Mediation shifts Mexico tension as Carranza cut from talks
Telegram from Mexican mediators removes General Carranza from mediation in the Mexico United States conflict. The message, disclosed in Washington, says all differences across the Mexico issue influence the US Mexico dispute, including Huerta and Carranza. Cabinet meeting short, routine. Badger plans Galveston Vera Cruz mail service. Vera Cruz occupation noted. Troop embarkations advance. Wilson and Bryan briefed. Funston reports no major changes at Tejar. Galveston prepares transports Meade Quiner McClellan Kilpatrick for Vera Cruz with two brigades under General Davis ready to sail.
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Washington, D. C
Carranza
Mexico
United States
Huerta
Vera Cruz
Badger
Galveston
Solace
L. Benson
New Hampshire
Wilson
War and Navy Departments
Hoe
Bryan
War Department
Garrison
Funston
Tejar
Tex
Quartermaster’s Department
Davis
Tox|asity
Kenyon Eyes Commission In National Guard For Mexico Call
Senator W. S. Kenyon wrote to Fort Dodge mayor and Sixty fifth Infantry unit leaders expressing willingness to join Iowa troops in Mexico intervention. He urged election as first lieutenant, stating he would go to the front if called, and that he would not vote to send others where he would not go himself. He praised President Wilson and Secretary Bryan amid the crisis.
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W. 5. Kenyon
S. B. Philpot
Sixtyfifth Infantry
Fort Dodge
National Guard
Iowa
Mexico
Co. F
Kenyon
Wilson
Bryan
Abraham Lincoln
Inviting mediators to meet in Montpelier hall
May 5 Montpelier officials forwarded an invitation to the mediators of the U S Mexico difficulties to hold conferences in the city hall Washington was told of the move. The same date a Senate resolution asked President Wilson whether there is a basis for reports he may aid Pancho Villa as Mexico’s next ruler. The war department mailed militia mobilization instructions to all officers detailing financing and rail transport.
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Vera Cruz
Montpelier
United States
Mexico
Washington
James Boutwell
Wilson
Washington, D. C
Pancho Villa
Senate
Senator Lippett
Rhode Island
Stone
Foreign Relations Committee
National Guard
War Department
Mexicans Flee Salina Cruz After Denver Visit
Mexican population of Salina Cruz fled in terror when the U S cruiser Denver touched there on April 21 amid anti American demonstrations. Annapolis refugees on board described escorts by federal soldiers and said many headed toward Mazatlan or for the United States, with the British consul aiding American interests as the American consul departed.
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U.S
South Dakota
San Diego
Cal
Salina Cruz
United States
Denver
Annapolis
Mazatlan
Lillian Nordica Shows Slight Improvement After Shipwreck
In Batavia Java on May 6 Mme Lillian Nordica, praised opera singer, has shown slight improvement after weeks of serious illness. She was shipwrecked near Thursday last December and suffered nerve prostration leading to pneumonia, with early April moves to Batavia followed by grave reports.
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Batavia
Java
Mme
Lillian Nordica
Nordica
Thursday Stand
Burning steamer sighted far off Cape Race mystery
Boston May 6 details on a burning steamship seen about 200 miles south of Cape Race by the Bremen Seydlitz for New York were awaited in shipping circles. Wireless reports offered little, indicating no vessel name and a possible other ship heeding a call for help Sunday night. Cape Race station limit hindered news as it was disabled by a sprite blizzard leaving limited range.
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Boston
Mass
Cape Race
Bremen
New York
Sable Island
Olney declines appointment as Fed Reserve Board governor
Richard Olney formally declines the president’s appointment as governor of the federal reserve board. Washington officials seek a replacement from New England while W P G Harding of Birmingham, Alabama, already named from the South, is expected to fill a board seat.
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Boston
Magss
Richard Olney
Wilson
Federal Reserve Board
New Banking System
Washington, D. C
New England
W. P. G. Harding
First National Bank of
Birmingham
Ala
Inquires Concerning Consul Silliman Inquiries Concerning Consul Silliman
Alarm at unofficial reports that Acting American Consul John R. Silliman in San Luis Potosi Mexico has been a prisoner of General Mans for two weeks prompts urgent telegrams from the state department to the Brazilian minister in Mexico City Consul Miller at Tampico and Consul Hanna at Monterey involved in inquiries.
