Kaiser Reply to Wilson Note Demands U S Guarantee Each Ship
Berlin replies to the U S note on Lusitania sinking and submarine warfare. Germany pledges to protect neutral lives, to allow safe passage for American passenger steamers, and to consider increasing neutral ships under the American flag, while urging joint naval arrangements and guarantees.
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Kaiser
Wilson
U. S
Lusitania
Germany
Union
Hves
Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
England
High Seas
North America
United States
Great Britain
von Jagow
Nebraska onces sea floor fossils tell ancient seas
South of the Platte opposite North Bend Nebraska the bluffs show loess and glacial drift atop Benton shale formed when Nebraska lay at the bottom of the sea. Fossil oysters and saltwater bones, including Mosasaurus, prove ancient sea life. A comparison with today shows continuous geological change. Tourists now ride dry plains while sea monsters once swam.
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Platte River
North Bend
Neb
Benton
Nebraska
Frank Holt Dies by Suicide in Jail Yard Tragedy
Frank Holt, the Cornell professor who shot J P Morgan, leaped from a jail window to the courtyard after authorities learned he was Doctor Muenter, the Harvard wife murderer. Police say he planned the infernal devices and stored 120 pounds of dynamite in a Los Angeles Central Park house. guard Jeremiah Ryan was seated nearby.
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Glen Cove
Frank Holt
J. P. Morgan
Police
Wood
New York
Pullman
Washington
Hall
Holt
Jeremiah Ryan
Ryan
Doctor Muenter
Harvard
Central Park
L. A
Anglo-Californian Reaches Queenstown After Four Hour Fight
The British steamer Anglo-Californian limped into Queenstown after a four hour battle with a German submarine. Twelve sailors died and eight were wounded as the ship, carrying horses from Montreal for the British army, outran the submarine. Captain Parslow sacrificed his life on the bridge during the attack. The ship, 450 feet long and 7,233 tons, belonged to the Nitrate Producers' Steamship company.
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Queenstown
London
Queenstown Harbor
Montreal
Parslow
Nitrate Producers
Steamship Company, Ltd
United Kingdom
Mansion mine suit loss hits twelve million nine hundred thousand
Fort Smith Arkansas reports a court decision where the Bache-Denman Coal syndicate of eleven companies lost a 1.26 million dollar damage suit against union miners for destruction of mine property. In St Louis riots, Thomas Marshall receives death threats in over a dozen anonymous letters. Grand Rapids mayor George Riddell shoots himself, aged forty five. Rear Admiral Moore placed on retired list from Honolulu station. Capt. Gleaves to succeed him.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Tuesaday
Bache-Denman Coal Syndicate
St. Louis
Thomas R. Marshall
United States
Marshall
Grand Haplds
Minn
George Riddell
Grand Rapids
Tiddell
Washington
Huerta Re-arrested as Orozco Evades Bond
Gen. Victoria no Huerta, freed on 15000 bond after arrest, was re imprisoned in El Paso county jail on a new federal warrant from San Antonio. A military guard is planned to guard the jail to prevent escape. A report says Gen. Pascual Orozco has fled across the border to lead a force against Juarez from Valentine, Texas.
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el Paso
Tex
Victoriano Huerta
San Antonio
Huerta
Pascual Orozco
General Orozco
Valentine
Mexico
Juarez
Pitched Ball Kills Player in Kansas City
A. J. Walker, 23, of Kansas City died after being struck on the head by a pitched ball while playing with an amateur baseball team in Dearborn, Missouri. The incident occurred July 8.
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Kansas City
A. J. Walker
Dearborn
Red Cross member accused in neutrality violation plot
United States forces report the arrest of Capt. Anton V. Seferovich of the American Red Cross in New York on July 3. He is charged with conspiring to violate U.S. neutrality by recruiting for the Montenegrin army.
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U. 8
Red Cross
New York
Agente
Anton V. Seferovich
American Red Cross
U. S
Bombardment Rolls Back British Stores at Arras
July 10 report says Arras bombardment destroyed British stores and hindered French regrouping. The cathedral there was burned in the same action.
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Berlin
Arras
France
Young Girl Murdered Near Rockford by Farm Hand
Bentta Gates a fifteen year old girl was murdered by John Spangler twenty five a farm hand employed by the girl s father Spangler then cut his throat and died leaving the tragedy in Rockford Illinois on July 10 with authorities noting the suspect acted after the crime.
