Chaos in the Balkans as Serb forces target Albania
A private message from Scutari details Serb troops patrolling Albanian territory and forcing refugees from villages near Leah to starve. Albanian districts are reported ravaged by Serbs, Montenegrins, and Essad Pasha’s Turkish army. At Kroya four women and forty eight men were executed. Romanian troops near Sofia push toward Orcanisi and Etropole as Enver Bey moves to Adrianople.
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Albania
Leah
Scutaria
Essad Pasha
Turkey
Kroya
Sofia
Associated Press
London
The
Daily Mail
Orcanisi
Etropole
Enver Bey
Adrianopie
Finance Irish Land Purchases
London reports Augustine Birrell chief secretary for Ireland estimates the total needed to complete land purchase under the 1903 and 1909 acts at 300 million dollars in addition to 625 million already spent. He says 120 million will be borrowed via land stock and the remainder funded by the national debt commissioners under a new bill granting compulsory powers for vendors to accept half the price in three percent stock.
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Associated Press
London
Augustine Birrell
Ireland
National Debt Commissioners
Panama Canal Culebra Cut to flood as Gamboa dike is dynamited
Panama July 21 Colonel Goethals announces steam shovel work in the Culebra cut will proceed assuming the Gamboa dike is dynamited on October 16. Destruction will let Gatun lake flood the cut, linking the Atlantic and Pacific, though actual ship navigation may wait.
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Panama
G. W. Goethals
Panama Canal
David D. Gaillard
Canal
Culebra
Gamboa Dike
Gatun Lake
Atlantic
Pacific
County Hears Bay Shell Road Purchase Request
The board of revenue and road commissioners discusses buying the Bay Shell road section from Long Bridge to Fordney's Lane about two miles. Horace Turner represents the chamber and asks a committee to negotiate with the Bay Shell Road Company and review toll rights and belt road possibilities. A separate rezoning request from Shore Acres Company is referred for study and repair needs on local bridges are noted. Booths to be Painted.
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Bay Shell Road
Mobile
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Horace Turner
Long Bridge
Monroe Park
Fordney
Brewster
Oak Grove
Hagan
Bauer
Chamber of Commerce and Business League
George Fearn,Jr
Shore Acres Company
Bay Front
Cedar Point
H. P. Pellén
Whistler
Puppy Creek
Reeder Branch
Mrs Eaton Fails to Get Transcript in Murder Case
Boston July 21 Mrs Jennie Maye Eaton charged with murdering Rear Admiral Joseph G Eaton a native of Alabama failed today to compel the government to disclose grand jury transcript access to trial exhibits and a bill of particulars on poison used she is to face trial in October.
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Boston
Jennie Maye Eaton
Joseph G. Eaton
Alabama
Chicago streetcar steps lowered for women’s skirts
Officials of the Chicago Railways Company announced new cars would have steps three inches nearer the ground in response to women in narrow skirts protests. The move aims to ease boarding for riders and reduce strain on passengers.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Chicago Railways Company Today
Aji
Philadelphia Declares Fairmount Park a Spooners’ Paradise
Philadelphia officials promote public spooning in Fairmount Park with D Hayes Duncan and Magistrate Morris backing the stance. Duncan says park lovers should be allowed to express affection within propriety while deterring disturbances from others.
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Philadelphia
D. Hayes Duncan
Fairmount Park
Duncan
Big Park
Paradise
Morris
Mutinous Swiss Guardsmen Submit Vatican Ultimatum
Mutinous guardsmen at the Vatican delivered a memorandum to Cardinal Merry del Val outlining six demands. They seek dismissal of the commander, expansion of guard numbers, officer selection from within, lifting bans on stores on the right bank of the Tiber and wine shops, changes to military instruction, and no punishments for the current agitation. The cardinal conferred with the pope seeking a solution.
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Vatican
Associated Press
Rome
Merry del Val
Papal
Tiber
Crisis in Mexico Expected Within Two Weeks
A crisis in Mexico is anticipated within the next two weeks. The consul requests a gunboat be sent to the frontera. An attack on the East Coast port is expected as Huerta aims to keep Diaz away.
