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DRIVEN FROM TAMPICO
Huerta Angered by Aetion of Admiral Fletcher,
<>f 1'. S. Navy. Whom I le <diaries With Aiding
Revolutionists 1,000 Slain in Terrifie Battle.
Continued From Page 1.
' ers t. Ho s i> s that nt 4 o’clock on
Friday he ordered all Americans out
ot the city t>f Tampico. The wrath-
• r ■ as favorable and he sent about
•»Oo men on t’ e Wheeling and Topil.i
(probably a chartered steamer) to the
battleships Virginia. Rhode Island
and New Jersey, outside.
Admiral Fletcher thinks all Ameri
can women and children are out of
the city now but that some of the
men him preferred to remain. He
‘The situation is growing wnne.
The Mexican gunboat Bravo is shell
ing the < ’(institutionalists but he
line of Bravo lire is away from the
neutral zone.”
A previous dispatch from Admiril
Fletcher said Huerta was sending
the gunboats Vera Uruz and Progreso
to r« in force th* Bravo.
The official statement of the Navy
Department on the subject of bung
ing prisoners Is as follows:
Admiral Fletcher has received *n-
formation that Fed era Is and Consti
tutionalists have shot or hanged nil
prisoners taken, numbering about G
i’hree of these men were hanged . 0
the forenoon within the Federal lim-a
in full view of the shipping ai\d th«
city. Admiral Fletcher made form :!
protest in the name of humanity
against the practice. He reports Mi. t
no foreigners or property have b • n
injured and that the New Jersey p
« n route to Tampico.
Liner to Bring U. S.
Refugees to Galveston.
Special Cable to The American.
VERA CRUZ, Dec. 13. The Ward
liner Morro Castle left for Tampico
this evening, to convey refugees to
(lalveston. The steamer Maria Crls-
t.i a is held in readiness for a further
call from Tampico.
Manuel Madero, who has been held
n San Juan de ITlloa, on a charge
«d conspiracy, was taken to Mexico
:ly to-day. He
tiled there.
will probably be
Candldo Aguilar, who has been
operating in the Tuxpam oil region,
1 " reported to have reached Tampico
'■• ill 3 000 men, to reinforce the rebels
attacking the city, leaving 1.000 men
at Tuxpam to engage the attention
ot General Maas and his Federals.
Pbo concerted attacks on Tuxpam
and Tampico are reported to be part
<*f a general plan, which Includes
• i move against Monterey by the
rebels, who have been operating
around Tampico.
War in Mexico Stops
Oil Stock Dividend.
DOS ANGELES. Dec. 13.—Asked
for an official explanation why the
Mexican petroleum directors In
creased the common dividend to 6 per
< rnt June last and then stopped pay
ment on both common and preferred,
V. 1. Doheny, president of the Mexi-
• an Petroleum Company, said here
to-rlay:
'The directors increased the com
mon dividend to 6 per cent last June
because we were earning those divi
dends. They stopped it. although still
earning the same dividends, becauso
T.mipico, the port from which all of
our oil Is being shipped, was fast be
coming the storm renter of war In
that section between the contending
parties in Mexico. The condition*-*
yesterday and to-day demonstrate
fully the wisdom of the board.”
Mexican Agents Will
Seek Money in France.
NEW YORK. Dec. 13 In the hope
of procuring French aid to finance the
tottering Huerta Government, Adol-
pho De La Lama. Mexican Minister
of Finance, and his secretary, {Salva
dor Eehagaray, sailed on the steamer
Olympic to-day.
The pair left Mexico uity several
weeks ago When th*- reached
Havana they mvsterlouslv vanished,
went to Key West and finished the
trip p> New York by rail. They have
been in this city two or three days.
They kept to themselves while here,
their only known visitor being Rob
ert H Honey man, a lawyer
Filibuster Leader
Sent Back to Jail.
MOBILE, De*- 13. Richard A
Denton, alias “Richard Douglas.” for
merly of New Orleans, who was
watched by Mexican wcscret service
men on account of his reporter! con
nection with a filibustering expedi
tion and who was tried on Thursday
on the oharge of obtaining $13.1 from
\\ L Finder, of Verfi (’ruz, Mexico,
by false pretense tend sent to the cir
cuit Court under $.100 bond, attempted
to gain his freedom to-day by habeas
corpus proceedings, but failed, the
court remanding him to jail. The
case will go to the Supreme Uourt.
