U S Battleships Move Toward Vera Cruz Amid Mexican Crisis
United States battleships with sealed orders head to Vera Cruz as Carranza defies the U S and Pan American conference. Secretary Daniels says southern waters demand greater naval forces while 12 000 mobile troops stand ready on the Mexican border. Reports say 200 Mexican soldiers crossed into Texas and attacked along the border as clashes continue and casualties rise.
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Washington
United States
Vera Cruz
Connecticut
Daniels
Newport
R. I
Benson
Carranza
U. S
Wilson
Cornish
N. H
Funston
War Department
Tamaulipas
General Navarette
Texas
Brownsville
Texas Rangers
Hidalgo County
Army of Liberation
Villa
Langtry
Tex
Southern Pacific
el Paso
Lansing
New York
Mexico
Brownston
German raid on Thames docks and Harwich reported
Berlin dispatch reports German raiders bombarded warships on the Thames and nearby facilities including the London docks, torpedo cars near Harwich, and structures at the Jiluiber with good results, according to an official statement from the Admiralty.
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Berlin
England
Thames
London
Harwich
Jiluiber
Eastland Raised No Bodies Found After Lift
Chicago reports the Eastland was raised from the Chicago river mud after 20 hours of crane and tug work. Coroner Hoffman doubts any bodies remain in the hull while noting about ten missing persons may still be among the shipwreck.
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Chicago
Eastland
Alexander Danning
Favorite
Hoffman
Ask Bid on Million Cattle
C C Robinson of a Chicago packing firm released a cable from Liverpool to Chicago asking for an estimate to deliver 1 000 000 American beef cattle to Liverpool. The order, if filled, would cost about 100 million dollars and reduce U S cattle reserves.
Last Civil War Veteran Col John L Clem Retires
Washington Aug 14 The last Civil War veteran on active Army duty Col John L Clem of the Quartermaster Department reached retirement at 64 ending his duties at the War Department. He retires with brigadier general rank under a congressional act. Colonel Clem is known as the Drummer Boy of Chickamauga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States Army
John L. Clem
Quartermaster’s Department
War Department
Congress
Clem
Drummer Boy
Chickamauga
Portuguese Cruiser Republica Wrecked
London reports the Portuguese cruiser Republica went ashore off Ertesiro last week and is total losses. Her guns were removed to other ships.
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London
Republica
Ertesiro
Germans Press Near Vilna in Baltic Campaign Push
Berlin reports seven Austro German armies massed for drive on Vilna while Kovno holds as Russians contest Riga front. Kaisers forces claim Lomza capture and storm forts as Petrograd line edges toward Dvina in widening Baltic battle.
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Vilna
Berlin
London
Siedlce
Brest-Litovsk
Warsaw
Bug and
Vistula
Siedice
Kovno
Baltic
Warsaw-Petrograd
Dvina
Riga
Dvinsk
Ostrolenka
Chelm
Teutons
Wieprz
Bug
Vladimir Volynski
Luga
Lublin
Poland
Kovno-Riga
Petrograd
Lomza
Novogeorgievsk
Benjaminow
Air Raid Kills Six More in England
London reports a second air raid by German forces killing six people and wounding twenty. Fourteen houses were destroyed or damaged. The raid likely targeted shipyards near Newcastle and naval stations by the Thames river mouth. The prior attack had fourteen fatalities.
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London
England
Newcastle
Thames River
Six Track Workers Killed Near Mount Union
A Pennsylvania Railroad train collided with a crew east of Mount Union resulting in six fatalities among track hands. The incident occurred on August 14 near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Authorities are investigating the collision and safety procedures.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mount Union
Yankees Defeat Mexicans in Two Hour Ranch Fight
At the King Ranch house near Norias Texas a two hour battle left 20 Mexican bandits dead and several wounded while three American troopers and two Texas rangers were wounded. Eight U S soldiers seven Texas rangers and ranch employees defended against about 60 bandits who had terrorized Cameron County for over a week. Reinforcements pursued the bandits as they retreated and more fighting was expected.
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Harlingen
Tex
Texas Rangers
King Ranch House
Norias
Oscar Morris
Morris
Cameron County
Wreck Investigation Begins After Fatal Rail Crash
Six passengers die and two score injured when a freight train rear ends an excursion train near Orient on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern line during a heavy rain. Authorities including U S District Attorney Bolin and the Interstate Commerce Commission will determine liability and whether the federal safety appliance act applies. Victims include Logan Haller 22 Five PointsPickaway county Lori Sollars 21 Greenland Mt Sterling Thornton Neff 25 Mt Sterling Thaddeus Mitchell 14 Five Points Carl Reichelderfer 16 Five Points Fred Gearhart Mt Sterling.
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Western
Union News Service
Columbus
Orient
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway
Federal Safety Appliance Act
United States District
Stuart R. Bolin
Interstate Commerce Commission
Knights of Pythias
Mt. Sterling
Logan Haller
Five Points
Pickaway County
Margaret Sollars
James Sollars
Greenland
Thornton Neff
Thaddeus Mitchell
David Mitchell
Carl Reichelderfer
Fred Gearhart
Iowa mayor kills woman in De Soto kitchen death
De Soto Iowa August 12 Mayor Joseph Blackman shot and killed Mrs Q J Jordan forty wife of a real estate dealer then killed himself in her kitchen after a breakfast quarrel witnesses say Mrs Jordan had gone to cook for threshers and her mother was in the kitchen during the shooting.
