CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
MADERO MAS 8.000 MEN.
CHINESE LAUNDRY DOOMED.
Well Armed Mexican Rebels March-
A D
on City of Monclova.
Nation-Wide Crusade
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Ags>n»t Them
Is Proposed.
REBELS MAKE
NIGHT ATTACKS
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Douglas. Aria. Francisco I. Ma
' Chicago The doom of the Chinese ‘
dero, the leader of the Mexican revolu-
laundry aa it exiata today may be the '
result of a nation wide organisation
I tlonists, is now reported not wounded.
A crusade of
soon to be Inaugurated,
Leap but instead, marching on the city of
education is ¿to be carried on through
Monclova, injthe state of Coahuila, at
newspapers and magaxin«.-» warning
the head of a well-equipped army, said
against the unsanitary
condition*.
to numt-er as high as 6,000 men.
The movement had its inception in |
News of Madero's being wounded ia
I Chicago and it is expected the first
G«narsl Resuma of Important Event* effects will be felt here through an or Poor From W.ndowi to Firs Escapes »aid to have been sent out by Mexican Federal Troops Are Rountsd. But
' officials to discourage the revolution-
Rally and Recapture Two Cities
and Fall In Shower Upon
dinance which aoon will be reported to i
Presentad In Condanaad Form
i lata.
■ Madero Leads.
the city cvuncil providing stringent
Firemen's Heads.
This waa the report sent by revolu
for Our Quay Readers.
regulation* for all eatabliahmenta en
11 or. is la across the border into iJouglas.
gaged in supplying clean linen.
A local business man, who is a revolu-
The ordinance originated with ,the
Principal Events in Mrxicsn R»v-"|
Newark, N. J. In ten minute* 25 lion ary sympathiser, received the data
health
department,
and
at
once
re-
1
Political factions had a fierce fight
' i girl* were burned alive or crushed b' in documentary form from friends in
ceived the ro-uperalitxi of the Laundry ' . death on the pavement by leaping from Mexico, and the di>|>atch waa given
on the streets uf Cork, Ireland.
olution.
;
»
asaociation, which obtained the incur-1
Great battle break* out in Torreon •
Twenty-five persona loat their lives poration in the ordinance of claus«-« the windows and fire eacapr* of th«- out fOr publication.
a small prinU-d document published
and continues through night. Many ■
In a box factory fire at Newark, N. J. even more stringent than those origin four-story factory building at Orange
unarmed reliels are killed, but final- |
and High streets, occupied on the top : at Chihuahua abows the local situs-
Governor Clark, of Alaska, say* Pin- ally drafted.
The ordinance has been floor by an underwear manufacturing t|on there and the purported move
ly wre«t victory from defeat, captur- •
chotism ia the curse of that territory.
favorably reported by the committe«-
concern.
menta of Madero.
This paper waa
Ing many Federal troopa and killing ;
in charge and its passage ia practically
It waa «xi the top floor where the (rr gg ed in. Since October 31, it is
Michael Cudahy, founder of the
other*.
death list was heaviest.
The lower aai. •>»t«>yehave engaged in smug
great
Cudahy Packing company ia assured.
Federal troops regsinGomcx Pala-
It is declared the statistic* uf the
floor* were occupied by two paper box gling arms in from the border, where
dead.
rhio and Parral after sharp battle. i
health department show that epidemic* concern* and two electrical fixture fee they were rx-elved from San Antonio,
:
Rebels prepare to renew attack.
King George, of England, will aid of *carlet fever, diphtheria and other I
jiw. lateat count show* that 2” All the fund* were supplied by the
tone*. The
• :
Southern
Mexico
in
hands
of
rev
the Liberals .if they win the coming diseases were more prevalent in dis
2fi’ ¡^,¿“.‘”^','0^’'hs've '"teen
Mexican
junta
and
by
Madero
person
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Mexican
junta
and
by
Madero
peraon-
I
olutionist*.
Fall
of
Vera
Crux
ia
I
electiona.
tricts when- Chinese laundries 1------ identified and that six girls are miss ally.
!
■ momentarily expected.
The Internal Revenue department thickest, anti these laundries have been ' ' ing. They may I«- among the uniden-
p ia said that both th«’ mounted
Revolutionist
in
force
attack
Chi
say* illicit distilling ia largely on the the cause of spreading disease.
| tifie«! or yet in the ruins. Th«’
«-ollspse troops and infantry of Madero carry
huahua. Great battle is starting.
