National Democrat (Newspaper) - December 4, 1913, Des Moines, Iowa Bldg and Grand THE DEMOCRAT PAPER AT STATE CAPITAL IOWA'S CAPITAL PRIDE Dutiful to Friends J Always SERIES VOl v ivn A Eight Civilians Also Executed at After Place Dictator in Trap Wants Famous Old Fighter to Return to Troops Prepare for an Attack at Monterey Two More Fatally Hurt and a Score Injured When Flames Destroy Lodging House Majority of Victims Were Homeless and Friendless and Bodies of Many Will Never Be Worst in City's History Paris Dec de la Barra Mexican minister to France and formerly provisional president oi the Republic of Mexico left here for Japan It was said that he received orders to leave for ToMo from dent Huerta Mexico City Dec federal soldiers and eight civilians were executed at state ol Queretaro after rebels captured the place The garrison of 19 soldiers and eight citizens were shot General Figueron former bandit and rebel chief who has been with the government has joined the S Kidder an American employed by the Oil company who was arrested at San Luis Potosi charged with being a rebel spy was released Huerta Asks Aid of Diaz General Huerta in a desperate fort to save himself has turned for help to Gen Porfirio Diaz The dictator is trying to bring about the return to Mexico of the exile who for nearly a generation held the tion under his thumb Diaz has said that he would return to bis native land if one emergency should the danger of an attack on Mexico from the outside Huerta evidently hopes to convince the aged fighter that such a condition exists The war department published an order transferring General Diaz from the retired list to the active list The order hears date of September 20 but the fact is not regarded here as This move on the part oi the Huerta government is believed to be the first step in the plan to induce Diaz by an appeal to patriotism to Colonies Map Defense Plan Preparations for defense in case oi local disturbances are being continued by the foreign colonies other than the American Leaders of the American colony are inclined to believe that any move in that direction taken by them be misconstrued by the can government In order to avoid being regarded as organized combatants the Americana In case of necessity will take refuge Ian protection of the various European flags Rebels Loot and Kill Vera Cruz Dec under Zapata attacked the Inter- oceanic railway near Cuautla the station and water tanks and burning a bridge Zapatistas have looted state of Puebla killing the mayor and 17 citizens Prepare for Rebel Attack Laredo Tex Dec an attack on Monterey over eral soldiers stationed between Nuevo Laredo and Monterey have been dered to Monterey by General Tellez military governor of the state of Nuevo Laredo and commander of the northern division of Mexico The orals are also said to have deserted Piedras which was recently captured from the the troops there having left for rey with soldiers and a number of heavy guns to defend Monterey The federals are well prepared to re- sist the threatened constitutionalist attack The plan to attack Saltillo it is reported To Organize Customs Service El Paso Tex Dec Escudero foreign minister and ter of finance in the provisional of the left Juarez for Matamoras where tie will organize a customs service under of the Carranza rebels Rich Mexicans Appeal to U S Eagle Pass Tex Dec Mexican families in northern Mexico have appealed to the United States through the consulates for protection from the it was said here by refugees who crossed the Rio Grande from Ciudad Porfirio Diaz Among the rich Mexicans who are fleeing from General Villa's rebels is Boston Dec persons were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the Arcadia lodging house at 1202 Washington street this being the heaviest death toll ever recorded in a fire in Boston Two persons were fatally injured with more than a score were slightly hurt or overcome by smoke There were 179 men asleep in the lodging house when the fire broke out The flames spread swiftly through the flimsy building and a number of men caught on the upper floors leaped from windows Poverty-Stricken Men Victims All of the victims were stricken men the lodging house being a affair catering to the poor Many of them were less wanderers and for this reason the authorities believe that the names of all the victims will never be known The conflagration was attended by many thrilling escapes Firemen spread nets and into these many of the panic-stricken lodgers leaped One man wrapped a mattress around his body and jumped from the fifth floor the mattress saving his life The streets for blocks in three di- rections were scenes of the wildest confusion while the fire was burning The dead and injured were distributed about on the sidewalks neglected while the first arrivals were striving to rescue others from the flames Fire Escapes Insufficient The meager fire escapes on the rear of the building offered escape to only a few Thoso occupying rooms in the front of the building were cut off by a wall of flame which soared up the stairways and drove them to the dows to escape suffocation There was no escapes on the front or side of the building and most of the dead were found near the windows The great rapidity with which fire leaped from floor to floor caught the Suffragettes and gettes Fight for and Against Suffrage Committee MRS IDA WYNNE FRENCH