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VOLUME LXXIX.-NO. 30.
SHAME OF NATIONS.
All Europe Remains, Idle
While Armenians Are
Slaughtered.
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ENGLAND WILL NOT ACT.
Christians in * . Abdul Hamid's
Land Sacrificed to "Higher
■-■ Politics." *
THE END- IS NOT IN SIGHT.
Turks and Kurds Can Continue With
out Hindrance Their Horrible
Massacres.
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LONDON, Eng., Dec. 29.— next issue
of the Contemporary Review will contain
a long article entitled "Armenia; An Ap
peal." by. Dr. E. J. Dillon, of which the
following is a synopsis :
"The time has come for every rea
soning , person to accept .or repudi
ate his share of the joint respon
sibility of the British Nation for a
series of the hugest and foulest crimes
that have ever stained the pages of human
history. ' The Armenian people in Ana
tolia are being exterminated by Turks and
Kurds by such fiendish methods as may
well cause the most sluggish blood to boil
with shame and indignation. Mfl
"The Armenians are neither lawless bar
barians nor brigands, nor are the Turks
and Kurds the accredited torch- bearers of
civilization, but if it "be - expedient that
Armenians should be exterminated, why
chop them up piecemeal? Why should ah
honest, hard-working man be forced to
witness the violation of his daughter, and
, then have ; his hand cut off and stuffed
into his mouth, while a sermon is being
preached to him on the text, 'If; your God
is God why. does he not succor you?' Then
the other hand is hacked off,: his ears torn
' off and his feet severed with a hatchet.
Surety, roasting alive, flaying, disembowel
ing, ■ impaling and., other horrors have
nothing. that can excuse, them in the eyes
of Christians, however deeply absorbed in
politics. .. % " '.*• '];-; ... . ■'.
'". "The Armenians constitute the sole civ
ilizing element in Anatolia, Christians
they are, and from the 'middle of the fifth
"century.;, .scarcely* a year has elapsed in
which Armenian '• men and women have
not unhesitatingly laid down toeir lives
for their religious belief. . The murdered of
Sassoun, of Van, 'of Erzeronm, were Chris
tian martyrs; and any. or all of those
whose eyes were gouged out, whose quiv
ering flesh" was torn from their bodies,
might have obtained life by embracing
Islam and abjuring Christ. But. instead,
they died like Christian .martyrs.' , Why is
it that our compassion for these, our fel
low men, has not yet assumed the form of
effective^ help? For reasons of 'higher
politics.' « '„"*""--'
■ "The condition of Armenian Christians
when we first interfered (1878) was deplor
able. Laws existed only on paper. Mo
hammedan crimes were punishable only
in theory. Russia was willing to substi
tute law and order for crime and chaos and
to guarantee to Christians the treatment
due to human , beings. But we then de
nied her right to do this, as she refuses to
admit our claim to undertake it single
handed.
"We said in effect: 'Though our politi
cal interests may clash. with those of Rus
sia, we will see to it that they are not sub
versive; of the elementary principles of
human justice and the immutable law of
God.' Yet we never took any efficacious
step to fulfill that solemn promise. Our con
suls forwarded exhaustive reports, the press
published heartrending details, Armenian
ecclesiastics presented piteous appeals.
But we 'pigeon-holed' the consular re
ports, pooh-hooed the particulars pub
lished by the press and ignored the peti
tions of the priests. We pressed a knob as
it were in London and thereby opened
hell's portals in Asia Minor, letting loose
legions of fiends in human shape who set
about torturing and exterminating the
Christians there. And lest it should be
urged that our Government was ignorant
of the wide-reaching effects ' of its ill
advised action it is on record that for sev
enteen years .it , continued to watch the
harrowing results of that action without
once interfering to stop it.
"Daring all those seventeen years writ
ten law, traditional custom,' the funda
mental maxims of human and divine
justice were suspended in favor of a Moham
medan saturnalia. The Christians, by
whose toil and thrift the empire was held
together, were despoiled, beggared, beaten
and banished or butchered, Thousands
Armenians were thrown into prison and
tortured and terrorized until they de
livered up the savings of a lifetime. Whole .
villages were attacked. In a few years the
provinces were decimated— Aloghkerd, for
• instance, being almost entirely purged of
Armenians. = s
: "Over 20,000 woe-stricken wretches fled
■to Russia or to Per ia. On the way they
weie seized' over and over again by the
soldiers of the Sultan, who deprived them
of their little -money anil clothes, outraged
the women and "girls, and then drove them
over the frontier to hunger and die.
