SLAIN BRIDE KILLED IN BROOKLYN HOME MYSTERY
Barbara Cornelius and George McAghon die in a bedroom shooting in Brooklyn. Carman Cornelius, the husband, reports a window entry by McAghon who fired, then killed himself. Investigators note a struggle, multiple shots, and no third person. Prior marriages and a potential burglary tie into the case. Coroner cites self-inflicted final shot.
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Barbara Cornelius
George McAghen
New York
Carman Cornelius
George McAghon
Jersey City
Brooklyn
Eirty
McAghon
Cornelius
Senler
Robert Jones
Bob Cawson
Leslie Jones
Weather Summary for District and Nearby Areas
The Washington port area reports partly cloudy weather with continued warmth. Forecast calls for possible showers Friday and Saturday, light variable winds, with Virginia seeing fair conditions followed by showers in western portions by afternoon or night. A broad low pressure system over the southern Florida coast remains active, bringing widespread rain to the mid Atlantic states and Ohio and Mississippi valleys. Temperatures fluctuate around normal with irregular distribution. Potomac River slightly higher and Shenandoah heavily muddy as of June 17.
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S&s Dept of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Washington
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia Fair
Florida
Reief
Kangtoa
Oklahoma
Solomon
Republican River
Kanaan
Towa
Miagouri
Kansas
Flomia
Kansas River
Mid Atlantic
Staten
Miseissippi
Tower Ohio
Plaina States
Court of Inquiry Holds Testimony From Naval Academy Case
Annapolis June 17 court of inquiry hears midshipmen opinions on erforing and dope in relation to examinations. Witness Mullinix says seven original defendants were chosen by prior board. Ensigns still listed as midshipmen. pay withheld pending Gouging scandal outcome.
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Court of Inquiry
Annapolis
Erforing
Naval Academy
Carlin
H. M. Mullinix
Cape
Board of Investigation
Supt
Fullam
Fay
Ex Senator T J Jarvis Dead In North Carolina
Thomas Jarvis former U S senator and minister to Brazil died at his Greenville home at 79. A Confederate veteran and former North Carolina governor, he filled the Senate seat in 1894 to fill Zebulon B Vance’s vacancy and served one year.
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Greenville
N. C
Thomas Jarvis
Brazil
United States
Senate
North Carolina
Uto
Zebulon B. Vance
Nebraskan explosion probe to confirm cause
Navy experts in Washington reviewing London embassy evidence on the Nebraskan explosion off the Irish coast to decide if a mine or German torpedo damaged the ship. Rear Admirals Strauss and Taylor lead the ordnance and construction bureaus in outlining the basis for any State Department action.
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Navy Department
London
Strauss
Ordnance Bureau
Taylor
Bureau of Construction and Repair
State Department
Cams
Liverpool
Bryan argues against military preparedness in era of war
Former Secretary Bryan condemns American arms buildup as provoking war and praises Wilson era courts in an analysis of “The Counseless War.” He argues oceans shield the United States, urges peace over armament, and says preparedness fuels arms races and European conflict.
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Europe
Bryan
Coundsiess
United States
Wilson
White House
President Wilson Pressed Over Carranza Stand
A Washington dispatch reports President Wilson is dissatisfied with Gen Carranza’s rejection of peace talks with Villa and warns Silliman has conveyed a cautious policy, including sanctions like embargoes, while London papers debate Wilson’s war stance and Red Cross relief efforts amid Mexican turmoil.
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First Chief
Washington
New York
Harald Gays
Wilson
Carranza
Villa
Mexico
John R. Sillman
Mullinix Leads His Class At Annapolis Academy
Annapolis June 17 The official class of 199 midshipmen at the naval academy is announced with H M Mullinix Indiana heading first class with a 214.75 score of 240. The report includes remarks on America Germany and policy on war material to neutrals and a Zimmermann note urging amicable relations while condemning wartime tactics.
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Annapolis
Naval
America
Germany
H. M. Mullinix
Indiana
Zeven
Walittnet
Refused US Registry Holds Up Danish Steamship Deals
Commissioner Chamberlain confirms refusal to register several ships under the American flag due to lack of American investment. The Danish and German owned vessels sailed under multiple flags and a Rotterdam broker now handles a $1,006,000 deal after a Copenhagen intermediary was jailed for neutrality violations.
