Britain Note Delays German Note on Submarine Warfare
Press digest from Overseas News Agency reports Germany awaiting the text of the American note to Britain before replying to submarine warfare. Britain’s supplemental note is ready for publication, with Neches detention and Frye sinking notes ongoing. Secretary Lansing comments on prize court and diplomatic payment questions. Ambassador Page probes Iberian incident claims of American casualties.
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Berlin
Sayville
Overseas
Witless Abiddd
Great Britain
Washington, D. C
Neches
NEW Frye
William P. Frye
Prinz Witel Friedrich
State Department
Frye Ateack
Germany
W. P. Frye
United States
Srcretary
Lansing
Page
London
Ptato
Frost
Queenstown
Mark Wiley
Gates Widow Threatened by Blackmailers
Minneapolis police pursue writers of blackmailing letters to Mrs Harold Lee Judd formerly Mrs Charles G Gates. Her husband and two detectives waited all night at Spruce Place apartments to trap the blackmailers. Two letters were left at her home. The first warned of a 320000 demand at nearby entrance. the second set a midnight deadline. The letters were turned over to investigators.
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Minneapolis
Harold Lee Judd
Charles G. Gates
Spruce Place
Blackmaiers
Jail Escape Plot Foiled by Sheriff Henderson
Prison officials uncovered a two foot square hole dug in the northeast jail wall by nine inmates on the lower floor. A two foot pipe served as a crow bar to breach plaster and brick while bars had been sawed before discovery. In solitary confinement, the prisoners are fed road and water as authorities seek ringleaders. A prior attempt with a steel knife saw was stopped before an opening formed.
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Henderson
George D. Harris
Eastland disaster probes widen as Redfield faces court
Chicago August 2 The Eastland inquiry intensifies as Secretary of Commerce Redfield plans to press witnesses despite Judge Landis order. The grand jury probes the steamboat inspection service amid growing calls for Redfield’s removal. three more bodies found, divers search the hull, and a federal board examines inspectors records.
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Chicago
Federal Grand Jury
Hastland
Commerce Redfield
Federal
Steamboat Inspection Service
Redfield
Landis
United States District Court
William Nicholas
Stete
Stornes-Hoyne
Hoyne
Eastland
Secretary of Commerce
Sears
John A. Cotter
New Orleans
John K. Bulger
San Francisco
H. M. Seeley
New York
Eugene O'Donnell
Boston
Federal Board of Inquiry
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Building Sinks Into Quicksand Four Men Killed
Hudson Aug 2 Four men were killed and four others injured when the power plant of the finickerbocker Cement company sank into quicksand today. The entire building disappeared. All the dead were laborers and one of the injured is in critical condition.
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Hudson, N
Finickerbocker Cement Company
Quicksanders
Fire Destroys Large Section of Constantinople
Arrivals from Constantinople report eight OM buildings including the German hospital were burned last week. Wounded soldiers were among the losses in the ancient city, with reports filtering back via Athens and London.
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Constantinople
Athens
Greece
London
Police Think Boy Drowned Near Cedar River Beach
Authorities investigate a missing boy after a clothing set belongs to a 10 to 12 year old was found in the Cedar river bath house Sunday. Park officials posted guards and urged families to report any missing youths as police search for clues continue.
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Cedar River
Commi Harker and
McClinton Ard m
Police Department
Ag Ee
Altho
Park Commissioners
Bank cashier and stenographer vanish with 11000 dollars
Englewood N J August 2 Abraham Carnelius Jr long time cashier at Citizens National Bank and Loretta Adelgais a young stenographer have disappeared with 11000 dollars from the bank vault since Wednesday afternoon No evidence yet ties them together but bank president Clinton H Blake and the girl's mother see significance in simultaneous departures from Englewood
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Englewood
N. J
Abraham Carnelius, Jr
Citizens National Bank
Loretta Adelgais
Cornelius
Clinton H. Blake
Engiewood
Starvation Crisis in Mexico City and Frontline Advances
Reports from Washington confirm Carranza forces re occupying Mexico City amid famine there with death from starvation and scarce corn. Gonzalez advances move toward the capital while Obregon takes Zacatecas. Villa condemns U S policy, seizes foreign merchant stores and jails merchants after a forced loan conference.
