Elections Under Huerta Regime Reported Quiet
Mexico City reports elections for president vice president deputies and senators held Sunday under Huerta control with widespread indifference. General Huerta seen as favorite for president and General Blancquet for vice president, with virtually unanimous returns for the ruling officials and the lightest vote in years across the capital and surrounding towns.
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Union News Service
Mexico City
Huerta
General Huerta
General Blanquet
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Explosion Ruins Anarchist HQ in New York
Police report that the ruined apartment of Arthur, killed with three others in a Saturday blast aimed at Rockefeller, served as a distribution center for incendiary literature and housed a small printing press, dynamo, electric batteries, explosives, cartridges, and steel.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller
Arthur
Rebukes Ardent Workers Over White House Visit
Dr Anna Howard Shaw president of the national woman suffrage association condemns the action of suffragists who went to the White House and drew from President Wilson a final refusal to back a federal constitutional amendment. The visit was arranged by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage whose leaders disagree with association officers on methods.
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Washington
Anna Howard Shaw
National Woman Suffrage Association
Wilson
White House
Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage
Mayor of Butte Assaulted in Office Stabbing
Butte mayor Louis P. Duncan was stabbed three times and shot in the abdomen by Eric Lantala a Finnish miner in Duncan's office after Lantala confronted him about the presence in town of Frank Altonen a Hancock Michigan correspondent for a Finnish newspaper. Both men are expected to recover as the clash arises from local miner factions allied with the Western Federation of Miners and a protest against Altonen's stay.
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Butte
Mont
Louis P. Duncan
Eric Lantala
Duncan
Lantala
Frank Altonen
Negaunee
Mich
Hancock
Western Federation of Miners
Butte Miners No. 1
Altonen
Villa Wins Swift Victory in Conference at Torreon
General Francisco Villa and Venustiano Carranza delegates meet in Torreon Coahuila Mexico to settle differences. Villa gains all demands and Carranza recognizes Villa as first chief. Villa named commander in chief of the constitutionalist army.
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Torreon
Cahuila
Mexico
Francisco Villa
Venustiano Carranza
Carranza
Government Bird Home Sealed as Bird Sanctuary
President Wilson designates Smith and Minor Islands fourteen miles north by west from Port Townsend in the Juan de Fuca Strait as an agricultural department breeding ground and winter sanctuary for native birds. Interference with birds or eggs is subject to heavy penalties.
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Government Bird Home
Washington
Smith
Port Townsend
Wash
Strait of
Juan da Fuca
Agricultural Department
Wilson
Passage of Chamberlain Ends Era in British Politics
London reports the death of Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain at his Prince Gardens home after a long illness. A towering figure in national and international politics for years, he had battled illness that kept him from active public life and rarely appeared in Parliament in his final years.
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London
Joseph Chamberlain
Prince Gardens
W. Chamberlain
Commons
Whisky Warring Factions Face Talks as Americans Cut Beer
In a turbulent scene, factions linked to whisky trade show willingness to discuss peace measures while Americans reduce beer consumption and cigarette income drops.
Peace talks underway as Huerta envoy reaches out
Niagara Falls dispatch notes Mexico sees cautious steps toward peace as Huerta delegates send a note to the South American mediators and seek talks with constitutionalists in Washington. In Washington Democrats vow to stay in session until antitrust legislation clears the House and is enacted.
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Mexico
General Huerta
Washington
Huerta
Union News Service
Democrats
Senate
House
Congress
Income Surplus Tops 1933 Federal Year Expenditures
Treasury figures show the federal government, in its first Wilson year, ended with income exceeding ordinary expenditures by 33,784,452.07 dollars. Receipts reached 734,343,700.20 dollars, about 1.5 million above McAdoo’s initial estimate, turning a prior deficit into a surplus.
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Washington
Treasury
Wilson
McAdoo
Conference to settle Carranza Villa rift to be military
El Paso report says a military panel will compose the conference to resolve differences between Generals Carranza and Villa. Eastern central and western zones will meet soon likely at Torreon to discuss threats to the constitutionalist revolution. Villa asked for coal to run railroads for actions against Aguas Calientes. Gonzales will offer no aid until tensions are settled.
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el Paso
Tex
Carranza
Villa
Torreon
Aguas Calientes
Gonzales
Drinking Less Whisky in U S Reported for Year
Internal Revenue figures show Americans drank less whisky in the past year, with a $864,069 drop in total receipts from the prior year. Distilled spirits tax declined by $3.7 million in eleven months, with an anticipated $4.26 million twelve month decline. Tobacco taxes rose by about $2.8 million.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Cherokee Nation Dissolved and Funds Divided
The Cherokee Nation, largest of the five civilized tribes, dissolved at midnight Tuesday with tribal funds totaling $600,000 distributed among 41,000 members. Indian Office Commissioner Sells demands resignations of all Cherokee officials as part of the policy implementation.
