Mexico City,
Portillo ¥y Rojas, announced tonigh
be unconditionally saluted, because
it was not flying from the launch
free even before an investigation
arrests was himself arrested and he
ernment would agree that both fla
first. and then the Mexican flag, ti
protocol signed by the
nessy, and the Mexican Foreign Mi
The United States Government
fused permission to Charge O'Shaug
incompatible with her dignity.
In conclusion, the Foreign Mini
“Mexico has yielded as much a
trusts to the fair-mindedness and
people.”
tion to the crisis and followed thelr
t that it would be impossible to
that the flag of that country
insulted, because
sel '
the |
i
that flag was not
and because the marines were
responsible for
:1d for trial.
(yov i
flag {
gs be saluted, the American i
by a i
vis arrangement to be made
fiister,
_ Senor Portillo declared, had re
hnessy to sign such a protocol, and
Mexico felt was
ster sald
& her dignity will permit, Mexico
spirit of justice of the American
little atten
- usual Sunday pursuits
ditions Which P
Promptly
resident Wilson
Rejects.
Blockade and Seizure of
the First
Washington. — General Victorian:
Huerta, provisional President of
ica, flatly refused Sunday to accede to |
the unconditional of
United States that salute the!
American flag, and C be |
asked by President Wilson Monday for |
demands the |
he
will
CLHOETEeSS
authority to use armed force 10 uphold
nation
the honor and dignity the |
Negotiations with Huerta over the |
the arrest of American kets at |
Tampico on April 10 cam
Sunday at 6 o'clock, the last hour
given by President Wilson for a favor
able response from the Mexican dicta
tor. The
Charge O'S}
to
would
final word of
refusal
comply unless the United on
jarantee that his
returned
1 1
Wilson
to Wash
salute be
President
on his way
Sulphur Sprin
read a mes
EeR8iOon as earl
Monday
war fleet
coasts on th
to
reprisals
carry ou
Of War.
ached 068
No Formal Declaration
R18 hus re
not
woul formal
because
wal
does
Wilson
send
there
declaration of s [Tnited
States could not declare
War,
government which
ognize
authority,
armed forces
the
and allroad
Yera Cruz Mexico City
The Pi that a Cab
inet meeting be called for 10.30 o'clock
the final arrange
a pacific blockade of Mexi
can ports and other steps in the Presi
dent's p
Can No Longer Protect Foreigners.
President
however to
into Mexico to sei fi
Cruz
from
and Vera
trestle
ports of Tampico
i
the 1 leading
toward
eaident direc ted
tomorrow when
ments for
rogram will be deliberated
The break: that finally has come with
Mexico will make it impossible, it was
declared of high authority, for the
United States to further plotect for
in that republic, and foreign
governments have been notified of the
gituation in this regard
The President, it was declared, not
only would ask Congress for authority
to employ the armed forces to uphold
the honor of the nation, but also for an
appropriation, a deficiency already |
having been created because of the ex
pensive naval operations in anticipa-
tion of Huerta’s defiance of this gov-
ernment.
elgners
ther that the Senate pass the vol
unteer act, which already has passed
the House, providing for pressing into
regular service the militia regiments
in the various States.
Looks To Wilson To Clarify Situation.
Representative Baker, one
would “clarify the whole situation.”
ICE BLOCKS LAKE FLEET.
Be
island,
Salt Ste Marie, Mich,
McKee, Franz and Agawa arrived at
Detour before noon, upbound. They
awill make a try to get to the Soo. A
doot to 18 inches of jee lles around
Lime Island, but it is honeycombed.
trouble breaking around the Island
unless an East wind arises,
Mexican Ports Will Be
Action.
“It will show Mexico and the
enerally that the United States mear
business,” he added, “and will
good effect
VILLA'S VIEW OF IT.
