Galveston Daily News (Newspaper) - June 26, 1915, Galveston, Texas 77 GALVESTON TEXAS SATURDAY JUNE 26 PAGES ESTABLISHED 1842 CHECK ENEMY AT CAPITAL IX THE unows AT WASHINGTON IS RESISTED eneral Command or In In Artillery Battle Willi OF New La June under u portion of the City of Mexico to reports received here by clalH Troops have of the before the entrance of it Mtd Washington June today in official quarters over the situation In the City of Mexico with which the state department has been un- able to communicate by telegraph for several days Brief dispatches from Vera Cruz stated that the Carranza of- were much chagrined at the parent failure of General Pablo Gonzalez to enter the capital Reports that zalez was engaged in an artillery duel with the Zapata forces gave the first In- dication that the forces In the City of Mexico had determined to re- elst the invading army Reliable information Indicates General Gonzalez himself cut thu line of between Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico to Isolate the Sapata forces This prevents the stale department from with the Brazilian ister and deprives all other foreign of Information concerning their diplomatic missions and Conditions Grow Worms Famine conditions In the City of ico have been growing worse daily and with the investment by a army fears are entertained much In ij to will ensue While it has been generally understood will Ins no further ment in tho general Mexican situation so far as the United States is concerned until President Wilson returns from Cornish official quarters believe the in the southern capital may force a now crisis General Carranza has given the government that Gonzalez will endeavor to protect if his troops enter city It is feared however that the fighting may be carried Into tho old capital by the contending forces although the hitherto has been successful In the to evacuate rather than give In the streets of Starvation General Hernandez forces in Monclova district to mit American Red Cross to buy corn and beans in Mexico but Imp given permission to bring them from the United He signified his intention of the local supply for relief poses himself to Rod headquarters say the opening of the railroad youth front confirms the reports of starving ians south of on every hand Plans to hri itf about co-operation be- the American nnd the Mexican Kod Cross wore on foot by Miss The state department Consul now it Cruz to get in touch the Mexican Red Cross us soun as lie reaches the City of and outline Miss proposals GOVERNOR'S NAME BROUGHT UP Attorney nt Snn Antonio by Ills nnt a Appointee to Tlic Pan Antonio Juno 25 The name oT Governor became involved in n controversy in the district court this morning when Attorney W C Linden ated an hy John F Onion Jr to liberate on own eight Mexicans I for complicity in Mr Onion is nn the governor fur the Mexicans ex- tho neon made with Mr Onion latter tho nf ernor Mr declared tho absolutely ing to do with my and ha's a big job at Austin to hoop him if he'll only attend to It A bond of finally fixed for rach of thf Mexicans SITUATION UNCHANGED Snid to Rr Capable of nnd Not Wo shine Jon 7 une -5 pross received by ment the of tho Indians in Mexico in- thai there has been no chanKo Jn tho situation thero Son urn troops said to the in hand jind it Is hoped tho of troops from Admiral will prove OF APPOINTED General Will Have of Monterey lo Tho Tex Inno to information given out from Nuevo rodo official advices have been received there tho appointment of Coneral former commander of the Army of tho division of tho linos lo succeed hns general aper of the northern division of tho road tho took nf linos I mi IX II Or nrn St nnd for Mo June Carlos D Mnxatlnn Mexico tfir tho n St H It wait In A few houri he SUMMARY OF THK Washington June Is Hi weather for and Saturday cloudy llcht to moderate southerly winds Kaat Fair on count showers In In Saturday fair West showers ami probably Saturday Sunday fair NATIONAL OIL MILL elect off Icons and choose New Orleans JULY 9 IS DATE for link Inter THREE LINE FREIGHTERS to clear up shipments on wharves SCHOLASTIC CENSUS shows of In county FORMAL for exposition open are decided by committee STATE FIGHT AGAINST HATES by mon wilt be taken to Austin CISTERNS BEING FILLED for dry section of by the city TEXAS will not lose federal funds even If number bo reduced COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS render decisions and adjourns SPIRIT IS INJECTED into rate hearing fa fore state commission LIVE STOCK RECEIPTS are meager and prices are fully steady ONE IS DEAD nnd two are jailed following San Antonio holdup