Peace Plans Banished Huerta And His Foes
Mediators at Niagara Falls Ont began formal sessions with American and Mexican delegates to outline a peace framework. Huerta denied authorizing his envoys to offer resignation while Wilson signals a moral invasion to secure a constitutional Mexico after a provisional government proposal. Villa killed surrendered officers, and fighting continued near Zertuche and Paredon as talks opened.
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ABC
Niagara Falls
Ont
Catrman da Gama
Mexico
Carranza
Villa
Zapata
Muesta
Huerta
Wilson
Pancho Villa
Orono
Zertuche
Mtteen Milée
Saltio
Munoz
Alvarez
Paredon
Mexican Situation and Peace Conference Widens News
Morning news briefs cover Huerta denying offers at a peace conference while Villa executes officers, with calls for lasting peace in Mexico. Other items report local notices, politics, labor, finance, and miscellaneous topics including weather and markets.
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Huerta
Hesten
Villa
Mexico
Mexicas
Wilson
Whitmer
Harvard Sophomore Wins Prize By Delaying Surgery
Cambridge May 20 an 17 year old Harvard sophomore Joel Austin induced doctors to postpone an appendicitis operation so he could finish an essay. His piece A Defence of Debussy won Bowdoin first prize of 250 dollars. He completed his writing in bed before removal to the operating table.
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Harvard
Cambridge
Mase
Joel Austin
Ity
Settle
Debussy
Austin
Laugh at Joke Is Fatal to Broker Keith Stewart
Keith Stewart a longtime cashier for Hayden Stone and Co, died after collapsing while laughing at a joke during a luncheon with a party at Delmonico's. Dr George David Stewart declared him dead at the scene. Stewart, a Brookyln resident from 147 Pierrepont Street and a bachelor, had planned to attend the Canadian Club dinner in the city. He had come from Canada, where his family still resides.
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Keith Stewart
Hayden, Stone & Co
Pierrepont St
Brooklyn
Mr. Stewart
Canada
Huerta Denies He Offered to Resign at Niagara Falls
President Huerta denied reports that he authorized Mexican delegates at the Niagara Falls peace conference to resign. He stated the delegates have no instructions to offer his resignation, while Foreign Minister Esteiva Ruiz said the government gave ample powers to discuss all issues at the talks.
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Cante
Mexico City
Huerta
del Gates
Niagara Falls
Estevla Ruiz
Coney Pier to Get New Safe Pier This Summer
The Sinking Fund Commission ordered the destruction of the unsafe Dreamland pier. A Coney Island protest argued boats lacked landing sites except private piers. The Coney Island and Rockaway Steamboat Company offered to restore the Dreamland pier for free riverboat landings, and the pier was turned over to the Dock Department yesterday.
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Coney
Sinking Fund Commission
Ingersoll
Brooklyn
Dreamland Park
Coney Island
Six Die When Trolley Hits Auto at Ohio Crossing
Six people died when a Scioto Valley traction car struck an automobile at a grade crossing near Ashville twenty-five miles south of Columbus. The car and trolley were consumed by fire.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ashville
Sciato Valley
Vaterland Maiden Voyage Docking Today from Hamburg
The Hamburg American steamship Vaterland, the largest merchant liner in service, is expected to dock this afternoon on its maiden passage from Hamburg. Captain Staser reports good progress despite fog patches and aims to reach Quarantine by 8 am. Position a thousand miles east of Sandy Hook at noon yesterday with 504 miles in 24 hours and average speed 25.0 knots.
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Hamburg
Vaterland
Usts
Staser
Sandy Hook
the Tribune
Becker Dodges Testimony In Rosenthal Murder Trial
The defense will not let Charles Becker take the stand in his own murder trial. Lead counsel Martin T. Manton cites risk of taint from graft evidence and notes potential benefit from a Court of Appeals review. Prosecution and defense prepare for a swift jury verdict as witnesses resume today.
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Charles Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Becker
Martin ‘T. Manton
Mr. Manton
Manton
Administration of Justice
Court of Appeals
Rourke Cochran
Whitman
Mexican Theatre Scores Hit With Burlesque Of Yankees
Vera Crug reports from Vera Cruz on a Mexican theatre audience upbeat about a vaudeville sketch mocking an American stereotype in pidgin English. Bullfighting reels advertised by a local impresario drew mixed reactions from soldiers and civilians, with some anger over the brutal bull scenes and the matadors’ theatrics.
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Vera Crug
Entente Cordiale
Vera Cruz
Madrid
Gaona
Mexico City
Spain
Guards Bar Mother Jones Friend From Rockefeller Estate
Mrs Priest of Arizona, claiming to be an old playmate of William and John D Rockefeller, was turned away from Pocantico Hills grounds by rigid guards. She said Rockefeller knew her as a boy and William as her Sunday school teacher, and that she visited Tarrytown recently.
