New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1916, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOGCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAII HERALD HERALD “ADS" BETTER BUSIN i PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1916 —TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED " STEEL BARONS BACK DOWN AND TENDER 11,8, BARGAIN PRICE Their Threats Ignored, Armor - Mannfactarers Agree to Lower Price Instead of Increasing It | FEAR THE LANTS ARD BIG INYESTHENT “In its, They Offer to Culfill A1l Contracts at $395 Per | ough Prevailing Price Is Being Unsatistactory, i | They Will Let Avbitration Commnit- | tee Fix P hington, March —V the naval coinmittec today received Tiliman bil or plant, n for a government | plate which passed the | senate ye also received it Y WILL LOSE THER |- | firemen in the strect below P eng JUMP FOR SAFETY FROM THIRD STORY Ten Men Leap for Lives in Bridge- port Fire—Auto Truck Runs Wild. Bridgeport, March 22.—Panic re- sulting from a small fire in the ' Hamilton Brass campany’'s building, Middle and Golden streets, at noon ‘today, caused ten persons to jump om a third story window to a shed *low. Michael Cobally, aged 30, who { eave his address as 160 Thompson street, sustained a fracture of the right ankle. F¥e is in St. Vincent's | hospital. Herbert Tier, 760 Broad «treet, whose clothing was ablaze was cued by fellow workers without ap- parent injury. A dense smoke cutting off the exits caused the panic among thirty em- ployes of the W. B. Gilbert Pattern Co. The lives of several were doubtedly saved by the assurances W harely prevented others jumping the full distance of three stories. The fire started in a Japanning oven. In responding to the alarm Engine No. 4, a newly equipped t tor, failed to track down a steep hill and t. Norman Wheeler, driver, strapped to the seat, was rescued from the debris of a tree that had leen struck and splintered by ‘the 1e, without serious injury, 29 | 1 | | WHITE HOUSE DENIES proposal Bethlehem of Steel Co. dhe to pr eut, the irom eser of ice armor $425 a ton o | This offer made to | te committee and ignored. face threz previously was he st In tie or after to the senate the proposal, that the armor makers would | the bill passed, the | | committee’s refusal entertain mise the price if company surpris by Pr comp: the plant, twenty useless. : Obligations as Citizen. President proposal tinued: “The Bethlehem Steel Co., alto- @ether aside from its financial inter- | recognized its obligations as a en and in order that its position | be clearly understood, now de- | formally to submit the follow- renewed offer caused much The proposal was submitted ident Grace of the Bethlehem ny, who repeated his statement if the government erected a | private works worth more than | million dollars would be made - | Grace's con- | ests citi ma sires BERLIN SEEKS PEACE Says Germany ITas Made No Representations to United States. Washington, March 22.-—President Wilson was represented at the White House today as being resentful of the publication of stories ‘that Ambas- sador Gerard had reported Germany was about to make a move for peace. Th_e published reports were charac- terized as being based on inferences. This statement was issued: “President Wilson, through Secre- tary Tumulty, today authorized a denial of stories appearing in papers to the effect that the purpose of Am- bassador Gerard's remaining in Berlin was to await Germany’s proposal for ing proposition to the federal govern- ment: | “We will manufacture one-third or | aach additional quantity as may be | awarded to us of the armor plate re quired for the contemplated five-year pro am, estimated at approxi- 120,000 tons, at a price of § for side rmor, s compared with the price $425 now obtaining. | “The proposed price is lower than | has heen paid by the government for more than ten years. naval mately per ton is | < Guarantee Satisfactory Price. i factory, well known countants the foregoing price is not satis- we will agree to permit any firm of chartered ac- or the federal trade com- to inventory our plant and reful estimates of the cost of manufacture: with that data in hand we will meet the secretary of Lhe. navy | guarantee to manufacture | it a price which will be entire- 1y satisfactory to him, as being quite ag low the lowest price at \\'hi(‘,h] the government could possibly manu- | facture armor on its own account | after king into account all proper charge “Wé make the foregoing proposi- rather than have our plant put it of existence. We have invested, as actually inventoried over § 000,000 in that plant. figure does not take into account the large expenditures, certainly $2,000,000, for the, plants and equipment which have been abandoned on account of be- coming obsolete. “We are today selling