Aurora Murders Baffle Police In Third Unsolved Case
Aurora faces a third unsolved women’s murder in 18 months as police link Miss Ama Peterson’s death to earlier slayings. A tall man in a long overcoat stalked Lake Street and snatched a handbag before fleeing toward railroad tracks. Forty two suspects are held, including many drug fiends, with emphasis on a silent, front-attack killer.
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Aurora
Ama Peterson
Fashionable Lake Street
Jennie Miller
Miller
Free Methodist Church
Peterson
Eliza Calkus
Northwestern
Miss Miller
Miss Peterson
Miss Petergon
Seamen's Bill Sent to President Wilson
Washington on February 27 the senate in May accepted the conference report on the seamen's bill already adopted by the house ending a two years fight in congress. The bill now goes to the president for signature.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Duke and Duchess Aid Wounded in Germany
Berlin reports the duke of Cumberland and his wife have opened a home for wounded in Gmunden. The duke, cousin to King George of England, wears the uniform of his Austrian infantry regiment while stating that all nationalities in the dual monarchy stand united in defense of their country.
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Duke of Cumberland
Kingdom of
Hanover
Prussia
Ernst Alverl
Duke of
Brunswick
Victoria Louise
Germany
Vienna
Vossische Zeitung
Nuke
George
England
Gmunden
Fluke
Mrs Stegler Appeals to President for Husband's Release
Washington Feb 27 President Wilson received a letter from Mrs Richard P Stegler wife of a German reservist arrested in New York on a fraud passport charge She says BoyEd the German naval attaché led him into the project and asks that her husband be freed She claims promises of $150 monthly for her support and $150 monthly for life if he were killed and asks release due to lack of funds.
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Washington
Wilson
Richard P. Stegler
New York
Stegler
Boygd
Department of Justice
Eldest Sister of Sultan Dead Report to London
A dispatch from Constantinople reports the death of the eldest sister of the current Turkish sultan, Njemile Sultana. Born in 1843, she passed away recently and the news reaches London via Amsterdam.
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Sultan
London
Amsterdam
Constantinople
Turkey
Njemile Sultana
National Peace Conference Opens in Chicago
Chicago February 27 with a national peace conference opening to adopt a plan. The aim is to win sympathy, influence and aid from the pacific people for nations involved in the European war and to promote the cause of early peace.
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Chicago
Canvass Opens Monday Over Saloon Petition Irregularities Flagged
A temperance group claims widespread irregularities in a saloon petition and predicts many names will be struck out by the trial court under Supreme Court rules. T. Sullivan pledges belief the petition will be declared sufficient, while officials note withdrawals and objections to certain names ahead of a public canvass scheduled for Monday at 9 am.
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Venperance Headquarters
Supreme Court
A T. Sullivan
J. T. Sullivan
Greater Waterloo Association
Temperance
Rainbow
Britain Refuse US Plan FlawIn embargo proposal
Paris reports the French press is united in saying Britain cannot accept informal U S proposals to lift the food embargo on Germany if Germany abandons plans to destroy Allied ships. Papers praise the spirit but warn relief would prolong the war and cost soldiers' lives.
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Paris
Great Britain
United States
Germany
Matin
Auto Racers Seek to Drop Old Records
San Francisco reports thirty five drivers tuning up for the sixth Grand Prix on the Panama-Pacific four mile course. The event, a 402 mile grind, starts at 10 39 a m with 15 second intervals. entrants include Eddie Pullen Barney Oldfield Ralph De Palma Earl Cooper and Caleb Bragg. Ideal weather and track promised a possible new record though two right angle turns and other irregularities posed handicaps. Safety measures protected racers and spectators.
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San Francisco
Eddie Pullen
Barney Oldfield
Ralph de Palma
Earl Cooper
Caleb Bragg
Delivery Notice Confusion and After Hours Contact
The notice asks recipients to ignore a misdelivery by the carrier and to plan no delivery if not received by a specific time, with a fallback to call after 6:40 PM at the listed number 2059 for a copy of the paper.