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Washington, T
John R. Silliman
San Luis Potosi
Mex
Mans
State Department
Mexico City
Miller
Tampico
Hanna
Monterey
Miners Await Decision on Kanawha Region Talks
Charleston May 5 District officers of the United Mine Workers awaited the Indianapolis report on talks with international officers and coal operators. About 1,4800 miners had returned to work pending the decision and some mines were idle in parts of the region.
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Charleston
W. Va
United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
Kanawha
Three Killed and Injured in Detroit Gar Crash
Detroit, May 5. Three persons died and 30 were seriously injured when two crowded street cars collided head on here today. Both motormen were killed. Oakland graduates to be given gowns. Oakland, Cal. May 5. Oakland school board plans to buy gowns for Franklin school’s graduates this year and, if successful, dresses for all girls next year. Marty Gridgeman to head the project handling materials and measurements. Gowns to feature long sleeves with no need for long white gloves.
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Detroit
Mich
Thes
Oakland
Cal
Franklin
Marty W. Gridgeman
Plans for 1914 Little Glidden tour discussed in Des Moines
Des Moines May 1914 plans for the 1914 Little Glidden tour were discussed by officers and directors of the Iowa State Automobile Association at Hotel Colfax. The plan favors a reliability and sociability run during the first week of July, with a 660 mile endurance route from Des Moines to Clear Lake. It proposes a day in Sioux City to witness races and noon stops at Tawa Falls and Kemmersburg or Algona during the journey.
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Des Moines
Iowa State Automobile Association
Hotel Colfax
Decker French
Davenport
A. Nissen
Iowa City
Des Moines Automobile Dealers’ Association
Sioux City
Clear Lake
Tawa
Falls
Spirit Lake
Kemmersburg
Algona
Rebels threaten Tampico in messages to Americans
Vera Cruz May reports say rebels at Tampico warned Rear Admiral Maye that if U S ships entered the Panuco river the oil reserve above the city would be emptied and set afire, causing destruction. The USS Jenkins arrived from Tampico and notes the threat. It is believed Admiral Maro may wait for a city capture by starvation tactics.
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Vera Cruz
Maro
Federac
Britain to Reconsider Panama Exposition Participation
London reports the British Government will reexamine its decision not to participate in the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco. It is likely Britain will be represented at the fair in a modified form.
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England
London
San Francisco
Great Britain
Night search for Florence Dove murder continues in Braddock
Pittsburgh, May 5. After a night of ceaseless pursuit of the man who killed Florence Dove and assaulted Elizabeth Klenek, detectives, police, and thousands of Braddock steel workers renewed the hunt in the Monongahela valley hills. Ten men were detained. four released. The rest remain under guard to fend off lynching while magistrates question them today.
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Pittsburgh
Little Florence Dove
Elzabeth Kleneck
North Braddock State Yasterday
Braddock Mills
Monongahela River
Manager Andrews Announces Line-Up
Cedar Rapids May 6 The Waterloo baseball team will finish training with a game in this city against the Bunnies this afternoon. Afterward both clubs travel south to open the season. Manager Andrews announced the opening lineup with Stadtfeld in right field Allen in left field Sheldon at first Hill in center Siglin at second McAulay at short Askland or Andrews at third Wagner or Askland at catcher Tuttle Garner or Wilkus as pitcher.
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Speidall
Waterloo
Hts
Bunnies
Keokuk
Cedar Aplds
Muscatine
Andrews
Jays
Sneup
Stadtfeldl
Allen
Sheldon
Hill
Siglin
McAuley
Askland
Wagner
Tuttle
Garner
Wilkus
Explosion Kills Eight in Panama City Fire
An explosion this morning at a government magazine in Yandma Pan Ama caused eight deaths and nineteen injured. The blaze, started by a bras fire, tore through the interior and destroyed the property. Witnesses nearby were horrified as the blast shook the city.
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Anima
Yandma Dynamic Magazine
Pan- Ama
More Bodies Recovered From West Virginia Mine Disaster
In Freemanville Charles W. Va. a man identified by a Masonic ring was found among the dead from last Tuesday's mining explosion that killed 172. Workers continued to recover bodies as the mine was cleared by nightfall. Confederate Veterans meet in Jacksonville with General Bennett H Young arriving as head of the reunion preparations.
