VOL. X XXIX. NO. 43,
ARMS FOR THE CUBANS
A STEAMER LOADED WITH
THEM CAPTURED YESTER
DAY AT SOUTHPORT.
ANOTHE ENTIRE CREW ARRESTED
On Examination the Cargo Was Found
to Consist ©t Arms and Ammunition
for the Cuban Insurgents—The Trial
of the Crew Will he Held Monday,
the Penalty is Forfeiture of the Ves
sel and Cargo to the United States—
The Steamer is a Small One.
Special to the New s and Observer.
Wilmington, N. C., Sept. 21.
The steamer Commodore, which was
reported yesterday as being at South
part, N. C , and loading up with arms,
which it was claimed were fur the United
States of Columbia, but the real distina
tion of wh'oh was believed to be Cuba,
was to day libelled by District
Attorney Ayeock and the crew
arrested by Deputy Marshal T. O.
Bunting under instructions from the
Attorney General. On examination the
cargo was found to consist of cannon?,
rifles, ammunition and shells, Cuban
“machetes” and sundry suspicious war
weapons, supposed to be for Cuban in
surgents. The case is now being inves
tigated and the trial will be held Mon
day.
The affidavit upon which these arrests
were made is a3 follows:
“United States of America, E stern Dis
trict of North Carolina:
“Be it remembered, that on this day,
before me, the undersigned United
Btates Commissioner, in and for the
Eastern District of North Carolina, came
O. B Ayeock, attorney of the United
States for said district, who being by
me duly sworn, doth depose and say
that he is intormed and believes that
John G. Dillon, George H.Martin, Frank
P. Grain, Manuel Hendie, Jas. B,
Vavive and Mack Reilly, late of New
Hanover county, in said district, on or
about the 16th day of September, 1895,
did at Wilmington, N. C., within the
jurisdiction of tne United S ates, unlaw
fully and wilfully lx gin and set on foot
a certain military expedition and enter
prise, and did provide and prepare the
means for said military expedition and
ex ter prise to be carried on from thence
in behalf of the Cuban insurrectionists,
against the territory, domain and peo
pie of the King of Spain, with whom the
United States are now at peace, in viola
tion of statute 5286
“0. B Aycock.
“Deponent.
“Sworn and subscribad before me this
20th day of September, 1895.
“R. H. Bunting,
“U. S.'Commissioner.”
The vessel, cargo, etc., were seized for
violation of section 5283, Revised Statutes
of the United States; the penalty upon
condition being forfeiture of vessel and
cargo to the United States.
Capt. Dillon, the master of the
steamer, was quite indignant at the
seizure of b‘s vessel and the arrest of
himself and crew. He said it was an
outrage; high handed proceedings more
worthy of the government of the Czar
of Russia thaa of the Republic of the
United States. He has engaged Judge
Russell as counsel.
The Commodore is a small steamer of
99 tons net register. She arrived at
Southport last Monday from New Lon
don, Conn , light, and the captain said
she made the run from that port in
sixty hours. She cleared at New Lon j
don for Caithagena, via Southport. Tues
day the Commodore came up to Wil
mington to repair machinery and taks io
coal. Thursday two car loads of boxes
arrived by Southern Express from New
York, each package marked “Chas
Raymond, Southport, N. C.” The cases
were taken to the wharf where the ves
sel was lyiDg, and the boxes, supposed to
contain arms and ammunition, were
placed on board the steamer. Raymond
is a stranger in these parts. He was at
Southport the first of the week and then
came up to Wilmington. It is said that
he has left town.
Capt. Dillon, the master of the su
pected steamer, is a man of ab-out fi/c\
years of age, of fine physique, and is said
to have been engaged in the revolution
in Brazil. The others on the vessel are
an intelligent, respectable-looking set of
men.
No Mexican Officers in Cuba.
Washington, D C, S»pt. 21. —Minis
ter of W'ar of Mexico denies that Cuban
agents have enlisted Mexican army effi
mala on the retired list, and that a good
many of them bad left for the seat of
war. He says that no Mexican officer in
active service or oa the retired list inti
mated has any desire to go to Cuba, and
that he does not. know of the enlistment
of any of those who are not in active ser
vice.
A Damage Suit Against Spain.
Washington. Sept. 21.— Gustave
Richelieu, who claims to be a citizen of
the United States, has arrived here with
the intention of bringing the attention
of the State Department to a claim he
has against the Spanish authorities in
Cuba. According to his story, he and
his partner went to Cuba
in a sloop, intending to fish
for turtles. He was arrested while
there by the Spanish on suspicion of in
tending to aid the insurgents, and was
thrown in j til. lie states that he was
kept in confinement for sixty-two days.
