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TEST' GROWING P -A P Trt b IN N ORT GLIM A FTHF -4 PAGES TODAY Gre a t e . r C hi a r S 1 1 "e ' s Home spa per Daily, 188S Sunday 1910. CHARLOTTE, N. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1914. Price: Daily 2c; Sunday 5c. FAS NEWS CAR NiS WS I SUNDAY JL JL-A rucMi PROPOSED GHARLOTTE TO y 1 1 , vrf.r, i Vvouki Own Chain !b-.:r.: scs Available J6kV Use of Farmers, feints and zManufact- , Le jP Handling and Stor- mco Would Have Board of Di Irs ana Manager, Offi- ;r chests rrom banking arc! Finnnc;ai Centers Also Si'e crtlfvincj of Warehouse Receipts by Powerful and Well "known Banking Interest. Mr. J. P. H pest -5' " p:eer.a::ve the Southern a: a :::::' : v ' foitoa Mar.:-ra-.;t rd? bad bec-:i n: r:a: ; tic; or.u a:cf ;! T ill ton i- T--V1 t r'r i o of New York, was :ht of a number of ito'i manufacturers Manufacturers' Club - y Mr. Stuart W. r of the American t:s Association. Mr. tt-J to explain in de pian for warehous-v- a conference to .;',!-. tu'ien , me uuive . n ; vi erative organiza a f '-.a:;; of warehouses :-v- -,he use of farmers, d u.aaufacturers; the re sampling:, grading and ies or cotton; the insur '.yy '-- receipts therefor; yr-reni oi sealing, inspect :i?,z a board of directors . . :Ilct chosen from financial centers that ?Iy free from connection l&; and. lastly, the certifying of . wsretor?- rffeiptrf by powerful ri wfl! Sr. own banrins interests that e:e.i ro'.'.atra! represented by tie rce.; The co: sere ?': : !!;at:afacturers present wit;, ib? .simplicity and '.a'.-i!:-" of the plan and gave it i?ir Lr.ant and la' ty endorsement, :s::z:::c that the holders of such cer &d Farehotue receipts would be in yBsics of yiV'-ably the best collat "iic the worM for commercial pa r T:.:.i- the srater i:art of the cot :sit;; i- biac marketed in the fall, afc mi!W cen..-ra!iy buy all or a fetci: of tiiHr year's supply for ir-i'.it-.- o: future delivery, either issues requiring both warehouse KuftTard flnan inr ability asgregat-nilStor.!-: of dollars. That has i;cd a i.-irfl--n so ?reat that even teiitih- have fo-r.d their legitimate icaetrx? and merchandizing op f:s curtailed and circumscribed !'jhe:r financial requirements. TKou-h';.' ru-nreciatina the callater- itaheo:' cotton, tuany schemes have KQdevUed by hCth producers and ;;ruevi. whereby its legitimate rjiK; cou'.d be effioiently and cheap hsteu; tie most common defect . a': has been that they spr,' either too much or too little. i:e E'UKe .reposition is merely a sll''f',-'y conservative bank--f: .'.ven.ents : the touch of senius -f. -taa; f i.'.aa lies in the cer- fj .f lhfi Pa;er that will give t'.a ,:'' ii;eu;-RC:'' as internation- L ail tho :;!,;.. propositions, this -u. ; cojistructive a: td 3CC0r;:Tpr,fOi-:r and along ;.-t:ng warehouses are to bp uailiT:- 'S ?'r-v'"nr:6 or wasted-11 " n i ion ot tne mills ds arc avaMable and such 8a' Wff-banr.s' warehnnses lernenting all . '0 cou;p ii; "'"UliiZ s..r.h H,l,.ift! , , , or the warehousing of at prcvidp one il.t!i! I'tiinp' tve a;,;j ;V J.-iH To h,t! . 'a:i:; 1 ''Or.!;.!--.: an.j '" f-f tU ;s r i) ! bturif iUf!:':- u e of cotton for r ,:;,!!-!! this result a rehouse com- b o:o which can ,-':'t will inspire the- integrity of "hi iiwure that its ,:! ;' isve effective. "' u;u tbat the mon- orbl today are i-lst classes -o! there is no . - -ued by such :' the "strongest jl the United ;rh'-rn farmers, ' !ii:e:s, with tiding cotton at the very IE RULE STILL PUZZLING GUEST BRITA Government Will Make No Further Concessions to Ul ster is Declaration of Win ston Churchill; First Lord of Admiralty, to Meeting of Liberals Yesterday. Generally Believed That Com promise Offered Ulster by Asquith Was Result of Direct Intevention by King George Who Regarded Threats of Armed Resistance Serious. London, March 14. The most puz zling problem in Great Britain tonight was the Irish home rule question. Win ston Churchill, first lord of the ad miralty addressing a meeting of lio erab this afternoon at Bradford de clared that the government would make no further concession to Ulster. This was in direct contravention to the general belief in political circles that Prime Minister Asquith would be everything possible in Ue home rule controversy to conciliate Ulster and that his attitude was the result of pos itive intervention by King George. The exact status of the Irish self government measure now pending in the house of commons is a matter hard to ascertain. When Asquith on Monday last announced before the commons that the governments pro josed compromise with the Protes tants of the north of Ireland, namely that Irish countries might exercise local option in the matter of home rule and by popular vote reject alle giance to the proposed Dublin parlia ment for a period of six years, Sir Edwards Carson for the "Irish union ists", announced that Ulster would not accept the time limit. Carson of fered to call a conference in Belfast and submit Asquith's proposals,, if the liberals would recede from the s.