Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1897 — KILLED BY MOSLEMS. [ARTICLE]

KILLED BY MOSLEMS.

ONE HUNDRED ARMENIANS SLAIN IN CHURCH. Alaasacre Takes Place at Toka, Asia Minor—Concert of the Powers Believed to Mean Merely a Desire to Prevent War. Sultan in No Fear. Authentic details of the outbreak Sunday at Toka, in the Sivas district of Asia Minor, when the Turks attacked the Armenians while the latter were in church, show that 100 Christians were massacred. The Armenian quarter and bazaar were given over to pillage for eight hours. The representations of the ambassadors of the foreign powers regarding the condition of Anatolia have made but little impress upon the sultan, who, relying upon the support of Russia, is convinced that he has nothing to fear from the socalled concert of the powers, which is continually harped upon, although it is believed that little or no concert beyond the desire in some quarters to postpone an outbreak of war really exists. The diplomats are said to be once more turning their attention to the conduct of the sultan, and it is semi-oflicially intimated that they are again of the opinion that the system of friendly representations on the subject of Armenia, which have hitherto been followed, must be changed for sterner methods of dealing with the evils. The sultan, however, has heard this story many times during the last few years and he consoles himself with the belief that he will survive this new tit of righteous indignation, ns he has tided over others of a much more serious character.

Are In a Bed Way. Just now the Baptists are facing a crisis in their tinancial affairs. The American Baptist Home Missionary Society and the American Baptist Missionary i'nion will, by the end of this month, have run in debt to the amount of $489,000 since the lirst of the year. Since the panic of 1893 the society lias felt the effect of hard times and its income has fallen away enormously. I'nless large offerings are received a wholesale policy of retrenchment will undoubtedly lie followed. Miser Worth $190,000. The Mexican authorities have just made an examination of the effects of Manuel Ruiz, a miser who died in apparent poverty at Guadalajara, Mex.. recently. They found in one box silver and paper money to tile amount of $190,000. Ruiz cutty from Spain about twenty years ago, ami as the money is Spanish it is believed that lie brought his fortune over with bint. He has no known relatives, and the wealth goes to the Government. Blockade of Little Use. The opinion prevails in Constantinople that the blockade of the island of Crete by the fleets of the foreign powers will lie a useless proceeding, as Col. Yassos, commander of the Greek army of occupation. is .well supplied with provisions. It is now thought that the best means to accomplish the withdrawal of the Greek troops from Crete would lie to withdraw the Turkish troo>’. Fnccessor for Lamoreux. The President Monday sent the following nominations to the Senate: Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas, to be fourth assistant postmaster general; Binger Hermann of < Iregou, to be commissioner of the general land office; James D. Elliott of South Dakota, to be attorney, of the United States for the district of South Dakota; Commodore .losepli N. Miller, to lie a rent admiral. Against the Hoaila. The Supreme Court bus decided the case of the United States versus the Trans-Missouri Freight Association against the railroads. The opinion was rendered by Justice Peckham and the decision of the court below and bolds the anti-trust law of 1890 to be applicable to railroad transportation and the traffic agreement of the pool illegal. Crashed Through a Bridge. The engine aud four cars of the northbound local on the Chicago and Texas Railway went down with the bridge across the Big Muddy river at Aldridge station, south of Grand Tower, 111. Engineer Joe Forester and Fireman James Anderson were drowned. The Big Muddy is raging, and the bridge failed to withstand the pressure. Br.d Fire in Huron, At Hurou, S. D., $70,000 worth of property was destroyed by tire, including the Alliance building, valued at S2S.(XK) and insured for SIO,OOO. The Government land office saved most of its records; the United States weather bureau lost all its instruments and most of the records for the past seventeen years. Suspected Murderer’s End. The man recently arrested at Valley Mills, Texas, ns Joseph Blanther, the San Francisco murderer, for whom a reward of SI,OOO is offered, committed suicide by takiug morphine in the county jail at Houston. He was teaching school at the time of his arrest, and stood well in the community.

