San Antonio Light (Newspaper) - June 21, 1915, San Antonio, Texas CIRCULATION YESTERDAY THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT CITY EDITION 4P.M. FOUNDED 158 SAN JUNE 21, 1915. TWELVE PAGES FIVE mm m c ITS 1ISIS Mystery Surrounds ments of Trusted Villa er En Route East. GOING TO VISIT But There Is a Report He May Hold Conference With Prominent WEATHER TE T. HOME 1VKATHBK FOR made at S a. ST. cloudy 4-milc wind from the mile wind from ihc Tuesday temperature in last Dp Temperature 68. wind from the tempera lure In lust Hi from ihe temperature In lust hour TV nip wind from the m lowest in 66. i CS wind from the probably June 21.- a new peace move by prominent witn General Felipe formerly Villa's tary as its held the attention of officials here Various reports from the border said Angeles had crossed Ihu United but none agreed as to hio Border agents of 'the government reported he was on his way to Boston to visit his Un- official from El Prisu said Angeles was en route to Washington to represent the and plaz foreign would reach the border in u few days on his way to Washington to represent the conventional in a new peace for Trip Xot The reasons mission brought considerable speculation in official and diplomatic Barters One version was thai he was to with Mexicans who I taken uo part in the revolutionary Leader but who recently have been planning to form a with I BUI tVeR some of the forces now in the field to enable them to the moral which President Wilson recently announced the ed States would give somo group un- less the warring factions could nqr among tion wap that Angeles had left Villa of personal differences with Although officials are watching closely in Mexican taking no hand in the de- They are that thQ may Enrique C. Villa's he had information that was based on break officials were not discredit the report that there had been a j Howard's Report ifi The overnight report from Admiral Howard merely announced the ar- rival of his tho at and added that he would report later oh conditions in the Acting Secretary Roosevelt said the admiral authority to land his marines and that such action would be resorted to only in case of encouraged ny unofficial reports that no foreigners had been injured in the fighting between Indians and the troops sent to quell General Carranza telegraphed his agency here denying reports of a break with Obregon and deny such which are merely the work of Officials greatly relieved advices which said that the armored cruiser Admiral Howard's hAd arrived at Guaymas with marines arid that all was quiet -In the Yaqui j valley where Americans had been Troops to protect tlie 1 are used but Admiral Howard awaited further instructions from ton before landing C. Washington representative the said he had heard ab- nothing the movement of The agency out a statement as Consti issue Constitutional agency Is in- formed that General Angeles and his staff arrived in Juarez Friday night and it is reported that Angeles in- to take refuge in the United Part. of his staff in El Paso and part -in but cording to the message all they will not return to the They are keeping themselves ed from all except their intimate friends and all admit the defeat at Leon was a virtual annihilation the Villa soldiers and that Villa's days are With the move coming on the heels of the split between ranza and his General some officials wnre encouraged to believe that out of tlie tangle might come a new alignment the best elements of the Carranza arid Villa The American government is ing no hand in the General Angeles is a veteran of the old school in Mexican Federal He served under President 60 wind from the proba lowest in last VISITS JOAREZ Do Not Know Is Believed She Was Burned Trusty 111.. June negro a product of the j among the convicts at Joliet was held in solitary confinement today pending j gation of tho murder of Mrs. i mund M. of tho prison j whose fearfully was found yesterday on a j Ing bed fn her Joseph convicted Executive Commutes 1 Death Sentence to Life I EXCITEMENT IN ATLANTA of once o a negro in Chicago five years and sentenced to an minate sentence of one year to is the convict under So far as is Mass Meeting Held on Hurried Secretly From DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED still was at his count ry home when he announced decision on the case over the June 21 telephone to Ihe Associated In Campbell was bv the announcement the police here today as a desperate following brief Neither do they He killed Henry June Villa and his staff are expected to reach Juarez although they do not know on what mission their in how long he will be Several officers of Villa's t arrived in El In and that these men are held virtual prisoners jn teV of which are and guarded by officers to prevent de- These officers say lhat at Torre on 4000 ahd 000 men and ten or field machine nil that is left of the artillery he had prior to the battle of H la further reported that troops are being withdrawn north as fast as they can move and It is not ex- that the will offer resistance at but will con- centrate troops at Con- ditions the fighters Is ed as many of them dying because of brought about by use or in El Paso admitted today that General Angeles and his staff arrived in Juarez night and that Angeles came the American side and fled ward into seclusion in the United Part of his staff remained n but they say will not return to the chosen as the Allen servant i June under tho honor is the Insl ment of on the streets hero person to hove seen Mrs. Alien today after it v. as announced thai He access to the warden's Governor Slaton had commuted the Officials believe Mrs. Allen death sentence of Leo M. Frank to burned to death as she lay life subsided on her Her skull had what as the day wore A muss been fractured by a blow which meeting wna held on the capital physicians said had not caused her starting shortly Evidence already i before It was conservatively indicated that the slayer had estimated tho crowd numbered 2600. sprinkled the bedding and Mrs. Several speakers took exceptions to Jen's clothing with alcohol be- Governor fore touching a match 10 it. As early this lecos of a jug which had extra patrolling tamed the liquid were found on con- near the I by 10 o'clock two-thirds force was on duty and Warden