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OMAHA, SUNDAY MOKXIXU, MARCH JC, tin 1 SIX SFATIOXS-FORTY PAGES.
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150 KILLED o
DY FLAMES
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Girli and Men Leap to Death and
Bora to Criip in Holocaust Starting
on Serenth Floor.
Coming and Going in Omaha
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New Cabinet it Given Out by the State
Members with Diai Only a
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EHHIT WAIST COMPAHY EMPLOYES
Hre Btarti in Electrio Motor Box
Which Snppliei Power.
BODIES PILED UP ON SIDEWALK
Tenons Hurtled Blazing from Top
Floor of Building.
TEEJUFTED WOMEN STRUGGLE
Crowd, Crazed with Fear, Hamper
Work of Beiouer.
ELETATOB. MAN PRESERVES FIFTY
Smoko Fill Shaft and Cut Off Mean
of Escape,
MANY JUMP FROM FIRE ESCAPES
Some Oait Themielve from Washing
ton Square Window.
ESCAPE FROM THE LOWER FLOORS
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I Wklek to Huk Pise of
Bff ytalrwy Ar
Choked.
KIW TORK, Mar oh SB, (Special Tele-
rram.V Fifty men and women Jumped to
their deaths late this afternoon and 100
others were burned to a crisp In a fire
which started on the seventh floor of a
bis factory building at Washington
' Place. The fire fighters on the scene
estimate at least ISO perished.
Most of the dead were employes of the
Triangle Waist oompaay on the seventh,
eighth, ninth and tenth floors of the build
ing. The fire started in the electrio motor
box which supplied power to the hundreds
of sewing machines on the various floor.
H spread so rapidly that all esoapa Was
out off on the. stairs and fire escapes below
the seventh floor.
Me aw Wura Craved by Terron
Crased by terror, the men and. womea
' operators abandoned all efforts to fight
tt-elr way through h smoke filled hall
ways to the stairs or fire escapes, and
leaped madly from the windows.
Within ten minutee after the blase was
discovered thirty-five crushed and mangled
bodies were lying below on the pavements.
Four alarms were sent In as soon as
the first battalion chief who arrived on
th scene noted the rapidity with which
the flames were spreading.
Ambulance calls were sent to all the
hospitals In the lower part of the city.
But neither the firemen nor the urgeons
were able to cope with the terrible holo
caust which they found awaiting them,
Crow al reliable.
To add to the horror of the scene the
police found themselves unable to eontrol
the gigantic crowd which speedily gath
ered. The men and women In this crowd
(-ruied by the sight of the biasing bodies
hurtling Sown from the top floors of the
burning building, fought their way through
the fire lines and hampered the work of
the firemen and surgeons.
The- building. wYlch la at the corner of
Washington Place and Green street. Is one
of the biggest In the clothing manufactur
ing; district.
There were 1.500 men and women em
ployed In It whi-n the fire started, but
virtually all of those below the seventh
floor managed to escape.
Wnnse Choke stairways.
Those on the upper floors, however, had
no time in which to reach a place of
safety. The first burnt of flame sent a
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For Iowa Showers, colder.
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hundred shrieking women on the seventh
floor to the stairways, which were speedily
choked bjr the terror-maddened women.
Fighting and shrieking tor help, the first
twe
enty of them plunged down the stairs,
landing In a tangled heap at the foot.
The others who attempted to follow them
were blocked - and their shieks added to
the general pandemonium.
Meanwhile the men and women on the
eighth, ninth and tenth floors, terrified
by the shrieks of those below and the
clouds of smoke that rolled - up the stairs
and elevators shafts, dashed madly around
the stairs and hallways. ,
Klevator Haves Fifty.
Frank Froraenck, the elevator man In
the building, pluckily stuck to bis post and
by making half a dozen trips up the
burning floors, managed to save fifty of
those who were congested about the
elevator gates.
The smoke filled the shaft so completely,
however; that he was forced to quit after
the seventh trip.
Those who fled to the fire escapes found
tehlr escape blocked by groups of shriek
ing women, who feared to risk the descent
through the flames that were leaping out
from the windows of the upper floor. ;
Oaly Sere Exits.
