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TH ISLAND ARGUS.; lillll Associated Press Exclusive Wire IXTV-THIRD YEAR. NO. 223. MONDAY. JULY 6, 1!)U. -FOURTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. E ROCK. HUERTA KEPT IN HIS PLACE BY ELECTION Dictator Unopposed in Portion of Mexico Un der His Control. SMALL VOTE IS CAST President Wilson Laughs, but Refuses Comment on Re sult of Balloting. , Mexico C.tv. July Full returns of yesterday s flections er? not obtain able up to noon. It was ascertained from official Quarters, however, that only 2 per cent or the population had voted in the states controlled by the mvernment. f! itv. Julv C Elections for ..resident, vice president, deputies and eexators were held yesterday in that nortion of the republic controlled oy th Huerta government. In Mexico City there was an almost complete abstention from voting and Indiffer ence was manifested everywhere. General Huerta appeared to be the favorite candidate for the presidency and General Blanquet. the present war minister, for the. vice presidency. President Huerta. it is reported, re ceived a virtually unanimous vote of confidence. The returns indicate the reelection of all present members of the chamber of deputies and the sen ate. The lightest vote in many years was cast. Washington. D. C. July C. When President Wilson was asked today to comment on yesterday's election in Mexico, he la-jghr-d and said: "I hard ly think any comment from me is nec essary." Asked If he knew anything about Huerta's plans for leaving Mexico, he smiled again and said: "I am afraid ' r am not fn tTsc5fiIiiT."nctfr'r" He refused to discuss mediation, saving the mediators are In recess at present in the hope that the warring factions would get together. Washington officials and others in terested ia the Mexican situation awaited anxiously today for details of the election. While an early report from Mexico City said it was believed General Huerta had ben the favorite in the voting for the presidency, the general belief prevailing here was that Huerta had not been a candidate and that it mas the intention of the election to choose Pedro Lascurian as president. Mr. I-ascurian was minister of for eign affairs when President Madero and Vice President Suarez were slain, and th constitutional successor to the president. Lascunan Reports Continue. Reiterations were received yester day in private dispatches from Mexico City that Huerta. in a final effort to re store peace, intended to turn the gov ernment over to Lasrurian, who. in turn, would natti some constitutional ist as minister of foreign affairs. Then Lasrurain. according to these reports, would resign, leaving the con stitutionalist minister of foreign af fairs to succeed to the presidency Huerta would be assigned to some foreign post by Lascurain before the letter's resignation. That thin plan would work out was JBeraed unlikely in some sources here, although some agents of the consti tutionalists were inclined to give cred ence to the report that some such scheme would be tried. Luis Cabrera and Rafael Zubaran. General Oarranza's chief representa tives in Washington, have not abandon ed hope that agents of the constitu tionalists will l,e authorized to meet the Huerta's delegates to the mediation conference and that word w ill come to that effect uithin a few days. Joe Vattcoricellos, one oT the con- tltutionalist junta here, will leave to night for Saltillo to report to Carranza on medfaMon, the attitude of the Cnited Htafes and plans for the re sumption of business in northern Mex ico. Acknowledge Carranza Authority. SaJUllo, Mexico, July C. I Via La redo). In the division of the north Vila's army has agreed to acknowl edge the authority of General Car ranza as "first chief." and General Villa will remain commander of the north as a result of conferences at Torreon between representatives of V'.lla and Carranza, according to the ss received here. ANOTHER ROMANCE FOR SOCIETY GIRE; - t . ! . r 3 i . . -. V. ' S ' ' x v-. ' v v I 4r tt 'A f 'A ' , " HOLD WOMAN AS SLAYER IN BAILEY CASE Witnesses at Inquest Re fute Stories Told by Mrs. Carman. FIND BOX CARTRIDGES Cf Same Calibre as Revolver Used in Taking the Life of Doctor's Patient THREE WIVES FACE SAME HUSBAND IN CHICAGO BIGAMY CASE ) Cecelia May. The announcement of the engage ment of Miss Cecelia Jacquelin May, the youngest daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Henry T. May. of Washington, to ."William Von Rath of the German embassy staff, recently made by Col onel