Immense Flood Damage Hits Southern California
The Los Angeles region faced the worst storm on record with floods isolating towns, crippling railroads, and causing losses likely over 4.5 million dollars. A. C. Hansen estimates Los Angeles damages at 1.5 million plus major street and rail losses. Separately, a Mexican suspect linked to the Rafael Lopes case was captured in Montana after a train watch alert.
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Los Angeles
California
Techanchap Mountains
Mexican Line
A. C. Hansen
Citiens
Pomona
Deer Lodge
Mont
Rafael Lopes
Utah
Garrison
Roy Rogers
Helena
Drummon
Government Wins Timber Lands Case in Arkansas District
Attorney General Mc Reynolds announced the government won a test case in the eastern district of Arkansas. The decision affects title to more than 109 000 acres of timber and agricultural lands in the state’s northeast.
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Washington
Mc. Reynolds
Arkansas
Pythian Conven tion Opens in Washington at White House
The supreme council Knights of Pythias opened its annual convention in Washington with President Wilson welcoming the order and Secretary Bryan praising it as a great influence advancing universal brotherhood.
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Washington
Wilson
Bryan
Universal Brotherhood
Supreme Council, Knights of Pythias
Bandits Hold Up Train in Birmingham
A Queen and Crescent passenger train from New York to New Orleans was held up in Birmingham by three masked robbers. They took four sacks of registered mail, reportedly containing more than $40,000, delaying the train by about forty minutes.
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Birmingham
Ala
Queen & Crescent Railroad
New York
New Orleans
Widow of Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson Dies
Santa Barbara widow Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson dies at her Montecito home from apoplexy on Thursday. The obituary notes she was widow of the famed author and writer.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Robert Louis Stevenson
Montecito
President nominates Nebeker and Ray to Utah posts
The president sent to the senate the nominations of Aquila Nebeker for United States Marshal for the district of Utah and William Ray to be United States District Attorney for Utah. The move follows a Supreme Court ruling on tense elections and affects local saloons policy.
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Nebeker
Ray
Washington
Thueday
Senate
Willian We Ray
United States District Attorney
Aquila Nebeker
United States
District of Utah
British Subject Murder in Juarez Ties Villa to Death
Washington reports a British subject William Benton was killed in Juarez by order of General Francisco Villa. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice conferred with Secretary Bryan. President Wilson and his cabinet discussed the matter as a state department inquiry was ordered. Foreign protection warnings were reportedly ignored.
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Washington
William 8. Benton
Juarez
Francisco Villa
Cecil Spring-Rice
Bryan
Wilson
State Department
United States
Benton
Villa
Mexico
May Force Intervention Over British Citizen Benton Death
Mexico City reports the execution of William Benton a British subject by the constitutionalists in Juarez stirring fears that Britain may compel U S intervention. Since the revolt began about 150 Americans have died. only four Britons including Benton are recorded killed.
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Mexico City
Willam
Benton
Juarez
United States
Great Britain
Allone
Ketther
Haitien Rebels Routed as Marines Guard Cape Haitien
In Cape Haitien Haiti the rebel army was routed after several clashes with government forces and retreated into the city. Rebel leaders plan to flee toward Ouanimate thirty miles east as panic spreads and an American warship lands to warn and aid refugees. City authorities grant ration funds to revolutionary soldiers to prevent looting.
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Cape Haitien
Haiti
Ouanaeminthe
Conselatee
Threats to Woodrow Wilson Reach Newark Suspect Charged
George Bernhardt, a Newark cook, was jailed after confessing to writing threats to President Wilson titled Gods Son. The case surfaced Friday as authorities traced the letters to his residence in Went Orange.
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Wilson
Newark
N. J
George Bernhardt
Went Orange
Cuburh
Wilk
God
Colorado Votes Bonds for Tunnel
Denver residents approved a 93 000 000 bond to fund a Continental Divide tunnel joint with the Denver and Salt Lake railway. The measure passed two to one, about six thousand votes, pledging a transcontinental link and regional development. The tunnel commission's Fleming called the result the opening of the last great west.
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Denver
Salt Lake City
Colorado
Fleming
The
Tunnel Commission
Strikebreakers Testify They Were Guarded During Mine Strike
Unemployed men imported to the Hancock copper mine testified before a congressional committee that they came with the belief the strike was over and that, en route and after arrival, they were kept under guard.
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Hancock, Mich
Congressional Committee
Senate Defeats Amendments to Arbitration Treaties
The senate on Friday defeated amendments to arbitration treaties with Great Britain Japan and six other nations in a move officials say lifts the United States from its isolated position toward broader foreign relations policy.
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Washington
Great Britain
Japan
Senate
United States
Cloudburst Fears Sweep Oviedo as City Struggles
Fragmentary report notes a cloudburst impact in Oviedo Spain with lower town damaged and residents seeking refuge. Patchy details mention a murder case and a will dispute involving Mrs Manning and Mr Herdman, amid regional disruption and fleeing residents.