armor to the United States government at a lower "price than England, German) France, Austria and Japan are pay- ing, even where the government itself (Japan) has embarked in the busi- . Not only is that true, but the ifications of the United States are yuch more rigid, and the wages paid | very much higher than thosc pre- »ny foreign country. e in Twenty-ninc Years. prices are continually going are today much higher has been the case for many In spite of that we offer to maie armor at a lower price than the United tes has paid for twenty- nine years, and we agree .to accept this price for the next five years. Wo ention to the fact that the war began, we able In Hurope to get yrice we chose to ask for ordnance, we have during the period made no addition whatever to the selling price to the United States government for any of the ordnance products which we manufacture.” make wrmor as | | | | | ST are yailing i ugh have been almost any since Government Appropriates $11,000,000 Washington, March 22—The Till- han bill, appropriating $11,000,000 for the acquisition of a government armor plate factory, passed by the genate late yesterday, went to the There the measure a- goes to the naval cori- mittee which had set apart the for its consideration with a view n prompt report to the House administration plan 1) peace. There is no justification for that inference being drawn.” Yesterday the state department took notice of the publications by denying that Germany had intimated to the United States that the time was ripe for the United States, the rgest neu 1, to renew offices for peace, or that States had been informed that Mr. Gerard had been requested to post- pone his vacation because of pending peace negotiations. Unofficial reports reaching here to- day said the ambassador actually had postponed his vacation, but gave no reason. The state department today the United again | took cognizance of the report and the following statement was issued: Any statement that the German government had intimated that it desired this government to act as mediator in peace negotiations or had in any way suggested, formally or in- formally, that this government should take the matter up with other powers is absolutely without foundation, and the state department has no informa- tion that Germany is preparing to n:ake a deflnite move in the direction of peace.” RAILROAD EMBARGO EXTENDS TO SUNDAY New Haven Road Gives Notice Change Which Called For Early Removal of Restrictions, New Haven, March 22.—The New York, New Haven and Hartford reilroad company today announced that the freight embargo effective at midnight March 18, and which w to have ended at midnight 22, has been extended to night next. The embargo was placed “upon all freight originating at stations on the New York, New Haven and Iart- ford railroad or the Central New ©ngland railway, and Connecting lines, consigned to Harlem river or via plers Nos. 31, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, and 70, East river, York, North First street, Brooklyn, and all other Brooklyn terminals; consigned to coastwise or ocean steamship lines via the above named piers and terminals, or when for lighterage from Harlem river for said lines or terminals.” The previous notice said that embargo would expire on Marc to New York local deliv on freight for export. s March Sunday not BERNSTORFF AND POLK MEET, Washington, March 22.—Count von lernstorff, the German { today conferred with Acting Secretary | Folk ambassador, on various subjects in conne to qgmy call up the bill as soon as the reorganization and immigration (Continued on Eleventh P many has placed on v ous commodi- | ties. The subject of armed merchant | ships was not, it was said authorita- | tively mentioned at the conference. its friendly | of | or when | | tion with the export embargoes Ger- | TEXAS FIRE DRIVES 10,000 FROM HOMES Placed as High as $5,000,000 THIRTY BLOCKS DESTROYED Electric Pumping Plant in Path of Flames and Water Supply Is Usec- less—Residents Face Food Famin As Supply Was Burned. Te: proximately homeless, Paris, March 22.-——With ap- ten thousand the entire business wiped out and from 1,500 to 2,000 dwellings destroyed, the fire which started late yesterday afternoon was burning early today. The prop- erty loss, it is estimated, | $2,500,000. | Reports were circulated that from ten to thirty persons had lost thei !lives. Confirmation, however, w lacking. Thousands of homeless men, women and children were being cared for to- l'day in private residences, railway stc | tions and the few remaining public { buildings. The food supply jous problem, every hotel, re and grocery in the city having, been | wiped out. In ail about thirty blocks | were destroyed. The wind, which was blowing a gale | when the fire started, shifted at da light and the