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d h as New Wed1rr Cio damasi far do asy WASHSTCON NOTES Senator ouggenhelm has offered an amendment to the cesus approprie tion bill allowing $2s,000 for traveling expenses of the president during the fiscal year of 1910. A resolution calling on the secrs tarp of state for Information concern ing imports of tobacco by other na. tions and duties upon such Imports when from the United States, and also asking to be Informed as to what gov ernment monopolies of tobacco exist, was Introduced in the senate by Senas tor Daniel. Declaring that the proposed plan of Representative Scott, chairman of the agricultural committee, to rebate all duties on wheat shipped in from Can ada and other countries until the Pat ten corner is broken, Is both danger ous and ineffective, the " Minnesota members will resist the plan to have the duty taken off of wheat tempo rarily. PERSONAL. H. Percival Dodge of Boston, Ameri can minister to Salvador, has been se lected as minister to Morocco to suo ceed Mr. Gummere. Miss Ethel Hart of Washington, Pa., died at Boulder, Colo., on the eve of her weadding to W. H. Ferguson, a Denver attorney. Miss Hart was in Colorado for her health. 0. C. Thomas, a well known anaa eler, art collector and churchman, is dead in Philadelphia. He was once a aitne of Jay Cooke and later became hed of the Drexel banking house. Ass, son of Whoa, has been elected chief of the Apache Indians, to suo ceed Geronimo, the noted warrior who died last February. The election will be submitted to the war department for approval. A monument to the memory of the late Henry Chadwick, known as the "Father of baseball," was unveiled over his grave in Brooklyn. President Ebbetts of the Brooklyn baseball club was master of ceremonies. Many prominent baseball men and friends attended. John Thaw Denuiston, manager of the Star Union line of the Pennsyl. vania railroad, is dead at Pittsburg. He was sixty-six years old, and had been in the employ of the Pennsylva. nia railroad since he was fifteen years of age. Rev. John Timothy Stone, pastor of the Brown Memorial church, Balti more, Md., has accepted a call to be come pastor of the Fourth Presbyte rian church of Chicago. Dr. Stone is one of the best known Presbyterian ministers in the United States. CASUALTIES. The factory of the Manninglon Glass Works company at Mannington, W. Va., was totally destroyed by fire. The losj is estimated at $50,000. The tannery of A. C. Fisher & Co. of Bethel. Vt., one of the largest leather factories in New England, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $150,000. Elmer Lacy, aged thirteen, was drowned as a result of the capsizing of a small rowboat in the waters of the tidal basin of the Potomac river, near the Georgetown channel. A washout sent a Grand Trpnk freight train from Grand Haven, east. bound, into the ditch one mile west of Grand Rapids. Mich. Three men were killed and one was fatally In $ured. While at work in his field, P. M. Pe tereso, a prominent farmer of Ring sted. Iowa, yas struck by lightning and Instantly killed. Mr. Peterson is survived by his wife and eight chil dren, A tornado swept over Marcy Hill, a suburb of 1Utica, N. Y., last week. Bouses and barns were demolished and trees uprooted. No lives were lost. Damage will amount to many thousands of dollars. By the capsiaing of a canoe in Mid dlieton pond, at Deanvers, Mass., Victor Durgia. automobile editor of the Bow ten Traveller, and Mrs. Ernest Nor. toen, wife of the cashier of the Mer cheats National Bank of Boston, and ber latent son drowned. Mr. Norton was premsed. There were 184 people killed and !.w belured in train accidents in the thfr. months ending Dec. 31 last, ac. efeitg to the report of the interstate eigmetee commissiom. Other kinds 4i aeats bring the total number 4g optate up to 17.644--W killed i .184$ tcjured. This shows a de t $.814 as compared with a Woods, aged seven. ba-me lost while goiag from hebar to her own at Rik e attached by bogs _r_ wl. Her deed sa4 heai we. bond by -0 a sw daring .t aft." sete ho be th IFMl etW SilgIII The himiesesat has Voted to matlyi the new patent treaty between the United State sad Germany. The German emperor has extended an invitation to King Udward and Queen Alexandra to visit him at The Russian war office has ordered a dirigible balloon of the Republique type from