Wilson Delays Mexico Policy as Crisis Paralyzes Nation
President Wilson will not announce a Mexican policy now and will withhold action to let factions reconcile without U S interference. Mexican merchants are bankrupt, French financiers press reform, and Huerta may resign to pave the way for peace. European financiers back mediation, while some Mexicans seek a chance to fix the tangle themselves.
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Huerta
Washington
Wilson
White House
United States
America
Mexico
Milliona
Joint committee to study Mexico crisis proposed in U S
A Senate and House joint committee to investigate conditions in Mexico was proposed by Stephens Texas. The panel would have five members from each chamber to report swiftly on protecting Americans and foreigners amid the ill treatment reported. In San Diego Diaz nephew of the Mexican dictator faced threats from Madero sympathizers and planned a brief stop before continuing to Japan with a special train arranged to take him to San Francisco.
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Washington
House
Senate
Mexico
Congress
Stephens
Texas
Bryan
San Diego
Cal
Felix Disz
Madero
Diaz
Japan
Diag
San Francisco
Mulhall Testimony Spurs Lodge Denial in Senate Probe
July 29 Washington Mulhall testified before the senate lobby investigating committee as Lodge denied knowing him and hearing of his statements The former NAM lobbyist claimed correspondence tied him to interviews with Major figures including Underwood Wilson Lloyd and others and warned of using influence to shape committee appointments and block legislation The committee questioned the optimism of Mulhall about democratic control vs republican days
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Martin M. Mulhall
Senate Lobby
Lodge
National Association of Manufacturers
Mulhall
House
Underwood
William B. Wilson
Wilson
House Labor Committee
James T. Lloyd
Missouri
Democratic Congressional Committee
J. P. Bird
Association
Democratic House
Judge McDonald Dies in Seattle Heart Failure
SEATTLE July 29 Judge F A McDonald president of the school board who was recently the leading candidate for postmaster died of heart disease.
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Judge McDonald
Seattle
F. A. McDonald
Monmouth Postoffice Ransacked by Thieves
Salem Ore July 29 Mall is being received from Monmouth marked opened by robbers. It is reported here that the Monmouth postoffice was entered last Friday night and ransacked. It is understood that no registered mail or other valuables was obtained as they were locked in the safe which was not blown.
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Salem
Ore
Monmouth
Monmouth Postoffice
Daniels Sees Navy Fleet Through Panama Canal Hope
Secretary of the Navy Daniels told a Portland banquet that he would ride the bridge of the Oregon through the Panama Canal and on to Pacific ports with the fleet. He predicted a vast growth for Portland and said the canal would expand the city beyond politics. Daniels and his party left for Spokane after touring the Oregon coast.
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Oregon
Portland
Panama Canal
United States Navy
Pacific Coast
The
Columbia
Daniels
Spokane
Supreme Court blocks initiative on November referendum
Salem July 29 The supreme court ruled that initiative measures should not appear on the ballot for the November special referendum election. The decision, in a mandamus suit by Marie D Baul and others against the secretary of state, sustains the defense demurrer regarding a proposed eight hour law for women.
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Salem
Supreme Court
Marie D. Baul
Secretary of State
Suffragist Sylvia Pankhurst Begins Sleep Strike in Jail
London July 29. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst daughter of the militant leader confined in Holloway jail for suffrage activities has started a sleep strike. She refuses to eat or drink and paces her cell all night refusing to lie down. If the late facts kept up every woman would need two heads to pile her hair on.
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London
Sylvia Pankhurst
Holloway
Woman Freed of Killing Husband in Coroner’s Court
Leah Delmont walks free after jurors accept her account of years of coercion and punishment by her husband. She recounts five years selling herself in multiple cities, earning about $6000 given to him, and shoots him when ordered back to such life.
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Los Angeles
Leah Delmont
Charles Wellington Rand
PREDICT HUERTA WILL SOON FALL
Private advices from Mexico City to the Mexican constitutionalist committee in Paris say Huerta's administration will fall within 15 days. Huerta, who led the coup against Diaz and helped install Madero, now faces a perilous position as reports of imminent collapse circulate.
