CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
CHINESE LAUNDRY DOOMED.
MANY GIRLS DIE
IN FIRE TRAP
MADERO HAS 6,000 MEN.
REBELS MAKE
NIGHT A m ®
Well Armed Mexican Rebels March
ing on City of Monclova.
Douglas, Ariz.—Francisco I. Ma
dero, the leader of the Mexican revolu
tionists, is now reported not wounded,
doings of the World at Large
Panic-Stricken Employes Leap but instead, marching on the city of Mexican Cities Fall and Revolo,
Monclova, in the state of Coahuila, at
Told in Brief.
to Awful Death.
tion Spreads.
the head of a well-equipped army, said
to number as high as 6,000 men.
News of Madero’s being wounded is
Pour From Windows to Fire Escapes said to have been sent out by Mexican Federal Troops Are Rounted, But
General Resume of Important Events
officials to discourage the revolution
and Fall in Shower Upon
Rally and Recapture Two Cities
Presented In Condensed Form
ists.
Firemen's Heads.
—Madero Leads.
This was the report sent by revolu
for Our Busy Readers.
tionists across the border into Douglas.
A local business man, who is a revolu
Newark, N. J.—In ten minutes 25 tionary sympathizer, received the data
Mexican rebels at Chihuahua have
girls were burned alive or crushed to in documentary form from friends in Principal Events in Mexican
been reinforced and a big battle is ex
death on the pavement by leaping from Mexico, and th e” dispatch was given
olution.
pected.
the windows and fire escapes of the out for publication.
Great battle breaks out in Torreon
four-story factory building at Orange
A small printed document published and continues through night. Many
The commission form of government
and High streets, occupied on the top at Chihuahua shows the local situa unarmed rebels are killed, but final-
has failed to cut down municipal ex
floor by an underwear manufacturing tion there and the purported move ly wrest victory from defeat, captur
penses in Tacoma.
concern.
ments of Madero.
This paper was ing many Federal troops and killing
The physical valuation of railroads
It was on the top floor where the smi ggled in. Since October 31, it is others.
5
is believed to be a lpng step towards
death list was heaviest.
The lower said aowboys have engaged in smug
Federal troops regain Gomez Pala-
regulation of rates.
floors were occupied by two paper box gling arms in from the border, where chio and Parral after sharp battle.
Traffic was tied up for two hours on
concerns and two electrical fixture fac they were received from San Antonio. Rebels prepare to renew attack.
i
a Seattle suburban line by a riot which
tories. The latest count shows that 20 All the funds were supplied by the
Southern
Mexico
in
hands
of
rev-1
followed a dispute over a 10-cent fare.
of the 25 bodies recovered have been Mexican junta and by Madero person olutionists. Fall of Vera Cruz is I
identified and that six girls are miss ally.
In a suburb of Berlin 2,500,000 gal
momentarily expected.
ing. They may be among the uniden
It is said that both the mounted
lons of benzine exploded. No one was
Revolutionist in force attack Chi- i
tified
or
yet
in
the
ruins.
The
collapse
troops and infantry of Madero carry huahua. Great battle is starting.!
killed, but the property loss is $350,-
of a wall interrupted the search for modern repeating rifles of 30-30 cali Defenders of city strongly entrench-!
000
CENSUS
FIGURES
FOR
bodies.
ber. Madero’s mounted soldiers are ed.
A theatrical magnate of Baltimore
Fifty were taken to the hospital, of considered particularly efficient. The
Madero, rebel General, leads!
PORTLAND AND SEATTLE. whom two may die.
has given $100,000 to build a hospital
foot soldiers were recruited from the mounted troops against Cuatro!
and industrial home for crippled chil
Among the injured is Joseph E. cotton belt, where it was known for a
Washington — The population of Sloan, deputy fire chief, who was over long time that the peons were ready to Cienegas in night.and battle ensues, i
dren.
Three towns in western part of Chi-!
Portland is 207,214, compared with taken by the falling wall and buried in take
up arms.
