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I THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD.
"Vy<JL. 30. BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1903. NO. 139.
IRISH HONOR MEMORY OF
\ PATRIOT ROBERT EMMET
I _
Resolution Adopted Declaring
They Wtff.be Satisfied Only
With Independence
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CLAN NA GAEIi PLEDGES
ITSELF TO REPUBLIC
Emmet Centennial Celebration in Co
lumbus Was Taken Part in by
Irish-Americans from All
Parts of Ohio.
-jit—
Columbus. O.. September 20.—The Em
met centennial celebration held here to
day was participated In by Irlsh-Ameri
cans from all sections of Ohio. It is esti
mated that 25,000 excursionists were
brought Into the city, including a large
delegation from Fort Wayne, Ind.
There was a parade early in the after
noon of Irish societies. About 3000 men
were in line.
Following the parade there was a mass
meeting at the Columbus auditorium at
which J. P. Madlgan of Cleveland presid
ed. Addresses of welcome were delivered
by Governor Nash and Mayor Jeffrey. The
principal speakers were J. E. Dolan of
Syracuse. N. Y., national president of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, and John T.
Keating of Columbus, former national
president of the order.
The following resolutions were adopted:
“We, Irish-Ameriean citizens of Ohio,
In mass meeting assembled, on the centen
nial anniversary of the martyrdom of Ire
land's best loved patriot. Robert Emmet,
affirm our undying allegiance to the prin
ciples for which he fought and died.
“Our ambition Is that of Emmet, to
see a republic established upon Irish
soil, and we will never be satisfied with
less than absolute independence.”
Chicago Sons of Erin Meet.
Chicago, September 20.—At the First
Regiment armory tonight a huge meet
ing under the auspices of the United
Irish Societies of Chicago adopted reso
lutions declaring that no settlement of
the Irish question short of national in
aependence will satisfy the aspirations of
the Irish people.
The occasion for the gathering was the
one hundredth anniversary of the execu
tion of Robert Emmet, and the resolu
tions were emphatic that no Ireland will
satisfy men of Irish blood but the Ire
land for which Emmet died. Ireland a
nation of freedom and independence,
making her own laws, floating her own
flag, shaping her own fortunes, acknowl
edging allegiance to no power outside
the limits with which nature has bounded
the island.
Celebration In New York.
New York, September 20.—The Academy
of Music was filled to overflowing to
night by a meeting held under the aus
pices of the Gian Na Gael to commemo
rate the centenary of the martyrdom of
Robert Emmet.
Resolutions were passed declaring the
only proper settlement of the differences |
between Ireland and England to be the j
abolition of English rule In Ireland and j
pledging the Clan Na Gael to work for |
the establishment of an Irish republic, i
The orator of the evening was former 1
United States Senator Charles A. Towne »
of Minnesota. Mr. Towne pictured a
gopne of Emmet’s death, which, ho de
t ifired, was one of the most pathetic
tragedies In all history.
“It is a hopeful spectacle,” he said,
“for the man is the incarnation of an ;
idea, and that, please God, nothing can
ever kill.
In Carnegie Hall, New York.
New York, September 20.—Six thousand
persons gathered in Carnegie hall tonight
til do honor to the memory ot Robert Em
met, under the auspices of the United
Irish league.
Among those present were Mendez Ca
pote of the Cuban senate, and Gen. W. S.
Menocal of the Cuban finance commission.
Tomas Estrada Palma, son of the Cuban
president, was on the platform with his
American wife. Young Palma was intro
duced and acknowledged the honor with I
a brief speech.
"1 can only offer my sympathy and that |
of the Cuban people to the Irish nation !
in its oppression.” said the Cuban. T
hope some day that Ireland will take its
place among the Independent nations of
the world, along with my own beloved
country."
William Temple Emmet, great grand
nephew of the Irish martyr, was present,
ns was Theodore Wolfe Tone Maxwell,
grandson of Wolfe Tone.
A cablegram from Dr. Thomas Addis j
Emmet, datod Warwick. England, was
read. It was as follows:
"Congratulations on centennial Have
searched Dublin for Robert Emmet's rest- |
ing place, but so far have failed. I do |
not despair. It may be in accord with .
Emmet's wish that his grave will he found .
when his epitaph shall have been written.
