El Paso: Supplies are rushed to Columbus, N.M. via motor truck. Columbus, N.M: Fresh supplies for Col. Dodd's forces who are chasing Villa, in the mountains of Sonora, are rushed from Columbus. A wagon train from Casas Grandes, rolls into Columbus. Houston, Tex: Fire destroys a freight depot and burns up two trains, causing a loss of half a million dollars. New York: Hanging head down, over a subway excavation, Houdini frees himself from a strait jacket. Amherst, Ohio: The Twentieth Century Limited crashes into the wreck of two other crack trains of the N.Y. Central. Thirty people are killed. Interesting motion pictures show the destruction that was caused. Chicago: Steeple Jack Van Kaenel climbs the side of a Chicago hotel to unfurl the city's biggest flag. New York: Frederick Ernest Schiller, a German, who, single-handed, captured the British freighter Matoppo. but was afterwards overpowered, poses for the Hearst-Vitagraph. The steamer which he captured is shown at Lewes, Del. San Diego: Bob Burman wins fast automobile race over the San Diego Exposition course. Salonika: British soldiers hold military funeral for Serbian interpreter, who was killed. Pictures by Staff Photographer A.E. Varges. New York: Newest fashions in tea gowns and gowns for formal evening wear. Krazy Kat presides at the switchboard and finds trouble because she has such a pleasant voice in a funny cartoon by George Herriman.
—Moving Picture World synopsis