Troops Ordered to Border From Texas Posts
President Roosevelt directs Secretary Taft to deploy troops from San Antonio to Del Rio El Paso and other Texas points to aid civil authorities and enforce neutrality laws amid Mexican disturbances. Brig Gen A L Myer to determine needed force while U S marshal and district attorney direct operations. District Attorney Locke McDaniel to monitor violations and coordinate with special deputies along the border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Taft
Department of Texas
San Antonio
del Rio
el Paso
Texas
United States
State Department
A. L. Myer
Oher
del Rio Cily
Las Vacas
Mexico
Fort Sam Houston
Fort Bliss
Fort
Houston
Tex
Locke McDaniel
Department Fce
McDaniel
Kal Brewster
Laredo
Rio Grande
Brewster
Fort Brown
Grownsville
Matamoras
Taft Busy With War Dept and National Chairmanship
Secretary Taft spent a long day at the War Department with brother Charles P. Taft. He met Ohio leaders Walter Brown Walter Guilbert and Henry Williams and discussed the national chairmanship, favoring Arthur I Vorys and delaying a decision until a Wednesday conference, as Hitchcock revised the slate and Taft planned to meet subcommittee in Hot Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Taft
War Department
Charles P. Taft
Walter Brown
State Central Committee
Ohio
Walter B. Guilbert
Henry Williams
Frank H. Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Charles P Taft
Arthur I Vorys
Powell Clayton
Arkansas
Chicago
Massachusetts
Sherman
Cincinnati
Mr. Taft
Arthur I. Voerys
Republican National Committee
Vorys
Republican
Mr. Vorys
Wright
Army
National Committee
Hot Springs
S&s
Baltimore & Ohio
Union Station
United States Post
Mexican bands flee as quiet restored in Chihuahua region
Mexico City reports deny sensational capture rumors and confirm calm across Chihuahua Durango Coahuila and surrounding areas. Government says rurales pursue malcontents led by interior minister Corral and foreign minister Mariscal while troops reinforce Torreon Terreon and Les Vacas to restore order and deter further raids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Jiminez
Mexican Central
Departments of the Interior
War and
Fate
United States
Interior Department
Mexican Central Railroad
Chihuahua
Coahuila
Terreon
Interior
Sefior Corral
Republic
Sefer Mariscal
Rio Grande
Torreon
Jeral
Eceme 93
Surrey
Les Vaces
Vast 909 Foot Equitable Life Tower Planned for New York
Plans filed for a 909 foot office skyscraper replacing the Equitable Life home between Pine Nassau Cedar and Broadway. The main 34 story block rises 489 feet with a 28 story tower reaching 909 feet total. Architects D H Burnham & Co predict a world leading cost and height, with 33 passenger elevators and extensive terra cotta decor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Pine, Nassau and
Cedar Streets
Broadway
Metropolitan Life Building
Madison Avenue
24Th Street
Singer
Eiffel
Paris
Washington Monument
Equitable Life
Metropolitan Life
Trinity
D. H. Burnham & Co
Chicago
Fifth Avenue
58Th
59Th Street
New Plaza
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company
City Investing
Cortlandt Street
Church Street
Cortlandt
Fulton Street
Robert E. Dowing
City Investing Company
Manhattan Island
Murphy
Nassau Street
Pine
Pola
Recne
Metropolitan Life Company
Madison Square
Four Columbus men offer fingers as payment for ice cream freezer
Four Columbus men offered $30 to A. C. Bal who lost his fingers to have two fingers cut off and sent to him in exchange for an ice cream freezer. Bal is in East Liverpool hospital. His brother Joseph Balloux and others proposed the exchange with surgeons approving. Names include Robert E. Robbins and W. Trompson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
A. C. Balwho
Ohio
Jloux
Wheeling
East Liverpool
Pital
Joseph Balloux
Robert £. Robbins
W. & Trompson
O. E. Manspereer
Edward Strech
Potter Bishop Henry C Potter III in Critical Condition
In Cooperstown New York June 29 Bishop Henry C Potter of New York remains in critical condition as doctors report prostration from heat and oxygen support. Alonzo Porter son travels to bedside as Mrs Potter and Clark family members stay nearby with Cooperstown physicians in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooperstown
N. Y
Henry C. Potter
New York
Potter
New York City
London
Elizabeth Clark Potter
Alonzo Porter
J. E. Janvrin
M. I. Bassett
Alonzo Potter
Stephen C. Clark
Ambrose Clark
Bishop Potter
Zeppelin airship completes six hour test voyage
