Retaliatory Amendments Stricken From Revenue Bill
Conferees struck out the Phelan amendment granting presidential retaliation power against belligerent nations interfering with U S mails. The Chamberlain measure to ban foreign fishing imports was also dropped to avoid a Canada USA trade war. Adjournment looms as debates continue on tax and tariff provisions and executive session may review the Danish West Indies treaty.
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Washington, D. C
Phelan
United States
Canada
Congress
Senate
State Department
Kitchin
Tariff Commission
House
Owens
Owen
Danish West Indies
General Strike of Miners Seems Near
Kansas City Moh Sept 7 The sub committee on a two year working contract for 85000 coal miners in Missouri Oklahoma Kansas and Arkansas failed to reach agreement and will report to the general conference this afternoon Officials Alexander Howat president Kansas district miners union and Ira J Fleming president Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators Association announced after the morning session
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Kansas City
Missouri
Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas
Alexander Howat
Pittsburg
Kas
United Mine Workers of America
Howat
Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators’ Association
Germany’s chancellor cautions against unrestricted torpedoing
Dispatches from Berne quote Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg saying the submarine’s value is overstated and that unrestricted warfare could trigger war with the United States. He argues Germany cannot effectively blockade England or starve its people.
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London
Berne
Switzerland
Germany
von Bethmann Hollweg
Federal Council
United States
England
Woman in Insane Hospital Linked to Poison Pen Letters
A patient in a nearby insane hospital is believed by police to be the writer of the poison pen letters signed "Elsie." The notes were mailed to at least five Chicago brides to warn them of impending marriage to another woman and threats of death. Detectives traced the letters back to the writer who had previously crafted similar notes.
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Chicago
Here
Elsie
Monument to Lee to Be Unveiled May 1917
Governor Stuart announced the Lee monument on the Gettysburg battlefield will be unveiled in May 1917 during the annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans in Washington.
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Richmond
Stuart
Robert E. Lee
Gettysburg
United Confederate Veterans
Washington
Pennsylvania Lines West Plans Detroit Terminals Purchase
Pittsburg Pa September 7 authorized announcement by Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburg plans to enter Detroit with an estimated expenditure of 40 million dollars to purchase freight and passenger terminals there.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Lines
Detroit
San Antonio Area Weather Tonight and Friday
For San Antonio and vicinity the forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and Friday with no significant precipitation and mild to warm temperatures.
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San Antonio
Weather forecast for five cities under light guidance
Forecasts from The Light show St Louis with 78 degrees and a 14 mile southwest wind, rain and cooling to 76. Chicago at 72 with northeast wind 8 miles, rain and cooler to 72. Milwaukee 68 with southwest wind six miles, rain and cooler to 66. Kansas City 72 with southerly wind 12 miles, rain and cooler to 70. New York 70 with east wind 10 miles, rain and high 78. Washington 70 with northwest wind and rain to 76.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
New York Subway Strike Impacts City Transit
A subway and elevated strike began in New York with about 9000 walkouts claimed by union leaders and up to 2000 by company officials. Surface lines of the New York Railways were only partly affected as police protected strike breakers and trains mostly ran on schedules.
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New York
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Traction
Subway
New York Railways Company
Manhattan
Bronx
Elevated
Subway Railways
Manhattan Island
Carmen
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Interborough
Brooklyn
Interborough Company
Amalgamated Association
Zeppelin L-21 Confirmed in London Burial Inscription
London reports identify the fallen airship commander as an unknown German officer who died while commanding the Zeppelin L-21, with the coffin inscription dated Sept. 3, 1916. The discovery confirms the airship’s number from the recent London attack.
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London
Burieg
Bremen May Reach American Port Within Ten Days
It is reported that the German submarine merchantman Bremen may be expected at an American port within ten days, likely New London, Connecticut, around Sept. 7.
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London
Bremen
New London
Connecticut
General strike of miners looms after stalled negotiations
In Pittsburg Kansas district many mines idle as sub committee presses for two year contract terms. Miners threaten a general walkout across Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas if no agreement is reached by this afternoon. Chief figures say a report of disagreement is likely while calls for a general conference linger.
Six Thousand Miners Idle in Pittsburg Coal Field
About 6000 miners at two thirds of Pittsburg field coal mines are idle today. One third of the district’s mines remain in operation as usual. George Richardson, representing the operators, provided the figures after canvassing the district by telephone.
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Pittsburg
Kan
George Richardson
Hartman Released on Bond After Mexico Border Arrest
Hartman, linked to a conspiracy involving the J C Brewbaker distillery robbery and tied to General Pershing's expedition scout Guy Johnson, was freed on a $5000 bond in Fort Smith. Officials note the bond is low given a prior $20,000 forfeiture in Kansas City, and Hartman has been held incommunicado since returning from New Mexico before departing with U S officials.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Guy Hartman
Internal Revenue Department
J. C. Brewbaker
Guy Johnson
General Pershing
United States
Hartman
Kansas City
Mexico
New Mexico
Watson faces habeas hearing on bail for Teague murder
Waco Texas September 7 a habeas corpus hearing is set for tomorrow before Associate Justice A J Harper of the court of criminal appeals to decide if T R Watson of Teague will be allowed bail in the murder of John F Patterson state commissioner of banking and insurance. Watsons two sons J E and W E Watson also indicted were released last Tuesday on bond of 5000 each after a prior habeas hearing. The defense will argue the grand jury that indicted the Watsons ceased to exist when its term expired. A subpoena has been issued for State Bank Examiner J E McKinnon who was with Patterson at the time of the tragedy.
