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NEWS AS II HAPPENS
NATIONAL. 6TATE, FOREIGN, OF
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WHAT WAS DONE THIS WEEK
Short Mentioning of Interesting Hap-
penings From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Senator Bheppard Monday lntro-
durod an amendment to llit! pending
deficiency appropriation bill reappro
prlutliiK fCi.OOO for conat ruction of the
appntitterH' stores building at Ualvos-
ton
Moet of the knotty problems In the
wool mid paper schedules were dis-
posed of Monday by tbe bouse and
senate conferees on the democratic
tariff bill and a good start was fuade
on the aundrleg schedule.
Former Representative James E.
Watson of Indiana, before the house
lobby committee Friday, made a gen-
eral denial of Martin M. Mulhall's
charge that he was one of the active
friends of the National Association of
Manufacturers In congress during
many years.
In response to an urgent demand
from the state department, the house
Saturday passed a Joint resolution
making an emergency appropriation of
$100,000 to be used for the relief of
(Institute Americans in Mexioo and for
!iV(r transportation to the United
States.
Representative Anderson (republi-
can) of Minnesota followed up bis sen-
sational resignation from the ways
and means committee Friday b> in
troducing Saturday a resolution to
have a committee of nine Investigate
and reform the legislative practices of
the house. He announced his action
was the beginning of a campaign
against t li« secret caucus and secret
committee work.
Senator Sheppard called up and se- ■
cured the passage through the senate ,
Thursday of the bill granting itnme- !
dlaie transportation privilege, without
appraisement to tin rchamlise designed
to the port of Dallas. The bill passed
the house a few days ngo
Samuel (lompers, president of the
American Federation ot Labor, up-
(geared Thursday as a witness before
the house lobby Investigating com-
mittee, beginning an Inquiry into or
ganlzed labor's efforts to Influence leg-
islation by congress.
The treasury depsrtment has de-
posited about f'i," 1 . v) of tln> J50,-
000,000 of goveniuu M funds to be dis
trlbuted to na* t in moving crops,
principally In Washington, Baltimore
and Southern cities. Delay tn getting
the money out, It is said. Is due en-
tirely to the banks, many of them er-
roneously filling out the forms de-
signed to protect the government.
The house of representatives Tues-
day passed Representative Sumner's
bill, making Dallas an "in transport.!
tlon" port of entry, so as to permit
the receipt and payment of duties ou
Importations at Dallas
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Yukon-Pacific exposition open-
ed Monday night at Spokane, Wash.
The wheels were put 'u motion by
Vice President Thomas l<. Marshall,
who at Philadelphia pressed the but-
ton.
Two Mexicans were killed, two seri-
ously wounded and sixteen captured
Sunday morning when American cav-
alry and a posse headed by Sherltf
\V. T. Oardner encountered a band of
Mexican ammunition "smugglers' in
the Toro pasture about six miles east
of the Aiimlto crossing, this side of
the river The Mexicans are members
of the same band that Thursday killed
Deputy Sheriff Cundelario Ortiz and
captured former Sheriff lOugene Bucks
m ar Carrlzo Springs, Texas.
The steamship MexIcHno, bearing
170 passengers from Mexico, docked
its passengers at Galveston Friday.
During a thunder storm at Herclalr,
Texas, Friday lightning struck a >ent
In which ten Mexicans were housed,
killing two and badly shocking the
others.
With the arrest early Sunday of
Rev. Mans Schmidt, assistant rector
of St. Josephs Catholic church in New
York, charged with the murder of
Anna Aumuller, a domestic, the mys-
tery surrounding the llndlng of parts
of the dismembered body of a girl in
th. Hudson river was solved. Schmidt
confessed, and at the time of his ar-
rest attempted to commit suicide by
cutting his throat with a safety razor
blade.
Ilrlgadier General Kdwin M ("oaten,
U S. A., retired, died at bis home In
Washington Sunday after an illness of
almost u year. Ife was 77 years old
und a native of New York
Goldfleld, Nov., was swept Saturday
by a torrent from a cloudburst that
caused the loss of at least fives lives,
carried away several scores of houses
und damaged merchandise estimated
ml 1100,000.
The creamery *t Belton, Texas,
churned 7&V pounds of butler lu oue
day.