Count Zeppelin's airship logged six hours and forty minutes in the long trial from Friedrichshafen to Constance and Romanshorn with fourteen passengers aboard. Wireless gear functioned perfectly and the craft reached one thousand feet then covered 490 miles planned for an overland trip on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friedrichshafen
Count Zeppelin
Dresden
Constance
Romanshorn
Switzerland
Roarschach
Four Die In Wellington Flood After Creek Overtown
Four persons are drowned and several more missing after Hargis Creek near Wellington Kansas overtopped during a cloudburst late last night. The flood swept away houses and forced residents to take to chairs and rooftops while rescuers in canoes worked all night to save people clinging to trees and debris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Kan
Hargis Creek
Here
Balloon crosses the Alps from Brigue to Cognac feat
The Swiss Aero Club reports the balloon Cognac has crossed the Alps from Brigue on June 29. The long sought ascent across the mountain barrier has been achieved after many attempts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swiss Aero Club
Brigue
Switzerland
Alps
Russian loan supports deficit plan in Douma
The Douma approved the Finance Minister’s bill authorizing an internal loan of 140 million dollars to cover the anticipated deficit in St. Petersburg. The act was adopted today in the session held on June 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Littleton Plans Fight in Denver Over Bryan Platform
Martin W. Littleton, who placed Alton Parker at St. Louis, flies to Denver with a proxy to oppose Bryan drafted planks and push a temperate platform. He aims for vice presidential nomination with support from New York conservatives and Texas allies while traveling with Parker and others to the West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin W. Littleton
Alton B. Parker
St. Louis
Denver
Liam J. Bryan
Texas
Littleton
New York
Bryan
Parker
William F. Sheehan
Morgan J. O’brien
O’brien
Mr. Littleton
Committee On
Tennessee
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
Daniel F. Cohalan
Tammany
West
McCarren
Coler
Lincoln
Coal record expected in Pittsburg June mining
Pittsburg on June 29 reports that June coal production in the Pittsburg district is set to break all records due to lake shipping season starting mid June, with orders for lake coal keeping mines running through July. Railroads rebound with Ohio River Bridge Connecting Railroad near normal, and Pennsylvania lines west issuing ballast orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Pittsburg
Ohio River Bridge
Ohio River
Great Lakes
Northwest
Baltimore & Ohio
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Lines
Lightning Start Oil Tank Blaze at Sour Lake
Beaumont Texas June 23 lightning struck Tank No 18 in a chain of Sour Lake oil tanks causing a spreading blaze. Tank No 104 ignited at 9 pm due to tank 10 boiling over. Three men were engulfed when tank 150 boiled over. Each tank holds 3000 barrels and losses reach about 100000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Beaumont
Tex
Sour Lake
Cunning Philadelphia Cyanide Murder Unmasked
Autopsy reveals Dr William H Wilson killed by cyanide in alleged revenge murder. Police tie motive to a husband accusing him of crimes against women and illegal operations. Dr Wilson, his wife, and five year old narrowly escaped poisoning from a tainted ale sample.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Philadelphia
William H. Wilson
S19
North 7Th Street
Wilson
Dante in Trouble Again in Morristown
Joseph Dante is jailed in Morristown with police seeking his brother George Dante. Italian junk dealers from Newark were involved as authorities accuse them of ransacking trunks at a barn. A worker named Rafaelo Parlmero was wounded during the escape bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Morristown
N. J
Joseph Dante
George Dante
Newark
Marie Middleton
Maida
Alex ©. Humphreys
Stevens Institute
Joseph
George
Rafaelo Parlmero
Tomatoes and potatoes on one vine experiment
Alfred Soderman of the State Agricultural Commission grows potatoes and tomatoes on the same vine at Worcester experiment station. He grafted Lorillard tomato plants to potato vines last February and now has many double plants with tomatoes above ground and potatoes the size of eggs underground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Worcester
Mass
Alfred Soderman
State Agricultural Commission
Also Mentioned on This Page
Menxicos
Business and Politics
Durango
Dewey’s Wine
T. Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton Bt
Potter III
Zeppelins
Triumph
Lake Constance
Douma
Dante
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!