"Those who remained for a time behind
were no better off. Turkish tax-gatherers
followed these, gleaning what the brigands
bad left, torturing and "flogging their male
victims, dishonoring their wives and de
filing their daughters. .-. \ -\ "* *
"Stories of this kind in connection with
Turkish misrule in Armenia have grown
familiar to English ears of late. It should
be remembered that these statements are
neither rumors nor exaggerations, con
cerning which we are justified in suspend
ing our judgment. History, has set its seal
upon them. The Turks have admitted
these and worse acts of : savagery, the
Kurds, glory in them; trustworthy Euro
peans have witnessed and described them,
and Armenians have groaned over them
in blank despair. Officers and nobles in
the Sultan's own cavalry regiments bruit
abroad. with pride -the. 'story "of the long
series of murders and worse crimes which
marked their official careers.
"In accordance with the plan of extermin- \,
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ation which has been carried out with
such success during these long years of
Turkish vigor and English sluggishness,
all Armenians who' possessed money or
moneys worth were for a time allowed to
buy immunity from prison. But, as soon
as terror and confiscation took the place of
extortion, the dungeons of Erzeroum, Er
zinghani > Marsovan, Hassankaleh and
Van were filled till there was scarcely
standing room. Educated, schoalmasters,
missionaries, priests and physicians were
immured in these hotbeds. of infection, and
forced to sleep night after night standing
on their feet, leaning against the foul,
reeking corner of the wall. Hunger, thirst
and slimy water rendered their agony mad
dening. .! , • .
"Yet these were not criminals nor al
leged criminals, hut upright Christian
men, who were never even accused of an
infraction of the law. In these prisons
were venerable old ministers of religion,
teachers, missionaries, merchants, phy
sians and peasants.; Those among them
who refused to denounce their friends or
consent to some atrocious, crime were sub
jected to tortures indescribable, often oc
cupying days, while their tormentors
laughed and howled in glee. ' Nights were
passed in such hellish orgies and days in
inventing new tortures or refining upon
the old. Some of them cannot be de
scribed nor even hinted at.
"In the homes of these wretched people
the fiendish fanatics were equally active
and successful. Dishonor with nameless
accompaniments menaced almost every
girl and woman in the country.
"Children were often married at the age
of even 10— in the vain hope of lessen
ing this danger. But the protection of a
husband proved unavailing. It merely
meant one murder more and one 'Chris
tian dog' less, and what astonishes one
throughout this long, sickening story of
shame and crime is the religious faith of
the sufferers. •
''Such, in broad outline, has been the
normal condition of Armenia ever since
the treaty of Berlin, owing at first to the
disastrous action and subsequently to the
equally disastrous inaction of the British
Government. The above sketch contains
but a few isolated instances of the daily
commonplaces of the life of Armenian
Christians. The Turks, encouraged by
the seventeen years' connivance of the
only power which possessed any formal
right to intervene in favor of the Ar
menians, organized a wholesale massacre
of the Christians of Sassoun. The prepara
tions were elaborate and open. The
project was known to and canvassed by all.
A long report was addressed by the Abbot
of Moush. to the British representative
at Erzeroum informing him of this inhu
man plan. • ...
"But international comity forbade' us to
meddle with the 'domestic affairs of- a
friendly power,' and the massacre took
place as advertised. The rivulets were
choked up with corpses; the streams ran
red with human blood, the. forest glades
and rocky caves were peopled with the
dead, and the dying; among the ruins of
once prosperous villages lay roasted in
fants by their mangled mothers' corpses;
pits were dug at night by the wretches
destined to fill -them, many of -whom,
• flung in while but lightly wounded, awoke
beneath a mountain of clammy corpses,
and vainly wrestled .with death and the
dead, who shut them out from light and
life forever. • ' .
"It was then that our present Embassa
dor at Constantinople took action and dis
played those remarkable gifts of energy
and industry to which the Prime Minister
lately alluded with pride. * The British
Embassador did his best, and at last
carried the appointment of a commission
of investigation. Yet, while the commis
sion of inquiry was still sitting at Moush,
the deeds of atrocious cruelty which it was
assembled to investigate were outdone
under the eyes of the delegates. Threats
were openly uttered that on their with-
drawal massacres would be organized all
over the country— massacres, it was said,
in comparison with which the Sassoun
butchery would compare but as dust in
the balance. .
