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Spark From An Engine
J: Falling On Inflammable
't~ Material Caused Damage
Amounting to $20,000.
WATER SERVICE WAS
POOR AT THE START
Agent Finesey and Aids Re
J,- move Explosives From
I Fire Zone and Greater
5 Damage Was Prevented
A spark presumably from the switch
{engine used about, the freight yard
ailing on a heap of banana crates and
ther inflammable material in the east
'end of the Rock Island freight house
this morning about 11:30 o'clock
Btarted a Are which before it could be
extinguished, had destroyed the build
ing and freight to the approximate
value of $20,000.
Temporary quarters will be secured
as soon as possible to accommodate
the large freight business of the Rock
Island, and already some firms have
tendered their assistance to the road
in giving them room for the freight.
The first of these was Edwin H. Emery
of the wholesale fruit house that bears
his name. The Baker building at the
'foot of Green street is also being "con
sidered.
The fire when discovered by Fore
man George Crocket and W. J. Bly-.
stone, a transfer man, was seen issu
ing from the east end of the building
hich covered more than 100 feet from
nion street to the rear of the struc
ture, Immediately with the turning in
of the alarm, willing hands layed to in
effort to remove the freight irom
1. {the danger that threatened the build
I'L..i ing and. -fec^tents. Upon thie arrival of
the *6re department fya unlooked for
troubiearo*e through the inability to!
eeclire Water from the mains. This was
due to tbe work of replacing the small
mains with the larger variety along
Main street from Jefferson street to
Iowa avenue. Several minutes -were
lost in waiting for the stream of water.
In the meantime the firemen worked
with a zest in the playing of the chem
ical over the burning structure.
f.s-K. Remove Explosives.
Mt The construction of the building and
Its dry and inflammable condition made
It ah easy prey to the flames which
gained steadily until, the water pres
sure responded to the effort of the-de
partment and effective work began to
tell. This was not, however, until
half of the building was doomed and
little beyond the prevention of the
spread of the fire could be done.
Small explosions due to cans of oil
and other inflammables in the freight
house, added to the excitement and
for a time frightened some of the peo
ple standing about the building. The
real danger from this source, however,
had been removed when the employes
of the freight house headed by Agent
J. C. Finesey carried out boxes of
dynamite and other explosives that
had been unloaded during the morn
ing. These were brought put of the
fire zone at the first sign of the spread
of the blaze. When the fire was first
seen by Foreman Crocke.tt, the gang of
employes were engaged across the
tracks transferring freight to and
from the cars and the platforms..
Move Cars From Fire Zone.'
The knowledge of the presence of a
solid car of new automobiles led Agent
Finesey to bend his efforts to get this
car moved away and after removing
the dynamite out of the fire region.
the car of automobiles were other cars
were shunted away from the freght called
house. This was not too soon, for
despite their haste to save the cars,
the fire was even quicker and six cars
tne tire was even quicner ana six cars
waB
May Build Structure.
Plans .were drafted and it was ar-
ranged to build a new freight depot
more than a'year ago, but for some
unknown reason after the plans had
been submitted to local contractors,
they were recalled and the building
left in a promissory state ever since.
It is probable now, the plans formerly
adopted may be again given the con
tractors for the build'u* of the new
freight
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Gypsy Pays Back
Mart She Cheated
And Gets Off Easy
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Des Moines, May 12.—Nellie
Lee, alias Maud Brewer, the
gypsy arrested in Oklahoma
Bome weeks ago charged with
defrauding John Hauser of Des
Moines out of $4,200 while
working as a clairvoyant, today
approached Huser in the court
4* room and banded him $4,200 in
cash. She then pleaded guilty
to obtaining money by false
pretenses and paid a fine of
$500 and costs, which included
expenses of her return from
Oklahoma.
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HIDE AND SEEK
One House Is In Session, the
Other Is Not and Puz
zling Situation Ensues—.
House Meets Today.
Washington, D. C., May 12.—The
senate and house of representatives to
all appearances are engaged in a
game of hide and seek. The senate
was in session yesterday and the
house was not. The house was in ses
sion today and the senate was not.
