THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURO. PA.
REVIEW OF PENNS
FOR NEWS RE
Happenings of the Week in the Cepitol Building and ThMUghout the State Reported for
Our Readers in Fulton County ant1 Elsewhere.
DANGER
SENDING BELL
Relic Likely to Be Sent to the
Panama Exposition.
4 ITS SAFETY IS ASSURED.
Suggest Safeguards Experts All Over
World Declare Trip Can Be
Made In Perfect
Safety
(Harrlsburg Correspondence.)
The Liberty Dell can be sent to the
ranamaFaciac Exposition next year
In absolute security. There will be no
more danger of tbe extension of its
historic crack on the trip across tbe
continent than there Is while tbe
nation's most precious and beloved
relic la reposing In Independence Hall.
This fact has been established to
the satisfaction of the Blakenburg Ad
ministration by the most exhauxtlve
inquiry ever made on the subject.
There Is not a metallurgist of promi
nence in this country nor a bell-casting
firm of Importance in all the world
which has not been consulted. Their
opinion Is almost unanimous that there
would be no possible danger to the Dell
' on the journey across the continent
Safety assured, tlie Mayor reiterated
the position be has taken that the Dell
should be sent to tbe exposition In re
sponse to the patriotic Impulse which
prompted its invitation.
"I am convinced that the Dell will
tot be in the slightest danger of dam
age on the trip," he said, "I am as
firmly in favor of sending It as I al
ways have be.en."
Bureau To Supply Agricultural News.
A committee, which will work in
close harmony with the Stale College
of Pennsylvania, the experiment sta
tion of New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland and the United States De
partment of Agriculture, was an
nounced by Charles S. Caldwell, presl-
dent of the Corn Exchange National j
Brink. Tbe object or tms Dureau win
be to supply information on agricul
ture to growers and producers, answer
inquiries of farmers along these lines
and place them in communication with
responsible distributors to the mutual
advantage of the farmer and the Penn
sylvania market. The bureau will
also assist banks to develop agricul
ture In their sections and recommend
methods of standardizing the farm
products, beginning with seeds. The
committee appointed follows: Robert.
C. Wright, A. B. Ross, Clarence Sears
Kates, Edward T. Butterworth, John
P. Connelly, Louis Graff, George W.
Norrls, Charles S. Caldwell.
Veteran Newspaperman Dies.
Darwin G. Fenno, sixty-seven years
old, for years prominent In newspaper
work in Pennsylvania, died unexpect
edly at his rooms here. Mr. Fenno
bad been in the newspape business
for more than twenty-five years, serv
ing as city editor and managing editor
of the old Philadelphia "Times" and
coming to Harrlsburg to take charge
of the 'Tatrlot" when acquired by
Vance C. McCormlck in 1902. He was
In charge of the editorial column of
the "Patriot" from that time until his
death, having left his ofuce only a few
hours before he was taken ill. Mr.
Fenna came from Illinois and served
In the Civil War, principally in the
South. Ills widow and son survive
Dim.
Closer Supervision Of Feeblt-Minded.
Necessity for closer Stats super
vision over the feeble-minded, especial
ly the young adults, was emphasized at
the semi-annual conference of trustees
and medical superintendents of the
States and incorporated hospitals for
the insane and feeble-minded in Penn
sylvania held at the Capitol. All the
State Institutions were represented.
Dr. Frank Woodbury, secretary of the
Lunacy Committee of the State Board
of Public Charities, called attention to
the danger of propagation of the
feeble-minded unless some restrictions
are made. Dr. Jesse M. Peterson, dis
cussed the operation of the parole act.
To Become N. Q. P. Battery.
Governor Tener told a delegation of
Wllllamsport citizens thnt the three
infantry companies of the Twelfth
Regiment at Wllllamsport would be
changed into a battery of field artillery,
but that action would hardly be taken
until it was determined whether State
troops would be called into the field
by the National' Government. The
committee came to protest against dls
bandment of the three companies.
Man With 48 Aliases.
In Federal Court here Harry West,
accused of having forty-eight aliases
was sentenced to five years In prison
by Federal Judge Wltmor after plead
ing guilty of forging the names of the
Treasurer of the United States and
paymasters of the navy to warrants.
He also impersonated a marine while
passing the warrants.
Seek Receiver For Phlla. Company.
