People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — Page 6

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FIVE MEN DROWNED.

OYSTER DREDGE SUNK WITH ALL ON BOARD. Crew of the James W. Boyle Go Down to Death Without a Chance of Escape —Vessel Turns Bottom Side Up and Traps the Men. New York, Nov. 14. —The steamboat James W. Boyle, technically known as an oyster dredge, foundered off the bell buoy at Rockaway Inlet yesterday, and all on board were drowned. She was on her way from Bridgeport, Conn., to Rockaway, with a cargo of seed oysters, which were to be planted there. She was chartered by Walter B. Wood of Inwood, L. 1., from her owner, James W. Boyle, the well-known Tammany leader, after whom she is named. The drowned were: WALTER B. WOOD, 40, oyster planter and charter, Inwood, L. I. PETER J. M’DONALD, 28, captain, Princess Bay, S. I. JOHN FINN, 38, engineer, Rondout, N. Y. JOHN CARROLL, 31, cook and deckhand, Hoboken, N. J. JOHN NEWBURY, 40, deckhand, Tottenville, N. Y. The wreck was sighted by the tug Mutual. When the tug drew sufficiently near to disclose the floating upper woodwork of the wrecked steamer plainly, it was seen that there was no sign of life about the wreckage. It had been hoped that the crew of the steamer, all of whom were good sailors, would be found clinging to the floating woodwork. Captain Deakin ran the prow of jiis tug deliberately and with hard force into the pilot house, for the purpose of breaking it, and recovering any bodies that might be within. As the timbers of this structure and of the wooden cabin attached to it were shattered, mattresses, pillows, and chairs floated out, but no bodies. For more than an hour the Mutual remained in the vicinity, and did not leave until it was absolutely certain that none of the crew was alive. The probabilities are that the Boyle was so rapidly turned bottom-side up by the enormous waves that the men were buried under her, and had no chance for their lives.

TALKS OF THIRD TERM.

President Cleveland Said to Have Declared Himself. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 14.—A special dispatch from Washington to the GlobeDemocrat says: President Cleveland has taken notice of the third term talk. He has told a member of the cabinet that he will not permit his name to be considered in connection with the nomination next year. The expression came about through a conversation started by the member of the cabinet regarding party plans next year. In what this secretary said there was an intimation of a desire to know the president’s peronal intentions. Mr. Cleveland responded promptly and plainly. He gave the secretary to understand that his mind was fully made up, and that if the third term movement progressed beyond talk he would stop it. National Baseball League Meeting. New York, Nov. 14.—The first day’s session of the magnates representing the twelve clubs comprising the National Baseball league is over and no revolutionary moves have been made. For the last few days it has been rumored when the presidents of the several clubs met there would.be a wordy war and a good deal of wing clipping, particularly between two prominent eastern representatives. Everything so far has passed off amicably, and when the delegates adjourned to meet this forenoon they all seemed to be on the best of terms with each other. Ex-Senator Spooner Hurt. Tacoma, Wash. Nov. 14.—While crosing the Columbia river on the transfer boat Ex-United States Senator Spooner fell from a car step, his abdomen striking a projecting rod. He suffered great pain and some feared he was injured internally. A surgeon was in waiting here, and on the arrival of the train he examined the injured man. The injury is not necessarily serious, but Senator Spooner will be compelled to remain quiet for several days.

Big Fire at Richmond, Va. Richmond, Va., Nov. 14.—The main building of the Randolph paper box factory was totally destroyed by fire last night, throwing 500 girls temporarily out of employment. The building cost $77,000, and contained machinery valued at $76,000, in addition to the stock. Loss, $150,000; insurance, $97,000. Killed by Falling Walls. Newark, 0., Nov. 14. —Yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock one of the walls of the Heisey glass plant gave way, carrying Samuel Cooper down to instant death and injuring W. W. Brookin aW Albert Boss, the latter dying within an hour. The men were employed in putting in iron girders for a second floor. Damage about SIO,OOO. Crank at the White House. Washington, Nov. 14.—A man giving his name as Herman Hillyer and his home as in Missouri was taken in charge by the police at the white house yesterday, and his sanity will be inquired into. He said he was being chased by a swordfish and desired the president’s protection. Chicago Business Men Meet. Chicago, Nov. 14. —A meeting of business men will be held at the Sherman house this afternoon to take effective steps to secure the Republican national convention for Chicago.

