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iiiiiii AT EAP1Y i "inJlITnTOT0II OPP0 RTUNITY'S gateways Twenty llinth Year. HUIITINOTOIT, IUDIA17A, DATTIRDAY EVENDTG, NOVEMBER 29, 19'3 N0.2CL I Clllllili IS VILLjVSREBELS A Federal Stronghold Will Be i Attacked without Delay By Victors. LEI Headed Southward for Scene of Expected BEN. IS A SUICIDE Defeated Leader Takes His Life After Iswg. Ykteria, the Cap.

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4. United Press Leased Wire: 4. Mexico City, Not. 29. Fol 4.

4 lowing a Ions conference this 4. A 9 mvnuiii uei wecu viwrin v.H 4 Shaughenssy and the Japanese 4 4 minister to Mexico, It was per 4. sisienuy rumoreu ta govern 4. ment circles that a settlement 4. 1 4.

eight, hours. Senor Moheno, 4. 4' Huerta's secretary of foreign 4 main woui iu ei vim 4. snmably to see John Lind, Pres 4 4. ldent WtisoB's special envoy.

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4. united Tes wire; El Paso, Tex Not. 29. Themoye to the pouta. to attack to Federal's ftronfchold 1 at 'Chihuahua has begun and nearly 1,000 men under Ro aallo flernaudes departed from rodps JUAREZ 'Juares yesterday.

They accompanied "Jk work train to be used to repair the raOroad, line which wm destroyed Jn placee below Juares by the when they retreated soutnwara arter Vt Tarr T51nn haftn Another troop train loaded In Juarez leit for tne souu uis morning. Gen. Villa will leave the remainder of his. troops, 7 going toward Chihuahua. 1 HAni lAfuiAr bllT theT will hav fight' with; the Federals at ViUai eighty three miles south of Juares, as the Federal troops defeat ed at Tierra Blanca are marooned thrA.

Gen. Villa learned that the Federal VmIhi vm ATI til. MtrOftf ft Villa Ahumada and that the Federals are camping there. Villa said he bad plenty of ammu nttlna for a. field' fleht or for a sleca of the state capital.

He said he captured 1422 ebeUs In the recent fighting, besides 1,300 rifles and 23, 000 cartridges. Villa said not more hn ntehtT of hia nen were killed. a Suicide. Proas Leased Wire: Mexico City, Not. 29.

Like Gen eral Jos Gonzales Salaa after, the battle of. Rellano in March, 1912, General. Antonio Rabago, military IV a W. II killed himself after losing Victoria, the caoital. The suicide of General Rabago Is not admitted by the government but the contained In 1 private telegram to his relatives here who do not question Its author General Rabago.

as military governor, was responsible, for the garrison TCiieu itwi 1a wu Biiackeu oj inn rebels on November i7. It was not until this morning that the newspapers of the Mexican capi tal published any Intimation, that Vic toria had been taken. Rabago was 7 credited with having evacuated the City The private message fails to give of bis death. Among the inci dents connected with the capture of Victoria Dy tne reoels, one is related of the execution of Captain Tomas James. He was told that his life would be spared if he foreswore the government.

He 'refused and was given an hour for meditation. When the hour had elapsed and, hl guards had come for him, he asked to be taken before the man who had ordered his execution. He embraced the military. Judge, assuring him tha the cherished no resentment, and then marched to the place designated for his death. There he distributed among the Iring squad all but one of a pack of cigarettes.

This he lighted himself and said to the officer in command to give the order to. fire. The government stjll pretends to have the most meagre Information regarding the fighting south of Juarez. This la characterized vita regard to the military operations UUSTIVEAR IViHTE SUITS ZTew Ironclad Kule Adopted By Secretary, Travis. TOUnliaillS TO Billiard and Bowling Oateits WIU Start llimday ml Trm Be Hot" One' Commencing next every jnan and boy who goes on the H.

T. M. A. gym floor for physical exercise of any kind will have to wear a white gymnasium suit This will be an Ironclad rule, even if the exercise is bnt slight In explaining this ruling Sec retary Travis said Saturday: ruling Is for sanitary purposes primarily. Aa things have been men and boya went on the gym floor and played In their ordinary street clothing.

