Carranza Reassures Protected Foreigners as Vera Cruz Tensions Rise
President Carranza’s government assures Washington that foreigners are secured and Mexicans alone determine sovereignty. Foreign Minister Acuna says Vera Cruz demonstrations were loyalty expressions, not hostility to non Mexicans, amid gunboat movements and diplomatic notes.
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Washington
Acuna
Ges Caranze
Vera Crus
Delal
Cormgners
Jurisdicto
Mealco
Forein
Vera Cruz
Carranza
United States
Wilson Takes Up Mexican Situation
A New York based dispatch reports officials see potential harmony among Villa and Zagata factions as the United States and Latin American governments seek a peaceful conference. Carranza denounces external attempts while signaling no intent to invade Mexico. The plan favors a conference within three weeks, awaiting responses to a regional appeal about restoring sovereignty and life and property guarantees.
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Villa
Zagata
United States
Carranza
Obrenon
Gonzales
New York
Mexico
Argentina
Tansing
Peasion
Georgia Society hears Hoke Smith on Empire State claim
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia addressed the Georgia Society in Washington recounting why Georgia should be its largest state organization in the District of Columbia. He called Georgia the Empire State of the South with nearly 1000 loyal sons in Washington in top professions. Hannis Taylor lauded Smith’s ideals and leadership. Members gave five minute talks on personal Georgia origin. William Brantley Foster, Justice Lamar, and Judge Clements admitted to membership. Col W H Hairston presided.
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Georgia Society
Columbia
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Raleigh
Smith
South
Washington
Hannis Taylor
North Carolina
Congress
Six Die As Freight Train Hits Knights Party Train
In Columbus Ohio early today a freight train crashed into a special train carrying members of the Knights of Pythias Lodge of Mount Sterling Ohio and their families. Six people were killed and more than twenty injured, some seriously.
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Columbus
Ohio
Knights of Pythies Lodge
Mount Sterling
Plot of Mexicans for Border Massacre Plan Revealed
War Department silent on reports of secret organizers in Texas aligning Mexicans under the plan of San Diego to kill all American males over 16 along the border and annex border states to Mexico. General Funston concentrates forces in Brownsville while a Mercedes clash yielded a flag reading Army of Liberty of Mexico and Texas and a muttered call for unity among Mexicans.
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War Department
Texas
San Diego
Arizona
New Mexico
California
Mexico
Funston
Brownsville
Mercedes
United States
Army of Liberty
Argentina's Message to Carranza Upholding U S Plans for Peace
Argentine foreign minister Sener Murature transmits to General Carranza the government’s reply defending Argentina’s participation in the Washington conference. The message insists noninterference in Mexico’s internal affairs and warns against armed intervention while affirming pan American solidarity and support for Mexico’s pacification and development.
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Argentina
Carranza
U. S
Sener Murature
Washington
Mexico
Oll
Villa Aims to Avoid Fighting Carranza at Peace Parley
Gen Villa, in talks at Etago and Juarez with Maj Gen Scott, meets again and expresses willingness for early peace. Reports say he ordered his commanders to avoid fighting and evacuate threatened areas, signaling a sincere peace effort per border government agents.
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Villa
Carranza
Etago
Juarez
Scott
Ataff
United States Army
Eax
Mexican Raiders Threaten Texas Border Conflict
U S cavalrymen fought off a Mexican raiding band near Katherine as Gen Funston coordinates patrols from Laredo to Brownsville. Carranza forces deny intending to invade Texas, while Huertistas blamed for inflaming cross border unrest. Veracruz calm improves as battleships head south, and Gov. Ferguson seeks federal help. Texas militia mobilizes under state authority.
United States Will Fight If Necessary Says Vice President
Kansas City, Aug 12. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall declared that the United States will fight if peace with honor cannot be maintained, while urging the public to speak impartially. He arrived today on a speaking tour and spoke on national policy and resolve.
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United States
Kansas City
Wilson
Thomas R. Marshall
President Wilson Returns From Cornish Vacation Tanned
President Wilson, greatly benefited by his Cornish vacation, returned to the White House at 9 40 yesterday morning and immediately tackled a backlog of work. He is deeply tanned from golf, held conferences with Secretary of State Robert Lansing and Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, and worked from the study. He canceled the Friday cabinet meeting to consult department heads individually. If the Mexican crisis remains acute, he may not return to Cornish until September.
