Iowa Solons End 1918 Session In August
Des Moines reports the Thirty-sixth Iowa general assembly will adjourn sine die before midnight with most work finished by noon. The session produced near 300 new or amended laws, including prohibition driven measures, mail ballot voting, blue sky law re-enactment, red light injunction, and child labor abolition, plus major college and state institution appropriations and other budgets awaiting final disposition.
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Des Moines
Thirty-sixth General Assembly of
Iowa
Thirty-sixth General Assembly
Clarke
General Assembly
Cosson
Board of Control
Mine Explosion Entombs 75 Men in West Virginia Mine
Williamson Pennsylvania April 17 Seven ty five men were entombed in a mine at Roderfield sixty miles from here by an explosion today. London April 17 Ludwig Paul Selbach claiming to be an American citizen was remanded to custody on the charge of being an alien enemy who failed to register under British regulations. He admitted birth in Hamburg and produced a preliminary declaration of American citizenship dated July 1900.
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Williamson
Roderfield
London
Ludwig Paul Selbach
Hamburg
Vienna Denies Separate Peace Talks With Russia
The Fremdenblatt via London reports Vienna rejects claims of any intention to seek a separate peace with Russia as groundless and without foundation.
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Vienna
Russia
London
Fremdenblatt
Austria
Weather stops war operations in Carpathians
Weather conditions halt operations in the Carpathian mountains affecting Austrian and Russian forces. A correspondent notes Russian losses in pushing toward the Hungarian plains, with floods and impassable roads cited as delaying actions. Allied fleet activity resumes at the Dardanelles and reports from Greece suggest policy shifts.
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London
Carpathian Mountains
Associated Press
Lupkow Pass
Uzsok Pass
Carpathians
Appellate Court Orders Thaw Return to Matteawan
New York April 17 appellate court yesterday affirmed Justice Page of the supreme court denying Harry K Thaw's appeal for return to New Hampshire. Thaw was ordered returned to Matteawan. His counsel will take the case to the courts of appeals.
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Justice Page
Supreme Court
Harry K. Thaw
New Hampshire
Thaw
Matteawan
Courts of Appeals
Italy Will Stay Neutral Belief of Turkish Diplomat
Rome April 17 Carassa Effendi a Turkish chamber of deputies member on a mission to Italy told Idea Nazionale he is convinced Italy will remain neutral after interviews with Italian statesmen He said yesterday’s impression became a certainty and he feels joy knowing Italy will escape the horrors of war
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Italy
Idea Nazionale
Carassa Effend
Turkish Chamber of Deputies
Constantinople
Violent Airship War Terms Across Continent
War dispatches report German taube airships bombing Amiens and Strassburg with casualties and damage. Amiens sees seven killed and eight wounded from two raids. a parlor has a decapitation incident. French raids on Germany target factories and electric plants near Metz. Paris notes raids on Maizieres les Metz and Calais, plus a German aeroplane downed north of Ypres. Elsewhere, a French biplane attacks a powder mill. El Arish fortifications bombarded. Swiss Democarte reports German shells over Delemont Beurnevesain.
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France
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Paris
Germany
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Maizieres Les Metz
Central Electric
Teucton
French War Office
Ypres
Calais
Powder Mill
London
el ‘Arish
Egypt
Pal-] Esting
el Aish
Ait Delemont
Switzerland
Democrate
Pfetterhausen
Beurnevesain
Wilson to Lunch With Newspaper Men
President Wilson will travel to New York on Tuesday to attend the Associated Press annual luncheon. He is expected to return to Washington the same evening, with the White House announcement issued today.
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Washington
D. C
Wilson
New York
Associated Press
White House
Germans Smash Allied Offenses on All Fronts
Berlin reports the Allied offensives in the east and west have been decisively defeated. The Overseas News Agency cites German army headquarters detailing heavy fighting along the Meuse and Moselle, large-scale French attacks breaking down with heavy losses, and shows Russian, Austrian, and Dardanelles fronts as collapsing under immense pressures.
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Berlin
Meuse
Moselle
Rivera
Last Sortie at Praemysl Survived by Wounded Colonel
Report from Vienna outlines sensational Hungarian parliament session possible to probe the Praemyst sortie. Colonel Saakmary led the attack with a cane as his only weapon, said to protest a doomed mission that cost thousands of exhausted soldiers their lives. Opposition hints at peace terms discussion amid claims of a doomed sacrifice terms.
