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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1913
Page
2
Reports indicate no official move pending as Wilson and Bryan remain in the midst of ongoing investigations. Sources describe slow progress and undisclosed details, with officials repeating that no conclusions have been reached.
Washington notes say Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as the administration completes its fact finding on Mexico. President Wilson and Secretary Bryan study voluminous reports, while policy may be delayed to observe moves by Mexican leaders seeking peace between Huerta and the constitutionalists. Huerta regrets American accusations of Mexican government influence and assures no harm will come to Americans during his tenure.
Pierre South Dakota officials and railway attorneys failed to reach a compromise on the rate suit. Rail lawyers proposed a two and a half cent passenger rate with the state dropping all passenger and freight rate suits. The state contends for a two cent rate and freight reductions and will take the matter to court. The hearing is expected in August or September at Sioux Falls or Pierre.
In Sioux Falls South Dakota Mrs John A Higbee reports her husband John A Higbee a Tripp county homesteader shot at her with intent to take her to the husband. He fled taking two of her children whose whereabouts are unknown. The husband reportedly took a Winner Nebraska bound train.
Chicago council approved an ordinance creating ten patrol women for duty at beaches dance halls and other places where they will be more efficient than men. Mayor Harrison will name the ten women to serve immediately, enhancing female police presence in the city.
Mrs. Willie Cranston of Pollock and her infant were seated in a buggy when it turned a sharp corner and overturned. The child’s head struck a rock, crushing the skull and causing instant death.
Michael Carel Asser, noted member of the permanent court of arbitration and the Dutch council of state, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1811, died in The Hague Netherlands.
Governor Ferris ordered two cavalry troops, two artillery companies and all infantry to the copper country as 15,000 striking miners disrupt Calumet and surrounding districts. Deputies were assaulted, stripped of badges and beaten while guarding mines. State soldiers, totaling 2,400, moved into Houghton and Keweenaw counties to restore order.
Washington notes a debt of 14 million dollars dominates a key conference as Virginia seeks to collect from Wear Virginia. In Canada a fire wipes out Brock, Saskatchewan, killing two. In New Jersey an exodus of a Mexican War survivor dies at 87. The Galveston grandstand center collapses before races injuring several, and Philadelphia endures a scorching heat wave with two heat deaths reported.
United States immigration inspector Charles B. Dixon Jr was shot in the back by Mexican federal troops at Juarez while on duty. He was treated in Juarez and El Paso after Washington demanded arrest and punishment for those involved. Consul Edwards pressed Mexico to hold and question the accused, a rare move reflecting heightened U S policy toward Mexico.
In Chicago July 28 Tom Marshall of Columbia City Indiana spoke while dining as a guest of the Royal Order of Moose. He said he liked the job of vice president and praised the senate and both parties. He noted the vice president attended the Moose banquet before cornerstone laying at Mooseheart industrial university.
A Bath dispatch reports Frank Burnside piloting a biplane over a six mile course with Oneonta ties. He flew for one hour forty six minutes to reach 12,960 feet, surpassing Lincoln Beachey’s 11,680 foot record set in Chicago two years earlier.
Washington reports that meat packing establishments in Chicago St Paul Milwaukee and Indianapolis will be inspected by the agriculture department. Dr M P Ravenel of the University of California will lead the inspections and is affiliated with Wisconsin state university as a bacteriology expert.
Tokyo reports say leading newspapers accuse the Japanese cabinet of diplomatic missteps in talks on Californian alien land ownership legislation. They urge leveraging Mexico's friendliness to advance Japan's cause while questioning U S sincerity.
Senate lobby probe resumes as Henry Cabot Lodge denounces Martin Mulhall’s testimony the National Association of Manufacturers turns over nearly 200000 letters to the committee highlighting opposition to labor reforms and arguing the inquiry serves Democratic debts to Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor.
An insurgent report claims a French aviator named Cridler Masson dropped a bomb on the Mexican gunboat Tampico, destroying the 1902-built vessel off Guaymas harbor. Tampico, 200 feet long, 33 feet beam, 10 feet draft, carried two four inch guns two six pounders and two torpedo tubes with 100 officers and men.
In New York on July 30 the Men's League for Women's Suffrage won Sulzer's endorsement for a petition urging the United States Senate to pass a constitutional amendment granting women the vote.
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