Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand shocks Vienna
In Sarajevo Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his morganatic wife the Duchess of Hohenberg are killed after a bomb attack and a second shooting by Gavrilo Princip. The emperor's line faces a succession shift as Archduke Charles Francis becomes heir due to the morganatic birth. The tragedy follows a history of royal misfortune and public mourning spreads.
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Francis Ferdinand
Saravejo
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Duchess of
Archduke
Count von Boos-Waldeck
Merizzo
Gavrio Prinaip
Vienna
Sarajevo
House of Hasburg
Lebenge
Archduke Maximilian
Mexico
Paris
Stahrenberg Lake
Maximilian Joseph
Duke of
Bavaria
Geneva
Tudolph
Meyerling
Marie Vettera
Archduke Charles Francis
Karl
Imperial House
Major General Bell Meets Bliss in San Antonio
General J Franklin Bell commander of the second division arrived in San Antonio to confer with Brigadier General Tasker Bliss about the militia encampment and school of instruction to be held at Texas City in August. Texas and Louisiana militia will attend. Bell will also discuss Mexican affairs before leaving for Austin to meet Adjutant General Hutchings.
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J. Franklin Bell
Texas City
San Antonio
Tasker H. Bliss
Southern Department
Texas
Louisiana
Bell
Bliss
Oklahoma
Arkansas
New Mexico
Arizona
Austin
Henry Hutchings
Edwin E. Booth
General Bliss
General Bell
Philippines
Mayor opposes 700 appropriation for Brackenridge zoo
The mayor told Edward W. Heusinger he would oppose a 500 monthly budget for zoo maintenance, risking cuts to Brackenridge park when a tax-rate increase is avoided. Scientific Society members plan a Monday meeting to debate the budget dilemma and consider raising funds and a maintenance appropriation.
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Brown
Brackenridge Park
Edward W. Heusinger
Scientific Society
Heusinger
Harry Hertzberg
C. C. Higgins
J. F. Howard
Weather notes for travelers across major cities
Observations from St Louis to Boston report today’s highs and lows with wind directions and chances of rain. St Louis 62 cloudy NW wind. Chicago 68 cloudy. Milwaukee 54 cloudy. Kansas City 62 partly cloudy. New York 60 cloudy with possible rain. Washington 74 clear with likely rain. Boston 58 cloudy with possible rain.
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New York
Washington
Boston
Underwood Presses Quorum as House Faces Key Bills
Washington June 29 Democratic Majority Leader Underwood vows to keep House members in town or face arrest to speed action on annual appropriation bills before June 30. Field day tactics focus on cotton futures regulation and the general administration bill amid fights over conservation and states rights. In the Senate the anti trust program, including the trade commission, Clayton bill and railway securities measures remain pending.
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Washington, D. C
Underwood
General Administration
Senate
Trade Commission
Plague Campaign Opens As New Orleans Sees Death
Surgeon General Blue announces federal measures to combat bubonic plague in New Orleans after one death and one case. Rat catching and fumigation supplies are sent, with a team including Surgeon Creel to lead eradication efforts and warnings issued to coastal and Mississippi River states to prevent spread.
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Washington, D. C
Blue
Public Health Service
New Orleans
Creel
The
Atlantic Coast
Mississippi River
Iowa
Child Thought Drowned in San Antonio River Search
Maggie Peabody eighteen months old daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl T Peabody of 107 Sun Street is believed to have drowned in the San Antonio river. The father neighbors and police dragged the river Sunday night and Monday with no result. The child vanished shortly after six from home and may have fallen into the stream near the house. No trace found.
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Maggie Peabody
Carl T. Peabody
Sun Street
San Antonio
City council probes La Salle Trust Bank funds split
Chicago June 29 The council formed a committee to identify recipients of a city funds split from La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank deposits. The total believed to be 7752 with 3 percent paid by the bank, 2 1 4 percent to the city, and 3 4 percent to an unidentified official. Bank officers and city finance officials were summoned. the receiver said the culprit would be named at the meeting as state and federal grand juries prepare to hear insolvency matters.
