The News and Obs^ver.
VOL. XXXIX. NO. 77.
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THE EARTH TREMBLED
EARTHQUAKE shocks felt
IX ALU THE EASTERN
STATES.
MUCH OAM4GEDONE IN MISSOURI
The Vibrations Lasted tor Fully 20
Minutes, and in Some Places the
Earth’s Surface Was Broken in
Fissures and Water and Sand
Gashed Forth iu Great Volume-
Several Houses Wrecked in Alabama
—Lasted Five Minutes in Michigan.
Washington, I). C., Oct. 31.—The
Weather Bureau reports that a shock of
the earthquake was fell here a 6:03 1-4
a. m. Prof. Marvin, who has charge of
the Seismograph, found the record of
the earthquake on his instrument this
morning. It showed that the vibration
was very feeble. It began at 6:03 1-4
and continued for three-fourths of a
minute.
The bureau also received reports of
the shock from the observers at Chatta
nooga, Tom., and Parkersburg W. Va.
The former made the time 6a. ni. and
the latter 0:15 a. m. The variations of
time of the reports are accounted for
by errors of the clocks from which the
time was rec rded.
The data received by the bureau, the
experts say, are inadequate for the for
mation of theories as to the cause. ln
fortunately as far as is known here, be
yond the instruments at the Naval Ob
servatory and the Seismograph at the
Weather Burt au there is no other Seis
mograph in the country except at the
Lick Observatory in California. If all
the weather bureau stations were equip
ped with Seismographs the Seismal lines
could be accurately charted and the cen
ter of the disturbance, as well as the
directions of the vibrations, could be ab
solutely determined.
Great Fissures in the Earth.
Charleston, Mo., Oct. 31. —After the
first shock here the earth's surface con
tinued to vibrate for fully 20 minutes.
Hundreds of chimneys were toppled
down and plate glass in several store
fronts broken to bits. The brick Method
ist church was badly shattered, and the
plastering knocked from a hundred or
more interiors. In the country foui
miles south of here the crust of the
earth was brok n in fifty places in
fissures and water and sand is gushing
in considerable volume. The same thing
is reported in districts further north and
south. Tnis is a part of an old volcano
region which was overwhelmed and
nearly destroyed by an earthquake
eighty years ago.
Lasted Five Minutes in Michigan.
Niles, Mich., Oct. 31.—The shock was
distinctly felt here and lasted five min
utes. BuTdings trembled, windows
cracked, beds swayed and people rushed
out of doors, alarmed to the highest de
gree. Three vibrations were felt.
Kalamazoo reports a severe shock.
No Damage at Chicago.
Chicago, 111., Oct. 31.—A distinct
earthquake shcck visited Chicago at 5:15
o’clock this morning, lasting about fifty
five seconds. No damage was done
but in many houses pictures
were thrown to the floor and
crockery broken. The shock was unac
companied by any audible rumbling,
coming in generally from the lake and
disappearing across the prairies of the
West. It was most severely felt on the
North Side, where probably the majority
of sleepers were awakened. In the
apartment houses of Buena Park and
the North Side suburbs the shaking up
was so perceptible that many persons
dashed out of their houess in scanty
clothing.
During the shock and for several
hours after the electricity in the atmos
phere was more than oppressive to per
sons of a nervous temperament.
The Moat Violent tor Tea Years.
Cincinnati, Oct. 31,—An earthquake
ahock was felt here at 5:12 this morn
ing, the most distinct for ten years. It
began with a slight tremulous motion
that oontinued for perhaps one minute,
and then followed two or three violent
andulations which shook buildings and
rattled widows like some gigantic ex
ploaion. Toe whole demonstration must
hava occupied nearly two minutes.
The People Were Awakeael.
s'a nous, Ind., Oct. 31.-The
earthquake shock here continued sixty
dr seventy seconds. Every building in
rise city was shaken. Thousands of
people were awakened. Windows rattled,
beds rocked and glasses bumped to
gether.
Severe Shock* al St. Loals.
