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BLOODY CONFLICT ON BETWEEN
THE GREEKS AND TURKS.
•GRECIAN CONGRESS WELL PLEASED
Prime Minister Delyannis Declares That
Turkey Is Responsible For
The Outbreak.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press at headquarters of the Turkish
army in Macedonia, under date of
April 18th, states that a tierce battle
between the Turks and Greeks is now
going on at Karya on the Greek fron¬
tier.
The correspondent left the Turkish
headquarters on horseback Saturday
morning and arrived at Karya three
hours later. The battle was then pro¬
gressing and the correspondent was
enabled to watch the tight from a
point near the tent of Hamid Pasha,,
who is in command of the Sixth army
corps, the Turkish force there en¬
gaged. Hamid Pasha, surrounded by
his staff, was watching the movements
of the opposing forces.
The combatants were posted on the
faces of two hills, overlooking a small
valley, at a distance of about a mile.
It appeared that the Greek force,
which was evidently composed of reg¬
ular troops of Greece, crossed the
frontier and advanced upon the valley
in the neutral zone, which led to the
encounter on Friday between the
Greeks and the Turks. This, it is
added, was used at Consfansinoide as
a reason for ordering Edhem Pasha,
the Turkish commander-in-ehief, to
assume the offensive and led to the
rupture of diplomatic relations between
the countries.
The so-called outrage of Prevasa Sat¬
urday morning when the Turkish bat¬
teries there sank the Greek steamer,
Macedonia, further justified Greece in
the minds of Athenians in waging war
to the death against Turkey.
Little news of a reliable nature has
been seceived or allowed to leak out
regarding what has really transpired
on the frontiers. It is known, how¬
ever, that the whole frontier of Thess¬
aly lias been blazing with murderous
firing ever since early Saturday morn¬
ing and that the Greeks have captur¬
ed a fortified position at Menexe, in
Macedonia.
According to the general under¬
standing the Turkish plan of campaign
is a concentration of the Turks near
the important Greek frontier town of
Tyrnavos, with a view of forcing the
mountain passes going towards Lar¬
issa. One report, which is generally
credited, has it that Edhem Pasha, at
the head o.f 12,000 men, has already
begun this movement, and rumors in
this respect arc flying, the substance
of them being that the battle which is
expected to be fought at 6r near Tyr¬
navos has already commenced.
Greek Congress Hears News.
A late special sitting of the legisla¬
tive assembly was held at Athens Sun¬
day. The public galleries were crowd¬
ed. Amid intense excitement M. Del-
yannis, the premier, announced that
the Turkish government had notified
Greece of the rupture of the diplo¬
matic relations owing to the aggres¬
sive attitude of the Greek government.
In an elaborate manner ho reviewed
the recent events to show, on the con¬
trary, that Turkey had been the ag¬
gressor ; that her troops had attacked
the Greeks and attempted to occupy
neutral positions, and that her batte¬
ries at Prevasa had sunk the Greek
ship Macedonia,
“Turkey,” said M. Delyannis, “de¬
clares war against us. We accept it.”
This statement was received with
prolonged cheers from the galleries
and the floor of the chamber.
Greek Steamer Sunk.
The Turkish batteries at Prevasa, on
the north shore of the entrance of the
gulf of Arta, where, according to the
treaty at Berlin, the Turks had no
right to erect fortifications, fired on
and sank a Greek steamer, the Mace-
donia, Sunday morning while she was
attempting to leave the gulf of Am-
bracia. The crew of the steamer were
saved by boats from the shore, but the
■captain of the Macedonia was severely
wounded.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS END.
Atffiim Bey Tells Greeks To Leave and Calls
Home Turks.
A special of Sunday from Athens
states that Assim Bey handed to M.
Skouzes, the Greek minister of foreign
affairs, the following note:
“In consequence of the aggressive
attitude of Greece, diplomatic rela¬
tions between the king of Greece and
his imperial majesty, the sultan of Tur¬
key, and their respective governments
are hereby broken off.
