Carranza Rejects Talks With Huerta for Provisional Rule
Reports from New Orleans and Niagara Falls show Carranza’s envoy Alfredo Breceda insisting no meeting with Huerta representatives will occur to name a provisional Mexican president. Mediators pursue an informal congress but U S insists on a settlement. Changes loom in the Carranza cabinet as Hay and Gabrera draw attention.
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New Orleans
Carranza
United States
Huerta
Alfred Breceda
Washington
Fernando Calderon
Liberal Party
Mexico
R. F. Villaviccensio
Saltillo
Breceda
Associated Press
Niagara Falls
Ont
el Paso
Texas
General Trevino
Ysidro Fabela
University of Notre Dame
Indiana
Fabela
Mexico City
Luis Gabrera
Hay
Gabrera
Judge Speer Held Despot in His Court Declined Impeachment
Washington June 23 The special subcommittee reported it cannot recommend a complete acquittal or impeachment of Judge Emory Speer of the Southern District of Georgia. It found some actions threaten tyranny yet urged no further proceedings, leaving final disposition to the House Judiciary Committee.
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Washington
Judge Speer
House Judiciary Committee
Emory Speer
Maégon
Georgis
Illinois
Volsfeid
Minnesota
Repub- Mean
Speer
A. H. Heyward
Georgia
Courts of Appeal
Chargeeer
Senate
Volstead
Weather forecast and celestial events for Davenport area
The forecast covers Davenport Rock Island Moline and vicinity with fair weather tonight and Wednesday. Temperatures show a 7 am reading of 73 with a high yesterday of 81 and a low of 70. Winds mild, precipitation 0.52 inch, humidity near 93 percent at 7 pm and 82 percent at 7 am. Stage of water 9.1, down 0.2 in 24 hours. Astronomical notes include Mercury Venus Jupiter Saturn and Mars positions with Saturn conjunction to the Moon at 12 24 am and Mars near Regulus by 9 pm.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Mercury
Venna Hs
Jupiter
Saturn
Mars
Petras Trial Jury Hope Hopes For Week
Geneva June 23 Tony Petras on trial for the murder of his former fiancee Theresa Hollander in an Aurora cemetery said he liked the looks of the 100 men summoned for a special jury panel. Attorneys hope a juror is seated by week’s end as the court filled with spectators.
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Geneva
Tony Petras
Theresa Hollander
Aurora
Petras
Gary
Henry Young
Warren Andrus
Sheriff's Office
Young
Ships collide during Cuxhaven regatta injures none
In Hamburg on June 28 the North German Lloyd steamer Koenigin Luise and the German steamer Cobra collided during the Cuxhaven regatta. Both ships were damaged and many passengers aboard were landed safely. The Koenigin Luise sustained a bent stove and a leaking fore peak while the Cobra suffered severe midship damage.
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Hamburg
Germany
Cuxhaven
Wanamaker Sees Bright Labor Future in United States
Philadelphia June 23 John Wanamaker urged recognizing labor organizations and urged possible public ownership of utilities to ease industrial strife. He said labor has suffered from poor leadership but sees rising educated workers and new leadership. He favored eight hours or less and experiments with a minimum wage for women. He criticized political party entanglements of unions and emphasized employer contact to reduce misunderstandings.
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Philadelphia
John Wanamaker
Federal Commission of Industrial Relations
Snonio
Wanamaker
Departments of Commerce and Labor
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Wilson
Colorado
Weinstock
Commission
Congress
Business Men to Labor on Farms in Hoxie Kansas
Hoxie Kansas June 23 with the wheat harvest urgent a delegation of farmers appealed to business leaders to recruit local labor after east imported harvest hands quit due to heat. Barbers posted Saturdays only signs while officials dressed down and stores were run by young clerks as the town mobilized to field workers. Mrs Westinghouse Dean Lennox Moss June 23 Mrs George Westinghouse widow of the inventor died after a paralytic stroke. Justice Swayze New Jersey rules passengers without seats cannot be charged fares.
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Hoxie
Kan
Westinghouse Dean
Lennox
Moss
George Westinghouse
Shea
Justice Swayze
New Jersey
Lions and Lovers in Lunatic Zoo Tragedy
Chicago reports an inquest into the accidental death of Emerson D. Dietrich killed and partly eaten by vaudeville lions at Lincoln Park Zoo. Keeper Cy DeVry praised an undertaker for suggesting formaldehyde to control the animals. Miss Adsie Castillo, Dietrich’s fiancée, testified while defending keeper McCord amid blame over Dietrich’s death. Castillo remains in Chicago awaiting Dietrich’s parents.
