War News Roundup From The Front And Diplomacy
The Turkish army totals 1 322 000 as Italy blocks Austro-Hungarian ports. The British battleship Triumph sinks in the Dardanelles. Austrian barracks at Rovereto blown up. Italy pledges no separate peace and forces advance in the Alps and along the Isonzo. Nebraskan torpedoed near Ireland. Lusitania sunk previously. Argentina Brazil Chile sign peace in Buenos Aires. Germany presses neutrality efforts. Ayran officials discuss war costs in London. Morocco sees royalist agitation. Kitchener remains war secretary in Britain. Austria and Italy clash on the northeastern frontline near the Isonzo River with town captures on both sides.
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Union Ene Service
Turkish Ministry of War
Triumph
Dardanelles
London
Rovereto
Tyrol
Italy
New Mexico News highlights and notices
July items from the Western Newspaper Union service include events in Las Vegas Santa Fe and Roswell, appeals for agencies and clubs, obituaries of Baranbus Fletcher and Don H Kedzie, and plans for fairs, chautauquas, and church consolidations. Also noted are dam repairs, road board rules, and a child saving action in Clovis.
George H. the United starter of trot dies in Mid New York hospital
Obituary notes George H. of Lewton New York a renowned starter of trotting horses dies in a midtown hospital. Princeton tops Harvard 7 2 at Princeton New Jersey in tennis season opener. Germany restarts horse racing at Hoppegarten near Berlin with large crowd. Frankie Fleming draws with Freddie Welsh in Montreal ten rounds. Illinois ten round no decision boxing bill defeated in lower house by 72 67. Rocky Mountain track meet sets Mile and Shot Put records at Denver Union Park.
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Princeton
Harvard
N. J
Crimson
Germany
Hoppegarten Track
Berlin
Frankie Fleming
la Prairire Que
Freddie Welsh
Montreal
Can
Illinois
Denver
Union Park
Fleming
Boulder
M. Davis
Colorado
Spelter Prices Peak at Record $13.42 on May 25
Market reports show spelter at $13.42 per hundred, a new high. In other news, Thomas J. Brown, chief justice of the Teyag Supreme Court, dies in Greenville Texas after a three week illness.
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Thomas J. Brown
Teyag Supreme Court
Greenville
Tex
Lassen Peak
Lula Walcott
Chicago
Emlin McCain
Department of the
State Univerity
Iowa
Iowa City
Washington and Pan American talks shape postwar trade
A garbled report notes a Pan American Financial Conference with delegates including Dr. Santiago Por and eZ Triana from Colombia. It mentions the Italian post office warning parcel mail returns and a May 24 State Department proclamation on U.S. neutrality amid European war, tied to a billion dollar trade balance.
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Washington
Pan-American Financial
Santiago Por
Ez Triana
Colombia
Italian Post Office Department
United States
State Department
America
Iedmeld
Dent Ang
Nine dead in Johns town coal mine dust explosion
A dust explosion at Smokeless Coal Company's No 1 mine in Johns town Pennsylvania killed nine men. Separate legal actions include N Oka's foreclosure fight in Los Angeles over a California alien land law and Mrs Mary Leet and Miss Clara Walter contesting a land lot tied to a $1500 mortgage. The Presbyterian General Assembly condemned Dr Charles H Parkhurst for telegrams seen as opposing California prohibition. Congressman Joseph G Cannon and aides arrived in San Francisco from Honolulu amid notes on the Lusitania dispute. Charles Frohman funeral held in New York with services planned in four other cities by actors and associates.
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Smokeless Coal Company
Johnstown
N. Oka
Mary Leet
Clara Walter
Los Angeles
California
Oka
One
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church of the United States
Rochester
N. Y
Temperance Committee
Charles H. Parkhurst
New York
Joseph G. Cannon
Illinois
San Francisco
Honolulu
Double Tragedy at Mining Camp Near Las Palomas
In Sierra County near Las Palomas Ben Martin and Che Juan Chavez were killed in a mining claim dispute. A coroner’s jury found Chavez killed Martin and Martin killed Chavez. some speculate a third party, but the verdict holds both men died by each other’s hands.
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Las Palomas
Sierra County
Western
Rm News Service
Hillsboro
N- M
Ben Martin
William Martin
Che Juan Chavez
Martin
Juan Chavez
Chavez
Caballos
Derry
Given
Chavez Must Have Died Instantly, and For This Reason Dr Given
Lawsuit Filed for 20000 Damages Over Live Wire Incident
Luis Gomez sues the St. Louis Rocky Mountain and Pacific Railway Company in US district court seeking 20000 damages claiming partial paralysis of the left side arm and leg due to contact with live wires at the defendant mine and alleges neglect by the company.
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Santa Fé
United States District Clerk’s Office
Luis Gomez
St. Louis Rocky Mountain & Pacific Railway Company
Stockmen Warned of Loco Remedy in Raton
County Agent Martineau warns farmers and stockmen about a peddler selling an alleged infallible remedy for cattle poisoned by loco weed. He notes that government and private efforts have long sought a real cure without success.
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Raton
Martineau
Governor to Head Road Party to Springerville
Thirty four New Mexicans led by the governor and state engineer will attend a highway gathering June 19 heading to Springerville Arizona for a convention of the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Association with delegates from New Mexico Arizona and California.
