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Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02
H. B. CLAFLla co.
 IN RECEIVERS HANDS
Liabilities of Dry Goods HOuSa Estimated at S44,0OO, GOO.

Receivers were named for the big wholesale dry goods corporation, H. B. Clafiin company of New York The allied corporations. the Associated Merchants company and the United Dry Goods companies, arc not con cerned in the proceedings. The receiv. CTS named are Joseph B. Martindnle. president of the Chemical National bank. and Frederick A. Juilliard. They were appointed by Judge Hand In the United States district court upon the application of John 0. Flames, vice president of H. B. Clatiin compa- ny. His claim was S3.0eS for money loaned The papers were filed by Cor bett & Stearns, counsel for MT. Flames.
 The complaint on which the receiv- CTS were appointed alleged that the corporations had liabilities of several million dollars" and insufficient funds to meet maturing obligations. Rich. ard Mailing. representing the Clatiin company. admitted the allegations ot Mir. Eames' complaint and consented to the appointment of receivers.
 The receivers filed bonds of S5Oo.Ooo each. The rcceivership had been an. ucipated In financial circles. Overexten. sion of credit and business depression. causing customers to fail to meet their obligations, forced the failure It wns confidently asserted that the retail sub salaries of the Clatin company will be taken care of. The Associated Mer- chants and the United Dry Goods com. pany and their controlled companies are not directly involved
 Early estimates may prove m exag. geration. but the liabilities Of the con- cern were placed as high at S44.0O0.- 900 in we'll informed dry goods circles.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02
zACATECAS NOW IS
 IN REBELS HANDS
City Fell After Hard Fighting,
 Say Dispatches.
VILLA NAMES HIS PRESIDENT

General Angeles Proclaimed Provision
 al Head of Mexieo-carranxa Sends
 Reply to Envoys-TeSt of Rebel
 Chiefs Answer is Not Made Public
 Villa and carranza Still at Odds
 Zacatecas fell into the hands of the Constitutionnlists on June l9 after hard lighting. according to word received In Washington from d high authority In Tampico.
 The dead on the federal side. accord. ing to official figures. numbered 4.OOO. und 2,O0O were wounded, while the losses to the attacking side were not stated definitely. though Genernl Villa estimated his casualties at 800 dead and 800 wounded The battle is re- garded us the most hotly contested of the present revolution. Fourteen thou sand federals were intrenched In seem ingly impregnable positions.
 Five thousand prisoners were cap tured by General Villas troops.
 The federals are reported to have blown up many buildings of the city with dynamite before evacuating. kill ing those of Villas troops who had oc- cupied the buildings in the street fight ing.
 san Luis Potosi is expected to fall in several days. Another big battle is imminent at Queretaro, according to the dispatch.
 Further advices in the same dis. patch from Tampico were to the effect that General Aguills. commandant If the Constitutionalist port of Tuxpan had succeeded in intercepting 3,OOO,- 900 rounds of ammunition landed by the Germun vessel Ypirunga Ut Puerto Mexico several weeks ago for delivery to Huerta and is now making use of this ammunition to wage war against the federuls.
 General Villa has proclaimed Gen erul Angeles provisional president oi Mexico, according to advices received by the Mexican delegates at Niagara Fails They said they hat. received advices denying that General Cur. runza and General Villa had patched up their differences.
 The answer of General Carranza. first chief of the Constitutionalists, to the invitation of the A, B, c envoys to hold informal conferences with the representatives of General Huerta was received by his representatives in Washington and forwarded to Niagara.
 Nothing Is given out to indicate whether Carranza accepts the Invita-. tion or rejects 1t
 Intimations were given by members of the Constitutionalist Juhta during the day. however, that there was probability that conferences would be held probably this week They are awaiting the arrival of Fernando lgle. sias Calderon. leader of the Liberal party. ''
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02
HEIR TO AUSTRIAN
 THRONE KILLED.
Student Also ASsaSSinateS Arch
 dukes Wife.
SLAIN WHILE OUT DRIVING

