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TO ENFORCE OEDERS.
Two United States Warships Have
Arrived at Beirut.
Minister I.olshmnn Cables That the rowers
Wero Landing Murines In Constanti
nople, us L'prlflliiB Was roared
franco Mny Send it 1'1'iut,
Beirut, Syria, Sept. 5. Tho United
SfAtes cruisers Brooklyn and San
lyflicisQo lmve arrived here.
The Ton urn Landing Murine.
Washington, Sept. 5. Minister
Leishman has Informed the state de
partment that sorao o tho European
powers liavo landed marines in Con
stantinople. If tho lives of Americans
there become endangered, tho United
States government will ulso send a de
tachment of marines to Constantino
ple. In case a necessity develops It is
probablo that tho Turkish government
will bo requested to allow tho United
States to send a detachment of marines
.from tho squadron at Beirut. Minister
.Leishman has not made such a request
of this government. The United States
lias no authority to send a warship
through tho Dardanelles, and would
liave to have the consent of Turkey and
that of other European powers to do
so.
Russia unci Austria Concerned.
London, Sept. 5. No British marines
liave been landed at Constantinople
so far as the foreign offlce is informed,
but it is said that if the British em
bassy requires protection the ambas
sador is authorized to call upon the
commander of the British guardship
for guards. The foreign office consid
ers it probable that Russia and Aus
tria have landed marines to protect
their embassies a3 a result of tho
porle's note to tho ambassadors warn
ing them that the Bulgarian agitators
were projecting outrages against tho
embassies, legations and public build
ings at Constantinople.
Franco Fears H Crisis.
Paris, Sept. 5. It is authoritative
ly stated that in view of the growing
disorders in Turkey a French fleet will
.bo ordered to hold itself In readiness
to proceed to Turkish waters. This
determination follows the receipt of a
acport from the French ambassador at
Constantinople that it wa3 desirable to
"have warships in readiness for all
eventualities. Similar preparations
3iave been made by Italy, Austria,
Russia and Great Britain. The ofll
cials hero expect. Uie fleets will act to
gether In case of a crisis.
NEGRO CHOKED A WOMAN.
Vnahln to Secure Money and Heine l'resscd
by n Moli IIu Drowned Himself
In the Knw Ittvur.
Wyandotte, Kan., Sept. 5. Mrs.
"Margaret Gerahn, of 1010 South Ninth
'street, was assaulted by an unknown
negro about 10 o'clock this morning,
dragged into a closet, choked and left
lying on the floor in an exhausted con
dition. When the house was broken
into by neighbors the negro was found
in the act of .strangling the woman a
second time. He escaped, ran to tho
Kaw river, jumped into a boat and dis
appeared. Ho finally drowned himself
in tho river. The, negro entered tho
Gerahn home for money and his treat
ment of the woman was to force her
1o reveal the alleged hiding place of
money in the house.
SHERIFF DIDN'T WANT THEM.
Hut Gov. I'eabody, of Colorado, Ordered
Troops to Cripple Creek on Request of
Mine Owners' Association.
Denver, Col., Sept. 5. Gov. Peabody
decided after receiving tho report of
the committee which he sent to Crlpplo
Creek to investigate strike conditions
there, to dispatch troops to the gold
camp.
Troops were asked for by tho mine
owners association, but Sheriff .Rob
ertson, of Teller county, said that ho
saw no necessity for calling out the
militia. No violence has been reported
Jit Cripple Creek since Tuosday night
when ono non-union carpenter and a
justice woro assaulted by unknown
persons.
A Father Causes Ills Son's Arrest.
Guthrie, Ok., Sept. 5. James Fay,
an escaped convict of tho Little Rock,
Ark., penitentiary, has been arrested
at Isabella, Woods county, on com
plaint of his father, who resides at
"Van Buren, Ark. James Fay was con
victed of robbing a store in Arkansas
and sent to tho ponitentiary. Two
weeks before tho expiration of his sen
tence ho escaped, returning to I1I3
home and eloping to Oklahoma with
tho elder Fay's young wife. Ho has
since been employed in an elevator in
Isabella.
