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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
AMERICAN TROOPS
fire ON MEXICANS
GEN. GONZALES SAYS MAssA-
cHUsETTs TROOPS OPENED
FIRE WITHOUT ANY CAUSE.
G. BELL JR. BLAMES BANDITS
Mexicans Want Regular Soldiers to
Replace National Guardsmen Who
Are Accustomed to Border
Conditions.

Ell Paso. Tex.-General Francisco
Gonzales, commandant at Juarez for
mally protested to Brigadier-General
George Bell, Jr, commanding the Am
erican forces here, against the conduct
Of the outpost guards of the Ninth
Massachusetts infantry, who, he said,
crossed into Mexican territory lin vio-
lation Of Mexican rights" and shot up,
without provocation, a number OF
homes OF Mexicans south OF the Dor
der"
The protest was filed through An
dres Garcia, the Mexican consul, who
also suggested to General Bell that
regular troops, accustomed to border
conditions, replace guardsmen who,
in the main, are new to soldiery and
to the country at the point where the
shooting occurred. This. he said,
would give the people on the Mexican
side a feeling of security.
The place where the shooting oc-
Cured is on the Rio Grande, a few
miles below FL Paso at a point known
island, however, but piece OF Next
co north of the river The outposts
asserted they were shot at first, but
the Mexicans living opposite reported
to General Gonzales that not a shot
was fired from the Mexican side be
fore the Americans began an unpro-
voked attack against civilians, inclYd-
ing women and children.
In his protest General Gonzales af-
frmed that no Mexican soldiers are
stationed in the neighborhood of the
island and that he had no information
of outlaws or smugglers being in that
region.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27

The general education board founded
by John ID. Rockefeller announces at
New York that It is about to undertake
a study of the public school system in
Gary, Ind.
Two hundred and eighty-one women
in Kansas are running for office. Ten
want state or district offices. Two hun
dred and seventy-One are out for coun-
ty offices. Ninety-two of these are
candidates for reelection.
The Cedar river at Muscatine, Ia.
has claimed three more victims. John
Donderly, twenty-nine, an official of
the First National bank; Miss Myrtle
Foster, twenty-five, nurse and fiancee
of Wonderly, and Miss Marguerite
Guathard, thirty, were drowned while
in bathing.
]. Frank Hanly, former governor Of
Indiana, was nominated for the presi-
dency at st. Paul, Mimi, by the Prohi-
bitiOn convention. DR.. Ira ]. Landrith
of Nashville, Tenn, was named as
Hanly's running mate by reclamation.
Seventeen additional deaths have
brought the southeastern flood toll to
80, but all rivers are falling and some
thing like normal conditions obtain In
many sections.
Frank O'Connor, thirty-one, a promi-
nent business man of Mount Pleasant,
Ia, killed himself at his residence by
shooting himself in the head with a
rifle. A widow and a child survive
him.
Two boys, Ralph Hatch and George
Anthony, were killed when a train
struck an automobile I'm which they
were riding at Woodstock Qll.) grade
crossing.
When Charles Richards, aged twelve.
became exhausted and sank in the riv-
er at Des Moines, Ia, his brother Will
liams, aged seven, went TO his rescue,
and the two were drowned.
Maj. G. NJ. Butler Of the Sixth United
States cavalry and Mrs. II. J. SPANIEL,
with whom he was out riding in an au-
tomobile at Alpine, Tex, were shot and
killed by II. j. SPANIEL, husband of
the woman.
Floods which have already drowned
200 persons in the district about
Queretaro, Mex, are becoming worse
hourly, according TO official dispatches.
Thousands of families have been driven
from their homes.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
TELEGRAPHlC FLASHES

