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IIUEHTA GETS LOAM
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Financial Group With Hefadquar-
ters at Paris Gives Aid to
Mexican Government.
ZAPATA ISSUES A THREAT
Rebel Leader Declares' It His Interv
tion to Hang Provisional President
and Blanquet as Traitors, Cab-,
int to Be Shot.
Mexico City, Dec. 22. Arrest of
many prominent Mexicans was or
dered by the government qu v the'
charge that they were plotting with
the revolutionists to betray the capi
tal Among those seized was Juan Pedro
Didaph, former consul at Richmond,
Va. " ' .
Paris, Dec. 22. The underwriting
by an international group of bankers
of-A loan to the Mexican government,
sufficient to meet the bond interest
payments falling due in January, was
arranged through the Banque de Paris
et des Pays Bas.
The group is composed of Paris, Lon
don and New York bankers, and in
cludes Speyers of New York.
The Paris banks will not advance
more than their proportionate share
of the amount underwritten by . the
group.
The' negotiations were conducted
here, but the amount of the loan and
the terms on which it is to be ad
vanced were not disclosed.
Zapata Threat to Hang Huerta.
Mexico City, Dec. 22. More of the
ferocious temper animated the Mex
ican combatants has been shown by
the latest official utterance of Emil
iano Zapata, the rebel leader. In which
he says:
"The traitors, Huerta and Blanquet,
after a very short process, will be
publicly degraded and hanged from
the balconies of the national palace
as a warning to all. The rest of the
cabinet will be shot after being
judged."
This sentence passed on the execu
tive and his official family in a circu
lar dated Milpa Alta, December 16,
was addressed' to the inhabitants of
the City of Mexico.
Zapata says that at a war council
It was resolved to take the ctiy by fire
and sword "on a day which, for the
better success of the assault, is to be
unknown until the moment the fight
begins."
Respect Lives of Foreigners.
The circular continues:
"The lives and interests of foreign
ers will be respected, if they remain
neutral. Only those who have had di
rect participation in the politics of the
country will be punished after being
given a trial. Severe justice will be
done all the enemies of our cause who
are found guilty by the military au
thorities appointed for the purpose.
The property of those sentenced will
be applied to the maintenance of the
army.
"All officers and chiefs of the so
called federal army will be shot with
out trial, as they are the only ones
sustaining the usurper. If they sur
render . before the fight begins the
lives of those not responsible for oth
er crimes will be respected.
"Five days will be allowed in which
the Inhabitants of the city who so de
sire may withdraw from the horrors of
the fight. All executions will be pub
lic in the Plaza de La Constitution
(in front of the palace)."
Son of General Kidnaped.
. El Paso, Tex., Dec. 22. The El Paso
police have been asked to search for
a son of Gen.Ynez Salazar of the
Mexican federal army. When the refu
gees reached Ojinaga, the family of
'the general came. to. El Paso. His
wife reported his son had been kid
naped by rebel sympathizers.
DUNNE GIVES FUNK A JOB
Former Progressive Candidate for
Governor of Illinois to Go on
Utilities Commission. '
- Springfield, 111., Dec. 22. By the ap
pointment of Frank H. Funk of Bloom
ington to one of the minority places
on the railroad and warehouse com
mission, with the understanding that
he will become a minority member of
the utilities commission on January 1,
Governor Dunne took a long stepto-
v -ward the encouragement and perpetu
ity of the Progressive pijty:. The po
sition Is one of the best in the gift of
the governor and this recognition of
the Bull Moose will aid them in the
- next campaign. Funk has the support
of practically all the down state pro
gressives. '
DISMISS SUIT FOR $100,000
Case Against Corn Products Refining
" Co. Involving Depreciation of
.' Stock is Thrown Out.
.-. Chicago, Dec. 22. Federal Judge
-Geiger, of Milwaukee, sitting here dis
missed the suit of Attorney George F.
