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BLOODY ADANA Miss Elizabeth Webb Tells of Armenian Massacres RECITAL OF EVENT * Woman Missing Recounts Happen- ^ ings in ttie Midst of the lteign a of Terror, When the Heform Fore- * ii es Slated Its Savage Fury I pou ^ tlie Sultan and Troops. c Miss Elizabeth S. Webb, a mis- ? stonary from Bunker Hill, III., has J 13 written as follows of the first days of ( ^ ttae massacre iu Adana when the 1 girls' school to which she was at- a 0 tached was in the greatest danger: our friends came to school as i ^ usual on Wednesday (April 21). Al- j though we heard there was much 1111- c rest in the city, wo wont on with 1 preparations for a school entertaina ment to be hold uoxt day. Soon tlr- (] irig began and before noon we were s afraid to send the day scholars d home. We tried to go ou with our i annual meeting, but were interrupt- | r ed by the screaming in the streets j a and the shooting. "Mr Chambers attempted to go to ! 1 the government building for a j s guard, but found it impossible to | s get through the mob. Our Turkish i * children wept, and we thought it I ^ would be possible to send word of our ! danger by a Turk who had come to take them home. Accordingly, notes to their fathers and to the governor were written but there was I ' no response. r "Fire began to flare up in all di- {1 rections and we were fearing that j ^ the rioters would break into the echool building. Finally about 0 j ,l 1. ?\ ~ .. ? tl,n C I) I'1(M'IV. I llt'i r i'i? lilt" <t iv him rv <i< im i gate and in walked the English con-I ''] sill. Tie loft three of his guard of j ' Turkish soldiers to take care of us. | "All through the night we seemed I to he in a state of siege. Fires Increase. ' < "In the meantime fires about the j city had increased and the sound of ! shooting could he hoard from every point. .At last the consul passed. ' lie was able to spare only one man, ! r but thought this one would he more s > useful than the other three, who had | n run away. Soon after fires broke out i ^ in the adjacent streets. Unless! j f something was done speedily our [ school building must he destroyed. [ a We had hung Turkish flags on all ; o sides of the building, hut this did i a not stop the thousands engaged in ! f the riots from firing their weapons, j r although apparently they were not i d directed against us. "If our building burned, the i Chambers house must burn also. Our only safety seemed to be to ! check the flames. The women and j girls carried water, while the men 'v cut down the shed and an old house in the corner of our yard. A shed | on the opposite side of the street j r was also torn down. About this time j ^ we were horrified to learn that Mr. Rogers and Mr. Maurer had been ! shot. It, seemed that they had been ' 1 fighting the fire and were with the i ^ - - . - . I r other men rutting down the sheds. * They wore brought into our dining f room. Mr. Matirer already was dead * and Rogers only lived a few minutes. P The Rev. Stephen R. Trowbridge, who was near them at the. time, es' raped. "A new misfortune overtook up. ^ Our gunrd of one man disappeared. T rame to my room where the girls were writing. For me to tell them what had happened would only cause a panic; so T said: 'We have done ? all we can; now let us prav.' s A Fearful Situation. P "Before T had finished praying the bugle of the consul's guard and the 0 Turkish officials with whom he was S patrolling sounded. TTe could not ii spare a guard, but promised to send d one immediately. Tt was a terrible '' situation; women and girls practl- rally alone in the building, a murder- si ous, bloodthirsty mob outside, with b knife and bullet for the Armenians t and the torch for their homes. To A add to the misery, there were the v dead on the floor below and the wid- n ow of one of them, Mrs. Rogers, with her infant, ten weeks old, to com- b fort. The afternoon and evening v\ 1 rrl, ^ t< paRSOfI aiHI no gllHIU rnmr, . -losing day wo learned that the Brit- d v ish consul had been shot. In the t.l arm. That night voiinR men from b Gregorian and Protestant committees patrolled the streets around our V building. The situation was grave. | A great crowd, bent on plundering, s; had gathered at the rear of our house t] for an attack. Our Armenians asked d those below to send one man to con- c< for with a representative of