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Troops Cross Border; Fight Mexicans| RDSSIANS NEARi

KOVEL; SPLIIFOE'S ARMES

Forces in Bukowina,Envcloped, Forced

to Fall Back.

CZXR SMASHESLINES ON STYR

Czemowitz in Ruins.Bul-gars Rushed to Aid

Teutons.

Itrae 11 Tha *.*. of .**.. *» Volhyato. Oalleia

, slackening.

r.a.tkough the forward progressamUe spparent-

*- ..-.the"rly

(tato*«» of the campaign.vr.ran triangle

Ml the Ruaiiana hare thruitaat and eoutbwest, In

* OB they are batter.ngliae along¦*.»- roore

i frooa Kovel, the ia*

way junction essential to

bet-jveea the sonthern* oaa U tha north.

thev hav-

rau ar.d are now closeeiaa border, puihing down-om Dubno.

I Russian official sTAtoment¦-.. oa of R*<-*T*l°w0'

. | Milea from Brody. across

ai line. and approximately| northeait of Lemberg, the

aa captul. the Russian objective'inve.

Germana Aiding Anatrlantv

Berlin records the participation of

German troopa in the fighting againit.jsiiana. reporting General von

ngaa-e forces engaged ia the

d-Styr aector and troope under

,1 Count von Bothmer taking

part rn the battlea north of Preie-

wolka.r Liitek the gap in the AuatrianM been fnrther widened by the

ard progreae of the Buaeiane to

Sokul and the forest of Roatok, which.er a hard struggle. The Ruaaian

*.or. r.orthwest of Buciacz ia Im-

ia opening up the way to Lem-

-roachei to which have been

the utmoat stubborn-

tr. the capital of Bokowina,. completely destroyed

o thal haa beenragingAus'rran forcei are

I faat cnvetoped by Rueeian troopiaaa ofl from their

crmv. according t/> a tele-

grar. IMhj Invalid," in Pet-

rogreai.Austriana Forced to Retreat.

tehaM made by the Rnssianivaatara front, apreading

.-om thirty to forty milea intaatriaa Hne, have now

»*'.>. aeparated the three mainnn army groups operar'mg be-the Pripet and Bukowina. The

ied ntreat of the more advancediaa of the Austrian forces ia orca-

**.. therefore, more hy strategicreasona than because of actual presi-era applied by the Ruiaiana.

-ary ob.iect of General Bro-campaign la DOi the retaking of

... rntory, and. although it is quiteeeneaivable that Lemberg may be

| in the aneireling movement de-¦g fr.m the flank attacki on

and af zernowitz, the chief aimof the Russian advance is obviouely to

deatroy, or at least eripple, the Aui-tr.an army.The tremendoua number of pnsonera

taken by tho Ruisians- np *<*¦ the pres-Bflhly eatimated at 165,000. with

tdditional irs.aes in killed or woundedof loO.OOO atteata the success of*h» Russiens in accomphshing thia

... r-"-"-e!,tators contrait theeflect of thc* present Russian advance

.*. af the German advance laitE.UBMM vie'ded much larger

tai -v, arhout, however, ineaae orstroying the integnty of

Kaaaiaa armies.

Railwaya linen t ndamag-vi.Two German army corrs have been

Galieia, and two Bulganan divi-Bave baaa sent to Bukowina. ac-

Kiev dispatch to thavalid." The rarlway line be-,

tweaa 'Rovno and Rojitche. aaya the.;, has sustained little daraage,

I .s'tnana auct-eeding only ln de-.ng reveral pomt* on the line and'

ln blowing up bridges. The Auatrianaabandonerj a battered armored trainrear Ohka."Tha etormlng of over three mile* of

formidahle Austrian positloni along theI 1 Pluirhevka River, a tributary of

.r. Baahad by ten lakea and sup-re fn.m the heights in the

ar, was a wonderfully fine ac-rrues the disnarrn, "and in

nCtioD with the capture of thalforeit, south of the lower

ar, decidea the fat* of the wholeKreraene.z region. To oaoopo the north-

Contlooaad aam paac* .* HiliilllB |

EMPEROR OF JAPANFELICITATES CZAR

"Hlgh Military Feat" ln OaliciaSubject ot Congratulatlon.Petrngrad, June 17. The Emperor

haa received the following telegramfrc-i the Emperor of Japan:"With great pleesur* I have received

the agreeahle ne*wa of the glonotia vic¬tory gained by your Taliant army lnGalicia. I haeten to express to yourimperial majeaty my aincereat eon-

gratulationa on the occasion of thehigh military feat of your army.