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increaae in prohibition states.
of a wall interrupt«-«! the search for modern repeating rifles uf 30 30 cali
Itefender* of city strongly entreneb-
btxiiea.
ber. Madero’» mounted soldiers are
e«i.
.
It is claimed that several thousand
Fifty were taken to the hospital, of conaidered particularly efficient. The :
Madero, rebel
General,
leads •
babiea arc starving in Chicago a* the
I
whom two may die.
foot soldiers were recruited from the
mounted
troops against Cuatro •
result of the garment workers' strike,
Among the injured ia Joseph E. cutton belt, where It waa known for a • Cienegaa in night and battle ensues. *
which is no nearer acttlcment than
Washington
The population of Sloan, deputy fire chief, who was over long time that the peons were ready to
J Thr««e towns in western part of Chi-
•ver.
Portland is 207,214, compared with taken by the falling wall and buried in take up arms.
• huahua captured by rebels.
Count Nascimento, of Portugal, was 90.426 in 1909, and 46.3*6 in 1*90. bricks and rubbish. He is badly hurt
According to the reports received in
Passenger train on Chihuahua :
not satisfied with the
dower The increase from 19O0 to 1910 there but may recover.
Douglas, Madero's first movement waa : line fired on, many killed.
of his prosjiective American bride, and fore is 116.7HH, or 129.2 per cent, as
The rush of the flames was so swift • ‘«ild stroke.
With hia men he :
the girl's father has declared the compand with an increase for the pre and threw such terror into the girls on marched to the great ranch own««! by
ceding
decade
of
44,041,
or
94
9
per
match off.
El Paso, Texas, Nov. 24. Fighting
the top floor that the laxly uf one was General Tcrrsxaa, now appointed gov-
cent.
found Still sested on a charred stool ermir of Chihuahua, at Sans llstenea, hss been going on at Torreon since
A’force of 800 Mexicans troops rout
The population of Seattle ia 237,194, iM-aide the machine at which she bad where h«- captured 400 horses. Madero
ed 400 rebels after six hours' fighting,
early last evening. A crowd of 2,900
an increase of 156,523, or 194 [« r cent twen working.
and his aoliders then moved into the
killing 15 revolutionists and wounding
■ V. r HO.671 in 19“0.
Th«« p««pulation
Horrible as must have been what oe- ' mountains. Here, with his troop* he revolutionist* are on the river front
many.
The government forces had
in 1H90 was 37,«34.
currvd
in the crowded upja-r rooma, will be able to stand off the govern opposite the city anti 600 soldiers are
several wounded.
Census Director Durand said that what befell outside in the bright sun ment army for an indefinite period, if engaged againat them on the city side.
A prominent physician of Moline, until the complete returns for Oregon light was more horrible.
the claim of the re volutionary sypa- Large number* of reliels ar«- reported
III., waa arrested for attempting to ex ar«- publish«d, allowing the |»|>uiation
The builditg -was « «■< «-d> ’ gly in th Ilers is well founded.
killed, moat of them unarmed.
The
tort 835,000 from the president of the of Portland’s suliurlis, a just com par flammable and the first gush of flame»
John Ileere Plow company by mean» of Ison of the jxqiulation of the two cities had cut off all eacajie by the stairways.
Mexican Central right of way is being
kept cleared by soldiers and rurales.
imitation Black Hand letters.
could not be made.
Seattle has an The elevators made one trip, tail, took
BAD ELEPHANT EXECUTED.
The roads leading there are crowded
A big battle is expected for the sen nexed its suburb»; a very considerable down no passengers and never came i
population, similarly contiguous to back. The only exit was by the fire 600 Grain* of Cyanide of Patasxium with men going to the place, and it is
atorship from Kansas.
estimsted more than 12,000 are pres
Portland, is outside its corjorate escapes, the lower platforms of which
Kills Huge Beast.
Woman suffrage will be voted upon limits.
ent. Neither the |iolice nor the troopa
were 25 feet from the street.
at the coming election in England.
