Orozco Losing Battle Report From Mexico
General Orozco's cause appears doomed as federal forces push from Conejos toward Esco lan and Bellano after a setback at Cuatro Cienegas. Mapimi reportedly captured by insurrectos under Col. Canalels, with Huerta preparing further advances to crush the rebellion.
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Mexico City
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Orozco
Cuatro Cienegas
Aubert
Huertas
Ojinago
Monterey
Saltillo
Jiminez
Durango
Torreon
Tepic
Chihuahua
el Paso
Tex
Huerta
Conejos
Escalon
Bellano
Mapimi
Juarez
Insurrectos
Col
C. A. Canalels
Bermejillo
Jose Cordova
Gomez
Slashed Couple In Frenzied Drunken Attack
In Laporte Indiana May 15 Mr and Mrs Frank Gland are hospitalized after a boarder on a drinking spree drew a razor and attacked them. The woman sustained multiple breast wounds while the husband suffered deep leg cuts and severed muscles in his right arm. The woman’s prognosis is poor and the husband is expected to live.
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Laporte
Ind
Frank Gland
Gland
General Duncan Dies in San Antonio at 58
U S Army officer General Joseph W. Duncan, commanding the Department of Texas, died in San Antonio of heart failure after a short illness. He was fifty eight and was to lead troops to the border at the first sign of trouble with Mexico.
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San Antonio
Tex
Joseph W. Duncan
Department of Texas
Duncan
Mexico
Heavy May Snow Delays Denver Kept Farmers Jubilant
Ten inches of snow fell in Denver and continued in many areas on May 15. Colorado fruit growers faced little concern as warm temperatures persisted. The storm provides ample irrigation water for the eastern half of the state and farmers are jubilant.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
Tin Trust A Monopoly in Tin Plate Industry
New York May 15 Independent tin plate makers testified in the government suit to dissolve the steel trust. James T. McFarland and Howard M. Davis described pressure to buy all or none from the American Tin-Plate company, hindering smaller dealers. Wheeler admitted destroyed documentary evidence and claimed authority.
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New York
American Tin-Plate Company
United States
James T. McFarland
North Philadelphia
McFarland
Howard M. Davis
Philadelphia
American Tin-Plate, Company
Phillips Company
Harlow B. Wheeler
American Sheet and Tin-Plate Company
Combine
Beginning of Sugar Trust Case Trial in New York
The federal action to dissolve the American Sugar Refining Company opens testimony before Special Examiner Wilson B. Brice in New York. The case, paired with the United States Steel suit, marks two major trust dissolution actions in the city. Evidence from the prior sugar officials trial on restraining interstate trade will be revisited.
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New York
American Sugar Refining Company
Wilson B. Brice
United States Steel Corporation
Youngest Illinois Education Board Member Named
Pontiac Illinois May 15 Kelly Rinaker has joined the Carlinville board of education at age twenty three. He is believed to be the youngest member in the state and is a Blackburn college graduate of 1909.
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Education Board
Pontiac
Wholesale Grocers Meet in St Louis Convention Opens
The National Wholesale Grocers association held its annual convention in the Schubert theater with Mayor Kreismann welcoming attendees and William Judson replying. President G B Wasson presided while merchants and their wives were invited to a Summer Garden party. In Dubuque freight handlers on four roads struck in solidarity with Chicago, seeking 25 cents more per hour or 2 dollars daily, halting traffic.
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St. Louis
National Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Schubert Theater
Kreismann
William Judson
G. B. Wasson
Summer Garden
Dubuque
Chicago
Torras Crevasse Water Reaches Near Port Allen
Water from the Torras crevasse advances toward Port Allen Louisiana, now within half a mile of the town. Early reports of widespread flooding around Smithfield's large plantations were premature as the rise progresses slowly.
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Port Allen
Torras
Smithfield
Arbitration meet features world noted speakers at Mohonk lake
At Lake Mohonk New York on May 15 President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University presided over the Lake Mohonk Conference of International Arbitration. Speakers included Albert Smiley and international figures from Germany Persia and Argentina. The program covered the Third Hague Conference and calls for an international court of arbitral justice.
