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VILLA ESCAPES
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bandit can long remain hidden even
he has sought refuge.
The scene of Col. Dodds victory is
broad valley lying at the head Of the
Santa Maria river. On the west side
rise the barren foothills of the CONT
| mental divide and to the trail made fam
Gus by Villa which leads through the
Laguna district to Santa Ysabe1. It
was at the latter place that Villa kill
ed IL American mining men, a crime
which sent a thrill Of horror throughout
the United States and marked the be-
ginning Of what many believe to be the
end Of his blood-stained career. 1t was
toward Santa Ysabel that he was be-
lieved to be heading when the troops Of
the United States swept down from the
north upon his camp.
How Attack Was Made
From the meagre details which have
reached here from Mexican and Ameri-
can military sources, Col Dodd's men
made their way unnoticed through the
arroyos or deep gulches, which split I'D
the foothills in all directions. and were
almost in the camp celebrating the
given
How Villa Escaped
Villa is reported to have been in
small tent nursing his injuries when
the crash of the American voliey fire
awoke the bandit to panic-stricken ac-
ton.
The extraordinary hold the bandit
chief has on his followers is shown by
the fact that their thought was to save
him. Unable t. walk or ride, he was
placed in lighc wagon and driven over
the rough mountain trails to some Sc
cret lair.
While 81 Of the bandits are known
TO have been killed, it is said the num-
Der may have been considerably larger.
Nothing Is vet known as to the number
OF wounded, although it is presumably
in proportion to the dead.
Last Villa Outrage
The last outrage credited to Villa oc-
CURED at Minaca, town about 10 milas
southeast Of Guerrero on the Mexico e.
Orient Railroad. Here the Mexicans are
reported to have murdered Herman
Blankenberg, a mine foreman, and two
other foreigners. 1t is feared that the
two unknown victims are Americans.
Four Americans-Acklin, Hemple. Locke
and DR.. Stell-are known to have been In
or near Minaca recently.
1t is not certain that Villa himself took
part in these murders. as it is thought
improbable that he could have made his
way from Minaca to the San Geronimo
ranch. 80 miles to the northeast, in the
time elapsing between the murder of the
foreigners and the fight on the ranch
with Col. Dodd's riders.
Some time before the Minaca massacre
Villa descended on Guerrero. whore he
slaughtered all the Carranza troops he
would find. 1t was probably at glerre-
70 that he was wounded
Carranzistas Released
After the battle on the San Geronimo
ranch the American soldiers released a
large number of Carranza men whom
the bandit chief was holding.
Excitement in Ell Paso and along the
border is at fever heat in expectation
that at any moment the wires may flash
the news of Villas death or capture
Two days already have elapsed since the
battle Of San Geronimo and 1t is not
believed that the bandit chief can escape
in his crippled condition.
JOURNAL WANT ADS,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-01
The REPUBLICAN
SUBCOMMITTEE
TO MEET APRIL 7

Chicago, March 31.-The sub-com-
mittee on arrangements of the Ma
tional Republican committee will meet
here April Z, it was announced today
1t is reported that Senator Harding
of Ohio has been agreed upon for tenn
porary chairman.
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NCUHtIHUeU lTUHH rage IHreeJ
panying these views Mr.. Horne stated
that he was the first man with q cam
era to arrive on the spot Of the triple
execution at Juarez, New Mexico having
beaten out reporters on the STAFF of the
largest American newspapers and the
movie men. Mr.. Horne is a brother OF
E. NJ. Horne Of Loudon Hill and son
Of the late Henry Horne Of this city.
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A Warning-to feel tired before ex-
ertion Is not laziness-it's a sign that
the system lacks vitality, and needs
the tonic effect Of Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Sufferers should not delay. Get rid
Of that tired feeling by beginning to
take Hoods Sarsaparilla today.-Adv.
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ager of the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce. S. A. Miles.
manager of the New York and Chicago
Automobile Shows, ara John A. ROYAL.
an Oil man.
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A deputy sheriff from Bangor came
to the city Friday and took back with
him the man who was arrested on
Thursday night by Headquarters Man
Sturtevant. at the request of the Ban
gor officers.
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LOCAL NOTICE

To Let:Two rooms, electric lights,
both and telephone: with or without
board. 70 Second ST., Hallowell.
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Hon. John A. Woodsum, Of China,
who has been visiting with relatives
in Massachusetts. was calling on
friends in the city Friday on his return
to his home
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VAUDEVILLE

