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Show TIF BFRF1 i Anwican Mining Men Said to be Financing the Revolution Chicago, Jan. 4. The .Record-Herald today prints the following news I article: , , . Carefull-, laid plans of Chicago and I New York capitalists, owners of silver I and copper mines in northern Mexico and Honduras, to finance tho revolutions revolu-tions now in progress in the Central American countries, coupled with the attempted dispatching of two filibustering filibus-tering expeditions into the wr zone have been unearthed In Chicago by the department of justice. Agents of the department are in the city secretly investigating the war plot and the arrest of several well-known well-known financiers may result on a charge of violation of the United States neutrality law6. The "jackpot" "jack-pot" fund for financing tho revolutions revolu-tions Is said to aggregate several million mil-lion dollars Tho appoarance In Chicago of Gustavo Gus-tavo Madero, brother of Francisco I. Madero, leader of the Mexican revolutionists revo-lutionists and aspirant to the presidency presi-dency last election, Is said to have brought to a head Ihe government's effort to "nip" the syndicate's war plans. Knowledge that the headquarters of tho filibusters existed in Chicago and the plot to finance the revolutions became be-came known to the government officers offi-cers at the time the Hornet, tho government scout ship, attempted to leave the port at New Orleans bound for a Mexican port. The vessel was kept under surveillance aud the munitions muni-tions which had been secretly shipped ship-ped into the southern city from Ciu-clnnatl, Ciu-clnnatl, Philadelphia, Kansas City Denver, and SL Louis could not he loaded on the ship ! nn |