-x-year proposition.- Otherwise, said Carson, the Ulster men will reject the proposal ; out of hand. The government neither accepted nor rejected the Ulster proposal. By motion of the liberals ti-e discussion of the home rule bill went over in definitely Monday and since then there have been daily conferences between th cabinet and the Irish nationalist leaders. The nationalists object stren uously to the government making con cessions to Ulster. It became knwn today that the ministry is divided in their opinion on the home rule prop osition. It is generally believed, but not of ficially confirmed that the compromise offered to Ulster by Prime Minister Asquith was the result of direct inter ference by King Ge'orge. The king, it is said, became convinced that the talk of armed resistance in Ulster was no bluff. He learned from first hand information that Ulster will "fight." The king is said to have told the prime minister that he had no right to coerce Ulster, that the electorate of the British voters gave to the gov ernment no authority to force home rule on Irishmen that do not want it. The government the noffered the' com promise. . Premier Asquith has announced that he would on Monday make a com plete statement, in the house of com mons, of the governments position in the home rule controversy and will ex plain the situation in detail. GEflOFRfl CiPLICLdfl EH NjM ! 1 IT ED THE WEATHER. -V? Washington, March -; 14. Vir- ginia. fair . and warmer Sunday, i;- Monday fair. Y? North Carolina, South Carolina -ii'! and Georgia, fair and , warmer : -$ Sunday. Monday fair. .'or -U! tf, V.!' the n t hi. "Mail tirr,. and h, h'-"-'-- as" - r: a? ,p o. n iv.t.. -l f'Ot (ml-''" : Orr..:. f-tj HIV ifil0T,! in ''With; ':'d i'-d to store ' the cheapest ' tuarket price ' oi;u; the cotton v '!l be able to ' money with ' -; r.v his purchas- ! r er win be able r 1 nig and then '':::oh of his ; l!''"oont dictates ;i"fl alike by 1 ' ' n'b' as can be ' any where, in ! :i -;-er.s have look , 1 'P money en ' : '::nr. and the JtuaUing or beat 1 j-ose present at '- -r' ijronipt com '' h will ho th?t it may be tails and rcori J'nariPnt organiza 'a age Six.) ALLEGED SON NEW-YORK BANKER GETS IN BAD Norfolk, Va., March 14. Four men are under arrest at Suffolk tonight af ter a wild chase following their alleged brutal attack on Kenneth Lilliston, chauffeur, for the purpose of stealing his automobile. They gave che names J. A. Divine, Frank Mitchell, Harold Coley and John Medbury. Mitchell said ! he was a Boston bank president's son and the others claimed New York as their home. Lilliston tonight told the authori ties a tale comparable to a wild west hold-up yarn. He said a stranje man hired his machine to go from here to Suffolk. On the outskirts of Ports- J mouth three men jumped from the i bushes, shoved guns under his nose and as he started his machine for ward, beat, him into unconsciousness. Then they rifled his pockets. Though weak from the terrible beat ing, Lilliston succeeded in running his car into Portsmouth where he noti fied the police. Meantime, however, J. E. McGinley, a railroad man, had jumped on his railroad tricycle and beat a Norfolk Western train on which the bandits were trying to es capo to Suffolk. There he summoned every policeman in town. Portland Basks In Verr.al Charms Portland, March 14. With "official" spring exactly one week distant, Port land has been basking in vernal charms or many weeks. Crocuses, blooming two weeks ago, have given away to their golden daffodil and rose bushes have put forth buds. Several Portland men have likewise bloomed with straw hats Carranza's Pledge of Protec tion For Foreigners Brings Relief as it is Regarded by Diplomats as Direct Repudia tion of Francisco Villa, The Ex-Bandit. Bryan is Elated and Officials Regard Development as In dications That Should Tpr reon, Monterey, and Tampi co Fall Danger of Foreign . Troubles Will be Over. (By JOHN E. NEVIN, (Staff Correspondent United Press.) Washington, March 14. Direct re pudiation of Francisco Villa, rebel gen eral and ex-bandit, by his chieftain was the construction placed tonight by the diplomatic corps here on the pledge of General. Carranza, constitutionalist chieftain, of ample protection for all foreigners in Northern Mexico. Sec retary of State Bryan tonight furnish ed each legation- and embassy here a copy of Sarranza's letter to Consul Simplich. It was received with a feel ing of distinct relief especially in the Spanish ani British legatons. Every where it was accepted that a repetition of the Benton is now impossible. Car ranza, on