When he was released the Spanish au
thorities informed him that they bad dis
covered nothing against him. In ad
dition to the financial loss which he sus
tamed in being deprived of his liberty,
he also lost his boat.
I’auiiill Finally Acquitted.
Lynchburg, Ya ,St pt. 21 The third
trial of R. H. Paunil), charged with
abetting cashier Hamner in bank frauds,
terminated to day with a verdict cf ac
quittal.
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THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION.
1 he Veterans From Chattanooga Four
Into the Gate City.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 21 —Chattanooga
poured into Atlanta by the thousands
from Chickamauga and today ihe city
is swarming with visitors who came to
j see the exposition and take part in or
witness the “blue and gray day” ex -
cises. The railway officials estimate that
above 20,000 bad been transferred from
the historic battlefield near Lookout
Mountain to the no less historic field
around Atlanta by ihe trains of yester
day, and every train arii mg swe’.'s ■ ■ -
crowd. From the Chickamaaga .con
brations alone 30,000 to 40,000 will -on;;
Among the arrivals to uay were G \-
ornor Morton, Governor McKinley af'|
several other Governor?, with or vvithov •
Presidential boom attachments. John
Jacob Astor accompanied Governor Mor
ton as a member of his staff, and so does
Speaker Hamilton Fish ot the New York
A;sembly, and Senator Charles A. Tem
pletor, who finds a particularly warm
welcome here, because it was he who in
troduced the bill to appropriate $25,000
for New York's exhibit at the Exposition
Governors Werts, of New Jersey, and
Woodbury, of Vermont, also arrived by
last night’s trains.
Perhaps Atlanta, though a town of
conventions, expositions and reunions—
in short, a common point of rendezvous
—never held a greater mim cr of nota
bles, or saw so many r< presenta: ives of
the armies of the blue, as are now here.
Several p eminent men who were ex
pected to ta l o part in to day’s exercises
disappointed the local veterans and the
exposition committee.
Governor Upham, of VUsoonsin, broke
a leg while attending the Chickamauga
exercises; Governor Greenhalge, of Mas
sachusetts, was called home by official
business, and Gen. J B Gordon, of the
Confederate veterans, had made an en
gagement to lecture at Henderson, Ky ,
to night before he kuew that he was ex
pected to participate in the exercises
here. The absence of these distinguished
men was a cause of general regret.
The Government Exhibit.
Washington, Sept. 21. - Charles W.
Dabney, Assistant Secretary of Agricul
ture and chairman of the Government
Board of the Atlanta Exposition, in a
letter to Secretary Morton about the
opening of the exposition, calls attention
to the fact that the government exhibit
at Atlanta will cost less than $200,000,
while that at Chicago cost $1,349,000
* Yet,”said he, “I claim that this is a bet
ter exhibit, more instructive and repre
senting the functions of the government.”
NO BONDS WILL BE ISSUED.
T hough Secretary Carlisle Has Gone
to Coaler With the President.
Washington, Sept. 21. — Secretary and
Mrs. Carlisle left here at ten o’clock this
morning for Marion, Mass, where they
will be tbe guests of the family of As
distant Secretary Hamlin, with whom
they spent some time the early part of
the summer.
The Secretary while away undoubt
edly will see the President whose sum
mer home is only a short distance from
Marion, but it is authoritatively stated at
the treasury department that their
meeting will have nothing whatever to
d a with the issue of bonds. The further
statement is made that no bond issue is
in contemplation and that none is ex
pected within the near future at least. <
This last statement is emphasized at the
Treasury Department, which desires to
set at rest all rumors of another issue <
Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle will be
away from five to ten days, their length
cf stay being dependent upon Mrs. Car
| lisle.
BOND SYNDICATE DISSOLVED.
All the Members Yesterday Received
Their Share of the Profits.
New York, Sept 21 —The managers
of the government bond syndicate have
taken action which is regarded as a for
mal dissolution of the syndicate, the
government having no longer any need
of i'sservices.
The managers sent out cheeks which
were received by the members cf the
syndicate this n rung, giving them the
profits of the op* rations of the syndicate,
the members having already received
the principal which they bad placed in
the hands of the managers. Tne exact
percentage of profit is not at present ob
tainable, but it is understood that, after
allowing interest on the in aney for t he pe
tied during which i was iu. the hands of
the managers, the profits are a trifle be
■ low six per cent.
THE SIIIP PKOiIABLY LOST,
And if so 36 Lives Have Been Lost in
the Wreck.
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 21.—0 n
February 27, 1895, the four masted
British ship Stoneleigh left Melbourne
for London and is now 210 days out.
Hope for safety is beginning to be aban
doned and it is feared the craft with her
crew and passengers have gone down off
Cape Horn. If such is the case, about
thirty six lives have been lost. Tae
stoneleigh was commanded by Oapt.