Tomorrow neither will be in session.
The senate will meet again on Monday
but the house will not. The house
will meet Tuesday but the senate will
not.
In the house today the most impor
tant business promised was a report
from the committee on territories re
commending statehood for Arizona and
Hew M^xicoL" after ttte-pawle, of each
teitftofy shall Have wted- on proposed
amendments: .A minority report sign
ed bythe republican members of the
committee urged the immediate admis
sion or New Mexico.
The house has decided to adjourn
over Monday because the order for
that day is the discharge of commit
tees. One of the discharge motions
would result in calling up for action a
$40,000,000 service pension. The pas
sage of this bill is not a democratic
program for the extra session.
A parliamentary contest in the sen
ate as exciting as the skirmishes that
marked the attempt to elect a presi
dent pro tempore yesterday was pre
dicted for Monday, to which day the
senate yesterday adjourned. Will the
senate hear the promised report of the
finance committee on Canadian reci
procity consider Bome other legislative
proposition or continue balloting?
That question was variously an
swered.
Farmer Denounce* Reciprocity.
Canadian reciprocity would cost the
farmers of the northwest $40,000,000
annually, according to A. H. Wilkin
son, a Minnesota farmer, who address
ed the senate finance committee today.
The profits of United States farm pro
ducts would shrink that much, he de
clared. A vital grievance of the farm
ers, the speaker said, was that they
were not consulted as to how they
would be affected by the proposed rec
iprocity.
"Do you believe that a trade agree
ment would have been entered into
that would have injured the steel trust
or the shce industry $40,000,000 a year
without consulting them?' he inquired.
To prove the opposition of the farm
ers of the northwest to reciprocity,
Mr. Wilkinson invited senators who
favor reciprociety to visit that section.
Would Protect Government Employes.
xlepresentative Bathrick of Ohio, to
day introduced a resolution to protect
g0vernmeut
eovernment
were totally destroyed or in part be- penalty tot testifying against their
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fore they were moved. The appear
ance presented by the ruined struc
ture is that of a complete wreck. The
fore, part or what
used formerly
for an office, still remains intact with
a portion of the main building. The
other end of the building is, however,
a total wreck and most of it is burned
to the ground. The platform at the
east end of the structure met the same
.fate as that end of the freight house
and is a mass of charred ruins. The
scorched and charred cars that were
damaged by the fire included a car of
ccal which was burning slowly for a
time before discovered. The damage
to the cars was made possible because
of the tracks having lined up for the
day's business and the house was well
filled with freight from several of the
local jobbing houses, among those was
some from W. T. Hall, & Co.. which
firm bad just unloaded 150 cases of
chocolates for shipment.
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employes who may be
upon to
testify before investigate
ing committees of congress. The reso
lution sets forth that employes of the
persecution
fear persecution as a
superiors, and provides that no em
ploye shall be subserved, reduced in
rating or' discharged because of sucu
testimony. yV
Clark Presides, Though 8iek.
Speaker Champ Clark «againat the
advice of his physicians left his bed
fearly today and appeared in trme to
preside over a brief session of the
house. He hopes to be completely re
stored to health by Tuesday, to which
time the house adjourned, lw-
THREE HAVE NARROW
ESCAPE FROM FIRE
Columbia, Tenn., May 12.—Three
men had narrow escapes from death
In afire which caused damage esti
mated at $325,000 in the business sec
tion of this place. Enoch Stevens,
William Hooten and W. Satterfleld
were pinioned under walls and were
rescued with difficulty.
WESTERN FEDERATION
NOW MEMBER A. F. OFL.
Washington, D. C., May 12.—'The
Western Federation of Miners has
been granted full affiliation with the
American Federation of Labor. News
of the issuance of a charter was made
public at the headquarters of the latter
organizationtoday.
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BIG PACKERS
Judge Carpenter In Federal
Court Upholds Sherman
Anti-trust Act In Sustain
ing Indictments.
Chicago, May
12—The
As to the stability of the indictment
Judge Carpenter said:
I Sees Plan to End Competition.
