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THE HAYWOOD TRIAL.
Senator Borah made the closing ar
gument in the Haywood case, a
brilliant effort for which he was highly
complimented, even by Clarence Dar
rdw and Haywood himself.
Senator Borah began the closing ad
dress for the state in the Haywood
trial, resenting the attacks of counsel
for the defense on his associate, Mr.
Hawley, asserting the trial had been
absolutely fair and denying that the
state of Idaho was making any fight
on labor or the poor.
Clarence Darrow, of counsel for Hay
wood, bitterly denounced Orchard. J.
H. Hawley, and every one else con
nected with the prosecution of Hay
wood, sneered at education and the
constitution and pleaded eloquently
for labor as against capital.
Forsaking the theory of vengeance
as Orchard’s motive for the murder of
former Qov. Steunenberg, E. F. Rich
ardson argued that Orchard was in
the employ of the Pinkerton detec
tive agency when ho killed Steunen
berg, and that the murder was a part
of a conspiracy to hang Haywood.
This sudden departure was followed
by a tremendous denunciation of
Capt. James McPqrland and the
Pinkertons and passionate vitupera
tion of Orchard, Gov. Gooding of Ida-,
ho. Senator Borah, Gov. Peabody of
Colorado; in fact, all who have acted
on the side of the prosecution of
Haywood came in for a share of the
avalanche of Richardson’s peroration.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rev. Levont Martogessian, an Ar
menian priest, told the New York au
thorities he believed the blackmailing
of wealthy Armenians was being done
by Turkish government spies to dis
credit the Armenian patriots.
Judge W. H. Munger, in the fed
eral court at Omaha handed down a
decision holding that the Sibley law,
passed by the last Missouri legisla
ture, providing for a reduction of 25
per cent, in express rates, is constitu
tional.
While Emperor Nicholas was review
ing the troops encamped at Krasnoye
Selo the Seminovsky regiment refused
to participate in the maneuvers and
broke up the order of parade. The
men demanded the retirement of Gen.
Reiman, who, with Gen. Min, ruthless
ly put down the -Moscow uprising in
December, 1905.
Thousands of persons attending the
ninth day session of the novena of the
shrine of St. Anne at Kankakee, 111.,
saw several persons arise in St.
Joseph's church and announce that
they had been healed of infirmities.
Gertrude F. Atherton, Katherine
Glover and Poultney Bigelow, well
known authors, are directors in the
Malden Poultry farm of Malden, N. Y.,
which filed articles of incorporation.
President Richard H. Halsey, of the
Oshkosh, Wis., Normal school, was
accidentally shot and killed at Geoge
bic lake, Wis.
A “Jack the Ripper” in Berlin
stabbed three little girls in one af
ternoon. One of them died and the
others probably cannot recover.
The census bureau perfected its ar
rangements for collecting cotton gin
ning statistics covering the cotton crop
of 1907-08. There will be 10 reports,
the first appearing September 8 and
the last March 20. The intermediate
dates of publication will be October 2,
October 2fi, November 8, November 21,
December 8, December 20, January 9
and January 23.
The celebrated convent at Oiseaux,
where bo many young women of the
aristocracy of France and other coun
tries have been educated, has been
closed under the law forbidding the
continuation of institutions of secular
instruction.
Acting Secretary of the Interior
Woodruff said a coal famine was
neither necessary nor imminent be
cause the geological survey has devel
oped such immense areas of coal lands
in the west and northwest.
The supreme court of Guatemala has
confirmed the death penalty on all
those sentenced in connection with the
recent attempt to assassinate Presi
dent Cabrera.
The unveiling of a monument to
Oliver P. Morton, Indiana’s war gov
ernor in Indianapolis, was the occas
ion of a large gathering of veterans
of the civil war. Among those at
tending were Vice President Charles
W. Fairbanks and Gen. R. B. Brown,
commander-in-chief of the G. A. R.
A syndicate of Kentuckians bought
about 700,000 bushels of Kentucky
blue grass seed, practically all there
fs in the country.
Janies B. Duke, president of the
American Tobacco company, was
married to Mrs.' N&naline Holt Inmaa
la Brooklyn.