The building stands on a'corner, with ex
posure on "two tsldes, but the pnly fir
escape was Interior, opening o to ilght
and air shaft 1 all there were seven exits
-the single fire escape, two reigm
vators t the rear, two passenger ,
. - i ent and two stairway. All
TSIUI. , -.v..h
them proved useless and practically all
ho escaped either climbed to the root,
and acrambied thence to the roof of the
building occupied by the American Book
.' l k. flfBt Mlf.'H
company adjoining, or n -
for safety before the crush and smoke
grew thick.
The building stands tonight, wun snen
. V nnlv
Intact and barely scarrru , .
smudged. The partitions of architectural
tiling between floor and floor are sound,
and It Is Impossible for one who did not
see It to Imagine how ; the flames In so
short a space could hive wrought such
havoc. . .
The employes sat In rows at their
whirling machines, the tables before them
piled high with flimsy cloth, the floor lit
tered with lint, the air Itsolf full of flying,
lnflamable dust.
The first rush of flame was almost an
explosion. Operators died; in their chairs,
their lungs seared by Inhaling flame.
Others were crowded into the elevator
shafst after the cars had made their last
trip. Still others . were, pushed one tne
Inadequate fire escape.
In such a horrible stream did the bodies
overflow from the windows that the fire
neta, stretched by tne lirst company 10
arrive, , were soon gorged beyond capacity.
Twelve bodies weighted one net to tne
bursting point, but ths bodies kept on
tumbling to the pavement through meshes
that could no longer support them.
When the first breath of flams curled
over the edge of a pile of shirting on the
eighth floor, five . minutes before quitting
Iowa Girl to Help Carry
Vassar's Classic Daisy, Chain
1
MIRIAM LANE WINTER.
TEE START
Events of
time, hundreds were in line before the
cashier's window.
In the officebuildlngs across Washing
ton Place, scores of men detained beyond
loffiee hours worked at their desl.n. One
of them saw a girl rush to a window and
throw up the sash. . Behind her danced
a seething curtain of yellow flame. Bhe
climbed to the sill, stood in black outline
against the light, hesitating, then with
a last touch of futile thrift, sllped her
chatelaine bag over her wrist and jumped.
Her body went whirling downward
through the woven wire glass of a canopy
to the flagging below. Her sisters, who
followed, flashed through the air like
rockets.
It was eighty-five feet from the eighth
floor to the ground, about ninety-five
feet from the ninth floor, lis feet from
the cornice of the roof, and the upward
rush of the draught and the crackle of
the flames drowned their rifles.
8ix girls fought their way to window
on the hlnth floor over the bodies of
fallen workers and crawled out In single
file to an eight-Inch stone- ledge, running
the length of the building. - (
Sweethearts, Jam P Dtk.
One pathetic incident of the fire occurred
a few momenta after th flamea started.
A young man came to th window of the
.iBhth floor' holding a young girt tightly
by tha band, they hjoUed out of the
window at the flames and then the man
enfolded the gtrt to bis rae-'e4 pressed
ey1'kls On her -lips. She Jumped to ner
lowed a minute later. - ...... i ,. '
A great crowd gathered around the acena
of the fire. Factories In the neighborhood
were soon emptied of employes. Thousands
of glrle rah through the streets weeping
and tearing their hair. , ' ,
Through the smoke and flames when the
engines arrived In response to the fourth
alarm, people could be seen on the roof of
the building. By that ttme all who had
been at windows had either jumped or
fallen back to perish In the flames.
' Ths buildings In the rear and to the west
are 'only one story high. Bome of the vic
tims jumped to the roofs of these buildings.
When the fire had been burning an hour
firemen made tbelr . way to an Inner air
shaft and were appalled by the sight of a
score or more bodies lying at the bottom.
Girl .Fight for Wlilowi.
A group of girls fought their way over
the bodies of fallen comrades to the win
dows of the ninth floor and gained a mo
ment's respite by crawling to a ledge which
protruded from the windows. Preesed by
others"bhlnd them, they fell In clusters of
two and three to the ground.
A half dosen treaded perilously at the
edge of the ledge to a heavy electrio feed
wire that swung scross Washington Place.
Simultaneously they grabbed It. Tha wire
gave way beneath their combined weight
aa they swung for a moment In midair
and the entire number somersaulted,
screaming, to death.
Ambulances from every hospital In down
town New York were sent to the scene.