Cabinet Will Attend. President McKinley, Vice-President Hobart and the members of the cabinet will attend the dedication of the new Grant tomb in New York. Tenta for the Homeless. The Senate Tuesday passed a joint resolution, offered by Mr. Berry of Arkansus, for the purchase of 1,000 tents for Mississippi river flood sufferers. Sends Mail in Secret. The Cuban junta now forwards mail from this country to Cuba and delivers it on the island. It is taken by a secret messenger from New York to an eastern port In Cuba, and by him given to a native messenger, who in turn delivers the mail to inland couriers. Gave All to Charity. Mrs. Saruh J. Brown, who died recently at Bloouisburg, Pa., gave all of her fortune of SOO,OOO to Methodist charities, the church extension society being the largest beneficiary. To Preserve Personal debts. A bill was introduced in the New York Senate by Senator Charles L. Guy which proposes to incorporate the Society for the Preservation of Personal Rights, and every line of it breathes defiance to the Gerry and Comstock societies and their methods of procedure. Corean Prince in Captivity. Prlnee Eui Wba, who ia expected to succeed to the throne of Corea upon the death of hia father, the reigning king, is at present restrained of his liberty by a band of Corean exiles in Yokohama with the full knowledge and consent of the Japanese aut ontiea

▼ABT section under wateh. Eight Hundred Mile* in Arkansas Lowlands Are Covered by Flood. The United States weather bureau gives out the startling information that 800 square miles of the State of Arkansas is under water, and that the Mississippi river will continue to rise. In the district to the west of Marion, Ark., hundreds of people were picked up. The work of saving stock has been abandoned and from now on all efforts will be directed toward saving human life. Many wild and altogether improbable reports are circulated as to the number of drowned by the refugees (negroes) in an endeavor to stir sympathy. One negro gave out that twenty-five persons were drowned near his place. It was proven that these bad sought the high lands at the first approach of the flood. Thousands of people are homeless and dependent on charity. Reports from up and down the river say the levees are all in good shape, and it is hoped will continue to withstand the pressure. The total number of lives lost thus far reported officially to the relief committee is one dozen. Six steamers and tugs and half a hundred skiffs are engaged in rescue work. As a heavy rainfall has been pretty general throughout Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and lowa, it is expected that there will he a considerable rise in the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The river at Cairo, 111., is twenty-five miles wide, the water being about up to the 50-foot mark and rising slowly. It has now passed the 1893 stage of 49.3 feet, the last liigli-water mark there, hut lacks nearly three feet of the high-water mark of 1883. The Missouri and Kentucky bottoms for a distance of twentyfive miles ure covered with the overflow. As the rise has been gradual, nearly all of the inhabitants have had ample time to save their stock and personal effect's.

SINKS GREEK SHIP. Austrian Gunboat Fires Upon Vessel Loaded yrlth Provisions. The Austrian gunboat Zebnico tired upon aud sunk, near Caudia, a Greek vessel loaded with provisions and munitions which were intended for the Greek forces in Crete. It appears that the Zebnico, while watching the Greek ship, was fired on by a party of insurgents. To this the Austrian warship replied by sinking the Greek craft und driving off the insurgents. It is feared that when this news becomes generally known in Athens it will serve to greatly irritate the populace and may have influence in precipitating the crisis which the powers are striving in every way possible to avert. Several French aud Italian staff officers have been sent to Col. Yassos to notify him of the blockade of the island. It is reported that I’rince Henry of OrleunH will he offered the position of governor of Crete. Activity in the ministries of war and marine continues unabated. The oubiuot meets twice daily. Official reports give the number of Greek troops at Arta its 37.000 and of Turkish as 17.000. The military commanders on the frontier are steadily strengthening the positions likely to he attacked by the Turks, who are reported to he under German officers.