Denton, who posed as a wealthy
man, can not make the bond.
Uncles of Madero Pass
Through Jacksonville.
JACKSONVILLE. Dec. 13 Gus
tave and Ernesto Madero, uncles of
the late unfortunate President of
Mexico, who fled to Cuba on the
United States steamship Chester, to
escape vengeance of Huerta, who ar
rived here yesterday, are to-day en
route to Texas and presumably bound
for their estates In Northern Mexico.
While here the Maderos were in con
sultation with leading lawyers well
versed in International law and others
who are heavily Interested In Mexico.
Monterey Shut Off
And Attack Expected.
LAREDO. TEXAS, Dec. 13. Train
service to Monterey over the National
lines is still off and railroad officials
here announce they can not say when
service will he resumed.
Rumor has it that the rebels plan
to attack Monterey early next week.
Wreck Called Plot
To Kill Rail Head
| Lake Shore Officials Believe Presi
dent Smith, of New York Cen- j
tral, Intended Victim.
CLEVELAND. OHIO. Dor. 13.—I
Lake Shore Railway detectives to- j
day put bloodhounds on the track of |
the train wreckers who loosened ra Is
at Wickllffe, oust of here, and ditch- d |
passenger train No. 16 last night, on j
which President Alfred H.
newly elected head of the New York
central lines, was a passenger.
# Lake Shore officials to-day came to !
the conclusion that the train was
wrecked In an attempt to kill Mr. |
Smith. A number of track men wore j
laid off recently, and It Is thought
that the disgruntled men may have
conceived and executed a plot to Kill
the president. The detectives are
also working on the theory that yeg„-
men Intent upon a hold-up may have
caused the wreck.
Children Win $5,000
From 2 Saloon Men
EDULLE
-DAY E
GREAT SPRINT
Teamed With Veteran Fogler, the
Australian Captures Honor in
Deciding Mile.
Father Can’t Provide; Mother Is
Insane; They’re in Orphan
age for Care.
WAUKEGAN ILL., Dec. 13.—A Jury
in the Lake County Circuit Court to
day gave a $5,000 verdict to. six small
children of Carl ffogstrum against
Peter Wember and Steve Cvetjip, sa-
loonkeepers who were charged with sell
ing lluuor to Hogstrum, making him In
capable of supporting tiie children, who
after their mother was sent to an asy
lum for the insane, were taken to Lake
Bluff Orphanage.
War Relics Awarded
To Jeff Davis' Heirs
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Alfred Goul-
let. of Gippsland, Australia, and Joe
Fogler, of Brooklyn, won the record-
breaking six-day bicycle race which
ended in Madison Square Garden at
10:05 o’clock to-wight. Goullet won
the Tier id I ng mile match for the* six
leaders by a sensational spubt on the
final lap.
Lawrence and Magin finished sec
ond. Root and McNamara third. Hal
stead and Drobach fourth, Verri and
Broce*o fifth and Hill and Ryan sixth.
The six leading teams each covered
1 miles In the 143 hours, shatter
ing the fe>rmer record of 3,737 miles,
1 lap, made by McFarland and Moran
in 1908. The victory marked Fogler's
fifth triumph in the New York six-
day grind.
The final score: 142 hour:
Goullet-Fogler, 2,751.
V’eni-Brocco. 2,751.
Hill-Ryan, 3.751.
Root - McNamara, 2,7.71.
Magin-Lawrence, 2,751.
I >robach - Halstead. 2,771
Mitten-Thomas. 2,750.9.
Corry-Walker, 2,750.9.
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Richest Mexican Reaches
U.S. With $2,500,000 Cash
COLORADO SPRINGS. COLO..
Dec 13. < ’IviI war relics from the
property of Jefferson Davis, which
have been in the possession of the
Wir Department at Washington for
almost half a century, have been
awarded to the Davis grandchildren
her-* on the request of Joseph Addi
son Hayes, president of the First Na
tional Bank and husoand of Jeff Da
vis' eldest daughter.
Hayes has obtained the relics for
the collection of William Hayes, his
second son.
Girl of Eight Sent
By Mail to Father
NEW LEXINGTON, OHIO, Dec. 13.
