America airboat battles fierce wind at Hammondsport
The America transatlantic airboat built by Curtiss weathered a violent storm near Hammondsport New York with wind hail and lightning. The craft suffered no damage while workmen sheltered it with ropes and the town paid for shattered windows. Engineers report high fuel use and point to test flights toward the Azores and possible July departures.
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Fireman crawls 18 story ledge to reach blaze
Captain Edward Quinn of Engine 14 crawled along a two foot ledge on the eighteenth floor of a twenty story building at 128 West Twenty-first Street to access a Leo Mann Raincoat Company fire. The blaze was found there after an automatic alarm. doors could not be battered, so Quinn unlocked them from inside and the standpipes and hoses extinguished the fire with nominal damage.
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Poison Salad Fatal for Brooklyn Man in Goldstein Home
Louis Wildner aged 24, brother in law of Assistant District Attorney Louis Goldstein of Brooklyn, died at Jewish Hospital from arsenic poisoning after eating salad treated with insecticide three weeks prior. The meal was at the Goldstein home. Wildner’s wife Esterie, her mother Lena Goldstein, sister Rose Goldstein, and servant Nellie Karish were also affected. Mrs Wildner remains seriously ill while others recover.
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Held for Kidnapping Girl
Max Schoenfeld aged ¢ years, of 225 Fifth Street, arrested on kidnapping charge and jailed at Union Market Station. Harriet Fisch aged 18 had been missing since last Wednesday after leaving 706 Fifth Street with Schoenfeld at 7 30 p.m. Father reported she had not returned. Police stated Schoenfeld would say nothing more about the girl’s whereabouts.
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Pierce Denies Financing Mexican War Links
Washington statements deny Henry Clay Pierce or any American financiers funded the Carranza revolution. Hopkins Cabrera and Zubaran condemn the allegations as false, noting Pierce never sought rail control and Carranza refused foreign loans. Pierce’s group says the New York Herald misused stolen papers to cast suspicion on oil and railroad interests.
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Pierce Denies Stories In New York Times Article
Arthur Clay Pierce son of H. Clay Pierce issues a statement from St. Louis denying allegations tied to a New York Times article. He defends his family and rejects claims presented in the piece.
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Deny Cowdray's Financing in Mexican Rail Dispute
Niagara Falls Ont June 28 Denials by all three Huerta plenipotentiaries dispute The New York Herald charges that big business funds Mexican factions. Luis Elguero rebutts claims linking Pearson and Cowdray to National Railways politics and notes Madero's desire to keep railways nonpolitical. He denies Cowdray's influence and any bondholder receivership pretext.
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Bankers Flint and Pierce dodge questions on Carranza talks
Charles R. Flint and Henry Clay Pierce refused to discuss charges of negotiating with Gen. Carranza over control of Northern Mexican railroads. Flint, seen at 4 West Thirty-sixth Street, denied subscribing to a $10,000,000 fund said to be offered to Huerta. He declined further comment on representations by Capt. Sherbourne G. Jenkins and said Hopkins & Hopkins have handled his Washington matters for 25 years. Pierce also declined to comment on the revelations about his relations with the Mexican revolutionary leader.
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Federal retreat and guard changes near Vera Cruz
Federal forces at Aguascalientes and guards at the San Francisco railroad bridge prepare for possible American advance. General Rubio Navarrete and his entire force may withdraw. General Garcia Pena remains at Soledad while volunteers resist regular orders, signaling a potential Huerta weakness as outposts thin.
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Mexican Civil War Movements Near San Luis Potosi
Monterey dispatches report Gen Villa may cross toward Mexico City while Gen Gonzales races to mend the railway before a joint attack on San Luis Potosi. Carranza plans cabinet and principles announcements, with Tampico troops and the Legion of Death moving north.
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Revolt in Chihuahua Rumors Reach Mexico City
Special Cable reports War Minister Blanquet announcing that counter-revolutionists have taken Chihuahua City. He denies rebel advances toward Aguascalientes and dismisses defections of officers to Villa and Angeles as without truth.
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Mediating Powers Vexed Delay in Thanks Stir Mediation
Mexico City reports that mediating powers are offended by Mexico's delay in thanking them for their good offices and find Gen. Huerta's recent NYT statement impolitic. It notes that mediators have fulfilled their mission regardless of peace arrangements fate.
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Carranza Responds Favorably to Mediation Move
Niagara Falls Ontario June Gen Carranza’s reply to ABC mediators offering to send delegates to Niagara Falls to settle Mexico’s internal dispute with Huerta’s plenipotentiaries is favorable though not final Washington sources say he seeks more details before full acceptance The note is en route from Washington to Niagara Falls by mail and delivery may occur Tuesday mediators expect talks with Huerta reps to start this week and anticipate a possible agreement within a week after talks begin.
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Calderon in Washington clarifies conference limits
Senor Calderon arrives in Washington with verbal instructions for mediation delegates if admitted. He denies Carranza empowered informal talks with Huerta delegates. Sommerfeld rebukes Carranza ally claims and defends Villa leadership amid cross accusations.
Carranza denounces foreign meddling at Monterey banquet
Gen. Carranza told 400 Mexican guests that constitutionalist leaders will not permit foreign powers to lower Mexico's dignity. He warned the United States against dictatorial conduct while other speakers noted that mediation should be limited to bringing parties together. The Niagara mediators were criticized for overstepping their remit.
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British tale of a man who held up Gen Huerta
Eastbourne College headmaster recalls an old student who in Mexico secured forty thousand dollars from General Huerta. The would‑be robber demanded the sum, risking his life for the company he served, and would not leave the President's study until paid.
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