The New York authorities were in-,
formed that H. S. Tavshanjlan, the
rug merchant who was murdered, was
one of ten wealthy Armenians who
had been marked for slaughter if they
failed to give up $10,000 each to a
blackmailing band of their country
men.
Bishop John H. Vincent in a speech
at Coffeyville, Kan., attacked revivals.
He said the sensational methods used
often did more harm than good.
Miss Helen Madigan, of New York,
died of injuries received in an auto
mobile accident in which her fiance.
Dr. H. *J. Gallag&er, was killed,
f Charles Warner, a former merchant,
whQe insane shot and killed Miss Es
telle Norling in ~a New York store.
' Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish foreign
minister, has ^Igrtgnd the American
minister at Cfastantieople that no re
etjrrenee of thS SpOSnf bomb explosion
Rendered temporarily insane by the
heat Henry Baumeyer, of Evansville,
Ind., a mechanic 40 years old, made an
attempt to kill his wife and two chil
dren and then shot and killed himself.
A naval parade by United States
war vessels on the great lakes will be
a feature of the ceremonies attending
the unveiling of the Victory monument
at Put-in-Bay, O., August 5, in memory
of Perry's victory.
William J. Bryan rescued Mrs. E.
B. Stillman in an auto accident at
Storm Lake, la.
Cleveland voters rejected Mayor J.
Tom Johnson's plan to issue $750,000
bonds for the rebuilding of Central
viaduct
A holt of lightning started a fire in
| the Augusta cotton factory at Augusta,
Ga., but another bolt turned on the
automatic sprinkling apparatus and
quenched it. '
John D. O’Shea of Boston, a grand
trustee of the Elks, left in his will a
legacy to Miss Hattie M. Evans, who
was his sweetheart 25 years ago.
Two workmen in the powder mills
five miles north of Birmingham, Ala.,
were blown to atoms in an explosion.
Jose Antonio Ostes, a Mexican stu
dent at Cornell university, has invent
ed a bicycle that runs on water.
Mrs. Lillian Cora Rand, widow of a
Burlington (la.) business man, will
contest the will of her father, the late
Hiram Higgins, who left $1,000,900.
She also will sue her mother and bro
ther, William R. Higgins, for defama
tion of character.
Newton A. Berry, a wealthy farmer
who lived near Covington, Ga., was
gored to death by a. mad bull from a
neighboring farm.
Frank Cousins of Salem, Mass., a
clerk in the finance department of
the Boston post office, was arrested
by pest office inspectors charged with
embezzlement of $4,725.
Helena, Ida and Lida Conley, sis
ters, and Wyandotte Indians, began
an armed guard over the graves of
their ancestors in Huron cemetery in
Kansas City, Kan., recently ordered
sold by the government, and threat
en to shoot the first person who may
attempt to remove the bodies.
Jewish women attacked kosher
butcher shops in Philadelphia’s ghetto
because the price of meat was raised,
and in the resulting riots many per
sons were clubbed and arrested.
Third Officer Hawse of the wrecked
steamer Columbia, whose sworn re
port of the disaster, filed with the fed
eral inspectors, charged Capt. Hansen
of the San Pedro with refusing to aid
in the rescue of the stricken pas
sengers, is now charged by survivors
who occupied the same boat with him
with conduct more cruel than that
specified by him in his formal report
Margaret Magill at Clinton, 111., said
her mother committed suicide, and
exonerated her father and stepmother
from all blame.
Jacob Steiner, one of the prominent
pioneers of the head of the lakes re
gion, is dead at his home in Superior,
Wis., aged 68.
Gov. Johnson, of Minnesota, visited
the strike centers in the Mesaba coun
try and decided that state troops were
not yet needed.
Henry A. Hutchings, of Illinois, was
appointed a special agent of the In
,dian bureau to aid in the suppression
of the liquor traffic among the Indians.
Despondent because he was hope
lessly afflicted with locomotor ataxia,
Henry C. Jones, of Nashville, Tenn.,
formerly auditor of the Nashville,
Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad,
committed suicide in St. Louis by
shooting.
Angered because her husband re
fused to praise her for saving money
on purchases for their store and for
recent heavy sales, Mrs. Anna Lowe,
of Little Rock, Ark., poured a gallon
of coal oil on her head and burned
herself to death.
