damaged. Late tonight it was said the financier was resting easily; that j < he had slept all the afternoon. No i < reference was made to another bul- i let which was said yesterday to have ^ come out of the upper part of the leg. ' i EEKLY. FOR RELIEF OF MEXICANS. I f heavy rains. It was expected here ] hat they would immediately arrange i or the transfer of heavier supplies, < eft behind at Pachucah, to Mexico >ity by automobile instead of by j ailrnmlR whlrh hnvn hoon rloatrnvml >y military operations. ] The fact that Mr. Silliman made i 10 reference to disorders or of for- j dgners in Mexico City was taken ] lere to Indicate that the foreign ele- j nent there had not been molested by j he fighting between the Carranza j md Zapata forces. BECKER TO SHARE GUILT LIKE GOLD ! ro Make Clean Breast If He Must Hie and Would Lessen Load. New York, July 3.?On the author ly vi ^iiaries uecKer B counsel, Mar- | in T. Manton it was said today thai f Becker fails in his appeal to the Jnited States supreme court he will, jefore going to the electric chair for he murder of Herman Rosenthal, nake a public disclosure of the lames of the men with whom he is illeged to have divided $100,000 in jraft money collected from gamblers ind keepers of illegal resorts during lis career as head of the famous itrnng arm police squad. Six men, lome of them police department ofn:iale, are understood to be named in he statement Becker has prepared. "Becker will make a clean breast )f the grafting," said Mr. Manton. 'He will issue a statement not for >ay, but to djvide the guilt of graft. \ le realizes his perilous position, and loes not want to die, if die he must, ind leave a set of men to use others is ne Das Deen useu. Me vvlanes to lave the truth off bis mind as soon is possible." It Was reported Becker's statement would attempt to explain the death >f "Big Tim" Sullivan, who was beieved to have been killed by a New Haven Railroad train. Conflicting statements and denials ly some of the "informers" against Becker, and by others, confused the iituation today. One clear point was that the "informers" could not deny their testimony against Becker without violating the contract under which they were granted immunity by the state's representatives. Under this agreement they were to enjoy Immunity unless shown to be guilty if perjury. .Morgan Better; Assailant III Glen Cove, L. I., July 5.?J. P. Morgan, shot twice by Fran'; Holt, last Saturday, is out of ail danger, tils physician announced this morn- , Ing. Mr. Morgan's pulse and temperature are normal, they said, and lie passed a restful night. Mr. Morgan's asailant was so weak today that when his keepers went to tifs cell to arouse him he could not sit up on his couch. Unless hia condition Improves rapidly?and physi "inns say there seemed no icason to axpect so radical a change?it will be Impossible (or him to be taken Into court for examination next Wednesday. All plans to submit Holt to a further questioning today were abandoned because of his serious condition. To Guard the President. Cornish, N. H., July 4.?With the arrival here today of . additional secret service men, extra precautions were taken to guard President Wilson from cranks who might be stirred up by the assault on J. P. Morgan ?nd the explosion in the capitol at Washington. All strangers In Cornish and Windsor are being carefully scrutinized. i u cii I t LANCASTER, S. C. TUJ )IAZ. FORMER PRESIDENT 1 OF MEXICO. DEAD S, I Former President of Mexico I Passed Away Friday Night. SICK FOR SOME TIME. I Had Been Seriously 111 for Three I Weeks?Wife and Son With Hiin. Daughters in Mexico. Paris, July 2.?Gen. Porflrio Diaz former President of Mexico, died t lerc early tonight. \ General Diaz's wife, Senora Car- i nine Homero Rubias and their son, t Porflrio Diaz, Jr., and the latter's i wife were by his side when the end > ?ame. i General Diaz began to fail rapidly t ibout three weeks aao and while hi? ! * death was not unexpected, owing to tiis advanced age and recent failing j health, the crisis came suddenly this a afternoon. Porfirio Diaz, Jr., and t his wife were hastily summoned and j arrived at the bedisde only a few i minutes before the end, which came at 7 o'clock tonight. I Colonel Diaz, in announcing the < death of his father, said that he was i unable to state the nature of the ' malady, but expressed the opinion i that a complication of diseases due i to advanced age was the cause. 1 Two tragic circumstances marked 1 the death of the exiled ruler. Owing < to the troubled state in Mexico it i has been judged impossible to send ] the body home with all the ceremony which would have befitted one of the figures of Mexican history, l and further. Col. Porfirio Diaz, Jr. | has tried in vain to inform his sis- i ters, Senora Ignacio de La Torre and i Senora Rincon Gallardo, now in Mexico, of their father's death. No less tragic, perhaps, is the fact that not one of those whom General Diaz raised up as his assistants in governing Mexico and who prospered and grew rich in the shadow of his greatness were with him when he died. Jose Yves de La Mentour, former minister of finance, is in London; Francisco de la Barra, former provisional president of Mexico and holder of other important positions, and Guillermo de Landa, former governor of the federal district in Mexico, are in Biarritz, France. Scarcely any one outside the family knew of the seriousness of General niai'a Mlnooo n. ?