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SENT TO IE1IC1N CONGIESS ON INDEPENDANCE DAT HAS HOPES OF PEACE Drclure* the Ore»<e«t Possible Triumph for Him l« to Turn Oflice Over to SueccMor Witli Country at Peace—Hoes Not Kefer to Recent INplomatic Kxchonges. In spite of tlio rumors which dealt Impartially with attacks upon Ameri cans, an army uprising and the assas sination of the Mexican President, the Mexican Independence Day came and went with nothing to mar the holiday spirit of Mexico City on Tuesday. Politically the great event Was the reopening of Congress and the read ing of the President's message. Put without doubt Pen. Huerta was mov ed less by that than by the spectacle of thousands of students, citizens and soldiers doing him honor as he stood on the balcony of the National Pal ace reviewing the great parade, the feature in which public Interest cen tered. On Huerta said the strained d’p lomatlc relations between Mexico and the l'nlted States had caused the M.tu.hi nation to suffer unmerited sfTIatbin and ha! retarded the pa> fh utlun of the « . i:.' r v N>'V ert ti<d>- > lie to;., ! ' . r i n i i r l \ so] u t Ion < ' 11 •• difTerete's t« ' » • .-n the t w ,, r,a’ im •• and to -• e Nlexl o « T> ! t *1 e I U ' | Kmte* on-e more unl’cd In h >nds < ' fMen 1st p T! e r r o v « 1 o >, a 1 d 1 "f n t 1 o ttie ff<*erne~ref n 1 srd '^*t o' Me ee HTtH*l*Kl» THK TR^I\ 1U T MIHhK.D THK Could Not Blow Open the Safe lb- enuse They Had |j**ft the Dynaniite Behind. Residents of Homestnke, Mont., are laughing over the discomfit tire of throe hold bandits, who, after hold ing up a train and preparing to dyna- mlto the express car safe, discovered that the explosive had been left be hind. Firing a few shots to convince the chuckling engineer and fireman that they were real brigands, despite their poor memories, the men rode off into the forests to hide their shame. The train holdup itself was of Hie regular frontier order. The denoue ment, however, proved the greatest, farce ever enacted In that robber-rid den region of pioneer days. In the tall grass a mile and a half west of Homestake, the bandits had deposited half a wagonload of paraphernalia when no one was looking. These were torpe loos, masks and automatic pistols, but most important of all dy namite. Equipped ns they thought for final action, the nmn awaited the arrival of a limited train on the Northern Pari- flo. Torpedoes wer ejdodedx at the opportune time U hen the engineer and fireman blithely skiptei] down the !"-•(,mo* j\ <’ ■Mep the rom.-r-; wo-e there to me, t M.i :n an 1 give or'!* r^ TV.WH NfU.BOK** \ l<TIM TRICIC I \TK. \rrvwte«l on Minor Charge, They VI ere Cast Into Noisome Cell—In- • 1 , vestjgat ion Colng On. State authorities In Texas are In- vasMgatlng what Is pictured as one of the most barbarous of prison hor rors in recent times. The allegation is made that twelve negroes, who were charged with being lazy at their work In the cotton fields, were jam med Into' an underground cell at the State prison farm building, near Richmond, Tex. The cell, ten feet long, seven feet wide and seven feet high, had metal walls and ceilings, und only four airholes, each the size of a quarter. Fight of the twelves negroes cast into the cell suffocated In the ight after onepf the most desperate fights that men ever made for existence. Four hoWs the cramped and impris- oned men fought for vantage of plac ing their lips to the airholes. Those w ho were conquered died. One .of the four survivors was found with his lips at a crack in the floor through which he succeeded in suck ing suffici. nt air to keep him alive. The four survivors told Police .lup- tire Fenn and the State Prison com- *■ P-ioner^ that, until f 1 ,> v grow too fa’nf. thov had t or-istont!.' yollod to r f > fh t i> *! • ' 0* of 'Tit r. a * ■ \VIM ; n a Hi In uf < i r a 'Mi! with M, r r .n; ■ the oxpri t * o ri i- * i - i a r w a • n a «V i V ■ i W I • ! ! I * ,■ ’ f i >M * ■ i n n • 1 Fi o:r h *i n Jred '• •• no’ *ho ■ g! v a\ nn ’ >a n r . n ■ i ■ ir I ■ o\ ,.nd i 1 - * i, » r ,,, o | nui o gua* •! "Min r i ’ " They w or* ■ \ go* . as 'M'ou' 11 ! v * ai don't ' k* ! ri • * ' *'nd t h *■' > • r * • ru do., ! th*' ..-hi > * ;* or • \ » n luoa.u ro oi.’ . «••[•,! •h \ i T! 1 K ropi v U w .ire . <*' * io survivor-* He 1 lerlarx** Deltaslng Influence of K«loon and Boad-bouae Waa too Apparent in White Slave Case. Two years in the Federal peniten tiary on McNeil Island, Washington, and a fine of $2,000 is the sentence imposed on Maury I. Diggs, former State architect of California, because of his flight to Reno with Marsha Warrington, a Sacramento girl. Fighteen months In the same prison and a fine of $1,500 was the penalty given his friend and companion, F. Drew Camlnetta.^-for like offence by Judge Von Fleet at San Francisco, Cal. Caminetti eloped with Marsha Warrington’s friend, Lola Norris. Diggs and Caminetti seemed un concerned when sentence was pro nounced. A few minutes later they laughed and chatted with the news paper men over their flight. The moffier and brother of Cominetti and the wife and father of Diggs were in Court. The two parents of the pris oners listened with bowed heads to Judge Van Fleet's words. Mrs. Diges stared bldnkly at the judge, giving no sign that she realized what his wi-rds meant. "Th s was a crime of opportunity.” sai l Judge Van Fl*-*‘t in passing s*-n- tt'To * ial ■'I im-an that Mo- laxity of s : !i' on-* *nd * be !;yk of pare- • - rol i- a lo : * [ -pblo I w! •'.at '' ' ♦ \ ' 1 . : g In' After KemwHHng That They Would All I He Ttogether Hurla an Explo sive on the Hoot. At Bloomington, Ind., Mack Hurst, a stone mason, dynamited his house Friday, killing himself and one daughter and fatally injuring two other daughters, in addition to de molishing the house. Mrs. Hurst, in a remarkable manner, escaped injury. Hurst is believed to have been in sane. • The dead: Madl Hurst, fifty years old. Maud Hurst, sixteen years old. Fatally hurt: Fannie Hurst, thirteen years old, one leg blown off and body mangled, almost unrecognizable. / Elizabeth Hurst, six years old, body mangled. Put little is known of the tragedy beyond the results. Mrs. Hurst, who escaped injury, how, she says she does not know, says that the man awoke the family at two o'clock Fri day morning and told them all to gather in his bedroom. After they had all entered, he closed and locked the door and spoke only these few words: ”We will all die together ” Then he picked up a stick of dyna- n .ii- Mib b was lying on the floor Ti* ar T' .... ; i ■ u a - r- 1! th Touch fir. •* ei**** til- o ?’ at drink * ad l'« p . on t K e '■ IoraIs a * ' * t ' ., .... a r: ! t ! <• ft 1 * h -A 1 ’ 1 • v ft.-nt .■ r. R.• T> " t ■rrlV" d. and threw ir under the bel. a d*-;: fetiir: _ ro i r a nd M rs . ••M),-r---l n*>* h : n c more un- i- •* -.ns. i ’u-nes- at the T . h i.i-ar’ v an hou r Man Whoa* Life Wa* Saved by Sher iff White’s Stand Against a Mob Acquitted. In the face of the positive state ment of a respectable white woman of high intelligence that he had assault ed her, Will Fair, a negro, was found not guilty Saturday afternoon at a special term of Court held at the Spartanburg Court House. The jury were out twenty hours. The verdict caused no surprise and was quietly received. Fair’s advisers thought it would be well for him to leave the State and he has gone to Virginia to accept a job in a railroad construc tion camp. The woman who accused the negro has gone to live in Atlan ta. She is believed to have testified in good faith, but to have been labor ing under a delusion. Ten minutes before the jury re turned their verdict they reported through their foreman, Joseph Lee, of Landrum, a hosiery manufocturer, that they were hopelessly deadlocked. From authenticated information, it seems that six of the jurors were for absolute acquittal and the other half dozen, while they were agreed that the negro was innocent, desired to place the n-sponsibilitv of his ue<j nt- ta! on another jur- They wer** ev - d*-n;l> of the opinion that the au- >1 V pill \t ■ I 'l-.v I ■ •*' n* tr.at!*- r< of t * *• I r i t ' i »i ; . t 1 en •Ion T v «■ t <■' ’ 1 A - r - • «• »»•« W r 11. • n , ' » ft a ’ • ft * • • Th- n *• • • 4• f* • r t • ’ * « ’ • if*. t'-* 1'!. * • w «' • » * A * \ 0 ** r ! « * f ^ » * %• : I U r % ' % f t h • |> A * A ' ** *ti« r ‘ r *«-'v •t• •» i«• fft «-«•» * I »! • r ! ft- •- i r* 4 » r ; • ■ » *b<* Trn4*-r.ft»« »■ -n » ' h t! 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The National Cartridge fac tory, he said, was turning out $'.’bf'.