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BLOODY ADANA Miss Elizabeth Webb Tells of Armenian Massacres RECITAL OF EVENT > Woman Missing Recounts Happenings in the Midst of the Keign of Terror, When the Reform Fore e? Slated Its Savage Fury Upon J the Sultan and TnKjps. Miss Elizabeth S. Webb, a missionary from Bunker Hill, 111., has ^ written as follows of the tirst days of the massacre in Adana when the girls' school to which she was attached was in the greatest danger: "Our friends came to school as i usual on Wednesday (April 21). Although we heard there was much un- j rest in the city, we went on with preparations for a school entertainment to be held next day. Soon tiring began and before noon we wcr" afraid to send the day scholars home. We tried to go on with our annual meeting, but were interrupt eu by the screaming In the streets] and the shooting. "Mr Chambers attempted to go to ! the government building for a j guard, but found it impossible to get through the mob. Our Turkish | children wept, and we thought it ] would be possible to send word of our ] danger by a Turk who had come to take them home. Accordingly, j notes to their fathers and to the governor were written but there was no response. "Fire began to flare up in all directions and we were fearing that ; the rioters would break into the j school building. Finally about 9 j o'clock there came a knock at the gate and in walked the Fnglish con- ! sill. Tic left three of his guard of Turkish soldiers to take care of us. "All through the night wo seemed to be in a state of siege. Fires Increase. "In tlio meantime fires about the j city had increased and the sound of! shooting could he heard from every point. At. last the consul passed. TTo was able to spare only one man. but thought this one would be more , useful than the other three, who had ! run away. Soon after fires broke out I in the adjacent streets. Unless something was done speedily our [ school building must be destroyed. We had hung Turkish flags on all j sides of the building, but this did j not stop the thousands engaged in ! the riots from firing their weapons, I although apparently they were not j directed against us. "If our building burned, the I Chambers house must burn also. f Our only safety seemed to he to j check the flames. The women and j girls carried water, while the men cut down the shed and an old house in the corner of our yard. A shod | on the opposite side of the street was also torn down. About this time we were horrified to learn that Mr. ! Rogers and Mr. Maurer had been ' shot. Tt seemed that they nan noon fighting the fire and were with the other men rutting down the sheds. They were brought into our dining room. Mr. Mauror already was dead and Rogers only lived a few minutes. The Rev. Stephen R. Trowbridge. ) who was near them at the. time, escaped. "A new misfortune overtook up. Our guard of one man disappeared. T came to my room where the girls were writing. For me to toll them what had happened would only cause a panic; so T said: 'We have done all we can: now let us pray.' A Fearful Situation. "Refore T had finished praying the bugle of the consul's guard and the Turkish officials with whom he was patrolling sounded. Tie could not spare a guard, but promised to send one immediately. It was a terrible situation; women and girls practically alone in the building, a murderous, bloodthirsty mob outside, with knife and bullet for the Armenians and the torch for their homes. To add to the misery, there were the dead on the floor below and the widow of one of them. Mrs. Rogers, with her infant, ten weeks old, to comfort. The afternoon and evening passed and no guard came. The following day we learned that the Itritl ish consul had been shot in the : arm. That night young men from ' Gregorian and Protestant committees patrolled the streets around our building. The situation was grave. I A great crowd, bent on plundering, had gathered at the rear of our house for an attack. Our Armenians asked those below to send one man to confer with a representative of our side. nThis was agreed to, but in place of one man, hundreds started to come. They demanded that we give up our arms, but this meant certain death. We decided to take the girls to Mr. Chambers' house. Here rerugos crowded everywhere. Roth houses and court apparently