No Special Session Devoted to Treaties by Wilson
President Wilson shows little prospect of calling a special session of the Senate to act on the Colombian and Nicaraguan treaties. Opposition by some Republicans clouds any immediate action, while a few nominees for the Federal Trade Commission may be confirmed before March 4 with recess appointments likely.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
Federal Trade Commission
Mexico City Food Situation Improves in Report
Washington dispatch says General Carranza reports food in Mexico City is better and supplies arrive from various sources for distribution to the poor. Fighting at Cuernavaca is noted with Carranza forces claiming victory at Temascal near Mexico City yesterday.
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Pol
Carranza
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
Ila
Zapuca Fainions
Serenavaca
Tanuhba
Mexine City
Probe Death of Movie Performer
An investigation opened in Los Angeles into the death of Clarence Chandler a motion picture actor shot during a staged battle scene in the San Bernardino valley. Chandler was not part of any attacking party and he was shot in the forehead as the group fired revolvers at a cabin door. No one claimed a discharged cartridge or weapon. The pistols reportedly were loaded for realism.
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Los Angeles
Clarence Chandler
HOCKGLAND QUIZ NEARING AA END
Washington report on interstate commerce commission hearings into Rock Island railroad finances under Leeds Reid Moore control resumed with limited witnesses. Chief Counsel Folk expects three more government witnesses. Rock Island group has five. Ogden Mills, Rock Island director at acquisition, testified.
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Pel
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rock Island Railroad System i
Daniel G. Reid
William
Leeds
W. H. Moore
Joseph W. Folk
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Ogden Mills
Rock Island
Leeds-Reid Group
Allied Fleet Presses Dardanelles Siege Amid Silent Germany
Paris bulletin reports Allied British and French warships bombarding the Dardanelles after guiding minesweeper actions inside the straits. Athens and Rome claim a French ship penetrated the passage while Germany remains silent on military moves. Petrograd boasts of Russian gains on a 24 mile front as French and Allied actions continue in the west.
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Dardanelles
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Black Sea
Dardanelles Foris
Ileet
Rome
Germany
Austria-Himgary
Carpathians
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Galicia
Petrograd
Stafl
Nutes
Frank's Fate in Hands of High Court
The Georgia federal court refuses a writ of habeas corpus for Leo M. Frank, sentenced to death for the Mary Phagan murder. A U.S. Supreme Court decision likely will not be issued for several weeks. Temperatures in the vicinity are reported for February 27 with varying highs and lows.
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High Court
Washington, D
Georgia
Leo M. Frank
Mary Phagan
Atlanta
United States Supreme Contri
Mayer Receives Word of Mother's Death in Kalamazoo
Mayer of 122 Lincoln Street learned yesterday of his mother Mrs. Elizabeth Mayer's death at a daughter's home in Kalamazoo Michigan from heart trouble. The body will be taken to the old family home in Freeport Illinois for burial with local officials expected to attend.
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Lincoln Street
Elizabeth Mayer
Mdeath
Kalamazoo
Mich
Hheme
Freeport
Two German Airmen Saved in North Sea
Two German aviators clung to their aircraft for two days in the North Sea after a Sunday crash while flying from Ostend to England. A British trawler rescued them near Lowestoft and brought them ashore. They were turned over to naval authorities.
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Lowestoft
England
London
North Sea
Ostend
Late War Bulletins From Dieppe Front and Europe
Reports from Dieppe and other fronts describe a British merchant ship damaged in the English Channel near Saint Valery sur Somme, a French torpedo boat aiding the British vessel, and correspondents being dispatched to the British front. In Galicia the Austrian advance is checked and Russians recapture Stanislau and Kolomea. Other items note high school teachers in Germany serving in the army, restrictions on securities price publications, and Italian political tensions over intervention and neutrality.
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Dieppe
France
Paris
English Channel
Saint Valery-Sur-Somme
To Ask Receivership for Western Pacific
New York on February 27 application for a receivership for the Western Pacific railway will be made after the railway defaults on its first mortgage bonds due March 1. Directors of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway company, which controls Western Pacific, announced the move will be friendly in nature.
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Western Pacific Railway
Ralway
Denver & Rio Grande Railway Company
Western Pacific
Nab Alleged Slaver in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids February 27 Arthur Hammill of Chicago home was arrested here for impersonating federal officers and trying to extort 1490 dollars from a woman keeper of an alleged disorderly house to stop prosecution under the White Slave Act.
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Arthur Hammill
Chicago
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