Not Be War,
Mexico
co incident w
Forreon,
United
ymmented
the «¢
tween Pres
General
regard
ing be
Inve
territory
mntrol the
WERE MARRIED IN FINE STYLE,
Congressman Flood Weds Miss Anna
V. Portner
Washington,
brilliant
that wh
tative
D.C ne of the
weddings of the
most
week was
ich took place, when Represen
Henry D. Flood, of
married Miss Anna Valer Portner
took
VITE
ceremony
All
by a
American
by Mr
American
o'clock at
followed
at the Pan
was offered
of the Pan-
I'nion, who was an usher,
as a compliment to Mr. Flood, who is
of the Foreign
of the House Migs Port
ner was led to the altar by her brother,
Mr. Alvin ©. Portner, who gave her
place at
rch and
brilliant reception
Bureau, which
Jarrett,
Souls” Chu was
director
a member
Committes
FIRE SWEEPS WARSAW, IND.
Twenty-Three Homes Laid In Ashes.
Checked By Dynamite.
Warsaw, Ind-—Fire that started
shortly before noon destroyed 23 cot
Lake Winona, a summer re
near here. Fort Wayne was ap
on a special train. Dynamite
{but a high gale blowing off the lake
learried the fire across the
{gpace. The loss was $100,000,
:
Fresh American asparagus has just
Liverpool market. The native crop is
| not due for five to six weeks.
nse
—— i ————
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
lowa's annual poultry and egg out
i put is valued at $38,000,000.
| London's latest motor car show was
the greatest it has ever had.
China yearly sends $20,000 worth of
i
i
]
i
Three Chinese provinces have a
| total of 126,303,018 uncultivated acres.
Counsel Polk is Wounded.
Close To Mayor That His Face
Is Scorched-—Assailant,
Michacl Mahoney.
New York.—In attempting to
the life of John Purroy Mitchel
Michael P. Mahoney, an apparently ir
responsible elderly man, who later said
in
of geated
automobile,
into a group three men
the Mayor's which
at the east side of City Hall Park.
The bullet from his revolver entered
to the
automo
1.. Polk, who sitting next
Mayor in the tonneau of the
bile. and with blood spurting from his
mouth Mr. Polk was taken Into an
ante-chamber in the City Hall and af
terward to the sw York Hospital
where it was said that the wound
would not prove fatal
Mahoney shot the Mayor, he
ed in the course of a disjointed state
ment extracted he
felt agerieved at
"extravagant exp« nditures”
was
=
NE
declar
him, because
city
from
the utivie
be
turned
Xe
and
at being
f the Mayor's
two
cause he was incensed
back from the
room in the City Hall on
door ©
OCCA
glons when he came to apply for a
municipal job
Mahoney fire miy or hot at
Mayor
fi
and his
WILSON WEDDING MAY
Official White House Statement
This Date
3), §
report
repol
Washington
previous
HORSES ON GUARD OVER BODY
One Keeps Foot Up Many Hours So
Ag Not To Tread On Owner
of the
Oawego ~ Y An instance
8 horse
if Frank
4 in
War in
ht when
found
here
down
A blanket
that he had
Hannon was ace
a brook near was BO
wrapped about been
to gave
stood his
having ren
hours without being able
of his {feet to the ground
under the
unable
unable
Hann
his animals
on
Over
body was
were {10 Move
the tangled harness.
HOT aes
BANKER SAID HE WAS INSANE.
| Autopsy On His Brain Shows He Was
Right.
Chicago.~A tumor at the
the brain of Dr. Wiliam T
base of
Kirby
WITH THE DEAD
tionary Battle.
Only the Failure To Arrive Of the
Rebel Column Assigned To Attack
From the North Saved Huerta's
Force From Annihilation.
San Pedro, de
Coahulia
battlefield of
battle
which en
las
A survey of the
Jast week shows that
possession of this city
practically the full
federals, was the
of the revolution
The
day,
Colonias,
the
1!
