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NOW LOONS DANGEROUS
TEARING DESERTION BE HIS MEN
TREVINO ABANDONS THE PURSUIT
eighty executed
CHIHUAHUA CITY Mexico, Sept 19.—No greater
savagerv has been shown in all history than that exhibited
by the Villa bandits when they forced an entrance into This
city during the tight which has just resulted in theii de
feat. They rode into the official palaces on horseback, de
stroyed the very pictures on the walls and spilled the blood
of the defenders all over the halls. I he streets aie still
strewn with dead wherever the \ ilia men succeeded in
making an entry. Eighty men were executed by \ ilia
chiefs and while the battle was proceeding Villa himself
was stationed on a hilltop three miles away. The Cai
ranza troops are still pursuing him and the remaindei of
his force but nothing has been heard ot pursuers or pursu
ed since they left.
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thinks exaggerated
WASHINGTON. Sept. If.—The official opinion here
is that the importance of the tight at t hihuahua C ity has
been exaggerated. No official statement regarding the
battle lias been received by this government.
PEACE CONFEREES TALK
NEW LONDON. Sept. If.—That the defeat of Villa
aids the work of arranging the border trouble between the
United States and Mexico is the opinion ot the Mexican
commissioners who are now conferring with the American
commissioners. They sum up conditions by declaring that
“it is easy to whip Villa but hard to find him.”
JUAREZ PREPARED
EL PASO. Sept. ID.—Consul Garcia announces fhat
Juarez is prepared to meet \ ilia should he attack that
town.
MORE MEN JOIN VILLA
EL PASO. Sept. ID. — By his attack on Chihuahua
('itv Villa secured six auto loads of ammunition and it is
now learned that he has also gained a thousand new re
cruits and is proceeding towards Santa Clara canyon,
Chihuahua state. The Carranza forces under Trevino
have quit the chase as Carranza fears that his northern
troops might desert and go over to the bandit chief at any
time owing to their hatred for things American and the
belief that Villa is lighting the United States as well as
Carranza. The Carranza garrison at Monterey has start
out, however, to take up the chase. Although nothing
positive has been published in connection with the subject
it is rather generally believed that the American troops
have agreed with Carranza not to take part in the fighffng
agianst Villa as the intervention of the Americans might
mean adding strength to the Villa cause. Scores of re
fugees who are arriving at Juarez from Chihuahua con
firm the story that Villa openly defied Northern Mexico’s
strongest garrison of seven thousand men.
LANE PLEASED WITH MEXICANS
NEW LONDON, Sept. It).-—Secretary of the Interior
Lane,, chairman of the American commissioners in the
Mexican conference, states that he is satisfied that the
Mexicans are willing to discuss the internal affairs of
Mexico with our representatives.__
SAY STRIKE WAS FRAME UP
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. — There is a feeling here
that the Democrats are trying to make political capital out
of the work of the Mexican commission and Republicans
are coming out openly with the accusation that the action
connected with the threatened railroad strike was nothing
but a frame-up on the part of the Democrats to make a
political hit.
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NEW YORK VIOLENCE INCREASING
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Shouts refused point blank
this afternoon to consider a suggestion to reopen the ne
gotiations with the employees. He called the suggestion
absurd but he expressed willingness to consider the may
or’s proposal. Mitchell ami Strauss are still undaunted
and doing all in their power to bring peace but in the
meantime violence is increasing and the city is in real
danger of terrible bloodshed. The Chamber of Commerce
and the Merchants’ Association are exerting pressure to
settle the trouble. Scores of accidents are occurring all
over the city as a result of the strike. One car overturned
at Williamsburg bridge and several girls were injured and
a Third avenue car jumped the track but no lives were
lost.
HEBREW TRADES
VOTE JO STRIKE
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
MORE MEN TO WALK OUT
IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Sept. ID.—The He
brew Trades representing two hun
dred thousand people have voted to
strike in Brooklyn, the Bronx, West
chester and Yonkers in sympathy with
the tal king railway employees. Other
unions will strike on Thursday and as
there appears to be very little chance
of preventing the tremendous walk
out this city is threatened with the
greatest industrial catastrophe of its
history. Shonts has refused to hold
rurther conferences with the striker*,
but Mayor Mitchell and Straus are
still active in the efforts to avert the
tieup.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—The elec
tric motormen all over Queens county
went out on strike today and the ser
vice has become completely demoraliz
ed. Conditions this afternoon look ex
ceedingly serious and many fear thai
before the end of the week New York
will face a situation which no great
city was ever before threatened with.