Sc Locu, Mo., Oct. 31—At 5.12 a.
m , several severe earthquake shocks
were distinctly felt here. The vibrations
were from east to west and each shock
•ontiaaed several seconds. The opera
tors in the Western Union Telegraph
operating room becamealarmed and sev
eral rushed from the building. The
shocks were not accompanied by any
rambling noise. Clocks were stopped
and windows rattled bat no serious dam
age has been reported.
Reports show that severe shocks were
algo felt at Springfield, St. Joseph, Kan
sas City and numerous other points in
the State.
Wax Felt in Kentucky.
IjOUlhville, Ky., Oct. 31. The earth
quake shock here at 5:17 was felt all over
the city, but no damage is reported.
(looses Rocked at Memphis.
Mkaichis, Tenn., Oct. 31.—A heavy
ahock of earthquake was felt here this
morning at 5:08 The vibration was from
east to west. Houses rocked and people
almost spilled out of bed. The shock
'asted about a minute and was preceded
by a rumbling sound. The shcck was
also felt at Nashville and Chattanoog?.
Two Shocks at Augusta.
Augusta, Ga , Oct. 31 —Two distinct
earthquake shocks in quick succession
were felt here at 6 o’clock this morning.
Many people were badly frightened and
some rushed from their houses. No
damage.
Chimneys Knocked Down.
Gadsden, Ala., Oct. 31. -A severe
earthquake shock visited Gadsden at 5
a. m., and lasted one minute. Houses
rocked li*e cradles, brick buildings
wwed, chimneys were knocked down
and crockery broken.
Several persons were bruised by being
thrown from their beds. Reports from
sections of the country are that several
houses were wrecked.
Slight Shock in Louisiana.
New Orleans, La., Oct. 31.—A slight
shock - f earthquake was felt here this
morning at 5:06. The vibrations were
from east to west.
THE PA’I CHEX-GEN FRY RACE.
On Account of the Rain it Was Post
paned Till Next Tuesday.
Special to the News and Observer.
Reidsville, N. C., Oet. 81.
Wind and rain amounting almost to a
b’izzard struck Reidsville in the early
hours of the morning, thus destroying
all prospects of the great PatcheD-Gen
try pace, and, in fact, closing the Fair
entirely temporarily
The managers, however, are active and
are determined that the entire programme
shall yet,be carried out. To this end, a
meeting of the horsemen was called this
afternoon and it was decided that the
races be continued next Tuesday and
and Wednesday, sth and 6th of Novem
ber. All the horses will remain here, in
cluding Pateben and Gentry, who will
pace for the two thousand dollar purse
on Tuesday at 2 p. m.
The present rain will greatly benefit
the track and horsemen predict a great
race despite the bad weather. Hundreds
have visited the grounds to see t le great
pacers.
♦The Horse* in Perfect Condition.
Special to the News and Observer.
Greensboro, N. 0., Oct. 31.
The storm king of the elements
knocked out the storm kings of the turf
at Reidsville to day and took all the
heats, bat the turf kings are not con
tent and will try it all over on Tuesday
next.
John R. Gentry and Joe Patchen re
tired early last night, and each proba
bly dreamed that the morrow had come
and that the glory of a ne w record was
his Ten thousand people in Reidsville,
Danville, Richmond, Greensboro, Char
lotte, Raleigh and other places retired
early also, and many of them probably
dreamed that they had witnessed the
victor covered with the new glory; but
while the powers and the people slept,
the clouds gathered and before the
dawning the rain began pouring down
upon a thirsty world, but breaking up
the great Reidsville race.
The two great pacers were well rested
and anxious to enter the contest, hut
another day will do a3 well. So it w»s
arranged that the great race should be
postponed until Tuesday, the sth inst.,
when perhaps the sun will have shined
again, the track dried off, and the horses
be better rested and in more perfect con
dition for the contest.
Notwithstanding the rain a large
crowd was at; Reidsville to day, many
leading business and professional men
from different sections, and hundreds
went out to see the South’s paciDg whirl
wind and the Kansas cyclone. They are
great horses without pimple or blemish.
