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iSiy its tj ytsvQ ir fl40MH TWO PERISH OF FRIGHT Woman and Man Drop Dead Watching a Fisticuff SOUGHT TO AVENGE INSULT Chauffeur and Employer Tiail Sample Distributers One of Whom Had Offended Wife of Latter Fisticuff Occurs in Trolley Station and Results in Two Fatalities Worcester Mass April 3 Patrick agleton and Mrs Denis Arsenault 60 years uld of Spencer Mass dropped dead from fright in The street this afternoon as thev witnessed a three cornered fight between Martin Niederberger a chauffeur and Stanley Orutt and Charles Bannon employes of a cereal company who were distributing samples in the town Wife Says She Was Insulted Orutt and Bannon while distributing samples earlier in the day had called at the home of Walter Watson Nieder bergers employer Mrs Watson claims she was insulted by one of the men and she Informed her husband when he returned home Mr Watson and Nieder berger started out after the two distributers and located them in the trolley station shortly before 2 oclock They eharped the strangers with insulting Mrs Watson and it is said that Orutt retaliated with a punch that sent Niederberger to the floor Collapse From Fright A tight followed and Mr Eagleton who was waiting for a car went into the street and collapsed on the sidewalk from fright He was taken to his home a short distance away but died before a doctor could be called Mrs Arsenault sank to the floor of the waiting station during the row and died before help could reach her Deputy Sheriff George Ramer and onstabie John Norton arrested the three men P3KSS i i I 1 I i ItVV 1 I A I 4 Ji I1 I 1 1 jr riirl rsi 1 mdBh 4yii 1 a MP LVEtf the wHfflGTOi mm msM Wswt FALL OF TORREON FOLLOWm HARP Fim GENERAL VILLA lis 9RHmvJT JBk iBBBBBkVJBBBBBBBBBBHF HBBBiWr ko jjj I flr ApBBJBBVBjBBBVH7aBSB jy ByJB mBBBBBBBBBMBBENByMKyiJrfl 0s fr CttffrliMS BfflflTyrjjMlBtt xaaBmw V5tj rwrfrn mbt HviA pr A7 VBVBsBBBKihV1 bHBBBB1BBVPIiBkvSBBBBBBBI I CORPORATION TAX ON WEDDING GIFTS Mrs Thompson iMay Hate to Pay Coming Back to THOUGH SHE WAS BORN HERE JAPANESE PREMIER OPPOSED His Efforts to Form New Cabinet Meeting With Difficulties Toku Japan April Difficulty in const ructirtf a new Japanese cabinet has bee rcornterrd by Viscount Keigo Kl youi who undertook the task at the resuest of the emperor Many of the statesmen who had been selected for portfolios declined to take the risk of ruining their political future as there has been much popular disapproval of tliv selection of Viscount Kiyoura The political groups in the house of representative including the consutu ilonaliet party body in the chamber as weJl as tne i iitire press are opposing tne new pre iiit on the ground that his selection signlries a revival of the old bureaucracy Tlcy declare that the existence of the poUiical parties has been ignored Jewels Worth 5000 Held Liable Under New Law Because She Had Declared Citizenship Abroad Though Married to Boston Man Marriage Makes Her American Attorney Declares fc Change in United States Mexican Policy May Follow the Victory of Gen Villa at Torreon Special to The Washington Post New York April Mrs May Van Alen Thompson wife of Griswold Thompson of this city probably will have to pay duty on the 4900 worth of jewelry and wearing apparel she has insisted should be admitted customs free Inder the existing tariff laws a woman whose husband is a citizen of the Inited I States is also a resident of this country which Is the strongest accoriing to a decision handed down by the board of United States general ap Torreon has been captured by Gen Francisco Villa after eleven days of fighting Villa estimates his losses at 500 killed and 1500 wounded The federals he says lost more than 1000 killed Gen Veiasco and half the federal garrison eat their way oat through Huarache Canyon the southwestern gate to the city He is being pursued by the rebel cavalry The remaining federal force was almost annihilated it Is reported before their positions were captured The capture of Torreon opens the road south to Mexico City for the constitutionalists Monterey and SnltiUo will probably be attacked before Villa moves south Tampico again faces attack by the rebels who have cut off the citys water supsly John Lind leaves Vera Crui Monday for Washington It la reported that he will not return and that a change in the administrations Mexican policy Is close at hand Three Americans one a consular agent have been arrested by the constitutionalist authorities on charges of passing counterfeit rebel flat currency BATTLE FOR TORREON WAS REAL FIGHT FIVE THOUSAND KILLED AND WOUNDED Villas Victory Won at Terrible Cost After Huerta Defenders Had Been Utterly Beaten by Rain of Shot and Shell Scattered Remnant of Veiasco Army LONG ISLAND MANSION BURNS SperiaJ The Washington Test Torreon Mexico April 3 Gen Francisco Villa and his exhausted but triumphant constitutionalist army after nearly seven days of desperate knocking at its doors entered this city of horrors