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CARRANZA DENIES U. S. RIGHT TO PROBE BENTON DEATH
GONFERENGE HELD
OVER SITUATION
President Wilson and Secretary of
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State Bryan Are Worried by
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News From Chihuahua,
JUAREZ, MEXICO, March I._—.[—~The
Benton investigating commissiod¥to
day was prevented from procéeding to
Chihuahua to examine the slain Brit
on's body by rebel orders, °
(‘olonel Fidel Avila, military com
mander here, declined to permit thim
to board the regular passenger train,
which was waiting.
The mystery thrown around the oc
currence led to many apparently ex
aggerated rumors.
Persistent inquiry her:» and in El
Paso failed to establish anything but
the one fact that the commissioners
were refused passgorts on this silde
and returned to El Paso. No official
in Juarez has authority to take such
action as was taken in this case. Only
two persons in northern Mexico have
the power —Venustiano Carranza aud
General Francisco Villa.
The order surprised the commia
sioners, Villa, at Chihuahua, repeat
edly has expressed his desire to has
ten the inquiry, and his offer of a
enecial train to take the commission
from this city to Chihuahua, where
Benton's body i 9 said to be buried, was
formaliy accepted by Marion tetcher,
the American Consul there.
Gieorge Carothers, agent of the
State Denartment in many of its deal
ings with Villa, also delayed his de
parture for Chihuahua.
CONFERENCE IS HELD.
WASHINGTON, March I.—No c¢x
emination of the body of William S.
Benton, the British subject execut=d
by General Villa at Juarez, will b 2
made by the commission composed of
American and British Government
representatives pending the outcome
of an exchange of notes between Gen
eral Carranza, chief of the Mexican
Constitutionalists, and the United
States Government,
General Carranza's declaration that
Great Britain instead of the United
States should deal with him concern+
ing the death of a British subject,
together with the broad ultimatum
that all communiecations on interna
tionad affairs first should-be addrerssed
to him, instead of to General Villd ¢
any other subordinate, injected a hew
complication into the situation, %and
the expedition to Chihuahua, arfanged
to start from El Paso to-day, was
postponed. .
President Wilson and Secretavy
Bryan conferred most of thé aftér
noon, reading the notes from Qarran
za and other dispatches. Afterward
Secretary Bryan motored to thé Brit
ish Embassy and informed Sir Ceril
Spring-Rice, British Ambassador, that
the expedition to Chihuahua, whete
Benton's body is buried, had been
abandoned until satisfactory arrange
ments could be made with General
Carranza.
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Killed by Explosion
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Of Infernal Machine
SULLIVAN, ILI., March I.—Fred
erick W, Mennerich was killed to-day
by the explosion of an infernal ma
chine which he received from De
catur, 111., by mail and tried to open
after deciding that his ability as an
expert repairman would prevent ig
pition of the explosize.
Mennerich's wife, from whom he
had been separated, was taken into
custody at Springfield, 111, as a wit
ness, but later was released.
Mennerich received the package by
mail Friday. It had been mailed at
Decatur Thursday. From the appear
ance of the parcel, Mennerich decided
it was an explosive apparatus, and re
fused to open it. He wrote a letter to
his wife in Springfield, tellin® her
about the package and saying he had’
cecided to open it, as he know how to
do so without causing an explosion. |
This letter was not mailed, but’ was'
found unsealed in the yard after the
explosion. This fact led the Sheriff’
to believe that possibly Mennerich
had made the machine himself t 0
cover up suicide.
MAN AND WIFE FREED.
SHREVEPORT, LA, March I.—A
verdict of not guilty was refurned
here to-day in the case of Hervey S.
Little and his wife, Anna Bond Lit
tle, the former charged with murder
ing J. J. Van Cleave, and Mrs, Liftie
as ascessory before and after’the facst,
Within a few hours after the jury
gave its decision a mass meeting of
protest was called. Soon after the
call was issued the presiding judge,
John R. Land, issued a statement up
holding the ‘action of the court angd
the District Attorney at the t'rlai.
