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MANY LIVES LOST IN ST. LOUIS CLUBHOUSE FIRE
HUERTA GUARDS
. 5. EMBASSY
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Washington Begins Probe of Raid
by Rangers, Who Deny Cross
{ ing Border for Body.
WASHINGTON, March 9.—-The
United States Government took
prompt action to-day to investiga'e
the raid of arm2d Americans into
Mexico and to prevent sim.lar occur
rences in the future. At the request
of Secretary cf State Bryan, Secre
tary of War Garrison ordered General
Bliss, who is in command of the
American troops on the border, to in
stitute a prompt inquiry into the facis
connected with tk: recovery of the
body of (‘lemente Vergara.
General Bliss was instructed also
that extreme precaution must be
taken to guard against any similar
occurrence that might imbroil this
country and Mexico, He was asked
to lend all the aid possible to Uni
ted States Consul Garrett at Nuevo
l.aredo, who has been ordered to
make a complete report at the earliest
possible moment.
Wilson Not “Stampeded.”
At both the State Department and
the White House it was stated that
further action would depend upon
the official reports received from the
civil and military representatives of
the Government,
President Wilson refused to be
“stampeded” by the sensational re
ports telegraphed from the border,
and =at tight on the Mexican lid.
The President intimated ~that he
had received official advices that
Mexican officials had consented to
th: removal of Vergara’s body, al
though the administration had no
knowledge in advance of plans for
Letting Vergara's remains.
It is understood the President
wants a complete statement from
Gtovernor Colquitt, of Texas, but be
licves there ove no complications in
sight at present.
Alarm High at First.
Alarm over the Mexican situation
ran high in Government circles for
many hours to-day, following the re
ceipt of dispatches from the border
stating that a party of Texas Rangers
had invaded Mexico and had recov
ered the body of Vergara, the Ameri
can hanged by Federal troops near
Hidalgo.
Belief that intervention in Mexico
would be forced by the methods of the
Texans was frankly expressed in
many quarters, but the excitement
was quelled in great measure by the
receipt of the foliowing dispaten from
GGovernor O. B, Colquitt, of the Lone
Star State:
“Captain John B. Sanders, com
manding Company B, Texas Rangers,
at Laredo, advises me by telegraph
that he has recovered the body of
Clemente Vargara.
Body Secretly Delivered.
“I wired him for full particulars. He
advises me that he did not go into
Mexico at all, but was informed that
the body of Vergara would be deliv
ered on the Texas side of the river at
a placed named at 3:30 o'clock Sun
day morning. He went there and
found it.
“As to who brought it across tae
river he says he does not know. He
said he had no assistance in this mat
ter from the family and relatives of
Vergara, who, however, fully identi
fied the body.”
Secretary of State Bryan returned
early to-day from his trip to Spring
field, Mass., and immediately took the
helm at the State Department, where
Assistant Secretary Osborne had
been in charge during the absence of
his chief. Mr. Bryan immediately
sent a long cipher dispatch to United
State Consul Garrett at Laredo, ask
ing for a full report on the case.
Secretary Bryan refused ‘¢ discuss
the recovery of Vergara's body.
BLEASE READY TO FIGHT.
COLUMBIA, 8. C.,, March B.—Com
parative calm prevails to-day be
tween the Blease and anti-Rlease fol
lowers in the lLower House of the
General Assembly of South Caro
lina, following the most dramatic
scenes enacted in that body in recent
years.
Roused to a fury by the adverse
action of the House on a resolution
by a Blease follower to reopen the
Sfate Insane Asylum investigation,
ind an attack upon him by Represen
tative Stevenson, of Chesterfield, as
reported in The Columbia Record, the
Governor ascended the rostrum last
night and made a bitter attack upon
Stevenson,
Declaring that if the statements in
the paper were true, he would fight it
i personally, that he would be dead
r vindicated and that “Charlie”
S“mith would be Governor in the
ning, the Governor declared that
I vis a man and would fight those
titacked him.
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KILLED BY AVALANCHE.
NNA, Magrch 5 —Two Austrian
! r< and fifteen soldiers were killed
v when they were buried in ah
vhe while conducting maneu
y Urlralpes
MAR'S CROPS MENACED.
} L AGSTAFF, ARIZ., March 6.—Crops
o anel Mars are threatened by a
. «tv spring frost north of the Pro
i‘-‘" + cording to astronomers at the
oWI Observatory, .
