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DEATH CLAIMS HUEKTA.
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Former Dictator of Mexico, Died at
El Paso Last Night.
El Paso, Texas, Jan. 13.?Victoriano
Huerta, former dictator of Mexico,
died here tonight. Gen. Huerta
died at his home a: 8:55 o'clock.
Gen. Huerta, who succeeded Gen.
Francisco I. Madero 111 execuuve
power in Mexico City and later left
Mexico, died of sclerosis of the-liver.
He was surrounded by his family
fe-:, when the end came. His death was
not unexpected. Funeral arrangements
are to be made tomorrow, it
is believed an effort will be made fo
arrange for his burial in Mexico,
g Huerta*s Career.
Huerta took office as Provisional
President on February 19, 1913.
lU .*" ' Three days afterward Francisco Madero,
one of his brothers who had
J&jt-j been arrested with him, and Jose
Maria Pino Suarez, vice president
under Madero, were assassinated
-while riding under guard from the
go palace to the penitentiary.
This crime aroused a storm of in14'
dignation throughout the United
: States. In many quarters there were
demands for intervention, but Presip:
dent Taft, who was on the eve of
fc leaving office, decided to take no action
which might commit the incom^
ing administration ofNPresident Wilson.
Immediately on assuming office
President Wilson refused to recogp;,
nize Huerta as the head of the Mexican
government in spite of the fact
p:.' v*'that such recognition had been
fc;Y'' granted by Great Britain. At the
^ - same time the Maderistas rallied under
Venustiano Carranza, governor
of.Coahuila, and Francisco Villa declared
against Huerta.
v , Following the refusal of President
* Wilson to recognize the provisional
president, United States Ambassador
Henry Lane Wilson was recalled from
I Mexico City. The situation between j
the United States and Mexico then
remained at a practical deadlock until
August, when President Wilson
sent John Lind, former governor of
; Minnesota, to the Mexican capital as
: his personal representative. Mr.
. Lind presented certain proposals to
: Huerta, chief of which was that the
j provisional president should resign
and permit a' national election at
which he would not be a candidate.'
j, Huerta peremptorily rejected these
proposals.
Deputies Arrested.
/ In the meantime the Mexican congress
had been growing restive and
one senator had the hardihood to
make an open attack on Huerta in
the senate chamber. He promptly
disappeared^ and when his colleagues
demanded an investigation, Huerta
marched a body of troops into the
hall of congress, seized 110 deputies
and threw them in jail.
His next step was to call an elec?
tion, at which only Huertistas were
allowed to vote, with the result that '
he was declared president, with Gen.
Hlanquet vice president. Mr. Lind :
.-again demanded that Huerta resign,
^nd meeting with a second refusal,
U teft Mexico City on November 12 for
"Vera Cruz.
Throughout the winter the tension
k-:", between the United States and Mexi1%, -co
continued to grow more acute.
i- American warshiDs were dispatched
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to Mexican waters and a large num- 1
ber of troops were concentrated on <
the border. At the same time the
^ Constitutionalists, as the Carranza
faction called themselves, advanced 1
r.-V; from the north, defeating the Huerta *
| troops in battle after battle. 1
%V '; Americans Seized.
The climax came in April, when a
V; party of American bluejackets was
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SGlZtJU at VCX a V/I Ui CHIU. luiunu miu I
fc" -jail. The Americans were quickly
released, but Huerta refused Presi|&v
dent Wilson's demand for a formal
fc - salute to the Stars and Stripes as a
measure of reparation. On April 12
American bluejackets and marines
landed at Vera Cruz in force and occupied
the city, after some street
fighting, in which a number of Americans
were killed.
Shortly afterward a mediation proposal
was made by Argentina, Brazil
and Chile and accepted. Conferences
. > were held at Niagara Falls, but
:
brought no decisive result.
Matters dragged along until July
7, when Huerta, his finances exhausted,
his army thoroughly beaten and
disorganized, his enemies growing
steadily stronger, presented his
resignation to the Mexican congress.
He sailed from Puerto Mexico a few
days later on the German cruiser
Dresden, and after a short stay in
Jamaica, chartered a steamer and set
rm* fr?r Bnain On Mnvftmhfvr 23
President Wilson ordered the evacuation
of Vera Cruz.
Hnerta Left Spain.
