Lind in Mexico Faces Recognition Demand and Exclusion Threat
Mexico City reports say John Lind, Wilson's special envoy, may be barred without proper credentials and recognition of Huerta’s government. Mexicans debate Lind’s unofficial mandate while Washington pushes a peaceful mediation, with Senate scrutiny and threats of sedition charges.
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Mexico City
John Lind
Wilson
United States
Mexico
Government of
Senate
Witeon
Foreign Relations Committee
More Mexican Horrors Bared by an American
San Francisco businessman Leach presented Secretary Bryan with a detailed account of massacres and looting in Durango after its June 18 capture by Urbina and allies. He cites 400 prisoners released, $10 million pesos in damage, and foreigners including an Englishman killed, with Americans wounded, as a terror campaign unfolds in Durango and surrounding areas.
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M Oa. Leach
San Francisco
Cal
Durango
Mexico
Bryan
Leach
State Department
Secretary of State
Chihuahua
Tomas Urbina
Calixto Contreras
Domingo
Mariano Arrie
la Suiza
Fabrica de Francia
Francia Maritima
Durango Clothing Company
State Penitentiary
Defends His Deals Rightly Valued by Witness at House Hearing
Assistant Assessor Kalbfus testified before the House District committee about his Washington real estate valued at 60 cents per foot, assessed at 40, and later sold at 1.60. He defended the transactions as profitable and explained the rise due to a street “on Paper,” while noting he had no role in the street’s creation. He admitted speculation, saying he is beginning to believe it may be wrong, and the panel pressed him on why an asset priced at 40 cents was sold for 1.50. The hearing continued with further cross examination on assessment practices.
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House District Committee
Samuel T. Kalbfus
Washington
Richards
Kalbfus
Johnson
George
Ltke
Connecticut Avenue Bridge
Kaibfua
Olice
Geéorité
P. A. Drury
McKenzie
Caraway
Lind's Train Derailment Delays Diplomat to Mexico City
Houston dispatch reports Lind, personal representative of President Wilson, delayed several hours when the New Orleans Texas and Mexico train derailed near Nome Texas. He was uninjured, resumed journey, and plans to sail from Galveston tomorrow aboard the battleship New Hampshire to Vera Cruz. crew members aboard ship to report at 6 a.m.
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Houston
Tex
Auge
Tohn Lind
Mexico City
Wilson
New Orleans
Texas
Mexico
Nome
Lind
Galveston
New Hampshire
Vera Crus
Sellers
Lind Declines Mexico Ambassadorship and Permanent Posts
New Orleans August 6 John Lind Wilsons personal representative said he would not accept the Ambassadorship to Mexico or any permanent post there after his mission ends. He departed for Galveston to board the New Hampshire and declined talks on Huerta. In St Paul Minnesota Lind was offered Minister to Norway but declined.
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Mexico
New Orleans
John Lind
Wilson
Lind
Galveston
New Hampshire
Ling
Huerta
St Paul
Minn
Norway
W. B. Lynch
Minnesota
Lyrich
Catholic Party Declines to Nominate in Mexico Election
Mexico City August 6 Catholics refuse to nominate a presidential candidate citing disorder and recognizing peace as a prerequisite for voting. The convention reserves right to reconvene if conditions improve. A delegate accused U S nonrecognition of causing the crisis. This move mirrors Liberal party abstention and weakens hopes for October 27 election.
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Mexico City
Debcate
Federal
United States
Liberal Party
Felix Diaz
Mexico
Japan
Pittsburgh bridegroom fatally shoots himself on wedding day
Frank Weller, 28, a first day applicant under a state eugenic law, shot himself at the North Side home a hour before the planned marriage to Elizabeth Berger, 28. Weller, a barber, wore wedding clothes. Berger collapsed upon hearing the news and was treated at Allegheny General Hospital.
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Washington Post
Pittsburgh
Frank Weller
Elizabeth Berger
North Side
Nevins
Weller
Miss Berger
Allegheny General Hospital
Toulgut
Mexicans and Americans Crush Outlaw Band Near Tampico
Mexico News report details a joint Mexican landowner and American farmer vigilante action near Tampico. Seventeen outlaws were killed or executed after abducting and robbing Matthew Gould and his daughters, with 24 Atascador women fleeing to Tampico and a German siege note in Guaymas. Federal mine casualties reported at Monclova. Blum freed provisionally amid assassination plot claims.