MAY JAIL MRS William J Harris of Georgia fs the new director of the bureau of census and is applying modern business methods to its management English Militants Gathered on Deck to Greet Leader Returning From America Watched fay Squad of Detectives BIG RAINS FLOOD CITY Millions of Dollars Worth of erty Ruined in Texas Water Ten Feet Deep In Streets of at Highest Stage in Its History lodgers and scores awoke to find their beds hemmed in by flames There they clung as the flames belched from windows beneath them and crept across the beds they had vacated to the sills of the windows Firemen Do Noble Work Several narrowly escaped being hurled from the coping into the street in the rush for the ladders fell just short of the coping on which they were clinging The firemen as far as they could and caught the lodgers as they jumped to the tops of the ladders four stories in the air Eight of the dead were found on the top floor eleven on the fourth and five on the third floor A large number of those who lost their lives never knew how their fate The majority are believed to have in their sleep Will Investigate Fire Medical Examiner Leary after an examination at the scene of the fire I am going at this matter with an ax This is one of the greatest crimes ever committed in this city An in- quest will be started today I think we have taken all the bodies from the ruins Boston has nearly a dozen such Gre traps It is a crime to allow them exist This building looked like a slaughter house There is no good excuse for such a condition of Dallas Dec rains in this section of Texas has done a vast amount of property damage Water is standing ten feet deep in the streets of Waco The Brazos river which overflowed has reached a stage the highest ever known The Fort Worth Denver railroad was forced to abandon train schedules on account of numerous washouts on its There was no interurban service from Dallas to Waco Cleburne and Port Worth At Bel ton where the entire town was submerged it was believed the death list would not exceed ten sons Galveston Tex Dec from the flooded districts about ton Nolanville Waco and Waxahachie are to the effect that wa- ters continue to rise in the city of Waco Water is in the streets the Brazos river having risen ten feet within the past few hours Railroad bridges in the flooded section are de- and train service suspended Bales of cotton are seen in tree tops and small houses are floating about farms It is the worst flood in half a century No new reports of loss of life have been made but as the area increases fear is expressed that other bodies will be found Hundreds of cattle have been lost and millions of dollars worth of property de- Washington Dec suffragists and ed into the great caucus room in the house office building here and massed in the corridors primed for their fight before the house rules committee for and against a house committee on woman suffrage Two hours were lotted the suffragists to present their claims and two hours to the antis to answer the arguments of their As soon as Chairman Henry had called the meeting to order Clyde a Pennsylvania Progressive offered a resolution that all meetings of the committee on the question of woman suffrage be public and that records be published Representative Lenroot of sin offered an amendment which was accepted giving the committee the right to hold executive sessions until it saw fit but making the record votes of the committee public at all times Representative Kelly's original tion was lost by a vote of 5 to 1 When Mr Kelly voted a number of women tried to vote with him and this called forth a reprimand from Chairman Henry Disorder Is Barred If there is any disorder I will order the room he said Chairman Henry then turned the session over to Dr Anna Howard Shaw who introduced the various speakers and cautioning her women friends to restrain their enthusiasm I know that our women who be- long to the National Suffrage tion and are used to coming here to appear before committees will know enough not to interrupt ers with foolish said Dr Shaw but there may be some other ladies in the room who have not had experience and who may create a dis- I want to expressly advise Late Happenings Throughout the Commonwealth Mrs French daughter of Robert J Wynne of Washington former Ameri can consul general in London has been granted a divorce from Capt Hugh Ronald French of the British army RIOT IN INDIAN One Man Shot as Coal Wagon Passes Saloon About Twenty Shots Were Fired ing With Only One Victim SHOOT UP A CHICAGO BANK Two Men Womer Resent Alleged Slur to Kill One of Officials Louis Terraza who is said to have with him Rebel leaders threaten to confiscate the vast ranches of the Mexican land owners because of alleged aid given by the latter to Huerta 70 Entombed 24 Die San Francisco Dec special cablegram received by the Japanese American says that seventy men and women were buried while working in a tunnel in Kokura in the Province of Kyushu Japan Twenty-four of the UNDESIRABLE ALIEN Head of Colorado Mine Workers Local Is Called Dangerous Man by Military Body Trinidad Colo Dec Ilch president of local union United Mine Workers of America board member and international organizer of the same union vice-president of the Colorado State Federation of bor and executive committee member of the Socialist party of Colorado is a dangerous and undesirable alien