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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS Washington. The success of the revolutionists in Mexico in capturing several towns was confirmed in official advices received by the state depart ment Tuesday, but notwithstanding this it was reiterated by officials that the reports reaching this country through diplomatic channels indicated that President Diaz had the situation under control and that the stability of his government was not seriously threatened. EI Paso, Texas. Advices that are seemingly authentic show Wednesday that the federal government of Mexico is again in control of every town in northern Mexico, save perhaps Madera, Ma-dera, from which nothing can be obtained. ob-tained. The revolutionists have disappeared disap-peared in the mountains. Kl Paso tanks only are accepting Mexican checks "for collection." They are cashing none of them. Kansas City. Turkey raffles, which have been conducted in scores of saloons sa-loons throughout the city, last week were ordered closed Tuesday night by Chief of Police CJriffln. TIo cnirt tho diagrams by which the raffles were conducted offered little chance for the patrons to win turkeys, and were in any event illegal. London. Dr. Hawley Harvey Crip-pen Crip-pen Wednesday paid the penalty for the murder of his wife, Belle -Elmore, the actress, within a few minutes of the stroke of 9, the morning hour officially offi-cially fixed for the execution. Some time after the crowd had dispersed dis-persed a notice was posted on the r rison gates announcing that "judgment "judg-ment of death has this day been executed exe-cuted on H. H. Crippen" in the presence pres-ence of the governor of the prison, the under sheriff and Father Carey. The physician's certificate of death was also displayed. Washington. "Eat your fill on Thanksgiving and forget Wiley and the microbe, but don't eat cold storae-e turkey." This is the answer to the American people by Dr. Harvey Wiley, the government food Inspector, who has been waging vigorous war against microbes of all kinds. London. The rioting of the suffragettes suf-fragettes Tuesday, which began with an assault on Premier Asquith, continued con-tinued throughout the night. Driven from one district, so many of the women wo-men as escaped would gather at another an-other point and renew the battle. Earlier in the night the women smashed the windows in' the homes of Sir Edward Grey, the foreign secretary; secre-tary; Louis Harcourt, . secretary of state for the colonies, and Winston Spencer Churchill, the home secretary. secre-tary. Among these held in police court for punishment was Mrs. Hoverfield. daughter of Lord Abinger, who, according ac-cording to the testimony introduced, had promised to tring a revolver with her on the occasion of the next suffragette suf-fragette demonstration. Chicago. More troubles were added add-ed to the burden of Count Jacques Albert Alexander Von Mourmik de Beaufort when default judgment for $257 was entered against him in the municipal court in behalf of the National Na-tional City bank. This is only one of several suits filed against the count since his falling out with his wealthy father-in-law, M. H. Kilgallen. The count, deprived of his income from Mr. Kilgallen, has accepted a vaudeville vaude-ville engagement. Quebec. "The case is undoubtedly cholera," Dr. Adami of McGill university uni-versity reported to the government's i immigration department regarding Peter Spencer, a passenger on the steamer Royal George, which arrived ar-rived her last week. Spencer and the other steerage passengers are at Grosse island quarantine station. White Plains, N. Y. The contest over the will of Mrs. Mary C. Brin- Z -; L. ..i'--,4'.'v.v.... kerhOff, who died at her country home at Hastings-on-the-Hudson, leacing an estate estimated to be worth nearly 57,000,000, was begun here in the surrogate court. More than 100 heirs are involved. Philadelphia. Two former cotin-cilmen cotin-cilmen of Pittsburg, by a decision In the state superior court in this city, must go to jail for accepting bribes to j influence their votes as councilmen. The court sustained the convictions against M. F. Swift, jr., and A. V. Simon. Denver. Sixty per . cent of the male children of Colorado over 12 years of age are addicted to tobacco in some form, according to the report of the physical committee of the Colorado Col-orado Teachers' accosiation, which is, meeting in annual convention here. Washington. The Democratic representation rep-resentation in the next House will be 227 against 163 Republicans and on Socialist, according to the roster of the House published. These figures give the Democrats a 'majority of 62 and a plurality of 64. San Francisco. Twenty-four hours overdue, the big coastwise steamship Bear, carrying 450 passengers, ar rived here today from Portland. Strong headwinds off the coast of Oregon were responsible for the vessel's ves-sel's delay. Chicago. Forty half barrels of dried eggs were seized by government officials upon information provided by Assistant District Attorney Hurl-burt, Hurl-burt, who charged that the eggs were mixed with decomposed and putrid matter. A chemical analysis showed 20,000,000 bacteria of gas producing character in a quarter tablespoonful of the eggs. This information stated that the eggs were shipped from To-peka, To-peka, Kan., June 6 last. Rio de Janeiro. The crews of two battleships of the Brazilian navy mutinied. mu-tinied. They turned their guns on the loyal ships and also threw a few shells Into the city. Several officers were killed. Fighting continued throughout the night, but the revolt-ers revolt-ers remained in the possession of the two vessels. |