John C. Thompson, cf Macclesfield,
Great Britain. The skipper’s wife and
two little children were on board.
Au Old Traction Englue Explodes.
Dayton, Ohio, Bept. 21.—At the
county infirmary tc-day an old traction
engine, now being used to drill a well,
exploded, killing two men and seriously
injuring four others. The killed are:
Paul Putterhorn and Wm. Williams, both
inmates of the infirmary. The injured
are also inmates of the infirmary.
Another Challenge to be Issued.
London, Sept. 21 —The Secretary of
the Victoria Yacht Club states that the
club has been requested to issue a chal
lmge for the America’s Cup. Ho is
awaiting the necessary particulars and
detailed information concerning the re
quireraents of the New York Yacht Club
before anything can be done.
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RALEIGH, N. C, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1895
RANSOM GETS HIS PAY
SECRETARY CARLISLE REVER
SES THE DECISION OF
THE AUDITOR.
THE SMART PAID YESTERDAY
I)r. Tain:age has Accepted a Call to
President Cleveland’s Church as Co
pastor With the Venerable Dr. Sun
derland—He Has Not Been Offered
Any Sal: ry, But that. Matter W ill l>e
Settled Between Him and I lie Trus
ts- of the Church.
Special to the News and Observer.
Washington, D C., Sept. 21.
1 Secretary Carlitl > has reversed the deci
sion of tbe Auditor for tbe State Depart
ment and decided that Minister Ransom,
Unittd States Minister to Mexico, may
draw his salary as such under his pre
sent appointment.
A draft of $525 on bis salary account
drawn by the State Department on the
Treasury has been honored by order of
Secretary Carlisle.
One of the local banks to-day received
from Mr. Ransom, a draft on the
Treasurer of the United States for $525
on salary account. The draft was pre
sented and by direction of Secretary
Carlisle a warrant for the amount was
drawn.
Everybody rejoices that the matter
has been thus settled as it. was through
no fault of Minister Ransom's that lie
was not entitled to his salary before bis
re-appointment.
* * *
The thing that strikes visitors to this
city as ringular is the fact that Wash
ington has no preacher of commanding
ability—no man who speaks to the na
tion. The re are strong preachers here —
scholarly, able, consecrated—but if ycu
should be a stranger and aka resident
“Where ought I to go to church?” you
would get tbe answer: “It mikes
little difference. All the preachers
are pretty good—none are great—and
you will hear about as good preaching
in one as in the other? At the Federal
capital, which is thronged with visitors
n the fall, winter and spring, there has
for years been a crying need for a min
ister here who, though denominational,
was bigger and broader than any de
nomination and who could speak out to
the population that belongs to no church,
and to the stranger within the gates.
This long felt want has been supplied
iu the acceptance by Rev. Dr. Talmage
as co past* r cf the First Presbyterian
church with the venerable Dr. Sander .
land. This is what is known as Presi
dent Cleveland’s church. When Dr. I
Talmage holds forth, there will be a
double attraction, and the large church
will have to be enlarged toaccrmmodate
the congregation. Speaking of the com i
ing of Dr. Talmage "yester lay Dr. Sun !
derland said:
“Dr. Talmage will not be offered any
salary. Tba is, no sum will be namea ■
in the call, which is not according to the 1
usual custom, as you know. That part 1
of the matter will be left to be settle be- 1
tween Dr. Talmage aid the trustees of 1
the church, and we have no doubt that (
it will te satisfactorily arranged, and ;
that I can safely predict that within a
few weeks we shall have the greatest ‘
pr* acher in the world in our midst Dr. 1
Talmage will come as a blessiDg to tbe 1
church. He is a dear friend of mine, 1
and we shall work harmoniously together
Iu fact, everything about the new con
dition o? affairs wili be harmonious.
* The proposition was carefully thought 1
out a while ago, and I feared lest Dr.
Talmage might make other arrange
men’s before we could make known our (
desires to him. It seemed to us a grand ‘
opportunity, and I knew that our friend ■
liked the city. I think he wards to come
just as much as we want to a. ;e him ” 1
*# * ‘
There are eight or nine silver produc 1
ing States that will, under the citeum ;
stance?, east their electrical votes for a
Presidential candidate that does not fa
vor the free coinage of silver,’’said Hon
Charles 8. Hartman, Republican Con
gressman from Montana to a Post repor
ter. “My own Slate, Wyoming, Utah,
Colorado, Idaho, 8 u’h Dakota, Cali
fornia, Os gon, and Washington will, in
my opinion, never let their votes be cast
for a sicgl gold-standard candidate. If
this should serve to throw the election
in the House then the States I have
named will come p~etty near holding
the balance of p w r, and it goes with
out saying that if they do wield this
power a candidate of pronounced silver
views will be choseu.
