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HAS FORCED WAR ? That It What The Uoited States Hat Daoe Savs Hanoi Corral. ? TAFT ISSUES A REPLY Ambassador Wilson Directed to Inquire of Mexican Government 4 M iioclicr statements ot vice president Reflecting on United States Policy are Authentic. , Jn an official statement issued Friday the state department takes decided exception to an interview accredited to Ramon Corral, vice president of Mexico, and published in the Diario of Mexico City, in which that official changes that the Mexican revolution is being formented by Americans with a view to forcing intervention. ^ "The department of state finds it very difficult to credit the authenticity of such an interview purporting to come from a high official of the Mexican government," the statement says, "because the efforts made to enforce the neutrality laws and the disinterested friendship of the United States for Mexico and Mexican people are as well known to the Mexican government as they are fully understood in the United States. "The department of state has made every effort to prevent any harmful misunderstanding and there can be no doubt that the Mexican foreign office will take prompt steps to repudiate and prevent the promulgation of any such statements calculated so seriously to disturb the mutual confidence and friendly good understanding between the two peoples." The reported declaration of Ramon Corral, Vice President of Mexico, that Americans were fermenting trouble in his country in order to force intervention, has earned the disfavor of the United States Government. The State department has called the matter to the attention of Mexico in order to establish officially whether the interview with the Vice President, in which the statement excepted to are reported to have been made, were authentic as -published in Mexico City. The question was taken up by Ambassador Wilson, at Mexico City, to whom the department telegraphed a copy of an official statement, whlcn it had issued, unequivocally disapproving the alleged utterance. The statement expresses the confident belief of the department that the Mexican foreign office will promptly "repudiate and prevent the promulgation of any such statements, calculated so seriously to distrub the mu tual confidence and friendly .good understanding between the two peo. pies." A dispatch from Mexico City says "the statement attributed to Mr. Cor- j ral are so at variance with the facts and so inconcievable as originating from a person occupying the high and representative office of Vice President of a great nation, holding friendly relations with the United States, that comment of a critical nature should be reserved." In this manner Ambassador Wilson commented to-night upon the interview with Vice President Corral, which is printed in El Perial. In diplomatic and official circles the disposition to discredit the interview were general. "I am sure this view is not shared by o*her officials of the Mexican Govern iuc.it," continued Ambassador Wilson. "It is, perhaps, true that the neutrality laws of the United States need amplification and amendment, but, as they exist on the statute books, they have been enforced and even strained to meet the representation of the Mexican Government relating to conditions 011 the frontier." * ? ANOTHER WHITE SLAVE. ' ? W omen Accused of Leading Voting Girl Astray. A Knoxville dispatch to The State says that four women were arrested there on Friday charged with decoying Effie Hydrick of Spartanburg, aged about 18 years, into a house ol ill fame. The four women arrested are Nellie Gray Pearl Minnick and Hattie Wilson of Asliovillo and Pear Mayness of Knoxville. They arrived *11- mi. 1 .. 1 -i. 1 ... t a u it.. in IVIIOXVIIIU illUIMlJiiy II II L ? 1(11 UM Hydrick girl and took her to th< house of Pauline Jones, a house o 111 repute, where they were found bj officers Friday. The Hydrick gir said she went to Ashoville to visi Nellie Gray, and stopped at a hote there. One night, she said, a carri age came for her and she was toh that the Gray woman had sent fo her. She was driven to a house o ill fame and kept there until brougli to Knoxville. The women will be ar rallgned before the United State commissioner at Knoxville. 1 Kills Self in Old Hole. Frank Reeser, aged 60 years committed suicide this week in th old swimming hole near York, Pa. where he swam when a youth. Fo several months he complained o having an irresistible desire to die. 1 BOXERS MAD AGAIN REVOLUTION" STARTS IN THE CHI MvSK EM PI RE. Anarchy is Rife Among the Soldiers. ?Revolutionaries Well Armed and Fight Desperately. Dispatches from Hong Kong, China, says only official messages are being received today from Canton, where a revolutionarq outbreak occurred Friday night. These are of a disquieting character. The revolutionists have obtained a quantity of explosives and the government has asked the steamship companies plyinir to that ritv to Husneiul their service lest arms be smuggled into the disturbers, who are still at large. Many of the leaders have been imprisoned. The fighting between the troops and the rioters Friday began when the soldiers arrested a revolutionary leader and his followers who, carrying revolvers and wearing