At TEXAS TRAGEDY.

Woman and Child Murdered by an Unknown Maa. Laredo, Tex., Nov. 14. —A murder most foul, and in cruelty exceeding anything that has ever transpired in this vicinity, was unearthed yesterday, and the murderer has been found dead, he having committed suicide at a hotel, where he had registered Monday with a middle-aged woman and an 8-year-old girl as C. Shuler and family, of San Antonio. About 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon the man procured a horse and buggy, ostensibly to'drive his wife and child to the depot. About 4:30 he returned the buggy and proceeded to the hotel, ate supper and retired' to his room. Early in the morning a Mexican shepherd discovered bodies of the womand child lying in some brush about three miles northeast of the city. They were identified as having been seen with the so-called Shuler. The chief of police called at the hotel, when the man was found lying dead upon the bed, with a bullet in his heart. Under his pillow was found an insurance policy for $3,000 and a deed of trust executed for property in East St. Louis. From papers found it is believed that his name is Kuntz, and that he is from St. Louis.

SALISBURY’S FIRM STAND.

Approves Pan."_eefote’s Position on * the Bering Sea Question. London, Nov. 14. —The correspondence of the British government with Sir Julian Pauncefote, British ambassador to the United States, upon the question of the Bering sea compensation from May, 1894, to August, 1895, was issued last night. Lord Salisbury writes Pauncefote: “The arguments you advance to support our claims have the entire approval and concurrence of the government. The attempt made by Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama, chairman of the United States senate committee on foreign relations, to dispute them seems largely founded on misapprehension, and the government cannot doubt when the facts are placed before the public of the United States the liability of the United States to make compensation, which has never been denied by the government, will generally be recognized, both in and outside of congress.”

Tim Healy Turned Down. Dublin, Nov. 14. —There were 100 delegates present at the meeting of the Irish National federation yesterday, called to consider the resolution expelling T. M. Healy from that organization. Mr. Loudon’s motion to remove Messrs. Healy, Arthur O’Connor, Dr. Fox, William Murphy and Joseph Mooney from the executive committee was adopted. Messrs. William Murphy and Joseph Mooney were, according to the terms of the resolution, also removed from the position of treasurers of the federation. This resolution of removal was adopted by a vote of 47 to 40, and amid cheers and counter-cheers, the meeting adjourned. Rain and Snow in the West. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 14.—A heavy rain was general Tuesday night and yesterday all over Nebraska, South Dakota, lowa and Kansas, and it is still raining. There is either rain or snow all through the Missouri valley and west of the Colorado line. West of Long Pine the rain merges gradually into snow and a heavy snow storm is reported from the Black Hills. All the roads that enter Omaha report heavy rains along their lines. Plainfield, Wis., Nov. 14. —A heavy snowstorm prevailed yesterday, the worse of the season. Sleet followed. Grain Blockade at Buffalo. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 14. —There is no let-up in the grain receipts and the blockade at the rail elevators is constantly growing worse. The low stage of water is adding to the confusion, as many boats are on the bottom and block the channels, keeping all boats below them that could otherwise go to the docks and unload. The only remedy for the grain blockade is to allow the canal boats to carry some of the grain, but the railroads will not turn over a bushel as yet to the boats, although it is very apparent that they are flooded with the work.

Advises as to Monroe Doctrine. London, Nov. 14. —The Graphic, commenting on the articles in the North American Review supporting the Monroe doctrine, says that if the people of the United States really care one cent for these Indo-Spanish republics, which is doubtful, the course of the government is clear. They must formally undertake the duties of a protection power, or, better still, annex these territories altogether. England, the Graphic concludes, will have little objection to either solution of existing difficulties. Resigns the Presidency. New Haven, Conn., Nov. 14.—At the business meeting of the Christian Workers’ managing board yesterday the Rev. R. A. Torrey of Chicago resigned the position of president, and the Rev. Russell H. Canwell, pastor of the Temple of Philadelphia, was elected to succeed him. Mr. Torrey has been the president of the body since its organization in 1890. Press of business is his reason for beginning. Brute Threatened with Lynching. Monmouth, 111., Nov. 14. —Shilo McIntyre, a man 50 years of age, is in jail here awaiting a trial for murder. Saturday night he inflicted injuries on Luella Merritt, a 14-year-old girl, who was staying at his home, from the effects of which she died. There is talk of lynching the man and the sheriff has sworn in a number of deputies to guard the jail.