“Tue preference of the silver States,
whose votes naturally belong to the Re
publican party, is for Senator Oamerou
for President and Senator Teller for
Vice P tsident. There is a ticket that
would sweep the country. Iu the West
it would carry almost unanimously. If,
however, our interests are ignored, and
no consideration is shown to silver, then
we must took out for ourselves and st rike
a blow iu our own defence. For oue, I
hope that there will be no backdown or
compromise on the position that the
people of my section seem united or.-—no
electoral vote for the nominee woo will
not aid us in tue rehabilitation of sil
ver ”
* * *
Tiie repoi t of the breaking of the en
grgrimeutof Miss Julia fckeveuson, eld
est daughter of Vice President aud Mrs.
Stevenson, and Mr. Wat Hardin, Jr., of
Danville, Ky., is not accepted here,
as the only reason given is the
rumored ill health of Miss Steven
son. Miss Steveuson is now with her
father at Chattanooga, and the fact that
she is able to stand a long journey and
the consequent excitement gives evidence
that her condition is, to say the least,far
from a state that might cause her rela
tives and friends the least anxiety.
The Civil Service Commissions,who on
August 3 i held examinations iu North
Carolina for the purpose of securing eli
gibles in the internal revenue service,
have made public the number who pass
ed in the two districts:
Asheville district The total numlier
of applicants for clerkships being twelve, j
live passed. Store-keepers and gaugers
—total number, 33; twenty seven failed.
Raleigh district- A total of eight clerks
stood the examination, and only two
passed. Store keepers and gaugers—l4
stood the examination, and three passed
* * *
Secretary Olney is back at his desk.
He will recommend an appointment for
Solicit nr of the State Department. It is
generally conceded that Mr. Walter E
Faison will be appointed. It is known
that the President has a high opinion of
Mr. Faison, having come in contact with
him in regard to c rsuh tip appoint
ments.
The President wi 1 be oack at the
White House October 1. His summer
outing has greatly improved his health
Annie E. Taylor has ocen appointed
postmistress at Ray.
A new post-office has bee i established
at Mount Mitchell, Buncombe county,
with A A Tyson as postmaster.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. licit, of
Burlington, and tin ir daughter, Miss
Florence Holt, are at the Metropolitan.
Mr. T. M. Robertson and family have
returned from Randolph county. Mis.
Robertson and children have spent the
summer at their old home aid Mr. Rob
ertson has been down to trke his va-a
tion,
Mrs. G. D Ellsworth and children re
turned to Washington to-night, after
spending tbe summer in North Carolina.
STILL NO REFEREE CHOSEN.
Corbett’s Representative Refuses to
Accept “Yank” Sul’ivan.
New York, Sep’. 21. -No referee has
yet been selected for the Corbett-Fiz
simmons fight. This morning, W. A.
Brady, representing Corbett, Martin Ju
Han, representing Fitzsimmons, and
Vendig, of tbe Florida Athletic Club,
met, and after three hours of wrangling,
decided upon nothing.
Brady wanted the referee decided
upon at once, or at least one w r eek be
fore the fight. Julian said that he would
not have a referee named until the day
preceding the battle.
Vend g implored both representatives
to come to a decision.
“No”, said Julian, “I have named
the day wt want and that settles it”.
“Ou, no it don’t”, said Brady. “We
waul something to say about that, and I
tkiuk the club ought lo be consulted”.
Brady refused to accept “Y r ank” Sulli
van, saying that Sullivan bad written in
sulting letters to Corbett. Several other
names weie suggested, among them
Phil Dwyer and Hemun Oelrichs, but
Julian refused to consider them.
There was a great deal of further talk,
bu: nothing resulted.
lie W ill Be a Western Mau
Dallas, Texas, Sept. 21.— Dan Stuart,
president of the Florida Athletic Club,
speaking of the failure to select a referee
tor the figl.i at the meeting held iu New
York, said: “The matter ot a referee is
not giving the club-any eoLce.n n'.w,
but when the proper time comes, if i
can bring it about, I say plainly right
here that the referee abali be a Western
or a South*,vistern man, and I do not
consider that the Eastern element has
any right to dictate in this matter.
What I want is a man acceptable to all
concerned- the people at large as well as
the principals iu the contest. I have no
objection to deferring the selection of a
referee until the 30. h of October.”
cc it its a n 1 a hts us; stump.
For the First Time in Many Year? He
Speaks from the Hustings.
Ellicott City, Md., S.-pt. 21. -United
S-ate 3 Senator Gorman was the central
plan t about, which a large number of
leaser stars in the political firmament
clustered, in this county, to day. The
occasion was a great old fashioned bar
becue at Glerielg, twelve miles from
here, in the interest of the Democratic
ticket.
