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THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1914. FOURTEEN PAGES.
PRICE TWO CENTS.
HOUSE WILL LISTEN TO HUERTA'S WEW PROPOSAL THROUGH 1
m
ENVOY READY
AT VERA CRUZ
TO TALK PLAN
Impending Torreon Battle
Bslieved Forcing a
Climax in Mexico.
SITUATION TO CHANGE
Compromise Candidate Accept
able to Washington May Be
Result of Rebel Defeat.
Little nk. Ark.. March 19. Four
companies i the Ninth infantry de
parted for Laredo, Texaa.
Cincinnati. Ohio. March 19. Two
battalions of the Ninth infantry are
leaving here today for Laredo.
Atlanta. Go.. March 19. The
Seventh infantry left for Eagle Pass.
Texas, to join the border patrol.
Washington, D. C. March 19. While
CO o.licial word has come to the White
house of the reported purpose of
Huerta to r"op-n parleys by sending
bis minUter of foreign affairis to Vera
Cruz to confer with John Lind, ad
ministration officials indicated a will
ingness to listen to any new proposals
for a peaceful settlement. They seem
ed to attach much Importance to the
impending battle at Ton-ton. which id
expcted to mark a critical turn In the
tvenfrth and prestige of the contend
ing forces.
Washington has been firmly opposed
not only to recognition of Huerta, but
of aay successor of his choosing, and
tie rebels have announced an unwil
lxrness to compromise with Huerta.
Should the constitutionalists be de
feated at Torreon. it la possible the
vfcole situation would be changed, and
a cfftapromlse'of Candidates accept
able to Washington be agreed upon.
Expect Simultaneous Attacks.
Juarez, Mexico. March 19. Simul
taneous attacks on Torreon and Mazat
lu mere predicted today in advices
received here. It was taid that while
Villa's rebel army was moving against
Torreon forces under General Obregon
numbering 12,000 would assault the
Pacific coast port. This is said to be
part of a general plan for an aggres
lire movement against all federal
forces in northern Mexico. The fall
of Hawaiian would mean virtual con
trol of the west coast district, while
Torreon Is the railroad center of cen
tral Mexico and its capture would
threaten the capital of the country
Censorship of news from the In
terior below this Doint remained firm
todiv. Indirect information indicated '
no fgh'ing of consequence the last !
few days.
Huerta Executes Mutineers. j
Slxko City, March 19. In squads of j
a dozen men each. 119 mutineers were
taken from the federal barracks at j
Jojutla yesterday, lined tip against a
tone wall, and thot.
It required U-ss than half an hour
for the slaughter of the men who re-
belied at tTviie in the army of Gen
eral Jl'if rta. The members f the fir
lag t'luni worked rapidly and pumped
bullets into their former comrades as
flit as they were lined up.
Eodiej were p-kd hich along the
all hen the last mutineers were
brought out, and those going to their
dath stumbled over the forms of those
ho had faced the rifles of the execu
tioners onlv a few minutes before,
'With the last mutineer shot the bodies
re thrown Into one trench.
Hoerta ha ordered the strictest dis
cipline enforced in all garrisons. A
iton wall and a firing squad await
the leaders of any rebellious outbreak.
Approve Wholesale Execution.
The newspapers of the capital this
afternoon '.rioted prominently a state-
awiit from the war department, an
tounchm in terms of high approval the
'xecution of the 149 mutineers.
It was perfectly evident from tlx
ton of the statement that the action
f Huerta' a officers in carrying out the
bole ile execution was pleasing to
tns administration and was looked
upon as serving notice that Huerta has
fc'-ertniried to rule his conscripted
T with an troa hand.
The newspapers announce that more
lea were executed at Jojutla than at
"f single time "sines- General Beott
Bged 78 deserters In the suburbs o
capital in 1S47."
To Honor Bryan.
coln. Neb.. March 1 Democrats)
national and state prominence will
"et here tonight at a banquet In
3ai the 64th birthday anniversary
f Seerfry Bryan. Bryan will not
ttnd.
'athington, D. C. March 11 Sec
rwry Bryan celebrated his C4th birth
today by receiving congratulations
d.
