Explosion at Parish Celebration Kills Three in Kansas City
A large crowd in a vacant lot near Holy Hosary Catholic Church crowded for a postponed Sunday celebration when a bomb exploded. Antonio Gramife, a bystander, a negro man, and a negro woman died. Two policemen were knocked down, and a windowed man several hundred feet away was fatally injured. The blast wounded many as it blew out church and nearby house windows. Gramife had built the bomb from a gas pipe filled with powder. he reportedly ignored warnings to place it on the ground before lighting it. Police and ambulances arrived to treat the injured as panic spread.
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Kansas City
Antonio Gramife
Grasalfe
Stewan
Remarkable Collision Near Grand Junction Injures Dozens
A westbound passenger train with about ninety people collided head on with an eastbound stock train one mile east of Whitehead, sixty miles west of Grand Junction. Engineer Heldeman and fireman were killed. the freight crew escaped with injuries. Many passengers suffered cuts and bruises. numerous sheep were killed as two stock cars were demolished. The wreck caused by misreading orders left the special train unaccounted for, four trains having preceded it.
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Grand Junction
Elke’ Conven Hon
Los Angeles
Whitehead
Col- Hinton
Heldeman
Fire Heinge
Ttia
Burke
Shah May Lose Crown In Tehran Crisis
Reporting from St. Petersburg describes a Russian army expedition from Baku landing at Enzel with 1000 Russians and 800 Cossack cavalry eight field guns and eight machine guns. Amid polite Russian conduct natives show open hostility. Activists Bidar and Sardarasad push toward Tehran prompting Ulakhoff to use Cossack brigade as shah protection while revolutionists’ entry into Tehran is seen as likely and shah deposition no longer surprising. Concurrent dispatches note a Pacific train wreck near Bear Creek Glacier killing engineer A Dewar and fireman W M Beattie after eight empty cars derailed following a rock slide. Pueblo Colorado becomes dry as saloons close after city fathers fail to agree on liquor licenses and ward allocations.
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St. Petersburg
Baku
Enzel
Casplan
Biphidar
Sardarasad
Teheran
Ulakhoff
Vancouver
S. A
Vanagian Pacific
Bear Creek
Glacier
A. Dewar
W. M. Beattie
Seattle St. Paul
Seattle
Epworth League
Clark joins Albany Hargesses corps amid royal vacancy
Former U S Senator William A Clark of Montana and New York gains membership in the Albany Hargesses corps by election to fill the vacancy created by the death of the Duke of Veragua. A special committee delivered his certificate, and he was named master of the corps with rank of captain.
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New York
United States
William A. Clark
Montana
Albany Hargesses Corps
Duke of
Tariff Bill Clears Senate With 46 To 34 Vote
Senate approves the tariff bill after 840 amendments and a tight party split. Yeas include Aldrich Borah Bourne Brandegee Bulkley Burnham Burrows Burton Carter Crane Depew Dick Gamble Guggenheim Jones McCumber Nixon Oliver Page Penrose Reed Scott Smith Stephenson Sutherland Warner Warren Wetmore. Nays include Bacon Bailey Bankhead Beveridge Bristow Brown Chamberlain Clapp Crawford Dolliver Fletcher Foster Frasier Hughes Johnston McLaurin Money Newlands Overman Owen Simmons Smith Stone Taylor. The measure moves to conference with House action likely to cut necessaries and raw materials while tobacco sale restrictions are loosened per Senator Brawley amendment. Night-rider incursions in Kentucky and Tennessee are cited in context of current tobacco laws.
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Senate
Beveridge
Ind
Bristow
Kamp
Brown
Neb
Burkett
Clapp
Mino
Crawford
Cumarine
Iowa
Dolliver
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la Pollette
Wis
Nelson
Minn
McEnery
Louisiana
Yeas
Aldrich
Borah
Bourne
Bradley
Brandegee
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Burrows
Burton
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Crane
Depew
Linger
Gamble
Guggenheim
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Jobson
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Ream
Lee Ia Jones
McCumber
le Nixon
Oliver
Page
Penrose
Piles
Scott
Smith
Mich
Stephenson
Sutherland
Warner
Warren
Wetmore
Nays
Bacon
Bailey
Bankhead
Chamberlain
Owl Berson
Cummins
Davies
Fletcher
Foster
Frasier
Hughes
Johnston
Ala
McLaurin
Martin
Money
Newlands
Overman
Owen
Simmons
House
Brawley
Kentucky
Tennessee
Early Utah settler murdered near Brown's Park
John Jarvis a 70 year old pioneer and former Salt Lake resident was murdered at his Brown's Park ranch near Bridgeport Utah. His son James found the missing man July 7 with a blood trail to the Green River and a ferry boat missing. Suspects were traced from Brown's Park to Rock Springs but the trail went cold.
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Rock Springs
Wyo
John Jarvis
Salt Lake
Brown's Park
Bridgeport
Utah
James Jarvis
Green River
Aement
Ead
Patrick Calhoun to be Tried for Second Time in SF
Patrick Calhoun, president of United Railroads of San Francisco, will face trial Monday July 19 for a second time this year on charges he offered a bribe to a supervisor to influence a vote on an overhead trolley permit granted in 1964. Judge William P. Lawlor denied a change of venue request.
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United Railroads
William P. Lawlor
di Fantom
San Francisco
Patrick Read
Man Shoots Wife and Self During Listening to The Holy City
Denver tragedy unfolds Thursday as Prank Parr, a Pur gy suburb resident, shoots his wife Elvie and then kills himself with a bullet amid marital separation of six months. Mrs James Brown, Elvie’s mother, had refused permission for her daughter to return to Parr, who had been seen as unstable.
