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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-08
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-08

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-08
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-08

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-08

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-08
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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
CLAIM INFERIOR STEEL USED
Five Men Indicted on Charge Of Selling
Poor Steel to Be Used In the
Panama Canal.

Pittsburg, Pa.-The federal grand
jury here made a p%resentment recon-
mending the Indictment of five en-
ployes of the Carbon Steel company
on a charge of conspiracy in connec-
ton with steel furnished for locks in
the Panama canal.
1t is alleged that the steel was of
such an inferior quality that the canal
locks are liable to let go at any time,
causing heavy loss of property and
probably lives. The men named are
Samuel NJ. Wetwore, David j. Simp-
son, Dennis X. Bullens, Henry Lutz,
and James E. Lacy. Two others, w.
R. Warren and Fred Schoppe, also en-
ployes of the company, were named in
the indictment but the grand jury rec
commended that no indictment be found
against them, as they testified before
the jurors.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
ADMIT LooTING AT MINES
Militiaman Says Two Women Died at
Ludlow as Consequence-De-
nounce Upton Sinclair.

Denver, Colo.-Capt. Edward E. Car
son, Troop A, Colorado National Guard,
admitted on the witness stand before
the court-martial at Golden that the
soldiers looted the Ludlow tent colony
on the night that the colony was
burned, causing the death OF two wo-
men and eleven children.
Carson declared he saw soldiers and
civilians carrying away all kinds of
property, including clothing, umbrellas,
jewelry and blankets belonging to the
strikers.
Troop A comprised 1870 men, Of
whom all but eight were hired mine
guards and mine clerks, according to
the roster submitted to the legislature
by Gen. Chase.
Gov. Ammons issued a public state
ment denouncing Upton Sinclair and
the others who sent a telegram to
President Wilson on the strike situa-
ton as liars"
I'VE do not need anybody to come
out here from New York to tell us
what to do" the governor declared.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
PRESIDENT KEEPS IN TOUCH
Special Wires Are Installed So That
Wilson Can Decide All Questions
for His Agents.

Washington.-With mediation pro-
ceedings removed to Niagara Falls,
Ont, activity here in the Mexican sit
uation was notably relaxed. 1t was
the evident purpose of the Washington
government to give the conference the
amplest opportunity to work out its
plans with the least possible influ-
ence from the outside.
American commissioners left for the
scene Of the conference and later were
followed by Minister Suarez, of Chile.
the last of the mediators to leave
Washington,
A special telegraph wire from the
headquarters of the American repre-
sentatives at Niagara Falls to the
White House was installed to keep the
president in close touch with every
step OF the proceedings. All important
questions will be submitted TO the
president before the American repre-
sentatives take any action. There was
every indication at the White House
that officials do not expect a pro.
longed conference.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
EXECUTE FEDERAL OFFICERS
Villa Wreaks Terrible Vengeance on
Gen. osorno and Staf-S3 Put
10 Death.

Juarez, Mexico Vengeance and the
lust for blood apparently are the dom
mating factors in the battle which
| Pancho villa is waging against the
| Federals at SaltillO. Apparently, too,
the general is willing that the world
shall hear OF his bloody methods.
From Villas private secretary, LUIS
A. Benavides, was received a dispatch
stating that Gen. Osorno OF the Fed
egal army and his entire staff OF ~
officers were captured by villa at Ter
tuche. 10 miles from Saltillo, and that
all were Immediately put to death.
Their capture and execution folio g
a battle at Zertuchc in which the Fed
eral army ~endeavoring to reach Sal
tillo after its defeat at Paredon, ran
into Villas army and was defeated
with severe losses. Expecting to be
treated as prisoners Of war under civ
ilized rules OF warfare, the Federal
commander, it is said, surrendered
with his staff. He and his officers were
killed as soon as they had been made
prisoners. The 700 or more men OF
the Federal army who surrendered
we're sent TO Torreon, and the rebels
say they will be released or taken into
the rebel army.
All Spaniards in Mexico City are to
be expelled from the city and from
Mexico as rancho Villa takes the cap
ital, and those who have been active
in aiding Huerta are to be put to
death. This was stated here by friends
of Villa, who say the rebel general
has a list of all S~paniards in Mexico
City who have been active In assist
ing Huerta, and each Is marked for
death.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
BELIEVE SILLMAN IS SLAIN
High officials Fear the Worst-Prom-
ises Have Been Disregarded SO
Often by Federals.