Paris. The cost will be $60,000. British shingles have advanced 10 cents In price. The mills for more than a month have been swamped with orders. The general Federation of Labor at France has called on unions through. out the country to join In a general demonstrative strike on May day. The Interparliamentary union has decided to move its headquarters from The Hague to Brussels. The so. lection, however, Is temporary only. A chapel In memory of Grand Duke Serglus and other officials of the gov. ernment who have fallen victims to the terrorism of recent years has been dedicated at Moscow. The French foreign office has decid ed to Investigate the recent encounter In San Francisco between Count P. de Joufre d'Abbans, an attache of the French consulate, and John D. Spreck. els. Emperor Nicholas has repealed the long-standing regulations restricting the marriage of army officers. Hitherto officers under twenty-eight years old were compelled to demand a minimum dowry of $2,500. Justice Lawrence J. Cannon, sitting as a royal commission, has begun an Inquiry Into Montreal's municipal af fairs. The Investigation is expected to occupy several weeks and to cover many charges of grafting and mis management. CRIMES. John Wallace, sixty-fve years old, of New York. was shot and killed by his daughter, Agnes Wallace. Mrs. Elizabeth Hummel. eighty-two years old, of Pittsburg, swallowed car bolie acid In a glass of eggnogg and died. In a fit of melancholia Charles Mc Millan, aged seventy-seven, threw himself In front of a Big Four passen ger train at Bellefontalne. Ohio, and was killed. Burgiras blew the safe In the Al cona County Savings bank at Harris. viele Mich., and escaped with $5,000. The thieves overlooked $2,000 in cur rency. There Is no clue to their iden *ity. After breaking In glass doors and windows with clubs and battering down woolen doors with sledge ham mers, the police raided a pool room above a saloon in Chicago and arreat ed fifty men. George B. McKinnon of Mooretown. Ont., across the river from St. Clair, Mich.. was shot three times and kill ed by Capt. Ralph Pringle, a well known vesselman. Jealousy is said to have been the cause. Donald Boyd was convicted at Mount Vernon, Wash., of kidnapping Patrick McCoy, a wealthy Seattle lumberman, in the woods near Bow, Iast autumn, with the Intention of holding him for a ransom. Charles Colbert and his brother iler! ert, alias John Colbert, were con: 'vitted at Pittsburg of conspiracy to bribe in connection with an alleged at t, npt to bribe a juror in one of the recent councilmtanic graft trials. Under sentence of six months' im prisonment and a fine of $150, Mrs. Joseph Sager, wife of a physician of Celina, Ohio, became an inmate of the Toledo workhouse. Mrs. Sager ph aded guilty to the charge of tor. turing her ten-year-old daughter. OTIIERWISS. The school book trust is to be thrown bodily out of the Chicago schools. The Florida senate passed a bill for submission of state-wide prohibition to the voters of the state. At a depth of 965 feet another natu ral gas well was struck at Medicine Hat, with a flow of 3.000,000 cubic feet a day. The latest news of the Charcot Antarctic expedition says that valuable scientific work has been accomplished at Deception Island. A bill making it a criminal offense to teach children the doctrine of hell and eternal damnation is advocated by M. M. Manasarian. president of the [Idependent Religious society of ChI 'Ago. Surgeons at the Flower hospital In New York have just effected a remark able cure of a patient suffering with malignant tumor, by means of the in jection of gelatin Impregnated with ra dium. Richard Garret Oakley. mayor of Southampton. Eng., writes to the newspapers, appealing to Eaglish speaking people on both sides of the Atlantic to promote a fund to estab. Itsh a memorial at Southampton to the Pilgrim Fathers. It was from Southampton that thb Maydower sa.ll ed. A wireless telegraph station bas been established an the root at the Auditorium Anmes hotel In Chicage. It will be seed to emmealeate with hoats on the Great Iakes sad with . Lesis. sDtrelt, nable and ether Pt LOKases. It is eormstly reported is smasaeal slides n WStiee that rramasasts are n pgoagrems ter the -ma-as, et the Nnoth 0ermmn Lit's sad sa h -e-r-se- s - sa -l-, oseer the masesumenst et seentr hoas. Lets Slam' was a 1leasseems ewe tar boat ROODY BATlEl Thesseaks Are Slai. l Fight Betwees Yesmg lurks algd Loyal Troos. SULTAN'S 10IS SUUUI3 LaWest Us1i tes ei Nf er Ued is Ma-gss is Asiad. Tukey a ConstantinCole, April 27.