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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , MAY 20, 1909 NUMBER 2S T Foreign. Most of the villages in the vicinity of Marash have been destroyed by the fanatical Mohammedan’s, and tl*e scat tered populations are flocking in Marash. I'p to the present time 14.000 people have come in and must be fed by the relief committee. A brief dispatch received at the state department from the American legation at Tangier repeats a telegram from the consular agent at Megador, Morocco, who says that the rumored capture of American travelers near Agadir is untrue. The French steamer Admiral Harne lin. arriving at Victoria from Havre via the Orient, brought news of a severe earthquake in Formosa, caus ing large loss of life. Many villages collapsed in the northern part of For-1 mosa. and reports were coming in | from resident governors at Taipeh and j Keelung of much loss of life in the various districts. Ten thousand dollars has been raised by the Turkish relief commit tee of which American Consul Gen eral Gabriel B. Ravndal at Beirut, is chairman, for affording assistance to Americans in Turkey. All the governments except Ger many which have been sounded by the United States on the subject have as sented in principle to the wish of China for a conference to consider the question of raising her tariff rates. The parlimentary commission which is taking an inventory of the contents of the imperial palace at Yildiz has learned that Abdul Hamid deposited, during recent months, considerable sums of money in New York banks through a confidential agent. It ap pears that Abdul Hamid has in the neighborhood of $10,000,000 in German banks. oiui.tr lur piunduisuuu ui lut* ur» sultan there has been a general feeling of security in Tarsus. The Roosevelt expedition is still in camp on the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease, at a point near Mackakoe. All the members of the party are well. Fifteen hundred Japanese employed cm the Honolulu sugar plantation went on strike for higher wages, and it is expected that the movement will spread to the other plantations where Japanese are employed. According to a Belgrade telegram Prince Burnheiin Ecidin. son of the for mer sultan of Turkey. Abdul Hamid, intends to organize a rising in Albania. General. The chamber of deputies of the new Turkey voted to send the two Turks to co-operate with an American com mission of inquiry into Adana atroci ties. Senator Bailv in a tierly senate speech declared that the only way to dissolve the steel trust is to imprison its officers. The International Aeroplane club has been organized at Dayton. Ohio, the object being to commemorate the homecoming of the Wright brothers each year. Ex-Gov. Crounse. who died in Oma ha last week after a lingering illness, was horn in Schoharie county. X Y. He served during tne civil war as a captain of light artillery, being se verely wounded in action. Coming to Nebraska in 1804. he served succes sively as a member of the territorial legislature, justice of the supreme court, member of congress, assistant secretary of the treasury under Pres ident Harrison, and governor of the state, being elected in 1S93. He was a republican in politics. Mr. Crounse is survived by four children: Mr3. G. M. Hitchcock, wife of the present con gressman from the Omaha district; Mr. William G. Crounse. associated with Mr. Hitchcock in the publication of the Omaha World-Herald; Mrs. George McIntyre and Miss Marie Crounse. both of Omaha. His burial took place at Ft. Calhoun, beside his wife, who died in 1SS2. The owners of the Canon ranch in Texas have unloaded 16.000 sheep In the I-a Sarge pasture near Raw City. Ex-Governor Crounse of Nebraska died at Omaha after a lingering ill ness. uieiiop \ :ia! its rv. viaiiuway ui me Methodist Episcopal church died at Jackson. Miss., of pneumonia. At a meeting of the Yale chapter of phi Beta Kappa at New Haven Robert A. Taft, son of President Taft, was elected president. Diplomatic relations between the governments of Colombia and Vene zuela have been resumed after a break of several years. A big postal strike is <m in Paris. Speaker Cannon says it will take 100 degree temperature to get action in the senate on the tariff bill. President Taft attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary Ixtuise Dalzell, wife of Representative John Dalzell of Pitts burg, Pa., who died in Washington. Paris strikers are under control of the military authorities who are