Armistice Sought in U S Mexico Mediation Talks
South American mediators led by Da Gama Naon and Suarez propose an armistice to halt hostilities and protect nationals, with Huerta and the United States asked to cease active operations while mediation continues. The plan excludes reference to the Constitutionalists for now and awaits further steps.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Mexico
General Huerta
Ambassador da Gama
Brazil
Bryan
Huerta
Wilson
State Department
Berlin
da Gama
Naon
Suarez
Chile
Mexico City
Washington
Argentina Legation
Local Weather Forecast For San Antonio Area
Local forecast says Wednesday night and Thursday will be fair in San Antonio and vicinity with temperatures shown for several periods including early morning readings around 6 am and late evening values. The fragmentary text notes midnights and early mornings with low readings and warmer day levels, but exact numbers are not clear.
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San Antonio and Vicinity
Home Weather For Tourists Observations In Morning
Morning weather report for multiple cities with temperatures and conditions. Saint Louis at 52 cloudy with a west wind and 62 as the previous low. Chicago 54 cloudy with west wind 64. Milwaukee 40 rain and north wind 40. Saint Paul 34 cloudy cold 28. Kansas City 44 clear northwest wind 42. New York data unavailable. Washington 58 partly cloudy south wind rain and 66 as the low.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Japan declines 10 act as mediator in Mexican crisis
Washington April 29 The Japanese government was asked and declined to act for the Huerta administration through its Washington diplomats and consuls before Mexico’s Spain mission. The move aimed to keep strict neutrality between the United States and Mexico and was seen as a diplomatic master stroke by Huerta.
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Washington, D. C
Huerta
Washington
United States
Mexico
Spain
Wilson
Japan
Japanese Navy Officer Visits San Antonio Observing Mexican Treatment
D Mori of Tokio, a Japanese navy officer aboard the cruiser Idzumo, arrived in San Antonio from Galveston to assess treatment of Japanese residents amid the U S Mexico crisis. He travels with 8 S Shima of Dallas, treasurer of Southern Products Co. Mori plans to return to Mexico to safeguard Japanese interests and does not speak English.
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D. Mori
Tokio
Japan
San Antonio
Galveston
Mexico
Shima
Dallas
Southern Products Company
Mori
Mexico City
Republic
United States
St. Anthony
Four Die in Portland Fire on East Side Block
A major blaze in an east Portland block early today killed at least four people and left others burned. Four bodies were recovered as crews continued a search for additional victims. many tenants escaped from the row of frame homes after the fire started in the house of G. T. Smith.
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Portland
Ore
G. T. Smith
Sinclair and wife arrested in New York protest at Standard Oil
Upton Sinclair his wife and three women were arrested in New York after a protest outside the Standard Oil building against the Colorado coal strike. The group carried crepe bands and American flags. others including Mrs Belle N Silverman and Mrs Elizabeth Freeman faced charges of disorderly conduct.
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New York
Upton Sinclair
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Standard Oil
Colorado
Rockefeller
Belle N. Silverman
Silverman
Old Slip
Sinclair
Elizabeth Freeman
Emeline Pankhurst
Margaret Remington Charter
Donie Lieber
Broadway
Mr. Rockefeller
British Ship Erroll Ashore Off Hatteras Coast
The British freighter Erroll, en route from New York to Savannah with cargo, ran aground last night on the Hatteras coast near Oregon Inlet in heavy fog. Crew declined lifeboat rescue. ship initially misidentified as the Argo but later confirmed.
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Erroll
Norfolk
New York
Savannah
Hatteras
Oregon Inlet
Argo
Texas Greeks Offer Services in War with Mexico
About 600 Greeks living in Texas offered their services to Governor Colquitt for use in case of war with Mexico. The pledge was made by Zack Sakellaris of Temple who said he represented the Greek community in Texas and would go to the front if called upon.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Colquitt
Mexico
Zack Sakellaris
Temple
Veterans Ready for Service in Mexican Tensions
John B. Hood Camp of Confederate Veterans adopted resolutions offering their services to the president to sustain and support the government and national honor in any capacity during possible hostilities with Mexico. The Austin Texas note is dated April 29.
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Austin
Tex
John B. Hood
United States
Mexican Republic
Tampico Faces Danger From Overflowing Oil Wells
In Tampico Mexico on April 27 reports say no damage to wells in Tampico and Panuco yet Corona wells overflow. Thousands of barrels leak daily with no fix. Experts fear retaining reservoirs will overflow within a week, risking river contamination and possible fire endangering Tampico and river mouth.
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Tampico
Mex
Vera Cruz
Panuco
Corona
Postpone Fort Sam Houston Horse Show to Saturday
Wet ground from heavy rain forces postponement of the military horse show at Fort Sam Houston. The event, originally set for Wednesday, is rescheduled for Saturday afternoon as rain and troop movements prompted program readjustments. A large crowd of horsemanship enthusiasts waits for the showcase.