fire was slowly travel- ing in a southerly direction, spreading the flames throughout the res e district. Churches Are Destroyed. The fire started about 5:30 yester- day afternoon in a storage warehouse belonging to S. J. Long. In less than two hours, the wind, blowing south- west to northwest, had laid waste a section extending from Eighteenth to Twenty-fifth streets in width, and along several blocks of the Texas and Pacific right of way, burning several of the most costly residences, the Episcopal, the Congregational and TFirst Bap: churches ment hous the Gibraltar hotels and many othe: re fighting apparatus was brought from Dallas, Sherman. Greenville and Bonham, Te and Hugo, Oklahoma. Toward midnight the wind died down and the fire began to subside. Virtually every building on either persons tructures, business section Water was destroyed. Supply Fails. Paris water supply stor: lake six aniles west of town and is pumped by electrically i driven engines. The clectric power plant having been consumed early in | the evening, and all put out of commission there was no means of noti storage lake to | pumps. The central fire station | been burned, together with the city’s fire hose. | The flames first made a clean sweep of the southern part of the city, bu ing a path three to four blocks wide extending to the public square, where a large open space arrested the cou of the fire temporarily. Thence the ire was swept by the gale into the residential section, mill districts amd on until about thirty city blocks were consumed. Later estimates place the total loss at $5,000,000, Thirty blocks, cowtaining the busi- ness district and from 1,500 to 2,000 homes were swept by the fire but so far as reported only one life was lost, a negro. | The from start the emergency also had most of $500,000 Fire in McKinney McKinney, Texas, March —Fire starting in a residence here caused a ! o of half a million dollars before being put out early today. Kinney Cotton Compre company, which had three thousand bales of cotton burned, was the heaviest loser. 9 Toveka, Kas, March fires are burning in a dozen western Kansas countie! today, vegetation having been made v by ex- treme heat and the high winds of the last few day Although no loss of life has been reported, many houses were caught in the fast moving flames | and pasture lands have been reduced to vast reaches of black stubble. One blaze which started near Le- oti, Wichita county, started eastward, burned its way through Scott and Lane counties and finally was be- lieved to be under control west of Uti- ca, Ness county ance of seventy miles. Modoc, Scott county, is in the path of the flames and seven hou are said to have been burned there. Dodge City maintained a fire guard all last night on the edge of the city to check the flames which threatenecd from the northwest. Fires were burn- ing in six counties to the north and west of that place Volunteer fire fighters worked night in various places plowing fire guard furrows, carrving water and us- ing other methods to stop the advance of the flames. Twelve 0il Wells in Flames, Tulsa, Okla March Dumage | estimated at more than $1,000,000 v done in the oil ficlds near Drum last night, when a fire starting in pile of ref spread 1o the waulls, Twelve wells are hurning today twen- ty-four derricks had been 4 ght (Continued on Lleventh Page.) Damage in Paris Conilagration | Ul | destoyed, | i | tarrive fed so section | stin | | the extreme tropical will reach | | the subject | Councilman | carnest | announced, will open with a serie INTERNED STEAMER TO BE TAKEN NORTH C. Cruiser Goes After Cormorant As Tropical Climate Works Hard- <hips on Crew. Washington, March 22—The United States cruiser Brooklyn, which sailed from Manila last Thursday, is due to today at Guam, from which port, it voy to cruiser refuge n Francisco Cormorant, there German sought to she was the which when { pursued by a Japanese warship some | | months ago. The Brooklyn left Manila orders and her destination had of more or less under been conjec- ture. During the flight the Cormorant's | understood, she will con- | crew tore up the wooden deck for fuel and the exposed iron much heat that they suff several of them developing toms of insanit After the Cormorant had Guam it became apparent heat and restrictions imposed made conditions aboard the vessel tisfactory for the crew. As a sult it was later decided by the na authorities to bring the Cormorant and her crew to the United State: Physicians, from Manila were ord ed to accompany the crew. QUIGLEY DUCKING floors sym- interned at neces sary liv- ing re PROPOSED DEBATE Curtis’ Terms Do Not Suit Mayor—To Address Work- ers at Factories. Whether the much talked of de- bate between Mayor Quigley and Curtis materializes or voralty fight will begin in The hattle it is