Of ter they played until their underclothes were wringing wet with sweat Then they would probably put on coats and go out In the open air. In addition to the danger of tak ing cold, their skin immediately absorbs a goodly portion of all it had thrown off, and this is probably cause for much, sickness Maybe "some of the boys cannot fathom my reasons for. making such a ruling, but they will And that It works all right In the end. In putting on the white gym suits all other clothes will be discarded and there will be more Incentive to take baths before Jeavlng the 'X' Next Monday evening the, billiard and bowling tournaments organized by Mr. Travis will' begin.

Announcement will be made. Monday' as. to whom the 'first payers and teams will "be. Twenty playerswill com pete in the billiard tournament, the percentage system being In the bowling tournament there are seventeen teams and each team wm play sixteen games, one with each other team la the the matches the high, score for three games will determine wins. Bowling rules will be ollowed closely.

'Tollowlng are' the'teamsand thebr captaina; Piue line, Kelly: Barkef Brown, Tuttle; master mechahic's office, Footer imblic schools, ScUdder; dls Smith; lawyers, Jackman bankers. Dungan. court GUI doctors. IT. Grays ton; barbers, Knox Elks, Bay; clothiers, F.

Dick; piano factory. Adslt; Casweu Book: Orton Haws Erie Hammnod. V' AIIOMB LECTURE Saturday, December 27, another hog cholera lecture will be given In Hunt ington under the auspice of the Commercial Association Oliver Kline announced Friday evening at a meetlng of. the association directors that he had secured Dr. R.

I. Craig, head of the veterinary department of Purdue university for (Hat. His action was endorsed by the directors. In the meantime effort will be made to get the state veterinarian and. his aselstant.to be present and lecture al so.

Many farmers attended the first hog cholera lecture despite bad weath er and Dressing work, and it Is thought the later one will bring out a blenter crowd. B. J. Bartlett was selected Friday night to attend the meeting of deep waterways 1 convention which convenes In Washington, D. next week.

I. B. Potts was chosen as alternate Both Mr Petto and Mr. Bartlett" are enthusiastic about the build ing of the lake to lake canal. W.

W. Hawley. vice president of the state organization will also attend the Selection of a trophy to be glTen away at the show of the Huntington Live Stock and Poultry Asoclation was left to Secretary C. Williams. SUED F03 OIL "'i George PouUads, BroprIetij' of the Palace Confectionery store and the Palace Cafe, was made defendant in a suit for the collection of a board bill Friday by Alfred Batlls, 'proprietor of the' Alpha8 Cafe.

In the complaint It Is alleged that Poulakidas and one or two of his aides ran up a bill of about $70. Poulakidas has bought a restaurant and started opposition io Batlls. CIYf KE AGUE The Clvicj Improvement League will hdld ita tegular monthly meeting Monday Dtc. 1, at the Commercial Association. The meeting will be called ti order promptly at 3 o'clock 1 all members are urged to be rrer that tlm as cM.

cels ta trrTr.cVi.. Colonel Goethals, Panaima1 Canal i 1 1 1 If John Purroy Mitchell, mayor elect of New York, has asked Colonel Goethals. the big bos of the Panama Canal, to became police commissioner of New York City under the admin istration which will begin with the new year, there has been nothing to Indicate that the colonel would take the place. V' Few of Colonel Goethals'a army friends believe ho would accept They think that It Is not only too small for blm, but Is of such a nature that he could not possibly do credit to himself. It Is generally recornjzed 0 Surveying Working girls' clubs have been found of great benefit in cities where large numbers of girls are employed in factory work.

Most of the girls employed in HuntSngton have homes with parents 0 0 0 0 0 to go to, but still there 0 when it comes to pleasures of home, would 0 a working girls' club benefit 'themf 0 Would it be possible Ao form, some kind, of ganization in Huntington tfiajt would make the "0 entire class'of working Per bans RftTriA of f.h 1alifs of Tfiminormv Viavo frlnna along this' line. 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 xtieas are'wnai iiie Burve commiiiee or me, Commercial Association is looking fori. Working girls 'clubs is one of the suggestions found on the 0 survey blanks which have been 'scattered broai 0 cast over, the and will be placed in many 1 more stores. If you ladies have any ideas along this line, get a blank and write on it your solution of the bet 0 tering of conditions for. working girls In doing; 0 so you will help the committee survey.

Hunting ton. Do it 0 HEAVY FALL OF RAIH AFFECTS RIVER LITTLE 0 0 0 000000000000000 "Two "visits by the police to the Maranda home, corner of High and Whltelock streets, were necessary to clear up to certainty as to pearances of pieces of property from the Maranda home. last, Thurs day a young girl called at that home, her flret visit there In a year That evening, Mrs. Maranda was unable to find the key. An article was later missed from the parlor table.