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Waco
Tex
A. J. Harper
Court of Criminal Appeals
T. R. Watson
Teague
John 8. Patterson
Banking and Insurance
Watson
McLennan County
J. E
W. E. Watson
Mr. Patterson
Tom L. ‘McCullough
Watsons
Fifty-fourth District Court
State Bank
J. E. McKinnon
Patterson
Senate OKs Gulfport transfer of San Diego exhibit
The Senate approved a resolution to transfer the government exhibit from San Diego to Gulfport for the Mississippi centennial celebration next year. The measure, already passed by the House, includes a $75 000 appropriation for the transfer.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
San Diego
Gulfport
House
Grand Trunk Raises Wages for 4500 Workers
The Grand Trunk Railway Company increases wages from five to eight percent for 4500 employees in Montreal. Firemen and engineers are excluded from the raise. The announcement was made today.
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Grand Trunk
Montreal
Grand Trunk Railway Company
Mrs. C. W. Woodman Dies in Fort Worth Home
Mrs. C. W. Woodman wife of the state labor commissioner died at the family home in Fort Worth Texas this morning. She was noted as a public figure in labor affairs and leaves a family.
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C. W. Woodman
Fort Worth
Tex
Guardsmen on Border to be Mustered Out Soon
About 15,000 national guardsmen in the border force will be mustered out of federal service as soon as practical. Fourteenth New York regiment to stay till typhoid elimination. others to return to normal guard status. Units affected include regiments from New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Missouri, California, Oregon, Washington, and Louisiana.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Secretary of War
National Guard
Fourteenth New York Regiment
New York
New Jersey
Maryland
Illinois
Missouri
California
Oregon
Washington
Louisiana
Fourteenth New York
Yale Battery
Tobyhanna
Niantic
New York Infantry
New Jersey Infantry
Maryland Infantry
Washington Infantry
Louisiana Infantry
Missouri Guardsmen Affected by Demobilization Order
Nine hundred Missouri guardsmen from the First and Third Infantry Regiments, stationed in St. Louis and Kansas City, are to be demobilized. Rejoicing greeted the news at Nevada military reservation as units arrived from Laredo Texas for a likely long stay.
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Nevada
St. Louis
Kansas City
Laredo
Tex
Riot at Hull Rally in Chicago Ends in Beating
Friends of Morton D. Hull a Republican governor hopeful search for attackers after a Hull meeting in Chicago was broken up by a riot. Chairman Gus Tiberg was beaten unconscious as hecklers disrupted the event and terrified the audience.
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Chicago
Ill
Morton D. Hull
Illinois
Gus Tiberg
Cholera Regulations Enforce Strict Shore Policy On Sheridan
In Honolulu on Sept 7, cholera fears from the Orient trigger tight controls on the army transport Sheridan. First and second class passengers must secure passes to ashore, crew and troops barred from landing, armed sentries guard gangways, five crewmen forced back at bayonet point, and Nagasaki passengers barred from leaving ship where fatality rates were high.
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Honolulu
Orient
Far East
Sheridan
Nagasaki
Norwegian steamer Rilda sunk. crew saved
The small Norwegian steamer Rilda of 813 tons gross and 144 feet length has been sunk near Rotterdam. Built at Preston in 1883, the crew were rescued and survived the incident.
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Rotterdam
London
Preston
Bandits Rob Golden State Limited Near Apache
Six masked bandits attempted to blow open the express car safe on the Golden State Limited near Apache Arizona tonight. They failed after six tries and escaped on cow ponies. Passengers were not molested and a shot was fired at the locked mail clerk. Police organized a posse to trail the robbers from Apache toward the countryside.
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Douglas
Arizona
Golden State Limited
Chicago, Rock Island «& Pacific
Apache
President Wilson to spend summer at Shadow Lawn in Asbury Park
Arrangements set to move executive offices from the White House to Shadow Lawn Asbury Park New Jersey near Wilsons summer residence. Wilson will be joined by relatives a physician and key aides including Tumulty McAdoo Grayson Burleson and Lynch as they coordinate from Shadow Lawn and nearby Spring Lake while he speaks in Atlantic City and St. Louis.