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Wilson
White House
Robert Lansing
Josephus Daniels
Navy
Cornish
Washington
United States War Talk on Mexican Uprisings in Texas
Special to The Washington Post reports Senator James H Martine warns of imminent war with Mexican factions, criticizes the Vera Cruz debacle, and calls for a large occupation army. Gen Funston readies to mobilize more troops if uprisings in Cameron Hidalgo Willacy Nueces counties expand, detailing border deployments and artillery placements across Brownsville Laredo Eagle Pass El Paso and Fort Bliss.
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Katherine
Brownaville
United States
Mercedes
Rio Grande
Carranza
Laredo
Brownsville
Kingsville
Houston
Texas
Valley Country
Corpus Christi
Ong
Lyford
Gov. Ferguson
Vera Cruz
Washington
Caranza
Louisiana
New Hampshire
Jupiter
Newport
Garrison
War Department
Funston
Washington Post
Matucew
James H Martine
Mexico
Martine
Carrente
Wilson
Congress
San Antonino
Tex
United States Army
Secret Service
San Antonio
Frederick Funston
Southern
Rio Grande Valley
Fifteenth Cavalry
Paso
Funeton Gaid
Cameron
Hidalgo
Willacy
Nueces
Ninth Infantry
del Rio
Fort McIntomn
Eagle Pass
el Paso
Fort Bliss
Carop Fort Bliss
Eighth Brigade
Hi Paso
Douglas
Fort Hachita
Columbus
Sixth Field Artillery
Naco
Nogales
Yuma
Mors
Fort Stil
Leaders reject armed intervention in Mexican crisis
Buenos Aires reports leaders across parties oppose any U S armed action in Mexico. Interpellation planned on Argentina's stance as Rio de Janeiro watches Pan American efforts. Gazeta de Noticias criticizes intervention supporters while noting Washington conciliation plan faces rival faction hurdles.
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Buenos Aires
Chamber of Deputies
Argentina
Mexico
United States
Rio Janeiro
National Chamber
Foreign Office
Edward R. Tinker Dead One of His Sons In Now 72
Edward R Tinker longtime Washington Market Company president and North Adams resident died at the Ebbitt House after four months illness. A former delegate to the Wigwam convention that nominated Lincoln in 1860, he was 92. Survived by three sons and a grandson, his body to be sent to North Adams for burial.
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Edward R Tinker
North Adams
Mays
Washington Market Company
Ebbitt House
Mr Tinker
Abraham Lincoln
Massachusetts
Lincoln
Guy J W Stewart
Vermont
E B Sawyer
Tinker
Ben Butler
W EB Chandler
G Ordway
Carlos Pierce
Linegin
North Adame Mayo
Cleveland
North ‘Adams
Taft
Republican Party
Arthur M Tinker
North Adame
Guem M Tinker
New York
Atiay Insurance Company
London
Henry W Tinker
Quincy Market Warehouse and Cold Storage Company
Hoston
Edward R Tinker, Jr
Chase National Bank of New York
Stolen Jewel Case Found With Brainerd Murder Link
C Brainerd Washington bureau manager of the Brooklyn Eagle, living at Parker apartments, 1601 Park Road NW, was killed Wednesday night when police recovered a silver jewel cage containing gold swatches, rings, heirlooms valued at 600 dollars. The box, found in Roak Creek Park near Mount Pleasant and Newton streets by Jones, a homeman for Mrs FR Jellett, led to Brainerd as owner via a watch fob engraved Presented to C. C. Brainerd. The jewels were intact except a gold chain worth 10 dollars and a ladies open-face watch worth 20 dollars whose back was broken and discarded.
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Brainerd
Washington
The
Brooklyn Eagle
Parker Apartments
Park Road Northwest
Roak Creek Park
Mount Pleasant
Newton Streets
Jones
Frank FR. Jellett
Mount Plesnaant
Waa
C. C. Brainerd
Telephone service links Washington to South and West
The Postal Telegraph Cable Company expands long distance dialing from Washington to Dallas Houston and Galveston with new lines to the South and SouthWest. Officials say Southern service surpasses rivals in rate and reach and the firm plans further extension across the Postal Telegraph network.