Chicago-Eight hundred thousand
dollars will be paid Lorimer bank de-
positors August IA by the receiver.
London-Sir Roger Easements re-
quest for permission to appeal to the
house of lords from the verdict con-
victing him of high treason has been
denied.
Cleveland-Fifteen men are report
ed killed and Is overcome by gas in
the new waterworks tunnel extending
from the shore to the west side crib.
Two bodies have been brought ashore.
Firemen and the life-saving crews
have gone to tie rescue.
Stockholm-Two Swedish fight lieu
tenants, Mannstroem and Krus. were
killed while engaged in a fight. Their
machine fell 300 feet.
Honolulu-The navy tug Navajo and
the lighthouse tender Colsmbine have
abandoned search for the FIVE enlisted
men of the engineer corps from Fort
Shafter, who put to sea for a pleasure
cruise in a 15-foot whale boat. The
waters of Oahu where the missing
soldiers were cruising are infested
with sharks and IL the launch cap
sized the men would have had little
chance of saving themselves
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
FERRIS DECLINES 3RD TERM
Will Devote His Time to Home Duties
and the Ferris Institute.

Lansing-Gov. Ferris sent a tele-
gram to Chairman Stevenson OF the
Democratic state central committee
refusing to again become a candidate
for a third term. The announcement
came following a conference with
Mrs Ferris, the governor indicating
TO Mr.. Stevenson that upon Mrs. Fer
ris' wishes would his decision depend.
Mrs. Ferris, who has been In poor
health for several years, is believed
to have begged her husband to aban-
don politics and devote his time TO
her and his school at Big Rapids, the
Ferris Institute. Word of the gov
errors action, which, by the way, had
been discounted at the capitol, came
TO his Office here in the following tele-
gram:
Have sent the following telegram
to A. Z. Stevenson: ITO the best of
ability | have served Michigan as
governor for nearly two terms. l am
grateful to the citizens Of Michigan
who have bestowed upon me this high
honor. After the most careful con-
alteration of the wishes of thousands
OF voters I am compelled to regard
popular usage, together with home
duties, and positively decline to be-
come a candidate for third term"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
Grain, Etc.

DETROIT-Wheat: Cash No red
S1.20 Ia; September opened lac high
er at 1920 and advanced to S1.22 "a;
December opened at 1923 IL and ad
vanced to $1.26 IA; No l white
S1.17 IA
Corn-Cash No 3, SIC; No 3 yellow
S3 lie; No 4 yellow, 81 1.2ds2 Lee
Oats--Standard, 40 lie; No
white, A 1.2c; September, 40 1-2c
No white ~ 1-2943 1.2c.
Rye-Cash No .. CSC.
Beans-Immediate and promp
shipment, $5.75.
Seeds-Prime red clover, $3.50
Prime alsike. $3.50; prime timothy
$3.50; prime alfalfa, $10G11.
Hay-No l timothy $1S.50619
standard timothy. s175O91S; ligh
mixed. S175O01S; No 2 timothy, ST.
ais: No mixed, $1261S; No
mixed, $9d10; No clover, $10@11
rye straw. $7.5O9S; wheat and GA
straw, s6.50@7 per ton in CARROTS, De
troit.
Feed-In 100.lb sacks, Jobbing lots
Bran $24; standard middlings $40
fine middlings $50; cracked corn, $32
coarse cornmeal. $92; corn and GA
chop. $29 per ton.
Flour-Per 1876 Id in eighth pape'
paper sacks: Best patent, $3.50; sc
cond patent. $50; straight, $3.50
spring patent. $500; rye -four Sc pc
bbl
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Live Stock.