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Washington, D. C
White House
Asbury Park
N. J
Wilson
Shadow Lawn
Helen Woodrow Bones
Luck
Mary Smith
New Orleans
Cary T. Grayson
White House Physician, and Mrs. Grayson
Tumulty
McAdoo
Spring Lake
Atlantic City
National American Woman Suffrage Association
St. Louis
Vance C. McCormick
Democratic National Committee
New York
Fred B. Lynch
Minnesota
Burleson
Wilson replies to joint American Mexican commission
President Wilson sends a telegram to the American and Mexican joint commissioners expressing warm appreciation for their greetings. He emphasizes friendship and accommodation and hopes the deliberations will achieve success that long cements U S Mexican friendship.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Joint Commission
Mexico City Press Appeals for U S Cuba Cooperation
El Pueblo editor Herber to Barron urges U S and Cuban press cooperation to ease U S Mexico tensions. He expresses faith in President Wilson and asks withdrawal of the punitive expedition so Mexican members of the New London joint commission can seek settlement without pistols at their breasts. He says Mexico will be friendly to foreign capital.
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Mexico City
el Pueblo
Mexico
Herberto Barron
United States
Cuba
Wilson
Joint Commission
New London
Conn
Senor Barrion
Cool air kills monkeys imported for infantile paralysis work
In San Francisco forty of the one hundred monkeys from the Orient for experiments against infantile paralysis died of tuberculosis. Officials say the animals were healthy until the temperate voyage brought cool air that damaged their lungs.
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San F.ancisco
Cal
Orient
Mrs Barnes Denies Police Confession in Divorce Case
Chicago September 7. Attorneys for Mrs Iva Barnes repudiated the police claim she confessed to shooting and killing her husband James Barnes local representative of a New York firm amid a divorce dispute.
French Take Mile of German Trenches in Verdun Front
French war office report says troops captured a one mile stretch of first line trenches on the Verdun front northeast of Verdun between Vaux Chapitre and Chenois. About 250 German prisoners were taken and a German counterattack on Hospital Farm on the Somme front was repulsed with heavy losses.
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Paris
Verdun
War Office
Vaux-Chapitre
Chenois
Hospital Farm
Somme
German Assault Against Leuze Wood on Somme Fails
British forces repelled a German counterattack in Leuze Wood with hand to hand fighting. The war office noted two enemy officers and men were captured. Ginchy fighting persisted with heavy artillery and gas shells, while East Neuville St. Vaast reported a mine explosion. A bombardment west of Lens was described as very effective.
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London
Leuze Wood
Somme
War Office
Ginchy
Neuville St. Vaast
Lens
Russians Gain Ground in Galicia and Danube Fort in War Update
Associated Press reports Halicz in flames as Russian troops seize rail lines between Halicz Semikovitze and Wodniki. Russian claim: 5600 more prisoners taken in Eastern Galicia. Roumanians evacuated Turtukai on the Danube under pressure from German and Austrian forces.
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Petrograd
London
Halicz
Lemberg
Semikovitze
Wodniki
Galicia
Turtukai
Danube
Bucharest
British air raid on El Arish in Sinai Peninsula
British aeroplanes raided the Turkish aerodrome and repair section at El Arish 90 miles east of the Suez Canal. Twelve bombs were dropped with good results. Turkish aircraft attacked our planes at long range but did not close in, and our machines returned undamaged.
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London
el Arish
Sinai Peninsula
Suez Canal
Roumanian Fortress Turtukai Falls to Axis Forces
Berlin dispatch reports that over 20,000 Roumanians were taken prisoner when Bulgarian and German troops captured the fortress of Turtukai. The official German army statement adds that more than 100 guns were captured with the fortress.
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Berlin
London
Turtukai
Romanian Forces Seize Orsova Pass On Frontier
Roumanian troops occupy Gyorgyo-Ditro Orsova pass on the northwest frontier, according to an official war office statement. The advance includes seven guns several machine guns and a significant amount of ammunition captured or secured.
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Bucharest
London
Gyorgyo-Ditro-Orsova Pass
Roumania
Roumanian War Office
Romanian Fort Clash Reports Heavy Losses at Turtukai Fort
A Romanian statement says German and Bulgarian forces have reinforced and attacked the fortress of Turtukai. The Romanian garrison is counterattacking ceaselessly with serious losses claimed on both sides.
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Turtukai
Departure of Candido to Orizaba and possible missions
The foreign minister of the de facto government, General Candido, departed for Orizaba. Reports suggest he may proceed to Vera Cruz or Yucatan on a mission from General Carranza. Rumors say he could replace General Alvarado as governor of Yucatan while Alvarado may take a post in the capital.
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Mexico City
Candido
Orizaba
Vera Cruz
Yucatan
Carranza
General Alvarado
Alvarado
Fox to Be Promoted to Eastern Lines Manager
The Santa Fe announces the appointment of F. T. Fox, general manager of the western lines at Amarillo, Tex., as general manager of the eastern lines to replace the deceased C. W. Kouns. The decision was announced after a conference among high officials in Topeka.
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Kas
F. T. Fox
Santa Fe
Amarillo
Tex
C. W. Kouns
E. L. Co
R. G. Parker
Topeka
Amarilla
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