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MEXICOCITY IS ISOLATED Censorship Cuts Off All Dispatches. FIGHTING IS RESUMED Wo Details of Engagement Al- lowed to Go Through. Mexico City, Feb. 18—Brisk fight- Bug continues. There are indications, however, of developments of a charac- leer that may relieve the situation tc} ™ Measurable degree. It is not pos- midle to transmit details because of Whe close censorship. The engagement was very severe| aimost till noon, but the firing then i@windled and developed into an ex- ghange of volleys of rifle ‘bullets. The webels tried to pick off the federal ar- Wilerymen as they were serving the uns. Fighting. throughout the morning fwas very heavy. The big caliber guns @& the arsenal were almost constantly fm use. The federal artillery brought another big siege gun into action, but % did not succeed in silencing the @ebel fire. WEXICO CITY IS ISOLATED Rigorous Censorship Limits News From Capital. Washington, Feb. 18.—Mexico City Qs virtually cut off from the outside ‘world by the imposition of an iron ‘eensorship. With no direct news dispatches from @here and only one official dispatch from Ambassador Wilson, which sim- ply said fighting had been resumed and Shat the armistice had been broken, @resident Taft and officials waited in Suspense. The first dispatches of the early day Bitered down from Mexico City to ‘Vera Cruz and said hostilities were Tesumed. Madero telegraphed close friends in ‘Washington that he “expected definite ®esults very soon.” These dispatches @ame through promptly. The Mexican embassy declared no dispatches what- ever had been received there and that @ was depending upon press dis- patches for its confirmation of the Sighting in Mexico City. President Taft’s reply to Madero’s @ppeal for nonintervention went for- ward by telegraph and was given out & Washington by Secretary Knox. Transports Are Needed. The army has gone as far as it can ‘ander present arrangements for a pos- wible troop movement to Mexico. The pian to send an expeditionary force from Galveston has been confronted with some difficulties in securing mer- shant ships. The quartermaster gen- eral has an opportunity to get some eattle ships, but it would take a week to fit them out. It may be finally de- g@ided to send some of the transports at Newport News around to Galves- ‘ton. Ambassador Wilson telegraphed to @he state department at 11 a. m. Feb. 46, that the armistice that had been arranged the previous night was still fm force and that there was great ac- tivity in removing foreigners from the @anger zone and arranging for the transporting of many women and chil- ‘dren to the United States. Reports indicated that losses on the Diaz side had not been great and their lines had been extended in one @irection beyond the palace of the ministry of Gobernacion, which they had taken and in the other direction ms far as the German school. Cuernavaca is reported taken by | Zapatistas. The president of the National rail- way has reported to the ambassador that the Laredo line north of Monterey {s in the hands of the rebels. % mae MAY MEAN FIVE YEARS OF WAR ‘We Would Need 250,000 Men to Inter. vene, Says Expert. Washington, Feb. 18.—Frederick L. Wuidekoper, the military expert, pre- | @icted that five years of guerrilla war- fare would follow intervention in Mex- feo by the United States. Qnce the army went across the bor- er, he said, it must stay there until the entire country was subdued. It ‘would require an army of at least 250,- 900 men to handle the Mexican situa- tion.at the start, and most of this big force would be kept busy for months %© come. Transit Privileges Open. Washington, Feb. 18.—All require- ments and orders providing for en- gorcement of freight transit privileges mow in effect were withdrawn by the fmterstate commerce commission. @his action leaves open the entire gubject of transit privileges on all spmmodities, particularly on grain aad lumber. 4 ENVER BEY. Young Turk Leader Fatally Wounded by an Assassin. i |ENVER BEY FATALLY HURT Turkish Official Attacked by an As sassin. Constantinople, Feb. 18.— Enver Bey, the Young Turk, who made such a fiasco out of his Gallipoli expedi, | tion, was fatally wounded by an as- | sassin, according to a semi-official re- | port. Enver was attempting to leave | the sultan’s harem by a secret pass- {age when attacked. He had taken refuge in the harem by reason of his marriage into the sultan’s family. WOULD AFFECT BIG PART OF COUNTRY ‘Proposed Firemen’s Strike Cov- ers Eighteen States. New York, Feb. 18.