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GENERAL HUERTA
OFFERS TO RESIGN
DICTATOR WILLING TO QUIT IF
HE IS PLACED ABOARD A
FOREIGN WARSHIP.
FOREIGN MINISTER IS OUT
Growing Undercurrent of Feeling
Throughout Mexico Against the
Huerta Government.
Vera Cruz. —Persistent reports con
tinue to circulate here that General
Huerta intends to retire from the pro
visional presidency of Mexico on con
dition that he be assured a safe-con
duct to a port and be placed on board
a foreign warship.
It is declared in some Mexican cir
cles, in this city, that General Huerta
was ready to resign a week ago, but
was prevented by internal dissensions
in his cabinet.
The resignation of Jose Lopez Por
tillo y Rojas, the foreign minister, cou
pled with reports that there is a grow
ing undercurrent of feeling.jin Mexico
City against the Huerta government, is
Interpreted here as foreshadowing a
change in the situation in the federal
capital.
Close observers here of the govern
ment’s situation believe Senor Por
tillo’s resignation may clear the way
eventually for the appointment of a
foreign minister, who, under the Mexi
can constitution, could succeed Gen
eral Huerta as president. In these
circles it is pointed out that while
Venustlano Carranza declined to treat
with General Huerta, he might con
sent to enter into negotiations with
his successor and thus facilitate media
tion.
Continued rebel successes In the
north, and attacks on Tampico, may,
in some opinions, bring about a change
of policy.
The interior was reported quiet.
People arriving here from the capital
said the pt^ulace was beginning to
learn that General Huerta was deceiv
ing them all the time by issuing false
reports of federal successes
News of the peaceful way in which
Americans are occupying Vera Cruz,
it is said, has spread to the capital,
and has convinced the people there
that the American invasion of the
port is not for conquest or aggres
sion,
GEN. SICKLES PASSES AWAY
Last of Gettysburg Commanders Pass
es Over the Great Divide.
New York. General Daniel E. Sick
les died at his home. His wife was
at his bedside at the end.
Gen. Daniel Edgar Sickles was the
last of the great commanders who
fought the battle of Gettysburg. For
a decade he was a fighter by profes
sion—all his life he was a fighter by
nature.
The gruff old warrior, with one
leg shot away in battle, his massive
head resembling Bismarck’s, was a pic
turesque figure as he hobbled along on
crutches during the last half century
of his turbulent life.
His indomitable fighting spirit re
mained to the last. Born In New York
City tn 1825, Sickles, at the age of 22,
fought the Whigs as a Democrat in
the New York legislature. At 28, he
displayed his fighting spirit as cor
poration attorney of New York. It
was he” who secured for his city Its
great Central park. At this time his
military career began as major of the
Twelfth regiment. National Guard,
New York.
Before he was 32 years old Major
Sickles had served as secretary of le
gation at London under Minister
James Buchanan; he had won a state
senatorship through a bitter cam
paign; and he was seated in the thirty
fifth congress at Washington.
Gonzales to Rule Costa Rica.
Washington.—-Costa Rican Minister
Calca stated that Fredina Gonazes had
been chosen by the Costa Rican gov
ernment as president. The new gov
ernment will inaugurate for four years.
Alfreds Fernandez, who polled 12,900
votes, and Carlos Duran, who polled
17,800 votes, neither having sufficient
votes to be elected as president, re
signed as candidates and the congress
selected Senor Gonzales.
U. S. Flags Trampled an dßurned.
Washington. — American Consul
Stadden of Manzanillo, who arrived at
San Diego. Cal., aboard the German
steamer Marie, with 259 refugees, re
ported to the state department that
Mexicans on the day of his departure
had taken American flags from the:
consulate, trampled and burned them.
He and his fellow-Americans had been
given forty-right hours to leave Mex
ico, dating from noon, Arpil 22. Adolph
Steff, Norwegian consul at Manzanillo,
was forced to flee for his life and
boarded the Marie as a refugee.
MRS. EDITH WILSON
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Mrs Edith Wilson, a charming
young widow, lived high for a time In
New York, on credit, because of her
alleged great wealth. Then she dis
appeared and her strong box was
■found to contain nothing of value.’
TROOPS AND MINERS BATTLE
AT THE FORBES CAMP, THE
STRIKERS BURNED ALL
THE BUILDINGS.