Let us work for that-day.”
in a speech eulogizing Emmet. Robert
Emmet O'Donnell offered the resolutions
of the meeting. The resolutions called
attention to the land hi!! victory, and
thanked the United Irish League for its |
work in that direction, and pledged the
sympathy and active support of Ameri
can Irish to the fostering of the prlnel- ]
pies of Robert Emmet and the fruition
of his ideal3. The vote was taken by
rising.
The oration of the evening was made
by Col. John F. Finnerty of Chicago,
American president of the United Irish
League. The three things that caused
the "failure of Emmet's rising, he said,
were carelessness treachery and In
ebriety, and he added:
"Any Irishman, who on a mission for
his country, gets drunk, deserves to be
shot.
• It is a mistake to suppose that the
dying request of Emmet that his epitaph
lie not written until his country was in
dependent has been altogether literally
obliterated." he continued, "because no
epitaph can be written all at once, and
> nlthough Emmet perished, he was suc
reeded on other lines by leaders like
Daniel O'Connell. John Mitchell. William
Smith O'Brien and the Fenian brother
hood under Klckhnm. Luby and O'Leary,
and hv Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael
Davitt and John E. Redmond.
"Ten letters constitute the name of
Robert Emmet.' and of these Catholic
emancipation form's the first; the aboii
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YELLOW FEYER IS
IN RAILROAD CAMPS
CONTRACTOR LEONARD OF MEX
ICAN CENTRAL R. R. STATES
THAT SICKNESS IS IN NEARLY
ALL CAMPS AND MANY DEATHS
Monterey, Mexico. September 20.—Dr.
Roy Martin, quarantine Inspector for the
government, who recently returned from
Llnarez, declares that the city is dead,
commercially, and partly deserted on ac
count of the prevalence of yellow fever,
although there arc less than 200 cases In
Llnarez. There are fully 2000 persons sick
with various ailments.
Latest advices from Victoria state that
but twelve cases of yellow fever exist in
that city. The municipal authorities of
Victoria now feel that they have the sit
uation well in hand and will shortly have
stamped out,the fever.
Mr. W, H. Leonard, representative of
the Bridge and Masonry Contract corps
on the Monterey division of the Central
railroad, reports a most deplorable situa
tion among the different construction
camps along the line. He says that there
Is scarcely a camp without fever, and that
there are many deaths. As these camps
must be more or less centers of Infection,
It would be well to close them up until the
epidemic has passed.
Ramplco Is largely diminishing the num
ber of cases of yellow fever, the average
number of cases weekly now being seven.
tion of tithes the second; disestablish
ment of the English church, the third;
the extended franchise, the fourth; the
first land bill, the fifth; the Ashburn
land act, the sixth; the establishment of
the land courts, the seventh; the estab
lishment of the county councils, the
eighth, and the passage of the land pur
chase bill, the latest enactment, the
ninth. There remain but one more letter
to be written and that is the national
Independence of Ireland and that is
bound to come, and cannot be long de
layed.”
Charles R. Devlin, M. P.. representing
Galway in place of Colonel Lynch, the
Irishman sentenced to life imprisonment
because he fought with the Boers against
England, was the last speaker. Mr.
Devlin spoke on contemporary English
politics. When he mentioned Joseph
Chamberlain's name the audience hissed.
"As one of your papers said today,”
Mr. Devlin said, “Chamberlain was riding
for a fall, and he got It. Chamberlain
got his fall and he will never rise again.
And the reason was that he denied Ire
land her rights. Lord Rosebery resign
ed and he has never risen again. We
have seen the last of Chamberlain.”
FIGHT ON AMONG
BRIDGE WORKERS
ARRIVAL OF SAM PARKS IN KAN
SAS CITY AROUSES MUCH AC
TIVITY AMONG DELEGATES TO
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Kansas City. Mo.. September 20.-Sam
Parks of New York arrived in this city
tonight to attend the convention of the
International Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers which will meet here to
morrow. His arrival aroused much ac
tivity among the delegates already here,
an activity which presages a lively 1 ght.
when the committee on credentials shall
report on the convention in the morning.
Parks is a member of local union No.
2 of New York, which was suspended
by President Buchanan after Parks' re
cent imprisonment, and another local
union, No. 2, was established. The ex
ecutive committee of the organization
did not ratify the action of President
Buchanan and Parks and his partisans
assert that the action of the president
is therefore null and void. The local
union of which Parks was. or is, a mem
ber in New York has sent a delegation
of which Parks is a member to the
convention and the local union which
was organized after Parks and his local
union was suspended, also sent a dele
gation.
