MOSLEMS KILL 60 ARMENIANS CHRISTIANS SLAUGHTERED IN THE STREETS OF ADANA, ASIATIC TURKEY.. AMERICANS REPORTED DEAD Town of Adana Hag Been Burned and Soldiers, Powerless to Control Situation, Are Joining in Pillage of the Place. Constantinople, Turkey.—A niassa ere of Armenians has taken place at Adana, Asiatic Turkey, and according to the latest telegrams from Mersina still continues. Soldiers, powerless to control the situation, are joining in the pillage of the town. The fatali ties are said to be numerous. The riots began last Wednesday and the town of Adana has been burned and many Christians killed in the streets. The Moslems, having practically wrecked the town, are said to have now begun operations against the Christians in the village. The foreign consuls at Mersina have requested that warships be sent to that port. No definite information is obtained as to the number of persons who lost their lives in the fighting, though one report says 60 Armenians were mas sacred. Two American missionaries are said to be among the dead, but no names are given and the report as to these is unconfirmed. The British vice consul at Mersina. Major Daugh t.v-Wylie. is said to have been injured during the trouble. Later dispatches from Mersina say that the massacres are spreading to the vilayet of Adana. Disorders have commenced at Tarsus, the little town between Adana and Mersina noted as the birthplace of the Apostle Paul, and at noon yesterday many houses there were reported to have been burned. The number of victims at Tarsus, according to dispatches, was unknown. It is known that the regular district meeting of the American missionaries was due to be in session at Adana -and that Mr. and Mrs. William Cham bers, the Misses Elizabeth and Mary G. Webb. Miss Wallace and Miss Borel, missionaries, were to have been present there. PULSE OF AMERICAN TRADE It Is of Large Volume, Although Slow, and Stead-fly in the Direction of Improvement. New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Although the movement of trade is slow, it is of large volume, and stead ily in the direction of improvement. In iron and steel the structural lines continue to reflect a broader demand, contracts placed thus far this month comprising a very substantial tonnage and considerable new business is also in sight. The railroads are taking ad vantage of the low prices named to make necessary improvements and extensions, while the advancing sea son has stimulated building activity in many sections. One encouraging feature is the increased interest shown in pig iron. Improvement in the shoe market is steady, although the movement is slight. In the primary market for cot ton goods the effect of the recent heavy export business to China is ap parent. RAILROAD SUES FOR PEACE Burlington Volunteers to Establish a 2'/2-Cent Passenger Rate in Mis souri Beginning May 1. Chicago, 111. —Darius Miller, first vice president of the Burlington, announced yesterday that the Burling ton had notified all railroads operat ing in Missouri that it would volun tarily establish a 2Vfe-cent passenger rate in the state May 1 and that the decision was expected to end all liti gation between that commonwealth and the railroads. Following the notification lo the railroads of the Burlington's action. J. Francis, general passenger agent of the road, stated that the 2V£-cent rate had been determined upon as a result of failure to effect a compromise with Gov. Hadley regarding the injunction restraining the roads from returning to a "-cent passenger rate. Violated Internal Revenue Laws. Topeka, Kan. —Charged with de frauding the government by vio lations of the internal revenue laws, an indictment was formally returned against the Cudahy Packing Co. of Kansas City in the United States dis trict court yesterday. The company is indicted on 6!>5 counts. The offi cers of the company will be sum moned to appear in court and defend the charges outlined in the indict ment. One Killed, Seven Hurt in Explcsion. Chicago, 111.—One man was killed last night and seven others were hurt, two probably fatally, in an explosion in one of the caissons sink ing on the site of the new Chicago & Northwestern railroad station. Editor Asks for Protection. Phoenix City. Ala. Having received threatening letters because of at tacks in his weekly newspaper on blind tigers. Editor W. E. Berry of the Phenix-Girard Journal has ap pealed to Gov. Comer for protection. STREAMS BREAK BANKS FLOODS IN THE NEW ENGLAND STATES CLOSE FACTORIES. Railroad Tracks Flooded, Roadbeds Washed Out, Culverts Carried Away and Trains Held Up. Boston, Mass.