Major Lester Shot While Wearing the
Red Cross Emblem and Caring
for a Wounded Comrade.
Denver, Col.—Colorado's seven
months’ Industrial conflict has claim
ed another toll of nine lives. This
was the verified record, divided as fol
lows:
At Forbes, seven mine guards and
one striker dead, with two other strik
ers believed to have been killed.
At Walsenburg, one officer of the
militia hospital corps killed, one offi
cer and two enlisted men wounded.
The Forbes camp was a scene of
desolation, virtualy all the mine
buildings having been destroyed by
fire. Here it was the work of only a
few fleeting hours. It was about 5:30
a. m. when the strikers opened their
attack in force. With the women and
children of the camp barricaded in the
mine slope, the guards responded
spiritedly.
After the firing had ceased the
camp’s assailants disappeared as mys
teriously as they came, some toward
Trinidad and others over the hills in
the direction of Berwind and Ta
basco.
Fighting at Walsenburg between
strikers, militia and mine guards, last
ed five hours. Major P. P. Lester of
the hospital corps met his death, shot
through the left breast while dressing
the wounds of a comrade within 150
yards of the strikers’ position. Firing
ceased shortly after three o’clock.
ROCK AND DIRT IN CULEBRA
But the Engineers Are Gaining on the
Treacherous Slides.
Panama, —Rock and dirt are still
moving down the Curaracha slide into
the Culebra cut, but the engineers
who have been fighting the treacher
ous slides in this vicinity are at last
gaining upon nature. Fears that the
opening of the canal, set for January,
1915, would have to be postponed in
definitely have been growing less each
day, for the dredges and steam shovels
have been taking out the dirt and
rock much faster than it slid into the
canal.
The Culebra slide, just to the south
of the Cucaracha trouble, is entirely
at rest, and it is honed it will remain
so; but the canal engineers will watch
this treacherous iiillside with some
anxiety as the rainy season approach
es. Breaks are already showing far
back from the canal prism, and these
may indicate a movement which might
any day precipitate tons of crushed
rock and dirt into the canal
Steamer and 20 Men Lost.
Duluth, Minn. —Reports from the
life-saving crew at the head of the
lakes make it practically certain that
the steamer Benjamin Noble, with her
officers and a crew of twenty men,
was sunk in Lake Superior, off Min
i nesota Point, in a violent storm. Life
belt, hatches, spars, oars and other
wreckage were picked up afterwards.
Great anxiety is felt here for five ves
sels headed for this port. AU of them
are overdue. No word has been re
ceived of these vessels. Meanwhile the ,
storm has turned into a blizzard.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
ITRUGE IS REFUSED ‘
Bl GEN. CARRANZA
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REBEL CHIEF NOTIFIES MEDIA.
TOR HE WON’T AGREE TO
AN ARMISTICE.
DR. EDWARD RYAN FREED
Blanquet's Order Saves an American
Red Cross Official From Death
as a Spy.
El Paso, Texas. —Gen. Venustiano
Carranza has formally declined the
suggestion of the South American me
diators that be cease hostilities against
Huerta pending the outcome of the
plan of mediation. His note sent tp
Washington was made public here.
Mexico City.—Dr. Edward Ryan of
the American Red Cross, who was cap
tured at Zacetas by command of Gen.
Joaquin Maas, and sentenced to death
as a spy, was saved by an order signed
by Minister of War Blanquet.
Vera Cruz. —President Huerta order
ed the Immediate release of Dr. Ed
ward Ryan, an American Red Cross of
ficial, who was threatened with execu
tion as a spy in Zacetecas. The re
lease was ordered after urgent person
al representations to President Huerta
by William W. Canada, the American
consul here. Huerta telegraphed to
Mr. Canada that he did not know that
Doctor Ryan was to be put to death,
but that he had ordered the federal
commander at Zactecas to release him
Immediately and give him transporta
tion to Mexico City. From the capital
President. Huerta promised to send him
to Vera Cruz.
COTTON ACREAGE INCREASED
Planting, However, Late and Returns
Incomplete.
New York. —Cotton planting is late
and incomplete and it is yet impossi
ble to forecast final acreage. Returns
thus far available, however, indicate
an increase of about 1.5 per cent.,
which is sure to be exceeded when final
returns are obtained a month hence.
Nearly all states show fair increases
except Oklahoma and North Carolina,
where the acreage is respectively 13
per cent, less and 0.1 per cent. less.