President Frank Buchanan of Chicago,
who is an anti-Parks man, is a candl
date for re-election. H. F. Donnelly of
Albany, N. Y., Parks' supporter, is also
a candidate for president. The Parks and
anti-Parks following will be manifest in
every contest In the convention. The
side which pairs the supremacy in the
seating of the contesting delegations to
morrow will probably control every im
portant action of the convention.
WRECK ON THE SEABOARD.
Bridge Foreman W. S. Brown Killed
Near Henderson, N. C.
Henderson, N. C.. September 2C.—A
freight train on the Seaboard Air Line
ran into the rear end of another in the
yard here last night, killing W. S. Brown,
a bridge foreman, and splintering and
burning up two cars of cotton.
A coroner’s inquest rendered a ver
dict to the effect that Brown came to
his death through the negligence of the
engineer running the second section of
the train.
Chinook, Mont., September 20.—Posses
are scouring every section of the county
in the vicinity of Bear Paw mountains
after “Kid” Currey, alias Harvey I.ogan,
the leader of the gang which held up two
Great Northern express trains on July 3.
1901. and who escaped from the Knoxville,
Tenn.. jail while awaiting transportation
to the Ohio penitentiary to serve out a
twelve years’ sentence for forging signa
tures to the stolen bank bills obtained in
the robbery.
Posses Equal to Occasion.
The posses are composed of men well
acquainted with the country in which
Currey is traveling and who are equally
as quick on the trigger as he or any of
his gang. It is many miles from where
the search is being prosecuted to the near
est telegraph station, and it may be days
after an encounter before anything is
known of what happened.
Currey has many friends in the country
through which he is passing and they
will aid him to reach the rendezvous of
his gang, where he will be safe in the
fastnesses of the Bear Paw mountains
from pursuit or capture. When last heard
from on Saturday he was only ten miles
from his destination and well mounted.
As the posses only got started this noon.
, the chances are all in Currey’s favor.
BULGARIA TOASTS
PRES. ROOSEVELT
PRINCE FERDINAND IS MUCH
PLEASED OVER FACT THAT
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS HAVE
BEEN RESTORED.
Sofia, Bulgaria, September 20.—Prince
Ferdinand last evening gave a dinner
party at the palace in honor of J. B.
Jackson, who In the afternoon had pre
sented hlR credentials as the first
lean diplomatic agent to Bulgaria. The
guests Included F. E. H. Elliott, the
British diplomatic agent, and the Bul
garian ministers and high officials.
Prince Ferdinand proposed the health
of President Roosevelt, speaking in En
glish. and the court band played a se
lection of American airs.
Great satisfaction Is expressed. not
only In official, but also in commercial
circles, at America’s action in estab
lishing diplomatic relations with Bulga
ria. The belief prevails that a great
opportunity exists for developing a
profitable export and import trade with
the United States.
NEWSPAPER MAN DIES.
In Fit of Distraction His Wife Takes
Her Own Life.
Paris. September 20.—James L. Fer
riere, a well known newspaper man of
New York, died here today as the result
<of a paralytic stroke. His wife, In a fit
of distraction soon afterward, took her
life. Mr. Ferriere was formerly for sev
eral years, an editor of the Paris edi
tion of the New York Herald. He enter
ed the service of the Associated Press in
1897, and at the time of his death was
employed in its Paris office.
Memorial Bust of Victoria Unveiled.
London. September 20.—At the parish
church of Crathie, three-quarters of a
mile from Balmoral Castle, which was
attended by Queen Victoria, King Ed
ward, in the presence of the Prince and
Princess of Wales, Prince and Princess
Charles of Denmark, Premier Balfour,
Lord Lansdowne, other ministers and a
distinguished congregation, this morning
unveiled a memorial bust of the late
Queen Victoria by the sculptor, Emil
Fuchs, and two Mural tablets in mem
ory of the late Duke of Edinburgh and
Empress Frederick of Germany. The
three memorials were erected at the ex
pense of the king.
Herr Bebel Wins a Victory.