our e side. j w nThis was agreed to. but in place \\ of one man, hundreds started to a come. Thoy demanded that we give h up our arms, but this meant certain , ir death. We decided to take the girls ' A * to Mr. Chambers' house. Here refu- ! ges crowded everywhere. Both : tl houses and court apparently had been 1 a overflowing with refuges before our v arrival. Our girls and teachers were calmest of all. tl Powerless to Bare Victims. A "Mr Trowbridge returned from the b school to say that the only hope for si WHY HE WAS SHOT IAMPTOX NEGRO TELLS VERY SENSATIONAL STOHV. I? Tolls l\1iy Ho Shot Clerk of Court Causey a Short Time Ago at Hampton. The Columbia Record says if "Peg .eg" Hughes, the negro brought here short time ago for safe keeping in he penitentiary, to prevent his bong lyuched for the killing of Clerk f Court W. R. Causey, of Hampton, an prove the explanation he has just iven Superintendent Griffith at the enitentiary as to why he shot Mr. ;auscy, more will not only be no ynchinpr, but he will be acquitted, nd a mild sensation will be uncovrod in that section of the State. Hughes says that Mr. Causey and ils friend Jackson were out "larkng" the night of the killing and ame to his house demanding wonen. lie says he told them th"re vere none in his house and they sked him about a mulatto, his steplaughter. He says he told them that lie had gone away, whereupon they lenounced him as a liar and broke nto his house and searched it thoruighlv, jumping on him outside fterward and beating him. He says le was "cateilulg thunder" when he mlled his revolver and began to boot, wounding both men. Hughes ays lie did not want to kill Mr. vausy, but that he did seek the ife of his friend. The Hampton sheriff. who was lore recently, told Capt. Griffith that io knew nothing of the causes loadng up to the shooting. The news>aper accounts that have been sent nit from Hampton give tlio appearmce of being carefully guarded, luglies had just finished serving a erni in the penitentiary for killing negro. Capt. Griffith says Hughes an hoe more cotton in a day than inv two-legged negro lie ever nul. * KIDNAPPKK IS (WI GHT. 'hinese Captured After Decoy Package is Placed. An attempt to abduct and hold for ansom the fourteen-year-old grandon of Mrs. John F. Porter, mother f Warren R. Porter, Lieutenant Jovernor of California, which was rust rated by placing a decoy packgo at the snot where the mnnev wns rdered hidden and tlie capture of well educated Chinese hoy who ormod the plan of abduction, wore evealed at Watsonville, Cal., Frlay. IHillT 1)EAI>, FOURTEEN HURT. Hack Hand Agents laired Large Tenement House. Eight persons, five of them childen, were burned to death and foureen others injured, some fatally, n an Incendiary fire in a five-story enement house at .17 Spring street, <ew York, occupied by 20 Italian ami lies, a few days ago. The blaze ollowed a demand by members of he so-called Black Hand society for ayment of $1,000 blackmail. * THREE LYNCHED. lob Takes Men From Jail and Kills Them. At Marshall. Tpv-is n mr.n nntn. (1 the county jail early Friday, poured throe negroes, Creole Mose, Me Hill and Mat Chase, and lynched 11 of them, The negroes were chargd with shooting and killing Deputy heriff Mark Huffman and woundtig Constable Alex. Cargfll a few lays :ago while the officers wore aiding a crap game. * afetv to any American seemed to e to return to the school, staying here alone, separated from the rmenians. Tie declared that we rere powerless to save the Armeians." Miss Webb relates how Mr. Trowridge persuaded four Zebetis to go ith him to the government house a demand protection. Two of them eserted him on the way, declaring hat. they were afraid of being killed y Armenians. In concluding her narrative, Miss /ebb says: "The Ttritish consul sent a mesage to the governor Friday that if his thing was not stopped he would emand of the government and the 1 ammander of the troons satlsfnptnrv 1 xplanation. Whether or not thov ' 'ere powerless to stop the dreadful 'ork before this I do not know, hut ( nyway then it was stopped. We ! ear that because of the disturbance l Constantinople the authorities in ,dnna did not know which side to ( iin, so they simply let things take ( beir course and permitted the Turks nd Armenians to fight, it out he- i ween them." Miss Elizabeth Webb, who gives be vivid narrative of the