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the point where I am broken down.
Springing these letters about my
wife and all before me has unnerved
me."
New York. Ambassador to Mexico
Henry Lane Wilson is standing pat
on his record in Mexico, saying he
told consuls to recognize" Huerta
government because he wanted to
sustain law and not bandits. Will op
pose President's plan of mediation.
Sullivan, Ind. Henry Cadille, 18,
fatally burned when keg of powder
exploded in Hamilton mine, where
Gadille was working.
Shanghai, China. Foreign consuls
complained to Admrial Tseng that
shells from government warships
meant for army of south assaulting
city did most damage to foreign prop
erty. Galveston, Tex. 105 American
refugees arrived here from Tampico
and Vera Cruz on Norwegian steamer
Texas.
Fort Smith, Ark. Robert Long,
kept alive after asphyxiation for 60
hours by pulmotor, swallowed his
tongue and strangled to death.
San Francisco. Creditor of F. M.
(Borax) Smith, head of $200,000,000
Smith corporations, have filed bank
ruptcy petition against him, and
charge him with transferring $l-,000,-000
to wife when insolvent.
Denver. Four hundred employes
of Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill's
show are walking streets of Denver
penniless, foodless and' shelterless.
Show was attached by U. S. Printing
& Lithographing Co., Chicago, for
66,000 bill.
. New York. Dr. Chas. W. Elliot,
president emeritus of Harvard, de
clares against married women at
school teachers.
New York. Anthony Comstock
says he will try to suppress sale of
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s vice book
on ground it is not fit for publication.
Sacramento, Cal. Japs have dis
covered they can get around Califor
nia anti-alien laud law by incorporat
ing. Doing it.
Springfield, III. Dr. Patrick M.
Kelly, Litchfield, appointed head of
Kankakee state asylum by state
board of administration on recom
mendation of Gov. Dunne.
Washington. Rep. Cox, Indiana,
bitterly denounced former Secretary
of the Treasury MacVeagh for com
promising the $1,200,000 oleo-mar-garine
tax case.
Washington. National Council of
Women Voters has laid plans for
campaign to carry woman suffrage
into all states not yet having it
Tuxedo Park, N. Y. Florence
Thompson Baker, wife of Geprge F.
Baker of First National Bank, strick
en while entertaining friends at
lunch. Died.
Washington. Postmaster General
Burleson says parcels post rates will
be reduced August 15 despite sena
torial criticism.
Spartansburg, N. C. Rev. Ste
phen Nettles, editor of Southern
Christian Advocate, says women
would he more decent running
around nude than in present sugges
tive dress.
New York. When Lucy Bennett,
of Cannes, France, and Chicago,
reached New York on way to visit
dying mother, she received cable that
father had been perhaps fatally in
jured in experimenting with new ex
plosive at Cannes. Will visit mother
in Chicago, then go to father. Father
and mother divorced.
Washington, D. C. President Wil
son has npminated George Carroll
Todd of Virginia to be assistant to
Attorney General McReynolds and
official trust busted to administration.
New York. Mrs. Belvidere
Brooks, wife of general manager of
Western Union Telegraph Co., died
here tonight.
London. Vienna dispatch says
Turkey has drawn on Asia for 300,
000 troops and is preparing for vast
new campaign.
Christiania. Anti-German Mor
genbladet attacks A. L. Schmed
mann, new U. S. minister to Norway,
