Huerta Removal Seen as Key to Peace in Mexico
Washington reports say U S efforts aim to force Huerta to retire and install a provisional president acceptable to both factions. Wilson opposes recognizing Huerta. Braniff returns to Mexico to report that intervention may follow if affairs fail to change. Vasquez Tagle named as possible provisional leader, with authority in succession after Madero era deaths.
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Braniff
United States
Mexico
Huerta
Huertistas
Vasquez Tagle
Madero
Pino Suarez
Interior
Pedro Lascurain
Rafael Hernes
Pin
Mexico City
Wilson
State Department
Bryan
Torrow
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Washington
Alfonso Madero
Poreier
Pike
Czar as Private Soldier in Russian Army
The Daily Telegraph reports Nicholas II served as a private in the Sixteenth Company to gain insight into a common soldier s life. Dressed in field tunic and gear, he marched seven miles with 120 rounds, a trenching spade, and ration bag, saluting officers before returning to the palace as Private Nicholas Romanoff.
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New York Times
London
Daily Telegraph
St. Petersburg
Russia
Nicholas
Crimea
Alexander III
Dale
Nicholas Romanoff
Tsarskoe- Selo
Sulzer Publicity Bureauprints 500000 Copies Amid Costs
Albany reports Gov Sulzer's Publicity Bureau and the State Printer have operated without vacation. Over 500000 copies of documents issued, 10000 copies of a 60 page report on the primary fight, Frawley inquiry, and Murphy opposition. Printing costs exceed 10000 for first year. public papers three volumes. Postage rose from 410 to 1871 in six months.
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Albany
Sulzer
Frawley
Murphy
Publicity Bureau
Dix
Tillman attack on Northern women sparks Senate ire
The Senate erupted over Benjamin Tillman's insertion of an attack on women seeking suffrage in the Record. Critics called it a blackguardly piece by Albert Taylor Bledsoe, and Tillman later moved to strike the item from debate which was approved.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate
Benjamin R. Tillman
South Carolina
Marshall
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Bristow
Kansas
Mr. Tillman
Congress
Mr. Bristow
Foss and Labor Leaders Part Ways After Brief Meeting
Boston July 29 Governor Foss and Central Labor Union President Moriarty issued final parting statements after a brief State House meeting over appointments to the Commission on Labor and Industry. The exchange ended with both saying they were through with each other.
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New York Times
Boston
Gov. Foss
Central Labor Union
Moriarty
Harriman Jewels Stolen From Rumsey Cottage in Narragansett Pier
A large jewel theft at the Gunning Rock Cottage on Ocean Road in Narragansett Pier saw Mrs E H Harriman’s pearl necklace valued at $60,000 and other items totaling between $75,000 and $76,000 stolen from an unlocked drawer. The Burns Agency was commissioned to pursue the thief, with operatives dispatched to the scene to map potential leads. The Rumsey home in Westbury had been at Narragansett for the summer, with six trusted servants in service.
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William J. Burns
Rumseys
Burns
Mr. Burns
Narragansett Pier
Gunning Rock
Ocean Road
Rhode Island
Westbury
Rs. Rumsey
Mary Harriman
Edward H. Harriman
Charles Cary Rumsey
Buffalo
St. John’s Chapel
Arden
Harriman
Mr. Harriman
Rumsey Jewel Robberies Reach Narragansett Pier
Reports from Narragansett Pier indicate a suspected gang of expert thieves operates through a Boston fence with links to Newport and New York. A pearl necklace valued at 2000 disappeared during a Casino dance while Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ives were guests. A second burglary at Shore Acres, summer home of Mr. and Mrs. John Hanan, involved 40 to 50 jewelry pieces. Four numbered detectives are on the case.
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New York Times
Narragansett Pier
New York
Newport
Boston
Newark
New England
Long Island
Walter Ives
Edward Dougs Pearce, Jr
Providence
Ocean Road
Shore Acres
John H. Hanan
Nmberton
Pomeroy Planned Escape Foiled at Charles Town Prison
Special to The New York Times Boston July 29 another escape attempt by Jesse Pomeroy was blocked when a tin can cover and a steel nail were found in his cell. The devices suggested a tin saw, and Warden Bridges and staff seek how he obtained them. Pomeroy admits intent to dash for freedom after thirty six years in solid confinement.
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New York Times
Boston
Jesse Pomeroy
Charlestown State Prison
Bridges
Pomeroy
Cen
Ex President Reyes Tours South America
The Colombian statesman pursues a mission to foster harmony among American nations and will report his observations in next Sunday's Times.
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Reyes
South America
TIMES
Once a Millionaire Now Bankrupt Charles P Buchanan
Charles P Buchanan tobacco merchant art connoisseur and yachtsman son of the late William Buchanan filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition listing assets of 952 and liabilities of 25680. Five creditors named including OGorman Battle & Marshall and doctors. Buchanan once claimed a $50 000 annual income and a rumored million fortune amid a stormy personal life and multiple marriages. He resides at 35 West Forty seventh Street Hotel Patterson.