fighting at >dana, was sent to Turkey in 1908 y the American bojtrd of commisloners for foreign missions. { A SEVERE STORM 'i The South Swept by Destructive Cyclones and Tornadoes MANY PEOPLE KILLED Ami the lhunnge to Property Will lU iwh Millions of Dollars in Value. v 'Tenuosee is the Heaviest Sufferer. ' Houses Hlowu Ihmu and Wire " c Communication Interrupted. < A dispatch from Atlanta says cyclones and tornadoes the like of 1 which have not been known for years ' swept through the South Thursday s night and all Friday, leaving in their ' mo \-r -v 1 1 ^ n.mt' Muaureus oi uead and mangled 1 bodies and the dismantled wrecks t of property worth many millions. } Tennessee was an especially heavy sufferer. At 9 o'clock Friday night ;l careful estimates indicated that at s least 50 people were killed lu that t State alone, with monetary losses ,] about $1,000,000. At Franklin and t inllillsboro there was loss of life. \ The latter town is said to be prac- j ticallv destroyed, while at Centreville f. and adjoining villages the loss is re- s ported very heavy, both in life and 1 property. Near Pulaski, (liles county, the death list reaches 12 and t many are injured. In the vicinity n of Chattanooga the storm was felt t at its worst. Telephone and tele- r graph wires were blown down and ? the movement of trains was greatly ji hampered. The hurricane followed \ the Cumberland valley, wrecking i small towns and destroying farm t houses. At Ebenezer IS houses were blown r down. 1 At Charles'own the storm swerved up th" lliw isseo river, destroying n mtich proper y. t At Favetteville three are known to s have perished. At Cuba many houses were blown t down, and at (lilestown not even a t shed was left standing. t Memphis reports heavy loss from towns within a radius of 100 miles in throe States. At Horn Lake. Miss., half a dozen lives were lost and the property damage was very heavy. In Arkansas eight, persons were killed near Mammoth Springs, and a score of buildings wrecked. Other \, points i 11 Arkansas report heavy ii loss. c At TInntsville, Ala., fifteen are dead, several score injured and 2.r?0 c houses demolished as a result of the t storm which struck \Paytettteville, f Tenn.. and vicinity Thursday night, 1 acocrding to a reliable man who has c just reached Iluntsville from that section. The dead at Harmes number five, o and many more are injured. The t Harms flour mill was destroyed as well as a number of other buildings t in that vicinity. v Immense damage was done in Mad- h ison county by hail and lightning, p Telegraphic communication with p Payetteville has been severed since early last night. t At Pulaski. Tenn.. twenty persons ? are reported to have been killed and q forty injured in a tornado which j, bwr>pt over the eastern section of C.iles county early Friday. Bee Springs, a village in the southeast section, sixteen miles from Pulaski, is reported to have been totally do- * stroyed. Atlanta and most of Georgia escaped with only slight property loss during the blow. But two young p people, a brother and sister, William t.1 and Pearl Withra, lost their lives f; by the capsizing of a rowboat during p a sudden 1 squat1. n The hurricane continued upon its p course of destruction in Alabama 0 Friday night. Iluntsville sends word f) of heavy loss of property, with pro'). y ably several lives sacrificed near the p Tennessee lino. At Danville, in Mor- p gan county, Alabama, the storm j struck with terrific force. At Harts- S) ville at least one is dead and many p hurt. The storm is still raging and p seems to be traveling almost directly y southeast. q Soon after dark Friday night the storm winds shot across the telegraph and telephone lines connecting Atlanta with Chattanooga and Knoxvillcf, 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 s< Emerson, several big trees were w blown across the railroad right of n way. bearing down wires and holding M up five trains. n The death totals were swelled Frl- tl lav night bv three lightning victims n at Monroe. Ga. Hato- Friday after noon a rushing windstorm, accompa- h nied by blinding lightning, broke M over Monroe and one of tlio bolts s< struck the residence of M. B. Barrett. running down the chimney, ti Barrett, his wife and his 17-year-old t( laughter were killed and a 18-year- u old son and a younger child were se- K riously shocked. r< h A man named Verdier, arrested at P Monte Carlo, declared that he was si an anarchist and that he had come to Monaco for the purpose of killing President Fallieres of France, who q is at present visiting here. h PAID THE PENALTY rwo Mrm>i:m:us mi.kci ihk rrKl) AT ItlCIIMONI), \ A. 