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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not be withdrawn, at this time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
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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
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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.
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