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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1909)
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT VALENTINE , NEB. M. RICE. - - - - Publisher. 'A SCENE OF HOEEOB NOT UESS THAN 3,000 PERSONS SAID TO BE IIO3IELESS. Sweeping Down in Large Numbers and Christians and For eigners Take Refuge in Consulates- Killing of Americans Confirmed. A dispatch from Beirut , Syria , says : 'A terrible uprising has occurred in Adana , Asiatic Turkey. Street fight ing has been going on for three days and at least 1,000 people have been killed. The city has been practically destroyed by fire. American mission aries named Rogers and Maurer , the latter from Hadjin , are dead. All other Americans are safe. The British vice consul , Maj. Daughty-Wylie , is among the wounded. He was she : through the arm. At Tarsus there was less loss of life The Armenian quarter , however , was destroyed. Three thousand refugees are housed in the American mission The need of relief is urgent , for short ly the fugitives will be on the vergt of starvation. Conditions in the vi cinity of Alexandretta are most ser tous. . Confirmation hag been received a- Constantinople of the killing of twi American missionaries at Adana. Tin murdered missionaries were Mr Rogers and Mr. Maurer. The otheri connected with the missions are safe , Including Mr. Christie , who is at Tar sus. Three French warships are hurrying to Mersina , where the situa tion is desperate. Foreigners and Many Christians have taken refuge in the consulates. The local troops and the governor are doing their best to protect the town , but there is great fear that it cannot hold out much longer against the invasion of the Moslems , who are sweeping down in large numbers. The American vice consul at Mersina , John Debbas , has "been unable to proceed to Adana , owing to the interruption of communi cations. A British warship is pro ceeding to Alexandria , which is threatened by the Moslems. Several Armenian families in that neighbor- liood have been destroyed. Alarm is felt at Kharput because of serious de predations by the Kurds in the sur rounding villages , although the town itself has not been the scene of anj particular disorder. The tension in Constantinople ovei the situation is very great , although Sunday afternoon there seemed to be some prospects of a peaceful situation The people of the capital are more concerned with the advance of the Salonica troops than they are with the massacres that are reported from various quarters. The army , which is concentrating al Tchatalje , has promised not to enter Constantinople , but to await there the fulfillments of its demands. IIAINS TRIAL BEGINS MONDAY Defendant AVill Rely on a Perma nent Insanity. Insanity , not of the momentary and vanishing character usually invoked as a defense for emotional crimes , bui permanent and incurable , will be urged , it is stated , as a defense in the case of Capt. Peter C. Hains , jr. . whose trial for the murder of William E. Annis on the float of the BaysSde Yacht club last August began Mon day at Flushing , L. I. AVINEMAKERS DRIVEN OUT. Old Firm in Kansas Ousted by the Prohibition I/aw. The drastic prohibition law passed by the Kansas legislature ha stopped an industry which has been carried on thirty-five years at the little town of Doniphan , Brenner Bros. , have manu factured thousands of barrels of wine and applejack there. Nicholas Bren ner has taken the remainder of his stock to St. Joseph , Mo. , to dispose of it. Ends Life in Two Feet of Water. Levi Crum , 77 years years old , a wealthy Austintown , O. , farmer , com mitted suicide by drowning himself In a pond on his Yarm. The water was tout two feet deep and Crum knealt on his hands and knees in the pond In order to keep his head under water. Mr. Crum had been in poor health. Sioux City Live Stocvk Market. Saturday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow : Top hogs , $7.10. Top beves , for the week $6.20. D. A. R. Convention Opens. The eighteenth continetal congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution convened in Washington , J > . C.r Monday and will be in session throughout the week. Massacre at Astrabad. f Adivces to the Russ at St. Peters burg , from Teheran report a massa cre of 2,000 persons , including women and children , by Turkoman tribesmen At Astrabad. TROOPS AID RIOTERS. Unable to Control Them They Join i Pillage. A massacre of Armenians has take place at Adana , Asiatic Turkey , an according to the latest