“The Greek minister at Constanti¬
nople and the Greek consuls have
been ordered to quit Turkish territory.
For the same reason, the Turkish con¬
suls in Greece have been rect lled to
Constantinople.
OFFICIALS INDICTED.
Indianapolis Street Car Managers Sum-
panned to Appear In Court.
Indictments ha'e been returned by
special -session of the grand jury at
Indianapolis against President A. L.
Mason, Superintendent Millet Elliott
and a dozen conductors and other offi¬
cials of the Citizens’ Street Railway
company for the violation of the three
cent fare law.
Feeling against the company runs
high.
CREVASSE WIDENING.
Water Uuuh Through Bigg ft Levee Like a
Second Niagara.
A special from Vicksburg says; “The
crevasse in the Biggs levee, Louisiana,
about six miles below this city, was
1,700 feet wide at last reports and rap¬
idly widening. The water is rushing and
through with a roar like Niagara,
all day long refugees have been ileeing
to this city with their stock and other
property. The water was fifteen feet
deep against the levee when it broke,
and men who were on the spot say
that it poured through in vast circular
massses or whirlpools twenty feet high.
Three white persons, two men and a
woman, passed twelve hours in the
midst of the furious waters of the
crevasse, perched in a tree. The
water roused them from their beds,
and they had only time to seek safety
in its boughs when the mighty tlood
was upon them. They were rescued
by boats.
The town of Delta is now inundated
and the waters are spreading over the
lowlands and will soon cover many
fine plantations in Madison parish.
All the convicts at work on the levee
when the crevasse came have been
safely put on hoard a steamer and so
far no loss of life is reported in the
vicinity of this last break.
HUNTER ARRESTED.
Franklin County Grand Jury Returns In¬
dictments Charging; Conspiracy to Bribe.
The Franklin county, Ky., grand
jury has returned true bills against
Dr. W. Godfrey Hunter, the republi¬
can nominee for the senate; ex-Con-
gressman John Henry Wilson, of the
eleventh district; Hon. E. T. Franks, of
the second district; Captain Noel
Gaines,and his brother-in-law,Thomas
Tanner, of Frankfort. Those named
have been indicted for conspiracy to
bribe. All are republicans wtitli the
exception of Gaines and Tanner.
The indictments w'ere all included
in one bill and were filed in court at
10:20 o’clock. The news at once te-
came public and created the greatest
indignation among the republicans, all
of whom denounce it as a conspiracy
among Frankfort Democrats to defeat
and humiliate Hunter. They claim
that the indictments against Gaines
and Tanner were returned simply as
“savers,” to prevent the public gener¬
ally from gaining the impression that
the grand jury had been made an en¬
gine of political persecution, and that
they would be dismissed at the first
hearing ou account of insufficient evi¬
dence.
When the indictments had been re¬
turned, Judge Cantrill ordered that
bench warrants be issued for the ar¬
rest of the accused and made return¬
able for the next term -of the court,
which is in September. Bail was fixed
at §250 in each case.
The accused have engaged the best
attorneys in the state to defend them.
EDITOR DANA APOLOGIZES.
Katlier Than Face a Libel Suit He Makes
a Retraction.
The New York Sun of Saturday
morning contained the following edi¬
torial under the head of “a correction:
“Oil February 22, 1895, The Sun
published an editorial article entitled
‘The Work of Rascals,” iu which cer¬
tain, severe strictures were made upon
Air. Frank B. Noyes, of the Washing¬
ton Star.
“We desire to correct our statement
in reference to Air. Noyes and to with¬
draw any remarks reflecting either up-
on his personal or business integrity,
The article was written under a mis¬
apprehension as to the facts in the
case, aud we regret its publication in
The Sun, as doing a grave injustice to
the gentleman whose character is above
reproach.” foregoing published apology
The
and retraction follows the publication
of an editorial in The Sun two years
ago, intended as a serious reflection on
the Associated Press and its manage¬
ment.
COL. KELLOGG DEAD.