Dresden, Saxony. September 20.—Herr
Bebel has re-established his authority
in the socialist party by carrying his
resolution against the revisionists by
several hundred votes, against eleven
dissentent voices, and having elected an
executive committee of his own choosing.
It now looks as though the agitation
against Herr Bebel before the convention
met was encouraged by him in order that
his absolute leadership of the party
should be demonstrated and the small
faction opposed to him held ifp to the
ridicule of the party.
NATHAN SWIFT KILLED IN
CHICAGO BY POLO BALL
Chicago, September 20.—Nathan Swift,
son of Louis F. Swift, the packer, died
today from the effects of a blow on the
temple with a polo ball at Onw’entzia
Held during a game. The accident was
at first thought to be trifling. Mr. Swift
was playing In a contest in which his
companions were Frederick McLaughlin.
W. W. Rathbone. Walter Farwell, Sid
ney Love, Walter Keith, R. R- McCor
mick and Charles Garfield King.
The ball which struck Mr. Swift was
one that went high in the air and from
the mallet of Mr. Love. Mr. Swift did
not appreciate his danger until too late,
the glare of th2 sun preventing him from
following the ball in Its flight. When ,
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the ball hit him, he did not fall from his
saddle, and when his companions gallop
ed to his side he was at first Inclined
to make light of the injury. was In
duced to dismount, but walked without
aid from the field. Arriving home, he
complained of dizziness and later he
went into a delirium, which was follow
ed by his death.
The accident which resulted in Mr.
Swift’s demise occurred yesterday after
noon. During the night an operation
was performed to relievo a ruptured blood
vessel near the brain. The operation
seemed to give relief, but the effect was
only temporary. Three physicians work
ed over him constantly until the end.
Nathan Swift was born in Chicago in
1881. He was an athlete, being especially
devoted to football and polo.
POSSES ARE AFTER
CURRY THE ROBBER
Escaped from the Knoxville
Jail in 1901
IS LOCATED IN MONTANA
Desperado is Making for the Moun
tains, and the Chances Are
That He Will Elude
His Pursuers.
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EXPLANATIONS
Memorandum Was Nol Intended
as an Ultimatum,
WANT POWERS 10 INTERVENE
Ministry Wants to Maintain Attitude
of Neutrality Up to Last Mo
ment, But Position is Be
coming Difficult.
Sofia, Bulgaria, September 20.—Some ap
prehension having apparently been cre
ated owing to a misunderstanding re
garding the precise meaning of Bulga
ria’s last note to the powers, explana
tlons have been given to some diplo
matic agents here, that the memorandum
was not intended as an ultimatum, but
was rather *n the nature of an appeal
for the intervention of the great powers
before that intervention should be too
late. The Bulgarian ministry, it was
stated, was determined to maintain its
attitude of neutrality up to the last mo
ment, but it feels the impossibility of
standing by indefinitely, while the Turks
exterminated the Bulgarian element in
Macedonia.
The government’s position is rendered
increasingly difficult by the attitude of
the Macedonian population in Bulgaria,
which, vigorously backed up by the revo
j lutlonary committees, Is persistently en
[ deavorlng to force the government’s
hand and provoke hostilities with
Turkey.
A special dispatch from the Monastery
I of Rila, Bulgaria, says the condition of
the Turkish garrison of Melnik, sixty
five miles northeast of Salonica, is be-^
lieved to be extremely critical. It is be
sieged by bands of insurgents under the
leadership of Yankoff, Stoyanoff, Darv
inghof and Sarafoff, all of whom were
formerly Bulgarian officers.
Insurgents Number 1500.
The Insurgents number 1500, while the
garrison Is believed to consist of only
one battalion. Melnik is a very impor
tant strategic point in the mountains,
commanding the road between Demir
hlssar and Razlog. The Turks have
withdrawn nearly all their forces from
the districts of Danaoumaia and Razlog,
to send them to the relief of Melnik. As
a consequence, unusual tranquility pre
vail throughout the rtlstr‘ot of Razlog,
where the authorities, lacking the sup
port of the troops, have ceased their
policy of persecution and the boys are
even furnishing bands with food. The
Turkish population is described as being
In a state of gTeat consternation.
A company of Turkish soldiers and
bashibazouks recently found the hiding
place of a hundred families of refugees,
from the villages of Dupenl and Echla,
near Rezen. They captured the party,
violated the women, and committed
other atrocities.
