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inusou E SMI WILL TAKE OF No Christian Has Ever Enter ed Its Portals And Nore Will Witness Rite ACTIVE STEPS FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF Order Restored In Provinces Refugees Are Returning to Their Homes (Br Associated Press.) CONSTANTINOPLE, May S. Be Viewing stands are being put up In the . principal , stteeta of Stamboul today preparatory to the procession tomor row, following the girding of the sword, updn Mehemed V. This cere mony, corresponding to that of eoro nation, wilt take place In the Mosque Ayoub. the single. Mosque lmConstan tlnople which Christians are not al lowed to enter or even congregate about the entrance or court yard. It will last but a few minutes and no foreign eyes will witness the ancient rite of the spiritual power consigning the temporal power to the sultan. A stand, has been erected for the foreigners, some eight' or ten blac diplomatic corps and distinguished from the Mosque. The sultan will proceed from the Dolmabagtscbe pal ace to the Mosque,1 and from there, attended by the grand vizier, the Sheik-Ul-Islam, and many other func tionaries, will go to the Top Kapou palace,' about six miles distant, to kiss the robe of the prophet. The Bultan's train Is expected to make a rich dis play of fabrics, jewelled arms and fine horses, Relief lor Armenians, The government Is taking hold of the relief work In Adana province with vigor. It was announced today that 1160,000 hadybeen sent there. The grand vlaier and Ferid Pasha, the minister of the Interior, received a deputation Of Armenian clergy and laity yesterday, headed by Arseharant, provisional representative, of ahe pa trlarchate, who -was assured1 the gov ernment ' would , inquire .thoroughly Into the Adana maesacges, and severe ly punish those guilty of Inciting them. A'number of notable Armenians met here today and submitted to the gov ernment the followlng.requesta: First, that the murderers of Chris tiana be punished; second, that stolen f Continued on page seven.) BAPTIST CONVENTION MEETS AT LOUISVILLE TO CELEBRATE JUBILEE Among Those Who Will Make Addresses is Mr. J. 'H. TiK'ker of This City. SESSIONS LAST WEEK (Rpeclal to Th Citizen.) ' LOUISVILLE, Ky., May .-Co-ln-cldent With the Jubilee of the Southern Baptist Theological semi nary, of Louisville. May 11, a con vention of all the Baptists of the South will begin here, the session to cover a period of one week. The oc casion of the convention will be made the medium for a sort of stock tak ing of the faith in the state of the Union below the Ohio and the Poto mac and Dr. B. Y. Mullina, president of the seminary an ex-offlclo head -of the organisation, which is known as the Southern Baptists convention, es timates that five thousand delegates will be In Louisville during the event ful week. The Southern Baptists convention Is In no sense a legislative body. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, North Onrnllna. Rmith Carolina. renneswa. Texas. Virginia and a portion of the; sroiiD POWF District Of Columbia will be rePre-jare compelled to travel many miles to sented. with .a, total membership ln'tne rubber, forests and sleep there for , n n a j n (tie nan 1 whlph TeTflS ' - .......I, unit., nnhonlrhv ivvo ui ,wi,wov, in i Georgia and Kentucky noio uie three places hi point of numbers. The convention was organised at Augusta, Georgia, In 1845 and this is the fifth time It has met in Louis ville. Fourteen SouHiern states will have representatives from the prominent cittsen Baptists, and many Northern ones will send speakers and those de sirous of learning what progress the creed named for John , has made since Its last meeting. There will be several distinct departments of the convention: The Laymems' movement, the Baptists Educational society of the South; the church as a whole; the Baptist Toung Peoples' union and the Southern Baptists Theological semi nary. Astuwllte Speaker. Joshua Levering, of Baltimore, Maryland, M head of the board of (Continued on page seven.) WILL DIE RATHER T Mrs. Boyle Maintains Inno ccnce. And Will NotjGoto Penitentiary She Says HUSBAND WILL TRY ' TO TELL HIS STORY May Implicate Others In Kid napping If He Is Per mitted to Speak (By Associated Press.) MERCEK, Fa., May 9. Unless present plans are changed James II floyle, .and his wife, Helm Anna Boyle will be sentences, by Judge WI1 Hams In the ihercer county court to. morrow for the abduction of "Billy" Whltla. Previous to the sentencing. Attor ney Miller and Stranaman, it Is said, will ask for new trials, but it Is ex pected the court will overrule the mo tions. The probability is that Boyle will make a scene when sentence Is an nounced. It is certain that If per mitted Boyle will again attempt to tell sensational story Implicating a third party In the kidnapping. Mrs. Boyle asserts She 'Will have nothing to say when sentenced. She says: "Jimmy has something to say and ought not to be gagged. I will 'not say anything, but Jimmy will, I will aid him." "Seriously, I want to fell you there going to be double suicide. I will not spend much time In the penlten-j tlary. I have made all arrangements Jimmy will do the same. "Do you think I am going to the penitentiary for many years? No, sir. When my sentence would expire 1 would be an old woman. I would have no friends and no money. Who wants anything to do with an old woman? would rather die young. "This Is my twenty-third birthday, and ant X not In a very poor position to' celebrate thei -rtf I am -Infra cent of crime, however, and may be God In his goodness will yet allow me to spend many anniversaries. But yet there Is the shadow of the peniten tiary and the remedy suicide. Do you see that writing pad over there? In that I will soon write my will end last message." , (Continued on page seven.) or OF IMPORTANT SUITS Congo State Affairs Will be Threshed Over in Trial For Libel Action. AN OLD CONTROVERSY LONDON, Thursday. April 29. All white men In the Congo Free State are Interested In the trial for libel of two American missionaries, llev. William Morrison and Rev W. II. Sheppard. which will begin In Lcu poldvllle. May 20. This case Is ex pected to bua teat between the Bel gian government and the American missionaries, who have lung made themselves a thorn In Its flesh by their charges of mal-admlnlstratlon and op pression of the natives. The suit Ib brought by one of the concessionary companies called the "Kasal Trust," which has a monopo ly of rubber gathering In the Kasal region. In -substance the charges of the mis sionaries are that the officials levy upon the natives oppressive so-called taxes to be paid In rubber; that whole villages. Including women and chil dren are Impressed by the soldiers for . . tn ruuuor; that they ofien more than a week under unneauny conditions; that they are crueiiy pun ished for failure to fulfill the taxes imposed, and that so large a propor tion of their time Is taken for gath ering these taxes that they are un able to cultivate crops and raise food necessary for their support. Messrs. MorrlBOn and Sheppard are members of the American Presbyter Ian mission. Some twenty American missionaries are stationed In the Con go, and as nearly all of them have made the same accusations the out come of this st.lt will have an impor tant bearing upon the future there. PATTEN ON THE JOB. CHICAGO, May . James A. Pat ten, the central figure of the wheat market arrived In Chicago today after taking a short rest on a ranch near Trinidad. Colorado. Mr. Patten said he would be St his desk tomorrow as usual. . .......... IJGOTOPU WOMAN DECLARE FINAL PASSAGE OF TARIFF BILL IE BE Prospect- Now That it Will Not Get Through Much . . Before August OPPOSITION AMONG - REPUBLICANS STRONG Discussion of Schedules Brok en By Long Speeches on Bill In General (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. May S. The tariff bill Will 'continue to receive the undi vided attention to the senate this week. Ostensibly, the amendments to the dlqerent schedules will be before the senate, but as last week, there will doubtless be much general discussion of the whole tariff question. , The bill has aroused an unlooked for opposl tlon among republican senators. The general opinion is that In the end the nance committee will prevail, but apparently the end Is still far. off. There is again talk of lengthening the hours of the dally sittings, but there is fear that If this course Is resorted" to It will have the effect of antagonizing to a still greater degree the opponents of the measure and of creating delay rather than expediting the measure. Much Work Ahead. There remain -many topics for con sideration. The lead schedule Is still largely undisposed v of, and will he under consideration when the' bill is taken up tomorrow. Senator Clay has prepared an exhaustive speech in opposition to the sugar schedule, but it is doubtful whether that eohed- le will