. .' Harding against the Corn Products
Hefining company, in which Harding
demanded f 100,000 on account of the
depreciation of stock he held in the
company. The court held that there
was no basis for the complaint that
the reorganization of the company had
been manipulated so that the . stock
. would decrease in value.. " "
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Our photograph shows General Huerta,. Foreign Minister Moheno and General felanquet riding through the
streets of Mexico City on their way to a session of the national congress. Moheno sits at Huerta's left and Blan
011 p.t. faces them. . '
MICHIGAN COURT HIT
LEADER OF COPPER MINERS SAYS
JUDGES OWN STOCK.
Appears Before House Body and De
clares That Operators Have Sys- -tern
of Peonage.
Washington, Dec. "19. C. E. Ma
honey of Denver, vice-president of the
Western Federation of Miners, ap
peared on Wednesday before house
committee on rules and charged that
Justices of the supreme court of Mich
igan are either stockholders in cop
per mines affected by the strike or are
"keenly interested.
He gave this as the reason - for
his organization's appeal to congress
for federal investigatin of the cop
per strike. The McDonald resolution
calling for the inquiry was before the
committee. .
Mahoney, who had been in the Calu
met region since tie trouble began,
testified that the counsel employed
by the union had advised against tak
ing any action in the courts of the
state. He said that no semblance of
justice had been secured by the 16,000
men on strike when they appealed to
the machinery of Michigan law. He
described the situation in the copper
country as one of prejudiced courts,
packed juries and peonage. Large
numbers of men, he said, were col
lected by employment agents in Chi
cago and New York under false repre
sentation that they . were wanted to
work in, the lumber camps of northern
Michigan. ;
." Once on the cars they were put in
charge of armed guards and rushed to
the copper mines, where they ' were
confined in strike-breakers' . camps,
still under the guns of their guards.
IMPORTANT NEWS
ITEMS
Council Bluffs, la., Dec. 18. E.' L.
Wyant, motorman, was injured, per
haps fatally, and Grover Smith, a pas
senger seriously crushed, while four
others were painfully hurt in the col
lision of two cars here in a fog.
Washington, Dec. 19. All proposed
new expenditures of any consequence
for the postal service were stricken
from the post office appropriation bill
by the house . committee. Among the
items lost is the $2,000,000 increase
in pay for rural mail, carriers. The
bill carries about $300,000,000. (
Glasgow, Dec. 18. The unionist can
didate, W. Watson, won the bye-election
for the South Lanarkshire seat in
parliament left vacant by the death of
Sir Walter Menxies, a liberal home
ruler. ,: ' ' ; ' '
Washington, Dec. 19- An investi
gating committee appointed by Secre
tary .'McAdoo completed a report .re
pudiating charges of wholesale graft
in the purchase of government sup
plies involving millions of "dollars."
Washington, Dec. 20. Senator Will
iam Stone of Missouri is confined to
his hotel by a severe attack of bron
chitis. Senator Reed announced in
the senate that Senator Stone would
not be able to return for several days.
- Illinois Editor Is a Suicide.
Aurora, HI., Dec. 20. Joseph Nolan,
editor and owner of . the Chieftain, of
Shabbona, 111., was found hanging in
his printing 'plant by his sixteen-year-
old' daughter, Blanche.
; caused his act.
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Wilsonu Invited to Uhveiiinrj.
Washington, Dec. 20. Senator Hoke
Smith of Georgia presented to: the
president jind Mrs. Wilson an Invita
tion to attend the unveiling of a Civil
. Tar monument at Savannah, Ga., next
i April.
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HIE: 01 II. S; IN
MEXICAN FEDERAL SOLDIER
SLAIN IN FIGHT ON THE
BORDER.
SHOOT WHEN TOLD TO HALT
Huerta -Troops Cross Line ' Near
Presidio, Texas, and Hide in Build
ing Until American . Force Dis
lodges Them Battle Follows.
Torres, Sonora, Dec. 22. Ten offi
cers and more than GOO troops of the
federal garrison at Guaymas sur
rendered to the insurgents at Maytore
na, Friday. A special train was sent
to Maytorena' to convey the former
federals to Hermosillo. .