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Chamberlain
Teutons
Denmark
Rotterdam
New York
Eugene T. Chamberlain
United States Commissioner of Navigation
Department of Commerce
New York Maritime Register
Washington
Chamber~lain
Gotland
Leonidas Cambanis
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
American Consule
German government will consult with Dernburg before replying
Amsterdam dispatch reports the German government will await the arrival from New York and confer with Dr. Bernhard Dernburg before answering the American note. The Kreus Zeit ung, via a Berlin copy, states officials will consider the message after Dernburg’s consultation.
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Germany
Berlin
Amsterdam
New York
Bernhard Dernburg
Kreus Zeitung
Villa to Attack Yaquis in Sonora
Special dispatch from El Paso reports General Villa directing Governor Maytorena to deploy many troops into the Yaqui valley in Sonora to quell disorders that have killed four American settlers and wounded others. Maytorena announces troops ordered from Guaymas to prevent American landings.
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Washington Poo
el Paso
Texa
United States
Yaqui
Sonora
Villa
Maytorena
Nogales
Ariz
Guaymas
Seize Food for Starving Destitute in Mexico
Galveston on June 17 reports that food supplies shipped by the State Department and the Red Cross to southern Mexico will not reach destitute areas. Passengers aboard the US Army transport Buford in quarantine claim 30 tons acorn and 10 tons beans sent from Galveston to Vera Cruz had not yet moved inland, and that without armed protection inland shipments could be seized within 26 miles.
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Red Cross
Mexico
Galveston
Vera, Cruz
Tex
State Department
National Red Cross
United States Army
Buford
Canada
Vera Cruz
Colgate Students Sued For Haircut On Moving-Up Day
Walter Eddy of Hamilton has filed a $5000 suit in Syracuse after four Colgate University students gave him an involuntary haircut during moving-up-day on June 16. Eddy claims clothes were ruined and he suffered a nervous shock needing medical care. The defendants named include Monroe Good, Lewis J. Genessee, Ferris Edwards, and Richard W Bevin, right guard and others from last season's football eleven.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Colgate University
Walter Eddy
Hamilton
Monroe Good
Lewis J. Genessee
Ferris Edwards
Richard W Bevin
Eddy
Crowds See Boy Slain at Washington Circle Band Concert
During a Washington circle band concert a large crowd witnessed a stabbing. Frank Branch, 14, of 1241 Twenty second street northwest, fought with a 16 year old colored boy and was killed by a pocketknife wound to the left chest. The victim died at Huttons drug store before ambulance arrival. A color child was arrested two hours later at 1016 Jefferson street Georgetown, police report.
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Washington Circle
Muate
Frank Branch
Twenty-second Street
Hutton’s
Twenty-second
Seventh Precinct
Slain 11 Year Old Eliszabeth Nolte Found in Trash Can
The 11 year old Eliszabeth Nolte went missing Tuesday and was found slain with her throat cut in a rear yard garbage can in a Cincinnati tenement district. Police held a man facing improper conduct charges who would have testified against him. Detectives search for a man who gave her candy on the day she vanished.
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Cincinnati
Washington Post
Ohio
Eliszabeth Nolte
Trade-Boosting Trip Postponed by Merchants Group
Seventy merchants urged delaying a three-state trade gathering, deferring the trip until September to focus on brisk home business. Apparel, household, traveling goods and auto dealers pushed the decision, noting unprecedented 1916 model activity. President R P Andrews said the committee will continue, using extra prep time to reduce disadvantages.
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Automobile Trade Boosting Committee
Retail Merchants’ Association
Washington
R. P. Andrews
Man Using Alias Charles C Cook Foils Local Purchase
A nationwide search is under way for a man who on Saturday bought furniture from a local store for 617 and paid with a check drawn on the Cleveland Trust Company. The delivery occurred at 2 Nineteenth Street Northwest. A second hand dealer later claimed to have purchased the goods for 248 and moved much of the furniture. The Cleveland Trust Company said the man is unknown to them.