William J. llryon's Stepmother Dies.
Kpkomo, Ind., Sept. 5. Mary Gano
Bryan Cobb, stepmother of William J.
Bryan, died yesterday afternoon at her
home in New London in her 101st
year. Mrs. Cobb was one of the pio
neers of this county. She was born
in Kentucky. William J. Bryan has
been notified and probably will attend
the funeral to bo held In tho Friends
church at Ifow London Sunday moraine
USING KNIFE AND TORCH.
11 tty Villages In .Macedonia llitrned by the
Turku und tliu Inhabitants Mas
sacred. Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 7. The Auton
omic publishes the namod of 50 v!l-
lages burned by the Turks in the fol
lowing districts: Reson, .'JO villages;
Kostur, 11; Brushevo, six, and ono
monastery. The Turks burned four
villages In the district of Strush
kopolis and murdered the priest. The
population fled to the mountains. The
Turks havo destroyed all tho flour
mills in the district of Reson and also
every church. A fight is reported to
have taken place at tho village of
Vetrsko, in tho district of Kunianovo,
between a body of insurgents and a
Turkish battalion. It lasted four
hours and the Turks lost heavily.
Reports havo reached the revolu
tionary headquarters hero of atrocities
by the Turks in tho village of Velmostl
in tho district of Debre. Tho troops
and bnshi-bazouks are said to have
Burrounded the village and part of
thorn entered and began plundering
the houses and assaulting the women.
The other soldiers remained outside
und killed those Inhabitants who tried
to escape. The Turks then set Are to
Ihe village in four places, burning 12
women and children. One child wag
hanged. Altogether GO peasants woro
killed and their bodies were left lying
in the streets.
A War of I'xtermjnntlnn.
London, Sept. 7. The Daily Mall's
correspondent at Monastlr says:
"There is no doubt that a Turkish war
of extermination Is proceeding In tho
Okrlda district. Tho massacres of a
century ago aro as (nothing compared
with those occurring dally in the
vilayet of Monastlr. The plight of tho
survivors Is terrible. Not daring to
leave their houses and subsisting on
grass and ' water, they resemble peo
ple in tho last stages of famine."
UNCLE . SAM TAKES HAND.
United States Attorney at Topeka In
structed to Rcglti I'rosecutlons Against
Aliened Coal Trust.
Topeka, Kan., Sept. G. J. S. Dean.
United States district attorney for
Kansas, received orders from the De
partment of Justice at Washington to
begin prosecutions against the mem
bers of the alleged coal trust in this
state. It is said that similar orders
havo been given to the district attor
ney in Missouri. District Attorney
Dean lias turned the work of gathering
evidence against tho operators over to
E. D. McKeever. "I am so certain
that there is a combine or trusr
among 'the coal operators In Kansas
that I am going to probo the matter to
the bottom," said McKeever.
BENQUE DECLARED INSANE.
The Man Who Sent a Threatening better
to Secretary liny to He Commit
ted to an Asylum.
New York, Sept. 7. Frances W.
Bcnque, who sent a threatening letter
to Secretary of State Hay and who
for years has given trouble to officials
at Washington with letters, was yester
day declared Insane by Dr. Gregory In
Hhe psychopathic ward at Bellevuo hos
pital. He will be committed to an In
stitution for the Insane for permanent
care. Dr. Gregory last' night said that
Benque's mania is that he Is being
persecuted. Benque, even yesterday,
wrote several lotters. He says himself
that he wrote to Mrs. McKInley among
others.
l'eiiry to Make Anothsr "Diisli,"
Washington, Sept. 7. Commander
Robert E. Peary, who has spent 12 of
the best years of his life in arctic work,
will start northward in, July to maka
another "dash for the pole. An ail
American crew will man his ship,
which will be the best that can bo
bullded in American yards. She will
be fitted with American engines and,
as her commander puts it, taken alto
gether, will be a fine exponent of
American skill and mechanical ability.
