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TROUBLE ON !N MEXICO
President Roosevelt Orders
Troups to Rio Grande.
REQUEST CAME FROM MEXICO
Asks the United States to Prevent Vio
lation of Neutrality Law--Malcontent*
Scattered Over Republic.
Washington.—By direction of Presi
dent Roosevelt, Secretary of War Taft
lias issued orders to the commanding
general of the Department of Texas at
Kan Antonio to send a sufficient num
ber of troops to .Del Rio, El Paso and
other points in Texas to aid the civil
authorities in preserving order. This
action was decided upon as a result of
the request from the Mexican govern
ment that the United States do its ut
most to prevent any violation of the
neutrality laws.
Brigadier General L. A. Moyer, in
command of the Department of Texas,
is authorized to ascertain the number
of troops necessary at Del Rio and El
Paso and also to send troops to any
other points along the Mexico-Texas
border if found advisable. The federal
troops will act under the directions of
the United States marshal and the
United States district attorney. Del
Rio is directly opposite Das Vacas,
Mexico, where the principal disturb
ances have occurred.
City of Mexico. Up to Monday
evening there had been no news of
any sort received at the capital that
would indicate that there had been a
repetition of the disorders similar to
those which occurred at the towns of
Viesca and Las Vacas.
The entire direction of the campaign
against the malcontents is under the
direction of the secretary of the inte
rior, Senor Corral, who is also vice
president of the republic.
Dallas, Texas. —Carrying his arm in
a sling, Sam P. Harrison, for the last
live years a resident of Blanco, Mex
ico, arrived in Dallas Tuesday, with
his family, en route east, to visit rela
tives. Mr. Harrison got his wound
from a shot that was tired through
the window of his home after night
fall. lie says, however, it was a stray
bullet and that Americans who have
not interfered with the affairs of the
revolutionists, have not been both
ered.
"That is not a fake revolution,” said
Mr. Harrison. "It is a dead earnest
affair. I am inclined to think that
the soldiery of the president are aiding
and abetting the revolutionists. 1
personally know that the president is
greatly worried. It is mv opinion that
the Mexican army is honeycombed
with the revolutionists.”
Asked his opinion of the ability of
President Diaz to cope with the situa
tion, Mr. Harrison replied that he be
lieved the president would manage the
affair. ,
"But when lie is dead,” added Mr.
Harrison, "and that will not he very
long now, as the president is getting
old, tlie Diaz regime will be at an
end. When Diaz dies 1 look for a
general uprising and the revolutionary
element will take the lead in affairs.”
RELIEF fUK VICTIMS OF FLOOD.
Federal Government Orders Six
Weeks’ Supplies for 4,000 Persons.
Vicksburg, Miss.—Lieutenant F. B.
Upham of the United Slates army who
was sent here to look over the flood
conditions, returned from a launch
ride through the overflowed districts
of Warren and Isaquenna counties
and reports that 2,000 or 3,000 per
sons need relief, lie received tele
graphic /orders lo at once order out
supplies for six weeks for about 4,000
sufferers in Wilkinson, Adams, and
Jefferson counties, which districts he
visited.
Thp orders for this district will he
made after Lieutenant Upham shall
have visited the Big Black river neigh
borhood. While Lieutenant Upham
and A. L. Dorsey, a prominent plant
er, were on the trip they had just
eaten breakfast on a projecting plank
in the Mississippi, near Brunswick
landing, and had left the place only
a little while when the bank caved
into the river in forty feet of water.
CLEVELAND'!) LIFE WORK.
To Be Published in Book Form—Six
Hundred Pages Already Finished.
Mew York City.—Under orders from
Mrs. Cleveland work has been begun
on memoirs of the late president, con
sisting of clippings from newspapers
and periodicals on his death and fun
eral. The work will require six
mouths to complete. As planned, there
will be several volumes, consisting ot
editorial notices, news dispatches, il
lustrations and cartoons, each bound
in Russian leveut leather and lined
with purple moire silk. '
NAHUM CREiM MEN.
Frank M. Gettys, Louisville, Re
elected President.
..Denver, Colo.—The National Asso
elation of Credit Men concluded Us
convention here by electing officers as
lOllOWS;
President, Frank M. Gettys, Louis
vllle, re-elected; first vice president,.