The united hands of Monassleff and
Mlchalloff have had an encounter with
the troops near Domlr Kapu, slxty-two
miles northwest of Salonlca. The Turks
had many killed, Including two officers.
Sultan Would Avoid War.
London. September 20.—According to a
dispatch from Constantinople to the
Daily Telegraph, the sultan is so firmly
resolved to avoid a war, that on the re
port that France was sending a fleet to
Turkish waters, and again when It was
stated that Bulgaria was mobilizing her
troops, he drafted a decree forbidding
massacres In Macedonia and conferred
more extensive local administrative priv
ileges than had been demanded by tli£
Insurgents themselves, but on each occa
sion finding the rumors unfounded, the
decree was rescinded. It is believed,
however, that should any power threaten
a demonstration in Turkish w'aters, the
decree will be signed.
The Sofia correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph gives a similar report that the
sultan is ready to concede local autono
my. but will not grant international con
trol or a Christian governor to Mace
donia. Instead, he would propose a mix
ed commission, composed of Turks, Mace
donians, Bulgarians, Greeks and Walla
chians to administer the province. The
Servian newspapers are discussing the
probability of a reconciliation with Bul
garia on the basis of free trade between
Servia and Bulgaria, and a defensive al
liance against the Turks.
Greeks Are Joining Revolt.
A dispatch from the Monastery of Rlla
says the Greeks are joining the revolt In
the districts o£ Melnik and Demlrlssar.
The Constantinople Correspondent of
the Times declares that he has good au
thority for asserting that several Serv
ian bands have already crossed the fron
tier and are now fighting In Macedonia.
If Bulgaria fights Turkey, the corre
spondent continues, It will be difficult for
Servia to lag behind and It Is quite clear
that a Turko-Bulgarlan war would not be
so one-sided as at first sight appears.
PROJECT MAY BE DEAD.
Unless There is Revulsion of Feeling
No Panama Canal Will be Built.
Washington, September 20.—Interest Jn
the Panama canal situation now cen
ters in the communication in which Dr.
Herran. the Colombian charge, recently
submitted to the state department from
his government.
Just what the nature of this is, Dr.
Herran and the state department of
ficials decline to say, on the ground
that it is of a confidential character, but
it is understood that It is In the nature
of a proposition which will keep alive the
canal negotiations with the Colombian
government after September 22, at which
time the existing treaty expires by limita
tion.
Unless there should be a considerable
revulsion of feeling in the Colombian
senate in favor of the Hay-Herran agree
ment, the project is believed to be dead
by Minister Beaupre at Bogota and by
South American diplomats in Washing
ton.
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+■ and Tuesday; light to fresh east ♦
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STATESMEN DIFFER
ON THE CURRENCY
'
Politicians Wonder Whv the
President Calis Congress
SHORT MESSAGE EXPECTED
The Mormon Issue Will be Lively,
Especially in Idaho—DuBois Has
Planned Vengeance Ever
Since Last Year.
BY WATTEROON STEALEY.
Washington, September 20.—(Special.)—
It is a little haid to understand among
some public men, not unfamiliar with
good practical politics, the reason why
congress should be called into extra ses
sion only a month previous to the regu
lar session, the tirst Monday in Decem
ber. It is now generally admitted that
the republicans have about agreed to
“stand pat” upon the tariff question and
also to do little, if anything, in alter
ing the present financial laws of the
country. This being the case the only
reason given why congress should meet
in extra session would be to pass the
Cuban reciprocity measure. This of it
self is not considered a good and suffi
cient reason, for three w’eeks or a month's
time would hardly make any difference
in the outrageous attitude the republican
party has assumed in the past two years
on this question.
An extra session of congress, followed
by the long session of six months, will,
however, give the republicans plenty of
^tlme to do or not to do all that they
have in view and if they fail to do any
thing of substantial benefit to the people,
as is now most likely, their party will
have to pay the cost of the failure. Un
der these circumstances democrats can
look forward with complacency upon the
assembling of congress in extra and
regular session.
Diversity of Opinion.
There is wide diversity of opinion
among republican leaders on the ques
tion of finance and it is hardly possible
for any bill to be framed which will
.have full party indorsement. As an In
stance Secretary Shaw in a speech In
Chicago a few days ago announced what
is accepted as the administration plan
of action. This has been by no means
agreed upon. In the senate the leading
faction, headed by Senator Aldrich,
whose pet project contemplates the de
posit of custom receipts in national
banks, is opposed to Secretary Shaw's
ideas. In the house the “asset currency”
faction is |’;o oppos'd to Mr. Shaw and
Senator Aldrich. This is a candttlon:
of congusion and dissension created at
the outset.