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Mohonk Lake
N. Y
Christian L. Lange
Interparliamentary Union
Albert Gobat
International Peace Bureau
Berne
Otfried Nippold
Germany
Berne University
Abdul Baha Abbas
Persia
Baha! Movement
J. P. Santamarina
Buenos Ayres
Stewart L. Woodford
New York
William R. Riddle
Ontario High Court of Justice
William C. Dennis
Washington
Roosevelt Raps President Taft in Ohio Campaign
Colonel Roosevelt blasted Taft and defended direct primaries in a fiery Ohio tour. He urged voters to study ballot names and delegates for his renomination, praised protective tariff with worker benefits, and planned 60 speeches across Ohio before next Tuesday's primaries. Taft kept a brisk pace, taunting Roosevelt and defending his record in Canton and surrounding cities.
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Bellaire
Abraham Lincoln
Roosevelt
Ohio
Taft
State Committee
Hamilton County
Cincinnati
Stark
Mahoning
Alliance
Canton
Massillon
Akron
Kent
Ravenna
Warren
Niles
Theodore Roosevelt
Salineville
Thirteen Killed in Norrie Mine Cave-In at Ironwood
In Ironwood Michigan thirteen miners died when a drift 2000 feet underground collapsed at the Norrie mine operated by Oliver Iron Mining Company. Rescue teams recovered bodies after timbers gave way and buried the workers trapped below.
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Ironwood
Mich
Norrie
John Zembo
Frank Jaszcczak
Oscar Kangas
Charles Nelmark
August Clys
Jacob Anderson
Vincent Zambrowitz
Bert Jacisis
Tom Rusik
George Hankin
Karaly Majirski
John Jkatch
Peter Willa
Oliver Iron Mining Company
Durand Case Cites Alleged Packery Ties to Inspectors
Mrs. Grace C Durand of Chicago claims a link between meat packers and Chicago Bureau of Animal Industry officials. Arthur Meeker of Armour and Co is alleged to have used inspectors to condemn her prize cattle, sparking calls for investigation led by Rep Nelson. A Chicago inspector's assistant testifies to admissions and office spying amid cattle testing turmoil.
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Washington
Scott Durand
Chicago
Arthur Meeker
Armour and Company
Marion B. Adams
Nelson
Wisconsin
Adams
Armour
Grace C. Durand
Bureau of Animal Industry
Jenison
HM. C. Krompe
H. C. Johnson
Johnson
Bennett
Employes
Typewriter Ribbons Spark Convention Debate
In Columbus a constitutional convention delegate opposed a bill for 27 to supply typewriter ribbons, arguing it funded personal decoration for stenographers. A colleague quelled the debate by whispering that machines, not girls, wore the ribbons.
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Bucyrus
Columbus
State approves 600 circus tickets for Napa hospital inmates
Sacramento May 15. A claim for 600 circus tickets issued to Napa state hospital inmates was approved by the state board of control. The 300 men and 300 women were taken to the circus by Superintendent Osborne and Dr. W H Hateh, secretary of the lunacy board.
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Sacramento
Cal
Napa
State Board of Control
Osborne
W. H. Hateh
Lu Nacy Board
Women vote in California and national races expand
California women cast the heaviest presidential primary ballot in state history. Clark leads in Santa Clara County. Roosevelt sweeps Alameda while Taft trails. San Francisco and San Jose results show Roosevelt dominance, with scattered precinct data across Fresno and Los Angeles. In Tennessee Minnesota Maryland Washington and Michigan, Taft Roosevelt splits and state conventions set early plans for delegates.
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San Francisco
Taft
San Jose
Roosevelt
la Follette
Clark
Wilson
Alameda County
Fresno
T. R
Maryland
Baltimore
Republcan
Washington
Seattle
Wash
Lewie
Michigan
Detroit
Mich
Bay City
Miles J. Purcell
Saginaw
Boston teen swims mile in Detroit river race
Rose Pitos, seventeen, claims world champion swimmer title as she swam a mile in 23 minutes and a seconds in the Detroit river. Competitor Charles Woodward of Detroit suffered a cramp during the race.
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Detroit
Mich
Rose Pito«nos
Boston
Detroit River
Charles Woodward
Woodward
Crampa
Confesses to Shooting in Columbus Prison
Cecilia Ferrers, twenty four, from a statehouse area, confessed in Columbus on May 11 after a day and night in jail that she shot Alvin E B Zollinger, a married man. The admission followed a period of mental strain.
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Columbus
Cecilia Ferrers
Alvin EB. Zollinger
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