-Costae* tinople is now completely to the hands of the Young Turks. The constitt. tlonal forces attacked the city at, dawn Saturday, and their advance was contested by the garrisons In the vicinity of the imperial palace. The fighting raged fiercely for several bours and ended in victory for the Qanstitutionslist&. The number hi casualties probably will never be known, but it is estimated far into the I thousands. Sultan's Troope Surrender. The Tildis garrison surrendered yesterday to the Constitutionaliat forces. Commanders of these battal* ions began sending in their submis. sion to Mahmoud Schefket Pasha Sat urday night, and the whole of the troops protecting the palace gave their formal and unconditional surren. der shortly after dawn. Niaei Bey. ! called the hero of the July revolution, is now in command of the garrison. Sultan Abdul Hamid has been per mitted to remain within the walls of the Pildis kiosk, where Saturday, in company with his ministers, he wait ed for the outcome of the struggle be tween his loyal troops and the army of Investment, each hour bringing to him word of a fresh disaster. Losses Are Heavy. It has been stated, since victory rested with the Constitutionallsts, that the sultan himself gave orders to his men not to resist. Whether this is true, It can be safely said of the troops within the capitol that they put up a stubborn resistance at all points, and losses on both sides were exceed. Inlly heavy for the length of time the engagement was In progress. A representative of the commander. in-chiet of the Constitutionalist forces Is authority for saying that the sultan will be dealth with by the parliament and that there will be an adequate in. quiry into the sovereign's allead complicity In the recert motlnj. 7p to the presgnt the ministry has not been dlssolved. but Constantinople and a number of other places have been declared In a State of Siege. Martial law prevails. and while there is some uneasiness among the people, order has been maintained with a strict hand. Followipg Satur. day's terrific fighting, the city took on an aspect of strange quiet toward evening. There wqa some fear that there would be further fighting in the night. as the forces of Gen. Schefket were strongly posted close to the pal. ace. But *l.yond a few scattering shots there 5As nothin to disturb the peace of the city. The evacuation of the quarters around the Yildis kioak began early to the morning. Soldiers of the garrison were made prisoners, and their places I were taken by Macedonian battalions. Over 25,000 Killed. Beirut. April 27. - The situptin in Asiatic Turkey it one of extreme gravity. How many thousands have bena massacred cannot even be esti. mated. because disturbances have been so widespread that it is impse. alble to obitla details et happenings in the last ten days. Latest esfimates of the number hilled in the vitlayet at Adana reeohee approximately 25.000, and thousaeds have been slain in towns of other distriots. The state of siege which several placee are under going has brought inhabitants to the verse of starvation. Each day brings tales of further atrocities and the depths of misery and despair to which sop of fanatics has brought the Frantle Appeals for Help. One at the misaienarues at Alexan. dretta, Mr. Kennedy, with 450 Turk. ish troops, has gone to the relief of Deurthul. wher 10,000 people within1 the walls are besieged by immense throng of rde and Cireassians. o tea has bees received of the burning of the Armenian village of Keseab. Alt the men and many women and children have been slai A British warship has beet ordered from Aleusadretta to Suedlah, where conditions have become worse. All the property of the Christians at Die. bal Bersket has been deetreged. Re pests state that Hadlia, in the villayet of Adana, is on fire. There are five Am-esa women quartered hero. rtantle appeals for food are coming in from all sections. Deirut is quiet. lee Sles Fity'ssue Lake eato. sealt Ste. Marsk, Mikh. April 2T.- With the iee blechade In White"eb bay completely bleehing mvigaties between hete sad Lake p . p anle vessme are Iiag at the ma walb aog fr the hioekade to be bebsea. Bergys M1 memn 0s siaeei. ittfabs.g Aprl 2T.