AVE DO FINE BOOK and JOB PRINTING TRY US! VOLUME IH—NO. 16 Unite! States Troops Won't Leave Mexico ISSUE RAISED BY CARRANZA ASKINO U. S, TO LEAVE Administration Meri Are Re ticent Anent Predicting the Outcome. LANSING- DOESN'T TALK WASHINGTON, Aprii 14. Gen. Carranzn, by a note which arrived at his emt)assy here to day for to Secre tary Lansing, asks for the with drawal of American troops from Mexico. Eliseo Arredondo, Gen. Car ranza's ambassador, expects to present the note at the State De partment today. It raises a new issue in a sit uation already much complexed, the outcome of which officials are reticent to predict until they have gone over the communica tion carefully and considered what reply ohe United States will make. In officiai qnarters it was stat ed that the American troops will not be withdrawn, at this time at least, and that while the question is bc ing discussed with Gen. Carranza, the pursuit of the Villa bandits would be rush ed with renewed vigor. Secretary ì >ansing had not received Gen. Carranza's note and declined to say what the de partment's policy toward it would be. BUSINESS MEN AID FARMERS ON BOOSTING THE FARM BUREAU CLEARFIELD Pa., Aprii 14. —At an enthusiastic meeting held here today Clearfield coun ty business men joined with the farmers in an effort to establish a county farm bureau. The county commi ssioners have been petitioned to appropriate $1,500 annually for this purpose. The meeting today was at tended by more than 200 farm ers and busii ess men. Among the spèakers boosting the cause were Peter Gearhart, Harry Bodine, secretary of the Clear field chamber of commerce ; Ma jor M. U. MrCreight, president of jp e r C p- w W Pntterson, F. M. Timling and L. E. Weber. BRIT VIN Bl YS GUNS HERE PHILADE LPHIA, Aprii 14. —The Midvale Steel and Ord nance Company dose I a contract today with the Britisli Govern ment for 100 howitzers at $27,- 000 each. It 'S believed that ex tensive additions to the Nice town plant wi l be begun immed iately to hanòle the work. A report, from sources cìose to the Midvale company, this afternoon said that prepar ations alreadv are under way for a $1,000,000 addition to the company's Philadelplia plant. The present capacity of the Midvale worl<s is taxed to the limit with oidnance and other contracts. Blairsville Schocl Nearly Completed BLAIRSVILLE, Aprii 14. The ne v school building here has a out been completed. It will r. tlikely be THE PA TRIOT KELLYSBURG HOME IS DESTROYED BY FIRE The dwelling owned by Mrs. John Kooser at Kellysburg, was totally destroyed by fire at noon Saturday. The flames originat ed from a defective flue. Robert Hazlett was rrioving into the house and Charles Hazlett's family were leaving the house for tehir new home. Practical ly everything in the house, with the exception of a quantity of provisions, was destroyed. Mrs. Kooser had $2,500 insurance. United States Aviators Made a Fine Flight Break Army Record in Trip from General Pershing's Near Parrai. WASHINGTON, Afcril 14. Ali previous records for sustain ed flight in the army aviation service were broken today when, according to a despatch receiv ed at the War from Gen. Funston, an army biplane, carrying Lieuts. Edgar S. Gor rell and Herbert A. Dargue, ar rived at Columbus, N. M., after a 350 mile flight in four hours from Gen. Pershing's headquart ers in Mexico. The best previous cross-coun try flight for the army sei-vice was made by Capt. Dodd of the Signal Corps, who flew approxi mately 260 miles from the army aviation school at San Diego, Cai. Before that the record was held by Lieut. Milling, who flew from Galveston to San Antonio, a distance of 220 miles, without alighting. Both Capt. Dodd and Lieut. Milling are with the first Aero squadron in Mexico. Lieut. Gor rell was one of the aviators who was lost for a time in the flight of the squadron from Columbus to Casas Grandes when the army first entered Mexico. Ali four men are regarded as experts fliers. When the news of the flight was given to Brig.