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ROOSEVELT'S IRE MAKES THINGS HOT IN CHILE CAPITAL
E
E OF SPEECH
Ex-President Shows Temper as
He Resents Remarks Made
by Or. Martinez.
RS. II. II. SEVIER, who
resigned the presiden
cy of the Dixie Club in New
York to get more tune for
her home life.
DEITHIS DECREED
FDR ILL LOOTERS
General Villa Issues Drastic Order
for Protection of Foreign and
Mexican Property.
E
Terrible Details of Eruptions on
Ambrim Island—Flames Shot
Thousand Feet in Air.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—Members
of the diplomatic corps, especially
representatives from the South Amer
ican countries, were greatly interested
in a report reaching Washington to
day that former President Roosevelt
and Dr. Marcial Martinez, at one time
Chilean Minister to the United States,
had clashed at Santiago de Chile on
account of divergent views on the [
Monroe Doctrine. The Chilean is re- j
ported to have strongly dissented
from the Roosevelt view that the
much discussed doctrine still is a
vital issue.
The reported debate attracted un
usual interest here, because both of
the prepared speeches were reviewed j
before delivery by the Chilean For
eign Office. Dr. Martinez, it was said
to-night at the Chilean Legation, was
selected as the spokesman of the
Chilean Government at the state re
ception given the American visitor
recently at the University of Santiago
because of his warm friendship for
the Lrnited States. He is one of the
oldest and most eminent Chilean dip
lomatists and made many lasting
friendships during his tenure as Min
ister here many years ago.
Aroused Ire of Roosevelt.
In his address at the Roosevelt re
ception, Dr. Martinez dealt with the
Monroe Doctrine, characterizing it as
a dead issue, and arguing that the
conditions which gave rise to its pro
mulgation by President Monroe in
1823 have almost entirely disappeared.
This statement is said to have
aroused the ire of Colonel Roosevelt,
who replied with some heat, holding
that the Monroe Doctrine still was a
vital principle of the foreign policy of
the United States. He is said, too,
to have suggested to the Chilean dip
lomat, incidentally, that it was ill-
advised on such an occasion to inau
gurate a controversy.
Colonel Roosevelt, according to re
port, stated that before leaving the
United States the text of the ad
dresses he proposed to deliver in Bri-
zil, Argentine and Chile had been sub
mitted to the diplomatic representa
tives in Washington to avoid the in
clusion of anything that might prove
offensive to his hosts.
Dr, Martinez’s Reply.
To this Dr. Martinez is said to have
replied that his own address had been
submitted to the Chilean Foreign Of
fice three days before Colonel Roose
velt’s arrival, and that as no objec
tion had been raised in that quarter
he could see no leason why the dis
cussion of the Monroe Doctrine should
be avoided as a dangerous issue.
It is said that at the conclusion of
the Roosevelt reception, a demon
stration against the American visitor
was made by a small clique of Cen
tral American students. The story
goes that as the Colonel left the Uni
versity, the students shouted: “Viva
Colombia!” This incident, however,
is understood in no way to have rep
resented the general feeling of the
populace.
EMBEZZLER CAPTURED.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—A fugitive
for four months after being* accused i
of embezzling $12,000 from W. C. Ed- ;
monds, a wholesale hardware dealer >
of Baltimore, James Ralph Hackett,
confidential clerk, arrived here to-day
on the steamer Verdi from Buenos
Ayres. He was in the custody of a
detective. _. . ,
At Bahai, at Rio de Janeiro and
again at Montevideo the ship on
which Hackett left New York last Au
gust was searched, but he was not
discovered. Subsequently detectives
heard that friends had hidden him lr:
a. refrigerator eJch time the searen
was in progress. He went ashore at
Montevideo, where he was arrested.
CHASE PICKPOCKET TO DEATH.
NEW YORK. Dec. 21.—Pursued by a
hundred passengers through seven cars
of a subway train in Brooklyn to-night,
a youth suspected of being a pickpock
et leaped fro mthe front platform of the
last car when he was about to be seized,
and was crushed to death against a P U-
la The victim'was identified through his
finger prinUat police headquarters, ac-
oor ling to detectives, as Solomon Furst,
19 vears old .who recently served a brief
term in^e city reformatory for a
petty crime. ___
CANNIBALS ^ILL SCIENTISTS.
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, Dec. 21-
Cannibals in Neumeckleno, an island ‘ n
the Bismarck archipelago, have I^ass -
cred Dr Deiniger and another German
scientist, ^together with fourteen na
tives who accompanied tnem.