—Reports that | both the railroad managers and the | representatives of their~ locomotive | firemen and engineers in the East had | practically given up the hope of set- | tling their long discussed differences ‘over wages and working conditions, |developed considerable | among New Yorkers as to the extent }of their strike. | large, according to the firemen, the | strike would mean a practical tieup of railroad business, because the fifty- | four railroads in the zone affected, |east of the Mississippi and north of | the Ohio river, serve the most densely | populated section of the United States. There are eighteen states in the | zone of the threatened strike. The | mileage of the fifty-four railroads in- | volved is approximately 50,000 miles. The firemen, practically all of whom | claim to be members of the brother- | hood whose vote had brought the sit- | | uation to a crisis, number over 35,000 |}men. It is declared that practically | every man firing a locomotive in the | Eastern territory will obey a strike |order. The vote of the firemen on the | strike question was recorded as 32,178 |in favor of the strike as compared | with 1,198 against it. A statement issued by the railroad manager says that the railroads in- | volved serve over 50,000,000 persons, lor over half the population of the United States. These railroads em- | ploy, all told, approximately 680,000 |/men and women, a large number of | | whom would be in a state of enforced jidleness in the event of a firemen’s | strike actually causing trains to stop | running. | TROOPS HELD UNDER ARMS | Trouble Feared in Connection With Akron (0.) Strike. | Akron, O., Feb. 18.—Every rubber | manufacturing plant in this city was picketed by strikers and police and private guards were placed on watch | by the manufacturers. | State troops still are being held un- der arms, while the members of the state board of arbitration are attempt- ing to effect a compromise between the employers and the 2,000 or more rubber workers who are demanding ‘higher wages and changed conditions. De la Barra Against Intervention. | New York, Feb. 18—An appeal against intervention by the United States and an expression and confi- dence in the ability of Mexico to weather the political. storm without foreign aid were the keynotes of a special message addressed to the American people by Francisco de la Barra, former Mexican ambassador to the United States. Minnesota Girls in Hotel Fire. Conway, N. H., Feb. 18—Two Min- neapolis girls, Miss Edna Nichols and Miss Aleda Burnett were among fifty young women who escaped from the burning Bellvue hotel in the White mountains near here. Miss Helen Baird, Austin, Minn., was also a guest of the hotel and escaped from the flames in her night clothing. a |that the present paramount duty is speculation | To the country at); ~ MADERO APPEAL Explains Attitude of United | States Toward Mexico. OUR RIGHTS REITERATED | | | Declares United States Is Justified in | Landing Troops on Mexican Soil to Protect Americans and Other For- eigners in Danger Zone. Washington, Feb. 18.—‘American | citizens and their property must be | protected and respected,” is Presi- \dent Taft’s reply to Madero’s appeal \to withhold American intervention in Mexico. The reply of the president has been | telegraphed to Mexico City. | Mr. Taft further says that the situ- lation in Mexico during the last two | | years has created in this country “ex- {treme pessimism and the conviction |the prompt relief of the situation.” | Meanwhile the army and navy con- | | tinues to move into position to do in- | | stant work. | | The battleship Georgia already is | |at Vera Cruz, the Virginia is at Tam- | pico, both on the Atlantic side, and |the big dreadnought cruiser South | | Dakota is at Acapulco and the cruiser | Colorado is at Mazatlan, both on the | Pacific. The Vermont, a 16,000-ton | dreadnought, the flagship of Rear Ad- | miral Fletcher, commanding the Sec- jond division of the Atlantic fleet, and | the Nebraska are due at Vera Cruz. This will make the total of United |States men-of-war in Mexican ports | |six, bearing approximately 6,000 jack- | |ies, officers and marines, who could jbe landed for the relief of the lega- tions at Mexico City should they be- come endangered. It is now known that the thing which President Taft and the cabinet | now regard with most concern is the maintenance of communication with Mexico City, any attempt on the part of the Madero government to ;Dut a censorship on dispatches to this |government. The isolation of the United States embassy and foreigners would be one of the first things to | force the landing of troops on Mexi- | can soil at this juncture. RESPONDS TO CALL FOR AID | Cruiser Colorado Hurrying to Manza- nillo Mex. Washington, Feb. 18—Rear Admiral Southerland, commander of the Pacific fleet, has gone with the cruiser Colo- rado from Mazatlan to Manzanillo in response to a request of the United | States consul there, who reported anti- American demonstrations. DRAKE WILL TAKE = | RECORDS TO LONDON Member of Scott Party to Hasten to England, London, Feb. 18.