'ive Munloivi's \Yei*e to 1m* Klectrocute<l at tlit* Same Time Hut the Machinery was Inadequate. John and William Brown, father nd son, went to their death in the lectric chair at Hichtnond, Va., on 'riday for taking part with other legroes in one of the most infamous rimes known in the history of the Itate. They were the first of five men o go to the death chair for the robicry and murder of Mrs. Henry E. Ikipwlth and Walter G. Johnson, of 'owhatan county, on the night of February 12, last. After committing he robbery they burned the house n order to hide the crime. The men implicated in the affair ill lived in the neighborhood and ome of them had not been beyond ho borders of the county half a lozen times in their lives. Some of hem were educated at the schools n the county, and all of them were nen of more than avearge intelligence for negroes of the country notions. They were all farmers and iad borne good reputations. John and William Urown were lie men who entered into the plot ind who stood guard and threatened o kill any one who gave any help >r went to the assistance of the man md woman. Mrs. Skipewith was an tged woman and Johnson and bis vife lived in the house with her, ooking after her farm. Robbery was he object of the crime, and some of he plunder was found in th<? houses iccupied by the negroes after the lomo place bad been burned. All t ho five men, including John md William Brown, were sentenced o die Friday, but the governor replied Tsham and Joe Taylor, to May ', to prevent breaking the electrical machinery. The men have made parial confessions, it is understood, but hese have not been given out. * TRAIN KORHFKS lold I'p and Rob a Train on Northern Pacific. Three miles from llouser Junction ast Friday night two highwaymen iPld up and robbed the Northern l'aifle passenger train No. 3. The robbers rut the engine and no mail ear from the train, shot wire at the fireman, ordered him rom the engine, put a revolver to Engineer Whittellesey's head and ompelled him to send the engine head. The other bandit took the place f the fireman. As the train passed hrough ITauser the telegraph opertor, suspecting it was a hold-up noified Spokane. While the mail car /as being robbed later at a point iptween Trent and Yardley, Pa., osses were being formed by the ofieinls at Spokane and Rathdrum. The engine and mail car ran by he signals at Trent, hut had not ppeared at Yardloy at midnight, 'he booty was registered mail, but ow much is not known. * ELECTION' OF OFFICERS. 'ederntion of Women's Clubs Ends Their Session. After some committee work and assing a resolution of thanks to he ladis of Sumter for their hospiilities during the meeting, the sorption of Charleston as the next loenng place and the election of of-j cers, the South Carolina Federation f Women's Clubs adjourned. The dicers elected are: President, Mrs. v. It. Burney, Columbia: tirst vice resident, Miss Jean Waterhouse, leaufort; second vice president, Mrs. . S. Booth, Chester; corresponding ?cretary, Mrs. K. F. Bell, Black surg; recording secretary, Mrs. if. '. Lynch, Cheraw; treasurer, Mrs. iitchell Levi. Sumter; auditor, Miss eorgia Dargan, Statoburg. * LYNCHER IX FLORIDA. he Usual Crime filings About Usual Result. Strung up to a tree, which he flight, refuge, and his bod/ riddle 1 ith bullets, Charles Scarborough, a egro, who attempted to assault Irs. Frierson, of Fort Myers, Fla., let a speedy death Wednesday at le hands of a posse of infuriated ion. The posse started out with bloodounds on the negro's trail soon fter the crime became known and mured tho woods all night.. In a secluded spot the posse caplred the negro, finding him in the >p of a tree, which a few minutes iter served as his scaffold. Tho noro confessed, and without delay a ape was put around his neck and e was drawn up to a limb. The osse then stood off and fired twenty hots into his body. If you are going to patch up a uarrel, don't hunt for a needle in a aystack. ROBS THE POOR Senator Raynor Denounces thi Payne Tariff Bill SCORES THE TRUSTS Suys They 1 ?.