pre pared to mass 50,000 troops in Paris in a day. The erection of a colossal statue representing the American Indian, to be placed in New York harbor op posite the statue of Liberty, was ad vocated by General Leonard Wood and other speakers at a dinner given by Rodman Wanamaker, in honor of Colonel W. F. Cofy (Buffalo Bill.) twenty persons are missing, and all of them are believed to have been drowned when a gasoline launch sank in the middle of the Ohio river near Schoenville. Schuyler Holley T-ogansport, Indiana, set a death trap for chicken thieves and met death from his own device. Dr. Manuel Amador, first president of the republic of Panama, died re cently at the age of 73. Congressman Kinkaid of Nebraska, has received information that the O'Neill postoflBce will be advanced to second-class on the first of July, and that the Morrill office, in Scott's Bluff county, will be advanced to third-class at the same time. A training school for saddlers and battery mechanics in the arnty will be established at Rock Island. 111. About the only hope for changes in the tariff bill is through the president. Brad D. Slaughter, army paymaster, died in Omaha at the age of GO. James K. Hacket. the actor. New York, filed a voluntary ]>etition in bankruptcy, giving his liabilities at $120,137. President Taft has appointed Tho mas J. Akins as postmaster at St. I.ottis, Mo., to succeed Mr. Wyman. Mr. Akins is assistant treasurer of the United States at St. Louis. The electrical show at Omaha was opened by President Taft by wireless message sent to Fort Omaha. Earnest efforts to get clear of the government's dutches for alleged violations of the oleomargarine law are being made by the Cudahy Pack ing company. Washington. Ex-Governor Charles Magoon of Cuba was at the capital to say good bye to Senator Burkett and other friends in congress and left for Xew York, from which port he will sail for Antwerp to travel through Europe for the next few months. Governor Ma goon, on the advice of his physician, will take the waters at Nauheim, and after a course of treatment there will visit Italy and the Vlviera, returning to America late in September. In all probability Postmaster Gen eral Hitchcock will be in attendance at the meeting of postmasters of Ne braska to be held at Lincoln June 8, 9 and in. Persistent hammering on the part of the so-called progressive senators, aided unexpectedly by Senator Root, brought an admission from Senator Aldrich that the schedule relating to windown glass ought to be recon structed. and at the end o. the speech by Senator Burkett the chairman of the finance committee asked that the schedule be passed over for purposes of revision. Manufacturers wiP not be aide to put any fictitious name upon the ar ticle which they manufacture if a bill introduced by Representative Camp bell oi Kansas becomes a law. The measure provides for a fine of $1,000 and an imprisonment penalty for every violation for each case in which a manufacturer places any other but liis own name on an article that he produces. Ow ing to the failure of congress to provide funds for the construction of a gas plant and boiler house at the Fort Meyer aerodome. General James Allen, chief officer of the Signal corps, has been forced to change his plans for the aeronautical trials and tests at Fort Myer this summer. The commissioner of the general land office has issued a proclamation declaring that the Belle Fourche land district, with office at Belle Fourche, S. D.. will be ready for business July 1. This will be of great benefit to farmers under the government project, as there is a great deal of business with the laud office on account of amending entries to comply with farm unit maps, payment of water rights and application for water. Preparations are being made for the guarding of President Taft's summer home at Beverly Cove. Mass., while the president is there this summer. Personal. President Charles W. Eliot of Har vard university: was invested with insignia of the Order of Rising Sun, bestowed upon him by order of the emperor of Japan. Nominations sent to the senate by the president included the names of Oscar S. Straus as ambassador to Turkey and W. \V. Rockhill as am bassador to Russia. Dr. Mdurice L. Egan. American minister to Denmark, will retain his place. A political report of interest to the Third district of Iowa is that A. D. Sumner of Waterloo will be a candi date for member of the house to suc ceed Representative Charles Pickett. At the request of the