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VILLA’S TROOPS ARE DRIVEN FROM CITY OF TORREON otELYa QUITTING CHAKES CABINET English Secretary for War Re fuses to Have His Plans Interfered With. . g By HERBERT TEMPLE. LONDON, March 25.—Premier As quith’'s (‘abinet was shaken to-day by the resignation of Colonel John Edward Bernard Seely, Secretary for War. The resignation was officially announced this evening. He gave up his post Lecause of interfere. ce with his plans for mobilizing the army (o crush the Ulster volunteers organ ized to fight home rule. Premier As ?_uilh refused to accept the resigna- News of Seely’'s resignation came while the House of Commons was holding the stormiest session that has marked the proceedings since the home rule bill was introduced. Win ston Churchill, First Lord of the Ad miralty, and one of the chicf advo cates of an aggressive policy against the people of Ulster, was made the target for an attack by the Unionists shortly after the House of Commons convened. He was bombarded with questions as to the attitude of the (tovernment toward Ulster, and re plied calmly until asked whether he had hoped that the precautions taken to guard the Government stores lin Ulster would cause fighting. Churchill Venement in Reply. Leaping to his feet, the head of ta2 British navy shouted: . “Perhaps I may be cllowed to repu diate that hellish insinuation.” A prolonged uproar followed, 'he Unionists demanding that Qhurchill withdraw the c¢xpression “hellish in sinuation” and the Liberals shouting: “No, no; he’s right.” Speaker Lowther finally ruled that Churchill would have to withdraw the expression, and he complied amid a deafening din of shrieks ar.l hisses. When the confusion over the Churchill incident had been quieted, Colonel Seely, whose late arrival at the session had been taken as con firmation of earlier ‘eports that he had quit the Cabinet, was questioned by members of the opposition as o the proceedings in Ulster. C'olonel Seely made a flat denial that King George had taken any ini tiative in the dispute involving the refusal of Ulster officers to march against their count: rmen. He elab orated detai's of correspondence re lating to the Ulster :natter which the Government had made public earher in the day, and made the informal announcement that he had tendered his ru>i=rn:ui‘on. : i Pandemonium Follows. Pandemonium followed Seely's an nouncement. Ex-Primier A. J. Bal four, a Unionist, shouted to Premier Asquith. “ls this :tatement true?” The Premier answered: “(‘olonel S-ely is still a member of t-a Cabin-t.” (‘olonel Seely attempted to proceed with his statement, but the Premier interrupted and cried: “C‘olonel Seely is still a member cf the (‘abinet.” Colonel Seely made a long staie ment in his own behalf. Speaking coldly and in impassioned tones, the War Secretary calmly gave his own version of the War Office’s activities. He read Government correspond ence bearing upon the matter, aal declared that the military prepara tions were all of a precautionary na ture “Unfortunately, the officers who re signed were laboring under a misap prehension,” said the official. “They got the impression that the Govern ment intended to treat Ulster as an enemy and overwhelm her in a sur prise attack, but this is utterly un true.” WANTS TO CUT PRAYER. WASHINGTON, March 25.—“ U ncle” Joe Cannon intends to cut the prayer of the House chaplain to five minutes and try to eliminate it en tirely when he “comes back” to Con gress. He wants to substitute hymuns for the prayer. @f.\ff‘, éfi“y e 2 uf\ga;;%“;e‘i g il S it i 5155 eI, Sl = NWams Gt £o % ol o '-‘Q-(‘"c‘r' NS &35 iy ? - 45 b Zafa b BN Potash for Orchards W Kk, o i b 8 -& They need it. They draw more Potash from the Q% ?‘Y s soil than they do of nitrogen and phosphorus. 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R o e 3 e S 5 Rt t 3 f o ; ey @AY t e e ’ o :‘: ‘ hf.;-. ’\- 4 P e* g "':_'Z:' Y Wik ‘?‘V‘ : " S e ; :‘;(, 3 A S ' ;‘ ‘. g —“"' ! B ;'2' % e g e o R o " S ! L : ‘ ' £ e5O l -~ oy S ¥ - Sy y i AT S ks g 1 S L s TR e RS L S AR RS S ] 3 - R, B e LB T S i S e % e 55 B O Py R EE e A R R e R OV i S o 3 S s Le G e e e e e ELOU R % : 2 A - % e i “jj&’ SU S A R 3 A > - VAP : 71 N w e R P : == e da el A S & Declares Roosevelt Sanctioned, 2 3 i While President, “lllegal Do ings” by New Haven Road. NEW YORK, March 24.—Charles W. Morse, who is forcibly illustrat ing the fallacy of the old saw, "They never come back,” was back at his work to-day, after a trip to Europe, He came back minus the graceful mustache that used to adorn his up per lip. And he looked all the younger and stronger for the change. The frosted hirsute ornament carried with it some idea of years passed, and the magnate has sliced off a few of the years with the aid and con nivance of the barber. He denied that he was going to make any fight on the South Ameri can carrying trade, and let drop a sensational charge that former Pres ident Roosevelt had sanctioned, dur ing his terra, some of the “illegal do ings” of the New Haven Railroad. The charge made by Mr. Morse, who was leoking his best and show ing a vast improvement over the days when his vhysicians solemnly as sured President Taft that he would die in a year, whether he got out of the Atlanta penitentiary or not, cre ated vast interest. It was considered sensational, ) Stonewall Jackson's Grandniece El opes I.OS ANGELES, March 25.