The attorney general's department
proceeded againBt the Employers' In
demnity Company, of Philadelphia,
asking a rule to show cause why Its
business should not be wound up by a
receiver. The insurance department
claims that tha company is insolvent.
THE NEWS TOLD
PARAGRAPHS
Latest Happenings Gleaned
From All Over the State.
LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Morphine Pills Given By Mistake To
Charles Henry, An Infant, Caused
the Baby's Death New School
Buildings At Tamaqua.
The Lehlghton Boy's Band has re
ceived a charter.
.Boyertown Town Council decided to
spend twenty thousand dollars to pave
three of the main streets.
W. D. Landls was re-elected superin
tendent of the Northampton public
schools, at a salary of $2,000.
The Tamaqua School Board has de
cided to erect two four-room school
buildings.
Morphine pills given by mistake to
Charles Henry, an Infant son of Mr,
and Mrs. Charles Rtrlckler, of York,
caused the baby's death.
Rev. A. C. Forscht has resigned as
pastor of the English Lutheran Church,
at Mlnersvllle, to accept a. call from
the Lutheran charge at I'nIOn Depot.
Clarence T. Davis was elected presi
dent of the Iehlgh County Sunday
School Association, at its thirty-eighth
annual convention at Unionville.
The Lehigh Classls. In session In the
Longswamp Reformed Church, elected
Rev. James O. Oswald, of Slallngton,
president.
Mrs. Eva L. Campbell has been
elected president of the West Chester
Branch of the W. C. T. League, of
Chester county.
M. J; C. Smoyer has been appointed
Judge of Elections In the South Pre
cinct of the First Ward of Fhoenix
vllle. '
Several hundred persons attended
the stag social and smoker given under
the auspices of the Wilson Social Club
at Chester, John White, president.
The boating season on the Lehigh
Canal between Mauch Chunk and Kas
ton and thence to Philadelphia was
opened.
D. G. Casern has resigned as secre
tary of Fountain Hill Town Council
and Robert Earlch has been elected
his successor.
Samuel D. Foster, chief engineer of
the State Highway Department, is in
specting the State highways in Car
Don county.
Lawrence Topper pleaded guilty to a
charge of -making and passing bogus
money. He was lined $100 and sen
tenced to serve a year In the Eastern
Penitentiary.
The lodge of Egyptians and the
lodge of Odd Fellows In West Chester
have appointed committees to place
flowers upon the graves of the de
ceased members on May 30.
While playing baseball John Wal
lace, of Chester, was struck in the
mouth. Several teeth were knocked
out and he received several lacera
tions. Althouah South Bethlehem's School
Board last year furnished the graduat
ing class of the hteh school with caps
and gowns, it will not do so this year,
because the class Is too large.
The Northampton County Sunday
School Association, which held Its an
nual convention in South Bethlehem,
has decided to meet at Nazareth next
year.
Miss Fanny Roberts, while burning
rubbish in her yard, at Hackelberne,
unknowingly threw a dynamite cap
Into the flames. The explosion may
cost the sight of her eye.
Prof. A. E. Wagner, supervising prin
cipal of the Mauch Chunk TownHhip
public schools, lias resigned to become
professor of peJagogy In the Ohio
University, at Athens, O.
One of the battery of $2.r00,000
furnaces at the Bethlehem Steel
Works, Blast Furnace E, which has
been in continuous service for more
than two years, has been blown out
for repairs.
The School Board of West Chester
has re elected Addison L. Jones to be
superintendent of the public schools
there for a term of four yenrs at $2,500
a year. He has been in charge of the
schools for twenty-five years.
The New Century Club, of Chester,
has elected .the following officers:
President, Mrs William Knowles
Evans; first vice-president, Miss Sarah
H. Falrlamb; second vice-president,
MIhb Margaret E. Blrtwell: recording
secretary, Mrs. Crosby M. Black; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. J. L. Mac
Watters; treasurer, Mips Mary C.
Deertng
YLVANIA
AOERS
T
III
BATTLE
'Gen. Huerta" and "Gen. Funs
ton" Carried From Battlefield.
HORSE THIEF SENTENCED.
To Prison For Seventeen Yeara For
Horse Stealing Brothers Crushed
To Death Father and Daugh
ter May Die.
Boys Hurt In Mimic Battle.