BULLETS FOR FIVE. Killed Hiiuaelf After Trying to Exterminate His Wife’s Family. William Fees, a la inter living live miles west of Watnego, Kan., blew out his brains after attempting to exterminate u whole family. Three of his victims will probably die and a fourth is terribly wounded. Fees' wife recently left him amt returned to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 8. H. Johnson. After she had positively refused to return to him Fees went to the house and shot down his wife and her mother and his sister-in-law, Miss Johnson, and his wife's father. None of the three women can recover, and it is doubtful whether Mr. Johnson will live. Fees then returned to his own home and killed himself. Commits Trlp'e Crime. Frederick Frauks shot and killed his son, William, aged 9 years; shot and badly wounded his daughter. Amelia, aged 0 years, and then turned the revolver on himself, sending a bullet into his breast near the heart, at his home in Philadelphia. Franks and his daughter were taken to a hospital, where the father died a few hours later and little hope is given for the recovery of the child. An examination of the house showed that Franks had made deliberate preparations for his terrible work. He arose earlier than usual aud told his wife to go to the grocery store for something for breakfast while he made the coffee. When she left he locked both doors. The two children were asleep iu a second story hack room. Neighbors heard several pistol shots, hut did not know where the reports cante from until a few minutes later, when Mrs. Franks returned to her house. She found the door locked, and, failing to get a response to her pulls at the hell, cnlled for her husband to open the door. The little girl, hearing her mother's call, staggered down stairs, opened the door and fell unconscious ut the woman’s feet. Picking up the child the woman rushed into the parlor, and there, with a bullet wound near the heart, was her husband. On the bed upstairs was the body of the hoy. Death had probably been instantaneous. The murderer had gone upstairs and sent three bullets into his son's head and body. He then shot tl»e little girl and went downstairs and fatally wounded himself. It is believed the man was suddenly seized with a tit of insanity. Corbett Laid Low. James J. Corbett, of California, champion pugilist of the world, was knocked out by Robert Fitzsimmons, of Australia, at Carson City, Nev., Wednesday, in the fourteenth round of' the fiercest battle seen in the prize ring within half a century. Corbett had shown himself the cleverer fighter and general, and Fitzsimmons had been terribly punished, though at the end lie seemed the stronger. A terrific punch in the head and a drive directly over the heart were the blows which laid Corbett low.

Pingree Ta Defeated. Gov. Pingree, of Michigan, will no more appear before the public in bis dual capacity, the Supreme Court iu a unanimous opinion having decided that when he accepted and entered upon the duties of the office of Governor he vacated the office of Mayor of the city of Detroit. He is not given the opportunity of choosing between the two offices, although he prefers to be Mayor. f “Greater Indianapolis.’’ Mayor Taggart of Indianapolis has approved the ordinances for a “larger Indianapolis,” and four suburbs will soon be incorporated, which will add 25,000 to the population and something over six miles of territory. The assessed valuation of the property thus ad ( ded is $7,500,000 and $45,000 will be added to the revenue and $25,000 to the local school fund. Druggists to Organize. There is a probability that there will be an alliance of the dispensing druggists of the United States and Canada. There was a meeting held in New York, which had this object in view and the outlook for the organization is bright. Woes of a Faithless Man. B. L. Short, of Kansas City, Kan., learned that it does not pay to be fickle in lore. Mr. Short is City Clerk and was a candidate before the Kepubltcan primaries for the nomination for Mayor. But Mr. Short had a record, and this record took him down to defeat For twelve