Certain republicans in congress are ju
bilant over the lack of union upon tho
financial question, seeing in that con- •
ditlon a club to beat off any movement
for tariff revision. To start a financial
discussion in the senate means months
of long speeches. Thus the tariff can
be let alone.
President's Message.
It is expected that the President's mess
age to the extra session will be brief and
it Is not unlikely that it will deal with
Cuban reciprocity alone though something
may be said upon the currency question.
Cfeneral subjects will be left for the reg
ular session a month later.
At the beginning of the last congress
Mr. Roosevelt strongly recommended tar
iff revision. Subsequently In a speech in
the west he advised that no action be ta
ken until after the elections of next year.
There seems to be no doubt that the Pres
ident never had any real intention of try
ing to enforce his tariff revision views.
As to Cuban reciprocity the feeling at
present is that it will go through without
much opposition at the extra session. It
is expected that during the first week of
congress the ways and means committee
will report a resolution granting the re
duction of the Dingley tariff rates as giv
en in the treaty. This will go through the
house, and then to the senate, where fav
orable action before the regular session is
expected.
Mormon Issue.
According to information received from
the west, the state of Idaho in particular, j
the Issue of Mormonism again promises
to'be raised through that territory. Dem
ocratic politicians from that section con
tend that the Mormon church has Its
hand Into politics and through the repub
licans is controlling the nominations for
national and local of flees.
It is now said that the fight will ’oe
opened by Senator Dubois of Idaho, who
Is reported to be against the retention In j
the senate of Senator Smoot, against
whom a edntest has been Inaugurated not j
only in Utah, but by petition of thousands
of citizens throughout the country. Of
course It Is highly improbable that Smoot
will be unseated, as the senate has a lit
tle more regard for the legal aspects of
the case than did the house in the Roberts
case, hut Senator Dubois does hope to
work up a state of public feeling against
the Mormons which he hopes will be
strong enough by 1907 to return him to the
United States senate. In his contest he
I hopes to enlist the support of women vot
ers of the state—for women voters in Ida
ho—as well as the support of the evangel
ical clergy and of a disaffected wing of
I the republican party.
Dubo*s Planning Vengeance.
Dubois has been planning vengeance
ever since the state election of 1902, when
the Mormons, who control six or seven
VAUGHAN FACTION MAY
NOW GAIN ASCENDENCY
SULTAN REGRETS
RECENT EXCESSES
IN AN AUDIENCE WITH RUSSIAN
AMBASSADOR M. ZINOVIEFF HE
INTIMATES THAT GUILTY PAR
TIES WILL BE PUNISHED.
Constantinople, September 20.—In an
audience with M. Zinovieff, the Russian
ambassador, Friday, the sultan ex
pressed his regret at the excesses com
mitted by the Turkish troops In the
vilayets of Monastir and Adrianople.
He said that orders had been sent to the,
authorities concerned to prevent their
repetition and he gave the Russian am
bassador to understand that the guilty
parties would be punished.
The German ambassador, Baron
Marschall von Piebersteln, also had an
audience with the sultan, who showed
himself most optimistic. The latter de
clared that the insurrection was draw
ing to a close. In fact, it had already
been suppressed in some districts, and
the porte would, therefore, Immediate
ly issue proclamations announcing the
resumption of the application of the re
form scheme.
After the granting of these audiences
an extraordinary council of ministers
was held at Yldiz Kiosk, and the delib
erations were continued on Saturday,
it is understood that the council drew
up fresh instructions to the valis In the
sense of his majesty’s declaration.
Official dispatches from the vails of
Salonica. Monastir and Adiranople re
port numerous encounters which result
ed in favor of the Turks.
counties in the southern part of Idaho,
voted the republican ticket practically in
a body, and insured the return of a re
publican to succeed Senator Heitfleld.
The storm broke out a few weeks ago
when the secretary of the treasury call
ed for tho resignation of John W. Cun
ningham, assayer at Boise, and signi
fied its intention to appoint II. S.