celebrate diamond anni of Brazos DOMESTIC THIRTEEN MEN KILLED by his hand con- fesses hanged negro at Birmingham CITT OF MEXICO ISOLATED AGAIN and official Washington is anxious TEXAS AND ARKANSAS asked to help Red River flood sufferers DALLAS MAT candidate for democratic convention In 1916 CHEERS GREET PRESIDENT at stations on his trip to Cornish COTTON PRICES LOSE on circulation of advance July notices WHEAT MARKET IS FIRMER as result of renewed flour STOCKS RECOVER SOME FIRMNESS cm easier feeling about INSECT IS PIONEER'S WORST ENEMY doctor tells medical association LARGE offered United States army officers by private munitions IN GEORGIA EXTENSIVE PRECAUTIONARY URES ARE TAKEN TO PROTECT GOVERNOR SLATON Atlanta Ga June ru- mors circulated here to the effect that persons incensed against Governor ton because of his action In commuting Leo M Frank's death sentence to life imprisonment contemplated acts of vlo lence against the governor tomorrow resulted in extensive precautionary measures on the part of state county officials tonight Mayor Woodward ordered all near beer saloons closed throughout Saturday and also directed that a large number of special policemen be held In readiness for possible disorder County officials have taken steps to reinforce the con- Slaton's proclamation ing a military zone surrounding his country estate still was in effect night eighty militiamen the place Adjutant General Nash has an- that he would double this force tomorrow night nnd that he would maintain the cordon of troops there ns as he deemed such a measure ad- At Marietta near here where Mary Phagan resided a committee of the Board of Trade tonight appealed to the mayor lo take precautions against disorder there and that official stated he would order a sufficient in- crease in the police force to insure against public demonstrations The Marietta committee also caused to be circulated among the residents an appeal for the preservation of order The circular called attention to threats received by Jewish merchants that place who had been made the object of threats consisting chiefly of notices posted by unknown persons upon the doors of some of the Marietta stores warning the proprietors to leave town by Saturday night or take the Despite these notices prominent dents of Marietta said tonight there was little racial there because of the Frank case and that they did not expect serious trouble The request to the mayor they explained was merely a measure of precaution PRISONER HEARS SCAFFOLD RISE Ordered Publicly Ex- at Item tine TnM Space harped to The Wharton Tex June court passed an mat rue ting the sheriff to execute publicly Cornelius Jackson charged with the murder of Asa Ray last January on the sheriff's report that there was net room to execute the prisoner In tho jail Workmen yesterday began erecting a scaffold in the yard while Jackson from his cell and under the death watch to the procedure with utter In- difference ha having professed religion and expresses as ready to die Jackson continues to maintain in- AM Unit AN Seventeen In pool Are Held for Identification June During tho past month seventeen Americans who have arrived In Liverpool on steamers have been detained either for lack of pass- ports or for to have attached thereto all the members of their families more than 14 years of apre The of all these have been referred to tho office with the consequent detention of tho on tho steamers In the Mersey HONDURAS ABB IMPORTED Herri Will Be ponied National Stork WILSON GRIPS PALMS BY LABOR WORKING MEN AND HANDS WITH THE AT STATIONS SETTLES FOR A REST Chief Executive Will ti for Program Cornish N H June orders from his physician to take a complete rest President Wilson settled down at the Summer White House today for a vacation to prepare himself for the arduous work he IB within the next months in connection with the European and Mexican situations The president brought few official documents with him and officials at the White House had orders to forward him only tho most pressing business but nevertheless he plans to give much thought In the quiet seclusion of the Cornish hills to the next step In his new Mexican policy to the submarine issue with Germany and the discussion with Great Britain of interference with commerce between the United States and the neutral nations of Europe Secretary will do most of the actual work on the note to Great Britain now being prepared but the president has already gone over with him the broad question of policy involved and will see the note before It is forwarded to He read with deep Interest today unofficial reports from Berlin