In Oklahoma so little planting has been
done that a large percentage of corre
spondents refrain from estimating,
while in North Carolina planting is late
and considerable cotton acreage is be
ing put into tobacco.
General conditions have been favor
able and the prospects for the crop
are good. There is a good season in |
the ground. With plenty of moisture |
preparations for platning have been
unusually satisfactory. The season va
ries from a Week to two weeks late,
owing chiefly to cold weather. Where
cotton was planted early as a rule
good stands have been obtained and
very little replanting has been neces
sary. There is some complaint of the
scarcity of seed and poor quality, but
it is only isolated. Only warm weather
is, apparently, now needed to give the
crop a satisfactory start.
10,000 MINERS QUIT WORK
Men Strike Despite Order to Contrary
from Union.
Charleston, W. Va. —Ten thousand
miners in the Kanawha coal fields quit
work In the face of an order from John
P. White, president of the United Mine
Workers of America. Thomas Cairnes,
president of district No. 17, urged the
men to remain at work until negotia
tions were officially broken off with
the operators, but they refused to obey.
When negotiations between the un
ion leaders and the operators began
several weeks ago the men made 24
demands, which later were reduced to
seven. Further discussion of the points
at issue cut this number to three, and
on these the operators refused to yield.
Further efforts were made to have
the men reconsider their demands for
the check off, reaffirmation of the
agreement which expired March 31.
While the agreement between the
operators and miners of the Cabin
Creek and Paint Creek districts does
not expire until next March, it was re
ported at the headquarters of opera
tors and miners that many of the men
there quit work.
Killed by Strange Accident.
Columbus, Ga.*—Mrs. Anna 0. Moses,
wife of W. Moultrie Moses, a promi
nent business men and banker of Gi
rard, Ala., was accidentally killed in
the morning at seven o’clock at the
family residence near Girard. Mrs. Mo
ses' watch was under the pillow, and
as she reached for it to see the time
the watch chain became entangled in
some way with her husband’s pistol,
which was also under the pillow. The
pistol was discharged, the bullet strik
ing her squarely in the temple. Death
ensued her an hour and a halt later.
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Henry Clay Hall, one of the two
newly appointed members of the In
terstate commerce commlesion, has
I arrived In Washington and taken up
hie duties. This picture of him was
snapped as he was entering the of
flees of the commission.
LOSS Os UVES IN EXPLOSION I
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PROBABLY 300 MEN AT WORK !
WHEN THE EXPLOSION
OCCURRED.
Many of Those Saved Alive Are Seri
ously Burned and Several
May Die.
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Eccles, W. Va.—Four miners are
known to be dead, fifty-nine were res
cued, many of them severely burned,
and 203 others were entombed in two
burning mines, and are believed to
have but a small chance for their .
lives, as the result of an explosion of I
gas in mines Nos. 5 and 6 of the New i
River Colieiies company here. The
dead and rescued men were taken from
mine No. 6.
j One hundred and ninety of the en
| tombed men were in shaft No. 5, not a
! man having escaped from this opera
tion since the explosion. The mine
was burning fiercely, with government,
state and volunteer rescuers working
desperately to subdue the flames.
The explosion occurred in mine No.
5. The two shafts of this mine were
demolished. One shaft of the latter
mine was wrecked, but the other re
mains intact, and was the salvation of
at least forty-nine of the workmen.
This little mining community of
1,500 persons was shaken by the muf
fled rumbling of the explosion. At
first, there was no smoke, but men on
the tipples knew that far underground
the toll of death was being taken.
TROOPS SENT TO COLORADO
President Sends U. S. Troops to the I
. . Strike District.
Washington.—President Wilson ex
tended the protecting arm of the fed
eral government to the state of Colo
rado, where, because of riots and I
pitched battles between mine guards !
and striking miners. Governor Am- j
mens had found the state militia un
able to cope with the situation and .
asked for help. The Colorado dele- I
gation in congress, mine owners and I
miners themselves joined in the re
quest.
It was one of the rare occurrences
in American history when a state
found itself impotent to assert its au- I
thority, but the president, in a tele- ;
gram to the Colorado governor, ex- I
pressly stipulated that the federal ;
troops would confine themselves to I
maintaining order only “until the state !
can reassert its authority and resume !
the enforcement thereof.”
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Mill Men Knock Cotton Exchange.