The fact that Sei ator Gorman waste
take the stump for the first time in many
years, lent additional interest to the af
fair, and the re?ult was a large crowd
and plenty o' aV: iasm
The initial feature was a procession of
c:-r kigis from thi| place to Glenelg,
whioa reached there at noon, shortly af
ter which time the meeting was called
to order by T. E Owirgs,
of the county central com
mit’ee who introduced ex-Gov. J. Lee
Carroll, ; s permanent chairman. The
■utter iu assuming the chair, made a
brief speech and was followed by John
E. Hmst, the Democratic candidate for
Governor, his associates upon the State
ticket, and Attorney General John P.
Poe.
It was after 4 o'clock when Senator
Gorman, the chief attraction of the day
took the j flat form, lie was greeted
with great applause wnich continued for
several minutes. The various points in
his speech were well appreciated, and
especially the reference to relative atti
tudes of himself and the members of
the national administration, and to the
new tariff laws.
THE GRAND LODGE ADJOURNS
The fsdtl Fellows Will Meet Next Year
in Dallas, Texas.
Atlantic City, N. J , Sept. 21 —The
Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. .O. F., ad
journed to day to meet iu Dallas, Texas,
on the third Monday of September, 1896.
The (dosing session of the Grand Lodge
began at 9:30 this morning. M. Rich
ards Mnckie, of Pennsylvania, the newly
elected Grand Master, was c.uly in
stalled.
The matter of purchasing property in
Baltimore sou the use of the national ot
fleers tame up. The special committee
reported that they had made a thorough
investigation and found that the prop
erty had a city valuation of $22,021 and
ihe owners will sell the property to the
Grand Lodge for $28,750. It was voted
to purchase the property. This settles
, the fight of many years’ standing as to
whether the Sovereign Grand Lodge offi
cere should have their headquarters in
? Baltimore or Washington.
OUTRAGES IN ARMENIA
DETAILS OK THE TERRIBLE j
M\ ss (’ R E O F CII R IST I IMS
BY THE TURKS
ft LETTER FROM ft MISSIONARY
The Particulars of the Awful Caraagc
and Horrible Outrage? are Told In
Extracts Irom Let e.s from Other
Missionaries utid Evidence Be
fore the Commission ot ln<l iiry«»
Girls Sold Into Slavery and Unborn
Ch Id re n Torn from Their .Mothers.
I)r. Curtis of this city has just received ;
a letter from his cousin, a missionery I
for many years in Eastern Turkey not j
far from the region of the Sassoun ma.
sacres.
The letter is mainly made up of ex- ;
tracts from letters of other missionaries j
to him, giving statements from the re
fugees who had escaped. This letter |
was kept several months before he found j
opportunity to send it. out of the co mt ry j
safely, and then caiue without signature !
or date of place.
He has received no letters from this j
country for months.
His object in not dating the letter j
from any particular place and in not j
signing it was that its author might not i
be so readily discovered in case it were I
opened by the authorities. The details
of the outrages as told in the following
extracts from letters from Bitlis are
most horrible and revolting and give a
true insight into the religious persecu
tion now being practiced in Armenia:
Feb. 9, 1895.
Till the past ten days we were so
under the siege that there was little hope
a letter would get outside. After some
telegraphing to Constantinople Judge
Terrell telegraphed us that an order had
been issued that our mails were not to be
meddled with. Just two days from
that time the old chief had our impor
tant registered package that was going
to Moosh opened. Whether other out
going letters were opened or not. we
had no means of knowing, but of the
incoming ones more than half were
opened and passed to us in that condi
tion. Many papers have been suppressed.
The chief who was the ring leader in all
the rascality this way got his walking
ticket the 28th ult., and left by the
Southern route the 31st, some say as
half prisoner, though we are not sure
on this last point. The present incum
bent is Omar Bey, a member of the
Moosh Commission ordered on as locum
tenons for a while. He had hope of
something better under his hand, but in
not a few things he follows the other so
well that some natives think he is no
improvement. He has let up on the
terrible inquisition of the prisoners, and
freed a few, among them the chief of
our Protestants, who had been in 72
days for, —nothing, as no charge what- j
ever was presented! Those who ad
him and his two fellows in keeping—
the three were memliers of the Mejliss—
when asked to formulate some charge,
tried to throw the responsibility on each
other, saying they did not know why he
was brought there and ended off by
saying, “we didn't imprison you: who
did?” Now too there is not so much
bribery and we can venture out more
in our correspondence.