Mrs. Maranda 'phoned for the police and an investigation was started A visit was made to the girl's home, but she made vigorous denial as to the key, Mrs. Maranda had a knotted string fastened to the key. Later in the evening girl was seen to approach Maranda home, and then slink away. The police were called again and while the chief was there the girl approached the back, porch and deposited something.

'A light located the mining property. The knotted string had been cut. from the wey, but an effort had duplicate its appearance. by; use of a piece of thread. Mrs.

Maranda says she. does not care to prosecute owing to the child's age, but she wants'. It understood by the girl parents that hereafter there be no fooling, as the police are cognisant, of the facta STRIKE SETTJJID United Press Leased '8chnecUdy. Nov. f.

21 The Electrical Trades Alliance this aft ernoon ratified tn eagreement made by the General Electric company andt the strikers committee. Thir. finally settles the strike of the company's 15,000 employes and the men, will re turn to work, Monday. LEFT TO JUDGE Th partition suit of Loretta Sim ons vs. Joseph Marlatt was withdrawn from a Jury.

In, circuit court Friday afternoon after evidence showed that the whole contention hinged on a technicality of law. The decis ion the case was then left to Jui Cook. GIRL'S STRANGE AGTS I'lATCHEHY POLICE er the the ed the filed' of ant HI that there, are two Important positions New York from which no one can come forth with glory may or and police commlsioner. No mayor since John T. Hoffman has been elected to a higher office.

Colonel Goethals has just submitted to Secretary of War vGarrlson a report In which it is made plain that the canal cannot be opened before Jan. 1, 1915. It Is necessary for the engineers to study the effect of water on the slides which have hindered the work so far. This will require many months. Huntington 0 are some who are lonely 0 000 Huntington sure bad its share of black, murky weather before and aft Thanksgiving.

Wednesday, Thurs day, Friday and Saturday were days when' the sun was not seen by Hunt ington residents. During this time. however, but one real hard rain fell. That was Friday night, when the downpour began at about 10 o'clock ana continued steadily until morn ing. Saturday morning there was no perceptible difference in the level of Little river and there, seemed to be little chance of even an approach to flood stage.

The Saturday crowd In town was thinned somewhat by the condition of the roads Travellers coming from a few mllesre ported that roads were in bad condition and that was 'little chance for lm provement unless colder and clearer weather prevlals soon. COURT ADJOTJENS WITHOUT JTJEY United Press Leased Wire: SI) elbyvllle, Nov. 29. Without twelfth juror having been select the Knabe murder' trial adjourned thfsv. afternoon "until Monday.

Three times, today the defense of Dr. Craig announced' it. was eatlsfled with tha twelve men in the box but, each time state challenged the twelfth man. Aftr the' twelfth Juror has been picked Monday F. Inman' of Indian apolis; will open for the state.

UNCLE SALT AFTER CAli TRUST United Press "Leased Wire: Baltimore, Md, Nov. 29. Suit was today by the departmet of Justice, to dlsslove the. America Can company the government allegidg practices in restraint of trade, "agree ment to restrict output and division territory, and arbitrary fixing of prices. The.

American Sheet and Tin Plate company is also made; a defend I 11 1.1 0000000000 OTD TMES TOTAL OF 0 Beach Huge Amount in Ter. ritory Compoishg Small State District. CITY DELINQUENCY IS HIGH AmouBU te $18,000 iBrCoBnty Seat Tnlen Township Holds Second Blf Place with IS.000. According to figures compiled during the weeks following the last day of the autumn tax paying, by attaches of the county treasurer's office, the total tax delinquency of Huntington county for the fall Installments amounts to $32,109.69. The highest amount of unpaid taxes comes from the city of Huntington, with Union township In second place.

Huntington delinquency amounts to $17,991.93, while the Union township moneys in arrears totals $3,212.84. The smallest amount of unpaid taxes for the last several months is recorded as being in College Dallas township races with Ubee for the low position. i The Ubee dues are with the Dallas township amount at $125.25. Among the several towns of the county, unpaid taxes aggregate as follows: Warren, Markle, Andrews, Roanoke, $441.36, and Mt. Etna, $268.65.