Thirty Injured,.' many of them hurt aerl-
ously, were taken to hospitals at o'clock
and the ambulanoea were making return
trips. -Those In nearby buildings say that
the beginning of the fire was marked by
an explosion.
Oskaloos Ma. Mills gelt.
OSKAIXX)aA, March SS Fred Jenkins,
sged 36, crased with typhoid fever and wor
rying because two children were ill with
the ssme disease, drank carbolic acid today
and died within a few minutes.
To carry the daisy chain at Vassar
Is the highest social honor that can
be had at that school. Girls may -"make
the team," and ' do other
Stints that will gain them social
prominence, but to bs one of the
chosen crew to take part In tha
olaaah-al ceremony that Is the most
significant (rat are of the commence
ment week exercises Is distinction,
to which each girl looks forward
from ths time she enters the school.
It im-ans for her that she excels In
beauty and personal charm, and baa
the social graces that eutitle her to
recognition, even at a college where
the choicest of femininity la assem
bled. It is a purely aooiel distinc
tion, but It is all the more sought
and cherished for that reason.
Twenty-four girls are thus honored
each year. This year they are se
lected from a claa of A. One o(
the nun-Uf Is Miss .Miriam Lauis
Wlalor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ueorge fci. Winter ef Maaon City, la.
Z.C.TO
the Week aa Viewed by The Bee
CRAZED DOCTOR KILLS TWO
Drink Maddened Man Murder Guard
and Bartender at De Moines.
C0UHCIL BLUFFS MAN A VICTIM
Dr. II. B. Kelly Shoots Deputy Sheriff
Clarence Wollmaa While Latter
Is A sleep aad The the
Barteader.
PES MOINES, la., March 25. Dr. ' H. B.
Kelly of Council Bluffs early today , shot
and killed Deputy Sheriff Clarence Woll
man. also of Council Bluffs, and a short
time later shot" and killed Edward Sterslng.
a' Des Moines bartender. The Council
Bluffs physician was. being taken by the
deputy sheriff to the Inenrrate hospital at
Knoxvllle.
The two men occupied the same room at
the Klrkwood hotel during the night
Early this morning Kelly awakened, ex
tracted a revolver from the pocket of the
deputy sheriff and fired three shots Into
the body of the latter as he lay asleep.
Kelly then unlocked the door of the room
and hastened down the street. He entered
a saloon at Third and Court streets and
demanded a drink. Bterslng. the bar
tender, refused to give him tte liquor.
Second Maa Is Murdered.
"You saloon keepers have -Bade an Ine
briate of me and now yon refuse me a
dr:nk," Kelly said, as he drew the re
volver, which he loaded and fired five
shots Into the upper portion of Sterslng's -body.
Sterling died an hour later at Mercy
hospital. - ' . " ;
Kelly, was arrested 'within a short dis
tance from the saloon and Is In the oil?
He Is SO years old and Is of a promt- j
nent 'family. - - - - '
In his cell lit the city tall KeUy he coo
tlnnously demanded whisky 'and, cigarettes
since he was first Incarcerated. ' ,
- "I know I'm a drunkard,' but that makes
no, difference to you," he said to a news
paper man. "Can't you give me' a cigar
ette 7" . , , ...' ',
Kelly is still apparently under' the -Influence
of liquor and doe not reallce what
Jte has done. . ' , '
It seems probable , that .Insanity . will be
offered a a defense for. Kelly, . Kelly this
afternoon. said: , . , . ' -.. ,.
"I don't. care sp. much about killing ths
bartender, but I arq sorry I killed my old
friend, W oilman. It was liquor that did It,
It seems to get tne, here,", and ha grasped
his throat as, If strangling., : , - '
Chlsf Detective EL E. Johnson this after
noon filed two charges of murder In-the
first degree against Kelly.
Mesaher mt Prominent family. .
Dr. H. D. Kelly Is the son of J. W,
Kelly, 701 Perln avenue, Counoil. Bluffs,
and a member of an old and well estab
lished family of Council Bluff The father
Is Council Bluffs'' representative of the
Standard Oil company. ' ,
Dr., Kelly was graduated from Crelghton
Medical college In Omaha eight ytars ago,
after a brilliant career as a student both
in college and preparatory school. Since
his graduation he ha been engaged In the
practice of medicine at Waterloo and
Council Bluffs. He Is now 19 years old. '
Early In his college career Dr. Kelly
became addicted - to - the use of liquor.