be reached during the pret- nt week. In the house the Phllllpplne tariff will be reported tomorrow and there ill be an effort to consider It on Thursday. There is little or no op position to It. t , Owing to the shape which th de bate la the senate has assumed. most f "the prophets are 'extending consid erably the day for final adjournment Some senators are placing the date as late as August 1. It probably will not, however, be later than July 1. Panama Treaty. An attempt will be made at this session to have the senate reconsider Its action, In amending the treaty be- ( Continued on page seven.) INE T Became Panic Stricken When Boat Began to Dip And Capsized Craft. , BODIES SWEPT AWAY (By Associate! Press.) WILKF-HBAKKE. IVnn.. May . - Six men, a woman and two children were drowned this afternoon in the Susquehanna river near this city by the capsizing of a row-boat in which they had started for an outing. The dead are: Thomas Andrews, William Andrews, "Fheodore Andrews. Frank Marlono- sky, Adm Strukus, Frank GanofTsky, and his wife and two boys, John and Michael. When the nine persons who start ed out in the small craft remained close to the shore, all went well, but as the boat drifted into the swift current it began to dip water. Th( occupants became panic-stricken and called frantically for assistance. Home boys at play on tha bank heard the screams' but before a boat could be secured the row-boat In midstream had filled and sank. Nono of th occupants could swim, and were swept down the river to their death by the running current. .None of the bod let has b:n recovered. STOLE REAL GOLD BRICK FROM MINT (My Associated Press.) NEW ORLEANS. May . A darine and unusual offense against the fed eral government was revealed today by the confession of Lorenzo D. Cun nlgham, a negro employe of the United States mint at New Orleans, who was arrested Saturday as he war exhibiting a real gold brick of com paratively small slse to members of his race. Cunningham signed an admission that he had stolen the gold in granu lated form from the separating di vision of the mint and then moulded It Into the oval shape In which it was found. It Is valued at about tJ0. LONE DELAYED i 6E 0000 ? rfllv &nJ DEPOT SECTION OF CITY The waters from the storm swept down upon the depot section between twelve and one o'clock last night in a orrent. At one time the water stood 4 feet deep on parts of Depot street and even at four o'clock had not entirely subsided. The house of Mrs. Elsey In the rear of Glen Eock ho tel was washed away. Chick en coops, bed steads, chairs and all kinds of furniture as well as fruits, and all maimer of things were' floating high above the street., ' The Beech Hill and 1 Tench Broad bridges are washed ST.ELi.ISi IT MOBILE Wrote Many Novels, Pub lishing Her last "Devota" About Year Ago. (Special to Tlio Citizen.) MOBILE, Ala., May . Mrs. All ruatu-Evans Wilson, the well known Southern authored, died at her home here this morning at o'clock from in attack r-f heart failure. Mrs. Evo s-Wi'non was a native of Columbus, ileorglii. and was 74 years f age. For the past year she has been In retirement at her beautiful subur ban home, "Ashland." She begun her literary career early In life and continued her writings un til about a year ago, when her last book "Devotu", was Issued from the press on Dece nin r z, lses, she was ............ ,..... u. nent citizen of Mobile and their beau (Iful suburban home was a literary and toclal center from that day till his leath in October, 1891. Among her writings are sueii well known books as "Inez", "Ht. Klmo", tleulah", "At '.he Mercy of Tlberus", "The Speckled Bird." Mrs. Evann-WilHon is survived by three sisters, Mrs Virginia R. Ilrngg, if Mobile; J. VV. Hush, of Klrmlng ham; Mrs. Ieo Tarleton, of New V'ork city. Klie had many relatives throughout the South. TELKOItAPIII IW CONVENTION' ATLANTA. (In., My 3. The an nual convention of the order of Hall way Telegraphern will be hftld In At lanta trsjss week beginning tomor row at 10 o'clock. Heveral hundred lute In the United States and fro-i Canada. Th convention will continue throughout the week, possibly run ning to the middle of next week. WASHINGTON, May Forecast for North Carolina: Cooler with shoot ers and probably thunderstorms Mon day; Tuesday fair; brisk south shift ing to northwest winds with squalls. Stung-g.g.g! FLOODED BY THE STORM away. The street cars could not get even near the depot. Men offered as high as a dol