DETROIT-Csttle: Receipts 2,O6O.
Best heavy steers. ySQS.5O; best
handy weight butcher steers, $500
775; mixed steers and heifers; 1915
Q15O; handy light butchers. $6.25Q
Z; light butchers. $5.5O@6.5O; best
cows. s6.25Q6.5O; butcher COWS, $50
o; common cows, $4.50Q5; Gamers,
sS.2504.25; best heavy bulls, 500
$50; bologna bulls, $5Q6.Z5; stock
bulls, S4.75Q5; feeders, $6.5O@75O;
stockers, $3.50; mixers and springers,
$4O@65.
Calves-Receipts, S33. A few
choice brought $13, but bulk of the
best went at $3.50. Trade on heavy
grades very bad, selling at Sc to SO
as to quality.
Sheep and Lamb-Receipts, 1884
Best lambs, $1O2501O.5O; fair lambs
$9.50Q10; light TO common lambs
$500; fair to good sheep, S5.50Q6;
culls and common, 1904.
Hogs-Receipts. 3,SSS. Pigs bring
ing S9.25@9.5O and workers. and heavy
$9.90010 with bulk of sales at 1895
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
ARMY WORM CUTS INTO CROPS
Makes Its Appearance at Reese and
BlumfieId and Much Damage
Reported.

Saginaw-The army worm has made
it's appearance for the first time this
year in eastern Michigan and prompt
measures are being taken to stamp
it out before it ravages the crops,
as it did in Huron and Tuscola coun-
ties last year. County Crop Agent
Earl p. Robinson received word from
Reese and Blumfield that the worms
have appeared and have cut down
many acres of crops. Farmers are
blowing deep burrows and are digging
holes and filing them with oil to
eradicate the worms.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
General Markets.
Cherries-Sour, s369.5O per bu.
Non. Annlnr-Shmk 20 ner hill 81 7h

Cherries-Sour, sS@3.5O per bu.
New Apples-$5q5.5O per Dbl, s1.75
az per box.
Peaches-Texas. s1.7592 per bu
and s1.5OQ1.75 per 6-basket crate.
neapples-Florida, s4.2564.50 per
case and $292.25 per doz.
California Fruits-Pears, $2.75Q3;
peaches, $3.50; rlums, $2@2.25 per
box.
es-Blackberrles. $3@3.50 per
bu: huckleberries. $46450 per bu;
gooseberries, s2.50@2.75 per 24-qt
case: black raspberries. S393.5O per
bu: red raspberries, $5G5.25 per bu;
red currants. sS@9.25 per Blu.
Lettuce-6O@65c per bu.
Cabbage-s2.7563 per Dbl
Tomatoes-$1m1.10 per Slb box.
Green Corn-s42564.50 per Dbl
Kalamazoo. 1Sq25c per
doz.
New White. s2.75a2s5
per bbl
onions-spanish. s1.6Od175 per
box; southern, s2.5OQs per 1oolb
sack.
Rockyfords, s4.2564.5O for
standard crates; watermelons, 400
soc each.
Dressed Calves-City dressed, Ito
1sc; good, 15G15 lie: ordinary, lao
IA 1-2c per Id.
Nuts-Spanish chestnuts. loo per
ID; shellbark hickory, $50; large
hickory, s1.25 per bu; walnuts. s1.25
per bu.
Live Poultry-Broilers. 25@2sc per
ID; No 1 hens, 1sc; No 2 hens, leo
17c: stays, 1201sc; ducks. 1s01sc;
geese. 12013c; turkeys. a10aac pss
II
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS

Fire prevention should be taught
in the schools for at least 10 min
utes every week." said John T. Win.
ship, state FIRE marshall AT the state
firemen's convention held in Detroit.
Anxious that his wife, accused OF
aiding in the freeing of Joe Bodnar
OF Detroit, and John Brown, Of Chi
cago, from ths county jail at Muske.
gon be at once admitted to treatment
at the psycopathic ward, Sheriff Fred
Collins left VITA her for Ann Arbor.
The electrical and rain storm did
thousands of dollars worth OF damage
Ct Jackson. Sewer facilities could
not cope with the cloudburst, and
downtown cellars were flooded and
traffic impeded. Lghtnipg put many
wires out OF commission. and one
falling wire killed q team.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27

