Austrian Premier Assassinated In Vienna Dinner Attack
Vienna reports Count Karl Stuerghk was shot three times at a hotel during a dinner. Assassin Doctor Friedrick Adler, a radical Socialist editor, confessed motives tied to Parliament refusal and political policy. Two bystanders were wounded in the confrontation.
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Vienna
Berlin
Count Stuergkh
Arthur Adler
Count Karl Stuergkh
Friedrch Adler
Dr. Adler
Baron Aehrenthal
Count Toggenburg
Tyrol
Adler
Mexican General Leaders Form New Political Party
Mexico City reports that over 100 prominent generals and revolutionary chiefs met at General Gonzales home to form a party aimed at unifying constitutional elements and backing General Carranza for president. Attendees included Generals Obregon Gonzales Benjamin Hill Aguilar Casario Castro and Francisco Goss. The group planned to replace Gonzales as eastern division commander but stalled on the succession.
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Mexico City
Gonzales
Constitutional Party
Carranza
Obregon
Benjamin Hill
Aguilar
Casario Castro
Francisco Goss
East
Civilian Wins First in Rifle Match at Florida Range
W H Spencer a civilian of St Louis won first place in a field of 929 competitors in the individual rifle match under the National Board of Promotion of Rifle Practice on the Florida range in Jacksonville scoring 274 points of a possible 300 First Sergeant F L Mallon of the First Delaware Infantry took second with 271 and Sergeant Raymond Lecuyer USMC was third.
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Jacksonville
Fla
W. H. Spencer
St. Louis
National Board of Promotion of
Florida
F. L. Mallon
Delaware Infantry
Raymond Lecuyer
United State Marine Corps
German Emperor and Chancellor Confer in Berlin
The German Emperor met with Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg in Berlin to discuss the general situation. The talks followed a visit by the Foreign Secretary von Schoamaak last week and will continue to shape policy decisions.
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Berlin
London
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Herr von Shamaak
221 Drowned as Steamer Goes Down in Lake Erie
The steamer James B. Colgate bound for Fort William Ontario with coal sank in a Lake Erie storm off Erie Pennsylvania. Captain Walter Grashaw, the sole survivor, spent 24 hours on a life raft before rescue in Conneaut Ohio. Twenty one crewmen drowned. two others died after exposure.
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Cleveland, O
James B. Colgate
Lake Erie
Colgate
Buffalo
Fort William
Harry Ossman
Cleveland
Earth Shocks Felt Across Southern California
Earthquakes rattled southern California with two strong shocks reported. Barkersfield experienced severe shaking and damage to power lines between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. A Santa Fe Railroad ticket office at Tehachapi was wrecked in the tremor.
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Fresno
Cal
California
Barkersfield
Bakersfield
Los Angeles
Santa Fe
Tehachapi
Lloyds Report Sinking Of Five Steamers Across War Zone
London reports the loss of five steam ships with at least eight lives. The British vessels Huguenot of Newcastle and Marchioness of Glasgow are sunk. their crews were landed. Neutral ships Athens Haudrot and Alfhild, plus another, are also sunk.
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London
Lloyds
Newcastle
Marchioness
Glasgow
Athens
Haudrot
Alfhild
Carranza Family Visit Reaches Nuevo Laredo
Mrs. Dona Virginia Carranza wife of General Carranza arrives in Nuevo Laredo with her two daughters and Mrs Alvaro Obregon wife of the minister of war on a special visit to the United States border town.
Rumanians Push Offensives Across Front Lines
Reports from London and Berlin describe Romanians launching renewed offensives along the Transylvania Romania border with prisoners and guns left behind. French gains south of the Somme are noted along with German repulses north of Sailly Saillisel. Berlin claims British positions were briefly taken and retaken on the Sars Morval front amid heavy rain and quiet otherwise.
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London
Transylvania
Rumania
Berlin
Macedonia
Teutonic
Monastir
Mount
Pasubio
Trentino
Somme
France
Paris
la Maisonette
Sailly-Saillisel
French War Office
Sars-Morval
Teutons
Butte de Warlencourt
Mine Explosion Traps Six. Nine Missing in West Virginia
An explosion at Jamison Coal & Coke Co. No 7 mine in Barrackville, near Fairmont, entombed six workers and left nine missing. The blast wrecked the mine interior and tipple while 200 rescuers and a Bureau of Mines rescue car from Pittsburgh work to reach the rubble. About 250 miners are normally employed, but car shortages reduced current shifts.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Jamison Coal & Coke Co
Barrackville
R. H. Jamison
Pittsburg
Bairmont
Bureau of Mines
U S Declines Public Comment on U-53 Raid and Submarine Affairs
Washington will not issue a public statement on the U-53 raid or submarine matters. The decision follows Viscount Grey’s parliamentary remark that official representations will be delayed until a formal announcement is made in Britain.
