Mexican bandits fought six hours then fled south of Chihuahua
General Obregon's report from Mexico City details Major engagement with Villa forces about thirty miles south of Chihuahua. Villa troops were defeated after six hours of heavy fighting. The Carranza forces captured three machine guns many rifles saddled horses and took many prisoners who were executed on the field.
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Pretel
Paso
Tex
Obregon
Mexico City
Murgia
Villa
Chitahua
Fisorder
Santa Ysabel
Chihuahua City
Carranza
Eagle Pass
Muregun
Chihuahua
Candelario Garna
Villa Followers Routed Near Querétaro Report
Iny Assocated Fr Kae Queretaro Mexico December 2 General Francisco Murgia reports to General Carranza that he routed Villa followers, about 2,500 men, and chased them roughly twelve miles toward Chihuahua City. Continued on page 2.
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Mexico
Francisco Murgia
Carranza
Villa
Chihuahua City
Three Men Arrested in Hardin Hotel Killing in Kentucky
Prensy Catlettsburg Ky December 2 three young men Hughes Combs Jr 21 Fred Lowther 23 and Harry McGuire 22 were arrested on warrants issued by Chief Howard Johnson in connection with the stabbing of 55 year old J2S Hardin proprietor of the Hardin hotel during Thanksgiving night Hardin died late Friday Combs charged with the murder others held as accessories all in jail without bond
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Prensy
Combs
Pittsburg Journalist Robert J Sample Dies at 49
Robert J Sample aged 49 died in Pittsburg today from pneumonia after a career with several newspapers including roles in New York and Minneapolis. He returned to Pittsburg three years ago to edit the Pittsburg Livestock Review and previously served in the Spanish American War under General W J Huling. His mother survives.
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Pittsburg
Robert J Sample
Sample
New York
Minneapolis
Liberty Lighted Cause of Furore at Statue Celebration
Ambassador Penfield reports Countess Tarnowska abandoned plans to accompany her husband to the United States over health concerns. President Wilson illuminated the Statue of Liberty from the Mayflower, pledging liberty as a beacon of democratic ideals, with dignitaries aboard and French gift funding the permanent lighting system.
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Associated Press
Washington
Penfield
Vienna
State Department
Countess Tarnowski
United States
Great Britain
France
Count Tarnowski
New York
Wilson
Bartholdi
Bedloe’s Island
Bank to Reopen Under New Bluefield Management
Charleston Dec 2 S Press Smith state banking commissioner said Union Bank and Trust Co of Bluefield will reopen soon under new management. Readjustment of the bank’s business is coming about satisfactorily under his department’s direction.
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Charleston
S. Press
Special session for real estate receiver in Buckhannon
Judge W S O'Brien granted a plea for a Webster Springs special circuit court session to decide placing all John McGraw real estate in receivership. Holdings valued about 600000 dollars. Attorney R L Gregory led the plea at Parkersburg. West Virginia Exposition and State Fair Assn stock increased from 100000 to 150000 dollars at the stockholders meeting in Wheeling. Extensive improvements planned for the fair grounds.
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Associated Press
W. S. O'Brien
Buckhannon
Circuit Court
Webster Springs
John
McGraw
Grafton
R. L. Gregory
Parkersboro
Wheeling
Dees
West Virginia Exposition and State Fair Association
Fair Ground
Russians gain western Danube bridge control at Tchernavoda
Petrograd December reports say Russians hold the western part of the Tchernavoda bridge over the Danube. South of Bucharest Teutonic forces retreat with villages Tzomana and Gostinari recaptured. The bridge, via which the Bucharest Black Sea rail line runs, was seized by von Mackensen after the Dobrudja battles and fall of Constanza.