at twenty minutes after 10 oclock last night Lighted on their way by the flames of burning buildings the troops picked their steps through masses of debris stepping over the bodies of the dead and wounded which were piled up in the streets to the coveted positions in obtaining which they sacrificed the lUn V1 tVATieon1 ff thelT sdcuceconnglopmsl and engaged James Curtis to th the largest Kiouse onLong her ca5e mniam McAdoo wn men nearly twice as many of the Following a enemy and lost 2000 in wounded Summer Home of Mrs Taylor Daughter of Keene Destroyed cw York April 3 The spacious summer home of Mr Jessica Taylor daughter the late James Keane at Ce darrirst Iori lland was destroyed by vg at a loss estimated at R50 rU The re said to he Island was under lease by Jason Waters a sion of a steamboiler praisers Mrs Thompson was married last September The following month she landed in Boston and contended that she was not a resident of this country and therefore entitled to bring in her personal effects mostly wedding presents free American if Husband Is They were valued at 5000 and the Boston customs officers said that inasmuch as she married an American citizen she became uch herself and that her effects in excess of the 100 limit provided by law were dutiable Mrs Thompson paid the duty under Curtis to Dresent ner case to wimam ur uwuw Secretary of the Treasury i Now Fleeing to the South WfaU street fbroker The Ara wetsK WasWagton Mrs Thompson 1 It ls a sorry victory estimated from ausid by the explosion 01 a sieamooner DeaJed to the cellar Inadequate water Pressure Draiser3 the board of general ap 1 hamperel the firemen an little could be done to check the progress ot the rtames Mrs Water and the servants In the hQU when the fire broks out escaped unhurt DIED As a result of its decision tnrousn Judge Hay it is said she may take the matter to the customs court for a review of the boards decision Born Here hut a Foreigner Mrs Thompson testified that although she was torn In the Inited States and the humanitarian standpoint but a triumph for the redoubtable Villa who is the first commanding general in recent Mexican history to fight steadily night and day for the attainment of his goal Brave Men on Both Sides The courage and resourcefulness of 1VVENFORT On Thursday April 2 1914 a S10 a JAMES DAYEX PRT Fiiicva fi om his late residence West Kills Church Ya Saturday April 4 a II a Interment at Rock Creek metery DLYAlIy On Thursday April 2 1914 a her residence 3M Prospect avenue iorthwest VIRGINIA beloved wife of Robert Duvall Fureral from her late residence on Saturday April 4 at oclock li rraent at Arlington National Cem rv Baltimore papers please copy MAStX Ori Tnursday evening April 2 if at his residence Falls Church Ya JAMES beloved husband of Madge Mason nee Lhiehester in the sixtieth year of his age lral Saturday April 4 at Old Falls i lurch Falls Church Va at 11 lock Jloi AXIEI Suddenly on Friday April I0U at his residence M7 Fourth veet northeast JAMES beloved nishand of Mary A McDaniel Notice of funeral hereafter tCharleston 3 papers and News and rHi paper please copy ROilRER Funeral services of WILI iM II husband of Alice Virginia Mitchell Rohrer will be held at the sidenc lVii Thirty first street irthwest Saturday April 4 at oclock Ttrrment at the Con essonal Cemetery SH iKHY Sadderly of heart failure on Ildac Ap il 1914 at Saranac Lake iOTTA SID beloved aiciter Xat Sardo and the late ntv 1 She Notice of funeral hereafter made occasional trips to New York and villa backed by the unflinching loyalty Newport she always considered herself a determnation of hig offlcers and men foreign resident and had so declared her self I stands out no more prominently In the William I Temple Assistant Attorney sanguinary story now to be told for the General maintained that the day she was firgt than dQes the dQgged regollJ married to an American citizen she be 1 came herself a resident tion and bravery of Gen Refugio I lasco and his gallant army who fought james vuius oi uiU va faj Wvn lot uuJ aaiiiot uciicijuuuc vvvw Washington yesterday to appeal the case of Mrs May Van Alen Thompson wife of Griswold Thompson of New York city involving the payment of customs duties I on 14900 worth of jewelry and wearing apparel GOES ON A SHOPPING TOUR Miss Wilson Motors to Baltimore and Buys Several Gowns Daughter of President Looks at Material for Her Wedding Dress Whether She Ordered It Is Secret as Yet Etta FUNERAL DIRECTORS GEO ZURH0RST 31 East Cajltol Street lii 1S57 Ctias Zurtinrst Sgr TH0S SERGE0N vTlYCJSlR Str et iAIN Tphn 1030 WM SARD0 CO FtNiA UIRFXTOP AND EM8ALMBRS iS ST NT Mniern rhapel Thonc Lin 54 FRANK GEIERS SONS l3 SKVENTH ST Mod happl Telephone Cai North 529 WM LEE Funeral Director And ELa ruer Llrery la connection Commodious ap 1 i 1 frr maorium Mooes prices 2 Fe a Ave Telephone Main 15S5 TH0S HINDLE Krbimer Fifth id Streets fWMa arranged Phore 537 SPEARE Undertaker and Embalmer 940 Street EternMtg Si lo Flrat CIiss oa the Moet