Allen was in Weal and when the murder was liquor were ordered Ho was to be joined bv Mrs. Mvc made foi Alien j failure to including on Mrs. Allen before her marriage Only a very small Odette Mazle Bordeaux of the were pinic opera She was a professional and business member of the original Governor Slaton She took an approximately words live part in the affairs of the prison his He maintained nnd her Influence did much toward was reasonable doubt of establishing the honor system j guilt of tho murder of The murderer Is said to have i Ho much of his finger prints in the bed lo the part the Eleven including flumes might played In are in solitary confinement in con- Ithe crime with the a who to tho police ihc threatened people Plant Near Windsor Reported to Have Just Completed Order for First Chief Informs Consul at Report Is Not Diai and was one of the first to claim his loyalty to President dero after the latter was elected During the In Mexico City he stood by Madero un- til the but when General Huerta obtained control of the situation re- mained In Mexico City under lance by The latter finally Angeles a foreign mission with the it often has been that he would not join the Con- then in its But Came a trip to Europe Angeles returned to the United States and on next June General a personal to Juan T- consul today declared there was no truth in the re- port of a break between himself and General No other mation was contained in. the gram. Consul Silliman at Vera Cruz con- firmed agency reports of the acceptance of the resignations June overall factory oC the Peabody Com- located in a suburb of was partly wrecked by the explosion of a bomb early Tho company is said to have just completed an order of British after the explosion in the overall factory 27 sticks of dynamite were found under the rear of the Windsor The dynamite had been attached to a time fuse which had been set for a. m. but the fuse had burned It Is said 200 men slept in the armory last Police and military authorities are working together on the The property damage was estimated between and FOUND HER DAUGHTERS Meets Children After tion 23 my of the before they puss as 1 do this I would be a murderer If 1 allowed lo It may mean that I must live in obscurity the rest of but would be Ing In a field to feel for the rest of my life that 1 had that man's blood on my Early extra editions slated that Frank's sentence had been commuted and early in the morning crowds began to gather on SIEGEL GOES TO PRISON le Will Serve Ten Mouths nnd Work lo N. June the principal downtown cor- former ot The arrest of u man who at- tempted to a policeman by Payment stores and banker of New grabbing the horse's reins last November of ft at and Walton misdemeanor and sentenced to ten to excitement and they followed the to pny a fine of 51000 unless he made to his started for officers to the city a block where the officers took the prisoner arrival of a. patro Speakers started to harrangue the crowd from the city hall bu were stopped by an extra force of It was stated that a tion was coming here from the former home of Mary Two Hearings Two hearings were held here on Prank's application for executive one before the state prison commission May 31 and the other be- fore the The latter ing extended through several days and ended June 16. Before the prison commission oral argument on Frank's behalf was made by his counsel and by lawyers and prominent citizens of Petitions hundreds thousands of names from various state societies and and thousands of letters urging clemency for Frank were presented to the In op- position to the application there were filed a letter from Solicitor who prosecuted and a protest from citizens of Cobb where Mary June W. O. Denison of has met here two daughters she had not Frank's prior to the heard of for 23 f In 1892 Mrs. Denison had left children of 7 and 4 re- with her father in while ahe went to another part of the state to join her ing a few months later she found her father had given the girls away for She says he to give any further Information and died revealing the dren's peal for executive had made seven attempts be- fore the County Superior and State Supreme Courts to obtain a new trial or the setting aside of the The Federal District Court refused to grant him a writ of habeas corpus the United States Supreme Court declined to grant a writ of error for review of the case and also denied Frank's appeal in habeas corpus Four times the death of four members of the Carranza Later she found an old letter was passed upon cabinet and added that their Hostile to ment was regarded of the breach between Carranza and his principal The four who resigned are Luis Raphael Escudero Verdugo and Jesus brera Zubaran at various times have represented tho Carranza tion in did not name their probable He forwarded a report from eral leading the expedition to reoccupy Mexico saying that the force was close to the Tt has been reported that Gonzales has delayed his entry into Mexico City the outcome of the cabinet Kinp Not D. June The most optimistic statement on the condition of King Constantino after ils operation which reached the Greek legation here stated that majesty's general condition is very Mrs. A. L. Tho TS are Mrs. W. O. Miller of Rochester today rto enter the Monroe county penitentiary to begin his Siegel today waived stay of cution of His decision to accept sentence was it is when he became convinced his offer to make diate payment of de- would be ordered by the prosecution as not satisfactory to a majority of the that when he had served his sentence he would gage in business and pay his ors in WILSON TO H. She Sends to United States for Locomotives to Move June ing Tokio from Vladivostok are that munitions of war are arriving at that seaport in such great quantities that facilities lo forward them by rail through Siberia are To overcome this Russian ties have placed rush orders for oars and locomotives in the United Vienna Reports Slavs Are Deserting tions Before Lemberg After Losing Trenches Along River to West I KAISER COMMANDS ARMIES IN London Does Not Admit Victories as Sweeping as Reported and Hopes Czars Soldiers May Recover ASSOCIATED June June sians have been in general retreat since 3 o'clock this morning along their entire after having been forced out of