Draft Rules Finalized as Aliens Face Possible Draft
Secretary of War Baker and Provost Marshall General Crowder completed the final draft of the regulations for the actual conscription drawing. The rules, approved and forwarded to the government printing office, will be distributed nationwide by mail and released publicly on the draft day. Meanwhile senate debates on foreign-slacker measures flag draft progress and predict potential eligibility for up to a million aliens, with exemptions only for alien enemies and those pursuing naturalization. In Michigan, two brothers, Clifford and Thomas Smith, were found drowned after fishing at Frenchman’s Lake near Trout Lake.
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Baker
Enoch Crowder
Crowder
Government Printing Office
Wilson
Senate
Chamberlain
Italy
Japan
United States
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich
Clifford Smith
Thomas
Trout Lake
Frenchman’s Lake
Lemberg Stronghold Falls to Kroniloff Commander
Austrian defense of Lemberg capitulates as General Kroniloff directs assault leading to surrender. Forces cite damage to fortifications and strategic value in the region. Commanders acknowledge loss with brief statements to reporters.
Markets report from Chicago and East Buffalo live stock
Hogs and cattle receipts dominate the market with varied quotations across weights and grades. East Buffalo prices mirror declines in hogs and steady cattle values, while grain and produce prices list corn oats eggs poultry and vegetables with regional yields and ranges.
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Dunning and Stevens
Livestock Commission
N. Y
Russian Mob Violence Flares in Petrograd Streets
Amid Ukraine tensions two demonstrations in Nevsky Prospekt fired shots leaving several dead or wounded as Bolshevik factions clashed with government forces. In Moscow a cabinet split saw three cadet ministers resign over Ukraine policy.
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Council of Ministers
A. I. Shingaroff
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Woman Named for Mayor in South Bend
Mrs. Alice Mannering was nominated by the Socialist party for mayor of South Bend, Indiana, subject to the fall election. Her platform includes a free city dispensary a municipal dairy a municipal coal yard a municipally owned coal mine and an ordinance to regulate housing conditions. The Weather partly cloudy and warmer.
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Alice Mannering
Socialist Party
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I. W. W. Public Speaking Banned in Globe-Miami District
In Globe Miami area on July 18 under military orders public speaking by the I W W has been forbidden. Three Germans were arrested.
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W. W. Oratory
Miami
Ariz
Globe-Miami
Coal Operators urged to seek price regulation
Chicago July 18. Recommendations to have the state council of defense urge state or federal control of coal retail prices were passed unanimously at a special meeting. Governor Lowden attending warned he would call a special legislative session by Saturday if Illinois coal operators fail to agree on relief plans. A further council meeting is set for Saturday to hear operators present their arrangements.
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Chicago
State Council of Defense
Lowden
German-born man arrested for flag incident in Dubuque
Leonard Kress a native of Germany who claimed naturalized American citizenship was arrested in East Dubuque Illinois by militiamen and brought to Dubuque after attempting to tear a flag from another man. En route he discarded his wallet into the Mississippi. a guardsman retrieved it but papers of a damaging nature may have been lost.
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Mississippi
Cubs Pitcher Tom Seaton Sold to Los Angeles Club
Chicago July 18 Pitcher Tom Seaton of the Cubs was sold to the Los Angeles club in a player deal.
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Tom Seaton
Cubs
Los Angeles Club
Four German Ships Sunk and Captured in North Sea
The British destroyers report sinking four German steamers in the North Sea. Names given include Pellworm, Breitzeig, Marie Horn, and Heinz Blumberg. Dispatches note seventeen more German ships sailed from Rotterdam since Saturday, with several captured or sunk and others forced back to Rotterdam.
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London
Admiralty
Pellworm
Brietzeig
Marie Horn
Heinz Blumberg
Reuter
Ymuiden
Rotterdam
Magdalen Blumenthal
Zendvoort
DIVERS PROMISES AND U BOAT CAMPAIGN DISAPPOINTMENT
A German centrist party apologizes for Deputy Mathias Erzberger’s attack on pan Germans and submarine warfare. Reports from Copenhagen and Berlin note Reichstag crisis, Michaelis policy hints, and possible adjournment or peace term actions as war credits near unanimous approval or conditional cooperation.
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Amsterdam
Catholic Center Party of Germany
Mathias Erzberger
Illinois Hurries Up Its Draft Quotas
Illinois advances draft quota planning after war department estimates. Major B M Chiperfield travels to Washington to verify figures and report to Adjutant General Dickson. Initial Illinois population estimate exceeds seven million, signaling about 12 000 extra men needed. district quotas to be finalized in coming days.
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Ilm
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War Department
B. M Chiperfield
Washington
Chiperfield
Dickson
Edward J. Lang
Jail term for suffragists in Washington arrest case
Sixteen members of the Woman's Party were arrested Saturday in an attempt to picket the White House and were sentenced to pay fines or serve 30 days in a workhouse at Occoquan Virginia. The larger group faced prison terms while some members reportedly received no sentences.
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Washington
Occoquan
Finns Face General Strike Over Independence Bill
Helsinki reports extreme tension as Finns press for full independence from Russia. The diet blocks a 350 million marks loan to Russia and threatens a general strike if the communal bill abolishing property qualifications is postponed. The bill faces a third reading with Socialist and small bourgeois backing after a senate demonstration.
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Finland
Finsland
Russia
Diet
Senate
Recruiting Improves as Army Accepts 1500 Recruits in a Day
Washington reports a sharp rise in regular army recruitment with 1,500 recruits accepted in a single day. The adjutant general notes 323 more than the two previous days combined, led by Pennsylvania with 269 and New York with 272. The army still trails its 183,898 quota by 35,282 and lacks 1,658 in New York.
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Adjutant General
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New York
Gol Conda Mine Closed in Kingman Strike fallout
A Kingman Arizona dispatch reports the Gol Conda mine shut down due to labor action. About two hundred miners are reportedly laid off as the stoppage unfolds in the mining district near Phoenix.
Indictments Dismissed in Colorado Coal Strike Case
In Trinidad Colorado on July 1 all indictments from the 1913 coal miners strike in southern Colorado were dismissed by the district court of Las Animas County.
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