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TKR7Y ill 11)10 TO I0SOAPK DKATH. tttreeu* of Mexico Olty Swept by Shot ami sb.-II. Mexico City, Feb. 13.-Another flerceetreet battle, which was expect ed to be decisive, was begun bet ween Federal troops and Diaz rebels In Mexico City at 8 o'clock this morn ing. The government forces had the ad vantage In numbers, their army to talling 7,000 men, against tho .'{,000 revolutionists under Felix Diaz. Gen. Huerta and President Madero declared they would bo surprised if Diaz and his mutinous army were not reduced to submission before night fall. T1K? battle opened with heavy fir ing by tho Federal artillery, which bad been strongly reinforced In thc night. Tho rebels occupied the same positions tliey held yesterday around ?the arsenal and the Young Men's Christian Association building, and from there they replied with a hot Are. The population had either desert ed the center of the city or remained hidden In the houses, as it wtts Im possible to stir on the streets without Tunning enormous risks. Reinforcements for Marten?. The Federal forces were reinforced last night by detachments of all arms of the service. Meanwhile the rebels had fort Hied themselves In their dis trict, the center of which was the ar senal. However, they had riot In creased In number, and the size of the Diaz army is believed to be only a little over 2,500. Most of the Federal troops wt.o ar rived in the night were those com manded by (len. Angeles, whlt?h he had called from Cuernavnca, and they brought with them two pieces of heavy artillery with much ammuni tion and stores. Foreigners in Danger. While many of the women and'Chil dren tn the foreign colonies were con veyed during tho night to places of comparative safety, yet a large num ber of foreigners were still penned up to-duy In regions not free from danger. Thousands of Mexican families .concentrated .un theilower floors and In the basements of business build ings, trusting to the series of floors .above to .protect them from the haili -of bursting shrapnel. In the ?American embassy dozens ?r>f \ morlen.n oitlven? mu*rp prOvfrlC*? Cor f'i. ?.'.i-it-s ?md mal? ? ..? a wer? ? ? i.'4 ?UlVii bVO lit) .Itt Dill tit, t?. 'HIV ? i itt visional President, became a refugee iii the Brit ?sb legation yesterday af ter he approached President Madero on the question of ?impromising with tho rebels. Madero refused te listen to him. The question Of food su ?ipiles throughout the capital was not ?ohed to-day. Even ihe soldiers experi enced the discomforts of short ra tions. The reli?is managed to obtain during the night Keven big wagons full of bread and two wagon loads of milk, but provisions generally within tho zone of the mutineers vere said to ho scarce. A picturesque scene during the night was made by Hies where sol diers had raked trash and garbage thrown from buildings and burned, it. The disposition of this rubbish h* a serious problem, as it is becoming a menace to health. Mediation Plan Proposed. Washington, Feb. 13.-Mediation In Mexico, rather than Intervention, by the appointment of a pan-Ameri can commission, was urged to-day upon President Taft, Senator Culluni, of the foreign relations committee, and Representative Flood, of the foreign affairs committee, by John Barrett, director general o'" the Pan American Union. The commission, which, it ls sug gested, should seek to bring about a readjustment of Mexican affairs, would bo composed of a statesman from the United States, an eminent Latin-American diplomat now In Washington, and an Influential Mexi can. Mr. Harrett suggested for the commission such men as Senator Hoot or William Bryan, Senor Calde ron, minister from Bolivia, or Dr. De Pena, minister from Uruguay, and Senor De La Hara, of Mexico, former ambassador to the United States. The mediation proposal was made after conferences with members of the Senate and House and following renewed assurances from the State Department that there is no present Intention of departing from the es tablished policy of dealing with the situation in Mexico. Federals Put Out Americans. Washington, Feb. 13. - Ambassa dor Wilson's dispatches to-day re ported that many houses occupied by Americans'have been seized by Fede ral troops and tho occupants driven to th? streets. Homeless and exposed to the fire of both rebels and Fede rals, the dismayed refugees .made their way, at the risk of their lives, to the American embassy, which ls now open to all refugeos. Ambassa .MA DK JW) FOUCKD TO RESIGN. Do Tia Hurra Will Doubtless Succeed Him un Presiden?. - Mexico City, Feb. 14.