Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1907 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

The Armenian Terrorists. The recent arrest In New York of Kissak Jellalian, member of the American Hunchakist society, has revealed a startling story of crime. The Hunchakist society, ostensibly a patriotic organization, was in reality a blackmailing band. According to Jellalian, the society was controlled by a central co/imiittee which levied tribute on rich Armenians. Failure to comply with the demands of the society was punished by death. The organization had branches in New York, Providence, Boston and Worcester and Is said to have collected thousands of dollars from its victims. The murder in New York on July 22 of 11. S. Tavshunjian, a wealthy American rug Importer, brought matters to a head. Tavslmnjian was organizing the wealthier .Armenians to resisU the demands of the secret order, and sentence of death was decreed and carried

out Identified with him in this work was Father Caspar Vartarian, an Armenian priest, who was killed in New York last May and his dismembered body placed in a trunk. The arrest of Jellalian and his revelations as to the inner workings of the Hunchakist will doubtless put an end to activity of the society In this country.

He Risked IL Vice President W. C. Brown of the New York Central railroad said In Syracnse that he believed In governmentn! supervision of the railroads. “Such supervision, conducted, as it is bound to be, with fairness, will benefit the whole country,” said Mr. Brown. “It Is an error to think that the government is going to oppose and persecute the railroads. Some people think that, though. They think the government is going to take chances with the railroads as the farmer did with his son. ‘The farmer’s son was plowing, and a great black crowd of crows followed the plow, picking up the worms that wriggled in the rich, chocolate colored furrows. “The farmer ran into the house, got his gun, fired at the crows and peppered his son's legs with shot. The young man fell down, and when his father ran up to him he groaned: “ ‘Didn’t ye see me, father?* “ ‘Yes,* said the old man, T saw ye well enough, but I didn’t like to miss the chance at the crows.’ ” McLean Once Beat Haskell. Charles N. Haskell, the lawyer and railroad builder, who has been nominated for governor by the Democrats of Oklahoma, is an Ohio man, fortysix years old, who loft that state eight years ago, after he had been beaten by John 11. McLean for the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio.

The Case of Mrs. Eddy. Perhaps no legal proceeding of recent years has aroused wider public Interest than the ease of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, the aged founder of Christian Science. A commission appointed by a judge of the New Hampshire superior court is to decide whether or not Mrs. Eddy w-as mentally competent to transact business in March of this year as a preliminary In

the suit tiled for an accounting of her estate by her son. George W. Glover of Lead, S. D., and others. William E. Chandler, senior counsel for the plaintiffs, was secretary of the navy from 1882 to ISSS and represented New Hampshire in the United States senate for fourteen years. After retiring from the senate in 1901 Mr. Chandler became president of the Spanish treaty claims commission. It will be remembered that he figured prominently in the tilt between President Boosevelt and Senator 'nilman a year or so ago when somebody’s veracity was questioned.

KISSAK JELLALIAN.

WILLIAM E CHANDLER.