—Swollen by heavy rains of Wednesday and yesterday, and by the melting of the lingering remant of the winter's snow on the northern hillside, all the streams of New England assumed freshet, propor tions yesterday and the t>Jgh water in some of them caused muvli damage. Railroad tracks were flooded roadbeds washed out, culverts carried away, trains held up and factories ferced to shut down in various parts of north ern New England. The worst conditions were reported in Vermont and New Hampshire around the head waters of the Con necticut, Merrimac and Androscoggin rivers. Some apprehension as to the rapid rise of the water waa felt also at points along the lower reaches of these rivers, where great industrial plants are located. In Brattleboro, Vt., the water reached the highest, point there ever recorded. The Brattleboro Electric Light Co. had to abandon temporarily its main power plant. Several manu facturing plants in St. Albans. Vt., were forced to shut down and the trol ley lines were tied up. Three wash outs near Roxbury, Vt., delayed through traffic on the Central Vermont railroad. A passenger train from Bos ton to Montreal was held up near Rox bury by a washout, and later by a landslide. All trains on the Maine Central and the Grand Trunk In the vicinity of Colebrook, N. H., were held up by washouts. EXPRESS TRAIN IS WRECKED Two Persons Are Killed and Several Others Slightly Injured at Harrisburg, Pa. Harrisburg, Pa. —Two persons were killed and several others slight ly injured last evening, when "The Queen of the Valley," a night express on the Reading railway, was wrecked ill the southern part of Har risburg within a moment's ride of the Reading station. It is said that when the engineer applied the air brakes upon approach ing the station the brake rigging dropped to the tracks, causing the wreck. The ties and rails were torn up for a distance of 100 yards. The rigging apparently ('aught upon a switch point and overturned the engine and tender. Three of the seven cars in the train were thrown across all four tracks at the point of the wreck. The cars were literally torn apart. BLUE AND GRAY CLASP HANDS A Remarkable Reception Tendered Gen. Nevius, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army. Chicago, 111.--At a reception ten dered Gen. Henry W. Nevius, com mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the Kimball hotel last night the regulation blue and cadet gray in which soldiers of the armies were clothed in the civil war, were both strongly in evidence and tne fol lowers of Grant and Lee mingled in formally for several hours. A feature of the evening was the meeting between Gen. Nevius and Gen. Clement A. Evans, the coiu mander-in-chief of the United Confed erate Veterans, who clasped hands and enjoyed an interchange of war expe riences. Gen. Evans, on behalf of the men who wore the gray, welcomed Gen. Nevius to Atlanta and the south. THE YOUNG MURDER MYSTERY Woman Testifies that She Saw Son of Murdered Woman Strike His Mother Down. Erie. Pa. —At the hearing of Dslmar J. Young, charged with the murder of his aged mother, Mrs. Vinnie M. Young, 011 the night of April 7, Mrs. Norena Gillespie of this city testiiied yesterday that she stood at the door of the Young home and saw the crime committed. She said she saw Young seize his mother by the throat and strike her down with somethin;; that looked like a rifle. She says when Young turned and saw her in the doorway he threat ened her with death if she dared to tell cf what she had witnessed. Young was committed to jail without bail for trial at the May term of quarter sessions court. Marine Men Refuse to Work. Buffalo, N'. Y. The strike of the sailors on the Great Lakes, or rather their refusal to work, is r.ow fully in effect. Fully 15,000 men from engineers to deck hands are affected by the decision of the union organiza tions not to operate l)oats belonging to members of the Lake Carriers' as sociation until its avowed purpose to enforce an open shop on the lake borts is abandoned. Man Found Shot to Death. Chicago, 111. Frank Yerkes, a milk dealer, was found shot to death yesterday in the homo of Hose Shu man. The polio believe Yerkes fired a bullet into his head with suicidal intent. Two Killed by Explosion. Robinson. II!. Charles Dowels and Moses Lantz were blown to atoms yesterday afternoon when the nitro glycerine factory of the Indepen dent Torpedo Co. at Gordon was de stroyed by an explosion. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY APRIL 22, 1909. GEN. 1 BUTLER CROSSES DIVIDE ONE OF THE LAST OF THE CON FEDERATE CAVALRY GEN ERALS IS GONE. EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR Gen. Butler Served Throughout the Civil War, Rising from Captain to Major General o) Cavalry. Columbia, S. C.