had been 1 overflowing with refuges before our arrival. Our girls and teachers were calmest of all. Powerless to Rare Victims. "Mr Trowbridge returned from the school to say that the only hope for y' WHY HE WAS SHOT HAMPTON" NEGKO TELLS VEKY SENSATIONAL STOKV. He Tells Why He Shot Clerk of Court Causey a Short. Time Ago at llainptou. The Columbia Record says if "Peg Leg" Hughes, the negro brought here a short time ago for safe keeping in the penitentiary, to prevent his being lynched for the killing of Clerk of Court W. R. Causey, of Hampton, can prove the explanation he has Just given Superintendent Griffith at the penitentiary as to why he shot Mr. Causey, there will not only be no lynching, but he will be acquitted, and a mild sensation will l>o uncovered in that section of the State. Hughes says that Mr. Causey and his friend Jackson were out "larking" tho night of the killing and came to his house demanding women. He says he told them there were none in his house and they asked him about a mulatto, his stepdaughter. He says he told them that she had gone away, whereupon they denounced him as a liar and broke into his house and searched it thoroughly, jumping on him outside afterward and beating him. He says he was "catcihilg thunder" when he pulled his revolver and began to shoot, wounding both men. Hughes says he did not want to kill Mr. Causy, but that he did seek the life of his friend. The Hampton sheriff. who was here recently, told Capt. Griffith that he knew nothing of the causes leading up to the shooting. The newspaper accounts that have been sent out from Hampton give the appearance of being carefully guarded. Hughes had just finished serving a term in the penitentiary for killing ;i llOPTn { 1 1 \t ( - 1*5 Hi I* CO ve I I un-hAn ... n . v> I > it |r? . \ll I 11 I I I I O l\ * r? I can hoe tnoro cotton in a day than any two-legged negro he over had. * KIPXAPPFR IS (WIGHT. Chinese Captured After Decoy Package is Placed. An attempt to abduct and hold for ransom the fourteen-year-old grandson of Mrs. John F. Porter, mother of Warren R. Porter, Lieutenant Governor of California, which was frustrated by placing a decoy package at the spot where the money was ordered hidden and the capture of a well educated Chinese boy who formed the plan of abduction, were revealed at Watsonville, Cal., Friday. * EIGHT DEAR, FOI'KTEEX 11FKT. Black Hand Agents Fired Large Tcncmont House. Eight persons, five of them children, were burned to death and fourteen others injured, some fatally, in an incendiary fire in a five-story tenement house at 37 Spring street, N'ew York, occupied by 20 Italian families, a few days ago. The blaze followed a demand by members of the so-called Black Hand society for payment of $1,000 blackmail. THREE LYNCHED. Mob Takes Men From Jail and Kills Them. At Marshall, Texas, a mob entered the county jail early Friday, secured three negroes, Creole Mose, Pie Hill and Mat Chase, and lynched all of them. The negroes were charged with shooting and killing Deputy Sheriff Mark Huffman and wound nig consianie Alex. C'nrgfll a few days :ago while the officers were raiding a crap game. * safety to any American seemed to he to return to the school, staying there alone, separated from the Armenians. Tie declared that we were powerless to save the Armenians." Miss Webb relates how Mr. Trowbridge persuaded four Zehetis to go with him to the government house to demand protection. Two of them deserted him on the way, declaring that they were afraid of being killed by Armenians. In concluding her narrative, Miss Webb says: "The British consul sent a message to the governor Friday th,it if this thing was not. stopped he vlould demand of the government ar | the commander of the troops satis lory explanation. Whether or n Vhe.v were powerless to stop the hanlful work before this I do not knie tiwut anyway then it was stop- has IVe honr tliof liono noo a *1- .1 : ? .? 1/s/v * i (i i> .??. v,c? urns \/i nic l^V (11!! 