Washington.-With a desperate
fight in progress at Saltillo and the
city entirely surrounded by Villas
troops, interest In the Mexican situa-
ton centered on the fate of Consul
Silliman. The state department be-
lieves Villa will take Saltillo and 1t
is reported that Villa plans to find out,
as soon as he enters the city, just
what happened to Silliman.
Consular Representative Carrothers.
who is with Villa, has already been
ordered to determine Immediately
what happened to the vice-consul
there. High officials here fear the
worst. They declare the promises
that he would be produced have been
disregarded SO often that they believe
he has been slain. II this proves to
be true 1t may have an evil effect
upon the Niagara Falls mediation COLI
ference. :
So far as the administration Is con-
cerned everything has been halted to
await the outcome of mediation.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
ASKS FORTUNE TO RETIRE
Huerta Seeks $400, 000, 900 Loan and
$ee, 100000 Lease on Magda-
lena Bay.

Vera Cruz, Mex.-Huerta will step
ont of the provisional presidency of
Mexico, provided the United States
will loan Mexico $400, 900 ,000, will
lease Magdalena bay for 500, 600, 900.
and will bar Carranza from the presi-
dency, permitting Huerta to have some
choice in the naming of his successor
Reliable information from Mexico
City said that Huerta was forwarding
these instructions to his mediation DEL
egates.
The proposition of an American
loan. 1t was said, contemplated expend-
iture of the $500, 0O0, 900 under super
vision Of a commission of two Amer
leans, two Mexicans, one representa-
tive Of Great Britain and one repre-
sentative of France and one Of Ger
many.
The Magdalena bay lease was said
to contemplate a 99-year rental with a
payment of 81 1000, 900 yearly.
1t is understood that Huerta Is Jug
costing that Asiatics shall be forbidden
to COLOMBO in Mexico.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
FEDERALS LEAVE SALTILL0
10000 Federals Flee From Saltillo to
San Luis Potosi-Rebels Are
in Pursuit.

Torreon, Notwithstanding Sal
tillo before the battle fairly had got
warm, the Federal forces of Gen.
Joaquoin Mas and Gen. Javier de
Mour, 10000 strong. are In full flight
to the south, hoping to reach San Luis
Potosi before Villas pursuing army
can overtake them. Pursuit Of the
Federals already is on and the prob
ability Is tina. they either will be met
by 5000 rebels of Gen. Torres and
Gen. Guiterrez's commands, who al
ready are in the outskirts OF San Luis
Potosi, or overtaken by $4,000 cavalry
Villa has sent after them. Rebel lead
ers here think the Federals will be
annihilated before they al get half
way to San Luis Potosi, across the
200 miles Of desert.
Saltillo is now the rebel provisional
capital. It has been so designated by
Gen. Venustiano C%arranza, who has
announced that he will proceed there
without delay and will gather from the
several points where they are now
scattered the rebel cabinet and gov.
eminent officials. Carranza will es-
tablish his headquarters in the state
palace, from which he went forth a
year and a half ago to organize an
army to fight Huerta and avenge tht
death Of Madero.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
SEEKS PEACE IN COLORADO
Judge Ben Lindsey and Party Of Wo
men Plead With President-WiiI
Try TO See Rockefeller.

Washington.-Federal intervention
to force an agreement between mine
owners and miners in the Colorado coal
fields was urged on President Wilson
by Judge Ben B. Lindsey and a delega.
ton of Colorado women It was indi.
Gated later than the president was
willing to do everything within his con,
stitutional power to bring peace in
Colorado, but that he believed the
state should solve the difficulty If pos.
sible.
Judge Lindsey announced that he
planned to go to New York with his
party of women and make an effort to
see John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and urge
him to submit the differences between
mine operators and strikers to arbi.
t~ration.
President Wilson is understood TO
have told the delegation that he was
deeply concerned over the Colorado
situation and had no present plan of
removing federal troops. He thought.
however, the state could settle the
strike without further federal inter
ference.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
WILL NOT BE BOUND BY ANY PAc.
IFIcATioN PLAN-WILL SIMPLY
GIVE INFORMATION.
HOPE TO RESTORE PEACE
Gen. Carranza Has Given His Consent
to Plan After Several Conferences
Between His Representatives
and Washington Officials.