Will Take Down Fences on Public Lauds.
Topeka. Kan., Sept. 7. United States
District Attorney Dean announces that
ho has received assurances from some
of the loading cattlemen In northwest
ern Kansas that they would obey tho
order of tho government relatlvo to
taking down tho fences from around
public lands. Mr. Dean had started
proceedings in the federal court horo
to compel the cattlemen to take some
Mich action. Thcso suits may now bo
dismissed.
Convention Hull l'rle Money Divided.
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 6. The con
troversy over tho first prize money in
tho last Convention hall guessjng con
test was settled by all tho claimants
appearing In court and agreeing that
the money should bp divided as fol
lows: W. II. Miller, $1,050; M. E. Guf
ncy, $1,050; Mrs. James A. Roberts,
$3,300; P. H. Scott, $3,300; J. M. Simp
son, $3,300; C. L. Harris, $2,100.
Ilend-on Collision Retweon Trolley Cars.
Philadelphia, Sept. 7. In a head-on
collision between trolley cars at Fort
Washington, on tho lino between Phil
adelphia and Allentown, last night
three persons woro probably fatally
hurt and over a scoro of others sus
tained more or less serious injuries.
BEATEN BY WOMEN.
A Man Iterenlly DlselmrRed from the
iinvy Comes to (Jrlof Ilecmno lie At
tempted to Hue a l'retty Ulrl.
New York, Sept. 5. Scores of in
furiated women beat John Nulty, re
cently discharged from the navy, into
insensibility in Madison squaro be
cause ho attempted to hug Fortunlto
Lorlto, a pretty girl of M years. Nulty
cried for mercy, but tho women gavo
none. Men tried to get, at him, but
tho women waved them back. "We'll
attend to lilm," they said. "Lynch
tho cur," shouted the men.
The cries of Nulty for aid had sunk
to low moans, wlmn two officers ar
rived. After forcing their way
through the crowd of struggling wom
en tho pollco found that Nulty had
fainted. Ho was carried to tho station
and locked up.
Invention Did Not l'revont Her Sinking.
Portsmouth, Eng., Sept. G. The old
battleship Belle Islo was torpedoed
here yesterday and sank at her moor
ings. For tho purposo of tho experi
ment a section had been constructed
on tho port sido of tho Bello Islo, rep
resenting the side of a modern battle
ship. This was filled with an Ameri
can invention which, it was claimed,
would prevent a ship from sinking
when tho hull is pontrated bolow tho
water line. When the vessel was
struck a largo column of water envel
oped her. She rolled heavily and then
Bottled down with a list to port. Tho
Bello Islo will be raised for further
experiments.
To Unveil the Sherninn Statue.
Now York, Sept. 5. Tho adjourned
meeting of tho Society of tho Army of
tho Potomac will be held in conjunc
tion with tho meeting of the Armies
of the West at Washington, October
15 and 1G. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles will
represent tho society at tho unveiling
of tho Sherman statue and Gen. John
R. Brooko, the president, will respond
at the banquet.
A Cias Company Knjolncfl.
St. Louis, Sept. 5. Injunction pro
ceedings instituted yesterday by At
torney General Crow before Judge
Taylor, of the circuit court, rovcal an
apparent attempt on the part of the
Laclede Gaslight company to regulate
and control the prices of gas ranges
manufactured and sold in St. Louis.
ICoejicr of "Ruby Fnrm" Arrested.
Wichita, Kan., Sept. 5. Mrs. A. II.
Miller, who has conducted a baby farnj
and lying-in house for many years In
this city, was arrested yesterday aft
ernoon on a state warrant, charging
her with tho murder of a three-year-old
infant, named Charley, whose par
ents aro unknown.
Railway Kxpressmeti May Strike.
Chicago, Sept. 5. Tho Chronicle to
day says: A general strike of railway
express employes throughout the
United States Is threatened becauso of
the refusal of six of the largest com
panies in Chicago to consider-demands
made by the Brotherhood of Railway
Expressmen two months ago.