THfrPBOPLB’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 1895.

A DECISIVE BATTLE.

SPANIARDS AND CUBANS PREPARE FOR A FIGHT. The Contest Expected to Settle the Revolution One Way or the Other — Maximo Gomez Now Moving Hie Troops in Santa Clara Havana, Nov. 14.—The statement cabled to the Correspondencia of Madrid from this city that Maximo Gomez had been routed is not true. Gomez has not been attacked hy the Spanish forces. Gen. de Campot is now at his headquarters, the city of Santa Clara, laying out a plan of campaign which should result in a big engagement between the Spanish troops and the insurgents under Gomez. It is thought probable that this will be the decisive battle of the war in Cuba. Maximo Gomez, with 4,000 followers, according to reports received by official circles here, has left Siguanca, and is moving in the direction of the Remedies district.

ASK FOR A NEW TRIAL.

Holmes' Attorneys File Their Reasons for ti e Request. Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 14.—H. H. Holmes, the alleged multi-murderer, who was recently convicted of the murder of B. F. Pitzel, yesterday, through his counsel, filed reasons for a new trial. The grounds laid, which will be argued next Monday, are mainly that the verdict was against the law and the evidence; new matter discovered since the trial; for the reason that the district attorney, in his opening speech, made statements which related to other crimes which could not be a part of the evidence, and they were of such a terrible nature that their effect on the jury was so adverse to the defendant that it was impossible for them to decide purely upon the evidence in the case; for the reason that the district attorney, in his closing speech, mentioned the death of the children and the finding of their dead bodies in the morgue.

Alabama Political Situation. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 14. —Five hundred Populists, Republicans and disaffected Democrats attended yesterday’s non-partisan, free silver and honest elections conference, held here under a call issued by Rev. S. M. Adams, state Populist chairman, and others. Congressman Joseph C. Sibley of Pennsylvania declared that silver would be the issue next year, and the party that opposed it would be defeated. He will be found in the ranks of the party that decides for free coinage at 16 to 1. A resolution favoring the fusion of all parties in Alabama that are for free silver and honest elections was introduced and adopted. Kolb agreed to abide the conference’s action, which means that the Populists, Republicans and disgruntled Democrats have pooled issues, and will put out a joint side ticket. A state conference for that purpose will be called soon. Mnet to Select a Bishop. Marquette, Mich., Nov. 14.—Delegates are here in numbers to attend the special convention called by Bishop Thomas Daviess of Episcopalian diocese of Michigan for the purpose of organizing the new diocese erected by the Minneapolis convention from the missionary jurisdiction of northern Michigan. There are three candidates for the bishopric. Marquette will present Rev. G. Mott Williams, present archdeacon of the jurisdiction; Escanaba will nominate Rev. Campbell Fair, rector of St. Mark’s, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Sault Ste. Marie will support Rev. Arthur L. Williams of Chicago, and the name of Rev. Stephen W. Frisbie of Detroit has also been mentioned as a possibility. Ex-Speaker Crisp for Silver. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 14. —By special invitation, conveyed by joint resolution of both houses, ex-Speaker Crisp addressed the Georgia legislature last night on the political issues of the day. Mr. Crisp confined himself almost exclusively, to the financial question, in the course of his remarks declaring himself unequivocally in favor of the free, unlimited and Independent coinage of silver, at a ratio of 16 to 1. Judge Crisp’s speech is considered the opening one in his campaign for the United States senatorship to succeed Senator Gordon.