—Public interest in the Scott expedition was heightened | by the announcement that Secretary | Drake, in charge of all official records of the Antarctic party, would leave the other survivors and hurry to Eng- land by the fastest boats. | Information from Christ Church was that Drake would sai] Thursday via ‘the Suez canal. The information in | Drake’s possession will be placed in |the hands of the Royal Geographical | society and then perhaps more will | be known about the expedition. It is! believed that Drake will bring with him the diaries of Scott and the other dead men and turn them over to their | families. | The latest instaliment of Commander | | Bvans’ story was given over mainly to reiterated denials of the reports that there were internal dissensions |im the Scott party, or that there was anything unexplained in the disap- pearance of Scott's fuel oil. Valuation Bill Scope Larger. | Washington, Feb. 18—The La Fol- lette-Adamson railway valuation bill was tentatively amended at a hear- ing before the senate interstate com- merce committee to extend the valua- tion to telegraph and express prop- erties, as well as any other “common carriers of interstate commerce.” Hoiland Prince Injures Child. Heddernheim, Germany, Feb. 18.— Prince Henry of The Netherlands ran over and seriously injured a five-year- old child while driving an automobile | through the principal street of this jtown. He picked up the child and took it in his automobile to the local hospital. Minnesotan Burned to Death. Winona, Minn., Feb. 18.—Stanislaus Wachowiak, twenty-one years old, was burned to death while asleep in a summer kitchen in the home of John Ostrowski. The fire was not dis sovered until the flames burst throt the roof. ‘ ' '| Financier Reported Ill, but Attack is Not Serious. @ 1912. by American Press Association. J.P. MORGAN ILL; STOCKS ALSO SICK Report of Financier’s Attack Alarms Speculators. New York, Feb. 18—J. P. Morgan, Jr., has received a cablegram frem his father at Alexandria, Egypt, say- ing that he had so far recovered from an attack of acute indigestion he sutf- fered recently that he had decided to return to Cairo and not to go to Eu- rope as at first planned. An active member of J.P. Morgan & Co. affirmed that Mr. Morgan had an attack of acute indigestion Tues- day or Wednesday of last week and added that J. P. Morgan, Jr., had on Sunday received most reassuring ad- vices from his father, indicating that the attack was practically over at that time. It was said that Mr. Morgan’s fam- ily and friends felt absolutely no con- cern regarding him and that in all Probability by this time he had com- pletely recovered. J. P. Morgan & Co. also received a cablegram from Mr. Morgan. It was dated Cairo and said Mr.’Morgan was in good spirits and probably would remain a fortnight. Reports of Mr. Morgan’s illness alarmed speculators in the New York stock market and when trading began stocks were unloaded in large amounts. Bull traders hastily. closed out con- tracts and there also was heavy sell- ing by the- bears. Prices broke abruptly, but recovered later on reas- suring reports concerning Mr. Mor- gan’s condition. BANDIT WOUNDED ANDCAUGHT Shot by Railroad Operator in Attempt- ed Holdup. Los Angeles, Feb. 18.—Two bandits armed with shotguns attempted to hold up the Southern Pacific depot at San Fernando and one of them was shot, probably fatally, by E. P. Mc- Cormick, the night telegraph operator in charge of the station. The other escaped. McCormick was ordered to throw up his hands, but instead he-drew a revolver and opened fire on the bandits. Both backed away, each send- ing a charge of buckshot at McCor- mick. One $f the men dropped to the floor and wis arrested. The operator was uninjured. SUMMER SAUSAGE IS FATAL South Dakéta Woman Dead, Two Dy- ig and ‘Eight Ili. Aberdee}, S. D., Feb. 18.—One dead, two in a serious condition and nine others sick in bed is the result of a family livmg near Chelsea eating sum- mer sausige three weeks ago. Mrs. William Knie died and her father ani mother, Mr. and Mrs. Knie, are at the point of death, while their eight children and Mrs. Bateen and two chidren are seriously ill. The sausage| Was not sufficiently cooked and trichinosis developed. Auto Bandit Admits Crime. Chicago, Feb. 18.—A speedy trial ts insured for Robert Webb, whose con- fession of the murder of Peter Hart is in the hands of State’s Attorney Ma- clay Hoyne. Webb broke down and told the story after being confronted by a Witness who had seen him de- seend from the roof of a building ad- joining the flat building in which the murder was.committed. In addition to confessing the murder Webb gave the pdice names of twenty automobile bandits who have operated here all winte}. Hale Is Resting Easily. Weshington, Feb. 18—Former Sen- ator Eugene Hale of Maine, who has en critically ill at his home here, fe reported as resting easily. s St. Paul, Feb. 15.