Treasury and Navy Lead 1900s Deficiency Bill’s Large Items
Washington July 11 The House Appropriations Committee reported a general deficiency bill totaling 4 585 464 42 including public buildings and sites with many city and state allocations. The largest sums go to the treasury and navy departments. the latter 1 282 273 reflecting needs for Vera Cruz forces. Secretary Daniels named four new dreadnoughts Arizona California Mississippi Idaho, all 31 400 ton ships to be built at 608 feet long with 21 knot speed.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Aledo
Ill
Artus
Okla
Beaver Dam
Wis
Benton Harbor
Mich
Burlington
Butler
Canton
Carlinville
Till
Cedar Falls
Central City
Chapel Hill
N. C
Edenton
Thomasville
California
Modesto
San Luis Obispo
Colorado
Glennwood Springs
Sterling
Montrose
Florida
Key West
Georgia
Douglas
Dawson
Forsyth
Madison
Sandersville
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West Point
Ilinois
Chicago
Sixty-third Street
Havana
Highland
Jerseyville
Marion
Spring Valley
Indiana
Kendallville
Plymouth
Salem
Warsaw
Kansas
Cherryvale
Gerard
North Topeka
Missouri
Lebanon
Liberty
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Unionville
Ohio
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Delphos
Kenton
Washington Court House
Oklahoma
Durant
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Monessen
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Iowa
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Memphis
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Charleston
Alabama
Greenville
Treasury
Navy Departments
Navy
Vera Cruz
Navy Department
Daniels
Congress
New York Navy Yard
Arizona
Mississippi
Idaho
Union
Condition of crops in the United States
The crop reporting board of the department of agriculture released July 1 estimates of acreage and conditions for winter and spring wheat corn and related data. It lists yields per acre and total production for 1918 versus prior years, with figures for all wheat and data on miscellaneous crops.
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Washington
Crop Reporting Board
Department of Agriculture
Ulster Volunteers Mobilize Under Carson’s Call
Ulster provisional government gives Sir Edward Carson power to mobilize Ulster volunteers at a moment’s notice. The leaders arrive with MPs to a week at Capt. James Craig’s residence. Plans include an Orangemen’s Day celebration to pressure the British government over home rule.
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Belfast
Ireland
Ulster Unionists
Sir Edward Carson
Ulster Volunteers
Ulster
Sir Edward
Marquis of Londonderry
Viscount Castlereagh
Walter H. Long
Ronald McNeill
Ulster Provisional Government
James Craig
Great Britain
Cecil Macready
Asquith
Cairo
Egypt
London
Petras Murder Trial Jury Discharged After No Verdict
After three days of deliberation the Petras murder jury told Judge Irwin no verdict could be reached and was discharged. Petras remains jailed to be tried again on the charge of killing Tressie Hollander. State's Attorney Tyers plans perjury charges against two witnesses.
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Geneva
Ill
Tony Petras
Clinton F. Irwin
Petras
Tyers
Tressie Hollander
Homer Eddy
Anthony Petras
Pilot-boat New Jersey Sunk After Fog Collision
In New York on July 11 the steam pilot-boat New Jersey carrying 17 crew and 15 pilots was rammed in fog by the United Fruit liner Manchioneal in the outer harbor and sank. Three steamers stood by and rescued the crew.
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New York
New Jersey
United Fruit
Manchioneal
Strike Cost Michigan Exceeds Four Hundred Thousand
Lansing July 11 report shows the total expense of sending and maintaining troops in the copper country during the strike reached 405000 dollars. The state treasurer's office released the figures detailing the cost incurred by the intrusion of militia into mining districts.
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Michigan
Lansing
Mich
Senate Panel Rejects Jones for Fed Board Nomination
New York banker Thomas D. Jones was reported unfavorably by the Senate Banking and Currency Committee 7 to 4 for the governorship of the Federal Reserve Board. Warburg says he will let Wilson decide if he appears before the committee while awaiting his decision. Henry Ford meets Wilson as Warburg clarifies plans. House approves the Rucker publicity bill 108 to 19.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Banking and Currency
Thomas D. Jones
Chicago
Federal Reserve Board
Pomerene
Hollis
Shafroth and
Lee
Maryland
Jones
Hitchcock
Reed
Paul M. Warburg
Warburg
Henry Ford
Detroit
Wilson
White House
Ford
United States
Senate
Committee On Banking and Currency
House
Rucker
Mighty Nevada Is Launched In Massachusetts
The battleship Nevada, larger than any American warship except the Oklahoma, was launched at Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. Ten year old Eleanor Ann Siebert, niece of Gov Tasker L Oddie of Nevada, broke a bottle to christen the vessel named No 36 as it slid into Fore River. The Nevada displaces 28 400 tons full load and ranks only behind the Pennsylvania and No 39 in size.
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Quincy
Mass
Nevada
Oklahoma
Fore River Shipbuilding & Engineering Company
Fore River
Eleanor Ann Siebert
Tasker L. Oddie
Texas
New York
Pennsylvania
Brig. Gen Garret J Lydecker Dies at 71 in Detroit
Brig. Gen. Garret J. Lydecker United States Army retired dies at his Detroit home at age seventy one. West Point graduate served in the Civil War as an engineers lieutenant and was breveted after Petersburg for gallant service. He directed Lake Superior region improvements 1872 1882 and was engineering commissioner of the District of Columbia 1882 1886. first to propose Livingstone channel and oversaw river works on the Detroit and St Marys rivers.