Atlantic Un ion. Whitelaw Reid, the American am bassador. and Mrs. Reid will soon give at Dorchester house London, a big reception for Australians. The highest hotel in the world is to be built in New York City. It will be thirty-one stories, and cost $2,000,000 Wilbur and Orville Wright. tht< American aeroplanists. have returned from the scenes of their European triumphs. Capt. Hains of New Y'ork, who. killed Wm. E. Annis last August, was found guilty of manslaughter. A guard will be provided for Presi dent Taft at his summer home at Beverly. Mass. The Illinois legislature continues balloting for United States senator without results. The ceremony of girding the sword for the new sultan of Turkey occurred on Sunday at Stamboul. Wu Ting Fang, Chinese minister plenipotentiary to the United States, has accepted the presidency of the Chi nese school of Chicago. One thousand cab drivers of Chicago went on a strike for increased wages. stalest news from the Roosevelt party reports them as all well. TIE SENATE ACTIVE SESSIONS HENCEFORTH WILL BE GIN EARLIER. MORE RAPID WORK IN VIEW ■‘Insurgents” Said to Be Causing De lay, They Giving More Trouble than the Democrats. Washington. — Beginning Monday the daily sittings of the senate will commence at 10 o'clock in the morn ing The hour has been advanced in the hope of expediting linal action on the tariff bill by more rapidly dispos ing of the long speeches as well as of the detailed discussion of the various disputed schedules. The considera tion of the measure has ^developed greater opposition on the part of a dozen or so of republican senators than was expected, and the support ers of the bill feel that every possible effort must be made to exhaust their criticism and bring the bill to a vote. So far, however, they have received no encouragement from the “insur gents,” and the republican leaders are quite in the dark as to when the end may be reached. Indeed, they are lincrng less difficulty on that point in dealing with the independent republi cans and the opinion is freely ex pressed that but for this antagonism a day might soon be set which would decide the fate of the measure. The discussion this week will deal with the various paragraphs which have been passed over, but there will be a few speeches on the general tariff question, including one by Sen ator Depew, which probably will be delivered Monday. Senator Clay has prepared and will deliver, probably on Tuesday, an elaborate speech criticis ing the sugar schedule and undertak ing to show that it is in the interest of the sugar combination. The razor schedule will receive first attention Monday and Senator Simmons will conntinue his efforts to have the rate lowered. Senator Bailey will continue to | press his demand for a vote on the income tax as a feature of the tariff bill, but it is an open secret in the senate that be is not now nearly so confident of a successful result of such a vote as he was in the begin ning of the agitation. Indeed, he has confided to some of his friends his conviction that some of the advocates of ynch e tax have I'ecn "picked off" by the enemy. The general opinion among the supporters of the income tax policy is that the cause in the senate has been materially weakened by the decision of the president not to press for the tax. At any event, it is not probable that a vote on the question will be reached this week. In the house, an attempt will be made to pass the Philippine tariff bill on Monday and the Porto Rico bill on Thursday. The latter measure will be reported Monday. Bpth bills will arouse discussion, but it is not be lieved there will be any stubborn op position to either, and the committee having them in charge are confident of disposing of each after a day of de bate. THOMAS A. CREIGH IS DEAD. Pneumonia, Due to Exposure at G. A. R. Meeting at York. Omaha.—Thomas A. Creigh, past commander of the G. A. R. Nebraska, died at his home, 112 North Thirty second avenue, at 7:45 Sunday morn ing after an illness of but five days of pneumonia. Mr. Creigh was taken ill with a cold while attending the de partment encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at York, Neb., Wednesday of last week. All of the surviving past department commanders of Nebraska now in the state will be present at the funeral Tuesday, having so signified their in tention by wire. Grant post No. 110 will have imme diate charge of the services, of which post Mr. Creigh was former comman der and one of its most active and be loved members. The Women’s Relief corps and Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic will participate in the services, as will also representatives of the Masonic fraternity. BRITAIN CATTLE SHORTAGE. Charge That United States Exporters Are Holding Back Stock. Liverpool.