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FIRED ON BY MEXICANS. Troops of Carranza May Have Taken Part in Fray. Washington, April 13.?In a battle in Parral, betweeen American ^ troops and the civilian population last night, Gen. Carranza telegraphed his embassy * here today "many deaths" occurred on both sides. Carranza troops are said to have aided the Americans in attempting to restore order. Gen. Carranza has apthfi United States to recos: nize the dangers of arousing the natives. t American troops in Mexico had their first battle with the natives at the moment Gen. Carranza was urging their withdrawal. Americans Fired On. On Wednesday night, while the de facto chief's note was on its way to Washington, troopers of the 7th cavalry under Major Tompkins were fired upon in Parral, a Villa stronghold in western Chihuahua; were pursued to the suburbs, while the Carranza garrison took a double part in the affray and were attacked again during the night. Complete informtion regarding the _ losses to the American troops or to the Mexicans had not reached Washington tonight. Secretary Baker in' formed President Wilson that a brief dispatch to the war department said that, according to unofficial reports, one American cavalryman was killed and that the troopers used a machine gun against the Mexicans. Funston's Orders. Mr. Baker announced later that he *\.r had ordered Gen. Funston to take any steps that might be necessary to 'f. prevent further trouble. When asked whether this might mean the enV. forced use of Mexican railroads for ^ the movement of soldiers and supplies, he said Gen. Funston was on the ground and would act as any emergency required* The secretary expressed the hope, . however, that the troubled Parral I A was purely local and did not presage more difficulties. Gen. Carranza, directing his embassy here to poiht out that the clash Hr proved his contention that the presIC /eppe of American troops in Mexico P is leading to a situation which threatens to go beyond his control, telegraphed that "many deaths had ocj v curred on both sides." v Foreign Minister Aguilar, in a dispatch sent before that from Gen. Carranza, said one American trooper was V>;: killed and several civilians were rV . wounded. Citizens Protested. uonsili uarcia, mo unauta agcui. at El Paso, wired the embassy that llpH v'several persons were killed on both sides." His dispatch added that when the American troopers entered Parral "the people protested, and it appears thd' garrison did also." K This latter statement is in direct contradiction to the dispatches of Carranza and Aguilar, which declared the Carranza troops attempted to hold back the Mexican mob. A re port to the State department from Consul Letcher, at Chihuahua, fory si :. * * \ warded through Qen. Funston, said ? there^had been some "trouble" at Parral, when the American column ^ was fired upon by Mexican civilians. The State and war departments, re ; . t ceiving from the Mexican embassy - :1 their first information that the clash had been a serious one, sent out orders for a full report. It had not been received tonight. Soap 60 Cents ir Mexico. * That the price of a cake of soap in Mexico today is 60 cents, and that the lack of it among the natives is causing .the epidemic of typhus fever, is the information contained in a letter which has just been received here I \ i from the Rev. W. E. Vanderbilt, a graduate of Auburn Theological eemii nary, who is doing missionary work I in the State of Michoacan, Mexico, relates an Auburn, N. Y., dispatch. Mr. ^anderbilt is stationed with his. wife at Zitacuraro, and his com, munication was sent a few days before the American troops entered Mexico. The letter States that in hie own town, with a population of 8,000 at least ten die every day from j ^ ' the disease. The cost of living in Mexico, Mr. Vanderbilt's letter states, has increased from 50 to 100 per cent, in three weeks. Corn has increased in price from 30 cents a quart to 60 y vuulo. Some of the other prices which he | gives are beans, $2 a quart; muslin,. $6 a yard; cheap calico, $3 a yard, and shoes from $30 to $150, according to quality. These amounts are in the money of the country, worth about 5 1-2 cents of American money. Mr. Vanderbilt states that he had just paid a dollar for a haircut, and was paying about $12 a day for board I for himself and wife. A full-grown elephant yields 120 pounds of ivory. Chicago and Albany lead in the average number of people per telephone with 6.1 for each phone. b ? U. S. HAIR-GOODS TRADE. New York Its Centre, With Chicago and San Francisco Following. Little or no influence is said to have been exerted directly on the hair-goods trade in this country by the war, which generally has been supposedly to have its hand in everything, says the New York Sun. Its most marked result to the hairgoods business was the practical stoppage of shipments irom f ranc and Italy, those countries, upon which the United States previously depended largely for these articles, sending little here nowadays. Liberal Supply from China. China, however, is shipping liberal supplies constantly, and this, coupled with the fact that the stock here is so large that it would take 10 to 15 years before a shortage could possibly result has prevented anything like a rise in prices. The hair-goods trade is not a creature of fashion, though it has to follow styles. Women at all times have used and in all times will use, additional hair. Their own may not be sufficient for .this or that reason and may have to be supplemented. They may need an entirely new supply?what the trade