THIE GEORGIAN'S NEWS BRIEFS
NEW EVIDENCE FOUND |
BY FACTORY FOREMAN |
Lemmie Quinn, foreman of the National Peneil Factory, who
discovercd that the murder notes were written on a pad used in
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Frank's lawyers were busy Monday
putting into shape the new evidence
to be presented to Judge Ben Hill in
the extra« ~dinary motion.
While the motion will contain a
great mass of evidence set forth as
“newly discovered,” it is more than
likely that the principal point—the
mainspring of the new battle—will be
the date on which a certain pad of
paper, used by Conley to write the
“murder notes" on, was used previ
ously for its more regular office of
transcribing factory orders,
Old Pad Was Used.
The defense wiil try to show that
the pad on which Conley wrote the
murder notes could not have been
taken by Frank (as Conley stated)
“from his desk,” because it was an
old pad, used up not later than 1608,
while H. . Becker was master me
chanie, and, containing merely the
carbon duplicates of ald requisitions,
would not have been in Frank's of
fice, but down in the basement, with
other waste paper.
In fact, the discovery has been made
that just below the second line of
Conley's straggly writing there ap
pears the faint imprint in carbon of
a bold and characteristic hand—the
traces of the signature of H. F. Beck
er, who left the factory months before
U.S.Senate Asked to
Pay Goethals Honor
. WASHINGTON, March 4.—A joint
resolution extending to Colonel George
W. Goethals the thanks of Congress for
his work on the Panama Canal and pro
viding for his appointment as a major
general in the United States Army, was
introduced to-day in the Senate by
Sepator Lodge.
The resolution provides also for an in
crease of one in the Ifst of active major
generals in the Army. The resolution
was referred to the Senate Committee
on Military Affairs from which an lw
mediate favorable report is expected.
BIG FIRE IN LA GRANGE.
LAGRANGE, March 9.—Callaway’'s
new department store was destroyed
by fire to-day, the origin of which is
a mystery. The loss is about $125,-
000, with about $90,000 insurance.
Kress' new store, next door, was
saved by & fireproof wall. Abdut 125
persons are thrown out of employ
ment by the fire. The store will be
rebuilt,
FAVOR SUPERVIS!ON.
NEW YORK, March 9.—Darwin P.
Kingsley, president of the New York
Life Insurance Company, in a letter
to the presidents of practically all
life, fire, accident and surety compa
mes; tndorsed Federal sapervision’ of
insurance companies, o 2
the murder of Mary Phagan, but who
was there in 1909, at the time the de
fense will contend the order blanks
were used.
The blanks thenm¥selves, in fact, were
dated for some year previous to 1919,
as the blank date was “190—" instead
of "“191—," as it would have been for
the later issue,
Old Copiss in Waste Paper.
The defense contends that the old
carbon copies of Becker's order blanks
had been carried to the basement as
waste paper, and will attempt to
show, in the plea for a new trial—
and in the trial itself, if granted—
that it was in the basement, near the
body of his victim, that Jim Conley
hurriedly procured the old order
blanks, and after a slovenly attempt
to erase the carbon traces, inscribed
the straggling characters that placed
the blame on some ‘long, tall, black
negro”—the antithesis of shott;
stocky, “ginger-cake” Jim Conley.
For the rest of the “new evidence,”
there is the repudiation of Albert
McKnight, that of Nina Formby and
Georgs Epps, and the statement of
Mrs. Ethel Harris Miller that she saw
Frank at the corner of Whitehall and
Alabama streets at the time he was
supposed by the State to have been
helping Conley to dispose of Mary
Phagan's body.
Girl Refuses to Bare
Shoulder for Judge
MORRIS PARK, N. Y., March 6,—Be
cause . Miss Marie Grether refused to
bare her shoulder to corroborate her
story, Magistrate lLeach discharged Otto
Straub. accused of striking her with a
snow shovel, -
WANTS WIGS FOR JUDGES.
BOSTON, March 9.—Discussing
“legal ethics” at the Boston Univer
sity Law School, former President
Taft said:
*Ldwyers should wear wigs and
gowns as they do in England, to show
respect for the court. All judges
ought to wear a distinguishing robe.
Peopl thould be made to observe
propriety in court. They should be
careful of their dress.”
SPRING FRESHET ON MARS,
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ, ‘March 9.—A
late spring freshet has occurred on
Mars in the region north of the Pro
ponts, and_ was still visible at 2
o'¢lock of the Martian afternoon, a
few days ago, according to announce
ment from the Lowell Observatory,
WOOES WITH DICTIONARY.
