The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-07-24

Redding, Cal, and then drifted south
ward before the wind in a banner ten
miles long.
Foreign Affaira.
General Victoriano Huerta has rO-
signed from the provisional presi-
dency of the Mexican republic and his
resignation was accepted by the SEN
ate and chamber of deputies by vote
of 121 to II. Francisco Carbajal was
then appointed president. He took the
oath Of Office at the joint session OF
deputies and senators. General Huer-
ia and General Banquet boarded a
train on the Mexican railway a few
miles beyond the city. It is thought
they are going to Puerto Mexico.
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Francisco Carbajal, a successor to
General Huerta as provisional presi-
dent of Mexico, has advised the United
States government informally that
he intended to retire in favor of Cen
eral Carranza, the Constitutionalist
chief. Mr.. Carbajal wishes only that
a general amnesty be proclaimed and
protection given to the property of
those who opposed the Constitutional
lists. He has already ordered that all
political prisoners be released at once.
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Fighting by constitutionalists in
Mexico is over, if plans announced
by Venustiano Carranza go into
effect. General Carranza declared his
main object now will be to conduct
negotiations for the constitutionalists
to enter the City of Mexico and es-
tablish their government without fur
Their bloOdshed or damage to property.
r. r. r
The family of President Huerta and
other relatives and close friends have
left the capital for Vera Cruz aboard
a special train. The train was COM
posed of three sleepers and a baggage
car. Running ahead of it we're two
military trains carrying 800 men. Fol-
lowing came another military train
with 500 troops aboard. The family
of General Banquet, minister of war,
also left on the special.
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Four hundred laborers acting under
orders from Mexico City have started
work repairing the two-mile gap in
the Mexican railway connecting Vera
Cruz with the capital. The rushing
of the work is believed here to indi-
cate a possibility that the first train
to pass over the repaired road may
be special conveying General Huerta
and his family to the coast. The gap,
which has been without rails since
April 81, will be restored to working
order within two days at the most.
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The Brazilian minister to Mexico,
who is caring for interests Of the
United States in that country, tele-
graphed the state department that the
resignation of General Huerta in ia
vor Of Francisco Carbajal, the newly
appointed minister of foreign affairs,
is expected soon.
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Seven hundred marines have been
ordered assembled at Guantanamo,
Cuba, to be held in readiness for SER
vice in revolution torn Haiti and Santo
Domingo.
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Personal.
Mrs. John Allen, III years old, and
seven days a bride, was murdered at
Dubuque, la. The police and relatives
of the young woman are searching
for George Delain, her cousin, who is
said to have paid her attention before
her marriage.
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w. S. Hannah, secretary Of the Mer-
camille Club, has received a telegram
stating that Kansas City, Kan, had
been designated as the place for a
national convention of all farmers or
August II, IS and 10.
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Senator j. A. Reed of Missouri at
tackled the administration Interstate
Trade Commission bill on the floor of
the senate He urged that the inter
state commerce committee and the ju-
dietary committee, of which he is a
member, get together to work out
trust legislation jointly with CONSOLE
dation of all pending measures on the
subject in view.
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Peter Ferguson, once a successful
who was convicted and SEN
fenced for forgery, hanged himself
with sheet in the county jail