record is insisting that he would waive all red tape to protect foreign interests is expected to keep his word. As a result the ad ministra tion was comparatively unconcerned j for the first time since the word reach ed the city that a British subject had been done to death by Villa's direct or ders . T Reading between the lines of Carran za's promise to Bryan the state depart ment believes that, should he be suc cessful in his struggle to gain posses sion of the reins of government in Mexico, Carranza will keep Villa in the background. Despite the fact that in his latest note Carranza utterly ig nored the Benton incident. Coming on the eve of the real cam-j paign of the revolutionists against the remaining strongholds of the Huerta--; ists in the North . the declaration of Carranza ; materially cleared the at-' mosphere. It meant, in the opinion of the government officials general on slaught of the rebel arm that has al ready started the danger of foreign complications through excesses of the victors will be avoided. Villa Severely Denounced. Washington, March 14. "Villa will come into E Paso soon and blow up all the banks," was the warning of Elfrigo Baca, Alberqueque, N. M., be fore the house foreign affairs commit tee today. Baca flatly claimed that the English man Benton's body will never be pro duced and ventured the assertion , that Villa had not only killed Benton, "but had cut up the body and burned it." Then he launched inxo a story of the fate of Gustav Bauch, missing German. Bauch is dead, according to Baca's belief, shot down either- by Villa, or his henchmen upon Villa's order. Baca claimed his cousin, j. J. Baca, had been incarcerated because he aroused Villa's ire wearing an American hat at the Juarez races. In jail his com panion was Bauch. One day they re moved Bauch and another man. A muffled shot and a scream followed and Baca declared this was Bauch's voice. He pictured Villa as a brigand of the worst type a man who had killed his chauffeur in cold blood because he couldn't start a machine, a des perado who shot down men as an ex .ample to . his soldiers, and who out raged women whenever he saw fit. , He charged that General Menocal had "sold out" to Villa at Juarez, Chi huahua and other places, else they never would have fallen to the reb els. , : ' "Why it was common gossip in Juarez ten days before the capture that the place had been sold out," he asserted. He declared the remedy for condi tions in Mexico is to take away the arms in the rebels' hands. The committee, previous to Baca's taiA, had viewed a series of gruesome stereopticons shown by F. - Tennyson Neely, former Mexican prospector. His slogan was "let the blood boil but not spill," and he favored the "hands off" policy of the administration. None of the nations that have rec ognized Huerta are expected to accept Carranza's suggestion- that they com mission" United States consular repre sentatives" in the north of Mexico un-offiically-to represent them. The state department accepts at its face value Carranza's-promise when, after saying that he will protect all foreigners and punish all who molest them, he wrote: "Deeming this a suitable opportunity I wish further to say that if foreigners or their representatives will address their personal representations to me and bespeak my protection of their lives and interests they will be immed iately attended to without any need of their governments officially or unoffi cially intervening." What effect this declaration will have on the loyalty of Villa was a cause of discussion here. The revou tionary junta insists that so far as Villa is concerned, his loyalty to Car ranza is unquestioned and he wil carry out both the letter and the spirit of . (Continued on Page Two.) O o U ' k O J ' O O O O u. K 0 JiJt.jit. J0HH-D..IS WUTED BY HOUSE PRG&ERS QFGOLQRADOSTRIKE Edict Goes Forth That Oil King Will Have to be Witness Be fore Sub Committee Prior to Completion of its Investiga tion Into Colorado Mine Strike. Rockefeller Controls Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., and Com mittee Wants to Know. Ef fect of This Control or Bit ter Industrial Warfare in Coal Fields. Washington, March 14. The house probers of the Colorado mine strike want John D. Rockefeller. The edict went forth tonight that he will have to be a witness before the sub-committee prior to completion of its investi gation. Rockefeller controls the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. The commit tee wants to know what effect this control has on the bitter industrial warfare wrhich they discovered in their recent trip to the Colorado coal fields. Just h,ow far the probers will go to get the aged multi-millionaire was undecided tonight, but it was intimated that he might be subpoenaed and forced to come to Washington to