that there was a possibility that Germany's submarine warfare be somewhat modified but refused to comment Frequent Mark Journey The president arrived here this after- noon after a trip through Connecticut Massachusetts and Vermont marked by frequent ovations from crowds at every station He refused to make any speeches but smiled broadly at tory comments from several hundred men women and children with whom ho shook hands The crowds were much larger and more enthusiastic than have greeted the president en route here before and many told him they proved his course in the foreign tion You have been great letters to those foreign said one working woman as she clasped the dent's hands He thanked her Excuse the dirt apologized a tory employe extending a grimy hand to the president I don't mind the president re- plied as he shook hands You've been working too hard and I hope you have a good was the greeting of another woman I hope so answered Mr Wilson As the president stood talking crowd at stop a man remarked he looked heavier than he did when hero Last year The president said he weighed about the same Your face looks said the man I guess I have more replied the president amid laughter Entire Population at Station Virtually the entire population of Windsor Vt and this village were at the station to greet the president as rte stepped from his private car with Miss Margaret Wilson and Dr Gary T Grayson his naval aide and physician They cheered him again and again and or a few minutes he was completely in by people who wanted to come him back to the summer capital Miss Helen Woodrow Bones his cousin was with the party The president's joy was evident in the afternoon when his daughter Mrs Francis B Sayre with her husband and saby boy arrived here for a visit Francis Woodrow Sayre the president's only grandson whom he saw christened a few weeks ago at Williamstown Mass cooed with delight and cuddled in his grandfather's arms Harlakenden House the property of Winston Churchill the novelist which is occupied by the president and his fa in- ly has been completely renovated since their Inst visit here Mr Wilson spent almost the entire afternoon and evening over the estate and attending to sonic correspondence but took a short automobile ride before dinner He plans o devote nearly all his time while hore o golfing and and ng and resting He will go golfing each morning twenty milea away at V H and in the afternoons he will or through the Connecticut BIG SALARIES TEMPT OF WAI MUNITIONS FUROR IX BY OFFERS Attorney General Iff Men Have I alienable Right to Benign During Peace Washington June of large salaries to expert ordnance officers o the army by private manufacturers o war munitions have created such a serl problem In the war department tha Secretary Garrison today called upon At torney General Gregory for an opinion whether an army officer has an in alienable right to resign his commis sion in time of peace Four resignations were accepted be fore the gravity of the situation was realized but two others recently ten dered are held up pending the attorney general's decision and the formation 01 a general policy by the department Apparently however the author seriously doubt any law can found to keep an officer In the army against his will The tremendous and growing demands of the warring European powers for arms and ammunition has made it wel while to private manufacturers to pay handsome salaries to attract the ordnance experts needed for their plant Another source of concern for the war department IB the considerable number of civil employes scientific men and skilled mechanics leaving government arsenals and powder plants for private employment There is no question of the right of these men to go where they please TWO JAILED HOLDUP PRISONER PUTS BULLET THROUGH HEART IN ROOM AFTER ARREST IN SAN ANTONIO Special to The ian Antonio June the swift sequel to a daring holdup and bery here this one man is dead and two others are in jail Four hours after three masked men at the point of pistols had taken something over from a restaurant owned by J E ards and V Menards George Baker 29 years old put a bullet through hts own heart while who had just ar- rested him in hie room at a hotel waiting for him to drees In Baker's pocket was a letter from his sister in Park Rapids Minn home Is to have been in Illinois The other two men arrested some time after Baker's death gave the names of C Marshall Donoho 24 years old of Fulton and Joe Cummins The holdup and robbery took place at 3 o'clock this while the which is In a conspicuous cation was brilliantly lighted The bers entered one by