"I do not see how the grand jury
could have made the charge more defi
nite. and I believe it is sufficiently spe
cific to satisfy the substantive law.
"The whole plan from Its inception
appears plainly to be one to eliminate
competition as a factor in fixing prices
among the three groups of defendants,
beginning with the agreement not to
bid against each other, and in fact to
bid exactly the same amounts for like
grades of live stock, fixing a uniform
selling price and ending with fixine a
uniform price of sale and an apportion
ment amoner themselves of the total
business done.
"While the facts do not disclose an
absolute monopoly, yet the large per
centage of the business which they
control indicates that they intend to
acouire at least a commercial monop
oly."
May 17 the packers will appear and
plead to the charges or file a petition
for a bill of particulars.
QUEEN MOTHER BACK
FROM LONG CRUISE
London, May 12.—Queen Mother
Alexandra, who returned a week ago
from a cruise in the Mediterranean
has taken up her residence at Sandring
ham palace, where she will remain un
til after the coronation. During the
cruise the queen mother has enjoyed
good general health. She reached
here just in time to be present at the
memorial service on the anniversary
of the death of King Edward and her
distress during the service was
marked.
WOODRUFF GLOOMY
CONCERNING POLITICS
Washington, D. C., May 12.—Former
republican state Chairman Timothy
I. Woodruff of New York brought some
dire predictions to the white house.
"If business conditions continue as
bad as they are now," said Mr. Wood
ruff, "the democratic party stands an
excellent show to carry the state in the
next presidential campaign. That Is
due to the practice of business inter
ests in blaming the party in power for
famine, drouths and all other natural
or unnatural disturbances."
BABY FALLS INTO CISTERN.
Two Year Old Boy of Charles Emery
of Danville, III., is Victim of
Accident.
Danville, 111., May 12.—Shortly after
being inisBed by his mother last even
ing, the body of Halden Emery, the
two year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Emery, was found in the cis
tern at their home into which he-bad.
fallen.
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demurrers of
the Chicago packers in the "beef
trust" case were overruled today by
Judge Carpenter in the United States
district court. In his ruling Judge
Carpenter declared that the Sherman
anti-trust law, which has been at
tacked by the packers, is constitution
al. He also held that the indictment
charging J. Ogden Armour and other
packers with violating its provisions,
is valid.
Judge Carpenter's decision may
have an indirect bearing on all anti
trust litigation in the United States
in upholding the completeness and sta
bility of the Sherman act. Of this fea
ture the court said:
"The statute has been the subject of
discussion for twenty years. The su
preme court of the United States many
times has sustained decrees which re
strained violations.pt It.
Upholds Act of Congress.
"Congress aimed effectually to pre
vent restraint of trade on interstate
commerce it had constitutional power
to accomplish this purpose by making
restraints of trade criminal acts, or by
empowering the United States, as
complainant to secure injunctions
against acts which constitute restraints
of trade, or both. By passing the Sher
man act, it did both.'
The packers had "based their demur
rers in part on an assertion that the
act did not prove a crime, or provide
legal and constitutional means of cor
recting: the abuses it was designed to
control—the decision directly denied
this assumption. They also claimed
that the act did not define the misdoing
in terms that .would enable the defend
ant to-kniw in-afiv^neo thart-snrfi-pietv
fortnances as it condemned Were 11*
legal. Of this the decision says:
"I am of the opinion that the su
preme court of the United States has
determined that sections 1, 2 and 3 of
the Sherman act define with sufficient
accuracy the offenses therein enumer
ated."
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A later wireless message from Capt.
Mader of the Admiral Farragut stated:
"Farragut floating on for,e collision
bulkheads. U. S. S. Iowa and Hamilton
coming to our assistance."
This wireless message led to the be
lief that the Farragut had been dam
aged, possibly seriously, In the col
lision with the Merida. fi
Iowa Rushes to Aid Boats,
Washington, D. C., May 12—Wireless
messages from Commander B. F.