At Otter Lake, Mich., three persons
lost their lives when lightning struck
the hardware store of W. S. Heming
way, exploding a quantity of dynamite.
Ah attempt to blow up the residence
of Mont Tennes, of Chicago, the pro
fessional operator of gambling houses,
was made with a bomb which did lit
tle damage. "
Ten thousand residents of the St.
Elizabeth district, Jamaica, are suffer
ing from the lack of sufficient food and
the government officials are under
cenBure.
Chester B. Runyan, the paying teller
of the Windsor Trust company, who
defaulted in the amount of $100,000,
pleaded guilty at New York to the
indictment charging him with grand
larceny and was remanded for sen
tence.
The Missouri board of railroad and
warehouse commissioners announced
that its recent order, limiting the
speed of trains on the Missouri Pacific
line to 30 miles an hour, would be
canceled.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railroad has officially opened Its
Mitchell-Black Hills line, a distance of
190 miles.
Los Angeles, Cal., will attempt to
collect taxes from the Western Union
and Postal Telegraph companies on
the ground of their occupancy of the
streets. On this ground the former
has been assessed $100,000 and the
latter $50,000.
Col. Will Hays of Louisville, a noted
song writer and newspaper man, died
as a result of a paralytic stroke sus
tained in the Iroquois theater fire hi
Chicago.
Attorney General Jackson of Kan
sas filed criminal proceedings against
the International Harvester company,
alleging eight distinct violations of
the anti-trust law.
Short in his accounts and pressed
by his employers to make a settle
ment, George H. Berkey, city sales
man for the wholesale grocery firm of
Tolerton & Warfield, of Sioux City,
la., shot himself and died instantly.
The Paris Figaro announces the
engagement of Count Giulio Senni
and Mary T. Gayley of New York,
daughter of the vice president of the
United States Steel coiporation.
Following a quarrel Mrs. Alice
Bruce, aged 18 years, c. bride of sev
eral weeks, was shot and killed at her
home in Camden, N. J„ by her hus
band, Frederick Bruce, who then
tunned the revolver upca himself and
inflicted probably fatal Injuries.
A heavy passenger train from Chi
cago on the Wisconsin Central nar
rowly escaped being h'irled into the
river at Chippewa Falla. Wis.
Arnold Crouse was arrested at Mun
cie, lad., charged with complicity in
the Speer poisoning at Lima, O. A
letter in his possession addressed to
Mrs. Speer called her “sweetheart.”
George Hayes, a farmer of Oxford
township, New York, kissed his wife
and then informed her* that he had
taken strychnine with his tea. He
died in agony before physicians ar
rived.
Jacob Steiner, one of the prominent
pioneers of the head of the lakes re
gion, is dead at his home in Superior,
Wls., aged 68.
Girls in Cleveland are reported to
have taken to cigarette smoking to
ward off moequitoe*.
Andrew Mason, superintendent of
the New York assay office, who has
been in the service of the government
for 56 years or more, has presented
his resignation to Director Roberts, of
the mint.
Twenty independent cigar manufac
turers of Havana, Cuba, have decided
to raise the price of cigars, charging
American money instead of Spanish
gold. This step is likely to be fol
lowed soon by all.
Citizens of Hibbing, Minn., bitterly
opposed the strike of iron miners and
protected men who desired to work.
The Western Federation of Miners
was denounced at a'mass meeting.
A violent wind, rain and thunder
storm did great damage in Pittsburg
and vicinity and Wheeling, W. Va., had
a cloudburst.
In a head-on collision between two
traction cars on the Cleveland &
Southwestern line at Elyria, 0., three
persons were probably fatally Injured
and a score of others received in
juries of a minor nature.
Every adolt male in the town of
Kerisova, Hungary, emigrated to the
United States and the municipal
offices are Ailed by women, in viola
tion of the law of the country.
Two men were killed and five others
seriously injured by the falling of a
scaffolding at the Pittsburg and Con
neaut dock at Conneaut, O.
The story told by Avanza Amedea
and Guiborzi Olindo, Italians, who
said they had been held in slavery
for 22 months on a Mississippi planta
tion and had just escaped, caused
United States District Attorney Blod
gett at St. Louis to institute an in
vestigation into the alleged peonage.
A committee ot citizens of Ottawa,
Ont, compelled the removal of some
American flags that had been used
in decorating the city hall for a car
nival.