the rear and two by the front door and forced Grant the night manager and two helpers John and Fred Sails to Hue up against the wall with hands up Each of the had his features concealed with a red bandana While two of tha robbers covered the restaurant men the third rifled the cash drawer of and then with a hand ax broke open an Iron strong box from which he took something more than The restaurant men were then forced down the stairs into the basement ing out all the lights In the place the robbers fleu with their booty All the money taken by the robbers was recovered in the hotel and returned to the restaurant keepers YACHT ARRIVES HANGED NEGRO'S NOTE 13 EXECUTED AT ALA CONFESSES TO MANY HOMICIDES Birmingham Ala Juno hanged in the jail yard hero lay left a note in his cell In which ho eased responsibility for thirteen Two of his victims were men Jones was convicted of the of 1 follow convict while he was rt life term for another homicide Jones note I killed three while in evidently at Banner mines Jefferson I also killed Thompson nd Bennitt find Deputy Shoriff S Moseley of Crawford Neb Shay Tom Spay Sam Loe Chinaman Cal a Mobile it Ohio ian at Boydwell Ky Humphrey Huntsville a an at Fort N M John Mt- lejohn Indian Sheridan Wyo I am I getting Richard ept 12 1912 Just onr more would have made tho number American Reported to Have Heen Sold to Chief In nt Havana June American steam yacht Alamada which is reported to have been purchased by General Carranza chief of the party in Mexico arrived here today from Nipe Her said that he had not been informed of the salo of the vessel but put Into Havana to await orders The Alamada Is a vessel Be von tons and was once owned by J Donald Cameron New York Yacht Club but is now the property of the Cuban Improvement and Steamship Company It hoen by Van Horn for the steamship company that the Alamada of American registry and would remain 00 CHILI NEW PRESIDENT Available Indicate Majority fur Senor Don Javier For- mer of Santiago Chile dent inl election today was held with perfect Available cate a great majority for Senor Don formed of tho Interior who Is running on the liberal ticket against Juan Luis San tho democratic candidate TO men lilt In Phoenix Ariz June A- Goodwin nf wnn struck In face tod in the In r our id nf fin altercation with W V RUSSIAN WO UK IS HALTED Committee Conn try men In man? Berlin via London Juno j aid committee which has been ro- money steadily from the government to needy Russians In announced tho sion or its work it being Mated that tho Russian government has discontinued I Bending money Tho committee been supporting between and THK Paul of Me Ml Canadian Ont June Paul of Ok U mentioned the wounded In a Hit nf the expeditionary tonight FRANCE RAISING HUGE SUM FOR WAR'S BILLS Ribot the Veteran Statesman Stirs Chamber of ties With Speech in Favor of Paris June appropriating francs to cover government expenses for three beginning July 1 was passed most unanimously In the chamber of deputies today Tho vote was 492 to 1 Alexandre Ribot French minister of finance said he recognized the sity of France buying as little abroad for the requirements of war as To do so he asserted would be one of the most Important economies for the try This would tend also to facilitate exchange although up to the present there had not been the least monetary depreciation M paid April public tions amounted to and that In May the public took in rational defense bonds The minister of finance in measured and sober eloquence Skid he could affirm once more that the people of France would go to the end no matter how long the war might last The deputies listened In silence and more than once rose to their feet as a mark of respect applauding the speaker Premier exclaimed once upon he called M magnificently successful effort in behalf of the men's pensions and to this the minister of finance This is not the hour to recall the stages of my career Deputy speaking for the so- said they would vote the credit necessary to oust the invaders and cure permanent peace He urged an economic mobilization His colleague M advocated Industrial tion We must not be caught unprepared by peace as we were by war No soldier in the trenches must feel that his dren lack anything essential Deputy urged that mental supplies necessary for France be obtained In the colonies whose sons ready have given their blood cently to and added they are no longer Algerians and Senegalese only Frenchmen by Bain News Service ALEXANDRE RIBOT FRIGHTFUL LOSSES IN HEAPS PE K UTS M ADH TO LINES LOOKOUT IS Material Work and Contractors Lay Oft Men When Building Chicago 111 Tune general