Huerta gunboat Guerrero defeats Tampico near Mazatlan
Reports from Rear Admiral Howard say the Guerrero outgunned the Constitutionalist Tampico in a night battle off Topolobampo. Tampico is badly disabled, crew rescued by New Orleans and Guerrero, with surgeon aid from New Orleans crew. The clash follows prior Tampico losses. confirmation of sinking未 verified.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Huerta
Guerrero
Mazatlan
Howard
United States
New Orleans
Perry
Preble
White House
War and State Departments
Carranza
Villa
Topolobampo
Navy Department
Tampico
England
Vickers-Maxim
Elizabethport
N. J
Young Freshmen Enter Central High At Age Twelve
Three youngest students ever to enter Central High School begin as incoming freshmen. Nancy McCullough 12, Fred Ross 12, and Henry Nachman 12 enroll this fall. Nancy is the McCulloughs of 2041 North Second, Fred is son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ross of 2135 North Second, Henry is son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nachman of 1615 North Second. Nancy and Henry previously studied in Miss A May Tittle's grammar class. Fred attended Miss Maud Kennedy's school.
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Central High School
Nancy McCullough
Fred Ross
Henry Nachman
James P. McCullough
North Second Street
Howard Ross
Joseph Nachman
Miss McCullough
Eee Nachman
A. May Tittle
Ross Lad
Soprano Helen Meson Found Dead in Oakland Apartment
Oakland police found soprano Helen Meson, who was blind, dead on a couch in her apartment. A spoon smelling of poison was noted in the bathroom and a card from real estate agent W Dohrmann referenced a dinner plan. Her aunt Mrs E Stege said the note meant Dohrmann would be away soon.
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Associated Press
Oakland
Cal
Helen Meson
E. Stege
Melrose
Dohrmann
Blinds
University of California
Paris
Mesow
Helen Kellar
Grand Army Men Demand Telegraph News on Flag Transfer
G A R members across the state cedo seek Telegraph coverage of the flag transfer event. Letters praise the paper and orders for copies roll in, including a June 16, 1914 note from John G. Taylor, Wilde Post 25, Chester, requesting issues June 14 to 20.
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Evening Telegraph
Harrisburg
Penna
John G. Taylor
Wilde Post
Chester
Degrees Awarded At Lafayette Graduation 79th
Easton Pa June 17 Talcott Williams director of the School of Journalism on the Pulitzer Foundation at Columbia University delivered the commencement address at Lafayette College. Degrees were awarded including doctor of divinity to Chalfant and Loetscher. doctor of science to Gutelius and Itene Burns. doctor of literature to H L Collins.
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Associated Press
Easton
Montreal
Canada
Eleanor Itene- Burns
College For Women
Constantinople
H. L. Collins
Philadelphia
Ambassadors Narrow Escape as Police Fire Misses Count Von Bernstorff
Count Johann Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, narrowly escaped death when a special policeman fired at the automobile carrying him to the University of Illinois exercises. The shot went wide. no further shots were fired. The envoy rode with Arthur Meeker, Dr. Kinley, and Dr. Greene in a car halted by a merchant officer. In London a collision damaged the Kaiser Wilhelm II en route to New York, with the Incemore also reporting damage in fog.
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Associated Press
Champaign
Count Johann von Bernstorff
Germany
United States
Pointblank
University of Illinois
Count von Bernstorff
Arthur Meeker
Chicago
David Kinley
University
Ewarts Boutelle Greene
First
University Avenues
Michael Murphy
Murphy
London
Southampton
New York
Sherbourg
Spithead
England
Liverpool
Six Hydrants Added in City Water Extension Plan
City Council approved water extension contracts including six new fire hydrants. Johnson Construction Company won the bid valued at 1632 dollars. The streets affected include Nineteenth Derry Paxton four hydrants and segments to Sycamore Rolleston Lennox Curtin Jefferson Seventh Fourth Emerald Seneca with hydrants at each specified block.
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Harry I.’. Bowman
Johnson Construction Company
Nineteenth
Derry
Paxton Street
Ninteenth
Paxton
Sycamore
Camore
Rolleston
Lennox
Curtin
Jefferson
Emerald
Seneca Street
Telegraph Pictures of Flag Transfer Shown Clearly
The Telegraph presents moving pictures of the flag transfer at the Capitol. The film shows the parade and ceremonies as they occurred and will debut at Photoplay theater in Market Street this Friday and Saturday. Additional showings follow in Middletown and other locations before traveling to the Panama Exposition in San Francisco.
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Telegraph
Capitol
Photoplay Theater
Market Street
Middletown
San Francisco
Forty Witches in Harrisburg Echo Sorcery Trial
Washington Stout known for herbs and “black art” claims faces arrest in Alderman Landis court after widow Lillian Miller of 627 Peffer Street accuses him of sorcery. Neighbors say Stout and wife fled Pleasant View earlier. police search continues. Miller says Stout labeled her a witch linking to chicken deaths and local ill repute.
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Harrisburg
Washington Stout
Pleasant View
Salem
Stout
Lillian Miller
Peffer Street
A.M. Landis
Johnson
City endorses mail cariers pension bill
United States Senators Boles Pen rose and George T. Oliver and Congressman Aaron Kreider pledge support for House bill 5139 to pension mail carriers. The City Council endorsement followed a Commissioners meeting at the request of local mail carriers as part of a national effort. Brief letters from Pennsylvania's senators and the Eighteenth district representative acknowledge the council action to City Clerk Charles.
