Three Phases in China's Troubles Rise in U S Study
Washington reports outline three distinct phases of China turmoil from mass government reports and expert canvases. Canton recaptured by Cantonese soldiers boloing Sun Yat Sen followers. Antiforeign agitation spreads, triggering disorders in many cities. Northern clash looms with Peking as possible outcome. Domestic politics drive the events, with no direct foreign link.
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Associated Press
Washington
China
Canton
Peking
Immigrant Train Wreck Near Hackettstown Kills 25
A Lackawanna express train carrying immigrants returning to the old country after visiting family wrecked near Hackettstown New Jersey. At least 25 dead and 52 injured as banners read See the Old Country Again. Lightning and a landslide disrupted rails. rescuers worked through the night.
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Associated Press
Hackettstown
N. J
Lackawana
Here
Corn Belt
Old Country
Rioting in Shanghai and MacKenzie killing prompts foreign outrage posters
Reports from Shanghai describe posters declaring one foreign life for every Chinese life killed as crowds clash and William MacKenzie is killed while W. W. MacKenzie and Miss Mary Duncan are wounded by Chinese snipers in Canton and Shanghai. Washington expects renewed diplomatic action from Peking to address the foreigners. Officials caution the unrest may not become a Boxer-like general attack and hope leaders prevent a large foreign intervention.
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Shanghai
William MacKenzie
Washington
W. W. MacKenzie
Mary Duncan
Canton
State Department
Peking
China
Bristol Bulletin Merges With Bristol News
The Bristol Bulletin ceased publication yesterday and merged with the Bristol News. The first edition of the News Bulletin appeared this afternoon. The Bulletin was started near the first of the year by Guy L. Smith and Carroll E King. The Bristol News began shortly before the Bulletin. The consolidated paper will be published by Bristol Publishing Corporation in its new Bristol home.
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Bristol Bulletin
Bristol News
News- Bulletin
Guy L. Smith
Carroll E King
Bristol Publishing Corporation
Bristol Herald Courier
British Subject in Shanghai Killed by Chinese
William M. MacKenzie, an employee of the Shanghai Municipal Council electric department, was killed by Chinese on June 15 in Shanghai. The incident involves martial tension and local authorities investigating the circumstances surrounding the death.
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Shanghai
William M. MacKenzie
Electric Department
Shanghai Municipal
Woman Drives Car After Killing of Escort on Great Western Road
Miss Duncan describes an attack by seven Chinese near the Great Western Road extension. MacKenzie ordered them away, was shot as the car started, and Duncan, though wounded, drove the vehicle with his dead body for over a thousand yards into a settlement before it halted in a six foot ditch.
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Great Western Road
Mary
Duncan
Miss Duncan
MacKenzie
Kellogg Receives Sharp Calles Reply on Mexico Policy
Washington reports that President Calles answered Kellogg’s warning with strong language but the administration plans no public escalation. Officials say future steps will depend on concrete actions in expropriation and land dispute cases, with Ambassador Sheffield now in New Haven for a degree.
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Associated Press
Washington
Calles
Mexico
Kellogg
Coolidge
Mexico City
Sheffield
Foreign Office
New Haven
Japanese Nonagenarians Honored in Silver Wedding Gift
Tokyo reports 10500 Japanese aged 90 plus eligible for imperial gifts marking the royal silver wedding. Sixty percent are women. Longevity record belongs to two women aged 111.
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Tokyo
Japan
Youth Sentenced to Penitentiary for Highway Robbery
Hilary Wedding, 17, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for a May 13 highway robbery. He and accomplice Ulysses Goodwin, both of Owensboro, robbed a peddler, disarmed two deputy sheriffs, and fled in a car. Wedding was captured in Greeneville after a long manhunt. Goodwin escaped.
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Associated Press
Hopkinsville
Hilary Wedding
Penitentiary Today
Ulysses Goodwin
Owensboro
Wedding
Greeneville
Goodwin
Portugal under martial law amid repression and turmoil
Lisbon reports Portugal is under strict military rule after a failed coup. Newspapers that do not praise the government are suspended, regiments are disbanded, officers jailed, and censorship tightens as foreign correspondents face arrest and expulsion.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Seculo
Epoca
May get new board of officials named
Frankfort June 16. It is possible Louisville will have a new board of councilmen and aldermen appointed by Governor Fields within the week rather than next fall. The court's mandate need not wait a petition for rehearing, as the decision holding the 1923 election fraudulent ousted 40 Republicans.
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Associated Press
Frankfort
Louisville
Fields
Lord Mayor of London Recognizes Jazz for Sunday Parks
The Lord Mayor officially endorses jazz concerts in London parks Sunday afternoons. A trial at Finsbury Park drew huge crowds, with gates locked as saxophone solos and Dixieland medleys drew praise.
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Associated Press
London
Finsbury Park
Negro Singers of Dixieland
Locomotives Named After Famous Race Horses In Britain
London reports the London and Northeastern Railway revives old stage coach tradition by naming locomotives after famed horses such as Flying Fox Ormonde Hermit Ladas Donovan Doncaster and more. The Southern Railway adopts names for engines including His Majesty and The Prince of Wales.
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London
London and Northeastern Railway
Flying Fox
Ormonde
Hermit
Ladas
Donovan
Doncaster
Southern Railway
His
Prince of Wales
New Hungarian Sports Stamp Set Sparks London Buzz
Stamp collectors in London paid high prices for Hungary's first new sports stamps. The eight denominations sold at roughly double the postal value in Budapest, with premiums funding Hungarian sports associations. Designs include fencing skating skiing hurdling parade scouts camp and a football match.
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London
Hungary
Budapest
Shepherd Murder Trial Reveals Mary Pope Testimony
Miss Isabelle Pope testified in the Shepherd murder trial about the will and estate of Billy McClintock. She detailed changes in William Darling Shepherd attitude after her engagement to Billy and his alleged study of typhoid germs to influence the outcome. Pope described plans to split the million dollar estate with McClintock’s Iowa relatives and the impact on Mrs Shepherd.
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Chicago
Isabel Pope
Billy McClintock
Iowa
Shepherd
Billy
Miss Pope
Isabelle Pope
Billy” McClintock
William Darling Shepherd
McClintock
Shepherds
Wisconsin
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