Mediation Efforts Pivot on Lobos Island Incident
President Wilson meets Brazilian ambassador Dagama as Mexican crisis looms. US mediators, including Justice Lamar and Frederick Lehman, prepare to confer at Niagara Falls with Huerta’s government and wait on naval updates about Lobos Island. Retired soldiers urged to report for possible service as tensions rise.
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Niagara Falls
Washington
Wilson
White House
Dagama
Brazil
Mexico City
Ruiz
United States
Lobos Island
Navy Department
Howard
Huerta
Pacific Coast
Atlantic
Lobos
Vera, Cruz
Tampico
Blanquilleo
Joseph P. Lama
United States Supreme Court
Frederick W. Lehman
St. Louis
Lamar
Lehman
War and Navy Departments
Garrison
Wotherspoon
Puerto Mexico
Adjutant General's Office
The
War Department
Zapata
Duke of Connaught
Canada
Mexico
Ontario
Accidental Shooting Fatality Near Luverne
In Luverne Minnesota on May 12 Moriarity a 24 year old man accidentally shot himself during gopher hunting the bullet entered his head below the chin authorities reported the nature of the accident.
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Luverne, Minn
Wwih Moriarity
Record Winter Wheat Crop At 630 Million Bushels Estimated
Washington May 9 department of agriculture reports the 1913 winter wheat crop may reach 630000000 bushels, larger than last year and 1912. Acreage to harvest stands at a record 365887000 acres with Kansas and Oklahoma lifting output. Indicated yields are 17.8 bushels per acre and spring plowings exceed 70 percent.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Oklahoma
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
S. Dak
Montana
Thaw Habeas Corpus Case Appealed in Concord
New York state filed a bill of exceptions to Judge Edgar Aldrich the decision granting Thaw's habeas corpus petition. The bond covers costs for the U S Supreme Court where Thaw’s status will be decided. Thaw not present. represented by Shurtleff Jerome Kennedy Jacobs.
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Concord
N. H
New York State
Edgar Aldrich
Harry K. Thaw
Lancaster
William T. Jerome
Franklin K. Kennedy
New York
Bernard Jacobs
Thaw
Holman Drew
Coos County
Supreme Court
Suffragists Parade in Washington Demands Voting Rights
Delegations from nearly every state march 5 000 to 10 000 suffragists from the White House to the Capitol urging Bristow Mendell resolution for a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote.
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Washington
White House
Capitol
Women Oppose Territorial Conquest Resolution Endorses Wilson
The American delegation of the International council of women led by Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett adopted a resolution supporting President Wilson's Mobile speech that the United States will not seek territorial expansion by conquest. They urged Congress and all U.S. women to back this stance.
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Rome
International Council of Women
Kate Waller Barrett
Washington
Wilson
Mobile
United States
St Wre
American Congress
Women of
Willison
Etna Earthquake Destroys Villages Killing Many
An earthquake and volcanic eruption on Mount Etna near Catania killed at least 135 people and injured 283. Destruction spread across Linera and surrounding villages with trains, churches, and homes ruined. Refugees flood Catania as the army navy and Red Cross mobilize for relief amid continued tremors and fires.
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Mount
Etna
Army
Navy
Rome
Red Cross
Lfe
Mount Etna
Linera
Cosenti
Santa Marta
Acercale
Venerina
Zerbati
Pennisi
Belpasso
Maria
Vergine
Mangano
Zafferanao
Wireless message from Boston reaches Mongolia
Pacific Mail liner Mongolia at San Francisco reports its wireless operator received a Boston transmission on the night of April 21, eight thousand five hundred miles distant, from the ship while enroute from the Orient.
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San Francisco
Cal
Pacific Mail
Mongolia
Boston
Eggs Pay Church Expenses at Harmony Church
In Ravenwood Missouri on May 11 church members devised a plan after eggs collected at services replaced regular offerings. A total of 168 dozen eggs were placed in the collection boxes to cover church expenses and support the preacher.