T. -VI. McAdoo, Chicago; secretary
treasurer, Charles E. Heck, re-elecier;
directors, A. 0. Foster, Denver; Frank
J. Lamotte, Baltimore; F. R. Salis
nury, Minneapolis; J. W. Spangler,
Jr., Seattle; H. G. Moore, Kansas
City; George K. Smith, New Orleans;
and David S, Ludlam, Philadelphia.
Philadelphia will be the next place
cS meeting.
NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS.
Plan to Put 250,000 Ready for Call of
President.
New York City.—The war depart
ment has perfected a plan for the vir
tual amalgamation into a trained army
of 250,000 men ready to answer the
call of the president, of the regular
and national guard troops in the
United States. Assistant Secretary of
War Oliver, who is at Pine Camp, wit
nessing the department of the east
maneuvers has given out this informa
tion.
Secretary Oliver in outlining the
plan for the reorganization of nation
al and state troops declared that the
word militiamen is now a misnomer
and that the state troops since the pas
sage of the Dick bill by congress are
United States volunteers.
The department plai* means
nothing more nor less than that the
moment this country gets into trouble
the so-called national guard organiza
tions will cease to exist as such, and
immediately become units of the reg
ular army, absolutely under the con
trol of the president and the secretary
of war.
“The scheme,’’ said General Oliver,
“is the first move in the plan to make
this country a military power. Before
this we have had no authority over
the state troops, better known perhaps
as militia and national guard organi
zations. What we propose tq do is to
organize these state troops and all the
regular forces into eight army corps
and the New England states, New
York and other states in the military
division known as the department of
the east, will constitute the first army
corps.
“The maneuver grounds here on
Pine Camp, if the government buys
them, will be the place where the na
tional and state troops that will be in
the first army corps will have their
tleld training. In other words it
means that two years hence 50,000
men will be mobilized on this plan.
"As at present planned the war de
partment will he able to put into the
field almost immediately an army of
250,000 men.
A GROWING INDUSTRY.
Two Hundred Thousand Barrels of
Oysters Planted.
Jackson, Miss. —According to ad
vices received from the gulf coast,
tlie Mississippi oyster commission is
making good headway with the work
of planting reefs in the. Mississippi
sound.
Over 200,000 barrels of shells will
be planted during the summer months
and, if former experience is repeated,
these beds will be furnishing fair
sized oysters within the next three
or four years. The former experi
ments have been remarkably success
ful, and the commission is getting the
work of propagation in first-class
shape.
According to members of the com
mission, the reefs are now in better
shape than for some time. Shells
that were planted only three weeks
ago are developing clusters, and the
ratio of growth is much larger in the
waters of the gulf than along the At
lantic coast.
CLUB WOMEN INJURED.
Tally-Ho Coach Turns Over On Steep
Hill—Dozen in Hospital.
Newport, R. I. —Two women dele
gates to the General Federation of
Women's clubs’ convention in Boston
were dangerously hurt and ten others
more or less seriously injured when a
tally-ho coach in which they were rid
ing capsized on a steep hill on Bath
road. All of the twelve women who
were in the coach were taken to the
Newport hospital. The delegates were
on tin excursion to this city. The
identity of the injured and the nature
of tneir injuries is withheld by the
hospital authorities.
It is understood that among the in
jured in the accident were Mrs. Dr.
Davenport of Watertown, Mass., and
Mrs. Stniden of Lincoln, Neb. Mrs.
Suuden was cut about the face and an
kles.
ALL (JUIET IN COLON.
Candidates of Obaldia Successful—No
Trouble at Polls.
Colon, Panama:—General Obaldia's
candidates carried municipal elections
here by a majority of ninety-four
votes. Throughout the election order
prevailed. The government party is
downcast bv the result. United States
marines are ashore in the canal zone
to protect property of the American
government but no trouble is expect
ed ,
As an additional precaution a.l the
docks and the railroad tracks In this
vicinity were kept clear and tire hose
was distributed throughout the vicin
ity. A strict guard was also main
tained over all buildings belonging to
the United States.
TO END IURKISH HULL.
England, Russia, United States ar.d
Other Powers to Act.
London. England.—lnformation con
sidered reliable, declare* that Eng
land’s foreign office intends to end
Turkish rule in Macedonia, which has
been a long record of murder and out
rage. It is said the matter was dis
cussed by King Edward and the czar
at the recent meeting and they con
cluded an international understand
ing similar to the Algeciras treaty re
garding Morocco was imperative! It
is understood the United States will
be invited to join the other powers in
the initiative by England and Russia
for a conference concerning Maoedo
u,a. j
BURIALOFEXPREBIDENT
Held at Princeton Home with
Friends and Acquaintances.
