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aight ad a youth ing gives it to the knee, adorned to li leg with threa largo & buttous, and revealing bright purple tockings." Bat the young gentleman who think→
PANCHO VILLA'S AMBITION.
To be President of Mexico
or dle in Attempt.
Chibashua, Mex‚—“Villa, the ene time bandit will be the next President of Mexico. That is his
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home, not far from the Plazy, but held a prisoner, ie Luis Terrazas, j., son of a member of one of the Ticbest families in Moxics, under The Diaz regione. As he pices up and down the tiled flor' of his patio, not knowing what moment he may be called to face the firing #quad, Terraza can hear the cathedral balls and at night the
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This declaration was made by Nodies in a Box. AL Edinburgh Jast month a friend en close to Gap. Villalast December. Christian shaon, the douestion to give authority to the servant in whose box the dead assertion. It was prompted by a refuge in El Pano, was making bodies of threo children were reputs that the coming to vary effort to procure his release, recently found, was charged with Chibuabasef Gen. Carranza, the prisoner marely shock his recognizid us the civil head of head. More than once signs his the revolution, wes to bring about detention he has been subjected
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parently been kept in the box for from three to five years.. It was "atated that all three children were stillborn. A sentence of six monthe imprisonment was passed
foreign governments, and to place Terrazas'e money was supposed in the sent of authority batter to be hidden, advisers than Gen. Villa appears to have in banding complications growing out of the killing of William S Benton, a British subject.
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As understood here, Terrazas being held by the rebela for three purj oso, These are: tint money may be extorted from the Terrazas family; so that by That Villa and Carranza will threatening the execution of the ieet, and may publicly embrace,prianuor the Cientifico party may GLENSHIEL" 124 Barker ne an evidence of their perfect dissuaded from invading Road, 5 rooms, close to Tram harmony. i regarded as a pos- Maxics from the Dorth, and 80 Station.. sibility. Gen. Carranza is now thist the prisoner may sigu docu- on his way overland from Sonora, ments turning Terr zas property and a splendid marble building over to Ville.
been prepared as the official residence, or capitol, in which he
Discovery of Roman Coins. A find of some thousands of bronze coina is reported from Liangarron, boy noticed coins being scattered by a harrow in n ploughed field, exonvations wero made, and the coins found buried beneath some
stones about 2ft. below the surface of the soil, With the coins were fragments of several man jara, and a con- siderable quantity of partly smelt-is ed. iron ore. Most of the coins are thoss of Constantije.
"Preference to a ! coutmaster.
The following appeared in a Surrey new-paper last month:- "The post of organist and choir- master at Send Church will be vacant after Easter. Preference
to arrange the detail of government. But it was stated emphatically that the coming of Carranzis not to lessen in any way the iwer now wielded by Vill, win for months has been a dictator.
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Villa to Remain Suprenie.
SURGEON GENERAL
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Surgeon General Gorgas, sanit Gen. Villa will remain au pre-ary oflicer of the Panama Canal will be given and additional me mmander through the pro- Commission, was entertained by gress of the rebellion," said one the medical profession at a com-
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Mexic, while Carranza remained in comparative obscurity on the Pacific slope, have so exalted him in the minds of bic soldiers as to make his subordination to any one else improbable. Gen. Villa could not afford to go south at the head of his troops in the attack on Torreos before he had first satisfied himself that his going would not result in the loss of Buy of his power.”
the chair.
