Mothers Congress Ends in Lafayette With Honors
The Indiana branch annual convention in Lafayette closes after two hundred delegates attend. Mrs. Sackett is elected National delegate, Miss Foldis becomes vice president, and several women from Fort Wayne Evansville Logansport and Richmond are named directors. Resolutions defer a full report until Indianapolis next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Indiana
Mothers’ Congress and
Parent- Teachers’ Association
Lafayette
Robert T. Sackett
National Mothers’ Congress
Jennie Foldis
Evansville
Ben Levi
Fort Wayne
Charles Wittenbrook
John Moring
W. R. Arthur
Logansport
J. M. Hixon
Attica
Frank Land
Richmond
Izor
Manual Training School
Robert Foster Hight
Resolutions Committee of Aid
Frederick Hoke
National Organization
Boston
Advertisers’ Association
Indiana Poster Advertisers’ Association
O. G. Murray
W. O. Tarkington
Dry Sunday in Mexico City Amid Rumor of American Invasion
Mexico City observed a quiet Sunday after authorities closed saloons and pulque shops and banned public gatherings from Saturday night. Rumors claimed Ambassador Wilson sought credentials and American troops landed at Vera Cruz, rumors likely inflaming anti American sentiment. officials labeled them alarmist and discredited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Wilson
Vera Cruz
Mexico
William M. Willey
la Catolica
Tariff hearings denied in senate finance clash
Washington May 19 The Penrose La Follette motion to require public hearings on the Underwood tariff bill failed 41 to 6 in the senate finance committee The vote followed a week of debate with Senators La Follette Smoot Gallinger Jones and Clark criticizing secret conferences while Democrats Simmons Smith Walsh and James backed their party action
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Ransdell
Thornton
Louisiana
Poindexter
la Follette
Smoot
Gallinger
Jones
Clark
Wyoming
Simmons
Smith
Georgia
Walsh
James
U S Ship Vesuvius Beached After Self Inflicted Torpedo Hit
The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius with 60 seamen aboard was struck by its own practice Whitehead torpedo in Narragansett Bay. A two inch hole opened in the stern, pumps kept the ship afloat, and Chief Gunner Thomas Smith beached her on Hope Island before refloating to proceed to the torpedo station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
R. 1
Vesuvius
Thomas Smith
Hope Island
Narragansett Bay
Smith
One Killed In Auto Crash in Fond du Lac May 19
Dr. M A Hoffman aged 30 physician of Campbellsport Wis killed when auto in which he rode was struck by a Chicago and Northwestern passenger train at Fond du Lac. His six year old daughter Paula was seriously hurt in the collision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fond du Lac
Wis
M. A. Hoffman
Campbellsport
Paula
Chicago & Northwestern
California Alien Land Law Signed Amid Japan Protest
Sacramento reports Gov. Harman W. Johnson signed California's alien land bill amid Japanese protests and GOP support. The measure takes effect August 10, 1914, despite remonstrances from President Wilson and Secretary Bryan as the U.S. seeks to manage the rising diplomatic crisis with Tokyo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Cal
Hiram W. Johnson
Japan
California
Wilson
Bryan
Johnson
Washington
United States
Viscount Chinda
Tokio
Portsmouth
Roosevelt
Mrs Longstreet protests postmistress removal
Mrs Helen D Longstreet of Gainesville Georgia testified before a Senate subcommittee protesting her removal as postmistress. She accused the Georgia Railway and Power company and Democratic spoilsmen of pressuring her removal after her appointment by President Roosevelt, whom she praised as the first statesman of the land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Helen D. Longstreet
Gainesville
Wilson
Senate Post Office and Post Roads Committee
Georgia Railway & Power Company of Georgia
Roosevelt
King Peter to Abdicate in Servia Peace Restore
Geneva May 21 King Peter of Servia, aged sixty nine, will abdicate as soon as peace returns in the Balkans. The strain of the war against Turkey has broken his health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter
Geneva
Switzerland
Peter of Servia
Balkans
Turkey
Four German sailors killed in torpedo boat accident
Telegraphic notes report four German bluejackets killed and three seriously injured by an cylinder explosion in the engine room of torpedo boat S-148 at Heligoland on May 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heligoland
Germany
New York
James A. Farrell
United States Steel Corporation
Atlanta
General Assembly
The
Northern Presbyterian Church
John W. Stone
Chicago
Fritzi Scheff
John Fox, Jr
Supreme Court
Keogh
White Plains
Albany
N. Y
Sulzer Friday
Four Cornell Students Drown After Canoe Capsize
Four Cornell students die when a Cayuga Lake canoe overturns near midlake. Victims include Martha McCormick and Mary Cornelia Mallett of Middletown, Brainard Bailey of Troy, Reinhart C. Zimmer of Rochester. Bodies may not be recovered. The group were members of the Gon nal sophomore Class. Pan
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ithaca
N. Y
Cayuga Lake
Cornell
Martha McCormick
Mary Cornelia Mallett
Midd’ Town
Brainard Bailey
Troy
Reinhart C. Zimmer
Rochester
Also Mentioned on This Page
Branch OF
Mothers’ Congress
Miss Izor
Eleanor Foster
State Board of Charities
Frank T. Wray
Miss Foster
Mary Jackson Hammond
Rabbi Feuerlicht
State Federation of Clubs
Claypool
Felix McWhirter
Craigie Gunn Mitchell
Bedford
Grant C. Markle
Winchester
Clark Fairbank
Leon Stern
Terre Haute
Indiana Christian Missionary Association
Franklin
Homer J. Hall
W. G. Walker
George W. Henry
W. G. Long
T. W. Grafton
L. E. Murray
Missionary Society of the Churches of Christ of Indiana
Anderson
Christan Endeavor
Garry L. Cook
W. D. Bartle
Christian Endeavor
Knights Templars
Crawfordsville
Joseph G. Ibach
Hammond
Harry G. Strickland
Greenfield
Adrian Hamersly
James L. Randel
Greencastle
George H. Steel
George 8. Parker
Columbus H. Hall
Charles L. Hutchinson
Calvin W. Prather
Henri T. Conde
Parry C. Moore
Marion
Eugene Vater
Muncie
Jacob Rubin
Guard
Indiana Medical Society
Durgan
W. R. Moffatt
West Lafayette
F. S. Crockett
Edgar Cox
Kokomo
J. N. Hurty
F. A. Tucker
Noblesville
R. M. Campbell
A. C. Dickey
Tipton
F. B. Thompson
W. H. Williams
Lebanon
Adah McMahon
M. F. Boulden
Frankfort
A. C. Crafton
Florida
Henry M. Flagler
Palm Beach
Flagler
Florida East Coast Railway
Standard Oil Company
H. H. Rogers
BE. H. Harriman
J. Pierpont Morgan
Bonato
Underwood
U. S
Gov. Johnson
Ambasador
KRUPP
Atempt
Washington Peace Society
Hague Peace Tribunal
Batteship
Reichstag
Krupp Works
Mr. Bryan
Bartholdi
Mrs. Longstreet
Gainesville, Ga
Cornell University
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