Hutchinson of the. battleship Iowa re
ceived this morning direct at the Wash
ington navy yard and also from the
yard at Norfolk, Va., stated that he
was rushing the big battleship at full
speed toward the scene of the col
lision. Commander Hutchinson said his
wireless operators had picked up the
wireless signals for assistance sent
from the Merida and the Admiral Far
ragut when the Iowa was 55 miles
northeast of Cape Charles.
As soon- as word of the collision
reached the navy department orders
were rushed to Norfolk instructing the
torpedo boat destroyers Bailey and
Stringham to hasten to the scene and
render all possible assistance.
Few Americans on Boat.
Havana. May 12.—The only Ameri
cans on the pasenger list of Ward line
steamer Merida which sailed from
here Tuesday for New York and Is
reported in collision with Admiral Far
ragut this morning, are Philip Lynch,
Robert Wright, Mrs. Wrigjit, Anna
Wright and William White, the latter
a Canadian.
P. E. O. CONVENTION
COMES TO AN END
Mrs. Katherjne Yeaqer of Greenfield,
Elected President of Iowa P. E.
O, at Sioux City.
Sioux City, la, May 12.—With the
election of officers last evening the
annual meeting of the state organiza
tion of P. E. O. cajne to an end. The
election was quiet, there being but
few contests.
The officers elected! are: President,
Mrs. Katherine Yeager of Greenfield:
first vice president, Mrs. Alice Miller
of Cedar Rapids second vice president
Mrs. Cornelia Sawyer of Sioux City:
recording secretary, Mrs. Bess Man
ning of Keosausua corresponding
secretary, Mrs. waiter McHenry of
Des Moines trei^urer, Mrs. Hulda P.
Reed of What Ctteer organizer, Mrs.
Lillian Griffith of Harlan.
Mrs. Dell P. Glazier of Fort Madison
and Mrs. AJexander Miller of Wash
ington were elected as delegates to
the supreme convention, which is to
be held at St. Louis in September.
$5,000 MORE IS SENT
TO FAMINE SUFFERERS
Washington, D. C., May 12—The Red
Cross today sent $5,000 additional by
cable to Chiga fer the relief of the
famtna This UlSkeS ft tOtfti
famine sunerersr,
of £70.000
Cross basldfUp ti
plies sent 0&>.tlMi
COUNTY, IOWA,SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1911
LINER
SINKS AT SEA
207ARESAVED
Boat Is Rammed by Steamer
Admiral Farragut, Which
Has Trouble After Saving
Other Boat's Passengers.
New York, May 12.—The steamship
Merida of the Ward line, with 207 pas
sengers from Havana for this city, was
rammed by the steamer Admiral Farra.
gut from Philadelphia for Port Antonio,
off Cape Charles, shortly after mid
night. The Merida's passengers and
crew were transferred to the ^Admiral
Farragut. Water poured through the
gaping break in the Merida's side and
five hours after the collision the steam
ship settled beneath the waves.
Wireless distress signals were
flashed, in every direction and the
United States battleship Iowa hurried
to the Merida's assistance. The Old
Dominion line stamship Hamilton
came alongside the Admiral Farragut,
according to a wireless dispatch re
ceived here at 10 o'clock this morning,
and took the Merida's passengers and
crew of the Farragut. The Hamilton
will arrive at Norfolk late today.
Whether the Admiral Farragut then
returned to Philadelphia or proceeded
on her course to Port Antonio is not
known.
The Hamilton left N6w York for Nor
folk yesterday afternoon. The Merida,
under the command of Captain Robert
son, left Vera Cruz on May 4, and Ha
vana on May 9. The Admiral Farragut,
commanded by Captain Mader, left
Philadelphia for Port Antonio yester
day.
About 12:30 o'clock this morning,
about 55 miles easht of Cape Charles
light ship, the Admiral Farragut
crashed into the Merida. An examina
tion of the Merida showed that she
was taking water fast. The transfer of
passengers to the Farragut was af
fected in life boats. A wireless dispatch
stated that the Merida sank at 5:50
o'clock this mornioit. ~v, .•
.The Merldti was mifft Philadel
phia in 1906 and haul a gross tonnage of
6,207. The Admiral Farragut, owned by,
the American Mall Steamship Co., Is
in the service of the United Fruit Co.,
between Philadelphia and Port An
tonio. The Admiral Farragut has a
tonnage of 1,300.