cording to the findings of the military commission The military commission Chicago Dec of en and men shoppers and workers in the building were thrown into a when half a dozen revolver shots Avere fired in the office of the South Side Savings bank a loan com- pany Henry and William Weinhold electricians living in anston who admitted that they had attacked Manager Monroe told the lice that Mrs Henry Weinhold had called at the bank to arrange for a loan and that Monroe had in- her Monroe made a statement to the police denying the accusation TRAIN ROBBERS GET Safe on Express Broken Open by Robbers and Contents Stolen Verviers Belgium Dec age containing in German bank notes was stolen from the mail car of the express train which left Brussels for Cologne The mcney had been forwarded by the National Bank of Belgium to a bank at Cologne and was placed in a safe which was forced by the thieves Another mail train which arrived at Brussels an hour after the departure of the express for Cologne also was robbed several able packages being missing advises The commanding general for the restitution of peace and the en- forcement of the constitution and lawi of the state of Colorado that Robert Uhlich be indefinitely detained lich is still held in the city jail under military guard Messina in Quake Panic Rome Dec of In- entombed were killed outright rest of them escaped The Ex-Mayor Shank in Vaudeville French Lick Ind Dec oC Indianapolis has left French Lick accompanied by Mrs Shank for Kansas City where he will open in vaudeville on the livan and Considine circuit Sunday He has for 42 weeks habitants of Messina the night in the streets because of a panic caused by the most violent quake since the catastrophe of 1.908 The shocks described as a series of bumps were felt also at Reggio on the mainland Fifty Students Flee Medford Mass Dec Fire dents of Tufts college were forced to drop from windows and fire escapes In making their way out of East ball which nre One student slightly burned PRESIDENT WILSON IS ILL Chief Executive Remains in Bed by ders of Cold Is the Cause Washington Dec to a slight cold in the head President son remained in bed orders of his physician Dr Gary T Grayson The president was suffering from the cold when he made the trip to the capitol to deliver his address arid his physician told him to take no chances of its making further ress them that they must be careful to plaud speakers only at the end of their speeches and if their enthusiasm insists on boiling over to please re- strain it until the end Dr Shaw told how unsuccessful the suffragettes have been in procuring recognition at the hands of committees and then introduced Mrs Helen Gardiner of Washington as the first speaker May Jail Mrs Pankhurst Plymouth England Dec eyes of all England are fixed on this port where Mrs Emmeline hurst the British militant suffragette is due to arrive A strong detachment of women from London already have arrived and are quartered on the dock where they will give their leader a rousing come on her return from a tour of America Lined up with the militants is a squad of detectives from land Yard Although things have been quiet so far both sides are on the alert and a demonstration tonight is expected It is believed that when the jestic arrives Mrs Pankhurst will be arrested and sent back to jail to com- plete her sentence of three years im- prisonment The steamship company refuses to give out the usual mation about the progress of the steamer or the approximate time of its arrival announced that nobody will be permitted to go aboard the tender except officials Scotland Yard is in active correspondence with the local police Old Sentence Hangs Over Mrs Pankhurst was sentenced to spend three years in Holloway jail for inciting her followers to violence and the destruction of property She was released when her health was im- paired by a hunger strike and within a few weeks was arrested and sent back to jail under the act She started another hunger strike and again obtained her release She went to France and thence to the United States Indianapolis Ind Dec street riots one of which was ened by the firing of 20 revolver shots and the serious wounding of Eugene Rutledge eighteen a teamster marked the third day of the strike of teamsters and chauffeurs Rutledge was standing on a street corner when a strikebreaker on a passing wagon resenting the shouts of from a crowd of children fired his revolver Other strikebreakers on wagons in the vicinity joined in the shooting but no other persons stopped bulleto Shortly after this riot another party of strikebreakers started a small riot one block west of where Rutledge was shot but policemen scattered the crowd before any revolver shots were fired Rutledge was taken to a pital and five who wore special police badges and ried revolvers were taken to central police station to be questioned Calumet Mich Dec the battle between strikers and ties in the of Painesdale and at a boarding house at the Champion mine location where 20 strikers themselves in the officers took 18 prisoners and captured an ar- senal of 11 rifles four shotguns and 11 revolvers with a great quantity oi ammunition TO FORCE OUT MILLION EGGS Jersey City Mayor Plans Tax Move the Big Warehouses in His Town Jersey City N J Dec plan conceived by Mayor Mark M Fagan who also is a member of the county tax board by which it is