FAVORED AGAIN AS
R. N. A. RECORDER
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The state convention at Bloomlngton
yesterday again honored Dr. Burk
hardt by recommending her reelection
to the supreme camp which will meet
In Rock Island In May.
UNCOVERING NEW
LOBBY IN CAPITAL
Senate Committee to Investi
gate Alleged Attempt to De
feat he Hughes Bill.
Washington. D. C. March 19. The
senate lobby committee will investi
gate charges that an organizezd lobby
is working to defeat the Hughes bill
to regulate shipments of convict
labor.
The Burnett immigration bill con
taining a literacy test was favorably
reported to the senate today.
The committee which investigated
the Colorado and Michigan strike
troubles will meet tomorrow and will
take up the iMfi'lm rX-Hrm'Sn,n9-the
connection of Rockefeller with the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company. Plans
of investigating the books of that
company and the Calumet Hecla Cop
per company will also be considered.
WOE CRIERS ARE
HIT BY VOLLMER
Davenport Congressman. in
Maiden Speech, Pictures
Agricultural Prosperity.
Washington. D. C, March 19. In his
maiden speech in the house today
Henry Vollmer, democrat, of Daven-
port Iowa, arraigned the ."woeful
Jeremiahs of calamity" and pictured
the aericulturai prosperity or me
country.
"I shall ask you." he said, "to let go
of the pipe, come out of the land of
dismal dreams and back to the serious,
sober facts."
LIVING AFTER 37
HOURS ENTOMBED
Searchers in St. Louis Seed
Company Building Wreck
Find Thomas Burke.
St. Louis, Mo., March 19. Thirty
seven and one-half hours after he was
Burke was t!7en from te. ruin, ofh.'
St. Louis Seed company building alive
this morning. Burke was In a weak
ened condition, and was taken to a
hospital.
The seed building was demolished
when a portion of the seven -story wall
of the burned Missouri Athletlo club
toDoled on It Tuesday. Six dead were
recovered from the Seed building
ruins. Thirty llres were lost in the
Missouri club fire.
Burke died later.
Cedar Rapids Editor Diss.
Cedar Raptda. Iowa, March 19.
William O. Young, managing editor
of the Cedar Rapids Gastt, is dead.
2 MINERS DEAD IN
DUST EXPLOSION
Buxton, Iowa, March 19. Two men
were killed and much property dam
aged by a dust expiation la nine No,
12. near here.
The explosion occurred during the
ehot firing period and was followed
by eave-ln. Nineteen mules war kill-
FAVOR STATE
PRIMARY FOR
INDIANAVOTE
Convention of Democrats
Renominate Shively to
Make Senate Race.
PRESIDENT IS LAUDED
Governor Ralston Pays High
Tribute to Wilson's Policy
in Mexico Trouble.
Indianapolis, Ind., March 19. Can
didates for every office except gover
nor will be named by the democratic
state convention today. United States
Senator Shively will have no opposi
tion for renomination, according to
party leaders.
After an all-night session the resolU'
tions committee adopted a platform
including a plank favoring a state
wide primary law. The vote on this
plank was seven to six. Chairman
Bell of the committee said only one or
the 13 members favored the primary
plank, but that it was adopted so as
not to reflect on the policies of Presi
dent Wilson. The primary plank
adopted by the committee declares for
state-wide primary nomination of all
officers, but saves the state conven
tion for "counsel, organization and
declaration of principles."
The platfornt as adopted by the con
vention pays a high tribute to the na
tional administration and favors a
state-wide primary.
Should Be Proud of Record.
"The democratic party can well af
ford gubrntt-its record for the
year,' declared Governor Samuel M.
Ralston of Indiana, in his address here
today to the democratic state conven
tion. Governor Ralston reviewed po
litical events of the past 12 months in
the country at large and In his own
state and asserted that the party in
power had redeemed its pledges and
had the country solidly behind it in
its program for the future.