It was said the capitulation of Guay
mas was expected.
This news followed the report that
the entire Tenth battalion of infantry
of the, federal army had been disarmed
by General Ojeda, federal commander
of Guaymas, who discovered a plot of
the men and officers to desert to the
constitutionalist side.
Presidio, Tex., .Dec. 20. Shots ex
changed between Mexican and Ameri
can soldiers on the international line,
two miles west of Presidio, resulted
on Thursday in the death of Lois
Orozco, a , regular of General Mer
cado's federal Mexican army.
The Mexicans fired the first shots.
Orozco, who lived . several hours, - ad
mitted after being shot that he and
his companions had crossed to the
American side with a note and ,fird
.when halted by the American sen
tries.
Eye-witnesses say the American sol
diers on patrol were informed that
Mexican soldiers were hiding in a hut
on the American side, 300 yards from
the river. The Americans went to
ward the hut to investigate. ' Two
Mexicans rushed out of the hut and
ran toward the river. The patrol
called to them v to halt and the shoot
ing followed.
City of Mexico, Dec. 20. Emiliano
Zapata narrowly escaped capture at a
ranch a. Nenepapa, 18 miles from
Mexico City, early in the day. With a
bodyguard of 300 men he was sur
prised by federal troops from Toluca.
but fled after a hard fight.
Gen. Guadencio de La Llave ia re
ported to have mutinied with 600 fed
erals at Axochiapau and to be march
ing on Cuantla. He was one of
those in the plot to kill Madero.
Chihuahua, Dec. 20. Gen. Francisco
Villa issued notice on "Thursday that
he would guarantee ' the right of all
foreigners and all Mexicans who havo
given no support to the Huerta gov
ernment. : v
General Villa wished It to be known
that he 'was in accord with the wishes
of the United States that the persona
and property of foreigners be respected.-
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Washington, Dec. 19. Through his
confidential agency General Carranza
served notice Wednesday on officials
in New York and elsewhere who are
responsible for the operations r of the
Mexican railways that they and their
agents and employes will be held
to a strict accountability for their acta
In Mexico. ; ,
Mormon Is Slain by Bandits.
Juarez, Mex., Dec. 20. William Se
.vey, a Mormon resident of one of, the
mountain colonies in Chihuahua, was
executed Wednesday by members of
Maximo Castillo's band, because he
did not pay them $200. -:
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New Hyde Trial January 3.
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 20. Dr. B.
C.iHyde will be tried ti fourth time for
the murder of Colonel Swope. Assur
ances were, given by the court that ex
penses would b paM. The case is
s-et for January 3.
TAKE A RIDE
AVIATORS. ROUT MOORS
fOPEN WAY FOR SPANISH INFAN
TRY WITH RAIN OF BOMBS.
Both - Sides Lose Heavily American
Experts Say Battle Proves
Aeroplane's Value.
Madrid, Dec. 20. Moorish tribes
men were routed with heavy loss by
the Spanish troops at Muley Abselam,
Spanish Morocco, Thursday.
Spanish military aviators threw the
Moors into disorder with showers of
bombs. '
The Spaniards attacked the Moors
with a brigade of sharpshooters, a bat
talion of infantry; four batteries of ar
tillery and a large body of native aux
iliaries. When the order for the gen
eral advance of the Spanish column
was given the advance guard discov
ered several thousand Moorish moun
taineers concealed in the Irregularities
of the ground. A flotilla of military
aviators sent to reconnciter, by means
of flag signals guided the column of
Spanish troops. A heavy artillery fire
was opened by the Spaniards without
effect. '
The aviators then ascended to an
altitude cut of range of rifle fire and
flew directly over the places where the
Moors were in the greatest numbers.
Then came what the dispatches to the
Spanish war office describes as a "ver
itable rain of bomb3, tossed by hand
by the aviators into the midst of the
Moors."