Trunk line representatives decided
to continue the policy of granting ex
cursion rates for special occasions in
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Three young women, of Helena,
Mont., the Misses Bertha and Fred
rlka Volker and Miss Kenton Kepner,
have been apprised that after three
years’ litigation in German courts
they have been recognized as the heir
esses to the estate of their grand
father, valued at $40,000,000.
Dr. J. T. Killebrew, a prominent
young physician of Mobile, Ala., was
killed in an automobile accident.
Twenty-five hundred people were
thrown into a fatal panic at the Litch
fleld-Hillsboro Chautauqua grounds
when a furious electrical storm oc
curred. Mrs. William Risk, of Hills
boro, was killed by lightning and seven
were seriously hurt.
Acting Secretary Newberry accept
ed the bid of C. E. Boudrow, of San
Francisco, who offered $9,200 for the
old wooden sloop-of-war Marion.
Gov. Comer of Alabama signed the
antishipping bill, which prevents
shipments of liquor into prohibition
territory, and the house passed the
“early closing" bill.
A flood of printed and illustrated
postal cards is reaching President
Roosevelt daily urging him to become
a candidate for a third term.
The Elks' committee on awards has
announced that the Cincinnati lodge
won the first prize of $250 for regis
tering the greatest number of women
at the reunion in Philadelphia. Brook
lyn was second and Buffalo third.
William E. McLachlan, a recluse
living on a small farm in Crane’s hol
low, a few miles, from Amsterdam,
N. Y., was found dead in his home
with eight stab woundB in his body.
He was estimated to be worth $75,
000.
Recent murders and depredations
committed by the gypsies may cause
Hungary to take drastic steps against
the 50,000 nomads in the country.
Less than 20 per cent, of persons
who filed ciaims in the recent Huntley
(Mont.) land drawing have registered
their claims. <
The president of Santo Domingo
has had his salary raised from $6,400
to $10,000 a year, Washington is in
formed. Good times prevail in the
republic.
George B. Ross, a well-known hotel
man of Chicago, committed suicide
by shooting in a room in the Chicago
Athletic club.
William J. Semonin, retiring county
clerk, was arrested at Louisville, Ky.,
on a charge of embezzlement, it be
ing alleged that he is short in his ac
counts as clerk of Jefferson county in
a sum approximating from $45,000 to.
$50,000. The arrest was made at the
instance of Mayor Bingham and
caused a great sensation.
Hudson Maxim, the inventor, of
Brooklyn, who has but one arm.
plunged into Lake Hopiatcong and
brought two drowning young women
ashore.
Sixteen more survivors of the Col
umbia-San Pedro collision landed at
Shelter Cove in a boat Ninety-seven
persons were still unaccounted for.
Miss Florence Gray, 30 years old,
shot and killed her sweetheart, Frank
Brown, in her house at Michigan City,
Ind. The shooting was the result of
a jealous quarrel.
About 400 miners were killed by an
explosion in a Japanese colliery.
Fire in Victoria, B. C., destroyed
five blocks and many detached bidd
ings, involving a loss of a quarter of a
million dollars.
The musicians' union of Columbus,
O., has petitioned Secretary Taft to
stop free band concerts at the federal
barracks, the. argument being that
the concerts compete with resorts
where union bands are employed
Several scores of persons' were
drowned when the steamer Columbia
sank in Shelter Cove off the California
coast, after colliding with the steam
schooner San. Pedro. The victims
came from many states of the unis*.
THE CORN IS CATCHING UP.
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CZAR’S TROOPS IN MUTINY
SEMINOV8KY REGIMENT BREAKS
UP REVIEW OF ARMY.
Demands Retirement of Gen. Reiman
Who Helped Min In Moscow
Butchery.
St. Petersburg. — The Seminov
sky regiment mutinied on Wednes
day while Emperor Nicholas was
reviewing the troops at Krasnoye
Selo. The soldiers broke up the or
der of parade, refusing to take part in
the maneuvers.
The men demanded the retirement
from their command of Gen. Reiman,
who, with Gen. Min, whom Reiman
succeeded as commander of the regi
ment when Min was assassinated at
Peterhof in August of last year, ruth
lessly put down the Moscow uprising
in December, 1905. The regiment was
immediately dismissed from parade
and its barracks searched. Much
illegal literature was found, and four
soldiers of the regiment were palced
under arrest.