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Denver
Purgy
Elvie
Imeniha
Mra James Brown
Mire Brown
Parr
Madson Bigamy Case Captures Police Attention
Ban Frevotees Christian C Jama son and John Madson are under police scrutiny for bigamy. He is alleged to have duped about twenty four women across the United States and Canada, most widowed or divorced, by marriages or friendships. One wife resides in Stockton where he may be tried. Police seek full confession.
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Christian C. Jamason
John Madson
Canada
Madson
P. de Bennett
Be Will
Madsen
John Madsen le
United States
Badnon
Stockton
Reides
Alleged Outrage on Part of Mexicans
Frank Edens of San Antonio Texas alleges he was jailed in Ciudad Juarez for eighteen hours without food or water. He claims Mexican guards beat him with a rifle and stabbed him with a bayonet after escaping confinement. Edens says officials refused to call the American consul during his detention and he was released to reach El Paso in delirious condition.
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el Paso
Texas
Frank Edens
San Ad Tanio
Ciudad Juares
Mesleo
Edens
Wilson
Beng
Asquith Recognises Suffragettes at Downing Street
Poor suffragettes led by Mrs Despard waited near parliament and tried to push the police cordon around the Prime Minister. They shouted Petition Will you grant us a hearing asking for rights as Asquith accepted the petition and entered Downing Street.
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Asquith
London
Pene
Transform Mountain Into Park for San Francisco
Mountain Tamalpais beloved by tourists as the crookedest railroad site and a scenic landmark near San Francisco bay is slated to become a vast public park. Planned by transbay city leaders aims to add a municipal water source for the districts, per state water plans.
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San Francisco
Tamalpala
San Francisco Bay
Transbay
Hesides Weing
Accident at Summer Park Ends in Injury to Actress Miss Robinson
Astrese, a vaudeville singer from Kansas City, stopped in Bareveport Friday to see friends at the summer park. While behind the scenes a shooting act caused a misfired bullet to strike her skull and brain. She remains alive but without hope of recovery.
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Bareveport
Vaudeville
Kansas City
Summer Park
New Orience
Ghan Oo Magement
the Neill
Fred
Robinson
Washington Major Lang Run Down by Learner Driver
Major J W Lang a retired U S major and former superintendent in Michigan died after being struck by a car driven by J W Lawrence who was learning to operate the vehicle. Lang had long opposed automobiles and once said he would smash every car in the District of Columbia.
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Washington
J. W. Lang
J. W. Lawrence
Tiny Tug Grayting Believed Lost Off Cape Blanes
The tug Grayting, built for Panama Canal work, vanished after sailing May 17 and has not been heard from since June off Cape Blanes. Commanded by Captain A. A. Moore, the three crewmen and the tiny steamer faced provisioning for forty days and the long voyage due to low volume.
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Soaltie
Grayting
Panama
Cape Blanes
Dream
A. A. Moore
Panaina Canal
Grayling
Vast array of 1910s era items reported in brief
A mixture of political, legal, and dramatic incidents: a state supreme court upholds a Colorado election law. typhus deaths in Monterey. a Sydney coal strike with thousands idle. cholera quarantine talk with Russia. parachute death in Portland. a cannon accident in Camden that injures a baby. denatured alcohol inspectors dismissed. a high-profile robbery case postponed. a Los Angeles railway safe robbery yields $3,700. a Morgan Mill woman mauled by a mountain lion. a Chicago balloonist injured in a Waukegan event. George A. Pollock dies. British squadron named for Hudson-Pul ton event. a California boarding house fire kills a family. a Nogales cowboy record attempt. a San Francisco shooting likely an accident. a Mass convention survivor dies. a Modesto baby-killer youth sent to reform school. legal pleas in a New York vagrancy case. Rudnyansky detained in Billiland. Portuguese Duke of Albuquerque arrested in Spain.
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Mexico
Sydney
C. B
Haring
Russia
James Corcoran
Lowell
Mass
Portland
Maine
Raverrot Park
Camden
N. J
Los Angeles Pacific Railway
Los Angeles
Mina Isola Kennedy
Morgan Mill
Jose
Waukegan
George A. Pollock
Roosevelt
Forestry and Land Services
Boyds
Ambassador Reid
Nogales
Louore
St Hail
Ot N. M
Staveunds
Jorens de la Montanya
San Francisco
Bret
Par En
Ire W. Lamunyon
JacKeon
Mich
Republican Party
Dwaver
Culo
Michael Doyle
Frank Cueil Hopkins
Modesta
Cal
Reform Enhoal
American Fuser & Hedaing Company
United Sates
New York City
Car Ion
Car
Vampiecy
Combiner
Ayala Rudayonsky
Bille Luland
Rudnyansky
Cleveland
Duke of Querque
Spain
Baat
National Good Roads convention and early tragedy notes
Fragmented report lists the National Good Roads convention in Beattie with other events from Reno to Rose, including a Beattie crowd record and multiple accidents. It mentions a home fire in Oregon killing three children, a bank robbery near Everett, a whisky trial in Montana, a suspected murder in Maine, Minot and North Dakota politics, and Alaska Yukon Pacific fair attendance. The jumble includes governors, merchants, and a string of unrelated incidents from July 4 to midyear.
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Beattie
Denver
Fee
Ihn Barthers
Bert Oliver
Bummervilla
Olsom
Hank of Commerce
Everett
Wash
Lyomam
Wiliam McClammad
Helens
Fort Peckndian
Rose
Pear Colbert
Eadward Scholl
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Winkie Munterll Reduetions
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Marley
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Patrick Calhoun
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Himasif
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Emeral Beers
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