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BATTLE IS FOUGHT FOR POSSESSION OF TORREON CITY \ i e | e . ' Mississippi Doctor Kills His s 3 Young Affinity and Then ' 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. 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W Ve N S S o L C o B eST v e ; PR B LRV BelidßEE L Ngk K T O e s b gttt 00l G LT g s R b B GRS | E R R AN L s ‘ i il :‘.~_:-'< { ~E'.;v: ', 5 B i N g L ¢ e ¢ X ; ; 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.” ‘ . 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 . Villa Orders General Advance ' . After Learning of Rival’s Plan . 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. At Manufacturer’'s Prices! Made of finest waterproof e¢loths. 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