-President Madero has resigned. De La Parra will likely succeed him temporarily. De La Barra ls now at the British legation. Rafael Fernandez, minister of the interior, has also resigned. Tho resignation of President Ma dero is announced on the authority of the British legation, where Do La HST ra took refuge yesterday after having urged President Madero to compromise with tho rebels. Arrangements for the succession of De La Barra to the Presidency are now being made at the British lega tlun. Planned Dynamite Campaign. Federal engineers this morning be gan macing a series of mines charged with dynamite beneath certain houses between the national palace and the arsenal. The explosion of these is expected to clear a passage four blocks long through which the artillerymen will direct mortar fire against Diaz and h4s army In their positions about the arsenal. The buildings in this doomed sec tion are constructed wall to wall and , the district is densely populated. | Resldetn8 were warned during thc ! night to evacuate their homes. Alli escaped with nothing but their per sona] belongings. Cen. Huerta, the Federal comman der, declared that with a short tra jectory, the projectiles from the mor-, tars would soon demolish the arse nal. For this purpose it was neces sary to destroy the houses before at tempting to dislodge the rebels. Asked t*> .Move Fnibassy. Uliited States Ambassador Wilson to-day was twice requested by Pedro Lascar?an, the Mexican, foreign min ister, to move the American embassy to .another location. The ambassa dor refused 'io consider the sngges- ' tion. The object of the Mexican govern ment s desire to move the American embassy is to permit the Federal troops to place thoir cannon In a po sition which would draw the rebel fire fr*)m the arsenal directly in line with tho embassy. HoWll This ? 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Long was tried at the January term (Of court in WI?, and his case was ap pealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld the decision of the lower court. Notice of an appeal to ?the Catted states Supreme Court was then made, but was later abandoned. Petitions for and against I/OJIK'S par don Have been in circulation ia Greenwood and Abbeville counties for several weeks. "Yes, cooney talks," said the man on the dig goods box, "but all ii ever said to me vas 'good-bye'." dor Wilson, however, is die:-/outing the majority among the adjoining houses. Anti-American feeling at Acapul co, Mexico, culminated In an assault r on two o (lice rs of the cruiser Oen \\ before she departed yesterday for Acajulta, Honduras. The victims of the assault were Surgeon Cameron and Ensign Guthrie, who were pass ing through the streets. Neither was injured. Discussing the Mexican situation in the House to-day, Representative J. H. Moor ?, of Pennsylvania, said it would bo deplorable "if, in order to maintain the honor and dignity of the United States, wp should be obliged to send troops into Mexico, hut even if our well intended, diplomatic nego tiations are to be trifled with, then, of course, the matter assumes a dif ferent aspect." Approximately :500,000 American citizens are dither temporarily or per manently residing in Mexico, accord ing to figures bused upon estimates made by the State department. Mere than 17,000 Americans havo been granted passports to Mexico. Al though the laws of Moxico do not re quire passports from American citi zens, moat of them ask for certificates when they expect to remain a long time. ELECTORAL VOTE DECLARED. Formality of Presidential Election in tile Joint Assembly. Washington, Feb. 12.-With elab orate ceremony the Senate and House to-day, in Joint session, canvassed thc electoral votes of the various States of the Union and officially declared Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, and Thomas It. Marshall, of Indiana, elected President and Vico President of the United States for the term ^Be ginning March 4th. Senator Bacon, presiding over the joint session, proclaimed the elec tion, when, to the crowded floor and galleries of the House chamber, he delivered the following proclama tion prescribed in the official rules.: "This announcement of the state of tho vote by the President of tho Senate pro tempore shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the per sons elected President and Vice President of the United States, each for the term beginning March 4th, 1913." Democrats of the House and Sen ate greeted the announcement witli a round of applause, a few cheers and several shrill, long yells, the usual Democratic indications ff approval. The galleries joined In tho demon stration, and the dignified Senate, led by Senator Bacon and two pages bearing the wooden caskets contain ing the-electoral vote certillactes, re turned to its own classic confines, far from the noisy demonstration. Pro ceedings In tho House were quieted by the advent ol' solemn senatorial dignity when the canvass began, and even the galleries seemed to appro ciato the seriousness of the occasion when Senator Bacon announced tha?. no applause would bo permitted. The nature of the House eventu ally asserted itself, however, and there were cheers and handclapping and yells as the canvass proceeded. The announcement of tho California vote dre*v applause from the Roose velt supporters. A real Democratic 'outburst followed when Senator Mar I tine, ono of tho tellers, announced ?New Jersey's 14 votes for Wilson and I Marshall, and applause came from the Republican side when Utah and Vermont each gave Taft and Butler four votes. 