"In due time .they began. Over 60.900
Armenians have been butchered and the
massacres are not auite . ended yet. In
Trebizond, Erzinghan, Hassankaieh and
numberless other places the Christians
were crushed like grapes during the vin
tage. The. French mob during the terror
were men— hay, angels of mercy—com
pared with these Turks. Hafi
"These are but isolated scenes. The
worst cannot be described. And if it
could be, no description, however vivid,
would convey a true notion of the dread
reality. At most of these manifestations
of bestial passion and delirium, the Sul
tan's troops in uniform stood by as de
lighted spectators when they did not
actually take an active part as zealous exe
cutioners. .'!*/,.'
' "And these are the Turks whom unani
mous Europe' has judged worthy of con
tinuing to govern and guide the Christians
of Asia Minor. The Sultan undertakes, if
a -reasonable time be given him, to re
establish the normal state of things in
Turkish Armenia; and we know that that
normal condition implies the denial to
Christians of the fundamental rights of
human beings, the abolition, of womanly
purity, the disintegration of the family,
the violation of tender children— a word,
a system of 'government' for which the
history of the world affords no parallel.
. "Yet unanimous Europe., we are told,
entertains no doubt that the true interests
of Christendom demand that Turkish rule
should •be maintained. It cannot be too
clearly stated that what is asked for is not
the establishment of an Armenian king
dom or principality, not a 'buffer state,'
not even Christian a ttonomy in any sense
that might render it ? offensive or danger
ous to any of the powers of Europe; but
only that by some efficacious means t c
human beings who profess, the Christian
religion in Anatolia, and who professed
and practiced it there for centuries before
the Turks or Kurds were heard of, shall be
enabled to live and die as human beings,
and that the unparalleled crimes of which
for the past seventeen years' they have
been the silent victims shall speedily and
once for all be put a stop to.
"What, serious hope is there tbat the lot
of the Armenians will be : bettered in the
future? •
"Continental' jurisconsults have just
given it as' their- conscientious opinion
that any special reforms for the Armeni
ans t would necessarily : involve a crave
violation of the rights of man and of the
law of God, and the jurisconsults ought to
know. If this be so, the sensitive; Sultan
will naturally shrink from lawlessnesand
godlessness and piously shelve 1 the re
Continued on Second Page.
SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1895.
MR. GLADSTONE IN HIS STUDY AT HAWARDEN.
LONDON, Esq., Dec. 29.— T0-day is the eighty-sixth anniversary of the birth of Mr. Gladstone. ' Many of the Liberal clubs
throughout the United Kingdom telegraphed congratulations to Hawarden Castle, Mr. Gladstone' s residence in Chester, from
which place the messages were forwarded to Biarritz, France, where Mr. Gladstone has gone for the benefit of his health.
VENGEANCE OF A MOB
Death by Fire the Fate of a
Wayward Woman in
Kentucky.
BURNED IN HER HOME.
The Man Who Had Murdered
Her Husband Meets a More
Merciful Death.
CRIME OF ENRAGED CITIZENS.
Horrible Method of Revenging the j
Perfidy of a Faithless .
Wife.
LEBANON, Ky., Dec. 29.— A mob in
flicted horrible vengeance upon a faithless
woman and her companion last night,
when they burned Mrs. T. J. West to
j death and killed W. A. Dever, at Mrs.
: West's nouse on Cartwrights Creek on the
Springfield pike, three miles north of this
city. •
- The mob is said to have numbered about
seventy-five, and it was about 12 o'clock
when they appeared at Mrs.' West's house.
Mrs. West, Dever and his little daughter
were the only persons in the : house, and
when the mob called to Dever to come out,
Mrs. West and the little girl responded,
but Dever remained inside.' Just as Mrs.
Mrs. West reached the door several shots
were fired at her, and she ran back in the
house, but the child remained on the out
side.
The mob then fired several shots into the
house, none of which took effect, and after
several attempts to get Dever to come out
the mob fired the building.
The intense* heat finally forced Dever
to run out, and, with pistol in hand, he
started for a cornfield a few steps from the
house where he took shelter behind a corn
shock and was shot to death. Mrs. West
perished -in the burning * house, and this
morning her remains were found in the
chimney, where she had taken refuge.
Her legs and the upper portion of the
body were almost entirely burned off. The
girl gave the alarm this morning, but only
meager information can be gained from
her. i- . „ '.