of not, the ma next week. | noon-time speeches by the mayor at | addresse: several apart- | and Mer- | | Rule and drawn | telephone wires | ving the engineer at the | | manded to thought he signed for a The Me- ; | Si8c of the Gnuave Inithe heart ot the | 0 ir | Jana, | 'many years ago. | gave Sulliv | money. the. local factori and two in halls. Next Monday noon the m k at the main entrance Frary and Clark on Tuesday at noon, he factory at P. & Wedn the Stanle Tev Thursday at the Sere Corporation plant on street and Friday, he will talks to the laboring men with at Russell & Erwin's, 1t the rowill t athering Lithuan street Wedr at or will of Lan- Center will ad- dres: [ (@royes bin cro sday 1 Co. Corbin > h . speech Aonday m before a in ball on Park and chi will address a crowd 1sky’s hall on Broad strect, While Mayor Quigley had prepared ro formal answer today to the broad- side addressed to him yesterday by Councilcan O, Curtis, he intimated that the debate would never take ce on the terms and conditions im- posed by the councilman from the third. The mayor was reminded 1id, of the famous battle between Charles Mitchell, champion of Eng- and John L. Sullivan in Skri- place in a h was for who n a real run Finally Sullivan, nearly winded from his vain to get a shot at his nimble foe, de- know whether Mitchell fight or a 100t race. Mayor Quigley maintains Mr. tis is seeking a foot r: a battle at close quarter: Let him get down to cases, name a definite subject and not wander all over a ten acre pasture and T'll debate said the mayor in conclusion, While the proposed debate is caus g no end oi comment all over the ity no thinking person appears to take the matter seriously and it is the general belief that Mayor Quigley will never consent to ward councilman. There are many who assert that the mayor wants no Cur- art of an argument with such a wily | ampaigner as Councilman Curtis and will duck the engagement at the first convenient opportunity, which the present situation seems to furnish CRUISER AT HAVANA Sydney, Which For Coal: Warship Emden, and Provisions at Cuban Port. Cuba, March —The .r Svdney arrived her for the purpose of obtaining coal and provisions. &he will sail within the prescribed 24 hours. Whence she came or whither is going is unknown. Australian Destroyed Calls Havana, Australian cru today, supposediy she The famous been in months. which destroyed raider Emden, has waters for several vdn German Atlantic MRS, McREYNOLD Elkton, Ky., Marcr. 28 McReynolds, mother of Su- preme Court Justice James (. McRe nolds, died 2t her home here today. She was ¥ s old. 3 DEAD. ~Mrs. Ellen Freen R WEATHER. Hartford, March Hartford and vicinity probably heavy, and colder to- night. Thursday, cloudy and colder. Northerly gales. wdiat- | X | ports received that | un- | | phone wi i night. 21 One or two small fires broke out. evening | OVER MIDDLE WEST | | \ | \ [ | | | struction in Its Wake fisWake MEXIGAN SITUATION TRAIN BLOWN FROM TRACK PLEASES WASHINGTON Three Coaches Lifted From Jut No One Ts seriousty Huri— | Carranza Co-operating and " Protocol Will Soon Be Sleet i in Force. Rails | Chicago Visited by Heavy Storm., March 2 from Logansport, Ind., 2.—Re- early today the that close Washington, March 22—Latest i | ficial advices from the Ame: an night L : =t o | peditionary forces in Mexico say n was killed, probably twenty per- | &, - Pershing and his men are [to Villa and his outlaws. All des- patches told of the co-operation of !the Carranza soldiers in the band a | tistrict which was swept by a tor- nado late last show that one m nds of storm, ten sons injured, and many thous damage done. The h did not last more than minutes, swept across this city in g narrow path. Tn the business dis- | o nemCinEronorto ROt trict roofs were torn off, Windows {settled conditions in the inte broken and trees uprooted. Trees fall- | Mexico and along the horder, Sec ing across telezraph and telephone | tary Baker said that although the wires severed wire communication. |situation was fraught with many pos- Street car traffic was brought to a | sibilities, to date there had been no standstill by debris heaped upon the | ynfavorable developments, tracks and the carrying away of elec- | In response to a request from tric light wires left the city in dark- | funston additional troops are beins ne | sent to the border. The Fifth Caval- The roof of a broom factory was |ry Squadrons at Fort Myer, Va., Fort blown off and crashed against the | gheridan, Ill, and Fort Leavenworth, home of Benjamin Ricketts, killing | Kansas, and the 24th Infantry at W. J. Ricketts and injuring other | Jsort D. A. Russell, Wyo., were under members of the family. | orders to start south today. An unidentified woman was brought | In official circles it was said today {c this city from Trimmer, Ind., where | that the protocol proposed by Car- had been severely cushed. ranza to govern the pursuit of Villa by the international forces will be in force within a few days. Acting Chicago, March 22.