China by the Red
,000 worth of sup
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POURED BARRELS
OF BEER ON FIRE
Connecticut Hotel Saved During Forest
Fire by Beverage Valuable
Forest Destroyed.
Bolton, Conq., May 12.—Forest fires
are again raging in this section, one
hundred acres of land having been
burned over. At Bolton Notch the New
England hotel was saved by pouring
barrels of beer, on the flames, which
held them in check until help came by
automobile!
Forest Near Albany Destroyed.
Albany, N. Y., May 12.—About six
square miles of fine maple and pine for
est land between this city and Schen
ectady are a blackened waste today as
the result of a fire which is believed
to have been started by a spark from a
locomotive. The fire is still burning to
day, but Is apparanely under control.
AN AVIATION MEET
AT KANSAS CITY
Kansas City, Mo., May 12.—A three
day aviation meet, featured by demon
strations of the uses of the aeroplane
in war, begins at the Elm Ridge race
course here today. More than a hun
dred army officers from the school of
Instruction at Fort Leavenworth are
here to witness the exhibitions.
Eugene B. Bly and .Charles Willard
will fly. They will hurl bombs at im
itation forts and battleships in the
center of the race course. Ely was
recently commissioned a major in the
Unlte(^rstatea.awny.^
ARGUMENTS MADE
IN THE DIETZ CASE
Hayward, Wis., May 12.—Arguments
in the Dletz murder trial are being
heard today and the caBe will be Sub
mitted to the jury late this afternoon.
District Attorney J. Williams opened
the argument for the state. John
Dietz and his wife and son, the co
defendants, pleaded their, innocence
before the jury. Judge Reid will
read his charge to the jury this after
noon.
AMERICAN BIBLE
SOCIETY HAS FUNDS
New York, May 12.—The American
Bible society in celebrating the con
clusion of its ninety-sixth year by an
nouncing the completion of a $500,000
subscription fund which will enable it
to take advantage of the conditional
gift of Mrs. Russell Sage for another
$500,000, With the gift of a third $500-,
000 the estate of the late John S. Ken
nedy the trust funds of the society
will reach nearly $3,000,000.
ALMOST LOST LIFE
DESTROYING BEER
Albia, May 12.—(Special.)—While
dumping a load of confiscated beer
into the Jack Oak mine, T. J. Lewis
had a narrow escape from a 200 foot
fall. In attempting to pull a heavy
iron rail from the mouth of the mine
it loosened at one end and threw hltn
backward but the quick action of
three companions saved him from
what seemed at first sure death.
BOSTON CRITICISED
BY COLORED RACE
Boston, Mass., May 12.—That Boston
is the hardest city in the country for
negroes to flnd respectable neighbor
hoods to live in, and that the hospitals
of this city discriminate against the
negro, are contentions of the Boston
branch of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People, in
a statement published today. A pro
position to form a Y. M. C. A. branch
for negroes is opposed by the associa
tion as tending toward segregation.
O E S S E N S
PUBLIC AUDIENCES
Rome, May 12.—Pope Pius X. is still
feeling thp effects of his recent attack
of gout, and the public audiences plan
ned for this morning were suspended.
Those who had received invitations
were turned back when they arrived
at the Vatican. The general condition
of his holiness. Is however, giving lit
tle alarm to his physicians.
ANOTHER VICTIM OF
OGDEN HOLD-UP DIES
Chicago, May H.—Allen Taylor, one
of the colored car porters who was
shot during the hold up of the Over
land Limited train on the Chicago and
Northwestern line naar Ogden, Utah,
several weeks ago, died here today.
Blood poisoning developed in the
wound which was a small one in his
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Kivai in Embrace 7hrough
Window Shade Kills Man
Brawnville, Pa., May 12.—Miosi Filliangan, a rejected sutor for
hand of Miss Santi Petionl, is charged with firing a shot which killed
4 John Bossa, a rival and slightly wounded the girl at Dreath last night
4 Filliangan It is alleged fired at a silhouette of his victims In fond em
brace on the window shade. One bullet hit both.