lar to be carried from the Olen Bock to the depot to make their trains. The peo ple were aroused and in a wild, frantic state, - jumped from the windows and then rushed through the water, throwing out all they could reach, only to see their salvage- floating ' down ' the street. ; Nobody has been reported as injured but there "were some very narrow escapes, especially little children clinging to the mothers, who' PRISONERS ESCAPE Hi LEAVE JAILER 0YIN6 Lynching Posse Scouring Country Will Make Short Work of Them. (By Annotated Press.) JRSUP, Ga., May . Posses are scouring the country for miles around for three negro prisoners who early tonight escaped from the Wayne county jail here, leaving behind them Deputy Frank Madray with his skull fractured, his eyes almost forced from i their sockets, and Ills life merely hanging by a thread. Hoot he! prints on his face seem to show thut the negroes after fl. wring tlin officer had stamped In his faca ''l th,)U(fht thllt aft,.r a.ultlng hlni I . ,, , ,,,,, ... h, ; nuvM , , w .... Jail to give tnem some water iny dragged him to the Jnll yard and there lert hiin. After an hour he win found by his wife who went to seek film. Hhe sounded the alarm and im-iin search for the escaped negro Imwoii ut once. Automobiles were sent for the nearest blood hounds, many mllea I awny am! in the meantime cruwds of i men begun a syxtematlc search through the county. Kxcllement Is high anil If one or more of the ne groes are caught a lynching Is regard ed as almost certain to occur. The ne-j groc are, iJeorge Itoherts, Monry Mil ler and Kobert Ibtnks. BRESNAHAN'S LIFE INSURED FOR $50,000 (Br Asaoclatml Pre.) KT LOITIH, Mo.. May 9. Htanley Hohlson , owner of the Ht, Louts Na tional Rnsobal) flub has taken not a $r,(l,00(i Insurance policy on his man ager and leading catcher, floger Ures nahan. Ho cost Kobison four good players valued at ICO.OOO when he wss bought from, the New fork Notional team. He Is under a three year con tract for 126.000. Ilresnahan, taken as a darlny play er, has been injured often. Two big companies refused to take the risk. CAVGHT AT I'ISTOL'S POINT. MONTEZUMA, Oa., May . Ielah Hicks, the negro whom It la Alleged shot snd killed Hanks Ixfiey, a promi nent planter, two weeks ago, was cap tured today at Ideal, Qa after fierce pistol i battle and hand-to-hand strug gle with three citizens of the commun ity who recognised him. None of the parties were seriously hurt. Hicks was lodged la the Macon county jail. were overcome with fear and excitement. - ' . At two o'clock when the car left for the depot the wa ter was at its highes point. Men who expeced to make wo. od nad to come back ex cept one or two who offered fabulous s prices for trans portation by horse for a dis tance less than a city block. s xne uneeda Lunch room was flooded to the' top of the councer.:- .,-- . t The' damage cannot be' es timated but it was very large owing to the amount of wood lumber and other property mat noatea away. IPPI New Orleans People ' Take First Opportunity of In specting Fighting Ship. (Ily Associated Press.) NICW OHLKAN8, May 8. It was Utmonlrattd today that the big bat tleship Mislsslppi can accommodate (he thousand visitors at once and not be. overcrowded. The "Jackie" who stood at the gang plank all today Wtn automatic recording machine In his hand registering every soul who euinu on board, swears that there were thut many on board at once sev eral times during the day. When night fell and there eaniM a lull In the huae ,., of Klllly anu ,mlUngly . . ... . . iH-nq.iritiK people, inn register the register had clicked over Iirteen thousand times It was a patriotic and happy throng too. Kvury man, woman and child )i seemed to feel not only a pride In tint grim machine of death and d 1 m ruction, but a sense of part owner I ship In the craft a well. On the forward gun deck the ath- letlc Jackies Indulged In wrestling ' mulches and Impromptu bouts to the great delight of the visitors, woo were eager to reward the agllu white-clad I in In. After the athletic entertain mi nt, a sailor orchestra struck up dance music. A bashful, fair-halrd tar upiirouched a pretty girl with a silent Invitation. Khe hesitated a mo ment, then stepped out snd swung i ff In his arms In a waltz. Others took heart and other girls followed the ex ample of the first young maid, so that In a moment the deck was awhlrl with dancing couples, each sailor boy carrying his cap at his partner's waist. Finally