FeapEablP Terms FTUSK A SPKARE Marnier tiiS Main 480 an3 CS1 FUNERAL DESIGNS vpcciaj The Wai hinffton Pot Baltimore JId April Accompanied by her mother and Miss Hall Miss Eleanor Wilson daughter of President Vilson and fiancee of Secretary McAdoo motored over to Baltimore today and spent several hours here Miss Wilson arrived at a fashionable dressmakin establishment on North Charles street a few minutes before 11 oclock and spent fully two hours there She gave an order for several gowns and then looked over some material suitable for a wedding gown Just what kind of gowns Miss Wilson is havmK made here could not be learned The head of the dressmaking establishment would not discuss the matter and refused to say whether Miss Wilson had given an order for a wedding gown It is a well known fact that Miss Eleanor Wilson is fonder of pretty clothes than either of her sisters After completing negotiations with the dressmaker Miss Wilson and the other members of the party visited several Lexington street department stores and made some purchases Iater they went to a tearoom on North Charles street and had luncheon after which they returned to Washington This is the second visit the Presidents daughter has made to this city within the last month SMALL SONS Florists Iirnn lot and street WA5KI StiTON Wa AMora ar1 lV Broadway New York Flowers for Funerals a Specialty FUNERAL DESIGNS Ot Everv Description Moderately Priced 121 STREET PHONE It 4378 To Kalon Old Stock Port did spring ionic winter tones up afcM a the ss il ie the bcood giv str ngih 7 Icilc jLjn gallon TO KALON CO Inc 1405 St Ehr 998 4P When Selecting A Diamond We offer you a very wide selection of stones of the first water The stone you want at the price you want to pay is here and it is exceptional value for the money HARRIS CO THE JEWELERS Seventh and Streets back inch by inch by superior numbers consantly reinforced by fresh brigades and receiving unlimited ammunition as the battle proceeded His calls lor help ignored at Mexico City Monterey and Saltillo his men exhausted and short of ammunition food supplies and water at the lowest ebb and disease spreading in the ranks the fearfully decimated federal army which fought so gallantly at Gomez Palacio Lerdo and Sacramento refused to surrender in the face of liberal guarantees and fought on for a cause which all the world abandoned long ago until forced to make a last effort to escape their beleaguered positions or face complete annihilation Conquered City a Shambles The dawn of today has shown us who have made the campaign with the constitutionalist army what the gallant defenders of Torreon went through before they fled The streets are strewn with dead sewers are clogged and over the city hangs the odor of burning and decomposing flesh Everywhere it is ruin ruin ruin buildings down homes destroyed misery and wretchedness on every hand It is difficult to tell exactly when Veiasco and his men abandoned the three positions in the Canyon Del Guarache which they held for seven days It is ofncially reported that they withdrew at 7 oclock but it was nearly 9 before the move was discovered Th reason for this is that every night for three nights the federal fire has slackened sometimes corning to an almost complete standstill During such lulls the constitutionalists had beena able to creep to more advantageous posi tions but with the dawn they had been revealed and invariably were driven out by the federal artillery With the first news from scouts that an evacuation was in progress Villa threw his entire army at the federal positions from three directions east south and north Then it as discovered that the bulk of Velascos men had got clean away Those who remained were mowed down by the fire of the machine guns and at 1020 the constitutionalist flag was raised about the cuartels and Villa had the city Censorship Was Close The restrictions of censorship and the determination of Villa to keep the news of his movements from going north have prevented the full story of the sanguinary campaign of the last thirteen days from being known until now The early nght ing near Jiminez at Bermejilo and east at Tlahuillflo aiid Saerajnento has been reported but little is known of Gen Tomas Urbinas desperate fighting at Ma pimi 50 miles west of Bermejilo where he surprised a large force of federals and drove them out with severe losses to both sides The federals retreating from Mapimi to Gomez Palacio kept up a running fight and a flanking column found plenty of evidence of the desperate character of this running battle in hundreds of hastily made graves with roughly constructed wooden crosses on the outskirts of Lerdo where the federals later brought in their dead Rebels Once Near Rout Their capture repulse and recapture of Gomez Palacio by Villa has been told in these dispatches but the world has not been informed of how very near a rout this constitutionalist army was after the repulse at this point This was because of the failure of the