Calls Cleveland Greatest Living Democrat.
Chicago, Sept. 5. In a leading edi
torial to-day the Chicago Chronicle
urges tho nomination of Grover Clove
land for the presidency, declaring him
to be tho greatest and most popular
living democrat, who, if nominated,
would poll every democratic voto in
the country.
A Pioneer of Kansas Dies.
St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 5. Samuel
Jacobs, a pioneer In tho history of. the
early lifo of Kansas and Colorado and
a railway builder, died here yester
day, aged 82. Ho was the grandson of
Gen. John Andre, a brother of MaJ.
Andro, of revolutionary fame.
A Street Railway for Muskogee.
Muskogee, I. T., Sept. 5. G. N. Has
kell, for the Muskogee Traction, com
pany, yesterday gavo a bond of $10,
000 to commence work on tho street
railway in this city within 30 days.
Cars aro to be running within 15
mouths.
Well-Known Steamboat Mnii Dead.
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 5. Col. Thonias
O. Hall, a veteran steamboat man,
and ono of tho best-known river edi
tors of tho south, died suddenly at his
homo hero of heart failure.
Will Mayor Low Withdraw?
New York, Sept. 5. Mayor Low, who
practically has boon tho anti-Tammany
candidato for mayor, probably will
yield to tho advice pf hit; friends and
withdraw from the mayoralty race.
Kuriilng of the Krlsro System.
St. Louis, Sopt. 5. In July tbe Fris
co railroad's not earnings aggregated
$1,135,950, an Increase of $200,740 over
the same month last year. Tho total
mileage is 4,801.
Commissary for Iillo Miners.
Telluriile, Col., Sept. 5. A commls
Bary and lodging house for idle miners
and mill men in this district wnro
opened to-day by the Western Federa
tion of Miners.
Indiana Coal Industry Dooming.
Indianapolis, Intl., Sept. 5. Between
30 and 40 new coal mines will bo
opened for operation in tho Indiana,
fields before the first of the new year.
AN EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.
Two Stores nt TonUawa, Ok., Completely
Wiped Out and Sevenil I'ersous
lladly Injured,
Guthrio, Ok., Sopt, C. A special to
tho Leader from Tonkawa, Ok., says:
An explosion of dynamite, followed by
fire, entailed a loss amounting to $10,
000 to tho stocks owned by Scott Bull
& Poffengpr, hardwaro dealers, and
Jaroleman & Olspaughs, dry goods,
horo. Charles Poffonbcrger, a boy, wns
blown through tho wall and Gcorgo
Kunklcr, manager of tho Telophono
oxchango, and Dr. McClelland woro
bruised and Injured by falling brick.
Charles Hiegerot, a farmer who was
entering tho store, suffered Injuries
which aro bellovcd to bo fatal. His
faco and hands wero badly cut and
ono leg was crushed. Flro Immediately
followed tho explosion and botli storos
wero completely wiped out. Tho loss
Is partly covered by insurance.
PRIEST WITH SIX GIRLS.
In Poland lie Was Arrested Hut Claimed
He Was Talcing Them to a Con
vent In St, Louis.
Berlin, Sept. 5. A man affirming
that ho Is an American and a priest,
named Gulellnskl, recently arrived at
Glolwitz, Poland, with six girls, who,
it is alleged, ho was taking to a con
vent In St. Louis, with tho object of
fostering Pollshism. Ho had an Amer
ican passport, according to newspaper
dispatches anil papers showing ho had
studied for tho priesthood. Tho man
wns arrested under a paragraph In tho
Immigration law forbidding tho entic
ing of young girls out of tho country.
'I'll I h Time the lOvpectod Ilnppened.
yNow York, Sopt. 5. Tho Rellanco,
the American cup defender, yesterday
won tho third and final raco and the
scries for that famous sea trophy, tho
America's cup. In a dense fog, which
provented vision beyond 200 yards,
alio finished tho raco nt 5:30:02 amid
tho acclamations of tho assembled
licet. Shamrock 'III., after running for
more than an hour in tho fog, missed
tho finish lino, passed by It and then
returned to It from tho opposlto direc
tion. A Charter for a Now Oklahoma Hallway.