badges, boldly proclaimed their purpose, surrounded the viceroy's palace and set it afire, and after starting the fiflre Interfered with the efforts of others to extinguish the flames. The revolutionaries were armed with riflles and bombs and fought desperately. Several were killed and many arrested. The troops were commanded by Admiral LI and they suffered considerably, a colonel being among those wounded. The soldiers finally got control of the situation and energetic measures to prevent another outbreak were taken. The igates of the city were closed and a search made in suspected i| Uiintfi s iui cti ins anu <x in in u 111 nu ii | The fire at the palace burned for two hours, doing great damage. The viceroy escaped harm. A strict censorship has been established and only official exchanges between Hong Kong and Canton are possible. Thousands of residents of Canton are fleeing to this city. Those who have arrived say anarchy is rife among the soldiers at Canton. Many of the troops completed their service today and these men are particularly feared. Anarchists have been furthering their propaganda in the army, where there was already much discontent owing to the recent suppression of gambling. The British consul at Canton reported to the governor of Hong Kong that the situation is serious. * LAST QUARTER FOR POISOX. Administer Drug to Their Children J. and Themselves. Fear of impending starvation caused a father and mother to administer stychnine to themselves and their own children, both under four years of age, in Chicago, 111. The mother, Mrs. Honore Dziurgot, and the older child, Joseph, are dead and the father and baby are in a hospital, where it is said both will recover. Dziurgot in the hospital told of the poverty which followed his long illness, and then related the desperate agreement with his wife that the i i i i i. \. ~ IWO snouiu poison Liieiuseiveo auu their babies. "With my last 25 cents," he says, "I bought the poison at a drug store. I took it home and my wife and I mixed it in the little milk we had left. The milk was the only food we had in the house. Some was given to the children, my wife drank some and I drank the remainder. There was not enough for me or I could have died with my wife and boy." * HARD BATTLE WITH PIRATES. Chinese Bandits Captured Steamship After Long Struggle. A long battle with pirates followed the wreck near Shanghai, China, the week of the steamship Asia, bound from Honk Kong for San Francisco. Warships will probably bo sent to dislodge the pirates, who Anally captured the ship after the 70 4 pasesngers had been rescued. ; The vessel carries a cargo valued at $500,000, made up chiefly of silk. The ship is a total loss. For hours the officers and crew of I the Asia, with rifles, shotguns and revolvers, and Anally with rude clubs and winches, fought off the pirates, P who swarmed up her sides with the I hope of looting her valuable cargo. I A. E. Cozen, engineer of the Asia, j and K. Arundel, a water tender, were j captured by the pirates, but after3 ward wore ransomed for $3 00. * f The Worm Turns. : Alleging that his wife has treated 1 him with continuous cruelty for many t years, even to the extent of making 1 him cook his own meals and then - wash the dishes ho used, John S. d Nance, of Atlanta, on Friday applied r for a divorce. Nance is a railroad f engineer, and has been married 3 4 t years. He also charges that his wife - drove him from home at the point s of a pistol. * ? ? - + Made a Baby Drunk. Because Mrs. Peter Hobak refused i, to take a drink of hard cider with e him, John Dostlch, of Greenwich, , Conn., took her four-year-old daughr ter to hie home and got her drunk f i with cider. He was arrested and held for Superior court under $5,000. * AGREE ON PEACE England and United States Will Aibitrate All Differences. ADVOCATES OF PEACE Most Significant Meeting Held in the Venerable Guild Hall in London. ?Resolutions Adopted Pledging Support to Complete Anglo-American Arbitration. What Premier Asquith described as "this venerable Guild Hall," without whose seal of approval 110 popular movement in London, England, is launched, witnessed Friday a meeting for the adoption of resolutions pledging the city to the support of Anglo-American complete arbitration. The lord mayor of London in his scarlet robes and with the mace in front of him, held the center of a a. _ x _ aa t. ! _ ! i. l ... ~ ~ temporary stage. uii 111s hkih \\ as the prime minister, at his left former Premier Balfour, leader of the opposition in the House of Commons, while grouped about the mayor were the Archbishop of Canterburg, the Archbishop of Westminster, Lord Loreburn, the lord high chancellor; Lord Strathcona, high commissioner of Canada; Sir Joseph G. Ward, premier of New Zealand, and other notables. Over their heads the L'nion Jack and Stars and Stripes were entwined. Mr. Asquith and Mr. Balfour spoke eloquently of the treaty first proposed by President Taft, declaring that it would mark a new era in civilization, but both pointedly disclaimed that a peace pact between Great Britain and the United States providing for the submission of all differences to arbitration would mean an alliance between the two countries. Mr. Balfour warned his hearers, than whom, he