- 000 cartridges monthly. Besides a great number of earn >n of various descriptions, machine guns, rifles, carbines and ammuni tions, the government has contracted abroad for ten aeroplanes, 77 armor ed and 50 unarmored automobiles. On the subject of the approaching elections the President said he had promulgated the law enacted by Con gress complimentary to the electoral law under which the government will hold election In October. He declared that the government would continue to make efforts to ward the pacification of the country within a period relatively short. In this spect he could Inform Congress that the situation already was domi nated by the government in a major ity of States, only Sonora and Duran go at present being totally beyond authority. ♦ ♦ ♦ Tragic Ending of Parade. At Cleveland, Ohio, Just as the last section of the Perry Centennial cele bration parade was passing an Impro vised balcony outside a restaurant Wednesday night, the balcony col lapsed upon th© crowd on the side walk below, killing one man and Mrloualy Injuring three other men and two Mttlf girls. Several others rt; I<H*K 1IKK <>\\ N 1.1! I! 1 \\ K*ft IN \ \DK ^*1 TH. Wiunjin l.ft-rtn-ft Nut** Pi.hling 1'nrc- xx ell to Hu* \\ nrhl. \ dispatch from S; artan’ urg to The New* and Courb-r sa\s when Frank W\mbs, a paperhanger, re turned iiotti*' from work Wednesday nighr, tie found his wife's bed room door locked. His little children told him their mother had entered the room early in the afternoon, and Hint they had been unable to get any re- -ponse from her sinee. Mr. Wymbs forced the door open and found his wife lying in bed with a sponge soaked in chloroform press ed to her nose. She was dead. She had written a note, bidding farewell to the world. It was given to Coroner John S. Turner, hut he declined to divulge its contents. He said it indicated a de ranged mind. < Imttmu>ftigix ‘'urrendcrx to Blue H<*«>t of lU-scigers. IVnt upon tin-'.r tir.-t peaceful vashm of the South, thousands Has an Entire Silver Jaw Bone. Elizabeth Nemanich, seventeen years old, of Joliet, 111., has had a solid silver lower Jaw put in her mouth, ast the result of an operation for “phossy Jaw”, contracted In a match factory. The surgeons say that she will retain her beauty and that she will he able to use the metal Jaw as well as she could have used the original one. ♦ . .. , - Corset Steel Saves Woman’s Life. A corset steel, which deflected a bullet aimed at her heart, saved the life of Mrs. Marie McDonald, of Sac ramento, Cal., when A. E. Carey shot at her. Carey, as soon as he saw the woman fall, turned the pistol on him self and InflleUd a fatal wonad In in- of I'nmn x.-tcrans have arrived in Chat- fanooita to att.-nd the 47th annual encampment of the Brand Army of the Republic, and allied organisa tions. Th*' encampment will con tinue through Saturday. In honor of the occasion Chattanooga has pre pared a great welcome. Citizens’ committees throng the railroad sta tions, welcoming the veterans. Sur vivors of the Union army, which caused the Confederacy to totter in the bloody battle at Chicamauga, fought there fifty years ago, are greeted with the same cordiality shown the United Confederate vet erans whose annual reunion was held in Chattanooga last May. Stole for Luxuries. Pleading guilty to assault with in tent to rob and saying that the desire to provide luxuries for his wife and two small children, who stood at his side, was the cause for his downfall, Hugo Rolling, 29 years old. a member of the Milwaukee police force for six years was sentenced to serve three years in the house of correction. Killed by Automobiles. Miles Z. Overcast, a carpenter, of Savannah, Ga., wa* struck and In stantly killed bv an automobile of Assistant Fire Chief Fogarty in one of the priclpal street* of Savannah late Monday. The fir© chief waa re sponding to an alarm, when his ma chine, which waa being driven at breakneck epeed to the fire, skidded and struck i «■• ' i -* " "X : rf a*-, i »> h ’ pair .. I 1 • »• - M . . 1 . ' .i r V, r 4 ft if • a r. t' 'an * i n * *' ' • ' n tail-** i I '. .4 M !.' !’ *' i . n I' S * W l an. J r I r r t h • ' a r .! r; a ' * * «* ‘ft 4 * J • prak at l!.ft : .:. !*■.-.! a-. 1 .< la” ft b. r * » <• on bat lift an 1 fur It,- 4 | ' l 1 0 a t r g •!- -wn th*’ si!\ i-rxft ar*, itig"t« They b '* the t.ai *■ b* bin 1 them 4 s h t!.**v m*-!te<! tn ron venter,t Im; rov;-*e,l fur- Uorpse Sitm l |> In B«*d. T.a!i1 out nn l ready for the under- *aker, "Aunt Harriet” Law, an aged n.