills
Wedding Delayed At Coliseum Home Exposition
A delayed wedding at the Home Exposition in Chicago involved groom Thomas Gilliam and bride Miss Hazel Green. Gilliam was dressed in a suit loaned by a recently married man, while a shirt came from an exhibitor, a white tie was borrowed from a bystander, and the ring was supplied by a married woman and returned after the ceremony.
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Chicago
Coliseum
Thomas Gilliam
Gilliam
Hazel Green
Boissevain Abandons Transcontinental Suffrage Tour
Mrs Inez Mulholland Boissevain has canceled her cross country campaign for the federal woman suffrage amendment in Los Angeles after a collapse and nervous breakdown. Her sister Mrs Vida Mulholland said physicians ordered rest and that they will stay several days here until she can travel east again. The episode followed a Monday address and later tonsillitis developed.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Inez Mulholland Boissevain
Vida Mulholland
Up in Retreat Capture of Another German Verdun Defense
Berlin reports von Mackensen advances against Russo Romanian forces in Dobrudja as Roumanians blow the Danube bridge. German troops push deeper into Romanian territory on the northern front. Russian attacks west of Lutsk in Volhynia fail under German artillery.
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Berlin
Sayville
von Mackensen
Dobrudja
War Office
Danube
Finnyi
Lutsk
Volhynia
Russian Romanian forces in Dobrudja under pressure eases slight
Petrograd reports reduced pressure from Von Mackensen in Dobrudja as Romanians and Russians brace against Bulgarians Germans and Turks near Constanta and Tchernavoda. Berlin dispatches claim entente forces split with some retreating toward the Danube bridge others northward.
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London
Dobrudja
Petrograd
von Mackensen
Berlin
Tchernavoda
Danube
Black Sea
Constanta-Tchernavoda
Pressure Eases as Forces Duel in Dobrudja and Transylvania
Reports from Petrograd say Mackensen's army in Dobrudja has weakened its pressure against Russian and Romanian troops. In Transylvania Romanian forces halted advancing Austro German units along the Constanza Medjidie line. Romanian losses at Constanza elicit cautious official comment, while observers say Romania falls back to a new defensive line from Tchernavoda toward the Black Sea.
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Petrograd
London
von Mackensen
Dobrudja
War Office
Transylvania
Constanza
Roumania
Black Sea
Shumsky
Bourse Gazette
Tchernavoda
Danube
Constanza-Medjidie
Noumania
Gecomis
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Detroit
Mr. Wilson
U. S
Chillcothe
Mrs. Wilson
Chief Healey
Kaiser
N. Y
China Mail Service Boys Ships
Chihuahua City
State
War Departments
U.S
Mann
Fort Vaux
Verdun
Carpathians
Capul
Paris
Teasday
Fort Douaumont
Macedonia
Golobrda
Lassitsa
Derna
Monastir
Bukan
Drama
Constantinople
Saloniki
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