On March 3, 1915, Gen. Huerta
left Spain ostensibly for Buenos
Aires. He disembarked at Algeciras,
Morocco, and early in April boarded
a steamer for New York, declaring
he was coming to this country simply
on a pleasure trip. After remaining
in New York for some time he started
West with the announced intention
of visiting the San-FranciscoPanama
exposition. On June 27 he
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AWATOKS TKIE SPOU'ISMEN.
dar in the Air Most Principled and
Cleanest.
Between French, German and British
airmen exists a strange coniradene,
a iraternity of chivalry anu
dramatic courtesies which stands out
irom the mud-slinging and butchery
of war like a diamond in black velvet.
\\ hile French and British and Bulgarians
and Germans and Austrian^
011 the ground are killing each other
by methods that make one's blood
run cold, the airmen of the allies and
the birdmen from the central empires
are putting each other to
death, high in the sky, with the utmost
courtesy.
Psychologists ask if the warfare in
the sky isn't developing a super-hero
to whom killing is a sport and death
but defeat, like arriving second in a
hundred yard dash.
Every time a French aviator has
met death in enemy's territory, German
aviators carried to France news
of the event. After Pegoud died in
a m4d-air duel a wreath and a card
fell from a taube soaring two miles
above the French lines.
When Garros was taKen prisoner a
German airman dropped a note in
France praising the French pilot's
conduct.
When a German warplane is sent
crashing to earth in one of these
wonderful air duels, flowers for the
German aviators invariably are dropped
by the French fighters whenever
the duel has been fairly fought.
It is said that never a British aviator
disappears but news o? hini is
brought to his waiting comrades by
German airmen. Such and such a
thing has happened to so and so, says
a note which comes plunging down
out of the sky, a bullet attached to
give it weight.
The British do the same for the
Germans. It has become a sort of
unwritten law of the air.
Of course there are exceptions;
there are sportsmen in all contests
who cheat and use unfair means. But
generally the "war in the air is clean.
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Amprira'e Mnrrlftr Rpcnrfl.
'' Eight thousand murders a year in
America is the horrible record compiled
by Frederick L. Hoffman, who
has made a study of the' reports of
30 American cities for the last thirty
years. These cities have a population
of 17,416,640. The highest
murder rate for any year was that
of 1913, when 8.7 persons were killed
for every 100,000 persons in the
country. In the decade from 1905 to
1914 inclusive the average was 8.1
per year. In the ten years before
that the rate was 5, and in the first
decade of the period it was 4.8.
Memphis -tops the list in percentage
of murders. In 1914 that city averaged
72.2 persons slain for every
100,000 in the city. Charleston is
second with 33.3. Southern cities
have worse records than Northern.
After, Charleston comes Savannah,
then Atlanta, New Orleans, Nashville,
Louisville, St. Louis, San Francisco.
Cincinnati, Seattle, Spokane and
Washington. Manhattan and the
Bronx together stand sixteenth.
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Their rate is 6.1, or less than the
average. Chicago's average for 10
pears is 9.3.
Slightly over 60 per cent, of the
murders were committed with firearms,
and a little more than 15 per
cent, with knives or other sharp instruments.
All other styles of murder
are grouped.
Nowhere in the world is murder so
prevalent as in the United States.
There must be something wrong
with our administration of justice
when such an appalling proportion
of tragedies is accepted withoijjt
arousing the public to measures of
correction. Human life is held too
cheaply in the United States, and
there is too much maudlin svmnathv
for assassins. There is one Southern
city that has had many murders,
but in which a white man never was
hanged.?Commerce and Finance.
Read the Herald, $1.50 per year.
was arrested by secret service agents
at Newman, N. M., on a charge of
conspiring to incite a revolution
against a friendly country. He was
released on bond, but was rearrested
by secret service men at El Paso on
July 3, when apparently planning to
cross the border.
Huerta remained in jail until December
28, when he was permitted
to be removed to his home in ElPaso
on account of the serious nature
of his illness.
During Huerta's stay in America
numerous stories were circulated
from various sources asserting that
he was being backed by German
agents in a plot to embroil this country
with Mexico. These stories were
officially denied by Count Von Bernstorff,
the German ambassador. They
were revived again, however, by
statements by federal officials that
Franz Von Rintelen, a German agent,
had spent large sums of money endeavoring
to cause disturbances on
the Mexican border.
FEAR OF THE WORLD'S END.
Some Critical Situations Due to OverCredulous
Throng.
,It was the eve of the last day of
the year 999. A stream of wailing;
penitents, screaming and sobbing,
beating their bosoms with clenched j
hands, crawling 011 their hands and
knees, crowded their way to the
churches all over Europe, says the
Kansas City Star. The sick, the lame
; and the halt, helped by friendly
hands, clamped their lips and held
back the cries of pain which every
moment shot through their bodies.