SERVICES ARE VERY SIMPLE
No Sermon or Addres*---Wordsworth’
“Character of the Happy Warrior”
Read.
Princeton, N. J. —All that was mor
tal of Grover Cleveland, former presi
dent of the United States, was buried
in the Cleveland family plot in Old
Princeton’s cemetery Friday after
noon, just as the last rays of the sun
fell across the grave. A distinguished
party of statesmen as well as con
freres of the former official stood by
in silence and witnessed the last hon
ors to the dead ex-president. Then
the cortege left the cemetery.
Agreeable to the wishes of Mrs.
Cleveland, the services both at the
house and at the cemetery were of the
simplest character.
Although the funeral was of a strict
ly private nature, those in attendance
numbered many distinguished citi
zens, including President Roosevelt,
Governors Fort of New Jersey, Hughes
of New York, Hoke Smith of Georgia,
former members of President Cleve
land’s cabinet, officials of the Equita
ble Life Assurance society, memoers
of the Princeton university faculty and
friends and neighbors.
Mr. Cleveland was buried with all
the simplicity and privacy that he him
self wished as a private citizen rather
than as the former chief executive of
the nation.
file services began with an invoca
tion by Rev. Sylvester W. Beach of
the First Presbyterian church of
l’nnceton, which was followed by
Scriptural reading by Rev. Maitland
V. Partlett of the West Farms Presby
terian church of New York, a former
pastor of Mr. Cleveland, who read
from the 14th chapter of the book of
John, and also read a number of pass
ages from the 4th and 22d chapters of
j the Thessalonians.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke then said:
“According to the request of one
: whose slightest wish at this moment
iwe all respect, there will be no ad
| dress or sermon, but there was a poem
; written more than a hundred years
ago by William Wordsworth which is
! expressive of his character.”
He then read the poem, "Character
'of the Happy Warrior.”
This was followed by readings from
the Presbyterian book of Common
Worship, the services at the house
house concluding with this prayer:
The services were concluded at 5:30
and five minutes later the casket had
been tenderly carried to the hearse
and the procession started on its way
to the cemetery. Along the streets
from the house to cemetery, national
guardsmen, mounted and on foot, po
liced the way.
USED AS WASH HAG.
American Fought to Regain Flag and
Was Pursued by Army.
Washington, D. C. —The Americans
in Panama have had cause for heated
protests recently, not on account of
the Panama elections, but because of
an incident which called in action u
portion of the Panama army.
A foreign commercial house in Co
lon insulted the American flag, using
it to wash the windows of the estab
lishment. Wayne O. Adams, of the
canal zone, as the story goes, wit
nessed the desecration of the stars
and stripes and engaged in a hard
fought battle for the possession of one
of the flags which were being used to
clean windows.
He was pursued, according to re
ports, by a section of the army of
Panama, consisting of two policemen
and a member of the militia in full re
galia.
Asa result of the disrespect shown
the flag by the commercial house in
question me canal zone from one end
to the other is hung with boycott
signs and the offenders have found
less expensive wash rags.
ADVANCES TO ROVAL FAMILY.
Demand for Vigorous Investigation of
Affairs in Portugal.
Lisbon, Portugal.—a mass meeting
organized by the republicans and pre
sided over by Bernadino Machado, the
republican leader, passed resolutions
demanding a vigorous investigation
of the advances of money to the royal
family and the misuse of public funds
during the regime of the late King
Carlos. A strong force of police sur
rounded the meeting place, but there
was no interference with the speakers,
some of whom were most violent in
their expressions. No untoward in
cidents took place.
CHINESE EXCLUSION.
Miniater Wu To Know How Many Will
be Admitted.
Honolulu. —The Chinese committee
which has charge of the agitation for
a modification of the exclusion laws
laws so as to permit of a limited im
migration of Chinese to these islands
has received a letter from Minister
Wu Ting Fang at Washington asking
what number of Chinese immigrants
it suggests should be admitted here
annually. The committee has replied
that it desires that 5.000 a year should
be admitted for about seven years, in
addition to their families. it esti
mates that with such an immigration
there would be at the end of ten
years only about 50,000 Chinese in the
territory.
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