Within a year he became a victim of the
morphine habit.- - --
But a few weeks ago Dr. Kelly was dis
charged from an Omaha sanitarium for
Inebriates, his third treatment for the
liquor and drug habits. -
A week ago the young man cam to
Omaha on a debauch and here he wrote
forged checks on his father for the - sum
of $300. Thee checks were taken up by
his father,' who took: the' son home. He
escaped from his father's cars - Thursday.
On ths request of the father, Dr. Kelly
was arrested by the Council Bluffs polios.
Chief Froom, realising that Kelly was In
a dangerous condition, urged that the
young man be turnod over to. the siiertff.
The father pleaded and th polio judge
delivered the prisoner to hla care.
Dr. Kelly was taken Into Judge Wheeler'
court and there committed to, the state
Inebriate aaylum at Knoxvllle. The young
physician waa apparently sane and sober.
He had a conversation with Clarence Woll
man, the deputy sheriff, w-nom he kUled
Saturday morning, and they planned their
trip to knoxvllle. Kelly expressed hop
that he would at last "get straightened
out." Kelly and the officers have been
friends and acquaintance for years.
Mr. Wollman leaves a widow and family
of . seven small children. H was ap
pointed a deputy sheriff while a member
of the Council Bluffs fire department. He
had but recently recovered from aa . In
jury received when he playfully slid down
a fire station pole and broke his right leg.
DEFtSlSR OF KELLEY) IKSAXITY
Cowaell Blaffe Uoetor Vialte la Jail
by Hs Father.
(From a Staff Correspondent)
DBS MOINES. March 15. (Special Tele
gram.) John Mulvaney as today em
ployed to defend Dr. Kelley of Courc I
Bluffs, accused of ths murder of Deputy
Sheriff Wollman and Starsing, the saloon
man. ' The father of Kelley arrived and
went to the jail with friends and for some
time considered the whole cess.
Kelley la sober and has perfect control
of himself now, but It Is known' that the
defense will be a plea of insanity. - It Is
expected he will he sent ' to an Inaans
hospital. A brother of Wollman arrived
from Council Bluffs today to take care
of th body. of th murdered deputy.
BUILD ItEW FRZIQET DEPOT
Artist.
Erdman Sentenced
to Fifteen Years in
the Penitentiary
Judge Estelle Overrule Motion for
New Trial Attempting to Dyna
mite Dennison Home.
Frank Erdman, convicted two week ago
of attempting murder by placing dynamite
on the porch of Tom Dennison, was sen
tenced yesterday afternoon by Judge Iee
Estelle to fifteen years In the penitentiary
at hard labor.
When Erdman was asked by the judge
If he had anything to say why sentence
should not be pronounced upon him he
said:
'T havs just this to say. I am absolutely
Innocent of this crime and I feel that 1
have not had a fair trial. For that reason
I have no request to make for leniency."
Judge Estelle In sentencing the prisoner
said that he did not feel called upon to
give him a lecture and added: "You have
had an absolutely fair trial. I. also wish
to state that I have probably gone farther
in the trial In your favor than I was
Justified."
Most of the afternoon was consumed In
arguing . a motion for a new trial, John
O. Telser and Charles E. Foster repre
senting Erdman. and J. P. English, county
attorney, the state. The motion was over
ruled and the prisoner sentenced.
Burbank's Famous
Fruits Coming to
Tfi "Omaha Land Show
California Will' Send Most Complete
. Collection of Santa Rosa -
Man' Work.'
SAN FRANCISCO, Maroh IS. (Special
Telegram.) California's state display at
the second Omaha Land show In October
will include the 'greatest collection of the
products of Luther Burbank's plant labra
torles that has ever been gathered.
. Mr. Burbank, after a ' conference with
Wllber 'Walker, 4 secretary of the Alameda
County Exposition commission, has agreed
to permit the display of his plant creations
In connection with the state exhibit to
advertise California.
The season at which the Omaha Land
show will be held this year will permit
the display of a large number of speci
mens of natural fruits and flowers. Winter
exhibits, are by- climatic differences, re
stricted to the preserved specimens In jars.
