Mexican Raiders Kill Americans in Sebastian Texas
Band of Mexican raiders attacked Sebastian near Brownsville injuring and killing Al Austin and his son Charles after ransacking their home. Local and state authorities, including Adjutant General Hutchins, seek National Guard support while Cameron county detectives identify suspects among Sebastian residents. Witness Millard linked several raiders to the town, suggesting cross border tensions and complicating security in Cameron county.
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Brownsville
Texas
United
Texas Rangers
Sebastian
al Austin
Sebastian Law and Order League
Charles
Henry Hutchins
Ferguson
Texas National Guard
Cameron County
Millard
Austin
Rilo Grande
Bluejackets Take Haitian Port and Palace
American naval forces seized the Port au Prince port office and the national palace on Friday. A Haitian was killed when gunfire erupted during the operation to take the port office. The occupation extends to the Haitian gunboat Pacifique, with protests from Haitian authorities following the action.
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Port Au Prince
Haiti
National Palace
Pacifique
Senate
Solon Menos
United States
Convicts Suffer Severe Injuries in Salem Collision
In Salem Oregon thirty seven prisoners riding a motor track crossing a railroad line faced an inevitable collision with an oncoming engine. They avoided jumping to escape armed guards. The engine struck the truck injuring seven convicts severely and two probably fatally.
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Salem
Ore
Police Find Dynamite Package In Fort Worth
A dynamite package wrapped in heavy paper with a folded newspaper photograph of Frank Holt, alleged assailant of J Morgan, was found late yesterday under a viaduct on the main Fort Worth thoroughfare between North and South Fort Worth by local officials.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Frank Holt
J. '. Morgan
Progressives pledge fealty to their party in Albany meeting
George W. Perkins and twenty eight Progressives from around New York state held a closed Albany meeting Friday and pledged unswerving allegiance to the Progressive cause and urged voters unhappy with other parties to join the Progressive camp.
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Albany
George W. Perkins
Oklahoma lynching reported in Shawnee crime scene
In Shawnee Oklahoma Ed Berry described as a negro was seized from deputies early Friday and hanged from a telephone pole at the scene of one alleged crime. He was charged in two criminal cases and is suspected in ten other incidents over the past three years.
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Shawnee
Okla
Ed Berry
Aken
Locomobile to Offer Eight-Hour Day in Bridgeport Plant
The Locomobile Company of America announced Friday it would adopt an eight-hour work day in its Bridgeport plant if workers prefer that option to the recently proposed profit sharing plan.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Locomobile Company of America
General Tracy Dies After Long Illness
New York reports the death of General Benjamin Tracy former secretary of the navy. He passed away Friday after a nine day period of unconsciousness in New Haven.
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New York
Benjamin Tracy
Prrens
Navy
Yale
Demand Made for Peace in Mexico
Washington reports outline a pan American effort to unite Mexican factions and restore constitutional government. A peace appeal targets General Carranza and other leaders, with Latin American support backing U S leadership. The August 5 conference review set groundwork for peaceful measures to end three years of upheaval.
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Washington
Mexico
North
South America
State Department
pan-American Legation Corps
Lansing
Wilson
Carranza
United States
Way
Paul Fuller, Sr
New York
American forces seize fort in Port au Prince
American troops from the battleship Connecticut occupy the national fort at Port au Prince without resistance. A proclamation signed by the revolutionary committee president protests the use of force against a friendly people and calls for restraint.
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Port Au Prince
Haiti
Connecticut
Revolutionary Committee
Wilson Pledges Thorough Probe Into Bastland Disaster
President Wilson writes to Chicago mayor Thompson promising a thorough investigation of the Bastland disaster. He commits to making the inquiry satisfy the public and to ensure public confidence in the process.
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Wilson
Chiccago
Thompson
Bastland
Britain replies to American note on blockade and international law
Great Britain rejects the American protest against the naval blockade as illegal and within international law. The two notes argue a new application of blockade principles amid wartime, citing submarines airships and alleged German atrocities. Sir Edward Grey says measures adapt old blockade rules to current circumstances and stresses allies must defeat the enemy.
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Washington
Great Britain
United States
London
Neches
Rotterdam
Belgium
Germany
Austria
Edward Grey
Ambassador Page
Edward
Plans to aid fall crop movement by federal banks
The Federal Reserve Board told the twelve regional banks to use Fed resources to finance the fall crop movement to prevent congestion and cash shortages. It focuses on wheat and corn but highlights cotton as especially vulnerable in current export conditions. The plan replaces former government deposits and emergency currency under the Aldrich Vreeland act, noting authority under the Federal Reserve Act.
