Bomb Kills Seven In Frisco Parade
A preparedness parade on Market Street San Francisco was shattered by a suitcase bomb. Seven people died and forty were injured as crowds of up to fifty thousand watched Union veterans march past Steuart Street amid dense smoke and chaos. Two suspects were later arrested as investigators labeled foreign anarchists responsible for the act.
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San Francisco
Haymarket
Chicago
Steuart
Market
Howard Knapp
Alameda
George W. Lawlor
Mill Valley
H. L. Lamborn
Dioglio Gardino
George L. Paynter
Berkeley
Adam Fox
Arthur Nelson
Lark Spur
Cal
Market Street
Market Streets
Grand Army of the Republic
Loyal Legion
Lincoln Post
Appomattox Post
Lookout Mountain
Sheridan
George L. Lawlor
Lawlor
H. L.lamborn
Knapp
Hetta Knapp
Gaddy
Prohibition Party Nominates Hanly for President
The Prohibition national convention in St Paul nominated J Frank Hanly of Indiana for president and Dr Ira D Landrith of Tennessee for vice president. Hanly won on the first ballot with 440 votes to Sulzer’s 181 as others trailed. Landrith’s nomination was made unanimous after vice presidential candidates withdrew. The six hour session closed with a Doxology and passage of a platform calling for initiative referendum and recall.
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Landrith
Resolutions Committee
Watching the submarine off Baltimore harbor
A British cargo steamer anchored near the merchant submarine Deutschland to monitor its movements, causing worry for Eastern Forwarding Company officials. Captain Zach Cullison joined the tug Timmins, after spending days at the Virginia capes likely tracking foreign warship activity.
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Baltimore
Eastern
Zach Cullison
The
Timmins
Virginia Capes
Bets on Deutschland Submarine Return Bet
Berlin based Alfred Lohman head of the Deutschland company accepts offers on a London Chronicle dispatch that New York sportsmen back a 50 to 1 wager up to 25000 that the submarine Deutschland will not reach Bremen. A report claims 4 million dollars in gold aboard and marine insurance underwritten at five percent by a New York broker.
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Berlin
Alfred Lohman
Deutschland
London Chronicle
New York
Bremen
Lohman
Naval bill passed in Senate by 71 to 8
The naval appropriation measure with a three year building program clear four dreadnaughts four battle cruisers and 58 other craft passed the Senate 71 to 8. It carries 315 826 843 dollars 45 857 588 more than the total as it passed the House. Despite efforts to curb spending most proposals failed and the Senate voted to insist on its amendments sending the bill to conference amid expected House resistance.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senate Naval Committee
Emisary Said to Represent Carranza in Havana
Antonio Manero a high official in Mexico's finance department arrived in Havana and is described as acting as Gen. Carranza's emissary planning to secure foreign capitalist funding to renounce home government protection in Latin America.
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Havana
Antonio Manero
Mexican Finance Department
Carranza
British Line Advances in Somme Battles Report
The war office says the British line north of Bazentin Longueval has been pushed to Foureaux wood with continued fighting between Leipsic doubt and Delville wood. Night counter attacks with gas failed to take the southern half of the wood while the Russian capture of Gumuskahaneh near Trebizon is announced by Petrograd.
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London
Bazentin and
Londgueval
Foureaux
War Office
Leipsic Redoubt
Delville Wood
Bazentin- Longueval
Foureaux Wood
Gumuskahaneh
Trebizon
Turkish
Armenia
Petrograd
Shelling of British Steamer Virginia Ends in Loss of Crew
The British steamer Virginia was sunk by a German submarine after a half hour chase. The funnel was blown away causing the engine room to become untenable, and the vessel torpedoed as crew fled to boats. Twenty-five crewmen survived and twenty-five perished, with the captain rescued after an hour in the water.
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Virginia
London
Reister
Malta
Falls
Russians Cross Carpathians into Hungary Amid War News
London dispatch says Russian forces under Gen Letchitsky crossed the Carpathians and are about one day from entering Hungary. The London war office confirms Germans recaptured part of Delville Wood and hold a foothold near Longueval. Rome reports Italian advance in the Upper Posina Valley with Austrian positions at Corno del Coston taken.
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London
Letchitzky
Carpathians
Hungary
London War Office
Delville Wood
Longueval
Rome
Posnia
Corno del Coston
Millionaire Merchant Found Dead in Golden Gate Park
Louis Rosenfeld a San Francisco shipping and commission merchant was found dead with a bullet wound on a bench in Golden Gate Park. A revolver lay beside him. He had just been released from a hospital after treatment for a nervous breakdown. He was 54 and a member of John Rosenfeld Sons living at the Olympic Club.
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Frisco Park
San Francisco
Louis Rosenfeld
Golden Gate Park
Rosenfeld
John Rosenfeld Sons
Olympic Club
Slayer of American Couple Killed by Civilian Posse
Douglas Arizona report says Jose Valenzuela, a Mexican, killed the Parker couple at the Double Adobe ranch near Hachita New Mexico in early June and was slain by an American civilian posse that tracked him into Mexico. His wife confessed he had served Villa and was ordered to kill Parker and his wife first. All women evacuated from Animas Valley.