calls a parted price, or a front piece?or only a switch or so-called transformation to help out the scantiness of their own. Women Frankly Admit Facts. It is generally something that the average woman needs in this life, and collectively it means that more additional hair is worn nowadays than ever before. Once, there was almost hypocrisy in the.matter. No woman then would admit that any of the hair on her head was not her own and it was almost a case for censure to he discovered with what then used to be stigmatized as "false hair." Today it is a matter of course and jthe puffs, transformations, pompadours, Psyche curls, coiffures of this and that description^ and what not are worn without any compunction whatever, but only as a matter of hair dressing style. A New Coiffure. The leading hair-goods stores are showing now, for instance, a new coiffure arranged with the aid of a thre^-strand switch, each strand rolled in a puff with an extra set of three curls. It is a novelty that is said to be meeting with great favor, and so the manufacturers keep on with their creations until every styl ish woman, each one arranging her hair to suit herself, is sure to find something to meet her particular need New York city is the centre of the manufactured hair-goods trade in the country. Chicago and San Francisco are next in prominence in the industry. / The Discovery of Dickens. By exploding a mine the British managed to capture a small portion of a German trench near Lille and a dozen of our "field grays" were taken prisoners. Some hours later they were examined by a colonel. When it came to his turn, under officer F , who spoke English fluently, was surprised to see the colonel turning over the pages of a copy of the "Pickwick Papers," in English, that must have been taken from his haversack. The colonel held the book under F 's nose and the following exchange took place: *How did you come by this book? You stolje it from one of our dead?" "No. I got the book from home." "Why didn't they send you a German book?" "Because I wanted to read something of Dickens for a change." "Why do you read English books? Are you a tutor?" "No, I'm a barrister. I read it for recreation." "When people want recreation they play football; that's better. But who is Dickens?" 1 "He is one of the most famous of novelists and humorists. Every educated man in Germany knows him." "Ah! Then he is an American?" "No: he is Enelish." "What's he doing in Germany, then? You have naturally got him in a prison camp, you damned Huns?" "No; Dickens died in England in 1870, I believe." "Oh, he's dead so long ago as that? Then it's no wonder I don't know him." And with that the examination ended. But Sir Thomas Skeggs turned over the pages of "Pickwick" for a quarter of an hour. He soon had enough, called a servant, and told him to pack the book up and send it to Mrs. Skeggs. And for four weeks after that, as soon as Mrs. Skeggs'or one of her four children met an acquaintance. their first words were: "You don't know Dickens? O-oh!" ?Philadelphia Ledger. School children in Seward, Arkansas, went barefoot in December. This was not on account of destitution, but because of the exceptional warmth of the Japanese current. FEARFUL CONDITIONS. > Inscribes German Treatment of 4*rit- I ish Prisoners as "Indescribable/* London, April 9.?The government committee on the treatment in Ger- * many of British prisoners of war, of s which Mr. Justice Younger is chair- * man, has issued a report characteriz- s ins: as "indescribable" the conditions ^ prevailing in the Wittenburg camp during the typhus epidemic of last 6 year. * * The report is based on information c from prisoners and especially from Maj. Priestley, Capt. Vidal and Capt. c Lauder, of the Army Medical corps, f who were sent to the camp shortly ^ after the outbreak of the epidemic, r and who were recently released from t i Germany. The three officers men- * tioned are the only survivors of six ? British doctors sent to the Witten- 1 I burg camp by the Germans "to take c up," says the report, "the place of ? duty abandoned by their own medi- ? cal staff when the presence of typhus t manifested itself." The records of the epidemic kept r by the British officers were taken, s but the report gives in detail the con- ^ dition of the camp and the treatment 1 of prisoners and patients which' the * American ambassador, James W. Gerard, in his report last November r said was "even more unfavorable T than I had been led to expect." t V An Enormous Population. According to released officers there 1 are 15,000 and sometimes more pris- c oners in the camp, which the committee says "is an enormous popula- ^ tion for so restricted an area as 10 and a half acres. There were no c proper heating arrangements and the v men are insufficiently clothed. Brit- c ish overcoats having been taken from them, their clothing being in rags. Many had neither boots or socks. * There' was an insufficient supply of * water and\ soap and Maj. Priestley ^ says he found the men gaunt, of a e peculiar gray pallor and verminous." ^ The supply of food also was.insuf- E ficient even in the hospital until supplies arrived from England. c "The only provision for personal ^ cleanliness made for the men," says c the report, "was one cupful of soft 1 soap issued at intervals of many c weeks to a room containing 120. In ^ consequence, the men became increas- c ingly verminous, and the condition, f coupled with cold and want of prop- * I er nourishment, was undoubtedly the s principal inducing cause of the epidemic." \ * t The epidemic broke out in Decern- c ber, 1914. "Thereupon," says the re- c port, "the German staff, military and s medical, precipitately left the camp, 1 and thenceforth, until August, 1915, c no communication was held between ^ prisoners and their guards except by means of directions shouted from t guards or officers remaining outside t the wire entanglements. 