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fuarez, March 27.—A message
led 5 p. m. at Gomez Palacio,
ned by General Villa said he
1 concentrated liis forces to
ce his way into Torreon and
re to join Herrera and take
)reme command.
)fflcials here declared that the
eirals attempted to escape
m Torreon and were driven
k. Hererra with his own
gade and part of Zaragosa’s
.2Cade, all veterans, arereport-
:o have entered Torreoii from
east, four thousand strong
, to have fought their way
m house to house until the
I ring on the northern fringe
he town was taken, together
li most of the business dis-
t.
GOME7, PALACIO TAKEN,
oinez Palaico, Mexico, March
-The four days’ fighting, in-
ling three*desp_erate assiilts
■,he rebels, were crowned to-
when General Villa moved
the city and established
Iquarters on the side of the
n looking toward Torreon,
lin three miles of the goal of
campaign.
:ie final, deciding assults was
’ vered yesterday, and was
;eded by bombardment, after
3h the infanti’y and cavalry
led into the streets,
sneral Villa does not know
>wn loss, except that it was
'y. Veterans say that no
e furious battle was ever
.;ht in Mexico. .
11a, with his characteristic
•gy, began preparations to
•>fi on Torreon and ex]iects 1^
perate with four hundred
ers to attack from thc^ast.
'henewspaper correspondents
■e permitted to enter the city
h Villa.
leneral Velasco defende'^ j.he
'n with great bravery. /ree
lis generals, Pena, Ray U*.J and
aya, are reported killed. Gen-
lOcaranza is reported serious-
wounded.
CONFLICTING KEPORT.
Vashington, March 27.—Com
te defeat of Villa and the con-
iutionlist forces before Tor-
>n was reported to the Mexican
bassy here today in a dis-
.ch from Senor Portillo Y.
ias, minister of the foreign
lirs.
iinister Portillo’s dispatch
itirming an earlier one from
Mexican consul at El Paso,
;s the constitutionalist forces
re decisively repulsed and
yen back several miles from
It ir positions of vantage.
ILLA SAYS HE HELD LARDO.
uarez, Mexico, March 27.—
leral soldiers at Torreon last
tht failed in a ten-hour fight to
. ake Lardo, according to a tele-
an received here today signed
aeral Villa. The telegram
3 dated Gomez Palacia. Lardo
. manufacturing town in the
lurbs of Tori-eon.
AT .'ACKON TOKKEON UNDER WAY.
. uarez, Mexico. March 27.—If
tl: irmation given out at military
iG ' dquarters here today is cor-
V 'fc, the rebel attack on Torreon
s under way today. It was
;tai:ed that General Herrera had
;ap :ured the Torreon bull ring in
he northern edge of the city.
'ei: eral Angeles was said to be
I'" '.:cting a heavy artillery fire on
Federal garrison from the
MASS OF liUMORS.
larez, Mexico, March 2t.—
ut ofthe mass of rumors and
Tl' lonfirmed reports of the re-
il of fighting around Gomez
al icio received hei'e yesterday
<i early today no reliable in-
T nation could be gleamed.
Ftt’om the fedei’al sources came
:nevvs that General Villa had
1 beaten; from rebel sources
e declarations of victory for
^constitutionalist general and
n whence none knows came
irs of other unconfirmed re-
WEST DURHAM FIRE
Durham, March 27.—Fire,
which broke out tonight.at 10
o’clock, desti'oyed a store and
feedhouse belonging to Ed. Crow',
the residence of Mr. Guy Tilley,
and damaged the residence of
Mr. Council, entaiUng a loss of
§10,000, and also threatened the
Methodist church and several
other residences. The burned
places were on Blackwell street,
in West Durham.
The flames were discovered in
the store about 10 o’clock and
for nearly an hour raged fiercely
with the Erwin Mill Hose Com-
dany fighting desperetely to save
the burning store and near-by
homes. The residence of Mr.
Tilley caught andTwas destroyed
before the work of the firemen
conquered the fire, which was
under control about 10:40. The
West Durham Methodist church
close by was in danger and
caught fire once, but was saved.
Several residences also caught
fire, but were well protected bj'
the local firemen. Hose coui-
panj’ No. 3 of the Dui'ham fii'e
department, responded to the
alarm.
It is said that the alarm of the
West Durham fire was the third
for the Durham department dur
ing the day, a small fire occurr
ing at the factory of the Durham
Buggy Company, but with slight
damages. '■
JUDGE FRANK CARTER IS GRAVELY
ACCUSED.
Asheville, March 27.—A sensa
tion was sprung in the superior
court room hero when John H.
