Troops Ordered to Border at Mexico's Request
President Roosevelt directed Taft to send troops from Texas bases to Del Rio and El Paso and other points to aid civil authorities and uphold neutrality laws after Mexico sought United States help. Brigadier General Myer to determine troop numbers and positions along the border. District Attorney and U.S. marshal to supervise deployments.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Taft
Department of Texas
San Antonio
del Rio
el Paso
Texas
United States
State Department
A. L. Myer
del Rio Ie
Las Vacas
Mexico
Coajouila
Fort Sam Houston
Fort Bliss
Fort
Houston
Tex
Locke McDaniel
Toav
Department Justice
McDaniel
Maershal Brewster
Laredo
Rio Grande
Brewster
Fort Brown
Brownsville
Matamoras
Taft Busy in Washington on War Dept Duties and National chairmanship
Secretary Taft spent a long day at the War Department meeting Ohio leaders Walter Brown Walter Guilbert and Henry Williams while considering the national chairmanship. He invited Arthur L Vorys to Washington and said he would not meet Hitchcock until Wednesday. Taft predicted a Western chairman and planned Hot Springs talks with the national committee subcommittee.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Taft
War Department
Charles P. Taft
Walter Brown
State Central Committee
Ohio
Walter B. Guilbert
Henry Williams
Frank H. Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Arthur I. Vorys
Powell Clayton
Arkansas
Massachusetts
Sherman
Cincinnati
Mr. Taft
Arthur L Vorys
Republican National Committee
Vorys
Republican
Wright
Army
National Committee
Hot Springs
Baltimore & Ohio
Union Station
United States Post
Mexican bandits report denied. quiet restored in region
Investigations show false claim of Jiminez capture by bandits. No disturbances reported. trains run normally. Government, Interior and War ministries report quiet across Chihuahua Durango and Coahuila with troops patrolling and outlaws pursued. Refs to federal action and extradition of cross border rebels.
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Mexico City
Jiminez
Mexican Central
Departments of the Interior, War and State
United States
Jimimez
Interior Department
Mexican Central Railroad
Chihuahua
Coahuila
Las Vacas
Terreon
Interior
Sefior Corral
Salon
Sefor Corral
Republic
Sefior Mariscal
Rio Grande
Jeral
Rushlee
Serer
Los Vares
Equitable Life to rise 909 foot office tower in Manhattan
A plan to replace the Equitable Life Assurance Society home with a 909 foot skyscraper bounds Pine Nassau and Cedar streets and Broadway. The 62 story structure would surpass the Metropolitan Life Building at 657 feet 5 inches and the Singer Building 612 feet 1 inch, becoming the tallest and costliest office block in the world with an estimated land value up to 15 million dollars.
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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
Ssth
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
Ndaries
Ant
Renes
Metropolitan Life Company
Madigan Square
Emitable Life
Market price of fingers fixed in Ohio theft case
Four Columbus men offer to have their fingers cut off for $90 per finger to A C Bal who lost his fingers in an ice cream freezer incident. The offer came from residents of Columbus and Wheeling with names including Robert Robbins and W E Trompson, linked to East Liverpool and a hospital, amid surgeon guidance.
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Ohio
Columbus
A. C. Balwhew
Joux
Wheeling
W Va
East Liverpool
Joseph Balfoux
Robert &. Robbins
Trompson
Potter Bishop Potters Critical Condition in Cooperstown
Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York is in critical condition after prostration from hot weather. Doctors say oxygen is being administered as he rests at the Clark family home in Cooperstown with his son Alonzo Porter and relatives present.
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Cooperstown
N. Y
Henry C. Potter
New York
Bishop Potter
J. E. Janvrin
Potter
New York City
London
Elizabeth Clark Potter
Alonzo Porter
M. I. Bassett
Alonzo Potter
Stephen C. Clark
Ambrose Clark
Zeppelins Triumph in Long Airship Test at Friedrichshafen
Count Zeppelin oversaw a six hour and forty minute trial of the airship carrying fourteen passengers. The craft reached top speeds near 38.5 mph with wireless work flawless as it navigated over Lake Constance and returned to its shed at Friedrichshafen. Count Zeppelin hoped for a 40 mile overland journey Thursday.