The revision of the Portland figure*
New York
It took 500 grains of are following. The latter ««’em con
Onto these overcrowiied snd steep
Representative Tawney opposes the resulted in the elimination of 15,745 lanes, scorch«-d dancing but by the jets cyanide of potassium, the mo*t deadly tent policing Gomez Palacio and Tor
namt-s. The numtier taken from Se of flame from the lower windows, poison, to kill Gypsie Queen, a trick reon. A train of eight coaches of
idea of fortifying the Panama canal.
attle's count was 1!,D>K.
prcsM-d forward a mob of women, blind elephant, executed for the murder of aoldior* from the City of Mexico ia
General Madero, the Mexican revolu
withpanic, driven by the fire and the her keeper, Robert Schiel, on October traveling rx>rth and were ordered to
tionary leader ia reported to be wound
HEIRESSES TO WORK LAND
others behind them.
20. Leas than one grain is sufficient Chihuahua. It will arrive there at 7
ed.
A net had been spread beneath the «" kill
««an and the first convulsive a. m.
The rebel* of Torreon have driven
Berlin police have warned women Rich Illinois Girls Take Up .Montan» window* and the girls began to jump, symptoms supervene almost t«fore the
set ’ down
the -i
glass
against wearing dangerously long hat
Homssteads.
•like rats <>ut of a burning bin,’ was victim can
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— * from
------ the soldier* from the river banks into
the city street* and captun-d 100 of
which he swallows.
pins.
Aurora, III.-—Miss Winnie Bensch-1 th«1 way a fireman described the de- '
Gypsy Queen swayed backward and them. The soldiers have been rein
A ten-round fight at Akron, Ohio, bach, whose father, W llliam Bensch- scent.
forward, flapping her big ears, for ten forced by nearly 5(H) infantry which
was opened by prayer.by an evangelist, bach, of Princeton, i* one of the I They came out of the windows like
minutes before she showed the least came from th«’ south and disembarked
thick
treacle,
rolled
upon
the
heads
of
, wealthiest men in Central Illinois, sih !
who was introduced by the mayor.
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uneaalnoss. It was 4 4 minute* before four mile* south uf the city.
I Mias Kathryn Smith, daughter of W. those below them and caacad«-d off the
The reliels are tiecoming more num
The fine trotting stallion. The Bonds
fire
escape
to
the
pavement
60
feet
be-
»he was pronounc.-d dead.
, I. Smith, also a wealthy resident of '
man, waa sold at the New York horse
|oW.
The iioison waa given in three pail- erous and bolder and they seem to
■ Princeton, have taken up land claims
show fur 811,000 to an Oregon man.
Some of them »Laid in the windows ful* of bran maah. in which hail b«-en have more arms.
in Montana and next April will leave
Chihuahua ia reported to be in great
A number of Jesuit priests banished their home* and go to the wiidernesa, outliiwd against the flame* and jumped »pnnkled 100 capsulas, , each of five
danger, it being ¿estimated that there
Others
jumped
th«-
land-
The
elephant
had
clear.
Other*
jum|n-d
from
the
land
grain*
of
cayanide.
from Portugal have arrived at San 16 mil«-» from Roundup. Mont., to work
ings, still other» from the »lep* when >*en starved for 24 hour» and ate are between hOO and 1,000 revolution
Francisco and will remain in thia coun their homesteads.
ists gsthered between the city and the
Each girl will fall heiress tn a for-, they stood. The air wa* full of them greedily. Al the end of ten minutes
try.
she shivered in all her bulk uf 7,500 plant of the American Smelting 4 Re
tune
of
to
8250,000.
They
have
•
od
werywhere
into
the
net
Daniel Kaefe. commiasioner general
thc ™’c‘1» ,“f the firemen. and 15 uf ' pounds, her knees weaken«*«!, her trunk fining company. All responsible citi-
of immigration, declares that half the each filed on 160 sens and will live in
grew rigid, she rolled her eyes and sena are nrmed and expecting to be at
'hem on the hard stone slabs.
log
cabins
for
14
months.
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Chinese in thia country are here by
tacked any moment.
Crowds of de
finally fell.
When
the
awful
rain
ceosed
there
claims adjoin and the two cabin* will
fraud.
In the next two minutes she gst up fender* occupy the tops of all the
were
eight
dead
in
the
street,
and
the
•
lie but 30 feet apart.
Both girl* aay
four times, struggling against the banks, churches and large buildings
An extensive mutiny is in progress they
understand farming and will : gutters ran red. Seven were so badly
: chain* that bound her. At the end of throughout the city.
in the Brasilian navy. The men de superintend the work on their claims.
crushed they died In hospitals.