"YOSHIHITO."

LINCOLN WOULD HAVECHURCHILL AS WITNESS

Asks Hl-fh Offlclals to Testlfy forHim on Monday.[By fahle. to Tha Tt1**una* )

London, June 1?.. Ignatiua T. T. Lin¬coln. former M. P. and alleged Germanspy. arraitrned here on June 13. chargedwith forgery- evidently means to makea vigoroua defenee. He ia now endeav-oring to get the departmental heads ofthe Navy and War Offlee, WinstonChurchill. Sir Henry Dahiel and othernotablea to teatify ln hla favor r.ext

Monday. So far none of them haashown rhe elif-htest inclination to ap¬pear on the atand.

Lincoln wrote the following: note toDalziel: "I have asked the police toask your attendance at Bow Street on

Monday. Notwithstanding- all you readin the papers. please suspend Iudgr-ment until you hear the true verrion ofthe ease. I have never elone anythingajr-arr.st England; on the contrary, Ihave done important work '"or her, as

you kr.ow. But by inexeusable stund-ity ar.d stubborneas on the part of some

permanent officials I waa driven towr.te thmga in order to make some

money. I ahall put. you on the witness

stand, ?o please do not fail to come."

CATS CRIES REVEALWOMAN MISER'S DEATHThousands Hoarded While Aunt

Christe-.a Starved.The plaintive cry of a cat iaaued

yesterday from behind the door of thesingle roorn Mrs. Chriatena Blockelhae occupied for two years in the tene-

' ment at 107 North Seven th Street,\ Williamsburg.

"Don't mind Aunt Chriatena's cat,"Mra. Joaephine Steckler called across

the dark hallway to another tenant;"it'a alwaya hungry. Aunt Chriatenaheraelf hasnt a penny in the world.ar.d she and the cat have both beenat the point of atarvation ever eincethey have lived here."

After avrhile the cat'a cries becamemore insistent. Mra. Steckler flnallyaent for a pohceman, who brokethrough the barred door."Aunt" Christena lay dead on the

bed. She wore the game tatteredclothing that had made her a familiarfigure in the district.A aearch of her room revealed two

bankbooks. showing deposita amount-ing to $5,300. A number of deeds toManhattan property, valued at manytimes the amount of her eaah ln thebanks, were aiso discovered

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MOOSE BREAK UPPARTY IN MAINE

Told to Support Personal Pref*erences in Coming Primary.Portland. Me.. June 17..Pregressivea

were released and advised to act in the

pnmaries next Monday with the par¬ties whieh they personally prefer to

support in the atate election in Sep¬tember. in a statement telephoned fromNew York to-day by Halbert P. Gard-

ner, Maine member of the ProgressiveNational Committee. Candidates for

Progresaive nominationa in the pri-maries had been named and ballota ia-

sued.Krank H. Haskell. of this city, at

once announced hia withdrawal as a

candidate for the Progressive nomina¬tion for Congress, as did George C.Webber, of Auburn, candidate farI'nited States Senator.

Mr. Gardner said he would supportthe Republiean nominees. It would beunwise, he aaid, for the Progressive*in thia state to continue aa a thirdpartv. and he thought they ahouldwith draw their atate ticket.

HER QUESTIONS MAKEPATROLMAN WITNESS

Suffragist-Autolst Lawyer Freedwith Honors.