Filliangan fell in love With the girl after seeing her picture, cor
responded with her, proposed and was accepted. When Miss Petionl
came to this country, she did not like Filliangan and was soon to wed
Bosso. Filliangan escaped after the shooting.
SEEK TO HAVE THE
TRUST TAX REDUCED
David .Lloyd-Qeorge Receive* Appeal
to Abolish Revenue Provision, But
Gives no Encouragement.
London, May 12.—Representatives
of those who are urging upon the
government the remission of the trust
tax had an interview with David Lloyd
George today and asked him td abolish
this provision for revenue for the
forthcoming budget. The chancellor
was sympathetic, saying he agreed
that the sugar duty was oppressive to
the' poor and interfered with a val
uable industry. It was most desirable
that it should be remitted if he could
expect the amount of taxes from some
body else. However, as it was he
could not afford to surrender a tax
that was bringing in $15,000,000.
CUTS BABY'S TONGUE
IT BLEEDS TO DEATH
Ignorant Alabama Man Kills Child by
Performing Amateur Surgical
Operation.
Heflin, Ala., May 12.—Buchanan
Monroe, a farmer, is in jail here
charged with the murder of his in
fant child. He wa3 arrested while
walking back to his former home In
Harrelson county, Ga., to bury tne
baby. The child was only eight months
old and would not nurse. Thinking it
was tongue tied, the father clipped the
end of its tongue and it bled to death.
Making a tiny coffin out of boards he
put, the child .in it,-stamped the bun*
die o^i ht» shoulders an$ started back
to Georgia. Neighbors repotted the
matter to the sheriff Who overtook
Monroe and brought him back here.
He was Ignorant of the fact that he
had committed an alleged crime.
AMERICAN WOMAN
CHAMPION BEATEN
London, May 12.—Mrs. Rose, who on
three occasions held the British Wom
en's golf championship, today de
feated MIsb Dorothy Campbell, the
American and Canadian champion, on
the links of the Royal Portrush golf
club In Clyde. The round ended even
and on playing the nineteenth hole
Mrs. Rose made the hole in four splen
did strokes.
Miss Campbell also is a former hold
er of both the British and Scottish
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AGED MAN SENTENCED
TO HANG FOR MURDER
Salte Ste Marie. Mich., May 12.—
Henry Carroll, slxty-flve years old,
was sentenced today by Justice Brit
ton to be hanged on July 2G. Carroll's
crime was the murder of William The
land last November In a lumber camp
near Blind river.
Mrs. Anglina Neapolitana was sen
tenced a few days ago to be hanged on
August 9 for killing her husband with
an axe.
OHIO GRAFT CASES
OPEN WEDNESDAY
Columbus, O., May 12.—The alleged
legislative grafters will not be brought
to trial next Monday as expected.
Prosecutor Turner is busy in another
trial and has set the case of Repre
sentative Nye, accused,of soliciting
bribes, for Wednesday. When the
grand jury adjourns it will be untli
Monday and the investigations will
continue probably most of next week.
DOOIN AND CATCHER
GIBSON SUSPENDED
New York, May 12—President Lynch
of the National league today an
nounced the suspension until further
notice of Manager Dnoin of the Phil
adelphia club and Catcher Geo. Gib
son of Pittsburg, because of the
trouble they had in a game at Phil
adelphia today. Gibson and Wagner
wpre sent to the bencl: by Umpire Fin
neran because of objections they made
to his decisions, and Manager Dooin
participated in the argument. Finner
an reported the affair to President
Lynch and the suspensions resulted.
YOUTH IS KILLED BY
:v FALL OF MINE SLATE
Oskaloosa, May 12.—(Special)
Frank Garnego, aged 19 was ln
stently killed in a coal mine at White
City this morning by a fall of slate.
He was working by the side of his
father who escaped uninjured
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Standard Oil Steamer Lost.