In the mail that arrived here recently
was an 8-year-old girl wearing a tag,
pinned on by New York immigration
officials, reading:
“This child, Julia Kohan, is going
to her father. John Kohan, box 117,
R. E. !>., No. 4. New Lexington. Ohio.”
After a breakfast supplied by the
postmaster, the child was taken In
care of a lural delivery carrier to the
home of net* father. The trip of 7,000
miles from Bavaria was made by her
unaccompanied.
Says Parents Teach
Children to Gamble
City's Bank Clearings
Again Show Increase
Atlanta's bank clearings again
showed a big increase over the clear
ings for the same time last year at
the close of business Saturday. The
fain for Saturday was $586.234.13, and
for the week over the corresponding
week last year, $2,670,885.26.
The figures are:
For Saturday, $3,211,465.43; for the
ri'VT 1 sponding day last year, $2,625,-
231.30.
For the week, $19,882,803.76: for the
corresponding week last year, $17,-
211,918.50.
[Fingerprints Doom
‘Mona Lisa' Thief
Paris Police Declare Guilt of Vin
cenzo Perugia Is Proved
Beyond a Doubt.
Special Cable to The American.
PA RIB, Dec. 13. -The finger prints
found on the glass frame from which
“LaGioconda” was stolen in the Louvr
tally exactly with the anthropometri-
cal record of Vincenzo Perugia, at 'h ?
prefecture of police, and establish
his guilt beyond doubt.
Perugia has served two terms in
prison, once for attempted theft and
again for violent assault.
Precautions are to be taken to
guard the painting against mishap or
malevolence while it is being brought
ba'k from Florence to Paris.
In certain circles of Paris there is
fear that an attempt will be made in
Rome to prevent the return of the
picture.
Princess in Trouble,
And All for Charity
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Dec. 13. — The kind heart
of Princess Mary has got her into
trouble. She set out to make Vene
tian bead necklaces to be sold for
charity. Immediately sjie was besM
by applicants—British and American
-who sent checks and asked neck-
iace- in return. She could not pos
sibly fill the orders, so she sent back
the checks. But there was . tangle
and some who got neither neckla'-p
nor check made a fuss.
Lord Stamfordham has taken
charge of the whole correspondence.
PLAKTD BUY
Masculine Eugenic
Volunteer Quits
DENVER. Dec. 13.—M. D. Bowen,
of Denver, the only prospective eu
genic bridegroom, who had volun
teered his services fo the State Board
of Health and who was held up as a
possible husband to more than 100
women from all parts of the United
States, has backed out.
Winter Heat Record
Is Smashed in North
BRAINERD, MINN, Dec. 13. All
! warm weather winter records in
j Northern Minnesota were beaten to a
! frazzle here this afternoon when a
| baseball game was staged between
the machinists and boilermakers of
! the Northern Pacific Railw'ay shops.
The temperature was 60 above.
Suggests Ways to Settle Contro
versy, but Says Referendum
Would Please Best.
Lew Fields’ Actors
Play ‘Craps;’ Fined
PITTSBl RG, Dec. 13. Eight ac
tors of the Lew* Fields company at
tempted last night to vary the mo
notony of carroling and tripping by
the less picturesque but more fasci
nating pastime known as "craps.” It
was all in a theatrical hoarding house
in the wee hours when chorus men
yearn for something to o until bed
time.
They were arrested. They were
fined $2 to-day and released.
Mayor Woodward Saturday made
public a veto on the resolution of the
<’ity Council providing for a special
committee to inspect the new fire
alarm system, with a view to agree
ing upon a purchase price whici
contains an ultimatum to the Okinite
Comp&B) of New York, which bui:t
the system.
I can see only three wavs for that
company to attempt to secure any
standing whatever. One of these
would be the mandamusing of me t »
make me sign checks in payment of
that contract. Under the Supreme
Court’s decision I see no chance of
success for them along that line. An
other way open to them is to bring
individual suit against different me i-
bers of the General Council that wert
on record as voting for that contract
in 1912. The law is very clear on
that line. The next and surest way
of ending this matter would be to r* 1 -
fer the matter to the people to be
voted upon as a bonded indebtedness.
Under the last-named mode of pro
cedure, I would very heartily ap
prove.
