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BATTLE IS FOUGHT FOR POSSESSION OF TORREON CITY
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Mississippi Doctor Kills His
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Young Affinity and Then
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Shoots Himself.
COLUMBIA, "MISS,, March 15.—A
story of unlawful love ending in a
double tragedy was hrought to lignht
with the finding of the bodies of Miss
Clara Pclk, aged 19, with a bullet hole
through her heart, and Dr. John J.
Stringer, aged 42 in the outskirts of
Cakvale, sixteen miles north of this
city, early to-day. The Coroner's jury
returned a verdict that the girl had
been killed by Dr. Siringer, who had
sent a bullet through his own brain.
Girl in Boy’s Garb.
A second wound was discovered in
the young woman's shoulder. She
was dressed in youth's clothing, later
identified as belonging tc her brother.
A loaded revolver was strapped to her
beit, all cartridges intact. A revolver
with three empty shells was found
still clasped in Dr. Stringer’'s right
hand. The two bullets extracted from
the hody of the gir] fitted the weapon
and pr.ved to the satisfaction of th 2
jury that she had been killed by him.
Testimony of Wife.
Mrs. Stringer testified that last
Saturday she had upbraided her hus
band for his attentions to the girl,
and that h> had promised to desist,
She also said she had written a letter
to Miss Polk urging her to force Dr.
Stringer to* cease his attentions. J.
K. Pelk, father of the girl, said that
he had heard revolver shots in that
vicinity shortly .after 10 o’clock last
night.
Dr. Stringer was prominent in this
region, where he had practiced medi
cine nearly twenty years. A wife and
several children survive him. Miss
Polk is survived by her parents and a
brother,
EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN.
TOKIO, March 15.—A serinis
earthquake occurred to-day in the
prefecture eof Akita, island of Hondo.
A number of persons in the city of
Akita were killed, and many houses
were destroyed or damaged. In the
village of Kowakubi, which wis
ruined, there were many casualties.
The disturbances badly - damagzged
railroad and telegraph lines. The
volcano Asama-Yama., 90 miles
northwest of Tokio, is in eruption.
Full details of the disaster have not
been received, owing to the interrup
tion to communication. Sixty bodies
were found in the basin of the Omc
no River, where 320 houses were de
stroved. The village of Kitameno
was burned.
As a result of the earthquake, a
copper mine at Tsunmdato collapsed.
and the fate of the 300 miners is un
known.
Simultaneous with the earthquake
came terrific explosions and the burst
ing of flames from the volcano Asa
ma-Yama, terrifying the inhabitan's
of that aistrict,
GIRL SHOT TO DEATH.
SWEETWATER, TENN., March
15.—Annie Hobson, aged 15, was shot
and instantly killed this morning at
the residence of Dr. Eugene Lees, at
Frie, ten miles from this place. Dr.
Lees says the shooting was aecident
al, the gun he was oiling being dis
charged unexpectedly. The bullet
entered her temple. The girl, the
daughter of a farmer, had been un
der treatment by Dr. Lees for some
time. :
It is not known whether there will
Lbe an official investigation of the
killing.
LIVED FOR 114 YEARS.
PENSACOLA, FLA, March 15—
Isaac Cooley, 114 years of age, the
oldest man in Escambia County, Flor.
ida, died to-day. He was born in
South Carolina in 1800, and is sur
vived by over 100 grandchildren,
great-grandchildren and great-great
grandchildren, He attributed his old
age to regular habits and up to a few
days of his death he continued to
arise at the break of day. His broth
er, who died one year ago, was two
vears his senior.
REBELS KILL FIVE PRIESTS.
NEW ORLEANS, March 15.—Five
priests have been slain by rebels in
the Mexican State of Tamaulipas
since November 18 last, three held
for ransom, a convent burned and a
cathedral and a smaller church loot
ed, according to two Cathelic priests,
Father Jose Moreno Madina and
Father Raymon Gonzales, who ar
rived here teo-day from Brownsville,
Texas. Both said they had been
driven from Victoria, Mexico, and
arrived penniless and weak from
three weeks' traveling.