If Patrolman Harry J. Madderan ia

given to raaolutlon making it is proba-ble that he has nttered a eolemn vow

never again to arrest a woman autoist.Mra Frank H. Cothern, Brooklyn auf-r'rage leader, ia the reaaon.Mra rothern appeared In the Adama

Street poliee court yeaterday in re-

spor.se to a eummona iasued by thepohceman, who charged her with dr'.v-mg her machine into a "stop" ngnalat Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street.

Instead of becoming angry and tear-ful she calmly asked the patrolman totake tha witnees atand as her witnessafter he had told hia atory. Then.urder the boaineaa like queations ofMra. Cothern he flnally admitted thatahe had been compelled to drive intothe eign in order to eecajee colliaionwith a wagon. Yea, the pohceman even

admitted that she had shown rare prei-ence of mind. Whereupon MagistrateEr*terhrook drsmissed the case.

"Sav, why er would you mind aay-mg what your businesa lat" the pohce¬man asked."Lawyer," waa Mra. t othem'a rep.y

9

TAUm I-aJUCWOKKBfor thaFourth,

Ovtter aDaet-rt, afl r*jr*

SYRACUSEWINS'VARSITY RACE

ON HUDSONTen Eyck's Crew Beats

Cornell by TwoLengths.

CONTEST ENDSIN TWILIGHT

Ithacans Fight GallantBattle as Veteran CoachCourtney Looks On.

By W. O. MGEEHAN.Poughkeepaie, N. Y., .lur.e, 1". Syra¬

cuse won the 'varsity race by two

lengths from Cornell, cross-.ng the fin-ish line with a spectacular spurt. TheSalt City eollege also captured the

junior race by a length ar.d a quarter.The Varsity race was finished in a

harry twilight- A stiff upstream windruff.ed the course after the junior rr.ee,

and the crews d:d not get to the start-

Ing line until nearly 1 o'eloek. The

freahman race wa.- until

Monday.Syracuse took the lead 'rom tha

star:. rowing a remarkably ever. strr.ke,which was clocked at 30 to theIn the middle of the course they spedup ro 32 when 'hey were being presseda little by Cornell, but they immedi¬ately dropped back to that long, even

pall.The Ithacans fought a gallant b&ttle

to the bridge. hang'.ng on to the point-ed stern of the Salt City shell with aicourage that never wavered. Just1below the high bridge. arith the finishlir.e in sight, the pace btgan to tell on

the Ithacans. Their coxswain called,for a spurt, but the men were too ex*

hausted to respond.Inatant Reaponae from Syracu-ie.When Coxswain Jayne called to tbe

Syracuse watermen there was an in-stant response. The Syracuse shellshot through the water in the last halfmile with such a dash of speed that the("ornell ehell seemed almost motion-lesi. The nose ot the Cornell shelldropped behind, and there was a fulllength of open water between the boatsas the Syracuse shell shot acro.a.a thefinish line.

Charlea F. Courtney, the veteran ("or¬nell coach. saw the last crew that hewill coach lose In as stiff a water f ghtas the eourae haa ever seen. The deanof the watermen. invalldcd aa the re-suit of an injury received at last. year'sregatta, was watehingr the finrsh lineal! the late afternoon through h:a f.eldglasses from the baicony of hia homeThe Oaks.The shadow-s deepened on the «late-

eelorad waters of Ihe Hudson snd 'hesun sank behind the mist.s above theatahilla. The lighti began f.o gk-arn

along th* west shore There was justa faint flnsh of pink in the

'clouds 8bove. The veternn Courtneysat in the twilight of the afternoonand of his career aa a coach eagerlylistening.Me trained his glasses on the rail-

road bridge. There was a flash againstthe darktning skies, The race was on.

Again and again the veteran coachturned the glasses urs'ream impa-tiently. Then he sat back to wait. Heknew that it would h» nearly a nuarterof an hour before he wo*ild see theshells.

At last the four little black -:

on the slate colnred water were visiblethrough the hane. Conrtney adjustedbil glasses and watcned. With the in-rnstinct and eve of the waterman hesoon could read that Syracuse waaleading, but not by much. The eightthat he had drilled until his physiciar.s**-rred him to abandon his work washang'.ng on tenaciously.

Ornell Still Had a ( hance.

