Wilson Delays Decision as Carranza Note Awaits
Washington July 2 A pivotal Mexican crisis unfolds as Carranza’s reply to Secretary Lansing’s note looms with Congress adjourned. Reports say two bandits raided Hancock Texas and a Mexican raid near Fort Early prompts Bell to open an investigation. Troop movements across the border continue amid cautious administration expectations for a peaceful resolution.
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States Send Troops to Border Total 74,736 Guardsmen
National Guardsmen prepared for border duty with 24,028 men entrained or already at the frontier. Camps hold 50,108 still to be sent. State totals listed include New York 56,698, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania among others.
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Wilson Speech Pleases Mexicans At Press Club
New York audiences react to President Wilson's speech as papers summarize his claim that Americans do not seek war and oppose those who would profit from Mexico. El Paso dispatch notes prisoners at Carrizal freed, boosting sympathy for Mexico's people and government.
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Carrizal survivor found Corporal Cooke located in Juarez
A fourth Carrizal survivor Corporal F X Cooke of K Troop 10th Cavalry was located today brought to Juarez and imprisoned General Francisco Gonzales wired orders to General Jacinto Tree vine at Chihuahua City. Cooke supported that Mexicans fired first shots and cited Captain Boyd saying orders send troops to Villa Ahumada and east.
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Farewell Sermon as 23d Regiment Prepares to Move
Regimental chaplain Rev Dr Parkes Cadman preached farewell at Central Congregational Church Brooklyn yesterday as 500 soldiers marched from the armory. Dressed in captain’s uniform he spoke on spiritual peace and urged fortitude for the country ahead. The service followed a flag draped pulpit and signaled the unit’s departure expected Tuesday.
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Casement Appeal Set for July 17 in Treason Verdict
London July 2 The appeal of Sir Roger Casement, found guilty of high treason on June 20 and sentenced to death for involvement in the Tash rebellion, was scheduled for July 17. The report notes the hearing would determine the fate of the verdict.
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Hughes Starts Carnegie Fund as Campaign Pensions May Abort
Hughes launches a Carnegie fund to support his campaign while pension plans tied to August 10 face potential abandonment. He travels for four weeks before a vacation, with $4.225 million paid in related disbursements.
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Hughes plans coast to coast campaign in 1912 race
Charles E. Hughes announces a four week tour starting August 10 to press a single issue in each address as he travels by regular trains. He will hold large hall speeches in cities like Chicago St Louis Kansas City St Paul Minneapolis Portland Seattle San Francisco and possibly Los Angeles. The trip features careful speech prep with campaign manager William R. Willcox and support from Mrs Hughes with a return to New York in late September or early October for a rest in the Rocken mountain area.
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Women Rally to Raise $100000 for Hughes Campaign
The Hughes Alliance announced a national campaign by its women’s committee to raise about $100,900 for Charles FE Hughes. Americanism will be the keynote and Independence Day marked to show Hughes as the best proponent of America for Americans. Mrs Willard D Straight pledged $5000 and Mrs John Hays Hammond also promised. Women nationwide urged to send pledges to Hotel Astor headquarters tomorrow.
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Allies Behind Foe Line Now Menace Soissons
Paris July 2 French troops launched a major offensive on the Somme front marching five kilometres into German lines while British forces moved up from the north. The attack spans the Western front as well as Italian and Russian sectors with French, Canadian, and allied units driving toward Soissons and the Aisne, Albert, and Artois regions.
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Neighbor Klose Held After Fatal Family Dispute
Anton Klose was pulled from a dumbwaiter shaft on Sip Street in Wee Hoboken and charged with murder after firing shots at Mrs Klose. Neighbor Louis Tiugato was killed during the ensuing confrontation. Klose’s son Albert and daughter Florence were wounded. Pearl Klose, 15, had fretted about a Coney Island visit as the altercation began.
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Joy Riders Kill Man On First Avenue Night Drive
Frederick W enceker a 53 year old night engineer for the New York Veal and Mutton Company was struck while crossing First Avenue at Forty third Street. He died from internal injuries after a passerby alerted police and an ambulance arrived. Witnesses said the car 114468 was driven south after the impact. Suspect Dameste Bell of 18 West Eight third Street admitted the plate matched and said the car had been stored two weeks ago at Cedarhurst Garage.
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Strike threat closes New York subways and piers
Harbor Hoisting Engineers call for a sympathetic strike involving 8 000 longshoremen and 7 000 hoisting workers. Workers may refuse to handle materials touched by those filling the striking engineers positions, threatening a complete tie up of the North River projects and East River tunnels today.
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Woman leaps to death from Staten Island ferryboat
A carefully dressed young woman, taller than average, boarded at St. George and paid for a return trip. In view of hundreds of Sunday excursionists on the Queens ferry, she walked to the top deck, placed a linen handkerchief and a small package on a chair, and weighted them with a purse containing 72.78 dollars. She removed her hat and stepped to the rail, then leaped into the bay as the strong ebb tide carried her away before a rescue boat could reach her.
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Fricourt and Frise fall as toll of prisoners rises
London dispatch reports the Allies gain two villages Fricourt captured by British and Frise by French on the Somme front after a brutal 36 hour assault. The German line holds though bent six miles with total prisoners nearing 10,000. Mereaucourt wood also occupied amid costly fighting.
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Allied offensive report from wounded British soldier
A wounded British private recounts the July offensive’s rapid progress. He describes rehearsals, a dawn charge into now obliterated German trenches, and fighting in shell holes used by both sides. The piece notes consolidated gains, strategic targets like Fricourt and Gommecourt, and the broader Allied effort beyond the Western front.
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