Orozco Promises 60 Day Peace If Arms Embargo Lifts
In Juarez General Orozco says he will establish peace within sixty days if the United States removes the arms embargo. Dispatches from the border note thousands of refugees crossing the Rio Grande and 2000 tents en route for relief efforts. Zapatistas were driven from Santiago Tiaguistenco by federals and rurales near Mexico City.
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Orozco
Washington
el Paso
Mexico
War Department
Rio Grande
Mexico City
Santiago Tiaquistenco
Pachuca
Santiago Tiaguistenco
Tlalnepantia
Federal District
Juarez
Mex
United States
Madero
Casas Grandes
Chihuahua
Ojitos
Here
Jose de la Lux Blanco
Blanco
Sonora
Sanjines
Temosachic
Madera
Gallego
Jerrez
Funk jury indicts girl in Chicago alienation suit
Grand jury indicts Daniel Donahue Isane Stiefel and Aileen Heppner in a $25,000 alienation case against Clarence Funk. Heppner also faces a perjury charge. Surprise as John C Henning avoids indictment.
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Chicago
Daniel Donahue
Isane Stiefel
Aileen Heppner
Clarence
Punk
John C. Henning
Miss Keppner
John C Henning
Funk
May Go In Shirt Sleeves
Washington Aug. 1 Joseph G Cannon hurried from the White House after a brief talk with Assistant Secretary Forster. He said he came to see if he needed a formal dress at today’s notification ceremonies and was told it would be informal and he could attend in shirt sleeves.
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Washington
Joseph G Cannon
White House
Forster
Prince Albert
Indicts in Boston L Case After Elevated Strike
Boston aug 1 after two weeks of investigation of the recent strike of guotormen and conductors of the Boston Elevated railway the grand jury reported eight secret indictments.
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Boston
Guotormen
Boston Elevated Railway
Country Life Meet highlights Wiley and notable speakers
De Kalb Illinois August 1 The second annual meeting of the Illinois Federation for Country Life Progress opened with a state wide rural life conference. Farmers ministers teachers and institute workers attend while speakers include Dr Harvey W Wiley Dr Warren Wilson Oliver Wilson and others. The event features a country life exhibit with a country church school good roads traveling libraries and a model farm kitchen.
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de Kalb
Ilinois Federation For Country Life Progress
Harvey W. Wiley
Warren T. Wilson
New York
Oliver Wilson
National Grange
Edward J. Ward
University of Wisconsin
Logan Walther Page
National Bureau of Public Roads
William D. Hurd
Massachusetts State College of Agriculture
William G. Eckhardt
Country Life
Country
Emperor Yoshihito Read First Proclamation in Tokyo
Aug 1 Tokyo witnessed Emperor Yoshihito deliver his first proclamation before a large gathering of officials and service representatives. London reported Aug 1 that Parliament passed a resolution in mourning the death of Emperor Matsuhito and Premier Asquith praised the late ruler's reign as historic.
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Tokyo
Yoshihito
London
Matsuhito
House of Commons
Asquith
Confession Not Immunity in Becker Rosenthal Case
New York prosecutors say Police Lieutenant Charles A. Becker faces first degree murder charges if guilty in the Rosenthal killing. D A Whitman asserts sufficient evidence for conviction while “Dago Frank” Cirofici reportedly confesses, corroborating graft and murder links. Mayor Gaynor calls a special aldermanic session to investigate police graft after Rosenthal disclosures.
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New York
Charles A. Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Whitman
Ecker
Becker
Dago Frank
Cirofici
Rosenthal
Webber
Wallon
Rose
Henry H. Curran
Gaynor
Nicaragua’s Capital Hit as New Revolution Breaks Out
Washington reports a new revolution in Nicaragua with Managua attacked on July 20 and cut off from communication. Captain Terhune aboard the gunboat Annapolis radioed the navy department from San Juan del Sur detailing the siege.
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Washington
Nicaragua
Terhune
Annapolis
San Juan del Sur
Navy Department
Managua
Morocco Action Stir Gibraltar Demand Damages
Foreign observers in Gibraltar and Morocco condemn the enforced departure of Europeans from Marrakesh. Reports say Germany plans to claim 8 006 000 francs about 1 600 000 dollars for damages.
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Gibraltar
Marrakesh
Morocco
Germany
Ice Trust Files Mortgage Bond Issue Secured by Ice Company
Washington August 1 6500000 mortgage filed by the American ice company known as the ice trust covering all its properties in Maine New Jersey Maryland New York and Pennsylvania for an issue of bonds of that amount.