They still had a ehar.ee, a rondchance. A spurt just before the brioeewag reaehed or a little later on would.io it. The boat seemed steady. Thework of the lads he had coached wassmooth. He felt certarn that theycould do ll bring him a victory ln thishis last raceI'nder the bridge they swept, Syra¬

cuse still leading. They had reaehedthe last balf-mile, where the finaleffort had to come. From that angielt seemed as though they were glidingnose and nose. Suddenly one of theboata ahot forward.The veteran coaeh dropped

glasses Tnat was not h;.> boat, he hadlost his race by a fall two ler.gthi.He did not watch the others }'..

was lot interested in the fact thatColumbia crossed five lengths behindhii crew and that tha weary Pennsyl-vanians were four lengths behindRice'a crew. He only knew that he hadlaat hii last race.The twilight deepened an.i 'he ln-

valided coach was taken indoors.

Hudson Smooth aa laike.

The course was ai r-meoth aa an in-land lake when the Varaity rar*e waa

tinallv started. There waa D4»1breath of a breeie when the » olumbiashell paddled up to the starting line.The oarsmen wera itnpped to thewaiet- So wara the man in tha Penn-

Mrs. John Jacob Astor to WedW. K. Diek, a Childhood Chum

Widow Gives Up $300,000Income and Fifth AvenueHome When She BecomesBride of Brooklyn Million-aire To-morrow.

Mrs Madeline Force Aator, widow of

Colonel John .lacob Aator, will relln-

i-uish that histor'.c name and other

things more tangible to-moirow to be

come Mrr,. William K. Pick. The eere¬

mony, which will he as qnlet as the

principsls can contrive to make it, willbe performed at Bar Harbor.

Although detaile of the romance stillare laeking, Henry A. Gilderslecve,counsel for Mrs. Astor, venfied themain fact yesterday afternoon. Tvenews had been so earefully g-uarie 1,however, that even close friends ofhorh Mrs. Afltor and Mr. Pick -vere

taken completely hy surprise. Thevhad known that the pnir were closefriends, hut that a romance was hlo«-

r BienHjfl r>at;j Tim*

WILI.IAM K. D1CK.

soming before »h»ir rerv eyes had noteven been sugpested.

Mr. Pr.k. at the age of twenty-nine,is vire-preslder.t ef the Mnnufacturers'Traal Company, active in several othervent'ire*, poaaeaaor of a fortune esti¬mated al 15,000,1)00 and credited arith

= rng more than average businesssagaci'y. He is the grandsor. of Will¬iam Pick, the supar retrner, and liveswi»h hi? parents a' 2" Kar-f Frfty-th'.rdStrct.

Nol the iea«t latflreating faatran ofthe situation has to do arith 'he faturflstatus of httle John Jaroh Astor. sixthof the line to hear that name. That hewill. like his mother, give un claim* on

that name and adont that of ail itep*father ifl not conaidered likely LittlflJohn, at the age of four, has proved

himself something of a problem al*

ready, since his mothrr has been com-

pelled to »lead in court tha the $20,000a year allowed for his liviag expensesfel'l mor- 'han WftM ihorl »f providing

rrith *uch -:i8cka

childrsh mind might crave.

The actual cost of marriage arill be

far grra'er to Mr*. AatOT than to the

average woman. who givflfl up or.ly her

hhcrtv. When the eeremony ifl per¬formed to-morrow Mrs. Astor will sac-

riflea this. an income of $300,-000 a year and th- rlghl to orcipy the

Ador mansion on Fifth Avenue. Inder

ona of the will of Colonel '

fe on the Titanic after

traviag ¦ eenrtlj farewell ta thfl mit*he had lifted into a boat, the income ofK thfiOOfiOO trust fund and use of the