H. W. Washburn Of China was . bust
ness caller in the city Friday.
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VILLAGE LOST

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INTEREST IN CAMP AIGN

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HALLOWELL

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Maine Students at Capital.

licans in other parts of the country t
follow in September.
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Country Devastated
The country over which Gen. Pershing's
march has been made is destitute. Gen.
pershings commands have not been able
10 live off the resources Of the territory
passed. being devastated by four years
OF Villa warfare.
Wireless and aeroplanes have assisted
IN maintaining the 300-mile line into Mex
'co' but the cavalry has outdistanced ev-
erything except the aeroplanes. The
wireless is pushing forward some dis
lance behind the forward columns The
aeroplanes are now going through vir-
'uaily all the way. The only advice the
senior aviators give the youngsters is:
There are no landing places. You must
trust to God to get through"
Cavalrymen have obtained new soles
LOT their shoes, which they have worn
OUT IN walking beside their horses in or
aer to save the strength Of the mounts,
ny using parts Of the supernuous leather
from their stirrups.
Bargaining with Mexicans
subsistence of the country and at the
same time the attempt to make good
IMPRESSION upon the Mexicans along the
''e OF communications is requiring bar
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
JOINT COMMISSION
TO HEAR GEN. BLISS
Assistant Chief of Staff Will
Submit Information.
IS COMPLETED
A DeIuue Of Requests Is Received BY
Secretary Baker Asking For Re-
lease OF Guardsmen From
Further Border Duty.

Washington. Secretary Baker
granted the request of the American
Mexican Commission to have Major
General Tasker H. Bliss, assistant
chief Of staff, go to New London,
Conn.,, to give the commissioners in
formation he has gathered first hand
concerning the military situation
along the international boundary.
General Bliss was authorized to hold
himself in readiness to respond to a
summons. The General is regarded
as one of the Army's most competent
authorities on Mexican questions. AS
sistant chief of staff, he has more to
do with the administration Of military
operations along the border than any
other officer, except Major General
Funston, and recently he completed a
personal inspection of all the border
patrol militia camps.
Pressure from political and business
quarters is being brought to bear upon
Secretary Baker and administration
officials generally to withdraw Nation
al Guard organizations from the bor-
der. Members of Congress, business
houses and friends and relatives OF
guardsmen have deluged the depart
ment the last few days with requests
for the release of the militia. The de-
partment has informed all inquirers
that action will be taken as soon as
practicable.
Secretary Baker already has indi-
Gated that as soon as the units now
en- route to the border arrive other or
ganizations will be withdrawn.
Guardsmen still in their state camps
all probably will be given tour of
border field service before being mus
tered out.
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
GATHERED FACTS

Capt. Albert Maxtield Of New York,
who served with the Eleventh Maine
regiment in the Civil way, was taken
prisoner near Appomatt0x and made
to surrender his sword. Not long ago
a Bangor paper received q letter from
John Davis Arbuckle of Lewisburg, w.
Va, stating he had a sword which he
had taken from Yankee officer at Ap-
pomattOx. Captain Maxf1eld saw the
letter, communicated with the writer
and is now in receipt of his sword and
an invitation to visit his former enemy.
A. A. Derrah and his wife of Perkins,
the smallest town in Maine, were elect
ed to five offices at the annual town
meeting. Mr.. Derrah was chosen town
clerk, constable, auditor and truant Of
fcer, while Mrs. Derrah was elected to
the school committee.
In the sale of collection of Persian
antiquities Of Mira Raft of Persia at
the Anderson galleries in New York, a
sixteenth century Oushak palace rug
brought the highest price Of the sale,
selling on order for $4,000.
Although he is sixty years of age,
General Petain, the French hero of
Verdun, is an all-round athlete and
keeps himself In training by skipping
the rope and weighing all the food be
eats.
Master Humphreys clock, made in
1929 by William Humphrey Of Barnard
castle, Durham, from which Dickens
took the title of book, was sold re-
Gently in London for 5000.
In production of rice Mexico ranks
sixteenth; Of tobacco, fourteenth; cot
ton, seventh; coffee, sixth; lead,
fourth gold, fourth; copper, second,
and silver, first.
congress of continental American
history is to be held in Rio de Janeiro
in 1922 during the centennial celebra-
ton of the independence Of Brazil.
The electric hobo" cooks his meals
by electricity, stealing the current by
tapping any convenient wire that he
may encounter for the purpose.
Sixty millions iron half-pfennigs are
now being coined In Germany to re-
place copper coins, which are being
withdrawn from circulation.
Chinese railroad embankments are
protected from floods by planting them
with a native grass with tenacious
roots that resists erosion.
Gibraltar is the smallest British
possession and measures less than two
square miles. Canada is the largest,
with 3,746,000 square miles.
The CrOton river, which furnishes
New York the greater part of the wa
ter consumed in its limits, was named
for an Indian chief.
French inventors have developed a
vertical axis rotary motor for hydro
planes that can be completely protect
ed from water.
The strength of tungsten filaments
has been increased more than 300 per
cent since they began to be used for
electric lighting in 1908,
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
BIG BRIDGE
SPAN FALLS
Eleven Lose Lives in Quebec
Disaster.
BOATS RUsHTO RESCUE
Groups Of Men Fall Into Water and
: Others Are Hurled From Bridge
BY Flying Debris-chief
Engineer Saved.

