Two Tickets Likely as Republican and Progressive Meet
At the Chicago conventions on June 8 the Hughes boom gains ground for the Republican ticket while Roosevelt looms for the Progressives. Nomination decisions loom in the Coliseum with no clear adjournment plan as weather and pace affect proceedings.
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Resolutions Committee
Roosevelt
Hughes
Victor Murdock
Progressive National Committee
Representative Searcher
Massachusetts
Potegate
Murdock
National Committee
President Wilson Signs Resolution for San Antonio Exposition
The president signs a congressional joint resolution authorizing federal participation in the Texas Bi Centennial and Pan American Exposition in San Antonio for 1918. The photo shows the White House inner sanctum with Wilson at his desk flanked by Culberson Garner Sack and Sheppard. Harris & Ewing captured the moment.
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Wilson
San Antonio
Congress
Texas
White House
Charles A. Culberson
John N. Garner
Leo R. Sack
Washington
The
American Forces Hold in Readiness in Tien Tsin
London informs that American troops at Tien Tsin have received orders to stay ready. The move signals heightened alert as regional tensions rise.
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London
Tien Tsin
French Expedition Already on Way to Peking
An Exchange Telegraph report from Tien Tsin says US troops are ordered to be ready to move to Peking. French forces from Annam have sent native troops toward Peking. Li Yuan Hung receives loyalty assurances from his bodyguard. Movements raise fear of disturbances after Yuan Shikai’s death, though some dispatches suggest no major disorders.
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London
Tien Tsin
China
United States
Peking
Annam
Li Yuan Hung
Unsettled Weather Brings Cool Break After Heat Wave
A drop of twelve degrees at noon Wednesday and evening thunder showers cooled the city after ten days of temperatures six to eight degrees above normal. Rain ranged from .01 to over an inch across the region with several listed totals, and more unsettled weather was forecast for the next day.
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Brenham
Mexia
Columbus
Corsicana
Cuero
Huntsville
Nacogdoches
Temple
Waco
Kopperl
San Antonio
Dilley
Mexicans Plan Raids On Texas Towns
Reports circulate in Nuevo Laredo that large Mexican forces are assembling at Lasarita and Rodriguez about fifty miles south of the border to raid Texas towns. Rumors of raids on Saturday, June 10, have caused excitement and many Mexican families flee toward Monterey.
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Laredo
Tex
Lasarita
Rodriguez
Texas
Nuevo Laredo
Monterey
Weather Forecast From The Light Across Major Cities
Forecasts from The Light cover St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City New York and Washington with temperatures ranging from 50 to 60 degrees. Conditions vary from clear and partly cloudy to rain or possibly rain, with light to moderate winds from multiple directions. The lowest readings hover in the 48 to 66 degree range while highs reach the mid to upper 60s.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt Urges Unite for Genuine Americanism and Preparedness
Colonel Roosevelt appeals to the Progressive and Republican conventions in Chicago to forget differences and join for the safety and honor of the country. He promises to address the Republican gathering if invited and accuses President Wilson of aiding a democracy’s demise while warning of foreign influence from German-Americans.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Chicago
Senatilliam B. Jackson
Maryland
Trains Collide on Third Avenue Line. Several Feared Dead
Two elevated trains on the Third avenue line collided this afternoon in New York. Early reports said at least a dozen killed and forty injured. Ambulances summoned from nearby hospitals. Fire apparatus fought flames as they broke out at the scene.
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New York
Third Avenue Line
Republicans Adopt Suffrage in Principle and Wide Reform Platform
Chicago June 8. The Republican full resolutions committee restores a suffrage in principle pledge after a split vote 26 to 21 and a hurried call for absentees. Progressives outline broad national and international policies from tariffs to rural credits and Mexico. The platform rejects national prohibition and supports perfect neutrality in the war while endorsing motor training, Monroe Doctrine, and immigration literacy tests.
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Chicago
Progressive Committee
Hall
Mexico
Progressive Party
Republican Resolutions Committee
Republicans Resolution Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Recapture of Lutsk Reported by Russia
Petrograd reports Lutsk in Volhynia and nearby Austrian positions recaptured in a new offensive. The release says 58 officers and 11,000 men were captured yesterday, with Lutsk evacuated and Austrian lines broken by as much as twenty miles in the Lutsk sector.
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Lutsk
Russia
Volhynia
Allies Move to Restrict All Greek Ports
London reports official consideration of measures to restrict all Greek ports to block supplies to the enemy. The decision aims to prevent ships from reaching Greece and disrupt wartime logistics.
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Greece
London
Six More Bodies Recovered From Steamer Eleonore
In Memphis, six more bodies were recovered from the steamer Eleonore which capsized in the Mississippi River about twenty miles above Memphis during Monday night’s storm. The total recovered reaches ten, with more than twenty still missing. Government inspectors J B Wychoff and C T Greenwood located today announced a rigid investigation of the accident.
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Memphis
Tenn
Eleonore
Missispp
J. B. Wychoff
C.T. Greenwood
U S Forces in China Total 1530 Men
Washington reports 1530 American personnel in China including 1200 of the Fifteenth Infantry under Colonel Harry C. Hale stationed in Tien Tsin and along the line to Peking and a 330 man marine legation guard. Hale could move any part to Peking in an emergency. State Department notes a remarkably quiet Chinese republic in Peking dispatches.
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China
Japan
Tien Tsin
Peking
Washington, D. C
Fifteenth Infantry
Harry C. Hale
There
Legation
War Department
Hale
State Department
New Premier in Charge Peking
Marshal Chi Jui, newly named premier and war minister in Peking, says the military and police will cooperate to quell disturbances amid China’s unsettled politics. He meets with top ministers to plan if Yuan Shikai’s resignation becomes necessary, while foreigners are assured the central government remains guided by the provisional constitution.
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Peking
Marshal Chijui
China
Tuan Chi-jui
Wong Shih-teeng
Ju Chenghsiang
Tsao Ju-lin
Sun Pao-chi
Wang Yi-tang
Yuan Shikai
Riot Protests Prompt Military Intervention in Chihuahua
In Chihuahua City on June 8 a mass meeting against American troops sparked a riot. Military forces dispersed the demonstration after stones were thrown at the American consulate and the foreign club, viewed as American owned.
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Chihuahua City
Mex
Foreign Club
Vienna women in wild peace riots
An Amsterdam dispatch says peace demonstrators, mostly women, marched from Vienna to Schoenbrunn Castle, residence of the Emperor, demanding a separate peace with Russia. Some entered castle grounds and shouted beneath the emperor’s windows before being arrested. The castle then armed itself with machine guns.
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London
Amsterdam
Vienna
Schoenbrun Castle
Russia
Villistas to be hanged in Deming Friday
Juan and Francisco Alvarez two of the Villista bandits condemned to death for first degree murder for participation in the Columbus massacre were taken to Deming yesterday from the penitentiary here to be hanged Friday. The governor issued twenty one for further investigation of the other men.
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N. M
Juan
Francisco Alvarez
Villista
Columbus
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