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Washington
Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Board
Coyote Hunter Kills Man Near Nephi Utah
Lee Pace of Santaquin shot an unidentified man while hunting a coyote near Nephi Utah. He later found that the bullet had struck a man, not the animal, and the death was ruled an accident.
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Nephi
Utah
Lee Pace
Santaquin
Grasshopper Damage Hits New Mexico Crops
Serious grasshopper damage is reported in Eddin and Chaves counties from Carlabad. Alfalfa corn cane and kaffir in the Peece valley have been devastated.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Eddin
Chaves
Carlabad
Peece
Ryndam Arrives with 108 Belgian Refugees to New York
The Holland America line steamship Ryndam arrived from Rotterdam on Thursday carrying 108 Belgian refugees. Most passengers were children seeking relatives in America.
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New York
Ryndam
Rotterdam
America
Elliott Woods Named Capitol Superintendent
Elliott Woods is appointed superintendent of the United States Capitol and grounds in Washington and will oversee policing of the building.
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United States
South America
Elliott Woode le
United States Capitol
Washington
Treasury receipts lag in July deficit hit sixteen million
Washington reports July receipts trail expenditures by 16 million in the new fiscal year. A working balance of about 100 million remains available from all sources.
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Washington
Treasury
Miners Escape from Sample Run Mine Trapped Flooded Shaft
About 490 miners survived after being trapped for hours in water up to their necks at the Sample Run mine near Indiana Pennsylvania. Rescue teams freed the men early Tuesday with no lives lost, officials said.
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Indiana
Sample Run
Eagles Welcome Delegates to Spokane Session
Spokane Washington welcomed delegates to the Fraternal Order of Eagles with a public session opening Monday in the city. The event marked the start of orders activities in the area as attendees gathered at the grand aerie for the session.
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Spokane
State of Washington
Grand Aerie, Fraterna Order of Eagles
Warsaw Falls to Germans in World War I Advance
German forces entered Warsaw after Bavarian troops cleared the defenses as Russians mounted rear guard actions to allow their main army to escape. Austrian and German units moved along the Vistula and Narew rivers while Russians fought hard to reach prepared positions, with fears of encirclement as German and Austro German maneuvers continued to threaten retreat routes.
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Poland
Warsaw
Russian Empire
Leopold
von Hindenburg
Narew
Vistula
Joseph Ferdinand
von Mackensen
Bug
Chelm
von Scholz
von Gallwitz
von Buelow
Dvinsk
Vilna-Petrograd
Nicholas
Ripa
Gulf
Serbia
Balkan
Vosges
Airmen Bombard Strassburg In Bombing Raid
A Geneva dispatch to Havas News Agency says Anglo French air units on Wednesday flew over Strassburg and dropped twenty five bombs. The report notes a parish flotilla of aircraft participated in the raid over the German city.
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Strassburg
Geneva
Havas
Train collision injures sixty one near Poping Arkansas
A westbound and an eastbound train of the St Louis Iron Mountain Southern railway collided at Poping, five miles west of here, injuring sixty one persons.
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Oxark
Ark
St Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway
Poping
Here
Man Arrested in Texas for Threats to President and Roosevelt
A 26 year old man, Jerkins, was arrested in San Antonio Texas after being charged with threatening the life of the President and threatening to kill Theodore Roosevelt. He was placed in jail on Wednesday.
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San Antonio
Texas
Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Jerkins
Daubert's Rise From Miner to Dodgers Star
The article recalls Jake Daubert, famed Brooklyn Dodgers first baseman, once a Pennsylvania trap shooter and mining town local. An accidental infield throw turned him from pitcher to first baseman, shaping a career that included stints in Cleveland and Memphis before joining the Dodgers.
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Jake Daubert
Brooklyn Dodgers
Daubert
Llewellyn
Pennsylvania
Lykens
Jake
Marion, O
Cleveland
George Stovall
Catcher Questions Piano Privileges On Trip
Charlie Williams recalls a catcher from a Chicago club who objected to room conditions in Boston because the other two catchers had rooms with pianos. The player insisted the hotel not play favorites and demanded his room change.
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Charlie Willams
Williams
Chicago
Boston
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