After this bombardment the Spanish
infantry charged with the bayonet and
dislodged the Moors from their posi
tions, causing them to flee in great dis
order, leaving large numbers of dead
and wounded on the field. . .
DEATH CALLS NOTED PRELATE
Cardinal Rampolla, Who Possessed
Large Wealth, and Gave With Lib
erality, Expires.
Rome, Dec, 18. Cardinal Rampolla,
formerly papal secretary of state and
at the death of Pope Leo XIII. the
man most widely discussed as possible
successor, died here on Tuesday. The
cardinal .was an Italian nobleman, be
ing In addition to his position as a
prince of the Roman Catholic church.
Marquis del Tindaro. The cardinal
was active as papal secretary of state
in the negotiations by which Leo XIII.
nought to prevent war between- the
United States and . Spain over Cuba
by urging Spain to recall General
Weyler and grant autonomy to , the
Cubans. The cardinal's attitude ' was
one of friendliness toward the United
States. 1
THIRTY-EIGHT MINERS PERISH
Black Damp Causes Disaster in Colo-
. ; rado Coal Mine Only Two
' Found Alive.
New Castle, Colo. Dec. 18. An ex
plosion of .black damp In the Vulcan
mine of the Rocky Mountain Fuel com
pany,' one and one-naif miles east of
here,' entombed L.;L. Craw ford, mine
foreman; L. Walker, fire boss, and 38
miners on Tuesday. :
Of the 40 men composing the day
snut at work only two, W. J. Finley
ana jonn Dawson, escaped.
P. O. Robbed of $300.
Milton, ind., Dec. 20. The drug
store owned by Postmaster Inglis and
the Milton postoffice were robbpd dni-.
ing the night of $600 in cash and $200
t . rr1 At, . .
in ui.a.iuiJ8. mts mieves ieit no clew
for the local -police to work on.
Reserve Decision In Gunmen's Case.
Albany, N. Y., Dec. 20. Arguments
in the appeal for a new trial of ' the
four gunmen convicted of complicity
In the murder of Herman Rosenthal
were concluded in the court of ap
peals. Decision was reserved.
GURREflCBiLLWlHS,9EATil .SEHTENGE: 0:.j
SENATE PASSES' CURRENCY
.MEASURE BY VOTE OF S
V ' 54 TO 34. ...
6 j REPUBLICANS FAVOR ACT
Contains Provision That Banks Muiit
; - Accept Within Sixty Days of ( lti
Passage Reserve Districts Eight
to Twelve Now Goes to House.
Washington, Dec. 20. The new cur
rency bill was passed by the senate
on Friday by a vote of 54 to 34. It
was backed by the' solid Democratic
vote and six Republicans.
The essential features of the cur
rency bill as It passed the senate are
as follows:
Secretary of the treasury and two
members of.the federal reserve board
constitute the organization committee.
The committee is to designate not
less than eight nor more than 12 re
serve districts, in each of which a fed
eral reserve bank is to be established.
' Every national bank is required and
every eligible bank ' In the United
States and every trust company in the
District of Columbia is authorized to
signify in writing within sixty days
after the passage of the act Its ac
ceptance of its terms. . . 1
National banks are required and oth
ers are permitted to subscribe to the
capital stock of the reserve banks in
a sum equal to six per cent, of the
capital and surplus of such banks, one
sixth to be payable' on call, one-sixth
within three months and one-sixth
within six months, the remainder sub
ject to call.
Any national bank failing to signify
its intention to accept the terms of
this act shall cease to act as a reserve
agent upon 30 days notice.
Any national bank failing within
one year to comply with any of the
provisions of the act will forfeit its
charter and privileges under the na
tional bank act.
If the stock subscription by the
banks is 'not sufficient .In the judg
ment of " the federal reserve board
to provide proper capital the stock
may be offered to the public, the max
imum subscription being $10,000.
Minimum capital of reserve banks
is fixed at $3,000,000.
Each reserve bank must establish
reserve branches within its federal re
serve district at such places as are ap
proved by the federal reserve
board.
