Orozco Disappears While Huerta Guards Tight
El Paso dispatch reports Pascual Orozco believed to have vanished despite a six-man federal guard at his Juarez residence. Authorities fear his escape across the border as Orozco and General Huerta face new U S conspiracy charges. Extradition requests target Carranza rivals including Huerta and Diaz.
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Commercial Tribune
el- Paso
Tex
Villa
Juarez
Orozco
Mexico
United States Department of Justice
Motive for Attack on Morgan Seen in War Activities
Special Dispatch to The Commercial Tribune notes New York bankers discuss whether J. P. Morgan & Co. motives in the Morgan shooting relate to wartime roles. Morgan as British agent for munitions, plans for a 100 million dollar British loan flotation, and parliamentary debate in London surrounding the firm’s war duties are cited.
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New York
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House of J. P. Morgan & Co
Ocean
Germany
United States
England
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House of Lords
Canada
Harl Curzon
Becker to Reveal Police Secrets Before Death
New York July 8 Becker facing execution for the Rosenthal murder may disclose the names of six men alleged to have shared graft money with him during his police strong arm career. His counsel Martin T Manton said the disclosure would come if his appeal fails in the U S Supreme Court. The statement could touch officials and it may address the death of Big Tim Sullivan.
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Charles Becker
Martin T. Manton
Becker
United States Supreme Court
Herman Rosenthal
Police Department
Whitman
Tim” Sullivan
New Haven
Two Bullets Fired at Big Financier in Export Edict Clash
By Frank Holt, a languages professor, a movement to halt munitions exports to Allies sparked a violent incident. A financier faced gunfire as tensions over wartime policy rose. Law enforcement investigated motive and possible political links.
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Morgan Wounded In Glen Cove Home Shooting
J P Morgan was shot twice at his Glen Cove New York country home by Frank Holt a former Cornell student and upcoming lecturer in Texas. Holt was overpowered by Morgan and the butler Fiske as the ambush unfolded with additional dynamite and a second pistol found. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice the British Ambassador was an overnight guest at the time.
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N. Y
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J. P. Morgan & Company
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Cornell University
Southwestern Methodist University
Dallas
Tex
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Flo
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Fiske
Cecil Spring-Rice
United States
Morgan Home
Slayer of Benefactor to Spend Fourth in Solitary Cell
Alexander Kish, No. 43 394, life-term inmate at the Ohio Penitentiary, faces July 5 solitary confinement as punishment for the December 5, 1914 murder of Mrs. Katherine Myers at her Seneca County farm. Kish, a 29-year-old ex-farm hand, killed her with an iron bar, stole valuables, and fled. he was captured in Port Clinton after the buggy accident. The warden may modify the five days of solitary each month to one day, the fifth, unless mercy tempers his sentence.
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Rrison
Columbus
Breston E. Thomas
Alexander Kish
Ohio Penitentiary
Kish
Katherin Myers
New Lodi
Seneca County
Myers
Port Clinton
Dayton Man Granted Independence Day Pardon
Governor Miller of Ohio will issue a pardon this afternoon for 87 year old Dayton man Charles Miller serving time for small check forgeries. Miller’s wife and children are in destitute circumstances.
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Willison Charles Miller
Dayton
Miller
Confesses dynamite outrage by Washington Capitol bomber
Frank Holt, named as the man who set the bomb at the United States Capitol, tells Justice Layster and NYPD officials how he built the device using three sticks of dynamite, match heads, and sulphuric acid. He describes experiments and timing for the blast as police press for details.
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Commercial Tribune
Glen Cove
N. Y
Frank Holt
United States
Washington
Justice Layster
Thomas Tunney
New York City
Holt
New York
Tunney
Hury
Similar Language Noted Between War Crank Statements
Washington July 3 A comparison finds striking similarity in phrasing between Holt J H Morgan’s wartime remarks and a letter signed R Pearce claiming to be behind the Capitol explosion. Both advocate restricting German munitions sales and link prosperity to shipments, with near identical wording and style.
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Washington
Holt
J. H. Morgan
R. Pearce
Capitol
Germany
Decisive Russian defeat deemed inevitable without Allied action
Special Cable to The Commercial Tribune from London notes military experts foresee an inevitable Russian defeat unless Entente powers mount a strong diversion on the Italian or Western fronts. Reports show Austro German momentum, with Vienna and Berlin claiming armistice style successes while British fronts remain quiet and Italian attacks on the Lower Isonzo face repulses.
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Baltic Sea
Berlin
Flanders
Argonne
Hilgen
Vosges
Krasnik-Zamésc
Russian Poland
Gaila Lipa
Father and Son Slain in Kentucky Shootout
Four men involved in a fatal Jackson County confrontation. Samuel Wright and Henry Wright were killed after a dispute at a circus. John Wilson and Henry Wilson are accused. no arrests reported.
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Samuel Wright
Henry Wright
John Wilson
Henry Wilson
Breach of promise suit seeks 50000 from Waynesburg widower
Ellen W. Carnine of Indianapolis sues Robert R. Jacob a Waynesburg widower with hardware store and Pittsburg ties for fifty thousand dollars claiming breach of promise. She met him in 1914 and he promised marriage in 1915 but wrote in February he would not marry. She seeks substantial damages citing his net worth at least 200000.
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Waynesburg
Ellen W. Carnine
Indianapolis
Robert R. Jacob
Pittsburg
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