Bomb Was Also Hurled by Working
 man at Their Carriage Previous to
 Shooting, Which injured Six Persops-
 Angry Crowd Threatened Assassin.
 Closely Guarded by Police.
 Consternation reigns in Vienna as the result of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. nephew of the En- peror Francis Joseph l. and heir to the Austro- Hungarian throne. and the Duchess of Hohenberg. his wife, by young Servian student, who emptied revolver at them while they were driv ing in Sarajevo. the capital of Bosnia. The assassin was guarded by the police from an angry crowd.
 bomb was also hurried by work ingman at their carriage previous to the shooting. which injured six per sons. Among the wounded were Count Boos Waldeck and Colonel Merizzi.
 Sarajevo is under martial law and vigorous search was pursued for those the police believe were concerned In widespread plot for the assassination . of .Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
 More than POO persons were killed and wounded in Mostar. Herzegovina, In desperate battles between erbs and Mohammedan Croats as a result of the assassination of, Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo, according to telegrams received at Budapest. Hun ary. Mostar is reported burning.
 The authorities say they have com 
 fil organization of the work of the as- sassins All those arrested are Servi- ans or Bosnians.
 The aged emperor is reported practi. caliy prostrntcd bv the shock of the
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02

were being told about Il third man. If they do they will keep me forever, for there was no third person."
 "I will stake my life there was no third person in my daughters fat that night" Mir. Blondell added. ''I have gone over the case with my daughter very thoroughly. She said, Daddy. you know never received Gny man in my apartment except Mir. Ballou.'"
 Ballou was not the victim of a fall, according to the latest belief of the DO. lice, who are working on the theory that 1t was the jeal busy of an old man that led Ballou to his death.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02
JOHNSON DEFEATS MORAN.
Decision Awarded to Negro on Points
 After Twenty Rounds.

Decision Awarded to Negro on Points
 After Twenty Rounds.
 Jack Johnson, by defeating Frank Moran of Pittsburgh on points in their twenty round bout in Paris, retains his title as champion heavyweight fighter of the world and wins purse of $50. 0O0 The loser receives S5.oOO. Each receives a share of the profits of the moving pictures of the battle.
 Johnson earned Referee Carpenters decision rather easily. He bore no sign of punishment at the end. while Moran's face was badly bruised and cut
 The champion fought cautiously throughout He was the master ot all stages. having Moran in straits .at times. In the final rounds Moran held on frequently, and in the last the spec tators jeered him for this.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02
r. R. REFUSES TO TAKE REST.
Four Months Vacation Is Ordered by
 Physician-Colonei Demurs.

Colonel Roosevelt has been ordered by his physician to take four months of absolute rest as he is suffering from an enlargement of the spleen and Il loss of vitality as a result of the malariaI fever he contracted in South .Amertcu But. however. Roosevelt says in four months the campaign will be over and he must fight for his ticket
 Upon his arrival in New York from Spair and France the Colonel was ask ed if he would run for governor of New York. He emphatically declared he is not In the race.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02
BALLOU SLAIN BY RIVAL.
But Mrs. Angle Tells Her Father That There Was No Third Person
 In the Case.

"I hope they won't keep me until they find the third person in the case," said Mrs. Angle. who is held in con- nection with the death of Waldo R. Ballou. the former city councilman of Stamford. Conn.,. according to her fa- ther. when he told her the stories that
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02
Senator West Injuries Hip.

Senator West of Georgia slipped on the stone fiagging fin Washington and seriously injured his right hip.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02

More than 400 women sufrragists in white gowns and carrying yellow pen. nunts bearing legend "yotes For Wum- en-" marched to the White House to urge President Wilson to push suffrage legislation along. But Wilson again told them 1t was state issue.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02
GENERAL NEWS eyENIS

Happenincs of lns@rest lm varAo&s@
 P@rks ct Our courtry. ,a.
 Brigadier Evans speech at Cover nors Island, in which he referred to the Monroe doctrine and was quoted as having said the United States was the most meddlesome of nations. is to be the subject of official inquiry. Presi- dent Wilson called upon Secretary Garrison to require explanation from the general. ..
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02

Raymond B. Smith, former treasurer and general manager of the Rosevllle Trust company of Newark, N. l.. was given three and a half and not more than seven years in state prison for embezzlement. William O. Armstrong. who was indicted with Smith for con. spiracy, got one year in the ,peniten- tiary.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02