Lange, a wealthy liotel and busi
ness man of the city, made the
statement on the witness stand
that the liquor investigation con
ducted here last fall, as the re
sult of whiofli he pleaded guiUMW^,
u) charge o’l retailing ahd \v^'
fined something o i'er i!?2,t)00 and
court costs, was a blackmailing
scheme to which Sujierior Court
Judge Frank H. Carter, who
conducted the investigation as a-
committing magistrate, was a
party,
Mr. Lange further declared
that he pleaded guilty in order to
keep the case from ruining his
business and that before he went
into th^ court room to enter the
plea • he had an agreement,
througli his attorneys with Judge
Carter to be let off with a fine of
§2,000, the judge “laying down”
on his agreement and raising the
fine over SOOO after the plea was
entered. He charged that
Judge Carter had a motive in
this because he (Ijange) had not
voted for him.
BANDIT ROBS SEA
BOARD EXPRESS
Columbia, S. C., March 28.—
Compeling the expi’ess messeng
er to open the safe at the point of
a revolver, a lone bandit tonight
obtained a single package -of
valuables, from the Seaboard Air
Line’s passenger train No. 2,
bound from Tampa, Fla., to New
York, and then jumped from the
train, making his escape.^ The
robbery occurred just as the
train was leaving Columbia. The
value of the i^ackage taken was
said by express officials to be
small. The passenger and mail
coachs^^ffiere not molested by
th^"fe^^ He left the train as
it down for a crossing
in the Northern limits of the
city.
Express company officials were
unable to estimate accurately to
night the value of the package
taken. They said they did not
know, as yet, where the missing
package was placed on the train,
and that until this information
was available the loss would not
be known.
Railway officials said that the
robbery occurred while the train
was proceeding three blocks.
Tlie robber is believed to have
boarded the train at the passen
ger station in the center of the
city. The hold-up todaj' is the
third of its kind within the past
two years. No arrests have been
made in the two previous rob
beries.
Special agents of the railroad,
the Southern Express Company
and the local police are searching
ths city and its surroundings for
the robber. Express Messenger
Freemaii,, in charge of the ro.bbej
K i,.—^-Af^ilp.ribecl tiie'^roT^jjer as
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ports.
One brief message came from
Villa, himself. It contained
nothing concerning the results
of his battle. It was a command
for speedy shipment of the mili
tary monoplane from Juarez and
an order that all equipment for
rebuilding railroad track be
hurried south. The fact that the
message vjas sent i'l'om Gomez
Palacio gave rise to the brief that
the rebel leader has (‘aptured
that suburb of Torreon and hope
ran higheraniong constitutional
ists here.
That Vila had' ordered the
monoplan« was construed by
some to mean that he was to be
gin his attiek proper on Torreon
within theinniediate future, and
that he hiQ unexpected condi
tions to The machine
has been nndergoing
here and ^rly todfiy it
known hc,v soon it could be put
in runnin- order, but Manuel
Chao, miliary goveriioi’ of Chi
huahua, lnt night gci^® x^ei-
sonal suptvision to the work of
expediting!t,s shipment.
BHITISIIBACK TO
MEXICO.
London,,/[arch 27.^
Carden, i-itish minister to
Mexico, sag from LiMei’POOl to
morrow foNe\v Yoi'k on Ws I'e-
turn to Meco City.
man of medium height with dark
hair and a sallow complexion.
The messenger said the robber
was masked.
KILLED BY TRAIN.
Mr. R. K. Marnhall, of this
city, was killed on the trestle
over Lovills Creek, one mile south
of the depot, by the morning
passenger train Wednesday. His
skull was fractured anddeath was
instantaneous.
The story is something like
the following. Mr. Marshall is
supposed to have started into the
country south of the city to see
a farmer about some timber that
he desired to purchase. He was
walking and following the rail
road track, as is custom in this
section. The passenger train
that leaves here at 8:45 approach
ed the trestle and the engineer
saw him walking on the track
near the south end of the tres
tle, He blew the whistle and
ra^^tl^__bell Wxi-nking that he
WOTRkgei^^^6ut as the engine
api^roached near the engineer
saw that he was not getting out
of the way as fast as was neces
sary to save himself, and at once
all the emergency brake was ap
plied and every effort possible
was made to stop the train be
fore striking him. But it was
not possible to stop before the
train had knocked him from the
trestle, ■
From all we can Ijarn about
the sad affair it must be that Mr,
Marshall when the, train ap
proached him thought tliat he
would not be able to get off the
trestle in time to save himself,
and stepped to the end of the
cross ties, thinking that he could
stoop down and thus be out of
the way of the passing' train.