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Fort Sam Houston
Cavalry Squadrons Move to Rockies for Mine Strike District
The War Department reports the second squadron of the Fifty cavalry left Fort Leavenworth Kansas early today for Trinidad Colorado in the mine strike district. Troops E and H of the Twelfth cavalry at Fort Russell also departed to be on standby for service at Canyon City.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Fifty Cavalry
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Trinidad
Colo
Twelfth Cavalry
Fort D. A. Russell
Canyon City
Walsen
Freemont County
Fifth Cavalry
Boulder County
Colorado
Louisville
Colorado labor war reports death toll and militia withdrawal
Seven men killed as Forbes camp of Rocky Mountain Fuel burns amid clashes. Nine defenders missing, believed at Majestic mine. Governor Ammons says militia will withdraw once Federal troops occupy strike districts. quiet mostly returns with isolated incidents at Forbes and Walsenburg. Volunteers organize in Boulder County as Freemont County troops approach.
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Forbes
Colo
Trinidad
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company
Majestic
Denver
Ammons
Colorado
Ludlow
Walsenburg
Conference called to resolve Colorado mine strike
President Wilson asked the Kentucky Mine Operators Association and the Alabama Mine Operatives to Washington for mediation talks. They may select a third party to proceed to Colorado. The Italian ambassador sought protection for Italians amid strike riots following the murder of six Italian children.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Kentucky Mine Operators’ Association
Alabama Mine Operatives Organization
Washington
Colorado
Department of Labor
Secretary of State
Mosquitoes Topic in Congress Deliberates Engineer Testimony
Members of the House rivers and harbors committee discussed Sir William Willcocks testimony on Nile drainage and malaria control. He cited Khartoum's mosquito problem solved by drainage and fined mosquitos, and urged wide Mississippi dikes and stone lining to prevent riverbank cave-ins.
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Washington, D. C
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
William Willcocks
Assuan
Nile
Suez Canal
Khartoum
Sir William
Mississippi River
Mississippi
United States
Lake steamer Benjamin Noble sunk near Duluth
Reports from the life saving crew indicate the steamer Benjamin Noble with twenty aboard was sunk in Lake Superior off Minnesota point in a violent storm. Wreckage and life boats found. five vessels headed for the port overdue. A blizzard followed a 48 hour storm, pounding Park Point where about 1500 residents live.
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Duluth
Minn
Benjamin Noble
Lake Superior
Minnesota Point
William H. Truesdale
Heffelfinger
Shelton Parks
David Z. Norton
Park Point
St. Louis Bay
Mexican appoints Mendez to executive vice president
At the National Railways of Mexico board meeting in New York Santiago Mendez was elected executive vice president. The new post was created due to President Brown's temporary absence from Mexico City.
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New York
The
National Railways of Mexico
Santiago Mendez
Brown
Mexico City
Prohibition Democrats to hear Col Ball in Austin Tuesday
Col. Thomas H. Ball, candidate for governor, will speak in Austin next Tuesday evening. Judge T.S. Johnson, chairman of the Travis County Tom Ball Club, announced the event.
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Austin
Tex
Thomas H. Ball
Prohibition Democrats
T.S. Johnson
Travis County
Tom Ball Club
Explosion at Eccles Collieries Leaves Dozens Dead or Trapped
An explosion at New River Collieries in Eccles West Virginia wrecked mines No 5 and No 6, killing at least eleven and entombing many more. Rescue efforts by miners engineers and doctors continued as authorities reported eighty survivors and a hopeful but grim search for others.
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Eccles
W. Va
New River Collieries Company
No. 5
No. 6
Thomas Donaldson
Becksley
Deed 5 Passed for Soledad Street Widening
Maverick estate transferred a strip of land on the Buckhorn saloon site to the city for the Soledad street widening project. Plans will be ready in ten days and remodeling of the building will begin to conform to the new street line between Houston and Commerce streets.
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Maverick
Soledad Street
Houston
Commerce Streets
Texas man fights death sentence on sanity plea
Porfirio Torres, condemned for Ike Hill’s 1913 murder near Fowlerton, seeks a sanity trial after the Court of Criminal Appeals upheld his death sentence. District Judge Chambliss ordered a hearing on the insanity motion. jurors would decide sanity or execution, or the governor could commute.
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F. G. Chambliss
Torres
Chambliss
Becker's Second Trial Set for Next Week in Rosenthal Case
New York April 29 The second trial of ex Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for the murder of Herman Rosenthal begins next week. Attorney Martin T Manton, new counsel, joins in Whitman motion for 300 talesmen to select a jury and declares readiness to proceed. This comes after expected request for postponement due to unfamiliarity with the case.
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New York
Charles Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Martin T. Manton
Becker
Charles S. Whitman
Mr. Manton
Justice Seabury
Leased AP Day Report Dominate City News Digest
The San Antonio HT prints the Associated Press Leased Day Report as the primary daily news digest. It notes the AP report spans roughly 20,000 words and serves as the world's most trusted news service. The Light adds three of its own special reports to the publication.
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San Antonio
Missionaries Safe as Mexico Reports Reach Agencies
New York, April 29. Fears for Protestant missionaries in Mexico eased after the Methodist Episcopal foreign mission boards received word from Mexico City that Rev. John Buckner says all are well and property safe. Episcopal board reports Bishop Henry D Aves and family with Rev. L H Tracey and Miss Me Peters are leaving for the United States, with seven other missionaries to visit Mexico City and vicinity. Some agencies note unclear interior status.
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New York
Mexico
Methodist Episcopal Foreign Mission Boards
Mexico City
John Buckner
Methodist
Methodist Board
Episcopal Board
Thomas Phillips
Henry D. Aves
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