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Constitutionalist Committee
Paris
Huerta
Mexico
United States
Madero
Diaz
Underwood Attacks Mulhall During Senate Hearing
Washington July 29 One of the sharpest explosions from Mulhall disclosures came as Underwood attacked Mulhall before the lobby committee He denied knowing Mulhall and charged him with lying in a letter On oath he said he had never talked with Emery or Kirby and Mulhall claimed payments to janitors and money trails were real He warned Mulhall that he would produce witnesses to prove parts of his testimony false
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Washington
Mulhall
Underwood
Emery
Kirby
Senator Walsh
Harry Neal
Harry Thornton
Ways and Means
Pennsylvania
Labor Committee
Tit
Watson
Nils
Underool
Chinese Revolt Believed Failure Reported
Rebels bombard the foreign settlement in Shanghai with no loss of life reported. Americans believe the revolutionaries are failing, while Washington says the republic advances toward suppression and that the revolt may collapse soon. foreigners remain safe according to dispatches.
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Shanghai
China
Washington
State Department
Businessmen ask Ferris to investigate strike
Calumet Michigan July 29 business men wired Governor Ferris to-day to come personally to investigate the strike. No disorders are reported. The strikers insist that the presence of the militia is unnecessary.
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Calument
Mich
Ferris
Mutinous Convicts Taken to Auburn
Ossington New York July 29 under heavy guard the sixty convicts who mutinous at Sing Sing left for Auburn prison today. The men were given no opportunity to begin disorder.
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Ossington
Manacles
Sing Sing
Auburn Prison
In voluntary bankruptcy filing for Buffalo Bill shows
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in Trenton New Jersey against the Buffalo Bill Wild West and Pawnee Bill Great Far East shows. Service was made on Gordon W. Little, company president. Ancillary proceedings will start in Denver. Assets and liabilities not stated.
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Trenton
N. J
Gordon W. Little
New Jersey
Denver
Steward's Cup Won by Lord Annandale
Lord Annandale wins the Steward's Cup in a six furlong handicap. Roy finishes second and Clgar takes third place in London on Jay 29.
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Stewariys Cup
Lord Annandale
London
Jay
Poor Roy
Clgar
Vice ring formed recruiting girls shocks California church
Mrs. Hester Griffith, a temperance worker, told the California Christian Church convention that a widespread vice ring recruits 2000 girls before January 15, raising about $200,000 and extending its operations across the nation, with San Francisco cited as the start point.
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Long Deach
Underworld
San Francisco
Hester Griffith
California Christian Church
Two Are Killed In G N Wreck At Whitefish Montana
Great Northern Fast Mail No 2 west bound wrecked west of Rockhill yesterday afternoon. Engineer Peck L Forcum and Fireman Carlsmith, both of Whitefish, killed. Express Messenger Lamb injured but to recover. Engine left rails and turned over. fire started but extinguished. Forcum an Whitefish alderman leaves a wife and two children. Smith married two months ago.
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Whitefish
Mont
Great Northern
Fast Mail
Rockhill
Peck L. Forcum
Carlsmith
Express
Lamb
Forcum
Smith
Centralia suit seeks 25000 dollars for malpractice
Olsen of Gate City sues Dr. J H Damon in Towls county superior court in Centralia for 25000 dollars claiming a March 1911 leg injury was mishandled. He says the leg was broken and treated as unbroken, leaving him crippled for life.
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Centralia
Wash
Olsen
Towls County Superior Court
J H. Damon
Gate City
Hill Will Not Be Changed Says Wilson
Washington July 24 President asserts administration currency bill appears practically framed and will be reported to house banking committees with no material changes differences in committee to be reconciled and next steps outlined by administration.
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Hill
Wilson
Washington
Administration
House Banking Committees
Fire Wipes Out Chinese Block Near Tallman Drug Store
Fire at 1:30 this morning destroyed two wooden buildings behind Tallman Drug Store in Pendleton Chinatown on Al a street west of Malin. The blaze, fanned by a northwest wind, gutted a noodle parlor and two Chinese stores, with only iron doors and water from inside saving adjacent structures. Claude Penland helped fight the flames from inside. crews used six hose streams but could not save the wooden block.
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Tallman Drug Store
Thompeen
Pendleton
Ala Street
Malin
Ecity
Tallman Drug
Thompson
Tall- Man
Penland
Cutie
Thompson Block
Claude Penland
Republicans Split Over Tariff Revision In Senate
About a dozen progressive Republican senators met to craft a substitute tariff schedule led by La Follette and Cummins. They oppose Smoot’s woolen tariff substitute and aim to win over the rest of the party and perhaps some Democrats, using the slogan that money alone won’t drive reform.
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Washington
Hearly
la Follette
Cummins
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
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Republic
International News Service
Mexico City
Mex
Revolutionary Army
Huérta
Auburn
G. N
Marvin
Moore
Charles Marvin
Government Weather Bureau
Moore Marvin
Columbus
Oho
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