Certain it is he got as far out on
the end of the ties as he could
and was in a stooped position
when some part of the train,
sup])0sed to b'8 the^gtcjs, struck
liiinin the back'ancf-^i'ioc^di'im
Vvigr *.** r Tf '
was fractured* causi.n^'i*nstant
death. The body wa- cjwried at
once to the ^outhferj D^wt and
Dr, W, S, Taylor,'tJT'feui^eon for-
the Railroad OCi pany sent for.
YOUNG BOY FACES
MURDER CHARGE
Little Palls, N- Y,, March2Q.—
Jean Gianini, who has been held
as a suspect for the murder of,
Lydia Beecher, the young Po
land, N. Y., scliool teacher,
whose body was found in a clump
of woods, near that town, was
arrested today on a warrant
charging him with the crime.
AUegen admissions made by
Gianici, who is 16 yeaj:s old and
a former pupil of Miss Beecher,
are held by the authorities as
tant-amount to a confession.
Insu[)portof the youth’s re-
putated statements an affidavit
was made today by Brainard
Will, a companion of Gianini and
a year his senior, to the effect
that the accused boy several days
ago asked Will to assist in mur
dering Miss Beecher and rob
bing the safe in the second larg
est business house in Poland.
Will said he did not think Gianini
was in earnest.
The weapons which are alleged
to‘ have been used to commit the
crime are in the possession of
the. authorities. They are a
wrench and a hunting knife.
The wrench was recovered
near the scene of the tragedy
and the knife was taken from a
pantry at the Gianini home. The
coat which the boy . wore was
stained with red spots which he
said were paint marks. The gar
ment has been sent to a chemist
for examinatiion.
The holding of an autopsy has
been delayed because the author
ities have encounterrd difficulty
in finding a physician willing to
perform it. The Herkimer
Qpniftv T'lhlT.c'ir-irr^^LSi’irl,
' ervisors recently disagreed over
the .scale of prices for medical
work.
DEATH SENTENCE IS CHANGED TO A
LIFE SENTENCE
Raleigh, March 27. —.Tfimes
Bolejack gets a cominutallCiii
from the death sentence to life
imprisonment. He is the aged
MecklenJ>nig county man sen
tenced to die April 24th for wife
THE HAMLET VERSION.
Hamlet, March 28.—A bold
bandit entered the express car on
the Seaboard limited train No, 2
tonight about 7 o’clock, as the
train was leaving Columbia, and
overpowering Express Messen
ger Freeman, forced him to
open the safe and taking the
contents.
BANDIT PULLS CORt).
This was done within the city
limits of Columbia and the bandit
pulling the bell cord which
caused the train to slow up
sufficiently for him to escepe,
Messenger Freeman was inter
viewed on the arrival of No, 2 at
Hamlet and stated that as he was
checking up the shipment from
Columbia, just after the train
left the station, he was ordered
to hold up his hands by the
bandit.
KNEW HE MEANT BUSINESS,
He does not know how he enter
ed the car but supposed he enter
ed while the car was being load
ed at Columbia. The bandit at
the point of his pistol forced
Freeman to open the safe, taking
the contents which was in a large
canvas sack. Very little was
said by the bandit, but from the
manner he handled the pistol
the messenger knew' he meant
business.
ROBBER WEARS MASK.
Freeman says the bandit wore
a black mask and was a man of
medium size. The officials of the
express company here advise
that they are unable tonight to
state the amount received by the
bandit but in any event the
amount will be small. Railroad
detectives and officers at
Columbia are working on the
case,
DEPUTIES GET STILL,
Statesville, March 27,—Deputy
Collector M, P. Alexander, Mr.
J, R, Alexander and Deputy
Sheriff Gilbert, of Statesville, ac
companied by Sheriff Sprinkle,
of Davie county, deati-oyed a big
illicit distillery plant hi Yadkin
but when he
extinct. Death
in-an instant.
