Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1901 — CAPTIVES REPORTED DEAD [ARTICLE]

CAPTIVES REPORTED DEAD

Rumor Received at Washington Relative to Ml*» Stone and Mine. Tsilka. Washington, Nov. 28.—Secretary IJay lias received a dispatch from Constantinople repenting a rumor that has reached there that Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary who has been held a captive by the Bulgarian brigands for several months, and her companion in captivity, Mme. Tsilka, are dead. The iJciKirt lacks confirmation and Is not credited by cither Spencer Eddy, the United States charge at Constantinople, or by Dickinson, the consul general there. The reported death of Mine. Tsilka is said to have been from 'childbirth,' and that of Miss Stone from, grief, the story coming from Salonika.