homemade shrapnel to work Manufactured at Chihuahua and affectionately referred to as Villas pills these shells burst in the guns exploded in the air hundreds of yards from their marks or failed to explode at all There is no telling what would have happened had Veiasco come out of Gomez Palacio after Villa when he drove the constitutionalists back on El Verjet but he didnt and history was suddenly changed in the making The very next day the defect in ammu nition was made up for by fresh supplies from the north and the capture of three carloads of ammunition by Benavides column operating to the southeast Full Week of Hard righting Villas victory gives the constitutionalists virtual control of the whole northern tier of Mexican states The fighting began last Friday and was almost continuous At first Villa at tempted assaults on the strong federal positions In daylight but these proved costly so the days were spent in cannonading and the nights in assaults Positions were taken and lost time and again Several night attacks sent the federals scurrying from strong positions but at daybreak the captors would be compelled to abandon them by the strength and accuracy qf the enemys artillery fire much of which is said to have been directed by French and German gunners Losses Heavy on Both Sides Losses have not been compiled but en Villa estimates his own losses at 500 killed and 1500 wounded and the federal loss at 1000 killed and 2500 wounded with an unknown number of prisoners Villa believes that the federals whom his cavalry is pursuing to the south forms but a remnant of the federal force whose loss he says probably is close to being total All the subordinate generals have not yet reported however and until they do just how many were captured cannot be accurately stated Battle Line Four Miles Long The battle line was 4 miles long and the field was determined by three great hills formed like a carpenters square at either end of which lay the towns of Gomez Palacio and Torreon Thefe were about 10000 men in each army The federals had fortified the hills with rifle pits trenches and barb wire entanglements The nature of the ground made it difficult to recover the wounded and many of them died of thirst and hunger or lack of attention where they fell Automobiles Rescue Wounded Automobiles were used in rescue work but they could not ascend the hillsides Some of the fiercest fighting occurred in the hills south of Gomez Palacio and west of Torreon It raged with great fury in the Canyon Del Guarche where the federals made their last desperate stand and from which they finally fled followed by a column of Villas horse Twice the rebels took two of the hills only to lose them but all the time the attack was becoming more formidable as the soldiers attacking from all sides except the west fighting from house to house drew the circle closer about the enemy Small Fights in City Proper A hundred small encounters occurred intermittently in the streets or over the possession of some favored roof but the roar of cannon was almost continuous Both sides used armored trains These with big guns mounted would suddenly appear around an elbow of one of the hills discharge a broadside and then retire Early in the attack on Gomez Palacio the trains ventured out at the same time and a lively exchange of shots ensued like a naval engagement on land The federals made use of huge rockets which were shot to a great height exploding in the air letting down a hail of buckshot Combatants Suffer From Heat ed that he had sent them scurrving into the hills The battle surged first into Torreon then back to the railroad 3 ards and ravines in the suburbs for two or three days The federals grew weaker each day In their fighting Finally the federals evacuated to the south and the rebels took possession of Torreon ARMY IS SAVING LIFE 1 Gcb Wood Says Accidents Kill More Titan War ASSAILS CERTAIN MAGAZINES Chief of Staff Declares Fourth of July Celebrations in Ten Years Have Been More Fatal Than War With Spain Recounts Results of Campaign Against Yellow Fever in Cuba Maj Gen Leonard Wood A chief of staff last night told the recently organized Gen Leonard Wood Garrison Army and Navy Union that the attack of the subsidized magazines upon the army will do the army a great injustice among the citizenship of the country not In touch with the true situation He said forces are at work at the Wrar Department that will bring about a reorganization of the army raising it to a higher standard of usefulness in its mission as a life saving medium Gen Wood said the work of the army in discovering the cause and preventing yellow fever In Cuba has saved more lives and capital to the country in the last twelve years than any of the great wars cost He pointed out that trie army is not as destructive an agent in time of war as other causes are in time of peace He said 45000 were slain at Gettysburg but Why Calvert Clothes Influence Strongly 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