They occupy adjoining stalls and seem
to'be genial companions. Gentry is a
rich bay weighing 955 pounds; Patchen,
a coal black a hundred pounds
heavier. The difference in their record
is one fourth of a second in Gentry’s
favor. They have made the grand cir
cuit this year and their combined earn
ings are more than thirty thousand dol
lars. They could he sold to-day for
fifty thousand dollars. They have con
quered all antagonists in the stallion
world and are now trying to conquer
each other.
Tuesday’s contest will be a battle
royal Gentry will be driven by one of
his owners, Mr. Scott; Patchen by his
famous driver, Mr. Carr.
It will be a fight to the finish and each
horse will be driven to win. The Reids
ville track is the fastest track in the
South, and it may be that a North Ca:o
lina horse will smash the world’s record
on a North Carolina track.
The other races were also continued,
and will be pulled off Tuesday and Wed
nesday.
Special trains will be run and reduced
rates given. A large crowd will be
present.
Another Gasoline Victim Dies,
Petersburg, Va., Oct. 81.—Emily
Fairfax, the infant daughter of Fortee
cue and Susan McNair Whittle, who was
so seriously burned in Wednesday’s ex
plosion, died of her injuries at twenty
minutes to nine o’clock to-night.
Monarchist <’on*piracy Discovered.
Rio Janeiro, Oct. 31.—A monarchist
conspiracy has been discover- d m the
State of Sao Paulo, with exren ive rami
fications in various districts. Many
arrests have been made.
RALEIGH. N. C.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1895.
808 STILL IN CUSTODY
FITZSIMMONS HAD NO LAWYER
AND SO IIIS CASE WAS
POSTPONED.
THE TRIftL WILL BE HELO TO-DAY
A Dense Throng Filled the Court Room
and there was Great Disappointment
at the Result of the Trial—Fitzsim
mons had Said that he Would go into
Court and Give any Bond that Might
be Required of him and then go on
to Hot Springs and Fight Corbett.
Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 31.—“1 am
perfectly willing that this case be con
tinued until to morrow,” said Martin
Julian in Judge Joseph W. Martin’s
court this afternoon. Had a bomb ex
ploded in the Temple of Justice, it would
have created scarcely less sensation
among the throng of interested specta
tors than did these words.
“Oh ! what a fiuke.”
“He don’t want to go to Hot Springs ”
“Well, what do you think of that?”
These are samples of the expressions
of utter disgust which flaw from mouth
to mouth as the disappointed crowd filed
out of the court room close upon the heels
of Martin Julian and Robert Fitzsimmons
as they made their way back to their
i suits of rooms in the Capitol Hotel in
custody of two deputy sheriffs of Pulaski
county.
For an hour before the time set for the
hearing of the case a dense throng of
people had gouged each others eyes with
their elbows iu the corridor of the coun
ty court room in their mad desire to ob
tain admission to the room in which
Fitzsimmons and Julian were to answer
warrants charging them with contem
plating an assault upon James J.
Corbett and requiring them to keep
the peace. Julian had told every
newspaper man who came within hail
ing distance that he was just aching to
reach Hot Springs. All the morning he
had been saying that he would be re
leased on bond this afternoon and go to
Hot Springs to-night and there claim
the $2,500 forfeit of the Florida Athletic
Club after receiving which Fitzsimmons
was ready to fight Corbett to morrow
on any terms the champion might name.
Mr. Julian early in the day received a
telegram from Hot Springs stating
that Col. George W. Murphy would bo
here to defend him in behalf of the club.
When the Hot Springs train came how
ever, it was fonud that the lawyer was
not abroad and would not arrive until
to morrow. Then Julian said that he
would defend his own case. He would
go into court and demand his liberty,
give any amount of bond required and
proceed to Hot Springs and force Corbett
to fight or leave the country.
When, therefore, after a motion for a
continuance was made by the State,
Manager Julian arose and said, without
hesitation, that he was perfectly willing
for a continuance until to mo:row, the
admirers of the New Zealander could
hardly believe their ears.
