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 <l/ ca,ly current in all its branches.
iJSitfif/11l lllh tBMWviW Mr. Moore was sent abroad last summer by
the department of state. It is understood he
was successful in negotiating treaties with foreign nations relating to the
non-working of patented inventions in foreign countries, which had been for
some time a source of great annoyance to the manufacturing and commercial
industries of the country as well as the inventors.
Commissioner Moore is president of the Washington Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution. By numerous decisions he has rendered he has
protected the flag and national emblems as well as the emblem of the Ameri
can National Red Cross society from use for marks of trade in this and foreign
countries.
The justices of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia were high
ly gratified when informed that Mr. Moore would continue in office. As one
of them expressed it, in view of the fact that all appeals from the commis
sioner lie to that court, it is quite necessary to have an experienced man aa
commissioner, as the practice of the patent office is highly technical and is
what has been termed "the metaphysics of the law."
EX-ROUGH RIDER'S WAY
— """""""""""l Governor George Curry, former rough rider.
friend of ex-President Roosevelt and by the lat
ter made first governor of the island .of Samar
and later promoted to the governorship of th»
X « territory of New Mexico, does not agree with hi*
I, b ° n efactor in the matter of treating unfriendly
V) editors. Whereas Mr. Roosevelt painstakingly
112 JL bombarded the recreant men of the blue pencil
Ip* / with interviews, written statements, bitter let
ters a:u ' llbel s 'dts, his New Mexican protege
Nttjp - fa. follows the much simpler and equally satisfac
ffllli* 101 - v ,uc 't lloci of getting the bad editor into his
° mce anrl beating him up.
////m/W/ Editor A. J. Loom is, of the Santa Fe Eagle,
i'ti'dlshed the fact that Gov. Curry and his dele-
I nation of official statehood workers at Washing
ton had been instructed by the president to re
turn home and not pay their expenses out of the territorial money appropriat
ed for the Washington campaign. The indignant governor telephoned to the
editor when he reached home and read the newspaper. Rsponding to the
telephonic summons, Editor Loomis went to the capitol, met the angry execu
tive and was punched. It is more prompt than the Roosevelt way, less
trouble and probably productive of more results.
The trouble created considerable comment and resulted in Gov. Curry ten
dering his resignation to President "'aft, but the Matter requested him tore -
tain his post.
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