1> " In Constantinople the auating ex<lln Adnna did not know wlkitid of 11? Join, so thny simply let<)f indigent^ their course and pormlttther nil?nens and Armenians to flghjpt ion, chror tweon them." more seri<l Miss Elizabeth Wetyfodol in gu;l the vivid narrative of . Try it tod;! Adana, was sent to Tfo. by the American bog 1 slonera for foreign r 'fit V I SEVERE STORM The Souih Swept by Destructive Cyclones and Tornadoes MANY PEOPLE KILLED And the Dniiiu^' to Property Will llench Millions of IH>llurs in Value. "feuuesee is the lleuviost SuflTervr. Houses Blown IKwu and Wire Communication Interrupted. A dispatch from Atlanta says cyclones and tornadoes the like of which have not been known for years swept through the South Thursday night and all Friday, leaving in their wake hundreds of dead and mangled i bodies and the dismantled wrecks of property worth many millions, j Tennessee was an especially heavy sufferer. At 9 o'clock Friday night careful estimates indicated that at I b'llSt f?ft noonln ?. 111 - j - ? milieu iu mat State alone, with monetary losses about $1,000,000. At Franklin and inllillshoro there was loss of life. The latter town is said to he practically destroyed, while at Centreville and adjoining villages the loss is reported very heavy, both in life and property. Near Pulaski, (Jiles county, the death list reaches 12 and many are injured. In the vicinity of Chattanooga the storm was felt at its worst. Telephone and telegraph wires were blown down and the movement of trains was greatly hampered. The hurricane followed the Cumberland valley, wrecking small towns and destroying farm houses. At Kbenezer 18 houses were blown down. At Gharlestown tho storm swerved tip tho 11 i \\ issoe river, destroying much property. At Favottoville three are known to have perished. At Cuba many houses were blown down, and at Gilestown not even a shed was left standing. Memphis reports heavy loss from towns within a radius of 100 miles in three States. At Horn Hake, Miss., half a dozen lives were lost and the property damago was very heavy. Tn Arkansas eight persons were killed near Mammoth Springs, and a score of buildings wrecked. Other points in Arkansas report heavy loss. At Huntsville, Ala., fifteen are dead, several score injured and 2a0 houses demolished as a result of the storm which struck \Payiottteville, Tenn., and vicinity Thursday night, acocrding to a reliable man who has just reached Huntsville from that sect ion. The dead at Harmes number five, and many more are injured. The Harms flour mill was destroyed as well as a number of other buildings in that vicinity. Immense damage was done in Madison county by hail and lightning. Telegraphic communication with Fayetteville has been severed since early last night. At Pulaski. Tenn., twenty persons are reported to have been killed and forty injured in a tornado which sw?pt over the eastern section of Giles county early Friday. Pee Springs, a village In the southeast section, sixteen miles from Pulaski, is reported to have been totally destroyed. Atlanta and most of Georgia escaped with only slight property loss during the blow. Put two young people, a brother and sister, William and Pearl Withra, lost th-ir lives by the capsizing of a rowboat during a suddcm squaP. The hurricane continued upon its course of destruction in Alabama Friday night. Iluntsville sends word of heavy loss of property, with probably several lives sacrificed near the Tennessee lino At rvinviiu . . .. v.. m v IMUI I ill*:, III i*| ? I pan county, Alabama, the storm struck with terrific force. At Ilartsvillo at least one is dead and many hurt. The storm is still raging and seems to he traveling almost directly southeast. Soon after dark Friday night the storm winds shot across the telegraph and telephone lines connecting Atlanta with Chattanooga and Knoxvill<f, which had been kept up with great difficulty during the afternoon ceased entirely. The Western & Atlanta railroad offices here reported that south of Chattanooga, near Kme.rson, several big trees were blown across the railroad right of way, bearing down wires and holding up five trains. The death totals were swelled Friday night by three lightning victims at Monroe, (la. Late- Friday afternoon a rushing windstorm, accompanied by blinding lightning, broke over Monroe and one of the bolts struck the residence of \I. H. Harrett. running down the chimney. Barrett, his wife and his 17-year-old daughter wore killed and a 1 S-yearold son and a younger child were seriously shocked. A man named Verdier, arrested at Monte Carlo, declared that he was an anarchist and that he had come to Monaco for the purpose of killing President Fallieres of France, who is at present