Sunbury. Twenty boys were hurt,
two seriously, while more than one
hundred vere playing "Mexico and
America at war." Those seriously hurt
are John Payne, nearly scalped by a
saber" made from a barrel hoop, and
Walter Egan, skull fractured and
lacerotlons from a blow from a Mexi
can "machete" made from a baseball
bat which had a wire spike in It
Influenced by marches that had been
going on nightly for weeks, boys of the
Fourth Ward under Egan, who was
Huerta," and of the Third Ward, tin
der Payne as "General Funston," start
ed to play war.
Air guns, baseball bats, clubs, knives
and boy-faBhloned swordB were pressed
Into use. The result was a fight, In
which blood was shed. "Huerta" was
defeated, but playmates carried the
two generals off the field unconscious,
and doctors were summoned.
Other "soldiers" had cuts and lacer
ations about the arms and legs, and
suffered severe bruises. The battle
lasted for more than half an hour.
More than a hundred boys were sol
diers, and each side carried colors, the
Mexican flag being of the kind given
away with cigarettes.
To Prison For 17 Yeara.
Bloomsburg. John Kalanoskl, of
Black Creek Township, Luzerne coun
ty, convicted of stealing a horse of
Boyd Ohl, pleaded guilty to having
stolen the horse of Wesley Sltler, Cen
tre 'Township, and was sentenced to
pay fines aggregating $1,000 in the two
cases and to undergo imprisonment for
not less than seventeen years In the
Eastern Penitentiary. Kalanoskl is
about fifty years old, Kalanoskl impli
cated Paul Voynar, a Mahanoy City
hotel man, then in court ready to
testify against him. as the ringleader,
and Jon Bisk!, of Hazleton, as tbe third
member of the gang, which it is
charged has been stealing horses in
Columbia county for several yeara. A
reward of $1,000 for the arrest and
conviction of the thieves was offered
by the Columbia County Commission
ers. Voynar was arreRted In the court
room and is now In Jail, while officers
are hunting Biskl.
Pottsvllle Tax Rate Raised.
Pot tsv ille. Potts vllle City Council
fixed the tax rate at ten mills, the high
est in the history of the town. The
Increase Is said to have been made
necessary because $17,000 of the town's
money, fees from liquor licenses, Is
held ud bv Court nendlng the decision
of the appeal taken to the Supreme
Court by liquor dealers, who are trying
to knock out the city charter. If this
money was available the tax rate could
have been lowered instead of being
raised, it Is believed.
Father and Daughter May Die.
Allentown. While Miss Alverta
Claiiser was undergoing an operation
at the Allentown Hospital, her father
was taken there In an ambulance for
treatment for a fractured skull, re
ceived in A fall from a stepladder
while at work. Both are In a critical
condition and each Is unaware of the
plight of the other. Little hope 1b held
out for the recovery of either.
Alleged Forger Acquitted.
Pottsvllle. William F. Schartel,
who was arrested by the State police
at Allentown four weeks ago, charged
with forging several checks In this
vicinity and In Wilmington, Tyrone,
New Hope, Allentown and Tamaqua,
was found not guilty by direction of
Judge Koch. It was a case of mistaken
identity. The Court was told the
wrong man had been arrested.
Leaves $2,000 To Church.
York. The will of Mrs. Emma R.
Smith was admitted to probate and
contained bequests of $2,000 to the
Board of Elders, of the Northern Dlo-
ree of the United Brethren Church;
$2,000. to Moravian College; $2,000 in
trust for the Bupport or tne pastor oi
the First Moravian Church, and $1,000
to the ViBitlng Nurse Association.
Prof. Smith Re-Elected At Media.
Media. At the annual convention
of the school directors of Delaware
county, held here. Prof. A. O. Smith
was reelected superintendent. He Mas
served about thirty years as superin
tendent and had no opposition. Sev
eral hundred teachers from various
parts of the county were present.
Brothers Crushed To Death.
Lock Haven. Jacob and Adam
Englert, brothers, were cruBhed to
death here, by a fall of tons of earth.
They were stonemasons and were
working on foundations of a building
being erected by Charles Basinger
The earth had been loosened br the
hard rains of yesterday.
TWENTY BOYS HUR
NIC
AMERICA HAS 4,222
FOREIGN STUDENTS
Increase of 557 During the
Last Two Years.
