Battleships Michigan and Louisiana Arrive At Vera Cruz
The article notes impending U S action in Mexico with European powers pushing for a clear policy. Diplomatic pressure grows as reports from Mexico City suggest a possible declaration on recognition of Huerta. Officials warn that without action European powers may intervene to safeguard their citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Bryan
Mexico
United States
State Department
Wilson
Huerta
American warships guard Gulf and Pacific ports
American warships continue to guard U S interests in Mexican gulf and Pacific ports. South Carolina anchors at Tampico while Minnesota and New Hampshire are at Vera Cruz. Michigan and Louisiana arrived to relieve Minnesota. three vessels stay on duty, one relieves for shore leave at Galveston.
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Associated Press
Washington
Mexican Gulf
Pacific
South Carolina
Tampico
Minnesota
New Hampshire
Vera Cruz
Michigan
Louisiana
Gulf
Galves
Japanese officials tour US, seek citizenship rights and friendly policy
Dr. Soyeda former Japanese vice minister of finance and Kamiya of Tokyo chamber of commerce sailed home from the United States saying sentiment toward Japanese was friendly outside California. They urged citizenship for Japanese and explained negotiations in Washington could inflame tensions if US action harms national honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
San Francisco
Cal
Soyeda
Tiamiya
Tokio Chamber of Commerce
Japan
United States
California
America
Kamiya
Ohio flood damage tops three million dollars
Columbus July 15 weather bureau observers reported two days of rainfall in Central Ohio and Muskingum valley approached levels from last March’s floods. They warned no further serious rise in streams is expected, but interurban traffic remains uncertain while railroad officials expect normal service to resume today. Total Ohio damage is estimated at over 3 million dollars.
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Columbus
Althoug
Ohio
Muskingum Valley
Weather Bureau
Panama Canal Celebration Committee to Meet Tonight
The general committee of the Panama Canal Celebration will gather at eight tonight in the Chamber of Commerce offices. The chairman requests all members attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama Canal
Chamber of Commerce
Pay as you enter on Mobile streetcars to start soon
Mobile Light and Railroad Company will implement a pay as you enter system within three weeks. Fare boxes arrived from Cleveland and will be installed at the rear doors with a visible record of nickels dropped. An experienced trainer will instruct conductors, and newspaper notices will explain the new rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Light and Railroad Company
J. Howard Wilson
Cleveland
Ohio
Monroe Park
Wilson
Newlands Bill Passes House and Heads to Senate
The Newlands bill revising the Erdman law to arbitrate wage disputes in a manner satisfactory to railroads and their employees passed the house without a roll call. It was sent to the senate, which also approved it without a roll call and moved to transmit to the White House for President Wilson to sign.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Senate
Wilson
White House
Tax Assessments Rise Over Million for Mobile County 1913
Mobile County's 1913 assessment totals 43,893,548 a rise of 1 182 706 from 1912. The increases include county and school valuations and Confederate Veterans while back taxes are being addressed by the Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners as a board of equalization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile County
Edward D. Laurendine
Icsees Odes
Laurendine
D. J. Callaghan
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Board of Equalization
Newlands bill eyed to settle wage dispute on railroads
Washington reports a forthcoming Newlands act amendment to Erdman act to provide arbitration acceptable to railroads and train men. The house and senate move toward final passage, Wilson pledges to sign, and a government mediator for seven years is to be named with figures like Martin A Knapp, Dr. Charles Neill, and William Lea Chambers discussed.