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Washington, D. C
Mexico City
Carranza
State Department
Silliman
Vera Cruz
American Red Cross
Starration
Mesange
Gonzalez
Guadalupe
la Pachuca
Zacate
Vila el Paso
Tex
Francisco Villa
Chihuahua City
Spectacular air clash over Chateau-Saling in war report
London reported a forty five minute air battle over Chateau-Saling in which six German aeroplanes attacked fifteen French machines. The Berlin dispatch says several enemy planes were forced to land and that French airmen retreated when reinforcements arrived. The Paris and Berlin reports describe raids, bomb throwing, and destruction of raiding aircraft.
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London
Chateau-Saling
Berlin
Paris
Chateau-Salins
Child Dies of Whooping Cough Near Gilbertville
The four months old daughter of Mr and Mrs Valentine Schmidt living four miles south of Gilbertville died yesterday from whooping cough. Funeral services were held at the home this afternoon and interment followed in Gilbertville cemetery.
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Valentine Schmidt
Gilbertville
Murdock Sees Progressives Ready to Fight 1916 Win
Victor Murdock of Kansas says after a three month canvass Progressives are in the fight to win in 1916 and will hold a national convention early to nominate a ticket. He notes East and West align and declares platforms will be the battleground, not candidacies, with tariff and party pledges central to the debate.
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Progressivea
Central West
Pacific Coast
New York City
Progressive National Committee
Committee On
Wiliam Howard Taft
Chicago
Abraham Lincoln
Train Hits Auto at Crossing In Independence
At the Second avenue crossing eastbound Linois Central train struck a five passenger auto carrying Hurgens O Young his sister Miss Jessie Young his mother and three children. Young likely fatally injured. mother hip fractured. Jessie with a broken nose. others injured lightly. Witnesses say crossing tender is needed as multiple tracks cross the avenue.
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Independence
Hurgens O. Young
Linois Central
Second Avenue Crossing
Jessie Young
Young
Mr. Young
Elsie
Altho
Evening Courier
Cars Stuck in Sudhole on Rural Road
Fourteen cars were mired in mud at a bad spot between here and Jesup yesterday, as estimated by a nearby farmer who helped pull several free. A single large car blocked the road, causing substantial traffic delays before it was freed.
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Here
Jesup
Mr Cooley Relapses Following 89th Birthday
J L Cooley, long time resident on Muberry Street, suffered a serious relapse this morning after weeks of illness. His condition was described as very critical this afternoon. He recently celebrated his eighty ninth birthday and remains the oldest living member of Robert Anderson post, G A R.
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J. L. Cooley
Muberry Street
Mr. Cooley
Robert Anderson Post
Warsaw in bands of Muscovites as Warsaw surrenders
London reports from Warsaw indicate Russian defense stiffening as German forces reinforce the west. Duma session opens amid tension. Vienna notes heavy fighting on the Narew front and Russian retreat eastward. Officials claim Russia not yet out of resources, with surrender rumors surrounding Warsaw and Moscow.
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London
Warsaw
Nicholas
Russia
Petrograd
Narew
Ole
Vienna
Cheim
Rusaia
Moscow
Freight Steamer Is Stranded Near the Golden Gate
Freighter American Hawaiian steamship Georgian and Duxbury Teef went ashore in fog a few miles north of the Golden Gate as rescuers and tugs worked to reach the stranded vessel. Captain Nichols and over thirty crew members were aboard. In Boone, Alexander Duncan, four year old son of Geo Duncan, was killed by stepping on a charged electric wire during a storm last night.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate
Nichols
Boone, In
Alexander Duncan
Geo. Duncan
Cartoonist Briggs to Join Regular Features
Beginning today the drawings of Cartoonist Briggs will appear as a regular feature. His acclaimed works The Days of Real Sport and When a Feller Needs a Friend mark him among America's notable cartoonists.
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Briggs
Wes
Mona
Europe
Matt and
Tely
Will
Te¢E
Papee
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