New York. —Unless the New York
cotton exchange “can be so regulated
by action of congress as to compel
the performance of its proper func
tions,” it should be abolished, in the
judgment of the American Cotton Man
ufacturers’ Association. In the clos
ing hours of the association's annual ■
convention he/e speakers attacked
the methods of the local exchange.
The abolishment of the mart unless
regulated by federal legislation was
urged in a resolution adopted at the
suggestion of Lewis W. Parker.
SKIN TORTURES WILL
* YIELD TO RESINOL
If you have eczema, ringworm, or
other itching, burning, unsightly skin
eruptions, try reslnol ointment and
resinol soap and see how quickly the
itching stops and the trouble disap
pears, even in the severest, stubborn
est cases. Resinol ointment is also a
wonderful household remedy for pim
ples, dandruff, sores, burns, wounds,
boils, piles, and for a score of other
uses where a soothing, healing appli
cation is needed.
Resinol contains nothing of a harsh
or injurious nature and can be used,
with perfect safety on the tenderest
or most irritated surface. Every drug
gist sells resinol ointment (50c and
$1), and resinol soap (25c). Avoid
worthless, harmful, imitations. —Adv.
Modern Farming.
Cityman—Do you keep bees?
Countryman —No; there are more
up-to-date methods of getting stung.
Calomel Is an Injurious Drug
and is being displaced in a great
many sections of the South by Dr.
G. B. Williams’ Liver and Kidney
Pills. These pills stimulate the Liver
and Bowels without that weakening
after effect which Calomel causes.
Sold by dealers 25c. bottle. Sample
mailed free on request. The G. B.
Williams Co., Quitman, Ga. —Adv.
When Love Cools,
Many an engagement has been
broken off through a misunderstanding
—each thinking the other had money.
—Detroit Journal.
ARE YOU CONSTIPATED?
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills have
I proved their worth for 75 years. Test them
I yourself now. Send for sample to 372 Pearl
I Su, New York. Adv.
It is possible to tie active, zealous
I and diligent, and still go to the dogs.
I Such a fate is regularly that of the
I Rea.
Worth Blowing About.
Bacon —I see it is eaid that whales
: are estimated to live for 1,000 years.
Egbert—No wonder they blow.
Gets Well Paid for It.
- If a millionaire manufacturer works
harder than his employes, it is only
I in accord with the eternal fitness of
things. He gets more pay.
Why Is This Thus?
Every married man knows how
much easier it is for his wife to dis
cover a hole In his pocket than that
■ a button is missing from his coaL—
i Exchange.
Right Spirit.
Fond Mother—“ Well Tommy, what
are you going to do for me when you
grow up?” Tommy—“lf 1 can afford
it I’m going to send you to some high
toned establishment, where you will
get a fine education.”
Fortunate Indians.
In a composition dealing with the
habits and customs of American In
dians, a boy deeply impressed with
their free-and-easy life wrote the fol
lowing: "The Indians had few laws,
but they were well violated.”
HAPPY NOW
Family of Twelve Drink Postum.
“It certainly has been a blessing in
our home” writes a young lady in re
gard to Postum.
"I am one of a family of twelve,
who, before using Postum, would make
; a healthy person uncomfortable by
, their complaining of headache, dizzi-
I ness, sour stomach, etc., from drinking
coffee.
“For years mother suffered from
palpitation of the heart, sick head
ache and bad stomach and at times
j would be taken violently ill. About a
year ago she quit coffee and began
i Postum.
"My brother was troubled with
i headache and dizziness all the time
| he drank coffee. All those troubles of
my mother and brother have disap
peared since Postum has taken the
place of coffee.
“A sister was ill nearly all her life
with headache and heart trouble, and
about all she cared for was coffee and
i tea. The doctors told her she must
j leave them alone, aa medicine did her
no permanent good.
"She thought nothing would take
• the place of coffee until we Induced
j her to try Postum. Now hei^ troubles
are all gone and she is a happy little
! woman enjoying life aa people
should.”
Name given by the Postum Co., Bat
tle Creek, Mich.
Postum now comes in two forms:
Regular Postum — must be well
boiled. 15c and 25c packages.
Instant Postum —is a soluble pow
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
■ in a cup of hot water and, with cream
and sugar, makes a delicious beverage
instantly. 30c and 50c tins.
The cost per cup of both kinds is
about the same.
“There’s a Reason” for Postum.
—sold by Grocers.