EAST BUFFALO-Receipts of cat
tie, $50 cars; market 26040c lower;
choice to prime native steers, $500
10; good to choice. $685.; fair to
good, $8.2598.75; plain and coarse,
$7.50@S; Canadian steers, 1850 to l.
$50 lbs, $S.5Od9; do 1850 to 1850
fbs., $S@8.25; mixed heifers ar,1
steers, s750GS; prime dry-fed year.
lings, $999.50; best handy steers. So
@S.25; light butcher steers. $3.50
$50; best butchering steers and heif-
ers. mixed $7.50QS; western light
common heifers, grassers, $6.5O@7;
prime heavy fat heifers, S750QS; best
heavy fat cows. S7.25@75O; butcher
cows. 1925 @650; cutters, $565.25:
Gamers. $S.5OG4; fancy bulls. $3.50
Z; butcher bulls, $6.2596.5O; common
bulls, $5.5066; good stockers, $40
1925; light common stockers, $7q725;
light common stockers, $666.25; best
feeders, $725@75O; mixers and
springers. $7Oa1OO.
Hogs: Receipts, so cars; market
loo higher; heavy, $1O.4O91O.45 york.
ers. $10.35@ 1910; pigs and light, $40
@10.25.
Sheep and lambs; Receipts, Is cars;
market steady; top lambs, $1050@
1915; yearlings, $S.5OQ9; wethers.
S7.75dS; ewes, $797.50.
Calves-Receipts, 900; market
strong; tops, $12.5O91275; fair to
good. s11.5OQ12; fed calves, $475Q
$50.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
Washington

Approximately million acres Of ag-
ricultural land Of the Oregon and Call
fornla land grant will be thrown open
TO entry and settlement by fall. 1t was
announced Mt Portland by the United
States land office. Settlers will be per-
mitted to file on tracts of 100 acres
each, paying the government $3.50 an
acre.
The senate at Washington confirmed
Abram l. Elkus, New York. as ambas-
sador to Turkey.
President Wilson and his cabinet at
Washington determined to insist that
England shall remove American firms
from her blacklist"
The senate at Washington passed a
resolution appropriating $4,000 for
fighting infantile paralysis. The meas
ure has been passed by the house.
Newspaper publishers throughout
the country were invited by the fed
eral trade commission TO be represent
ed at hearing ut Washington on Au-
gust 1, at 10 a. M, on whether there
has been an undue increase In the price
Of news print paper. The commission
will conduct an exhaustive investiga-
ton.
President Wilson has asked Secre-
tary Of Commerce Redfield and Secre-
tary Of Labor Wilson to try to settle
the strike OF 10000 garment workers
Ia New York city.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
STATE SCHOOLSGE
over SIX MILLION
WAYNE COUNTY RECEIVES THE
LARGEST SLICE WITH KENT
COUNTY SECOND.
SAGINAW COUNTY RANKS 3RD
There Are s42,3o7 School Children in
the State; the Per Capita Per
Child Is Rated at $40.

Lansing-The fifty-eighth annual ap-
portionment of the primary school in
terest fund was apportioned by Fred
l.. Keller, state superintendent OF
public instruction, a total of $6,4S5,-
1880 among the various counties.
This is based on a per capita of $40
per child OF school age in the state.
representing 42,307 children.
Wayne county leads the amount
received. 1929, 16110, while Kent
county ranks second with $344,374.SO,
Saginaw third with $214,3S3.40. CISCO
da county with its 6S2 children of
school age draws only $5,251.40. This
money can be used only for the pay
ment of teachers salaries.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
News of the
Week Cut
Down for
Busy Readers
European War News
NNIlMIlnIIInTHlnIlII!l!IINIlIIllIIIII!NN!n!III