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Charles P. Buchanan
William Buchanan
Brooklyn
O'Gorman, Battle & Marshall
George Gordon Battle
Forty-sixth Street Hotel Company
Frank E. Muller
John E. Stillwell
Buchanan
Patterson
West Forty-seventh Street
Martha V. L. Buchanan
Colmont
Paris
Jersey City
Moving Papers
West Sixty-ninth Street
Adelaide Taylor
William L. Taylor
Brick Presbyterian Church
Mignonette T. Bronner
Anan
Buchanans
Europe
New York Yacht
Gen Bixby Retires Elevating Col Rossell
Washington July 29 Brig. Gen. William H Bixby Chief of Engineers retires six months before age 64 to make way for Col W T Rossell senior colonel of the Engineer Corps who will become Chief of Engineers on Aug 11 Rossell and Bixby were West Point classmates and close friends both graduates of 1873 Bixby steered army engineering work including Mississippi River improvements and Hudson bridge span plans Rossell a longtime New York Harbor Board member who narrowly passed an endurance test before Roosevelt altered the ruling for him.
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New York Times
Washington
William H. Bixby
Army
W. T Rossell
Engineer Corps
Bixby
Col. Rossell
West Point
Gen. Bixby
Col. Russell
Army Engineers
Mississippi River
Hudson
Col
Rossell
New York City
Harbor Board
Roosevelt
Col Russell Seen As Possible Chief of Engineers
Col Rossell born Alabama 1849 and West Point graduate. He rose to colonel of engineers in 1908 and led harbor works including Chelsea improvement and Newark Bay. He served on the Mississippi commission and as acting president until last year.
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Col. Russell
New Brighton
Richmond
Gen. Bixby
Bixby
Col. Rossell
Alabama
West Point
New Jersey
Girl Tells of Cruelty in City Protest and Disappearance
A 13 year old girl led a passerby to a Bronx church and told authorities she was taken from Washington to a Protestant home in the Bronx or Westchester County. She said authorities disciplined her severely and abused others. Police are investigating discrepancies in her story.
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Fordham Road
Webster Avenue
Bronx
Patrick N. Breslin
Church of Our Lady of Mercy
Marion Avenue
Tremont Station
Children's Society
Julia Phillips
Everett Phillips
Washington
Kate Galey
Twenty-third Street
N. W.washington
Five Co
Elkins
West Va
Westcer County
Hartge Bvlent
Weanington
Fatal Lightning Strike Wrecks Passaic Street
A storm in Lodi New Jersey strikes a fallen telephone wire over a trolley line injuring three and killing a seven year old girl. The mother loses an arm and a bystander is paralyzed after grabbing the live wire. another man knocks the wire away with a wooden club. The hospital treats and evacuates victims.
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New York Times
Lodi
N. J
Arnot
Ethel Fortunata
Michael Carlucci
Westminster Place
Tonasi
John Stye
United Piece Dye Works
Main Streets
Stye
Passaic General Hospital
Tanasi
Brevoort
Nine Girls Knocked Unconscious by Passaic Lightning Strike
A bolt of lightning struck the Villa Silk Works district at Central and Passaic Avenues causing nine girls on the ground floor to faint. Doctors treated them, none died. The same lightning also knocked unconscious two boys on the sidewalk and damaged a trolley car fuse. A milk box was struck but no one was hurt.
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New York Times
Passaic
N. J
Villa Silk Works
Central
Passaic Avenues
Can Third Streets
Richard Sisco
van Housen Avenue
Athenia
Thomas Weiss
Lester Green
Sisco
Swerving Auto Hits Three at Broadway Corner
An auto swerved across Broadway and struck three pedestrians at Manhattan Street last night. Pauline Weaver, 16, of Newport Rhode Island, suffered a brain concussion and other injuries. Others knocked down included Mrs Grace Lentz and C Peck. driver Irigan was arrested for reckless driving as heat waves baked Greater New York with record highs.
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Broadway
Manhattan
Pauline Weaver
Newport
R. I
City
Grace Lentz
Seventh Avenue
Ter
Knickbocker
C. Peck
Cathedral
Irigan
Governor Ferris Offers Mediation In Michigan Mine Strike
Governor Ferris proposes a conference in Lansing to mediate the Calumet and Hecla strike as clashes erupt. Loyal workers are beaten leaving the mines and fights flare near Superior and other northern strike zones, with several arrests following a severe assault.
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New York Times
Calumet, Mich
Commonwealth
Michigan
Lansing
Abbey
Ferris
Calumet & Hecla
Superior
Girl Kicks Window After Leaving Drug Store Booth
Miss Margaret Black a 22 year old bookkeeper from 119 West Sixtieth Street used a telephone in a drug store booth at 16 Amsterdam Avenue for about half an hour last night. The proprietor Louis Cohen pulled her from the booth and locked her in the store before releasing her after police were involved. She kicked a window shattering it and fled. patrol officers presented the scene as disorderly conduct with Cohen accused of detaining her.
