U.S. CAVALRY
ROUTS VILLA BAND
Chief, Wounded and Crippled,
Escapes Before Battle.
AMERICANS’ LOSS 4 WOUNDED
Capture Believed Question Of Days.
General Elisco Hernandex
Among Dead Left
On Field.
MM Paso, Texas. — Four huandred
American cavalrymen under the com
pnand of Col. George A. Dodd, gallop
ng down from the granite slopes of
the great continental divide, have fall
en on the main body of |
Villa's bandits at the San Geronimo
ranch, scattering them in many direc
tions and driving the bandit chief,
wounded and crippled, to seek a hiding
place mountains
TROCISCO
Villa
burried from danger in a carriage
Tho fight opened at 6
morning of March 2f
for several hour: The news of
exploit was flashed into Juares
sent a thrill along e border
in the Wis
and
Taken By Surprise
For 17
with his
Seventh and
down the
river, A!
they fell upon
camp, where BO andi Were
brating the ‘ Carranz
soldiers tw
rero.
Villa, s!
ene hip shat
the scene
onslaugh
bandits n
stand bel
snd his
and fled
tocluding
Eliseo Herr
8 number of hor
and equipment fell
the Americans
Pablo
Among the
Lopes, Villa's lieutenant
bus raid The Americar
were four privates wounded
The American :
on the field of vietors Gu
they drove the enemy befor
of m
and canvon, wi
hours the veteran Colone
intend 4 Are bLkEE * the
picked 1 ‘ {
Ter
valley
thr
drove
Villa
cele
Lopez Wounded
ded
knowr
oldiers d
he wilderness
€esert
even trails
mrste]
rider
are unknowi
means death
They halted only
had them 10 mile
tives were sealtered
of half a
ied
dozer
Villa's Power Broken
Vilia's «
has been
ture i= only
fs the inevitable
Bere as litlle
*Dodd’s ride”
seems img
bandit
ta the mounfain wastes in v
has sought refuge
The scene of Dodd's
fa a broad valley lying at
the Santa Maria
rise the barren foothills
meatal divide and to the east i= a
il, made famouz by Villa,
leads through the Laguna de Cae
district to Santa Ysabel [It was
the latler place that Villa killed
American mining men--a erie which
sent a thrill of horror throughout the
United States and marked begin
ning of wha! many believe to be the
end of his blood-stained career. It was
tsward Banta Ysabel that he was be
Heved to be heading when the troop-
ers of the United States swept down
from the north upon his camp
Panic.Stricken By Attack
From the meagre detalls which have
renched here from Mexicans and
American military sources, Colonel
Dodd's men made thelr way unnoticed
through the Arroyos, or deep gulches,
which split the foothills in all direc
tions, and were almogt in the camp be-
fore the alarm was glvea,
Villa is reported to have boen in a
small tent nursing his Injuries when
the crash of the American volley fire
«woke the bandit to panicetricken
action.
The extraordinary hold the bandit
chief has on his followers is shown by
the fact that their first thought was to
save him. Unable to walk or ride, he
was placed in a light wagon and driven
evar the rough mountain trails to some
secret lair,
While 31 of the bandits are known
to have been killed, it is sald the num
Bor may have been considerably larger,
Nothing 1s yet known as Yo the num.
ber of wounded, although it is pre
sumably in preportion to the dead.
Three Murdered By Bandits
The last outrage credited to Villa oc.
curred at Minaca, a town about 10
miies southeast of Querrero on the
Mexico and Orient Railroad. Here the
Mexicans are reported to have mur
dored Herman Blankenburg, a mine
foreman, and two other foreigners. It
8 feared that the two unknown vie
tims were Americans. hour Americans
Acklin, Hemple, Locke and Dr, Stellar
are known to have bom f= or pear
Minaca recently,
eer has
broken
& qu
by
reac?
ible that
Can 10g remain
clone viodor
the head
On
of the «
river fhe wot
onti
snc!
iia
at
18
the
#
It in certain that Villa himself
took part in these murders, as it is
thought improbable that he could have
made his way from Minuca to the San
Geronimo ranch, 30 miles to the north
east, in the time elapsing between the
murder of the foreigners and the fight
on the ranch with Colonel! Dodd's
riders
no!
thine before the Minauca mas
Villa descended on Guerrero,
where he slaughtered all the Carranza
troops he could find
Prisoners Released
After the battle on the San Gero
nimo ranch the American soldiers re
leased a large number of General Car
ranza's whom the bandit chief
was holding It probable
was at the Cuerrero
Villa
SOme
saere
men
that it
that
1%
Massacre
was wounded
border is at fever
that at any
flash the new
ture
heat in expectation
nomen! the wires may
of Villa's dealh or eap
EXCEED SHERMAN'S MARCH,
Line Of
Mexico
Troops’ Communications
Longer Than Famous
Drive To Sea
plane to field he Wage arters,
! Meoxico
M.)