—Gen. Matthew Butler of Edgefield, former Uni ted States senator and one of the last of the confederate cavalry gen erals, died here last night at a local infirmary, aged 73. His death was due to a complication of diseases, in duced by an old wound. Gen. Butler served throughout the civil war, rising from captain to major general of cavalry in the confederate service. After the war he took a prominent part in the movement to reclaim the state to the Democratic party and aided greatly in Hampton's victory in the gubernatorial race of 1876. In the same year he was elected to the United States senate and served three terms. During the Spanish- American war he was a major gen eral in the United States army and afterward was appointed a member of the Cuban peace commission. He is survived by his widow and three children. He died within 50 yards of tho convention hall in which the se cession convention was held. Gen. Butler was a nephew of Commodore Perry. FOURTEEN RIOTERS EXECUTED Attempt to Stop Religious Parade in a Mexican Town Is Followed by Bloodshed. Mexico City.—According to a dis patch received yesterday the riot ing which occurred at Velardena, a mining camp in Coahuila last Satur day, was more serious than at first reported, 32 men being killed and many injured. The trouble was in stigated by Father Ramon Valenzuela, parish priest, "it is asserted, who lies in a hospital hovering between life and death. Fourteen of tho rioters were executed by the government troops and many were imprisoned. Many Americans reside in Velardena, as the camp is controlled by Amer ican capital. The leaders of the mob. which was well organized, avoided attacking Americans or destroying American property. The fighting occurred when the Jefe politico of the town, an oflleer corresponding to an American mayor, attempted to stop a religious proces sion headed by the village priest, the Mexican laws forbidding such parades. FAMOUS HOSTELRY IN ASHES Kenilworth Inn at Asheville, N. C., Had Housed Some of the Coun try's Greatest Celebrities. Asheville, N. C. —Of the once beautiful Kenilworth Inn, that in its day has housed some of the country's greatest celebrities, nothing remained last night but a pile of charred and smoking ruins. Despite tlie fact that the alarm was sounded at 2:30 this morning when all the guests were asleep, only one person was injured, ex-Senator Joseph M. Gazzaru of Pennsylvania, owner of the hotel, who jumped from a third story window in an effort to escape and sustained internal injuries, the outcome of which is doubtful. All the out of town guests who es caped have been comfortably housed in other hotels. The stories of es capes made in night attire are many. One young woman walked all the way into Asheville, three miles, barefooted and wearing only a night robe and ki mona. Many of the guests, it is said, lost, valuable jewelry. GOTCH IS STILL CHAMPION Defeats Yussif Mahmout of Bulgaria by Throwing Him in Two Straight Falls. Dexter Pavilion, Chicago, 111. — Frank Gotch of Humboldt, la., last night retained tho world's wrestling championship by defeating Yussif Mahmout of Bulgaria in straight falls in a fast and furious match. The Bulgarian was as a child in the hands of the American. Gotch won both falls with crotch and half Nelson holds in eight min utes and in nine minutes and ten sec onds. The victory of the champion is all the more notable inasmuch as lie did not. use his toe hold in bringing about the downfall of the powerful foreigner, whose shoulders had not hitherto been put to the mat in Amer ica. Gotch was able to get almost any hold he desired. Cabin Mates End Lives. Liverpool. Eng.—During the voy age- of the Cunard liner Lucania, which sailed from New York April 7, two young women who had occupied a second-class cabin together com mitted suicide by shooting. Buildings Collapse. Petersburg, Va. Early yesterday the foundations of an aniiax to the Chesterfield hotel and a four- Etory shoe store adjoining occupied by J. O. James began to sink and at noon both structures collapsed. FIREIN ROCHESTER, N.Y. BUILDINGS AND HOUSES IN SEC TIONS OF CITY DESTROYED. LOSS ESTIMATED AT $500,000 One Hundred Families Were Rendered Homeless and Household Goods Are Piled Up in Streets. Rochester, N. Y. Swept along in the face of a 25-mile gale, lire yesterday destroyed several sec tions of the city and did damage es timated at $500,000. For a time it was thought that a great portion of the city would be swept, and aid was summoned from Buffalo and Syracuse. Generously and promptly the out of town