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Mexico
Frontera
Huerta
Diaz
Crisis feared in Mexico as Huerta government faces looming events
Washington reports alarm over an approaching Mexican crisis. High officials say the coming fortnight could shape Huerta's government, with details kept unofficial to avoid triggering the predicted crisis. The US awaits Ambassador Wilson and has ordered quarantine officers to speed his passage through Havana and Key West.
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Associated Press
Washington
Mexico
Huerta
United States
Wilson
Mexico City
Bryan
Blue
Public Health Service
Havana
Key West
Fear of Slaughter Near Madera Lumber Camp
American workers at the Madera Lumber camp 200 miles southwest of El Paso face massacre threats from Mexican bandits led by El Mocho Martinez. Officials appeal to General Francisco Castro and the American Consul for troops while cowboys near Babicora pledge aid. Villa's constitutionalists oppose Bandits in Casas Grandes district.
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Associated Press
EL Paso
Tex
Madera Lumber Company
Francisco Castro
Juarez
Thomas D. Edwards
Madera
Chihuahua
Northwestern Railway
Babicora Ranch
Northwestern
Ing
Trente Canyon
Lumber Company
Alarm at Frontera and Diaz’s Exile Plans Amid Mexican Tension
The Associated Press reports alarm over rebel threats to attack Frontera on the east coast as American interests face damage from rebel actions. The U S consul seeks Washington guidance while Diaz intended for France and Germany studies military organization after Japan. Rebels advance toward San Louis Potosi and Venado as northern forces move closer to key routes.
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Frontera
Associated Press
Mexico City
Diaz
Huerta
Felix Diaz
Mexico
Japan
Venado
San Louis Potosi
Wage increase not a panacea for working women
Rev William McAfee district superintendent of the Rock River conference told Des Plaines Methodist camp meeting that higher wages cannot solve moral problems of working women. He warned that even a 160 percent wage hike tomorrow would not change those hearts bent on finery theatres late suppers and automobiles.
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Associated Press
Chicago
William McAfee
Rock River
Des Plaines
Dr. Taylor Returns From China Tells Of Mission Work
Dr Adrian S. Taylor arrives in Mobile after six and a half years as a medical missionary in Yangchow China. He helped establish a hospital with Dr P S Tivans and assisted by his brother Dr Richard V. Taylor Jr. He explains free humanitarian care built trust, with May patient load exceeding two thousand and an eighty bed facility. He plans a six week home stay then return to China for ongoing service and a year furlough next June.
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Orient
Adrian
Taylor
Mobile
Evans
Union Medical School
Nanking
Yangchow
Richard VY. Taylor, Jr
Vancouver
British Columbia
R. V. Taylor
R V.taylor
Point Clear
Clean Shaven For es RoepeRreenRe Republicans
Washington July 21 Senator Clarke president pro tem of the senate faced the august body with half a shave. Vice President Marshall was away and pages warned that the senate was without a presiding officer. Clarke rushed to the chamber and appeared clean shaven to Republicans while Democrats saw a day’s whiskers.
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Washington
Senator Clarke
Senate
Marshall
Clarke
Oliver Settles With the State Auditor
Tax Collector W S Oliver of Conecuh County, Alabama, today made his final annual settlement with the state auditor and it is understood that all criminal charges against him have been withdrawn.
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Montgomery
Ala
W.S. Oliver
Conecuh County
The Day in Congress Resumes Tariff Debate and Hearings
Senate resumes debate on tariff bill with Senator Burton attacking ad valorem rates. Lobby committee reopens hearings on Martin M. Mulhall. House remains out of session.
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Slanerane
Senate
Burton
Martin M. Mulhall
HOUSE
Weather report notes showers across Mobile and Mississippi
The report lists temperatures at Royal and Dauphin streets and forecasts showers in Mobile and vicinity through Tuesday. Alabama is expected to have local showers tonight or Tuesday, while Mississippi should see fair conditions in the west with local showers in the southeast.
