Mexican reform threatens foreign property in Chihuahua
Governor Abraham Gonzales announced measures to curb foreign monopolies in Chihuahua affecting American British and German owned assets in minerals and timber. He called for competition over exclusivity, promised to abolish company stores, remove cattle export duties, and allow insurrecto forces under a public order commission while federal troops stay apart.
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Chihuahua
Mexico
Abraham Gonzales
Gov. Gonzales
Gonzales
United States
Orozco
Smuggling In Full Swing Across Rio Grande
Special to The New York Times reports smugglers exploit border turmoil in Mexico. H. C. S. Smith says barrels of mescal, cigars, cigarettes, Mexican drawnwork, and horses cross into Texas. Refugees hold dutiable goods, unaware of US limits. As fiscal year ends, intercepted items head to San Antonio auctions.
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New York Times
San Antono
Texas
Mexico
Rio Grande
H. C. S. Smith
United States
San Antonio
Exiled Governor Reveals Morelos’s Execution Details
Diego Redo, former governor of Sinaloa, says Col. Morelos was executed by rebels at Culiacan after a pledge to spare him was broken. Redo describes Morelos guiding the firing and choosing a controlled volley, then stating he was ready as pardon news arrived.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Col. Morelos
Culiacan
Diego Redo
Sinaloa
Morelos
del Coral
Gov. Redo
Woman Runs Off With Dead Baby From Harlem Home
A mother at 118 East 119th Street left her dying two year old in a crib and fled to a front window. She returned to find the child dead in a yard below as neighbors and an ambulance surgeon gathered. Police traced the incident to East 126th Street station and Dr Froelich reported the swoon of the mother with the dead child.
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Edward
East 119Th Street
Harold Solin
Plate
Harlem
East 126Th Street
George Froelich
East 120 Street
Solnin
Cable Rates Topic Dominates Imperial Conference Plea
London June 15. At the Imperial Conference Sir Joseph Ward urged cheaper rates amid talk of a ring in the cable world. Sir Wilfrid Laurier cited Atlantic cables as the main trouble, while Herbert Samuel backed a resolution for rate reductions and pressed for possible state owned cable plans between England and Canada.
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NEW York Times
London
Joseph Ward
New Zealand
Wilfrid Laurier
Canada
Herbert Samuel
British Empire
Atlantic
Australasia
Mr.Samuel
England
Albany baseball player shot by husband in rooming-house attack
Arthur Brown first baseman of the Albany State League team is hospitalized with four bullet wounds after a confrontation with John V. McStea a New Orleans actor who says he shot Brown during a dispute over his wife Mrs Brown Police arrested McStea and Brown’s wife is a witness Brown who is 26 and from Wilkesbarre has played for Wilkesbarre Detroit Montreal and Trenton before joining Albany two years ago The incident occurred on Pearl Street in Albany during an Albany Scranton game context.
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Albany
Arthur Brown
Albany State League
John V. McStea
New Orleans
Pearl Street
MecStea
Brown
McStea
Wilkesbarre
Penn
Wilkesbarre Club
Montreal
Trenton
Yale Forgives Father for Yale Son’s Graduation
Charles Lenox Banks Sr a New York lawyer sends word he forgives his son Charles Lenox Banks Jr for choosing Yale over Columbia. The father plans to visit New Haven to see his son receive a diploma next week after generations of Yale men. Banks Jr has won scholarship honors and will attend Columbia Law School.
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New York Times
New Haven
Conn
Charles Lenox Banks
New York City
Charles Lenox Banks, Jr
Yale
Bankses
Mr. Banks
Young Banks
Columbia Law School
Storm wrecks ships near Trieste with heavy loss
A hurricane raged off Trieste causing dozens of deaths and widespread damage. Twenty bodies were recovered early today and about forty fishermen are feared lost from last night’s sea. A Greek vessel with twelve crew sank and the Dalmatian coasting steamer Andro vanished with its crew. Minor damages reported along the Adriatic and Vienna reports indicate total deaths near one hundred.
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Trieste
Adriatic
Vienna
Andro
Wages Raised for Seamen Quick End to Strike Likely
London reports a $2.50 monthly wage increase for all workers on White Star Canadian Pacific and Holt lines, with Cunard target likely next. Port strikes in Southampton upset schedules as Teutonic Baltic and Empress of Ireland sail on time amid restaffing moves by IMMC. Olympic clears maiden voyage despite strike leaders' efforts.
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London
White Star
Canadian Pacific
Holt
Liverpool
Cunard Company
Canadian Pacific Lines
Teutonic
Marquette sails as firemen strike before departure
The Atlantic Transport steamer Marquette left Antwerp for Boston with an ample crew. Red Star Line officials say the Finn land will sail to New York on Saturday with enough firemen and trimmers. One hour before departure the firemen walked off the vessel in a body, but new men immediately took their places.
