Connecticut western news., 1911-05-11
JUAREz IS TAKEN BY
 INSURRECTO FORCES
Federals Defeated After Pitched
 Battle In City's Streets.

SudFeZ IS Ill the nanQS or the 1nSur- rectos, following a series of desperate battles in the streets.
 Beginning shortly before dawn, the rebel sharpshooters began to pick off the federal gunners. General Navar- ro's cavalry, seeing its support de stroyed. promptly left the city and rode tp Rancho Flores. twelve miles distant
 The few companies of infantry re- maining in the city hastily strength ened the barricades they had erected in the main streets and drew what cannon they could operate into posi- ton.
 Shortly after this the rebels began to appear. first in bands and then In more orderly fashion. Then began the most severe fighting of the war so far.
 When about thirty men had been killed and twice as many wounded and seeing that at least part of his forces were beyond his control. General Ma dero hurried up re-enforcements and threw the main body of his army against the town.
 Hundreds of insurrectos were soon firing In the streets and from the win dows and doorways Of buildings they had taken. The custom house aud the jail and the church in the middle of the town remained in the hands of the federals for hours despite the re peated rushes of Madero's men.
 At the height of the fighting bullets began to fall in El Paso
 Word of this having been taken to Colonel +. z. Steever. in command of the American troops, he promptly or dered out his men, drove the people l. three squares back from the boundary line to shelter and patrolled the border
 Thousands of weeping women and children ran for their lives toward the American side of the line. They were permitted to pass to safety. However. neither wounded rebels nor federals were allowed to cross the boundary /
 GENERAL Harry Whitney, the
 MEu,o big game hunter, and
 = Captain Robert Bart HAPPENINGS. lett, who commanded Peary's ship, the Roosevelt, will head another arctic expedition. They will go for the double purpose of hunting and seeking the records which Dr. Cook says he left at Etah. A number of wealthy men will be parties to the expedition, which will start from New York in the latter part of June. -
 Captain Evelyn Briggs Baldwin. the 0TNtin nxnIprnr ha xvfl other arctic expedition in 1913 and hopes to effect the first crossing of the last remaining ocean to be thoroughly explored. He plans to enter the pack ice northwest of Point Barrow, Alaska, make his ship fast to a large ice foe and drift near to If not over the north pole and into the north Atlantic ocean between Spitzbergen and the east coast of Greenland.
 The Greeves Sunday baseball bill has become a law. Governor Harmon of Ohio refused either to veto or sign it. The first Greeves bill, allowing municipal councils to regulate Sunday baseball, became a law without Gov ernor Harmon's signature u week ago. The playing of the game Is restricted to the afternoon on Sunday.
 President Taft has designated Secre- tary Nagel of the state department to confer with representatives of Great Britain, Japan and Russia and to ne- gotiate a treaty for the protection and preservation of seals, sea otter and other mammals in the north Pacific ocean. IT,.
 stamp tax of one-eighth of a cent on every cents worth of proprietary medicines, perfumes, cosmetics and similar articles prepared under secret or privately owned formulae is pro- vided for in bill introduced by Rep resentative Sherley of Kentucky.
 Assured of the success of the postal savings system Postmaster General Hitchcock has decided to designate from fifty to a hundred additional banks monthly until the system has been established throughout the Unit ed States.
 Coinage of the $2.50 gold piece will be stopped if Secretary Macveagh can persuade congress to authorize 1t. There is general disposition to shun the little coin, as it is so easily con- fused with dimes and pennies.
 Without objection or debate the New York senate passed the Trombly bill appropriating $1,500,OOO as the states share of the cost of completing an international highway from New York to Montreal.
 After two years fight the senate has adopted the Bailey resolution fix ing p. m. as the hour for converting instead of noon as heretofore. The new rule will be in effect until other wise ordered"
 The house of representatives has called on the secretary of the treasury for q detailed statement of all money spent by the monetary commission since its organization.
 Charged with murder by his own son, who asserts three farm hands al