The authorities are trying to keep
the matter secret because of the dis
satisfaction that exists in the com
panies of the Preobrajensky regiment
quartered here.
Wednesday was the first time that
Gen. Reiman had assumed command
of his regiment since his return from
Alexandria, where he fled after Gen
Min was assassinated. Although he
was appointed commander shortly
after Min was killed, he did not as
sume command, but served with the
emperor’s personal bodyguard until
the animosity aroused among his
subordinates had cooled. The Sem
inovsky regiment, after the trouble
in Moscow, voted to wipe out their
disgrace in the blood of Generals Min
and Reiman, who, they declared,
forced them to fire upon and murder
their fellow citizens.
HELD IN SLAVERY 22 MONTHS.
Italians Tell Story of Peonage on a
Mississippi Plantation.
St. Louis.—The story told by Avan
za Amedea and Guiborzi Olindo, Ital
ians, who said they had been held in
slavery for 22 months on a Mississippi
plantation and had just escaped,
caused United States District Attor
ney Blodgett Wednesday to institute
an investigation into the alleged peon
age.
According to the story told by the
Italians through an interpreter, there
is a peonage colony of 12 Italian fam
ilies, consisting of 50 persons, on a
cotton plantation at Robinsonville,
Miss. They declared armed guards
prevented any communication with
persons outside the plantation. Those
who attempted to escape were fired
upon.
Sibley Law Is Upheld.
Omaha, Neb.—Judge W. H. Munger,
in the federal court Friday handed
down a decision holding that the
Sibley law, passed by the last leg
islature, providing for a reduction of
25 per cent, in express rate3, is consti
tutional and denying the application
of the express companies for a tem
porary injunction restraining the Ne
braska railway commission from en
forcing the law.
Vessel for Missouri Tars.
Washington.—The converted yacht
Huntress, with a displacement of 82
tons, has been assigned to the use ol
the Missouri naval militia. She is no*
being repaired.
Russian Regiment Mutinies.
St. Petersburg. — While Emperor
Nicholas was reviewing the troops' en
camped at Krasnoye-Selo on Wednes
day the Semlnovsky regiment refused
to participate in the maneuvers and
broke up the order of parade. The
men demanded the retirement from
their command of Gen. Reiman, who,
with Gen Min, whom Reiman suc
ceeded as commander of the regi
ment when Min wa3 assassinated at
Peterhof in August of last year, ruth
lessly put down the Moscow uprising
in December, 1905.
Fatal Panic at Lecture.
Litchfield, 111.—Twenty-five hundred
people were thrown into a fatal panic
at the Lltchfield-Hillsboro Chautauqua
grounds when a furious electrical
storm occurred. Mrs. William Risk, of
Hillsboro, was killed by lightning and
seven were seriously hurt
attacks the Harvester Trust
Topeka, Kan. —Attorney General
Jackson Tuesday filed criminal pro
ceedings against the International
Harvester company, alleging eight dis
tinct violations of the anti-trust law.
QUIET IN RANGE COUNTRY.
Gov. Johnson of Minnesota Talks of
Strike Situation.
St. Paul, Minn. — Gov. Johnson
returned Friday from the iron range
country and Duluth where he went
to look into the strike situation.
When asked what he thought of the
affair he said:
“Everything is quiet up there and
so far as I could learn there is no
immediate prospect that the state will
have to interfere to keep things quiet.
I went up there at the request of
Sheriff Bates. I talked with all par
ties concerned and found them dis
posed to remain orderly. The men
were sober and while they paraded
the streets in the towns I visited
they dispersed when the parade was
finished and that was all there was
to it. When asked why they paraded
they answered that there was nothing
else to do.
“I did not see any necessity of
state interference and hope there will
not be any. What the future may
bring forth I am unable to predict.
Asked if he thought the strike
would last long Gov. Johnson said:
“I am not able to say as I am not
informed. I believe that if the vdock
strike is settled and the men begin
to work so that the mines can be
opened and shipments of ore begin,
that the mines will be opened. Some
of the men will return to work and
that will bring matters to a focus.