William AvereIl Hartman. son Of the late E. Fl. Hartman, twenty-three years old and but one year out of college, hus been elected vice presi. dent of the Union Pacific railroad. He fills the place held by William V. S, Thorne. whose resignation was recent. ly announced
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02

The damage by cloudburst which swept through portions of Mandan. S. D.. and which also struck Bismarck. was estimated at $50.O0o to S100.OOO Railroads suffered senvy damage and delays in traffic because of washouts. several transcontinental trains being held up many hours.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02

Miss Belva A. Lockwood. the only woman who ever ran for the presl- dency of the United States, fell In her office in Washington and suffered u broken arm and shoulder. Miss Lock. wood is eighty-four years old, but her physicians said she would recover un. less complications set in
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02

Speaker Clark appointed Represent ative Cooper of Wisconsin as mem- Der of the joint congressional commit tee to investigate foreign purchases ut American grown tobacco. Mir. Cooper succeeds former Representative W. R. Mckinley of Illinois.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02

President Wilson signed the naval appropriation bill, which carries a pro- vision for two new dreadnoughts and permits the sale of the battleshlps Mississippi and Idaho to Greece. Nego- tiations now are being conducted for their sale.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02

Joseph Buonomo of Chicago, known to his associates as Chicago Joe" was hanged at the state prison at Wethers- field, Conn.,. for the murder of Jennie Cavaghen, near Bridgeport, Oct. l2, 1912. He confessed his guilt.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02

New Haven, Conn.,, had fire scare when a blaze broke out in the Glebe building. in the center of the shop. ping district. causing s loss of S3O.OO0 and upward before the lremen got 1t undeJ control.
Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02

The senate passed the Indian appro. priation bill carrying about $l2.O0O. .UUO, The sundry civh, general dencienry and rivers and haroors appropriation bills are the only supply measures Iert for senate action.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-03

women go down to the very gates of
death through the long, dark, agon-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-03

During every twenty-four hours in
the United States one thousand
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14
COP FINDS 4
DEADLY BOMB
IN COURT ROOM

NEW YORK, Nov. 14.--Patrol-
man George Conaor today avert
ed a tragedy In the Center street
court room when he found a bomb
spluttering beneath seat. Con-
nor saw the fuse burning and he
grasped he bomb, which was en-
eased in a square box, and threw
II through closed window. The
bomb was finally dropped in a
bucket of water and later, on ex-
animation, was found to contain
shrapnel, powder, bullets and
slugs. Had the fuse reached the
powder the explosion would have
wrecked the crowded court room.
The police believe the bomb was
aimed at Magistrate Campbell
who sentenced Bouck White, the
neutrality-suspicious., to jail recen.-
ly, after voicing a bitter denuncia-
ton OF anarchists and bomb
throwers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14
MAYOR
WOULD
S Lie

AZ least 10 city employees,
receiving "a total annual sal
AIRY OF $4,000, are slated
discharge by a new salary Or
dinance being drawn up nm
der supervision OF Mayor A.
Y. Fawcett.
Announcement of the new ordi-
nance created a stir OF excite
ment at the city hall today. Faw-
cett declared that he did not be-
lieve the other commissioners
would vote for the ordinance, but
that lie would he glad to put
them on record as being opposed
to cutting city expenses.
The employees include an In
spector at the Green river purifi-
cation plant, In the mayors de-
partment, two checking clerks In
the light and water department,
the superintendent of water
works, clerk in the controllers
office, another clerk In Commits
sioner Woods office. and a clerk
In the police department, with
other clerks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14