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Praemysl
Vienna
Saakmary
Rane
Mexicans Fire Across River at Matamoros Describing U S Side
Major General Funston in Brownsville reports desultory firing by Mexican factions across the river at Matamoros continues. Bullets fall on the American side but no injuries have occurred among Americans as of today.
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Funston
Brownsville
Tex
War Department
Matamoros
Democrats to Remain Silent on Liquor Question
Washington April 1 Democratic leaders endorsed a stance that the next party platform will not include a dry plank. They argued the liquor question should be decided by states, not by the national government, aligning with an Anti Saloon League challenge.
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Washington, D. C
Anti Saloon League of America
Three Cables Fast to the Sunken F-4
Washington dispatch reports Rear Admiral Moore in Honolulu telegraphing that three lines have been attached to the submerged F-4 and transferred to the lifting pontoons. The vessel may be raised once a fourth line is secured, with the operation progressing at sea.
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Washington, D. C
Moore
Honolulu
Navy Department
Delivery error notice for home paper service
If the delivery is not at your home by 6 o clock due to carrier error or other cause, please phone 3330 for a copy of the paper. After 6 30 call 2059 for assistance.
Grand Duke Nicholas Shot In Quarrel Over Defeat
Chicago April 17 The lockout of 16 000 union workers grew drastic sweeping 4 000 buildings shuts down Chicago operations worth over 30 million dollars and leaves 126 000 wage earners jobless Many builders withdraw wage proposals while carpenters seek ten cents an hour increase Contractors counter with three year offer of twenty five cents raise end of line
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Wagis Jarners
Toecenta
Drake University hosts sixth annual relay meet at Des Moines
Drake University's sixth annual relay meet drew hundreds to Des Moines with 609 entries from fourteen universities, fifteen colleges and thirty high schools. Chicago Illinois and Michigan expected to shine in short and long events while hopes rose for a possible eight minute two mile world record. Grinnell Gus Yankton Des Moines East High and other high schools led early favorites in college and high school divisions.
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Drake University
Penn College
Chicago
Michigan
Illinois
Grinnell
Gus
Yankton
Des Moines East High
Huerta Denies Jap Concessions to Mexico Coast
Victoriano Huerta former provisional president of Mexico states in a Herald published reply that he never granted Japan or any foreign government rights on the Lower California coast. He claims no special treaties or privileges were made during his constitutional provisional tenure and asserts such actions would affect Mexico’s autonomy and integrity.
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Victoriano Huerta
Mexico
The
Herald Today
Japan
Lower
California
Admiral Howard Sends Cruiser to Observe Japanese Forces
Admiral Steward commanding the Pacific fleet off Mexico reported to the Navy that he ordered Commander Noble E. Irwin aboard the cruiser New Orleans to proceed at once to Turtle Bay Lower California to report on the activities of Japanese naval forces there.
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Washington, D. C
Secret incident wounds Russian commander in chief
Berlin reports from Duisburg claim Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch was wounded by a shot fired by General Baron Sievers after a confrontation over the defeat of the Russian Tenth Army. The general then killed himself. The wound was reportedly from an abdominal shot and may have required surgery. The claim cites an unimpeachable source and follows back to earlier reports of Sievers’ death.
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Anzeiger
Duisburg
Rhenigh
Prussia
Nicholas Nicholaievitch
Baron Sievers
Aay
Grand Duke
Slevers
Nicholas
Ergmann
Riga
Sievers
Germany
Mazu- Tian Lakes
East Prussia
Frankfurter Zeitung
Petrograd
Terre Haute Mayor Faces Impeachment Bill
The Terre Haute city council adopted a bill of impeachment against Mayor Donn M. Roberta, convicted in federal court of conspiracy to corrupt the November election. The measure charges misuse of public funds and sets impeachment for April 23.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Hbil
Donn M. Roberta
Wearing
Two Convicted in Mine Riot Case at Hecla Mine
Boulder Colo April 17 The jury in the Hecla mine disorders during the coal miners strike returned verdicts William Knowles guilty of assault to murder Dan Griffith guilty of assault Gus Brack and Arthur Spenles acquitted Jury deliberated since Thursday and leniency was recommended in Kauwleg verdict
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Boulder
Colo
Hecla
William Knowles
Dan Griffith
Gus Brack
Arthur Spenles
Neuve Chapelle Ground Cobbled With Skulls Of The Fallen
Neuve Chapelle France April 17 British forces drove Germans from the town center in March leaving a landscape littered with German skulls. Many dead lie buried in shallow graves while unburied bodies remain in no man s land and in trenches and dugouts where British soldiers endure.
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France
No Man’s Land
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