Maher-O’Donnell Fight Postponed.
Hot Springs, Ark., Oct 31.—The at
tempt to have a fight to-night between
Maher and O’Donnell has been abandon
ed. It will be pulled off Mooday after
noon and no other fight will take place
before that time.
Pat Ofl Until Next Week.
Hot Springs, Ark., Oet. 31.—The big
fight is put over until next week, and
the chances are not favorable for Corbett
and Fitzsimmons meeting in the ring be
fore Thursday. There will, however, be a
fight on Monday afternoon, at 3 o’clock,
when Maher and O’Dor nell will meet with
five ounce gloves in Whitton Park two
miles from the center of town. This
match is definitely settled and unle s
the State interferes in very forcible man
ner it will be fought out according to
programme Smith and Ryan will pro
baoiy be given a chance on Tuesday.
The fight committee came to this con
clusion this afternoon to have the Maher
O’Donnell fight on the receipt of word
fro* Little Rock that it would be impos
sible to get Fitzsimmons out of his legal
entanglement and have him in Hot
Springs for a fight this week
MANY MONKS HAVE DIEM.
A lloab Exploded ia the Monastery of
Borjaela.
Madrid, Oct. 81.—A bomb was ex
ploded to day in the Monastery of Bor
juelain the Province of Biscay, resulting
in great damage. Several of the monks
have died of the fright caused by tho ex
plosion. The authors of the oatrage are
nnknown.
At Chelua, in the Province of Valence,
a mob stoned a rosary procession and the
crown of the Image of the Virgin carried
in the procession was broken.
Excitement was caused by the disor
der. (Several persons were wounded.
Prince IliMnurck Not Dead
Friedrichsruhe, Oct. 31.—There is
absolutely no foundation for the sensa
tional report that Prince Bismarck is
dead, which was circulated in the Uui
ted States by a newspaper agency. On
the contrary, the Prince has enjoyed bet
ter health recently than he has for some
time past.
Miss Flagler Indicted lor Manslaughter
Washington, I). O , October 31.
Miss Flagler, daughter of Gen. Flagler,
whose shooting and killing of a negro
boy who was stealing fruitseveral months
ago created a sensation, was indicted to
day for manslaughter.
SOBBED LIKE A CHILD
HOLMES’ WONDERFUL NERVE
AND COOLNESS FORSOOK
HIM YESTERDAY,
HIS WIFE TURNED AGAINST HIM
And She Never Bestowed a Glance on
the Man She Once Had Loved as,
for One Hour and Forty Minutes, She
Related a Story that Slowly bat Sure
ly Tightened the Noose Aronnd His
Neck-Holmes Conducted the Cross-
Examination Himself.
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 31 —For about
thirty minutes to-day, the nerve at
which all men have marvelled forsook
Holmes, and, bowed and broken, he
sank his head into his hands and sobbed
like a child. Meanwhile, the woman he
persists in calling his wife, and upon
whom he had p;nned his highest hope,
sat two yards away, relating a story
that slowly, but surely tightened the
noose on his neck. For one hour
and forty minutes she whispered to the
court crier the words that told how
Pietzal had come to the Eleventh street
house, where they were stopping, the
night before the murder; and how
Holmes bad been away for five hours of
the next day, coming back flushed and
excited, and carrying her hurriedly off to
Indianapolis. It was the day after this
that the corpse was found in the Callow
hill street house. At the close of her
examination-in chief, Holmes asked to
conduct the cross examination himself,
and standing in a corner of the dock,
nervously wringing his hands, he put a
few questions. Then he said he would
reserve the right to call her as a witness
for the defem e.
Throughout her testimony, Miss
Georgiana Yoke, for so she calls herself
never once bestowed a pas-ing glance
upon the man she once had loved.
During tho greater part of it, she kept
her blue eyes riveted on the floor, and
when it b came necessary to raise them,
she was careful to lift them so that the
pale, shrunken face in the* dock should
not come in their path.