iHS ibcikiuu StuttItthH.
We, Representatives of thu
municipality OF Charleroi on the
Belgian National Relief Commit,
tee, and on behalf of the province
.of Hainault. wish to- present the
position OF our Belgian people.
THE province of Hainault
comprises one and a quarter mil
lion people, and within a radius
of l 8 miles of Charleroi there are
about 100000.
I'VE have established up
wards of 100 soup kitchens
and relief stations I'm the
Charleroi district within n
radius OF Is miles of that
city, and we are endeavoring
to issue rations ON the above
basis through these stations
to upwards of 5OO,OOO people
out Of the total of 100000
inhabitants.
"Latterly, we have only been
able to make the bread allowance
for one or two days In the week,
as beyond our purchases from the
Germans the visible supplies OF
wheat and flour have been some
time exhausted. 8
THE German army imposed
fines upon us of foodstuffs, as, for
instance, on the card of August
we provided them with 100 tons
Of wheat, 40 tons of bread, and
also large quantities Of sugar,
coffee, etc. The levies on our peo-
pie were continued until the 9th
vi September, when we besought
the German governor, Marshal
Won der Goltz. to stop the Ievies,
and upon representation of the
desperate position of our people
orders were given by him that no
levies were to be made
upon us.
"The Industries of our dis.
trict are paralyzcd. Our coal
mines are operating two or three
days In the week. Our workshops
are closed, our moneys are en-
and In the whole prov
lace at least 100000 people must
be fed from now by charity.
"The rest of the population
still have resources with which
they could purchase food If the
food were available. II we allow
these people half a pound of
bread and one pound of potatoes
per day, then for charity require.
ments alone we must have 5000
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14
MILL s.
Jaw Is
POkED

Giving way, to an outburst OF
anger against Commissioner OF
Public Safety A. U. Mills today.
w. c. Turner. discharged fire.
man of the Tacoma fire depart
ment, attacked the city official In
the corridor of the municipal
building, striking him a slashins
blow on the chin.
Turner was elected from the
corridor by Chief Clerk Metzker
OF the public works department,
and Max Garretson, secretary to
Mills. He hurried to the court
house, where he gave himself up
to Justice c. l.. Westcott, saying
tnat he had beaten up" Commits
sioner Mills. Since no charge
mad been filed, Judge Westcott
could not make Turner a prisoner
and advised him to- go home until
warrant was issued for his ar
rest.
Turner was discharged a year
ago from the fire department be.
cause Mills and Fire Chief Nc
Alevy declared that he was a dis
turbing element. Turner was
charged with having melted trou,
BILE among the firemen and even
struck some of them.
The fireman at once headed q
committee TO recall Mills, and
worked for Mills recall stubborn
ly until the supreme court recent
ly threw the recall out of court.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14

Unsafe

Intervention by American
troops in the troubled country
surrounding Vera Cruz, I'm Mex
leo, IL expected hourly by the
property owners there. This Is
the tone OF a letter received In
Tacoma today by Archer Dellplain
of Al IL Asotin street from Mar
cello Gomez Y Alemon, whose let
ter was written Oct. 80 from San
Juan Evangelista, just outside
Vera Cruz.
Alemon declares that the coun-
try around Vera Cruz swarms
with criminals and desperate
Mexicans who have been liberate
from jails and prisons and turn
ed loose on the country by
Huefta.
The letter writer, himself a
wealthy cattleman, was arrested
in May by Huerta for political
activity" and held prisoner for
three months. His father paid
Huertistas $500 gold to secure his
sons release. American women
have been violated, Alemon says,
and no woman Is safe even on the
streets OF Vera Cruz after dark.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14
TO FIRE SHORT

AS a result of his recent reor-
ganization of the light and water
department, Commissioner Drake
today announced that William b.
Short, in charge of the city water
mains, would be released from his
position December 1. Short has
ben in the water main department
for 10 years. His work will be
done by w. A. Kunig, newly APP
pointed assistant superintendent
of water works.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14

beautiful figure than any you will be able to find, no
matter how enticingly clothed in flesh and blood in
all your search for she is clothed in the beauty of
selfless sacrifice
The pale martyr in his sheet of fire, holding his
hand in the flame until it is consumed as witness of
his deestaton for the evil that hand has DONE is not
SO grand figure this little woman of the plains
on whom, out of the middle of the night suddenly
as from the woods and fields-suddenly as from the
chambers of the air opening in revelation-suddenly
asfrom the ground yawning at her feet, leaped upon
her with the flashing of cataracts Death the crown
ed phantom, with all the equpage of his terrors and
the tiger roar of his voice.
ONE OF YOUR READERS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14
Aged p Pedestrian
Injured By Bike

