Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 12, 1909, Page 6

30,000 SLAIN IN ADANA PROVINCE Mohammedan Fanatics Renew Slaughter of Armenians in’ - Streets of City. OVER 35,000 ARE DiSTITUTE Unspeakable Atrocities Make Present Massacre More Horrible Than Tkat of 1895. Adana, May 6:—Adana is still law- peonle were killed in the There are 30,000 na province as a result of massacres, and 35,000 homeless and penniless refugees are wandering in the vilayet. The deaths in Adana city alone are estimated at 6,500. Adana is terrorized by 4,000 sol- die who are looting, shooting and ig. No respect. is paid to for- : properties. Both the French schools have been destroyed and it is feared the American school, commer- ial and missionary interests in Ada- na are totally ruined. Troops Add to Flames. The new vali has not as yet inspir- omnfidence. There is reason to be- ieve that the authorities still intend to permit the extermination of all t ians. The troops here are mak- pretense of throwing “water” on the flames; instead of water they kerosene, and are thus purposely to the conflagration. rehension is felt here regarding the American missionary stations at Hadjin and Tarsus. All letters and telegrams sent out through Turkish channels are censored. Ten Days of Carnage. Tarsus, Asiatic Turkey, May 6. — Authentic details of the atrocities committed by the fanatical Moham- medans in the villages and farms in this district are now coming into Tarsus in sickening abundance. The worst particulars of these narratives cannot be mentioned, but they set forth without doubt that at least 10,- 900 persons lost their lives in this province, and some estimates place the total casualties at 25,000. ges like Osmanieh, Bazsche, lieh, Kara, Kristian, Keoy and od were actually wiped out. ‘ach of these places had populations of from 500 to 600 people. In «ne town of 4,000 people there are fewer 100 left, nearly all women and s the same thing with the hun- lreds of farms that dot this wide and le plain, The slaughter was un- even the Greeks ard Syrians truck down with the Armen- tire families were burned to FEARLESS MISSION WORKER Rev. Stephen R. Trowbridge, who has loomed up as one of the most prominent foreigners at the heart ofthe Turkish disorders, and who ca- bled Washington, asking investigation of the death of two Americans, Rogers and Maurer, is of a missionary family. With him at Aintab, but a short distance north of Adana, are his mother, Mrs. Margaret R. Trow- bridge, who first went to Turkey as a missionary in 1861, and his sister, Miss Elizabeth M. Trowbridge. Dr. Trowbridge is a Brooklyn man. He is known as one of the most fearless workers in the field in which he has been stationed. e is here shown in Turkish costume. death in their homes. Hundreds of girls and women were carried off. Girls Sold Into Slavery. The correspondent was informed that one place a party of 100 Armen- ians surrendered to the soldiers. The prisoners were taken to an open field, where the women were ordered to stand apart from the men. Every one of the men was then shot. In many cases. they were done to death with their women clinging to them trying to save their lives. Sixty men who were brought down into this district from MHadjin are now held as_ slaves. Young Turks around Tarsus are trading Armenian girls for horses and modern repeat- ing rifles. The entire ten days seem to have been an insensate orgy in the name of race and religion. In the massacres of fourteen years ago there was no such desire to kill women and children as has been evi- denced in the last ten days. Now, however, there have been numerous instances of the murdering of women and children with deliberation, and there are other instances where wom- men were brought out one by one and shot down, the bystanders clapping their hands at each fresh execution. Sackville, N. B., May 6.—Last night three children of Charles Crossman, a painter, were suffocated by smoke from a fire which had badly damaged their home. SULTAN MEHEMMED Vv. HILM1. PACHA WRott xi ILLUSTRASIONE| ITALIANA - COLLEGE CHAIR FOR RIDDLE. St. Petersburg, May 6: — John W. Riddle of St. Paul, the retiring Ameri- can ambassador, who is to be suc- ceeded here by W- W. Rockhill, at present ambassador to Pekin, has been offered the chair of international law in a prominent American univer- sity, and has the proposal under con- sideration. The appointment of W. W. Rockhill is thoroughly satisfactory to the for- eign office here. AHMED RIZA PACHA, PREMIER., = RIFAAT PACHA, THE BYSTANDER. we x Rep ILLUSTRATED FRow g Killed in Revolver Duel. Paterson, N. J., May 6—As the re- sult of a revolver duel yesterday be- tween two Frenchmen of Mountain View, Armand Fauchon is dead, and- the other, David Broussard, who was spirited away by friends, is seriously wounded, The motive for the duel is unknown. AX FOR CARVER POSTMASTER. | Washington, May 6.