PenBacola, Fla., May 12.—-It was es
tablished this morning that the vessel
which was wrecked and washed ashore
on St. Andrews beach in the gulf storm
two weeks ago was the schooner
Queen, of the Standard OH Co. Her
crew of five men were undoubtedly
drowned. The boat Is a total loss.
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This city, long in dread of an attackr
is now in greater fear than ever be
cause of the extreme violence by the
lnsurrectos in their northward march.
The whole district, embracing Du
rango, Torreon and intermediate
towns, has been in a Btate approaching
anarchy.
The situation In the south is report
ed here as follows:
Torreon, 26,000 population, in
cluding numerous Americans, sur«
rounded by lnsurrectos estimated
at 2,000 In number communication
In all directions frequently cut off
and inhabitants In constant fear of
an attack.
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"reon, in hands of lnsurrectos under
Pablo Lavine, reporting a condi
tion of chaos, looting apd acta of
violence.
Palaco Gomez, near Torreon, In
vaded by lnsurrectos without re
sistance.
Durango, 32,000'population, cap
ital of the state of Durango, sur
rounded by Insurreetos and in fear
of attack.
Zacatecas, 33,000 population, cap
ital of state, surrounded by lnsur
rectos possesses only small fed
eral garrison.
Aguas Callente, 56,000 popula
tion, capital of the state descrlb
ed as a hotbed of revolutionists.
Parral, located on a branch Una
from Jlmlnez, just south of here,
sent out a distress signal. Fifteen
hundred lnsurrectos surrounded
the town and already have cap
tured Minas Luevas, a suburb.
Rosario has been cut off for soma
time and Its fate Is unknown. An
appeal from there before the wires
closed said conditions of anarchy
prevailed.
Indlo, south of Rosario, waa
sacked and taken after twenty
people were killed.
As soon as an appeal dime from
Parral an armored train waa sent-on!
from here as relief. The-train went a«
far as JimlQes, where It stopped and
came back. .The official report states
that lnsurrectos were seen ahead in
such great numbers that It way?
deemed unsafe to proceed.
Americans at Paral are engaged
chiefly in the mining and banking busi
ness.
Chlhuahuans Criticise Government.
Chihuahua City is in a poor way to
withstand a prolonged Isolation, as no
reserve supply of provisions was taken
In before the railroad was closed. Much
criticism Is made by citizens because
of neglect shown by the federal gov
ernment in not keeping the city In
formed of developments outside.
No reliable news concerning the
peace negotiations has been allowed
to reach the city. In the territory ad-"
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NUMBER 118
CHIHUAHUfi
WITH ATTACK
Two Thousand Instircdetos
^Surround Town and Panic
Prevails Interior of Mex
ico Reports Anarchy.
NEW PEACE MOVE
BEGUN AT JUAREZ 4
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Madero Has Meeting With
Go-Betweens, But Result
Is Not Given May Deal
Only With Government. ,,
Juarez, Mex., May 12.—before
a
cheering throng of revolutionists
Provisional President Franolsco I.
Madero, Jr., formally opened the
customs house here at 12:90
o'clock today, the first step in the
re-organlzation of the local admin*
Istratlon of the town.
Washington, D. C., May
After the cabinet meeting today
Col. Stever In El Paso, was In
structed by the secretary of war to
permit all regular shipments pass
ing through the custom house to
enter Juarez. This means that
the military will not Interfere with
any supplies cleared by the cue
toms house, whether they be armSf
ammunition or food.
Chihuahua, May 10, via El Paso,
May 12.—Two thousand lnsurrectos,
part of the band operating In tht| dis
tricts south of here, are reported today
.fo be marching on Chihuahua. Already
the advance guards *re efi$unpe4
around tte dftyV Ail armed mob tust be
.fore daylight today entered Nombro-
De Diaz, a suburb, looted all the stores,
took all the horses and despite the
presence of 1,600 federals to nearby
barracks!, escaped. Santa Bulalla, an
important mining town twelve miles
east of the city, has been, abandoned
by all the municipal officers because
of the fear of lnsurrectos. The place
is now regulated wholly by Americana
employed in the mines.