Quebec.-With the loss of II lives,
the second attempt to bridge the St.
Lawrence River here resulted in a
failure when the massive center span,
weighing 500 tons, suddenly col
lapsed and fell into the river. Of the
90 men caught on the span when it
began to sway all were rescued except
the II and of these only four bodies
have been found.
The span was being raised from the
pontoons and was about Is feet above
the water when from some unknown
cause it collapsed and sank into the
river which is 200 feet deep at this
place.
Plunge Ends Ceremony.
The ST. Lawrence River was filed
with many boats at the time of the
accident, and on the hills along the
shore were hundreds Of persons who
came by rail and automobile to see
the elimination of the mighty en-
cheering project. The big steel frame
was taken in tow to the gap which 1t
was expected to fill.
Shortly after o'clock the pontoons
reached the allotted place, and were
withdrawn by tugs, leaving the mas
eive girder resting on hydraulic jacks.
These had begun to raise the big span
while the crowds shouted, thinking
that they had seen the most impress
sive ceremony of the bridge raising
The spectators began to leave, when
suddenly there was roar of breaking
steel and the span dived into the
water.
The 80 or more men who were on
the span were thrown into the river
and about 65 were rescued by pleasure
craft.
Seventy Lost Nine Years Ago.
Nine years ago a similar accident at
the same spot took toll of 70 lives.
Today scores Of men were carried into
the river when the 5,0O0-ton span, be-
ing raised from pontoons- in an en-
gineering feat designed to complete
the $4,000 cantilever suspension
for trans-continental railway traffic
plunged distance of Is feet into the
water and sank 200 feet, perhaps never
to be recovered.
Contradictory stories were told re-
garding the collapse. The pontoOns
had been removed and the span was
being lifted by massive hydraulic
Jacks when, according to some Of the
spectators, the northern end Of the
span fell with the breaking of girders.
Frantic efforts were made to place
a chain rope around the tottering
structure, but, with reports like shells
exploding, the remaining supports
snapped and the span disappeared with
a tremendous splash Some Of the OBJ
servers said that the structure also
buckled at the center as it fell.
Groups of men at work slipped off
into the water and others were knock
ed into space by flying debris. Scores
Of craft containing spectators went to
the rescue and their endeavors pre-
vented larger loss of life.
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
FRENCH CARRY
ENEMY TRENCHES
Assault Lasting But 30 Minutes
Yields First Line.
ANOTHER DASH TO EASTWARD
Following Up Their Rapid Offensive
Movement, French Forces Cap
ture Strategic Eminence and
MarrIeres Wood.