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Washington
Five Civilized Tribes
Sells
Indian Office
Lightning Kills Ten Cattle on Emeline Farm
A bolt struck a cottonwood tree sheltering ten cattle on Henry Stroub’s farm near Emeline, killing the entire herd in the storm.
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Town City
Henry Stroub
Emeline
Clapp to Speak at State Progressive Convention
Lincoln Neb United States Senator Moses E Clapp to be orator of the day at the Progressive party state convention to be held here July 38.
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Lincoln
Neb
United States
Moses E. Clapp
Progressive Party
Cars to Meet the Rush for New All Steel Models
The 107 new all steel cars, costing 1.5 to 2 million dollars, will be delivered by August 5. The long cars, replacing sixty footers, will serve mainly theatrical companies and expand the rail fleet.
Cloudburst Adds to Quake Damage in Sumatra
Cloudburst in Benkoelen Sumatra devastates business district hospital and several houses collapse. Reports from southern Sumatra note many Europeans injured in the recent earthquake and extensive property destruction.
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Batavia
Java
Benkoelen
Sumatra
Violent Hail Storm Ravages Nebraska Fields
A severe hail storm struck southern Jefferson county Nebraska Tuesday morning, destroying crops from Gladstone to Reynolds and tracking southeast across the state line into Kansas. A similar storm occurred two years ago along the same route.
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Fairbury
Farmers Load Sunday Work to Save County Wheat
In Adams county Hastings Nebraska rural mail carriers report 243 binders driven all day Sunday to harvest the county’s largest wheat crop. With labor scarce farmers rely on family help and homemakers to shock grain as dry weather persists and delay continues.
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Hastings
Neb
Adams County
War on Hog Cholera Bill Promises Quick Action
Washington reports government plans to begin work on hog cholera defense as the Kinkaid bill lifts restrictions on homesteaders. In Mexico, confidence grows that a conference between Villa and constitutionalist leaders will settle internal clashes, with Carranza allies noting progress at Saltillo and Torreon.
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Union News Service
Washington
Mexico
Acteon
Villa
Carranza
Saltillo
Carranza-Villa
Torreon
Kinkaid Bill Ends Restrictions on Women Homesteaders
Washington The house passed Rep Kinkaid's bill removing restrictions on women homesteaders who married unnaturalized foreigners before proving up. It ends the rule that they gain the same status as the foreigner wife, applying to quarter section act lands and all public lands, bringing relief to Nebraska and other states.
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Washington
House
Representative Kinkaid
Kinkaid
Nebraska
Government to Fight Hog Cholera in Nebraska Counties
The Agriculture Department will spend about 20,000 dollars in Gage and Johnson counties Nebraska to eradicate hog cholera. The program starts now with surveys serum applications on infected hogs sanitation and quarantine, and farmer education in collaboration with state and federal authorities. About 600,000 dollars overall will fund a twelve state effort focusing on western and northwestern regions.
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Nebraska
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Gage
Johnson
Storstad to be Auctioned After Empress of Ireland Collision
The Norwegian collier Storstad, involved in the May collision that sank the Empress of Ireland with over a thousand lives lost, is to be sold at auction. The sale follows seizure in connection with a $2,000,000 damages suit filed by Canadian Pacific Railway against Storstad’s owners.
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Steorstad
Montreal
Storstad
St. Lawrance
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Ulster Unionist Leader Rules Out Government Proposals
In London, Ulster unionists gathered as their leader warned the government proposals would be rejected. She set a time limit on her exclusion from home rule, declaring: if Ulster enters Irish parliament, it will be by choice, not force.
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Ulster Unionists
Nebraska Shares In Federal Income Tax Take
The federal government posted total receipts of 237195 from corporate, excise and individual income taxes. Nebraska’s portion from individual income tax reached 76857, according to a Treasury Department statement by Secretary McAdoo.
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Nebraska
Washington, D. C
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Thousands Die in Canton Floods
Reports from Canton indicate about 10,000 people drowned in western river floods. The disaster is described as severe with extensive loss of life and property along affected waterways. Coordination among local authorities and relief groups is ongoing to assist survivors and catalog missing residents.
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Canton
China
Haere
Roosevelt Resigns From Publication Post After White House Service
The message notes Theodore Roosevelt has resigned as editor of the publication, a role he has held since March 1909 after leaving the White House. The item emphasizes Roosevelt's long tenure and current departure.
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Roosevelt
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Have Something Better In The Swamp County Tale
A villager in the swamp country laments fatigue and illness while the city asks why they suffer. He notes fever and ague as the only diseases in their land, echoing frontier hardship through Li ton Lance's dialogue.
Odd Arrangement on a Dockside Observation
A reader notes a vessel tied at the wharf and recalls that a docked ship is least able to make knots. The remarkplayfully contrasts quiet harbor stillness with nautical wordplay about knotting and timing.
Fidgety household tales span decades in a comic clipping
A fragmentary ad and quips describe a long running feud in a household. The familiar tone mocks a lazy husband and a clever child as the woman endures years under the same roof. The clipping hints at a casting service and a family squabble with humorous misprints.
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