their positions on the a short distance to the of THE ASSOCIATED June exodus of considerable proportions already begun from says the Morning Post's THE June it was officially announced by the German war department was present at the battle of Beskid for possession of the Grodek inc. These Russian positions arc to the the A further success in the drive at the capital of Lemberg was announced today by the war The statement says that the town of Rawa two miles northwest of has been CLOSING IN ON German Generals So Certain of Victory Emperor Visits Front and Witnesses Troops in Spirited Plans Are Made for Opening the Summer House D. June Preparations for opening the mer White liouse at N. GUISES SEA TO esun today anticipation or JM President The i to Disturbance Re- ported by the arri president will go to Cornish by way j of New Tork to see Colonel E. j his personal who re- cently returned from present he will liere Wednesday and spend Thursday June of a New Tork with Colonel eruption at j south of have brought FLOOD DANGER PASSED W Incoming The disturbance is regarded here Kansas Oily Free From as c. direct cause of an earthquake the 1 strongest experienced in several THE ASSOCIATED June 21. forces are n on capital of The German war today announced the capture of Rawa thirty-two miles northwest of the Emperor who has gone to the arena to direct the campaign which his generals believe s near a successful was present at one of the or possession of the Grodek line west of u Germans Are The announcement that Emperor William has assumed command of the operations in Galicia is here as. an indication of complete German confidence in the victory of the assault on now regarded as so near hand that the generals during the last two battered their way across the wish the emperor lo participate personally in expected New Victories Some of the claims put forward by the Germans and trians to really decisive results have still to be but there is no question that they have won new west and north of the Galician The advance is still progressing through Grodek lines west of The failure of the Russians to iold these positions has been a keen disappointment to who hoped that this strong and selected position might furnish another example of the resiliency of Emperor which has been one of the marked features of the war n the east. Unless More Rains e s the local newspapers containing the unofficial announcement caused con- KANSAS June The crest of the Kansas river at i was reached today when he stream mounted to 6.9' i The marine eruption took place nl m- location which and Mrs. C. R. of a Caldwell i r of men who gathered t on various street corners and around SEVEN YEARS of the crowds and nt least one j arrest was Comment inss Took lime proving the decision was heard in In Traveling 100 his statement exhaustively ex- June plaining his for A Christmas mailed in New j Frank's Governor Slaton York more than seven years g to announcement by miles directly south of er Observer Unless there are further A pillar of fire and dense smoke rains lie all danger of the sun and turned day flood here has Huge quantities The water ever known wag of lava rained down the sea and reported early today at Clay j the waters are described as Kan. Thousands of of laud are ing and NO MORE BODIES FOUND The steamers which observed the were struck by tidal I but escaped j The earthquake in day damaged houses in reviewed the circumstances Total Casualties nl New Jersey hut there were no Its less than 100 rounding the murder of Marv miles only The in National Pencil Factory Ing dn letter was sent by H. C. Pearson to 1 here on April 3. 1913. the conviction his who was in Pa. Frank and his appeal for Mrs. Pearson received notice from j ency. the Allentown post of fire that a the statement ter was hold there for her and upon murder was a most receiving it she found the one sent by her husband on December 23, 1908. The missive con- but one that of tho New York office and the postal are at a loss to account for this and the offender deserves punishment of The only question is as lo tho identity of the The responsibility is upon the people of Georgia to protect tho on next ATLANTIC N. June 21. j that more than eight sons were drowned in the surf along j the beach here yesterday have not j THE SULTAN IS ILL been borne j June Via No additional bodies had been re- James Adolf Israel coverd curly today and the police received no reports of missing Tho bodies of four of tho eight known victims are There were 75 rescues along the is at tha side of Sulton at to the The nature of Turkish has not been it is questioned here that anything so vital as the flight of the Russian as indicated by Vienna reports or a perilous break in the Russian front Some British experts are of the opinion that the Russians are rear guard while their armies practically They suggest that either the Russians have no Intention of defending lo the or have prepared their main defensive on positions not yet reached by the Germanic With less than a score of miles tho lines from there points must soon be Russians Not Admit It is pointed out further by British observers that the latest Russian communication hardly indicates such only an success as their Further ing such an advance as will shortly permit more active operations In sphere occupied by the British The French north of it is thought must have pushed the Germans into a new front which will render some of their masses of troops comparatively The gains in Alsace show that the French are drawing close to the area of manent German Probably Very The arrival the bedside of sultan of Turkey of Professor James Adolph the German indicates that earlier reports that the sultan was from a opponents although it is ad- mitted that the of the tonic phalanxes has won further ff attack or did not show his real The fact that the sultan was un- able to make his customary Friday visit to the mosque last week showed that his illness was not as an omission is considered In Northwestern France to the north of as as in Lorraine and in The were reported today by j war Lorraine the i French and German accounts ofi Of the German line operations in the western a distance of nearly a is show the usual hut the The here of detailed reports from Paris the British that their allies are oa next