The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-07-14

mazda. General Bell, r.. commanding
the Ell Paso military district, an.
nounced that he had arranged for the
train bearing them to cross the river
at Ell Paso.
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Southwest.
Numbering now more than 10000
men and still increasing, the border
army will be subjected this week to
such discipline and training as the
staff regards necessary for convert
ing It into an efficient fighting ma
chine,
A regiment Of the New York militia,
which passed through Chickasha, Ok,
recently on the way to the border,
hauled down Mexican flag and put
to rout band of Mexicans twenty
miles north Of there.
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Nerbeto Pezzot, one of the bandits
arrested as a result of the recent at
tempted raid on Webb, Tex, placed
on trial at Laredo on charges Of at
tempting to burn bridge and theft,
said to the court through an interpre-
ter that he is not a bandit, but a
member of the Constitutionalist army.
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Ell Paso paid solemn, silent trtb-
ute to the nine American soldiers
who gave their lives for their country
at Carrizal. Exhumed from a single
grave in an irrigation ditch on the
battlefield, into which they had been
thrown, the bodies were brought to
the border by party Of American
undertakers.
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The will Of Mrs. Hetty Green, long
known as the wealthiest woman in
America, leaves the bulk of her estate
to her son, Colonel z. H. R. Green,
and her daughter, Mrs. Matthew AS
tor Wilkes. The remainder is distrib,
uted In smaller requests to old friends
of Mrs. Green
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The administration general revenue
bill, designed to produce about 200
million dollars- Of additional revenue
from increased surtax on incomes and
from taxes on inheritances and war
munitions profits, has been favorably
reported by the House ways and
means committee.
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Foreign.
Nearly hundred Carranza soldiers
were killed and many injured recent
ly in a rear-end collision between
troop trains near San Luis Potosi, &C.
cording to, Mexican passengers. The
wreckage caught fire, burning many
of the Carranzistas caught beneath
the debris.
An attempt to, assassinate President
de la Plaza was made recently at
Buenos Aires by a self-styled' anar-
chist. The president was standing on
balcony Of the, government building
reviewing some troops when a man
in the crowd of spectators suddenly
drew a revolver and fred at him.
The shot went wild, and the would-be
assassin was arrested.
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German casualties from the, begin
ming Of the war to the end of June,
as computed from official German
lists, are given as 3,012,637 in an Of
fcial statement made public In Lon
don.
England and Germany have agreed
to an exchange of civilian prisoners,
according to information received by
Americans In Copenhagen.
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The eruption of Stromboli has be-
come serious. The flow of lava is
spreading to the sparse coast settle
ments, burning and destroying houses
and the population is fleeing to the
sea and taking refuge on relief ships
sent from Messina.
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Starving Mexican women have
stormed the governors palace at San
Luis Potosi, according to reports re-
ceived by General ]. ]. Pershing, and
have shouted viva Gringoes" Food
riots, the reports to the American
commander said, are occurring in all
the larger Mexican cities.
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/ Several strong earthquakes have oc-
Cured in the Neapolitan and Calab-
rian provinces. They are believed to
have been connected with the Tel
luric movement, which caused the dis