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Royal and
Dauphin Streets
Mobile and
Alabama
Mississippi
Good Roads Days Declared in Missouri
Governor Major proclaims August 20 and 21 as public holidays for all able bodied men to work on public highways. State urges suspension of ordinary business and asks rural women to provide volunteers with lunches. Projected value of improvements estimated at one and a half million dollars.
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Associated Press
Jefferson City
Major
Senators Clash Over Proposed Nicaragua Treaty Tariff Debate
In Washington on July 21 Senator Burton of Ohio denounced free trade as a flawed policy and urged limited concessions under the Underwood Simmons tariff while Senator Smoot attacked the measure as disastrous for mills and jobs. He warned of Hawaii and Porto Rico sugar ruin and China invading the Western steel market, contrasting Walker era tariffs with the proposed plan and arguing tariffs protect American producers.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Burton
Ohio
Senate
Smoot
Finance Committee
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Sugar “Trust
China
Smout
Underwood- Simmons
Fukien Province Breaks with China Republic Seeks Autonomy
Dispatch from Consul Fowler at Foshan reports Fukien province seceding from the Chinese republic. Canton’s Kwangtung government plans to deploy 15,000 troops north to fight the central government. Chen Chiung Ming named military governor and commander in chief of the Kwangtung army.
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Associated Press
Washington
Fukien
Chinese Republic
State Department
Fowler
Feechow
Kiangsil
Kawangtung
Peking
Legation
Canton
Kwangtiung
Chen Chiung Ming
Kwangtung
General Woodruff Dead
Brigadier General Carle A. Woodruff U S A retired died at his Raleigh home after a brief illness. He was 72, born in Buffalo New York in August 1841, and gained distinction as a Union soldier in the Civil War.
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Woodruff
Associated Press
Raleigh
Carle A. Woodruff
Buffalo
N. Y
Endorsement Seen for Bryan Treaty in Senate
A committee poll indicates the Bryan treaty will pass with a safe margin. The plan includes U S control over Nicaragua finances to ensure independence, no new debts, and U S payment of 3 million dollars for a canal route and naval base. The arrangement strengthens the Monroe doctrine in advance. senators Hitchcock Sutherland Mark Smith O Gorman and Stone join support.
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Associated Press
Washington
Committee On Foreign Relations
Bryan
Senate
United States
Nicaragua
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hitchcock, Sutherland
Mark Smith
O'Gorman
Stone
Bacon
Foreign Relations Committee
Mulhall Testimony Reveals Lobbyist’s Feuds and Accusations
Martin Mulhall, former NAM lobbyist, testifies before the senate investigating committee. Letters from Thomas Gibson and Paul Cravath discuss forgery charges and discrepancies about the Pacific Railroad. Mulhall recalls political feuds with Henry C. Loudenslager and others, and presents a black list of congressmen to oppose in elections.
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Shing Tor Phing Ree Mulhall
National Associa of Manufacturers
Senate
Thomas Gibson
New York
David Lamar
Pacific Railroad
Gibson
Lamar
Paul D. Cravath
Henry C. Loudenslinger
New Jersey
Republican Congressional Committee
Mulhall
Schwedtman
Loudenslager
James B
National Association of Manufacturers
Explosion in Lisbon copper shop injures owner
A hidden bomb exploded in a coppersmith's shop in Lisbon today as the proprietor opened a drawer containing the device. The owner was badly injured. All the employees were arrested. Police raided several revolutionary clubs, seizing bombs and detaining many members.
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Associated Press
Lisbon
Portugal
Waited Fifty Years then Sued Over Breach of Promise
John Wolf a seventy seven year old Civil War veteran faced a breach of promise suit from Miss Emma Mahaney of Wooster Ohio who claims she never married and waited for him to wed since 1863. She seeks twenty five thousand dollars and has sent poems with the letters to his attorney. Wolf is described as a retired merchant who left Paterson for a mountain run.
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Paterson
N. J
John Wolf
Emma Mahaney
Wooster
Ohio
John E. Tylee
Miss Mahaney
Mr. Wolf
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