Officials of the Southern Traction
Company of W'axahachle, Toxas, an-
nounced passenger service will be
opened between Dallas and Waco on
the new Interurban Oct. 1, and be
tween Dallas and Corslcana Oct. 15.
A death from bubonic plague oc-
curred Friday at Martinez, Cal., ac-
cording to reports received by the
state bourd of health from Dr. J. D.
Long of the United States marine hos-
pital service In San Francisco. At
the same time a message was received
by the board from its secretary, Dr.
W. F. Snow, now in Washington, D.
C., stating that the federal govern-
ment had decided to appropriate $4U,-
000 additional to fight the disease.
The governor of Texas Friday ap-
pointed J A Mooney of Tyler County
and J. K. Raker of Coleman County
spoclal county judges to sit In castji
in which the county Judges are dis-
qualified.
Showers and cloudbursts have fall-
en over the greater part of Texas for
the past few days. The moisture has
been well scattered and there are few,
If any, towns and communities which
have not been visited In u more or
less degree by the rain god. lu some
communities the rain will be of great
benefit anil in other places, particu-
larly where cotton is in bloom, the
rainfall caused some damage to the
growing staple.
The election on the proposed water
works plant for Willis, Texas, Wednes-
day, resulted in 47 for and 35 against,
a majority of 12 in favor of the water
works.
The result of the tabulation of the
official monthly cotton report of the
public pinners of the state, announced
Tuesday by the department of agri-
culture of Texas, at Austin, shows
there were ginned In this state dur-
ing the month of August 500 208 bales
of cotton, as compared with 4C7.5HO
bales during the corresponding month
of last year.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Japanese government Monday
dispatched two cruisers und several
torpedo boat destroyers to the Chinese
coast.
Gendarmes Monday at Pekln, China,
seized an American citizen, Bart let t
Young, son of Dr. Young Wing of
Hartford, Conn., put him in chains,
dragged biro to a military prison, tor-
tured him and searched his house,
hoping to find evidence of his connec-
tion with the revolutionists.
"Viva la Independenclu! Viva Mex-
ico!" was the cry which ushered in
Monday night the celebration of the
103 anniversary of Mexico's independ-
ence. As in Mexico City, so every
city, town and hamlet observed the
time-honored custom marking the hour
of the ringing of the first liberty bell
The Amiyitiin refugees, numbering
ion, who were reported to have fallen
Into the hands of rebels while jour-
neying from Torrcon to Saltlllo, have
readied the latter place In safety.
Dr. Aurellano I'rrutla, Mexican min-
ister of the Interior, has left the cabi-
net. Ills resignation was accepted at
midnight Monday by Provisional Pres-
ident lluerta of Mexico.
Princes; Louise of Belgium, the un-
fortunate daughter of the late King
Leopold, is once more written about
lu the continental press, and the mini
her of suits in which she is Involved
is Increasing The last legal proceed-
ing has been brought by Dr. Inhoffen,
a German engineer, who represents
that the princess and her confidential
friend, Count Mattachlsch, have
swindled him and a group of his
friends out of $1,000,001.;.
Oue bundled Americans, including a
number of women and children, refu-
1 < from Torrcon, are reported \<>
have fallen into the hands of rebels
I while proceeding overland to Saltlllo,
, Mexico. The authorities at Saltillo
i decline to take ihe responsibility of
J sending a force to their rescue, fear-
ing, they say. that the rebels might
commit atrocities on the refugees
i which otherwise might be avoided.
Fourteen persons are dead ar. the
result ot the collapse of a tenement
! house Sunday at Coburg, Germany,
whli li was caused by an explosion of
! gas. One entire family, man and wife
and three children, were killed.
That postal employes connived at
| the theft of the $026,000 pearl neck-
| lace which mysteriously disappeared
July Hi between Paris and London was
established by evidence "presented at
a hearing Friday In London, England.
Forty Americans In the state of Ta-
basco, Mexico, have been forced by
rebels Into the town of Frontera and
are appealing for a boat to take them
away The rebels are reported to liava
captured towns a shah distance fron
Frontera and In the Interior of tliA
st- te With the exception of eight < r
ten, the Americans in Frontera ar>
refugees from plantations which are
now overrun with rebels.