—Owing to the shortage of American and Canadian cattle land ed at Birkenhead ahd allegations that the United States was withholding supplies with a view to raising prices, the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce is urging the Board of Agriculture to remove immediately the embargo on live cattle from the Argentine Repub lic. Prominent Surgeon Dead. New York.—Dr. Gerardus H. Wyn koop, an eminent New York surgeon and one of the first physicians in America to perform the operation for the removal of the veriform appendix, died Sunday, aged C5 years. FOLKS URGES LOCAL CONTROL. New Yorker Holds This to Be Most Effective in White Planue. Washington.—The National Associa tion for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis brought its meeting to a close Saturday. Hofner Folks of New York in a paper said that the most effective work to control tuberculosis Is to follow the example cf the na tional association in forming local or ganizations or committees to take the responsibility of securing county and municipal control of the disease. HOUSECLEANING. HITS AMERICAN BEEF TRUST ENGLISH REPORT POINTS OUT DANGER OF MONOPOLY. Armours, Swifts. Morris’ and Ham mond Companies Are Named— Testimony Is Doubted. London. — The departmental com mittee appointed in July of 1908 to inquire into the alleged combinations in the meat trade in the United King-' dom devotes, a large portion of its re port to the American beef trust and its representatives in London. Tbe committee concludes that while a combination exists to a certain ex tent between four companies in the United States, engaged in the United Kingdom, it is not at present suffi ciently powerful seriously to endanger the beef trade as a whole. But should these firms, as stems possible, acquire considerable interest in the Argentine situation with regard to the meat sup ply of the United Kingdom might be come serious. "With such command,” the report says, “of practically the whole im ported live eattie and chilled and irozen beef trade, the firms composing such combination might be able to de termine beef prices at Smithfield mar ket itself and largely affect prices throughout the country.” According to the report, the repre sentatives of the American companies in London all told the committee that they knew nothing of the conditions prevalent in the United States and. commenting on these statements, the committee says: "The committed reluctantly is com pelled to express grave doubt as to the reality of this uniform ignorance, and its assumption naturally has tended to throw doubt upon the other statements made by the representatives of these firms. It is almost incredible that Ar mour & Co., Swift & Co.„ Morris & Co., and the Hammond Beef Company, the last-named representing the National Packing Company, should be in com bination in the United States and in competition in the United Kingdom." The committee failed to find evi dence of any deliberate action on the part of the Americans with the object of destroying inconvenient rivals, and it does not think that they have yet attempted to capture or control the whole beef trade in this country, as alleged. At the same time it is satis fied that the firms mentioned consult together with regard to prices and the amount of the supplies to be put on the market, and they fix the prices at which chilled beef shall be sold in the provinces, and furthermore, that pro vincial salesmen are practically bound to sell at the price daily dictated by the Americans. TAFT REBUKES GOVERNOR. Stubbs of Kansas Feels Presidential Wrath—Man He Had Appointed Will Not Get Job. Washington.—President Taft ad ministered a severe rebuke to Gov. Stubbs of Kansas and at the same time served warning to politicians that he did not purpose to be used to promote the causes of contending po litical factions. The president it the same time an nounced the withdrawal of the ap pointment of Robert Stone of Topeka to be assistant attorney in the de partment of justice. Stubbs is making a hot fight for the senate against Senator’Curtis. When Stubbs got back to Kansas he an nounced that the president had ap pointed Stone as a personal favor to him and that Senator Curtis. Mr. An thony and other members of the Kan sas delegation did not cut much figure at Washington. Police Silence Emma Goldman. New Haven, Conn.