Suit to Start in New Haven Directors Accountability
Boston lawyers for minority stockholders demand that the New Haven directors join a suit to recover about 125 million dollars alleged wasted by management. The action targets the estate of J. P. Morgan and other former directors named in connection with transactions under investigation by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and will be filed this week.
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Boston
Mass
New Haven Railroad
Morgan
William Rockecjler
Lewis Cass Ledyard
New Haven
Interstate Commercce Commission
New Haven Finance Inquiry Delivers Blistering Findings
Washington details the Interstate Commerce Commission report on New Haven finances, labeling directors criminally negligent. The 30 000 word study traces waste and mismanagement with losses estimated around sixty million dollars and calls for director liability.
Carranza demands unconditional surrender in latest note
Washington July 13 Car ranza formally notified the United States he would engage in no mediation with Huerta delegates and would accept only terms of absolute surrender. Mexico City July 13 authoritative quarters said unless a quick agreement is reached Francisco Carranjal minister of foreign affairs will sever his connection with the administration.
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Washington, D. C
Carranza
United States
Huerta
Mexico City
Mexico
Francisco Carrajal
Huerta Orders Railway Rebuild Near Vera Cruz
London reports the Mexico railways manager cabled that Huerta ordered reconstruction of a section near Vera Cruz destroyed during the occupation by American forces. The command follows the fall of Vera Cruz to federal troops.
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London
Mexico Railways
Huerta
Vera Cruz
End of Westinghouse Strike in Pittsburg
About 8000 workers returned to the Westinghouse plants in Pittsburg today ending the scrap strike. All plants resume full time and most strikers are rehired except two or three hundred who have been replaced.
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Pittsburg
Westinghouse
Girl Robbed of Many Thousands in Street
Esther Cohn a cashier at a wholesale grocery was robbed on a street in St Louis of a satchel carrying about eight thousand dollars in checks and cash as she walked to a bank.
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St. Louis
Esther Cohn
France Beats Britain In Davis Cup Doubles Match
Wimbledon July 13 France won the doubles match against Great Britain in the preliminary competition for the Davis international tennis trophy. Washington July 13 crop prospects are strong yet a general sense of apprehension pervades the west despite high yields.
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Wimbledon
France
Great Britain
Farmers Offer to Build Prairie Railroad Supplement
Fort Morgan Colorado July 18 Crops in eastern Colorado are so large farmers lacking rail access ask Burlington officials to lend rails and ties to build a prairie line to St Francis Kansas connecting with the Burlington system amid criticism of New Haven and Morgan Mellen leadership and alleged misused funds.
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Fort Morgan
Colo
Colorado
Burlington Railroad
Burlington
St. Francis
Kan
Explosion of Pop Bottle Causes Eye Injury
A soda bottle exploded in J. C. Venter’s shop injuring his left eye severely. He was taken to hospital for treatment as doctors fight to remove glass fragments and prevent further vision loss while Mrs. Venter travels from Washington.
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J. C. Venter
Mr. Venter
Jake
Venter
Murray Ball Franchise Fixed for Next Season
Local officials and baseball fans decide to decline Union association control and keep Murray as part of the Three-B league for 1915. They plan to finish this season in the current league and reassess at a Salt Lake meeting, with possible games in nearby towns to ease support.
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Murray
Union Association
Pocatello
C. P. Haverille
Murray Baseball Club
E. F. Murphy
Murphy
Idaho Falls
Association
Salt Lake
Gate City
Orangemen Lead Belfast March in Boyne Anniversary Rally
Sir Edward Carson, Ulster Unionist leader, rode at the head of 5,000 Orangemen in Belfast to Drumberg for an open air Boyne anniversary meeting. Carson ordered the nationalist quarter of Belfast to be avoided to prevent clashes with rival factions.
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Belfast
Sir Edward Carson
Drumberg
Boyne
Carson
Albanians Capture Beral and Koriza in Albania
Durazzo July 13. Albanian Musselmen insurgents captured the important town of Beral thirty miles northeast of Aviona and recently took Koriza.
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Durazzo
Beral
Albania
Aviona
Koriza
Weather forecast fragment shows cool east and warmer west
A fragmentary weather notice indicates a cool east portion and warmer conditions elsewhere. The text is incomplete but implies a temperature rise later with no specific dates.
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Walngay Dgyfy
Timber land ownership concentration in U S studied
Washington report on the lumber industry shows 1694 timber owners hold over one fifth of US land from Canada to Mexico, with 16 holders owning nearly 47 million acres and 32 owners controlling 45 percent of railroad grant land. The study notes potential use for agriculture or reforestation and highlights land laws that concentrated holdings.
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Washington
D. C
United States
Bureau of Corporations
Wilson
Davies
Oregon
California
Redwood
Idaho
France
New England
New Jersey
Lake States
Pper Peninsula
Florida
Thermore
President says harmony with senate over Warburg and Jones
In Washington on July 13 the president denied conflict with the Senate over the nominations of Paul Warburg and Thomas D. Jones to the Federal Reserve Board. He claimed complete harmony with the Democratic majority and said Jones is nearly certain to be confirmed, while the Senate would be fair with Warburg.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Paul Warburg
Thomas D. Jones
Federal Reserve Board
Jones
Warburg
Woodrow talks with big business
President discussed business conditions today with Raphael Herman of Detroit and Joseph G. Branch of Chicago. Herman said business men generally agreed that anti trust legislation should be passed in the present session of Congress and that conditions were improving.
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Washington, D. C
Balloon Race Ends Near St Louis After 106 Mile Flight
St Louis Mo July 13 The balloon San Francisco 1915 landed near Melansboro 106 miles from St Louis Sunday morning according to a telegram. All right balloons that started from here Saturday afternoon are down. The Goodyear balloon halted in Kentucky traveling 300 miles the longest distance of the race.
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St. Louis
San Francisco
Melansboro
St.ouis
Ills
Goodyear
Kentucky
Eclipse to Highlight European Science Teams
London reports a total solar eclipse on August 21 whose path of totality crosses Europe and Asia from Norway to Persia, attracting expeditions from many nations and private groups. Jamestown notes the Chaautauqua assembly opening with talks on the high cost of living by notable speakers.
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Europe
Asia
North Atlantic
Norwegian
Sweden
Russia
Persia
Jamestown
N. Y
Chautauqua National Assembly
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
New York
J. A. W. Smith
Ithaca
Scott Nearing
The
University, of Pennsylvania
William Creasy
Pennsylvania Atate Grange
First Western Medical Confederation Meeting in Medicine Hat
The first annual convention of the Alberts conferees of phical unions met in Medicine Hat Alberta on July 13 2. Delegates from Calgary Edmonton Moose Jaw Regina Saskatoon and other cities attend. The conference will discuss a plan to extend the jurisdiction of the ee to cover western Canada.
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Alta
Vrievarian
Ee Alberts
Phical
Calgary
Edmon Moose Jaw
Regina
Saskantoon
Canada
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