"The record made by President Wil
son in the past year surpasses the
achievements of any of his predeces
sors in so short a time," said the gov
ernor. "It is not surprising that by the
foreign press he is recognized as an
international schoolmaster, by pre
cept and example Instructing the
world in commercial fairness and In
the science of government that em
braces all mankind. A grateful peo
ple -should not fail to pay tribute to
those who have stood by the presi
dent. All of the popularity of the pres
ent national administration is due to
the stand it has taken for the things
that have been advocated for years
under the leadership of that master
ful man, William Jennings Bryan.
After reviewing the administrations
work on the tariff and currency laws
and stating that the president is now
in a position to press his anti-trust
legislation. Governor Ralston declared
his emphatic support of the president's
Mexican policy.
Handled With Wisdom.
President Wilson lias handled with
great wisdom and dignity the critical
Mexican situation." he said. "He
loves peace and he loves humanity.
Only as a last and most desperate re
sort would he consent to the clashing
of arms between this country and Mex
ico. He Is ambitious for the restor-
tIon f orter without the sacrifice of
the life of a single American bov.
Christian people without regard to
party endorse his course and pray that
it may result In a victory for law and
Justice. In Wilson we have a man of
rugged, honest and practical wisdom
whose exalted character is an exempli
fication of that 'righteousness that ex-
alteth a nation.' "
6hlvely Points to Reforms.
Senator B. P. Shively, after being
renominated by the demoncratle state
convention - here today, thanked the
delegates for the honor and then en
tered upon a dUcusslon of the work
of the national administration, paying
high tribute to President Wilson. The
senator declared that the democratic
rule has brought about a real revision
of the tariff downward, had divorced
the country's currency system and
speculators, had solved the trust ques
tion and that President Wilson had
met perplexing International problems
with a firmness and tact that has
been unexcelled In the history of the
country.
Berlin Prospects are slight that an
agreement will be reached by the Brit
ish and continental shipping com
panies ever the question of the allot
ment of trans-Atlantic traffio.
SHERIFF HOOTED
BY JOBLESS MEN
Kelley Followers Wave Con
tract for Acre of Land in
Face of County Official.
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Sacramento, CaL, Marci 19. One
hundred and fifty jobless 'jnen the
remnant of "General" Kelley's army of
the unemployed laughed at Sheriff
Ahern of Sacramento county last even
ing.
When the sheriff received word that
the scattered Kelleyltes were reassem
bling on a ranch four miles north of
this city, he hurried a force of deputies
to the scene. They were halted at the
boundary of the camp by a man with
a legal paper which proved to be
contract for the purchase of one acre
of land, for which $70 had been given
as a first payment There was nothing
for Sheriff Ahern to do but retire while
the unemployed hooted and jeered.
City and county officials of Sacra
mento were In a quandary today.
Leaders of the unemployed boasted
that they -would provide quarters for
a thousand men on the acre of ground
and defied the authorities to prevent
the reassembling of the army. The ar
rival at the camp of provisions by the
wagon load from Sacramento Indicated
that they had received abundant finan
cial backing to tide them over for
some time.
POWDER PLANT BLAST
ROCKS ILLINOIS TOWNS
St. Louis, Mo., March 19. An ex
plosion at the Equitable Powder com
pany's plant In Alton, 111., near here
last night shook territory in imnois
within a distance of 100 miles. The ef
fect of the explosion, however, did
not cross the Mississippi river into
Missouri.
Henry Miller, night watchman at
the plant and the only man known
to have been within a mile of the ex
plosion, is believed to have been kill
ed, as no trace of him could be round
after the accident. Soon after the ex
plosion reports of earthquake shocks
began coming in from Decatur. As
sumption, Orleana, Centralis. Mount
Vernon and Vandalia, 111.
In most of these places two shocks
were felt At Centralla, more than
50 miles from the scene of the ex
plosion, doors and windows rattled
for five seconds and in some cases
were broken. The shock was not felt
in St Louis.
Big Four Wreck.
Marion, Ind.. March 19. A Big Four
passenger train was wrecked near
here. Though railroad officials report
none Injured, phsicians weer sum
moned from here.