The funeral s<
the Friends ch
Plains on Frida.i
Mr, R, K, Ma!
practically all
place. He was
ived life was
l3st have come
ces will be at
h at White
rlO o’clock,
ill had spent
s life at this
Uut sixty years
of age and hat^ebn twice mar-
sCorrena Jones,
cfcnty who^lived
ried, first toM
of Davidson
only a year afir the marriage
Miss Minnie J les was his se
cond wife and pthem were born
five children alfof whom are here
except one sai, Mr, Arthur
Marshall, of Tinoxville, Tenn,,
who will arri veto night, 'vLI'''
For many yea’sMr. Mai^iiMl
has been one of V'*' 'J®®* known
citizens of this Vounty. Some
years-ago he terc^s:-^ active part
in politics and
murder. Governor Craig’s rea
sons for the commutation follow:
“When the defendant commit
ted murder evidently he did not
realize what he was doing. He
is old and broken down in mind
and body. The jury, when they
returned the verdict, recom
mended mercy. The commuta
tion is strongly urged by .fudge
W. J. Adams, who tried the case.
Solicitor George W. Wilson and
a large number of other good cit
izens in many sections of tlie
State. Humane administration
of the law does not demand that
he be put to death, but rather
punishnientoflifeimprisonment.’
Raleigh, March 27.—Though
announcement has not come
from the governor’s office, J. L.
-Bolejack, the old white man of
Mecklenburg, who was convicted
several weeks ago of murdering
his wife, will not be electrocuted,
'Bolejack was .sentenced to die
April 24, It was brought out in
the trial that he was a drunken,
insane degenerate at times and
tho the State made out a perfect
case, it was known all the while
that he stood even chance to get
life imprisonment.
The old man has been writing
the governor lettei’s for clemen
cy and has been unable to sleep
or eat for thinking of the day of
execution. Governor Craig will
in all probability announce the
commutation of the sentence to
day and will give' i-easons for it
if he acts officially,”
I^nder.son, March 29,—Thirty-
five horses belonging to the
Parham Supply Company were
SPRING FLOODS
ARE ALARMING
Collector and
gauger for se^
was a member
commissioners
several years a
csfcr'.'a''as' Deputy
toveleeper and
feral
of t
ley’s adminis tratio
master for five
of t
ernis. He
! board of
s city for
nd dujng McKin-
was post
MISS TYLER CALLS AT WHITE HOUSE
TO PROTEST.
Washinston, March 27.—At
tired in an old-fashion poke
bonnet, Miss Mattie R. Tyler,
aged seventy, grand-daughter of
former President Tyler, called, at
the White House today to plead
with President Wilson to con
tinue her as postmistress at
Courtland, Virginia, which post
she has held seventeen years.
She says she supports herself
and sister on the salary of six
hundred and fifty dollars, but
that now a “clique of Virginia
politicians” is trying to deprive
her of her position.
Recently Postmaster General
Burleson, on the recommend
ation of Representative Holland
and other Democrats, presented
the name of B, A, Williams and
his nomination was prepared to
day for transmission to the Sen
ate. Miss Tyler heard of it and
came here to try and prevent be
ing ousted.
She did not see the president,
but left !i. request for an en
gagement which will be grant
ed.
years
He was coujnted fgood busi
ness man and| wasi;>nce worth
considerable pa’opert. He found
ed the Banne'r Maufacturing
plant and ope
years.
The family 1;
who
this dark hor
them atthesu
husband and :
News.
rated, t for some
as a hot of friends
sympatl:^ize them in
rand|iourn with
iden pssing of the
father—Mt. Airy
D u KM
Hudson
roasted to death tonight in a Hre
that destroyed the company’s
stable and all contents.
The fire was discovered about
9:30o’clock and the firemen work
ed hard to save something. The
stables filled with five car-loads
of ha.y furnished an exceedingly
inflammable material and the
horses were burned before the
firemen could give any help. The
exciimeut was intense for a time.
The company’s stables wei-ein
the heart of the city and it looked
as if the firemen would have
trouble holding the blaze within
the walls of the burned building.
The Parham company ran its
business between the walls of
two other big firms and the sub
stantial -material pi’evented a
spread. One small frame house
was almost destroyed, but the
damage was not great. No cause
is assigned for the fire. It damag
ed but little of the adjoining pro
perties.
county Wednesday. The plant
had not been in oeration for
several days and thwtill proper
had been removed, bt the brick
furnace, eight unusially large
fermenters, a “beer veil,” bar
rels, etc., were in tieir places
and showed signs of laving been
used considerably, lis believed
by the officers that naiy gallons
of liquor had been nade at the
plant, and it was evidiit that the
operators expected to resume
operation later. Tb‘ still was
located in a dense hicket an,d
Avell concealed.
double LIFE OF LATE IRON KING
BROUGHT TO LIGHT,
Louisville, March 26,—The
double life of Louis Philip Ewald,
the late iron master, was brought
out here today in, he he^'' ^ of
the suit brought l/\' fvj-olden
seeking to establish'^ »er dower
rights to Ewald’s estate. Al
leging that she was the common
law wife, the woman asks for
half the personality of the widow’s
interest, approximating two mil
lions.