man
an in hie
exceeded
hed by
urd inte Mex
Dublan, Chihuahua
Mumbus, N
ications
Shern
heel
the
BOATS OF HICH
SPEED
Of
Crews
PEACE NOT EVEN MENTIONED
Talk With
Not
Chancellor About
hing In Particular
“An indefinite
particu
recent
Beth
Ger
London
Berlin, via
conve a about nothing it
there was to the
Chanesllor von
and Amba
isador declared
belween
sador
Amba
ard, ths It was
lor had broached the subjeet of peace
to the American Ambas.
gueslion of peace wna
“The
Gerard
PRISON FOR NEW YORK WOMAN.
Found Quilty In Switzeriand Of Being
German Agent
Berne, Switzerland Charlotte von
Kuehnan, an artist of New York, who
has been residing for some time in
fshment, on a charge of having en
gaged In seeret service work on behalf
of Germany, It ia said she was impli
caled in & plot with a Cerman agent
named Lattke and a girl named Cor
iin, both of whom received the same
sentences
MONGOLIANS NOT WHITE,
Honolulu Court Decides That Japanese
Art Not Eligible To Citizenship,
Honoluin. — American citizenship
was denied to Takao Ozawa, a Japan
ese, in a test case here. The court
ruled that Japanese are Mongolians
and that the word “white” does not in.
clude the Mongolian race.
NO REVISION OF ALLIANCE.
Japan Foreign Office Says Japan and
England Are Agreed.
Tokio. ~The Foreign Office declares
that rumers concerning a revision of
the Anglo-Japanese Alliance are base
less. Japan and Creat Britain have
reached an amicable undemstanding
congerning patrols In the Pasifie for
the inspection of abipe,
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d oflicials a8 ibe
wreck The towerman, il
bad been withou! sicep
¢
viime
raliros Causo
was
most of
pines Bonday nigh, b
ing #1 and requiring his
when he was not on duly
The wreck was one of those rarest
cai nities nod
involving three (rains
Whe ha dozen
under way are
blame will be fixed
block signal, set suddenly and with
arningt a traln speedi
wilh anothor
wife
tiant
raliroad one coll
two,
tracks
two the
along eastward,
doubt thal exists as
of the wrock.
the bottom of the
to the real cause
FOR ONE TERM OF SIX YEARS.
Representative Bailey, Friend Of
Bryan, Offers Resolution,
Representative Patley,
Pennsylvania, one of the «¢
of W. J. Hryan In the House,
wolulion to Increase the
Presidential term to pix yoauw, with a
one-term lHmit. In a slatement, Mr
Balley sald the Democratic party and
FProsident Wilson had been
eriticizad In connection with the sin
gletorm plank of the Baltimore plat
form, and pointed ont that Mr. Wilson
did not pledge himself to one term, but
meroly waa pledged by the convention
to the principle.
Washington,
of
{friends
WANTS WARSHIPS, NOT BEEDS.
Farmer Shows Feeling Of People On
Preparedness.
Washington.—Another indication of
how the country foels on the subject
of preparedness is seen in the reply of
an Ohio farmer to hia Representative
fn Congress naking whelher or not he
wanted any of the Government's free
vegetable and flower seods,
The farmer addressed a postal eard
on which was written In large, bold
letter:
“Cut out this graft-—we want battle
ahdpa, not soods,™
ENTENTE ALLIES
TUATION 15
| Talk Revived of Breaking off
{felations With Germany.
| AWAITING DEFINITE FACTS
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| Situation 1s Outiined—President May
Present AU Facts To Congress
and Say Time For Action
Has Come
Gernany he h
bie
will
f it shall proved
thes Channed
janie y : 5303
steamer shma WET
eirike floating
Na ‘iii a ay mis
wis made very pial
nd did »
Department, wi
of Su
ere
t Becretar
Artin
AClion
Unity of
U ENFORCE
wity of hey confirm
the measures taken (0 realize unity
! Scion on uni
“They understand by that, at the
me time, unity mil
sured by the Ent
eon Lhe
sotion, the
present oon
of
guaranteed
itary action,
be
unity of eco
concluded
goneval
foue WwEaAnigalon
which the ference
reguiated, and
aclion, which is
will to
diplomatic
by thelr
the strug:
unity
unshaken continue
To Starve Out Enemy.
“The Allied governments decided to
| put into practice in the economic
| domain their solidarity of views and
| interests They charge the economic
conference, which ig to be held short
'Iy at Paria,
{ priate measures for the
| this solidarity.