Washington.-The COnstitutionalists
Are preparing to send a rcpresef' atlye
to Niagara Falls 10 confer with the
South American mediatOrs who are en-.
deayoring to settle the Mexican prob.
lem. This will be done with the dis
tinct understanding that the represen-
tative Is to give information as TO Gen.
C~arranza's purposes, without commit
ting the Constituencies t. any plan
Tor the pdcihCation Of Mexico that the
mediators may determine upon.
Jose V|asConcelOs, nOW at Montreal
on a financial mission for Gen, Car
rama, is understood to be the man
chosen to go to Niagara Falls, Men in
close touch with the Constitutlonalists
said that he would arrive there soon.
The question of taking this step has
been the subject Of several informal
conferences between COnstitutionalist
representatives and representatives OF
the Washington administration recent
ly, and It is understood that Gen. Car
rama has given has consent.
II was reported on apparently relia-
BILE authority that another invitation
may be sent to Carranza by the me-
diators to take formal part in the me-
diation proceedings. For the present,
at least, however, II is declared the
Constitutionalist report merely would
give the mediators information with
out committing the leaders TO any
agreement.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
HOLDS sENATE's ATTENTION IN
FNE.HoUR sPEEcH-sAYs
1912 LAW VIOLATED.
MAKES PLEA FOR EQUALITY
New Yorker Says He Is Voting for Re-
peal Now Because the Senate
Would Not Vote to Arbi-
trate the Dispute.

Washington.-Senator Root, Repub.
lican member of the foreign relations
committee, held the ~senate's attention
throughout a five hours speech in sup
port of the administration to repeal
the tolls exemption of the Panama
canal law. AS the New York senator
sat down, Senator Kern, Democratic
leader, led the applause from the floor
and spectators in the galleries joined
In.
The burden of the speech was to
grove that the Hay-Paunceforte treaty
provided that treatment accorded by
the United States to its W citizens
in the use of the Panama canal must
be the same as that accorded citizens
Of other nations.
Senator Root declared the United
States always had insisted on this
broad principle of equality and insist
ed that the understanding of Henry
White, Joseph Choate, John Hay and
Theodore Roosevelt, Americans who
negotiated the treaty, was that the
equally mentioned in the convention
was the broad equality which had
marked American diplomacy.
Taking up the specific question Of
exemption of American coastwise yes
sells, the senator said the law OF 1912
granting this exemption violated the
equality agreement guaranteed by the
treaty. This was true, he argued, be-
cause no real coastwise trade of the
United States could pass through this
canal 1000 miles away; and conse-
quently what the law did was to ex-
empt a class of American oversee,
trade of other countries.
The senator declared he vas voting
for repeal now because in the judg-
ment of senators best able to Judge
the senate would not vote to arbitrate
the dispute.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
HUERTA WILL NOT RESIGN
President Says That Peace Delegates
Have No instructions to Offer
His Resignation.

Mexico City.-Provisional President
Huerta, in the course of an interview,
said:
THE Mexican peace delegates have
no instructions to offer my resigna-
ton at the conference at Niagara
Falls"
The president spoke with Energy,
standing erect, and emphasizing his
words with a characteristic gesture.
Prior to this the acting minister of
foreign affairs, Esteva Ruiz, had de-
clared that the Mexican represents.
tives had been given ample powers"
by the government to deal with every
thing that may be discussed at the
peace conference with the object Of
solving the international difficulty.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
COLONELGETS INTO POLITICS
viii Take One Of Longest Campaign
Trips of Career-WiII Confer
With Party Leaders.