out of Chicago's building Industry was ordered tonight after an all day meeting of every interest In the building try financial materials and contracting Material manufacturers will cease work and close down their yards contractors will lay off their men and the financial interests of the city will back them It was said tonight The burden of the was placed by the contractors upon the striking penters who have refused to arbitrate their dispute over wages EXPLOSION IN DEATH Ten Men Are Burned One of Whom DicK When Blown Up In Tried Pittsburg Pa June men were burned one fatally today by an sion at the plant of the Aetna Chemical Company where experiments are made under government direction of a new process for the manufacture of oline Stephen Homer 20 died after be- ing taken to a Berlin June 25 via London June With reference to the statement lii day's official communication regarding General partial retirement to the south bink of the River special dispatches from describe the desperate tions of the Russians for several days to gain their lost ground on the Dniester line and in Bessarabia The according to these dis- patches lias been uninterrupted for four days and nights and the Russians wasted the lives of their troops by lessly marching them in masses Into the Austrian fire Large heaps of Russian dead it Is asserted lie before the trian trenches The fighting is declared to be larly desperate eastward of Zale The Russians are said to be charging repeatedly along the river At a few places they have succeeded In their way nearly to the Austrian tions but suffered frightful losses and were compelled to retire before the de- termined Austrian resistance Similar scenes it IB asserted are enacted daily in Bessarabia The sians fighting here have been recruited chiefly from home guards and by levies on the eastern provinces MAIL DECIDED United Will Make No Protest With American Postal Packages In Europe WIRELESS CENSORS INCREASED Washington June protest will be made by the United States against Interferences with American mails pass- ing through European belligerent tory to neutrals Since belligerents arc permitted to censor cable messages In transit through their territory officials here the position that letters would seem to be subject to the same risks Post master Burleson has ordered that lo neutrals he sent on ships which do not touch at ports of belligerents AMERICAN RELEASED IN RUSSIA John Reed Wan Made Prisoner for En- tering tho War Zone Washington June Reed American war correspondent arrested in Russia recently for entering the war zone permission hns re- leased and has arrived in Petrograd Marye reporting today made no mention however of Boardman inson an artist arrested with Reed Lieutenant C C Windsor Is Ordered From New York Navy Yard to to Assist Two Washington June C C Windsor was ordered today from the York navy yard to I to increase to three the number of censors there IN REPLY Aot Satisfied With Report on of American Ships mid FIRST FUIA SESSION OF WIMi HELD IN DALLAS NEXT MONDAY to News Fort Worth Tex June of the Association net here at noon and decided to hold the rst meeting of the full board of nix at the Oriental nt Dalian at noon next Monday at which the the association will be id so that Its work may go forward The six directors already elected worn empowered to select nine others and the complete board of fifteen will elect cers Those who met here today were John of Fort Worth Edwin of Bridgeport R L King of Grove and Stanley H Watson of Temple The two absent directors were W T nt and A T Clifton of Waco According to ho will use tho utmost earn In thn remainder of the ril And will try to obtain men for positions j rhu will mitt all Interested and reconcile I 10 that movement receive undivided of June here the British statement of as evasive The puts the total number nt vessels still de- at twenty-seven Nov he re in the British memorandum is i statement of the total number of detentions which the department estimated at almost ono since the issuance of the British order In council on March 1 The now note to Great Britain less will call special attention to the Hri licit of the ships detained seven arc free to depart as soon ns the Horns of their cargo placed In the prize court have been discharged Washington is not rondy to accept the principle embodied in that statement and officials contend It is tion for an American owner of a able The note will insist that a consigned to a tral port of Its eventual not be molested PAPER FIGHTS CONCESSIONS B Correspondence ncr for United Be Granted Berlin via London Juno today attacks tho Agency the