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Jacksonville
Mia
May
United Confederate Veterans
Norrow
Bennett He Young
Jealousy Motive Cited in Strange Double Murder
Godden May 1 A $5,000 reward offered for conviction of the murderer of W H Mennle manager and Miss Bianche Signal bookkeeper at the Farmers Cooperative Elevator and Lumber Co Both victims killed at the office building by Set on Ave Coroner’s testimony notes no robbery attempt and jealousy widely suspected as motive Evidence shows Mennie shot and Signal injured by bullet in revolver bound together remains found with their bodies while a beam may have crushed Mennie’s skull
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Godden
W. H. Mennle
Mise Bianche Signal
Farmers’ Co-operative, Elevator and Lumber. Co
Avc
Nafe
Menale
Menzie
Misa
Father killer in prison claims spiritual message from Washington
Chester Dur, a starch manufacturer and Civil War veteran, shot his father in New York after a cell confinement. He said he received a spiritual message from George Washington and intended to kill himself. He wept that his father was his best friend and could explain the act, then injured himself by digging his nails into his hands while a policeman guarded him outside the cell.
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New York
Chester
Duryea
George Washington
Pat
Hind
Duryon
FEDERALS MINE ROAD LEADING TO MEXICO CHART
Information from Vera Cruz to the war department reports Mexican federal troops have mined the Vera Cruz to Mexico City railroad to destroy it if American forces advance on the capital. Mines are half a mile apart with fuses ready. Concerns grow over Mexican defenses as General Funston awaits orders. Admiral Mayo says Tampico could be captured with current forces.
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Washington, D. C
Vera Cruz
War Department
Mexico City
San Francisco
Funston
Mayo
Tampico
Navy Department
Colombia and United States Panama Treaty Advances
The Colombia senate gave the first reading to the Colombia American Panama treaty, presented May 3 for ratification. It grants Colombia free perpetual traffic passage for troops and warships through the canal and provides a payment of 25 million dollars six months after ratifications.
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Bagora
Colombia
United States
Panama
Colombian State Department
T. A. Thomson
Bogota
Senate
Washington
Panama Canal
Cardinal Gibbons to Rome on papal visit
New York May 5 The North German Lloyd liner Princess arrives at Naples with Cardinal Gibbons and a party of bishops and priests. The cardinal proceeds to Rome to visit the pope.
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New York
Naples
Cardinal Gibbons
Rome
Reform measures proposed in Colorado session
Colorado legislature opens a special session amid a coal miners dispute with multiple bills to curb disorder. Proposals include a constitutional amendment for an arbitration board, a statewide bond issue of about 1 million dollars, and governor powers to close saloons and ban firearms and ammunition sales during unrest. A separate joint resolution seeks lease details on coal lands. Local militia commander Jas Lockett assumed command in Trinidad. Federal strike action and the United Mine Workers of America board meeting in Indianapolis are also noted.
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Denver
Cole
Samateaan House
Fred Farrar
Firat
Senate
H. H E. Garman
Col. Lockett
Trinidad
Colo
Jas. Lockett
Eleventh
United States Cavalry
Colorado
Army Headquarters
W. A. Holbrook
U. M. W. A. Executive Board
Indianapolis
Ind
Ohio
West Virginia
International Executive Board
United Ming Workers of America
Wm. C. Green
O'Shaughnessy Baggage Stolen En Route to Vera Cruz
New Orleans May 5 Mexicans did not spare American property as Nelson O'Shaughnessy former American chargé d affaires at Mexico City and his party lost nearly all their baggage on the Huerta train to Vera Cruz after passport handover. The ex envoy and Mrs. O'Shaughnessy arrived today aboard the Yankton and began a shopping spree to replace wardrobes before leaving tonight for Washington.
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New Orleans
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Former Iowa Jurist Dies in New York
John Foreat Dillon, once Iowa supreme court judge and later general counsel for Missouri Pacific and Western Union, died at his New York home after a long illness. He was 83. Advertisement for Smoke El Verso Havana 10¢ cigar.
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John Foreat Dillon
Supreme Court of Iowa
Missouri Pacific Railway
Western Union Telegraph Company
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