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Mexico City
Matthew Gould
Tampico
Mexica
Atascador
Hille
Gould
Bendits
Kalbfus Defends DC Property Assessments Before Committee
Samuel T. Kalbfus of the board of assistant assessors told the House District committee that his district property assessments were fair and that lowering them would mislead buyers. He cited $7.25 yearly per person for reduced assessments on his and associates properties including Twentieth Street and Belmont Road, asserting his changes compare with other properties. He argued transparency and urged consistent assessments to avoid conflicts of interest.
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Samuel T. Kalbfus
House District Committee
Kalbfus
Twentieth Street
Belmont Road
Richards
McKenzie
District of Columbia
Will wed girl of 18 in Los Angeles wedding plan
Charles Victor Hall, a Los Angeles millionaire, will marry Mile. Marie Rita Suetans, an 18 year old Paris flower girl, in LA. The attorney E A Meserve, in Hall’s divorce case, said federal officials were seeking the couple after news of the planned marriage.
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Washington Post
Los Angeles
Cal
Charles Victor Hall
Mile
Marie Rita Suetans
Hall
E. A. Meserve
Mlle. Suetans
AROUND WORLD IN 35 DAYS
New York to Aus report: John Henry Mears, representing an evening newspaper, sets a new globe trotting record by circling the earth in 85 days 21 hours 85 minutes and 4 5 seconds. He started near midnight July 2 from New York, via Paris Harbin Yokohama and Vancouver, breaking the 1918 record of 62 days 3 hours 43 minutes 374 5 seconds.
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New York
Aus
John Henry Mears
Mears
Paris
Harbin
Yokohama
Vancouver
Andre Jaeger-Schmidt
TRACE SULZER FUNDS BROKER REFUSES TO TESTIFY
Contributions to Governor Sulzer's campaign fund were at least ten thousand dollars more than his sworn statement, with bank officials testifying to unlisted gifts from figures like William F. McCombs Henry Morgenthau John Lynn Jacob H Schiff and Abram S. EXikus. A push to link a 200 share Big Four stock purchase to those funds was blocked as broker witnesses refused to answer under subpoena. The committee adjourned to resume hearings.
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New York
Sulzer
Legislative
Tonswer
Senator Frawley
Eugene L. Richarda
William F. McCombs
Democratic National Committees
Henry Morgenthau
Democratic National Committee
John Lynn
Jacob H. Schiff
Abram
Gov. Sulzer
Opera Tenor Drowns as Yacht Overturns on Tegernsee
A yacht carrying opera stars Frita Sturmfeld and Leo Slezak overturned on Tegernsee Bavaria. Sturmfeld drowned while Slezak was rescued. Sturmfeld belonged to the royal opera at Leipzig and toured the United States in 1911. Slezak is famed in the United States for performances at the Metropolitan Opera and various concerts.
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Tegernsee
Bavaria
Frita Sturmfeld
Leo Slezak
Sturmfeld
Slezak
Royal Opera
Leipzig
United States
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Two students electrocuted at Pennsylvania State College
Arthur May and Walter Fey, both from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, were electrocuted while connecting electric switches. The youths, students at State College and employed by an electrical firm, were killed when they touched a 200 volt supply wire. They were traveling via Sleeper from Washington to St Louis.
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Pennsylvania State College
Hazleton
Aug
Arthur May
Walter Fey
State College
Balkan War Ends as Treaty Set for Tomorrow
Peace closes after a month of fighting among Serbia Greece Montenegro Roumania and Bulgaria. Frontiers redraw assets leave Lagos Xanthi and Kavala with Bulgaria and Greece, demobilization to follow. hostilities began July 1 with heavy casualties and reported massacres.
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Bucharest
Balkan
Servia
Greece
Montenegro
Roumania
Bulgaria
M. Maiorescu
Sofia
Turkey
Bulgar
Silistriada
Danube
Varna
Black
Mharg Plans Harmony Monster Dinner Debated in Chicago
Chicago August 6 Ormsby McHarg traveled from New York to discuss with Republican and Progressive leaders uniting the two factions at a monster dinner in the city early this winter. He says Republicans and Progressives share ideas and must unite against the Democratic party. McHarg criticizes Bryan and Wilson and defends Roosevelt as committed to national business matters. The Progressive committee in Nebraska proposes full tickets for the next election.
