Havoc by rebel guns rages as clashes reach Laredo area
Rebels under Gen Ortega push at Presidio and Nuevo Laredo with 6,000 fighters driving 4,000 federals from outposts. Inland battle near Laredo grows as Mexicans prepare dawn assault and Red Cross services rush to Presidio while reports place hundreds dead and border crossing plans underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Presidio
el Tiso
Ageual Orozco
Ynez Salazar
Aldy
Laredo
Jabio Gorzalea
Garson
Nuevo Laredo
Nuevo Laredé
Rev Dr Washington Gladden resigns from Columbus church
In Columbus on December 31, the Rev Dr Washington Gladden aged 71 years signed to resign after a 31 year pastorate at Frat Congregational Church. He will remain pastor emeritus at a salary of 100. He is known as the veteran citizen of Columbus. Rev Dr Carl S Patton will succeed him as pastor.
Obituaries and Funeral Notices December 1913
Death notices for Fay Ard August Prailey U S N retired aged seventy Helen Rebecca Gilman aunt of Mrs George W Stese and Eute Grimm list final residences and funeral plans with streets and dates for January 1 2 1914. Relatives invited to attend services at Caroline Street Church and Oak Hill Bangor etc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prailey
Twenty -Frets
Fay
Leonard August Prailey
Gilman
Helen Rebecca Gilman
George W Stese
St Taylor Street
Bangor
Eigith Streel
Eute Ft
Grimm
Oak Hill Cemetery
Peters
Bentalou Street
Be' Tmore
T Peters
Flora W Peters
Caroline Street
M. i
In memoriam for HANNS HATILSTALK
The passage marks the one year anniversary of the death of HANNS HATILSTALK on January 1, 1912. Daughters FANNIE and HAILSTALK and son HANNT express sorrow, recalling a peaceful sleep and trusting in God despite tears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioriam
Hanns
Hatilstalk
Kegrew
Fannie
Hailstalk
Hannt
Battle rages at Ojinaga as rebels attack Mexican town
For two days a major clash unfolds at Ojinaga Mexico between rebels and Hugria's forces. Rebels outnumber federal troops and risk mass executions if captured. Federals fall back to adobe houses and inner trenches as rebels ready artillery while generals Orozco and Balazar reportedly flee to Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ojinaga
Mexico
Hugria
Goh
Villa
Orozco
Balazar
Texas
Admiral Frailey Dead A Naval Pay Director 40 Years Service
Pay Director Leonard August Frailey, rear admiral, born 1843 in the city, died at his residence. He served in the volunteer navy from 1861 and in the regular navy from 1864, retiring in 1905 after forty years. He was a vestryman of St. Margaret's Church and member of the Loyal Legion. Funeral at St. Margaret's Saturday at 11 with interment at Arlington Cemetery with military honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Yard
St. Margaret’s
Arlington
Leonard August Frailey
Twenty-first Street
Frailey
Charles S
Caroline M. B. Frailey
Union Academy
Gongaga College
Young Commercial Coillage
Volunteer Navy
Helen Watson Freeman
Boston
Washington Navy Yard
Admiral Frailey
Loyal Legion
St. Margaret's Church
Charles L. Frailey
Herbert Scott Smith
Arlington Cemetery
Guarded Lincoln When Shot Col Bevans Dies at Home
Col Henry T Bevans a Civil War veteran and member of the secret service detail that guarded President Lincoln on the night of the assassination died at his St Paul Minnesota home yesterday He occupied a theater box near Lincoln on that tragic night
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry T. Bevans
Secret Service
St. Paul
Minn
President Lincoln
Col. Bevans
Vivisection Endorsed by Scientific Federation
Philadelphia December 31 members of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology adopted a resolution endorsing vivisection as essential to scientific progress. The federation includes the American Physiological Society American Society of Biological Chemistry the Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and the American Society for Experimental Pathology. The resolution pledges humane treatment and notes many experiments cause no pain while stressing ongoing beneficent research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Federation of American Societies
University of Pennsylvania
American Physiological Society
American Society of Biological Chemistry
The
Society For Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
American Society For
Battle with Slayer Ends in Wife's Death
Harris S Armstrong, a 40 year old Black man, fatally shot his wife after she refused to live with him. He walked from a northwest Washington house toward Fourth and N streets with a so called public safety item, was overpowered by officers as neighbors alerted the Second precinct. His wife's body was sent to the morgue for autopsy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris
Armstrong
Fourth
William Ryan
Second Precinct
Ryan
Capt
Peck
Place Northwest
N Streets
Walsh
McMahon
Chase Denies Ill of Son-in-Law After Miami Report
B B Keith’s wife Ethel sends telegram denying a New York dispatch claiming his son in law Maurice Goodman FE F Albee and Paul Keith were rushing to Miami for a crisis. Chase confirms his son in law is not ill and notes the Florida trip followed a wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Chase
P._B. Chase
Chase
Keith
New York
B. B. Keith
Miami
Fla
Movements of Ocean Steamers Reach Ports Listed
Ships sailing and routes noted include Potsdam from Rotterdam to New York. Barbarose from Bremen to New York. Cymric from New York to Liverpool. St Paul from Southampton to New York Campana from New York to Liverpool La Savoie from New York to Havre Kroonland from New York to Antwerp Majestic from New York to Southampton President Lincoln from Southampton to New York Caroline from Havre to New York.