“With a view to strengthen,
dinate and unify the diplomatic action
{0 bo exereised to prevent the revie
tnallng of the enemy the conference
decided to establish Paris a
permanent committee, in which ail the
Allles will be represented.
“The confarence has decided: First,
{to continue Lhe organization, already
begun at london, of an international
central bureau of freights; second, to
| proceed in common, and with the
! briefest delay, to seek pracileal means
to apportion equitably between the
Allled nations the charges for mari
time transportation and check the rise
fa freight rates”
realization of
co-Or
has at
———————— TO SHI IAA 0
HIT BY PAPER SHORTAGE.
Houston Newspaper Increases Price Of
Edition To Cut Down Sales.
Houston, Texas — Owing to =a
gearcity of print paper, as a result of
the freight congestion in the East a
local afternoon paper increased the
price of ita street editions from 2 to 6
conta, with the expectation that a cur
tallment of 20 to 30 per cent in slreet
sales will effect a saving of a carioad
of paper fn two weeks.
WAR HIT NEUTRAL
Up To March
Tells Senate.
Bund
Hane
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dedained or 22
while
136
vespels,
elged or detained
FOUR MORE SUNK.
Steamer Sent Down,
The sinking of four
steame hips was announced. They are
The British steamship Kilbride, of
2.712 tonsa, owned by Connell Brothers,
of Glaagow
The British steamer Lavinia Wes.
toll, of 2.131 tona, owned by J. Wes
London
he Dutch steamer Duiveland,
The Russian steamer Ottoman.
The erews were saved In every
man was Injured
EIGHT KILLED IN MINE.
Strike Probably Saved 26 Others Who
Stayed Away,
Johnstown, Pa--Eight men are
known to have been killed as a result
of an explosion of gas in the Robin
dale mine of the Conemaugh Smoke.
lepe Con! Company, at Seward, eight
miles woast of here. Thirty men are
regularly employed In the mine, but
because of a strike only four reported
for duty.
BABY M'KEE A SOLDIER.
To Join Charfes Carroll's Ambulance
Corps In France.
New York Benjamin Harrison Me
Kee, grandson of President Harrison
and som of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Mo.
Kee, will start for Paris Saturday to
join the American ambulance corps, of
which Charles Carroll, of Baltimore, is
one of the financial backers. He was
known as Baby MeKee when his grand.
father wan ia the White House,
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Germans repulsed French in for
est of Le Pretre Mul
hausen, were near
Lassigny in Upper
and west of
check=d
Alsace
but
and
in
in Bukowina
Russians
and Austrians
goined Carpathians
ianding
Turks repulsed QGritlsh
party at head of Red sea
Smyrna forte bombarded.
British government took control fd
of motor manufacturing plants
1918
April 4,
Germans took Drie Grachten
from Belgians.
Frenen captured
Regnleville
Austrians retreated from Beskid
egion,
Germans Hussians near
Augustowo
repulsed
British
of B src
German submarines cand
fteamer City othe
veguels
Thres
mines
gmers sunk by
in
Turkish cr Ved id
flues
y Hues;
eh sunk
Germar taube wombed church
near women and
"
drich
interned at
d Podgo
raoe
April B, 1815.
Russians captured Smoinik,
of Lupkow pass.
cast
French ship Chateaubriand sunk
by German submarine off isle of
Wight.
One Austrian
three Russian
acsropiane beat
planes in midair.
Cermany
sinking of
the act
Belgians
Yser canal
offered reparation for
the Frye, but justified
reported west side of
freed of Germans
oans—
April 8, 1915,
French announced completes oo
cupation of Les Eparges.
Desperate fighting on heights of
the Meuse.
Germans retook Drie Grachten
from Belgians,
Great AustroGerman army con
fronted Russians in strongly for
tified lines on southern slope of
Carpathians,
Use of alcoholic drinks forbid:
den in French army of the Vosges.
CHUNKS OF INFORMATION
Farming and pig rearing are the
staple industries of Serbia,
In Russia the people are divided
into three “stocks.” Creat Russians
White Russians and Little Russians
British vital statistics show that
there has boan more marriages and
less births since the war has been in
progress,
Apparatus invented in England for
preserving feh in carbonic acid gas
under pressure fn sald to keep them
perfectly fresh for at least six months
For retail dealers there has been
invented a machine that will take coal
from a pile and pour ft into bags for
handling at a rate of 25 tons an hour,
Two cities In Colombia on opposite
sides of the Andes mountains will be
connected by a steel ropeway more
than 37 miles long which will trans
port both passengers and freight.
The first white woman to be man
ried in what Is now the city of To
peka, Kan, and who still lives there at
the age of eighty-eight, is Mrs. Hattie
A. Bunker. She was a native of We
burn, Mass, and wont into the terrs
tory of Kansas €1 yoars ago,