Oyster Bay, N. Y.-On his return
Fl n South America Theodore Roose-
welt got back into touch with the po-
litical situation and plans are well I'M
der way for the Progressive campaign
of 1914. Col. Roosevelt spent a long
time in conference with George w.
Perkins, chairman OF the executive
committee of the Progressive national
committee. Mr.. Perkins has been at
work since the 1912 campaign organ
izing the new party throughout the
country, and his mission to Oyster Bay
was to acquaint the former president
with present day conditions in the
political field.
President Roosevelt would not dis
his long talk with Mr.. Perkins.
He said he was not talking politics.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
BIG CROWD GREETs COLONEL
Roosevelt Returns From JungIe-De.
MES Having Expressed Himself
as to Presidency.

New York.-Theodore Roosevelt re.
turned home from his visit of many
months to South America. Accompa-
MED by the two naturalists of his
party, George X. Cherry and Leo E.
Miller, he arrived from Para on board
the Booth liner Aldan.
With a few crisp sentences Col.
Roosevelt reaffirmed the verify of the
River of Doubt" CURLY denied hav.
ing expressed himself as to presiden.
tial probabilities for 1916, declared he
would not run for governor of New
York, made a few deprecatory re-
marks about his critics, and, with
harbor craft footing and flags flutter-
ing, was taken on board a tug, which
proceeded to Oyster Bay.
Friends who had been alarmed by
reports Of Col. R%oosevelt's severe i'll.
ness were greatly surprised when they
saw him. He was ~noticeably thinner,
and he used a cane, but he apparently
had not lost an ounce of his vigor and
energy. After stopping ten days in
this country, Mr.. Roosevelt will go to
Spain to attend the wedding of his
son, Kermit.
AS the tugs which carried several
members Of the Roosevelt family, in
GLIDING Mrs. Roosevelt, E. Em1in
Roosevelt, Archie and Theodore, Jr.,
approached the Aldan, the familiar fig
ure OF the colonel could be seen lean
ing far over the rail. AS he waved
a greeting, his lips Elected into the
familiar smile. Not a few eyes were
wet as the collector of the port, Dud-
ley Field Malone, and a host of news
paper men scrambled up the compan-
ionway. The colonel stood at the top
and shook each man by the hand
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
MELLEN FEARED up. MORGAN
Ex-New Haven Official Details High
Finance Deals-Many Regulations
Besmirched at Probe.

Washington.-J. P. Morgan ruled the
New Haven directors so automatically
and ~tyrannically that not n of them
would contradict him had he called
black white.
William Rockefeller was the only
other person on the board who car
ried the slightest weight.
The New Haven directors having
made Mellen the goat, exactly as he
showed he had prophesied in writing
years ago, he decided to do vigorous
butting on the witness stand before
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
McChord. More than one SNUG repu.
tation was besmirched. Mellen appar
emily held nothing back.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
RETAINS COLLEGE RIGHTS
Methodist Conference Decides Against
Idea Of acknowledgements
Is Reached.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-Acting on
the suggestion of Judge N. e. Harris
Of Georgia, the general conference Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
re%considered its action which virtually
severed relations between Vanderbilt
University and the church as a whole,
and directed a redraft Of the commit
tee report to provide for joint action
by commissioners to be named by the
general conference and by the original
patronizing confereces, in the renewal
of litigation in an effort to establish
rights which the church claims In the
control of the university.
Under a recent ruling Of the Ten
nessee supreme court, the university
was, in effect, removed from the direct
jurisdiction OF the general conference
of the church. Action will now be
taken, either in state or federal courts,
in behalf of the pa~tronizing confer
ences, which, 1t is pointed out, may
have legal claims which the Tennessee
court ruled the general conference has
not.
AS adopted, the committee report or
dered that whatever rights the church
might retain in the university be trans
ferred to the conferences
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
vATERLAND ADRlFT IN RIVER
Huge Liner Floats Over a Mile Before
Tugs Get ControI-3,0o0 Persons
Aboard.

