Juarez Falls to Madero Rebels After Fierce Battle
Federal General Juan Navarro surrendered Juarez to Francisco Madero’s rebel army after extended fighting. Navarro's officers deserted, many troops wounded or killed, and the city fell by afternoon after shells struck the defenders' adobe barracks. Authorities vow to keep saloons closed and Juarez designated Mexico’s first dry city with guards enforcing the ban.
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El Paso
Tex
Juan J. Navarro
Juarez
Francisco Madero
Navarro
Leora
mutmicipal
Eduardo Hayes
insurrecte board of strategy
Chihuahua
Francisco I. Madero
Tambore
Garibaldi
Blanco
Pascual Orozco
Tuarez
Mexico
Abram Gonzales
cts
insurrectos
Bianco
isurrecto
dottaias
El Paso bean
Federal troops flee Juarez as insurrectos amid parade of dead
Col. F. 2. Steever leads U S troops at El Paso as insurgents patrol streets and guard stores. Prisoners in uniforms. Villa says he will attack Juarez with 600 men. Federal evacuation of Agua Prieta followed by mass burials of dead in streets, courtyards, and stores.
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Theurrectos
barre
insurrectos
Navarro
Pancho Villa
Juare
Tamborel
Villa publirly
oan bi Paso
Juarez
burie
Juarez Port of Entry Opens for War Supplies
The El Paso customs house will stay open during Juarez occupation to aid revolutionary forces by providing a border port of entry for war supplies. U S neutrality laws may permit arms shipments unless they cross as an expedition. A scattered report notes a man named Kittrich sold himself for $7 to cover rent, funds misapplied to malicious ends. Washington lawmakers discuss clerical duties and a medicine claim involving Champlain’s Bench.
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City
Washington
El Paso
Tex
Juarez
treasury department
United States
supreme court
Mexco
Lord Hickody
Chicago
Charles Killrick
National Maternity
Kittreko
Kittrich
Bishop Coadjutor Chosen by Pennsylvania Diocese
Rev Thomas Garland of Philadelphia heads the list as bishop suffragan while Rev Dr Philip Mercer Rhinelander of the Episcopal Theological Seminary Cowbridge Mass is selected as bishop coadjutor by the Philadelphia diocese. The election required two ballots. Rhinelander won 102 votes on the second ballot and lay approval followed. The diocese awaits confirmation by the national standing committee before consecration.
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Piladelphia
Philip Mercer Rhinelander
Episcopal Theological seminary
Cowbridge
Mass
Leith
Pennsylvania
St. Luke
Epiphany
Thirteenth street
Spruce
Philadelphia
wil
Mackay-Smith
Rhinelander
J. De Wolf Parry
Bitbelinder
Perry
Milton Del Fire Destroys Businesses. Water Plant Urged
Fire in Milton Delaware caused about 75000 in damages to the town’s business district. With no water supply except creek and wells, citizens vow to install a water works plant. Two years earlier a similar blaze caused 300000 in damages. Women and children helped fight the fire by pumping water and carrying containers. Fire hit Virden Co. stables and warehouses, Ponders Wharf, Virden lumber yards, Royal Parking, Milton Electric, Rosal Flour, and Burten’s wharf among others. The crisis prompted communal action.
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Milton
Del
C. A. Virden & Co
Atkin’s
Ponders wharf
Virden
Royal Parking
Milton Electric Laght company
Rosal Flour
Burten
Poison Fatalities in Philadelphia Growler Party
Police probe a cyanide poisoning at 2333 Ralston Street in Philadelphia that killed three and left two recovering. Victims include John Shinn and Earl Burr, both photographers, and Ida Arbuckle. Mrs. Emily Shinn and Michael McGinley survived. Investigators treat it as a possible accident or murder tied to a "growler party" with questions about where the poison was obtained and who supplied it.
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CENTRAL RESTAURANT
Philadelphia
Ralston street
stret
John Shinn
Earl Burr
Ida Arbuckte
Garretson hospital
Emily Shinn
Michael McGinley
McGinley
Twenty fourth
Ralston
Gare retgon hospital
Mulgrew
Ninth district
McGinsey
oe Ile
Haines
Burr
4fe
Daring leap saves ironworker from 80 foot fall
Allentown Pennsylvania May 11 Frank Gallagher an ironworker on the Rittersville Insane asylum project escaped death when the heavy iron rafter he was on began to slip. He grabbed the top edge of an eighty foot wall with his fingers and held on until a crane swung in to rescue him.
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Allentown
Frank Gallagher
Rittersville Insane asylum
Gallagher
Minnesota village offers site for Taft summer home
A White House letter from Wayzata Minnesota village president P W Tibbetts endorses Senator Kenyon’s idea for Taft to spend his summer vacation in the Midwest. Tibbetts proposes a lakeside site on Lake Minnetonka for the president’s summer residence. Greensburg Kentucky druggist J M Howell praises Cham berlain's Cough Remedy for household use.
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Minnesota
Washington
White House
P. W . Tibbetts
Wayseata
Minn
Senator Kenyon
Iowa
Taft
middle west
Tibbets
Lake Minnetonka
J. M. Howell
Greensburg, Ky
Chamberlain
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Frederick
aes
East Patrick Street
ALLEN G. QUYNN & CO
Frederick, MD
MORESCO
WAPFLE
BROOKS
STEEVER
Agua Prieta
Douglas
Aliz
Agua Privia
Mex
American Press Association
G. L. BREAD
G.L. BAKING CO
Lehr Piano
BIRELY'S
Church Sts
JOSEPH DD. ZIMMIRMAN
E. Church St
NiewspapreRRCHIVE
THE CENTRAL RESTAURANT
North Market Street
Jas. Carros
Prop
WHITE CROSS
Greer SCOTT
Markell & Ford
wer
The Kleiss Family
Middendorf, Williams & Co
BANKERS & BROKERS
Baltimore
Frederick and
Middletown
MARSHALL WINCHESTER & co
tie rence
pautons
Martin
California
altropgists
Protestant Episcopals
Thomas Garland
Tarrhowle
Nolloway county
Inerkeville
Floyd Bones
Rosa Knight
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