He Was Commander of the Fifth Infantry
Stationed at Fort McPherson.
Col. William L. Kellogg, of the
Fifth infantry, United States army,
died at 4 o’clock Saturday morning
at Fort AlcPherson, near Atlanta. He
had been seriously ill for a year past,
and his death was not altogether un¬
expected. few days that
It was only a ago examine a the re¬
tiring board was sent to
officer’s condition, and the report
recommending his retirement from
active service has not yet been acted
ou.
WHITE IS RESENTENCED.
The Columl) u» Murderer is to Hie on
the Gallows June 4tli.
Sentence of death was passed upon
Henry White, the Columbus, Ga.,
murderer, for the second time Satur¬
day. Butt set Friday, June 4th, a i
Judge the execution in the jail
the date for
yard and in private.
Congressman Milliken Dead.
A Washington special says: Seth L.
Milliken, representing ip the house of
representatives the third district of
Maine, died Sunday night. For some
time Air. Milken had suffered from a
serious affection of the bronchial tubes
whiclvrefused to yield to treatment.
COURTMARTIAL FOR ROMEYN.
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Captain to Answer For His Attack On a
Lieutenant.
General Merritt, bead of the depart¬
ment of the east of the United States
army, has ordered a court martial to
convene at Ft. McPherson.
While the official order does not
slate who will he tried, it is known
that tho court was called to pass upon
the charges made against Captain
Henry Homeyn by Hieu.tenant O’Brien.
LEVEE IN MADISON PARISH FI¬
NALLY GIVES WAY.
DANGER WARNING IS SENT OUT
Heroic Measures Were Taken to Prevent
Crevasse But to No Avail.
Supreme Test Is On.
The Queen <fc Crescent train dis¬
patchers at Vicksburg, Miss., reported
ut 12 o’clock Friday night that Biggs
levee, in Madison parish, broke at 10
o’clock and that the break was one
hundred feet wide in twenty minutes.
The break is four and a half miles
south of the delta, Louisiana, and one
and a half miles above the upper end
of Beed’s levee.
The news was sent to the delta at
once, the operator being roused out of
bed and the message of warning sent
along the line of the railroad west¬
ward.
The levee is a very large one and
has been engaging the special atten¬
tion of the levee authorities for weeks,
or ever since the Mississippi crevasse.
About six hundred convicts were
employed on it in addition to other la¬
borers, and so greatly strengthened
had it been made that until up to the
time of the break it was believed to be
safe.
Advices from Natchez and other
points below Vicksburg indicate that
the supreme test in tho flood situation
is at hand. The swift current "which
is rising steadily is beating against the
levees with such force as to cause the
gravest apprehension at many places.
At Natchez the river is near the top
of the levee and everything possible
is being done to fight back the rising
waters. All kinds of rumors have
been current regarding wholesale loss
of life on Davis island, but diligent
telegraphic inquiry fails to confirm
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the stories
It is known that three negroes were
drowned on the island, but outside of ;
these fatalities no further loss of life
is known to have occurred. i
At Vicksburg the river is rising at I
the rate of four-tenths of a foot daily.
The swift volume of water pouring out I
of the Yazoo into the Mississippi, at a I
point twelve miles north of Vicksburg 1
will continue for several days.
The levees between Bedford, four J
miles south of the delta, Louisiana, j
and Duckport, six above, are in a preca-
rious condition and every man and boy
available was put to work strength-
ning the embankment. At some points
in this stretch of levee the water is
washing over and the greatest alarm
is felt.
CARLOAD 0£ LIOUOR SEIZED.
Constabulai r v of South Carolina Takes
Charge of a Big: Shipment of Wine.
A special from Charleston, S. C.,
says: The Stite constabulary met a
tartar in the little schooner Saucy
Lass, but it redeemed itself Friday by
the capture of a carload of the finest
liquors consigned to wealthy citizens
for personal use.
The carload consisted of ninety-two
packages of the best wines from a San
Francisco, Cal., wine house. 1
packages are m . barrels, half barrels,
kegs and cases and are valued at a
considerable amount of money.