CANADIANS ARE IN THE LEAD
Jape and Chinese Next Latin Amer
ica, Europe and Even Antl
podea Are Well Repre
sented. Washington, D. C There were 4,222
foreign students in attendance at col
leges and universities In the United
States in tbe year 1913, according to
figures Just complied at the United
States Bureau of Education. This Is
an increase of 677 in two years.
These students are not concen
trated at the larger and better known
Institutions, as might be expected, but
are distributed over 275 different col
leges, universities and schools of tech
nology. The number given Includes
only regular students of college or
graduate grade; if students enrolled
in preparatory departments, short
term courses, summer schools and in
dependent professional schools were
Included, the total would be very
much larger.
Canada bas the largest representa
tlon 653 students are from the Do
minion. China and Japan are not far
behind there were 594 Chinese stu
dents and 886 from Japan attending
colleges in the United States in 1913.
Of the other Oriental or Asiatic peo
ples, India Is represented by 162; Tur
key by 143; Korea by 13; Persia by
SI, and Slam by 13.
Latin-America is strongly represent
ed. Cuba sends 209; Costa Rica, 29;
Guatemala, 15; Honduras, 12; Nica
ragua, 18; Panama, 28, and Salvador,
19. Mexico heads the list with 223
students. From South America, Argen
tine sends 43 students to our colleges;
Brazil, 143; Bolivia, 3: Chile, 12; Co
lombia, 37; Ecuador, 15; Paraguay, 2:
Peru, 26; Uruguay, 2, and Venezuela, 7.
Even Australia and Africa have stu
dents at colleges in the United States.
There are 56 students from New Zea
land. Africa is represented by 15 from
Egypt, two from Liberia and 44 from
South Africa.
From American possessions 434 Ftu
dents came to college in the United
States; 108 from Hawaii; 215 from
Porto Rico, and 111 from the Philip
pine Islands.
KILLED BY POLICE CHIEF.
Harrison Kendall Shot While Resisting
Arrest.
Clarksburg, W. Va. ristoi-shot
wounds, received a week ago, when he
and four brothers resisted arrest at
Northvlew and were fired on by J. H.
Nicholson, police chief of the suburb,
caused the death of Harrison Kendall,
a coal miner, 26 years old, In St.
Mary's Hospital here. Dr. S. M.
MaBon, coroner, is investigating the
case, but no action has been taken
thus far in regard to Nicholson, who
declares tbe five Kendall brothers at
tacked him and another officer with
a hatchet, clubs and stones.
CALLS FOR CONSUL'S RELEASE.
United States Urges Huerta To Free
Sllllman.
Washington, D. C, Urgent represen
tations were made by the State De
partment through the Brazilian Em
bassy to the Huerta Government seek
ing the release of Vice-Consul John R.
Sllllman, who is reported held by the
Mexican Federals at Saltillo. Consul
Sllllman was reported taken by the
Huerta forces while on a trip to San
Luis Potosi and all efforts of the State
Department to locate blm so far have
been futile.
$500,000 TO P. E. CATHEDRAL.
New York Woman Will Erect Wash
ington Sanctuary.
New York. Announcement was
made here that Mrs. Archibald Douglas
Russell, of New York, will erect the
sanctuary in connection with the Na
tional Cathedral of the Episcopal
Church to be constructed at Washing
ton. The coBt of the sanctuary, it was
said, will approximate $500,000.
WEEKS TO GET REFUGEES OUT.
Admiral Badger's Estimate To the
Navy Department.
Washington, D. C. Rear-Admiral
Badger estimated In a dispatch to the
Navy Department that it will probably
be several weeks before all American
refugees are out of Mexico. He re
ported thnt the steamer Esperanza left
Tuerto Mexico with 634 refugees
oboard.
KILLED AT THE MINES.
One American and Two British Sub
jects Victims Of Bandits.
Washington, D. C One American
and two British subjects have been
killed at mines in the vicinity of
Guadalajara. A Mr. Russell, presum
ably a British subject, and 7 Ameri
cans are cut off by bandits in the
vicinity. Other Americans are eafe.
This Information came In a dispatch
from the British vice oonsul at Guad
alajara to the British embassy here.
McADOO AND BRIDE AT CORNISH.
Will Spend Honeymoon At the Sum
mer White House.