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Washington
American Ice Company
The
Ice Trust
Maine
New Jersey
Maryland
New York
Pennsylvania
Chinese Aviator Builds Plane Aims for Chinese Army
Oakland reports Tom Gunn, a young Chinese aviator, designed and flew an aeroplane twice for 20 minutes reaching 500 feet and 60 mph as part of forming a Chinese army air corps. Bristol notes Col. John S. Mosby traveled to enforce a fifty year old promise from Mrs. Wirt A. Carrington, who said she would kiss him if he distinguished himself. she claimed the statute of limitations barred the kiss.
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Oakland
Cal
Tom Gunn
Bristol
John S. Mosby
Wirt A. Carrington
Monroe doctrine urged in Senate policy reaffirmation
Washington August 1. Foreign relations committee urged reaffirmation of the Monroe doctrine asserting the United States disapproves foreign military or naval bases or territorial acquisitions in the western hemisphere. The senate session paused on formalities as the committee report is expected to be endorsed, outlining principles for U S position. Revell wins in Germany golf championship with lowest net score in Karlsbad Bohemia.
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Washington
United States
Hemisphere
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Magdalena League
Taft Receives Republican Nomination Notification at White House
President Taft accepted formal nomination papers today in the East Room, as Senetor Root led the notification committee in presenting the parchment document from the Chicago convention. Taft pledged support for the party and thanked its members as the committee and audience listened closely.
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Washington
Taft
Senator Root
Raft
White House
Chicago
Note From Major Butt Aids Titanic Sinking Mystery
A bottle buried with a corroded top on Block Island carried an official wireless blank note dated April 16 1912 reading May A Butt and a message for help at sea from the Titanic. Signatures from Maj A Butt and others accompany the find credited to Joseph F Aiken Loram and W H Jones.
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Block Island
Midocean
Titanic
Mai
A. Butt
Maj. A. Butt
Joseph F. Aiken
North Attleboro
A. Il
Two Thousand Texans Seek Negro Killer in Texas Hunt
Two thousand white men search for Leonard Potts after he killed Sheriff Charles Stevens in Clarksville Texas. Reports say Potts is surrounded on Peters prairie four miles southeast with a week of killings including two Texas officers.
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Clarksville
Tex
Leonard Potts
Texas
Charles Stevens
Potts
Peter’s Prairie
Tug That Sank With 29 Men Recovered Near Winter Quarter
The revenue cutter Unalea found a derelict near Winter Quarter that may be the tug Nina which foundered in a gale in January 1910 while bound from Norfolk to New York. Twenty nine men were lost. two weeks of cutter patrols followed the disaster.
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Norfolk
Unalea
Winter Quarter
Nina
New York
Navy Department
Revenue
Missouri Rep Attacks Roosevelt and Taft Tariff Clash
Representative Richard Bartholdt of Missouri assails Colonel Roosevelt in the House praising Taft and denouncing Roosevelt as betraying Republican ideals. The piece reports Senate passage of a bill to reimburse Shoshone irrigation project contractors and Democrats allying with insurgent Republicans to push tariff reduction discussions.
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Shington
Richard Bartholdt
Missouri
Roosevelt
Taft
Chicago
T. Heart
Bartholdt
Olyster Bay
Senate
Wyo
Goitre Causes Death in Bristol Man
Charles Ays aged 45 of a local transfer company died after a goitre grew on his throat and wedged under the collar bone choking the windpipe. Surgeons opened the throat and inserted a tube but he died before passage could be restored.
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Bristol
Tenn
Charles Ays
Striker Dead in Riot at Victoria Docks London
Riot at Victoria docks in London leaves seven strikers shot and one dying in hospital while twenty injured. At Victork locks 2,000 strikers briefly gather to resume action amid clashes. Freeport editor H. Poffenders knocked unconscious. Sheldon Clark injured when a wheel collapses on a riding vehicle.
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London
Stiches An
Victoria
Oather Docks
Victork Locks
Hurt
Freeport
H. Poffenderster
Freeport Bulletin
Sheldon Clark
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Illinois Federation On Rural Progress
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Emperor Yoshihito
Japan
Gayngr
Gotham
Police
Sullivan
Tack” Rose
Hecker
American Company
Col. Mosby
U.S. Policy
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Karlsbad
Bohemia
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Congressman
Luke E. Wright
Wright
Tennessee
Dixie
Unalga
House
New Party
Goitre
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