telegrams froi Mersina is still in progress. Soldier : powerless to control the situation , ar joining in the pillage of the town. Th fatalities are said to be numerous. Th riots began last Wednesday and th town of Adana has been burned an many Christians killed. The Moslem : having practically wrecked the towi are said to have now begun optratior against the Christians in the vilaye The foreign consuls at Mersina hav requested that warships be sent then No definite information is obtainabl as to the number of persons who los their lives , although one report say sixty Armenians were massacred. Two American missionaries are sai to be among the dead , but no name are given and the report as to this 1 unconfirmed , Maj. Daughty-Wylie , i said to have been injured. M It is known that the regular distric meeting of the American missionarie was due to be in session at Adana an that Mr. and Mrs. William Chamber ! the Misses Elizabeth and Mary G Webb , Miss Wallis and Miss Borel missionaries , were to have been there Ambassador Leishman has instructe Vice Debbas , at Mersina , to go imme ditaely to Adana. AUTO CRASHES INTO TREE. One New York Man is Killed and An other Not Expected to Recover. , An automobile ride of four youn men , ofNew _ York city , ended in deat for one of their number and fatal In Jury to another when a touring ca in which they were driving at a ter rific speed crashed into a tree in Cen tral park at dawn Friday. Matthew Camp , and employe/ of the Moon Au tomobile company , who was acting a chauffer , was crushed to death am Joseph Fogarty was thrown on 'hi head on a concrete walk adjoinin , the driveway and suffered a fractur of the skull from which he is not ex pected to recover. Ernest Feyer hai his right leg fractured. Joseph Hoyl the fourth occupant of the car , fell up on the turf , fled to the subway statioi but was arrested. MISTAKEN FOR BURGLAR. Shot by His Young Brother While Try ing to Scare Family. Griffith Hughes , of Emporia , Kan. aged 18 years , died Wednesday as th result of having been shot by hi younger brother , Owen , who mistool him for a burglar. Hearing a nois in the basement , Griffith Hughes jok ingly told the family that there was ; burglar in the cella.r. While they arm 3d themselves preparatory to descend ing to the basement Griffith Hughes thinking to frighten his parents am brother , stole down to the basemen ay way of the outside entrance. Thi younger brother rushed to the cella : ind , hearing a sound in the darkness ired and fatally wounded his brother Italian Kills Relatives. Mike Zanona , an American citizei ) f Italian parentage , shot and killet lis mother-in-law , Mrs. William Doss ind his sister-in-law , Miss Millie Doss it Hartshorne , Okla , , Friday , anc vithin a few minutes was shot in the icck and seriously wounded by his 'ather-in-law , William Doss. Domestic roubles caused the fray. Col. Wisser to Return Home. Lieut. Col. John P. Wisser , the American attache at Berlin , will bring Us term of service there to a close n or about June 1 , when he will be elieved by Capt. Samuel G. Shartle 2ol. Wisser requested the war depart- nent in January to transfer him home , .s he had been abroad nearly three ears. Dies at the Age of 106. Mrs. Mary Watkins , of Bellbrook , ) . , aged 10G years , perhaps the oldest irhite resident of Ohio , is dead. Mrs. \ratkins was born in Virginia. Minister Ilicks Resigns. John Hicks , the American minister 3 Chije , has presented his resignation 3 the state department. Gold for Argentine. The National Bank of Commerce in few York City has engaged $1,000,000 i gold coin for shipment to Buenos yres. Fares Reduced in Arkansas. Announcement has been made that % -cent fares will become effective n all Rock Island lines in Arkansas [ ay 1. Tnrko-Bulgarian Protocol. The Turko-Bulgarian negotiations ave been concluded and a protocol as signed Monday by representatives ' . the two nations. Dredgeboat Consumed by Flames. A fire Sunday destroyed the govern- ent dredge boat , Gen. H. M. Roberts , Galveston bay , causing a loss of .00,000. Prof. Holbrook Is Dead. Alfred Holbrook , who founded the armal university at Lebanon , O. , in ! 