AUTO KILLS AVIATOR.
t nisinnN Dec 21.—Robert Bertram
Slack a well-known English aviator
was killed in an automobile accident
between Dondon and St. Albana to-day.
JAPAN TO USE THE CANAL.
TOKIO Dec 21.—Japan has decided
tn inaugurate a steamship service
with its terminus at Boston, by way
of Panama. The ^earners will call
Texas Woman Gives
Up Club for Family
‘Choose Dixie Club or Country Place,’
Husband Demands; Oyster
Bay Home Wins.
CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO, Dec. 21.—
“Anyone who hereafter loots or mo
lests property of foreigners or Mexi
cans will be executed. The right to
confiscate property will rest only with
the Constitutionalist government.”
General Francisco Villa issued this
order to-day as showing his intention
to maintain strict military discipline.
As an example he executed on the
plaza a band of rebels who had been
! found guilty by court-martial of sack-
| ing the home of a wealthy Mexican.
| While the six rebels were marched
before the firing squad the stolen
goods were returned to the owner.
All stores confiscated from the ex
pelled Spaniards to-day were closed
and. sealed. Orders were given that
no more goods are to be taken from
them. This action was believed to
have resulted from the protest of the
United States against the seizure of
Spanish property. Already great
quantities of the goods, valued at
several million dollars, had been util
ized by the rebels. The remainder of
the property is to be held pending an
investigation as to whether the own
ers aided the Huerta Government.
General Villa proclaimed amnesty
to Federal soldiers who would sur
render and give up their arms. Many
Federal troops are reported to have
joined the rebels. Three hundred
thousand rounds of rifle ammunition
and 500,000 rounds of artillery am
munition were recovered from a lake
east of Chihuahua, where they were
hidden by General Mercado's evacu
ating Federals.
Telegraphic and railroad communi
cation has been extended as far west
as Minaca, and as far south as Ber-
mejillo. If there is no Federal inter
ference, General Villa expects soon to
have the States of Chihuahua, Sonora
and Cinaloa as freely open as in
times of peace.
MANY OFFICERS SHO'T.
HERMOSILLO, SONORA, MEXI
CO, Dec. 21.—The commissioned offi
cers and many sergeants and corpo
rals of the Tenth Battalion of the
Federal garrison at Guaymas were
executed at sunrise in that city, ac
cording to word brought here to
night. Officers and men of the Tenth
were disarmed several days ago by
General Ojeda, Federal commandant,
when he discovered they were plot
ting to desert to the insurgents.
REBELS WANT $250,000.
JUAREZ, Dec. 21.—Although nego
tiations have been under way for the
payment of $250,000 for his release,
Luis Terrazas, Jr., to-day was still
held prisoner by General Villa at
Chihuahua. The father, whose vast
estate, together with that of the
Creels, was confiscated through a de
cree issued by Villa, attempted to
procure the prisoner’s release and
safe conduct to the border, first
through an appeal to Washington,
and now by the payment of money to
the rebels.
When Terrazas, Sr., accompanied
the Federal forces in their flight to
the border, the women members of
his family refused to leave. They are
still in Chihuahua helping in the ef
forts to release Terrazas.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—“The country
calls me,” explains Mrs. H. H. Sevier,
the Texas woman who has resigned the
presidency of the Dixie Club.
“One can't be president of a club, or
clubs, without sacrificing one’s family
“You know,” she said, “I was born
and raised in Texas. Of course, we
like to be near New York, so we have
bought 130 acres near Oyster Bay, and
are building a country place. I am go
ing to get all my animals from Texas;
then, when 1 get tired, I can get back
to the farm in an hour’s time.
“I am president of the Texas Club
and that taxes a great deal of my time.
Finally my husband said that if I con
tinued giving all my time to club af
fairs he would not build the Long Is
land place. So there you are.
“I have considered it a great honor
to be the Dixie Club’s president, if onlj
for a short time.”
SYDNEY, N. S. W., Dec. 21.—In
coming steamers bring terrible details
of the recent volcanic eruptions on
the Island of Ambrim, in the New
Hebrides group, in which 500 natives
lost their lives. Witnesses of the dis
turbance describe it as having been so
sudden and violent that they expected
to see the whole western side of tho
island disappear.
With a terrific roar, which was fol
lowed with a rapid succession of artil
lerylike detonation, all the craters of
the volcano entered into full activity,
spouting flames and lava and throw
ing out huge bowlders.