ROME PROFESSOR
BURNED TO DEATH
Naples, Italy. March 19. rrofessor
Gtusseppe Mercalll. director of the
observstory on Mount Vesuvius, was
burned to death in his bed room. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
IT'S TIME TO GET BUSY
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THE WEATHER )
Forecast Till 7 p, m. Tomorrow, for
Rock Island, Davenport, Molina
and Vicinity.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday,
not much change in temperature with
the lowest tonight about 15 to 20 de
grees; moderate northerly winds, be
coming variable.
Temperature at 7 a. m. 23. Highest
Yesterday 34. Lowest last night 23.
"Velocity of wind at 7 a. m., 12 miles
per hour.
Precipitation none.
Relative humidity at 7 p. m. 45, at
7 a. m. 87.
Stage of water 3.4. no change in last
24 hours.
J. M. SHERIER. Local Forecaster.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Evening stars: Mars. Venus, Saturn
Morning stars: Jupiter. Mercury
Bright star on the horizon due wesi
about 8 p. m. Is Mlra. constellation
Cetus, remarkable for its variableness
DOG BARKS SAVE
MANY FROM FIRE
Guests in Milwaukee Hotel Es
cape in Night Attire Prop
erty Loss $200,000.
Milwaukee, Wis., March 19. Two
score guests of the Windsor hotel fled
panic-stricken in night attire early
today when fire broke out in the West
ern Newspaper Union, located in the
south portion of the four-story struc
ture and damaged adjoining proper
ties. The loss is estimated at $200,000.
The Evening Wisconsin adjoining
the hotel, was considerably damaged
by smoke and water. The press rooms
were under several feet of water.
Barking of a small dog and a shout
of "Fire!" emanating from a guest
awakened by a cracking window pane
attracted a policeman- and the pro
prietor, who together ran to the fourth
floor, beating doors and smashing
them where there was no response.
"Hell could be no worse than that
place," said Patrolman Wilke after
emerging from his mission. "I pound
ed on a few doors and smashed in one
as a sheet of flame jumped in my face.
Mattresses and beds were burning. I
tried another and met the same thing.
The guests evidently had been awak
ened and managed to get out I don't
believe there was anybody on the
fourth floor."
All guests escaped uninjured.
The Evening Wisconsin's editorial
department was put out of commis
sion and the paper was issued from the
plant Of one of the morning dailies. .
Granite, Okla., March 19. Fire be
lieved kindled by prisoners destroyed
temporary buildings in which 500 in
mates of the Oklahoma reformatory
were housed. No lives were lost and
none escaped.
Hearing Anti-Trust Suit
Chicago, ni., March 19. Hearing of
government anti-trust suit against the
Quaker Oats company, and the Great
Western Cereal company was begun
today.
MAKERS OF OLEO
ARE HELD GUILTY
Had Sold Customers Coloring
and Instructed Them How
--' to 'Use-Ifl
Chicago, 111., March 19. John F.
Jelke, president of the John F. Jelke
company and eight officials and for
mer employes of the company were
fund llty Ia fal court last
night of conspiracy to defraud the gov
ernment by avoiding the tax in selling
oleomargarine. H. P. McFarland, a
clerk, was found not guilty.
Officials of the company found
guilty are William M. Steele, general
manager: Francis M. Lowry, secre
tary and Hugh D. Cameron, Milwau
kee representative. The others were
salesmen and general foremen. Two
other defendants were discharged just
before the end of the trial, no com
pllcity having been shown.
The indictments charged that the
defendants evaded the government tax
by selling white oleomargarine and
giving the retailers coloring matter
and instructing them how to use it
More than eighty witnesses, many
of them retailers, who had been
granted immunity, testified for the
government
The defendants attacked the law In
thlr arguments and declared the gov
ernment had gone 40 years without at
tempting to enforce it
JONES BACKS UP
ON TOLLS CHARGE
Excited Senator Does the Grand
Crawl After a Visit to
the White House.
Washington, D. C, March 19. Sena
tor Jones called on President Wilson
today to discuss the fisheries bill and
was told he was "skating on thin Ice,'
in his speech of yesterday, in which
he intimated the president had not de
cided to read his message to congress
on Panama tolls until after Lionel Car
den, British minister to Mexico, had
visited the White house. Joues re
turned to the capltol and gave the
senate the president's unqualified de
nial.