May, reveals the second romance in the life of this beautiful society girl. The first romance came in her debutante year, when her engagement to Jlobert Bacon, Jr., son of the French ambassador, was announced. COMPANY TRYING TO BREAK STRIKE Westinghouse People Open Of fices to Employ 10,000 to Fill Vacancies. Pittsburg, Pa., July 6. Offices were opened here today by agents of the Westinghouse company, whese places- are affected by a strike for the pur pose of filling the 10.000 vacancies In the shops. It is reported a determined effort will be made to break the strVke. The state constabulary is sti'.l on duty in East Pittsburgh. Scores of pickets watch every entrance of the factories. All saloons are open, but there has been no disorder. One hundred persons called at the employment offices during the day and as selections were made T5ch per son was given a card with instructions to report at the factory designated. It was said they would go to work tomorrow. QUARRELS WITH GIRL WIFE AND DRINKS LYE DeWitt, la., July 6. Hans Jensen, driven to disTaction by the threat of his 14-year-old wife to leave him, Sat urday took a quantity of concentrated lye at the James Wilson home here and was probably fatally burned. He was taken to a Clinton hospital. Jensen is a farm band. Iast winter he married the 14-year-old daughter of Wilson. Lately the couple had quar reled. In an incoherent maimer he told his own tale as he lay on the operating table. "My wife was going to leave me," he said. "I told her that I would poi son myself if she did. and she said she didn't care. She hoped I'd take enougn. I got tue concentrated lye and put it in some water and went to her and asked her if abe still intended to leave me, and if so I would swallow the lye. 'Go ahead and take it,' she said. 'You're afraid- and I took it." Jensen's mouth was horribly burned from the lye. and as he threw the poison from his stomach great clots of blood indicated that his stomach had been burned and that his chances of recovery were doubtful: The doctor announced that be would live for at least several days and that Tie would never fully recover from the effects of the dose he had taken. Falls Dad While Boxing, s.merior. Wis.. July 6. - Til Just Freeport, N. Y July 6. Despite as sertions of Dr. Edwin Carman that sev. era! shots were fired at him last night by a man on a bicycle near Rockville Center while returning home here af ter visiting a patient at Roosevelt, Dis trict Attorney Smith and Sheriff Pettit declared they were still firm in the be lief it was a woman who shot and killed Mrs. Louise EX Bailey in Car man's office Tuesday night. The Inquest today is not expected to develop any startling facts not already known. Pettit admitted the investi gation had narrowed to three points, each of which leads to the same per son or persons. - When the inquest was resumed to day Assistant District Attorney Weeks exhibited an unopened box of 38-cali bre revolver cartridges he said he nad found in the Carman home. Dr. Car man told hiuH said Weeks, that he did not know how the cartridges came to be in the house. A 38-calibre bullet killed Mrs. Bailey. Celia Coleman, a negro maid in the Carman home, was the first witness, She began her story by telling who was at the dinner table Tuesday night She said Mrs. Carman complained of a headache and said she was going up stairs. The witness saw her leave the dining room and later heard footsteps :esa those of Mrs. Carman on the stairs. She admitted she talk ed w ith . George Levy.' Mrs. Carnian's attorney, the morning after the mur der. Sh insisted that no one else was present at the conference. "Do you know what perjury means? asked the district attorney. ' The witness answered she did. The district attorney then asked several times If sbft had not told him pre viously that Mrs. Carman was pres ent. The witness said she didn't re member. Her memory was faulty re garding things Levy had talked about, but she was sure Mrs. Carman had never spoken to her about the shoot ing. "When did you change your mind about what you told me Mrs. Carman had told you and when did you lose your memory? Yho told you to change your statement?" "Nobody." said the negress. The witness admitted she signed a paper for Levy without reading it or having it read to her. Sees Golder Admitted. Miss Hazel Combs testified she ar rived at Carman's office about 5 o'clock. A man and woman she did not know were in the waiting room. She said she saw Mrs. Carman walk ing around the house and saw her ad mit ,a man patient