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Washington
House
Senate
Congress
Wilson
Newlands
Mediation
Martin A.knapp
Commerce Court
Charles ¥. Neill
of Labor
William Lea Chambers
House Judiciary Committee
London Divorce Decree Ends Desertion Case
Mrs George Cornwallis West formerly Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill was granted a nisi divorce today on statutory desertion and misconduct grounds. The decree may become absolute in six months after a brief hearing. The husband left December 22, 1912, never returned, and a hotel liaison was noted by a detective. The wife testified calmly as spectators watched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
George Cornwallis- West
Randolph Spencer Churchill
Leonard Jerome
New York
Cornwallis-West
West
Grant Franchise For Side Tracks On Beauregard
The Magnolia Compress and Ware house Company is granted the right to build a railroad track on the south side of Beauregard and Magnolia street into the Shippers Press warehouse with switches and turnouts. The company will pay $200 annually. An amendment preserves other property owners' rights to build into their properties. The meeting was led by Mayor Laz Schwarz with Commissioners Lyons and Pillans. Other ordinances and final estimates for city projects were approved or laid over for next meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magnolia Compress and Warehouse Company
Beauregard
Magnolia Street
State Street
Shippers
City Commission
Pillans
Compress Company
Laz Schwarz
Lyons and Pillans
G. A. Chamblin
St. Louis Street
E. J. Raub
Sullivan
Long and Haggerty
Lyons
Southern men form league to aid votes for women
Prominent officials and civil leaders organize a Southern men’s league as an auxiliary to suffragists national headquarters. General Anson Mills heads the group with senators and representatives from states with universal suffrage. Mrs. John Turner of Nashville is described as the first Southern woman pilgrim bound for Washington to press for a constitutional amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Anson Mills
Senate
House
South
Congress
John Turner
Nashville
Tenn
Day in Congress Receives Mediation and Arbitration Bill Action
In session at 2 p m the lobby investigation committee continued Mulhall testimony. The finance committee approved Chairman Simmons' bill. At noon the Newlands bill to amend the Erdman act for mediation and arbitration between railways and employees was taken up.
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Mulhall
Finance
Simmons
Bill Day
Newlands
Erdman
Automobile Crash Kills Bank Clerk in Parkersburg
Cecil Fitzhugh twenty nine general bookkeeper at First National Bank Parkersburg was crushed to death when a car driven by Harley McVey went off an embankment and onto railroad tracks. Passengers Kathryn and Viola Elliott Miss Jennie Jackson and Davidson Hall were seriously injured in the same accident near Parkersburg West Virginia. The crash was caused by a broken steering wheel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
W. Va
Cecil Fitzhugh
First National Bank
Kathryn and
Viola Elliott
Charleston
Jennie Jackson
Harley McVey
Davidson Hall
Clarksburg
McVey
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Record profits push U S corporations to new tax highs
US corporations earned 8 04 000 000 above expenses in 1912, a new record under the tax law. Government receipts may rise over 26 000 000 with omitted taxes. Southern state assessments show Alabama 222 547 and Texas 601 854 among others, with varied increases and declines.
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Alabama
Washington
Osborn
Internal Revenue Bureau
The
Treasury
J. F. Speer
Corporation Tax Division
Interyal
Arkansas
Florida
Kentucky
Louisiana
North Carolina
South Carolina
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Russia Puts New Demands On China Over Outer Mongolia
Russia submits four demands to China asserting outer Mongolia’s full autonomy and declaring China suzerainty. Moscow seeks recognition of its intermediation and rights from the Urga 1912 agreement while cancelling the proposed later treaty. Chinese and foreign opposition grows as Parliament convenes amid tension and excitement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
China
Russia
Outer
Mongolia
Urga
Letters From the Dead Read Into Records Former Associate
Senate lobby testimony centers on Mulhall letters from 1907 to James W. Van Cleave and connections to the National Association of Manufacturers. Officials discuss former Vice President Sherman, Taft, and tariff campaigns as Mulhall testifies about a coordinated push for political influence and letters detailing backroom dealings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Lobby Committee
Overman
White House
Wilson
Reed
Martin M. Mulhalls
James W. Vancleave
Naional Association of Manufacturers
Sherman
House
van Cleave
Mulhall
New York
West
Indiana
Watson
G. Langtry Crockett
Thomaston
Maine
Crockett
Littlefield
Dr. Crockett
Oliver Otis
Fred C. Schwedtman
Schwedtman
Taft
National Association of Manufacturers
Columbus
Cushing
Tariff Commission
Detroit man kills wife claiming she was a vampire
In Toledo on Madison Avenue John McBrine, 23, of Detroit shot and killed Mrs. Eb Berrington, 25, also of Detroit, after declaring she was a vampire who had married three men. He then shot himself in the head but survived, later surrendering to police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Ohio
John McBrine
Detroit
Eb Berrington
Madison Avenue
McGunne
Monte Carlo label for New York Stock Exchange sparks tariff row
Senator Thomas of Colorado denounces the New York Stock Exchange as the Monte Carlo of American finance in defending the Wilson tariff bill of 1893. He brands Cleveland and New York banks as scheming to provoke a panic to repeal the Sherman silver act and warns of looming disaster from speculative excess. He calls the exchange a gambling hell and a parasitic influence on industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas
Colorado
Cleveland
New York
New York Stock Exchange
Weather readings and forecasts from Dauphin and Royal streets
Temperatures recorded today at the corner of Dauphin and Royal streets show a range from 80 to 91 degrees with a late afternoon reading of 83 and 86 at two locations. The Mobil forecast predicts generally fair and warm conditions through Wednesday with light to moderate south winds, Alabama fair tonight and Wednesday, Mississippi generally fair tonight and Wednesday.