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Charles C. Cook
Cleveland
Ohio
Truat Company
Northwest
Cook
Cleveland Trust Company
Germans Say Wilson Loses 92 Percent of Vote
The Fatherland reports a canvass of German American newspapers showing President Wilson down 92 percent among German Americans. It notes changes in public opinion allow publishing, with labor and Bryan cited as opposing war policies and criticizing administration aims.
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Goldu Auriivan Oppuneus
Washington Post
New York
Wilson
Fatherland
Bryan
Weeks Attacks Wilson and Democratic Unity in New York
Massachusetts Senator John W Weeks told New York Republicans in Bryant Hall that the Wilson administration failed to deliver promised conditions, citing high cost of living and unemployment. He accused Democratic disunity and criticized tariff and banking acts while praising Republican proposals.
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Massachusetts
New York
Congress
Washington Post
John W . Weeks
Bryant Hall
Wilson
Weeks
Democratic Party
Democratic Congress
Monetary Commission
Osage Oil Lands Plan Approved by Secretary Lane
Osage Nation tribal council approves leasing plan for Osage Oklahoma oil lands worth millions, with Interior Secretary Lane’s approval. Foster lease lands on 680000 acres to be reorganized, with sublessees offered direct leases and public auction for unclaimed lands, royalty set at one sixth or one fifth for high output wells.
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Lane
Osage
Indiana
Oklahoma
Interior Department
Wilson
Indian Territory
Osage Reservation
Milburn Buys 24 000 Sq Ft Block for Office Tower
Frank P Milburn of Milburn Heister & Co purchases half of block 266 on Pennsylvania Avenue between E and D streets, 24 000 square feet, from P B Chase. A nine story office building to occupy the site at a cost over 1 million dollars, with work already starting on building specifications. Milburn plans to form a corporation to carry out the project and may rent part of the building. The site lies opposite the District building and near the Southern Railway Company property.
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Southern Railway
Frank P Milburn
Milburn, Heister
Milburn
MacLachlen Banking Corporation Innvolves
Milburn, Heister & Co
Pennsylvania Avenue
Electric company wins as utilities board waives interest
The public utilities commission ruled that the Potomac Electric Power Company need not pay interest on hold over deposits after account closures. It ordered final bills to note call for deposit and outlined future handling of minimum charges kilowatt rates and company valuations. The commission reallocated duties among commissioners Katz Brownlow and Newman to speed oversight of engineering valuation rates capitalization service and accidents.
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Taw
Commission
Katz
Brownlow
Newman
Ad Men Invade Chicago For World Advertising Meet
Chicago hosts ten thousand advertising experts who built cereal and pickle markets, spurred gum cravings, and inspired housewife purchases in cleaning aids, nets, machines, and a vast array of soft drinks. By Monday the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World arrive in force.
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Washington Post
Chicago
Associated Advertising Clubs of
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John Fonle
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Mullinix
J. K. Davis
W. B. Mackay
Boyd R. Alexander
C. Craig
T. J. Jarvis
Nebraska
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Silliman
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Lokal Anzeiger
Eugen Zimmerman
Wihelmatrasse
Preaident Wilson
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Lincoln Road
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Kelcher
Proctor
Engine Company No. 12
Annapolis Midshipmen
Vane Mim Nan Lane
England
Bismarck
Paris
Prussia
Zimmerman
Preas Publishing Company of
U. S
Dernburg
Yaquis
Colgate
Hazera
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Avenue Property
Frank P. Milburn
Electric Company
Wll
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Natl Electrical Supply Co
Darling
11Th
Board OF Pharmacy OF the Thatrict of Columbia
T. Foot, Jr
Harry G. Isel
Yale
Annette Hodge
Brunswick
DR. Fisk Elgin
Eve Fw
Tyree
Connell
Pa. Ave
Val Tee
Schwartz & Peltman, Inc
Reliable Tailors
Seventh Street
7Th St
Burchell
N. W. Burchell
Norfolk
S. Goldheim & Sons
7Th St. N. W
Adams
Byron
11Th St
Tharp
Berkeley
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Opus Amor
Horning Relee
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