New York.-Navigation in the North
river, between lower New York and
Hoboken, stood still while the Water.
land, biggest ship afloat, defied all eff
forts to dock her and swept broadside
down the stream for more than a mile.
When the liner arrived at her pier,
after her maiden voyage, her great
length and a strong ebb tide proved
too strong a combination for the fleet
of willing little tugs that urged her
toward her berth. For more than three
hours the tugs pulled and hauled at
the gigantic liner, without success.
Once she was almost ready to tie up
when the tide gripped her and dragged
her out of the slip.
Ferryboats and small craft scurried
to safety as the leviathan floated
broadside down the river, with twenty
tugs circling frantically around. She
floated a mile before the tugs got her
Strengthened out, and then she re
turned under her own steam.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
MORGAN DOMINATED
RAILROAD OFFICERS
LATE FINANcIER's CONTROL OF
NEW HAVEN REVEALED IN
MELLEN's TESTIMONY.
NO ONE WOULD OPPOSE HIM
Declares That Morgan's Judgment in
Financial Affairs Was Marvellous.
Westchester Property
Would Have Paid.

Observation-Disclosures control by
the late J. Pierpont Morgan, not only
of the officials, but of the properties
OF the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford railroad, was further emphasized
when former President Charles S. Mel
len of the New Haven continued his
testimony before the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Mr.. Mellen admitted frankly that
neither he nor directors of the New
Haven had the temerity openly to op-
pose Mr.. Morgan's plans, although he
said he sometimes disagreed with him.
He declared, however, that Mr.. Nor
,gan's judgment in financial transac-
lions was SO marvellous that anybody
well might hesitate before running
counter to it.
Even In the acquisition by the New
Haven of the Westchester property.
into which millions of dollars van
ished, Mr.. Mellen, who declared he
did not approve of the purchase, in
sisted that had Mr.. Morgan lived the
property might have been far more
valuable than it is today. So, too,
with the acquisition of the Worcester,
Nashua and Rochester railroad, in
which Mr.. Morgan, Mr.. Mellen said,
was responsible for paying SIS a share
more than the stock really was worth.
AS in the Westchester transaction,
however, Mr.. Morgan, according to Mr..
Mellen, would brook no interference,
carrying out his plans without regard
to the opinions of others interested.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
REFUSE M LAITY RIGHTS
Methodist Conference Turns Down
Proposition by Vote Of III to 105.
Women Debate Question.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-Laity rights
for women was defeated by the gen.
eral. conference Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, here by a vote of
III to los.
This was the feature of the session
and had been made a special order of
business.
The privilege of the floor was &C.
corded two women, Mrs. Belle Bennett
of Nashville, and RS. T. B. King of
Memphis, the former favoring and thu
latter opposing laity rights.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
FOUR DIE IN A COLLISION
Auto Is Struck by Traction Car-Ex.
pIostion and Third Rail Start
Eire-Roth Burn.

Columbus, O.-Four persons were
killed zeal Ashville, 25 miles south of
Columbus, when a Scioto Valley trac-
ton car struck an automobile at a
crossing. The dead: w. M. Miller,
president of the Citizens Bank, Ash
vile; Mrs. Aggie Miller, his wife;
Mrs. Alice Staiger, of Ashville; six
year-old daughter Of Rev. c. E. Hill,
of Mount Sterling.
The traction car and the automobile
were consumed by a fire which result
ed from the collision when the gaso-
line tank of the automobile exploded
and came in contact with the third
rail.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29

Misunderstanding swiftly east
by south, the comet discovered by
European astronomers was seen from
the United States naval observatory
here. AS it melted into the haze above
the northwestern horizon it appeared
to be a large patch of nebulous light
without nucleus or tail.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
Rolls Fifteen Hours.

Baltimore, Md.-G. Howell Parr,
Baltimore social leader, who started to
roll three miles, completed his task.
For more than fifteen hours, with fire.
ouent intervals, MIR. Parr, dressed in
a football suit, turned over and over
the entire distance.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
Fear Assassination.

Vera Cruz.-Dr. Aureliano Urrutia,
ex-minister Of the interior, who has
arrived here, declared that he left the
capital because he feared assassina.
ton and in the belief that a revolt
would shortly occur in the City OF
Mexico.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
BISHOP A.W WILSON RETlRED
Oldest of E~piscopacy Superannuated
on Account of Age-Hoss Gets
Years Leave.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-The session
of the general conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, was
featured by the conference declining
to elect any bishops, the retirement
of Bishop Alpheus w. Wilson, senior
member of the college of bishops, and
a feeling speech by Bishop E. E. Hoss
in accepting a years release from ac-
tive duties.