What the outcome will be I cannot
say.”
MIRACLES AT KANKAKEE.
Several Persons Announce Themselves'
Healed at St. Anne’s Shrine.
Kankakee, 111.—Thousands of per
sons attending the ninth day session
of the novena of the shrine of St. Anne
Friday saw several persons arise in
St. Joseph’s church and announce that
they had been healed of infirmities.
Miss Maty Pierce, 18 years old, of
Delphi, Ind., said that she had been
afflicted with paralysis for four years,
during which time she had been un
able to walk. She left the church
without support. Miss Daisy Lamond,
of Kankakee, almost blind for 32
years, said she was able to read with
out glasses at the close of the nine
days of prayer.
George Neary, of Lost Nation, la.,
and Michael McCormick, of Kinsman,
111., both said they had been eripples
from childhood. They walked from
the church and said it was the first
time they had walked since infancy.
Soaks Head in Oil and Fires It.
Little Rock, Ark.—Angered be
cause her husband refused to praise
her for saving money on purchases for
their store and'for recent heavy sales,
Mrs. Anna Lowe Thursday poured a
gallon of coal oil on her head, told her
little daughter to "watch and see the
show,” and then set fire to the oil.
Mrs. Lowe’s body was burned to a
crisp in sight of her daughter and* rel
atives who were attracted by the
child’s screams. Lowe is a laborer
and his wife conducted a store while
he was at work.
Famous French Convent Closed.
Paris. — The celebrated convent
at Oiseaux, where so many young
women of the aristocracy of France
and other countries have been edu
cated, has been closed under the
law forbidding the continuation of in
stitutions of secular instruction. The
sisters protested against the closing
of the convent, but they finally left,
followed by their pupils.
Wisconsin Educator Killed.
Oshkosh, Wis.—President Richard
H. Halsey, of the Oshkosh Normal
school, was accidentally ehot and
killed at Geogebic Lake, Wis. Mr.
Halsey became president of the Osh
kosh Normal school in 1899.
Tornado at Urbana, O.
Urbana, O.—A tornado swept this
city early Friday, destroying the plant
of the United States Paper & Box com
pany. The loss is estimated at $50,
000. Fortunately the men were off
duty at the time.
Explosion in a Kentucky Factory.
New Haven, Ky.—The explosion of
a boiler in the plant of the New Haven
Tile company Thursday afternoon
wrecked the building and killed Well
ington Brown (colored). Victor Bowl
ing, one of the proprietors, was badly
hurt.
Illinois Man Gets a Place.
Washington.—Henry A. Hutchings,
of Illinois, was appointed Thursday a
special agent of the Indian bureau to
aid In the suppression of the liquor
traffic among the Indians.
BLAMES THE TURKS
ARMENIAN PRIEST GIVES NEW
TWIST TO BLACKMAIL PLOT.
TO DISCREDIT PATRIOTS
Shows New York District Attorney
Anonymous Letter in Which
Hie Own Life Is
Threatened.
'* New York. — Rev. Levont Mar
togesslan, once treasurer of the
Hunchaktst, the Armenian society,
which outsiders say has fallen from
its high estate of patriotism to the
practice of blackmail, gave Friday a
new twist to the district attorney’s
investigation of the organization.
The priest had been subpoenaed to
tell what he knew. This was to the
effect that the present agitation, os
tensibly directed by reputable Armeni
ans against a band of assassins, was
in fact inspired by the Turkish gov
ernment whose hired spies systemat
ically sought to discredit the patriotic
Armenians in this country. The pas
tor of the Armenian Apostolic church
had, he admitted, formerly been a
member and the treasurer of the
Hunchakist, but some time ago with
drew. He knew nothing of the mur
der of the rug merchant, Tavshanjian, |
who had refused to pay $10,000 for his
life, and if extortion had been prac
ticed he knew nothing of it. On the
contrary, he told the district attorney
that he, himself, was the object of per
secution on the part of the Turkish
government. Pressed to throw, if pos
sible, light upon the workings of the
conspirators, the priest replied:
“You are a rich and powerful na
tion, and you can find out more than
I can.”
The priest brought with him a let
ter, not signed, in which a threat to
take his life was made. He turned it
over to the district attorney.