Wooley, who, until three months ago.
w'as a Mormon bishop, and who, it is
charged, resigned his bishopric, know
ing that he was to be given a federal
office.
The prospective appointment of
Wooley has created a factional row In
the republican camp, and has according
ly played Into Dubois’ hand. An earn
est protest has been forwarded to Pres
ident Roosevelt against the appointment
of the bishop, and many believe that the
President can be Induced to reconsider,
especially as ho issued a "statement”
against Smoot, before he was elected to
the senate. In the same connection,
strange ns It may seem, this same pres
idential 'statement” was thought by
Dubois and other democrats to b» an
excellent thing for the democratic party
as it would probably give them the
Mormon vote.
Idaho Democrats.
The Idaho democrats are now clam
oring for the re-establishment of the
test oath, which requires every voter
to declare that he is not living in a
state of polygamy and that he owed no
allegiance to an ecclestical power sup
perior to the allegiance owed to the
national or state government.
The real beginning of the present Mor
mon trouble is due to the undented
statement that in the last presidential
campaign the heads of the Mormon ,
church entered Into an agreement with
Chairman Hanna of the republican na
tional committee to deliver to the re
publican party the states of Idaho.
Wyoming and Utah in return for which,
it is claimed, Hanna guaranteed the op
position of the republican national or
ganization to any further attempt to
unseat Mormons who might be sent to
Washington. Whether this agreement
was made or not the Mormons carried
out their part of the alleged contract,
and voted the republican ticket.
AMERICANS SEE BULL FIGHT.
Six Bulls and Several Horses Were
Slain at Luarez.
Dallas, Tex., September 20.—A special
to the News from El Paso, Tex., says:
The new fifty thousand dollar bull ring
at Luarez, on the Mexican border, was
formally opened here today In the pres
ence of ten thousand people, chiefly Amer
icans.
Six hulls were tortured and put to
death, and several horses were slain by
the bulls. Cervera. the famous Spanish
bull fighter, Is at the head of the troupe.
Grand Circuit Meeting to Resume.
Columbus, O., September 20.—The Grand
Circuit meeting will he resumed here to
morrow afternoon, after a week’s Inter
mission. Over 400 horses ore entered.
Major Delmar will not go against his re
cord here, as announced, because of ob
jections from the management of the Em
pire City track, which had a previous
contract.
German Catholic Verein Meets.
Dayton, O., September 20.—The forty
eighth annual convention of the German
Roman Catholic Verein in the United
States began here today with delegates
present from many cities Pontifical
mass was celebrated by Archbishop Muel
ler of Cincinnati. A big parade was held
this afternoon, '’he business sessions be
gin tomorrow and will continue four
days.
PANAMA WANTS TREATY
SATISFACTORY TO 1. S.
Panama, Colombia, September 20.—Sen
ator Obaldia today took over the func
tions of governor of Panama. The event
was the occasion for great popular dem
onstrations by all parties. It Is thought
that the appointment of Governor Obal
dia may perhaps exert lnliuence against
secessionist ideas, not only becausg he
is a native of Panama, which fact en
gages tor him the sympathies of all, but
i because his appointment apparently Is a
part of a general plan, the result of
wh»h will be the election of General
! Reyes to the presidency, and the ap
! proval of a canal treaty satisfactory to
j the United Slates.
I Governor Obald#i in his reply to Ur.
Florentine Goenaga, president of the
high court of justice, said:
”1 maintain, because they were well
meditated, the sincere opinions I express
ed as a senator of the republic. I con
sider that the interests of the world
urgently demand the construction of a
canal und they have a right to ask our
co-operation. The concessions, the ob
ject of which Is to serve these interests,
though they may imply a sacrifice of
sovereignty are not against the national
dignity. We cannot deny civilization
what It requires from us—to continue its,
victorious march.”
All the speeches delivered at today’s
function, not only by Isthmians. Hut by
natives of the rest of the republic. dei>
onstrated that all the inhabitants^
Panama are in fa* or of the treaty.
t
Report Correol in lAlastiinglon
That Roosevelt May Retoro
to Former leaders
PRESENT REFEREES MM
BE REAR IN NAME RNIY
Said That Combination Must be Mado
With Either Vaughan or Bing
ham Factions to Make a
Showing in Alabama.