We have this, however, that he is still
pursuing the Armenians, whether in pri
son or out, to push them to. sign not
only papers of allegiance to the Sultan
(not inappropriate iu itself, perhaps), bur
putting along with it that all that has
been said and written abom tbe iii fated
region is false. Some most fauatical
kinds tailed leading Armenians, and
end* d, urging them to sign, w ith threats
No little apprehension is had, lest some
thing set rue ball roiling that may prove
a serious matter ror this city also. How
ever. oe trust it is only talk calculated
to irigiiten ihe people into signing the
paper. Bc o.’e the other man left, the
situation was pretty serious, espec'aly
for us, a*< you probably gathered from
our misty letters in de up of references
to the Bible. In addition to interfering
with our pos’, he w.-s apparently plotting
against our person?, seeking some devil
darer who might waylay us Hre fora
time, when we went inro the streus (our
people heard so much of it they protested
agaiust our goiDg out at all), it was wi h
attendants. As I need, d to go to the
telegraph offie quite often, I might have
been seen with an escoit of at least two
men at my heels, while a seven-shoot* r
was iu my pocket in case of an enter
geney Tne prisoners were being plied
with various tortures to make them sign
s ifeoiea's to the effect that the foreign
era set these affaire gaing ami had tilled
the papers with falsehoods.
February 21.—Duriug the short inter
regau • (between the dismissal of the
governor and the arrival of a deputy)
Gagisiau an '. his two companions asked
why they were confined, since no writ
had been issued iu their case. No one
seems to know why they were imp.is
oued or who had imprisoned them
Under these citcumstance?, they walked
out, giving nominal bail ror the sake of
, appearances. Seventy-two days they
wc re thus imprisoned Eleven of
tue notables still remain. Tnere
■ seemed to be some relief when the
change in administration took place, but
it was not to last long. It is the same
tune on a different key, more seductive
: and therefore more dangerous. The
henchmen of the departed one still re
main and seem as active as ever. As be
fore, attempts are still made to get the
imprisoued notables to sign an address
i of thanksgiving, denying that anything
has takcu place in the mountains, ac
; curing foreigners of having stirred mat
i ters up, etc. Tbe cvmurssiou at Moosh
- seems to be hampered in every way pos
1 siblo. Tne government leaves no stone
j unturned to ever its tracks. The for
i eiga c mmisdontra have independent
s mail to E igiarnl and their own opera
) tor at the wire.
March 18 —Kefuget s jus* iu from Moosh
i say they saw three consuls and twenty
-1 five soiiiie.s with bats and if is thought
the commission may arrive here this
week.
Mr. Cole and Miss Ely were at Moosh
during part of February and March. They
declare that the aecouutsof the atrocities
grow more and more terrible as they
come out more fully.
I had written of a baud of gypsies
from the disturbed region recently ap
pearing in these parts, with a Urge
quantity of church spoil, crosses, vest
ments, A: , having with them also a
young girl for sale; two others had been
disposed of before the paty reached here.
Under date of May Bth, 1895, a
writer says : “Yes, what you report
about the poor girls being sold down
your way hke so many chattels is going
on ad op and down these regions. Poor
refugees, wandering about the streets of
our own town ia search of the only too
sparing charity, have caught sight of
some of their own Irrides in certain
houses, but the poor captives were
snatched inside so quickly as to allow no
conversation. Wo have heard of several
brought here as captives, while they have
b oa ti kin eff ia groups to more distant
provinces. But it is uot well to enlarge
o.' this now. The Power?, and esp<
cialiy England, are responsible for all
this condition of things.
“You will be interested to know that the
Commission has just gone into the ill
fated region Pseif. It is quite credibly
reported that the liaip’es have massa
cred six ot seven more poor creatures,
lest they should get before the < ffiiia's
and give important testimeny. Poor
mortals, how these retugeis have cau.-e 1
our hearts to bleed, not only ou cur visit
to Moosh, but here also since our return
they r- ach us with their terrible rehear
sal> of the past. One with forty-four
scars, who had been left for dead,
put it This way iu hi 3 simple waj
of telling it : “The day they rnur
dared us things were thus and so, as if
he had actually experienced resurrection
from tbe dead, av.d really it seems
much ik> it. I might have sent
you some most appalling incidents,
such as would curdle the blood, but I
might as weli spare you.”
One of tbe ladies writes: “ r .Te are
situated where we get many facts re
garding the sad affair. Several times a
week, at least, we had people fr m Sa->
soun region at our door. No language
can convey an adequate idea of wh-.t
we have seen and heard. The m-r
vou3 strain is great, bur. we are glad to
try and make some use of the fact,
though only a small part can be given:
From E zroum, May 4, 1895 —“The
Commission is working away, a*.d the
iff iris to conceal and falsify only estab
lish the Christian contention. Bat the
utterly desolate state of the Sossouj
people beggars description. The notables
were dismissed from prison the other
day by imperial irade. I premme that
will mean a vote of thanks to the Snltan.