Section Men Slaughtered. St Louis, Mo., Nov. 14. —At the meeting of the Wabash Surgeons’ Association Dr. Highsmith said twenty-eight deaths of section hands had come under his personal observation within the last few months. The public rarely hears of this class of deaths. It every other physician of the 300 in the association has twenty deaths among section hands and brakemen within a year the total slaughter for the twelve months will reach the appalling figure of 6,000, and this on one system alone. Australia Has a Poor Wheat Crop. London, Nov. 14.—A disp'htch to the Times from Melbourne says that owing to the prolonged drought it is expected that the wheat yield in Australia will barely supply the local demand. The scarcity of pasturage will also greatly curtail the exports of butter. Gaudaur Wants a Race. Toronto, Ont., Nov. 14. —J. G. Gaudaur, champion sculler of America, has deposited SSOO with the Globe in support of a challenge for £SOO a side to C. R. Harding, the English champion. Gaudaur will take £SO expenses and row in England, or will allow £IOO expenses if Harding comes to America.

FEELING IS BETTER.

BUSINESS BRISK ON CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE. Liquidation In Wheat Is Over and Prices Get a Rally—Corn Helped by Lighter Receipts—Provisions Also Better Live Stock Market. Chicago, Nov. 13. —There was a %c recovery in the local wheat market during the morning. The December opened 57%c, and after holding around 57%c for an hour, moved up to 58@58%c. The May price was at 61%c to 61%c, to 62c, to 61%c, and up to 62%c at 12 o’clock. As indicated yesterday the heavy liquidation gave relief, ij.nd the improvement was natural. Minnesota and Duluth had 1,182 cars, compared with 729 last year. The Chicago receipts were 335, against 119 a year ago. 'Western markets had 1,320,000 bushels, last year 667.000. Liverpool was flat on spot wheat, %d up on r‘ed American for future contracts. The export clearances were only 119,000 wheat, 15,000 barrels flour. The Northwest sent some bullish dispatches. Some concerns reported farmers’ deliveries much less than ten. days ago. All advices from Minneapolis were to the effect that the cash market was very brisk. The cash premium was increased to %c and 1c over December, and all receivers said to have sold everything on tracks to millers. A demand for spring wheat from Indiana and Ohio was reported here. An hour before the close prices held %c under top figures at 57%c December and C2%c May. Wheat closed at 57%c December, 62@ 62%c May, about %c net gain for the day. Late New York messages claimed as high as 50 loads (40,000 bu) sold for export. There was a brisk demand for cash wheat here, but the sales were small lots. The chief bull influences with the trade were the strong Northwest markets and the claim that receipts are tailing off. The estimate of 275 cars for this market is much lighter than for some time.

Corn moved with wheat. The market differed from previous days by showing the most action in the May price. The May opened 29%@29%c and firmed to 29%@29%c. December advanced % to 28%c, the November holding about 1c premium. The local receipts were light at 207 cars. Local shipments were 188,000 bushels. Four Atlantic ports cleared 254,000 bushels and New Orleans 43,000. The trade had reports of poor husking in some states. The wet weather threatened to keep receipts down with the firmness on wheat shorts covered in corn. Several houses reported country buying for May. The offerings were light. Provisions were dull and heavy early, with packers offering some stuff. Late in the session the market firmed in sympathy with corn. There was some buying by local shorts. Pork gained 10 cents at the close,, at $9.17% January and $9.55 May. Lard was up 5c at $5.65 and $5.87%. Ribs also closed 5c higher at $4.62% and $4.87%, same months. Quotations were: Articles. High. Low. Close. Wh’t-No. 2. Nov. 13. Nov. 12. b[ov. ..$ .57% $ .56% $ .57% $ .56% Decsß% .57% .57% .57% May ... .62% .61% .62 .61% Corn — N0v29% .29 .29% .29 Dec2B% .28 .28% .27% May ... .29% .29% .29% .29% Oats — Novlß% .18% Declß% .18% .18% .18% May... .20% .20% .20% .20% Pork — Nov 8.15 8.05 Jan. ... 9.17% 9.05 9.17% 9.17% May ... 9.55 9.42% 9.55 9.45 Lard — Nov 5.45 5.47% Jan. ... 5.65 5.60 5.65 5.60 May... 5.87% 5.82% 5.87% 5.82% S. Ribs— Nov 4.40 4.37% Jan. ... 4.62% 4.57% 4.62% 4.57% May ...4.87% 4.82% 4.87% 4.82%