BOSTON, March 9.—With the aid
of a dictionary, Paul S. Whitcombh
wooed Angelina Houghton, of Havana.
She;"pe;l;; t:’x;lyspanis.g‘anddu Span
-Ish-Fngltsh® dictionary figured promi-
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GHARRED BODIES
TAKEN FROM RUINS
Hundred Men in Building When
Blaze Starts—Loss Estimated
at $400,000.
ST. LOUIS, Mar, 9.—Late this af
ternoon two more were reported
missing in the Missouri Athletic Club
fire, They are T. G. Little, a sales
man from Chicago, and Mike Thuma,
an out-of-town guest. This makes
the total of dead and missing 38. The
seriously injured number 290.
There is -considerable confusion
over the list of the missing, and it
will be perhaps 24 hours before the
correct figures on the casulty will be
obtainable
Twenty-two persons beHeved to
have lost their lives in the holocaust
was the first estimate. But as the
checking-up process at the temporary
headquarters of the athletic club
went on, it was seen that this esti
mate was teo low. Nameé after name
of men unaccounted for hours after
the first had burned itself out was
added to the already long list.
Nine Bodies Have Been Recovered.
“The probability is that all of the
missing are dead,” was the word
sadly given out by athletic club di
rectory this afternoon.
More than two score were injured
in the fire which destroyed the
ciub, one of the finest Institutions
of its kinds in the United Stat:s,
and the building occupied by the
Poatmen's Bank. A hundied men, as
far 28 known, were in the club build
ing when the fire sterted. The loss to
property is about $400,000. The ruins
\re being searched for bodies. Five
bodies were recovered early, and four
more at neon. The list of identified
dead includes:
JOHN MARTIN RICKEY, Chicago,
treasurer of the IFord Manufacturing
Company.
JAMES RILEY, 55, St. Louis,
C. I KOSSLER, 49, manager of
the Ludlow-Saylor Wire Company,
St. Louis.
All of these men were Kkiiled in
leaping from the upper floors of the
eight-story clubhouse.
Mordecai Brown Safe.
For some time it was feared that
Mordecai Brown, manager of the St.
Louis Federals, ¥nd been lost, but
later Mr. and Mrs. Brown were found
at a hotel.
The fire is believed to have started
in the main dining room on the third
floor of the main building. Nearly all
the guests and residents of the club
had retired when the fire started
about 1:50 a. m. A few guests were
in the lobby., These, withh Manager
and Mrs. Magill, went through the up
per halls and awoke everyone. When
the guests emerged from their rooms,
every hall was filled with smoke.
The third, fourth and fifth floors
were ablaze before the first alarm was
given Less than an hour later fire
was chooting from every window in
the building, and at 2:45 o'clock the
roof collapsed.
All Injured in Escape.
None of the persons in the building
escaped without some hurts. The
most seriously injufed were rushed ‘o
the City Hospital. Others were cared
for in the St, Regis and other nearby
hotels,
The firemen early gave up hope of
saving the Athletic Club and the
Boatmen's Bank Building, and devoted
their entire efforts to saving guests
who were about to leap out of upper
windows, and to preventing the spread
of the flames.
Boatman's Bank officials said at
the close of the business on Saturday
that there was $1,349,449 in currency
and $27.464 in coin in two large
spherical safes, which are in a heav
ily constructed vault of steel set in
concrete with a reinforced ceiling.
The Benton Commisslion Company's
building, directly back of the Ath
letic Club, was slightly damaged.
SUES FOR SEAT OF PANTS.
Damage to the pants and feelings of
J. Oscar Phillips, resulting in the to
tal ruin of the former and the ex
asperating embarrassment of the lat
ter, is charged in a suit filed Friday
in the Superior Court against the
Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany.
The claim also includes damage to
the skirt of Mrs, J. Oscar Phillips, ani
to her feelings, to a total extent of
$2OO, classified as follows:
The panis of J. Oscar Phillips, §25.
. The skirt of Mrs. J. O. Phillips, $25.
The feelings of both, $l5O,
OFFERS HUSBAND'S BODY.
NEW YORK, March 6—Officials
of the Museum of Natural History are
pondering over the problem to-day
as to how they shall answer a letter
from a Texas woman who offers the
“fossilized” body+of her husband for
vale, o 3 ;
“He was no gaod to me when alive
and I thought 1 might make some
thing out of him.as a fogsil. “"What
will you give for him?’ is the gist
of her letter. - - g
This is the first husband who ever
appeared in the fossil market.
and lack o}
control of
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