firemen with apparatus re sponded, but ere they reached the scene the heroic work of the local department and of volunteers had got the flames under check and their as sistance was not required. One hun dred families are homeless and mili tiamen are in the affected zones guarding what little the people saved of their household effects. Mayor Eggerton has issued a call for relief funds for these families. Some of them are quartered in pre cinct houses and a large number are spending the night in a public school. A heavy rain set in at ti o'clock last night and while it helped in extin guishing the smouldering ruins, it was hardship on the homeless, especially those whose household effects are in the open. Thieving, which started early in the day, has been stopped by the presence of militia. The Palmer building, a four-story brick structure devoted to manufac turing interests, at Main and Gibbs streets, was the starting point of the conflagration, which spread over a wide area, and then jumped nearly a mile and started a second series of fires. Although accurate estimates cannot be made at this time, the loss is esti mated at at least $500,000. This in cludes $60,000 on the Palmer building, SIOO,OOO on the Hunting Co.. manufac turing plumbers supplies, $90,000 on the beautiful Jewish Temple Berith Kodesh, which is in ruins, and the rest in small amounts is apportioned among manufacturers, house owners and tenants. Buildings which were destroyed in addition to about 50 residences were the Palmer building. Temple Berith Kodesh, First Reformed Church of America, the Ward apartments and First German Luther Zion church. The St. Peters Presbyterian church, the Palmer lumber yards and several small firms on Main street were dam aged. TURKISH SOLDIERS MUTINIED Troops Demanded Dismissal of Grand Vizier, War Minister and Chamber President—Many People Killed. Constantinople, Turkey. The troops of the garrison made a violent demonstration yesterday before the Parliament building against, the Com mittee of Union and Progress and the government. They demanded the dis missal of the Grand Vizier Hilmi Pasha, the minister of war and the president of the chamber. The out break was caused by an order issued to the troops to the effect that they must obey their officers under all cir cumstances, even if called upon to shoot down their co-religionists. The mutineers, as the first move, seized all the officers of the Committee of Union and Progress and held them prisoners. Only a few of the troops 'refrained from taking part, in the demonstration. The latter, which were chiefly artillerymen and cavalry, are massed at the war ministry. They have orders to fire on any one ap proaching the building arid during the course of the day a number of per sons were killed and wounded. Dep uties were escorted to the chamber in order that they might vote on the question of forming a new cabinet and appointing a new president, but owing to the Easter holidays it was impossible to form a quorum. Deputy Emil Arslan was killed on his way to the house by mistake. LOYAL LEGION IS IN SESSION Military Order Opens Quadrennial Convention in New York City with Full Attendance. New York City. The eleventh quadrennial congress of the Military Order of tlie Loyal Legion of tin United States opened here at lfc o'clock this morning with a full at tendance of delegates from the 21 commanderies of the order. Maj Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, the com mander-in-chief, presided. The Loyal Legion is made up of officers and ex officers of the United States army and navy who served in the civil war, their sons and grandsons, and a few men who in civil life during that war were especially distinguished for their conspicuous loyalty to the national government. The membership of the order is in the neighborhood of!), 000. Wind Storm in Pennsylvania. Pittsburg. Pa. —One dead and a number of persons seriously in jured are the results of a severe wind storm in this city and vicinity yester day. The property loss will amount to thousands of dollars. Paid Off Last Dollar. New York City.