PLAN FINAL MEETING WITH MEXICAN WAR MINISTER
American Chief of Staff calls on Mexican War Minister in Juarez for a brief courtesy visit to discuss a cooperative pursuit of bandits. Final negotiations hinge on Gen Obregon and Gen Carranza, with continued delays and sensor details from Washington. Wagons resume trips in El Paso and Mexican towns as touring crowds observe the resumed service.
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el Paso
Tex
News Scott
Obregon
Gen Scott
Gen Obregon
Jean Obregon
Washington
Carranza
Scott
Staf
Juan MoAmader
Mexico
Gan Obrekon
Ueteen
Elias Calles
Adolpho de la Huerta
Sonora
Calles
Queretaro
Carranza F
Orces
Ignacio Romas
Ten Obregon
Fl Paso
Two Chinamen Brought by Army Requisition
Coloma Dublen reports on an unusual Army requisition during the American expeditionary force period. The piece notes the demand for two Chinese men and reflects on the queer nature of the request amid wartime logistics.
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Coloma Dublen
Hhihuahua
Quartermasters Department
American Expeditionary Ee
Died Austin On Wednesday May 3 1916
Funeral from her residence 3369 Eighteenth street northwest on Friday May 6 at 2307pm. Also notices for JOSEPH MOFFUTT aged fifty four and WILLIAM HEED of Washington Dc aged thirty five. Relatives invited to attend.
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Austin
Julia O
Capt Manville
Eighteenth Street
Eighth Street
Joseph Moffutt
Norice
Frederick Md
Reed
Fieasantville
Illiam
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Hobert N Spates
Barnesville
Montgomery County
Lees Undertaking
Glenwood Cemetery
Wheeler
Casualty Hospital
Charles Sully Wheeler
Columbia Lodge
FAAM
Zurhora
East Capitol Street
Oak Hill Cemetery
Children Find Half Million Dollars Hidden in Mexico City
Two brothers Rafael and Antogenes Campos, residents of a government refuge in a building once used as a legislative palace, discovered 500000 dollars in hundred dollar bills in an old boiler under the palace. They turned the money in and were rewarded a hundred dollars. The boys later showed the money to Maria Ruiz, who then vanished. Secret service agents seek the source and owner of the money while its disposition awaits determination.
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Mexico City
Rafael
Antogenes Campos
New York
Maria Ruiz
Mme. Ruiz
Secret Service
Four Coroner Inquests On Sudden Deaths In City
Coroner J Ramsay Nevitt investigated four sudden deaths yesterday including two self inflicted pistol wounds one unidentified white man found in the Potomac near Glenboro Point and a drowning in the Eastern Branch. Inmate Philip Morris killed himself at the Soldiers Home by shooting, Daniel Goodman shot himself at his Seventh Street NW home, a man named Maedel is recovering from carbolic acid poisoning, and Sylvester Russell is treated after consuming rat poison.
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Daniel Goodman
John Dice
Eastern Branch
J. Ramsay Nevitt
Potomac
Potomac River
Washington Steel and Ordnance Company
Glenboro Point
John Dunce
L Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Oia
Soldiers’ Home
King
Seventh Street
William Maedel
H Street
Sylvester Russell
Washington Street
Verdun Battle Declared Won By French Expert
London reports that Verdun, described as the greatest battle, has been won by the French. The outcome, likened to the Marne victory, signals a bloody and irreparable defeat for Germany after months of intensive preparation and high expectations.