tuoiaeri ana b into Carman's office to answer the tel- hofnra th doctor came out of rK"""' thn dininc room. Mrs. Carman denied on the stand that she ever entered her husband's n .inra ah a Raw Mrs. Variance, a nurse, kiss him. X'harles Anderson, a negro youth testified he waa passing the Carman house about 8 Tuesday night, wnen , horri it renort he thought was a firecracker. He looked In the yard and saw a man running toward the back fence. The man Jumped over the fence and Anderson later saw him emerge from an alley in the n street. W. J. lrtiff erf Lynbrook, who close ly resembles Dr. Carman and drives an automobile of the same type, re ported to the Freeport police that ear ly this morning, while driving nis ma chine not far from where Dr. Carman was fired upon last night, a man stand- Ski . , r- I Ngi;' . g- I w Jf A . - - - A XP I ill D 4w v;v: A ; fVTf I' J T fJ h' s J: (?Sv '"34V, ill wj FAH1ILY OF 4 IS WIPED OUT WITHAN AXE Grewsome Find in Little German Home In Blue Island Suburb. VICTIM'S SPOUSE GONE Police Begin Search for Hus band Who Had Been Sep arated From Wife. Lft to right: Ma Uessie Springer Nourse, John Joiner (wearing hat), Mrs- R. A. Fontaine, Mrs. Grace Joiner Nourse and William K. Nourse. Chicago, 111., July 6. William K. Xourse. the "broke" boy broker, found guilty here on two charges of bigamy as the result of three marriages, faced his three wives when he took the wit ness stand and told the story of his domestic woes. Mr. Nourso has been remarkably successful in winning the hearts of the fair tex. He told the court of his adventures with the following women, all of whom were supposedly his wives at one time or another: fXo. 1 Mamie Plumridge. married May 28, 1903. in St. Louis, Mo. No. 2 Grace Joiner, married Sept. 20, 1909, in Milwaukee. Wis. No. 3 Mrs. Bessie Springer Nourse, maticd fieI-34,.-WJ3,;in Chicago. According to Nourse.'lt was riot.hls intention to marry any women um.il he .had freed himself from her prede cessor. He testified that be obtained a divorce from No. 1 at Devil's Lake, N. D.. in August, 1905. TJnfoitunately, the decree was not signed by the Judge, so it was not legal. Four years later he married Grace Joiner. He 6ays he got a divorce from her in Cleveland, Ohio, In January, 1913. The decree in this case was never signed by the Judge, either. On Christmas eve, 1913, he married his present wife, who was Mrs. Bessie she declares her loyalty to hiia despite the charges made. Nourse got into a tangle with Pros ecutor McKay during cross-examination. Q. Didn't you tell Mr. Springer at tne time you asked for his daughter's hand in marriage that you were a ba hwar mai rfca. A?MStgUlecii mumhs gle -mfte. and had never proposed to any oth girl? A. No, sir.: McKay waved a letter and shouted, letter in which you said you were sin gle?" A. I wrote a letter to Mr. Springer. Q. Didn't you tell him that you were a Hf.rvard graduate? A. Yes. Q. Are you? A. No. Q. Why did you lie to him about that? A. He never told me the truth. He lied to me about everything he told me. Q. Isn't, it a fact that while you were calling on his daughter you were a married man and had asked him for his daughter's hand in marriage? A. Yes, sir. Q. How long did you pay attention to Mr. Springer's daughter while you John Joiner of Milwaukee, father of No. 2. was present at - the trial.. He says the divorce .granted Nourse from Ts it not a fact that you wrote this his daughter is illegal. FIVE LIVES LOST IN AUTO SMASHES Four Are Killed as Burlington Train Hits Car at Grade Crossing. ino- t.pslde the road fired one snot at show you how fighters put over their hjm lua Jb a long tiine friend of Carman. The inquest adjourned until Wednes day to allow the district attorney to get witnesses. VISITS SICK WIFE; KILLED &nk Director Crushed After Calling on Spouse In a Hospital. Fall River, Mass.. July C Charles D. Burr, president of the Staples Coal company and a director In two banks, a killed when le was struck by an electric train on the New Haven road 1rrn) a hospital, where his wife was jeriouIy Ail from typQ-d fever. knockout puncnes. '"" Thompson. 45. as he squared away for a friendly boxing contest with a fallow worker. He made one psss and fell dead. Death was attributed to heart disease. MISS DEER ING IS M'CORMICK BRIDE Taris. France, July C Miss Marlon Deering. daugnter of Mr. and Mrs. r-h.rl Deering of Chicago, waa mar ried here today to Chauncey McCor t rhir.ro. son of Mr. and mien, v . Mrs. William 51cformick of Blu mcr. Two Drowned at Clinton. Clinton. Ia.. July 6. Harry Ketelsen and Faye Traver were drowned here Saturday afternoon in a launcn acci dent on the Mississippi river. Theo dore Slowie made a Ee'rc.Tc effort to save the girl and was himself rescued by fourth occupant of the launch. Kail Does Heavy Damage. Marathon, Texas. July 6. O. T. Ward, a ranchman, reported that a terrific hailstorm In the Glass moun tains near here killed 20 goats b& longing to lum, Chicago. 