Guthrie, Ok.,' Sopt. 5. A charter was
issued hero yesterday to tho Great
Eastern & Western Railway company,
with a capital stock of $10,000,000, to
construct a lino of railway from Madgo,
in Greer county, Ok., through Lawton,
Ok., and tho Chickasaw nation, to
Huntington, Ark., a distance of 252
mlbis. The Incorporators aro Oklaho
mans. Willis or a Ilrlek Ituildlng Collapse.
Vinton, la., Sept. 5. William John
son, a laborer, was killed and flvo
painters were Injured yesterday by tho
collapso of tho front and side walls
of a two-story brick building occu
pied by Quinn's grocery store. Sev
eral workmen wore carried down In tho
debris. The building liad been under
going repairs for a month and an iron
support under one corner gavo way.
Many Cotton Mills Shut Down.
Fall River, Mass., Sept. 5. Soven
teon cotton manufacturing corporations
of Fall River shut down entirely to
day until September 14, throwing out
of work nearly 13,000 hands, operating
1,300,000 spindles. The curtailment
next week is tho most extonsivo of any
horo since the cotton situation be
camo unfavorable to mill ownors.
Knforelng Rules of Sobriety.
.Bloomlngton, 111., Sopt. 5. Tho Chii
cago & Alton road is renewing tho cam
paign against employes who drink in
toxicating liquors. Recently ono of
tho best-known engineers was dis
charged for violation of tho rules in
this respect, and a number of thp ex
perienced trainmen wero also let out
for tho same fault.
Death Is Depleting I'enstoners.
Washington, Sopt. 5. On Juno 30,
1902, there woro 1,001,494 pensioners on
tho rolls of tho United States. On tho
corresponding date this year tho num
ber had declined to 990,515. Nearly
41,000 names havo been dropped from
tho rolls In tho past year by reason
of deaths, tho number running from
2,000 to 5,000 a month.
Tho A. O. U. W. Assessment Indorsed.
Buffalo, N. Y., Sopt. 5. Tho method
pursued by tho supremo lodge of tho
Ancient Order of United Workmen, in
increasing tho rate of assessment upon
its mombers, has been endorsed by tho
National Fraternal congress, which is
an organization composed of repre
sentatives of G3 fraternal beneficiary
societies.
Additional Ouard for Roosevelt.
Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sopt. 5. As a re
sult of Henry Wellbrennor's attempt
Tuesday night to got to tho president
with a loaded rovolver, a request has
been sent to secret service headquar
ters In Washington to havo tho forco
strengthened by at least three or four
mon.
Two Men Atr.ihyxlated.
, Elk City, Ok., Sopt. 5. Charles
Givers and Monroe Mattocks aro dead
horo as a result of what Is supposed to
bo asphyxiation from flro damp In a
well which they were digging.
THE CHICAGO BARN MURDERS.
James Redmond, n Former Kansas City
Man, HiMpeeted of Ilelng Implicated
In tho Affair,
Chicago, Sept. 8. James Redmond,
alias O'Ncll, and Arthur Tlbbotts havo
boon arrcBted on a clmrso of com
plicity in tho murders committed in
tho barns of tho Chicago City Railway
company a, week ago. Tho ovldonco
against Redmond is entirely circum
stantial, tho chief part of It being his
heavy expenditure of money during the
last weok.
Redmond formerly lived in Kansas
City, and was tried thoro In 1900 for
tho murder of a girl named Shu
macher. Ho was 'acquitted of tho
charge, however. Tlbbotts was ar
rosted bocauso Redmond wa3 living la
his house.
Without a word of warning two men
wero killed and two others wounded
by hold-up men at tho bams of tho Chi
cago City Railway company, Sixty-first
and Stato streets, at an early hour
Sunday morning, August 30. Tho
shooting was dono by three men, who
escaped after securing $3,000.