W. A. Dever is the man who shot and
killed T. J. - West. ' the husband of the I
burned woman, at Beaver Green, on Cart
wrights Creek, three weeks ago. Dever had
a preliminary hearing and was released on
the ground of self-defense. < The ' killing is
thought to hp.ve en caused by intimacy
on the part of Dever and West's * wife.
After Dever was released he was charged
with living with the woman. It is said
that Dever had been warned that he would
be killed if he- did : not leave. He is from
Knoxville and leaves a widow and several
children. Mrs. West also leaves a large
family, but none were at -.the house at the
time of the horrible tragedy. ■
It was on December 7 that Dever killed
West. The latter and his wife had been
: living apart for some : time, ; and 4 his J wife
had instituted divorce ; proceedings. ■ She
had been induced to v withdraw ; the ■ suit,
however, and West 1 was on his ; way 7to
town to ; see about -" the matter, when he
saw Dever. He snapped a pistol twice at
Dever after accusing him of intimacy with
Mrs. West, when Dever drew his -revolver
and, despite West's plea for mercy, shot
arid killed him and ran away, but returned'
when the Coroner's^ jury \ returned a ver
dict of justifiable, homicide. V This incited
the neighbors to fury, and last night's hor
rible work was the result. I -
Struck by a Train.
[ BENKELMAN, Nebb., Dec;2B.-Charies |
[From the famous portrait by McLure Hamilton, painted recently.]
Van Buskirk, aged 25, and Maud Bond,
aged 16, while returning home in a car
riage from a party early this morning
they were run down on a Burlington Rail
road crossing by a train and instantly
killed.
SIXTEEN VICTIMS BURIED.
Last Rites Orer the Unfortunates Who Were
Killed in the Baltimore Theater
Panic.
BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 29.— Sixteen
funerals of persons who lost their lives in
the frightful panic last Friday night at the
old Front-street Theater occurred to-day.
Seven victims were buried yester
day evening and last night. All of those
who were killed in the stampede have now
been interred. . ' ' e<-£fy.s
' ■ .The death list has not been increased
beyond the. original figures sent out by
The Unit- d Press— twenty-three— it is
not probable that there will be immediate
additions to the number. r! v^Vj
Those of the injured who are at the hos
pitals are improving, and so far as can be
learned those who were. removed to their
homes immediately after the disaster are
in a fair way to recover from their in
juries. . ' T* . . 'W'^-v??
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BUSINESS BLOCK BTTRXED. .
Lodge Property Consumed in a Hartford
(Kans.) •' Blaze. ' };'-'-
EMPORIA, Ka>-s., Dec. 29.— The three
largest business buildings in Hartford,
twenty miles south of here/were destroyed
by fire at daybreak this morning. The
loss is between $30,000 and $10,000. The
buildings burned were P. P. ; Faxon's
opera-house, E. C. Rich & Co., general
merchandise, and McGregor & Reed's
Hardware store. ; \
The Masonic and Odd Fellows lodgeroom
was a -o burned, including "about $1000
worth of lodge, property. The fire engine
failed to work. The opera-louse might
have been saved but for this mishap.
MERGED INTO ONE UNION
Leading Bimetallic Societies of
the United States j Are
Amalgamated.
The New Association .Will Support
the Party Indorsing Free \;'
Coinage. ,
CHICAGO, III.; Dec. 29.— At a meeting
in this city to-day between -representatives
of the American 5 Bimetallic League, the
National Bimetallic -Union and the Na
tional Silver; Committee, these organiza
tions,were consolidated, and will be called
the American Bimetallic Union. ■ The
new organization stands for bimetallism,
and will support the party declaring in its
favor. -In the event of non-support: by
either of the great parties,' the ; union will
put forth its own ticket in the next cam
paign. ,-■- , „-.-"', . ' . v , k
At a meeting held, by. the organizations
just consolinated, last September, -it-was".
; recommended that the action of to-day be
taken, and when this., was' reported to the
separate orders representatives were ap
pointed for .affinal conference. : The Na
tional Bimetallic Union r sent , Thomas G.
Merrill of Helena, Mont., and E. B. Light
of ' Chicago ; ', the / American „ Bimetallic
League, General A. J. Warner of : Ohio,
ana Judge Henry G. Milier was put forth
; by the National i Silver Committee. These
"gentlemen met ■ to-day and after arranging
; the preliminaries formally ; declared the:
organizations' merged into one. Ratifica
tion by the executive \ committees of J the
different organizations is all that is lack
ing to make the combination effective. „
": But two officers were * decided upon to
day—Al' J. Warner ,-' for i president, and 1- E.