-meary L B3 " haed and saloen Wameieter at PWintbers war feims satv of seees bee a bone of 11s.A** foe a earels. finnan this lty to seaon Ply desse bs ora bseat hith. Tit am er NoWr 0* Waesiagtea, April 3?. - B. N. ID Nash, direstor of the ensma, has been made the subject at ea Investi. jatis by Secretary Nagsl, which probably will result in a new director being appointed to take the next cea sus. The matter has gone so far, it Is said, that a new director has been agreed upen. His name will he an. s nounced shortly. Secretary Nasgl, however, does not confirm this re port. The chief trouble, it was learned, is that there Is a great friction between Director North and Secretary Nagel, which Is sald-to amount practically to Insubordination. As one of the oSl. cials put it yesterday: 'The simple question Is, who Is bose -Nagle or North."' President Taft last night summoned Secretary Nagle and Director North to the White House for an important conference, which lasted nearly three hours. No Information was given out regarding the conference. WOUNDED BOY DIES. Is Victim of Shooting in Railroad Camp. Beatrice, Neb., April 37. - Clyde Price, eleven years old, stepson of Frank Weisner, shot at Wymore Sat urday by Bertruci, an Italian railroad laborer, died yesterday. Bertrucl, who was threatened last night by a mob, was rescued by Sher. if Trude, and brought to Beatrice, where he is now In the county jail under guard. After he had been taken away, the angry crowd of 400 Wymore men at' tacked the Italian railroad camp and drove the foreigners from the town, warning them not to return. The crowd then set fire to bunk cars oc. cupied by the laborers. NOT "GEN. MACKENKIE" NOW. Government Snag Boat's Name Chang. ad to "David Tipton." Clinton, Iowa, April 27.-In accord. ance with a governmental order to the effect that the name of living men cannot be borne by ateamers in the government service, the old familiar Gen. Makensle. the "snag puller" of the upper Mississippi river, came out this spring under the name David Tip. ton. Few recognized the big side wheeler as the o!d Mackenzie when she came into the Cinton levee. Sev eral other government steamers ap pear this spring under new names because of tle government's order. GIRL iS MANGLED BY DOG. Neighbor's Children Set Animal on Child for Fun. St. Cloud, Mine., April 27.-Ieubell Sheldon, the ten-year-old daughter of Harlow M. Sheldon of Sauk Rapids, was badly bitten by a dog. The child was sent to a neighbor's on an er rand, when several children in fun set the dog on the girl. The animal be came epraged and tore a large piece of flesh from the child's body. The dog was immediately killed and its head sent to the state laboratory for examination. it Is not known whether or not the dog was mad. FLOUR PLANT RAZED BY FLAMES Montevideo Elevator and Mill Suffer ;60,000 Lose by Fire. I Montevideo, Mian.,.. pril S7. - Fire destroyed the Monte' Ideo roller mill and elevator, containing 8,000 bushels, of wheat. It started from a hot, box on a wheat scourer. The loas Is estimated at $860,000,. with $50,000 Insurance. One miller suffered badly burned hands while atte opting to put out the Are and he had to jump to save hia 1114. SKIRTS CATCH IN MACHINE. Duluth Laundry Girl is Stripped and Seriously Sruised. Duluth. April 27. - Agnes Dusse, a young girl employed in the Heme laundry, had a terrible experience as a result of an accident She was em ployed on one of t1e manglers and her skirts got caught In the machinery. She was literally stripped of her clothing and she received some ugly, bruises on the bead sad body. The girl was hurried to a hospital. Her condition Is serious. Indians Go on Strike. Aithin. Minn., April 2?. - l, the noble red man, went on a strike heres yesterday mornlan, and for two hours the main street of this eity was erowded with Chippetas. Seven ty or eighty of thee had gathered hers to go on the leg drive, with a promise of $2.25 a day. When nl . teomed that $2 was all the lumbet. men were paying, the Indians streek. Matters were meally settled by the old chief, Uttle.boy rayraofogb, arn ranging for a satisfactesy wage seale. Shoets Man; Kills Self. Bentoeavlle, Ark., April 2. - Ataer be had ired on U WaIer, the bualt peassing through the man's coat, brt1 indicting no injury, C. Graham, seve ty esgt years of age shut and kille hia-el yesterday. Sebm~k CosmiUe Ort~eal Wehisntee. April 31.