—The Borough Bank of Brooklyn to-day paid off the last dollar of its indebtedness to de pos\tors. The bank suspended during the panic a year and a half ago and reoj sned on April 14, 1908. J IN THE PUBLIC EYE j NAGEL'S FIRST ASSISTANT ""——— ——Ormsby McHarg, who has been appointed t assistant secretary of commerce and labor, is a native of North Dakota and has been in close touch with affairs at Washington for several years. His selection was personal with Secre tary Nagel, who was anxious to find a man who had the business and legal ability to run the de partment of commerce and labor in Mr. Nagel's Mr. McHarg was graduated from the law school of the University of Michigan in 1896, and returned to North Dakota to practice hi# profession. In 1899 he went to Washington and entered George Washington university, taking several degrees. Later he became an instructor of law at George Washington. About two years ago Mr. McHarg was en gaged as a special attorney by the department of justice and assigned to the prosecution of land fraud cases in New Mexico. Later he represented the de partment in litigation connected with Indian affairs in Oklahoma. While thus engaged he was selected by Frank H. Hitchcock, then in charge of William H. Taft's campaign for the presidential nomination, to prepare the cases of contesting delegations for presentation to the Republican national committee, and the committee on credentials at the Chicago convention. The manner in which Mr. McHarg handled these cases attracted to him the attention of the party leaders, who recognized his ability at once. After the convention he was actively engaged in campaign matters under Mr. Hitch cock. Mr. McHarg succeeds William R. Wheeler of California as assistant sec retary of the department of commerce and labor. Mr. Wheeler last December was on the point of tendering his resignation to accept the position of man* ager of the traffic bureau of the Merchants' Exchange of San Francisco, for which he has been chosen at a salary of $15,000 a year. At the earnest re quest of President Roosevelt, however, he made arrangements whereby his assumption of his new position would be deferred until after the close of the Roosevelt administration. GOT NEAR TO SOUTH POLE ——"""l Lieut. Ernest H. Shackleton, the young Brifr Ish naval officer, whose south pole seeking expe dition came within 111 miles of reaching that much-sought spot, smashed a lot of precedents vWJSSffI ln P ole *' lu nting when he made his dash. In the v first place, he made a good share of the jour / vN ney by automobile ,and the last desperate dash • / for the pole he made with hardy little ponies 'Sgr Tw rather than with dogs. The ponies were killed ,A and eaten one by one as necessity demanded. The fo °d supplies carried by the expedition - contained very few vegetables and an unusual proportion of meats. The latter have been found superior to keep up the strength of the men, w h" e the vegetables soon become worthless as r/////'/////////V/////A food in the Antarctic regions. Lieut. Shackleton has a reputation as an explorer earned by a varied line of experience in that pleasant if somewhat frost-bitten pursuit. One of the members of the expedition in recounting the story of the journey, said that when they started on the trip to the magnetic pole the weather was so hot they had to pull their two sledges in singlets. There was half a ton of provisions on each sledge. After a comparatively easy 250-mile journey along the sea ice they had an almost hopeless climb to the inland plateau. They carried their lives in their hands, fighting their way inch by inch and suffered great privations on the return journey When rescued by the Nimrod they were a party of gaunt skeletons; the Nimrod had almost given them up for lost. The members of Lieut. Shackleton's party state that when they were compelled to turn back their bodily strength was diminishing so rapidly that their temperatures went down to far below normal, in some cases reaching 93 degrees, and in others considerably lower than that. Had this party been two days later in reaching the Nimrod it would have been frozen in for another season. They declare that any future explorer at tempting to reach the poie must be provided with much larger supplies of food, because there is no doubt that the south pole is situated on a high plateau and that the coldest and stormiest weather in the world prevails there, there being 70 degrees of frost under the very mildest conditions. PATENT CHIEF REMAINS _ Edward Bruce Moore, commissioner of pat- < ents. has been requested j>y Secretary Ballin- SOr t0 con,lnue as the heatl of the United States patent office during his administration of the de 1* paitment of the interior. / ? Mr - Moore is the first commissioner to be I appointed from the office force. Since becom - j i,IK commissioner he has succeeded in so im- ImAyffl/, I pressing the appropriation committees of con- Jf, ' gress with the needs of the office that that body has increased the force by 88 people and raised y?>w,' tlle sa 'aries of the examining corps all the way from $-!00 to SGOO a year each. He has brought ,he wo,k of °® ce «P until it is now practi- M n