New plants" now under development by
Mr.' Burbank will be Included In the dis
play to be made' at Omaha. Thus It Is
possible that. the seedless watermelon will
be on display at Omaha for Its first ap
pearance before the public
Miss Kelley Will Have
Charge of All Mints
WASHINGTON. March tt.-Secretary
MacVeagh today approved an oreer which
will place a woman In direct charge of all
the mints and assay offices In the United
States, for short Intervals at various times
within the year. She Is Miss Margaret V.
Kelly of the mint bureau, 'one of the three
highest paid -women In the government
service. George E. Roberta, director of the
mint, Is obliged to be absent from the
treasury much of his time, and R. B.
Prestum, the mint examiner, la away much.
In' such cases Miss Kelly will be acting
director of ' the mint with full powers.
rr
Pvsher Balks
Union Pacific Office Rules
Must a man sign his name as a
corporation dictates, or aa he pre
fers? The Interstate Commerce com
mission has ruled that he must. A.
H. Bewsher of th Bewsher Grain
company waa yesterday engaged la a
controversy with the Union Pacific
over the point. He signed vouchers
presented by th railroad company,
"Bewsher company, A. H. Bewsher."
The railroad company Insisted that
he sign It "Bewsher company, A. 'll.
Bewsher, proprietor." Because be
would not sign It this way the rail
road ' company refused to honor
took the matter before the court,
neither side would yield, and the
interstat Commerce commission waa
eked to settle the most momentous
question. In addition to the matter
of procedure a regards ths signing
of vouchers, claims for a consider
able sum of money represented by
ths dishonored paper, were Involved.
Movma- DAT
DEMOS BUSY PARCELING STATE
Reapportionment Brings at Many
Champions as There Are Flans.
HOUSE WILL ALTER PLACEK BILL
Introducer of Men an re Credited with
t'onareaalonnl Ambitions and to
Hair Framed Division Scheme
- to This Fnd.
rFrom a Staff Correspondm!.)
LINCOLN. March 25. (Special ) Appor
tlonment seems to be about the only Im
portant question upon which the present
session of the Ir-glHlnture has made no
decision of any kind. The Placek leglMn
tlve bill, which has passed the senate for
legislative redlstrlctlng, la now before the
house, but will probably be materially
changed before It goes through. The re
publicans are not pleased with It and will j
probably do their best to make It a fairer
bill before It becomes a law.
The Albert judicial apportionment bill Is
also through the senate, and as It Ib of less
Importance politically nad does not bear
such evident traces of gerrymandering It
will probably not cause a fight.
The congressional bill, also drawn by
Placey, Is certain to meet with trouble In
the house. In some ways It Is worse than
the legislative bill and the house repub
licans are determined to change it If possi
ble. A scheme of amending It has been
drawn up by two dry democrat, Quacken
bush and Norton, helped by some repub
licans, and the changes may be engrafted.
Committee 1 Charg-e.
the fact that of the committee of fif
teen which will discuss apportionment
there are slt republicans aud three dry
democrat c-nt. of fifteen members may
have some effect on the outcome.
The bill as drawn by Placek would move
the congressmen now In congress Into
other districts. Sloan, holding his seat
from the Fourth district and living In Fill
more county, would be thrown over Into
the Fifth district, where he would have
Congressman N orris to beat. This would
have the effect of giving Norrls aa a re
publican a very strong opponent and It
would also give Placek hlmaelf a clear
field In the Fourth. It Is thought that
congressional ambitions may be disturbing
him.
The Quackenbush change would throw
Latta from the Third district Into the Sec
ond and Sloan Into the Fifth.
The present First district Is made up of
Cass. - Otoe, Nemaha, Richardson. Pawnee,
Johnson and Lancaster. The Placek bill
will amend this by throwing In Gage
county, while the house amendments
which are being planned will add Saunders
and Sarpy and put Gage back Into the
Fifth.
The present Second district has Sarpy,
Douglaa and Washington. Placek leaves
this district as It I. The Quackenbush
Norton amenments would add Thurston
and Burt and take out Sarpy,
The present Third has Burt, Thurston,
Dakota, Dixon, Cuming, Dodge, Colfax,
Stanton, Wayne, Cedar, Knox, Pierce,
Madison, Platte, Nance, Boone, Antelope
and Merrick.
Placek wants to cut out Antelope and
Merrick and ad dthem to the Fourth.
Quackenbush wants to add Boyd and Holt.
Changes la Fourth.