111.. July 6. Five deaths were the toll of automobile accidents among holiday pleasure seekers who spent the Fourth and Sunday outside of the city. Four persons were killed in a colli sion with a Burlington train in the Fox River valley Saturday evening, but on account of the inaccessibility of the scene of the accident, news of it did not reach relatives until yesterday. It happened on an unprotected grade crossing near Shabbone in De Kalb county. One man was killed when an auto mobile containing six passengers. among them Miss Mona Dunne, daugh ter of the governor, turned turtle on the shore of Lake Geneva. Miss Dunne proved herself a heroine by binding the wounds of the injured. The dead in the Fox river accident are: E. WAY.NE RICHARDSON of 4120 Wilcox avenue. MRS. MAUD DAMMARELL RICH ARDSON, his wife. DR. HENRY B. GREELEY of Lee. 111. MRS. IDA DAMMARELL GREE LEY, his wife. . The dead at Lake Geneva: FRANK NELSON GIFFORD of 4561 Woodlawn avenue. THE WEATHER J Forecast Till 7 P. M. Tomorrow, for Rock Island, Davenport, Molina and Vicinity.. Unsettled weather tonight and Tuesday: not much -change in tem perature. Temperature at 7 a. m., 70: highest yesterday, 92: lowest last night, 69 Wind velocity at 7 a. m., 4 miles. Precipitation in 24 hours, none. Relative humidity at 7 p. m., 50; at 7 a. m., 68. Stage of river at 7 a. m.. 8.2 feet, a rise of .4 feet in 43 hours. J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. Evening stars: Mercury, Venus, Mars. Morning stars: Saturn, Jupiter. Constellation Pegasus, seen rising, due east about 3 p.m. WANTS TREATIES HEARD IN PUBLIC Senator Borah Hints at All Manner of Skulduggery in Fight on Drafts. Railroad Sold. Wichita, Kan.. July 6. The Kansas City, Mexico and Orient railroad sold here today for $6,000,000 to a reor ganisation committee representing the bondholders of the company. ENGLISH ARSENAL IDLE; MEN STRIKE Force of 12,000 Quit Because of the Dismissal of a Union Engineer. Woolwich. Eng.. July 6. The entire working staff of 12,000 men at the government arsenal, which supplies most of the guns and ammunition for the British navy, struck today as a protest against the dismissal f the engineer,' who refused to erect machin ery on a ' foundation constructed by con union labor. Washington, D. C, June 6. Senator Borah began a fight today to force consideration of the Colombian and Nicaraguan treaties In open session. He presented a resolution also calling for publication of all investigations by the - foreign relations committee. It was put over until tomorrow under the rules. "If the Nicaraguan treaty is brought out into the open it will !ie as it ought to." said Borah. "I bcUtve it is an outgrowth of decrption, fraud, tyranny and corruption, and .1 am prepared to show it." He declared the treaty was not be ing negotiated with the people of Nicaragua or the officers they have set up and elected, but with "puppets we set up In their government." A resolution to investigate how the secret doings of the committee got in to the newspapers was adopted. RECEIVERS ASKED FOR THREE BANKS Alleged That Deposits Intended - for Small Concerns Went to La Salle Trust. Chicago, 111., July 6. A receiver has been asked for the State bank of Calu met, 111., the State bank of Chicago, and the Ashland and Twelfth bank of the . Lorimer-Munday string, closed with the failure of the parent bank, the La Salle Street Trust & Savings The application was made by William Freedman, attorney for certain depos itors. It is alleged no one is now in possession of those properties. It is charged that $75,000 city deposits al lotted to the Calumet bank and small er city deposits allotted to" the other two branch banks never reached them, but were in fact deposited in the La Salle street bank. It is further alleg ed that certain stockholders in the banks never paid for their stock. As sessment of stockholders under the double liability act is requested. Danville, III., July 6. Involuntary petitions in bankruptcy were filed in the federal court against the Lorimer & Gallagher Construction company of Mattoon and East St. Louis. Fall Kills Former