The case progressed so swiitly to-day
that but few witnesses remain to be
heard before the closing of the common
wealth’s case. Then the defense will
open and, in spite of Holmes’ statement
that he would himself testify and also
call Miss Yoke, his counsel privately
stated to night that the defense would
offer no evidence but submit the
case on argument alone. And the*
express supreme confidence in his
acquittal. Their first victory was
gained to night and it disappointed
those morbid listeners who had counted
on viewing the bones of the dead boy,
Howard. The defense strenuously ob
jected to the introduction of any further
evidence touching the alleged murder of
the children, and Judge Arnold sus
tained the contention. This was evi
dently a blow to the commonwealth, and
District Attorney Graham fought against
it with great vigor. Holmes showed no
elation at the triumph, but hta lawyers
were unfeignedly jubilant.
The taking of testimony was resumed
at 10:20 a. m. The first witness was
Sidney Samuels, a member of the bar of
Fort Worth, Texas, who told about
Holmes’ coming to him, under the name
of Pratt to have him draw up the note
which Mrs. Pietzel testified Holmes pre
tended to pay at St. Louis. The note
was never indorsed, nor the loan made.
After Inspector Gary of the insurance
company has given some testimony tend
ing to show that Holmes was a much
married man, Miss Yoke cr Mrs. How
ard, was called to the stand.
For the first time Holmes broke down.
He gazed steadily at her for a few sec
onds, while his hands twitched nerv
ously and his lips opened and closed,
but she carefully avoided meeting his
eyes.
Then he suddenly bent forward over a
little desk in his dock and the tears
began to trickle down his cheeks. He
drew his handkerchief ont and for a mo
ment or two sobbed. Then quickly recov
eringhimself.he dried his eyes and bowed
his head, busily engaged himself with his
notes but still occasionally giving way
to a sob. She gave her name as Geor
giana Yoke, said she was in St. Louis in
June 1694, and knew the prisoner, who
was in the drug business and went
under the names of H. H. Holmes and
11. M. Howard. She came to Philadel
phia in August and remained here four
weeks.
Mr. Graham then put a series of
questions to fix Holmes’ whereabouts on
the day the murder is supposed to have
been committed—Sunday, Sept. 2,1894.
“I was in my room on the evening of
Saturday, Sept. 1. I had been ill part
of the time in bed. The prisoner was
at home. Some one called during the
evening and he went down stairs. When
he came up he said it was a messenger
from the Pennsylvania Railroad to see
him about a copying deal with the com
pany. Afterwards he said the caller
was B. F. Piet zel. This was the day be
fore we left for Philaoelphi
Was he at home the next day?”
“Part of the day. He went out about
half past ten in the morning, and came
back between 3 and 4 in the afternoon.
He said he had been at Nieetown, a sub
urb of Philadelphia. We left on the
10:15 train. The prisoner remained
with me in Indianapolis for a day or
two. Tnen he went away, saying he
was going to St. Louis. When he came
back, he went with me to my mother’s
home in Franklin, Ind, From there we
returned to Indianapolis, and a few
days afterwards he went to Philadel-
phia, saying the copying deal had been
closed. He returned trom Philadelphia
about the 24th of the month, and he
then went to St. Louis to meet lawyer
Harvey. After we came back from Phil
adelphia to Indianapolis, he went to St.
Louis, and on one of these occasions, he
said he was going to meet a man from
Fort Worth, who was to buy the block
in that city.
“When he returned from this trip he
said he had sold the block for $35,000,
SIO,OOO in cash and the balance payable
semi annually. Miss Yoke then told of
Holmes’ giving her presents and taking
her with him to Detroit, Toronto, Pres
cott, Canada, Burlington, Vt., and Bos
ton, where Holmes was arrested.”
“Did yon, during all these travels, see
anything of Mrs. Pietzel or the children?”
“I did not.”
Mr. Rotan, who had been talking
quietly to Holmes, arose and told the
court that the prisoner insisted on con
ducting the cross-examination in person
The coutt consented and Holmes, aris
ing, stood in the corner of his dock near
est the witness stand, addressing his
q Testions tremulously direct to the wo
man, he called tier his wife,but she never
raised her eyes and gave her replies in a
whisper to the court crier, who repeated
them aloud.