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Detroit
Mich
Garret J. Lydecker
West Point
Petersburg
Great Lakes
District of Columbia
Livingstone Channel
8St. Mary's Rivers
Ex Mayor Busse Dies After Sudden Illness
Former Chicago mayor Fred A. Busse died at his home on Sheridan Road after a sudden sinking spell. The immediate cause was malignant endocarditis, valvular heart disease. Born March 3, 1866, in Chicago, Busse entered politics early and served as mayor.
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Chicago
Fred A. Busse
Sheridan Road
Mr. Busse
German Cruiser Muernberg Leaves Mazatlan
The German cruiser Muernberg departed Mazatlan for a regular station with the German Asiatic Fleet. She has been relieved by the Leipsia.
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Mazatlan
California
Mexico
Muernberg
Asslatic
Carman Charged With Slaying Mrs Bailey in Freeport
Freeport New York July 9 Mrs Florence Conklin Carman was arrested at her Merrick road home on a June 30 murder charge against Mrs Lulu Bailey of Hempstead. Held without bail for examination Monday, Carman pleaded not guilty as witnesses described a night of tragedy and fear.
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Freeport
N. Y
Florence Conklin Carman
Merrick Road
Lulu D. Bailey
Hempstead
Meneola
Carman
Norton
Carmans
Mrs. Carman
Mr. Levy
Levy
Bailey
Two Sisters Slay Brother Near Sterling Illinois
Emmanuel Buyers, farmer north of Sterling, was shot and killed by his sisters Mrs. Lee Hutton and Miss Lillian Buyers. The sisters allegedly fired twice each, delivering fatal shots. Buyers died three hours later. Both sisters were bound over to the grand jury at a preliminary hearing.
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Sterling, Ill
Emmanuel Buyers
Lee Hutton
Sterling
Lillian Buyers
Lillian
Buyers
Hutton
Colfax Woman Takes Own Life Over Son's Reformatory Term
Mrs. Cornelia M. Fisk a prominent Colfax club woman and church worker committed suicide after a sleepless night and worry over her son Roy Fisk who is serving time in the Anamosa reformatory for embezzling Newton city funds. She had traveled to the springs for her health.
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Colfax, Ia
Cornelia M. Fisk
Roy Fisk
Anamosa Reformatory
Newton
Guadalajara Falls 5000 Prisoners in 48 Hour Battle
Guadalajara Mexico July 10 reports say constitutionalist forces under Gen Alvaro Obregon seized the city after a 48 hour battle with the federal garrison. about 5000 prisoners taken from a 12000 strong force. heavy pursuit and expected encirclement toward Querataro or San Luis Potosi. no confirmed Villa death report.
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Guadalajara
Jalisco
Mex
Republic of Mexico
Alvaro Obregon
Department of the Northwest
Obregon
Querataro
San Luis Potosi
Blanco
Tepic
Zacatecas
General Obregon
Villa
Washington
Constitutionalist
Mexico City
Torreon
Guaymas
Juarez
Coahuila
Editor Charged in Canal Secrets Case
Warrants issued for Charles K. Field Sunset magazine editor and three contributors over an April article titled Can the Panama Canal Be Destroyed From the Air. The piece used photographs from an aeroplane showing the canal fortifications and Presidio defenses.
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San Francisco
Charles K. Field
Sunset Magazine
The
Bohemian Club
United States
John W. Preston
Panama Canal
Presidio
Street cave-ins trap taxi in Paris with rescue
In central Paris after a heavy storm several street cave-ins formed. A taxicab fell into a 10 foot square hole near Place Saint Augustine and two passengers were rescued with bruises. Firemen pulled the cab from the subsidence as traffic was diverted. No fatalities reported.
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Union News Service
Paris
Saint Augustine
Rue de Caumartin
Rue de Havre
Opera Comique
Boulevard Ney
Seamen Perish In Collision Off Cape Cod
In a fog off Cape Cod the coal laden schooner George P. Hudson, captained by John H. Thomas, collided with the coastwise steamer Middlesex. The schooner sank within five minutes with two seamen lost and Captain Thomas among the dead. Nine crew from the Hudson were rescued aboard the Middlesex, which returned to port from Boston to Norfolk.
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Boston
John H. Thomas
George P. Hudson
Middlesex
Cape Cod
Philadelphia
Norfolk
200 Passengers Rescued From Aground Rosedale Steamer
In thick weather the excursion steamer Rosedale ran ashore off Jamaica Bay while returning from Rockaway Beach to New York. Two hundred passengers, mostly women and children, were evacuated in lifeboats to a police boat and brought to the city. The vessel remained stuck in the sand.
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New York
Jamaica Bay
Rockaway Beach
Explosion on Tungchi kills thirty five midshipmen
Shanghai reports a bomb on the Chinese gunboat Tungchi blew up just above the main magazine killing 35 midshipmen. Prompt flooding of ammunition rooms prevented greater loss. Officials suspect a conspiracy aboard. An investigation will be conducted.
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Shanghai
Cincinnati Market Prices for Grains and Livestock
Grain prices include corn No 2 white 79 7914c and No 2 yellow 72 7214c while oats No 2 white 41 41%4c and wheat No 2 red 81 814c. Hay timothy and clover notes, plus cattle hogs sheep and spring lambs pricing, list ranges for shippers, butchers, and heavy stock with several quality grades and weights.
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Bologna
Troops Should Be Ordered In Belmont County Mining Disorder
Belmont County Sheriff James H Anderson wired Governor Cox stating the mining situation was beyond local control and required immediate state troop deployment to avert possible property damage and disorder. He noted no overt property damage yet, but the strained situation could delay troop action.
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Columbus, O
James H. Anderson
Belmont County
James M.cox
Anderson
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