Chief Constable Bahr has telegraph¬
ed Attorney General Townsend of the
seizure. The goods were consigned to
a prominent banker of Charleston.
There is a question as to Bahrls
right to seize the goods and the case
will doubtless go to the courts.
The schooner Saucy Lass with 800 gal¬
lons, is reported to have landed her
cargo up the Cooper river.
YOUTHFUL SUICIDES.
Two Boys, Aged Nine and Fifteen, Swallow
Foison In a Fit of Anger.
Two young sous of Mr. Herson, liv¬
ing at Greenland, Ark., aged nine and
fifteen years, committed suicide while
their parents were at Fayetteville, nine
miles distant. The boys were angry
because they were left at home.
Both dressed in their best clothes,
wrote notes to their parents, pinned
them on the door, took strychnine and
went to bed. They died before the
parents returned home.
The notes bade their parents goodby
and expressed the hope that they
would meet in heaven.
RESEMBLED MYERS,
But the Idaho Man Was Not the Youth¬
ful Murderer.
Once more a rumored capture of
Will Myers, the condemned murderer
who escaped from the Atlanta jail last
year, has been dissipated. The man
reported under arrest, in Boise City,
Idaho, is not the murderer of Forrest
Crowley, but a young man well known
in the far western state.
Tobacco Dealer Robbed.
John Ogden, a prominent tobacco
dealer of Kentucky, en route home
from Mayfield, was waylaid and robbed.
He -was badly beaten and cut.
WOULD INTERRUPT SERVICES.
Good Friday Proved a Ducky Day to
Frank Meyers.
Good Friday gave Frank Myers,
sentenced to hang in Georgetown, S.
C., on that day for arson, another
week of life.
The jail is next the Episcopal
church, where services were held dur¬
ing the hours fixed for the execution.
On the petition of the church authori¬
ties, Governor Ellerbe granted a re¬
spite.
RECEIVER TAKES CHARGE AGAIN.
Southern Building anti Loan Association
Ordered to Be Wound Up.
Again the big Southern Building
and Loan Association, at Knoxville,
Tenn., is in the hands of receivers,
and this time its affairs will be wound
up in the courts.
For four days Chancellor Lindsay
listened to argument in this case, there
being ten prominent lawyers employed. Fri¬
At the conclusion of the speeches
day afternoon the judge named Major
Daniel A. Carpenter and John \V.
Conner as receivers, and instructed
them to wind up the affairs of the as¬
sociation without cost to the stock¬
holders.
Major Carpenter is one of the old
directors, and at present is pension
agent at Knoxville, while Mr. Connor
is the clerk and m ister of the chancery
court in which the case was tried. All
claims against the association must be
tiled by July 15th.
In rendering bis opinion Jndge
Lindsay said that if the association
was not insolvent it was right at the
danger line. It is claimed that an
effort will now be made to put the as¬
sociation in the United States court
again. This action will be taken by
the stockholders in Tennessee and
other states where the association did
business.
SPAIN 'WITHDRAWING TROOPS.
Fart of Her Army In Craba Is Called
Home.
According to information received
at Washington from trustworthy
sources the withdrawal of at least a
part of the great army that Spain has
maintained for several years in the is¬
land of Cuba, will begin when the
rainy season sets in within a few days.
The initial movement will be the de¬
parture of 10,000 Spanish troops from
Havana for Spain and within a short
time after that 30,00© troops, it is un¬
derstood, will follow'.
Whether this movement is to be
construed , . favor against Spain it
in or
is impossible now to say. Spain says
positively that little or nothing now
remains of the insurrection ;thatGomez
bas 011 ^y about fifty or a hundred fol-
lowers and that to watch these under
*he conditions m which the campaign
bas been necessarily conducted, a few
thousand , men are quite as effective as
arm .y 30,000 men which has
been maintained in Cuba,
Tbe Cuban contingent, on the other
hand, insist that the Spanish financial
resources are exhausted and that, the
troops are to he withdrawn because of
la( ;k of keep them . the
money to in
service,
ARBITRATOR SELECTED
To Negotiate Terms of Feaee Between
Brazil and French. Guiana.