55 and Is known as the father of iVmal schools , die'd Saturday night , ed 93 years. Gets New Lease on Life. The supreme court of Illinois has anted a stay of execution to David iderson , sentenced to hang in Chi- go April 23 , for themurder of Police .llaghan. KNOX IS BANQUETED. The Tables Arc Named After Eac Country Represented. Elaborate decorations , brilliar. speeches and good cheer were th features of a banquet given in Wash Ington , D. C. , Thursday night in hone of Secretary of Stat3 Knox , chaii man , and the members of the govern ing board of the international burea of American republics by John Bar ret * , director of the bureau. Th gnests were seated at twenty-one sma tables , each table being named afte one of the republics. In the cente of each was a cut glas globe in whic the colors of the country were repre sented by variegated electric lights. Secretary of State Knox , chairma ex-officio of the board of governors o the bureau ; Ambassador Nabuco , o Brazil ; Vice P-esident Shermar Speaker Cannon and Senator Root re sponded to toasts , and the minister of Costa Rica and Argentina als spoke. Secretary Knox responded to hi toast , "The" Governing Board of th International Bureau. " He said that as the bond of cohesio : between the American republics grow stronger the disturbing forces of dis order and selfish ambitions infestini any one of them grow weaker. "I recently had the pleasure o meeting the governing board of th bureau of American republics as ; body , " declared Mr. Knox , "and I pro fited by that opportunity to assur them for the president and mysel that among the first of the highes aspirations of American foreign polic ; under the present administrate would be the strong desire for a con tinued healthy growth in the naturall ; sympathetic relations and close inter course of the family of sister America ! republics. " CALHOUN BRIBE CASE. San Francisco Trial Reaches the Testl mony Taking Stage. After three months used in com pleting a jury the trial of Patricl Calhoun , president of the United Rail ways , at San Francisco , Thursda : reached the testimony taking stage When court adjourned for the da : Ferdinand P. Nichols , the former su per\jisor \ who is accused of accepting a bribe paid by Calhoun througl Abraham Ruef , had been ordered t < answer the first vital question in th < case. He was called as a witness af ter Assistant District Attorney Hene : had outlined the prosecution's case. Mr. Heney told the jury what th < prosecution expects to prove , and al though the defense at one point in timated that he was attempting t < argue the case , he was not interruptec by Judge Lawlor. Micheal Murphy , a retired polici sergeant was accpeted as the thir teenth juror. ArERDICT FOR PLAINTIFF. Night Rider Victim Gets Damages ir Federal Court. A jury of the federal court of th ( eastern district of Kentucky , in sessior at Covington , late Thursday rendered a verdict in the night rider case : awarding the plaintiff , W. S. Hender son , $25.0 damages. Henderson , a former tobacco mer chant of Augusta , Ky. , sued fourteen prominent residents of Bracken countj for $25,000 damages for an alleged as sault upon him in Augusta during the night rider troubles in that section. MOVE FOR A NEW TRIAL. Counsel for Coopers Set Forth Manj Reasons in Petition. Forty-six distinct reasons why the defendants , Duncan B. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper , recently convicted af murder of Senator W. E. Carmack , should be granted a new trial at the hands of Judge W. M. Hart , are = et forth in the grounds for the mo tion for a new trial , filed by the de fendant's counsel Thursday. A num- Der of exceptions are made to Judge Bart's charge to the jury and to the iction of the court in not entering a nistrial on March 19 , when a partial -eport was received from the jury. To Bo Hanged May 7. President Taft has declined to inter- : ere in the case of Joaquin Segrara , : onvicted in the Panama canal zone > f murder , and the sentence of death vill be carried out on May 7. Found Murdered in Cellar. With four bullet wounds in the body tnd one in the head , John Pishotta , a vealthy Greek merchant of Carlisle , 3a. , was found Tuesday in the cellar if his home. His wife and her broth- T have been arrested. Jealous 3Iothcr Commits Murder. Mrs. Grant Huddleston , of Musko- ee , 'Okla. , mother of six children , : uesday night shot and killed Miss Juelah Cox , whom she charged with lienating her husband's affections. Calhoun Jury Chosen. Thirteen jurors will hear the evi- ence in the case of Patrick Calhoun , f San Francisco , president of the fnited railroads , charged with offer- ig a bribe to a former supervisor. French Aeronaut Lost. Thursday no news had yet been re- 2ived of Bellamy , the French aero- aut , who went up in a balloon at the rystal palace , London , Eng. , three ays before. Wreck on the Reading. Two persons were killed