divulge the inner secrets which the committee seeks. - - v Simultaneously' it became known that the Michigan strike probers are on..ihe,Jyija4 aif. Prlflg'ArQuinoey and- Manager ' Agassiz of the Calumet & Hecla Company. These men, however, stand ready to give the probers any information they desire. "We will throw open our books to you," they have said, "or you can ask us the question and ,we will furnish the replies more rapidly than you can dig them out for yourselves." Representative Taylor, chairman of the committee, was inclined to believe tonight that he would have his com mittee investigate in the company's neadquarters at Boston rather than in this city. Incidentally he characterized the conditions maintained by this company as "feudalism." He admitted that the company has done much for the up per peninsula of Michigan but he held that the company, nevertheless, maintained a system of despostism from which the miners are entitled to relief. MINORITY REPORT on Pin m TOLL REPEAL BILL ML Li! 1 GHIKESE SMUGGLERS A'lENICE Duluth, Miijn March 14. A gang of Chinese opium smugglers is men acing border cities. The arrest of a Chinaman at International Falls and his subsequent questioning by author ities revealed the existence of the conspirators, it is said. It is the plan of the gang 'as out lined by thep risoner, to go to a point near Fort Frances and then ferry Chinese immigrants across the river at' night. Do Yois Invest in Stocks ox Bonds? Many opportunities await the shrewd investor who ues our Wanl Ads to search out the stock and bond holders in this city who have securities which they are willing to sell at a bar gain to get quick action. . Use a Want Ad to find these people. Oftentimes good stocks and bonds are offered in our Classified section. Suppose you turn to our Want Ads NOW.. You will find opportunities of every kind that are intensely interesting. use "TheWantAdWav" Representatives Doremus and O'Shaughnessy, Democrats, Follow Lead of Republicans and Bull Moosers are Stand Pat on Position of 62nd Con gress. Rule Providing for Fifteen Hour Limit Debate on Repeal Bill to Come up Thursday and Bill May be Out of Way Sat- . urday. Washington, March 14. Following the lead of the republican and bulle moos members of the minority, Repre sentatives Doremus and O'Shaugh nessy, democdats, late, this afternoon submitter a minority report of the Panama canal tolls repeal bill. The two democrats stood pat on the position taken by the 62nd congress, and declared this position had been strengthened by later developments. The "frank declaration of Great Britain contained in the protest of A. Mitchell Innes" that exemption of bona fide coastwise traffic would be all right if confined solely to that traffic was given as the impelling reason. "This presents a pure question of reg ulation which does not justify the re peal of existing law," said the report. "We also believe the admission of tolls to be a strong economical policy." Representocive Adamson, leader of the repeal fight tonight issued a scorch ing statement denj'ing that U. S. offi cial vessels must pay tolls. "The most monstrous perver.sion of the truth since Ananias." he said, "is the false statement going through the jingo press to the effect that the Sims bill requires these vessels to pay tolls. Such vessels are notmentianed in the canal act nor the Sims bill and ought not to be. They are owned by the same owners that owns the canals and pass es its vessels by right of ownership, according to the treaty. Owning both the warships and thecanaLit .cpvtld not pay the tblis to anybody, but "itself which would be concentrated non sense." . The rule providing for fifteen hours debate on the repeal bill will probably come up in the house Thursday, Rep resentative Henry, of Texas announced tonight. There will be a fight over the 15 hour limit, as some members have indicated that they .wish to have a wider margin of time to discuss the bill. Some want to double thet ime. Henry was inclined to believe that the 15 hour limit would stand, however. This would mean that the bill would be out of the way by next Saturday night. If, however, it is impossible to reach ther ule Thursday, it will come up on Saturday and conclude the de bate Tuesday or Wednesday following. t mRDi nvrc ULIVI L l LU LU BANKRUPT STQRESiT GET POSITIONAL liiTRI CALLED B INVESTIGATE I ED- ESCAPE SPEGIAL GUARO ACCOMPANIES GEN. CARRANZA Douglas, Ariz., March 14. General Venustiano Carranza, accompanied by a special guard of 350 cavalrymen left Aguaqriena, Sonora, late this af ternoon for Juarez. The rebel leader plans to travel overland through Mex ican territory passing through the Sonora Mormon colonies, Ojita pass, entering Chihuahua state on the con tinental divide. The party will strike the railroad at Cassas Grandes