The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-10-08
COhFEOEnACY OF
MEXICAN STATES
The Latest Development
In War Zone.
DESTINY OF THE NEW GROUP
will Be Placed In Hands OF
Carranza. Whose Wife
Urholds Him.
AMERICANS SUPPORT REBELS

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El Paso. Tex. sept. So.-Five
northern states of Mexico have de-
sided TO secede from the Federal
Government and form what i 20 b.
known as the Confederate States Of
Mexico.
This step was taken at HermOsil-
10. where officials OF The five States
had gathered TO discuss che coming
election and try 70 arrange sOUe
plan whereby they -ould Re sepa-
rated from the Ad.niEis.ration At
Mexico CITY.
The FIVE States whcse representa-
tives agreed TO tn secession plans
are SenOra. Durango COahuila. Sin
slao a1d Chihuahu1. Caly the reb-
81 State Government in chihuahua
Joined in the movement.
Veuustiano Carranz4 i 70 Be
President of the new Confederacy
and his Cabinet viii be composed
OF General Angeles. a former Fed
eraI commander. a. Minister Of War
Augustin LabanseJ, Minister Of Ha-
eiendas. and Juan Sanchez Azcona.
Minister Of Foreign Relations
Eduardo Hay. il Is said also will
be given a place in the Cabinet
Lower California IS uo- included
in the new Government. as its pro-
motors say the revolution has not
succeeded there.
Escape OF Mr.. Carranzs.
Grand Forks. y. u. Oc,. Mrs.
Ramoel Carranza. wife Of the prob
able President OF the EVe Mexican
States that have seeded a refugee
from her native country. was in
Grand Forks to-day
She was accompanied BY her
daughters. Lillian. % years cid.
aud Mabel Is years Old. and her
son Ramoel. I years old. With them
: Robert T. Anderson. an American
soldier OF fortune. the son o. a
Pittsburg clergyman. and ianee Of
the daughter. Lillian. They left for
Winnipeg. Man. tonight and will
remain in Canada until MexicO's
troubles are ended
As her husband was a rebel SYM
pathizer. Mrs Carranza ana her
daughters We're subjected 70 insults
az the hands Of enemies. and finally .
the condition became 80 unbearable .
that they were compelled 10 leave. +
To make her escape Mrs Carran-
Ia and her daughters walked 80 .
miles from HermOsellO. in the State .
of sonora. 70 Il Paso. Texas Col (,
Onel King Stanley. an American.
who has allied himself with the reb-
els. vas at the head Of the body OF
men that escorted her 20 the border.
Their trip through Juarez was
fraught With dangers and hardships.
and a. soon a. she reached the Unit
- States Mrs. Carranza came north
ward by easy stages. resting up az
ter her perilous fight.
When shown dispatches indicat-
ing that her Husband probably
would BE- chosen President OF the s.
cediHg States. Mrs. Carranza deelar-
ed she would support the plan. and.
though evidently thoroughly famil-
lar with the great danger in which
her husband placed himself by ac-
eepting the ONCE. she vas confident
that be would do so should secession
BE- perfected
For years. she declares her hus-
band has been with tfe rebels. and
she contends that their night is
largely against the Deoaase system
Of Mexico. in which the better citi-
zens have taken up the cause OF the
poems.
Robert Anderson. TWO years ago.
vas arrested aud sentenced 70 BE-
hanged because OF his association
with he Carranza family. n Was
the United States Government that
iHtsrced-d in his behalf aud the
night before his death sentence was
20 have been executed b. was freed
For nine Ionths he was in a Next
can jail
Previous 20 that time Anderson
had been operating a hotel
Anderson expects 20 place infOr-
nation before the pruper congress
ionai committee relative 20 a tele-
gram alleged 10 have been received
bv aim over the sisnature 81 Henry
Lane Wilson. Ambassador The