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Antwerp
Boston
Red Star Line
New York
Seamen's union signals coastwide strike and pay disputes
Hamburg notes that Germans will not join an international strike as their demands are met while the Sailors' and Firemen's Union orders a strike from ports outside Britain. Union officials say crews will complete round trips before striking at home ports, with ship lines denying wide demands and discussing boarding-house conditions and the closed shop.
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Hamburg
Antwerp
Matthew Tearle
The
Sailors’ and Firemen's Union
London
Tearle
Great Britain
Old Dominion
Morgan
Taft Proposes Civil Service for Most Federal Posts
President Taft told visitors he would welcome Congress taking from him the appointment of Collectors of Internal Revenue United States Marshals and Postmasters of lower grades He urged extending civil service to these offices and called charges of a political machine built by appointments hypocritical He suggested repeating such recommendations in future sessions and defended his stance against partisan claims.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Internal Revenue
United States
United States District
Dewey's Superior Port Wine Ad
Blood making and nourishing promotion for Dewey's Superior Port Wine by H.T. Dewey & Sons Co. at 138 Fulton Street, New York City.
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DEWEY
H.T. DEWEY & SONS_CO
Fulton
Money power drives masses from church
Rev. John P. Peters of St. Michael's P. E. Church warns readers in the Next Sunday's Times about the growing influence of money in church affairs and the potential impact on congregational life.
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John P. Peters
St. Michael’s P. E. Church
Du Pont Romance May End in Divorce
John Bancroft Jr sues Madelene du Pont Bancroft for divorce in Delaware with co defendant infant Max Heibler Jr amid a lingering run away marriage from December 1907. Case tied to trust funds and paternity. proceedings set for Newcastle County Superior Court September term.
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New York Times
Wilmington
Del
John Bancroft, Jr
Ibel
Madelene du Pont Bancroft
John Bancroft
Joseph Bancroft & Sons’ Company
Alfred I. du Pont
du Pont Powder Company
Max Heibler, Jr
Newcastle County
Bancroft
Madeline du Pont
Washington
D. C. McLeod
Princeton
Munich
Germany
Heidelberg University
Sin
Bessie Gardner du Pont
Minerva
N. Y
Atlantic City
Bayard Avenue
Bartlett
Madeline du Pont Bancroft
Court of Chancery
Man Found After 56 Days Lost in Marlboro Swamp
William D Hanley, a well known Marlboro resident, was found emaciated and barely conscious in a swamp between Marlboro and Westboro after 56 days missing. He had vanished April 20 amid a suspected mental disturbance and was cared for by his brother and a physician. He recalled wandering into the swamp and recalled few passing sightseers while living on wet ground.
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Marlboro
Mass
Westboro
William D. Hanley
Metropolitan Water Works
Hanley
John J. Hanley
Grippe
Knights of Columbus
the Foresters
Singer to Wed Newsboy in St Louis Scene
Miss Sophia Golland a St Louis conservatory graduate will marry Ben Greenburg a leading local newsboy. Greenburg supports her operatic plans and may later help her pursue Paris studies. Golland performs in multiple languages plays piano and violin and composes music. Greenburg and his brother run sidewalk magazine sales and recently bought an apartment building for $113000.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
Sophia Golland
Conservatory of Music
Paris
Ben Greenburg
Greenburg
Miss Golland
Times Follow You Abroad Vacation Notice
Advertisement urging readers to order The New York Times Daily and Sunday editions sent to a foreign address. Rates shown: one week 17 cents, one month Tic.-Ady.
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New York Times
Great Havoc Found In Wreck Of Maine
Havana June 15 The sinking of the battleship Maine revealed by lowering cofferdam water seven feet shows hull sections bent and bulkheads crumpled. Engineers plan deeper pumping to eighteen to twenty feet in three to four days to allow exploration and possible recovery of missing officers Ensign Merritt and Lieutenant Jenkins.
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Havana
Maine
Col. Black
Engineer Corps
Merritt
Lieut
Jenkins
Congress Gift To Mrs Taft For Silver Anniversary
A $2,000 fund from House members will buy a silver service for Mrs Taft’s silver wedding anniversary at the White House. Each member gave $5 and the committee will travel to New York to select the gift. The Senate will add two magnificent silver services for President and Mrs Taft.
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House
Senate
Washington
Taft
White House
House of Representatives
New York
Bay tornado endangers Atlantic City boats
A bay tornado struck Atlantic City on June 15 causing the Maud E to be washed into the Inlet Pavilion and dismast. The Mehrer II was beached after being caught outside. Passengers crawled along the bowsprit to safety while Miss Marion Myers of St. Louis fell overboard and was rescued by Captain Gale with difficulty. No lives were lost.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Maud E
Somers
Mehrer
Sam Gale
Marion Myers
St. Louis
Gale
Blackbird Rides the Surf at Asbury Park
At Asbury Park New Jersey a crow blackbird perches on driftwood and rides the breakers daily for a half hour. Found by Lash Tilton, captain of the life saving crew, the bird returns after storms to ride the swell from Casino to the lifeboat and back to a bathing pole each time Tilton rethrows a stick.