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von Mackensen
Dobrudja
Constanza
Tehernovoda
Bucharest
Black Sea
Mackensen
Roumania
Russie
Germans and Bulgarians Press on Bucharest The Romanian Capital At Risk
Reports from Berlin say German and Bulgarian forces close around Bucharest as Romanian defenses retreat slightly southwest of Piteşti. Russian advances in Transylvania and Dobrudja offer Allied momentum, with fewer prisoners indicating fierce, desperate combat.
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London
Rea
Yapienti
Bireharest
Berlin
Bucharest
Arneiver
Champulung
Toree 4
Piteshil
Stam Yileers
Trussian
Mon
Talkenhayne
Transylvania
Kirlibaba
Dobrudja
London Press Stirs Over Politics of War Control
London dispatch reports a crisis as newspapers debate future war control by a cabinet directorate of five, advised by Sir William Robertson and Admiral Jellicoe. Resignation of Premier Asquith toward Lloyd George or Bonar Law is discussed. Asquith’s audience with the King fuels resignations rumors. The note hints a cabinet shift beyond last year’s five-member rule.
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London
William R. Robertson
Imperial Staff
John R. Jellicog
Asquith
David Lloyd George
Andrew Bonar Lay
Owar
Pink-eyed white squirrel reported in West Virginia
Associated Press reports William Srazier, a merchant of Stiltner in Wayne County, caught a pink-eyed white squirrel in a hollow tree. It is the first albino of its species reported in West Virginia to date, and the animal will be turned over to the Eray anicrals at the estate.
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Associated Press
Charlbeeton
wWiliam Srazier
Stiltner
Wayne County
West Virginia
Congress Set For Fast Session As Caucus Looms
Washington December reports say Congress will reconvene with urgency as House and Senate members arrive amid high food prices and ongoing investigations. Leaders push for extended sessions, while Democrats weigh choosing a new president pro tempore and addressing spending, conservation, suffrage, and alleged election irregularities.
Wilson May Address Cost of Living at Opening Congress
Washington December 2 After opening address to Congress President Wilson may deliver a brief speech on the high cost of living. Plans are indefinite and may be finalized last minute. Advisers favor including the issue in the legislative program. Thousands petition the White House for relief from rising food prices and some seek a Europe embargo. Officials see public sentiment leaning toward embargo but expect no change in administration stance.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
White House
Europe
Prohibition Writ in West Virginia Senate Race Granted
A writ of prohibition was granted by Judge W N Miller of the state supreme court of appeals in the A K Duty Republican candidate versus Wirt county and R S Blair Democratic candidate case. The order bars Wirt county from sitting as a board of election canvassers and from reopening November 7 ballots or recounting them. Proceedings adjourned with hearings to be continued next Saturday in Pleasants county.
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Parkersburg
Charleston
W.N. Miller
State Supreme Court of Appeals
A. K. Duty
Senate
Court of Wirt
R. S.blair
Therwirt
Wirt County
Villa's Movements Now Embarrassing
Washington dispatches report renewed Villa activity in Mexico as officials scrutinize reports of his capture of Chihuahua City and potential impact on the Atlantic City protocol. Officials acknowledge his strengthened position could complicate joint commission talks on conditional withdrawal and Carranza acceptance.
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Washington
Carranza
Joint Commission
Atlantic City
Villa
Mexico
Chihuahua City
Juarez
Joint ‘Commission
Perahing
Tfai
Smallpox Quarantine Shuts Schools and Town
Health authorities in Martin’s Ferry Ohio across the Ohio River from Wheeling ordered schools churches and motion picture houses closed and all public gatherings postponed after the discovery of two smallpox cases in the Eaton home and another in the same family. Postmaster Finley aids victims. About 13 000 residents are effectively isolated from the world due to the quarantine.
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Wheeling
Martin's Ferry
Ohio River
EB. C. Eaton
Finley Avis
Mob Gey Associates PmENm 9 CHARLESTON Dec 1
Italians congregated along Cabin Creek today after a truck struck a man, causing fatal injuries. Castlesvan allegedly surrendered to officials, while practice continued in a tense scene with authorities investigating the incident.
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