Cornish, N. II. William G. McAdoo,
Secretary of the Treasury, and his
bride, who was MIsb Eleanor Randolph
Wilson, daughter of the President, ar
rived here to spend their honeymoon
at Harlakenden, tho summer White
House. Three servants preceded them
here by only three hours, and the great
house, which had not been occupied
since last fall, had barely been opened
when the couple entered Its doors.
MEDIATORS OF THE
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ROMULO 5. NAON
DOMICIO DA GAMA
These are the threo South American diplomats who are acting as media
tors In the Mexican embrogllo. They are Ambassador da Gama of Brazil and
Ministers MuJIca of Chile and Naon of Argentina.
MADE MILLIONS ON
NEW RAVEN STOCK
Unraveling Startling New Haven
Road Deals.
A STORY OF HIGH F.NANCE
Head Of Company Makes a Statement
Of His Transactions, Claiming He
Considered Himself Entitled
To the Big Profit
Washington, D. C "High finance"
related to the affairs of the New Haven
Railroad was revealed in a remarkable
statement In the Interstate Commerc?
Commission inquiry by John L. Bill-
ard, of New Haven, Conn., president of
the celebrated "Blllard Company" and
former director of the New Haven
Railroad.
Blllard admitted making profits run
ning into millions In transactions in
stock of the New Haven road and Its
subsidiaries, But be denied that the
railroad or any official had any inter
est in the Billard Company. He said
his stock deals, except one, and tho
Blllard Company were strictly private
enterprises.
Before he became a New Haven
director in 1907 Blllard said he bought
109.900 shares of Boston and Maine
stejek for $13,743,600 at 125 from the
.New uaven company ana soia mem
back at $150 a share netting a profit
of $2,748,750 to the Boston Railroad
Holding Company, organized by the
New Haven as a subsidiary.
"Both in the purchase and resale of
this stock," BIllaYd said, "the nego
tiations between me and the railroad
company were absolutely free from
any secret arrangement or understand
ing. THE GREATEST WHEAT CROP.
One-fifth Greater Than Previous Rec
ord Winter Wheat Harvest
Washington, D. C The greatest
crop of wheat ever grown, one-fifth
again as large as that grown in 1912,
j grown last year, and more than half
Is indicated by statistics announced
by the Department of Agriculture.
In all, 630,000,000 bushels will be
produced if the highly favorable con
ditions existing since the crop was
planted last fall continue until harvest
time. Tho acreage abandoned through
unfavorable conditions of the winter
amounted to only 3.1 per cent, of the
area planted, an unusually low area.
This makes the area remaining to be
harvested a record one of 35,387,000
acres.
Indications are that Kansas will
have a crop of 132,000,000 bushels, or
45,500,000 bushelh more than last year,
and Oklahoma 35,500,000, or 17,000,000
bushels more than last year.
Winter wheat: Condition 95.9. Area
remaining .to be harvested 35,387,000
acres, or 1,119,000 acres less than
planted last autumn, but 3,688,000
acres more than harvested last year.
Indicated yield per acre, 17.8 bush
els. Indicated production, 630,000,0()
bUKhels.
These figures compare with condi
tions of 95.6 on April 1, and 91.9 on
May 1, 1913.
REPORT ON "DRY" BILL ORDERED.
Suffrage Measure Also Ready For
House.
Washington, D. C. Joint resolutions
proposing amendment to the Federal
Constitution to extend the right of suf
frage to women and for nation-wide
prohibition were ordered reported,
without recommendation, to the House
by the Judiciary Committee. "Tho vote
was viva voce and carried over
whelmingly. MACHINE GUN RIDDLED SNIPER.
He Had Shot Lieutenant Lannon, Of
the New Hampshire.
Norfolk, Va. Officers of the collier
Orion, now here from Vera Cruz, tell
of the wounding there by a Mexican
of Lieutenant Lannon, of the battle
ship New Hampshire, as he, with a
landing party, approached the Bhore.
A sniper hidden under a wharf shot
Lieutenant Lannon, wounding blm
seriously, but not fatally. The ma
chine gun In the bow of the American
boat riddled the sniper.
MEXICAN TROUBLE
BOMB
DROPPED
I
BIPLANE
Four Killed and Eight Injured
at Mazatlan.
