World News Pot Boils Over In War Rumors
Reports say wars in the offing stir opinions as Secretary Bryan signs peace treaties with Argentina Brazil and Chile. Mexico City tensions rise with a disloyal army. An armistice between the government and Constitutionalists ends hostilities in the republic per Gen Iturbide on behalf of President Carbajal.
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Argentine
Brazil
Chile
Mexico City
Republic
Eduardo Iturbide
Federal District
Carbajal
Washington and World News Roundup Signals Across Power Centers
President Wilson may attend the New York Merchants Association dinner. Washington renames Sixteenth Street Avenue of Presidents. J Ham Lewis backs Governor Dunne for a federal high court seat. Maine leaders seek White House help for August speeches. The Juvenile Court will relocate to Grant Sherman era house. Panama Expo building gets $500000 appropriation. Post Office cuts abroad money costs from August 1. Degraff fire devastates business district. Marines deploy to Santo Domingo and Haiti. Notable marriages and deaths include Braly Gredley Billing. Hailstorm hits Berwick farms. Harris shifts from Georgia governor bid. Campbellville fire inflicts $60,000 loss. Two trolley crashes kill four, injure twenty-one in Connecticut.
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Sixteenth Street
J. Ham Lewis
Dunne
Illinois
Supreme Court
Maine
White House
Grant
General Sherman
Post Office Department
Chicago
Degraff
Ohio
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Santo Domingo
Haiti
J. H. Braly
Mary H. Gredley
F. W. Billing
Santa Cruz
Cal
Montana
Berwick
N. C
William J. Harris
Georgia
Campbellville
Westport
Norwalk
Representative Good
Mabel Talmadge
Wabash
Ind
Francesco Marchilotte
Bronx
N. Y
Happy” Dooley
Coatesville
Gas and Electric Light Commission
East Boston
Walter S. Kemeys
Magnolia
Mass
Hal Chase
Buffalo
Justice Bissell
American League Club of
Agamemnon Schliemann
New York
Greece
Turkey
John L. Billiard
The
Savings Bank of Meriden, Conn
Dick McMahons Stable Wins Big in North Randall
Sporting at North Randall Ohio features Dick McMahon with a one horse stable led by King Clansman cruising to a $5 000 Tavern Steak victory. The piece notes strong social and baseball headlines including Kraft sale, Ebbets actions, and court rulings, plus other international events.
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King Clansman
Cincinnati Reds
Charles H. Ebbets
Brooklyn
Newark
Kraft
Nashville
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Chief Johnson
Kansas City Feds
Baker
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Johnson
Kansas City
Foell
Centuries of hate behind the conflict Europe dreads
Vienna analysis traces the Austro-Hungarian push southward to seize outlets to the Aegean. It views Serb nationalism, Balkan wars, and Ottoman decline as roots of a fueled struggle. The piece notes Serbs seeking full independence and Austrian resistance to southern expansion.
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Austria
Germany
Italy
Russia
France
Great Britain
Servia
Spain
Switzerland
Belgium
Holland
Balkan
Greece
Bulgaria
Roumania
Balkan Strife and Serb Rise through 1912 13
The piece traces Balkan tensions under Austrian influence in Bosnia and Dalmatia, notes Servian mobilizations of 260 000 then 145 000, and describes Serbia's gains in Western Macedonia and the political shift toward Russian support. It recalls the 1903 Belgrade palace murders of King Alexander and Queen Draga, with fifty four victims in the conspiracy.
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Dalmatia
Turkey
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Austria
Bosnia
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Balkan League
Balkan
Russia
Constantinople
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Europe
Alexander of
Draga
Belgrade
Dublin Tragedy Sparks Irish Demands in Commons
Dublin violence leaves four dead and thirty two injured as Scottish Borderers clash with civilians. John Redmond demands a full inquiry and removal of troops while Birrell blames an assistant commissioner. Ulster volunteers are cited as arming freely, raising Irish tensions.
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Dublin
Asquith
John E. Redmond
House of Commons
Redmond
House
Augustine Birrell
Ireland
Birrell
King's Own
William Redmond
Robert Cecil
Mr. Birrell
Joseph Devlin
West Belfast
Belfast
John Redmond
Ams
British Shoot Down Irish Sparks Dublin Riots
In Dublin four people died and many were wounded after British troops and police tried to seize 1000 rifles landed by Nationalist Volunteers from a yacht off Howth. A detachment of the King's Own Scottish Borderers intercepted gunrunners at Clontarf and fired on volunteers, injuring several. The return to barracks sparked a mob attack with bricks and gunfire, killing two more and wounding many.
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London
Dublin
Howth
Clontarf
Wall of Water Hits Telluride in Cloudburst Flood
Telluride Colorado was struck by a ten foot wall of water from a cloud burst at Corner Canon. Two women died Mrs B E Blakelee and Mrs John Johnson. Fifty families homeless fifteen business blocks and 100 buildings wrecked or damaged. Estimated damage about 150000. Residents camped in public buildings as town remained inundated.
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Col
Corner Canon
B. E. Blakelee
John Johnson
Farmer Shoots Horses Then Kills Self Over Foreclosure
Gottlieb Wigger a Perry Oklahoma farmer killed his team of horses planning foreclosure on a mortgage and then shot himself. He buried the animals in his pasture and had warned friends his horses were his only comfort as he faced ruin.
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Perry
Okla
Gottlieb Wigger
Farmer
Wigger
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