Worth Watchful WaitingFrank H. .Simonds's vivid interpretation of ihe present

activity on the Europe.. fighting fronts lead* the Editorial .Section

thii mormn, P.rtlll; Birsky and Zapp discuss ,'Preparefulnessin The Tribune Maga/me- Part V; a number of tested household,i,ri. are descnbed in the Graphic and the Tribune Institute i

renpea for next week are in Part IV; ISamuel Hopkins Adamstdll the signincant story of the Mobile Tribune and Tanlac. m

the M.in News SectioBi and The Tnbune Graphic -I: art VIahovvs a million dollar movie in the making. These five thingav.ii have been lookmg for.but »o have you been lookms for allof these »even parti:

Par. I Tne Main Nrw. Par. IV T h e . l r e a . P.M VI- The TnbuneSertion. M,..u. Children. Th. Gr,PhK. <T "C'

P . ll c_ .,,-- ^ . tion. of W big pa^etPsrt 11 Srort.ni- Ser- Tnbune In.litule. ,grh,ParTill UtofiaL Re- p*r' v T},e TnbuM P»M JP **" 5up-

.ort.. Financial. Mag.zior.plrmenl.F.very .Sunday you get a newspaper that's worth waiting for.

a newspapcr that is a newspaper plus. if you tell your MWfr

dealer lo de'r.er

j$ Zhc ^xxwiWiii Cribune _^-fijjttj^ First to Last-the Truth. r+fjM¦|[^ \:u4 -Ijjtorials.Adwrtisemcntt. ^JtuXML._J__BEb*B» - Marara***. nf tba -.Kfll Bmaaa of C5rr**'.ar*a*-*a», »flflBLafl_"*4flaral*- .

MRS. JOHN JACOB ASTOR.From her latest photograph. taken at

races at Belmont i'ark.?-

Fifth Avenue home terminated in theevent of her remarriage.But such little mauers as money and

t'ne loss of a home of the Astor sortwere given slight consideration in thearrangementa being made by Mr. D.c-r.and Mrs. Astor, according to their in-timate friends. They are pictured bvthi* few who know their state of mii.d

ing as ridiealoualy happy as anyyoung couple that ever feathered a

rest on the easy payment plan. And.*he marriage has the hearty ap-

prov.il of thi* members of both famil.esof the contracting parties, there ianothing to mar their enviable mentalll ..

Nobody eould be found last night'who could throw any ligh' upon rhehoneymoon plans of the couple. It is

lt, however, that they will sailniv.iy from Rar Harbor in the Dick

ind «pend rhe trreater oart o** *hermoon in the sec!u-ion of an ocean**a auch as is the dream of every

youthful loverBaa-ji of ti m'-"-row's wedding runs tl

thr-;id of romance that da'es from 'he'.ar'.y rh'ldhond of the two. A? thevgrew they met, at soeial affairs anda*ere eompaniona at Rar Harbor when.six veara atro, rhe then Miai Forre wair. dehntaate there It was at Bar Har¬bor, tno, that Colonel Astor met andwas fasoinated by the beauty of the. rliah debutante.

I'ersons in whom the young couplehave confided the awi of their forth-comirrg marriage doclare that the truelove element in the attachment is fur¬ther arcentuated hy the fact that nomarriage settlements, verbal or writ¬ten. have been cons.dered or even men¬tioned. Mr. Dick, whose family is oneof *he oi-ies* ,n Brooklyn, is wealthyin his own right.

It has been known for some time thathe had renewed the friendahip of hisschool days with the your.g widow ofColonel Astor, but an engagement an-

nouncement was nnaxpoctai. BnrprieeWH exprossed hv many of the eaaple'lfriends when it beeame known that 'he

folle/W hat two daysafter ment notice was per-

iblia*.«i *".rt from the mere admission that

ereent wai a fact, the families'. and Mrs. Astor would say

g, About the time the news hadthe D.rk family were

well on the.r way to Bar Haibor andwedding.

Silence Seals Wedding Dctails.[t aa\ ¦' *I Henry

-eet, fatherof the prospertive bridegroom, that BOT'tnber of tha fai thera. The

¦nation was given at the| n 4**'-.nden,

;.r.t replied.he telephor.e that he had h<-e.».

mstructed to say nothing ai to whereunily had gone.

