People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — No Official Advices of a Riot. [ARTICLE]

No Official Advices of a Riot.

Washington, Aug. 15.—Acting SecretaryAdee said yesterday that the Department of State had received no information concerning the report that an American named Briggs and his companion had been injured in a riot at Mansova. It was his opinion that some mistake had been made in the name of the place, and that Mersene, which is a seaport town about five miles from Tarsus, was meant, and that the Tarsus affair was really being reported from another point.