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Friedrichshafen
Count Zeppelin
Dresden
Constance
Romanshorn
Switzerland
Roarschach
Four Perish In Flood Near Wellington Kansas
Four persons are drowned and several are missing after Hargis Creek overflowed east of Wellington due to a cloudburst. The flood hit with little warning, sweeping away houses and buildings while residents clung to trees or roofs. Rescue teams in canoes worked through the night to save people from tree tops and moving debris.
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Wellington
Kan
Hargis Creek
Here
Balloon Cognac crosses the Alps from Brigue
The Swiss Aero Club announces the balloon Cognac has successfully crossed the Alps from Brigue on June 29. The feat, long attempted, is accomplished for the first time.
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Swiss Aero Club
Brigue
Switzerland
Alps
Russian loan approves $100 million internal loan
St. Petersburg June 29 the Douma adopted the Finance Minister's bill authorizing an internal loan of $100,000,000 to cover the anticipated budget deficit.
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St. Petersburg
Lightning Ignites Sour Lake Oil Tanks Blazing Spread
Beaumont Texas June 4 lightning struck Tank No 10 of a Sour Lake oil tank chain triggering a blaze that spread through multiple tanks by nightfall Tank 104 caught fire at 9 pm after Tank 15 boiled over Three men were reportedly engulfed in burning fluid when Tank 154 boiled over Each tank holds 55000 barrels and the loss is estimated at 100000 dollars
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the Tribune
Beaumont
Tex
Sour Lake
Mysterious Doctor Killed By Poison In Revenge Plot
Philadelphia reports a physician Dr William H Wilson murdered by cyanide poison. A supposed ale sample delivered Friday night hid the toxin as detectives pursue a husband’s alleged revenge for crimes against women. Mrs Wilson and their five year old escaped.
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the Tribune
Philadelphia
William H. Wilson
No.19
North 7Th Street
Wilson
Jth Street
Dante in Trouble Again in New Jersey
Joseph Dante, jailed in Morristown, and his brother George sought by police after a chase at a Stevens Institute barn. Marie Middleton, a maid, alerted authorities as Joseph ransacked trunks. George allegedly fought with a sword bayonet and escaped after wounding Rafaelo Parlmero.
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Tribune
Morristown
N. J
Joseph Dante
George Dante
Newark
Marie Middleton
Alex (. Humphreys
Stevens Institute
Joseph
George
Rafaelo Parlmero
Littleton to Fight Bryan Platform in Denver Nomination Fight
Martin W. Littleton sails to Denver with a proxy to press for a temperate platform and oppose Bryan’s anti injunction plank. He aims for a New York role on the resolutions committee or to speak on the floor, challenging radical planks while Texas backs his vice presidential bid.
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Martin W. Littleton
Alton B. Parker
St. Louis
Denver
Sam J. Bryan
Texas
Littleton
New York
Bryan
Parker
William F. Sheehan
Morgan J. O’brien
O’brien
Mr. Littleton
Committee of Resolutions
Tennessee
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
Daniel F. Cohalan
Tammany
West
McCarren
Coler
Lincoln
Coal Output Expected to Break June Records in Pittsburg
Telegraph reports Pittsburg district coal mining will set monthly records in June due to early lake shipping gains and strong demand. Railroads anticipate a strong month with the Ohio River Bridge Connecting Railroad nearing 85 percent of normal, and the Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania lines close to last June's totals despite a record-high prior June. Pennsylvania lines west place orders for ten thousand tons of ballast for one division.
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The
Tribune
Pittsburg
Ohio River Bridge
Ohio River
Great Lakes
Northwest
Baltimore & Ohio
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Lines
Tomatoes and potatoes on one vine experiment at station
Alfred Soderman of the State Agricultural Commission promotes grafting tomato plants to potato vines at the Worcester experiment station. He reports double plants with tomato tops and underground potatoes the size of an egg. The work, a years long effort, culminates this season with tomato laden shoots above ground and early potatoes below.
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the Tribune
Worcester
Mass
Alfred Soderman
State Agricultural Commission
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J. E. Janzorin
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Triumph
Lalkee Constance
Douma
Dante
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