visiting here. PAID THE PENALTY TWO MlTtOHItHKK KLKCTHOCrT. Kl> AT HIC1IMOM), VA. Five Miinloirrs W'oiv to 1h> Rlrctro* oil ted at the Same Time But the Machinery was Inadequate. John and William Brown, father and son, went to their death in the electric chair at Richmond, Va., on Friday for taking part with other negroes in one of the most infamous crimes known in the history of the State. They were the first of five men to go to the death chair for the robbery and murder of Mrs. Henry E. Skipwlth and Walter G. Johnson, of Powhatan county, on the night of February 12, last. After committing the robbery they burned the house in order to hide the crime. The men implicated in the affair all lived in the neighborhood and some of them had not b en beyond the borders of tho county half a (1 n'/on i 5 ?>wui I ?% - .. .. u.i.'n in uit-ir lives. 5-soine or them wore educated at the schools in the county, and all of thoni wore men of more than avearge intelligence for negroes of the country sections. They wore all farmers and had borne good reputations. John and William Brown were the men who entered Into the plot and who stood guard and threatened to kill any one who gave any help or went to the assistance of tin* man and woman. Mrs. Skipewith was an aged woman and Johnson and his wife lived in the house with her, looking after her farm. Robbery was the object, of the crime, and some of the plunder was found in the houses occupied by the negroes after the homo place had been burned. All the live no 11. including John j in.l Willi.i> ? * <i>iw iiiidiii i>111? 11, w i rt' s(MiioilCO(l , to dip Friday, but tlip governor respited Ishain and .loo Taylor, to May 7, to prevent breaking the electrical machinery. The men have made partial confessions, it is understood, but these have not heen given out. * TRAIN KOItllKltS Hold I'p and Itob a Train on North- I em I'acilic. Three miles front Houser Junction last Friday night two highwaymen held up and robbed the Northern Pacific passenger train No. 3. The robbers cut the engine and one mail ear from the train, shot twice at the fireman, ordered him from the engine, put a revolver to Fngineer Whit tellesey's head and compelled him to send the engine ahead. The other bandit took the place of the fireman. As the train passed IT ?' ' ? iiiiwuKii iiciiiHcr me reiegrapn operator, suspecting it was a hold-up notified Spokane. While the mail car was being robbed later at. a point between Trent and Yardley, Pa., posses were being formed by the officials at Spokane and Rathdrum. The engine and mail ear ran by the signals at Trent, but bad not appeared at Yardley at midnight. The booty was registered mail, but bow much is not known. * kijection of officious. Federation of Women's Clubs Fnds Their Session. After some committee work and passing a resolution of thanks to the ladis of Sumter for their hospitalities during the meeting, the selection of Charleston as the next meeting place and tho election of officers, the South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs adjourned. The officers elected are: President, Mrs. W. B. Burnev, Columbia; first vice president, Miss Jean Waterhouse, Beaufort; second vice president, Mrs. J. S. Booth, Chester; corresponding secretary, Mrs. TO. F. Bell, Blacksburg; recording secretary, Mrs. IT. P. T,vnch, Cheraw; treasurer, Mrs. Mitchell T,evl, Sumter; auditor, Miss Georgia Dargan, Stateburg. * hVNCIIKD IX FLORIDA. The Usual Crime Btings AI?out Usual Result. Strung up to a tree, which he sought refuge, and his bod t riddle 1 with bullets, Charles Scarborough, a negro, who attempted to assault Mrs. Frierson, of Fort Myers, Fla., met a speedy death Wednesday at the hands of a posse of infuriated men. The posse started out with bloodhounds on the negro's trail soon after the crime became known and scoured the woods all night. In a secluded spot the posse captured the negro, finding him in the top of a tree, which a few minutes later served as his scaffold. The negro confessed, and without delav a rope was put around his nock and he was drawn up to a limb. The posse then stood off and tired twenty shots into his body. If you are going to patch up a quarrel, don't hunt for a needle In a haystack. ROBS THE POOR Senator Raynor Denounces the Payne Tariff Bill SCORES THE TRUSTS Soys They Ihiise Price*. They Limit Production, They