REBELSDROPTHE EXPLOSIVE
General Guerrera, the Rebel Com
mander, Drives a Portion Of the
Federal Garrison Right Up To
the Water Front
On Board U. S. S. California, Ma
zatlan, Mex. (Via WireleBB to San
Diego. Four persons were killed and
eight more injured by the explosion of
a bomb that was dropped into tne city
streets from a rebel biplane.
Firing between the rebel and fed
eral fortifications continues and in the
artillery duel the besieging forces have
had the better of it so far.
Los Angeles, Cal. Mazatlan, tbe
Mexican west coast city, surrendered
to the constitutionalists, according to
a dispatch received by Adolfo Carillo,
Carranza's representative In this city.
There was still fighting, the dispatch
adds, general Guerrera driving a part
of the federal garrison toward tbe
water front.
Tbe dispatch was signed Febela,
secretary of foreign affairs, Chihuahua.
General Tellez, the federal commander
sent word to the constitutionalists that
he could do nothing but surrender.
Washington. The fighting at
Mazatlan, with the fatal work done by
the rebel biplane, is in continuance of
the fighting already reported here from
two sources, Admiral Howard and Gen
eral Carranza.
Admiral Howard's report described
the constitutionalist forces as en
trenched on Pledra Island in tbe har
bor, and pouring fire from rifles and
field guns against the federal gunboat
Gorelos. The latter was returning
the fire, supported by the land bat
teries still held by the federals.
General Carranza's report, telegraph
ed to Rafael Zubaran, has confidential
agent hero, said the federal gunboat
Morelos had grounded on Pledra Is
land and had been put out of commlfi
sion by artillery fire.
YACHT REPORTED CAPTURED.
Mexicans Said To Have Seized Party
Of Californians.
San Francisco. Reports received
here that the yacht Iola, carrying
Arthur Payne, of Menlo Tark, Cal.,
and a sporting expedition, had been
captured by Mexicans, caused Payne's
relatives to ask the aid of the State
Department. The Iola was bound for
the Tiburon Islands and ' touched at
San Diego, April 8.
U. S. FLAG ON MEXICAN ISLAND.
Californians Claim Coronado Group By
"Right Of Conquest."
San Diego, Cal. Several wealthy
men from Colorado Springs and Coro
nado, Cnl., went out in a yacht to the
Coronado Islands and scaled one of
them, raising the American flag on a
500-foot pinnocle. They claimed the
islands "by right of conquest." The
Islands are Mexican territory.
TESTING INCOME TAX LAW.
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First Case Filed In United States Su
preme Court
Washington, D. C The first case
to reach the Supreme Court Involving
directly the constitutionality of the
federal income tax was docketed
Thursday. It was an appeal from the
refusal of the Federal District Court
in Southern New York to enjoin the
Union Pacific Railroad at the Instance
of a stockholder, Frank R. Brushaber,
from paying the tax.
MISS WILLARD WEDS JUNE 11.
Marriage To Kermit Roosevelt To Take
Place In British Chapel.
Madrid. The wedding of Kermit
Roosevelt and Miss Belle Wyatt Wil
lard, daughter of Col. J. E. Willard,
American Ambassador to Spain, will
take place at noon on June 11 at the
British Embassy chapel here. The
ceremony is to be performed by the
Rev. Dr. Samuel Watson, rector of tho
American Church of the Holy Trinity,
Paris, assisted by the Rev. Herbert
brown, of the British Chapel, Madrid.
MILITIA ARMY PLANNED
50,000 Men May Be Called To RtjFl
force Regulars Along the
Mexican Border.
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Washington, D. C. An army of
least 50,000 State troops for the reij.
forcement of the regulars Ix be6t
pianneu uy iue w ar ueimrunent.
Categorical denials were Issued u
any marked activity in this dlr-cUoo,
but it is known in Washington that
General Staff of the army has recoj.
mended that no time be lost In coi
centrating and equipping such g (ort(
with which to meet possible eventual
Ities. .
To this end the Division of Militu
Affairs of the War Department co&
munlcated with the adjutant gi-nri!i
of a number of States to nsceruii
definitely how many troops ,k h $
them could furnish upon Blunt no'it,
for the Mexican campaign.
Governors Applied To.
In the case of three of the Statei-
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio I
the Governors themselves were, It &
stated, apprised of the acutenesn of ti.