Both home.* cf the elder Dick are

shared by bil s"ns. William K. and-

fontlnueai on i>f»«e *. f»lumn 2

NEW YORK JOGS ALONGALL DAY WITHOUT HEAD

Mayor and President of Boardof Aldermen Both Away.

New York City waa without an ex-ecutive head yesterday. Mayor Mitchelwent to Ashokar.. N. V, Frday n.ghtfor the week end, and r.o one waa leftto uke r-.is piece.

Praj ^K. Fres-dent of theBoard ..' Aldermen, to whom the eflee

falll il the M.ayor'ir re'urned from Bt

Lou.s, where he attended the Demo¬eratie National Convention. There llno vic«vchairman of the Board of Al-dermen, who might be next ia line forthe pUcak v

CARRANZA DEMANDSIMMEDIATE WITHDRAWALConsul Warns U. S. That Attack

Will Follow Refusal.ThenCrosses Into Mexico.

1,500 MATAMOROS CITIZENSARM TO RES1ST AMERICANS

More Battalions Ordered to Rio Grande.Both Sides of Border Prepare

for Hostiiities

Brown?ville. Tex.. June 17..American troops rrossed thainternational line this morning. Despite Carranza's threat thatany such move meant war, 400 troopers of the Third Cavalrywent over the border in pursuit of bandits that had attacked a

detachmert of the 26th Infantry at San Benito last nighUThey engaged hostile Mexicans and are itail over the line.

The squadron is sleeping to-night on Mexiean soil, less thanten miles from Matamoros, the .Mexiean town opposite herti,where the Mexiean population, fully armed with pistols andrifles, is awaiting developments with anxiety.

The soldiers crossing were under comrnand of Major Ed¬ward Anderson and Lieutanant A. U. Neuman. who were on a

'"hot trail."Carranza Cont/ul J. Z. Garza. stationed here, delivered early

to-night General Alfredo Rieaut's ultimatum to General JamesParker. Brownsville commander. that unless the Anderson puni-tive expedition were withdrawn an attack would be made by Car¬ranza troops. Immediately afterward Consul Garza elosed theeonsulate and moved to Matamoros.

Additional United States troops, including a portion of the28th Infantry and the remainder of the 3d Cavalry. under com¬

rnand of Colonel A. P. Bloeksom, were en route to Xaranjoa to¬

night, the point of crossing of the squadron, to reinforce those

already sent in.Fifteen hundred men, boys and even girls were patrolling

the streets of Matamoros, the Mexi.an town opposite here, to¬

night. under full arm.-*, which had been distributed to them to¬

day by General Alfredo Ricaut. commander of the Carranza gar-rison there. Intense excitement prevailed, with the presence ofAmerican troops ten miles outside of the town.

PERSHLNG DEFIESCARRANZA CHIEF

Warns Trevino Meddlingwith Americans Will

Not Bc Tolerated.

San Antonio, Tex., June 17. GeneralPershing has told General Jacinto Tre

ia reply to the message warninghim that any move of the Amerieantroops, excrpt toward the border, wouldbe regarded as a hostile act, that hecould not recognize his authonty 'ogovern the niovements of the Ameri¬ean expedition.

The answer read:"I have not received orders to re-

Biain stat.onary or to withdraw. If Iaee fit to send troops in pursuit of ban¬dits to the south, east or west in keep-ing with the object of this expeditionI will do so

"If anv attaek is made on any partof my force* while performing suche.uties, the entire military strength ofthe expedition wil! be used against theattacking force."General Trevino, aa eomrnander-in-

of the de facto government'atroops in the north, will be held re-

sponsible for Mexican forces withinatnking d'.stance of the Amerieanforeee.United States army officers at head-

quarters here to-night regarded theMexican situation as most serious.A.*--.T.ing that the de facto Mexicangovernment would author.ze GeneralAlfredo Ricaut to earry out his threatto attaek any Ameriean force thatcrossed the line into Mexico, some de¬clared their belief that war waa al-itio.r onavoidable.That opportunity was presented to¬

day when more than 100 men of the3d Cavalry crossed the river beiowBroartiflville in pursuit of bandi's thatattaeked a little detaehment of the