The government has begun a second 90,426 in 1909, and 46,385 in 1890.
huahua captured by rebels.
bricks
and
rubbish.
He
is
badly
hurt
According to the reports received in
desperate fight against the sugar trust, The increase from 1900 to 1910 there
Passenger train on Chihuahua!
Douglas, Madaro’s first movement was line fired on, many killed.
consisting of nearly 30 separate con fore is 116,788, or 129.2 per cent, as but may recover.
The rush of the flames was so swift
With his men he
cerns.
compared with an increase for the pre and threw such terror into the girls on a bold stroke.
The British parliament has been dis ceding decade of 44,041, or 94.9 per the top floor that the body of one was marched to the great ranch owned by
General Terrazas, now appointed gov
El Paso, Texas, Nov. 24.—Fighting
solved, and one faction threatens to re cent.
found still seated on a charred stool
of Chihuahua, at Sans Ostenes, has been going on at Torreon since
bel if home rule wins in the coming
The population of Seattl“ is 237,194, beside the machine at which she had ernor
where he captured 400 horses. Madero early last evening. A crowd of 2,000
elections.
an increase of 156,523, or 194 per cent been working.
and his soliders then moved into the
over
80,671
in
1900.
The
population
Horrible as must have been what oc mountains. Here, with his troops he revolutionists are on the river front
All hope of finding B. E. Corbin, the
curred in the crowded upper rooms, will be able to stand off the govern opposite the city and 600 soldiers are
missing Boise, Idaho, banker, has in 1890 was 37,834.
Census Director Durand said that what befell outside in the bright sun ment army for an indefinite period, if
been abandoned. He went hunting a
engaged against them on the city side.
week ago and no trace of him can be until the complete returns for Oregon light was more horrible.
the claim of the revolutionary sypa- Large numbers of rebels are reported
are
published,
showing
the
population
The building was exceedingly in
found.
of Portland’s suburbs, a just compar flammable and the first gush of flames thizers is well founded.
killed, most of them unarmed. The
The abscondin teller of a Los An ison of the population of the two cities had cut off all escape by the stairways.
Mexican Central right of way is being
geles bank, who isappeared Sept. 17 could not be made.
Seattle has an The elevators made ore trip, but took
kept cleared by soldiers and rurales.
BAD ELEPHANT EXECUTED.
with $100,000 of the bank’s funds, tel nexed its suburbs; a very considerable down no passengers and never came
The roads leading there are crowded
egraphed that hi' was starving in a population, similarly contiguous to back. The only exit was by the fire
with men going to the place, and it is
Mexican prison u id $100 was sent him. Portland, is outside its corporate escapes, the lower platforms of which 500 Grains of Cyanide of Patassium estimated
more than 12,000 are pres
Kills Huge Beast.
Political facti is had a fierce fight limits.
ent. Neither the police nor the troops
were 25 feet from the street.
The revision of the Portland figures
on the streets of iJork, Ireland.
Onto these overcrowded and Bteep
New York — It took 500 grains of are following. The latter seem con
resulted in the elimination of 15,745 lanes, scorched dancing hot by the jets cyanide of potassium, the most deadly tent policing Gomez Palacio and Tor
Twenty-five pcsons lost their lives names. The number taken from Se
of flame from the lower windows, poison, to kill Gypsie Queen, a trick reon. A train of eight coaches of
in a box factory lire at Newark, N. J. attle’s count was 11,188.
pressed forward a mob of women, blind elephant, executed for the murder of soldiers from the City of Mexico ii
Governor Clark, of Alaska, says Pin-
withpanic, driven by the fire and the her keeper, Robert Schiel, on October traveling north and were ordered to
HEIRESSES TO WORK LAND.
chotism is the curse of that territory.
others behind them.
20. Less than one grain is sufficient Chihuahua. It will arrive there at 7
A net had been spread beneath the to kill any man and the first convulsive a. m.