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Washington
United States
Viscount Grey
Episcopal bishops reject racial division proposal at general convention
In St. Louis the House of Bishops repelled a plan to split the Episcopal Church along racial lines. A clash between militant and pacifist advocates sparked a heated debate in the House of Deputies over prayer, highlighting tensions at the convention.
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St. Louis
House of Bishops
Episcopal Church
House of Deputies
Hurricane Visits the South With Devastation and Missing Vessels
A hurricane swept through the middle Gulf States causing two deaths in Pensacola and Mobile, unroofed buildings, damaged communications, and ship losses. Wind reached 114 mph at Pensacola and 110 mph at Mobile, with heavy rains and two earthquakes felt as far north as Kentucky, but overall damage remained less than the prior July hurricane.
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Charlotte
Middle Gulf States
Alabama
Georgia
Pensacola
Mobile
Mobile City
Burrwood
Mississippi
Macon
Kentucky
Birmingham
Ala
French Marines March Near Greek King's Palace in Athens
Three hundred French marines moved from the Zappelon Exposition building within 400 yards of the King's Palace. They marched with bayonets fixed and trumpets sounding, accompanied by motion picture apparatus. Prince Andrew and Princess Alice Mindway led the palace frontage as they met three Greek fleet companies, who turned down an adjacent street.
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Athens
London
King’s Palace
Prince Andrew
Princess Alice
Mindway
Women denied equal rights by Episcopal body
In St Louis the House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal General Convention rejected a proposal to let women sit as delegates and denounced Bishop Logan H Roots of Hankow for seeking women in his advisory council.
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St. Louis
House of Bishops
Protestant Episcopal General Convention
Logan H. Roots
Hankow
Mexican presidential and congress elections planned early next year
Mexico City reports say the Republic will hold presidential elections late next January or early February along with congressional elections. The timing signals a major political event as campaigns begin and parties prepare for nationwide voting.
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Mexico City
Mexican Republic
Mexicans Clash With U S Troops Near San Jose Big Bend
In a 45 minute encounter near San Jose in the Big Bend country American forces and about 30 Mexican attackers fought from covered positions along the Rio Grande. No American casualties were reported and the nationality of the Mexicans remains uncertain.
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San Jose
Rio Grande
Big Bend County
San Antonio
Tex
Big Bend
Funston
Joseph Gaston
Gaston
Sixth Cavalry
Texas National Guard
Presidio
Ruidosa
Gudington
Texas Squadron
United States
Cudington
Bremen Submarine Bremen Reported Lost With All Crew
An Amsterdam telegraph asserts the German Ocean Navigation Company has received no word from the commercial submarine Bremen and she is feared lost. Families in Bremen face great anxiety as crews for other submarines may be hard to obtain. The Deutschland voyage was cancelled. Paul G L Hilken, American manager of the owning company, said the Bremen was a month overdue and he feared an accident to her machinery.
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London
Exchange
Amsterdam
Bremen
German Ocean Navigation Company
Baltimore
Paul G. L. Hilken
Preliminary Plans for U C V Reunion Began
Washington reports discuss plans for the 1917 United Confederate Veterans reunion the first in the capital. The finance committee foresees a May or June gathering with a week of events and excursions to Gettysburg and other battlefields.
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Washington
United Confederate Veterans
General Reunion Committee
Gettysburg
Auto train crash in Altoona kills woman and three girls
A Pennsylvania Railroad train struck an automobile in Altoona killing a woman and three girls instantly. The woman's son was likely fatally injured. Police have not released full details as the investigation continues.
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Altoona
Edison Receives Doctor of Laws by Telephone
In Albany New York Dr John H Finley conferred a doctor of laws degree on Thomas A Edison by telephone with Edison in his Orange New Jersey lab and Finley in the New York Educational Building. Eight hundred people joined by using as many telephones to hear the ceremony.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas A. Edison
John H. Finley
University of the State of New York
Mr. Edison
Orange
N. J
Finley
New York Educational
Infantile Paralysis Remains Medical Mystery in Milwaukee
Medical experts at the American Association for the Prevention of Infantile Paralysis meeting in Milwaukee say the origin and transmission of the disease remain puzzling. They note the illness continues to baffle researchers and clinicians as they seek understanding and cures.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Why Strive To Kill Time In An Age Of Speed
A reflective piece on time as both ally and enemy argues against extreme speed and annihilating time. It critiques plans to conquer time with rapid travel and weightless flight, noting such aims ultimately return to the starting point without lasting gain.
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Titan
Tables Turned With Ambitious Husband in Politics
A dialogue depicts a wife accusing her partner of ambition, while another woman notes the husband aims for political prominence and public visibility. The exchange hints at gender roles and societal expectations in political life.
His Choice Dog Puns A Barkatella Music Joke
A humorous dialogue imagines a dog as a singer choosing bark arrolles, with playful wordplay on dog sounds and musical style. The exchange casts the pet as a performer and parodies song genres through canine puns.
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Friedrich Adler
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NEW Party
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Episcopal
EOST
U. C. V. Reunion
Edison
United States Cartridge CO
Trinity Building
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