Coal Operators Refuse to Testify.
Topeka, Kan., Sopt. 8. Tho first casa
against tho alleged coal dealers' trust
was brought In tho district court yes
terday by Attorney General Coleman.
Tho day was taken up with arguments
as to tho right of tho logislaturo to
pass a law forcing tho operators and
dealers to testify against their own in
terests. Twenty-two oporators and
dealers aro hero to glvo testimony la
caso tho court decides against, them.
In nddUMon to this caso brought by tho
Btato Assistant United States District
Attorney McKoaver is preparing a suit
to bo brought in tho federal court.
An Kx-Mlssotirl Congressman Dies.
Washington, Sopt. 8. John Bullock
Clark, formerly a mombor of tho houso
of representatives from Missouri, died
hero yesterday, agod 72 years. Ho saw
active service in tho confederate army,
entering as a lieutenant and rising to
tho rank of brigadier gonoral. After
tho wnr ho followed vnrloUs pursuits.
Ho served in congress from 1873 to
1883 as tho democratic representative
from tho Eleventh district of his na
tivo state, aftor which ho was, elected
several times to bo clerk of tho house
of representatives.
RIlss Hrownlow IClopes with a Liveryman.
Bristol, Tenn., Sopt. 8. Miss Cloy
etta Brbwnlow, daughter of Congress
man W. P. Brownlow, of Jonosboro,
Tenn., eloped with Mark E. Prltchctt.
a liveryman, of Jonosboro, and they,
woro married at Bristol. The atten
tions of Pritchott to Miss Brownlow
aro said to havo been opposed by the
congressman, henco tho elopement.
Tho young lady was a favorlto la
Washington social circles tho past sea
son. Left Money for Library Purposes.
Webster City, la., Sopt. 8. Mrs.
Kendall Young, of this city, who died
at a sanitarium at Battlo Creole, Mich.,
yesterday morning, leaves a will which,
convoys to tho city property vnlucd
at $200,000, to bo used for library pur
poses. Twonty-flvo thousand dollars
is to bo used for tho building and $175,
000, or tho romalndor of tho estate,
will be devoted to Its maintenance.
Meeting Adjourned Without Voting.
Lawrence, Kan., Sopt. 8. Martin GII
meotlng of about 500 of tho striking
minors of this district was hold hero
Sunday at which addresses wero made
by L. L. Lewis, of Brldgoport, 0.;
George Colvlllo, president of district
No. 25, and James Moonoy, tho strike
leador. LowIb advised tho strikers to
return to work, but tho mooting ad
journed without voting on tho question.
Kratz Doing Well In Mexico.
St. Louis, Sept. 8. Charles Kratz,
of St. Louis boodle fame, according to
tho Rov. Father James Sullivan. S. J.
of St. Louis university, Is now a re
spected cltlzon of Guadaljara, Mcx.,
ond has secured tho contract for pav
ing tho streets of tho city, a concession
which requires tho expenditure of,
several million dollars.
Squadron Had Quieting Kffoct-
Washington, opU 8. Tho navy;
department has received a long cable
gram from. Rear Admiral Cotton at
Beirut, stating that matters aro quiet
now and that tho presence of a squad
ron has had "an excellent offect. Ho
says ho has boon In communication
with Consul Ravandal and Minister
Leishman.
Heavy Snow In Colorado,
Colorado Springs, Col., Sept. 8. A!
heavy snow fell on the rango betwcea
Colorado Springs and Crlpplo Creole
Sunday night. It was Impossible to
run trains to tho summit of Pike's
peak yesterday on account of tho snow
drift. Traffic will bo resumed as sooa
as snow plows can clear tho cog road.
Seven llodlcs Washed Ashore,
Port Jefferson, L. I., Sept. 8.
Seveu bodies have been washed ashore
between Port Jefferson and Wading
River. It is supposed that thoy aro
those of sailors who woro lost from a
schooner that capsized in tho storm ot
Aucust 25,
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