The present Fourth has Saunders, But
ler, Seward, Saline. Polk, York, Valley,
Greeley, Hamilton, Gage, Jefferson,
Thayer and Fillmore.
Placek would cut out Gage, Jefferson
and Thayer and add Merrick, Hall, Sher
man, Buffalo, Howard, Valley and
Greeley. Quackenbush adds Garfloid.
Wheeler, Nance and Boone.
The present Fifth has Adams, Hall,
Webster, Franklin, Kearney, Phelps, Har
lan, Gosper, Furnas, Red Willow, Fron-
(Continued on Second Page.)
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A. H. BEWSHER.
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Men Who Will Take the Places of
Those Who Resigned.
F0ST0FFICE MAY GO TO REYES
Maoedo. is Slated for Minister of the
Interior.
TO CALM FEARS OF UPRISING
Expected that a Compromise Will Be
Offered Rebels.
TO GRANT S0ME0F DEMANDS
Ice Prealilent Corrnll to Step llima
nnd Hla Piece lo Be Tilled by
Mlunel AhnmaHn Well
I. Iked h Teople.
Ill I.I.F.TIT.
WASHINGTON. March 25. Francisco !
la Barie, Mexlcsn ambassador to the
fnitetl Stati-s, whs today named minister
of forrlKn affairs of the Mexican cabinet
by President Diaz. Senor do la liarra has
teleKraphed his acceptance to Mexico City.
MEXICO CITY, Miirch . (Special Tcle
Kram.) The nioat Important development
in the polltlral situation here today was
the Authoritative statement by h hlKh
Koveinment officer that Senor Jos Yves
Umantour. minister of flname In tlio
cabinet, which handed Its resignation to
President Iinz yesterday, would be tha
hohler In the new portfolio of foreign rela
tions, the niort important post In the
ministerial body and one which carries
with It prnctlrall all the powers of a
prime minister.
The same officers who made this state-
' nient ventured a prediction on the cabinet.
whloh President Dlas Is already working
to organise. The ministerial slate, as he
predicted It, was as follows:
Minister of Finance Joaqulm Cassuas,
former ambassador to the l-'nlted Slates.
Minister of War General Bernardo Reyes.
Minister of Promotion (fomemo) Manual
Calero, or Andreas Aldasaro.
Minister of Justice Demeterio Bodl.
Minister of the Interior Mmuel Macedo.
Minister of Communlcsllon and W"oi"ks-
Senor Montlcl.
The fact that General Reyes has been
sent for by the government Is a festure
of the situation which, when It was of
ficially confirmed today, went far toward
talmltiR the fears of those who dreaded
a I ' -i a I upBet of the administration.
Senor Creel, who has been ambassador to
the I'nlted States and also governor of the
state of Chihuahua, has been very un
popular with the masses, not only because
of his close blood relation with President
Dial, but through his Immense riches',
which, it has been charged, were Increased
by means of the heavy taxes he Imposed.
Some color Is given to the rumor by the
faot that the hotbed of the present revolu
tion centers In the state of Chihuahua.
In the midst of all the speculation regard
ing the composition of the next cabinet,
popular opinion seems to agree that Jose
Yves Llmantour will be made the head of
the ministry, with all the powers of a
premier, and that In such a post he will
practically be ruler of Mexico, with Dlas
as a figurehead. In such an event. It la
believed, the revolutionists would signify
their willingness to agree to a compromise
on many of the demands which they have
made.
To take the place of Vice President Cor
ral ,who Is known to have already laid
his -plans to go to Europe, Miguel Ahumada
la mentioned most favorably. He is well
liked and It is believed that with him and
Llmantour at the wheel a greater sate of
quiet and content would prevail In Mexico
than the country has known In a long
time.
DIAZ
TO
LAW
lOW N
H K I
Rimiir Has Mexico President Heady
to (io to Rsrope,
EL PASO, Tex.. March 25 -(Speclal Tele
gram.) That Yves Llmantour will be act
In gpresldent of Mexico, with Bernardo
Reyes aa minister of war and Miguel
Ahumada as minister of the Interior and
with Dlax and Corral, the present presi
dent and vice president, en route to Europe
within the next few months. Is the guei
In this section by persons who have
watched Mexican affairs.
The insurrectos in the city decline to dis
cuss the cabinet resignations, except to
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