British and French forces retreated over the Greek border, ending the Battle of Kosturino. The Allied defeat allowed the Central Powers to establish rail connections to Constantinople.
The Cheyenne State Leader reported other border crossings.
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Pancho Villa ordered a mass execution of the male residents of San Pedro de la Cueva, blaming the town for the deaths of five of his troops, He originally was going to have everyone in the small town executed, but an officer in his forces convinced him to spare the women and children. Villa personally shot the village priest who urged Villa to spare the town.
The village was principally an Indian one, although a few foreigners and a few Chinese residents were amongst the victims. Seven men survived having been left for dead.
The press reported that Villa lost support of his Yaquis, and that Carranza had ended military control of the railroads.
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Mexico called a halt to an eight month campaign against the Yaqui.
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The Battle of Mazocoba was fought in Sonora, Mexico between Yaqui rebels and the Mexican army. It resulted in largescale Yaqui losses, but not conclusive tactical conclusion.
Yesterday was our first mention of the Yaqui people and the Yaqui Wars. Yaqui resistance to Spanish, and then Mexican, authority dated from 1533 to 1929.
Weyerhauser was incorporated in Washington state.
Pvt. Frank T. O. Walker would preform the actions that resulted in his being awarded the Medal of Honor. His citation reads:
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Frank T. O. Walker, United States Army, for most distinguished gallantry on 18 January 1900, while serving with Company F, 46th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers, in action at Taal, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Under heavy fire of the enemy Private Walker rescued a dying comrade who was sinking beneath the water.
Walker was a volunteer from Massachusetts. He'd die in 1904, at age 26 and apparently as a civilian.
The Delaware Supreme Court refused to admit Philadelphia attorney Carrie B. Kilgore as she was a woman, and therefore barred by a Delaware provision that attorneys at law musts be eligible to vote.
L. Frank Baum and illustrator W. W. Denslow jointly copyrighted their new book, The Land of Oz.
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British born Bringham H. Roberts of Utah was refused a seat in the House of Representatives as he was a polygamist.
Sonoran Yaqui Indians declared their independence from Mexico and asked for help from the United States.
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