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the contents of the gun were discharged

into his mother's head.

Neighbors found the body of Mrs.

Jordan. Tuesday afternoon. Four sons

and the father were immediately taken

into custody.

Yesterday the father was formally

charged with the murder.

HAITIEN SENATE IS

DISPERSED BY ARMY

Hold Meeting Despite Warning

of Caperton—Offer No

Resistence.

Port au Prince, Haiti, May 6.—Mem

bers of the Haitien senate, who persist

ed in holding a meeting in spite of the

warning of Rear Admiral Caperton in

command of the American forces here,

were dispersed today by a detachment

of gendarmes commanded by an Amer

ican officer. The senators protested,

but offered no resistance.

The hostilities which broke out here

yesterday, the outgrowth of the at

tempt to overthrow the regime of Gen

eral Jiminez, resulting in several per

som being killed or wounded, were sus

pended today.

Members of the diplomatic corps me

endeavoring to effect :n rjri'.aNe so

lution of the tro'•*••! t*

outside of Sar tc p.-.'.-, ::f

«uiet.

tion, nor were there signs of antipathy

to persons speaking Knglish which fre

quently have been observable.

The Taegeliche Hundschau, while ex

pressing the opinion that the German

note should have taken a different char

acter, urges that the expression of

divergent views is unwarranted at this

time, and that everybody should subor

dinate his own judgment and stand be

hind the government.

"After Germany has undertaken this

doubly difficult sacrifice," says the

paper," Germans are. entitled to expect

America to keep her promise to restore

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Pierre weekly free press. (1916). Pierre, S.D., 1916-05-11. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn98062890/1916-05-11/ed-1/?sp=7

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Pierre weekly free press, 1916-05-11.