Chicago Produce Market. The following quotations are for large lots only; small quantities are usually sold at advanced prices: Apples, [email protected] per barrel. Vegetables —Cabbage, choice, [email protected] per 100; cauliflower, [email protected] per dozen; celery, 25@30c per case; cucumbers, 75c per barrel; onions, 24@30c per bushel; Lima beans, 18@20c per quart; string beans, green, 50c@$1.00 per box of twothirds bushel; wax, [email protected]; sweet corn, 2@sc per doz; tomatoes, 75c@ SI.OO per bushel basket. Butter Creameries, extra, 21%c per pound; first, 19@20c; second, 14@17c; third, 9@llc; dairies, extra, 18c; first, 13y 2 @ 14%c; second, 9@llc; imitation creameries, extra, 15c; ladles, first, ll@12c; second, B%@9c; packing stock, fresh, 7%@9c; grease, 4@sc. Dressed poultry—Turkeys, hens, 7@7%c; turkeys, springs, B%@9c; chickens, hens, 7@ turkeys, roosters, 4@sc; chickens, springs, B%c; ducks, 10@llc; geese, [email protected] per dozen. Cheese —Young Americas, choice, 9%@9%c; twins, 8%@9%c; Cheddars, 814@8%c; brick, Limburger, 7%@Bc; Swiss, 10@ 10%c. Beans, peas and navy beans — Hand-picked, [email protected] per bushel; good, clean, [email protected]; Lima beans, California, $3.50 per ItO pounds. Potatoes Burbanks, 22@24c; Hebrons and Rose, 18@22c; mixed, 16@18c. Sweet potatoes —[email protected] per barrel. Veal —Fancy calves, 7%@Bc per pound; fair to good do, 6%c; small, thin, 5%@ 6c; coarse, heavy carcasses, 4%@5c. Eggs —Salable at 19 %c per dozen when cases are returned; cases included, 20c. Wall Street. New York, Nov. 13.—The stock market opened moderately active and firm. After the first fifteen minutes* trading nrlces were a fraction off all around.'

Near 11 oclock the downward movement waa checked, and under the leadership of the grangers the entire liat moved upward, and in some cases sharp gains were registered over last night’s final sales. The market at mid- ‘ lay was quieter,-hut its strength was at the top notch. Money on call nominally 1% per cent. Prime mercantile paper, per ?ent. Sterling exchange firm, with actual business in bankers’ bills at 489© 489% for demand and 487%@487% for sixty days. Posted rates, 488% and 490. Commercial bills, 486%. Silver certificates, 67%@68%; no sales. Bar silver, 67%. Mexican dollars, 54. Government bonds steady. Closing quotations were:

Atchison 17% Am. Cotton'Oil. 21 Amer. Tobac.... 90% Baltimore & 0.. 57 Can. Pacific.... 56V C. B. & Q 85% C. 1 C.,C.&8t.L.. 42% Cordage 7% Chicago Gas .... 64% Chesap k&0.... 19% Del. & Hudson.. 129% J. L. & W 169 Dist Catl Fd C.. 20% Pen & R G pfd.. 4a Erie 11% East’n Illinois.; .... East Tennessee Illinois Central. 98% Jersey Central.. 107% Kan & Texpfd.. 31% Lead 81% L.,N. A. &C.... g% L. & N 54% Linseed Oil Lake Erie & W.. 24% L. E. & W. pfd. 75% Lake Shorel49%

Government bonds stand at the following bid prices: Registered 25.... 97 Currency 65,’97.104% Registered 45... .111% Currency 6s, ’98.108 Coupon 45112 Currency 6s, ’99.110% Currency 6s, ’9sCoupon 5s Currency 6s, ’96l 102 Registered 55.. .115