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Opain
Oviedo
Spain
Cloudburat
Downes
We Rebel General Juctifins Hie Relton on the Ground
Advices from the state department recount Villa's claim that Benton was armed and quarreled with Villa before being disarmed and executed for attempting Villa's life. Army officers noted Benton as an armed prowler, a guerrilla, not protected by the rules of war, under Order 100.
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Juctifins Hie
Resefier
Waa
Ane
State Department
Villa
Benton
Villa Villa
Fragmented OCR on Northern Confederation Ideals
The readable text discusses a split within the country with the north favoring independence from the south and hints at a plan for abolition and division. It notes renewed momentum for separation and mentions rebel leaders and differing factions in the south.
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Dias
Washington Faces Senate Clash Over Arbitration and Mexico Policy
Congress confronts foreign and domestic issues as the senate weighs reinsertion of general arbitration treaties while the foreign relations committee debates the Wheare nne and Colombian pacts. The secretary may present the latter to support the presidents Mexico policy amid calls for intervention.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Mexico
G ‘Uastion
Senate Ratifies Arbitration Treaty with Light Nationa
Senate approves a five year arbitral agreement with a light nation in a first step of the policy. President aims to gain leverage and an advantageous position in ongoing negotiations and international policy.
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Fenawa
Light Nationa
Washington
White Wolf Bandits Massacre in NeanHwel Province
Bandit chief White Wolf led a massacre that killed about 1,200 people in Livan Chom NeanHwel on January 2. Father Rich, a French Jesuit missionary, was killed, with two other foreigners captured for ransom. An army of 34,000 Chinese troops moves on White Wolf’s entrenched position near Cheng Yank-Kowan. his force totals about 2,000, half armed with modern rifles.
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White Wolf
Pekin
Livan Chom
NeanHwel
Father Rich
Cheng Yank-Kowan
Zion City tobacco ban struck down by Supreme Court
The Sinole supreme court on Saturday declared Zion City’s tobacco ban unconstitutional. The ruling ends enforcement of the city ordinance forbidding tobacco use within city limits and triggers ongoing unrest in Zion City as residents react to the decision.
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Dowie
Anniversary of Madero and Pino Suárez deaths commemorated
In Hermosillo Sonora the anniversary of the overthrow and killing of President Francisco Madero and Vice President Pino Suárez was observed Sunday across areas held by constitutionalists. The report notes Madero and Pino Suárez were killed in Mexico City after federal troops mutinied, elevating General Victoriano Huerta to provisional presidency a year earlier.
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Hermosillo
Sonora
Francisco Madero
Pino Suares
Madero
Busros
Mexico City
Victoriano Huerta
Wealthy Farmer Murdered Near Belleville
The body of Adolph Newmans, a wealthy farmer from New Madrid Missouri, was found on railroad tracks near Belleville. Police began investigations Sunday into the death and its circumstances.
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Loula
Adolph Newmans
New Madrid
Belleville
Train struck by Alpine storm kills and injures
An express Waln train emerging from the New Loetecberg tunnel in the Alps was hit by a violent tar rio squall with a southeastern wind. The last two cars overturned, one passenger died, and three were injured.
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Gerne
Loetecberg
Alps
Life Savers Drowned In Irish Rescue Effort
Three lifeboat crew members drowned during a rescue attempt off Queenstown Ireland as they went to aid the Norwegian barque Maxico near the Galtes islands. The incident underscores the perilous sea conditions and the bravery of rescue teams.
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Queenstown
Ireland
Ifs
Pethard
Maxico
Galtes Islands
Wealord
Coast Crisis and Legal Rhetoric Dominate March News
Fragmented OCR text notes damage along the French coast with an estimated loss of 500000. It mentions a woman suffrage case and a Supreme Court decision delay, plus references to quarantine measures and March sessions.
Nevada divorces and riots haunt the frontier era
Reports recount Nevada divorce law challenges as Judge Moran upholds endivaree provisions while riots erupt with hundreds fleeing into streets. Other items note a Portland manager’s suicide by chloroform, farm unions in Raft River, and a series of violent incidents across several towns with wounded miners and captured fugitives.
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Nevada
Fred Mitchail
Moran
Metriet Court
Reno
Percy W. Manchester
Association of Western Port and Cement Manufacturers
Rand
United Bistes
Department of Agriculture
Hiram ©. Dill
Seattle
Heartville
Ove
Raft River
Famery
Union
Rosalder County
Southers Idaho
Sublet
Idaho
Uales
Charles Morey
Canon City
Colo
Halor
Utah
Morey
Gang of Honor
Prisemare
Bean
McCubbin
Sheritte
Lewis and Fe
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