and proceed by train to Juarez. Carranza would make no statement as to his plans upon arriving at Juarez. Close advisers, however, stated that it was unlikely he would join General Villa in his attack on Tcrreon, but would content himself with remaining in Juarez, conducting the constitution alist government from there and-pre-, ventip- any further international com plications, such as the Benton affair. "Diplomats are wanted on the inter national border, fighting men in the interior," was Carranza's only com ment before his departure. The rebel cabinet was uneasy be cause of Villa's prolonged stay at Juarez, fearing further international complication. Invasion of another Mex ican state by the rebels was forecast ed today when General Alvaro Obre gon, commander-in-chief of the con stitutionalists in Sonoro, was chosen to lead a picked force of 10,000 men into the state of Jalisco. The start will be made, it was said, immediately ly after attack on Torreon, if that ven ture is successful. Of 2,300 Employes Who Walk ed Out of Siegel Stores; teighty-Five Per Cent Get Positions by Systematic Ef forts of Employment Agen cies and Societies. Outbraek of Women Who Lost Money Starts Near Panic Among Other Losers Which Only Efforts of Condon of of Fifteen Police are Able to Quiet. New York, March 14. Of the 2,300 employes who walked out of the bank rupt Siegel stores this evening a ma jority have been furnisned with new positions and every effort is being made to make places for others. The Fourteenth street sure had planned to close at 6 o'clock this eve ning as did SimpsOn-Crawford. This was impossible. At the closing hour every aisle of the store was packed. Shoppers and the merely curious press ed about the counters. Then the high, i shrill voice of a woman rose above the babble of clerks and euyers. j "I have been dispossessed. I have been robbed." the woman exclaimed. She was Mrs. L. Matheson, who lost $1,800 in the wreck of the Siegel pri vate bank. "It was all I had in the world," ex claimed Mrs. Matteson, and the throngs in the aisles pressed toward her and clamored excitedly as she launched into a heated denunciation of Henry Siegel and Frank E. Vogel, his partner. Pushing her way through the crowd she grasped at the curtains which had been hung about the sec tion o fthe store which served as the quarters of the private btink. As Mrs. Matteson tugged at the curtains the excitement in the crowd increased. Private detectives employed in the store finally reached Mrs. Matteson an descorted her to the street. " With Mrs. Matteson's outbreak, oth ers immediately started. There were dozens of depositors in the crowd packed aisles. A half-dozen women" be. Came hysterical. One fainted and had to be carried out. A German woman, who declared she had lost $2,000 in the crash endeavored to climb upon a counter that she might address the crowd to better advantage. Piteous cires of "I lost $500;" and "I lost $100" came from the crowd. At every new cry the crowd surged in the direction of the voice raised and demanding redress. Men and women pushed and jostled. Hats were fairly torn from heads and the store detec tives aided by floor-walkers, fought their way through to the depositors whoso cries caused the disturbance. A cordon 61 15 uniformed police was drawn up outside the store, but after a half hour of ceaseless endeavor quiet was restored without resorting to a call for aid. The store was then clear ed and at 6:45 the big bell clanged in the Fourteenth street store. With the clang of the gong in both stores clerks dropped their work and with a shout hurried for their pay. Every employe received his money for this week and even, received back the 10 cent deposit made for lockers. It was much like the last day in a boarding school. There were mingled tears and smiles as the employes who had been associated for years took leave of each other for the last time. Standing alone in the Simpson-Crawford store had obtained other places also, it was declared. But eight repre sentatives of the oWman's Protective League were busy among the young women handing out lists of responsi ble employment agencies. The "white slavers" did not overlook the pros pects afforded by the small army of young girls being thrown out of work and representatives of several ques tionable "employment agencies" were discovered at work among the girls. After weeks of uncertainty a reaction had set in among the younger clerks today and they laughed, danced and sang as they waited for their pay. Whether going to new opsitions or merely still hoping, all were optimistic. Many of the younger girls with little expeirence had been overlooked by the merchants who employed the job less forces but through their tears of disappointment they smiled. SPRING ARRIVES ONE WEEK AHEAD SCHEDULED