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Mother Jones
John D. Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Priest
Arizona
William
Mr. Rockefeller
William Rockefeller
Tarrytown
John D. Archbold
Satisfied engineer shoots woman after domestic dispute
Robert Kane, a civil engineer, fired six shots at Mrs. Annie Kleine at 35 Varet Street Williamsburg wounding her fatally. Kane was tackled by bystanders and police after a struggle with Mrs. Kane’s husband August Bondorff. Kane charged with felonious assault. Mrs Kane’s later actions and potential charges were unresolved as of reporting.
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Robert Kane
Varet St
Williamsburg
Annie Kleine
Mrs. Kleine
St. Catherine's Hospital
Oscher
Kane
Stagg St
Kano
Mrs. Kane
Kleine
August Bondorff
Bondorff
Pearson Fears Bandits Threaten Pearson Oil Town
Rodrigo Quevedo's reorganized bandits threaten Pearson in Chihuahua near one of Pearson Company plants. They burned a railroad bridge blocking rebel aid and were reported near the town, endangering American employees at the site.
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Quevedo
Chihuahua
el Paso
Rodrigo Quevedo
Pearson
Pearson Company, Limited
Mrs. Von Claussen Guilty in Threat Letter Case
A jury in General Sessions found Mrs Ida Von Claussen guilty of sending a threatening letter to her former counsel Charles Strauss president of the Board of Water Supply. The verdict followed six and a half hours of deliberation before Judge Rosulsky. Von Claussen testified two days denying authorship but conceding the writing resembled her hand.
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Ida von Claussen
Charles Strauss
Board of Water Supply
Rosulsky
London
Ais
von Claussen
Mellen paving way for prosecution of New Haven directors
Galveston May 2 The Norwegian steamship Atlantis, which left Galveston May 17 for Tampico with ninety passengers, many of them American oil men returning to the fields, is aground 100 miles north of Tampico and tugs have been ordered to her rescue. All the passengers have been taken off by the United States battleship Connect.ording to Information received PRICE PAID MUTUAL LIFE CALLED STIFF Stock Bought, It Is Alleged, WitHout Authority from Railroad.
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Atlantis
Tampico
Connect
Statual Life Insurance Company of
New York
Mellen
Mr. Morgan
Morgan
Boston & Maine
Mutual Sife
Albany
Boston & Maine Board of Directors
Tuttle
Mr. Mellen
Huerta Row and New Haven Rail Case Tie to Morgan Deals
Resignation of Sefior Lozano linked to a dispute with a singer as Veracruz reports stir. In Washington, Charles Mellen testifies on New Haven Railroad affairs, detailing Morgan's stock sales to Boston and Maine, the 1908 Rhode Island trolley deal, and alleged profits maneuvers. Morgan is portrayed as the mastermind amid a broader financial drama.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Charles §. Mellen
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Mellen
New Haven
Boston & Maine
Mr. Mellen
Franklin K. Lane
Vera Cruz
Huerta
Sefior Lozano
Jockey Club
Prom
the Tribune
New Haven Railroad
Joseph W. Folk
Interstate Commerce Commission
McReynolds
Worcester, Nashua & Rochester Railroad
Boston & Maine Company
J. P. Morgan
Billard
Boston
Nelson W. Aldrich
Five Buried When Caisson Caves In South Norwalk Bridge
May 21 report from South Norwalk says Chief Engineer I. E. Dewar, the superintendent, and three workmen died when the main caisson for the Norwalk River bridge collapsed without warning. A boiler barge nearby burned, with workers possibly jumping overboard. Rescue efforts focus on recovering bodies as investigators prepare to probe the accident.
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South
Norwalk
Conn
I. E. Dewar
Dewar
McHarg, Muttarg, Barton & Co
Boston
Sutt
British Princess Held as Militant Suffragette
London May 21 The Tribune reports Princess Mary was arrested as a suffragette at Aldershot while with the King and Queen The queen reportedly fears militant activists The princess reportedly entered an aircraft inclosure before breakfast to take photographs and was detained for a quarter hour before an officer escorted her to the King s quarters
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London
Tribune
Mary
Aldershot
Heat Prostration Reported in City
A 50 year old man James ule of 313 West 1st was overcome by heat on BroadWay. Attended by Dr. Furnas of New York Hospital, he recovered enough to go home. Nearby mentions include Bretton Woo Hotels and Mt Washington Booking Office in New Hampshire.
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313
West 1St
BroadWay
Furnas
New York Hospital
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