After leaving Mr. Smyth’s office Fa
ther Martogessian said:
“I am entirely innocent of these in
sinuations which have been cast
against me. All my troubles have
been brought on by Turkish spies.
There are 50 of them in this city and
they are constantly hounding me.
“I never demanded money from any
body and have never gone to any
wealthy Armenian for any.
"The Turkish government is be
hind it all,” he added. “I am in dan
ger of my own life. I have been
threatened many times and I intend
to go to Police Commissioner Bing
ham and ask him for a permit to
carry a revolver.”
JEWISH WOMEN IN RIOTS.
Attack Kosher Butcher Shops in the
Philadelphia Ghetto.
Philadelphia. — The Jewish quar
ter in the southern section of the
city was the scene of many disturb
ances and incipient riots Thursday,
following the efforts of Yiddish women
to boycott kosher butchers who have
increased the price of meats.
All through the ghetto there were
fierce outbreaks in which persons who
attempted to patronize the stores were
roughly handled. In several instances
the stores were sacked and the meat
destroyed. The women gathered in
front of the stores and seized every
person who entered.
As a result of the outbreaks 28 men
and women were either sent to prison
or held in bail to answer charges of
assault and inciting to riot, and as
many more were locked up for hear
ings on minor charges.
NEW YORK POLICE HELPLESS.
Assaults on Women and Children
Continue in Gotham.
New York.—To the series of unpun
ished crimes against young girls which
daily of late have exasperated the po
lice and put parents in the outlying
districts in an ugly mood, were added
Friday the cases of Virginia Barish,
17 years old, and Annie Falkoweko, a
tot of five years.
So notorious have become the cases
of assault, amounting in two recent
cases to murder, that Police Commis
sioner Bingham has been driven to
explain that his army of policemen is
insufficient to cope with this particu
lar species of degeneracy.
Mrs. Hazen S. Pingree Dies.
Detroit, Mich. — Mrs. Hazen S.
Pingree, widow of one of Michi
gan’s most celebrated governors, died
Sunday night at her residence here,
aged 67 years. She is survived by a
son, Hazen S. Pingree, Jr., and a
daughter, Mrs. Sherman L. Depew.
Scaffold Falls; Two Killed.
Conneaut, O.—Two men were killed
and five others seriously injured by
the falling of a scaffolding at the Pitts
burg and Conneaut dock Wednesday.
The dead are A. Matson and B. Quick,
of Cleveland.
Authors Will Raise Poultry.
Albany, N. Y.—Gertrude F. Ather
ton, Katherine Glover and Poultney
Bigelow, well-known authors, are di
rectors in the Malden Poultry farm,
of Malden, which filed articles of in
corporation Friday.
Deere Made £anal Commissioner.
Springfield, 111.—Gov. Deneen Fri
day appointed Charles H. Deere, of
Moline, a member of the commission
of the Illinois anil Michigan canal to
succeed William It. Newton, of York
ville.
Deaths from Heat in New York.
New York.—Half a dozen deaths, in
cluding two suicides, Thursday were
attributed to the heat E. S. Simon, a
wealthy manufacturer who shot him
self, left notes in which he declared
the heat was driving him insane.
Sick Man Commits 6uicide.
St Louis.—Despondent because he
was hopelesstfly-afflicted vith locomo
tor ataxia, Henry C. Jones, of Nash
ville, Tenn., formerly auditor of the
Nashville, Chattanooga 4k St Louis
railroed, committed suicide.
FUEL FAMIBE HOT LIKELY
VAST AREAS OF COAL LAND ARE
OPENED UP OR AVAILABLE.
Acting Secretary of Interior Woodruff
Calls Attention of Geological
Survey.
Washington. — There 14 absolute
ly no necessity and little danger of
a coal famine in the west and
northwest. So declares Acting Secre
tary Woodruff of the interior depart
ment in a statement issued Friday
concerning the coal area as devel
oped by the geological survey. He
says:
“Not including great areas of lig
nite, which will be mined only after
the more valuable coal deposits are
exhausted, the geological survey has
determined that there are townships
in the states and territories west of
South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas,
aggregating in all over 60,000,000
acres of land, each township of which
contains, under its entire surface or
part of it, workable deposits of
coal. This work has been taken
up with the utmost vigor during the
present year and townships contain
ing more than 28,000,000 acres in
which workable coal exists have been
examined and classified.
