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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1914
Page
6
The body of Vasil Mikovar was found in a pond near Millville on Easter Sunday. An autopsy at Worcester Hospital found a violent blow to the back of the neck as the cause of death, suggesting robbery as a motive.
Medical Examiner William N. Johnson ruled homicide in Mikovar's death with robbery as the suspected motive. Inspectors MacCarthy and Most say the victim carried over $1 and was last seen with two men on Fletcher Street before his body surfaced in three feet of water with no water in the lungs. The widow recalls his plans to travel to Salicia, Austria, this summer.
Roller skating is to be taken up at the State Home for Girls in Trenton. Skates were sent to Superintendent Mrs. Elizabeth W. HM Mansell by J Herbert Cubberly of Jersey City, the new treasurer of the board of trustees. Girls will use the basement.
London May 3 Lloyd George the Welsh chancellor plans a sweeping budget to raise about 1 025 billion for the year despite Ulster’s civil war threats. The proposal would tax incomes death duties and land values and aim to tax land by its most productive use, with ministers largely backing the plan.
A Liberal agenda proposes transferring land taxation from homes to land, creating a ministry of lands and land commissioners with powers to fix rents and grant lease renewals. It aims to curb landlord influence, expand social reforms, and shift ownership through government-backed land purchases and compulsory acquisitions. The plan challenges private property rights and fuels tension with the House of Lords and landlords.
An advertisement extols Savon Cadum as the best complexion soap for oily or normal skin. It claims cheap soaps harm skin with impurities and alkali, while Cadum, made by a Paris chemist, delivers mild, curative results. Sold in drug and department stores for 50 cents per cake.
May 3 Brazilian consul William W. Canada in Vera Cruz warned the remaining Americans in Mexico City to depart at once. The Brazilian minister to the Associated Press commented on the situation, urging evacuation.
President Huerta assures General Huerta and ministers will protect Americans in the capital. A special train for departures to Coatzacoalcos will leave at 6 PM with sleeping cars for women and children, under Brazilian flag and armed escort. Brazilian consul and vice-consul to accompany. Emergency mail service arranged. two Mexican delegates to mediation conferences expected.
The bodies of 17 American sailors and Marines killed by Mexican snipers in Vera Cruz begin voyage to New York aboard the armored cruiser Montana. Warships from U S, Britain, France and Spain render honors as colors half mast and bands play. The hospital ship Solace carries about 100 wounded and may sail north later in the week.
General Carranza formally refuses the mediators’ suggestion to stop hostilities against Huerta while the mediation plan unfolds. The note was sent to Washington yesterday and published locally. Reports of a Tampico truce are treated as insignificant, with any halt viewed as burial or evacuation of the wounded.
General Carranza states he cannot accept the proposed armistice. He argues the U S conflict was provoked by Huerta and that suspension would aid Huerta. He insists on renewed military action to restore constitutional order and peace for Mexico.
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