—Emma Gold man, who was to have delivered a lec ture here, was prevented from carry ing out her purpose by the police. Ac companied by Dr. Reitman, she was admitted to the hall where the meet ing was to have been held, but the po lice allowed no one else to enter. Make War on Cigarettes. Madison. Wis.—The senior class of the University of Wisconsin has de cided that hereafter freshmen shall 4>.ot smoke cigarettes. BLOODHOUNDS ON TRAIL. Charles Caldwell in Jail Following His Attentions to Elizabeth town (Ind.) Girl. Columbus, Ind.—Charles W. Cald well, a lawyer who sought to oust Philander C. Knox, secretary of state, from President Taft’s cabinet, is in custody here awaiting investigation of a serious charge. Caldwell was found in his office, after bloodhounds and armed men had sought him at Elizabethtown. Caldwell is married, and he is accused by A. M. Remy of Elizabethtown of making secret visits to his 16-year-old daughter, Belah Remy. He pleaded not guilty to both charges and his bond was fixed at ! $300. He was unable to give bond and i was taken back to jail. The Remy girl was closely ques I tioned by Sheriff Cox and others. She admitted being in love with Caldwell i and told a straight story of Caldwell’s j attentions. She said he sent her clandestine notes and gifts and had ; visited her since last March. She was firm in her denial, however, of any ] wrongdoing and said that he was just so good to her she could not help lov ing him. She showed a diamond ring, several pieces of jewelry, books. | music and other gifts made to her by Caldwell. HAIR “RAT” SAVES TWO. Mother and Baby Escape Death in Auto Accident When Padding Acts as Buffer. Jackson. Mich.—A large “rat." in her j hair saved the life of Mrs. Richard i Frost, in an automobile accident | Thursday, her physicians say. Mrs. Frost and her baby were both thrown from the machine when it collided with a telepnone pole and Mrs. Frost struck on her head with such force that hair pins were driven into her scalp. At the hospital the surgeons who attended her said the "rat" saved her head being crushed. The baby was injured about the head, and it is feared both mother and child were also in I ternally injured. Richard Frost, the husband and fa ther, was driving the automobile when ; the accident happened. LEAVES PRISON AT 71. James Saunders Pardoned by Iowa Governor Set Free—Has Saved $1,800 Pension Money. Fort Madison, la.—James R. Saun 1 ders, alias William B. Glyndon, was re I leased from the penitentiary by par | don of the governor Thursday, after serving 31 years for the alleged mur der of a 14-year-old girl in Grundy county. Saunders served a longer term than any other man ever sent to the prison and is now hale and hearty at 71 years. He was a sharp-shooter in an Ohio regiment in the civil war and was granted a soldier's pension since his incarceration, during which time he saved $1,S00. He came of a prominent eastern Ohio family and has all these years hidden his family name. Long Race with Death. New York. — Racing with death, which the physicians have as sured him is inevitable. Alexis Lau dent is attempting, with a broken back, to make the trip from Birming ham, Ala., to Moscow. Russia. His parents reside in Russia, and it is due to an overweening desire to see them that he has undertaken the remarkable journey. Laudent was injured in an accident in an Alabama mine several weeks ago. He will rest in a Jersey City hospital there and will then sail for home. Musicians Elect Officers. Minneapolis, Minn.—The American Federation of Musicians held its an nual election of officers Friday and de tided to hold its next annual conven tion at Cincinnati. Joseph N. Web ber of Cincinnati is president. Baker Thrown in Dough. New York.