said, none In the world felt more the burden of preparing for war, that the treaty would not mean the immediate reduction of armaments. The meetiner represented the Dem ocracy of England rather than the aristocracy. Among those on the platform were the Bishop of Hereford, the Earl of Aberdeen, lord lieutenant of Ireland; Sir Geo. H. Reid. high commissidner of Australia: agents of all the other British colonies, along with representatives of the banks, the railways and the steamship companies of England. Premier Asquith spoke in pari; "The unique situation which we have met to recognize and welcome has not been organized or engineered by the apparatus of diplomacy. The seed which the president of the United States sowed fell on ground unprepared to receive it. That which n. few years ago, even a few months ago, might have been regarded a., the dream of idealists, has not only passed into the domain of practical statesmanship, but has become the settled purpose of two great democracies. "The profound significance of the now ripnnrture is that between Great Britain and the United States whatever the gravity of the issue and the magnitude of the interests involved; whatever poignancy of feeling may he aroused of war as a possible solution, and the substitution of argument for force; and the supersession by judicial methods of the old ordeal of battle." After declaring that their proposed agreement implied no menace to the rest of mankind and did not provide for an Anglo-American alliance aggressive or defensive, the premier continued: ? "But we may hope and believe that other things will follow. It is not for us to distate or to preach to other nations, but if the United States and Great Britain renounce a war a step will be taken of immeasurable and incomparable signiflcanse in the onward progress of humanity." Mr. Asqulth then moved the following resolution: "That this meeting of citizens of London assembled in Guild Hall cordially welcomes the proposal of the United States in favor of a general treaty of arbitration between that country and the British empire and pledges its support to the prinicples of such a treaty as serving the highest interests of the two nations and as tending to promote the peace 01 tho world." The resolution was received with tremendous applause, which conllulled until Mr. Balfour rose to second it. I The opposition leader said that Anglo-American arbitration was > nearer fruition at this moment than 1 ever before in history. Some, he 1 said, regarding it as an idealistic dream and believed that when the clash of conflicting interests came all paper barriers would be swept away, 1 and he continued: "It is true that t is folly to make international law go far in advance of public, opinion. T cannot imagine a more bitter blow to civilization than if, or I will rather say, when such a treaty was made either party should , break it. But as far as I can read opinion on both sides of the Atlantic : I cannot endorse these pessimistic I views. I believe that the great mass 1 of diplomats can embody this feeling MOTHER FINDS CHILD KIDNAPPED IX MAINE, LOCATED IX CALIFORNIA OONVEXT. Couple Separated by a Double Di" vorce Have llren Fighting Over Their Child For Ten Years. After a chase across the continent, Mrs. Elizabeth Dudley Jennison, a famous Kentucky beauty, has found her daughter, Alice, 13 years old, in the Convent of the Holy Names, in Oakland, Cal. But she has not found her divorced husband, Frank E. Jennison, who placed little Alice in the convent last February. Alleging that Mr. Jennison kidnapped Alice after the child had been award ed to her by a court In Bangor, Me., Mrs. Jennison filed a petition In the Supremo court for a writ of habeas corpus against Jennison and the convent. Mrs. Jennison asked that her former husband bring her daughter into the Sui>erior court and that the directors of the convent show cause for illegally keeping the child after she had been given into the custody of her mother. It appears from the court records that the Jennisons were married in 1S9 6 and lived in style in New York. But they quarreled and separated in 1901, when Mrs. Jennison was given temporary custody of Alice. In 1902 i.Mr. Jennison divorced her 011 statuory grounds in Cripple Creek. Col., and the court placed his daughter in his care. Claiming that the Colorado divorce was invalid, Mrs. Jennison divorced her husband 011 the same grounds in 1909 and sought to regain her child. Little Alice was at the home of her paternal grandparents in Mange., Me., last winter. Her mother went there. On December 3 0 Mr. Jennison and a deputy sheriff found Mrs. Jennison and Alice awaiting a train at Northern Maine Junction, five miles from Bangor. Mr. Jennison took the child from her and boarded the train with Alice. Late in January Jennison had his erstwhile wife arrested, charged with kidnapping Alice and she was held in $3,000 bonds, which was furnished. Mrs. Jennison alleges that just be tore tne superior couri aL nangur issued a writ, giving: the child into her custody, Mr. Jennison went to Bangor from New York, took Alice from his parents' home, hurried hei^ to New York and took passage for Galveston on a Mallory line steamer. Mrs. Jennison followed and arrived in Galveston on February 22, where She found that Mr. Jennison and Alice had left for San Francisco. The woman immediately start ed a search for the child in the convents of Oakland and San Francisco. * ONLY "YES" AND "NO." Shys That Her Husband Will Not Talk to Her. After four years Mrs. Caroline E. Schmidt, tired of hearing Louis [Schmidt, treasurer of the BlankeWenneker Candy Co., of St. Louis, Mo., answer her only in "yes" and "no," and giving his taciturnity as a cause, has sued to divorce him. Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt were married 40 years ??o and separated last October. They have three sons and three daughters. Sometimes Schmidt, has wife said, would not even speak at all for periods of ten days and during the four years he never said a word but "yes" and "no." * SOUTHEHX YOUTH NEGLECTED. While the Heathen Children Age Being Looked After. Americans are doing more for the children of Guam and the Philippine Islands than for those in the Southern mountain districts of this country, declared Miss Martha S. Gielow of Washington, D. C., representing the Southern Industrial Educational association, at the International Congross of Child Welfare in that city on Friday. She said children in the Southern mountains often were compelled to walk seven miles to school. More than 4,000,000 American children, she said, were being brought up without educational facilities of any sort. * Cause of Disaster. That the death of twenty-three mnn was caused bv a blow out shot fired by James Pritchard or His son, was the finding of the coroner's jury at the inquest into Monday's explosion in Ott Mine of the Davis coal and coke company, W. Va. Doth Pritchard and his son were among th*> victims. * in a treaty, T do not believe that when the stress of international difficulties comes it will be broken. "Some ask if public opinion Is thus. whv a treaty is necessary. I do not believe that those logical dilemmas represent what actually happens. I grant that paper formulas are useless In themselves, but if they represent the settled convictions ot the people they are valuable." International agreements with no more power of enforcement had made warfare more civilized in the past, the speaker said. * MAY BEAT THEM Their Tele on the lerimtr Cue Caesiag Sine Stealers Treeble. WITH THE HOME PEOPLE Questions IPoiivK Asked Since Furtlier the Startling Revelations in Investigation by the Illinois Legislature, Subsequent to "Whitewashing" liorimer in the Senate. Will or will not the United States Senate reopen the Lorimer case, which it thought it had settled at the last session by admitting "the blind boss" on the interesting theory that even if bribery was proved it was not established that Lorimer was aware of the bribery or had any part in it? asked the Washington correspondent of The News and Courier, lie goes on to say: The fate of more than Lorimer depends upon this question. The matter of Lorimer has become not only a national issue, but in several cases outside of Illinois a State issue of vital importance. A quantity of ? ? . .. _ ? j damaging evidence nas oeen adduced since the Senate "whitewashed" Lorimer, and if this evidence shall seem to the general public to clinch the proposition that Lorimer's seat was bought, it will go hard with some of the Senators if they adhere to their former attitude and resist reopening the subject of their Illinois collegue's eligibility or again vote in his favor on the reconsideration. Most conspieious among the other Senators whose political future is envolved in the Loriiner matter is the brilliant and impetuous Mr. Bailey, of Texas. Senator Bailey has made the statement that if the evidence appears to warrant reopening the Lorimer case, he will not oppose such action, and that if, on examination, the evidence appears to prove that the seat was purchased, he (Mr. Bailey) will vote to unseat. But it Is the history of Senator Bailey's career that he is unalterably tenacious of an opinion once formed, and that he rarely, if ever, "takes the back track." It is said that in Texas his course in defending Lorimer damaged him more than anything in his record up to that time. The people of Texas acknowledge Mr. Bailey's great ability and most of them have been proud of the stand he has taken among the intellectual giants of the country; but there is no doubt that they are in a mood to weigh him finally in the balance with regard to this Lorimer business. Representative Randell, of Texas, is a candidate for the seat now occupied by Mr. Bailey in the Senate. It will be decided by the Democrats of the Lone Star State this summer whether the brilliant "Joe" shall remain in the Senate or return to prl vate life?in which, by the way, he could make much more than the largo sum of money he already makes in the practice of his profession, the law. In intellectual calibre ltandell nowhere approaches Bailey. It has been one of the striking facts in the latter's political life that he has rarely encoutered an opponent who came anywhere near being his equal in the gift of approaching and impressing the public. Mr. Bryan tried a little catch-ascatch-can with Bailey by going into Tovna nml mnl/lntr unnA^hoa ocrnlnct his renomination the last time, at a time when the Texan was