{
fares 1}
gaged
$
rebels and bloodiest
battle was at iis
and Monday and on the
loss in wounded
In all
seriously
the rebel
alone was 650 men
last day
1.200 rebel
were wounded so ag 10 Ive
quire hospital treatment during the en
The
owing
battle
al
wounded
By
who
da
gagement rebel dead never
be known
ered by the
The feder
in killed,
persed
may
to the wide area cov
joss lenst 3.0500
WAR At
prisoners and dis
ed meant those
arated f
dispers
federals Were
i 4
comman ang fie
small detachment
lack of
dred
constitutionall
reguiar
tered into
sre
ne town
to General
sixty miles
n danger of be
od auceeed
them
Junction
for
marches
on the tenth at
miles
joining
few
Later of
eral Argumedo and Campe came up and
then nas
only a
the
Benavides
from hers troops Gen
the rebel garrison, here
the eleventh
Villa, with
on
5.000 rein
ar
attack
which culminated Monday in the flight
of the federals
That night
DIES FROM LION'S BITE.
was found by physicians
An Autopsy
his brain be examined to prove
| contention that he was insane. Physi
| clans who conducted the autopsy said
| the late physician-banker was
when he declared he was insane dur
ing the period that closed his career
| as a banker.
| 2,000 CHINESE BANDITS FALL.
“White Wolf” and Band Badly Beaten
By Troops.
Peking —“White Woll,” the notori
| ous brigand, lost 2,000 of his followers
in killed and wounded in a battle at
| Li Chuan-Hsien, according to the offi
| elal report. The crushing defeat of
| the brigands occurred after they had
captured and looted the town of San
Yuan -Hsien.
HARRY K. THAW GETS WRIT.
But Judge Aldrich Refuses Bail Pend
ing Appeal To Supreme Court,
Concord, N. H. -—- Harry Kendall
Thaw's petition for a write of habeus
corpus was granted by Judge Edgm
Aldrich, of the United States District
Court. The Court said, however, thal
no order would be issued for the
prisoner's discharge from custody until
arrargements had been completed
take the case to the United States Su
preme Court on appeal.
Dr. Kirby Wounded While Posing For
Moving Picture.
Angeles, Cal-—Bitten by a lion
| several days ago in poring for a mov:
{ng picture, Dr. William Warner Kirby,
los
to A
the circus world, died here.
$27,000 TO CONFIDENCE MAN.
Swindler.
to the police that he had been swindled
out of $12.000, admitted that in all the
swindler relieved him of $27,000. The
swindler made two trips to Buffalo,
securing $15,000 on the first trip.
a ————— A
“DYNAMITE” O'BRIEN ILL.
Gained Fame As Blockade Runner In
Cuban Revolution,
Newark, N. J~"Dynamite Johnny"
O'Brien, who gained fame as a fli
buster and blockade runner in Cuba's
revolutisns, is seriously ill at his home
here. O'Brien is 67 years old. For
the last 12 years he has served as chief
Government pilot of the Cuban Re
public, a position given him for his
gerviees to the Cuban people.
SIGNED BY 4000
For United States Senator at
First Senatorial Primary.
Other Candidates For Btate.wide Nomi.
Enter Their At
Harrisburg—Pick
nations Papers
Regiments
For Joint Army Meneuvers.
Correspondence.)
Mitch
ndidate
Harrisburg
ell Palmer, of
for Democratic
Btlateg Ser
primary
filed his
pers from
taining almost
on record
Congressman A
Stroudsburg, ca
for 1
Senatorial
yivania,
Pa
con
put
nomination nited
the first
held Per
petitions at the Capitol
ator at
to be ng
il
twenty-five counties
4.000 names, were
Seven other for Stats
wide nominations their
ae
entered papers
follows:
irt
Walling,
fre
Supreme Co
Emory A
bench; papers
Judge
Erie count)
Venango,
Potter, Blair, Mc
Bu and Crawford,
y thar
more nan
150
lawrence Mercs
Kean, Clin
each
dred named
Governor
i
tier
ton
containing one nun
being er
Jogsej
Mawr, Socialis
Lieutenant
Creasy, (ata '
glgners, 3 West Mid
dlerex, Republican
Congress-at
glgners
Robert 8, Bright,
King
COuUgh
hiladelnkis rat: Y’ &
RIIACeIDIIA Tra V. Lr
"kes
COnEress
Hew
Rothermel
ertown,
John
Reading
ingu
Sens
ber
#ixth
can, Tt
ferson
papers filed, ]
Republican House Petitions
Alexander
Catasauqua
Eby
latrobe and J. B
nt First AE. % asty
Wallace, Pitt
{also W
Price
Goodnough, Empo
H
Joseph |
Allegheny
burg, 1
Washington went
Weaver
Mt
New por
Pleas
eehiz
Heading
Seward
hocken
Brungard
moreland ;
First Aliegh
ville, Mifflin
Wilkes
8. Spangler
First York
Philadelphia; §
field, Tioga
Democrat Mouse Petitions
Frank Krause, Milton
nd W H
iutler,
ter, Washington
Reading, First
Bhamokin
man, Selinsgrove
Graplan, Clearfield
ent member Es
Thomas Brown
Hurre
Tank
A
mberi
Northun
Snyder
R
gion,
Knox
Glenn Brown, Evans (
ton R. Peters, Boiling )
berland; M Mclaughlin,
town, Mifflin: Nicola Gigliottd,
First Erfe;: Thomas F. Gallagher, Lost
Creek, First Schuylkill; Orrin C. Les
ter, Beaver Falls, and Edward J
Bchieliter, Freedom, Beaver, W. G
Stary, Temple, Second Berks; Charles
O'Donnell, Tamaqua, Third Schuylkill
Eugene Kinney, East sStYoudeburg
Monroe; G. H. Seamon, Honesdale,
Wayne W. P. O'Connor,
Northumberland; KE. J. Peters, Bush.