The railroad statto." buildings nt
Kenton, near Newcastle, England,
were destroyed Sunday by a sutl'ra
gette "arson squad." Placards were
left bearing the words "Premier As
qulth Is responsible for militancy. Ap
ply to him for dulling"" "
HUERTA'S MESSAGE
STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN
REPUBLIC AND UNITED STATES
RETARDS PEACE, HE SAYS.
WANTS UNRESTRICTED ELECTION
Executive Promises to Spare No Ef-
fort to Bring About Fair Balloting
Next Month—Financial Con-
dition of the Nation.
City of Mexico.—Provisional Presi-
dent Vlctorlano lluerta delivered his
semi-annual message Tuesday night at
the opening of the second session of
the twenty-seventh Mexican congress.
In It he promised to spare no efforts
to bring about the unrestricted elec-
tion of president and vice president
of the Mexican republic next month,
declaring that it would constitute the
greatest triumph of his career to turn
over the office to his successor with
the country at peace, as he hoped to
do.
General lluerta snid that, the strain-
ed diplomatic relations between Mex-
ico and the United States had caussd
the Mexican nation to suffer unmerit-
ed affliction and bad retarded the ■
pacification of the country. Neverthe- i
less, he hoped for an early solution j
of the difficulties between the two j
nations and to see Mexico and the
United States once more united In!
bonds of friendship.
The provisional president drew a
distinction between the attitude of the
Mexican government toward the Unit- J
ed States and that of the people of that 1
nation, saying:
"The tenseness of our diplomatic re-
latlons with the government of the
United States of America, although
luckily not with that people, had put
Mexico into a stale of apprehension."
The message was disappointing to
many who hart expected that Provis-
ional President lluerta would deal at
some length with recent diplomatic
exchanges. This subject, however, he '
said, "being so delicate and the per-
manent commission of congress being
already Informed," he passed with a
bare mention. The deputies and seiut- ,
tors in Joint session filled the floor
>f the chamber of deputies. The bal- j
conies were packed, the diplomatic
gallery being filled with^orc-ign rep-
resentatives and their families.
The silence which prevailed during
the reading of the presidential docu-
ment by the clerk was broken at its
conclusion by prolonged cheering, In
which the congressmen were joined
j by the crowds in the gallTies.
?n his peroration, lluerta said:
"The Mexican government regards
the pacification of the country as an
urgent necessity In order to restore
the public services to their normal
state, to re-establish the political, so-
cial and economic equilibrium and to
uutke possible a program of reforms
vthlch will satisfy the national aspira-
tion.
"I will spare no effort and no sacri-
fice to obtain the coveted peace and
to guarnntee fully In the coming elec-
tions the free casting of the ballot.
You may be sure it will constitute the
greatest possible triumph for the in-
terim government to surrender office
to itk successor if the latter, as is to
be expected, enters upon its functions
with public peace and order an accom-
plished fact."
Of the treasury funds amounting at
the bi :lnnlng of the las' fiscal year
I to $27,t?oil,000, $24,!t0O,0(M), lie said, had
been expended for the pacification of
the country. Of the loan of lloO.oiio,-
000 authorized In May, French bankers
look $30,000,00)1 ut ninety. Out of this
Speyer K Co. had been repaid $20,-
000,000, half of which was a loan to
the national treasury and half to the
monetary commission.
For the army 0,600 horses and 2,300
mules had been purchased during the
year.
The national cartridge factory, he
said, was turning out 260,000 cart-
ridges monthly.
"Besides a great number of cannon
of various descriptions, machine guns,
rifles, carbines and ammunition, the
government has contracted abroad for
ten aeroplanes, seventy-seven armored
automobiles, fifty uuarmored automo-
biles aud two armored transports."
Thaw's Case to Supreme Court.
Littleton, N. II. — Counsel for Harry
Kendal Thaw laid Tuesday the foun-
dation for plans to carry his case to
the supreme court of the United
States -if such a step Is found neces-
sary
When the governor of New Hamp-
shire passes on the mutter of the ex-
tradition of Thaw to New York at the
hearing to be held at Concord on Tues-
day next, the findings, if adverse to
Thaw, will be reviewed by the United
States district court, and, should a de-
cision against him then be rendered,
successive appeals Mill b< taken until
the case reaches the highest court In
the land.
GREAT WHEAT CROP; BIG LOSS IN CORN
Bumper Crop of Winter Wheat and
Good Spring Growth Brings Pros-
pects of 754,000,000 Bushels.