Washington. September 20.—(Special.)—
A report, which has been current here
for several days, and which cannot be
verified, though it meets with consider
able credence in Alabama republican po
litical circles, is to the effect that Presi
dent Roosevelt through his Alabama
agents, is contemplating a return to the
old Vaughan faction, so powerful during
the days of the McKinley-Hanna regime.
Following his succession to the presi
dency. Mr. Roosevelt turned down the
Vaughan faction, then the dominant fac
tor in Alabama republicanism. Vaughan
was removed from the district attorney
ship on charges of an indefinite drag net
nature pertaining to his official record,
though it was well understood that the
removal was purely political, Vaughan
being outspoken for the nomination of
Senator Hanna for the presidency.
Shortly following this, Collector of In
ternal Revenue Bingham, the head of
the anti-Vaughan faction, was also re
moved, the charge in this instance being
his activity in excluding negroes from
participating In republican conventions.
The two ex-olTIce holders represented
the heads of the two republican factions
I and sine* that time they have been al
lied for the common purpose of making
warfare upon President Roosevelt.
Three Referee* Selected.
| I'pon the removal ’''•Vaughan and Bing
ham. who have since had no share-in ‘hfc
distribution of patronage, and who have
been discredited at every turn by the rci
tionnl administration, the President sft,
leeted three referees—J. O. Thompson.
who was made collector of internal reve
nue lo succeed Bingham, fm mer Con
gressman Aldrich and Charles If. Scott
These referees have dictated all appoint
ments in the state and have been recog
nized as the party leaders In Alabama
although selected entirely Independent of
the party organization and against Its
will.
Head in Name Only.
The consequence Is that the Roosevelt
referees have found themselves at the
hend of the party In name only, and the
union of the Vaughan and Bingham fac
tions Insures beyond a doubt the over
whelming defeat of the referees at the
very first test of strength. The elimina
tion of the hegrn has made the distribu
tion of patronage an element of weakness
rather than strength with the result that
the referees have all the offices hut none
of the votes.
On last Friday the referees were guests
of President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay.
The report Is that the Interview was for
the purpose of off-sotting anti-Roosevelt
I sentiment In Alabama and trying lo de
vise means to keep the referees, or In
other words. President Roosevelt, from
i being repudiated at the polls, it Is Hald
that the referees fully realize that a com
! bination with either Vaughan or Bingham
will be absolutely necessary If any show
ing at all is to 1)0 made at the next test
of strength. The story, therefore, Is that
overtures are being made.
QUARANTINE STILL MAINTAINED
| Consul Alonzo B. Garrett Says Casea
at Sanchez Arc Not Yellow Fever.
Laredo, Tex.. September 20.—This city
is still maintaining a vigorous quaran
tine against Neuvo Laredo, Ilex Little
news of n reliable kind can be secured
from across the river.
T'nlted Stales Consul Or Alonzo H.
Garrett, who arrived In Neuvo Laredo
today, after having passed five days'
quarantine at Sanchez station, stated
that he had examined several eases of
the pr-valllng disease, and claims they
are not yellow fever.
Expert bacteriologists of the Mcxk an
government have arrived nnd will In
vestigate the cases In company with a
yellow fever expert who Is expected to
arrive from Washington tomorrow.
MEXICANS A E PLEASED.
Believe That Measure Will be Intro
duced Stabilizing Silver.
Mexico City, September JO.—Great
satisfaction is felt here over the news
of the successful result of the visit to
Europe of the Mexican and monetary
commissioners, and It Is believed that
In November, when Finance Minister
Llmantour shall have returned to this
country from France, thut there will be
a measure submitted to congress sta
bilizing the silver.
custom house receipts for August
amounted to $2,796,570.
Stamp taxes continue to give a largo
yield and the government’s financial po
sition Is excellent.
Filipinos Are in Trouble.
San Francisco, September 20.—Thirty
one Filipinos who arrived here last Thurs
day on the transport Sherman on their
way to St. Louis, where they were to be
employed In construction of the Philippine
houses and other buildings at the exposi
tion. are detained on board the transport
by the Immigration authorities, because
they are liable to become public charge*.
Although armed with letters of Identifica
tion from Manila, the thirty-one Filipino*
are in financial straits..
-essman Wiley Return* Home.
*
n. September 20. — Kepre*on
lurned to hi* hom^ in
* bt. Representative
.ve tomorrow to visit
iiond. Va.