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New York Times
Asbury Park
N. J
Deal Lake
Lash" Tilton
Tilton
Smoke fills Ritz Carlton restaurant as rubbish fire spreads
Diners at the Ritz Carlton restaurant near Forty sixth Street reported thick smoke and a foul odor at about 7 PM. August Keller said the blaze was limited to rubbish heaps behind the hotel in partially demolished buildings. A night watchman had attempted to burn the debris, and firemen were summoned to control the blaze, clearing the dining room after about thirty minutes.
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Ritz- Carlton
Forty-sixth Street
August Keller
Airmen Fly Over Boston In Weekend Demonstration
Earle L. Ovington circled the State Capitol and Harbor from the Metz aerodrome at Wal tham then returned to start. Harry N. Atwood with a passenger completed a 45 mile display despite stiff breeze and three rain squalls.
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New York Times
Boston
Earle L. Ovington
Metz
Waltham
State Capitol
Harry N. Atwood
Ovington
Park Street
Fitzgerald
Washington Street
Summer Street
Atwood
Two Fly To Hamburg End Third Stage Of Circuit Race
Lindpainter and Buechner arrived in Hamburg from Schwe rin to complete the third stage of the National Aviation Circuit Race. A heavy fog hampered progress and caused navigational difficulties. Wiencziers had an accident near Hamburg when his propeller broke on landing in a ditch, but he escaped injury and delivered his aeroplane by wagon.
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Hamburg
Train Crushes Little Lad at Rockaway Beach
Six year old Tommy King stumbled while crossing near Seaside station and was struck by a Brooklyn train. His foot was amputated at St Joseph's Hospital Far Rockaway and his prognosis remains poor. His mother works at a local hotel and his father is deceased.
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Tommy King
Long Island
Rockaway Beach
Brooklyn
Peter Sprague
Tommys
G. W. K. Schenck
St. Joseph's Hospital
Far Rockaway
Dies To Leave Congress After Secret Second Marriage
Washington reports Congress man Martin Dies of Texas will quit politics after secretly marrying Florence N. Hoover in Baltimore on December 27. Dies, living as Marion Davis in a Washington suburb, says he may return to law practice or his Texas farm near Beaumont. Texas delegation doubts his plan and expects a fight for renomination.
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New York Times
Washington
Martin Dies
Texas
Marion Davis
Beaumont
Baltimore
Dies
Florence N. Hoover
Sixty-first Congres
Hints of Army Misconduct Sparks House Action
The House passed a resolution directing the Secretary of War to provide information on charges or accusations of criminal or other misconduct by any officer of the Army pay department since January 1 1905. Rep Covington of Maryland disclosed the resolution’s targets to four Military Affairs Committee members.
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Washington
Secretary of War
House of Representatives
Army
Covington
Maryland
House
Walks West to Minneapolis Father Dies at 101
Marion Crabtree aged 101 died at St. Paul City and County Hospital after a two week search in Minneapolis for his daughter Mrs. Herbert Brown. Born near Liverpool in 1810, he came to America in 1828 and later settled in Peoria Illinois where he married and raised five children. He walked from Wilmington Illinois to find his daughter before succumbing to illness.
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The
New York Times
Minneapolis
Marion Crabtree
St. Paul City and County
Herbert Brown
Crabtree
Wilmington
Ill
Twin Cities
Liverpool
Land
A. B. Ancker
America
Peoria
12 year old heir seeks split of $60 000 income
Catherine Barker of Laporte Indiana requests court permission to divide her annual $60 000 education and sustenance income with Laporte and Michigan City charities. The girl received $30,000,000 as her share of a trust held estate. A separate notice advertises rail excursion rates to Colorado from Chicago and St Louis.
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Chicago
Catherine Barker
Laporte
Ind
Circuit Court
Michigan City
Barker
Flavor all Summer drinks with ANGOS TURA BITTERS
We present a brief note urging use of ANGOS TURA BITTERS to flavor summer drinks as a tasty addition to appetizers and tonics.
British officers arrested in Mellon divorce case
Capt T W Kirkbride and Alfred George Curphey were seized at the Ritz Carlton on contempt of court charges in connection with Andrew T Mellon’s divorce suit. Judge Mulqueen held them in $2,500 bail for extradition after late-night proceedings at the Democratic Club.
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Ritz-Carlton
T. W. Kirkbride
Alfred George Curphey
Pittsburg
Andrew T. Mellon
Central Office
Mulqueen
Hornblower, Miller & Potter
England
New York
Pennsylvania
Mr. Mellon
Tombs
Curphey
Henry Phipps
Phipps
Democratic Club
Allegheny County
George Gordon Battle
O'Gorman, Battle & Lindsay
Blake
Penn
Mellon
Battle
Whitman
McGuire
J. Norris Milel
Kirkbride
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Delaware
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Newsboy
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Rocky Mountain Limited
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Ady
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Henry Muth
Dmocratic Club
Robert T. McElroy
Burg
Stable Schinneller
McElroy
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