Michael Cudahy, founder of the Rich Illinois Girls Take Up [Montana
The rebels of Torreon have driven
windows and the girls began to jump, symptoms supervene almost before the
great Cudahy Packing company is
Homesteads.
‘like rats out of a burning bin,’ was victim can set down the glass from the soldiers from the river banks into
dead.
the city streets and captured 100 of
Aurora, 111.—Miss Winnie Bensch- the way a fireman described the de which he swallows.
King George, of England, will aid bach,
scent.
Gypsy Queen swayed backward and them. The soldiers have been rein
whose
father,
William
Bensch-
the Liberals if they win the coming bach, of Princeton, is one of the
They came out of the windows like forward, flapping her big ears, for ten forced by nearly 500 infantry which
elections.
wealthiest men in Central Illinois, and thick treacle, rolled upon the heads of minutes before she showed the least came from the south and disembarked
The Internal Revenue department Miss Kathryn Smith, daughter of W. those below them and cascaded off the uneasiness. It was 44 minutes before four miles south of the city.
The rebels are becoming more num
says illicit distilling is largely on the I. Smith, also a wealthy resident of fire escape to the pavement 60 feet be she was pronounced dead.
The poison was given in three pail erous and bolder and they seem to
increase in Prohibition states.
Princeton, have taken up land claims low.
Some of them stood in the windows fuls of bran mash, in which had been have more arms.
I t is claimed that several thousand in Montana and next April will leave outlined against the flames and jnmped sprinkled
Chihuahua is reported to be in great
100 capsules, each of five
their
homes
and
go
to
the
wilderness,
Tiabies are starving in Chicago as the
clear. Others jumped from the land grains of cayanide. The elephant had danger, it being [estimated that there
16
miles
from
Roundup,
Mont.,
to
work
result of the garment workers’ strike,
ings, still others from the steps where been starved for 24 hours and ate are between 800 and 1,000 revolution
which is no nearer settlement than their homesteads.
they stood. The air was full of them greedily. At the end of ten minutes ists gathered between the city and the
Each
girl
witi
fall
heiress
to
a
for
ever.
tune of close to $250,000. They have and they fell everywhere—into the net, she shivered in all her bulk of 7,500 plant of the American Smelting & Re
Count Nascimento, of Portugal, was each filed on 160 acres and will live in on the necks of the firemen, and 15 of pounds, her knees weakened, her trunk fining company. All responsible citi
not satisfied with the $1,000,000 dower log cabins for 14 months.
grew rigid, she rolled her eyes and zens are armed and expecting to best-
Their them on the hard stone slabs.
tacked any moment. Crowds of de
When the awful rain ceased there finally fell.
of his prospective American bride, and claims adjoin and the two cabins will
the girl’s father has declared the be but 30 feet apart. Both girls say were eight dead in the street, and the
In the next two minutes she get up fenders occupy the tops of all the
match off.
they understand farming and will gutters ran red. Seven were so badly four times, struggling against the banks, churches and large buildings
chains that bound her. At the end of throughout the city.
superintend
the work on their claims. crushed they died in hospitals.
A force of 600 Mexicans troops rout
It is reported in Chihuahua that
20 minutes her breathing was imper
ed 400 rebels after six hours’ fighting,
MEXICAN REBELS ROUTED.
THIEF CUTS OFF GIRL’S HAIR
ceptible, but 44 minutes after her first rebels from Sonora have arrived it
killing 15 revolutionists and wounding
swallow she blinked when her trainer Temosachic and have the town sur
many. The government forces had
Government Troops Kill Fifteen and passed his hand before her eyes.
rounded in conjunction with rebels of
Makes
Away
With
Tresses
But
Leaves
several wounded.
Wound Many.
that vicinity. The few soldiers in the
That was the last sign of life.
Jewels Untouched.
A prominent physician of Moline,
town are expecting to be attacked be
Chihuahua, Mexico—In an engage
Seattle — Leaving untouched valua ment near this city which lasted from
III., was arrested for attempting to ex
fore morning.