CHILD KILLED BY AUTO.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, March 15
Ronald Mazo, the 5-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Mazo, was struck
by an automobile late this afterncon
and died half an hour later in a local
hospital. The car was being driven
by W. W, Byles, of Ocala, Fla., who
was accompanied by his wife and
brother,
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As iong as Georgia women fold
their newspapers with society gossip
turned outside and the werld news
and pelitics inside, Georgia wiil be a
backward State in the matter of equal
suffrage, says Mrs. A. P. Fuller, pres
ident of the Macon Woman Suffrage
Assoctation, in Atlanta for a. few
days.
“Equal suffrage in this State, I be
lieve, is only a matter of a few years
~—when the women of the State wake
up to the situation,” sajd Mrs. Fuller.
“At present more Georgia men than
woimen are interested in the proposi
tion. But the women are waking up
rapidly.”
Mrs Fuller is a “cosmopolite” in
Acts of Corporations
WASHINGTON, March 15.—The
interstate trade commission bill,
bearing the approval of President
Wilson and Attorney General Mcßey -
nolds, was made public te-day, fol
lowing many conferences among the
members of the THouse Interstate
Commerce Committee, Democrats ex
pect this measure to command subd
‘stantial Republican support, and an
effort probably will be made soen to
bring about concerted action between
the Senate and House on this phase of
'the Administration program of com
merce regulation and anti-trust legis
lation.
The new bill was unranimously
agreed on by its framers, a subcom
mittee of Democrats and Republicans,
headed by Represcntative Covington,
of Maryland, and it is approved by
‘virtually :he full committee.
~ “FThe whole theory of the creation
of the commission,” said Mr. Covins
ton to-might, “has been to make it an
efficient, independent body. In most
of the matters of publicity it has
entire control of the facts gatherad.
Publicity is left to its dlrection, and
the bill contains ample authority fer
it to prevent the disclosure of those
necessary trade secrets valueless to
the public in promoting lawful com
petitive business, but which, when
disclosed, simply afford opportunity
for injurious use hy competitors.
Powers of investigation, safeguarded
by proper constitutional Mmitations
against unlawful searches and seiz
ures, are taken from-a wew subordi
nate department under the control «f
the Ewecutive and giveén to this non
partims poay - o ot e
the O. Henry sense of that compre
hensive term. She has lived in Vir
ginia, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, Col
orado and Georgia. She is imbued
with the belief that she is capable of
administering any public office in the
power of the people to bestow, and
says, independently, that if Geergia
doesn't hurry up and give the ballot
to its women she is going West, not
especially to grow up with the coun
try, but to vote in some State that
has stepped ahead in the race for
equal suffrage.
“But 1 believe that I shall not have
to do that,” Mrs. Fuller says. “As
soon as Georgia women turn to some
thing more serious than the patter of
society and the trot of the tango,
Georgia will get equal suffrage.”
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U.B. Postmaster Slain
By Mexican Qutlaws
SAN DIEGO, € AL, March 15.-—The
United States customs office and post
oflice at Tecate were burned last nigh!
and the postmaster, Frank V. John
ston, was shnt.,“lead by three ban
dits, according to advices received
here to-night, Warren Widenback
was wounded. Observers of the trag
edy say the bandits were Mexicans.
A charred American flag was found
in the ruins of Johnston's store, which
also was the customs office and post
office, A posse started at daybreak
in pursuit of the bandits,
Johnston, it was learned, was shot
through the heart when he refused to
give the combination of the safe. El-
Hott D. Johnston, his brother, sent
telegrams to-day to Secretary Bryan,
Geovernor Hiram W, Johnson, at Sac
ramento, and Representative Kett
ner, at Washington, demanding an in
vestigation, He placed the responsi
bility for the tragedy on Mexicans.
MORE BODIES FOUND.
ST. LOUIS, March 15.—Three hod
ies to-day were removed from the
ruins of the Missouri Athletic Club
fire, bringing the total of dead re
covered to 29. ‘Thirty persons are
believed to have perished a week ago.
One of the bodies removed to-day
was identified as that of Allen Han
cock, of this ¢ity. Another was iden
tified positively as that of Joseph K
Chasnoff, of Sedalia, Mo, The third
is thought to be that of Marx Ham
mer, of this city, as a pair of links
found with the body bore “Hammer's
initials. x’rho total number identified
now is 23, g
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Villa Orders General Advance
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After Learning of Rival’s Plan
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to Take Offensive.
CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO, March 15,
A general forward movement of both
the Federal and rebel armies at Tor
reon was begun early to-day. prelimi
nary, it is bellieved, to the opening of
the long-deferred battle for posses
gion of that city. In the first skir
mishes between the outposts and the
Constitutionalists the latter were put
to flight, but in later minor engage
ments the rebels are reperted victo
rious.
Orders were given by General Fran
ciseo Villa for the advance of his
troops late lugt night. His action w 5
hastened by the interception of a
wireless message from President
Huerta, at Mexico City, to General
Refugio Velasco, commanding the
Eederal garrison at Torreon. As
caught by Villa’'s wireless station, the
message directed Velasco to take the
offensive against the Constitutional
ists imrhediately.
Special Train Started.
A speeial (rain has been started
for Juarez to bring General Felipe
Angeles, Secretary of War in the
Cabinet of General Carranza, to Chis
huahua to command the artillery,
with Colonel Servin second in com
mand.
Within a few hours after orders
were given for the rebel advance dis
patches from the extreme front re
ported a Federal movement westward
from Mapime through Canyvon La Ca
dena, which, owing to its proximity
to the Federal outposts, had not been
strongly garrisoned by the Constitu
tionalists. The small rebel force re
treated. CGeneral Tomas Urbina, with
2,000 men at Palayo, nime Spanish
leagues to the north, was immediately
ordered to advance, and General Villa
jssued a general order for the ad
vance of all the cavalry at Escalon,
Conejos. Peronal and other points
along his battle front, to the imme
diate northward of Torreon.
A later report from the front said
General Aguirre Benavides had pro
ceeded southward from Conejos, .n
response teo General Villa's order .o
advance, and, encountering a large
body of Federals south of Peronai,
drove them into Bermijillo. Losses
were not reported.
General Villa is impatient for the
arrival of General Angeles in order
that he may get away for the scene of
battle. He has suspended regular
train service, as all rolling stock will
be used for troop movement.
CENSORSHOP OVER LINES.
JUAREZ, March 15.—The inaugu
ration of a rigid censorship over tele
graph lines to-night is believed here
to indicate that important fighting
already has occurred in the Torreon
region, or that Villa has begun the
long-awaited attack on Torreon.
The chief operator here said that
press dispatches might come through
from Chihuahua later to-night. Un
confirmed reports had it that Federals
and rebels clashed between Escalon
and Bermejillo yesterday, and ‘the
sudden descent of the censor gave
rise to rumors that the rebels were
defeated.
HUERTA WILL NOT PAY.
MEXICO CITY, March 15.—The
Mexican Government, through Amer
ican Charge O'Shaughnessy, to-day
informed the United States Goveru
ment that it will refuse to meet che
cost of maintenance of Mexican priz
oners interned at Fort Bliss, Texas.
The note handed the Charge d'Af
faires quotes extensively various in
ternational autherities in support of
the contention that the expense should
be borne by the United States,
ACCUSED OF NAVAL GRAFT.
TOKIO, March 15.—Vice Admiral
Tsurutaro Matsuo, Inspegtor General
of Naval Construction on the Reserve,
was arrested to-day, charged with
cemplicity in alleged expenditures
graft. Admiral Matsuo, who is 50
years old, served the Government
abroad for a number of years and
several times has been decorated.
CONVICTS JOIN CHURCH.
OSSINING, N. Y., March 15—Thir
teen convicts in Sing Sing prison
were confirmed to-day in the Protes
tant chapel by Bishop David H.
Greer. The bishop was assisted by
the Rev. Burton Lee, the chaplain at
the prison, who had instructed the
candidates for confirmation.
NOW SHE'S NOT SANE.
NEW YORK, March 14-—-Mrs lda
Vendlaussen, twice adjudged insane
and committed to an asylum, was
to-day judged competent to manage
her own estate by a Sheriff's jury,
“Oh, you darlings, you darlings!™
she said to the jurors just after the
verdict was announced. Then she
shook each juror's hand.
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