Washington.—An enormous loss In
the prospective production of corn
and Indications of the biggest wheat
crop ever produced were features of
the government September report Is-
sued Tuesday.
Hot weather and drouth in a num-
ber of the principal corn-growing
states during the month emllng Sept.
1 caused a deterioration of corn which
experts calculate has resulted 111 the
loss of 321,000,000 bushels, reducing
the corn crop estimates to 2,351,000,-
000 bushels. Tills destructive crop
weather caused a loss of about 300,-
000,000 bushels during July and the
August Iobs brought the total up to
621,000,000 bushels since the first es-
timate of corn crop prospects were
made by the government.
Texas alone of the great corn states
held her own during August. Ne-
braska was hardest hit, the deteriora-
tion there during the month amount-
ing to 30 per cent, bringing the con-
dition of the crop to 37 per cent of
normal. The loss in Missouri was 2D
per cent, the crop being 41 per cent of
normal. Kansas reported a condition
of 10 per cent of normal, the lowest
ever recorded, and a loss of 20 per
cent during the month. Illinois, with
the greatest acreage of any state
plant"d to corn, reported a condition
of 62 per cent, a loss of 10 per cent;
Iowa reported 76 per cent, a loss of 9
per cent, Oklahoma 39 per cent, a loss
of 5 per cent.
Never before in the history of the
country has there been such a bounti-
ful wheat harvest as has been gath-
ered this year. This was due princi-
pally to the bumper crop of winter
wheat. The government estimate of
spring wheat showed Increased pros-
pects for that crop, making the total
production 243,000.000 bushels, or an
increase of 4 3 per cent ever the Au-
gust estimate. This increase brought
the estimate of the total crop of the
country to 754,000,000 bushels, or
6,000,000 bushels more than the great
record crop of 1901.
Priest Arrested for Girl's Murder.
New York.—With the arrest early
Sunday of Rev, Hans Schmidt, as- j
sistunt rector of St. Josephs Catholic
church, charged with the murder of
Anna Aumuller, a domestic, the mys-
tery surrounding the finding of parts
of the dismembered body of a girl in
the Hudson river was solved. Schmidt
confessed, and at the time of his ar-
rest attempted to commit suicide by
cutting his throat with a safety razor
blade.
"I killed her because 1 loved her so
much," Schmidt told the officers. He
is quoted as saying that he killed his
companion with a butcher knife and
cut up the body with a knife and a
saw. Five bundles, wrapped in bed-
clothes and papers, were made of the
six parts and lie threw them in the
Hudson river.
Mexico to Punish Murderers.
Washington.—The state department
was advised Thursday that t' e Mexi-
can federal government had directed
the military governor of Chihuahua to
investigate Immediately the recent
killing of Edmund Hayes and John
[ Henry Thomas, Americans, at Ma-
1 dera, by forces under Francisco Cor- ;
dova, and punish '.he guilty persons.
This action was taken in response to
urgent representations by ciiargo
O'Shauglinessy at the direction of the
depart incut.
Llnd Views Celebration.
Vera Cruz, Mex—John Litul. Presi-
dent Wilson's pe:-onal representative
i In Mexico, and Mrs. Llinl, viewed the
j independenclu delebratlon Monday
; from the portales of the hotel at which
they aie stopping Patriotic speeches
by a number of prominent local Mex!-
1 cans, concerts and parades by school
children characterized the celebration.
111,484,000 Tons of Cereals.
Washington. -The department of ag-
riculture Wednesday estimated the
total production of all cereals this
year would be 111,484,000 tons, or 20.1
per cent less than last year, 1.4 per
cent more than in 11)11 and 6.9 per
cent less than tn 1910.
Japanese Land Force in China.
London - A Japanese armed forco
was landed Wednesday at Nankin,
China Three Japanese cruisers and
a gunboat arrived at the Chinese river
j port am' 100 Japanese marines and
! several quick-firing guns were tent
| ashore and are now being quartered at
the Japanese consulate
Many Aliens Passed.
Galveston, Tex,—The official report
! of Immigration luspet tor Alfred
I Hampton. In charge of the Galveston
district, shows that during the twelve
months ending August 31, 1913, 7,261
aliens were receive.! at the Galveston
station. This is the largest number
in one year since 1907-08, when 9,661
aliens entered the United States
through Galveston
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