and several : hers injured Thursday evening when night express train on the Reading tilway was wrecked at Harrisburg , a/ * I I I KNOX COUNTY VIGILANTES. Masked Mob Tunis Trick at Saiitc Reservation. A whitecap raid in which a band c masked men took a man named Rol ( ins from his home on the Santee res ervation last Friday night , not givin him time to get his hat and coat 01 has just been reported. They too him to the bank of the Missouri rive : placed him in a boat , gave him a ha coat , $2 in money and told him t keep out of that vicinity on pain c more severe treatment. The men the reurned to the Rollins home and in structed the wife of Rollins to dis pose of what property she had'an join him as soon as possible. The gave her thirty days in which to ge They also left word with her to notif her son , William Rollins , who lives i Niobrara , to make himself scarce o they would handle him the same waj The Rollins family is a very disturb ing element in the neighborhood i which they live , and the old man wa given six months in the county ja : last year for improper relations wit his own daughter. The son , who live in Niobrara , does not work , and suspi cion of his mode of gaining a livin probably led to the word being sen to him. Inquiry among responsible person from reservation elicits no clew t who the vigilantes might be , althougl it is not thought any of the imme diate neighbors were in the com pany. Ine Indian received a lette from another requesting him to be a the place on Friday night and statin ; that they intended to "see Rollins , but he did not go and professes t know nothing about the matter. How ever , itfis probable that some Indian were present , although it is quite evi lent that white men wer at the head CAN STATE ACQUIRE NORMAL ? Through Twisted Legislation , May Be Void. Fremont has not given up the figh to prevent the purchase of the Wayn college by the state. Now it is pro posed to knock out the proposition b ; raising a technicality regarding th < wording of the bill. The bill provides th'at the "board o education of the state normal schools' shall attend to the buiying and hav > charge o'f the school after its pur chase. The legislature abolished thi board and createel a new one call th < "Normal Board of Education. " It wil be the Fremont contention that thi former board is the only one legall ] entitled to act , and as it has beei abolished there can be no purchase and while the legislature might hav < intended the new board to act it wa : never given power to do so. .COAL RATES TO BE RAISED. Omaha Dealers Arc to Make Figh Against the Advance. The Chicago-Omaha roads have jus announced that on May 1 the rate or coal billed from the city on the lake : and consigned to points west of th < Missour river will be advanced 2 ( cents per ton. In other words , th < rate of § 1.80 per ton now in force wil be increased to $2 per ton. However , it is possible that this rate will not go into effect until it has been fought out in the courts , for the coal elealers declare that they pro pose to contest the advance , taking the position that there is no reason whj the rate on coal from Chicago to the Missouri river should be any highei than at the present time or during tb : past. LINCOLN G. O. P. PRIMARY. Son-in-Law of Gov. Lamibce to Head Mayoralty Ticket. At the republican municipal primary held in Lincoln Thursday Don L. Love was nominated for mayor over Alder man A. H. Hutton by a vote of near ly two to one. Mr. Love is a son-in- liyof former Gov. Larrabee , of Iowa. The municipal election will be held May 4 and because of the failure of the legislature to pass the new char ter all candidates must go on the bal- 'ot by petitions. Homliest Man in Town. S. J. Hall , a Hooper blacksmith , who at a recent entertainment was I'oted to be the homliest man in town , lias disappeared , leaving a note to the effect that he is all right , but will seek a community where he can divide iiis distinction with some other "look- ng glass breaker. " Two Attempts at Suicide. William Dean , a college man of Eau Claire , Wis. , is in the hospital in Lin- joln in a dangerous condition from a self inflicted wound. He tried to com- nit suicide by taking poison and was .aken to the hospital. There he man- jade to secure a knife and stabbed limself in the breast. Railroad Bridge on Fire. About 1 o'clock Wednesday morn- ng theBurlington Platte river railroad > ridge at Columbus was discovered to > e on fire , and before it was under con- rol ten of the thirty spans of the > ridge had