latter ventured to question whether it not politically bo wise to grant the ro- quent of tho United States that refrain from attacking upon which Americana arc The To a would ply permit tho shipment of further war under cover of a few can Thti article la only A tlon of thn formerly by and of a similar policy BATTLE STAGED IN GALICIA A XI isi ALONG ADMIT II REVERSE Claim Enemy Divergent Leave In Tho Associated Press summarizes the war situation of yesterday as Divergent war statements leave doubt as to whether thu Russians or the tonic allies have the upper hand in the desperate battle the Dniester River In Between and Halicz crucial point on this front a conflict of great Intensity is being waged and both aides claim None of the official reports however in- any decisive advantage has been gained The Russians assert that by up reinforcements they have forced the Teutons to retreat across the river in this sector The Germans admit a re- verse but their Austrian allies In their latest official communication declare attacks by the Russians on the north bank of the Dniester have been repulsed and that the attacks of the German forces are progressing i Teutonic j The Austrian war office says that cast of and near Rawa Huska and also on the River to the west of Lemberg the situation is un- changed but that In Poland the tonic arms are making progress The latest E reuch official statement tells of artillery duels at different along the western front but no decisive engagement Both the French and the Germans claim successes in this field of operations In the Italian war theater artillery combats are continuing The Austrians claim to have repulsed two attacks by the Italians on the frontier district east of Rohini News dispatches state that the Italian forces are advancing both from the east along the Fella Valley and south to the Pass to Tarvis although because of the difficulties of mountain warfare this progress Is slow General Cadorna the Italian com- mander In chief apparently plans to at- tempt an invasion of Austria through the region around Tarvis threatening the right wing of the Austrian having headquarters at Laibach and thus obtaining relief from the pressure of the Austrian forces massed along the front Army The Germans according to an military source will be able to place eighteen more army corps in the field by the end of July These It Is said will be made up mostly of the ond category of the men who military service but who now In not In the reserves The new corps will about equal In number the troops returning from Galicia it Is calculated and the latter will be given a partial rest after their exhaustive campaign Approximately of the new British war loan of has been applied for at the London banks already according to nn unofficial ment These subscriptions are mostly for moderate amounts The larga cations It Is stated are being held back until next week The French chamber of deputies has passed the ating to cover expenses for the three months ning July Subscriptions to the second Hungarian war loan already amount to according to a message re- in New York from Vienna and announced by von Nuber consul general In New York for gary The consul general asserts that this provides financial means for the continuation of the war for at least ten months and adds there is a fair that the total subscriptions will pass the billion-dollar mark GERMANY WILL INCREASE Reported That Authoritative Military Sourer More to Enter Field Zurich Switzerland via London June to an authoritative tary source will be able to place eighteen more corps In the field by the end of July Those arc chiefly of the second category of the comprising men whn have never performed military service but are now In t mining nnd in land re- serves which have been resting in the Interior of It is calculated that these new ill about in number the ex- hausted returning from who will be granted partial rest service ns inland reserves POLAND WILL GET AUTONOMY Council of Appoint to Out the Nr.iv Finn via London June Russian ootmcii of ministers today de- to appoint n commission composed of six nnd sir Polos under tho presidency of Premier to deal with the preliminaries necessary to the carrying into effect of autonomy for land which was proclaimed by Grand Duke Nicholas commander in chief of the Russian army on Aug H of year IS FOUND IN CANADA Sixty of Near Motor PI nut Windsor Ont June sticks of dynamite of tho us those discovered under the Windsor the plant of the Overall at a had have been found near a motor truck plant In hollo vo tho wan hidden by one who planned to wreck buildings A ku boon arrested