Italian troops are continuing their
pressure on the American lines in the
Trentino, scoring new advances along
the Bosnia line and on the Settle Com
mum plateau. They also have taken
strong positions between the Trevig-
nolo and Cismon valleys in the Dolo-
mites, according to Rome dispatch.
During the days Of July 20 and p
the Russians in their advance against
the Turks took nearly $4,000 prisoners,
running the total for three days up TO
27,000, Petrograd reports.
In a memorandum made public In
London in advance of the formal reply
of the British government to the pro-
test of the United States against CEN
sorship of American mails, the foreign
office forecasts n determination not TO
abandon the censorship.
Under menace of a heavy Russian
assault, Austrians In the Carpathian re-
gion of southern Bukowina, southeast
of Tatarow, have withdrawn toward
the main ridge of the Carpathians, the
war Office at Vienna officially an
nounced.
The Prussian casualties up TO the
present are 2,SO1, 521, according to the
London Daily Telegraph, which claims
these figures are official.
Effective renewal of the Russian
drive in the Volhynian region, with
the passage Of the River Styr, the cap
ture of LOGO prisoners, and the occupa-
ton of the two towns of BerestecZk
and Werben, is officially announced by
the Russian war office at Petrograd
and admitted in an official statement
from Vienna.
An attack by British forces against
the Germans at Fromelles, north of La
Bassee. on Wednesday, resulted in the
loss by the attackers of more than
1000 men killed and nearly 500 men
taken prisoner, according to a state
ment given out by the Berlin war Of
fee.
Despite The fact that the Germans
are developing strong counter Of
fensive against the new front won by
the Franco-British troops in Picardy,
General Haig's forces have further in
creased their gains carrying the great
er part of the strongly fortified Fou-
Teaux wood, north of the Bazentin-
Longueval line, says q London dis
patch.
Ten thousand Canadian soldiers are
to proceed overseas soon, says an OF
tawa (Ont.) dispatch.
Dispatches form Amsterdam state
the British sea forces confiscated all
the first-class mail on the Dutch liner
Noordam while en- route to New York.
The Russian government has given
orders that all emigration from Russia
to the United States via Archangel is
to be stopped, according to a Petro-
grad dispatch.
A dispatch form Petrograd says "a
women have been elected to the Fin
nish diet. This represents u per cent
of the entire membership.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
Personal

Cardinal Gibbons. eighty-two years
old, celebrated his birthday at the home
of Joseph Shriver, a quiet place in
Carroll county, near Baltimore, Md.
For 20 years he has taken birthday din
ner as the guest of Mr.. Shriver.
Ambassador Walter II. Page and
Mrs. Page have left London for New
York on a months vacation, the first
In four years.
Thomas NJ. Patterson, former United
States senator from Colorado, died at
his home In Denver. He was i'm his
seventy-seventh year. and had been In
poor health for several weeks.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
Domestic

A Washington dispatch says the COM
Portable profit of $3,O0000O was made
by Herr Lohmann the man who con-
ceived the idea of sending the Deutsch-
land to the United States with cargo
of dyestuffs.
Demented, angry or respondent, a
man of mystery took his beautiful wife
and year-old son along the bride path
on the west bank of the Skokie river,
Lake Forest, H., and killed them both
and himself. The family rented a
room from Mrs. Anna Jensen They
said they were from Flint, Mich.
Clayton Mcdonald, son of a promi-
nent Floridan, was killed and all but
his hands and feet eaten by ferocious
panther in the San Pedro swamp.
During a thick fog the incoming
steamer COmus from New Orleans col
hded with coal barge off Sea Girt,
n. J. The barge's crew of seven men
were rescued. The barge sank rapidly.
The damage to the Comus was slight.
Seven employees of the Hercules
Powder company were injured i'm an
explosion at the plants dry" house at
Kenvil, n. J. The company denied re-
ports that a number of workInen were
killed. 1t was said that all the Injured
probably would recover.
Forty persons, including number
of soldiers and women. were killed
during a severe lightning and rain
storm In the suburbs of Mexico City
Most of the deaths occurred at San
GregoriO, Atlapulco and near Xochi
milco.
Miss Lizzie Lyndon, Miss True
Eshelman and Arthur Larson are dead
as result Of an accident when their
automobile turned turtle four miles
east OF Kewaunee. Ill. Frank Van
Hecker, the fourth occupant Of the car
n In q hospital with his legs broken
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27