—Max Allieim. a baker of east New York, who did not clase his bakery when the bakers recently went out on strike, was dragged fram his ' b>' strike sympathizers ahd thrown I into a vat of tlough. FIVE DIE; 55 HURT IN STORMS TORNADOES HIT KANSAS, MIS SOURI AND OKLAHOMA. Complete Reports May Increase Num ber of Dead—Train Plunges Into River. Kansas City, Mo. — A series of i tornadoes in Kansas. Missouri and Oklahoma Friday evening killed at least five, injured 55, devastated one itown, wrecked a train and did great damage to property. Twenty-five were injured by a storm that swept over Mount Washington and Fairmount Park, suburbs of Kan sas City. At least two of these are thought to be fatally injured and others seriously. The town of Hollis, Kan., near Con cordia. was swept away. Here three were killed and ten seriously injured. The dead are Fred Jeardoe, John Cyre-and George Eckert. The Eckstrom family, consisting of five persons, is mising. Their hotise is laid in ruins and it is thought they are dead. Near Great Bend a tornado killed two and injured 20. All vires are down in that vicinity and it is feared that the death list may be greater. William Ackerly, a Santa Fe en gineer, was killed while working with a bridge gang between Great Bend and Kinsley. Frank Nicholson, a con ductor, was also killed. The tornado wrecked the work train of which Ack erly was engineer and blew it into a ditch. The storm spread over a wide area, however, laid waste many farm houses and injured many whose names could not he obtained. On account of a great portion of the damage done on farms its full extent could not be learned. Many conflicting reports have been received. One had teu killed. At Hoisington, Kan., a tornado in jured and greatly damaged farm prop erty. jt was not so severe, however, as that passing over other portions of the state. Wabash passenger train No. 9 ran through a bridge that had been weak ened by a Hood into Bull creek, near Randolph. The engine, baggage and mail cars fell into the water. A tele phone message from Randolph said several trainmen were missing but that no bodies had been found. TWENTY BLOWN TO ATOMS Half Ton of Dynamite Explodes in New York State with Fatal Results. Albany, X. Y.—The explosion of half a ton of dynamite in the stone quarry of the Oallanan Road Improve ment Company at South Bethlehem, near Albany, Wednesday, blew to atoms the bodies of 20 workmen. One thousand pounds of dynamite exploded, and the bodies of the vic tims were hurled hundreds of feet by the concussion and so badly mutilated as to be almost beyond recognition. As darkness was falling a wagon drew up to the engine house loaded with bodies that had been picked up back on the quarry hill. A crowd of grief-stricken relatives gathered around eager to identify the dead, only to turn away at the sickening sight. Italians with shovels found here and there portions, of bodies and brought their gruesome loads in boxes to the engine house which served as a temporary morgue. JURY FINDS HA!NS~GU!LTY. Army Officer Convicted of Slaying An nis—Verdict Is for First Degree Manslaughter. Flushing. L. I.—CapL Peter C. Hains, 17. S. A., charged with the murder of William E. Annis at the Bavside Yacht club on the afternoon of August 13. was found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree by the jury in the case Tuesday. The jury had been out two hours and 45 minutes, when the members filed back into the courtroom, crowd.-U with spectators.and rendered the ver dict, which was received by some in the nature of a surprise. Immediately after the jury ren dered Us findings the captain was le manded to the custody of the sheriff until Monday, when he is to be sen tenced by the court. ARREST IOW/TtEACH ERS. Des Moines School Ma’ams Held to Answer Charge of Cruelty to a Boy. Des Moines, la.—Miss Maud Ewing and Miss Ida May Tilden, teachers n the Longfellow school here, were ar rested Thursday, charged with having beaten nine-year-old David Kaplain until he was black and blue. At a trial before Police Judge Stew art behind closed doors the teachers pleaded not guilty. The teachers accused the little boy of stealing a five-dollar bill from Miss Tilden. When he denied the charge, he says they laid him over a chair anti beat him with switches and pinched his cheeks and body. Sergeant Given Medal. Dunkirk, Ind.—The war department at Washington ha3 awarded to Ames Weaver of this city a medal for con spicuous bravery in the Philippine =. Weaver on November 5, 1S99, alone routed a band of 15 insurgents, killing four and wounding several others. Postmaster’s Sen Drown*. Lacon, 111.—George Sherbu.rn. the nine-year-old son of Assistant Post master Marion Sherburn. was drowned by falling off the pontcon bridge Thursday. BURES TURKS' PLOT AMERICAN MISSIONARY SAYS AB DUL’S GOVERNMENT PLANNED THE ADANA MASSACRE. RAPS AMERICAN TARDINESS Declares United States Subjects Had to Depend on British Consul for Aid—Forty-five Mutiny Leaders Ar rested at Salonika. Boston.