—The last nail was driven into the coffin of the house woman suffrage bill to day. seven roll calls to do this, but it was done, and woman suffrage can trouble the senate no more at the present ses- | sion. ‘ Sullivan Moves Rejection. When the bill came in from the house, which passed it several days ago, Senator G. D. Sullivan, invoking a rule rusty with disuse, moved that it be rejected. Several friends of the bill’ being absent, Senator Sageng moved a call of the senate. After the call had been on several hours with- out any sign of filling the vacant seats, Senator Sullivan moved that fur- ther proceedings under the call be‘dis- pensed with The friends of woman suffrage contended that this motion was out of order and not in accord- ance with precedents. After animated debate the lieutenant-governor enter- tained the motion. The first roll call was on this. The motion carried 32- 23. Senator Sageag moved to refer the bill to the committee on elections. As a substitute Senator Lende moved to lay all pending motions on the table. On this motion the result of roll call was substantially as above. A motion to adjourn was next put and lost. Next came up Sageng’s motion to re- fer. It, too, was lost. Senator Sulli- van’s motion to reject carried 31 to 24. A motion to adjourn next made was on roll call declared lost. Senator Sullivan moved to reconsider the de- feat of which motion would bury the bill past resurrection and asked all opposed to the bill to vote no. The motion carried by substantially the vote given above. The senate then adjourned. sosyae | Pass Number of Bills. Prior to adjourning, and while still ander cal. the senate passed a number of bills. The most important of these were two bills by Senator Benson, one providing that road overseers should be appointed by the town board in- stead of elected by the people, and the other that their pay shouldbe in- creased from $2 to $3 a day. Sentaor Haycraft’s hog cholera serum bill was amended so that the serum instead of being free should be sold at the rate or one-third of a cent perc. c. It passed the senate in that Another bill of Senator Haycraft’s which was passed requires county boards to maintain all bridges outside of the corporate limits of cities costing $1,000 or more. County Option Defetaed. County option went down to defeat in the house on a vote of 59 to 59. The bill which had been introluced by Rep- resentative Lee differed in no essen- tial respect from bills offered at previ- ous sessions. The vote was taken after consider- able debate. The vote follows: No-—Anderson, J., Barten, Bendixen, Borgen, Bouck, Brown, G. W., Burrows, Carey, Coates, Crawford, Dindorf, Dunn, H’ H., Dwyer, Elmer, Ferrier, Flowers, Fuchs, Greene, Hafften. Han- son, Harrison, Healy, Henry, Hogenson, Hopkins, Just, Kimpel, Knapp, Knopp, Lennon,~Lundeen, Lydiard, MeGarry, Minnette, Moeller, Nelson, Nimocks, Papke, Peterson, P. A., Pless, Preston, Prince, Reed, Ribenack. Saggau, Schwartz, Seebach, Stageberg, Steen, Stoven, Sullivan, Swenson, Thielen, Thornton. Thorson, Virtue, Vollmer, Walker, Westlake. ‘Yes—Anderson, W., Bjorge, Bjorn- son, Braatelien, Brown, W. W., Bur- chard, Campbell, Carlson, Child, Clem- entson, Conley, Crane, Davis, Dunn, R. c., inke, Frankson, Frye, Hillman, Holmberg, Johnson, A. C.. Johnson, J: T. lemer, Kneeland, Larson, Lee, , McMartin, Marschalk, Mork- en, Nolan, Norton, Ofsthun, Olien, O'Neill, Orr, Palmer, Peterson, A. B., Peterson, A. J., Porter, Putnam, San- born, Sawyer, Skartum, Southwick, Spooner, Stone, Sundberg, Teigen, Vasaly, Voxland, Warner, A. L., Warn- er, C. H.. Warner, E., Wefald, Weld, Westman, Williams, Wilson, Mr. Speaker. St. Paul, Feb. 15.—Woman suffrage and county option both went down to defeat in the legislature yesterday. The last rites of each of these meas- ures so far as this legislature is con- cerned were accompanied by more or Jess of the spectacular. Suffrage lost, 31 to 25, and option, 59 to 59. ‘No one expected suffrage to show her head in the senate yesterday. Ac- cording to schedule, the senate was to set a day for the hearing, the women were to come in fascinating dresses and generally gay apparel, everybody was to make a speech and suffrage was to live or die. But instead, the only women pres- ent were a few stenographers who came scurrying in at the first alarm. It was George Sullivan of Stillwater who sprung the coup which resulted im the untimely end of suffrage. Burgam Serum Hearing. Representative Frank Hopkins of Fairfax, who introduced in the legislat- ure a joint resolution expressing ‘thanks of the state to Dr. J. H. Burgan of Minneapolis for offering the public Seattle Times Plant Burne. Seattle, Feb. 14.