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Douglas
Ariz
Jose Valenzuela
William Parker
Double Adobe Ranch
Hachita
N. M
Mexico
Valenzuela
Villa
Parker
Animas Valley
83 LIVES LOST IN STORM IN THE SOUTH
As flood toll rises to 83 with nine missing, relief teams rush aid into North Carolina and other flood swept areas. Crops damaged, thousands left jobless as industrial plants destroyed. Rail repairs underway. main line tracks still blocked, trains detoured via Atlantic Coast Line north of Columbia.
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Asheville
Altapass
N. C
North Carolina
Southern
Seaboard Air Line
Atlantic Coast Line
Columbia
Fight Along the Border Near Camp Cotton
A detachment of Company C Ninth Massachusetts Infantry from Boston clashed with Carranzista troops on the Rio Grande near Camp Cotton. After more than 100 shots, the Mexicans retreated with no reported American casualties. Darkness hindered loss assessment.
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el Paso
Ninth
Massachusetts Infantry
Boston
William Kevner
Rio Grande
Camp Cotton
Federal Trade Commission Sets News Print Hearing
The Federal Trade Commission invites newspaper publishers nationwide to attend a hearing in Washington on August 1 to discuss whether news print paper prices have unduly increased. The session marks the first step in an exhaustive investigation ordered by the Senate resolution.
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Federal Trade Commission
Washington
Commission
Senate
Big Cut in Appropriations for Army Bill
In Washington the army bill faced major reductions as the Senate, on military committee guidance, struck out millions planned for a Mexican campaign. Chairman Chamberlain said the chance of conflict had lessened and the national guard crossing the border seemed unlikely. The foreign service pay and other field expenses were cut from the $300 million bill, totaling over $36 million in reductions, with talk of further cuts possible.
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Washington
Senate
Military Committee
Chamberlain
National Guard
French Capture 2900 Germans in Somme Operations
French forces report capturing the entire first German positions from Estrees to Vermandouillers and taking about 2900 prisoners on both river banks in the July 30 engagement as per the war office statement.
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Somme
Paris
Estrees
Vermandouillers
War Office
Government calls farm laborers born in eighteen eightyish
Paris reports the government has drafted a part of the class of 1880s, ages 47 to 48, with exceptions for munitions workers and currently harvest busy farmers and farm laborers. The measure targets those connected to farming who are not in munitions work.
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Paris
Biloxi to Be Summer Capital for Gov Bilbo
Governor Bilbo to spend summer weeks in Biloxi as the state capitals on the coast for the centennial exposition. Mrs Bilbo and Theodore Jr. accompany him. Office equipment remains in Jackson with Will Buck keeping routine affairs intact. Oil anti trust hearing at Laurel called off as defense evidence not ready. Garner to succeed Blakeslee as agriculture commissioner effective Sept 14. Diphtheria scare resolves with quarantine lift July 21 at Mississippi mobilization camp. Attorney General Collins’ office files full answer to injunction suit and motion to dissolve.
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Jackson
Bilbo
Biloxi
Gulfport
Theodore, Jr
Gulf Coast
Will Buck
Collins
Easterling
Laurel
Gen. Collins
Blakeslee
P. P. Garner
South Mississippi
H .E. Blakeslee
Garner
Mississippi
Attorney General’s Department
Secretary of State
Mississippi News Items Highlight Local Campaigns and Incidents
Jackson voters prepare for August 15 congressional and judicial contests while reports cover a fatal vat accident near Palestine Church in Pontotoc, a major wood fiber plant site survey in Hattiesburg, a Gulf and Ship Island labor settlement, a high profile trial in Charleston, and multiple civic developments across the state including farm programs, gun cotton manufacture, a paralyzed bank notes move in Natchez, and preparations for the Mississippi Centennial Exposition at Gulfport.
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Frisco
Prohibition
J. Frank Hanly
Indiana
Tennessean
Carranza Emisary
Leipsic and
Delville Loop
CROSS
Czar
Massachusetts
Bilok
Gulf Coast City
Hasterling
Pontotoc
Oscar Fowler
Palestine Church
Hattiesburg
George R. Wright
Bogallsa
Wright
Charleston
A. J
Jack) Little
Perry Burkhalter
Enid
P. T. Rainey
W. S. Kuhni
Vardaman
Aberdeen
North Mississippi
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Grenada
J. W. Willis
J. E. Ruff
Tupelo
Miss
Columbus
J. D. Kennedy
Europe
Pentotoc
Jim Bolen
Natchez
R. W. Cutter
L. P. Conner
Natchez Bank
West Point
Geo. M. Long
Meridian
Mississippi Creamery Men's Association
John M. Alexander
Jackson, Miss
Lee Harrington
Water Valley
Summerall
Brookhaven
R. L. Simpson
Harrison
Exposiion
San Diego
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