yean be “kept company'’ with Mis* Sadie had been engaged to marry her. One day Miss Parsons was startled hy a notice in a Kansas City paper that Mr. Short had been married the evening before to Mrs. Grace Foreston, a divorcee. Women vote at Kansas municipal elections aud at primaries as well, and when they heard Miss Parsons' story they declared war on Short’s candidacy. When the returns came in about midnight a great shout went up in hundreds of households, for Short, the men's candidate, was beaten, and the jilting of Miss Parsons was avenged. Tragedy of the Deep. The steamer Yille de St. Nazaire, belonging to the French line to the West Indies, sailed from New York March 0, for Port An Prince, Maya Guez, etc., with thirty-seven persons on board, and has not since been reported. She was a bark-rigged screw steamer of 2,G40 tons register. The New York World Thursday morning has a story that the schooner Hilda came into port Wednesday night hearing with her a story horrible even iu the annals of the Atlantic Ocean. She carried iu her cabin four passengers whom she had picked up in a boat Monday, ten miles off shore. When Capt. Berri, the first to recover, was able to gasp out some words, he said: "There were thirty-seven souls on that boat when we abandoned the St. Nazaire. Of all those men and women, we four are the only ones left alive. The others starved or were frozen where they sat. They died in all ways. They sunk, dropped off one hy one, except where they were mad, and then some jumped into the sea and ended in that way. The captain was the first to go. The men were quiet enough mostly, until they saw the women die; then they, seemed all nt onee to get raving, stark mad. All are here now. One, my comrade. Dr. Maire Stauts. our engineer, and Tagardo, first mate.” Her Check Was Not Good. A woman giving her name as Mrs. Lena Dunbar, of Texas, went to Columbia, Mo., with the intention of purchasing stock. She was a dashing blonde, and soon started negotiutious for a number of enrs of cattle. She bought a carload of cattle front Charles Turner aud tendered a cheek for $9<X) on the Exchange National Bank. On presentation the cheek was refused payment. The woman can make no explanation of the transaction ntid is thought to lie insane. Site is handsome, about 30 and is an inveterate smoker. Would Bar Caterers to Pugilism. Miss Frances Willard is iu communication with the leading women engaged in philanthropy aud reform, asking if there cannot he a combination of influence whereby women throughout tile country will agree to give their patronage only to the newspapers that avoid furnishing extended accounts of prize fights. She also asks that a protest he made by the womanhood of the country on the ground that the arbitration treaty and the “Nevada bruising ring” present iu combination a most incongruous spectacle.

Challenges All Pie Eaters. William J. McCormack, champion pie eater of Brooklyn, is out with a challenge to any biter iu the world to eat two pies to his one for any amount of money und gate receipts. No kind of pies are burred. Hard or soft, open-face or hunting-case pies go. The champion of Brooklyn is a sparsely set young man of 24 years of age. His mouth measurements are two and oue-lialf inches in repose, four inches when distended. He expects to make some arrangements with the kinetoscope people iu ease of a match. Offended by His Sermon on Jonah, Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, of Brooklyn, was not allowed to lecture in the Young Men’s Christiau Association's Hall at Philadelphia because of his recent utterances regarding Jonah and the whale. The hall was engaged for Dr. Abbott before he delivered his sermons, hut when he advanced his theories about Jouah the niAnagers of the Young Men’s Christian Association took steps to keep him away front their building. Two Men Killed. Alexander Frank, engineer, and E. B. Smith, fireman, were instantly killed hy tlie explosion of a passenger locomotive running through the yards of the Lake Shore anti Michigan Southern Railroad at Chicago Sunday morning. The engine was reduced almost to scrap iron and passengers in the ears being drawn by the engiue were badly shaken up, hut none sufficiently to require the services of the ambulances. Served Her Right. Jenny M. Laird, a pretty New York seamstress, has sued Charles Judge for $5,000 for not keeping his promise to marry her. She asserts that Judge induced her to get a divorce from her husband, promising to marry her when the decree was granted. Royal Jap Dead. Captain S. A. Day, just returned from several months’ stay iu Japan, says the crown prince of Japan is dead and that the event wns being openly discussed in diplomatic circles, although the news is a state secret aud is kept from the public. Fortune to the Church. Mrs. Mary Johnson, a weuithy New York widow, who died March 10, has bequeathed $550,000 to Catholic institutions in which she was interested.