Live stock. Chicago, 111., Nov. 13.—Cattle—Receipts, 16,000; calves, 28. There was a fair general demand at strong prices, sales being on a basis of [email protected] for. common to extra choice native dressedbeef and shipping steers, with the bulk of the transactions at [email protected]. Good fat cattle sold at $4 and upward, and the supply was pretty well taken. Bulls, sold at [email protected], and calves brought $3 @6 per 100 pounds, not many going above $5.75. The calf receipts have fallen off, and prime lots are not very numerous. Hogs Receipts, 45,000. Sales were within a range of 40c, common to choice hogs selling at [email protected], and the bulk sold around $3.70. Fewer pigs are arriving, and good lots are active at [email protected]. Sheep—Receipts, 11,000. To-day’s market was as active as the supply would admit, and prices were largely 25c higher, sales indicating an improvement of 35@50c since the beginning of the week. Inferior to choice native sheep sold at [email protected] and westerns sold at [email protected], while lambs brought [email protected] for common to choice. Wheat and Com Closing prices of wheat and corn at the following named cities were: Wheat—New York—December, 65c; January, 66c; May, 67%c. St. LouisNovember, 57%c; December, May, 62%c. Duluth—Cash, 54%c; December, 54%c. Minneapolis—Cash, 53%c; December, 53%c. BaltimoreDecember, 65%c; May, 70c. Toledo— Cash, 64%c; December, 64%c. Milwaukee—Cash, 57c; December, 57%c. Detroit —Cash, 64c; December, 64%c. Corn—New York—November, 36%c; December, 35%c; May, 36c. St. LouisNovember, 25%c; December, 25c; May, 26%c. Baltimore—Year, 34%c; January, 34%c.

Liverpool. Liverpool, Nov. 13.—Wheat—Spot; No. 2 red winter, 5s 2%d; No. 2 red spring, stock exhausted; No. 1 hard Manitoba, stocks exhausted; No. 1 California, 5s 3d; futures; November, 5s 2%d; December, 5s 2%d; January, 5s 3d; February, 5s 3%d; March, 5s 4d; April, 5s 4%d. Corn —Spot; American mixed, new, 3s 5%d; futures; November, 3s 5%d; December, 3s sd; January, 3s 3d; February, 3s 3d; March, 3s 3d; April, 3s 3d. Flour —St. Louis fancy winter, 7s 3d. Peorl:u Peoria, 111., Nov. 13.—Corn—No. 2, 28y>c; No. 3,28 c; new No. 2,2714 c; new No. 3,27 c. Oats—No. 2 white, 18%@ 19c; No. 3 white, 17%@17%. RyeNothing doing. Whisky Finished goods on the basis of $1.22 for high wines. Receipts—Corn, 43,500 bu; oats, 73,750 bu; whisky, 150 brls; wheaL 2,400 bu. Shipments—Corn, 4,500 bu; oats, 71,250 bu; whisky, 675 brls; wheat' 3,000 bu. New York. New York, Nov. 13.-Butter-Receipts, 4,061 pkgs; western dairy, 10%@15c; western creamery, 15@23c; Elgins, 23c. Cheese —Receipts, 3,554 pkgs; large, 7%@10c; small, 7%@11c; part skims, 3%@7%c; full skims, 2%@3c. Eggs— Receipts, 5,975 pkgs; state and Pennsylvania, 22@25c; western, 20@23c. Coffee—Steady. Toledo. Toledo, Ohio, Nov. 13. —WheatQuiet; cash and November, 64%c; December, 64%c asked; May,>6B%c asked; No. 3 soft, 62y>c. Corn— Cash, 28*4c; May, 30c. Attack De Policy. Havana, Nov. 13. —Diario Della Marina, the leading reformist organ of Cuba, publishes an editorial in which it makes a strong attack upon Senor Canovas del Castillo, the Spanish premier, directly insinuating that Captain .General Martinez de Campos is backing his policy. The article also makes strong charges against the present policy of favoring the conservatives.

Manhattanlo3% Missouri Pacific 31% Michigan Cent Northern Pac... 4% North Pac ofd.. 16% N. Y. Central.. 100 Northwestern. .106% N. Y. & N. E... 49% N. American... 5% Omaha 41 Omaha pfd Ont. & Western 16 Pacific Mail.... 29% Pullmanl6s Reading 12% Rock Island.. . 76% Richmond Ter Silver Cer Sugar Refinery. 101 , St. Paul 75% St. Paul pfd Texas & Pacific 9% Union Pacific.. 10% Western Union. 90% Wabash 8% Wabash pfd.... 20% Wiscon’n Cent.