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Rockford
Bentta Gates
John Spangler
Spangler
Tornado Toll and Destruction Across Five States
July 9 reports from Chicago and St Louis describe a devastating tornado and cloudburst that struck five Midwestern states. The death toll is unknown but feared high with Cincinnati and St Louis area heavily hit. Numerous towns suffered severe property loss as trains were blown from tracks and homes leveled.
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Chicago
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
Minds
Missouri
Cincinnati
Ohio River
Milford
Terrace Park
St. Charles
St. Peters
Gilmore
Wentzville
Wabash
St. Louis
Kansas City
St. Charles Borromeo
Second Baptist Church
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Terre Haute
Ind
Lawrenceville
Ill
Fifteen Killed in Ontario Trolley Car Derailment
Toronto report says fifteen people died and about fifty were injured in a trolley derailment near Queenstown Ontario. The victims were Toronto Sunday school members on a Niagara Falls picnic.
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Toronto
Niagara Falls
Ont
Queenstown
NO BOMBS ON BIG LINERS
New York July 9 both the Philadelphia and the Saxonia were warned of a bomb aboard one of them by Frank Holt. They have been searched from stem to stern and found safe. In Sydney N S W July 10 the defence department awarded a salvage contract for the German cruiser Emden sunk off Cocos island in the Indian Ocean by the Australian cruiser Sydney.
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New York
Philadelphia
Saxonia
Frank Holt
Nate
Sydney
N.S. W
Department For Defence
Emden
Cocos Island
Indian Ocean
Minors Fold Three Baseball Leagues for Season
Three minor baseball leagues the Bi-State Southern Michigan and Rio Grande have ceased operations for the remainder of the season. The move affects youth and regional schedules and ends league play for the current year.
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Chicago
Southern Michigan
Rio Grande
Minnehaha Bomb Explosion Forc es Turn Back to Halifax
The Minnehaha, the largest British wartime liner carrying 17 000 tons of ammunition for the British government, was forced to return to Halifax after an explosion in hold No 3 sparked a fire. Capt F H Claret reported the blaze was controlled and the ship was deemed safe, though the incident prompted a long delay. The Adriatic arrived safely at Liverpool with no details given of the delay.
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New York
Halifax
Frank Holt
Mineola
Liverpool
F. H. Claret
Chebus
J. P. Morgan & Co
White Star Line
Russians tighten grip on fronts as Austrians retreat
Vienna reports Russians adopt more vigorous tactics and advance along the Dniester and Pruth corridors. Austrian withdrawals around Krasnik are confirmed while Berlin advices say Russian attacks between the Dniester and Bug rivers grow serious, with gains on the Dniester front and 12 miles forced back the Polands from Wilkoloz heights. German westward offensive against Warsaw meets failure again.
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Vienna
Krasnik
Amsterdam
Berlin
Dniester
Pruth
Bug
Pflanzer
Baltin
Poland
Wilkoloz
Petrograd
Warsaw
War Office
First British Sub Sinks German Warship in Baltic Bay
London reports the admiralty confirms a British submarine torpedoed and sank a German warship in the Bay of Gdańsk. The Italian armored cruiser Amalfi was torpedoed and sunk by an Austrian submarine in the Adriatic, with most of her 684 crew saved. An Italian source notes a French warship shot down a German submarine in the Channel. The Grimsby trawler Cheshire was sunk by a mine in the North Sea, with all but the chief engineer dead.
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London
Baltic Sea
Admiralty
Danzig
Amalfi
Adriatic
Ministry of Marine
Rome
Channel
Cheshire
North
Sen
Record Cotton Crop 1914 Exceeds Previous Peak
Washington reports the 1914 American cotton crop at 16,134,920 bales, the largest ever produced and about 15 percent higher than the 1912 crop, exceeding 1912 by nearly two million bales.
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Washington
Greek Ships Detained En Route From United States
Detain two Greek steamers Thessalonik and Janina, sailing from the United States, stopped at Gibraltar on Thursday and later convoyed to Malta for further examination.
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U. 8
Athens
Thessalonik
Janina
United States
Gibraltar
Malta
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