London-With the sWiftest assault
yet recorded in the Somme battle, the
French captured the whole system OF
German first-line trenches between the
region south of Combles and the
Somme, accomplishing the feat in less
than half an hour Without a mo-
ment's halt they followed up this sue
cess and vigorously pushed forward
to the east, reaping the fruits OF their
initial blow.
They took the strategicaly import
ant Hill No. las, and captured the
whole of Marrieres Wood. The end OF
this whirlwind attack saw the French
in complete possession of the Teuton
trenches as far as the Peronne-
Bethune highway, which they are now
menacing, having pushed their lines
within short distance of it, parallel
to the Rancourt- rt-Bouchavesnes sector.
Farther south they advanced their
front to ridge No. rs, west Of Feuil-
lancourt. Today's successful drive
adds ominously to the menace OF Pe-
rome 1t netted the French 1900
prisoners.
Germans Pound British.
South of the river there was no In
fantry action today. Nor did the Brit
ish resume the offensive of this part
of the front north of the Somme. The
Germans throughout last night played
their big guns against the British sec
tor between Delville Wood and the
Moquet Farm.
Berlin officially admitted this after
noon that Ginchy village was lost to
the British yesterday.
An official review of the Somme
operations says that numerous Ger
man counter-attacks between Septem-
Der and 6 cost the Germans enor-
Gus loses. During this period the
French captured 36 guns, 28 of them
of the big calibre, bomb throwers,
trench guns, l munitions depot, sew
eral hundred machine guns, one cap
tive balloon and about 1000 prisoners.
A MethodicaI Offensive.
Between August % and September
9 the French took 1,400 prisoners and
80 machine guns in the Fleury-Vaux-
Chapitre sector, on the Verdun front.
The summary continues:
I'VE are successfully pursuing our
continuous methodical progress. Ger
man newspapers admit the crushing
effect of our artillery, which enables
our infantry to conquer ground at
minimum losses. Our attacks have
demoralized and decimated the enemy,
and we have made numerous prison
ers. The Germans remain every
where on the defense, even at Yer
dun, where we are progressing daily"
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
TIE COUNTRY AT LARGE.

Settlement Of the Alaskan fisheries
difficulty with Canada probably win
be made by JOINT high commits
sion.
Lieutenant Child, a Navy aviator fell
into the Potomac River
The National American Woman Suf-
frage Association Convention, in At
lantic City, defeated a resolution that
the association in the present nation
al campaign support only those candi-
dates for national Offices who pledge
their support to the passage of the
Susan B. Anthony amendment to the
Federal Constitution.
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
47TH EXHIBIT AT WINCHESTER
Shenandoah Valley Fair Opens For
Four-Day Session.

Winchester, Va.-The forty-seventh
annual exhibition of the Shenandoah
Valley Agricultural Society was open
ed here Tuesday with practically every
inch of exhibiting space filed with ex
hibits. The grounds are crowded with
many forms of amusement and games
OF chance. The Panama Exposition
Carnival Company, occupying over
1000 feet of frontage, is one of the
principal attractions.
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16

Grand Total. .........$1, ,637, ,5S3, ,682
In addition to tho total there were
authorization for expenditures in
future years, including naval, good
roads, tariff commission and other ex-
penditures, to bring the total to ap-
proximately s2,OOO,OOO,0O0, but these
amounts do not properly apply to the
appropriations for the fiscal year.
Miscellaneous Legislation.
In addition Congress enacted an I'M
usually large amount Of miscellaneous
Legislation, including reorganization
Of the Patent Office; provision for
trial Of space system for payment for
railroad mail service and leaving to
the Interstate Commerce Commission
determination Of the method and rate
of pay; creation of a National Park
Bureau; establishing warehouse regu-
lations for cotton and grains and pro-
viding a new grain grading law; ex-
tension for a year Of the Government
War Risk Insurance Bureau; uniform
law making bills Of lading negotiable.
Proposed legislation which failed in
cludes the immigration bill, the cor
rupt practices act, a vocational edu-
GATOR bill, conservation legislation, in
cluding the public lands water power
bill, the Shields navigable streams
water power bill. the oil leasing bill,
food control bill and bill to es-
tablish citizenship for natives Of Porto
Rico.
Four Treaties Ratified.
Four treaties were ratified by the
Senate. The most important was the
Nicaraguan convention providing for
the acquisition of canal route and
naval station rights in the Bay Of
Fonseca for $3,OO0,0OO. Another was
the treaty with the Republic Of Haiti
providing for an American financial
protectorate. The much disputed
treaty with Colombia was favorably
ing from $25, 100000 to $15,OO0,00O, the
proposed amount to be paid for the
partition Of Panama The treaty,
however, was never taken up, and It
remains on the calendar.
There was ratified with Denmark for
purchase Of the Danish West Indies
for $25, 100000. A treaty with Great
Britain providing for protection Of
migratory birds on both sides OF the
Canadian border was ratified.
-
Congress during the session, Senators
Shively Of Indiana, and Burlsigh Of
Maine, and Representatives Brown
and Moss, both of West Virginia. Rep
resentative Witherspoon of Mississippi
died just before the session began.
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
RAID BY VILLAS MEN.