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Postal Telegraph Cable
Washington
Dallas
Houston
Galveston
North Aq &T
Louis
Sanger Recaptured After Dramatic Escape From Asylum
Mrs Harry Sanger, famed for a sensational escape from St Elizabeth Government Asylum, was arrested at 1 PM in the Woodward Building while consulting her attorney. Detectives say her brothers aided her departure. she denied Maryland flight and indicated relatives aided her return. Authorities plan further action as legal fight looms.
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St Elisabeth’s
Harry Sanger
St. Elizabeth
Government Asylum For the Insane
Woodward Buillying
W A White
Asylum Hospital
Central Office
Sergis. Armatrong
Messer and Evans
Sanger
Maryland
Washington
Highth
Mia Panser
O Malley
Mra Sanger
Volcanic Alarm Grips Italy Villages In Peril
Severe earthquakes and erupting volcanoes drive fear across Naples Messina and Sicilian towns as Mount Etna Vesuvius and Stromboli erupt lava streams ash and smoke. Residents flee with belongings toward safety while Cantania and nearby villages seek divine protection amid reports of new craters and lava flows.
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Naples
Vesuvius
Mount Etna
Stromboli
Messina
Brindisi
Washington Post
Taranto
Italy
Catania
Casino del Inglea
Cantania
Lipari
Bay of Naples
Bass
Vacation School to Close After Sixth Annual Session
The sixth annual Summer Vacation Bible and Industrial School for Alley Children will close at Shiloh Baptist Church basement on L Street near Seventeenth NW. The program includes prize essays book reviews musical selections and recitations with awards for essays reviews deportment promptness advancement in studies and manual training work. Attendees may inspect class made articles in mat weaving sewing carpentry embroidery crochet.
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Shiloh Baptist Church
Strangers Home
L Street I
Seventeenth Northwest
Democrats Eye Treasury Plum In Patroonage Battle
The Treasury comptroller post is hotly contested as a patronage prize with Ohio Democrats backing Warren Wick of Cincinnati. Indiana and Iowa prospects, including Charles Korbly and Maurice Connolly, are also mentioned. The $8,000 annual post traditionally leans on legal or judicial training.
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Treasury
Ohio
A. G Porter
Indiana
W W Warwick
Cincinnati
Charlies A Korhly
Treasury Department
Congress
House Banking and Currency Committee
Maurice Connolly
Iowa
Rifemen guard jail cruelty to animal charge in Maryland
A deputy sheriff led a heavily armed guard at the Prince Georges county jail to deter a possible lynching of Charles Davis who is charged with horse stealing. Davis allegedly starved a horse before it collapsed and had to be shot. The case includes additional horse thefts, recoveries, and a lengthy Maryland penalty.
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Animal Angels
Sheifff
Prince Georges County
Mdla
Upper Marlboro
Charles Davis
Pumphrey
Pep Alble
Davis
Davin
Bruce Buck
Austin Ving
Massachusetts Avenue
Austin
Sergi Springman
Brightwood
Vr Buck Davie
Yuehing
Benjamin H C Bowie
Bowlend
J P Fitzgerald
Wilk Ford Road
Brightwood DC
Ite
Davis Hood
Dennison Place
Maryland
Father and son held in Hazel Macklin death case
Police charged Bilis N Ebersole and Newton Ebersole with the murder of 16 year old Hazel Macklin whose body was found in a vault at Spring Brook Park near South Bend. The arrests followed an October 26 1914 investigation after she left home on August 28 to meet an online suitor and disappeared.
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Hazel Macklin
South Bend
Hazel Mackin
Spring Brook Park
Bilis N Ebersole
Newton Ebersole
Ebersoles
Bratol Ind
Thomas
Assurances President Will Sign Third Infantry Commissions
National Guard officers reported assurances that President Wilson would sign 51 officer commissions today before the encampment at Colonial Beach Virginia. Despite the press of business the commissions are in his possession and could be enacted before Monday next. Officers of the First and Second Infantry could hold over with their present commissions if needed.
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District National Guard
Third Infantry
NGO
C Jtos
Wilson
National Guard
Colonial Beach Va
First
Second Infantry
Mirror Shop Delivers Superior Quality Plating Services
The Mirror Shop at 736 Hthstow completed an advanced 0-year guarantees job with quadruple plating, delivering a finish praised as better than new. Customer satisfaction highlighted by efficient work and reliable results.
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the Mayer CO
15Th St
George W Robinson
Phore
Lincoln
Fogle Beddag Co
Bummer &Peciat
Capitol
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