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Chicago
la Salle Street Trust & Savings Bank
C. B. Munday
W. C. Niblack
House Passes Lever Bill to Curb Cotton Gambling
Washington June 29 The Lever bill aimed at ending gambling on cotton exchanges passed the House by 84 to 21. New Orleans June 29 The Louisiana Supreme Court ordered William C Walters released after holding invalid the kidnapping law used to convict him in Opelousas for abducting Robert Dunbar in April 1912. Walters had been sentenced to life.
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Washington, D. C
House
New Orleans
William C. Walters
Opelousas
Robert Dunbar
Louisiana Supreme Court
Walters
Disorder at Westinghouse strikes in Pittsburgh
Disorder broke out as striking Westinghouse workers surrounded entrances and blocked entry to the electric works in Pittsburgh. Deputies and twenty special officers could not restore order, with Sheriff Richards to decide later if state troops would be summoned. Union Switch and Signal workers returned to work on the last day of the pledge to consider themselves employees if not back.
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Pittsburg
Westinghouse
Pittsborg
G. W. Richards
Union Switch and Signal Company
Electric and Machine Works
Japanese anxiety over land rules in Panama Pacific show
Japan debates alien land ownership as Panama Pacific Exposition looms. Congressmen Ainey visits Tokyo and is greeted as a friend of the United States at a special session. In Washington, President Wilson delays action on the Butte strike. troops stay at Vancouver barracks, no move to Fort Missoula for now.
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Tokio
California
Japan
William D. Ainey
Pennsylvania
United States
Mr. Ainey
House
American Congress
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Butte
Mont
Vancouver Barracks
Fort Missoula
Leased Wire Day Report From AP Featured In San Antonio Light
The San Antonio Light runs the AP Leased Wire Day report and its own large special news service. The daily AP wire provides about 26,000 words of general news, supplemented by additional exclusive coverage.
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San Antonio
Associated Press
Cartanza and Villa near breaking point
Lack of ammunition blocks Villa's march toward Mexico City after his Zacatecas victory. Villa returns to Torreon with his army, while Carranza refuses to let him import cartridges via Tampico. The embargoed border and contested supply routes heighten tensions between the two leaders.
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Villa
Torreon
EL Paso
Tex
Carranza-Villa
Tampico
United States
Zacatecas
Carranza
Monterey
Anchor Line Steamer Goes Ashore In Dense Fog
A wireless from the Anchor liner California reports it struck Tory Island in dense fog at 9 20 pm. The Cassandra and three torpedo boat destroyers aided, passengers began disembarking at daybreak, no loss of life. transfers ongoing with Cassandra and destroyers assisting.
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London
Malin Head
California
Tory Island
Cassandra
Lynx
Resignation and new appointments in Texas Panama Commission
Mrs Henry B Fall of Houston resigned from the Texas Panama Pacific exposition commission. Governor accepted and named Col Ahe Gross of Waco to fill the vacancy and chair the commission. Ira Nelson Morris of Chicago is poised for the Swedish ambassadorship with Senators supporting him. Stockholm post currently vacant.
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Abe Gross
Waco
Exposition Commission
Austin
Tex
Henry
Houston
Ahe Gross
Gross
Sweden
Washington, D. C
Ira Nelson Morris
Chicago
Lewis
Stockholm
Weir Kansas Principal Killed by Live Wire
Rex R. Tanner principal of Weir High School was struck by a live wire during a fire in Pittaburg Pennsylvania and died. The incident occurred today and his death was reported from the scene.
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Pittaburg
Rex R. Tanner
Weir
Kan
Mediation talks in doubt as Carranza agents urge action
Anxious dispatches from Washington report Carranza agents pressing for a quick mediation conference with Huerta and U S representatives. Alfredo Breceda and Luis Cabrera push for definite plans while factions among Constitutionalist leaders warn that military campaigns would not stop. Reports cite growing rifts between Villa and Carranza while Huerta weakens in Zacatecas and eyes San Luis Potosi and Queretaro.
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Washington
D. C
Cap
Carranza
Mr. Cabrera
Villa @ Carranza
Alfredo Bré
Ceda
Cabrera
Fernando Iglesias Calderon
Mexico
Zacatecas
Huerta
Ite
Breceda
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Royal Pair
Vicinity
Tae As
Sane
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Salem
Mass
International News Service
M. Tex
Steiner
Galveston
Council
Cartanza
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