Limited cars leave Port Huron.
Eastern Standard time,
1880 a. m. and Nvery two hours 10
1880 D. m, also $40 a. m. Mondays.
and 10 D. m Sunday.
Limited cars leave Detroit,
Sis a. m. and everv two hours 10
Sis D. m. Sundays only IL .. u
Mondays only 6:15 n m
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
Mexican War Meas

Augustin Gomez, villa chieftain,
and ten followers were captured and
executed in Zacatecas by Constitution
alists under Captain Rodarto, accord
ing TO a Mexico City dispatch.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27


Mexican snipers reopened their ia
tacks on outposts of the Ninth Massa-
chusetts infantry along the border near
FL Paso. The militiamen returned the
fire and sharp skirmish fight fol-
lowed. Three companies of the Ninth
were rushed to the outpOsts assistance.
First Chief Carranza has submitted
to the government of the United States
in a formal note to Secretary Lansing
at Washington the proposal that the
de facto government and the United
States government, each appoint q
commission Of three members to meet
and arrange a basis for the settlement
of the differences between the two
countries.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-27
Noted Criminal Confesses
Muessel Murder But His
Story is Nailed as a Lie

Christ Fox notorious car robber
and burglar. one time member of
the Lake Shore gang. was arrested
for vagrancy several days ago at
Oelwein. Ia. and held in the Jail
there. Apparently he did not like
the cornhusking atmosphere of the
Oelwein Jail so ne confessed TO the
authorities that he was implicated
in the Muessel-Chrobot murders.
which took place at the Muessel
Brewing Co, on the evening of Dec.
80, 1916.
This confession took place on last
Wednesday. Chief John b. Kuespert
was notified by j. f. Chivington.
chief of the oeiwein police depart
ment. and Immediately hurried to
the Iowa town. When the chief Of
detectives heard Fox's story he was
inclined 10 disbelieve il but brought
the man back to South Bend. After
further questioning Fox finally ad-
mitted that he was lying and that
he had nothing whatever 10 do with
the case. In fact he was in the
Michigan City prison at the time the
double murder took place, having
been released from there on March
.. 1916.
In his confession" TO the Oelwein
police. Fox said that he was the
outside" man in the brewery holdup
and murders. The men who did the
killing. he asserted, were Frank
Gillen and Jack Raski. two former
pals. The weak link in his story
was that he declared he got SIPS as
his share OF the spOils while as a
matter of fact but few dollars was
secured by the bandit-slayers.
RaSki Held "a Days.
Jack Raski was arrested shortly
after the double murder took place
and held In Jail here for "A DAYS.
Although the police here had some
evidence against the man they were
unable 10 connect him directly with
the affair and he was finally re-
leased Frank Gillen. better known
as "kanush." has never been To-
Gated 1t was reported shortly after
the murders that "Kanush" was seen
in South Bend and near the Muessel
brewing plant on the night Of the
tragedy and the police have been
seeking him ever since
In making his confession 10 the
Oelwein police, Fox explained he was
afraid Raski and Gillen would be
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-27
DESTROYER Is SUNK.

International News Service:
BERLIN, March PA German
torpedo boat destroyer was sunk in
battle with a squadron Of British
destroyers in the North sea follow
ing the English air attack upon the
coast Of Schleswig- HolStein. il was
officially announced today by the
German admiralty.
It was stated that the air raid was
unsuccessful. only two armed fish
ing outposts being destroyed.
A British torpedo boat was dam
aged by projectiles dropped upon it
by German seaplanes.
Following is the text Of the OFFICIAL
report:
ION Saturday morning an English
aeroplane attack was directed
against the northern part of the
Tristan coast. 1t failed.
Two armed fishing outposts We're
destroyed by. the English
Our naval aeroplanes attacked
the English naval forces. scoring de-
cisive hits
AN English torpedo boat was Sc
riously damaged
a few of our torpedo boat de-
stroyers came in touch with the re-
treating enemy and one Of them
failed 10 return"