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Ravenwood
Harmony Church
Here
Harmony
Congress to Adjourn by July 10 Hopes Rise on Senate Hour
Congress eyes an early adjournment as the Senate moves its meeting hour to 11 a m and the House plans a Democratic caucus to outline a program including adjournment. Leaders expect passage of key bills and a close vote on the national prohibition amendment.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Underwood
Canal to Open for Warships by May 16
Panama May 11 Colonel George W Goethals governor of the Panama canal zone says torpedo boats may pass the canal at Secretary of the Navy Daniels request He expects to obtain approval from Secretary of War Garrison to send ships through on or about May 16 after a 30 foot channel is cut through the slide at Cucaracha by then
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Panama
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal Zone
Daniela
Cucaracha
Private Parks Executed in Mexican Territory Report
A report from Vera Cruz says Private Parks, orderly to Lt Col Elmore Taggart, was executed by Mexicans near Te tra after disappearing Thursday with two of Taggart’s horses. The source notes the information is not conclusive and cites a Mexican railroad worker who heard from a Mass soldier.
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Vera Cruz
Parks
Elmore Taggart
Taggart
Tetra
Airship Turns Turtle Kills Utica Aviator
Percival Van Ness of Utica a licensed aviator died when his new biplane turned turtle in Utica New York on May 11. The crash occurred during a test flight and authorities investigated the accident.
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Utica
N. Y
Percival van Ness
Home Rule Compromise Opposed by Redmond
London reports Irish Nationalist leader John Redmond opposes negotiations on home rule until the bill clears the Lords. After a lengthy talk with Premier Asquith, the government plans to speed final Commons stages, with the Irish Home Rule bill proceeding toward law as is.
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London
John Redmond
Ireland
House of Lords
Asquith
House of Commons
Seventeen Vera Cruz Casualties Honored By Montana Escort
The Montana brought home seventeen sailors and marines killed at Vera Cruz. President Wilson led national honors in New York as caissons carried the dead to Brooklyn Navy Yard for burial. The cortege included naval detachments and schoolchildren sang in City Hall plaza.
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Montana
New York
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Wilson
Congress
Vera Cruz
New York Harbor
Virginia Capes
Daniels
Navy Department
Washington
Wyoming
Texas
New York Naval
City Hall Plaza
Manhattan
Ilson
Hhe
Senate
Case
Louis Frank Boswell
Coultersville
Ill
Michigan
St. Louis
Gabriel A. Defabrio
Batavia
N. Y
New Jersey
Francis P. Delowry
Pittsburgh
New Hampshire
Frank Devorick
Albia
Iowa
South Carolina
Elzie C. Fisher
Hays
Miss
Louis Oscar Fried
Gretna
Arkansas
E.H. Frohlichstein
Mobile
Ala
Dennis J. Lane
New York City
Ireland
George Poinsett
Philadelphia
Florida
John F. Schumacher
Brooklyn
Charles Allen Smith
Randolph Summerlin
Willacoochee
Vermont
Huerta Refuses to Step Down Amid Mexican Crisis
Report from Vera Cruz dated May 11 states Mexicans arriving from Mexico City say General Huerta will not abandon the presidency and would see the capital in ashes before leaving. Rebels near the Federal capital, especially Gepata followers, continue campaigning against Huerta’s government.
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Vera Cruz
Mexico
Huerta
Gepata
War Department to Permit Ludlow Tent Colony Rehab Under Restrictions
President Wilson through the War Department orders no import of strike breakers and sets a time limit for arms delivery. Colonel James Lockett to oversee rehabilitation of the Ludlow tent colony with a roll of inhabitants and a union man in charge. Limited mine reopening permitted only for those employed by April 22, 1914. forcible seizure to follow.
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Trinidad
Colo
Wilson
War Department
James Lockett
Colorado
W. A. Holbrook
Lockett
Ludlow
Holbrook
Major Holbrook
United Mine Workers of America
Rail Head Struck By Auto in Richmond Transit
Decatur Axtell vice president of Chesapeake and Ohio railway was struck by an automobile while crossing near his Richmond office. He suffered a severe scalp cut and nerve shock.
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Richmond
Decatur Axtell
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Warship Morelos Blown Up off Mazatlan
Rear Admiral Howard reports the abandoned Mexican gunboat Morelos was boarded set on fire and blown up by the constitutionalists at Mazatlan All Americans are reported safe. The constitutionalist artillery at San Piedras island drove the Mexican transport Korrigan from the harbor with skirmishing at Mazatlan ongoing.
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Howard
Pacific’fleet
Morelos
Mazatlan
San Piedras Island
Korrigan
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