-Vermer Rep ressaetative Jo*eh V. anees a whiseonei who bee ass seelem r W at us hose In thin 4v or saesmes weee, to sported os hes a edest !k a tlesO" I Mysery Rbslvn 6"u . m S. capsie of Chad Who Waasi to See WrML mU s iosma Muon Tires of Job s Reslasrast sad Besdes is a Ileme-Was Merely Chu"s Wale New York, April Ug.-Adele Does, thirteen year-old daughter of Arthur U. BDas, a wealthy thread manufac turer, is at home with her parents. the mystery of her disappearance last Friday has been dispelled sad the case resolves itself Into nothing more than the secapade of a child with a sudden desire to see the world, Boston in particular, and a wish to be iade pendent and work for a living. With a cut fnger and disheveled clothes. and apparently suffering from fatigue, Adele's parents are sure that she realises that there are pleasanter av penances than going forth alone to a strange city In seach of adventure. Childish Whim. The girl is little the worse far her wandering. The Boes family physi' clan said she was in perfect health and that her trip merely was the re suit of a childish whim. With the first shock of the meeting with her parents over, the child told more of her movements In Boston. The position she had in a restaurant there was to have brought her $2.50 a week, with board and lodging. Saturday night and Sunday she spent in the room she had rented. Her money by this time was exhausted. all but enough to get back to New York, and yesterday morning she de cided to return. Polace Get Clue. The first clue to the missing girl came yesterday morning when Mrs. E. M. Upton telephoned from Charles. ton, Mass., and said she had seen a girl answering the description of Miss Boas while an a train between Boston and New Yo.k. This started so much police machinery in motion that it was impossible for the girl to pass un noticed. She was met at the station by the police and taken to her father's home. WAR WITH JAPAN IMPOSSIBLE Admiral Evans and Japanese Admiral Agree on That Point. Los Angeles, April 28.-Admiral H. Ijichi. commander of the Japanese training squadron now at San Pedro, bad a long talk yesterday with Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans. The two admirals, who are old friends and who are now staying at tht same hotel, discussed international questions, In cluding the possibility of war betseeu the United States and Japan. They agreed that war between the two na tions was impossible. Admiral Iljks.i told Admiral Evans be was delighted with his reception at Los Angeles. He commncnted upon the apparent friendiness of officials, as well as the press and public, and predicted that he and his men would be equally well received at other American portt. CONOREeSS Senator Balley Delivers Set Speech on Tariff. Washington. April 27.-Denouncing the principle of a protective tariff as unfair in takIng money from one man to give it to another in order to en courage him in the pursuit of an other wise unprofitable business. Senator Bailey of Texas yesterday delivered a set sneech on the Democratic side in opposition to the pending tariff bilL Both the floor and the galleries were crowded. Big Birthday Cake for Depew. New York. April 3s.-A great birth day cake. sparkliag with seventy-Uve candles and garnished with an equal number of new pennies, was present ad to Senator Chauncey M. Depew last night at a dinner in honor of his isv. enty-fltth birthday, at the Montank club. Brooklyn. Target Practice feo Militla. Washaigtoa. April 23.- Instruction and practice of militia batteries sad , target practice will be held at an en. campment of regulars at Sparta. Wis., ia July and August, in which batteries of state troops will be drilled by army Oscars. Yeggmen Enter Peeteice.. New Richmond. Wis.. April 23.-The poastooee at Jewett. Wis., was enteredi by yemes and the safe carried out of the store sat completely demolish. ad by natroglyceria. The sate contata ad 350 In stamps. none of which was take. Reeeeve# and Sean Il Nairobi, Mest Africa. April 38.-Both Theedore Roosevelt sad his sac ear. mlt are Indspoped as a result of their recant huntiag activity sand thear 38aW asy te the reach of Sir Alfred Pe.ss a the Athi slwer. They are seetin Kllaed M Peltils Feed. MIsadvUie Misn. Asa pt.