Monarchist uprising widens in Portugal and royalist plans erupt
Paris and Madrid reports say the monarchist movement gains ground as army and navy back the revolt. Portugal proclaims royalist government in Oporto with Conseiro Premier and Sandor Barbosa War Minister. Unconfirmed reports place Manuel in Lisbon. Vienna warns Charles against further plots or expulsion.
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London Daily Express
Madrid
Portu
Wats
Pacs
Manuel
Impo
Oporto
Valence
Senhor Conceiro
Sandor Barbosa
Onorte
Tte
Iuisbon
England
Charles
LN. S
London
Geneva
Vienna
Ebert Maintains Lead in Early Returns In Berlin
Early returns show Ebert ahead as 160 plus constituencies remain undecided. Major parties listed include Majority Socialists holding 46 seats, Democrats 3, Clricals 46, German Nationals 54, Independent Socialists 19, and German Peoples Party 11 with 433 candidates chosen. Philip Scheidemann warned that drastic arms limits could spread Bolshevism to France and England, risking Germany's power and food supply.
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Berlin
London
Hay
Sia
National Assembly
Democrats
German Peoples Party
Philip Scheidemann
France
England
Sfhe
Entente
Germany
Polonet House May Be Able To Sit At Session Next Week
Paris Jan 22 The condition of fotone House is improved to such an extent today that he was able to take an automobile ride. It is believed that he will be able to sit with the American delegates at the conference next week.
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Polonet House
Paris
Fotone House
Counter-revolution Reported in Petrograd
Berlin via London reports a counter revolution has broken out in Petrograd with anti Bolshevik forces proclaiming a general strike for today.
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Petrograd
Berlin
London
Pan
Trograd
Tiday
Weather Outlook for Western Pennsylvania
Forecast from Washington announces cloudy nights and Thursday with likely rain. Mild temperatures are expected for the region through Thursday based on today’s weather report.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Sparticites Riot Rages Through Berlin City Streets
Berlin reports rioting by Sparticites armed with rifles and grenades. They clashed at Anhalter station and spread along Koenig Graetze Strasse Dessauer Strasse Wilhelms Platz and other areas. Government troops are ordered to remain. National Assembly meeting set for February 26 in Weimar.
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Berlin
London
Spartacides
Anhalter Station
Koenig Graetze Strasse
Dessauer Strasse
Wilhelms Platz
Albrecht Strasse
Cocque Nickel
National Assembly
Weimari
Atlantic Coast Mines Swept Clean After U-117 Field
Navy sweepers removed seven mine fields laid by U-117 off Fenwick Island. Five ships were sunk or damaged including San Saba and Laetia, while Minnesota was struck but not sunk. German maps proved unreliable as officers report depths of 21 feet for mines and most remaining ordnance recovered.
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Fenwick Island
United States
Navy
San Saba
Laetia
Navy Department
Atlantic
Fire Island
Sandiego
Chaiarro
Herbert Pratt
Saetia
Minnesota
Somerstad
Mirlo
Frederick Kelloge
Germans Disguised as Women Arrested After Explosion
Exclusive report: several Germans disguised as women were arrested near Mons after a munition dump explosion destroyed over a mile of the Ostend Brussels railroad. The peasant population fled in terror.
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I. N.S
London
Kypress
Brussels
Mons
Ostend-Brusse
Government to Lose Millions in Wool Surplus Auction
Washington January 22 The United States government will lose between 10 million and 15 million dollars in the auctioning of its surplus supply of American wool. R J Thorne assistant director of army purchases told the House military affairs committee this afternoon.
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Washington
United States
R. J. Thorne
Army
House
Desperate jailbreak men said surrounded by posse
Sheriff posse closes in after twenty five inmates escape Rock Island Prison. Twenty one believed cornered and heavily armed as a nationwide manhunt begins. Prison break grinds city to alert mode with civilians urged to stay indoors.
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Rock Island
Rock Island Prison Escape Sparks Pursuit Nationwide
Twenty five inmates escaped after overpowering guards at Rock Island prison. Four captured near the escape site, others believed armed and in a woods near Rockford. Turn-key John Sexton was shot. pursuit extended through Chicago area as authorities warned all routes.
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Rock Island
Rock Iland
Reb
John Sexton
Hius
Vilages
Fomr
Chicago
Rockford
Sexton
Queen of the Russia Reds Taken in Chicago Roundup
Federal agents raid Chicago arresting Bessie Abrahamson and 35 others tied to an I W W roundup. Police seized nearly a ton of incendiary literature and hundreds of photos of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. A letter from the “Russian red queen” connected to Fort Leavenworth inmates spurred the operation.
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Chicago
Bessie, Abrahamson
Rosa Luxemburg
Fort Levanworth
Abrahamson
South Side
TW. W. I
South Throop Street
Karl Liebknecht
Red Queen
Bolsheviks Report Mass Discipline Among Russian Troops
Stockholm reports Trotsky enforces strict discipline with executions and floggings in Bolshevik units. About 2,000 soldiers shot in three months for insubordination and neglect of drill. mutinies suppressed, conscripts punished, and spies urged under threat of death. Report cites brutality and executions by red guards and others.