-Gen. Scriven, chief of the Signal Corps of the army, over the telephone to night he said: "I trust that this achievement ing condiions due madc under the most adverse flying conditions due to the alti tude at which it had to be made, will serve somewhat to correct the unfair impression created throughout the country by the newspapers' accounts of the shortcomings of the army fliers in Mexico." Gen. Funston stated that the aviators brought no message from Gen. Pershing regarding the progress of the expedition after Villa. The distance of the flight is significante in indicat ing that Gen. Pershing himself is in the vicinity of Parai, at the southern extremity of the State of Chihuahua, and that the ad vance columns are well across the line into Durango. Officials of the State Department under stand that the vanguard of the expedition is now about 400 miles from the border. used until next spring, howev er. The building is of brick construction and is one of the rincst tvpes of structures in this part of the county. INDIANA, PA. SATUBDAY, APRIL 15. 1916 I il I il CAPT. BENJAMIN D. FOULOIS TO* COMMAND UNITED STATE AERO FORCES ACCOMPANYING MEXICO EXPKDITION. Arrest Suspect in the Big Bank Robbery at Houston WASHINGTON, Pa. Aprii Detectives today arrested Tomas J. Talbott at McDonald, charged with being one of the two bandits who last Thursday noon robbed the First National Bank of Houston of $16,687. Cashier J. C. McNutt was forced at the point of a revolver to lie down which the bandit robbed the vault. Talbott's arrest carne as a surprise. He formerly resided at Houston, but one year ago moved away, living near McDon ald. Altho the detectives and bank officials refuse to admit the fact, it is said that Mrs. Erwin Cum mins who was in he bank at the time the two robbers entered, and George McConnell, a mer chant of Houston who saw the men enter te bank, have both identified Talbott as one of the two men. FIRST AID MEETS IN INDIANA COUNTY A first aid campaign is to be inaugurated by the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh rail way in Indiana county. The campaign is to continue for | eight weeks, in which time a large number of teams will be organized and meets held. City Items Seriously 111.—Mr. James Mc- Gregor, of Church Street, is in a veiy criticai condition. Mr. McGregor has been ili for sev eral weeks with heart trouble, and other complications, and for a week his conditioin has been considered alarming. Lumberman in Hospital. Joseph Clark, a lumberman, of Homer City, was admitted to the Indiana Hospital Monday suffering from bruises about the abdomen. He had been struck by a heavy log which rolled Continued on page 4 FRANCE REASSURES HOLLAND. Says Allies Will Not Violate Dutch Neutrality LONDON, Aprii 14.—Assur ances have been given by the French Minister to Holland that no violation of the neutrality of Holland is contemplated by the Allies, despatches from The Hague state. The action was taken as a result of the military move ments in Holland to repel a possible landing in Flushing. Somerset Man Wants County Coal Holdings SOMERSET, Aprii 14.—Mr. S. P. McClemens of Kimmelton says that the McCaffrey heirs, of whom he is one, have option ed to Elmer Davis of Johnstown the coal rights under their four farms of about one thousand acres in Pine township, Indiana county. The estate retains the surface, 0n which there are five hundred acres of fine timber, the 'remainder being good farming land. It is understood that the heirs are ready to dispose of their entire holdings. SEAPLANES ROUT THE AUSTRIANS Italians Put Garrison to Flight —U-Boat Explodes ROME, Aprii 12.—The Stae fani News Agency says that the activity of the Italian air flotillas in the upper Adriatic continues. "A few days ago," the agen cy says, "Two aeroplanes bom barded a point on the Anstrian coast, putto flight a small gar rison and afterward landed. The pilot destroyed a signal post and elegraphic station, exploded an ammunition depot, set f.re to stores of coal and returned safe- General Uprismg Now Looked For in Mexico PERSHING'S EXPEDITION MENACED BY OUTBREAK IN THE SOUTH ERN REPUBLIC OF MEXICO EL PASO, TEX., —Aprii 14—Fear of a general Mexi* can uprising and un attaek upon American troops snch as dyed crimson the plana at Parrai broght a new tension today to the already menacing situation that confronta the American expedition and the international relations of the United States and Mexico. The mililary eleuient in Mexico is again in the saddle. Officiai advices from Mexico City state that First Chief Car ranza lias arrived there from Queretaro on his way to Vera Cruz, whence he will proceed to Yucatan. PRINCE OSCAR NOW KING Kaiser's Fifth Son Proclaimed Monarch of Lithuania PARIS, Aprii 14.