Revolution is Belittled.
tort $35,000 from the president of the ble jewels and watches which lay on 9 o’clock in the morning until 3 o’clock
It is reported that Madero, accom
El Paso, Tex.—A great mass of cor panied by nearly 1,000 mounted men,
John Deere Plow company by means of her dresser, a miscreant whose identity in the afternoon, 600 Federal troops
is unknown, to the police, entered the routed a force of 400 Maderoists, driv respondence has come in during the attacked Cuatro Cienegas tonight *t
imitation Black Hand letters.
room of Miss Bertha M. Parks, 19
A big battle is expected for the sen- years old, at her home, 1216 East ing them repeatedly from a strong po last three days from Parral, Chihuahua 11 o’clock and a battle is nowin
sition and compelling them to take to and Torreon from business men, law progress.
atorship from Kansas.
Alder street, and while she was sleep the moutains.
yers, doctors, and quasi-newspaper
Woman suffrage will be voted upon ing, with her sister, cut from her head
The revolutionists lost 15 killed and men. All minimize the disorders of a
Witness Blames Union
long tresses of deep auburn hair, and many wounded. There were no fatal week ago and all declare that the gov
at the coming election in England.
Tampa, Fla.—After examination of
escaped with his plunder.
ities on the Federal side, but several, ernment is in control except in a few
Representative Tawney opposes the
Miss Parks immediately became hys including three officers, were wounded. scattered places. The insurrectionists, :veral witnesses the state rested in
le trial of the leaders of the cigsr-
idea of fortifying the Panama canal.
terical and a physician had to be sum
General Navarro was in command of at present operating spasmodically in akers’ strike. T. B. Fisher, a cigar
General Madero, the Mexican revolu moned in an effort to quiet her. She the Federal troops. He left Chihuahua the Chihuahua mining district, are for
tionary leader is reported to be wound had not been disturbed in the least, yet at 5 o’clock in the morning at the head the most part unarmed. They are op jx manufacturer, testified that <*'*’
her auburn tresses, nearly three feet of four companies of the second battal posed to President Diaz, but their il days after the shooting of J-
ed.
asterling he had told De la Csmp*.
Berlin police have warned women long, were gone. Her sister had not ion and two squads of cavalry from the forays are of little importance.
cad of the Tobacco Workers’ an»*.
heard
any
one
in
the
room,
but
heavy
13th regiment.
against wearing dangerously long hat
iat the strikers were making sM
tracks made by muddy feet were visi
Near Fresno, 12 miles out, one of SCHOONER SINKS, FOUR LOST
pins.
istake in shooting American*
ble on the carpcL
the squads of cavalry fell behind to
iat
De la Campa had replied:
A ten-round fight at Akron, Ohio,
guard the road. They were ambushed Crew Set Out in Two Dories and am sorry, but we had to take dnw*
was opened by prayer by an evangelist,
Goose Recognizes Voice.
by the rebels, who opened fire from
eps to prevent the men from
One Reaches Sitka, Alaska.
who was introduced by the mayor.
Allentown, Pa.—Gustav Conrad has hills on both sides of the highway.
i w o rk ."_________
Juneau, Alaska — Four members of
The fine trotting stallion, The Bonds recovered a flock of geese that had
After several hours of heavy fighting
the crew of the power schooner Sea
man, was sold at the New York horse been stolen from his poultry yard. the rebels broke fer the mountains.
Nabob’s Wife Ex-Servant.
Conrad made a ,house-to-house search,
Light, which was wrecked near Cape
show for $11,000 to an Oregon man.
New York—Miss Minnie
constantly calling “ Bill!” "B ill!” At
Ommaney, at the southern end of Bar- ho was formerly a hotel maid at
Isthmus Flight Planned.