Following are figures of delinquent sums from the remaining townships of Huntington county: Jackson, Clear Creek, Huntington, Rock Creek, Lancaster, Polk, Wayne, Jeffer son, $683. 27; Salamonie, $481.48. The total amount pf moneys receiv ed at the treasurer's office in the spring and autumn tax paying days is $564,089.98. The spring tax proceeds amounted to $315,762.75, while the au tumn moneys swelled the county cof fers to the extent of $248,327.23. Other figures from the tax duplicate hows, that the 1,837 men.

of majority ages who are taxed for poll moneys, 502 have failed to share In the expense burden. The number of delin quent poll taxes are said to be caused by young men who have recently attained their majority and who are either not accustomed to paying the taves'er have deliberately refused' to 1 In many counties of the state county officers are urging the passage of a state law compelling men past the age of 21 to pay poll taxes. The poll tax moneys are devoted to school coffers and are! considered among the Important Incomes of counties. Ill II I DIES AFTER ILLNESS OF SEVERAL MONTHS After a serious illness lasting dur ing autumn months Louis Herrold. 71 veara old.

a veteran of the Civil war and a life long re3i dent of the vicinity of Warren, died Friday morning about 3 o'clock. Mr, Herrcld was prominently' known over the southern portion of the county, and Is' survived by many friends and acquaintances, besides the relatives. The deceased was a member of the 71st Indiana regiment, serving throughout the' Civil war. After the completion of soldiers' duties, Mr. Herrold.

returned to the Salamonie township farm. Relatives, besides the widow and number of children, are William Her rold, a brother, of Warren, and Dr. Herrold, also a brother, of Dundee, Indiana. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock from the Warren M. E.

church, Rev. Works officiating. Interment will be In the Woodlawn II AS RIFLE EXPLODES IN As result of the second serious hunting accident, to: occur during the last few days In the region north of Huntington, Vernon, 12 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Harnlsh, of Hun tington, is carrying a rifle bullet Jn his left shoulder.

Harnlsh was shot by a gua in the hands of Harry Bowers lad during a hunting trip Friday evening "about 4:30 o'clock. i The two' Huntington boys had Jour neyed to the rural district northeast of the city in search of Dur. Ing the afternoon a rifle in the. hands of Bowers accidentally exploded, lodging the bullet in the left arm of Har nlsh. The missle entered the arm above the elbow and coursed.

upward, bring ing up in the shoulder Joint. in jured boy was brought to Huntington by a farmer residing, ia the vicinity. nnii'iTv i UUUiill lARREN WAR VETERAI HARIIISH LAD WOUNDED SECOND HUNT ACCIDENT J. WEATHER FORECAST Weathw forecast for Hunting and vicinity. Rain tonight and probably Sunday.

Colder Sunday. WILL HOT OUST MILLER II II District Attorney WiU Hold Job for While Yet. TAGGART FOR SULLIVAN But Indications Are That Dalley, of Buffalo, Stands a Good Chance. (Bl Ellis Searles.) Indianapolis, Nov. 29.

While It is planned to have the, two Indiana United States senators make a recommendation of a man for appointment as United States dlBtrict attorney for1 Indiana, it has been given by the department of justice straight to tne senators that the man appointed will not take office until after CharleB W. Miller Is through with the dynamite cases. How long this will be no one knows. But It la a tribute to Mr. Miller as a faithful public official.

No one here believes that Reginald Sullivan, of this city) will land the district attorneyship. He is the man moat. favorBa by Thomas Taggart for an appointment in this state. Taggart has boosted Sullivan all along, and for a week past he and Sullivan have beep at Washington putting In hard licks to land the place, Sullivan ia a fine, young man and a good lawyer. Ho Btands high In this city, and there, ia no mans with rr more jreal friends here.

His Integrity Is the highest. But he Is a young man and has not had wide experience in the trial of Important, lawsuits, and this stands against him as an applicant. Sullivan is the kind of a clean, high minded man" who" could not" be injured by the fact that be has the support of the Democratic machine, but he is believed to be playing a los ing game in this case. The fact is that most people here pect Sullivan to be appointed city attorney of In dianapolls by Mayor elect Bell. This is the second positloiT in" theclty's legal department, corporation counsel being the highest.

Senators Shively and Kern are not opposed to Frank Dalley, of Bluffton, for district attorney. A good many CContlnuea on Pave Blbt IN THE GOUBT AGAIN Mrs. Bertha Hoover filed the "steenth" divorce suit against" her husband Hoover 4n crlcuit court Saturday morning. From the nature of the complaint It seems that she and her husband had a die agreement Saturday morning and she received a blow from Frank's fist in the vicinity of her face. At least she charges that he Is guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment and that she cna live with him no longer.