The foreman of the jury, J. G. Hester,
also issued a statement saying the
State had not proved its case, As the
time for holding the mass meeting
drew near it was announced that it
had been postponed until Monduy
night.
Van Cleave wasg killed by Little Jast
fall as he came from a building in
which his real estate office was, lo
cated. It was charged Mrs. Little told
her husband that “if he didn’'t kill him
her father would,” because of an in
sult Van Cleave is alleged to have of
fered her. Little pleaded self-defense,
saying Van Cleave attemptdd to draw
a weapon just as he fired. , Lit
tle denied she urged her h T %:3
attack Van Cleave VanCl thd
_ Little ;formerly . Ware ;bug I
ners,
THE GFEORGIAN'S NEWS BRIEFS
FAIR REFUGEES FROM
TURBULENT MEXICO
Mrs. Harry Hendricks (at right), and Mrs. Arthur B. Cook,
who have just reached New York from Vera Cruz. Mrs. Cook is
the wife of the U. S. flag licutenant who was shot in the hip by
a Mexican assassin at Vera Cruz recently while near the dock.
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TAKES LIFE WITH DRUG. i
DALTON, GA., March I.—Tom!
Hembree committed suicide at a local
hotel last night by taking morphine.
He had just returned from the State
farm, where he had served a sen
tence, and wes despondent over do
mestic affairs. He left a .note direct
ing the disposition of his body and
asking that his relatives be notified.
Hembree was addicted to the use of
the drug which he used to end his ex
istence. He had sought to take his
lif> in the same way on a former oc
casion,
MANY SMALL BIRDS DIE.
AMERICUS, GA., March I.—As evi
dence of the severity of the recent
cold weather here, hundreds of small
birds perished in the snow, mostly
larks, thrushes and sparrows.
One hunter found a covey of four
teen partridges buried beneath a
snowdrift, The birds were nearly
frozen and made no attempt to es
cape, and all were captured.
Pea~h trees sustained no damage,
and orchards are reported in excel
lent condition,
LIFE SAVERS RESCUE CREW.
WAKEFIELD, R, I, March I.—The
fopur-masted schooner Jacob S. Wins
low, lumber laden, from Fernandina
for Providence, crashed onto Black
Rocks, on the southeast side of Block
Island, early to-day. Captain Wilson
and his crew of eight were brought
to shore several hours later by Block
Island life-savers, who made a hazard
ous trip in a surf boat through men
acing seas against p southeast gale
blowing 60 miles an hour,
TRAIN HITS AUTO.
COLUMBLUS, GA., March I.—Two
women, Lee Knight and Pauline
Cranford, were killed and two men,
C, F. Hollis and T. Z. Downs, were
injured when an automobile in which
they were riding was struck by a Sea
board Air Line .passenger train about
Lvo :miles south .of this city about 6
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FAMOUS HORSES BURN.
WARRENTQN. VA., March I,—The
stables at Waverly, the Virginia es
tate of Mr., and Mrs. S. J Josepthal,
of Baltimore, were destroyed by fire
here this afternoon, Mrs. Josephtal,
formeriy Miss Cherbonnier, one of the
most daring cross-country riders in
the East/ lost three of her famous
hunters—Honey Boy, Aristocrat and
Roberts lLouis Stevenson—three draft
horses, a pony, two motor carsg and
other property.
ATHLETE WILHELM DROWNED.
PADUCAH, KY., March I.—William
Wilhelm, reporter on a local news
paper, and formerly a star athlete cf
the State University of Kentucky, was
drowned here to-day when a canoe in
which he and Nelson Soule were pad
dling overturned. Soule was rescucd
by a tugboat. Wiihelm's body was not
recovered.
STEAMER STILL ASHORE.
NORFOLK, VA, March I.—With
high winds sweepin~ the coast, tne
British steamer Riverdale, which
stranded near Little Island ten days
ago, is still ashore, The tug I. J.