—That the recent massacre at Adana. Asiatic Turkey, was delib erately planned by the Turkish gov ernment under Abdul Hamid, is the belief expressed in a letter to the American Board of Foreign Missions, from Rev. Stephen Van R. Trowbridge, one of the missionaries in the district where many were killed. The letter from Trowbridge, dated April 23 and sent by way of Constan tinople, has just reached thp American board, and it gives some particulars of the recent massacres not hitherto made known in this country. Briefly describing the funeral of American Missionaries Maurer and Rogers, who were killed during the disorders, Mr. Trowbridge writes: "The burial took place on Friday evening, the 16th of April. With the city in terrible disorder and scores of conflagrations raging, it was im possible to take the bodies out to the cemetery. The graves were dug side by side at the edge of the girl's school yard and services were con ducted by Mr. Macallum and Mr. Trow bridge. Mr. i rowbndge criticises the Ameri can government in the following para graph of his letter: “All regret the tardiness of the American government in meeting the crisis. A week and three days have passed and vet not a word from the embassy. Were it not for the untiring efforts of the 4litish consul. Maj. Doughty-Wylie, whose right arm is broken from a bullet, we could neither send letters nor telegrams.” Erzeroum. Asiatic Turkey.—Forty five leaders of the mutiny here have been arrested on orders issued by Field Marshal Ibraham Pasha, com mander of the Fourth army corps. There is great uneasiness among the population of this city on account of the threatening attitude of the gar rison. which has refused to accept 52 officers belonging to the Young Turk party. Djelal Pasha has gone to Con stantinople to report on the situation. Alexandretta. Asiatic Turkey.—The United States revenue cutter Tahoroa arrived at this port Thursday for the protection of American interests. The Tahoma is the first American ship to appear in Turkish waters since the beginning of the massacres and dis orders in Asiatic Turkey. Cologne.—The Koelnische Zeitung published a dispatch from Saloniki saving that the Young Turk officers at Erzeroun, Asiatic Turkey, have sent a telegram to the local officers of the committee of union and progress de claring that their soldiers are refusing obedience and demanding the restora tion of the Sheriat. and at the same time threatening a general massacre. The message begs Schefket Pasha to send representatives to quiet the troops and the people, and concludes with the statement that the Young Turk officers do not dare to show themselves abroad. Marash, Asiatic Turkey.—Distress ing accounts continue to be received here from the country side of Ar menian villages assailed by bands of Mohammedans, who, acting on the supposition that the Armenians wer2 rising against the government. w?ere quick to strike the first blow. The men w-ere killed whenever found with in reach of knife or bullet. The girls were often maltreated, and some of them were carried oft to become the wives or slaves of rich men. Houses were sacked and then burned, farm animals were driven ofT. and small parties of horsemen rode through the country ‘“cleaning up the Armenians.” The entire population of Bechkeny, 2,000 souls, moved to the Zeitoon region for safety. Children See Three Drown. Pittsburg, Pa.—To save five cents bridge toll, five foreigners, who bad been out of work for many months attempted to cross the Monongahela river at McKeesport, a suburb, in a small boat, which sank as they got into midstream, drowning three of men. Five hundred school-children enjoying their first day’s diversion in a new playground, saw them drown. Ten bodies had been recovered when the search was abandoned at dark Wednesday night for the victims of Tuesday night's ferryboat accident New Minister from Spain. Madrid. — It is announced that Marquis do VilSalobar. first secre tary of the Spanish embassy at Lon don. will succeed Don Ramon Pina, the Spanish minister at Washington. Senor Pina goes to the foreign office as under secretary of state in place of the Marquis de Herrera, who has been appointed ambassador at Vienna. Regains Riches; Pays Old Debt. Sterling, III.—Fifty-five years age H. J. Cobey borrowed money of the county. Later he became bankrupt and the debt was canceled. He became wealthy again, and now has paid the debt with 55 years’ interest. Cowboy’s Injury Is Fatal. New' York.—Harry Beedc, a Wyom ing cowboy with Buffalo Bill’s show, died from injuries sustained during the performance of last Monday night. Beede’s great tee was severely bruised by being stepped on by a horse.