—The postoffice | department has asked Representative Davis of the Third district to recom- mend a postmaster to take the place of Postmaster John S. Nelson at Car- ver, Mr. Davis has the matter under advisement. The official complaint against Nelson is that he fails to an- swer official correspondence. It is alleged that he did not reply to offi- cial requests for statements as to ru- ral mail service out of his office. Oil Trust Cuts Price. Toledo, Ohio, May 6. — The Stand- ard Oil has reduced the price of crude oi] in all fields 5 cents a barrel. PUBLIC STATEMENT By a Public Official—County Treasurer of Granbury, Texas. A. A. Perkins, County Treasurer of Hood Co., Texas, says: “Years ago a severe dew! fall’ injured my kid- neys. From that time I was bothered with a chronic lame back and disordered action of the kidneys helped to make life miserable for me. A friend sug- gested my using Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I did, with the most gratifying re- sults. I made a pub- lic statement at the time, recommend- ing Doan’s Kidney Pills, and am glad to confirm that statement now.” Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Granbury, Some seem to think the 1 best evi- dence of being the salt of the earth is ability to make folks smart. ECZEMA COVERED HIM. Itching Torture Was Beyond Words— Slept Only from Sheer Exhaustion —Relieved in 24 Hours and Cured by Cuticura in a Month. “I am seventy-seven years old, and some years ago I was taken with ec- zema from head to foot. I was sick for six months and what I suffered tongue could not tell. I could not sleep day or night because of that dreadful itching; when I did sleep it was from sheer exhaustion. I was one mass of irritation; it was even in my scalp. The doctor’s medici seemed to make me worse and I was almost out of my mind. I got a set of the Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent. I used them persistently for twenty-four hours. That night I slept like an infant, the first solid night’s sleep I had had for six months. In a month I was cured. W. Harrison Smith, Mt. Kisco, N. Y., Feb. 3, 1908.” Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props. Boston It takes the world a long time to discover that bigness is not great- hess. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Reported by Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers, 910 Pioneer Press building, St. Paul, Minn: G. L. Krinke, Mazeppa, Minn., mail deliver- ing apparatus; P. O. Larson, Kellys, N. D., wire stretching and splicing device; W. F. Lenhard, Darwin, Minn., loading device; W. D. Nason, Le Roy, Minn., beet puller; N. Tschimperle, Victoria, Minn., explosive engine; W. H. Waid, Rice, Minn., strainer; J. Zelsch, St. Paul Park, Minn., corrugat- ed. metalic culvert. CROWS ON GOLF LINKS. One Fastidious Bird That Would Steal Only New Balls. The crow seems to be attracted to golf balls in a way peculiar from the rest of the bird species. In parks where the rook and the crow abound one can notice them sitting in the trees or hopping about the putting greens in the distance watching the roll of the ball with a direct or side- long glance expressive of the keenest interest and curiosity, which is soon translated into a desire to carry it off to the roost in the neighboring wood. The Kew gardens adjoin the Mid- Surrey course, and in the royal pre- serve there used to be a fairly large colony of crows nesting among the trees. Of this convoy there v one particular crow who found his great- est amusement in mingling among the golfers and in disconcerting their play by indulging in repeated predatory campaigns against their golf balls. His policy was to hover in attend- ance on those players who used new white balls only. Those on which the paint had been chipped or which had been used in play for several rounds by an economical player were always rejected by this particular bird as be ing beneath ‘his fastidious attention. NOT DRUGS Food Did It. After using laxative and cathartic medicines from childhood a case of chronic and apparently incurable con- stipation yielded to the scientific food, Grape-Nuts, in a few days. “From early childhood I suffered with such terrible constipation that I had to use laxatives continuously go- ing from one drug to another and suf- fering more or less all the time. “A prominent physician whom I con- sulted told me the muscles of the di- gestive organs were partially par- alyzed and could not perform their work without help of some kind, so I have tried at different times about every laxative and, cathartic known, but found no help that was at all per- manent. I had finally become discour- aged and had given my case up as hopeless when I began to use the pre- digested food, Grape-Nuts. “Although I had not expected this food to help my trouble, to my great surprise Grape-Nuts digested imme- diately from the first and in a few days I was convinced that this was just what my system needed. “The bowels performed their func- tions regularly and I am now com- pletely and permanently cured of this awful trouble, “Truly the power of scientific food mnst be unlimited.” “There’s a Reason.” Read “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. Lape Brh aes ele natin A new one appears from time to time. are genuine, true, and full of human interest. ALWAYS THE LATEST STYLE. Costumes Worn by Mrs. Longworth Are the Admiration of Society at the Capitol. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth still is re- garded as the best gowned woman in Washington. She has worn such an array of directoire and empire robes since the season began that it seems she spent a big part of the summer talking with dressmakers. Many of her robes show little details which are new to America. She has a gold brocade directoire which is without the least vestige of trimming save a fold of gold tissue across the low-cut neck and a similar fold edging the long yellow sleeves. The gown is ex- ceedingly straight and narrow. Around the waist is a heavy golden cord,| great sufferer from organic troubles which, descending right and left from the front panel, edges the train. Mrs. Longworth has every detail of her cos- tumes to match, so with this gown her slippers and hosiery are golden. She wears her hair dressed low on her neck, without puffs of any sort, but with a single sheaf of golden wheat. Mrs. Longworth wore to a diplomatic dinner recently a gown of peacock blue satin. The corsage was round, with a frilling of cream lace, and then the gown descended to the knee as narrow months” use of them.”’ and tight as a bolster case. The train was almost a ribbon, but the slender outlines of the former president’s daughter made this severe mode a suc: cess. Mrs. Taft’s Log of Travel. In Mrs. Taft’s tally of miles she easily outstrips the wives of all other American presidents since that his- toric day when Liberty ’bell rang out its famous message from the tower of Independence hall, says Human Life. She has seen moonlight nights on the broad waters of the Pacific from the bridge of that monster ship, the Min- nesota; she has watched the dirt fly at the big ditch down in the Panama country, and she has risked her life on the trans-Siberian railway, in that 6,000-mile dash across the sigantiq width of A’sia, which the czar planned as a spectacular affair to catch the world’s attention. She has fished in the royal lake at Oshiba, where the Taft party was quartered in one of the mikado’s pal aces during its Japanese visit; she has danced the queer native rigodon in the Philippines; over the snows of St. Petersburg she has had, fur-bundled, sleighrides such as only Russia knows; and to beguile trans-Atlantic hours she has played shuffie-board with that gold-braided gentleman, the captain, whose word is law on the liner. On practically all of the missions as a popular peace envoy, Mrs. Taft has accompanied her husband. In the matter of distance this would mean more miles than one would care to figure, for no American, outside of the navy, has ever covered so much of the earth’s surface in behalf of the government as the new president. Tafts Have Beautiful Curios. Those who delight in curios shoula get in the good graces of the new pres. ident and obtain permission to exam. ine his Philippine rugs and tapestries at leisure. Over the wide, hospitable hearth in the state dining-room of the White House, where during the Roose velt administration the famous Fif teenth century tapestry of the Ar cadian peasants used to claim atten tion, Mrs. Taft has placed an exquisite sylvan scene done by Filipino weavers The other tapestry was a_ persona! gift of Charles F. McKim to Mrs Roosevelt after the White House reno. vation, and it went to Oyster Bay with her other treasures. Many fine rugs collected in various oriental countries now adorn the White House floors and walls. Some of the Filipino rugs of woven grass with flowers, birds and landscapes surpass the best efforts of the French and Flemish in silks and worsteds. Mrs. Taft also has one oj the most complete and beautiful col lections of pima cloth table linen. Mrs Roosevelt was partial to Porto Rican napery, and she laid in a large stock Mrs. Taft fell in love with everything Philippine, and nothing else fills her needs. Outdoor Social Center for Washington. President Taft has decided to make the Marine band earn its salary and at the same time create in Washington an outdoor social center similar to the Molecon in Havana, the Lunetta in Manila, Hyde park in London, and the Court of Honor in Florence. He will have the band play twice a week on the banks of the Potomac river, at 4 point on the Speedway near the Wash. jington monument. The idea is said to be Mrs. Taft's, and many prominent Washington peo ple are expected to turn out on the days designated. In order to give the innovation an official character the president and Mrs. Taft will attend the first concert on April 14 and all sub sequent concerts while they are ir town. Was Determined to Wed. Swathed like a mummy and lying on a cot in the Punxsutawney (Pa.) hospital, James Sharkey, who a week previous fell 90 feet from a bridge, peeped with one eye from his bandages and watched the ceremony that made him a husband. Miss Bessie McLaugh lin, daughter of Justice of the Peace I. B. McLaughlin, of Somerville, was the bride. The marriage register was signed by the injured man, but he had to hold the pen between his teeth te do it, making his mark. Sharkey fell from a railroad bridge and both arms and one leg were broken, his abdomen was ripped open and his face was bruised almost beyond recognition, and one eyelid split. He did not lose con sciousness and demanded that his wed. ding nlans be carried out. ANOTHER WOMAN CURED By Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Gardiner, Maine.—“‘I have been a andasevere female weakness. The doctor said I would haye to go to the hospital for an operation, but I could not bear to think of it. I de- cided to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg- etable Compound andSanative Wash —and was entirely cured after three Mrs. S. A. Wittrams, R. F. D. No. 14, Box 39, Gardiner, Me. No woman should submit to a surgi- cal operation, which may mean death, until she has given Lydia E. 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