B. Light,- secretary. ; : The, general head-,
quarters will be at 134- Monroe street, and
branch offices will he maintained in Wash
ington $" and -San Francisco, and J probably
in ; others , cities West " ? ; and > South.*',. The
united organization will press > the cam
i paign « of j education < along .* its lines i with '
the utmost I vigor V- in ;,*. all > parts %of the
country, and Secretary Light says r. that if
neither of the big parties take up their
cause they will have a party of ' their own.
ANGELS CAMP CRIME
Fiendish Attempt to Blow
Up Foreman Miller's
Residence.
GIANT FOWDER THROWN
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An Intervening Fence Prevents
the Explosive From Striking
the House.
FIVE LIVES SAVED BY CHANCE.
Discharged Employes of the UticaMine
Believed to Have ; Sought ;
Revenge.
ANGELS CAMP, Cal.. Dec. 29.— An
enemy or enemies of William Miller, un
derground foreman of the Utica mine,
made a fiendish attempt last night to
blow up his house with giant pow
der, and with it Miller, his wife and
daughters arid a guest. That the attempt
was unsuccessful was due to the poor aim
of the man who threw the explosive at the
window of Miller's bedroom. .
Miller's house ;' is * located back of the
Utica company's office, and faces on Bush
street.' Three or four sticks of giant pow
dow were wrapped in an old mining shirt,
and the assassins attempted to throw the
bundle upon the veranda in front of the
window of the' room occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. Miller. About fifteen feet from the
porch there is a picket fence," and the shirt
encircling the explosives struck 7 this and
fell just inside of the yard, on a line with
Miller's room. ' *'■ —
The explosion ■ that ! followed shattered
most of the windows of the house, broke
the transom over the hall door and filled
the house with smoke. Miller seized a
•gun and rushed out, but there was no one
in sight. After lighting the fuze the bomb
thrower had plenty of time to escape be
fore the explosion occurred.
Besides Mr. and r Mrs. Miller two:., of
their daughters and a lodger were in the
house at the time. ■ :;. ' ; • " ";>.'
The nervous shock has prostrated Mrs.
Miller. "r Had the giant - powder reached
the spot it was intended , to reach the
house would have, been wrecked, and it
would have been miraculous had its occu
pants escaped alive. Miller is one of the
most esteemed citizens of the community,'
arid but one motive — revenge— could have
in spired' the deed } In his '. capacity, as un
derground foreman of the great mine the
employment and discharge of ;, men de
volves upon him. " In the past lawless acts
here have demonstrated that there ;is a
certain foreign element in the community
that would * stop " at * nothing to avenge a
grievance, and Miller seems to have been
the intended victim of one or more of these
malcontents.
i The company's property ;is -well ' pro
;. tected at ; night ; by armed -' guards," and ; a
warm reception will' await any one > : who
may hereafter ' approach •■M illers " house
after dark ; with -felonious intent. .'Should
the .perpetrators'. of this, morning's crime ;
be 'apprehended,; Angels Camp j citizens,
irrespective of nationality, would relieve
the county of. any expense in the matter.
LABOR : UXJOXS AT PEACE.
! Adjustment of. the ; . liiffereneet , Between
,' ,■ Chicago "Associations. ' ..
-. CHICAGO, Dec. 29.— Peace is re
stored among the labor associations of this
city. The terms of settlement of existing
difficulties suggested i* by the } American
j Federation of * Labor at its ; recent meeting
held in New York were accepted to-night
; by the Chicago -Trades and Labor Assem
bly, and, having been previously accepted
by the Chicago Labor Congress,' the trouble
is v all ended. The result will be the amal
gamation of . the Labor : Congress and the
Trades and Labor Assembly, 'which was
the plan of adjustment proposed.
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JUSTICE WAS PROMPT. ;-.: .
Murderer Hoofer Sentenced to Death
Sixteen Days After His Crime : -
Was Committed.
OMAHA, Nebk., Dec. 29.— The jury in
the murder case of Claud H. Hoover- re
tired yesterday at 11 m., and came into
the courtroom this morning at 10:15 with
a verdict of murder in the first degree and
fixed the /penalty at death. '■'. • ', .*;}?.