—Miss Mae Jones, beautiful young grandniece of General Stonewall Jackson, and daugh ter of a wealthy retired New York lum berman, and Herbert A. Hughes, a young real estate dealer of Los*Angeles, eloped and were married in Santa Ana a week ago last Saturday. News of the elopement became known to-day. FAVORS WHIPPING POST. WILMINGTON, DEL, March 25.— Methodist ministers of Wilmington uphold the whipping post. One of their number at a meeting in Grace Church startled his hearers by de claring that he had been whipped at the post and knew what it was. The speaker from experience was the Rev. W. A. Wise, pastor of Scott Church, His father, who was a jailer at New Castle jail years ago, he said, took him to the post and gave him a lashing just for an experiment. He was too short to reach the handcuffs on the post, so he stood on a box, He sald his father Mshed him without removing his outer garments, not be cause he had committed any crime, but to ascertain if the lash was really dangerous, e e CANE FOR CHAMP CLARK, “7JASHINGTON, March 25.—Speak er Champ Clark possesses an inters esting addition to his cpllection of canes in the gift by Judge Jd. B. M. Winburn, of Gainesville, Ga., of a handmade stick of black locust which grew near the top of Yonah Mountain, in White County, Georgia. It is sald that Speaker Clark has the most wonderful assortment of canes and walking sticks in America, the gifts of admirers from all parts of the country, | GARRANZA RUSHES TOCHIEF'S RLIEF EL PASO, March 2.,—General Vil la's Constitutionalist army has been driven from tha outskirts of Torrecn after a terriffic sortie of t Federal garrison and has retreated toward Gomez Palacio, leavin- 45 dead and dying upon the field. This information was rc eived hera this afternoon from Mexico City in a private dispatch to J. H. Smith, a walthy American, who has extensive interests in Mexico. - According to this message, which is evidently based upon reports tele graphed from General Velasco, the Federal leader in Torreon, to tho Huerta government, the Federals have effectually checked the Consti tutionalis attack vpon Torreon, The message confirmed a belif which has be-n growing here all day. It was argued that if Villa had been victorious in his onslaught upon Tor reon he would have .ifted the embar go on the telegraph wires running northward to Juarez a. d allowed the entire world to learn of his sweeping victory over the Huerta forces, RUSHES TO VILLA’S RELIEF. JUAREZ, MEXICO, March 25.—— That General Villa, the Constitution alist leader, has met with a severe re verse in his attack on Torreon, was evidenced this afternoon when Gen eral Carranza, leader of the Consti tutionalists, with 1,000 men, rushed to Gomez Palacio to reinforce the rebel general, General Carranza had intended to come here with his troops, but word was received by him that General Villa was in dire straits and he changed his plans, hurrying to the aid of his aggressive general. General Villa this atternoon sent a message to Governor Chao at Juarez stating that the Federals had recap tured Gomez Palacio. The rebel general stated that a ter rific engagement was being fought around Torreon and Gomez Palacio. The Kederals are completely sur rounded, Villa stated, and he was con fident of success. Both sides are re sorting to a heavy cannon and ritla fire. 1,900 REPORTED KILLED. CONSTITUTIONALIST ARMY HEADQUARTERS, EL VERJEL, MEXICO, March 25.—More than 20,- 000 soldiers grappled in a battle to the death at Turreon to-day. After a cessation in his attack from § o'clock yesterday afternoon until dawn fo day, General Villa, commander-in chief of the Constitutionalist forces, renewed his attack upon the Federal army of General Velasco. Villa gent about 11,000 men into tha combat, holding in reserve more than 1.000, mostly cavalry. Opposing him were 8,000 Federals. The Federal army originally consisted of more than 9.000 men, but prisoners taken by Villa and sent on here declared that fully 1,200 Government soldiers had been killed and wounded in tho fighting of Monday and Tuesday. The rebel loss, according to Constitution alist officers, is estimated at 700. Tha total losses, as based upon these two estimates, is the heaviest that has marked any battle in the present reva. olution, Hunt McCarrick Boy In Camps of Gypsies PHILADELPHIA, March 25.—Fa11« ure to find the body of 8-year-old Warren McCarrick in the Schuylkill River, or in the sewers in the vicinity of the Children’'s Home, has cons vinced the police that the boy was kidnaped, and to-day they centerad their search upon a hunt for an old canvas-covered wagon of the prairie schooner type. The only theory left unexploded in the case is that the child was stolen by gypsies. GO TO ANNAPOLIS. BARNESVILLE, March 25 —Cadet I'red Holmes, of Gordon Institute, who received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at An napolis from C(ongressman Hughes, has passed the entrance examination, and will report at Annapolis in June, Cadets John Teasley and Jack Smith, who have received appointments to the Naval Academy from Senator Hoke Smith, wi!l take the examina tion in April. (‘adet Henry Lee has just received his appointment from the Governs ment to the Constabulary Service, WON'T GIVE UP FIGHT. ~ WASHINGTON, March 25.—Major« ity Leader Underwocd to-day em phatically dmfi reports that he has decided to dr his fight against the rereal of free Panama Canal tols. “I'have not given up the fight and have no Intention of doing so,” said Underwood. “There i 3 absolutely not a word of truth in the statement, and I hope that my denial will be given the full« est publicity.” . ) 3