—A sleet storm | Secretary of State Polk and Eliseo today followed the rain and thunder | Arredondo, the Mexican ambassador storm which caused considerable | designate, have virtually agreed upon damage to eclectric light and tele- |the terms of the proposed convern- es throughout the city last | tion mg of | Senator Sherman of Tilinois, but | introduced a resolution to authorize done. | and direct the at once to call for 50,000 volunteers for service in Mexico. Under the rules it »n.p table until tomorrow. un- of Gen she Sleet Storm in Chicago. | Whole streets and secti today city were left in darkne: property damage Wwas the lit{le president Reports from the northeastern part lies on of Illinois, in the vicinity of Kanka- kee and Beaverville, and from Marion and Logansport, Ind., told of a tor- | nado, which caused the loss of one | DUTCH PERPLEXED i | ana wind | he | Paris | The encounter took | ~foot ring and Mitchell efforts | e rather than | meet the third | | off the Rumanian coast of the Black the | | of | Jority injury to a number of persons | and heavy property damage. Tele- | aph and telephone wires were down | communication with outlying roints were cut off. Marion, Ind., reported train on the Toledo, St Western (Clover Teaf) railroad brown from the tracks near that city te last night. Several persons were | injured but none was killed, Four | cars were overturned and a fifth was | tilted dangerously, | case is causing serious Five houses were destroped | the Dutch government. Pittsville, 111, and ten demolished at | ted Press is informed authoritativ Kankakee. | that no further action will be taken Beaverville, TlI., and Morocco, Ind., | by the government until the resnlt were said to have suffered, of an examination by divers is known, . [but it is admitted that it will i exceedingly difficult to find traces the supposed torpedo in the coal nger | Dunkers of the Tubantia at a depti the |Of sixteen or seventeen fathoms. by | BY TUBANTIA CASE No Further Action Will Be Taken a_passenger | Louis and Until Wreek is Examined by Dive: The Hague, March March 22, 11:40 m.- , via London, 'he Tubantin perplexity to The Assoc Coaches Brown From Track, Marion, Ind., Mar. 22,—Three coaches of the Clover Leaf pa train No. 5 were blown from track five miles east of here cyelone last night. Twenty-seven engers were on board the train but none was seriously injured. London, March 9:57 a. m.—The Dutch foreign office announces that no representations were made by | Holland to Germany in connection | with the singing of the Tubantia, says a Reuter despatch from The Haguc The Dutch minister in Berlin had been instructed to ask the German | government to open an inquiry, in | view of the statements made by of- | ficers of the Tubantia. These in- structions, however, were cancelled when the German minister at The D! Indianapolis Say Ind, March killed, two women and two men were seriously hurt, more than fifty persons received ninor injuries and property damaged fo thousands of dollars I; the wind storm which Swept north- ern Indiana late last night, accord. in behalf ing to reports received here today. | 28Ue made a decla RIS The storm prostrated wire service “”f hisisovernment throughout the northern part of the state. Three Killed, Indianapolis, Three men were COLLISION KILLS FOUR in Pennsyivanis Pittsburgh, March 2 from western Pennsylvania northern West Virginia today of flooded streams to railroad and 1 cause of heavy rains and meltinig SNow Much damage was done in the Connellsville Coke region, miners in some instances being driven the pits ¥ g water. Floods Reports | West Bound Freight Plunges Head-on and told of and inerruption { treet car trafh Into East Bound Train on Cay dian Railvoad. Quebec, Que., March men were killed and several | in a collision between two fromn i ¢y at midnight last night Brillant, on the Inter-colonial | w in Rimouski county. News *he wreck reached here today Tne victims were members of the crew of a west bound freight which | plunged head-on into an east bound | train which had stopped at Val Bril- lant. The accident was attributed to a frozen switch. Four injured | freight at Val | Rail- | of to Constantinople With Supply of | HANCE ESTATE APPRAISED. | The estate of Charlotte Hance of | Cedar street has been appraused at | $5,744.64 by Albert H. Schilling and L. O. Lusk, who today made their report to the probate court. Of this sum $2,381 is represented by inter- est in property at 42 Cedar street The rest, $3 4, is cash in vari ous banks. The deceased had depos- its in the Bowery Savings bank, Savings Institute and Broalway ings bank of New York, also m..