>, 191 r> WIC HAVOC WAS uinnnniiT nu rum nninu nnuubm dt tAn.u^iuri i deception Room of United States Senate Wrecked. HUCH DAMAGE WAS DONE. iCttcr of "R. Pean-e" Detectives to Connect Morgan's Assailant ! With Dee?l. Washington, July 3.?Investiga-I ion of the explosion late last night ! vhieh wrecked the senate reception | 'oom of the national capitol, was inerrupted tonight by the confession n New York of Frank-Holt, the man vho shot J. P. Morgan at his home , n Glen Cove, L. I. this morning, 1 hat he also had been responsible for I he Washington crime. Early in the day Washington , lewspapers received a letter signed ' 'R. Pearce," in which the writer , itated he had planned the capitol ex- | jlosion as "the exclamation point to j ny appeal for Deuce." While experts were at work satis'ving themselves that an infernal ma- i 'hine had wrecked the senate room. ' he police were searching for clues. | rhey could find no trace of the mys- | :eriou8 "It. Pearce," but tonight they sought to trace the movements of Holt who confessed that he came to Washington yesterday noon and waitid last night at the union station until he heard the bomb explode. MORGAN'S ASSAILANT SUSPECTED. Hours before Holt's confession. ( iiowever, suspicion was aroused here J that the assailant of Morgan and the j man who sought to wreck the capitol ivere identical. Holt had given utter- ; ince in New York following his arrest to statements strikingly similar to expressions in the "R. Pearce" letter. "If Germany should be able to buy munitions here, we would, of course, positively refuse to sell to her," Holt laid after his arrest. "We would, of course, not sell to j ;he Germans if they could buy here," s a statement in the "Pearce" letter. | Other portions of Holt's interview : ind the Washington writer's letter ilso were similar, and officials here 'egarded this as more than a coincllence. An investigation to establish i possible connection between the two crimes was started. CHEAT HAVOC WROUGHT. The havoc wrought by the bomb was terrific. In the reception room ;elephone booths lined the wall near [ the window where the bomb was ! placed behind the telephone switch- 1 ooard. The framework around this i window was of iron and was shattered by the concussion. The tele- I phone booths were blown into splin- ' ters and bits of metal were imbedded in the splinters gathered up by the I investigators. Directly in front of the switchboard no vestige of which could be found save a few pieces of the metal, tvas a mantel on which stood a large gilt-framed mirror, admired by capIto! visitors for years. It was shat- \ tered into thousands of pieces and souvenir hunters, seeking these fragments had to be restrained by the police while the inquiry into the explosion progressed. An onyx clock a fixture of the reception room for twenty years, was ground almost into powder. Experts declared that the destruction would have been more complete bad the recreation room been entirely closed, but a window was open ind at the opposite end of the room Is an arch leading to the senate hail way. Notwithstanding this outlet for the force of the explosion, it \ i?* roob /-wl o I/??x 1% ? ?..l. ^ .1 ? 11 Ing. The doors leading to the office sf the sergeant-at-arms of the senate were wrecked and doors to the office | of the Vice President were sprung j from their hinges. The floor of the room whs sprinkled with bits of the Kreat chandeliers. The damage to these will be difficult to repair. PUT BLAME ON* BOMB. Early in the day Elliott Woods, superintendent of the capitol, was ?onvlnced that the wreck was the re-1 suit of a boinb explosion. He summoned Professor Munroe, who is connected with the bureau of mines and geological survey. Professor Munroe looked Into the debris and soon satisfied himself that the room ha.l HUKRTA REMAINS IN JAIL. No Effort Made to Provide lloml for Release. El Paso, Texas, July 4.?Gen Victoriano Huerta, three former Mexican generals and two members of his personal staff, arrested here yesterday on charges of conspiracy to vio laie American neutrality laws,?remained in jail here tonight. Apparently no effort was made today to provide bond for their release. Huerta's attorneys conferred with him at the jail but no one else was permitted to see him. It * understood an effort will be made to get bonds for the men Tuesday. Whether last week's developments mean the abandonment of a new revolutionary movement has created a (It - ? 2 ? ' w...oiv>u ui upiiiiun even among Huerta's adherents. Certain persons close to Huerta say his arrest merely has delayed action, but others say that any organized movement has been indelinitely postponed. That Pascual Orozco, who escaped from his guards Saturday, has reach\fttvlnn to ^ ...