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CAME ON WATSON
The following arrived this morn
ing on the Watson: Chas. Willman,
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Wm. Kaiser, Wm. Aiken, M. L. Wood
ard, H. Peterson, Tom George and 2
steerage.
CLEARING UP
BIG MYSTERY
CONFESSION PROMISES SOLU
TION OF EXTRAORDINARY
BLACK MAILING.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 1!>.—'The confes
sion just made by Dick Barrett and
Edward Thompson has cleared the
mystery of the killing of W dliam
Turner, alias Wilson, in a Colorado
mountain resort last June, and also
promises to clear up the great black
mailing plot in which money estimat
ed at more than a million was extort
ed from several wealthy victims. The
confession shows that Turner was
killed during an argument about the
division of the spoils secured from a
wealthy Denver woman. The authori
ties are now seeking H. S. Woodward,
the suuposed ringleader, and the oln
cials declare there is enough evidence
to convict without the necessity of ex
posing the people who were victimiz
ed by the blackmailers. Seven others
have already been arrested in Phila
delphia and two in New York. The
game was worked by a ring which
took in several cities. By various do*
ies: Schupp, McCarty; Miller,
tions with pretty girls, the conspirat
ors led men into traps. One million
aire New Yorker dropped forty thou
sand dollars when he was threatened
with prosecution under the Mann Act.
In another case a woman who became
“over friendly” with a stranger in a
cafe was mulcted out of thirty thou
sand. It is said that the gang secur
ed a million dollars in one year.
SAY ADMIRAL LINE
RUY[NG P. C. CO.
SEATTLE, Sept. 19.—Despite denials information
has come from San Francisco which has revived the story
that the Admiral Line is arranging or trying to arrange
for the purchase of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company.
The best authorities on the water front believe the deal
will include the coal mines of the Pacific Coast company
and will involve forty million dollars.
SURPRISE IN FRISCO CASE
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19.—The case for the state
was badly shattered this afternoon in the trial of Warren |
Billings, the alleged dynamiter, when McNutt, the attor
ney for the defense, put A1 Decassia, a clerk, on the stand
and proved that he was the man seen by the police when
they thought it was Billings. Decassia is a double of Bil
lings and 'almost appears like a twin brother.
60,000 TO SEE GAME
DETROIT, Sept. 19.—Sixty thousand fans are expect
ed to witness the three games between the Tigers and the
Red Sox that will probably decided the American league
championship. Both infielders are crippled. Boston is
minus Barry and the Tigers will be without Vitt.
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ASK GERMANY EXPLAIN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Lansing has sent a note
to Germany asking for an explanation of the submarining
of the ship* Lavinia.
GERMANS REMOVE TO EAST
LONDON, Sept. 19.—There are indications now that
the Germans are removing the headquarters of the gen
eral staff to the east and this is supposed to mean a great
campaign against the Russians. The Kaiser and von Hfn
denburg are now conferring, it is stated, and shaping the
expected eastern effort. , _ .
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WORLD WAR IS NOW RAGING
ON EVERY FRONT IN EUROPE
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YESTERDAY'S RESCLTS
NATIONAL LEAGI E
New York 2; Pittsburgh 0; Batter
sell, Cicitte and Linn; Shore and
Wagner.
Second game: New York 1, Pitts
burgh 1; Batteries: Perritt, Rarlden;
Grimes, Fischer.
Brooklyn 4; Cincinnati 1; Batteries:
Cheney, Muller; Schneider, Wingo.
Second game: ten innings; Brooklyn
1, Cincinnati 2; Marquard, Meyers;
Knetzer, Huhn.
Philadelphia 6; Chicago 1; Batteries
llixer and Killifer; McConnell, Carter
and O’Farrell.
Boston 2; St. Louis 0; Tyler and
Blackburn; Medews, Williams ano
Gonzales.
GAME CALLED
The New York-Pittsburgh game
was called yesterday afternoon in the
beginning of the Ninth because of rain
and darkness.
AMERICAN LEAGI E
Detroit 0; Philadelphia 2; Mitchell,
James and Stanage; Myers and Haley.
St. Louis 0; Washington 1; Plank,
Coob and Hartley; Thomas and Henry
Chicago 3; Boston 4; Williams, "Rus
sell, Cicottee and Linn; Shore and
Cady.
New York at Cleveland postponed
to September 27.
OVER 600 MEN
WORKING HERE
More than six hundred men are now
working for the Engineering Com
mission in the Seward division. These
include the men all the way out to
the end of the Alaska Northern and
beyond.
HOPE WOMAN
KILLS SELE
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 19. — Mrs.