—The Journ al states that Prince Oscar, the fiifth son of Emperor William, has been proclaimed King of Lithuania. The newspaper says today that the Kaiser, accompanied by Prince Oscar and Field Marshal von Hindenburg, went to Vilna on Aprii 2. They visited the tombs of the old kings of Lith uania and then ascended the hill on which the ruins of the ancient Lithuanian castle stands. A petition was handed to the Kaiser, the Journal states, claiming the restoration of the restoration of the independence and requesting that Prince Os car be made King of Lithuania. "After the reading of the petition," says the Journal, "crowds gathered in the chateau and shouted, Long Live King Oscar"! The petition is under stood to have been the work of the East Prussian Deputies, Herren Cabinot and stepulis, who tourned Lithuania and Courland getting signatures." REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Sarah J. Duke, lot in Cone maugh, to Madge Moore: SSO. Albert B. Huston, 13 acres in Blacklick, to Wm. H. Clawson; S9OO. Dixon Run Land Co., lot in Clymer, to Sol. Brody ; SBOO. Elmer Lydic, lot in Green, to Mike Yankacky; $l,lOO. A. J. Anthony, 92 acres in East Mahoning, to Herbert Black; $2,100. A. H. Wilhelm, 16 acres in White, to Mabel C. Grosse; sl,- 000. Stephen P. Gibson, lot in In diana, to Rose E. Scheuer; $2,- 000. James L. Jack, master, 142, acres in East Mahoning, to Jos. W. Clements ; $4,983.50. H. B. Langham, 1-2 of 16 acres in Montgomery, to S. S. Langham ; SBOO. Tony Minute, lot in Canoe, to Pietro Catonese; SSOO. John Chilinchi, lot in Clymer, to Mike Dupp; $1,700. Edgar M. Young, lot in Buf fington, to Charles G. Dias; $225. ly. "Another Italian seaplane dropped 500 kilogrammes (1,- 102 pounds) of explosives on te railway station at Nabresma. "The Italian coast defence on the upper Adriatic brought down an enemy hydroaero planr;. "A few days ago an enemy submarine exploded off an Ital ian port on the Adriatic." CIRCULATION BOOKS OPEN TO ALL ADVERTISERS SIES FOR DIVORCF. AS MRS. H. THAW St Louis Woman Claimg Mar iage ili 1902 —Asks Cus ié&tody of a Daught^r. ST. LOUIS, Aprii 14—Declar ing that she was married to Harry Rendali Thaw in Buffalo on October 6, 1902, and lived with him until December, 1903, Christina Thaw of St. Louis fil ed suit for divorce in the Circuit Court here today, asking maìn tenance and the custody of their twelve-year-old daughter, Lady Gwendolyn Clemmens. V. R. C. Lacy, her attorney, says Thaw married her under the name f Harry Rendali Thaw Clemmens and that Thaw's motheu and sister carne to St. Louis in January, 1904, to see the baby, which is said to have been born here a month after the couple separated. The petition states that the plaintiff and Thaw lived togeth er in a New York city hotel. She said that during their mar ried life Thaw quarrelled with her continually and made her life unendurable. He refused to establish a home for her and recognize her as his wife, des pite her repeated solicitations. Pittsburgh, Aprii 14.—Com menting upon the divorce suit filed in St. Louis, Mo., against Harry Rendali Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, by Christina Thaw, who claims to have mar ried him in Buffalo, N. Y., on or about October 6, 1902, Stephen Stone, who, with his father, ex- Gov. William A. Stone, is a Thaw attorney, said tonight: "Thats a joke. Not a thinfc in it. D»Hng Harrys trial for the murder of Stanford White every step in his life was gone over thoroughly. Not once was there any mention of this wo man, who calls herself Mrs. Christina Thaw or of any mar riage in Buffalo." Harry Thaw is in Florida. Suspicious Character Arrested —Proved to Be a Maniac George Shkhula of Lucerne was arrested in Upper Twolkk Monday aftemoon by Sheriff H. Boggs on charge of suspi cious character ; when taken to jail George proved to be a man iac. He would not answer when» he was questioned by the sher iff and seems as tho he has lost his reasoning power, accordine to people who live about Lucerne this morning that they have seen George with a post on his< back standing in the water on Upper Twolick. Advertise in "Tbe Patriot^ FTVE CENTS
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