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United States
Boles Penrose
George T. Oliver
Aaron
Kreider
Pennsylvania
Charles
Senate Democrats Push to Adjourn by July as Anti-Trust Bills Move
Senate Democratic leaders, aiming for a July adjournment, accelerate passage of annual appropriation bills to finish the administration anti-trust program. They expect to dispose of all by about July 1 and plan to return home for the fall campaign, opposing Republican resistance.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Senate
Fleming Makes One More Escape Attempt at Trial
In June court Fleming made one more effort to escape the gallows for murdering his mother in law Louisa Bryan. His counsel W L Loeser argued to battle the outcome and seek clemency.
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Fleming
Louisa Bryan
W. L. Loeser
Paterson to bury the hammer and banish chronic knocker
In Paterson New Jersey on June 17 the city plans a symbolic funeral for the nickname the hammer with a straw effigy of old pessimist chronic kicker and habitual grouch. Mayor Fordyce and the Board of Trade lead the ceremony at the proposed rapid transit site amid claims of business losses from local notoriety. In Pittsburgh ten thousand Westinghouse workers begin routine picketing and plant guards as a strike enters its next phase.
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Associated Press
Paterson
N. J
Fordyce
Board of Trade
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse
Hogestown Horse and Cattle Show Opens With Strong Entries
The tenth annual Hogestown show begins with cattle horses hogs poultry and farm products on display. Judges assess cattle sheep hogs poultry and eggs as entries come from farms around Carlisle Dillsburg Lewisberry Goldsboro and areas north to North Mountain. Auditor General A. W. Powell attends as judging starts at 10 o'clock.
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Big Head Woods
Hogestown
Dillsburg
Lewisberry
Goldsboro
North Mountain
Carlisle
Susquehanna River
A. W. Powell
Two Rescuers and Boy Drown in Deep Well at Driftwood
Harold Jordan aged 11 fell into an abandoned well near his home in Driftwood Pa. Rodney Ives aged 17 entered the well to rescue him and called for help from John Jordan Harold's uncle. All three clung to the wall and drowned when they slipped into the water.
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Associated Press
Driftwood
Harold Jordan
Rodney Ives
Ives
John Jordan
Harold
State-wide prohibition petition filed in Olympia
An initiative petition with 112 101 names seeks submission of a state-wide prohibition law to Washington voters in November. The filing was made with the Secretary of State by officers of the State Anti-Saloon League, which required 32 000 signatures to meet the threshold. Philadelphia report notes a clerical update on church leadership at Villanova College. The Very Rev Nicholas J Murphy was elected provincial of the Order of Augustinians succeeding Rev Martin J Gerharty, a New York City native and St Nicholas church rector for three years.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Republic
Chamber of Deputies
Bryan
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Colombia
Nicaragua
Philadelphia
Reading Company
E. T. Stotesbury
Madison, Wis
State Supreme Court
Milwaukee County Circuit Court
Associated Press
Olympia
Wash
State Anti-Saloon League
Nicholas, J. Murphy
Order of Augustinians
Villanova College
Martin J. Gerharty
New York City
St. Nicholas’ Church
Harrisburg Chief Describes City Clean Up At Convention
Harrisburg Police Chief Colonel Joseph Hutchison told a Grand Rapids convention that Harrisburg erased its vice district in about a week. He cited public sentiment driving a strict cleanup, arrests in some cases, and a self made red light area replaced by a lawful district.
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Joseph B. Hutchison
United States
Canada
Grand Rapids
Mich
Harrisburg
Joseph B. Slues Hisan
Hutchison
President Rea Testifies on Northern Central Lease
President Rea stated Pennsylvania owned a majority of Northern Central for fourteen years and had previously held 48 percent. He said both lines shared officers for forty years and Northern Central was part of Pennsylvania’s system, not independent. In 1910 two thirds of Northern Central revenue came from Pennsylvania with 449 miles of track, direct Pennsylvania interest in all but 140. The lease aimed to unite properties under single management.
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Rea
Pennsylvania
Northern Central
Seige Proclaimed by Turkish Government Along Dardanelles
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Constantinople reports a state of siege proclaimed at Smyrna in Asia Minor and along the Dardanelles to halt Greek emigration. Greece and Turkey threaten armed conflict as protests over Greek expulsions intensify.
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London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Constantinople
Smyrna
Asia Minor
Dardanelles
Turkey
Greece
Weather and Marriage Licenses in Harrisburg Area
Fair tonight and Thursday with a warming trend in eastern Pennsylvania. Temperatures ranged from 56 to 74 degrees with a mean near 65 as river stage sits at 1.6 feet. new moon at 10 33 a m. Marriage licenses issued include Daniel H. Kincard and Estella Elizaveth Ebner in the city.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Daniel H. Kincard
Estella Elizaveth Ebner
Manufacturers Who Help the Other Fellow
A business writer argues that wise manufacturers support retailers and invite other dealers to stock up. Advertising in local newspapers renews dealer shelves and prompts renewed orders. Manufacturers seeking larger markets are urged to contact the Bureau of Advertising at the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York.
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Bureau of Advertising
American Newspaper Publishers Association
World Building
New York
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