The men here (correspondents) are work
ing up the prison torture question, and
some tremendous material is in baud,
enough to condemn officialdom to perdi
tion. Horrible, horrible!”
A P. S., from Bitlis.—“So far as ap
pears, ther& is uot any more danger on
the road this way than at other times.
They have been more after us iu the
towns here and at Moosh, while they
watch our every movement. He had but
just reached Moosh when a telegram
came from here, ‘The American has
come there—wa:cb.’ They also sent in
forming hisdmp* rial Majesty at E zroum,
wh iat once sent a special messenger
to ask the American minister ‘Why
has Mr.' Cole gone to M-osh?’ ‘Why
shouldn’t he go,’ answered the minister,
‘when you don’t allow his letters to ar
rive, the city is in danger! Os course
he wi 1 coma on to where he can commu
nicate with me.’ ”
‘ One Sunday a wounded man from
Sassoun district came to us in disguise.
He sought an opportunity to appear be
fore the commission. That he would not
be allowed to do this unless careful
measures were taken, we bad abundant
proof. The man’s name was Avak, and
he was from Semal (near Sassoun). He
said there were ten persons in his
father’s family. The father, brother aad
cousin were killed, bayoueted before his
eyes. One brother and Avak escaped
badly wouuded. He said the treacherous
enemy sent word to the villagers, ‘Come
to reconciliation’, giving t hem to under
stand they would be safe. Der Ho
liannes, tin ir pries’, with ab »ut three
hundred villagers, came and said they
were obedient., loyal subjects to the Sui
tan. The Turks told them, ‘Curse the
gospel and become Moslems and you are
safe.’ Hohannes replied, ‘For mysrif, I
cannot do it. hut you, my people, are
free to do what you like’. A prompt, re
sponse came from the bravo throng,
knowing it me*nt martyrdom. ‘Neither
will we deny our faith'! At once the
order came ‘Dig out that priest’s eyes’;
which the heartless soldiers did They
then tore his beard out by the roots,
skinning his face! After that they cut
a holo iu his throat and obliged him to
drink a cup of water w hich ran out of
the hole in his throat. Death at last
ended his suff lings Turning now to
the horrified people, the soldiers were
ordered to charge bayonets, and a dread
ful slaughter ensued. Early iu this mas
sacre Avak wao seriously wounded. He
remained unconscious beneath the slain
through the day. Rousing from his
well-nigh death stupor in the nigh*, he
succeeded in pushing away the dead
bodies from above and around him.
Slowly he made hi 3 way to some low
bushes among which he hid for three
days, eating leaves, roots and gum from
the shrubs. A cousin, Hachig byname,
also from Semal, in passing saw* Avak
and helped him get to the shelter of some
great rocks not far away. Hero in pain
and weakness he stayed three d ys, his
cousin bringing him food by stealth.
Then flediug he could walk he set out
alone, and by slow stages was able to
reach the village of Shushanamerg where
he had an uncle living. Here bis friends
wrapped him in the skin of a freshly
slaughtered sheep. After a little he was
removed to a shelter in the outskirts of
the village and after about a mouth re
turned to Serna 1 , where surviving rela
tives w ere trying to re-build some of tbe
j hous is which had beou torn down and
[CONTINUED ON FOLtmi I'AifE.j
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
THE CHOLERA IN CHINA
ITS RAVAGES AMONG TIIE TF.O
PLE ARE SOMETHING
FRIGHTFUL.
THOUSANDS OF DEATHS I DAY
The Mortality in I’ekin ha? Averaged
2,000 Deaths Daily and the Disrate
b Raging at an Awful R rto InShnug*
Hat—Fatalities Among the Foreign
ers Very Great—Cotton Manufacture
in Japan—The Mikado’? Realm a
Spl< ndid Maiket for Machinery.
San Francisco, Cal , Sept. 21 Win.
E ( arris, well known as a newspaper
write r ar. d executive «slicer of the Pan
American Congress, has arrived here
from China and Japan. He describes
the ravages < f cholera in China as norm
thing frightful. The deaths in Pekin
average 2,000 a day and in Sbang-Ha»,
ti;'* mortality is very high. Eighteen
ice gi e s have died in the latter city.
Mr. Curtis said that'lie cholera is con
fined ahno t exclusively to the native
Chinese. At Pekin, where ver few for
eigners reside, ho had heard <>f no deaths
among the white people. In Tien Tsii
only one death among the foreign popu
lation has been reported up to this hour
in China. In Shang llai, where the
cholera is raging at an awful rate, the
fatalities among the foreigners have
been much greater. (Mr. Curtis said
he had been advised of eighteen death?.
