Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — A GIANT MONOPOLY. [ARTICLE]

A GIANT MONOPOLY.

SYNDICATE BUYS ALL ELECTRIC STORAGE PATENTS. New Revolution in the Black Republic—Fresh and Horrid Ontrages by Turks in Armenia—Missouri Bchool Superintendent's Cowardly Attack. Storage Battery Trust. The storage battery patents of this country have passed into the control of a trust. The trust’s official name is the Electric Storage Battery Company. It is lets are in Philadelphia. AY. AV. Gibbs, of gas trust fame, is its president. The backbone of the trust is the AA 7 idener-Elkins-Yerkes combination. Hamilton Disston, the saw manufacturer, is heavily interested in the deal. This combination controls not only the patents of the United States, but has bought the American rights to the Tudor patents, probably the most valuable of the foreign inventions in this line. It is an open secret in the electrical world that great improvements are expected in the storage of electricity and its transportation and use. It Is suspected that these improvements are already in sight, and that the trust lias read the future more clearly than any one else. Armenian Villages Pillaged. Another terrible, massacre of Armenians is reported to have occurred in the Baiburt district, between Erzeroum and to the news received at Constantinople a mob of about ,600 Mussulmans, and Lazes, the great majority —of whom were armed with Martini-Henry rifles, made an attack upon, the Armenians.inhabiting several villages of that vacinity, and set fire to their houses and schools. As the Armenians fled in terror frotn their dwellings they were shot dovvu as they ran, and a number of riven hnd women who were captured by the rioters, it is added, were fastened to stakes and burned alive. The Armenian women who fell into the hands of the mob. it is also asserted, were brutally treated and mutilated. The surviving villagers applied for protection to the Governor of Baiburt, who, after hearing their complaint, sent three policemen to the scene of the massacre after, the slaughter was ended,—The Turkish officials, it is claimed, know the ringleaders of the outbreak, but apparently no steps have been taken to arrest them. The number of Armenians massacred at Erzingja<j is now-said to be several hundred. The Turks, if is stated, have also attacked thi Armenians in the district of Gumushdagh, near Trebizond, and haver slaughtered many of them.

Hippolyte Proclaims a State of Siege. Nev's has been received at New York of a .evolution in Hnyti. President Il.ippolyre, it is said, has retired to his palace in Port nu- Priu«vv>where hb is guarded' by the aruiy which lie brought down front the north with him when he overthrew Legitii&e. Commercial houses, in New York which do business in Hayti have been expecting this outbreak for several weeks. When dispatches came saying that Hippolyte had proclaimed a state of sgige in Port an Prince they were not unprepared. Their private dispatches were to the effect that several of the leading men of Port an Prince had been arrested, as well as many who had come in from the country to help swell the army of the revolution. Hippolyte proclaimed the state of seige on Wednesday, and immediately ordered out a certain number of his flrisoners to he shot. Though the old friends of Legitime arc concerned in the present movement it is said that Gen. Mnuigat is not at the head of it. The army of Hippolyte has been‘concentrated about his palace aud he intends to make his final fight.

Flogged a Beautiful 1 oung tV Oman. Prof. A. Iv. At kin son. S» peri 11 tendent of the public schools at Itiishvillcj Mo., was placed under arrest Monday on the charge of -brutally flogging Miss Angie Van Hoozier, a beautiful young woman. 20 years old. wlio has been a pupil of Atkinson’s. Certain rules of the school are alleged to have been violated by the girl and Atkinson, arming himself with a hickory stick, assaulted her in the school-room. She fled and he followed her through the halls and out doors, where he inflicted wounds which are considered dangerous. The pupil is under a physician’s, care. Ribot Ministry Steps Out. The l-rench cabinet resigned Monday as a result of a government defeat in the Chamber of Deputies during the deb«>e on the Southern railway scandal. President Faure has accepted the resignation of the ministry. The ministry which has just, resigned was formed on Jan. 2(5 by M. Ribot, after the, fall of the Diipuy ministry.