Great streams of lava soon were
rushing down the slopes, cutting off
the villagers from escape. In one in
stance two torrents of the molten
mass joined and made an island of
one entire section of a village. Here
50 or 60 persons perished.
The scenes at night were awe-in
spiring. Flames shot into the air to a
height of 1,000 feet, illuminating the
whole scene of destruction. The ocfeiu
seemed to boil as huge superheated
masses of stone fell into the sea and
streams of lava poured into the bay.
Dust from the craters gradual'y
formed a black cloud, which blotted
out the light of the stars.
The bay after the eruption wis
filled with dead fish and large num
bers of dead turtles. The water in the
river was hot.
The British Hospital buildings were
wiped out, but previous to their de
struction the doctors pluekily removed
ail the patients to a launch and es
caped with them.
POTTLE TO RESIGN.
“‘I have not tendered my resignation
to the Governor as yet,” said Judge .1.
It. Pottle, of the Court of Appeals, last
night. ‘ It is my intention, however, to
offer my resignation at some date in the
near future. As to just what time L
will give up my position on the bench 1
have not yet decided.”
As to the report that Sam S. Bennett,
of Albany, had been se ected to suc
ceed -Judge Pottle on the Court of Ap
peals bench, Governor Siam- Sun
day night:
"The report could not have had any
authority from me, because I have not
yet been in receipt of Judge Pottle’s
resignation, and have, of course, not se
lected his successor. 1 have not myself
made up my mind whom I shall appoint
in his place in the event Judge Pottle
resigns.”
KILLS HIMSELF.
GROVANIA, GA„ Dec. 21.—Steve F.
Bivens, whose body was found here
last night with the head blown off.
came to b : .s death by a shotgun wound
at his own hands, according to a ver
dict of the Coroner’s jury to-day.
The whip had been broken in two
and inserted between the trigger and
the trigger guard so that by pushing
| down on the whip the gun could be
discharged. As the whip was attached
to the gun when found, this Is given
| as the means by which the weapon
| was discharged.
J Bivens’ funeral was held at Perry
! to-day.
WILL FUMIGATE WARSHIP.
CHARLESTON, S. C., Dec. 21.—Fu
migation of the United States battle
ship Ohio, which early to-day arrived
here from Cuban waters, will begin to
morrow at the quarantine station, off
which the Ohio now' is anchored. There
still are two mild cases of smallpox
on board. Several cases of smallpox
developed on the Ohio during her voy
age from the Mediterranean cruise and
on her arrival at Guantanamo all but
the mild cases were put ashore there.
It was to-day stated that the fumiga
tion of the ship probably would require
several days, and that the Ohio then
probably would sail for Mexican waters
to relieve the battleship Michigan.
FATHER IS SLAIN.
FORT PLAIN, N. Y., Dec. 21.—Posses
of deputy sheriffs and citizens with
biobdhounds are searching the country
side to-night for the man or men who
last night murdered John Barrett, aged
60, at his home, near here, after they
bad beaten his daughter, Katherine, 20
years old, into insensibility. The father
was slain when he went to the aid of
his daughter. The murderer or murder
ers were after Barrett’s money, a con
siderable sum, but this was hidden be
hind a wall panel and was untouched.
Katheine Barrett was dozing beside
the fire when she was struck f.rom be
hind and rendered unconscious, being
seriously injured. She did not see her
assailants.
MAYOR GIVES DANCES.
SALEM, OREG., Dec. 21.—Charging
that there is little resemblance to law
and order in the city, that the saloon el
ement is in control of the municipal
government, and that the lives of them
selves and their families are in constant
danger, 55 residents of Copperfield have
appealed to Governor "VVest for re ief.
One of the petitioners, in a letter to
the Governor, says: ... „
“The Mayor lives in a house witn ~
saloon in connection. He gives Saturday
night dances, sells and gives away hQuor
to minors and sells liquor to habitual
drunkards.” , , ...
‘‘These people are going to nave the
relief they demand,” said the Governor
to-night.
STOVE KILLS TWO GIRLS.
PITTSBURG, PA., Dec. 21.—Rose Ro-
gow, 12 years old, and Bertha Supowitz,
14, were' asphyxiated to-night by , fur F®^
from a gas stove in a bathroom in the
home of Isaac Rogow, a brother of one
of the victims. Rogow moved into the
house yesterday. The girls to-day as
sisted in fixing up the house and went
to the bathroom to wash for the even
inir mMi when they were overcome.