Information has been received at
Washington that the president of the
Swiss republic lias been selected as
arbitrator of the boundary dis ut; be¬
tween Brazil and French Guiana. The
territory involved exceeds that at issue
between Great Britain and Venezuela
and includes rich gold mining dis¬
tricts.
It is thought that President McKin¬
ley would have been designated as ar¬
bitrator, but as France was one of the
parties to the treaty, a European arbi-
trator was, preferred,
The dispute reached an accute stage
a few months ago when a French war-
B pjp wae dispatched to the territory in
question. In one of the border con¬
flicts several French officers were
killed. It is understood that the arbi¬
tration will settle the boundary aud
also adjust the claims growing out of
the border conflicts.
FUNDS FOR NAVAL MILITIA.
The Sum of £530,000 Is Allotted for the
Naval Reserves.
The secretary of the navy has made
the annual allotment of the fund of
$50,000 appropriated by congress for
the naval militia of the states.
Deducting $2,000 reserved for the
purchase of textbooks, the remainder
of the appropriation is allotted among
the states having naval militia organi¬
zations in proportion to the number
of uniformed petty officers and men
they had on their rolls on the 1st of
January last. The result in the south¬
ern states is as follows:
South Carolina, 165 officers and
men, allotment §1,814; North Carolina,
140 officers and men, allotment $1,138;
Georgia, 188 officers and men, allot¬
ment §2,436; Louisiana, 209 officers
and men, $2,430.
FOR MINISTRIES OF WAR.
The Grecian Houle Asks For Govern¬
ment Aid In War Preparations.
On the reassembling of the Grecian
boule Wednesday M. Delyannis, the
premier, introduced in the presence of
a crowded chamber a bill granting the
government a credit of 23,000,000
drachmas for the ministries of war and
marine. The premier asked the house
to expedite tho xiassage of the budget.
Ridiculed By London Papers.
The Gobe, St. James Gazette and
Pall Mall Gazette (London newspa¬
pers) all ridicule the idea of the Uni¬
ted States bimetallic mission having
any practical result.
ERRING TREASURER FREE.
A South Dakota Jix-Offlcial Reaves the
State Penitentiary.
South Dakota’s erring state treasurer,
William W. Taylor, was released from
the penitentiary at Sioux City Thurs¬
day, after an imprisonment of one
year and a half. Good behavior re¬
duced his two years’ sentence six
months. He left at once for his old
home at Redfield, where ho will stay a
few days, and then go to Indiana to
visit friends.
OLD HRS. NOBLES GETS A NEW
LEASE ON LIFE.
WRIT OF ERROR FROM HIGH COURT
Which Act# as Supercedeas—Gun ram¬
bles Will Be Given an Indefinite
Respite by the Governor.
Mrs. Nobles, the Georgia woman
sentenced to hang April 23, for the
murder of her husband, has obtained
a new lease on life. It eaiqe from
Judge Harlan, of the supreme court of
the United States, who allowed a writ
of error in the case Thursday morn¬
ing to act as a supercedeas. It was
presented to the justice at his resi¬
dence in Washington.
The writ was granted on the repre¬
sentation of Mrs. Nobles’ counsel that
she is insane, and will operate as a
stay of proceedings and postpone the
case fo- at least eight months. This
move in the case came unexpectedly with
and news of it will be received
surprise. probably
Governor Atkinson will
grant an indefinite respite to Gus
Fambles, her accomplice in crime,,
since he has announced his intention
of allowing the negro to live until the
case of Mrs. Nobles has been finally
settled.
The news of the action of Judge
Harlan in the Nobles case will come
as a glad surprise to those who have
been working for the old woman’s life
since she was first sentenced to death.
It was understood that the case
would go to the supreme court of the
United States, but the prompt action
of Justice Harlan was entirely unex¬
pected and will encourage those who
are at work for the woman’s life.