—The Seattle Times building, a four-story brick structure, and the Denny building, five stories high, adjoining, were partly wrecked by fire, with a total loss estimated at } Proceedings at the Minnesota State Capitol for the It took. a search for an anti-tuberculosis serum, yesterday asked Chairman K. G. Skar- tum of the public health committee to arrange for a public hearing on the resolution, Public announcement will be made of the hearing which probably will be next week. Option Loses, Also. * County option lost in the house again, also. The Lee county op- tion bill was defeated by a vote of 59 to 59, two being absent and 61 votes necessary to pass the bill. The absen- tees, Albert Pfaender and W.-H. Wes- cott, both are against the bill. The measure fell four votes short of the expectation of its friends, but came ‘nearer passage than in any previous session. The roll call, taken after nearly three hours of debate, was as follows: Yeas 59 — Andersen, W.; Biorge, Bjornson, Braatelien; Brown, W. W.; Burchard; Campbell; Carlson; Child; Clementson; Conley; Crane; Davis; Dun, R. C.; Finke; Frankson; Frye; Hillman; Holmberg; Johnson, C. A.; Johnson, J. T.; Kimpel; Kneeland; Larson; Lee; McMartin; Marschalk; Morken; Nolan; Norton; Ofsthun; Oli- , en; O'Neill; Orr; Palmer; ' Peterson; A. B.; Peterson, A. J.; Porter; Put- nam; Sanborn; Sawyer; Skartum; Soutawick; Spooner; Stone; Sund- berg; Teigen; Vasaly; Voxland; War- ner., A. L.; Warner, C. H.; Warner, E.;\ Wefald; Weld; Westman; Wil- liams; Wilson; Speaker Rines. A bill to give cities the right to purchase public utilities and to issue bonds against the property of such utilities was introduced in the house yesterday by Representative W. A. Campbell. gs wwail sou 0 BRAD a i Settee | St. Paul, Feb. 14—Where candi- dates for state office and their cam- paign committees got the money they spent in the last three campaigns and what they did with it, the legislature is going to try and find out. It will also inquire diligently into thé extent to which subordinate employees in the various departments have neglected their duties to push the political for- tunes of their chiefs. This was the purpose of a joint reso- lution which has passed the senate. Senator Sageng is its author. The committee will comprise six members, three from the house and three from the senate. They‘ are authorized tc employ an attorney, subpoena wit- nesses, etc. A preliminary appropria- tion of $1,000 was made to meet the expenses of the probe. Election Law Special Order. The bill to amend primary electien law was the special order at yester- day’s session of the senate. The prin- ciple change proposed is to make coun- ty offices now partisan. Another amendment provides that where there is but one candidate in case of a party nomination and two candidates in case of a non-partisan nomination that their names shall not be placed on the primary election ballot, but that they be declared the nominees. It is pro posed to change the law so that a candidate for a non-partisan office cannot go on the election by petition, Senator Sullivan sought to secure the adoption of an amendment doing away with the class feature in the primary law passed last session. No vote gwas taken at this time and the special order was continued until Monday afternoon. The Cashman distance teriff bill was made a special order for next Thursday when it is expected it w be finally disposed of so far as the senate is concerned. Reapportionment Same Day. Reapportionment will be considered the same day by the house in special session. The new good roads bill was made a special order for Friday. Foreign-born representatives took great offense at a bill introduced by Representative Porter, the effect of which would be to prevent any person not fully naturalized holding an ap pointive position either in the service of state, county or municipality. It was bitterly attacked by Representa tive Bjornstad of Minnesota, among others, who thought that any young foreigner who came here to grow up with the country should not be de nied public employment solely on the ground that he had not been in the state long enough to get out final nat- uralization papers. The bill was in definitely postponed. Considerable opposition has devel oped to a bill, also introduced by Mr. Porter, limiting a work day for wom en to eight hours, except nurses, do mestic servants, farm laborers or per sons engaged in the care of live stock. To avoid its defeat its further com sideration was postponed. The opposi- tion to the bill came from the try members who, while 2 enough to alw women in the short work day, did not want the rule applied to women employed ip ei ‘the results of his investigations in| the country or in country towns. Legal Separation Granted. Pittsfield, Mass., Jan. 30.—Mr. and) Mrs. Eugene W. Paige, who came) here to reside about eight years ago, following their marriage in Minne apolis, have separated. The legal pers were signed this week. An mouncement of the separation made following the visit of a: apolis attorney. Mr. Paige, time of his marriage to the then Pillsbury, was the New sentative of the Pillsbury eompany. He Hi E el