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Battle of Verdun
France
London
Verdun
Marne
Convention in Wheeling Elects Four Delegates at Large
In Wheeling West Virginia May 4 Republicans elected four delegates at large to the Chicago national convention. The at large slate includes Gov H D Hatfield Jane T Mann Davis Elkins and Herschel C Ogden. Delegates are instructed yet split between Justice Hughes and former Senator Burton. Resolutions denounce the national administration and back preparedness and a league to prevent war. A truce was declared between rival gubernatorial factions.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Seasion
Chicago
H. D Hatfield
Jane T. Mann
United States
Davis Elkins
Herschel C. Ogden
Justice Hughes
Burton
League of Nations
Wells
Newell
T J Sherrard
Welle
E. E. Hood
Gov. Hatfield
Hatfield
Ogden
Hikins
Mann
Chinese chefs supply sparks at Namiquipa conflict
A field headquarters order from Namiquipa called for two Chinese cooks to match rival camps along the line. Dublan officers secured two Chinese chefs whose skills became famed in Gen Fershing's force, prompting a quartermaster requirement for similar service, delivering two more Chinese cooks aboard the next truck train.
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Namiquipa
Thias
Dublan
Fershing
27 Injured Soldiers Are Brought Across Border
Columbus New Mexico May 4 A successful experimental trip with the new army motor field ambulances was completed when ten machines arrived from San Antonio three hundred miles south of the border with 27 injured soldiers Among them was a Mexican youth wounded accidentally None of the Americans suffered their injuries in engagements with Mexican troops
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Columbus
N. Mex
J Army Motor
San Antonio
Haitian cabinet resigns amid treaty dispute over new constitution
In Port au Prince on May 4 the Haitian cabinet resigned as parliament opposed President Dartiguenave and his ministers over framing a new constitution to conform with a treaty with the United States. Rear Admiral Caperton, in command of American forces, backed the president after legislators refused to accept the dissolution decree.
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Port Au Prince
Haiti
Congress
Dartguenave
United States
Caperton
Dartiguenave
Lorimer to Run Again for United States Senate
Chicago May 4 William Lorimer winner of a bank wrecking charge is acquitted and says he will seek vindication at the polls. He vows to regain control of the failed Lorimer Monday bank properties and to return to politics as a US senator. He told the jury the people who deposited money in La Salle Street Bank will have his services and earnings until every obligation is paid.
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Chicago
William Lorimer
United States Senate
Congress
United States
Lortimer
la Salle Street
Unity Board of Trade Movement Sought by Conference
May 4 Saratoga Springs NY The Methodist Episcopal Church moves toward union under Bishop Earl Cranston with a commission to negotiate with other Wesleyan bodies and report to the 1920 general conference A plan uses three quadrennial conferences East West and South A labor recognition board of trade is proposed with HQ at Chicago Funds for missionary work could exceed 10 million yearly if members give five cents weekly An appeal seeks 5000000 for Europe and more missionaries to curb Islam in Africa and to aid Philippine nationalism
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Saratoga
Africa
Philippines
Saratoga Springs
Methodist Episcopal Churches In America
General Conference
Earl Cranston
Washington, DC
Commission On Federation
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Methodist Protestant Church
Board of Trade
Methodist Episcopal Church
Chicago
M. F Harris
Korea
Japan
A& Report J
Earl
Taylor
Miners Adopt Coal Scale In New Agreement
Pottsville Pa May 4 The anthracite coal controversy ends as miners ratify the scale agreement reached in New York by operators and miners scale committees The convention votes 581 to 2 over the four year pact retroactive to March 31 with higher wages shorter hours and union recognition
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Pottsville
New York
Will Sell Steel Concern in Camden Sale to Bethlehem Steel
May 4 Camden stockholders of the Pennsylvania Steel Company of New Jersey approve selling the concern to Bethlehem Steel Corporation for 32 million dollars. Over 272000 shares represented, 474 voting against. U.S. district court in Trenton had restrained dissolution and ordered officers to appear in Newark to show cause why dissolved. Minority holder Joseph S Brandt of Philadelphia warned the action violats Clayton antitrust law. Paris reports Cardinal archbishop of Lyons Hector Irenaeus Levin died aged 59, created cardinal in 1914.