Witnesses for the plantiffl testi
fied to many eccentricities of the
late millionaire. They stated
that lie shunned ordinary notice,
and was scarcely known here, al
though operating a large iron
foundry in this city. He seldom
left his office except in a cab,
Por purposes of secrwy, wit
nesses said Ewald purchased a
large mansion next to one in
which he installed Ellen Golden
here, which he left vacant.
HOOK WORM SPECIALIST HURT IN
AUTO ACCIDENT.
Anderson, S, C,, March 29,—
Dr, Floyd Rogers, who is con
ducting a hookworm campaign in
Abbeville County, sustained a
fracture of his collarbone and
three ribs, while the muscles in
his left arm wei’e badly lacerated,
when his automobile turned three
somersaults as he was nearing
Williamston,
In the car with Doctor Rogers
were Mrs, Rogers, who was a
Miss Anderson of (Jaffney and
who was married to Doctor Rog
ers one week ago, and aMr, Polk,
Mrs, Rogers was scratched on
the face, but is not seriously
hurt, Mr, Polk, who is Doctor
Roger’s assistant in the hook
worm work, has a bad scalp
ind,
With Doctor Rogers at the
wheel, the automobile was round
ing a sharp curve when he lost
control. The machine turned
over three times, practically
wrecking it. Doctor Rogers had
been running a car for only a few
days, and this ma.y account for
the accident.
New York, March 28. Si)ring
floods have set in through tho
valleys of the State. Much prop-
ei-ty damage hns lieen i-eported.
Warm weather of the jiast few
days has melted much of the
heavy snow which fell early in
the month and this with a steady ^
rain thi-oughout the night has
swollen all the stream.s many of
which are out of their banks
flooding the lowlands.
At Troy the Hudson river has
assumed flood proportions and
with the water rising rapidly
merchants along the river front
are removing goods to safer
places. Amsterdam . repoi'ted
part of the bridge which spans
the Mohawk river carried away
by high water and ice cutting
off the southern section of the
city from the main ]iart of the
town.
The Cliemango and the Sus'
quehannah rivers are overflow
ing into the lowlands about Bing-
hampton. At Syracuse, Onon-""
daga creek is flooding miles of
territory, Ithaca and Schenec— .
tady also report flood conditions
beyond usual spring freshet
marks.
At Schenectady the Mohawk
river has flooded the lower
streets. Ice is jammed against
the biidge connecting Schenec-'
tady and Scotna and it may go
out before night. There is also ■
a heavy ice pack against the Erie
canal aqueduct four miles east of
the city. The Redfordbridge has
already been carried away; Thtt^
river ii^.rising i-apidly.
. mjflSON RIVER RISING,
river is rising rapidl.v
here. Dwellers along the river
front are moving to places of saf-
ety.
A'STEADY DOWNPOUR.
Binghampton, N, Y. March 28.
—A steady downpour rain all
night increased the gravity of
the flood situation heie. Early
this morning the Canango river
broke over its banks, flooding a
residential section of the city.
The Susquehanna rose to a point
which imperiled the entire cen
tral section of the city. A heavy
rain continued today.
HUNDREDS MAROONED
Chicago, March 28.—Several
hundred persons today were ma
rooned in their homes in Chica
go heights by a flood varying
from two to seven feet in depth
that submerged a low part of the
suburb. Rafts were used to
carry in food and bring out sick
persons. Clogged sewers failed
to carry ofl* excessive rain water,
Columbus, Ohio, March 28.—
With the Great Miami and White
water rivers raging, the Scioto
climbing a foot an hour and the .
Muskingum and Licking rivers
out of their banks along the low
lands, anxiety was felt during
last night of a recurrence of the
disasterous floods of March 25-
28, 1913. A cessation of rainfall
followed by colder weather early
today has checked the rise of all
the streams mentioned. Dam
age so 'far reported has been con
fined to the southeastern section
of the State, where bridges have
been washed out.
Pittsburg, Pa,, March 28,—
Flood stages were reported from
the upper Alleghany river toda.v
because of melting snows and
last night’s heavy rain. At War
ren, Pa,, it was- rising rapidly
and much damage had been done.-'
Trolley and railroad lines were
reported in trouble and a number
of factQjfies had shut down. The
local weather bureau declared
that this water would likely bo
taken care of in the stream furth
er South and only 20 feet was
predicted for Pittsburg two feet
under the flood stage.
There is no flood in the Mou-
ongaheta and no immediate pros-
sect of one.