expected that a few million eggs in cold storage in this city will be forced on the market will be put in tion here Complaints are to be made to the tax board that the are not adequately taxed Then it is expected the board will order a ing and direct the warehouse officials to produce their books to show the stock that is hand and has been carried and if the law has been lated by storing eggs for a longer riod than ten months Such action it is predicted will show that the houses have been taxed far too low and that a lively transfer of eggs from Jersey City cold storage plants will result When a request sighed by 150 women most of them members of the W C T U that all those who must smoke refrain from the streets or in other was published in a Cedar Falls paper the smokers came a suggestion that the en from using artificial fiers and appear en the streets clad in other garments than the slit skirt and kindred creations Don Hunter of Newton la was elected president of the association at the University of Iowa The complete list of officers President Don Hunter of Newton Delta Tau Delta vice dent Garrison Anthes of Fort son Seta Theta Pi secretary Max O'Brien of Oskaloosa Phi Delta treasurer Clement Garfield of Humboldt Phi Kappa Psi The breach of promise action for to have been tried at the ent session of the Johnson county district court in which Mrs Lucy Porter divorced wife of At- torney Henry K Porter sought to collect from David a wealthy Lone Tree resident has out of court The jury in the damages case of Mrs Agnes M Goodwin the Mason garage at Logan returned a verdict for the de- fendant Mrs Goodwin's was killed by the falling walls of the at Missouri Valley when ft1 e collapsed in a violent wind storm While a drug clerk was mixing chemicals in the drug store of ler Bros at Waterloo the mixture ex- Sam Schneiderman was tally hurt by the explosion and John Roberts another clerk may die as a result cf his injuries The interior cf the was wrecked Curran for ten years agent at Portsmouth for the Milwaukee road company committed suicide bj shooting himself As the family was to sit down to breakfast ran said he did not want anything to eat and went to the bathroom and shot himself The first arrest in the case in which forgers secured from the People's State bank at Mason City impersonating Balatan wa- rn a do in Omaha John is the man Detectives are now looking foi Mrs Hurst landlady as an accomplice Theatergoers in Cedar Rapids were unusually interested in the appear a nee there of the DeKoven Opers production of Hood of the fact that a for- mer Rapids girl Sara Sherman Mason sinss the role of Alan-a-Dale Mrs Sarah L Montgomery of De- has into possession of a fortune owing to the death of a 400 Thrown Out of Work La Porte Ind Dec dred employes of the locomotive re- pair shops of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad company at Garrett have been thrown out of employment as the result of closing down of the big shops Resumption of operation is ex- not later than January 1 Bryan Signs Release Washington re- of Information from Managua that the has no objection to the return of former Zelaya to tary of State Bryan signed the der for release from prison -In New York Sends Strike Leader to Cell Philippi W Va Dec ner president of District No 5 ed Mine Workers of America tenced to serve 60 days in jail by United States Judge Dayton for lating the In connection with the coal strike at W NO PASS RAIL CLERKS UNION Movement for Organization of Office Force Is to Be General Over the Country Dec of the pass privilege by the vania railroad for its employes has re- in a movement here to ize all clerks in railroad offices into a labor union It became known that representatives of the freight and senger offices In Pittsburgh conferred with a view to preliminary tion the plans to be presented to the chiefs of the organized railroad for approval Funds for the preliminary work have been collected at a number of railroad centers in- that the union io not to be local Billy Sunday Wins Victory Pittsburgh Dec Sunday the baseball evangelist won a tory in the common pleas court here Judge Haymaker refused an plication for an injunction to restrain the erection of tabernacle in i j J t i Sutro Gives Up Aviation San Francisco Dec G Sutro who grandson of a famous former mayor of San Francisco and who holds the first license issued in this country by tho Club of America announced had made his last flight Bellefield From Car Hit Dupo HI Dec giraffe being transferred to winter quarters In ton Ark chanced to poke its neck out of the door of Its special Dupo last in time to have It twisted by a switch engine ter in Minneapolis Mrs Matilda R widow of the late Judge Henry Mrs Montgomery will receive approximately one-half of The and Hamilton Brid company is made a suit Tor damages brought by the administrator of the estate of J W who was a fireman on tht bridge and fell into the river and drowned six years ago Enos P Marmon editor of the Index and one of the pioneer editors of Polk county and Iowa died at his home at o'clock Tuesday Mr Marmon was one of the old settlers of and a pioneer editor of the state The resident traveling salesmen of Shenandoah held an informal tion and luncheon Eighty and their wives partook of the five course service Shenandoah a town of is the headquarters for five traveling salesmen Carl died as the result