Week's Briefs: Immigrant officer freed. post rates cut
Washington reports say Charles B. Dixon Jr., US immigration inspector shot in Juarez, was released from the Juarez hospital after US demand. Garblers arrested after a demand from Dryan. Ambassador Wilson opposed mediation or tripartite commissions for Mexico. Burleson to issue final parcel post changes by Aug 15. US paid Panama 2500000 for canal zone rent, plus prior 10 million cash. Mulhall falters before senate panel, adjournment follows. Navy plant expansion proposed, two more Supreme Court justices eyed. Tom Marshall basks in vice presidential status. Moose banquet attended. Green Bay wreck kills four, burns Lincoln Beahly height record set at 12,960 feet but fatal. Topeka court blocks gas extension into Oklahoma. Wisconsin caps marriage with health certificate and eugenics-style measures. Fire at Binghamton funerals for 21 unidentified victims. Switzerland Trail wreck injures 27. Fortunes shift as copper strike violence prompts troops. Big Four and Lake Shore trains collide. 12 hurt.
Suffragette leader amid London riot jailed again
Foreign Sylvia Pankhurst, once under license, led a London suffragette demonstration Sunday. amid the rioting she was rearrested and taken to Holloway Jail. Meanwhile press in Tokio accuse Japan’s cabinet of diplomatic missteps over Californian land laws and question U S sincerity.
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Sylvia Pankhurat
Sufragette
London
Miss Pankhuret
Holloway
Tokio
Mexico
Japan
Sama
United States
Lodge Denies Mulhall Testimony On Senate Lobby Probe
Washington July 30 Senate lobby investigating committee heard Henry Cabot Lodge deny the Mulhall confession as the former National Association of Manufacturers agent testified. The NACM turned over about 200000 letters to the committee in New York, carried by special express car to Washington. Officials say they will assist, while alleging Democrats seek to repay labor foes Sam Gompers and the AFL. Mulhall recounted alleged appointments to committees and government influence, and pointed to a labor lobby in Washington with AFL officials present.
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Washington
Senate
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Martin M. Mulhall
National Association of Manufacturers
Mulhall
Senator Lodge
Senate Committee
Almout
New York
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Mwhall
Sirby
J. P. Bird
Association
Democratic House
J. T. McDermott
Mlinois
J. H. McMichael
House
Mel Michael
M Enstor
Ife
Ita
Muthall
Manufacturers’ Association
Kirby
House Labor Committee
James T. Lloyd
Missouri
Minds
I. H. McMichael
McMichael
McDermott
Bird
Flyer Blows Up Warship Tampico At Guaymas Harbor
Nogales July 30. An insurgent message reports the federal gunboat Tampico destroyed by a bomb dropped from an airplane over Guaymas harbor. The event marks a historic first. French aviator Cridler Mascon reportedly conducted three flights over the harbor before hitting the vessel. Tampico built in 1902 at Elizabeth New Jersey, 200 feet long, 33 feet beam, 10 feet draft, armed with two four inch guns and six six pounders, two torpedo tubes, and a crew of 100.
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Nogales
Ali
Guaymas Harbor
Cridler Mascon
Elizabeth
N.J
Oscern
Mens
Elizabethport
N. J
Goy
Ignacio Pasqueira
Hermosillo
Fogales
Sonora
José Maytorent
Tucson
Ariz
Pesquiera
Elactida
Maytorena
Washington
Smith
Texas
Bryan
Conaul Howards
Juarez
Madera
Wilson
Henry Lane Wilson
Mexico
United States
Huerta
State Department
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Support Suffrage Crusade Endorsed by Bulzer in NY Petition
The Men's League for Women's Suffrage in New York received Bulzer's endorsement for a petition urging the U S senate to adopt a constitutional suffrage amendment. The league circulates the petition to gain backing for the measure.
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New York
Men's League For Women's Suffrage
Bulzer
United States Senate
Texas Business Woman Slain in Dallas Office
Mise Florenca T. Brown a stenographer for a realty firm was murdered in the company office. Her throat was cut from ear to rear and her left arm chewed. Twenty five suspects were arrested.
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Texas
Dallas
Tex
Mise Florenca T. Brown
Castro Disappears Again From Canary Islands
Cipriano Castro former president of Venezuela has vanished from the Canary Islands where he and his wife have been staying. He has sailed for the West Indies and his whereabouts are unknown.
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Castro
New York
Cipriano Castro
Venezuela
Canary Islands
West Indies
Aeroplane Bomb Wrecks Gunboat Tampico at Guaymas Harbor
Reports from Nogales dated July 29 describe a French aviator Didier Masson dropping bombs on the Mexican federal gunboat Tampico at Guaymas harbor. It is claimed as the first such attack in history. The insurgents resumed their investment and planned a second column under cover of darkness.
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Nogalea
Aris
Tampico
Guaymas Harbor
Eaid
Didier Masson
Guaymas
Mateon
Two-Cent Rate Protest At Chicago Conference
In Chicago a conference of railroad executive officers discussed the Missouri Arkansas and Minnesota rate decisions. They opposed the two cent passenger rate as insufficient for modern service and vowed to press for increases while noting freight rate reductions as unjust.
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Chicago
Supreme Court of the United States
Missouri
Arkansas
Minnesota
Engine Turns Over 2 Die In Great Northern Wreck
A westbound Great Northern fast mail train No. 2 wrecked east of Rockhill. Engineer Peck L. Forcum and Fireman Carl Smith, both of Whitefish, were killed. Express Messenger Lamb injured. The engine left the rail and overturned, one mail car piling atop it. Cause of the accident undetermined at report time.