Holmes asked her a few questions
about the time he had left the house and
returned on September 2, and as to his
personal appearance on that occasion,
and then told the court he would re
serve what other questions he had until
he called the witness direct for the de
fense. The court then took a recess
After recess, Mrs. Pietzel was recalled
and identified some wearing apparel as
having belonged to her bmband.
Detective Thomas G. Crawford, who
was sent to Boston to bring Holmes here
said ho also brought his papers and
effects in two tin boxes.
Detective Frank P. Geyer, who traced
Holmes movements throughout the
country, identified a number of papers
taken from these. They were the letters
written by the children to their mother
and never mailed by Holmes.
Detective Geyer then related in detail
his travels in connection with the case,
and recited his interviews with Holmes,
beginning with the one in the cell room
in Boston, when Holmes told him he had
brought a body from New York to Phila
delphia to pass aa Pietzel’s. Later Holmes
told him this story was not true, and
that the body found in the Callowhill
street house was really Pietzel's. The
witness several times referred to the
murder of the Pietzel children, and the
defense objected.
District Attorney Graham contended
that the murder of the children was so
intimately connected with the killing of
their father that it was part of the same
transaction, and that it was Holmes’
purpose to exterminate the entire fam
ily, including Mrs. Pietzel, Dessa and
the baby.
Judge Arnold caused a mild sensation
by deciding that the killing of the chil
dren had no connection with the trial of
Holmes for the murder of the father, and
that no such evidence could be intro
duced.
Geyer was then put under cross exam
ination. He was asked but a few ques
tions and corroborated his former story.
Superintendent of Police Linden, of
this city, was put on the stand and cor
roborated much of Geyer’s testimony.
Mr. Graham here said that with the
exception of two or three witnesses, the
commonwealth was ready to close and it
would perhaps be better to go in the
morning.
Court then at 5-20 p. m. aljourned
until 10 o’clock to morrow.
DENOUNCED THE TILLMAN PLAN
Senator Irby’s Speech on the Suit rage
Question.
Columbia, 8. 0., Oct. 81.—The great
fight between Senator Irby and Senator
Tillman on the suffrage question was
opened to day by a speech from Senator
Irby attacking the report of the commit
tee.
He said he would stultify himself and
the cause of the people of South Carolina
if he would vote for any discrimination
against poor and illiterate men.
He was not an ingrate who would ac
cept the highest offices in South
Carolina lor the poor and illiterate while
men, and then trample them beneath his
feet, this reference being plainly aimed
at Tillman. Irby said that he would
vote with the negroeo against the Till
man plan as long as it had an educa
tional and property qualification. He
denounced the plan as a political ini
quity, and declared he never would be
tray the people who gave him office.
While denouncing the Tillman plan, he
offered no substitute.
Senator Tillman spoke to-night in de
fense of his plan. The greater part of
his speech was based on the report of
the Investigating Committee on fraads
which investigated the corruption inci
dent to the period of negro rule in the
Stat*. He was very severe in his
eomments and he read the extracts,
he said, not to humiliate and
degrade the members from Beaufort but
to show to the world that the colored
people largely were still incompetent to
govern a civilized people when they elect
ed two men, Smalls and Whipper, as
members of this convention, who were
participants iu the riotous deviltry, and
fraud and corruption of the period.
Grover Still A-tishing.
Charleston, W. Va., Oct. 31.—Presi
dent Cleveland, accompanied by Internal
Revenue Commissioner J. S. Miller, ar
rived here this morning on their way to
Shepherdstown, where they enjoyed a
day’s fishing.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WARNING TO TURKEY
THE AMERICAN MISSIONARIES
IN ARMENIA MUBT BE
PROTECTED.
FURTHER OUTRAGES ARE FEARED
In View of the Critical Situation the
United States Ambassador Will
Leave Nothing Undone to Insure the
Safety of the Mis«ionarie«--Three
Armenian Notables to he Executed
on the Ground That They Were Re
sponsible for the Recent Rioting.