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Women everywhere should remember that there is no other remedy known to so successfully carry women through this trying period as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. If yon want special advice write to j Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (conti* ? i dentlal) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will j j be opened, read and answered by a ! woman and held In strict confidence? PAINTS A THRILLING PICTURE. Amundsen Describee How Scott and Party Probably Met Death, Chicago, Feb. ll.-A thrilling pic turo of the probable manner In which Robert F. Scott and four of his com panions met death on the ice barrier close to the earth's southern extrem ity, was painted verbally by Capt. Roald Amundsen, discoveier of the South Pole, who was In Chicago to day. "It ls hard to say just what hap pened," said tho Norwegian ex plorer, "but we can imagine, per haps, although it is horrible. We know, of course that it happened about the 79th parallel and that they were down on the barrier and not on the plateau. And just about there our positive knowledge stops. "Certainly they 'were exhausted and starving. It may be they had some scurvy among them-who can say? At any rate they were not in a flt condition to meet the terrible blizzard when it came. "Not that blizzards aro unusual. Scott was prepared for blizzards, for ho was no amateur. One may always expect blizzards in that country." No Ponies, No Dogs. "But there they were-those poor, forlorn follows-straggling ?long without even ponies to draw their sledges, for they had sent back their last ponies when they had reached a point ol' l."?0 miles from the Pole on the journey southward. "They were drawing their sledges, weakened though they must, have been. They had no dogs, and that was a mistake. I am afraid. And always before them there stretched that awful waste of Ice. Can you see lt? It is flat ice, stretched tight across the country in long, glassy undulations-stretching away so far and white that the eye cannot bear to follow it. "And across the frozen surface sweeps the wind-furiously. The great, Hate expanse offers a terrible sweep for the blast and there is no protection except what man ls able to build for himself." "And there they Died." "And there they died," he said softly. "Of course, Evans-Petty Officer Evans-had died already. He fell on tho ice. But the others must have died within a short time of each other. "And to think," added the captain ?a ;. hushed tone, 'that whlN those bc>v<- men were u; in:; tn the waste tit '.y -, ? vi?:, iv suturing in warmth and cohuort in austi ?na.' Gout, Amundsen denied that ho had suggested that the men who met death might have fallen into a crevasse. "It is ridiculous," ho asserted, "to think that five men would fall into a crevasse." Capt. Amundsen made It plain that the fate of Scott and his aides would not deter him in his plans for a North Polar expedition beginning next year. Thinks He'll Succeed. "Why should I hesitate?" he asked. "These affairs are very sad, but they are really uncommon. It is not what one may expect, as perhaps some of you may think. No, I shall start, and I believe I will be success ful." "What do you care about the North Polo now, captain?" was asked. "Nothing," said tho explorer, swiftly. "I do not seek the Pole. I may not even reach it. I do not care whether I do. These stories that I am to actually seek tho Pole aro un true. I am going north only on a scientific expedition-chiefly to study air and ocean currents. If I am close to tho Pole and conditions are favor able I will go there, not. otherwise." And Hoggs Resumed. (Picketts Sentinel. ) We noticed in a paper last week that a Missouri legislator had intro duced a bill to prohibit ladies wear ing dresses bu*toned in the back. What this leglsh tor's object was we clo not know. We ca ,nally mentioned the fact to Hon. J. E Boggs, where upon he said: "That reminds me of a time while I was making a speech. The crowd was extra large, and about the time I had gotten half through a baby, in the nrms of its mother, began to cry very vigorously. " 'Lady,' I asked very kindly, 'can't you quiet that baby?' " 'No, sir,' sho replied. " 'Why can't you?' asked our dis tinguished jurist. " 'Because,' repleld tho mother, 'my dress buttons In tho back.' " Whereupon Mr. Boggs resumed his speech. Mrs. McLcndon Killed. 