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Santa Fé
Springerville
Ariz
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Explosive Damage and Naval Losses Reported Across The Warfront
Captain Gieene of the Nebraskans claims a torpedo struck his ship off Ireland after an explosion. The Majestic was sunk by a torpedo in the Dardanelles. Morwenia and Betty sunk by submarines in the North Sea. Princess Irene destroyed at a London dock harming 327 people. Austrians blockade Przemysl cutting Russian links with Lemberg. Italians advance toward Pieste. Mrs May discusses airship rates amid other news.
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Gieene
Ireland
Majestic
Dardanelles
Morwenia
Betty
North Sea
London
Przemysl
Lemburg
May Fo
Abin
Nebraskan reports torpedo hit off Irish coast
The steamer Nebraskan arrived in Liverpool after an explosion off the Irish coast. Captain Greene says he saw no submarine but a torpedo struck the ship. Naval officials in London pursue a formal statement while a British battleship Majestic was torpedoed and sunk. The steamer Princess Irene was accidentally destroyed at Sheerness with 328 lives lost.
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Green
Liverpool
Delaware
Fastnet
Ireland
London
Greene
The
Nebraskan
Ambassador Page Department
Washington
lLiverpool
Powers
McBride
Majestic
Gallipoli Peninsula
British Columbia Coast Service
Admiralty
Sheerness
Great Future for Big West
Secretary of Agriculture David F. Houston spoke at the Chamber of Commerce praising the West as a future global provider of agricultural goods. He endorsed dry farming, rural credit, cooperative marketing, and rural development, noting healthier cities and strong Western cooperation.
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Denver
David F. Houston
United States
Chamber of Commerce
West
Snowfall Halts Reservoir Work Near Raton
Ten inches of snow blanketed the Johnson and Barela mesas during the storm near Raton delaying work on the local water system reservoir. Vegetables and flowers perished though fruit damage is not believed extensive.
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Raton
Johnson
Barela
Creamery planned for Estancia with 500 cow pledge
A local meeting on creamery establishment in Estancia aims to secure milk pledges from 500 cows. Prof Latta of the State College and County Agent Harwell attended, and organizers decided 500 cow output is needed for success and that a $1 500 plant is the minimum profitable size.
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Estancia
Prof
Latta
State College
Harwell
State highway bond issue may be sold in June
Santa Fé reports that the $500,000 highway bond issue authorized in 1912 may be sold in June with sale advertised by the state treasurer and money available immediately for road work. Names of probable buyers are not given.
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Santa Fé
Storm Toll Twenty-Two Dead From Broad Weather Strike
Across the nation a deadly storm system causes frost and crop damage from New York to Ohio and the plains to the Atlantic. Reported fatalities total twenty-two with numerous injuries as winds and rains topple buildings and rivers swell with flooding.
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Denver
May
Plains
Atlantic Seaboard
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Kansas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Wyoming
Vanderbilt Memorial Services Held
Tributes to Alfred J. Vanderbilt who perished on the Lusitania were paid at private memorial services held at the home of his mother Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt. Relatives and friends attended the service.
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Vanderbilt
New York
Alfred J. Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Orvice
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Mackenzen
Radoma
Swiete
Bucharest
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Black Sea
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Austria
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Judino and
Isonzo
Cormons
Cervignagno
Terzo
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Buenos Aires
Carranza
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Mexico
Cally
Lands
Cunard Line
Lusitania
Romania
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London Exchange Telegraph Company
Nether
Acland
Treasury
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Lloyd George
Joao Chagas
Portugal
Republic
Freitas
Raisuli
Morocco
Charb
Lord Kitchener
King George
Arthur J Balfour
Winston Spencer Churchill
Duchy of Lancaster
Herbert II
Asquith
Sir Edward Grey
David Lloyd-George
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Las “Y
Northern New Mexico
Baranbus Fletcher
Agne
Albuquer
Bordo
Alamo
Roswell
Don H Kedzie
Lordsburg Liberal
Albu Y
Methodist Church, South
Vaughan
Deming
Boy Scouts
Carlsbad
C. N. Marron
Sunnyside
Silver City
Methodist Church
Mimbres Company
Occu- Valley Creamery Nn
Antonio Lucero
San Miguel County
el Paso
Fort Stanton
San Mar Cial
Panhandle Hardware and Implement Dealers’ Association
Amarillo
Texas
John Dauk
Clovis
J. P. Pulfer
Rock Island
A. A. Rogers
Portales
Portales Valley
State Supreme Court
Luna County
Childers
Southern Pacific Railroad
Albuquerqué
Pacific Coast
Oakland
National Education Association
Andrey Braswell
Sporting News
George H
United Ting
Leton
N.Y
Mills
Mid
Des Moines
Topeka
John Kelly
Creighton University
Omaha
St. Louis
Baltimore
St. Mary's
Kansaie
Robert Uhlich
Trinidad
United Mine Orders of America
Colo
Mael Powell
Ludlow
Sues Railroad Company
Jy. 8
Braskan
Trieste
Union Ne We Bervik
Lovington
Oscar Thompson
Jeff D. Hart
J. Ss. Eaves. Cashier GS. &. Creighton
Cashie
Big West
Houston
Lorenzo Gonzales
Tajique
Prairie
Haywood
Lovington Grocery and Dry Goods Co
New Nexico
FORD
Phoke
Daily Mail
Pearl
Monument and
Knowles
Buick and
Saxon
Eddy County
Carlsbad Auto CO
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