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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. 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