Prince Kara Georgevitch Likely King of Servia After Coup
Belgrade reports unite behind Prince Kara Georgevitch as next Servian king, with Skupshtina support and minimal republican influence in the new cabinet. Mirko of Montenegro seen as unlikely heir. foreign intervention fears mix with public cheer over the coup. Minister Genshics notes cautious official results pending stable conditions.
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Belgrade
Servia
Tudorovics
Genshics
Peter ‘Arageorgevitch
Mirko
Montenegro
M. Genshies
Fearful Night in Belgrade as Assassins Target King
Vienna reports the late King Alexander lived in fear during his final weeks. Palace guards searched every corner for bombs while the adjutant and palace commander kept him safe in his bedchamber. Queen Draga prepared an independent flight as divorce plans with Princess Nenia of Montenegro emerged amid conspirators fears.
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Vienna
Alexander
Pioneers
Draga
Nenia
Montenegro
Obrenovitch
Prince Kara Georgevitch Letter to Victor Emmanuel Rumored
A letter from Prince Peter Kara Georgevitch to King Victor Emmanuel is said to discuss his ascent to the throne and Italy's possible stance. The Rome foreign office denies any Servia deal among powers. A Paris dispatch notes a semi official report urging punishment for King Alexander and Queen Draga’s murder. Roosevelt meets Cromwell on the Panama Canal situation in Washington.
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Rome
Peter Karageorgevitch
Victor Emmanuel
Duti
Itaiy
Foreign Office
Servia
London
Alexander
Draga
Cromwell
Washington
Roosevelt
Wiliam Nelson Cromwell
Panama Canal Company
River Falling Slowly Amid Flood Woes
June 15 St Louis reports show the river dropping about four tenths or a foot in twenty four hours. The Weather Bureau forecasts a potential one foot drop in twenty four hours and expects the river to reach the danger line of 80 feet by late next week if no new floods occur. Hope rises among East St Louis flood victims as relief approaches and stock yards embargo eases. Rail service resumes with most lines on schedule and airports restoring regular operations aside from minor disruptions.
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St. Louis
Boureau
East St. Louis
Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
San Francisco
Union Station
Burlington
Wabash
Chicago and Alton
Cashier’s Crash After Embezzlement Confession
In Chicago on June 15 Ernest Naaraji a cashier for Edward Rueb a commission merchant shot himself in the Prairie State Bank safety vaults after confessing to an embezzlement likely totaling about 4000 dollars. He had been in the city six years from Ceylon and claimed royal Indian lineage.
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Chicago
Ernest Naoraji
Ceylon
Prairie State Bank
Naaraji
Edward Rueb
Europe
India
Wnavraji
Mystery shrouds murder near Meadow Valley farm
Grand Rapids Wisconsin June 15 Mystery surrounds the death of Mrs Katharine D Wood aged sixty five on a Meadow Valley farm. Her body was found near her home with a crushed skull. The coroner returned a verdict of murder. The husband testified he was three miles away at work. Wood owned the arm upon which they lived.
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Grand Rapids
Wis
Katherine D. Wood
Meadow Valley
Italian sailor fires at Havana consul in office
In Havana on June 15 a young Italian sailor entered Viagio Tornielli's office and shot at the Italian consul, grazing his head. The assailant fled, was chased by the consul, fired again at closest pursuers, and was overpowered and arrested. He gave the name Pietro Abaey and claimed he acted under compulsion, with officials deeming him insane.
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Havana
Viagio Tornielli
Pietro Abaey
Averted Lynching In Illinois As Sheriff Moves Prisoner
A Greenville dispatch reports a second lynching attempt within a week was foiled by authorities who removed Ben Lee a Black man accused of assaulting a white woman. At about 7 PM Sheriff Loyd had already taken him to safety. a mob of citizens gathered at the jail around 6:30 PM, breaking in doors after finding the prisoner missing.
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Illinois
Chicago
Record-Herald
Greenville
Inlinois
Ben Lee
Loyd
Armed Men On Board Plot To Hold Up A Train Frisco
Armored officers moved to Joplin after a plot to rob passenger train No 141 en route to Empire Junction Kan. Fifty armed men were to defend. no robbers were found at Empire Junction last night a telephone warning led to the mobilization. Ex convicts held in murder probe in Alton. Loveland confesses implicating Hayman and Greenlee. Turner captured in Kentucky after rumors of his death in Tennessee.
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Joplin
Empire Junction
Kan
Galena
Columbus
Lewis Harmon
Otis Lovelani
George Geyer
Alton
Loveland
Hayman
Lon Greenlee
Cooks and Waiters Strike Hits Chicago Hotels
In Chicago on June 13, about 2,000 workers including cooks waiters chambermaids and bellboys walked out of ten large family hotels and others. Delegations visited major downtown hotels including Auditorium Annex Grand Pacific Vittoria Palmer Stratford and Wellington before the strike spread to Kaiserhoff and Bismarck Briggs House.