A number of Jesuit priests banished last there was (an answering squawk
month, was married to Thomas _
New York—Clifford B. Harmon and anof Island, are believed to have been
from Portugal have arrived at San from a cellar, which he recognized as
Claude Grahame-White, who will leave lost in a storm which swept the North ckert, Jr., heir to the $3,000,00#
Francisco and will remain in this coun- the note of his gander.
Pacific.
ite of the late General Tho®**^
Europe on November 30, propose to
try.
Conrad went into the house and be fly across the English Channel before
The Sea Light, which had eight men ckert, long president of the wsmjjj
Daniel Keefe, commissioner generaf gan to ask questions.
The woman
in her crew, was wrecked five days
nion Telegraph company. TheO»v
of immigration, declares that half the frankly admitted she had a number of January 1. On his return to this ago. The men set out in two dories,
■ound the Roman Cahtholic chur*
side,
Mr.
Harmon
will
attempt
to
Chinese in this country are here by geese in the cellar, which she said she
fly from the deck of the Hamburg- four men in eaeh boat. One of the hichthe wedding was held,
fraud.
had bought from a boarder living in a American liner “ Moltke” anchored off boats arrived at Sitka with the report rest that the sexton called forjr:
An extensive mutiny is in progress neighboring house.
Colon, across the isthmus of Panama, of the wreck of the schooner and the i keep it in check. Mrs. Eckert
in the Brasilian navy. The men de
to the Pacific. Mr. Harmon has ar probable loss of the men in the other ■ide, was at one time a domes*
Union Man Faces Death.
manded more pay and the abolition of
ranged this aerial trip from the Atlan dory. When last seen the missing le household of General Eckert
Paris—A jury in the court of assizes tic to the Pacific as a demonstrationjon dory was being tossed by a heavy sea
corporal punishment.
Grave Made by S u ic id e .^
at Rouenbureen imposed the death pen
and appeared to be sinking.
The bursting of an internal lake in alty on Secretary Durand, of the Coal behalf of the aeronautical {reserve, of
Helena,
Mont. — Charles
which
he
is
chief
os
staff.
Behring glacier, Alaska, caused a dis Handlers' union, who was accused of
ped 83 , committed suicide
^
Countess Tolstoi Gravely III.
astrous flood in Behring river valley instigating the murder of Foreman
Ban on Whisky Is Upheld.
inging
himself.
He
had
car*?
j
SL
Petersburg—A
news
dispatch
which destroyed many miners’ cabins, Donge during the strike on the docks
s grave in solid rock and m** ^
Knoxville, Tenn.—The Tennessee from Tula says Countess Tolstoi is ill,
and it is believed many miners were at Havre in September, Donge turned Supreme court holds as constitutional
having a temperature of 102.9. The •cesaary arrangements with
lost.
strikebreaker and returned to work. the act of the Tennessee legislature of will of the late Count Tolstoi makes
rtaker to furnish him with .a
Mexican rebels have been victorious Soon afterward be was beaten to death 1909 prohibiting the manufacture of his daughter Alexandra the legatee of e was buried .according to
in the streets.
in many night attacks.
whiskey in Tennessee.
arrangements.
his unpublished works.
.
Nation-Wide Crusade Against Them
Is Proposed.
Chicago—The doom of the Chinese
laundry as it exists today may be the
result of a nation-wide organization
soon to De inaugurated. A crusade of
education is .to be carried on through
newspapers and magazines warning
against the unsanitary conditions.
The movement had its inception in
Chicago and it ia expected the first
effects will be felt here through an or
dinance which soon will be reported to
the city council providing stringent
regulations for all establishments en
gaged in supplying clean linen.
The ordinance originated with [The
health department, and at once re
ceived the co-operation of the Laundry
association, which obtained the incor
poration in the ordinance of clauses
even more stringent than those origin
ally drafted.
The ordinance has been
favorably reported by the committee
in charge and its passage is practically
assured.
It is declared the statistics of the
health department show that epidemics
of scarlet fever, diphtheria and other
diseases were more prevalent in dis
tricts where Chinese laundries were
thickest, and these laundries have been
the cause of spreading disease.