Bandits Attack Ranches and Villages
Near ManzaniIIo.
Salina Cruz, Mex.-Fifty rebels that
attacked a ConstitutiOnalist force Of
about the same strength at San Ger
nonimo, Oaxaca, September 6, still
were besieging the town, according to
latest reports. Train service to San
Geronimo has been suspended for two
days. Villa infantry, 200 to 400 strong,
under General Alonzo, is reported ac-
tive near ManzanilIo, raiding ranches
and villages. A Carranza force at
Veladera was engaged by the rebels
without success.
Silver valued at $15O,OOO and 200
tons Of concentrate, property Of the
Carranza government, has arrived at
,Manzanillo by steamer for shipment to
Mexico City.
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
10 INVADE ARCTIC AGAIN.
Borden, Whose Vessel Was Wrecked,
Will Build Another.

Nome, Alaska.-John Borden, the
millionaire sportsman of Chicago,
whose power schooner Great Bear was
wrecked on a pinnacle rock in Bering
Sea on August 10, left for Seattle on
the steamship Umatilla. Borden says
that he will build another boat next
winter, engage Capt. Louis L. Lane,
his partner of this year, as commander
and set out on another Bering Sea
and Arctic Ocean cruise.
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
SHIPPING BILL SIGNED.

Government Corporation To Operate
Vessels II Necessary.
Washington. = President Wilson
signed the shipping bill. 1t authorizes
Government organization of a corpora
ton or corporation with capitalization
of not more than 100000 to buy or
lease ships and put them in trade if
they cannot be leased for operation to
private capital.
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16

Of three to Investigate the effects OF
the eight-hour standard, present wages
not to be reduced during the inEesti-
CATION nor for 80 days thereafter, and
work in excess Of eight hours to be
paid for at a pro rata rate.
General Railroad Legislation-Cre-
alton Of joint committee Of Senate
and House Interstate Commerce Com
mattees to Investigate necessity for
further legislation for railroads and
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
question OF Government ownership OF
public utilities and comparative worth
Of Government ownership as against
Government regulation.
Tariff - Creation Of non-partisan
tariff commission Of five members to
investigate and advise Congress on
tariff revision; repeal of the free
sugar provision; amendments increas-
ing duties on dyestuffs to encourage
manufacturing dyestuffs; enactment
Of an anti-dumping provision to pre-
vent dumping Of foreignmade goods
at less than foreign market prices;
authorization for the President to re-
taliate against foreign nations pro-
hibiting importation of goods by lay
ing an embargo against their imports.
Cotton Futures Act-PrOviding
prohibitive tax on cotton sold for
future delivery in fictitious or wash
sales.
Philippines-Law to provide for a
more autonomous government Of the
islands, enlarging self-government,
reorganizing election laws, establish
ing an elective Senate and promising
independence whenever, in the iudg-
ment Of the United States, the Phil
ippine people demonstrate capabiltty
for 1t.
Record OF Appropriations.
Appropriations for all purposes
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
WAR CUTS U. S. MEAT SUPPLY.
Exports Multiplied Since Conflict In
Europe Began.

New York.-The European war is
encroaching seriously upon the meat
supply of this country, according to
figures made public by the foreign
trade department of the National City
Bank. Notwithstanding marked de-
crease in the number of food animals
in the United States, exports of meat
have trebled since the beginning of
the war, and of beef alone exports are
greater by tenfold.
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
September II, 1915.

German crown prince advanced
toward Verdun.
More allied troops landed on
GaEIipoli peninsula.
Ambassador Dumba protested
to U. S. that he was treated un-
fairly.
Official account of Zeppelin
raids on London give weeks
casualties at SO killed and 124 in
iured.
Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
LANSING NOTIFIES DENMARK.
Sends Word That the West Indian
Treaty Is Ratified.

Washington. - Secretary Of State
lansing formally notified the Danish
Government through Danish Minister
Brun here and Ambassador Egan, at
Copenhagen. that the Senate had rati-
fied the Danish-American treaty for
purchase Of the Danish West Indies
for $25,000,O0O.