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Denmivoie
Potsdam
Rotterdam
New York
Pennsylvanie
Hamburg
Barbarose
Bremén
Cymric
Liverpool
St Paul
Southampton
Campana
la Savoie
Havre
Kroonland
Antwarp
Majestic
President Lincoln
Panama Exhibition Absence Denied by Britain and Germany
London dispatch quotes British foreign office and confirms there is no agreement between Germany and Britain to curb American trade. Each country independently chooses not to participate in the Panama exhibition, citing economic reasons while noting mood influenced by toll resentment and international critics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
London
New York World
South America
Central America
England
Germany
British Foreign Office
Great Britain
House of Commons
Grey
Panama
San Francisco
Morning Post
United States
Boston and Maine Bond Trust Planned by Railroads
Boston December 81 The New Haven and Hartford Railroad plans a voluntary trust to take over the stocks and bonds of the Boston and Maine Railroad Holdings Company, which owns a majority of the Boston and Maine stock, as a step to segregate the Boston and Maine and New Haven systems. Howard Elliott and NNHC directors endorse the plan per a Globe preview.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Boston‘ Railroad Holdaimg Company
Boston and Maine Railroad
Howard Elliott
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Boston and Maine
New Haven
Globe
Trade Condition Pictured By Chamber Survey Of 1913
A survey of U S business conditions by the Chamber of Commerce shows more of the nation in fair condition with small areas in good and several in poor. Conclusions based on statistics from hundreds of correspondents cover the situation as of November 29 1913. Manufacturing faces rapid readjustment amid altered conditions and the meat shortage is expected to ease gradually. low building trade activity is blamed on reduced small town activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Chamber of Commerce of the
Chamber
Committee On Statistics and Standards
Eight killed in tenement fire at 9 Monroe Street East Side
A tenement blaze at 9 Monroe Street in New York City killed eight people including a girl who returned to save her family before perishing. Fifteen residents injured as crowds fled via fire escapes and ladders. Incendiary suspicion cited with several listed suspects and bystanders from multiple states identified. More than thirty families left homeless as investigators probe the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Monroe Street
East Ride
Becky Kaplan
Barney Kaplan
Louis Kaplan
Samuel Cohen
Isaac Weisberg
Pearl Weisberg
Gusale Mazain
Israel Golden
Magzin
Deaths Reported in December Obituaries List
Reported to December 31 deaths include Catherine A Yost 1317 Bucha st ow 7 years Eitle I Grimm 1247 gth st aw 48 years Jona P Morrison 1618 7th st aw 38 years Tomas H Busey 1417 U st aw 22 years Rebecca Firmen Wash Asylum Hospital 0 yra Charles H Bannigan 727 Sto st sw 43 years George W Clark Providence Hospital 46 years Charles Stender 1056th at se 34 years Olver Clayton Wash Asylum Hospital 72 years Helen R Gilman 801 Taylor st nw 76 years Annie G Gibson 332 Seaton st Pe si years Marta A Nalley 1302 D st se 3 day Ela Martin Georgetown Univ Hospt Charles H IT Quer 208 Join st se 61 years George B Davis 2806 N st mw 1 year arthur Hostin 2 Goat alley nw 48 veers Francis Gwen Garfield Hospital 50 years ae A Bidelin 641 Nichols ave Anacostia 3 Richard Thames 70% Summer ave Anseontie Anna B Rawal sf 3¢ st ne 2 months