Lower \Yn#?vi TL ' * * iit-y income Competition, They Monopolize tlie Wealth of the luind and M(UiiU it 1'p. Iu the United States Senate on Friday, declaring that free trade la Impracticable iu this country, and asserting that not a single Democrat would vote for it if presented to him in a bill, Senator Itayner, of Maryland, delivered an address denouncing the Payno- Aldrleh tariff measure as failing to provide revenue, and protecting the industries controlled by trusts rather than giving any relief to the consumers of the country. Mr. Kayner frequently entered upon oratorial (lights and j concluded with a series of condemnations of the so-called trusts of the countery. He declared his belief in I incidental protection in order to maintain the wages of American work men. "I have never believed to free trade between this country and any otlnr countries," Mr. Kayner said. "1 think from every practical standpoint it is perfectly preposterous to talk about it. I think the country would vote such a proposition down almost with practical unanimity. 1 believe in custom house taxation and I do not believe any other system will ever take its place to the satisfaction of the American people. Kree trade is not the question before us. and no amount of reproach and adjectives win a..?. .... I -1 III*; from staling what the question r ally is. II there were a resolution now boldly before the Senate in favor of the entire abolishing of tariff duties I do not believe that tin4 doctrine of free trade would receive a single vote upon our side of the chamber. Reading from the Democratic platforms of INTO and 1 892 Mr. Hayner said they embodied his party's axiom, "and that is," he added, "that we have no constitutional power to collect tariff duties except for the purpose of revenue." The pending tariff bill, he declared, should be entitled, "A bill to encourage the industries of the United States and for no other purpose." He did not believe it would add very much to our present revenue collections. He characterized tiie whole framework of the measure as protection and revenue afterwards. if hie had the framing of a tariff bill, lie said, he would levy the lowest tax possible upon the necessaries of life and the highest tax possible upon the luxuries and "would protect American labor so as to maintain at all times the standard of American wages. Throughout the whole bill I would look out for the consumer. You may examine this bill; outside of the free list, and It is almost Impossible to discover the consumer in nnv nf ti? "'"""i1 ?1 ~ 1 w VIU 111 JJ1 1 tt"U schorl ules." Speaking humorously upon what ho declared to bo tho Inconsistencies of the measure in determining what wore raw materials, ho rocountod his oxperienoes as a member of the House of Rpresentatives while the Wilson bill was under consideration. "The bill will not, and it does not," predicted Mr. Rayner," in any substantial degree lower prices tr the consumer; and I make another prediction, and that is that this bill will not in any substantial degree affect the inordinate profits that the protected industries are now receiving through house taxation." Mr. Rayner combated the idea thai the great corporations of the country benefit the consumers by utilizing economies or increasing wages. On the other hand, he declared of the trusts: "They raise prices, they limit production, they lower wages, they contract the demand for labor, they throttle competition, they monopolize tkA ? I- - ' ' ? .... i m- <ji 111? land, r nev wnnciraw it. from the channels of circulation, and when they arc driven from one State they obtain their franchises in another and they return with insolence to pursue their calling in the place from which they are banished, 1 can look around in my own State and observe that whenever a new enterprise is started that comes in conflict with them they sweep down upon it as the cormorant does upon his prey, and that their rapacity is never appeased so long as a spark of vitality is left in any competitor that crosses their path. "[ do not find within this bill a line or sentence that weakens th ir grasp upon the commerce of the country. On the contrary they show their hateful front In almost every schedule of this bill. "As against them, if I had the opportunity in the framing of a tariff bill I would open the ports of entry of this Republic. I would bring them in coinetltion with the markets of the world. It is said that if we do this, we will interfere with othei industries that are competing wltli % II DOOMED TO DIE AKW OltLKANS l)KTK(TIVK VfrVISKI) OF riX>T. Ofllcer Duntonio Says He Will ('?