It is reported In Chihuahua that
20 minutes her breathing was imper
mandsd more pay and the abolition of
rebels
from Sonora have arrive«! at
MEXICAN
REBELS
ROUTED
ceptible,
but
44
minutes
after
her
first
corporal punishment.
THIEF CUTS OFF GIRL'S HAIR
swallow she blinked when her trainer Temoaachic and have the town sur
The bursting of an internal lake In
rounded in conjunction with rebels of
Government Troops ’Kill Fifteen and passed his hand before her eyes.
Behring glacier, Alaska, caused a dis Make* Away With Trasses But Leaves
that vicinity. The few aoldieni in the
That waa the last sign of life.
Wound Many.
astrous flood in Behring river valley
Jewel* Untouched.
town are expecting to be attacked be
Chihuahua. Mexico In an engage
which destroyed many miners’ cabins,
fore morning.
Seattle — leaving untouched valua ment near this city which lasted from
and it is believed many miners were
It is reported that Madero, accom
ble jewel* and watch«-« which lay on 9 o'clock in the morning until 3 o’clock SCHOONER SINKS, FOUR LOST
lost.
panied by nearly 1,000 mounted men,
her dress« r, a miscreant whose identity in the afternoon, 600 Federal troops
Three men, a woman and a child ia unknown, to the police, entered the
routed a force of 400 Maderoiata, driv Crew Set Out in T wo Dories and attacked Cuatro Cienegaa tonight at
were arrested In a shack on the Sound, room of M im Berth* M. Parka. 19
11 o'clock and a battle is now in
One Reaches Sitka, Alaska.
ing them repeatedly from a strong po
where they had lived for three years, year* old, at her home, 1216 East
progress.
sition and compelling them to take to
Juneau. Alaska
Four mem liera of
apparently without work. The shanty Alder street, and while she waa sleep-
the mou tai ns.
the crew of the power schooner Sea
waa full of silverware and cut glass, ing, with her sister, cut from her head
Witnen Blames Union
The revolutionists loat 15 killed and Light, which was wrecked near Cape
and alao a quantity of ailk.
long tr>-»»<■* of deep aulmrn hair, and many wounded. There were no fatal Ommaney, at the southern end of Bar-
Tampa, Fla. After examination of
Mexican reliels have been victorious ««acaped with his plunder.
ities on the Federal side, but several, ■ anof Island, are believed to have been several witnesses the state rested in
Miss Parks immediately became hys including three officers, were wounded. lost in a storm which swept the North the trial of the leaders of the cigar
in many night attacks.
terical and a physician had to be sum
makers’ strike. T. B. Fisher, a cigar
General Navarro was in command of Pacific.
Premier Asquith was attacked and moned in an effort to quiet her.
f
‘
txix manufacturer, testified that seve
She
the Federal troops. He left Chihuahua
The
Sea
Light,
which
had
eight
men
beaten by English suffragettes.
had not bean disturbed in the least, yet ¿tYoMock in the morning at the head in her crew, was wrecked five days ral days after the shooting ofJ. F.
A 12-year old boy of Lebanon, Ky., her auburn tresses, nearly three feet „( f(1Ur „,mp,nies of the second hattai- ago. The men set out in two dorie*. Easterling he had told De la Campa,
died of injuries received in a football l«»ng,'w«-re gone. Her sister hail not ion ,nd two squads of cavalry from the four men in each boat. One of the head of the Tobacco Workers’ union,
heard any one In the room, but heavy 13th regiment.
game.
boat* arrived at Sitka with the report that the strikers were making a big
tracks made by muddy feet were viai-
Near Fresno, 12 mile* out, one of of the wreck of the schooner and the miatakv in shooting Americans, and
Insurgency ia rife among th«« Demo ble on the carpet.
the squad* of cavalry fell behind to probable loss of the men in the other that De la Campa had replied; “Well,
cratic memtiers of the coming con
guard the road. They were ambushed dory. When last even the miaaing I am sorry, but we had to take drastic
gress.
Hostile Native* Killed.
I by the rebel*, who opened fire from dory was being toaaed by a heavy sea steps to prevent the men from going
to work.’’