. A few, exhausted, 1 ell by the wayi
side, crying out in anguish. At the
. church doors the lines halted to
glance back at the setting sun, which
they would see no more, for mid,
night and the year 1000 was to usher
in the end of the world.
All through the night they writhed
upon the temple floors, praying, their
ears straining for the sound of the
seven trumpets which would an- 1
nounce the coming of the Antichrist,
who would gather the wicked togeth- 1
er to take them to their punishment. ;
The night wore on. No stars fell
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from their sockets. The wails of all ,
Europe were growing more feeble. The
eastern horizon became flushed.
Still from the churches rose a hushed
murmuring. The sun rose to still the
groans of the exhausted, and all Europe
wearily went home. A short
respite had been granted in order
that the sinners might be converted,
it was said. Days, weeks and months
were counted anxiously; Eclipses,
comets, overflowing rivers and a
thousand other 'signs urged the sinner
to hasten.
Then famine came. Houses were
choked by the dead. For every man
who hoped for salvation on midnight
of the year 999 had given all his
earthly possessions to the church.
Ships had rotted at quays during the
preceding year. Commerce had ceasTVi
a raonor'c Vl a n H c: hflli Tint
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flung the grains upon the soils. All
hands had been raised night and day
in prayer. What matter? The end
or the world was near.
Misery everywhere. Day by day the
end was expected. Day by day starvation
added to its toll. What earthly
goods remained were expended in
further remodelling churches. Tales
of wonderful miracles were told, and
believed.
Little by little industry was taken
up again. Slowly the belief that the
end of the world was near became
dimmed.
At this time the nynd of all Europe 1
was filled with a belief in strange
creatures. Man shared his world with
fantastical giants, pigmies, one-eyed
monsters, creatures half human and
half animal, egg-shaped bodies with
human feet and arms in inverted positions,
horses' heads attached to
long, spindling human legs and
snakes of hideous shapes. His world,
night and day, was peopled with monstrosities
which the mind of man today,
even if stimulated with a mixture
of lobster and rarebit, could not
conceive. He lived in constant delirium
tremens.
The early teachers of Christianity
made use of the monsters in which
paganism had founded a belief. The
transition from religion to religion
had to be made gradually. But the
teachers clothed these pagan brutes
with evil. The end of the world
would be a riot of these beasts who
would carry off the wicked, they said.
Thus it was that the end of all took
so firm a root in the mind of Europe.
The human mind, however, never
has lost the fear of the world's end.
In 1833 William Miller, an American
farmer, predicted the second advent
of Christ on October 23, 1844. He
had many, followers, wjio gave away
all their worldly possessions and
made ascension robes that they
rvoci'Ur r>c\ ii p-Vrt nn into
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Heaven. The night of October 22
thousands stood outdoors in a terrific
electric storm praying and singing,
while those who had doubted quaked.
But the sun rose again and the wet,
cold enthusiasts shivered before kind
neighbors' fires.
"Mother Shipton's prophecy" caused
much uneasiness during 1881,
even after it was known that "Mother
Shipton" was an Englishman who
wrote his jingle in the sixties.
Comets, shooting stars and reports of
hens' eggs with fatal dates on them ,
help along the idea once it gets start
ed and scripture can always be quoted.
Why, there are a few who did not
allow themselves a momentary feeling
that perhaps the end was now
to come when the world war broke
out, the water in rivers rose and the
Italian earthquake further carried
out the* Biblical description of the
world's end. And that within the
last year.
Fulfilling Destiny. 1
"I didn't raise my boy to be a sol- ]
dier." said the pacifist, belligerently. S
"Of course not." said the advocate
of preparedness, sweetly. "You raised
him to be a soldierer?and that's ^
what he is."?Richmond Times Dis-|c
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Kidney Medicine Dissolves
Gravel Stones
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root sells well
with us because it invariably produces
good results in Kidney, Liver
and Bladder troubles. We sold a
dollar bottle to one of the inmates
of our Soldiers' Home near here, and
after using it he brought in about one
dozen gravel stones some as large as
a pea, which he had passed. He
states that he obtained wonderful relief
from the use of Swamp-Root.
ERNEST A. BROWN,
Lafayette, Ind.
Personally appeared before me this
2Sth pf July, 1 909, Ernest A. Brown,
of the Brown Drug Co., who made
oath that the same is true in substance
and in fact.
DAVID BRYAN, Notary Public.
Letter to
Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y.
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