The case of Mrs. Noble’s has un¬
doubtedly caused more interest and
has had more influence brought to
bear in it than any c«se ever before
carried to the supreme court from
Georgia. sentenced
The fact that she was to
die on the gallows caused those who
are opposed to capital punishment for
the sex to begin work for her life.
Prominent attorneys were obtained
and they did all in their power to stay
the proceedings. The case went through
every loophole allowed by lave. It went
from the superior court to the supreme
court and from the supreme court back
to the superior court. It has shifted
many times and a few weeks ago was
finally decided by the state supreme
court.
Arrangements were made for the
execution to take place on time. Those
who had been working for the old wo¬
man were beginning to work desper¬
ately and despairingly. The last
chance was the supreme court of the
United States, and here it was intend¬
ed to carry the case.
The case will not he reached until
the second Monday in October. At
that time a motion of advancement
will probably be mado and the case
will be heard in either January or
February. This gives Mrs. Nobles
about eight months of life.
THE DAWES COMMISSION
Appointed By Cleveland Will Bo Reorgan¬
ized By McKinley.
President McKinley has under con¬
sideration the question of reorganiza¬
tion of the Dawes Indian commission.
There are five members, each of whom
draws a salary of §5,000 per annum.
For the present only two changes are
contemplated. will succeed
One of the appointees Georgia.
ex-Congressman Cabaniss, of
There are many applicants, but no ap¬
pointments have been determined fi¬
nally. commission
The Dawes was ap¬
pointed by Air. Cleveland, and is call¬
ed the Dawes commission because ex-
Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, is
the chairman. The duty of the com¬
mission is to sit as a court in the
Indian Territory and determine the
rights of the members of the five civil¬
ized Indian tribes.
Revolution in Honduras.
United States Consul Little tele¬
graphs from Tegucigappa, the capital
of Honduras, that a revolution has
broken out and that the republic is
now under martial law.
BIG REWARD FOR HALE.
Receivers of Southern Mutual Building
and I.oan are After Him.
A reward of $1,000 will be offered
for the capture of William C. Hale, the
erstwhile president of the Southern
Mutual Building and Loan Associa¬
tion at Atlanta, Ga., who involved the
affairs of that corporation in such an
impenetrable tangle. offered the
The reward will he by
receivers of the defunct association,
who after examing into the condition
of affairs, have decided that such a
grave discrepancy existed in the ac¬
counts of Hale, who was the promo¬
ter and head of so many wildcat com¬
panies, that it is desirable that lie be
brought back to Atlanta and punished.
IN FAVOR OF OLD BOARDS.
A Dlcision of the Court Against Governor
Bussell.
Judge Adams, of the superior court
of Raleigh, N. C., rendered judgment
Friday in the case of thd new boards
of trustees of the three insane asy¬
lums, backed by Governor Russell, to
oust the present superintendent and
put in new ones they have elected.
Judge Adams, who is a republican,
decided in favor of the old boards and
superintendents.
HUNTER’S FRIENDS ARE FIRM.
Balloting for Senator In Kentucky Show#
No Change.
A special from Frankfort, Ky., says:
It is reported on what is believed to
be excellent authority that there is a
serious breach between State Senator
Henry L. Martin and ex-United States
Senator J. 0. S. Blackburn, of the
silver democrats. Martin, who has
worked like a Trojan for Blackburn
during the past few years feels that he
now has a chance to win the prize
himself, it having been conclusively
demonstrated that Blackburn cannot
be elected. Blackburn and his lieu¬
tenants have so far declined to dis¬
countenance the movement, and have
even gone so far as to bitterly de¬
nounce Martin for his alleged treach¬
ery.
But all this was done in private,
while openly the Blackburn men wex - e
assiduous to Martin.
At 9 o’clock Thursday morning
Judge Cantrill, of the Franklin circuit
court, ordered the grand jury to report
at once on the bribery charges which
it has been investigating.