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Chicago
Ill
Cy DeVry
Lincoln Park Zoo
South Dearborn Street
Emerson D. Dietrich
DeVry
Peter M. Hoffman
L. C. Ball
Adsie Castillo
Trilby
Sixteenth and
Clark Streets
Teddy
Dietrich
Hoffman
George A. Webster
Miss Castillo
George McCord
McCord
Fin
Brooklyn
De Rothschild Shot in Paris Front of Cafe
Paris June 22 Francota Prudhon an aged man shot Dr Henri de Rothschild the writer and philanthropist Saturday in front of a boulevard cafe The attack follows tensions around his activities and politics in Paris support for reform efforts remain unclear as authorities investigate the motive
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Paris
Francota Prudhon
Henri de Rothschild
Cabinet Favors Pork Barrel Cut
Washington June 23 at the cabinet meeting general approval was given to an amendment to the rivers and harbors bill. The proposal would establish a government commission to map a comprehensive plan of internal waterway improvements and do away with the pork barrel system of appropriations. Reports before the cabinet cited revolutionary conditions in Haiti as serious and requiring immediate solution.
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Washington, D. C
Haiti
Canal benefits go to Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington June 23 The Supreme Court decision on the intermountain rate case assigns the Panama canal freight advantage to the Interstate Commerce Commission rather than the transcontinental railroads The court states the commission will determine how interior points may share in water competition benefits already enjoyed by seaboard cities outlining the new distribution of potential rate reductions and adjustments across the country.
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Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court
Panama Canal
Atlantic Seaboard
Pacific Coast
Seaboard
Parcel Post Tires Star Route Carriers Quit Jobs
Scores of star route carriers in the Pacific Northwest refuse to renew mail contracts over freight traffic. Retirements or demands for 5000 to 15000 yearly follow parcel post duties moving freight to distant counties. Also notes three local tragedies: a boy killed in Champaign County auto crash and an elderly man dead after streetcar collision in Wisconsin.
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Star Route
Tacoma
Pacific Northwest
Post Office Department
Summers resorts under scrutiny for typhoid risk
Springfield report cites extensive evidence that summer resorts spread typhoid due to inadequate sanitation. Illinois Board of Health, with Governor Dunne approval, has begun sanitary surveys of resorts statewide. Inspections aim to finish by July with August rechecks, including public picnic groves where feasible.
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Springfield
Ill
Chicago
Illinois
Illinois State Board of Health
Dunne
Death ends bench trip. Circuit Judge Shirley dies en route
Springfield Ill June 23 Circuit Judge Robert B Shirley died yesterday after a heart attack at Carlinville Interurban station as he prepared to take a car to Springfield to hold court. Governor Dunne will appoint a successor.
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Shirley
Springfield
Ill
Robert B. Shirley
Carlinville
Dunne
Three Die When Train Hits Auto in Michigan Crash
Greenville Michigan scene as a Pere Marquette auto train wreck kills Mrs Roy Beardalee, her two year old son, and Mrs C C Merritt. A fourth woman is seriously injured in the collision involving four women and the child traveling in a car struck by a Pere Marquette railroad train today.
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Greenville
Mich
Mra
Roy Beardalee
C. C. Merritt
Wireless plays sea tune heard by Highland Scot
Strains from a gramophone playing The Merry Widow Waltz and God Save the King were heard by wireless on the Nelson line steamship Highland Scot during a voyage to Buenos Aires, while passing Vigo. It was later traced to a private Mrs Pennybacker Improved. South Bend, Ind report says Mrs Percy Pennybacker, president of the General Federation of Women's clubs, who suffered a nervous collapse near Mishawaka, is improved.
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London
Nelson Line
Highland Scot
Buenos Aires
Bir
Vigo
Pennybacker
South Bend
Ind
Percy Pennybacker
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Mishawaka Eer
Aee
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Guaymas
Bonillas
Bonilla
Funston
Am Caa
Vera Cruz
Heinrichs Thobe
Jamison
Shaw
Merchant Prince
Eastern Harvest
Kansas
Adgie Castillo
DE Rothschild
Prudhon
Dr. de Rothschild
Champaign
William Dobson
dAvesdale
Champaign County
Janesville
Wis
Michael Murphy
State Board of Health
Wireless
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