TEACHERS KILLED.

startling news received FROM TURKEY. Christian Missionaries in Trebizond and Erzeroum Fall Victims of Moslem Fanatictom—Washington Not Yet Offlclally Informed. Berlin, Nov. 14. —A dispatch to the Cologne Gazette from Constantinople says that all the Armenian Christian teachers in the Trebizond and Erzeroum districts have been killed. London, Nov. 14. —A dispatch to the Standard from Constantinople says that every day brings news of fresh massacres. It is quite clear if the powers waste additional time in negotiations the need for these negotiations will be past. The Standard’s Constantinople correspondent also says that recent details received from Erzeroum indicate that the massacre there was worse than at ’lrst reported. The outrages were evidently organized and planned days beforehand, and the pillage was on a colossal scale. The Armenians who escaped were literally left naked. Lord Salisbury’s speech last Saturday at the lord mayor’s dinner has thrown the sultan and members of the court into a state of panic. Abdul Hamid entertains the greatest fears of a declaration by the powers extending their Jurisdiction over a portion of the Turkish empire or the calling of a general European conference. It is generally agreed, however, that that end is not far distant.

No neWs at Washington. Minister Terrell and Our Consuls Give No Information of Massacres. . Washington, Nov. 14.—Disquieting rumors regarding the security of the Christian teachers in Turkey between Trebizond and Erzeroum were about the state department yesterday, but the officials refused to allay the popular apprehension. There is ground for the belief that the department had heard from Minister Terrell, and that his advices, while showing that a perilous state ot affairs confronts the American missionaries and teachers in that section, do not state that actual murders have been reported to him. The navy department also has a most energetic officer as near to the scene of the rumored trouble as. a warship can get in the person of Capt. O’Neill of the Marblehead, and up to the close of office hours he had made no report of a massacre, as he would undoubtedly have done had the news, reached his ears. The nearest state department representative is United' States Consul Jewett at Sivas, but he also has been silent. Admiral Selfridge arrived at Marseilles Tuesday and relieved Admiral Kirkland of the command of the European station and hoisted his flag on the San Francisco, under orders from the secretary of the navy to proceed at once to join the Marblehead in Turkish waters. With these two vessels present it is felt that our government will have done all possible to protect the Americans in the interior of Turkey, taken in connection with a most vigorous notice from Minister Terrell that the United States will hold the porte responsible for any injury they may sustain. It is felt that these two vessels are ample to protect American residents in Turkey, even in the event of actual hostilities, and to assemble a strong naval force there now might be construed as a joint participation by the United States in the demands which are being made on the porte, whereas the government has no« intention of becoming embroiled itt any European complications.

FRENCH FLEET ARRIVES. Formidable Naval Force Now ThreatensConstantinople. Constantinople, Nov. 14.—A squadron of French warships has sailed from the Piraeus for Turkish waters, and it is stated that an Italian fleet will rendezvous with the British fleet within a few days. There has been most serious trouble at Caesarea, not far from Jerusalem; but no details of the rioting there have yet reached this city. A great panic prevails at Moosh, owing to the Kurdish movement. All those who can do so are fleeing from the city and neighborhood. Many people are reported to have been robbed and murdered while fleeing. The Kurds are said to be in arms throughout the district. Troops are, it is claimed by the authorities, being hurried to the spot. Replying to the inquiry of the United States ambassador, Mr. Alexander W. Terrell, as to the safety of the American missionaries, Commissioner Darnham has telegraphed from Harput saying that the missionaries are alive, but in extreme danger. Mr. Terrell has informed Tewfik Pasha that his government will be held responsible for the safety of the Americans. The Turkish minister for foreign affairs has assured Mr. Terrell that everything possible will be done for their protection. As Mr. Terrell has great influence with the palace authorities, it may be presumed that Tewfik Pasha will keep his word. It is now believed that the powers will not take definite action against the porte until all the naval squadrons have assembled in Turkish waters, which will be about the time that the British ambassador to Turkey, Sir Philip Currie, returns here after consulting with his government as to the future action of Great Britain. In the meanwhile the state of suspense is decidedly wearing, and the ambassadors themselves will be greatly relieved when the hour for action upon the part of Europe arrives. Nobody doubts that this time is coming; it now seems to be only a question of days.