-m? IVicw, They l.imi Production, They Lotvcr W'atfoi They Throttle* ('oiiipetition, Tlie] Mouopolize the Wealth of the I<um niul Hoard it l'p. lu tho United States Senate 01 Friday, declaring that free tnni? < impracticable iu this country, am assorting that not a single Demo crat wouUl vote for it if presentee to him in a bill, Senator Itayner, o Maryland, delivered an address de nounciug the Payne- Aldrich tarit measure as failing to provide rove nue, and protecting tlie Industrie controlled by trusts rather than giv ing any relief to the consumers o the country. Mr. Itayner frequentl; entered upon orutorial (lights am concluded with a series of condom nations of the so-called trusts of tin countery. He declared his belief ii incidental protection in order h maintain the wages of Americai work men. "1 have never believed to fret trade between this country and an, otlnr countries." Mr. Itayner said "1 think front every practical stand point it is perfectly preposterous ti talk about it. 1 think the countr; would vote such a proposition dowi almost with practical unanimity, believe in custom house taxatioi and I do not believe any other sys tent will ever take its place to tin satisfaction of the American peo pie. Dree trade is not the questioi before us, and no amount of re proach and adjectives will deter m from stating what the question r al ly is. If there were a resolution no*, boldly before the Senate in favor o the entire abolishing of tariff dutio I ,1#. II! . v.w iuh iii'iirv?? mat the doctrine o free trade would receive a singl vote upon our side of the chamber Heading from the Democratic plat forms of 1 876 and 180 2 Mr. Hayne said they embodied his party's axiom "and that is." he added, "that w have no constitutional power to col led tariff duties except for the pur pose of revenue." The pending tarll bill, he declared, should bo entitled "A bill to encourage the Industrie of the United States and for no othe purpose." lie did not believe i would add very much to our presen revenue collections. He character!'/ ed the whole framework of the mean ure as protection and revenue after wards. If he had the framing of i tariff bill, ho said, he would lev the lowest tax possible upon the ne cessarles of life and the highest ta: possible upon the luxuries am "would protect American labor so a to maintain at all times the standan of American wages. Throughout tin whole bill I would look out for tin consumer. You may examine thl bill; outside of the free list, and i is almost Impossible to discover tin consumer in any of tis complicatet schedules." Speaking humorously upon wha he declared to he the inconsistenciei of the measure in determining wha were raw materials, he recounted hli experiences as a member of tin House of Rpresentatives while tin Wilson bill was under consideration "The bill will not, and it doei not." predicted Mr. Ravner," in an; substantial degree lower prices t< the consumer; and T make anothei prediction, and that is that this hi 1 will not in any substantial degree affect the inordinate profits that th< protected Industries are now recelv ing through house taxation." Mr. Ravner combated the idea thai the great corporations of the country benefit the consumers by utilizing economies or Increasing wages. Or the other hand, he declared of the trusts: "They raise prices, they limit produetion. they lower wages, they con tract the demand for labor, thej throttle competition, they monopolize the wealth of the land, they withdraw it. from the channels of circulation and when they are driven from onr State they obtain their franchises in another and they return with insolence to pursue their calling in the place from which they are banished i can look around in my own Stat( and observe that whenever a new enterprise is started that comes ir conflict with them they sweep dowr upon it as the cormorant does upor his prey, and that their rapacity if never appeased so long as a spark of vitality is left in any competitoi that crosses their path. "I do not And within this bill a lino or sentence that weakens th?'ii grasp upon the commerce of the country. On the contrary they show thoir hateful front in almost every schedule of this bill. "As against them, if I had the opportunity in the framing of a tarlfl hill I would open the ports of entry of this Republic. I would bring them in cometltion with the markets | of the world. It la said that if wc 1 do this, we will interfere with othei industries that are competing with DOOMED TO DIE >i:\\ OltUHANS DF/TKCTIVK AD?l Vision OF PLOT. Officer Dantonio Says He Will C??