^^io luuicueu, urozco is reported to have joined a small party of his followers east of Juarez and from his camp across the river to have summoned his partisans to join him in an attempt to wrest Juarez from Villa. BID GODSPEED TO LIBERTY BELL Elaborate Precautions Taken to (>iiar guicriiurs through whose states the bell will pass have replied to invitations of council's Liberty bell committee to travel on the special train within their respeitive borders. The train that will carry the hell will consist of five cars in addition to the bell car. To avoid shocks and eliminate vibration the all steel gondola car on whic hthe bell will ride lias been equipped with specially designed springs. The car has been tested on trial runs at all speeds up to 55 miles and even at the highest speed vibration was barely perceptible. The bell will be suspended in the center of the car from a huge frame of seasoned ash, weighing about a ton. In order that people near whose home the relic will pass at night may see it, a special lighting system has been designed for the car. A larg reflector has been arranged so that the light will be sufficient to give an excellent view of the bell from a distance of at least a mile. Folindce Takes Warning. Tnrrytown, N. Y., July 5.?John D. Rockefeller has ordered his Poeantelico Hills estate closed to visitors and has had the guard doubled, it was said here tonight. Only employes are permitted with the grounds. been wrecked by a dynamite bomb and could not have been an accident. The letter sent to the newspaper was a rambling argument against exports of war munitions to Europe. I DON' T BLAME GERMANS OR BRYAN. "By the way," said the writer at | the outset of his argument, "don't j blame this on the Germans or 0:1 Bryan. 1 am an old-fashioned American with a conscience, if it is not .> sin to have a conscience. * * * * Let each nation make her own mankilling machines. Sorry I had to use explosives. (For the last time. 1 trust.) It is the export kind and ought to make enough noise to he heard above the voices that clamcr for war and blood money. This explosion is tho exclamation point to mv aoDeal for oeace." He closed his letter with a proposal for a referendum on the ck tlon of war exports, which he characterized "a collossal American crime." Part of his letter was typewritten and part was written with a pen. t . " r ?s. II ===;=;===^^ $1.50 A YKAK. MORGAN COMPANY'S MUNITION ORDERS 1 4 Hiik HanillA^ t\ Worth of Munition Contracts. MOST OF IT FOR ENGLAND. Only Small Amount of St till' Ordered! Has llecn h'oruardtHl to Purehasers. New York, July 4.?In explaining the part J. P. Morgan had taken in the furnishing of war munitions and supplies for the European nations at ; war, it was stated authoritatively here tonight that the firm had handled more than $500,000,000 worth of | contracts for the account of foreign governments since the war began. Of this amount about $400,000 - j 000 worth has been purchased for the British since the Morgan firm was appointed agents for Great Britain in this country, and $50,000,000 worth for the French contracted for within the last month, the Morgan firm having been appointed by the French government to act in the same capacity as it does for the British government. i About one-half of the total amount contracted for in this country repj resents contracts for ammunition, 1 ?hells, powder and the like, but of the whole amount of ammunition i contracted for only a small part, it | was stated had been forwarded to the purchasers. The remainder is ' being manufactured. The Morgan firm's commissions for placing the contracts was said to be on a sliding scale, which began at 2 per cent and decreased in proportion to the magnitude of the contracts. It was claimed that of the total of $450,000,000 worth of war supplies contracted for by the Morgan I firm only a small proportion had been paid, although advances have j been made to some Arms, i This explanation was given to correct the impression that the large purchases of war supplies had beej^ responsible for the fall of foreign exchange. The low quotations were (due, it was stated, to enormous purI chases in this country of grain and . foodstuffs. t OOem /-V11 I" TTTT*T? WOl ur JUlVlJNljr SOARS YET HIGHER ____________ ; Workitigmcn Paid Two IVr Cent More for Koo.ciu ioi ?uai n?* goi in xni.i ior 100 per cent, and In 1012 for 07.4 per cent. The statistics show that the cost of living has increased steadily for these fifteen articles since 1007, when the average price was only 81.9. In 1008 it jumped to 84.2; in 1909 to 88.6; in 1910 to i 02.0; in 1911 to 91.9, and so on up to 102, the average price which the American workingman paid in 1014. The figures show that the highest prices in 1014 were reached in September when the price of all foods was 7.1 per cent higher than the average price for 1018. The lowest point was reached in April, when the price was 2.5 per cent lower than the average price in 1012. Toll of Death on the Fourth. Chicago, July 5.?Right persons were killed and 177 injured as a result of Fourth of July celebrations throughout the nation yesterday, according to figures compiled today by Tlio ehl,.o - ? ??v V u.? Uf,v^ i IUMI II^T. I II I .U'l IIIU total number of victims was !? hilled and 601 injured. The fire los.-, due to accidents combined with the use of explosives yesterday was $66,550, compare'1 to the loss of $7 6,035 last year.