Rebels confiscate valuable property as refugees pour into El Paso
Juarez reports say General Villa orders seizure of the Terrazas and Creel estates in Chihuahua pending revolution success. Two hundred more refugees reach El Paso from Chihuahua including Americans and Spaniards. Villa moves 2,000 rebels to counter federals marching toward Chihuahua. Villa and federals maneuver around Ojinaga and Juarez with about 5,000 Mexican troops in the region.
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Juarez
Mex
Francisco Villa
Chihuahua
Villa
Torreon
Ojinaga
Monterey
Huerta
Mexico
Luis Terrazas Sr
Enrique Creel
Juan Creel
Terrazas
United States
Creel Brothers
General Villa
Chihuahua City
Creel
Orozco
Luis Terrazas, Jr
el Paso
Marion Letcher
Cardinal Rampolla La Passes Away
Rome reports the death of Cardinal Rampol la former papal secretary of state. Born 1843 in Polizzi Sicily he was proclaimed cardinal in 1887 and served as archpriest of St Peters and secretary of the congregation of the Universal Inquisition. He was a leading candidate for the papacy before Austria objected during the conclave.
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Rome
Cardinal Rampolla
Marquis del Tindaro
Leo XIII
Leo
Austria
Rampolla
Ofate Cardinal
Pope Pius X
Polizzi
Sicily
St. Peters
Congregation of the Universal Inquisition
Blaze Destroys Several Mason City Businesses
A heavy fire in Mason City on December 17 damaged six businesses in a North Main street block. It started in the Sanders cafe basement, burning through floors and injuring Fireman Kelley who was exposed to gas from a broken main. Loss estimated at about $15,000.
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Mason City
Main Street
Sanders Cafe
Smith & Thompson
Dean
Woodruff
Kelley
Schmidt Creates Scene At Trial
The defense witnesses describe Hans Schmidt as insane for years. His father sister and a boyhood friend testify to a family pattern of insanity and religious mania while Schmidt interrupts the proceedings with loud denials. The Rev Father Markett testifies Schmidt has been infirm minded for twelve years.
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New York
Dee, Jr
Hans Schmidt
Schmidt
Atha Aumuller
Heinrich Schmidt
Father Markett
Techny, Ir
Germany
Iowa Supreme Court Backs Capitol Grounds Extension Plan
The Iowa Supreme Court upheld the capitol grounds extension act as constitutional. It allows the executive council to issue warrants within the biennial levy, not exceeding 250000, to finance ground extension and improvements. The ruling clarifies the act’s scope and the legislature’s role in long term financing.
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Des Moines
General Assembly
Executive Council
Capitol
Supreme Court of Iowa
Capitol Grounds
George Cosson
Governor’s Square
Murder Trial Starts For Mrs. Alice Sing
Mrs. Alice Davis Sing, wife of Chicago area Chinese merchant Charles Sing, went on trial in Chicago on a murder charge for the September killing at their Archer avenue apartments. Her past includes a Fort Dodge Iowa stint, a Kansas City marriage, and hardship after abandonment by multiple partners.
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Emma Davis
Charles Sing
Chicago
Alice Davis Sing
Fort Dodge
Charles Dery
Kansas City
King Joy Low
Joliet
Food imports surge under new tariff free duty
Washington reports that foodstuffs entering the United States duty free are increasing total imports. For the first four months of the current fiscal year exports rose to 838.99 million dollars from 771.04 million year prior, while imports fell from 626.23 million to 580.68 million.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Department of Commerce
Eight Die in Cincinnati Salvation Army Home Fire
Eight people died and a score injured when a fire destroyed the Salvation Army home for men in Cincinnati. Among the deceased were Arthur Sandell of Bangor Maine and T Shoddell. 150 beds housed workers and lodgers with 45 occupied by staff. A man named Frank Meyers faced an incendiarism charge, claiming circus rider ties and a last residence in Arizona. Property loss was about 55000.