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de Soto
Joseph Blackman
Q. J. Jordan
Alaska Forest Reserve Cut By Presidential Proclamation
Washington August 14 The Chugash National Forest in Alaska was reduced by about half through a presidential proclamation returning roughly 6 802 000 acres to the public domain The land will be crossed by a government railroad from Stewart to Fairbanks It marks the largest single elimination of national forest land by proclamation and was deemed to lack high timber value for protection
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Washington
Chugash National Forest
Alaska
Wilson
Stewart
Fairbanks
Austrian Fleet Bombards Italian Littoral Rail System
Vienna reports the Austrian fleet bombarded the Italian Littoral rail line from Molfetta to Seno San Giorgio. San Spirito station and five depots were burned while Bari signal station and five factories were shelled. Population panicked as vessels returned unharmed.
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Molfetta
Seno San Giorgio
Vienna
San Spirito
Bari
Castle
Fifty-Three Convicts Freed by Ohio Parole Board
The state board of administration paroled fifty three prisoners from the penitentiary, including four women, mostly on indeterminate sentences. Crimes cited span man slaughter to pocket picking, with named paroled individuals Julia Arczynski Mary Dallas Mary Love and Ida Rice among the women. Fred Thompson from Clark county also paroled after being bound to the Clark county common pleas court.
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Columbus, O
State Board of Administration
Xenia Water Co Hearing Set On Stock Issue
The state utilities commission will hold a hearing on August 23 to decide if Xenia Water Co may issue $100,000 of six percent preferred stock. Funds would finance a filtration system and expansion of the pumping plant.
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Columbus
State Utilities Commission
Xenia Water Co
Buckeye Brevities amid Ohio notices and accidents
State Insurance Superintendent approves a contract consolidating the Home Guards of Van Wert into the American Insurance Union of Columbus. Benjamin Emery is named to the Lookout Mountain Memorial Commission to replace G. H. Grosvenor. Frances W. Hollingshead tops civil service list for child hygienic department physician. A. C. Holland second. Willys Overland announces an 8 48 hour work week starting November 1 after a 5 percent wage rise. Fatalities include Raymond Wilson struck by a train near Akron after leaping from a freight car, and banker Dohrman Sinclair in Steubenville believed killed by a railroad accident.
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Columbus
Frank Taggart
American Insurance Union of Columbus
Home Guards, of van Wert
Benjamin Emery
London
Lookout Mountain Memorial Commission
G. H. Grosvenor
Athens
Frances W. Hollingshead
Oak Street
Cincinnati
Civil Service
State Board of Charities
A. C. Holland
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Toledo
Willys Overland Company
Akron
Baltimore & Ohio
Raymond Wilson
Pittsburg
Not in Heaven Woman and Man Unite in Spiritual Bond
Mrs. D. D. Butcher teacher of Individual Science argues feminine personality does not exist in heaven and that the sun is the true mate of the earth. She says woman was created in Adam and is the reflection of him and that man and woman unite to form the spiritual body while preserving individual identity.
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Cleveland
D. D. Butcher
Heaven
Mrs. Butcher
Encampment Grows As Ohio Guardsmen Rebuild Camp Willis
In Yellow Springs Ohio the Second Brigade of the Ohio National Guard 3300 soldiers pitched tents at Camp Willis for an eight day encampment. Regiments led by Colonel Hubler and others drilled in saddling marching signaling and field tactics. A secretive sham battle tested officers and Major Arthur Johnson supervised with Brig. Gen. Sparks in charge. First accident reported when George Austin fractured a wrist aboard a Cincinnati train.
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Yellow Springs
Camp Willis
Ohio National Guard
Cincinnati
R. L. Hubler
Hubler
Columbus
Byron L. Barger
Cleveland
Charles X. Zimmerman
Bucyrus
Edward L. Vollrath
Signal Corps
Lewis W. Jaquith
Spritefield
Ohio
Willis
Arthur Johnson
United States Regular Army
John C. Sparks
Adjt
Burton
Edward S. Bryant
John H. Brigham
James A. Hall
Jobert Turney
James M. Reiger
Robert D. Palmer
Lewis Joquith
Neff Park
Queen City
William Parker
Central Station
George Austin
Company B
Wyoming
Victor Heintz
John M. Pattison
Rockwell
Made Plea for the Boys at Ohio Police Meet
Ohio police officers gather for the annual convention in Cedar Point. Superintendent J A Leonard of the Mansfield reformatory urges giving youths a chance and cites parole laws as a path to success. President Jacob Mints of Cleveland calls for removing politics from police departments noting injuries linked to political pressure.
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Cedar Point
Ohio Police Association
J. A. Leonard
Mansfield Reformatory
Ohio
Jacob Mints
Cleveland
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Sir David Beatty
Beheld
David Beatty
Beatty
Ethel Field
Marshall Field of
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Russ
Teppelins
C. J. Hexamer
Philadelphia
National
Norras
Iowa
Alaska Forest Reserve
Xenia Water CO. Hearing
Steubenville
Dohrman
Sinclair
Cleveland & Pittsburg
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