Foreman, wife of Ilert Foreman ot
Hope committed suicide here last
night by shooting herself with a
pistol. From facts learned sin«e the
occurrence it is apparerff that her self
destruction was due to despondency.
GOODRICH DI E MIDNIGHT
WITH A BIG CARGO
The steamer Goodrich, formerly the
Aroline, is due at midnight tonight
with 970 tons of freight, including 150
tons of steel rails and 15,000 feet of
lumber. She also has a large quanti
ty of dynamite.
AMERICA’S OLDEST CO-ED
TO ENTER U. OF CALIF.
COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 9.—Ameri
ca’s oldest co-ed, formerly a student
at Ohio State university here, will
enter the University of California this
fall, she announced today. She is
Amy D. Winship, 85. Mrs. Winship
started her education in a log school
in Illinois in 1847. She attracted
much attention at Ohio state yb at
tending classes with stundents 60
much attention at Ohio state by at
tended Wisconsin university. She
specializes in botany, physics and in
ternational law wherever she godb.
NORTHWESTERN COMING
The Northwestern sailed north
from Juneau at 9 o’clock last night.
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FRENCH CARRY FL0R1NA
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PARIS, Sept. 19. — The French in a terrific assault
have carried Fiorina in Greece from the Bulgarians anil
the way is now open for an attack on Monastic, the big
town of southern Serbia. A bold stroke by the Bulgars
when they strung a thin line as far southerly as Ostrovo
was unexpected, however, and the Serbs in that quarter
were compelled to abandon some advanced positions. The
concentration by the Allies was carried out in the great
jest secrecy and the French and Russians were enabled to
; deliver smashing attacks on the heights of Ejshisu before
| the Bulgars were prepared, and the result was the decima
tion of their forces and the flight of the remainder.
FIERCE FIGHTING IN WEST
PARIS, Sept. 19. — Desperate fighting is reported
from the western front, especially around Deniecourt
where the Germans have been retired for a kilometer,
more than half a mile. Violent artillery lighting is also
proceeding on the Bethune road and in ('hampagne.
BATTLING AT VERDUN
PARIS, Sept. 1!).—The war office officially reports to
day the capture of German trenches at Deadmans hill,
northwest of Verdun where severe lighting took place Iasi
! night. The enemy’s losses were enormous in yesterday s
fighting, the whole Eleventh German division having been
almost annihilated.
ALLIES STAND IN DOBRUDJA
BERLIN, Sept. 19.—The Allied forces have received
reinforcements in Dobrudja and,are now holding theit
lines south of Constanza while the Bulgars and lentous
are advancing to the attack. (This Constanza is proluibh
Kustendje which is a port on the Black sea about midway
through the province of Dobrudja, measuring from south
to north, the direction taken by the invaders.)
BERLIN ADMITS LOSSES
BERLIN, Sept. 19.—The war office admits the loss of
positions at Bery and Deniecourt in yesterday s lighting in
France.
BRUSSILOFF AGAIN PRESSING
PETROGRAD, Sept. 19.—General Brussilofi’ has re
sumed his offensive in the direction of Lemberg and is
pressing on Halich with a view to retring von Bothmcr
and opening the way for an attack in the north.
RUSSIANS REPULSED
VIENNA, Sept. 19—The war office announces that
our troops have repulsed the Russians in the Carpathians
i'fter severe fighting which has lasted the greater part ol
several days. It is admitted that the enemy has enteiod
Koholem which we left without fighting as the position
is not important.
BULGARS FACE ITALIANS
PARIS, Sept. 19.—The Italians and Bulgars are en
gaged in a terrific battle east of the Beles mountains in
Macedonia but the result has not been learned yet. Ac
cording to the official news this afternoon, the Italians
have advanced north in force against strong positions
which the Bulgarians have been fortifying since they en
tered Macedonia. In the meantime the Bulgars have
countered against the Serbs at Vetrenik but the Serb ar
tillery repulsed them.
ALLIES COURT GREEKS
ATHENS, Sept. 19. — Carpanosrthe Greek foreign
minister, has received congratulatory visits from the al
lied diplomats who apparently regard him as being on
their side.
AUSTRIANS TAKE A STAND
BERLIN, Sept. 19.—The Austrians who retreated be
fore the Roumanians in Transylvania have taken up
strong positions and are now holding the enemy without
the least trouble. Owing to the advance of the Germans
and Bulgarians in Dobrudja the Roumanians were com
pelled to send reinforcements southward and military ex
perts here declare that the retreat-of the Austrians in the
north was merely to draw the Roumanians away.