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Cincinnati
Salvation Army
Arthur Sandell
Bangor
Maine
T. Shoddell
Sandell
Frank Meyers
Arizona
Suffragette Fire Raze Lumber Yard In Devonport
London reports the militant suffragette arson squad set fire to a lumber yard at Devonport destroying property valued over 400000 dollars. Scattered suffragette literature and placards bore Revenge for the arrest of Mrs Pankhurst as militants awaited Emmeline Pankhurst on her arrival from the United States.
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London
Devonport
Pankhurst
Flora Drummond
Emmeline Pankhurst
England
United States
Sylvia Pankhurst
Holloway
King George
Women’s Social and Political Union
Thirty Eight Dead In New Castle Mine Disaster
In New Castle Colorado on December 17 a massive coal dust explosion in the Vulcan mine of Rocky Mountain Fuel killed thirty eight workers. Rescue efforts ended with all lower level workers dead. two survivors from the upper level were found. The blast, caused by accumulated dust, followed a year old mine with modern safety features.
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New Castle
Colo
Vulcan
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company
L. L. Crawford
L. Walters
J. P. Carrigan
Glenwood Springs
United Mine Workers of America
Slayer of Three Lynched by Mob in North Dakota
Cleve Culbertson, recently convicted of murdering three Dill on family members at Ray North Dakota, was taken from Williams county jail by a mob and hanged from a bridge near Williston before daybreak. The lynch mob battered jail doors, ignored Sheriff Erickson’s warnings, and dragged Culbertson from his cell.
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Williston
N. D
Cleve Culbertson
Dillon
Ray
Williams County
Culbertson
Erickson
Local mob executes suspect at river bridge
A man was hanged from the wagon bridge over Middle Muddy River, a mile and a half from town, after his body was found riddled with bullets. Culbertson cried for mercy but was denied as police and bystanders were attacked by a hostile mob.
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Middle Muddy River
Culbertson
Dillons
Luckford
James Johnson
Two Negroes Lynched in Blanchard Louisiana
In Blanchard near Shreveport Louisiana on December 16 a mob hanged Ernest and Frank Williams after they confessed to killing Calvin Ballard whose body was found hacked to pieces in his store. Ballard had previously killed three inmates at the Louisiana penitentiary and soon gained his release.
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Shreveport
Ernest
Frank Williams
Blanchard
Calvin Ballard
Ballard
Louisiana
SHERIFFS POSSE CAPTURES BANDITS NEAR BLANCHARD
Council Bluffs reports a sensational robbery near Blanchard. Three bandits tied Thomas Sellers aged 100, his niece Mrs Crooks ton and friend Hathaway. Hathaway freed himself, fired, robbers fled, bandits captured after a long man hunt with Hathaway positively identifying them.
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Council Bluffs
Blanchard
Thomas Sellers
Sellers
Crookston
Mr. Hathaway
Hathaway
Crete Annexed to Greece in Ceremonial Ceremony
In Canea Crete yesterday the island was formally annexed to Greece with a royal flag raising by King Constantine. Crowds from across Crete and Greece greeted the King and Venizelos as services were held in the cathedral and a thanksgiving in the synagogue. British, Russian, French and Italian forces previously evacuated Crete on Feb 15, and a detachment from the Yarmouth hauled down the allied flags with full military honors.
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Canea
Crete
Greece
Constantine
Venizelos
Great Britain
Russia
France
Italy
Yarmouth
Turkey
Trolleys Crash in Heavy Fog in Council Bluffs
In heavy fog, two street cars collided yesterday in Council Bluffs. Motorman B L Wyant was fatally injured, passenger Grover Smith seriously crushed, and four others hurt. The accident occurred as the city was shrouded by dense mist all day.
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Council Bluffs
B. L. Wyant
Grover Smith
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Pope Pius
Anna Aumuller
Supreme Court
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