-gress, of Ceorgp.ow n, Del . nston- isl.i d her family by sitting tip in bed and asking what all the fuss was about. Medical attendance was ob tained, as soon as the negroes re covered from their fright, and the old lady was kept alive until late that night, when she really died. Took His Own Life. At Augusta, Ga., Thomas W. Bear den, aged C)2 years, representing a supply company of Columbia. S. C., committed suicide early Wednesday in a rooming house by inhaling gas. The body was found in the bath room. The door was closed and the window was down. ♦ ♦ ♦ Little Girl Killed. Lizzie Matthews, the five-year-old daughter of Wade H. Matthews, a farmer near Florence, died Thurs day night from an accidental gun shot wound inflicted while the girl and her twelve-year-old brother were playing with a gun. pany at Bayway. N. J., on Monday. Negro Held for Old Killing. Lem Sandera waa arrested in Pine Bluffs, Ark , charged with having killed a negro seven years ago. He has been taken to Haaelharat. Mias, where the crime was committed. L- » !>*r r*<KM-n th** Iftiuii’o *<a!*' !• r f,ir»&rd *l'h int*T*-st ’,> th** r.itb'ti of this struggle on O.'to *■ tary Br>an and Governors Fraig rim! Hooper have already ao- (t-pt»-d Invitations to '..e present and ■: ik*' addresses Secretary Josephus DanieN, him-*elf a native of North I'arolina, will be in attendance, If possible. Islands" -i ink in tl»e <>eean. Fab on and Hope islan Is, of th*“ Friendly or Tonga group, in the South Pacific ocean, are reported to have disappeared from view. The ni si rum* nts in the Sydney naval station recorded violent earthquakes in the vicinity of the islands just prior to the time they were reported gone. Several hundred natives and a few xvh’te men are supposed to have gone down with the islands. At r* * . ft r * § • • . *. A - • ! • * ! a i ~' * ‘ * • 1 r * r. r • * * * • * ' • • • a' r • * . ' » ft a k d ■ At*' A * •, ' ' ! i v \ i ’ • ’ v • - * * i ’ * \ v \ • k * \ • ’ •* ; - » . . . . . . pr 1 ! ! ! tk*. ^’ t r * i v '»' a ', t i * . n * ■ . • t • i:, ! t\ a W 1 I M a* )' w tft I* ■* b’ ■ ' r .* g « tn. n .: ” . 1 ’ :. ’ 1 - . ■ g ft a u a n - , ’ • tin.*- t b a - -a .' t I-* h! .• g.*d • ,. b. *-n ( * i'M'. r . * ’ *'d ? o su ff "d HU t; a ’ InotnaMnn Th. xoung won •..• fi. 1 t hat --lie had b*-*-n in :!! • a ■ !i and **u b J*-< t to fain tin g p**l. ■* ( Vj K s< IFNTlsT BFI.IFM n. Overdose of Morphine. Wallace Webb, aged 50, a travel ling salesman of Atlanta, was found dead n his bed Tuesday at a hotel in Millen, Ga. A coroner’s Jury held he came to his death from an overdose of morphine, which he took to relieve kidney trouble. Cost Him His Life. Sympathy for a dog which was be ing abused cost Walter Pearson, of Newark, N. J., his life. The dog bit him while he was taking care of it and pearson died of rabies. Two Scalded to Death. Two men were scalded to death and hundreds were imperilled when a steam receiver exploded In the big plant of the W. A. Clark Wire Com-the christened the "Mad Fly”," fell Drops to Death. An aviator named Vlaicu, who re cently designed an aeroplane which during a test Saturday and waa kill ed. I leer Starve* to Death la Mire. A young deer became trapped in a mire in the Newfleld dlatglct of Coa- nectlcnt. and unable to releeee Unelf from the mad. etareed to death. Foremost Britain Avows Belief in Future Life. A presidential address before the British Association for the Advance ment of Science seldom has been awaited with such eagerness on the part of the general public as that de livered last week by Sir Oliver Jos eph Lodge. The leading scientists of the world were in the audience, in cluding Mme. Curie, the co-discover er with her husband or radium, and fifty other great foreign savants. Usually such addresses are too scientific and abtruse to appeal to popular taste, but it was known that Sir Oliver was to deal with the mys tery of after life and the question of the persistence of personality after death, and in avowing his belief In such after life, the speaker went fur ther than any scientist yet had gone toward answering a question so pro foundly interesting to the mass of mankind. The address was listened to with impressive silence, -broken only by the murmur of half-suppress ed laughter or little outbursts of ap plause. Joy Riders Are Shot. * At San Francisco. Kate Coulson, thirtyyears u£ aute. was shot in the neck Friday and George Kovack, night vxatchman in a garat**, and Wil liam Acker, a chauffeur, were ahot dead after the three had been riding most of the night in an automobile. A. R. Coulaon. husband of the wound ed woman, la being sought by the police Mrs. Couleoa Is believed to be dually e