Speaking of the subject which Mr
Curtis weut to Japan to investi
gate, tbe commercial and industrial
future of Japan, he said he has
returned convinced thao America has
no market iu the Mikado’s realm for
manufactured goods. “The Japanese
make almost everything they want,” he
said “They are stia'ing our patents
and opying our inventions, and arc
now almost ready to cxpoit their
wares, and thereby eater into ruining
completion with other nations. Tnereis,
however, a splendid market for ma
chinery as well is for eortou, iron and
o»ber raw materials, cotton particularly.
The Japanese are now using cotton very
1 .rgely, and i e.e is a pointer for Amcri
!c n cotton producers. While a great
! deal cf American cotton U used ; a ihi
j Orient, it g.>6o through English hands
b fore it reaches Japan,and the 2 m-.rican
g ewer ss deprived of the commissiors
j which go into the pocket of the English
| middlem n in Liverpool. Hut eotten
| ought to be shipped direct to Japan. For
that purpose v.e need the Nicaragua ca
'6 ” '' th< . imp leticn of the Gua
temala ran way, ami o{ e i harbors at tne
two termini of the Tehauntcpec railway.
America could sell a lot of cotton in Ja
pan. In two or three years Jap)an will
control the cotton trade of the Orient.
BA*EB4LL YESTERDAY.
Vt Clevelunil: t a*
Cleveland, Oin.Ulo 10-is jiT
1 10 2 0 0 0 0 0— 3 H 4
Batteries: Cuppy and Zimmer; Moran and
Merritt. Attendance, 1,000.
At Philadelphia: „ „ „
Philadelphia, -2 0003700 3-15 14 4
Washington, 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 5-10 10 4
Batteries: Cai-sey and Clements; Ander
-B°?.a2d •'l e , < -' 11110 - Attendance, 5,000.
At Brooklyn: r h r
Brooklyn, 000000000-0 5 3
Baltimore, 000008 1 10—4 8 3
r» rie /. : . °1 ub an . d J? nU and
Clatke Attendance, 5,000.
At Boston: „ „
Boston, 3 1 2 1 0 2 2 2 *-13 1> 2
New 5 ork, 5 0 0 o o 0 1 5 I—l 2 hi 0
and Doyle 8 " Sul,ivnn 11,1,1 Gan/.el; Clarke
At St. Louis: r a e
St. Louis, 011000000-2 12 3
Chicago, 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 *— (ill 3
■ U?A es , : McDongall and Miller; Griffith
and Kittredge. Attendance, 2,000.
At Cincinnati: „ - -
Cincinnati, 1 0 1 o*2 8 5 *-lii 21 3
Louisville, 0 1 3 0 1 2 0 1 *— 8 13 1
Batteries: Bailey and Vaughn: Inks, Wey
miig and TV arner.
How the Clubs Stand.
clubs. Won. Lost. Pr Ct.
Baltimore, 81 42 658
Cleveland, 83 45 !048
Philadelphia, 77 48 .616
Chicago, 69 56 .552
Boston, 68 56 .548
Brooklyn, 68 58 .540
Pittsburg, 66 61 .520
New York, 64 60 .516
Cincinnati, 6t 60 .504
Washington, 39 go 321
St. Louis, 37 86 .803
Louisville, 88 92 .262
Surdity Games.
Cincinnati at Louisville,
Chicago -,t Lon?.
Vi here they I'lay Monday.
Boston at Brooklyn.
Philadelphia at Baltimore.
New York at Washington.
Chicago at Cleveland.
Pittsburg at Louisville.
Cincinnati at St. Loud.
MHITEUAPS IN TENNESSEE.
They Are Burning Residences hi»l
W nipping Helpless People.
Bristol, Term , Sept. 21.—Wbitecarp
in Wash ngton aud Sullivan counties,
Tennessee, are burning residenc s and
whipping helpless psople. Oae woman
was taken frem her sick bed and carried
to an open field, after which her resi
dence was burned to the ground.
Citizens and whitecaps are on the eve
war. Armed meu are guarding resi
dences and other property. Many of the
citizens lie awake all night with shot
guns iu their hands. Much damage has
boeu done. Bloodshed is oertaiu.
SOLD THEM BRIC K DUST
And Now the Uashiugton Merchants
Vt aut to Find Their Man.
Washington, Sept. 21.—The Chief of
Police to day sent a dispatch to the Rich
mond, Va , authorities requesting them
to arrest and hold Oscar Wanecke, who
is wanted here on a charge of swindling
several merchants.
He sold them a number of boxes of al
leged insect powder which proved on
analysis to be simply brick dust.
I A dispatch from Hiehmond to day says
1 he was arrested there tc dfty.