‘ Savings Bank Southold, FLong Is. | land, and the Savings Bank of New ritain. | Provisions. 2o 3 Russian peranza London, March The sinking by a he .steamship m.— warship of of Kaliakra Sea, is reported in a Reuter de patch filed at Bucharest on Sund The Esperanza, a 7,000 ton vessel flying the German flag, is said to have been loaded with foodstuffs for Con- stantinople. The crew was captured by the Russian The despatch also reports the sinl ing of a score of small sailing ships with cargoes of food. Irving | Sav- | in c "OLLETTI: THE WINNER. wrgo, N. D., March 22— Returr ailable today indicate that United States Senator Robert M. LaFolle(te of Wisconsin, defeated Henry D. 13 tabrook, of New York. the choice the republicans in yesterd presidential primary, but by = of than anticipated A CITY COURT CASES, In the city court the and Herbert M ana 1 v taken Triday for P, Alfrec Rutow | uled for tomor | sudge James | Srogi Vs ases of Herin Valenti will he session Vs, d Niemro chmond to the ndar The Rosen as ort ignment Johnson Malusewski are w and this afternoon Meskill heard the Koloski, re and loss sched supporters The returns Lecause severe are coming snow ! | ‘g ’ l in slowly of storms. asc of TORNADOTEARS WAY | VILLA PURSUIT SCREENED | BY VEIL OF CENSORSHIP; AVIATORS STILL MISS New Column May Mexico, Ind'cating Use of Railroads Will Be Required — Army Handicapped By Fa of Wireless Instrument LAND WIRES ARE CU BY FRIENDS OF VIE soldiers Suffering From Heat of) and Cold of Night Although N of Sickness Has Single Case Reported—Brother of Mu tancher Demands Indemnity Carranza. March report San Antonio, Tex - an tho bsene news from rel to the outcome of the fighting bef Villa's the vieinity Pershing's failure to of Francisco his Villa Mexican counter troops with and the sources and Carranza's troof of Namaquipa army officers at Fort Sam Housto day to believe Villa had escapeds The fate of Lieutenants Edwaf Gorrell and Robert H. Willis, Jr., failed to reach Grandes unknown at Gen, Funston’s headq ters. No time will be lost in the disp of the 24th Infantry and the Cavalry, ordered to the border i day. Both should reach Colul befofe the end of the week, and the intention of General Funstol send them into Mexico immediati One of the aviators missing the squadron that went to join eral Pershing’s column desce somewhere south of Casas Grands was learned at General Fun headquarters today. His name not given. Earlier both the men reports 1 indicated$ came down somewhere & line of communication bel the border line and Casas G Gen. Pershing's advanced b# operations Reports today e reached Casas ( south over the country in three detachments of ca operating. No details relati disappearance were received that was which cplained ndes and Wircless Works Again. Columbus N. M., March 22 less communication with the | vanced base of the American peditionary force as Casas Graf was restored today. Several mei all in code, were received, but word of the two missing tenants of the army aero corps. | May Send New Column, 'ex., M —A authorities are con new column arch can military plating sending | Mexico from Fadens, a village thi miles east of here, it was reported day. It was stated that this plan | under consideration as an alternal | should Carranza refuse the requesf the Washington government for 1se of the Mexico Northern rail over which to transport supplies American troops. The mystery ing between Juar: des is deeper than ever distance between these about 130 miles traversed b} ico Northwestern Railway & Gavira declared vesterday that he sending out a repair train under gul to restore the wires and report what interruption. T today eceived ta what a is hapj asas G what and C; today. town the M over two caused their no report has been Mexican officials completely at a curred As the itenant E r S with their huahua desert deepen. The flight from the profes loss as to lengthens since K H. Willis Jr., who disapped into the eir s 1 time Robert Gorrell, Li eroplanes fears for t two officers staried Columbus Sund No Tlness Among N. M., March illness has Troops. Nol reen repord Columbus single case of among the An ; w Gen. Pershing’s expeditionary coli n Mexico, Lieut. Col. Frick in chaj of the base hospital here asserted day, Army medical officers consid a remarkable showing in view the heat, the storms of the des| and the disease, which has followed the wake of four years civil in Mexico, to all of which the soldk have been exposed in the marg It was a thag much credit due the preventative adol ed the expedit Ly ericans an¢ iy rted meas the res hefore start of force Demands Indemnity., March this the Visconti, a 51 centi Paso, Texas Visconti, of ceiving details of hrother, Enrigue Italian his ranch i ifter of wealt at in (Continued on Eleventi