when the sun was setting snd the splendid ship band had played the tttar Hpangled Banner at least three times and positively but polite ly declined to do so again, the last of l he visitors regretfully stepped ashore. DltOWNKD I'NDEK HYACINTHS. JACKHONVILLE, Fla., May J. John Robinson, president of the Rob' Inson Investment company, of this city. was drowned this morning 4n a small creek about twelve miles from this city. Mr. Robinson was on a lighter when he fell overboard and his body got caught under a bunch of hya cinths, preventing him from rising to the surface. Tbe body has been re covered. rioiTii Report Shows. However. That Children Are Not Cared For so Well EXPERIMENTS TO , BETTER CONDITIONS Kecent Legislation Has Done Much to Ameliorate , Hardships ofoor, ' (Special to The Cltiaen.) Washington. u fi Man r the conditions surrounding ' woman and child workers In Great Britain are ,' very bail and aasm to casual nerva tion to be worse thaa thoaa of similar workers In most parts of America, Hut the darkest spots In. the. older, country are probably no darker than some which may be found In Amerl.' in. This Is the opinion of Dr. Vlotuf . Clark, expressed In an article on woman and child wsgotamerf in Great Krltaln," published in a Bulletin of the bureau ot labor, ' ' The measures applying; exclusively to womnn and child factory workers ' In Great Britain relate, chiefly to time and duration of continuous labor and to employment in injurious or dan t gurous trades; repent enactments and proposed laws seek also to Improve conditions In the homes of the opera tives. , A child may begin working In a factory or above ground at a mlna ' when ii years of age, but must at tend school regularly half tlnw, at It . years of ag he may. begin working full time under certain restrictions. From 1 to IT years of age, Inolusive, -. he Is a young person In the eye of tho, law. In textile factories young per., sons may' work from or 1 a. m. to . or T.d. in.i but not more than hours weekly, and In other factories , either, the same hours or from 1 a. m. to I p. tn., but not more than 0 , hours, week.- Women are In most , cases subject to the. same regulations , as young person, out In certain In dustries they may , work a limited amount of overtlms. For children and young persons overtime hardly , exists In Great Britain', Jtcatrktlon of tw Tho numtwr or children working half time In Great Krltaln hag da. ; creased materially In recent years, ' and th!s Is said to have been mainly , ptoyer no longer oonslder youth; it ; labor the most profitable; the senti ment t of parents I changing, a.id working people are better able to get . along without the wages, of their cnnoren. -ine law Places general re strlctlons upon the ..employment of children outside of school and fives ' authority to local governing bodies to Increase these restrictions, Ths general experience is that licensing not only lessens ths number of chil dren trading on the street but dl mlnlshea from year to year tho num ber even of licensed children and helps to prevent juwnlto crime. Regarding their economic ' offsets the factory law have been potent " cause In shortening and In making regular the working day of women ' and children, without Interrupting . (Continued on no hw. CONSPIRE TO FJUBDER TO GET BE1TER MANAGER Confess That They Kuew of Plan to Kill Daughter's , Husband. . MOTH Ell VERY FEEBLE nirHHKiXVlLtB. Ala., May . The murder of Jim Kzell, Wednesday night has been cleared up by the con fession of Mrs. Walthrop, mother-in-law, and Mrs. Nora fizell, wife Of the murdered man. : Tho shooting according tn this confession was don by M, V, Motes, the. woman .being privy to and consenting to the act. As a motive, Mrs. Waltrop, now In Jail here, says she thought Mots would be a better manager and "could da a better part than 'Jim. 8h knew Mote wasto kill Jim, and when the gun was fired she says sh knew the plan had been carried out. Sh seems to hate more than anything else the disgrace of being In jail.' fine ' ht very feeble, a small, hump-Vacked -old lady, nearly seventy years old. Motes wa carried back, to the !n quest under strong guard : as feeling was high In the community. Mrs. JSsoil broke down at th fun, eral of her husband yoster"?. '' Sh will be brought here and lodged In Jail tomorrow. ' All of tha persons connected with. th crime are well to do. LABOR CONDITIONS GREAT BRITAIN SW TO 0 s
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