Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1916 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Mexican Revolt Major Sample, reporting to General Funston at San Antonio from Columbus, N. M., said that Aviator Willis was safe and that Aviator Gorrell is the only flyer now missing. Gorrell was last sighted over the Colouia Juarez, bout beast of Casas Grandes. y * « « Gen. Luis Herrera, until a short time ago Carranza's military governor of Chihuahua, has gone over to Villa with 2,000 trained troops and has made a formal declaration of war against the United States. He took the field immediately with his troops. » * * Two aeroplanes of the first squadron have been lost in flight en route from Columbus, N. M., for the front in Mexico. Their whereabouts was not known. The officers are Lieut. Robert H. Willis and Lieut. Edgar S. Gorrell. Lieut. T. S. Bowen was injured, but not fatally. • * • Texas rangers and the cavalry patrols have commenced a roundup of Mexicans along the frontier who are suspected of being Villistas and of being engaged In the smuggling of ammunition across the Rio Grande. Twelve were arrested. * * * General Pershing reported to Washington that he has reached a point near Villa and his outlaws. The dispatch* indicates that it is possible Villa may be trapped. * * * General Funston asked the war department at Washington for more troops to send into Mexico only after long consideration of the advisability of continuing the operations against Francisco Villa with the forces now commanded by General Pershing. * * * Francisco Villa was in a desperate battle with Carranza forces under Colonel Cano at Xamiquipa. Here the bandit leader turned on his pursuers and made a stand, after a running fight which started at Las Cruces. United States troops from the com mand of Col. George A. Dodd are hurrying to the support of the Carranzistas from El Valle. ♦ ♦ *- .' American troops hunting Francisco Villa now number more than 10.000, according to advices received at Galveston, Tex. * * • Word reached Mexico City that Gen. Alesio Gonzalez had captured the liu portant town of Tenanc-ingo. Six hundred of Zapata's followers were killed by the constitutionalist cavalry. * * * Domestic Attacked by an enraged bull as he was preparing the animal's food, Henry Klahn, sixty years old, residing near Lost Nation, la., was gcflM to death. * * * •■2"' Gov. Locke Craig of North Carolina saved from death in the electric chair Mrs. Ida Ball Warren, who had been sentenced to death,on March 21 for the murder of her husband. * • • Mayor G. A. Bading of Milwaukee was renominated as the candidate of the nonpartisans. Eighty precincts gave Hoan 12.719. Bading, 5.852. Carney. 6.425. and Adam Muth, 722. * * » The Interstate Compress company’s plant at Hobart, Okla., containing 7,000 bales Of cotton, was destroyed by fire of unknown origin. The loss was estimated at more than $45,000. * * * Clover Leaf passenger train No. 6, Commercial Traveler, was blown from the track four miles east of Marion, Ind., during a cyclone. Twenty-five passengers were hurt. William and Edna Stewart, five and seven years old, respectively, adopted children of William Stewart of Spring Road, 111., were burned to death in their home. * » * The Carcolite Chemical company’s plant at Copper Hill, Tenn., manufacturing ingredients for high explosives for European consumption, was destroyed by tire. George Strohl, assistant superintendent of mines of the Tennessee Copper companv, was killed. * * • A wordy. dispute between William Jennings Bryan and John G. Maher, a local politician, in which the lie was passed to Mr. Bryan in a hotel lobby at Lincoln, Neb., enlivened the informal mass meeting to mark the opening of the state campaign. • * * The subcommittee of the Republican national committee, which has been seeking to elect a temporary chairman for the Republican national convention, adjourned at Chicago until April 15, without naming a man to preside at the meeting. • • • Jack Allen, brother of Sidna and Floyd Allen, leaders of the gang that assassinated officials of the Carroll county court at Hillsville, was killed at the home of Mrs. Blrt Martin, near Mount Airy, N. C. Will McCraw Is b«y <ng sought -V ,'