-C-raes, t Wrssbe, is dieed ad thee ether pseesw U weomda aa resut at a eim e marnw ss~ here piw 1 qy, the eatiseeth us a putaleal r so Ss Mid assd Mr lIner at OWa oIfilate. Dualth. April 2-Seventay - nmave frelghters Is a heaeas rea fl ee.W >pib harbor will be.me of the f1 geI atass teatures thet wal resut from the breaskp at the Sea. A bleukaie sloes sweege lsase rivalry' some ship owners and masters to be bart to the prit. All styles of vessela are Ir the tiemu, frem the latest mosal ore eriers to ama packet liae boats and tuge, aem all will strata every at fort to be hsut at theHead of the Lakee. As the iant.to arrive will be gives dohags prefeaee, it is to their totereat as well as pleasmre to get In early. As poem as the beats are clear of the iee they will waste no time in gettlag oader fell headway for Duluth. Conditions at the Seo are such that It Is confidently predicted that the breakup will occur within twenty*.four hours. HEAVY WIND AT BARNESVILLE. Heavy Clouds of Dust Cause Darkness to Reign In Town. Barnesville, Mian. April 21. - The 1 worst dust and wind storm In years I struck this place Monday afternoon, the dense clouds of dust completely obscunlag the sun frot, view. The 1 wind blew a gale of y-five miles 1 an hour and Olled the business places 1 and residenees with iee particles. j The storm is believed to have cover ed a large area. H. D. SMITH DIES AT APPLETON. Banker and Paper Manulsourer Sum mwned After Long HIlnese. I Appleton, Wis., April 28. - Henry D. Smith, former president of the Wisconsin Bankers' association and 1 treasurer of the Wisconsin Traction, Heat, Light and Power company, president of the Riverside Fiber and raper company, died at his home In this city yesterday at the age of ala.l ty-seven year., after a lingering Ill sass. COMMISSION IS NAMED. Gov. Johnson Appoints Men to Com pile Employers' Liaci~lty Act. St. Paul, April 28.-W. E. Mdclwen f St. Paul, George Gilleite and H. V. Mercer, the two latter of Minneapolis. are been named by Gov. Johnson as a commission authorised by the-leg, (stature for the compilation of data looking to the presentation of an em ployers' liability act to the next legis. lature. SOV KILLS HIS BROTHER. North Dakota Lad Shot Through the Lungs and Instantly Killed. Eckman, N. D.. April 28. - Bryan roll, the thirteen-year-old son of Charles Boll, was shot through the tungs and killed by his brother Roy, aged fifteen years, while they. were hunting gophers. Roy thought there was a blank cartridge in the gun and pointing at his brother said he was going to shoot him. L'quor Violator Jailed. Albert I c., Minn.. April 28.-A. H. Wallin. agent in this city for the We. verly Brewing company of Waverly. Iowa. was arrested for selling liquor without a license, and when arraigned before Justice Stacy pleaded guilty and was fined $100 or ninety days in the county jail. He was committed to the county jail in default of payment of the fins. Factory Men Fined. Stillwater. April 8.--P. J. Karpen factory Inspector of the state labor bureau and state truant agent, made examples in the municipal court yes. terday morning of persons violating the compulsory education law. Two prominent owners of wooden box tao tories and a father of a truant boy were fined $5 each for violating the law. Age Bar to Job; Man Hangs Self. Minneapolis, April 27.-Told by the boss at a lumber mill where he ap plied for employment that ho. was too old to work, Napoleon Pleasant, aged sixty years, went into the woods at Thirty-sixth avenue north and Fourth street and hanged himjelf to the limb of a tree. Attorney Asks $10,000 Fee. Ean Claire, Wis.. April 28. - John Wickham of this city, for his services as special assistant counsel for the cttj in the two and a half years' Ilti* pation to get peasession of the water works plant, which litigation came out puccessafully for the city, has rendered a bill of $10,000. Sheots Wife; Kills Self. Detrott. Mich., April 27.- Degan to Kraft shot his wtfh probably fatally. last night at a boarding house, wound ad the landlady in the arm, ared wild ly at the pollee who arrived oa the scene and them committed sui ie. The shootiag resulted from divoroe Tow. Wreoted by Termede. Oklahoma City. April !S.