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Chicago
Ormsby McHare
New York
McHarg
Bryan
Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Four Hurt in Train Wreck and Other Today’s Items
An index to today’s issue notes stories including a train wreck with four injured, Mexico may bar Lind Americans, a Balkan peace treaty, Kalbfus on real estate deals, currency bill passage, guardsmen as seasoned troops, Vardaman on lynching, Boy Scouts camp Ordway, horse show prizes, merchants’ freight hearing, Major Harts succeeds Cal Cosby, tariff denial for the South, editorial and society notes, sporting events, railroads raising rates, novel cases in court, Knights Templar leaving today, Major Ray loses fight.
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Mexico
Kalbfus
Vardaman
Camp Ordway
Maj Harts
Cal Cosby
Knights Templar
Maj Ray
Duke Abruzzi Stoned as Milan Strikers Attack Auto
In Milan on August 6 a clash between strikers and troops left about fifty wounded and one hundred arrested. The Duke of the Abruzzi’s car was recognized and stoned during a street meeting. workers hurled epithets and attacked the automobile until police dispersed the crowd. The duke was uninjured.
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Milan
Italy
The
Abruzzi
Currency bill victory seen in Senate and House
President Wilson expresses pleasure as the administration currency bill gains expected House support on August 11, with Democrats aligned and Republicans not opposing. Three banking committee Democrats may seek amendments to curb interlocking directorates and allow currency backed by corn, wheat, cotton, and tobacco in bonded warehouses.
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House
Banking and Currency Committee
Eagle
Texas
Ragsdale
South Carolina
Neeley
Kansas
Wilson
James
Hughes
Owen
Senate
Hitchcock and
O'Gorman
House Banking Committee
Dog follows dead owners at Oneida Lake funeral
Rex the water spaniel, longtime family pet, attended the funeral of William A. Boysen, his wife, and their 3-year-old, after a motorboat accident at Oneida Lake. The dog stood by the caskets, refused to leave, and lay over the graves at the cemetery, with neighbors fearing grief may hasten his own passing.
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Washington Fost
Syracuse
William A. Boysen
Oneida Lake
Rex
Bax
Robert C Ogden Dead in Maine Health respite
Robert C Ogden, New York philanthropist, died at his summer residence in Kennebunkport Maine after a long illness. Born in Philadelphia he built a fortune and supported causes. he had recently sought a healthful change here with travel and rest before death. He maintained homes in Washington DC and New York, with routine commutes and social ties to major routes and Union Station.
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Maine
Kennebunkport
Robert C Ogden
New York
Ogden
Sumer
Philadelan Sea
War Militia Tense Over Arms Entering Harpers Ferry
Aug. camp report from Camp Ordway Bolivar Heights W Va describes Harpers Ferry mayor seizing sidearms from militia, citing Johnson law against carrying arms in city, while camp officials dispute authority. Also notes flag raised at field hospital, vigorous drills, and Second Regiment dress parade preparations under Col William M Harvey.
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Ordway
Bolivar Heights
W. Va
Harpers Ferry
Wentzell
Harries
Corporation Limits
United States
Jesus
John Brown
Herron
Cook
Staffs
Hine
Medical Corps
Capterry
Signal Corps
G H Foster
Foster
Old Glory
Red Cross
Reveille
William M Harvey
Stee
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Eduardo Hay
Republic
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Peace Mission
Bryan Wires
Gov. Lind
Dedice
Rogera Palmer
Construction Department
National Railways
Carlos von Brandw
L W. Elder
McDonald Institute
H. W. Stepp
A. W
Laurilant
Urbina
Republic of Mexico
Ralbfus
Grill
Native Farmers Aid Posse
Qutlaw
Quaymas
Federala
Lumber Company
Constitutionalist
Hacienda Hermanas
Eagle Pass
Monclova
JL. Blum
Blum
Antonio A Villareal
Coahuila
Villareal
Spain
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el Paso
Juarez
Probers
Vartinaburg
Berkeley Springs
Cumberland and
Baltimore and Me
Lanion Station
Washington, D. C
Balks Inquisitor
Political Treasury
Ches & Ohia Ry
St Louis
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Kavala
Bulgars
Lagos
Xanthi
Struma River
Strumnitza
Struma
Belesh
Mesta
Strumnitsa
MHARG
Love Feast
Neb
Omaha Nebr
Rane
State Progressive Committee
Sutheyee
Duke Abruzzi
Robert C. Ogden
Denver, Cole and
Returne
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Gen. Harries
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