"I think I misunderstood in that 1
did not draw the conclusions myself,
but took them from the newspapers. It
is only fair to the president that I
make this statement as I don't want
to misrepresent anybody."
MRS. WILSON IS
NEAR RECOVERED
Washington, March 19. Mrs. Wood
row Wilson is on the road to complete
recovery from the effects of a fall on
a rug on the White house floor. She
underwent a slight operation to correct
the effects of the bruise which was
said to be entirely local, j
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iniiTn nniviniT
HU I U DHIvul I
ROBS A HOTEL
ANDESGAPES
Man Who Shoots Briggs
House Assistant Mana
ger Works in Detroit.
BUT HAUL ISONLY $350
After Jcb He Commands Chauf
feur at Point of Gun to Drive
Him to Suburbs.
Detroit, Mich., March 19. An arm
ed robber held up Night Clerk Burns
in the office of the Hotel Metropole,
nearly opposite the city, compelled
the clerk to hand over $350 cash,
leaped into a waiting automobile,
pressed a revolver to the head of the
driver and ordered him to speed to
the suburbs three miles where he
left the machine. He told the driver:
"I just missed a 500 job in Chicago".
This will make up for it"
Chauffeur Smith said he picked a
passenger up at the Hotel Cadillac,
where the man registered and told
him to drive to the Metropole.
Chicago, 111., March 19. The robber
who held up Night Clerk Burns at De
troit hotel may be the same who early
Wednesday shot and wounded the as
sistant manager of the Briggs house
and escaped with $150, missing $5,000
that a clerk was. about to hand him.
Tonica, HI., March 19. Burglars en
tered Tonica State bank early today;
broke the safe and escaped with $3,800
in currency.
$14,000 Express Robbery.
Beaumont - Texw- March- M.--After
bundling the messenger "Reb" Martin,
into a gunny sack, a masked man yes
terday robbed the express car attached
to a northbound Gulf. Colorado &
Santa Fe passenger train of currency
estimated to aggregate about $14,000,
and escaped from the train at the vil
lage of Helbig, 12 miles north of Beau
mont Posses which went to Helbig from
this city in automobiles have not
found a trace of the bandit who Is be
lieved to be hiding In the dense forest
about the village.
G. A. Taft, general superintendent
of the Wells Fargo Expiess company,
estimated the amount stolen at $14,000.
The money was part of a shipment
made by a Houston lumber concern to
be used in paying employes of camps
along the road.
Secreted In Car.
The train was bound from Houston
to Center, Texas, and it is believed the
robber secreted himself in the express
car before the train left Houston early
yesterday. Martin said the man, who
apparently was middle aged, leaped
from behind a pile of baggage shortly
after the' train left Beaumont demand
ed the messenger's keys and when
Martin refused bound and thrust blm
into the sack.
The region through which the
train was passing at the time of the
robbery is heavily wooded and sparse
ly settled. When Martin failed to ap
pear at the door at Silsbee, several
miles north of Helbig, the train crew
forced the express car door which had
been locked, by the robber.
BOAT WITH CREW
LOST IN A WRECK
Bremen, Germany, March 19. An
unidentified three-masted schooner
was sunk and the crew drowned in a
collision last night in the North sea
with the liner Kaiser Wllhelm dec
Grosse, bound for America. The
steamer remained in the vicinity two
hours, but could sot discover the
schooner's crew.
STORM SALUTES
POPE'S NAME DAY
Rome, Italy, May 19. "This la a
salute for my name day," exclaimed
Pope Pius when he was awakened
early today by a terrific storm ac
companied by lightning and thunder.
His Holiness shortly afterward cele
brated mass in the presence of sever
al specially invited guests. Including
his sisters and niece. All the corps
of guards celebrated the occasion la
some way. Hundreds of telegrams
and addresses of congratulations were
leeeived at the Vatican from all parts
of the world. Many came from the
United State. The pope himself OJo.
tated tit repUea, :,.
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