Later Judge Cantrill called the
grand jnrors into open court and in¬
structed them as to their duty in the
case before them. He said he regret¬
ted that the matter came up before
the adjournment of the legislature,
and felt that it was the duty of the
legislature to wash its own dirty linen,
but having attempted investigation, it
was their duty to probe it to the bot¬
tom, and in so doing “I command you
to not show any favoritism.”
This unusual step on the part of a
circuit judge was received with sur¬
prise by both republicans and demo¬
crats alike.
The first ballot resulted as follows:
Hunter, 58; Blackburn, 43; Martin, 10;
Boyle, 6; Stone, 1, leaving Hunter
still two votes short of an election. A
motion to adjourn was lost, and the
second ballot was ordered.
The second and third ballots result¬
ed as follows:
Hunter, 57; Blackburn, 42; Martin,
10; Boyie, 6; Stone, 1,
A motion was then made that the
general assembly adjourn, which pre¬
vailed. *
LAST HONORS TO YOORHEES.
The Ex-Senat*>r*» Remains Laid to Rest
aft Terre Haute.
The funeral of the late ex-Seuator
D. W. Voorliees, took place at Terre
Haute, Ind., Thursday afternoon from
St. Stephen’s Episcopal church, Rev.
John E. Sulger, the rector, officiating.
This is the church in which he was
confirmed a number of years ago and
which he attended when in the city.
During tho two days his remains
were in the city, the funeral having
been delayed awaiting the arrival of
his eldest son, Charles S. Voorhees,
of Spokane, Wash., they lay in state
in the parlor of the Terre Haute house
where a steady stream of people passed
through the flower-embroidered room
and looked upon the face of their
dead friend. All classes and condi¬
tions of people wert represented and
their tearful eyes have told the story
of the universal sorrow.
Senator Voorhees was a Mason and
the various Masonic lodges participa¬
ted in the funeral exercises, while the
city council aud many civic and mili¬
tary organizations followed his remains
to the grave in Highland Lawn ceme¬
tery, where he was laid beside his
wife, w'ko died several years ago.
IS WOLCOTT ELIGIBLE!
Tho Oaewtlon liaised Kegritrclins: His Mem-
bership On Commission.
A question has been raised as to the
eligibility of Senator E. O. Wolcott to
serve on the monetary commission.
Sec. (1, article 1, of the constitution,
contains the following provision:
“No senator or representative shall,
during the time for which he was elect¬
ed, be appointed to any civil office iin-
der the authority of the United States
which shall have been created or the
emoluments whereof shall have been
increased during such time.”
I'OWKLI. GETS SEVEN YEARS.
Killed XV. C. Sloan and Is Found Guilty
of Manslaughter.
G. W. Powell, a wood merchant,
was sentenced by Judga Aldrich, at
Columbia, S. C., Thursday to seven
years in the penitentiary for killing
W. C. Sloan.
In finding him guilty of manslaugh¬
ter, the jury compromised, all signing
a paper asking the judge for a mini¬
mum sentence, which was expected to
be two years. Tho sentence has been
accepted without appeal.
Blockade Not Recognized.
The Romo correspondent of The
London Standard says it is stated
there that Admiral Caneviro, com¬
manding the international fleets in
Cretan waters, has received notice
from the American government that
the United States does not recognize
the existence of a blockade of Crete.
Insurgent Leader Surrenders.
A dispatch from Libertad, province
of Pinar del Rio, says that the well
knowm insurgent leader, Julian Zar-
raga, who is charged with having
blown up several trains, with the use
of dynamite, in Pinar del Rio, has
surrendered.
EXPLOSION RESULTS FATALLY.
Two Men Killed By An Imperfect Blast
In a Coal Mine.
Friday afternoon an explosion, sup¬
posed to have been caused by an im¬
perfect blast, occurred in the Monarch
coal mine, near Madisonville, Ky.,
resulting in the death of Robert Carl¬
ton and Theodore Stone, the only men
in the mine at the time, excepting the
foreman, whose proximity to the air
shaft enabled him to effect his escape.