Judge Cook signed a restraining order against the Markle bank to prevent him re moving money from that Institution. Mrs. Hoover demands 82,000 alimony and means to prosecute the suit. In the past the couple have sued each other divorce many times. Whenever a divorce was granted it was only a rew montns until iney were remarried.

Several suits were patched up and dismissed before coming to trial. HUNTINGTON EXHIBITORS AT CHICAGO STOCK SHOW United Press Leased Chicago, Nov. 29. Many Hoosler breeders and stockmen were repre sented at the International live stock show which opened at Union stock yards today. Purdue college entered good list of cattle and bogs.

Other Indiana exhibitors were: J. H. Miller, Peru; Nelson Brothers, Muncie; Smith ft Wilson, Decatur; Wilson Son, Muncie; Q. W. Souers, Huntington; Salteno Stock Farm, Creensburg, and F.

M. Berk, Laporte. LICENSED TO WED. Benjamin. Kraft, 34,.

druggist of Chicago, and Rebecca Bullerman Koopman, 29, daughter of Frederick Bullerman of this city. Both par bsve ben married tad divorced. DURING DYUE CASES iCROIVORCEDGOUPLb MORE TROUBLE CAPITAL CITY General Strike of Indianapv oils Teamsters Almost a Certainty. IS New Mayor Swears In TwS Hundred Special Police. THUGS AND TOUGHS COMIfiG Employes Prepare to Import One Thousand "Strikebreakers" fro at Other Cities and Officers Prepare for Rioting.

United Ptch' Leased (' Indianapolis, Nov. 29. Threatened with a general strike of the team sters of the city and possibly rioting as a result Mayor Wallace, as the head of the city's new administration. today swore in two hundred special policemen, and took steps, to take drastic measures to keep down disorder and prevent rioting and possible; bloodshed. The congregalton of crowds on the down town streets was forbidden and the officers have been instructed to keep everybody "on the move." y.

The teamsters of the city will hold a mass meeting Sunday afternoon, and as the situation now appears, there seems to be no hopes of avert 1 ing the threatened strike. The employers of teamsters, and owners of) trucking and trnasfer companies, have' made arrangements to import one thousand strikebreakers from Chicago and other large cities, and it these strikebreakers will be composed of the toughest element of these clt seriou8' trouble wttl undoubtedly follow their arrival. 1 The teamsters demand a weekly pay day, with wages of from. IS 18 cents an hour according to years of service and the number of horses to be cared for. Immediately following the resignation of Mayor Shank yesterday aft ernoon, City" Controller Wallace took the oath of office, he having automatically under the law, become the mayor.

Heat once ap pointed his new board of public safe ty and the wheels pfthe new 1 admlnis tratlon were put in motion. Mayor Wallace announced that because of the unsettled condition of affairs be cause of the labor troubles be would asume personal charge of the police force and direct its movements. Terre Haute Carmen Will Walk Out. "i United Press Leased Wire: Terre Haute, Nov. 29 A strike of the local street car employes wilt be called at 7 o'clock tonight unless President Robert I.

Todd, of the Terrs' Haute, Indiana ft Eastern Traction company, concedes tneir demands ror permission to join labor unions without being discriminated against. RUTGERS DECLARES HE'S READY TO FIGHT H. E. Rittgers of this city has received an invitation from Col. E.

Cowling of Texas, to Join a company of Texas Rangers which, he has organized and now has at the border waiting for the coming of armed intervention. In Mexico. Cowlings was sergeant atarms at the Baltimore convention that nominated President Wilson, and Is known in Huntington. He became acquaited with Mr. Rltt gers while the latter was In Texas some time A ago; tMr Rittgers announces that be will accept the invl tation and win leave about tflt middle of December.

Col. Cowling in hie communication says that armed intervention is Inevitable because of the "greasers'! mauraudlng on the AmeW lean side of border. About the time John Lind was aent to Mexico' City, President "Wilson named Col. Cowling as' an envoy to Tampico, but the Colonel declined the office. TO SUCCEED IL'IY United Press Leased Wire: Indianapolis Nov.

29 Goven: Ralston, has appointed Edwin M. chairman of Progressive state central committee; to be a r. ber of the board of trustees of tl dlana reformatory, to sucr 1 C. who died this DARK IIAL1ES PROGRESSIVE.

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