< | tinue KITort.s to Hun I)oiru Me nailers of tlie Soeiety. The declaration of a Sicilian arrested in Chicago Saturday night * that three detectives of the United r States, Petroslno, Longabartl and Dantonio, had bwn marked for death ' by the lllack Hand society was not the tlrst intimation that Detective John Dantonio of New Orleans, ono i of the three officers mentioned, had 3 received of a contemplated attempt ^ 011 his life. A few days ago he was advised " by a friend in Chicago that there was 1 a plot on foot to kill him. f "I am not at all disturbed," said Dantonio "(..i-i * ? . # i propose to continlie every effort t(. br'ng Black Hand criminals to justice in the future, as I have done In the past." s Dantonlo has played a conspicuous v . part In rounding up Black Hand ^ criminals In New Orleans since his occupancy for several years of a j place on the local detective depart- ^ ment. While he would make no statement concerning the matter, it is } thought he has been an Important factor in the discovery of facts that! might have a hearing on the assassination of Detective IVtrosino in Italy. 1. KILLS HIS NKI'IIM\V. j V Hoy and Aunt Were Heing Arraigned I j in Police Court. II Dr. (1. K. Bovajian, an Armenian, a few davs :igo shot and fatally e wounded his nephew, Ilarotoon Clastanian, while the latter was being arraigned in police court with his aunt, the physician's wife, at Detroit, Mich., on a ^statutory charge. v Dr. Hoyajian fired four shots at . his nephew, throe of which found their mark. Ho then turned the revolver on his wife nnd fired the two remaining bullets at. her. A newspaper artist saved the woman's life by pushing her into a vacant jury room. r Mrs. Bovaiinn urhn <<j *> - 1 1 .. ..w in .. o , <II1<1 HIT ' 23-year-old nephew were arrested _ tin* night before. Boyajlan told a _ remarkable story of bis dlseovery of Y the alleged relations between his wife and nephew, whom ho bad ^ brought from his home at Lynn, ' Mass., and was educating In a local ^ medical college. His suspicions were j. first, aroused by having his wife murmur his nephew s name in her sleep. The doctor summoned a law| yer and questioned her. H)r> declares that she made a full confes- y sion. He then swore out warrants for the couple's arrest. When the case was called and Justice Jeffers . ordered Gastanlan to rise, Hoyajian ' whipped out the revolver and fired, j One bullet entered the young man's back; another penetrated his wrist, ? and a third in his hand. He f"ll to the floor as the doctor turned the . revolver towards his wife. The wildest excitement prevailed . in the court room as bystanders and officers Jumped for the maddened husband, who was arrested. Oastanian died shortly after. Ill'ltLKl) TO DKATII. ? 3 Woman and Child Thrown Under ^ Wheels of Trolley. A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., savs Mrs. W. 10. Leodford of Powderr I ly was instantly killed and her child i fatally injured by a Bessemer electric 3 rar at an early hoar Saturday mom ing in TOlyton. The T,eodford family was in a wagon, when the mules sudl denly took fright wheeled and threw i four of the occupants out, Mrs. l.eods ford and her child falling directly i on the track In front of the car. 3 Mrs. Leodford was badly mangled and the child's skull was fractured. SIX PKKSOXS KIIJJID. r ... .Ami Fifty .Are Injured During Storm r at Chicago. j Six persons were killed and fifty . injured in Chicago and its environs ? during the storm Friday night, according to reports received by the ( police and coroner. The list of Inr jtired includes only those whose i names were officially reported, l'robi ably as many more received private i [attention, information of their eon. ? <lition therefore not becoming pub: He. # Head Crushed by Weight. I At Birmingham, Ala., Charles C. Craves, a painter working on the ' twelfth story of the Brown Marx ' building Sunday, panting the Interior ' of the elevator shaft, was struck one of the elevator weights and ) his head was crushed entirely ofif. An employe, not knowing Graves was ' above, started the car. I them. There Is hardly a word of > truth In that statement, because they ' tolerate no rivalry and permit no ' interference."