Riding along Mckinley avenue
between 3Sth and 10th streets last
night, without lights or warning
signal, an unidentified bicyclist
struck j. Fordyce, 1917 Mckinley
avenue, age 20, and bowled him
over in the mud. Fordyce's nose
was broken and he suffered in.
ternal injuries. The cyclist con-
tinued his way without stopping.
Police officers are making n
search for the cyclist.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14
Arrested For Violating Law
TX That Protects Working Girls

The specific charge is that they
employed girls lin a place where
cards are played.
The arrests are the first made
under an ordinance passed some
time ago prohibiting the employ
nent of young girls in pool halls,
restaurants or clubs where any
game of amusement is played or
where men loiter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14
IN
DEADLY GRIP
OF famine

CI1ARLEROI, Belgium, November 14.--The APP
pallng distress which threatens the Belgians
who still remain in that devastated, helpless
country is shown by the statement below signed by
M. Emile Devreaux, burgomaster of Charleroi, Bel
GUM, and NJ Emile Buisset, alderman of Chartered
and national deputy who have been selected to APP
peal to the world for help
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14
. ON an Held For
Shooting Sister

CHEHALIS, Nov. 14.-Mrs. Ida
Gibson, charged with murderous
assault upon her sister, Mrs. Jes-
sic Olsen, has been bound over for
trial. Mrs. Gibson shot her els
ter five times in a quarrel over
Mrs. Gibson's husband.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14
FRENCH AGGRESS|VEACAIN
GERMANS: LATTER LOST 700

the Prusslan guard from its posi-
tion in the allies line. The Ger
mans are said to have attacked
with amazing fury and to have
left 700 dead ON the field. The
Canadian troops are reported to
he taking part i'm the fighting in
Northern France.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14

{ PARIS, Nov. lin the north
west section of Scissors 1t is said
that the French instead of the
Germans are on the offensive, aud
the kaiser's troops are resisting
from strongly intrenehed post
tions. The British are highly
complimented for the repulse of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14
A Reader Has Found
The Most Beautiful
Telephone Girl, But
SHE'S DEAD

Today's mail brought the following letter:
Editor Times:
You are looking for the most beautiful telephone
girl in America. With all your journalistic enter
prise and all the rivalry which partiality and vanity
can inspire, you will not find her. -
The most beautiful telephone girl in America
was drowned at Folsom, New Mexico, on the
night of the 9th Of August, 1908!
Let me tell You about it, for it is story which
should have reached the of the world with all
the thrill which we feel at the mention of Florence
Nightingale Grace Darling and Kate Shelley
The name of this telephone girl was Mrs S. ID.
Rock She widow with no children other
dependents 1t was her duty to care for the little
switchboard at Folsom, and she watch that
tateful night. ,p#t
Above the town, on the dry CimInalron river is a
plateau called Johnson's Mesa, on which about mid
night great storm burst. 1t filled the dry arroyOs
and wall of water began rolling down the water
course towards the village.
The night bell rang, and Mrs. Rock sprang up to
answer it. Warn your people," came over the wire.
There S been cloudburst on Johnson's Mesa Fol
som is doomed"
The telephone office was at the foot of the hill at
the bottom of the valley. She could have placed her
self beyond the reach Of the flood by stepping across
the street. but such to have occurred
to her.
But how can we say that? Who can say what
temptation to fly assaed her? Who can tell of the
fight she made against the primal impulse toward
self preservation and of the victory she won?
However that may be, she won-and lost. She
called up house after house and implored the people
to spread the alarm and flee to the hills. She told
them that they were lost unless they made haste
That nearly twenty lost was not her fault ALL
were warned, and those who did not heed the warm
ing were drowned. ~
The flood, bearing earth, driftwood, debris and
brown foam on it's crest, swept the frail building
away as if it had been feather ALI had heard
Mrs. Rocks cry of warning but none heard her
shrek of despair. Six months later her body I
was found several miles below Folsom, buried in +
the flotsam of the flood and partly devoured by I
the coyotes of the desert.
can send you no photograph of Mrs. Rock. T
have never one, but, to my mind she is a more
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-14

Peter Donoupolis, proprietor Of
a Greek coffee house at 1126
Commerce street, and Andrew
Thomas, manager of a restaurant
at 1871 Commerce. we're arrested
late yesterday afternoon by De-.
teetives Recob and Kincaid charg-
ed with employing young girls In
their establishments.