Manila Detachment* of troop* and hill* on both aide* of the highway.
and appeared to be sinking.
Internal revenue receipts are report
conatabulary are operating againat the i
After aeveral hour» of heavy fighting
ed to be 812,000,000 ahead of the pre
Nabob's Wife Ex-Servant.
hoatile Manoboa in Davao. Mindanao the rebel* broke far the mountaina.
Three Shot in Strike Riot.
vious fiscal year.
New York- Mis* Minnie Eagen.
island. Ona column ha* killed avverai
Chicago Three persona were abot, who was formerly a hotel Maid at 820
5.000 Baois* Ar* Starving,
Millionaire miningVakini arreated In uf the tribesmen, these Including two
one being wounded seriously and many a month, was married to Thoma» T.
New York did not attempt to procure who were implicated in the murder of
Chicago The citixen*' *trike com-
others were subjected to a rain of bul Eckert. Jr., heir to the 83.000.000 es
Earl.Geer, a planter from Seattle. mittee. which has Inveatigtaed con-
bail and are remaining in jail.
lets here in a riot caused by a clash tate of the late General Thomas T.
Another column has killrti three impll- diti„„* in the familie* of striking gar
between striking garment workers and Eckert, long president of the Western
An aviator st Mobile. Ala., struck rxira
cated in
In the
Geer »>«■
and omrr
other me
m,. nt
rt workers,
worker*, reported that 6.000
5,000
me murder
muiwr of «icvr
the catrh while flying low, wrecking hie planter*, and has recovered Geer's babies arc starving as a result of the | non-union workers on the Northwest Union Telegraph company. The crowd
machine. He escaped without injury. body. A third detachment had two labor war. The report wa* made at side of the city.
around the Roman Cahtholie church, in
Vincent Belleno and his wife, Anna, whichthe wedding was held, waa so
Eleven Austrians left Portland to soldier« woumled. while a fourth lot Hull House and ’a special babiea' milk non-nuion workers, were accused by
great that the sexton called for police
one man killed
hi!!:! in
!“ ambush,
- — «■■—«•. The round fund waa started at once by member*
return voluntarily to their native land,
the police of firing the shots and were to keep it in check.
Mrs. Eckert, the
the tribesmen c continues.
ontinue*.
of ,
• utee.
Estimates at the
where they will have to serve three ing up of the
arrested. The wounded were: John
_
meeting showed it would take at least Kelaity, saloonkeeper, George Gabler, bride, was at one time a ilomeatic in
years in the army. They all expect to
Union Man Face* Death.
8100 a day to provide milk for in1 who owned the saloon with Kelaity, the household of General Eckert.
return to thia country after visiting
Pari*
A
jury
in
the
court
of
assixes
actual
want, and the suffering appear
•nd doing their military duty.
Grave Made by Suicide.
•t Rouenbureen imposed the death pen ed *0 great that 81,100 waa contributed Mrs. Alberta Allista.
Eelena, Mont. — Charles Hulden,
The steamer Beaver rammed and ■Ity on Secretary Durand, of the Coal by members of the committee.
Countess Tolstoi Gravely III.
aged S3, committed suit ids here by
sunk the tramp freighter Selja off San Handlers’ union, who waa accused of
Ban on Whisky Is Upheld.
St. Petersburg A news dispatch hanging himaelf. He had carved out
Francisco harbor in a dense fog. The instigating the murder of Foreman
Knoxville, Tenn.--Tbe Tcnneaaee from Tula says Countess Tolstoi is ill, hia grave in solid rock and made all
only fatalities were the drowning of Donge during the strike on the docks
two Chinese members of the Selja’s at Havre In September. Dong* turned Supreme court bolds as constitutional having a temperature of 102.9. The necessary arrangements with an un
crew, although the injured steamer strikebreaker and returned to work, the act of the Tennessee legislature of will of the late Count Tolstoi makes dertaker to furnish him with ‘a coffin.
went down within 15 minutes after Soon afterward be waa beaten to death 1909 prohibiting the manufacture of hie daughter Alexandra th* legatee of He waa buried ¿according to bis own
arrangement*.
bis unpublished works.
whiskey in Tennessee.
In the streets.
being struck.
Ooings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
Panic-Stricken Employes
to Awful Death.
PORTLAND AMI SEATTLE.
Mexican Cities Fall and Revolu
tion Spreads.