kill, Pike; A. I. Mulhern, Seventeenth
Philadelphia; 8. Gray Bigham, Gettys-
burg, Adams
Socialist
lehem ;
M
Marks Vanbuskirk,
William Liddle,
and L. S.
Fayette;
York
State Committee Petitions.
Democratic
DD. Zerby,
Mellinger;
John Tone,
Dawson, Second
Laurel,
Center;
Arthur McKean,
Juniata;
Elk; H
hoppen, Wyoming; J. C.
town, Mifflin.
Republican
Northampton ;
Falls, Beaver;
ville, Mifflin.
Deaver:
£ J.
E. Milton
Driscoll,
-H. GQ. Beip,
John A. Welt, Allen
Mrs. Emma Eckert, widow of Chas,
ert, former president of the Allen
town Fair, died at her country estate
at Eckert, Lehigh county.
Peter J. Kirk, sixty-five years old,
fireman at the Thomas colliery, Shen
andoah, was found dead of heart dis.
ease there.
Burglare cut a plate glass window
In the jewelry store of 1. Dropkin, at
Bhenandoah, and escaped with $700
worth of jewelry.
A. MITCHELL PALMER
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer,
of Stroudsburg, introduced the
House of Representatives a joint reso-
lution to amend the constitution to
provide for woman suffrage.
THE NEWS TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS
Latest Happenings Gleaned
From All Over the State.
in
LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Erect To
and a Half Galions
Bethlehem To Steel Tank
Hold a Mill
Of
ion
Water—Allentown and
Wins First Prize.
Counc
Manheim, to
plan {
of Roses h
% 111
which will
Thomas Weise, fifty-five vears oid,
was found dead in a shanty
Blatington. Death
dropey
on a farm
nea? was due to
A. Lincoln Watt has been appointed
as health and Dr
Howard Pursell of the
Board of Health
* wd
officer, of Bristol,
aw
secretary,
Re-
has
pay
The congregation of Bethany
formed Church st Bethlehem
raised in the last week $1350 to
on the church indebtedness.
The members of the Merchants’ As.
sociation of Bethlehem have decided to
close their stores during the summer
one-half day each week.
David Smoyer, of Lower Sancoa,
was struck by a train on the Reading
Railway in South Bethlehem, and his
Delegations from three lodges of the
Shepherds of Bethlehem, of Wilming-
ton, Del, were entertained at the head
quarters of Morning Star Lodge, at
The Presbytery of Chester has de-
of West Chester and its pastor, Rev.
D. J. Augustus Coxe, shall be dissolved
June 14.
The baccalaureate sermon to the
graduating class of the high school, at
West Lampeter was delivered in the
Retormed Church, by Rev. H. 8, Shel
ey.
Home cooking and home dressmak-
ing were discussed by the Current
Events Clase of the New Century Club
at West Chester.
Lehighton~An application has been
made to the Carbon County Court for
the incorporation of the Lehighton
Boys’ Band. !