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Camden
Pennsylvania Steel Company
New Jersey
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
United States District Court
Trenton
Newark
Joseph S Brandt
Philadelphia
Paris
Hector Irenaeus Levin
Lyons
Count Boni de Castellane Marriage Validated
Rome May 4 commission of cardinals confirmed the validity of Count Boni de Castellane's marriage to Anna Gould now Duchess Talleyrand. Castellane had appealed repeatedly to the Vatican seeking an annulment but the latest appeal, filed in January, was decided against him.
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Rome
Paris
Count Boni de Castellane
Anna Gould
Duchess Talleyrand
Cardinals
Count de Castellane
Vatican
Rabid Auto On Rampage In Indiana Crash
Special to The Washington Post Hammond Indiana May 4 Fred Ross John Pardeick Harry Settler and Scott Bedgood of Janesville were seriously injured when Rosas lost control of a Ford automobile. The car rolled over and tore down a tele phone pole. It wrecked a fence, demolished a rod of it and traveled a half mile before stopping. Top fenders windshield and two tires were torn off. Ross helped the injured, righted the car, watered the radiator and drove the wounded to a doctor.
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Washington Post
Hammond
Ind
Fred Ross
John Pardeick
Harry Settler
Scott Bedgood
Janesville
Rosas
Ross
Roosevelt Only Choice Delegates Elected by Maryland Progressives
Baltimore May 4 Progressive State convention voted to back Theodore Roosevelt as the sole presidential choice, electing delegates instructed to vote for him first and always. Gen N Winston Williams, later Maryland secretary of state, called the convention to order.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Theodore Roosevelt
N Winston Willams
Maryland
Propaganda Money Telegrams Prompt Justice Review
Attorney General Gregory disclosed gathering conclusive information on funds used to flood Congress with antiwar telegrams and urged caution to avoid war with Germany. He met with President Wilson as officials mull publicizing documents tied to German officials and envoy papers.
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Senate
House
Germany
Department of Justice
Wilson
Hasting
Wisconsin
Guelzed
Wolfe von Igel
Capt von Papen
Count von Bernstorff
Congress
General Tenor
Capitol
Wescott Remains in Senate Race to Succeed Martine
Philadelphia May 4 Attorney General Wescott of New Jersey is still in the senatorial race to succeed Senator Martine Harry D Wescott son of the attorney general declares here today correcting a dispatch that suggested his father would withdraw his petition He said the dispatch was incorrect and his father was surprised upon reading it over the telephone
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Philadelphia
Wescott
New Jersey
Martine
Harry D. Wescott
West Virginia Republicans Choose Chicago Delegates
Rockville Maryland May 4 The official count of the Republican primary vote in this county shows Daniel W Baker Charles F Kirk William Tyler Page Frederick M Page and Rerin Offutt chosen to represent the county at the Republican State convention in Baltimore The successful candidates ran as friends of former Gov Goldsborough
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Rockville
Supervisora of
Daniel W. Baker
Charles F Kirk
William Tyler Page
Frederick M. Page
Rerin Offutt
Baltimore
Goldsborough
Cannot Be Roosevelt Candidates Court Decides
Harrisburg May 4. Under an opinion by Presiding Judge George Kunkel the Dauphin county court today rules the names of D G Martin and John F Smith of Lancaster will not be printed on the primary ballots as candidates.
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Harrisburg
George Kunkel
Dauphin County
D G.martin
John F Smith
Lancaster
Episcopal Church Session in Norfolk Discusses Early Councils
In Norfolk on May 4 the Episcopal Church Congress of the United States discussed the binding force of decisions of the first four general councils. Dr Francie J. Hale read the main paper at General Theological Seminary, with Rev R Cotton Smith and Rev Selden P Delany commenting. Vida D Scudder of Wellesley College spoke on alleged failure of the church to meet the doctrinal emergency.
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Norfolk
Episcopal Church Congress of the
United States
Francie J. Hale
General Theological Seminary
New York
R Cotton Smith
St. John's Church
Washington, D. C
Selden P Delany
Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Vida
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