-Ilstees persos ware injured ome perhaps fit tally, is a tornado whish destroyeds 1 3rge part of the town of cOetrahems, maer here, yesterday. Not a beging do the tows remaiss wholly intact, Plreesa to Mist at Olequnt. CloqeIt. Mina.. Assi 2--The at. Sael state 5regsa's essonatiss wvi be hel io this o Jf 5, and abhet -g t00itbs erame are inpsote5, esecioentiag ever h! dsepartmswts in. " thi ste. NW an MW MY aseses es sm w* $,e a isp--IIU Aby e Md.ea S Coastatinople. April 3L-The depes sltion of Sultan Abdul Hamil appears now to be certain, and the res baa* dred and mee guns saluting Ifehem. mad Reeked Nieudi as the new ruler of the empire probably will be "ard before the neat selamik od Friday Dignitaries of the church care as litb tie for Abdul Hamid as dose the com mittee of union and progress, but the higher clergy are seeking to curb the agitalon of the enthusiasts of the Mo hammedan league. Incapable of Ruling. Senators and deputies who have made Inquiry among the Ulsmas nad them in different degrees favorable to the sultana removal. A caucus of senators and deputies yesterday determined to make an of. tort to compel him to abdicate under the eccleslastlcal law, by the terms of which a decree may be leaned by the Sheik III Islam, the highest au thority of Mobammedanlsm next to th sultan, pronouncing the sultan in capable of ruling. The sultan will be offered a palace and liberal allowances. Heir Is Old Man. Moehmmed Recbad Effendi, heir apparent to the throne, has lived prac tically a prisoner for twenty-five years In the large palace and gardens not far from the Yildis Kiosk. Since the July revolution, however, he has often been in the streets of Constantinople, looking from the carriage windows upon scenes in the thoroughfares which must have been strangely Inter eating to him. He is gray-haired and not very strong, to judge from his ap pearance. He is sixty-five years of agt. Final Act In Siege. Yesterday afternoon witnessed the Anal act in the siege of the -Yildls. Gen. Bchefket, commander of the Con stitutionalists overawing the Alban. anas into surrender. The Salonikins show great severity. Many arrested Softas, credited with being reaction aries. have been brutally treated, and others, concerning whose loyalty there is doubt, have not entirely escaped. The vigorous search continues, even into European quarters. It is estimat. ed now that at least 10,000 prisoners are in the hands of the Balonikins. 100,000 Besieged. Alexandretta. April 28. - Refugees who have made their escape from Deurtlyl, a small town not far from Aloxandretta, bring alarming accounts of the situation there. They amrm that 100,000 Armenians are beleaguer ed by 50,000 Moslems. The besieged are half starving and conditions with In the walls of the city are pitiful. Hadjin In Flames. Beirut, April 28.-The town of Had uln, where residents have withstood assaults of the fanatics for the last week, was in flames yesterday. Up to midnight Sunday all Americans were safe. Latakia, in Syria, has been relieved, thanks to unceasing efforts of the American consul general at Beirut. Thousands of refugees have been pouring into Latakia, and the pres ence of the French warship there will have much Influence in controlling the situation. Carnage I. Renewed. Beirut. April 28.-Delayed dispatch es just received here say that the car nage at Adana was renewed Sunday night and many were killed. The first massacres at Adama, when an American missionary was killed, resulted In the slaughter of 10,000 persons. Advicee Indicate that the Moslem hordes have again attacked the city. aerm Wrecks Buildings. Texarkans. Ark., April 26.-A aeq. and storm of extraordinary severity, attended with a heavy fall of rain and bail, yesterday destroyed a number at small buildings In Texarkana and In the surrounding country played havoc with growing crops and plantation cabins. The only casualty so far re ported is the injury to Marshal Purl foy of Tearkana. Glbbs Demands $100000. New York, April 2:. - George W. Gibbs of Brooklyn. who was mistaken for a fugitive Spaniard trem Cuba and detained for twenty three days at Georgsetown, British Guiles. bas Sled a claim for $1oo.20, against the Brit. lah coloay with the state department at Washinstoan. Kills Self With Shtgune. Decorah, Iowa. April 27. - Harry Webster, a stock buyer. looked him semf in a building yesterday aend with a shotgun abut bimaself in ths head. ian lating woends from wba1 he died soon after. Basiness revesres are supposed to bave bee rospommAlbs for the act. Osemi JUIW in Atle crash. Xattewas. Psalaisak 4004. Apri l4.- iuee IEW is a wasm alesd pie atedr when Wl enteemates W40- two a tree.