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Dauphin and
Royal Streets
MB Armesie Incon
Moss
Steamship Line Planned Between Mobile And Isle of Pines
A mobile based firm Hammond Hammond Baker plans a Mobile Isle of Pines steamship line. The venture aims to export Isle of Pines citrus and import Mobile goods, signaling trade expansion. Isle of Pines residents favor annexation to Alabama and see Mobile as a key gulf port for future commerce.
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United States
Alabama
Mobile
Isle of Pines
Hamomad, Hammond & Baker
Mobile County
Wilmer
Island
W. Grow
Lyons Contest Case Again Up In Court
The old contest case of J. Percy Watters and John H. Duff supporting H. T. Hartwell in the 1912 city commissioner race against Pat I. Lyons was revived in the law and equity court Tuesday. Judge Berney ruled the report on proof favored the contestee Lyons, with contestants excepting. The court adjourned until July 21, and the matter may return to the supreme court which meets in November.
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J. Percy Watters
John H. Duff
H. T. Hartwell
Pat I. Lyons
Berney
Captain Lyons
Supreme Court
Favorable Cotton Growing Weather Across Regions
The weekly weather bulletin from the Department of Agriculture notes generally favorable cotton growing weather across states east of the Mississippi. Temperatures were moderate, rains were widespread, but drought lingered in parts of South Carolina and Georgia, with more rain needed in small areas.
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Washington
National Weekly Weather Bulletin
Department of Agriculture
Mississippi
South Carolina
Georgia
Chappelle Debuts For White Sox In Major League Frame
Outfielder Larry Chappelle, acquired by Chicago from Milwaukee for $15,000 and two players, appeared in a major league uniform this afternoon. He played left field as Bodie moved to center in a Chicago American lineup shuffle.
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Chappelle
White Sox
Chicago
Larry Chappelle
Chicago American
Milwaukee
Bodie
Evicted Ipswich mill workers spend night in street
Fourteen families of operatives on strike at Ipswich Hosiery Mills slept in the street after eviction from tenements owned by the company. Further evictions were threatened as they refused to return to work. The evicted families planned to shelter in a tented colony on Pine Street Plain within town limits if necessary.
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Ipswich
Mass
Foerminsz
Pingree Plain
Governor ONeal Secures Funds for State Military Camps
Special to The Item Montgomery Ala July 15 Official word confirms three infantry regiments and an artillery battalion will encamp this summer Governor ONeal has allotted funds Col Bricken says Second Regiment to camp seven days at Birmingham starting July 28 Other encampment dates to be set after General Scully meets with officers Armore Company Mustered Out for failing to meet military standards Company B Fourth Infantry Atmore ordered out by General Scully
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Montgomery
Ala
O'Neal
R. C. Bricken
Scully
Bricken
Birmingham
Fourth Infantry
Atmore
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One of Powers
U. S
Mexican
Central
Panama
Judiciary Committee
Sulzer
Mignon Hopkins
Philadelphia
William Sulzer
Miss Hopkins
Grant
Magnolia Compress Co
Ramk Way
Capital
VanCleave
N. Y. Stock Exchange
Monte Carlo
American
France
O’neal
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