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine A. Yost
Bucha St. Ow
Eitle I. Grimm
Gth St. Aw
Jona P. Morrison
St. Aw
Tomas H Busey
U St. Aw
Rebecca Firmen
Wash Asylum ‘Hospital
Charles H. Bannigan
Sto St Sw
George W. Clark
Providence
St. Se
George B Davis
N St Mw
Arthur Hostin
Goat Alley
Francis Gwen
Garfield Hospital
Ae A. Bidelin
Nichols Ave
Anacostia
Richard Thames
Summer Ave
Anseontie
Anna B. Rawal
St. Ne
Births Reported For Minckelmann Maschere La Gorte And More
Julius and Margaret Minckelmann report a girl. Natale and Grasia Maschere welcome a boy. John and Rosa La Gorte have a girl. Harry and Melanie T Lewis announce a boy. Soceutse and Caterina Li Calzi greet a girl. Arthur and Hattie M Kidwell, a boy. Charles 3 and Annie M Henrich, a girl. Preach M and Agnes T Fritter, a boy. Lewis and Agnes M Washington, a boy. Jouts P and Florence R Thomas, a boy. Samuel and Elle Austin, a son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius
Margaret Minckelmann
Jacob
Mary Wiez
Natale
Grasia Maschere
John
Rosa la Gorte
Harry
Melanie T Lewis
Soceutse
Caterina Li Calzi
Arthur
Hattie M. Kidwell
Charles
Annie M. Henrich
Preach M
Agnes T. Fritter
Lewis
Agnes M. Washington
Florence R. Thomas
Samuel
Elle Austin
Coroner finds open verdict on Italian Hall panic cause
Calumet Mich December 31 1913 open verdict returned by the coroner s jury on the Italian Hall panic which killed 72 people. The jury rejected allegations that Western Federation of Miners enemies caused the panic and said the alarm was triggered by a person unknown. Federal intervention under the Erdman act was proposed as a settlement option for the copper miners strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calumet
Mich
Ttalian Hall
Western Federation of Miners
Wilson
N. Hilton
Western Federation
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Qeorca
Salazar
Hare
Insurgenta
Neuve Laredo
Tex
Dee
Gjingga
Big Ortega
Adoba
Marcello Caravaco
Ortega
Chihuahua
Becauve
Berder
Tesas
DR. Gladden
Columbus
A. Speare
Geo
P. Zurhorst
Capitol Street
Chas S. Zurhoret
Mgr
Thos
Sergeon
Cam
H. Sardo & CO
Rha Prane Grier's Sons
Ce Fryer
North BR
Em Tren
Commaniiens A
Movlest TV
Matt Tee Bos
Hindle
Fey and
Hata
Yreral Designs
Washington
York
Pacus M, A
Tan
Ana Ting
Rio Grande
Lincoln
Steve
Stere
R. Harris & Co., the Jewelers
Seventh and
D Streets
Ugarta
Roca Rim
Biology
Harris S. Armstrong
Caroline
U. 5
Chamber of Commerce of
Girl
George J. Klein
Mary 1 Phipps
Cheskpeaks Beach
Howa Eterna
Wiliam Hall
Elinor Nicholson
G R. Stetson
Alton KR Hodkins
Washington, D. C
Jana Atkinson
Brunswick
Bid
W. T Snyder
Charles R. Bryan
Fairfold
Annie R. Yultz
Board of Mediation and Conciliation
Michigan
Emmons
Smith
O. J. DeMoll
O. J. DeMoll & Co
Sixteenth Street Highlands
Columbia
Holmes Central Realty, Corporation
14Th and Kennedy Streets
N. W
United States ‘Treasury
American Security and Trust Company
South
Fifteenth and
Pennsylvania Avenue
United States Treasury
Mountain Valley
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Mountain Valley Water Co
F St. N. Ww
Elena
Boegle
Heurieh Brewing Co
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