2 ''All supplies for the men were t pushed into the camp over chutes, 2 and no medical attention during the ; - ' ' * I t whole time was provided Dy me uer- * man staff." 8 Capt. Lauder reports that while in the bungalows there was normally c one mattress for three men, in the 1 improvised hospital there were no 8 mattr^ses at all. ' t Shy of Hospital. g "In consequence," he says, "there were many typhus patients scattered over the compounds who were determined not to come into the hospitals if they could help it." In one compound, he found 50 hidden cases of typhus in the first ' month. The food ration for each pa- ? tient was h half petit pain (roll) and 1 a half cup of milk a day. The only soup obtainable came from the camp kitchen and as it was brought in open wooden tubs it was full of dust and dirt. * "In truth," says the committee's wnrvftpf "fVlo fofir?r? TXT Q c Tint fk T*n t i HT> I I cpui I y tliu A UClVAi ?? MM UVV v? * MW at all. It was a pretense. * It was not even possible to give the* patients warm water with their milk." Four British doctors were infected and three died. It was then that Maj. Priestley and Capt. Vidal went to the hospital to join Capt. Lauder, fl who was down with typhus. Maj. ? Priestley says that the patients, alive Q with vermin, lay so close to one an- ic other on the floor that he had to ~ stand straddle-leg across them to examine them. There were other conditions that are indescribable. There was difficulty in getting sufficient drugs and dressings for a long time and ex treme bed sores were common. In several cases the toes or the whole foot became gangrenous. The washing of patients was out of the question until a supply of soap was obtained from England. This shortage of necessaries was not due to lack of supplies, the doc- " tors said, for on a visit to the town they saw an abundant supply of every requisite. i ~ , ^ ur. Ascnenuacn. who was 111 cnarge of the hospital, and who, the committee understands, received the iron cross for combating the epidemic, only paid one visit to the camp, according to the report and that after some order was evolved. Sixty deaths J BIG DEMAND FOR MARBLES. Cach Spring 200,000,000 Are Used in The United States. It has been estimated by statisicians that more than 200,000,000 mall clay marbles are used by the )oys of the United States every pringtime. It. is a known fact that 25,000,000 marbles are made every) ear by one clay marble manufactur:r whose plant is in Summit county, )hio. And these marbles are made >r rolled by young girls. The marble manufacturer does not levote all his attention to the manuacturing of the "game marble." j rhere are various uses to which the narble is put, and as a matter of fact he size varies according to its inended use. The Standard Oil com-) )any is one of the largest buyers of narbles, and these are used for oil ans and larger sizes are started in graded pipe lines to clean out the )arafine which gathers on the side of he pipe as it flows to the tanks. Clay marbles are used also by the nanufacturers of rubber, ink and alt, chemical and powder makers. They are used also in grinding the arge stones of the lithographer and >y railway supply people. The sizes of the clay marble as nade in the United States vary from tine-sixteenths of an inch in diameer, which is the small "pill" the >oys play with, to one measuring six nches in diameter, or about the size if a small cannon ball. Except that of China, San Marino las the longest national hymn. iccurred among the British and the 'ictims were buried outside the amp. Insults for Dead. "What the prisoners found hardest o bear in the matter of burial," says he report, "were the jeers ' with! i'bir?h rnffins were freauently greet-1 id by the inhabitants of Wittenburg, vho stood outside the wires and were >ermitted to insult the dead." After the middle of April the conlition commenced to improve and vitli the arrival of warm weather the ases rapidly decreased and by the niddle of May all the British were onvalescent. Adequate provision vas made to deal with any future mtbreaks, improvements being efected as a result of the visit of Am>assador Gerard and members of his staff. The committee condemn the retenion of Dr. Aschenbach as head of the samp, and as evidence of his attitude site an incident. When one of his staff reported the request of Capt. ^auder for medical requisites, he surtly refused the request with the vords: "Schweine Englander." The report continues: "The cruely of the administration of the Witenburg camp became notorious. Savige dogs were habitually employed to errorize the prisoners; flogging with i rubber whip was frequent. Men vere struck with little or no provocaion and tied to posts with hands tbove their heads for hours. "Capt. Lauder reports that many >f these men went so far as to look ipon the typhus, with all its horrors, ls a Godsend. They preferred it to he presence of German guards." RUB OUT PAIN | with good oil liniment. That's the surest way to stop them. ^The best rubbing liniment is MUSTANG LINIMENT Good for the Ailments of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. Qood for your own A chest Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains, Cuts, Burns, Etc. , 25c. 50c. $1. 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