This was the most rapid work ever seen
in this city or State, the murder occurring
but sixteen days ago. On December 13
Hoover quarreled with Sam Dußois, his
brother-in-law and a Councilman-elect,
and was discharged by the latter from his
employ. Hoover then got orunk, and
coming upon Dußois in a shoeshop shot
him without warning, Dußois dying the
next day. All the evidence was one-sided,
and the verdict occasioned very little sur
prise. eeZr* '*■'<■'.
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FOUR EJVGIIfES ATTACHED.
Trouble Between Wisconsin Central and
Baltimore and Ohio.
CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 29.— A deputy
sheriff hampered passenger traffic on the
Baltimore and Oi.io : Railway for a short
time yesterday by attaching four of that
company's big engines in the roundhouse
near Taylor street and the river. The
trouble was caused ' by the Wisconsin Cen
tral Railroad ! Company, which yesterday
afternoon brought an assumpsit suit in
the Circuit Court for $25,000. The claim
includes a bill for $14,300 for labor and ser
vices and the rest is for track rent in the
Grand Central station during the months
of May and June last.
• It was nearly 7 o'clock before Superin
tendent Van Smith released the engines
on a $40,000 bond signed by Isaac G. Lom
bard, president of the National BanK of
America, and in the meantime the Walker
ton accommodation had been taken out
by a freight engine. Superintendent Smith
says no demand for the sum sued for had
been made, and he cannot account for the
Wisconsin Central's action.
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--THREATEX TO STRIKE.
Window- inn Makers Are Considering
a, Tie- Up.'
M ILLVI LLE, N. J., Dec. 29.— There are
mutterings of an approaching struggle be
tween the window-glass manufacturers
and workers throughout the country,
which, if it occurs, will affect between 8000
and 9000 skilled glass-workers.
•The National Manufacturers' Associ
ation, at a recent meeting in Chicago,
passed a resolution to shut down all win
dow-glass factories on January I for a pe
riod of four weeks, presumably to restrict
production and advance prices.
This action, throwing out thousands of
workmen in the dead of winter, is resented
by the trade, and it is rumored that if the
shut-down takes place the men will refuse
to resume work again unless the full scale,
which was reduced in 1894, is restored. -
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BLOCKADE IX THE CASCADES.
Henry Snowfall 'Interrupts the Great
'Xorther'n's Schedule.
ST. PAUL, Minx., Dec. 29.— Dispatches
from' the West indicate that a big snow
storm has seriously interfered with traffic.
The storm began Friday and so com
pletely blockaded the switchback on the
Great Northern on the west slope of : the
Cascade range that the schedule was
sadly interrupted. /
The storm in Washington . appears to
have been especially severe, and for a dis
tance- of nearly ten -miles, between Madi
son and Wellington," the slide of snow and
earth made it impossible for the overland
trains to get through. ••'
HIS MEMORY FLED.
Dr. Kellogg's Sermon Brought to a Sud
■ den Close. •
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Dec. 29.— While
delivering a sermon in Trinity Methodist
Episcopal Church- to-day the pastor, Rev.
Dr. H. W. -Kellogg. was stricken with loss
of memory,' and the services were sud
denly closed. Dr. Kellogg took a ' trip
through Europe this year for his health.
Last : night he slept but little, suffering
with n'-rvous prostration, and this culmi
nated in his breaking down.- The trustees
will probably engage an assistant for Dr.
Kellogg in his church work.
ARMING FOR A STRUGGLE.
Miners in the Transvaal Prepar-
ing to Attack the Boer
Government.
President Kruger Declares His Readi
ness to Meet the Threatened
Storm.
PRETORIA, South Africa, Dec.29.— The
trouble between the foreign '„ residents of
the '■■ Transvaal f and the Boer Government,
crowing from' the refusal :of the latter to
grant :■ to foreigners civil rights equal to
those enjoyed - by . the Boers, is rapidly be
coming more serious. It is rumored : here
that the English miners are arming to en
force their demands. .-;
'-': In an interview ' President Kruger said
that i the Government was '« alive *. to . the
gravity of the situation and the threaten
ing attitude of the foreigners in Johannes
burg. He added :'■"'-.- -"-.<•■
■'•>* "If the threatening storm must come,
let it come." ' - y
Numbers of ladies and children are leav
ing the Rand. Business -. -is seriously
affected. Many notorious characters • are
gathered in ; Johannesburg. .:, The Ameri
cans and Germans are siding with the gov
ment. "/ *--*•• - - - - . -■ "
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Death of a Cleveland Banker.
CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 29.— Charles H.
Bulkley, aged 52 years, one of •; Cleveland's
foremost capitalists and real estate dealers,
died this afternoon of a'; complication of
diseases. His wealth is estimated at be
tween $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. He .was a
director in the National ' Bank of Com
merce, '-''and*, was' well known to bankers
throughout the country. '■£■■
'•«"-■ s '■,■■- — ' ,'"" *, — — — , '.
California .Wheat at Sydney.
NEW YORK, N. * V., I Dec; 29.— A Mel
bourne dispatch says 1000 tons of Califor
nia wheat has arrived at Sydney. The
stock yof i old Victorian -wheat,- together
; with the orders already placed in Califor
nia, , will cover the ; net ■;-' deficiency ;■ for
Australia.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ENGLAND'S NEW ROLE
Stands Opposed to a Policy
She Had Championed
Years Ago. •!
CHANGE IN ATTITUDE*
Once a Staunch Supporter of the
. Doctrine Enunciated by
: . Monroe. ... , .;.;/•"' \
SIDED WITH THIS GOVERNMENTS
Her Interests . in South America Had
Been Threatened by the Holy
. Alliance. -. *
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MEMPHIS, Te>*?-., Dec. 29.—Congress
man Money of Mississippi, a member of
the Foreign Relations Committee of, the
last Congress and the committeeman who
reported -the resolution authorizing the
President to request Great Britain to arbi
trate the Venezuelan boundary dispute,
has prepared an elaborate history of the
Monroe doctrine and the Venezuelan ques
tion, as he became intimately familiar
with it on the Foreign Relations Com
mittee. • . ' '.;"• ''.--?".
. "The Monroe doctrine has two widely
different features, one of which only is in
volved in the -Venezuelan dispute," said
Mr. Money.-" "In the. first place, no Presi
dent has authority to lay down a funda
mental or permanent policy of govern
ment. The constitution has" placed that
power in Congress, and Congress, at ; the
time of .Mr. Monroe's seventh annual mes
sage and oh: other occasions, declined to
affirm the Monroe doctrine, and two years
later disavowed it entirely." 1 * ■"■
Then follows the history of the doctrine,
which he . demonstrates to have been
called out by the historical Holy Alliance
formed by the Kings of France, Austria,
Russia and Prussia, which t:iey proceeded
to make effective, Great Britain vainly
protesting. * Eventually the alliance pro
posed to cross the Atlantic and subjugate
everything *to Kings in • the Spanish
provinces, although the United States had
recognized their independence. "V
Fearing for its South American trade.
Great Britain intimated a readiness to
stand by the United States in resisting the
alliance, and in this way came the protest,
not against a monarchical form of gov
ernment in America, but against the al
lied powers extending: their political sys
tem to any portion of either continent of
America. •* *-v:'y' ;\-~v>~~ - .***"*." ° , v - '.,,-
Mr. Money says this boundary dispute is
250 years old ; that there j never, was a de
limitation - of : the frontier, / and , that his
committee "thought the dispute of such
gravity that - as. the impartial friend jot;
both we could venture to suggest a peace
ful solution." ■- • - ■ "., . * •; .' *. vr.'.v'c
A BLUFFER * BLUFFED.
Michael Davitt Sums Up the Venezuelan.
: . ''c'-.'.''ft'il''p'-- '"': .". Situation. .-,..' ..'■'.' - '
CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 29.'— Michael
Davitt, the' Irish Nationalist and Member,
of Parliament from South Mayo and East
Kerry, was among the guests registered at
the Palmer House yesterday. He has been
touring . Australia., and came to- Chicago
from San Francisco. He is ,'on his way
home and expects to be in his seat when
Parliament assembles. . When asked about -
the position of the Irish on the Venezuelan
controversy, he said that he did not think
there was the slightest possibility. of any
actual -conflict between -the United States
and Great Britain on that question. He
said: •>',-- ■— ■ .-*. .'.;■
■ ': "Lord Salisbury •is .'. known -. in ;", Great
Britain and Ireland -as , a bully, whose
policy, when he has been at the head of
the Government, \ has = been to try to in
timidate little nations and powers through
out the world. .- He has ; been . able to do
this with impunity heretofore, but now he
finds that behind . little Venezuela stands
America, and he will discover that he will
not be allowed to carry on the same policy
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