Merritt left for the scene to-day to
assist the tug Rescue, which has been
endeavoring to fldat the stranded
steamer since last Sunday.
RADIUM AND PLANT LIFE.
BILOXI, MISS.,, March I.—Experi
ments in the effects of the radium
bearing earth on plant life are being
made here by Professor 8, M. Tracy,
to ascertain what value, if any, ft
might have over ordinary earth used
for agricultural purposes. A shipment
of fifteen pounds of radium earth was
sent here by the College of Pharmacy
of New York City.
$200,000 LOSS BY FIRE,
PITTSBURG, PA.,, March I.—Fire
men in the downtown district of Pitts
burg were kept busy to-day fighting
firea. Three fires did:neardy $200,000
damige. ; -
COUNTRY FLAYED
BY BIG BLIZIARD
All Eastern Part of United States
Assailed by Storm of Rain,
Snow and Wind.
NEW YORI, March I.—A northeast
storm, swerving to the uacrthwest,
which first brought rain, then snow,
raged over New York and vicinity to
day, cutting the city almost complete
ly off from telegraph and telephone
communication. Reports showed its
effects to ba widespread.
Three deaths due to the storm oc
curred here, two together xhen a roof
collapsed under the weight of wet
snow, crushing a man and a boy. An
other man, blinded by snow, was
killed by a irain. Several persons
were overcome by exposure, and a
number were injured in street acci
dents.
Trains for the most part left the
railroad terminals on time, but, with
wires down, cuickly were lost track
of. Nothing could be learned con
cerning lincoming trains except us
they arrived, late on all lines.
Wire Poles Go Down.
Wet snow snapped telegraph and
telephone wires, and, with a gale
blowing 72 miles an hour at times,
many poles toppled over. On some
lines the poles fell across railroad
tracks, blocking traflic.
As reports began to come in later
to-night it was learned that the
blockade of train traflic on some rail
road lines was even more serious than
had been thought earlier. The west
beund Twentieth Century Limited for
Chicago was reported halted hy fallen
poles across the New York Central
tracks north of Ossining. Other
trains on the line were stalled at va
rious points.
At local offices of telegraph com
panies it was said conditions were
among the worst in vears. The West
ern Union's 50 wires to Chicago.and
most of the 151 wires to Philadelphia
were down. Chicago was reached
early in the evening by a few remain
ing wires by way of Philadelphia and
Pittsburg. The Postal Telegraph Clom
pany reported wire prostration of
similar seriousness. It will be nearly
a week, it is said, before service can
be wholly resumed
Ships Held Outside.
Ships due te reach this port to-day
were held up cutside. On advice from
Washington, the local bureau warned
shipping not to put out to sea.
The disturbance centered at Cape
Hatteras early in the day and moved
north, gaining in intensity, and was
expected to pasg directly above New
York. Albany reported a six-inch
snowfall: in New York the weather
bureau recorded a fall of 9 1-12
inches. More snow and colder weather
was forecast for to-morrow, Between
13,000 and 14,000 men will be put to
work to-morrow shoveling snow, pro
viding jobs for that many of the un
employed.
Wires broke and poles and trees
were blown down in all parts of the
city. Trolley and elevated service
was delayed, and in some instances
tied up.
BROTHERS ARE KILLED.
L.YONS, FRANCE, March 11—
Pierre and Gabriel Salvez, brothers,
were killed to-day as they were mak
ing an experimental flight in all
metal monoplane of their own inven
tion. A wing of the monoplane gave
way and the machine fell to the
ground.
SLASHED BOTH SIDES.
NEW YORK, March 2.—Hereafter
skirts will be slashed on both sides to
permit grace in walking and to allow
the dancing of modern steps, accord
ing to Madame Henri Joire, who ar
rived from Paris with a long list of
the latest feminine fashions.
SAID PASHA DEAD.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March I.—
Said Pasha, former Grand Vizier, died
here to-day.
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