“If the people feel disposed to vote
that this matter be paid full amount,
j it will meet with my hearty acqui
escence. Until one of these three
courses has been determined satis
factorily, or the price of (hat plant
materially reduced, 1 shall pay no fur
ther attention to this matter. I shall
refuse to sign any checks iri payment
until some satisfactory legal course
has been arrived at.
“I am absolutely opposed to the
plant as it exists, on account of its
excessive expense to the city in ma
nipulating the alarm system, and also
I regard that the price is excessive
by the reason of all parties being
aware when the contract was entered
Into that it was illegal and was of
long payments on the installment
plan, and naturally, from a business
standpoint, would carry an inflated
price. Besides the excessive price of
this plant, it Is well known that it only
covers the old city limits, and no
where enters into the new'ly acquired
territory.”
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EL PASO, TEXAS, Deo. IS.—Com-
pleting a two weeks’ horseback Join-
i ey across the Mexican desert, Don
Luis Terranzas, richest man in all
Mexico, reached El Paso to-night and
retired immediately to a sumptuous
suite of rooms in the city’s best hotel.
Though over 80 years oki. the gray
don. who was a general in the fight
against Maximilian injsthe sixties,
dismissed queries regafuing hi* trip
with a shrug of the shoulders and a
wave of the hand, as If the mere rid
ing lor days on muleback over desert
find mountain were nothing
He declined to discuss the impris
onment of his son. Luis Terranzas,
Jr., by General Villa at Chihuahua,
and refused to discuss Mexican af
fairs under any circumstances. How -
ever, members of his party were in
secret conference to-night at their
hotel with representatives of Villa,
w ho is demanding $250,000 for the re
lease of young Terrazas.
The general was said by one mem
ber of the party not to be so much
disturbed over paying the ransom as
over the problem of getting the wom
en members of. the family to the bor
der. They were left behind in charge
of young Terrazas when the general
left for the bordei with tlie Federal
soldiers. Villa insists they shall re
main in the State Capital, even
though he releases Luis Terrazas.
Agents of the general to-night nre
negotiating to ascertain what sum
Villa is willing to accept for their re
lease.
The revolution already has cost
General Terrazas $10,000,000, yet h©
still is considered the richest man in
Mexico. Since the Villa rebellion six
months ago General Terrazas has
been a prisoner in the city of Chi
huahua, protected by the Huerta
troops, but unable to leave the city
for fear of capture by the rebels
When the Federal garrison retreated
from thr- Saate Capital two weeks
ago General Terrazas accompanied
them, and is said to have brought
5,000,000 pesos in cash.
Terror reigns in Chihuahua City,
with the lives of all foreigners in im
mediate danger, according to state
ments of Spanish refugees here to
day.
With scarcely enough clothing to
cover them and a few cherished be
longings tied up in handkerchiefs, 495
Spaniards, al] that were In the city of
Chihuahua, arrived on a special train
that had been on the road 26 hours.
When the train pulled into Juarei
and it was announced that the Span
ish refugees were aboard the busi
ness men of El Paso sent out automo
biles and took them to the Chamber
of Commerce. *
From there they were taken to
hoarding houses of the city, where
they will he cared for until they are
provided with transportation to Sj<nm
or until such time as they can get
some compensation for the property
they left behind.
When Villa entered the city and thq
lives of Spanish residents were
threatened they appealed to the Eng
lish Consul for protection. Upon
finding that the British charge could
not afford them the proper protection
they appealed to Marion Letcher, the
American Consul.
He* wrote i cipher message to
Washington appealing for protection
for all foreigners. When he took it to
the telegraph office Villa is said to
have informed him that unless the
message was written in Spanish it
could not he sent The rebel com
mander is alleged to have torn the
messages up and to have prevented
any word from being sent from the
city by l.etcher.
CHICAGO, Dec. 13. The influence
of mothers who play bridge and
fathers who indulge In poker pro
motes the interest of children in
games of chance and makes gamblers
of them, Mrs. Aria R. Black told the
Chicago Women’s Association of
(’ommerce.
Vegetarian Is Strong
Man of University
COLUMBIA, MO., Dec 13.—Horace
Weltmer, who eats no meat, is the
strong man of Missouri State Univer
sity He Is studying to become a phy
sical Instructor.
Weltmer scored 2,580 points In the
eight tests. The average for 300 men
was 1,045 points.
Weltmer ’Thinned” himself up twen
ty-three times.
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