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Whitefish
Mont
Great Northern Fast Mail
Rockhill
Peck L. Forcum
Carl Smith
Expreau
Lamb
Ralio
House Adjourns In Three Minutes
Washington July 29 Republican Carmineff filibuster clipped a minute of the record for short sessions of the house. It took the body just three minutes to meet and adjourn.
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Houes
Washington
Repubican Carminett
Congressional Doings: July 29 Senate Debates Tariff Bill
Washington July 29 The Senate debated the tariff issue with Senators Warren and Townsend opposing the Underwood Simmons bill. Bar on Georgia takes oath by direct vote. Progressive Republicans plan to back La Follette without changes. Judiciary committee to report favorably on J. W. Davin as solicitor general. Lobby hearings continue. Bryan proposes repeal of a tax favoring postmaster general on parcel post rates. Hay introduces volunteer army mobilization. Smith seeks removal of Consul Edwards at Juarez and information on campaign funds.
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Baron
Georgia
la Follette
Cumming’arcel
Judiciary Committee
J. W. Davin
Bryan
Howard
Atlanta
Hay
Virginia
Smith
Tex
Consul Edwards
Juarez
Strikers Fired On In Calumet Mine Clash Amid Walkout
Clashes occurred at Baltic and Isle Royale between troops and about three hundred strikers trying to march on General Manager Denton. Troops dispersed mobs by firing over heads as pumping begins to clear four days of water buildup. Governor refused to withdraw troops, escalating tension in the copper strike as pumps resume at Hancock and other mines.
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Calumet, Mich
Baltic
Isle Royale
Denton
Calumet Shafta
Calumet
Shasta
National Guard
Hancock Mins
Agreement Hopes Fade In Japan California Land Row
Washington officials see little optimism in talks with Japan over the California alien land law. Two weeks since the American reply to Japan’s note, no signal of Japan’s intent to continue talks. The aim is a declaration that no treaty rights were violated and that court action should decide Webb Act effects. A frank understanding between the nations is seen as possible.
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Washington
Japan
California
Chinda
Woman murdered in Dallas real estate washroom
Dallas July 29. The body of Misa Florence Brown twenty seven was found with throat cut in the washroom of a local real estate office. Within two hours twenty five young white men were arrested on suspicion.
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Dallas
Tex
Misa Florence Brown
Mulhall Letters Testimony Ties to Manufacturers Probe
National Association of Manufacturers aids inquiry as Henry Cabot Lodge joins senators in sworn testimony about Mulhall, the former assocations agent. Nearly 200,000 letters and files are turned over to the senate committee, detailing political influences, payments, and interviews with Underwood and other officials as the era shifts to 1911.
Attack on Ramona hotel foiled by armed gang
In Bay View Michigan on July 29 a four man gang armed with revolvers and shotguns attempted to raid the Ramona hotel with 95 guests inside. Over 150 shots were fired in exchanges with hotel staff, driving the men into nearby woods. Clifford Case of Chicago organized the hotel defense and a rel? party aided in evacuating guests as Sheriff Purple and a posse arrived at daybreak to pursue the intruders.
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Bay View
Mich
Ramona Hotel
Clifford Case
Chicago
Phil Houck
Cage
Sherif Purple
Patoskey
Crawford
Ransom
Houta
Dlutrigt
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Juarez Mes
el Paso
T. P. Edwards
Dixon
Dryan
Burleson
Panama
Canal Zone
U. S
Col. M. M. Mulhall
Britten
Chicago Age
Naval Torpedo Plant
Newport, RI
Supreme Court
Representative Rupley
Pennsylvania
Tom Marshall
Columbia City
Ind
Hotel la Salle
Republcans
Loyal Order of Moose
Green Bay
Wis
Milwaukee Road
Bath
Black Burnside
Lincoln Beachly
Burnside
Oneonta
John Marshall
Topeka
Kan
Kansas Natural Gas Company
Oklahoma
Kansas Utilities Commission
Wisconsin
Union
Binghamton
N. Y
Spring Forest Cemetery
Switzerland Trail
Boulder
Colo
Rio Grande, Boulder & Western Railroad
Richards
Port Scott
Kansas City Southern
Kanpea City
Jesse M. Short
Brock Sask
Towtt
Claveland
Moses Cleveland
Ferris
Michigan
Houghton
Western Federation of Miners
Upper Peninsula
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
Perry
Madison
Anthony N. Brady
Great Britain
British-American Tobacco Company
Robert Burns
Liverpool Athenaeum
House of Lords
Lords
San Francisco
Cal
Pakin
Tong King Chong
Sun Yat Sen
Doctor Sen
China
Pope
Vatican
Rome
Hodges
Kansas
Mississippi River
Wichita
W. D. Starnberg
Meridian
Stephen Keeling
Fort Scott
Keith
Srertunsa
Marno
of the Interior
Franklin K. Lane
Billinga
Crow Indian Agency
Huntley Irrigation Project
George Browne
Pleasant Valley
Wiz
Bergmeyer
Clayton County
Hikader
Euzebeth Johnson
West Tenth Street
Hmma Franklin
Bria
Bt. Vincent's Hospital
William Butler
Kenvil
William Corduan
Newark
Corduan
Polign
Colonel Mulhall
Banate Committee
Almoat
Masson
Great Northern Road
Montana
Congressional
Warren and
Townsend
Underwood-Simmons
Déhlal
Summer Hotel
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