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Margaret Black
West Sixtieth Street
Pooth
Amsterdam Avenue
Louis Cohen
Cohen
Miss Black
Edart
First Woman Juror Convicts Man in Illinois Trial
In St Louis on July 29 a historic Illinois trial concluded with the first all female jury convicting a man. The case centered on a peace disturbance charge and marked a milestone in the state’s judicial history as the first time women served as jurors.
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Klinoig
New York Times
ST. Louis
Earthquakes in Tacoma Stir Panic Across Area
Two sharp earth quake stocks lasting about half a minute each shook Tacoma today, alarm spreading to Ashford and La Grande across an area exceeding one hundred square miles.
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Tacoma
Ashford
la Grande
Appendixless town of Colebrook excites White Mountains
Over 200 of Colebrook's 2,000 residents have undergone appendicitis operations, giving the town the nickname appendixless town. The rate continues at about two surgeries weekly with appendectomy themed dinners dances and even divorces becoming common in the White Mountains community.
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New York Times
Mount Pleasant
Bretton Woods
N. H
Colebrook
White Mountains
Wedding Guests Stricken By Typhoid Fever
Philadelphia reports a wedding at the bride Elizabeth Burt’s home on June 24 where a large number of guests and the couple John Winchell of New York fell ill with typhoid after consuming watercress at the breakfast. Illness began about two weeks after the ceremony with several affected while vacationing at resorts. Mrs. James L. Burt, the bride’s mother, is among the stricken as she visits Brunswick Maine where the couple also became ill.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Elizabeth Burt
John Winchell
New York
James L. Burt
Mr. Winchell
Brunswick
Mrs. Winchell
Woman Driver Hits Boy on Broadway Near 212th Street
Walter L. Graham 16 of 805 West 113th Street was struck by an automobile owned by Mrs. Ethel Bisbee and driven with her husband Eugene Bisbee on Broadway at 212th Street. He suffered a fractured skull and concussion and was taken to Washington Heights Hospital. Police did not fault Mrs. Bisbee. The youth’s father died last year in a municipal shaft accident. The Graham home was damaged by fire Thursday.
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New York
Jersey City
Pacific Street
Jamaica
Christian Kent
Armstrong Avenue
Lockwood
Louis Conavisse
West Street
New York City
West Side
Woodlawn Avenues
City Hospital
Edward Watson
Bay View Avenue
Central
New Jersey
James Judde
van Horn Street
Pacific Avenue
Tony C Jo
Holliday Street
Johnson Avenue
Cormando
Cormando- Lee
Broadway
212Th Street
Walter L. Graham
West 113Th Street
Ethel Bisbee
Marble Hill Avenue
Bisbee
John
Graham
Rich Woman a Samaritan
Mrs. Charles Wellington Rand a wealthy society woman visits Police Headquarters to welcome Leah Delman Belgian just acquitted of killing her husband Rand vows to provide a good home and friendship stating the need for honest work and a future life happiness.
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New York Times
Los Angeles
Charles Wellington Rand
Leah Delman
Rand
Lfe
Cleveland Heat Kills 25 in Scorching Day
Cleveland reports a deadly heat wave claiming twenty three babies and two adults. Michael Dubesky aged 34 died in his kitchen and Harry Beeks a Warrensville farmer was in critical condition after collapsing in the street. John Shannon, 60, died at Whisky Island from heart failure believed heat induced.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Michael Dubesky
Harry Beeks
Warrensville
Huron Road Hospital
John Shannon
Whisky Island
Veariae
Mog Hiosith Oerricer Friedriegrich
Water main shutdown affects large Lexington Avenue districts
Districts along Lexington Avenue from Third to Second Avenues and from Ninety-sixth to Seventy-second Streets will lose water when the main is shut at 8 pm Friday for subway work. Water may be unavailable above second stories and affects theatres offices and factories until service is restored, likely Sunday.
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Water Main
Lexington Avenue
1084
Third Avenue
Second Avenue
Isha
Eighth Street
First ‘Avenue
East River
Government 2s Short Sale Probed by New York Bankers
New York bankers rebut McAdoo’s charge of bank selling to depress prices. A $25,000 sale of United States Government 2 percent bonds drew scrutiny by the Stock Exchange Committee on Business Conduct. The broker acted without a customer, hoping to repurchase in 20 days, with National City Bank as buyer, prompting probes into possible short selling to sway currency legislation.
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New York
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Washington
Money Trust
National City Bank
The
Stock Exchange
United States
Committee On Business Conduct
Congress
Exchange
Committee On
Ney Belle
Board of Vernors
T Newberg
Saturda
David. Lamar
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Luerta
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Mrs. Rumsey
Advange
Bolt
Passaic Mill
Broadway Corner
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Southampton
Bride
Samaritan
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