American,
Surgeon General Corgas, res ponding to the toast of his health, proposed by Sir Havelock Char. the president, was in the chair, not believe that they could have fee, said that of the 60,000 and there was a crowded atten done any better. It was a matter tabourera on the Canal about dance, many of the leading mem-of great pride and gratification 45,000 announced themselves to of the medical profession into him to know that the two chief be British subjects-be referred London being present.
workers in bringing forward to the labourers who came to them
Surgeon General Gorgaa said these two discoveries were men from the West India, Isladds that the Canal, which was some of the Anglo-Saxon race-ope They were most devoted British 50 miles in length, crossed from English, the other subjects and an excellent body of north to south the neck of laadin his opinion, the effects ul lusso In the absence of any indication men. They were inclined, how. connecting North and South discoveries would be as far- that Villa intended to move south-ever, to claim the Canal, lock, America. Over the area of atout enching as those of any dis ward immediately, this city, the stock, and barrel. (Laughter.) 500 square miles which had been coveries ever made in medicine. Bailiffe who entered a house at largest in rebel territory, ap- He left the Canal in October, leased from the Republic of Bramelill-road, Harlesden, lastparently has resigned itself to an when their smaller boats were Panama the United States had indefinite "state of revolution. passing clear through it. He jurisdiction as if it were sovereign month found there the dead bodies of 19 Pomeranian daga. Outwardly conditions, are almost had seen it stated since that com- of the ares. One third of the Five other dogs were alive, but normal The military band plays mercial vessels would be passing territory was low and marchy, At the pre- and had had the reputation foi the condition of one was so pitiful in the Plaza; crowds promenade through on July 1. that it had to be destroyed. Two in the gay lights; a wandering sout time any barge or ship ez the past 400 years of being one
Tarahumare Indian garbed only gaged in work on the Canal draw of the most unhealthy regions in■ of the animals already dead wore reduced to skeletons. One had in a blanket, a pair of boots, and ing not more than 20ft, of the world. It was probable that evidently died some months ago, and the others had all been dead at least a fortnight. It is under- stood that the house had been
Ooys Left to Die.
occupied until quite recently. The matter is being investigated by the R.S.P.C.A.. Sacred Concert in Wandsworth Prison.'
a silk bat, jaise the parade, and water could pass through freely, more white men had died there
an enterprising merchant opens and the Canal without doubt from tropical discuses then at ang would be formally opened next other place within the tropics. soda water fountain. The silent disappearance of January. He was grateful for This was not so much from its
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suspecte," the reports of execu- ions, and the general kaoweidge that many people for months have been hiding in the basements of buildings, form another, aspect of life little mentioned. The man
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the kindness, good feeling, and courtesy which had been dis- played towards him. (Cheers.)
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naturally unhealthy conditions from the fact that unscclimatized whites had congregated there,
Transmission of Tropical Diseases,
Sanitary Work on the Canal, Burgeou-General Gorgas de- livered a lecture earlier in the selected from Mendelssohn, on the hill" (Geo. Villa resides day before the Royal Society of Gaunod, and Sullivan, was given on an elevation a few blocke from Medicine on his sanitary work in 1904. During the intervening
A programmus of sacred music,
The French began work on the Canal in 1880, the Americans in
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day afternoon, April 5, by the the one man who can pronounce members of the Wandsworth life or death for any of those who Prison Choir and Orchestra. The stroll in the Plaza or hide in the audience was composed of up wards of a thousand prisoners, sad at the close of the concert there was hearty applause.
Outbreak of Berl-beri, Bori-beri has been di-covered among the crew of the London steam plej, which arrived in Birkend { cks some weeks ago. Our man-hee die and about a dozen others are ulfured. The cases are under the observa- tion of experts from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
A Great Paris Journal, The oldest newspaper in Paris, the Journal des Debats, in cele- brating is centenary. It bas always hec at its service the pene of men of wright'and'distinction, and it has never treated affairs in ony but the gravest spirit. It is atil edited and printed in the house where it was first started, beside the Church of St. Germain de l'Auxerrois, from the tower, of! which the signal was given fur the massacre of Bartholomew'a Eve. Of all the guest Parid news- papere it has been the leant ofExcu- ed by the modern deveonmenta of jobs, and its dignified. colum as: re an encouragement to thoughtf:roflection had serious ip of affaire,”. It is to be hoped that at will long retain
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