;-fantry at San Benito last night.-riil James Parker. commanding

at Brownsvtlle, reported that he hadetnt to Carranza C'onaul Andreas(iarza. in Brownsville. a note inform-ir.it him that Ameriean troopa hadrrr.a.ed tha '.n'ernational houndary in

arith the apint of the apree-, ».>n the two countn.-s, in

pursuit of handits.Garza rephed tl.at he knew what it

rnear.t and expreased hia deep regret.Army officers here regarded I unsul

Garza's note as a tac:' admissioi alhe beheved hia ¦uvirrrmrr.* would ra*sent the entrance of thia latest punl-tive exoedit'.orr.

General Funston'a arrny of almoat60,ooo haa been »o diaposed along theborder that gwift pun'.tive action couldbe taken if invited by any overt actof ( arranza's army. No fear ia feltthat General Pershing will not be ableto *ake care rf hrriself

Precau'ions taken by General Bell,at Bl Paso. last BifBl ln holding allthe Ameriean troops ready for actionwere a'.milar to those taken at everyborder point opponte which there waa

eny considerable number oi Careaaaajtrroopa.

Within half an hour after the ftrtrjtroops had crossed volleys of ahotawere heard from the brush on thejMexiean side of the river, indicatingthat at least a party of the bandi*4ha-1 been eneountered. Th-ey wera

known to have been cha.-ed across thariver by Lieutenant Newtrran anriTroop H of the 3d.

No CaUUAltie*.

\o ca.aualties on either ride attemieed the crossin*?. A field wireless ap-paratus has been established on thejAmerican side of the river to-night,which will keep in clo.se toi.ch with)the fourth punitive expedition intfjMexico.Troop H was the f.rst Kid** of to}.

diers to cross the river. Most of thaday theae soldiers exchange shots wi'b)bandits after the small exped *!*->n h«4rrossed the Rio Grande, but the tala"c.'sualty" was one Mexiean bendit'e,horse. It wa* brought to the bank n|th» R;o Grande «s * so*.ven>.After an all night ehase Lieutenant

Newman's troops ran the bandite whoattacked the infantry detaehment, be-»lreved to nnrnber about thrrr y, from a

point east of rhe s.eenirf* town of S«nRar.ito. fifteen m:i<*s to the b.ar.k of theRio Grande near San Pedro ranrtv.Here the band apparer.tly *pl t in twaaectioni, one crossig *he rrver aborathe ranch and the other below. Thacavalry followed by the ncr'hern ford.At 11 o'clock thia raornirg, aftef

¦paadtag one ho.jr on Mexiean soil,I.ieatenant Newman's eommand camaIn eontaet with the marauders, and a

lively though bloodless skirmish en-

sued, neither being; ah> t0 aee thaother on account of 'he i>r,a# brush.

After eroasing* the rrver N'ewmaadiapatehaTMl a measer-j'r *o ;nformheadqtiartera at Fort Brown of hiarToaain-f The messer.fjer, a private ofTroop H, lost hrs hor**e ln *he middlaof the Rio Grande ar.d iwam to thaother side, almoit losinf his life.The tra:! of blood followed latt nifha

by the cavalry Ied to the body of a

Mexiean peon. H:s or.ly possesalonewere two bullet holes, a r.fie and somaammunition. He earried no paperawh.ch might have d.selosed his namaor aflUiatloaa.

Matamoroe Situation Serlooa.

The situation in Matamoros to-nijhlwas serious. Kvery business hooae it}the town was eloaed with the .seeptioatof one saloon. In this ren-iervous werogathered army officers, who gave ou|threats caieulated to arouse the al«ready a'.irmed **.ipul«'*e into a frensy

(ieneral Alfredo R.eaut. commandetof the Ma'ai.T.oroa -yarr.j>>n, d.d nollearn of the crossing ot Amencasj^ttoops into Mexico until earlf in thaafternoon. He then called the pepola-tion of the town tojether at hia head-quarter*, wher-e he afUatrthBted rifle*.p-.stoU and araiaruaitfefa to oua, *.r*\l