Constantinople, Oet. 31.—A sensa
tion has been caused here by tho report,
generally believed to be correct, that
three Armenian notabilities toTrebizond,
including a prom nent ecclesiastic, are
to be executed on tho ground that they
are responsible for the recent rioting
there.
According to statements made in
Armenian circles, about 800 Armenians
w re kdled during the fighting a Bitlis ■
with tho Turks. The loss of the latter is /
said to be trifling.
Advices from Moosh say that the load
ing Armenians of that locality have been
conferring witb the Turks of that city
and neighborhood as to the means to be
adopted in order to prevent the outbreak
there of disorders similar to those which
have occurred recently in different parts
of Armenia and which have resulted in
so much bloodshed. It is added that
the Turks stipulated that the American
missionaries who are distributing relief
to the suffering people of Sassoun with
draw from there in three days, other
wise, the Turkish notabilities claim, they
fear there will be a massacre such as has
just occurred at Bitlis.
In view of the critical situation of af
fairs outlined above, the United States
Ambassador, Mr. Alexander W. Terrell,
has advised the American missionaries
to withdraw temporarily from Sassoun.
At the same time Mr. Terrell has noti
fied the Turkish government that the
United States will hold it responsible for
the lives of the American missionaries.
The United fctates Ambassador has
taken a firm stand in the matter and
nothing will be left undone which will,
in any way, insure the safety of the
missionaries. The British charge D’Af
fairs, the Hon. M. Herbert has made
representations to the Porte of a nature
identical with those of Mr. Terrell. The
result is that the government has de
cided to send troops to protect the mis
sionaries.
But bere another complication arises.
The Kurds of Sassoun are only held in
check by ths presence there of the mis
sionaries, fearing to commit excesses in
their presence, and they threaten to
plunder the Armenians after the depart
ure of the missionaries. Theretore, in
any case, fresh troubles are feared
unless the authorities take special
measures for the protection of the
Armenians. The mere pretence there of
Turkish troops is far from being a suffi
cient guarantee against a repetition of
the Sassoun bloodshed which has re
cently occurred in other parts of Ar
menia, and nothing but the most ener
getic action, it is asserted, can avert a
serious disturbance.
In view of these facts, the Armenian
patiiarch has appealed to the foreign
embassies here to intervene for the pre
vention of another massacre. The
Tuikish officials in reply, again assert
that all the recent outbreaks here and in
Armenia, are nothing more than the
work of the Hintchek, or Armenian se
cret society, which has provoked all the
riots.
FRANCE’S NEW CABINET.
M. Bourgeois Has Accepted the Task
or Forming It.
Paris, Oct. 31.—M. Bourgeois this
evening informed President Faure that
he has accepted the task of forming a
new cabinet.
The new ministry, so far a* formed,
is as follows:
M. Bourgeois— Minister of the Interior
and Piesident of the Council of Minis
ters.
M. Ricard—Minister #f Justice and
Worship.
M. Cavaignae—Minister of War.
M. Lockroy—Minister Marine.
M. Berthelt—Minister of Education.
M Doumer—Minister of Finance.
M. Guyot D’Essaigne—Miaistor of
Public Works.
M. Me*ureur—Minister of Comraeroe.
M. Combes—Minister for the Colon
ies.
Death o! Mr. Ansalera Reid.
Special to the News and Observer.
Winston, N. 0., Oct. 81.
Mr. Ansalem Reid, one of Salem’s
oldest citizens, died last night in his 83d
year. His wife and three children survive
him. The deceased was a cousin of the
late Gov. Reid. He was a member of
the Primitive Baptist church. The
funeral was held this afternoon, and was
conducted by Elder P. D. Gold, of that
denomination.
Prince ol Wales May Challenge.
Glasgow, Oct. 81.—A rumor which
had its origin at Partick, the extensive
ship building town, tw o miles from this
city, where many big yachts have been
built, is current here to day, and in sub
stance, it is that the Prince of Wales is
seriously contemplating building a yacht
with which to challenge for the
America's Cup.