> tin in* KfTorts t<? Hum I>ovru MemImth of Hh) Society. The declaration of a Sicilian arr oh ted in Chicago Saturday night that three detectives of the UnU??#i 1 States, Petrosi no, Dongahartl and | Dantonlo, had bwn marked for deuth by the Mack Hand society was not the tlrst Intimation that Detective John Dantonlo of New Orleans, ono of the three officers mentioned, had received of a contemplated attempt 'on his life. A few days ago he was advised by a friend In Chicago that there was a plot on foot to kill him. "I am not at ull disturbed," said Dantonlo, "and I propose to continue every effort to br'ng Mack Hand criminals to justice In the future. I us i nave done In the ;?ast." Dantonio has played a conspicuous part in rounding up Illack Hand criminals In Now Orleans since his occupancy for several years of a place on the local detective department. While lie would make no statement concerning the matter, it is thought he has been an important factor in the discovery of facts thafc might have a bearing on the assassination of Detective IVtroslno in Italy. KILLS HIS NUPIIKW. Itoy and Aunt Were lleing Arraigned ill l*olice < '<?n?-f Dr. (2. K. Hoyajian, an Armonian, a fow days ago shot and fatally wounded his nephew, Ilarotoon (lastanian, while the latter was being arraigned in police court with his aunt, the physician's wife, at Detroit, Mich., on a ,statutory charge?. I)r. Hoyajian fired four shots at his nephew, three of which found their mark, lie then turned the revolver on his wife and fired tin* two remaining bullets at her. A newspaper artist saved the woman's life by pushing her into a vacant jury room. Mrs. Hoyajian, who is 28, and her 23-year-old nephew were arrested the night before. Hoyajian told a remarkable story of his discovery of the alleged relations between his wife and nephew, whom ho had brought from his home at Lynn, Mass., and was educating in a local medical college. His suspicions were first, aroused by having bis wife murmur his nonhew s name tn Ver sleep. Tho doctor summoned a lawyer and questioned li (?r. Ifle declares that she made a full confession. lie then swore out warrants for the couple's arrest. Winn tho case was called and Justice Jeffers ordered CJastanlan to rise, Hoyajlan whipped out the revolver and tired. One bullet entered the young man's back: another penetrated his wrist, and a third in his hand. lie fell to the floor as the doctor turned tho revolver towards his wife. The wildest excitement prevailed in the court room as bystanders and officers Jumped for the maddened husband, who was arrested. Gastanian died shortly after. lU RLKI) TO DEATH, i Woman and Child Thrown I'nder ! Wheels of Trolley. A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., says Mrs. W. E. Leodford of PowderI ly was instantly killed and her child > fatally injured by a Bessemer electric i car at an early hour Saturday morning In Klyton. The Leodford family was in a wagon, when the mules suddenly took fright wheeled and threw four of the occupants out, Mrs. Leod; ford and her child falling directly i on the track In front of the car. > Mrs. Leodford was badly mangled and the child's skull was fractured. SIX PERSON'S KILLED. And Fifty Are Injured During Storm at Chicago. , Six persons were killed and fifty . injured in Chicago and its environs i during the storm Friday night, according to reports received by the i police and coroner. The list of in jured includes only those whose names were officially reported. Probably as many more received private attention. Information of their coni dition therefore not becoming public. 11 on<l Crushed l?y Weight. At Birmingham, Ala., Charles C. ' Craves, a painter working on the 1 twelfth story of the Brown Marx building Sunday, panting the interior of the. elevator shaft, was struck one of the elevator weights and 1 his head was crushed entirely off. An employe, not knowing Graves was above, started the car. ; i ' thorn. There is hardly a word of 1 truth in that statement, because they ' tolerate no rivalry and permit no 1 interference."