4 Columbia, Feb, 12.-Mrs. Annie McLendon, wife of Millen H. McLcn don, of this city, was instantly killed to-night when an automobile, driven by her husband, was precipitated from a bridge into a small creek near here. The other occupants of the machine were unhurt. r Low ? TO : Fertile N ONE-WAY SPRING COLON DAILY MARCH 15 TO APF Western Montana, Idaho, Wi Columbia. ROU ND-TRIP HOMESEEKK 1st and 3d TUESDAYS KAG! In Hie Northwest United Stat? and stop-overs. Travel o Northern 1 and connectii MINNESOTA, NORTH DAR? 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New Ye "k, Feb. ll.-James A. Patten, tho cotton and grain specula tor, pleaded guilty in the Federal Court, here to-day to six counts In the indictment charging him with re straint of trade. Judgo Mayer fined Patten four thousand dollare, which ho paid Im mediately. The sixth count charges that Pat ten and his associates, Col. Robert M. Thompson, Wm. P. Brown, F. B. Wayne and Eugene Scales, agreed, under contract, to buy practically the entire raw cotton crop of 1909 In or der to hold it out of the market until November ll, 1910. To seven other counts of the In dictment Patten pleaded not guilty. They were nol prossed by the court. Others Will Plead "Not Guilty." New Orleans, Feb. ll.-Three other members of the cotton "bull pool," indicted Jointly with Patten in connection with tho bull campaign of 1911, will not plea l rruiity to. Fede ral indictment In New York, accord ing to a statement to-day by Wm. P. Brown, one of tho three. $00,000 Fire nt Birmingham. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 13-A loss of $90,000, with $70,000 Insurance, is the result of a fire which to-day destroyed the plant of tho Southern Pipe and Foundry Company, nt North Birmingham. The fire is supposed to have started from defective wiring. Poultry |C. W. PITCHPOI MOSS & ANSEL, NEVILLE BROS., WEST "are s ["HE orthwest IST TICKETS ON SALE UL 15, 1013, to points in [tarlington, Oregon, British ?RS* TICKETS ON SALE ll MONTH to ninny points .s niid Canada. Long limit m tlio Pacific Ry ig lines, to OTA, MONTANA, IDAHO, or to MANITOBA, SAS ?RITISH COLUMBIA. terature about tbe North in formation' about North service promptly upon re write to-day. nt, 10 No. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. it., 10 E. 4th St., Cincinnati, O. HIDES IRKET PRICE PAID FURS AND HIDES .sion. Writs tor price his ad. hod 1887 ILLE,KY. W V STAR. -Feb. ll, 1013.) eft tho after-glow, lalls the stars spread wide and slow, out upon tho Endless Sea, tuen, but God's Eternity. and somo fell long before, 3eath, that strange, uncertain shore; ained by some inherent force, were held upon their course. s who sall life's rtigft ?a? )y, appear lo nu? to be! ann fade into Us Light, pass downward 'V.ltlj the Night 1 > mu caused meso Souls to be, 'ate through His Eternity! igaln, as once they sailed before ;h-bi't sall they must to Shore! FOR GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP. Hltohooek Recommends Hie Owner ship of Telegraph Lines. Washington, Feb. 14.-Govern ment ownership and control of tele graph lines is again recommended by Postmaster General Hitchcock in his complete annual report transmitted to Congress. Mr. Hitchcock says: "In the last annual report the opinion was expressed that telegraph lines in the United States should be made a part of the postal system and operated In conjunction with the mall service. It is believed that under proper management such a consoli dation would result in important economies nnd pormit adoption of lower telegraph rates. Now that a postal savings system has boon es tablished and a parcel post provided for, there would seem to be no bet ter opportunity for the profitable ex tension of our postal business than through tho adoption of a govern ment telegraph system." Mr. Hitchcock also recommends that the uso of the franking privi lege be restricted "to officio^ corres pondence, not exceodlng four ounces in weight, and to tho mailing of such speeches and documents as are print ed by order of Congress. Frenzied Mathematics. Teacher was trying to make a showing before the superintendent. "There are five children in the fam ily," said she, "and the mother has only four potatoes to divide. What is she to do?" "Mash 'em " cried Johnny. 1 ,?rasy Melts vor profitable. They cannot lay tortured nlKht and day by lice les. 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