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Leon Trotzky
Stockholm
Leon Trotsky
Moscow
Bolsheviki Anspeper Obnoviente
Perm
Kusskore
Count Seheremetie
Tro
Senator Oliver Dies at 71 in Pittsburgh
Senator Oliver of Pennsylvania died at his home in Pittsburgh at age 71 after a long spinal illness. He retired from politics in 1917 and had published the Gazette Times and Chronicle Telegraph, with extensive local property holdings. He earlier ran iron and steel ventures and served as a presidential elector in 1884 and a Republican delegate in 1904. He served as U S Senator from 1909 to 1917.
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Pittsburgh
Jan
United States
Pennsylvania
Oliver
Billsburgh
Gazette-Times
Chronicle-Telegraph
Oliver Iron and Steel Company
U. S
Philander C. Knox
Early Morning Fire Damages Ursuline Convent
Fire caused heavy damage early today at the Ursuline convent in Roberval Montreal. The blaze broke out in the early hours and resulted in substantial destruction to the convent building and its interiors. Local fire crews responded quickly to control the flames.
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Montreal
Ursuline Convent
Roberval
Armour Sees Farmers’ Business Sense Before Congress
J Ogden Armour, wealthy meat packer, testified to the House Interstate Commerce committee in Washington on January 22. He praised farmers as generally lacking strong business sense while answering questions in a quiet suit and distinctive purple knit tie with a scarfpin.
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ARMOR
Cpinion
Washington
J. Ogden Armour
Tradtice
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Armour
Burleson Organization Faces New Charges
Burleson group accused of wrongdoing faces fresh charges as authorities pursue alleged misdeeds connected to the organization. Investigators reiterate ongoing scrutiny and potential legal actions.
Postal rate dispute erupts over telegraph assets
Edward Bennolds, former Postal Telegraph vice president, testifies to the House post office committee that Postmaster General Burleson seeks government ownership by scrambling Postal and Western Union assets. Bennolds says Burleson used disloyalty dismissals and manipulated valuations to justify government control and higher rates.
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Postal Company
House Postoffice Committee
Washington
Burleson
Postal Telegraph Company
Edward Bennolds
House Post Office Committee
Beynolds
Postal
Stern Union
Steenerson
Minnesota
Madden
Reynolds
Moon
Western Union
Peasants Slain by Bolsheviks Near Moscow
Stockholm reports fifteen hundred peasants slain in provinces south of Moscow with villages burned and a rising under way. Rebels surround Moscow as they gain recruits in Tula, Koslov and Ryazan while peasants defend a fortified line along the Oka river Serpukhov and Kolomuna. Red guards move to suppress killings of women and children.
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Stockholm
Moscow
Tula
Koslov
Ryazan
Oka River
Serpukhov
Kolomuna
Red
German Women in Trenches From Prisons Rumor Sparks Uproar
Boston dispatch notes strange claim that German women in uniform, said to be ex-prison inmates, fought with the German army at Chateau-Thierry and that bodies were found on the battlefield. The item cites transports bringing 1,650 soldiers and lists multiple U S units and commanders for context.
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Boston
Royal Mail
Melita
Brest
France
Massachusetts
Southwest
Membe
Yale Mobile Hospital
Victor Heintz
Cincinnati
Thomas W. Jones
AL Report
C. P. Johnson
Icena
Ynoughboys
Greater Boston
Chateau-Thierrye
Germany
British Commission Searches for Missing War Prisoners
British authorities search Germany for straggling German prisoners of war possibly held as involuntary workers in mines and asylums. About 100 missing expected to be found. London: list of missing prisoners sent to Berlin. German records warned not to be destroyed. graves to be searched after living are checked.
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British Commission
H. J. Greenwall
TE. N. S. Anl
London Daily Express
Berlin
Germany
Russia's Fate in Balance at Supreme Council Session
The Supreme Council of great powers considers decisive steps as it nears the end of its session. Danish minister proposes military intervention as a possible measure if required.
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Supreme Council of Great Powers
Four of the Big Five Opposed to Such a Move
Paris reports that four of the big five powers oppose a military move in Russia. The Supreme Council will decide steps after its session, with Britain France Italy and Japan likely to contribute troops if action is taken. German influence and Bolshevik gains in Russia loom as a concern while Poland’s fate and the League of Nations plan occupy attention.
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BIG
John Walwin Nevin
Paris
Russia
Supreme Council of the Great Powers
Areld
Cavenius
Taaly
Ordo
Tereaisn
Sonning
inter-Al- Hed Council
Ludemerfff
Poland
Robert Cecil
League of Nations
Bonar Law
London
Deputi
Wilson
Admiral Bristol to lead U S flotilla to Constantinople
Paris dispatch reports Admiral Bristol leaving Paris to command a flotilla of American destroyers bound for Constantinople. The Scorpion remains the only U S warship in the Bosphorus under ongoing German pressure and restricted activity. Greece signals openness to joining a league of nations and supports making the Dardanelles an international waterway.
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Paris
Bristol
Brindisi
Constantinople
Bosphorus
America
Talaat Pasha
Enver Pasha
Greece
Dardanelles
Massacre Suppression Charge Against Polish Press
New York January 22 reports claim the Polish press concealed facts about the anti Jewish outbreak in Lemberg where hundreds of Jews were killed. The cablegram from Abraham Capan editor of the Jewish Daily Forward in Paris was received here today.
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New York
Lemberg
Forward
Abraham Capan
Paris
Berger and Associates Seek New Trial Tomorrow
Senator-elect Victor Berger and his four Socialist associates will appear before Judge Landis in Chicago on a motion for a new trial tomorrow.
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Berger and Associates
Chicago
Victor Berger
Landis
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