TIME Lincoln, Neb., March 14. Arriving a week ahead of the date set by as tronomers, spring began in earnest to day. Two years ago there was a raging blizzard in the blinding cover of which three desperate convicts shot and dy namited their way to liberty ' at the Nebraska N penitentiary, killing three prison officials. - Eentire 20th Infantry at Fori Bliss Called Out to Investi gate Story of Plot to Release 3,600 Mexicans in Prison at Fort Bliss. According to Women Who Gave Out Story 3,000 Rifies and Ammunition Had Been Smug g!ed Into Mexican Points for Use of Reorganized Forces. El Paso, Texas, March 14. The en tire Twentieth Infantry at Fort Bliss was called out tonight, to investigate the story told to General Hugh Scott commandant, by two Mexican womer. of a plot hereby the 3,600 Mexi cans in prison at Fort Bliss were tc escape. According to the women a tunnel had been dug by the prisoner from one of the tents to a point 100 feet beyond the last line of American guards outside the camp. The plot included the escape across the border of about 3,000 prisoners, constituting the remnant of Gen. Sal vador Mercaco'is Mexican federal army, which fled from Ojinga several months ago after a valiant nine days' "defense aginst overwhelming odds.' According to the women 3,000 rifles and quantities of ammunitions hac been smuggled in the past few weeKE to various Mexican points, for the use of the re-organized federal force. It was proposed to seize these and attack Juarez, it having been believed that by Sunday night, Gen. Franciscc Villa and his rebel army, would have gene to Torreot, leaving Juarez practically ungarded. It was also planned to strike at Gen. Carranza. overpower his bodyguard and seize the "firist chief" of the constitution alists himself. Carranza tonight left Agna Prieta - for Juarez, going over land through b Mexico. By Sunday night he would have' been in easy striking distance. . ' The .two worn en7-both of whom, are inmates of the camp, said the plo was hatched shortly, after the camp was established, the plans beiEg- laic by engineers among the prisoners. For several weeks,' the women de clare, only th men who originated the plot were peyrmitted to know any thing about it but during the past two days the news has spread like wild fire through the camp that the tunnel would be finished by Sunday night anc all who wished to escape should be in readiness. The women also declared two of the driginal plotters were slain by their comrades a few nights ago, anc their bodies burned in the tunnel be cause of a suspicion that they were weakening. I 1 OF THE UNEMPLOYED A PROBLEM Sacramento, Cal., March 14. A conference of sheriffs from thirteen counties in northern California to devise means of getting the army of unemployed out of Yolo county and disperse them without force -will be held in Sacramento tonight. Leaders of the "army" dispatched today to President Woodrow Wilson a letter .outlining their grievance against J working conditions. The letter com j plained of alleged brutality shown in 1 routing the army from Sacramento and included the statement that proof of the deatn oi at least one or tne unemployed cauld be supplied. , RE THAN 1150 DROWNED IN TERRI BLE FLOOD II KUBA St. Petersburg, March 14. More than 1,150 men, -ornen and children were drowned tonight when a ter rific hurricane in thep rovince of Ku ban, accompanied the torrential rain caused the sea of Azof to raise nine feet indundating many towns. In the town of Achtiskaja, near the city of Azof, more than one thousand persons perished in their sleep, while 380 houses were swept into the sea by the flood, which came with a migh ty rush and without warning.' The death dealing wall of water completely overwhelmed the village of Stajitza, on the Azof ehore and many people were drowned. At Yarenkaja, where the inunda tion swamped many dwellings, giving their occupants to chance to escape, 150 were drowned. . . At Achtyrskaja where 200 workmen living on the shore were carried bodily out to sea, the flood broke the flood broke the cm across the river Don, causing a rush of water to rolJ down on - the hamlet of Tamrjuk, drowning many more persons. 3 STATUS OF NAT: RWYS. OF NEXIC New YotK, March 14. -E. N. Brown, president of the National Railways of Mexico, arrived in New York today to confer with a group ot international bankers regarding the road's impending , obligations. On April 1 the semi-annual interest on $51,000,000 of the company's 4 per cent general mortgage bonds guaran teed by the Mexican government will matuij. The government advanced a part of the funds required from last October's payments, but up to this time has given no intimation'-of what it intends to . do. respectiDs; the April interest. ' . .'
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