“When one remembers that these
classified areas are most conveniently
situated with reference to transporta
tion and settled districts and that
every acre of them is subject to pur
chase from the government under the
coal land laws, and has been for sev
eral months; also that the Northern
Pacific Railroad company alone is
reputed to have in its own possession
land containing over $300,000,000
worth of coal, and also that many
hundred thousand acres of coal land
scattered throughout the entire re
gion containing coal have already
passed into private holding and in
many instances contain large mining
plants, it is easy to see that if there
is to be a coal famine next winter,
such a famine will result only from
failure to mine the coal which is
easily accessible, either by grant to
railroads, purchase in the past by in
dividuals and companies, or entry at
the present time under the laws.
“The geological survey has 16 par
ties of trained experts advantageously
scattered over the entire region con
taining coal. These mining engineers
are daily adding to the areas classi
fied and opened to entry. It is be
lieved that by November 1 all land
in the public land states known to
contain workable deposits of coal will
be classified and subject to entry-”
Mr. Woodruff expresses the hope
that the next congress may enact a
leasing law which will permit com
panies to acquire control of more than
the 640 acres now allowed to be pur
chased.
Of the coal land still held by the
government over 25,000,000 acres is
held at the minimum prices of ten
dollars and $20 per acre, over 220,000
at $50 and over 30,000 at $75. This Is
in accordance with the classification
made by the survey.
GUARD GRAVES OF ANCESTORS.
Three Indian Sisters Arm to Protect
Old Huron Cemetery.
Kansas City, Mo.—Helena, Ida
and Lida Conley, sisters, and Wy
andotte Indians, began an armed
guard Thursday over the graves of
their ancestors in Huron cemetery in
Kansas City, Kan., and threaten to
shoot the first person who may at
tempt to remove the bodies.
Congress authorized the sale of the
cemetery, set aside for many years as
a tribal burying ground, and a division
of the money among the remaining
members of the Wyandotte tribe, first
removing the bodies. The Conley girls
say they won’t permit the graves to
be touched and they began the erec
tion of a shanty on the outskirts of the
cemetery. Miss Helena Conley, who
was superintending the building, said:
"From this time on one of the three
Conley sisters will be here in the day
time. At night all three of us shall
sleep here and guard.
“In this cemetery are buried one
hundred of our ancestors. The blood
of the ancient royalty of France flows
in my veins. My grandfather owned
the whole state of Ohio. Why should
we not be proud of our ancestors and
protect their graves? We shall do it,
and woe be to the man that first at
tempts to steal a body.”
American Flag Ordered Down.
Ottawa, Ont.—There were one or
two American flags put here at the
city hall with the union jack and other
decorations in connection with a car
nival. A committee of citizens has
ordered the stars and stripes removed.
The reception oommittee thought It
best to do this rather than have any
trouble over the matter.
Supposed Murderer Caught.
Lebanon, Pa.—A man giving the
name of Joe Blotwicky, but who, it is
believed, is Michael Hydrick, who is
wanted in Bellaire, O., for murder,
was arrested here Wednesday.
Will of Phineas M. Spencer.
Cleveland, O.—The will of Phineas
M. Spencer, a widely known banker
of this city who died Tuesday, wa3
probated Thursday, disposing of an
estate of nearly a million dcllars.
Among the bequests are $22,009 to
Mary Costello, fcis housekeeper; to
another member of his household staff,
$10,000; to Mr». James Wood, of Buf
falo, N'. Y„ $10,000, and to Mrs. Harry
Wood, of the same city, $10,000; to
Miss Allie Camp, of Cleveland, $4,000,
and to Miss Frances, stenographer in
Mr. Spencer’s bank, $2,000.
Navy Chaplain to Be Tried.
Washington.—Chaplain Harry W.
Jones, of the battleship Minnesota,
is to be tried by court-martial on
charges of scandalous conduct to the
destruction of good morals and false
hood, preferred by the acting secre
tary of the navy. Under the charge of
scandalous conduct there are 17 speci
fications consisting mainly in allega
tions of the utterance of worthless
checks. Under the falsehood charge
it is alleged that Jones misrepresented
the .facts regarding''a note which had
been given by him.