in desperate political straits. But even the eloquence of the Nebraskan failed to turn the tide. It is predicted by those who know the situation in Texas that there is no chance for Mr. Randell to get Mr. Bailey's seat unless the Senator, with the headstrong tendency which has always characterized him, should again become tangled up in the Lorimer affair on the wrong side. In that event it is probable that nothing could save the junior Senator from the violent disgust of Texas public sentiment. The friends of Mr. Bailey assert that his attitude on the tariff does not hurt him In his own State; that he has stood against the free-raw-material tide before with success and can do it again. But another Lorimer performance would probably be his last. The American public has made up its mind about the Lorimer case, and is of the same opinion more and more as the days go by. Senator Paynter, of Kentucky, is another Southern Democrat Senator who is encountering the Anti-Lorimer public sentiment. Mr. Paynter X ? A MM AM r .X M t n I i An Klf I ) is uppuauw iui it'liuiiiuniijuii uj iw-|?resontative Ollie James, the Riant ' leader of the uncompromising school of Democrats in the House, and Mr. James is using with great effect against the Senator the latter's vote for Lorimer, whose record as an ad vocate of the force bill when he was a Representative and as an avowed follower of iMr. Aldrich in the Senate Is being recalled forcibly to the memory of Kentucky Democrats in everj speech Mr. James makes in his cam paign for the Senate. The other Southern Senators whe i voted for Lorimer are: Messrs Rankhead and Johnston, of Alabama; Thornton and Foster, of Louisiapa; v , I liku Hons Baking Easy; \ toSfiff POWDER Absolutely Pure Tho only baking powder mado from Royal Orapo Oroam of Tartar no alum.no lime phosphate WRECK OF A TRAIN +. . TWO PERSONS KILLED AND EIGHT ARE MISSING. ?? Miraculous Escape of Many New York School Teachers En Route to Washington for Week's Outing. "N, Two persons lost their lives, eight are missing and believed to be dead and half a hundred others were injured Saturday afternoon at Martin's Creek, N. J., in a wreck of an excursion train, carrying one hundred and seventy school teachers and friends from Utica and Syracuse, N. Y., and vicinity to Washington for a week's outing. The train was one furnished the teachers by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and the accident occurred whilevlt was traveling at a hi/gh rate of speed over a stretch of track controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The engine jumped the track, the cars, following toppled over and were set on Hrn bv exuloding oil, the wrecked coaches having side-swiped an oil tank along the track when they left the rails. The entire train was quickly enveloped in flames and completely consumed by the fire. The eight missing persons, seven of whom were women, and lived in Utica, aro believed to have been burned to death in the wreckage. The finding of charred bones led the railroad wrecking crews to the conclusion that they are dead. , The most seriously injured were removed to the Kaston Hospital, where two of them, Miss Eleanor E. Rutherford, a Utica teacher, and Charles M. Person, of Stroudsburg, Pa., a Pensylvania Railroad conductor, died Saturday night. The physicians at the hospital say late Saturday night that most of those in the hospital will recover. Wants Everybody Pardoned. ii n nan n I mimhpr f\t J UIIUVV illf) I'.IU UI1UUUMI V pardons, parole and commutations, the governor of South Carolina has received a letter, written in an uneducated tone asking that he pardon all of the convictB in the State penitentiary next Thanksgiving Day. The letter has been taken under considedation by the chief executive. Over 1 00 prisoners have been liberated by the present governor in three months. Offered Him a Bribe. Out of Tennessee's political legislative deadlock Friday afternoon came a development bordering on the sensational by the publication of a dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., declaring that a bribe of $ 1,f?00 had been offered to Representative J. G. 'McDonald of Overton county, Tenn., to bind himself to vdte with the socalled "regulars" Democrats on all questions coming before the legislature. o Greatest Political Machine. "The postoffice department Is the greatest political machine ever constructed in this or any other country and ?it is openly administered as a political organization." This was the charge made on the floor of the house of representatives by Mr. Cullop, of Indiana, who referred to Postmaster General Hitchcock as being the creator and presiding genius of this organization. Thev Came lliuli. The first shipment of this season's peaches was received in Atlanta on Saturday by the A. Fugazzi Produce company, which disposed of them | promptly at between $5.50 and $6 per crate. The shipment consisted of 24 crates and the price they b re ugh | is indicative of a high price for the fruit this season. r Fletcher, of 'Florida; Tillman, of South Carolina; Simmons, of North Carodna, and Scott and Watson, of > West Virginia. Roth Delaware Sen. ators also voted for L?o:imer. There ; will i>nobably be some interesting ; changes if the matter is reopened.