burned. To Raise Much Alfalfa. Hundreds of acres of alfalfa will be rrown in the valleys here and farmers rear. Mammoth crops can be easily ; down in the valleys here and farmers .re contemplating an alfalfa mill. Barn and Contents Burn. The barn of H. H. Burt , in Fuller- on , was burned Monday morning. Two olts belonging to James Irwin per- shed , in the flames. Several buggies , . new carriage and a large quantity of eed were destroyed. Must Amputate Leg. W. H. Wilcott , aged 74 , of Suther- md , has gone to Omaha for amputa- ion of one of his legs. Over fifty years go a , running sore started as a result f a burn , and he has suffered greatly own through the years. ' WOULD DRAW LINE ON DRINKS Stockmen at Omaha Ask 3Ianager o Yards to Close Saloon. More than 100 of the live stock com mission men of South Omaha hav < taken peculiar steps looking to th < curtailing of business. They hav < signed a petition asking General Man ager Buckingham , of the Union Stocl Yards , to discontinue the saloon in th < Exchange building. Here is the rea son for doing this : Commission men all know that whei their customers come to the yard ; with their stock or to buy feeders t < take back to the farms and ranchei ihey must be entertained , and the fig- ires show that there are many in tances where the bar bills of some o : he firms have frequently run fron .50 to $100 per month. The signer ; o the petition take the position tha f the saloon was taken away fronr he yards they could do as much busi- less as now and that all of the monej low spent for treats \\ould be velvet The commission men all expect tc serve meals to their customers , provid ing they are at the yards at meal time and they do not object to this , bul from now on they are going to try ane ] Jraw the line on the drinks. It is reported that Manager Buck ingham has told some of the exchange members that if the saloon is closed the dining room must go , for there Is no profit in running the latter , though the meals served average about 500 per day. In South Omaha the saloons pay a license of $1,000 per year , and it is said that the one at the stock yards is a money maker. The license expires April 30 and it is certain that it will run until then , but what will occur thereafter is problematic , for right now no one will attempt to say. ANDITOR TO ENFORCE LAW. Begins General Insurance Campaign in Nebraska. State Auditor Barton has started out to make every insurance com pany doing business in Nebraska eith er conform to the law and the require ments of his office or quit business. To a number of companies Mr. Barton has sent letters calling at tention to their Aveak points and giv ing instruction for these matters to be corrected or he will at once proceed to put the companies out of business. The action of the auditor has stirred up quite a rumpous among several of the companies and one company wrote the auditor a lengthy letter telling what it intended to in the way of re form. This was answered by Mr. Barion with the statement that promises did not go and that the evils must be corrected by May 1 or pro ceedings would be instituted. Between now arid July the auditor will issue his order prohibiting any company from printing on its policies the statement that the same is guar anteed by the state. A bill which was introduced in the legislature attempt ed to prevent this , but it failed of passage. The bill gave the compa nies until January 1 , 1910 , to conform to the new rule and get rid of their present literature. The auditor will make his ruling in conformity with that bill , which was killed by the in surance lobby. STOCKMAN IS BETTER. T. B. Ilo-rcl. of Nebraska , Has Sailed for Hawaiian Islands. A telegram from California conveys the information that T. B. Herd , of Central City , has sailed for the Hawaiian islands and that his health is considerably improved. Mr. Herd sustained a stroke of paralysis a few months ago. For a time he was in a critical condition. He has been spending the winter in California and the reports that come from him are very encouraging. For years Mr. Horel has been en gaged in feeding cattle for the Sioux City and Omaha markets. He is said to be the largest individual cattle feeder in the Avorld. His yards and pens are at almost every station on the main line of the Union Pacific from Silver Creek to Grand Island. In addition to feeding cattle he owns a , line of elevators on all of the Union Pacific lines in Nebraska. CHANCE FOR CARNEGIE. Fremont Boy Receives Watch for He roic Act. Fred Hawkinson , of Fremont received 1 gold watch Thursday from the vice president of the Burlington railroad in recognition of an act of heroism n an emergency when he prevented in accident which might have sent i work train to the bottom of the Platte river. Some time ago a bridge crew was vorking on the bridge at LaPlatte and : rain No. G ran into the work train. Che bridge engine with the pile driver , ; till on the main line , was started by he shock of the collision down the rack as it went. All the trainmen umped except young Hawkinson , a routh of 19 , who climbed over the : ars to .the engine and stopped it. The watch was sent him by Vice resident Daniel Willard. The watch s inscribed in such a. way as to show t was given. Plans to Straighten Logan. An enthusiastic meeting of farmers vas held , at Wakefield Thursday to alk over the question of straightening he Logan creek. Sudden Deatli at Homer. Golda Priest , aged 14 years , daugh- er of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Priest , was ound dead In bed at her home early londay morning. 'Death was due to he bursting of an abscess in the inner art of an ear , which paralized the rain and heart. Increases Capital Stock. The Bank of Commerce in Louisville as increased its capital stock from 10,000 to $25,000 and elected the fol- jwing directors : Tom E. Parmele , C. . . Richey and C. E. Wood. Two Battalions in Constintinoplt Surround the Parliament Building. ' DEMAND OFHCIALS GET OUT , Panic Kules Turkish Capital Due . People Shut Shops-Mutiny -Young Turk .Movement. Serious disturbances of n revolutionary in Con broken out ary clianicter h.ive stantinople. The situation is grave. demonstration The mutinous troops made tion against the building of the Turkish has seized the ish parliament. Panic and all , people of Constantinople shops were hurriedly through the city and it i3 resigned closed. The rabinet reported that Kiamil Pasha , the former with the grand vizier , has heen charged formation of a new ministry. The present grand vizier of Turkey is Ililmi pasha. He was appointed succession to Kiamil Pasha. Feb. 14 in Ililmi formerly was minister of the interior holding this office he terior , and hefore of Mace general served as inspector Pasha is minister of donia. AH liiza war and marine , and is- grand master of artillery. The changes in the cabinet in Febru ary showed the absolute control of the political situation by the Young Turk party , or committee of union and prog ress , which virtually imposed on the Sultan a ministry of its own nominees. The committee publicly repudiated any intention to overthrow the Sultan or to establish a military dictatorship , but the crisis did not promise well for the stability of the throne or the success of parliamentary government. It haa been a question how the moderate ele ments of the empire would regard this assumption of absolute power by an ir responsible committee. Two battalions of troops quartered in the ministry of war marched out headed by their officers , and went by way of Divan and John streets to the Mosque of St. Sophia , from which point they surrounded the building of purlia- > t incur. They demanded the dismissal of the grand vizier , the president of the chamber and the minister of war. KAEIOIT GEEY MTTST GO TO urAIL United States Court of Appeals Up holds Her Conviction. . Conviction of Marion Grey , the cupid - pid agent who conducted the ' "Search light Club" at Elgin , III. , and the sen tence of the young woman to aerve one year in the bridewell were upheld by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Miss Grey was found guilty in the District Court and was sen tenced by Judge Landis for conducting a soul-mating business , from whose de cision an appeal was taken by the at torney for the matrimonial agency pro * prietor. PEIGKS Woman Probably Saves IVhem Husband Cats Her ra * . John Olberding , recently liberated" from an insane asylum , lies in a critical condi tion in the Harlem hospital , New York , with , his throat cut after a struggle with bis wife in their apartments in East 126th street , in which he held her upon the floor ami cut both of her wristj' with a razor. Police and neighbors final ly battered down the door : md rescued the . . For .woman. more than ten minutea Ooerdmg pursued his wife about the apartment , brandishing the razor , and at last cornering her in the sitting room. After lie had slashed her wrists she fei-n- ed death and in this way probably saved her life. She wjj ! recover , but there ii slight hope for the man.