There shall be nine directors hold
ing' 'office for three 'years, divided
into three classes, three to be chosen
by the banks and the representatives
of the stock-holding banks, three
chosen by the banks who at the time
of their election shall be actively en
gaged in their district in commerce,
agriculture or some other industrial
pursuit, and three designated by the
federal reserve board. One1 of the last
named class is to be designated by the
federai board as chairman of the board
of directors of the reserve bank. No
director of the last two naiped classes
can be a director, officer, employe or
stockholder of any bank.
After all expenses have been met,
stockholders in reserve banks will re
ceive a six per cent.-division, which
shall be cumulative. One-half the net
earnings above the expenses and divi
dend is to be. paid into a surplus fund
until that fund amounts to 40 per cent,
of the paid in capital. ;.
Of the remaining half of the excess
half 50 per cent, shall be paid to the
United States as a franchise tax and
one-half to the United States as trus
tee for the benefit of depositors In
failed member banks. .'
The federal reserve board shall con-
rsist of seven: members, including the
secretary of the treasury as an ex-of-flcio
. member and six ' members ap
pointed by the president, to be 'con
firmed by the senate. They are to be
selected with due regard to a fair rep
resentation, of the different geographi-.
cal divisions of the country." Their
salary is fixed at $12,000 a year and
the terms are six years. .
Among the powers vested in the fed
eral reserve board are: "
- To require reserve banks to discount
the discounted paper of other federal
reserve banks at rates of interest to
be fixed each week or oftener; to sus
pend for a period not exceeding thirty
days and from time to time renew
suspension for persons not exceeding
fifteen days, any reserve requirement
specified in the act; to authorize
members to use reserves, federal re
serve notes based on United States
bonds to the extent that the board
may find necessary; to grant to na
tional banks applying . therefor the
right to act as trustee, executor.' ad
ministrator or registrar of stocks
and !ond3. !
Cardinal Martine!!! Is III.
Rome, Italy, Dec. 22. Cardinal Se
bastian Martinelli, who was papal dele
gate in the United States -from 1836
to 1902, is seriously ill. The cardinal,
who is sixty-five years old, is prefect
of the sacred congregation of rites.
Judge Frees Accused Wife.
Chicago, Dec. 22. The case of Mrs.
Alice Davis Elng, c harged with th
murder of her Chinese husband,
Charles Sing, was taken from the jury
on motion of the defense, and Mrs.
Sing was discharged.
Jack Johnson Is Hissed. . v
Paris, Dec. 22. Jack Johnson, negro
pugilist, outpointed Jim Johnson, a
second rater, in a ten-round bout. The
contest was farcical and the spec
tators, showed their disapproval by
hooting and hiBBlng. s
OF REBELS FOUND LOOTING FOR.
EIGNERS' PROPERTY VILLA
BOWS TO WILL OF AMERICA.
Band Is Put Td Death for Violating
Order Confiscation of Goods of
, : Spiniards Stops.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Chihuahua, Mexico. Gen. Francisco
Villa has bowed to the will of the Uni
ted States. The rebel general issued
the following statement:
"Any one who hereafter loots or mo
lests property of foreigners, or Mex
icans will be executed. The right to
confiscate prope-ty will rest only with
the constitutionalist government."
As an example of showing his inten
tion to maintain strict military disci
pline. Villa executed cn the Plaza a
band of rebels who had been found
guilty by court-martial of sacking the
home' of a .wealthy Mexican. While
the six rebels were inarched before
the firing squad the stolen goods were
returned to the owner. This -action
resulted from the protest of the Uni
ted States against the seizure of Span
ish property. Already great quanti
ties of the goods "valued, at several
million dollars had been: utilized by
the rebels. The remainder of the
property is to be held pending an in
vestigation whether the officers aldqd
the Huerta government.
SEVERAL HUNDRED KILLED.
