Nebraska Newspapers

    Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXVI
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , MAY 20, 1909
NUMBER 2S
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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.
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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.
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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.