Mexican situation and requested toll
form the War Department how mm,
fully equipped troops each of thm
could put Into the field without fur
ther recruiting.
Latest Inquiries W the departing
were directed toward ascertaining hot
soon the New York, Pennsylvania ui
Ohio troops could be put in tnutlnn.lt
their present condition, without deli;
that would be necessitated by recruit.
Ing them up to full war strength. It
the theoretical organization of Hi
militia the Pennsylvania anil Net
York State each made up a full tartlet
division. They are the only Stntoittl
supply a full division quota. Ohio I
combines with Michigan to DM a din I
sion, and the other divisions are nuiil
up of several States each.
NO FORMAL ARMISTICE
Only An Assumption That Fight:-
Would Be Suspended Except To
4 ' Repel Attack.
Washington, D. C Officials to
point out that neither the l"nlw
States nor General Huerta hits yet en I
tered Into any formal armistice.
What occurred was this: The tiiedlt
tors suggested that hostilities ahouii I
be suspended during the period
negotiations. To this Secretary Ilryiil
replied that it was assumed then I
would be a suspension of hostilities u-
cept to repel attack.
General Huerta's answer was unii
stood to be an acceptance, but tbt
exact termB have not been given ol
Mr. Bryan bas several tlmea poltitfi
out that this did not constitute i
formal armistice, but only an assuirp I
tlon that hostilities would be susp
ed except to resist aggression.
Article VII of The Hague conventiot. I
of which the United States nnd Met
Ico are signatories, provides snecllcill
ly on troop movement pending medii
tlon as follows:
"Article VII. The acceptance i
mediation cannot, unless there be u
agreement to the contrary, have tb I
effect of interrupting, delay-In or til
dering mobilization or other measure I
or preparation for war.
"If mediation occurs after the cos-1
meucement of hostilities, it causes M I
interruption to the military operation I
In progress unless there be an agH
ment to the contrary."
MAKES NO MOVE TO QUIT
Huerta Credited With Saying Hi I
Would First See City In Aihei
Zapatistas Still Fight Him.
Vera Cruz. Mexicans arriving bt
from Mexico City soy that
Huerta shows no intention of abandoi
lnc tho i.roulftonrv nf Mi-xic'O. fl
President, they assert, is pupularft I
credited with havlne made the tM
ment that he would see the capital Ul
ashes hefnrn he left It.
Private Parks, orderly for Lieut-C-1
Elmore F. Taggart, Twenty dKhtb &
fantry, and two of the officer's horse I
disappeared beyond the American lit" I
and Into the lines of Gen. Uustl
Maas, where the soldier and the W
mals presumably are "being held.
General Mans released G. H.
nn ninnniror nf tho Vnra CltlZ Stret' I
Hailwnv Coiunanv. whom he had hW I
as nrisoner at Soledad. Mr. Cox
who is a British subject, arrived be"
Several Mexicans, alleged w""
arrested by the American naval forc I
at Vera Cruz during the flKhtinR u"l
after its conclusion, will be tried M I
military commission, after the dupw
tlon of five South Americans.
Even If the guilt of the South An
cans be established, them i n0 '
I.I 41.. 4 - tl.a IlldtH
IJUBlllUU UIl UlU pill t VI 1" J
impose the extreme penalty. "J
derstood the men are to be l)lce"
trial more for the purpose of
lishing the cause for their arrfrt
case their governments flls c"
against the United States.
250 REPORTED CRUCIFIX
Bodies Of Mohammedan Albanian"'
r.hi'irrh Then Burned.
.... ImJiH
Durazzo,-Albania. two """ " jl
fifty Mohammedan Albanian", i
by the Eplrote invaders at 1Ior' J
were crucified in the Orthodox C I
at Kodra, according to mm"1 ' .
ceived by the Albanian Uovernn1
The Eplrotes are said to na A
to the church afterwards anil I
the bodies to burn.
PRISON
10 AMERICANS HELD IN
' Three Mexicane.
Washington, D. C.-Teii nien'b
the Smith family in Jail at
Chiapas, are In danger of tn t
because of Mexican resell
a i i i. .i uniinKf"" ,1
uieir imi w iu wie irwui line 10'
Mexicans at San Pedro, accoril'M f
report from Minister w I
Guatemala. The Mexicans ere , I
bers of a rural guard and 'jl
smitn nome at aan reu'u -the
occupants.