oi an unusual accident He was ling a building on the Dundee farm in Jefferson township near Waterloo When he cut a shingle the knife his leg above the knee ering an artery Students who guide the destinies of college papers in Iowa met in dar Rapids and formed an association winch will he as the Iowa College Press association Frank M Bristol of Omaha dedicated the Olivet Plymouth ial Methodist church at Mason City and raised more than Nelson 37 old a farm ham at Sidney Pitts home near sia committed suicide by hanging himself to a tree Frances Chambers and Roy man injured in an automobile dent near Logan are recovering from their injuries Iowa agriculture trades industries and homes form the complete triangle of interests represented this year in the annual winter short courses at Towa State college Dec 29 to Jan 10 At tho preliminary held at McGregor before the state railroad commission to decide the matter of granting a right of way to the Gregor Light company to transmit electricity over the Girard highway to Monona the Bell Tele- Phone company the Standard Tele- phone and the Western Union protested the company's peti- tion The final hearing will be held at Des Moines at a date to het set by the commission Seventy-one miles of county roads have been graded in the vicinity of Osage during the last season at a cost of Last May the county board purchased gasoline tractor for a double blade grader for and a grader known as the elevator type for Most of the work has been done with the blade graders The county also has four cement mixers which cost each A gas vein was struck at a depth of 50 feet on the Jackson and Maser farm four and a half miles northwest of Ringsted Emmet county The dis- covery was an while the driller was after water The gas be- came ignited and the ing caught fire and he narrowly caped death The well was capped and the flow is heavy Mrs Myrtle Clark burg has been appointed a teacher at Indian school in Oregon The following Iowa postmasters failed of confirmation and must Tae re- W A Fairbank Jay Sullivan Fontanelle J A levy Lansing N C Kuller West Branch A crowd of neighbors brought ty teams to the home of Carl Weber near Dows and husked his corn crop in a single day Two thousand els of grain were gathered Several weeks ago Mr Weber was thrown from a horse sustaining a broken leg A list of seventeen incurable in- sane at the state hospital at ence has been prepared by the pital for transfer to the county pital at The will be returned under a recent ruling of the state of control Petition has been filed with the state of parole for the tion of Earl Jones of Corning now serving time at Anamosa following his pleading guilty to a charge of ing pretty Grace Runyon daughter of a Corning banker Extensive plans are being made for a meeting of the Central Iowa Short association to be held at during the week of Dec 15 During the same week the local poultry association will hold its annual exhibition Thelma Hamm daughter of Shambaugh people was the victim of an attack by hogs that had ed from the lot into the dooryard The child was knocked down trampled on and hadly bitten before its cries were heard Ida Grove celebrated the initial lighting of the new street by a barbecue Four quarters of beef were roasted and between and people were fed Speeches were made and music was furnished by two brass hands Pensions have been granted tc Iowa residents as Johnston Prairie City Mary E Spaulding Osage Melissa J Allen Wayland Martha Perkins at man woman and child engaged in doing practical things will find the most vital and up to date In- struction in the line In which or Interested Tom one of the in is tht now of the Hampton Com- association an of boosters Castana Allie J Umsted ton A little act of forgetfulness cost W P Miller of Shenandoah and costs He was arrested for having an over- ripe auto license on his machine He said he had the new number at home but had neglected for months to put It on Superintendent Collins of the lowi and division of Milwaukee has retired after connection with railroad because of ill health He is succeeded by Superintendent Van Vleet of la division Two masked men entered the chants restaurant at Iowa City and made away with In cash Although several arrests have been made by the police it Is not certain the bers have found new Iowa postmasters havs been confirmed They are William at Kalona William H Fickel at Glen wood Jasper W Morris at Panora and M D van at Wilton Junction Donald McLennan died at the home of M C McLennan at Williamsburg after an illness of several weeks He nearly 70 years old was :un- married He went there from nee 111 in 1875 Charged with posing as a deputy United States marshal and carrying a gun Walter McCale is held at son City on several charges When arrested he wore a badge labeled U S Word was received death at of Vet Dayton a former well-known citizen Dr P E Bellinger pointed surgeon at Council Bluffs David Gibson has been appointed rural carrier at la been appointed rural at Moravia Michael Viers was held up by a lone highwayman near Swan Mr Viers went to Perry train and was Ing to Swan where relatives live When near Bennington the Des Moines river he met man who shoved a revolver in his him hands The robber took all of Mr Viers money and his watch At a loss of in salary the of the church at re- fused a call from the First terian church at Lincoln Neb