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Chicago
Auditorium
Annex
Grand Pacific
Vittoria
Palmer
Stratford
Wellington
Suikes
Kaiserhoff Hotel
Sherman House
Windermere
Hyde Park
Chicago Beach
Holland
Metropole
del Prado
Vendome
Kenwood
Lakota
Bismarck Hotel
Briggs House
Lumber Mill Strike Forces Action Across Two States
Ashland Ky June 13 Six hundred lumber mill workers in Ashland and Ironton Ohio walk out demanding union recognition. Reports say a general strike will begin immediately at nearly all mills from the Big Sandy river to Tron ton, Ohio, signaling widespread industry unrest.
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Ashland
Ironton
Big Sandy River
Tronton
Railroad shop workers walk out in West Virginia and Kentucky
Huntington June 18 machinists and boilermakers of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway have ordered their men out at Hinton Thurmond Handley WV and soon at Lexington Ashland and Bus 4 KY until a settlement of the present trouble.
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Huntington
W. Va
Chesapeake and Ohbio Railway
Hinton
Thurmond
Handley
Soo
Lexington
Ashland
Express car looted near Englewood on Erie line
Rochester Indiana June 13 robbers entered an express car attached to the eastbound Erie train just outside Englewood and looted it. They discarded packages along the road from Hammond to Rochester. A freight crew discovered the scene, two robbers were captured with revolvers, and valuables totaling about 37 600 in one package plus 4 000 in goods were recovered.
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Rochester
Ind
Erie Railway
Englewood
Hammond
Huntington
Robbed at Sea on White Star Voyage
Robert Neill of Los Angeles, a first cabin passenger on the White Star liner Ger manic from Liverpool, reported upon arrival in New York that he was robbed mid ocean last Wednesday of drafts and about $20,000 from funds from an estate sale in Belfast. He landed penniless and could not pay $126 duty on certain girts he brought. Investigators are examining the case.
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New York
Robert Neill
Los Angeles
Cal
White Star Line
Germanic
Liverpool
Belfast
Ueteerives
New Trial Denied in Coal Dealers Conspiracy Case
Chicago June 13 Judge Norton denied a new trial for Northerninois Coal Dealers association members found guilty of conspiracy in restraint of trade. Retail Coal Dealers of Winets and Wisconsin were fined $100 each. Cabinet meeting in Washington June 13 lasted an hour and a half with Shaw and Root absent. The post office investigation and Russian Jewish appeals to the state department were noted.
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Chicago
Norton
Northerninois Coal Dealers’ Association
Retail Coal Dealers’ Association of
Washington
Shaw
Root
Post Ofice
State Department
NEW ARMY STANDARDS ADOPTED BY WAR DEPARTMENT
The War Department adopts new regimental colors with United States coat of arms as the main feature. Flags for secretary of war cavalry artillery infantry engineers and signal corps use distinct color schemes and embroidered seals insignia including crossed cannons castle torch flags and scrolls in red blue orange yellow and white.
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War Department
Army of the United States
New York Commercial Advertiser
United States
Secretary of War
Army
Engineers
Signal Corps
Portland Poised for Summer War Games Realistic Drill Ahead
A Washington dispatch reports summer maneuvers around Portland to mirror actual warfare. Joint army navy drills will be elaborate with Forts McKinley Williams Levitt and Preble defending the harbor. Admiral Coghlan likely commands the attacking fleet with Barker and Sands assisting.
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Portland
Army and Navy
Portland Arbor
Washington Dispatch
Philadelphia Press
Army
Navy
New England
Burgorne
McKinley
Williams
Levitt
Coast Artillery
Coghlan
Barker
Sands
Stork's long flight and a silver neck tag tale
A German nobleman studying stork migration attached a silver plate to a captured stork reading this site This spring the bird still bears the tag and a waterproof parcel containing an Indian ring The plan is the bird will carry a message seeking the donor upon its autumn southward flight
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India
Germany
Munich
New York
Railroad Through Galilee Concession for Haifa to Damascus
Consul G Ravadal of Beirut reports to Washington on April 14 that the Ottoman government seeks the English concession for a railway from Haifa to Damascus, aiming to build a Galilee line via Belzan to Mezerib and connecting with the Damascus Mecca route. Five German engineers arrived at Tyifa, Beirut province marked by a monument, with an estimated Baifa to Mezerib cost of 2 million dollars for a narrow gauge line about forty inches wide. The Damascus Mecca line now reaches east of the Dead Sea, and the project may shift toward a southwestward Red Sea Gulf of Akaba route from Ma’an.
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Galilee
Beirut
State Department
Washington
Haifa
Damascus
Mzerib
Belsan
Damiascus
Meccanae
Gennan Elvtt
Tiaifa
Baifa
Mezerib
Damascus-Mecca
Dead Sea
Hojjuz
Medina
Meera
Ma’an
Gulf of Akaba
Red Sea
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Nikodem
Katareorgevitch
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Prince Karageorgevitch
Wisconsin
Turner
Middlesboro
Mies
Uliasis
Stork
Castoria
What Is
Iowa
H. G. Shadboly
Emmetsburg
James Cullen
Emmetsburg, Towa
Branagan Bros
Palo Alto County Bank
Peane Lagmaser
Pre. McGregor
Awa
Geo
E. Peansaut
V Hank
Des Moines
Giro
B. Akuarty
Mate
X. Pamcevoy
Eamershorp
Ice
Fiersident
First National Bank
National Mll Brown
Alex Pronin
Eranagan
TES
H. Dimler
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