Congressman. St. Louis, Mo., July 6. An acciden tal fall against a radiator last night caused the death of Martin L. Clardy, 10 years a member of congress, vice president of the Missouri Pacific rail road, and one time the strongest pow er In democratic politics in Missouri. Though 77, he was in good health. He served as an officer in the confed- trate.armj, More Freedom for Filipinos. Washington, D. July 6. Pres dent Wilson and -house leaders have agreed substantially -on a bill granting a larger measure of self-government to the Filipinos. The president does not expect the bill to pass both houses at this session. Morris Nomination Prepared. Washington, D. C. July 6. The president today prepared the nomina tion of Ira H. Morris of Chicago to be minister to Sweden. PUBLIC TRIBUTE TO CHAMBERLAIN Birmingham, England, July 6. The body of Joseph Chamberlain was bur led today at Berkeley cemetery after a memorial service attended by the lord mayor, city council and other civ ic dignitaries, although the statesman had expressed a desire that his fu neral be free from everything: of a public nature. A great crowd of cltl sens, among whom Chamberlain was a popular hero, lined the route over which the funeral passed. Chicago, 111., July 6. A family of four was wiped out by blows from an axe in their home in a German settle ment in a Blue . island suburb last night. The victims were Jacob Nes lesla, a German laborer, 75, his wife, their daughter, Martha Mansfield, 25. and the latter's 2-year-old infant 'The stiffened bodies and blood-stained axe alone remained to outline the story of the crime. ' Whether the butchery was the work of a maniac or a person seeking re venge was not disclosed by a cursory investigation. It was learned the young mother of the infant had been living away from her husband some time, and efforts to locate him were begun. , The murderer, according to Chief of Police Knirrch, proceeded with great deliberation. Each swing of the axe apparently carried death without even a groan to rouse others sleeping. Each member of the family was struck in the head. Neslesla slept in the front bed room on the first floor of the little frame dwelling. In the attack the two wo men and the infant were slain in their beds. Nothing was taken from the house. The crime was discovered by Jacob Neslesla, Jr., son of the old couple, living in another part of Blue Island, Had Mads Threats. Bluudy1 iiugu'pftlim Uli the ax handle were photographed. Search, was Instituted for William MahBfieldr, husband of Martha, and for Michael Cheerrwinki. The. latter was com pelled to .vacate the Neslesla house three weeks ago by his landlord in order to make room for the new ten ants and is said to have' uttered . threats against the landlord. Mans field has not been seen in Blue Island -since he left his wife a year ago. Twenty-nine Cases Similar. Twenty-nine persons have been mur dered in the last three years in Mis souri,' Kansas, Colorado, Iowa and Illi- -nois by means of blows from an axe. Details in almost all of the murders are the same and in most the cases the murderer's axe wiped out entire fam ilies. The crimes were committed at night while the victims were asleep in their beds. In each instance the mur-. derers left but slight clues. KEEP UP ATTACKS ON ROCKEFELLER Nine Free Speech Advocates Taken to Tarrytown for Trial Granted Delay. Tarrytown, N. Y., July 6. N'rae free speech advocates, most of them IdeHtov fled with the Industrial .Workers of the World, and all of therm associates of the four victims of Saturday's pre mature bomb expJp3ion in New York, came to Tarrytown today to face trial on charges growing out of the dem onstration against John D. Rockefeller and son, whose estate is near here. Two hundred sympathizers came wifJi them from New York, but on re quest of their counsel their trial was put over two' weeks on ground that needed witnesses were absent. WILLIAMS' TALKS NOT AUTHORIZED President Wilson Notifies Euro pean Powers He Is Not . Responsible. Washington, D. C., July 6 President Wilson has notified the principal Eur opean powers that the United Stated disclaims any responsibility for state ments regarding Albania attributed to George Fred Wlllfams, American mi a ister to Greece and Montenegro, whose resignation has been requested by Wil son. " Durazzo, Albania, July 6. It is re ported that Mussulman insurgents ia southern Albania have captured th : important town of Koritza. The gar. rison, which included some Dutch and Austrian officers, was taken after 8t0u reaistanc, - .