Sydney, New' South' Wales. Eight ,
hundred natives of the Island of Am
brim, in the New Hebrides group, re
cently were killed by volcan erup
tions. Passengers on incoming steam
ers bring terrible details of the erup
tions, describing them as-having been
so sudden and violent that they ex
pected to see the entire western side
of the island disappear. With a ter
rific roar, which was folowed with a
rapid succession cf artillery-like de
tonations, all of the craters of the vol
cano entered into full activity, spout
ing flames and lava and throwing out
bowlders.
MAKING ARMS FOR HUERTA.
Tokyo. The arsenal " at Tokyo is
manufacturing a quantity of arms or
dered by the Mexican government,
which it is expected will be shipped
at an early date. Japanese officials
explain that this is merely a matter of
business and is not Indicative of any
unfriendliness to the United States.
PROTEST AGAINST DELAY,
New York. The passengers of the
liner Amerika, which arrived at quar
antine, held a mass meeting in the
ship's stroking room, at. which a res
olution protesting against the 12-hour
delay la docking the vessel was
adopted and . later forwarded to the
Hamburg-American line. . , '
CINCINNATI MARKETS
Corn Old corn is quoted as fol
lows: No. 2 white 771i'771ic, No. 2
yellow 762 77c, No. 2 mixed 742
75c. New corn is quoted as follows:
Nd. 3 white 6768c, No. 4 white 65(g)
66c, No. 3 yellow 6667V2C, No. 4
yellow" 63 64c, No. 3 mixed 66-''
67c, No. 4 mixed 6364c, yeilow
ear 6668c, mixed ear 6366c, white
ear 6365c. -
Hay No. 1 timothy $19, standard
timothy $18, No. 2 timothy $17, No. 3
timothy $15. No. 1 clover mixed S15.75
I 16, No. 2 clover mixed $13.7514,
$12l2.5:).. '
Oats No. 2 white 44 V 4 5c, stand
ard 4444i.2C, No. 3 white 43244c,
No. 4 white 4143c, No. 2 mixed 41
42c, No. 3 mixed 4J.4iyac, No. 4
mixed 40 41c.
Poultry Hens 12c, roosters 9c,
springers 1415c, spring ducks, white,
4 lbs and -over, 14c; ducks, under 4
lbs, 12c; turkeys, toms, old, 10 lbs and
over, 18; young turkeys, toms, eld, 10
lbs and over, 18c; young turueys, 10
lbs and over, 18c.
Eggs Extras 38c, firsts 34c, seconds
29c, -fancy 2425c. .
. Cattle Shippers- $6.50 7.6b; extra
$7.75 8; butcher steers, extra $7.50
7.65, good to choice $6.507.25, com
mon to fair $4.756; heifers, extra
$7.2507.50, good to choice $6.507.25,i
common to fair $4.756.25; cows, ex
tra $66.25, good to choic $5.50
6, common to fair $3.25 5.25: canners
$34..- . -
Bulls Bologna 5.75 6.25. extra
$6.356.50, fat bulls $66.50.
Calves Extra $10.50, fair to good
$810.25, common and larg $510.
' Hogs-Selected heavy $7.70, good to
choice packers and butchers $7.65
7.70, mixed packers $7.607X5, stags
$4 6.75, common to choice heavy fat
sows $4.257.25, light shipper $7.50
7.70, pigs (110 lbs and less) $67.50.
Sheep Extra $4.25, good to choice
$3.854.15, common to fair $2.503.75
, Lambs: Extra $7.50, good to choice
$6.757. 40, common to fair $5.50
6.65.
CANNIBALS DEVOUR ,16 PERSONS.
Brisbane, Australia, Cannibals in
Neumscklenburg, an Island in the Bis
marck archipelago, captured and mas
sacred Dr. Deiniger and another Ger
man scientists, together with 14 natives
who accompanied theiai. The camp of
the scientists was attacked and the 16
men captured. All were marched to
the village occupied by the cannibals--and
were murdered or. a by one. Be- .
fore the slaughter the prisoners 'were
tortured, and fires were built usder
huge pots, allowing the pmonem to
see. what was. in store for th?m.
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