Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 9, 1895, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. JUNE 19, "AT'LTISHED 1871, OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1895. SINGLE MESSENGER CAME T00 LATE Native Ohristian Sent the Missionaries Warning of the Impending Massacre, WAS ALL OVER ON HIS ARRIVAL In Knew rents of Took NEW YORK, Aug. 8. will print the following patehes from Foo-Chow, mob just looted the mission chapel at Ing-Hok, miles from here. Unless prompt and eff action s taken there is danger of great in other places The Chinese soldiers sent to Ku-Che protect foreign property plundered the art residence No American gunboat come here. The situation is critical. The evidence already obtiined shows that the massacre at planned at least a week beforet ign coneu's have the names of the leaders in it and of gome of the participants. An official of Foo- Chow sent 224 soldiers into that section on the 24th of July to prevent the vegetarians from murdering Chinese. The vigetarians thought the missionaries had caused the troops to be sent and decided to Kill them They began immediately to gather at certain designated places. In passing tarough the villages on their the rendezyous the vegetarians peblicly deciared thelr intention to destroy the churches and to kill the Chris tians. The local officials knew of this, but they did nothing to protect or even to warn the foreigners. The night before the massa- cre a native pastor in Ku-Cheng heard the vegetarians were golng to kil the foreigners on the morrow. He wrote a letter of warning to Mr. Stewart at Hwa-Sang, but delayed gending {t until daylight. The messenger ar rived half an hour too late. Dr. Gregory was in the city of Ku-Cheng at the time, but he was not notified. The forcigners had no sus- picion of the intended slaughter. Dr, Gregory, an American missionary who escaped from Ku-Cheng,- gives the following account of the massacre: ‘At 12:30 p. m. on Thursday, August 1, a native Chr's fan rushed into my study, saying that several of the forelgn women at Hwa-Sang, a mountain re- gort about tweive miles from the city, had been killed that morning and that two houses had been burned. Fifleen minutes later a note from Mr. Phillips confirmed this. He wrote that flve women were dead, the Stew- arts were missing and four persons were serlously wounded. He expressed the ho that [ was then.on my way to Hwa-Sang. 1 immediately went into the yamen, where hundreds of excited natives had already gath- ered, and requested the district magistrate Wong, to send some soldlers at once to pro- tect those still living “In half an hour the magistrate sent me to Hwa-Sang under an escort of about sixty goldiers, Arriving at Hwa-Sang at § p. m 1 found that nine adults, all British subjects, had been murdered and that all those stili alive at Hwa-Sang—cight only—had been more or less severely injured. INJURED BADLY MUTILATED. “The injured, except Mr. Phillips, arrived there only two or three days before and were lodging at a native house some distance from the English cottages. I delayed in The World tomorrow special dis- China A Amerlcan fitty tive has riots Huwa- W leaving Ku-Cheng owing to the fact that the coolies refused to carry our chairs, On my arrival we made the injured as comfortable as possible. Miss Cordington received a sword cut, extending from (he left angle of the mouth diagonally outward and downward seven inclies long, completely dividing the lower lip and exposing the interior maxillary bone; one on the crown three inches in length and quite down to the inner table of the skull; ono cut across the nose beneath the right’ eye five inches long and another three fnchcs long on the right side of the neck The last two were skin wounds only. ‘There wers also two contusions on the right arm and a deep punctured wound on the outside of the right thigh. Her condi- tion Is serious. Miss Mavel C. Hartford of the Methodist mission, the only American residing in Hwa- Sang-at the time, was lodged in a small native house some twenty rods from the English cottages. She was attacked by one assassin armed with a trident. She received a slight cut in the lobe of the right ear, was thrown to the ground and beaten about the lower extremiies of the body. “While the murderer was engaged in this attack a servant grappled with the assailant and during the struggle she escaped “Miss Heller remained hidden until all was over. Her nervous system sustained serious injur: “Mildred Stewart, aged 12, received a wound on the outside of the right knee joint #ix inches long, exposing the knee joint, and two punctured wounds, one on the left leg and one on the left foot. Her condition is serious, “Baby Stewart, 13 months old, has a se- vere injury to the eye, a small penetrating wound in the left trontal region, which enters the craniel cavity, and several severe bru on the head and hody. The injuries prob- ably will prove fatal.” All the wounds were apparently made by swords and spears. Of those killed ontright, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, Nellie Sannders and Lena Pillow, an Irish, nurse, were almost wholly in- cinerated in burned house, In all probability were murdered before the house burned. We found Kath- leen Stuart and Nellie Saunders lying uncon- sctous on the nursery floor and removed Baby Stewart from bencath the dead body of the nurse. Hessie Newcomb was cut on’ the left cheek and on the left, hand, probably by a gpear, and was thrown over a sleeping blauket, where they left the body. I failed to find any scrious wound on the body of Miss Stewart. I am inclined to think @ied from the shock. This opinion is tained by Miss Cordington's report to me Miss Gordon received a deep spear wound in the face, another in the netk and another in the right side of the head. “Kathlecn Stewart, 10 vears old, received veral slight wounds—and bruises about the face and ihe lower extremities. Herbert Stewart, 6 years old, received a deep wound on the right side of the neck four inches long; one on the crown, one on the hack of the head four inches long, cleaving the skull and exposing the braini a ecircular scalp wound on the left gide of the head, two and one-hulf inches in diameter; a small punctured wound In the anterior part of the chest and a stab In the neck. He died of the injuries thirty hours later on the road to Sul-Kaw. Evans Stewart, 3 years old, was in the left thigh the thoy sus- stabbed aud received sevreal bruises and scratches on the head and body. His condition 1s not serions. Topsy Saunders death was causcd by a spear wound on the right side of the head, the weapon cleaving his body. THREE BODIES IN ONP H The last three bodies were lying in one hesp. Apparently no post mortem mutilation had been attempted. This frightfal massacre was done by members of the secret soclety known as the Vegetarians, which is causing much troudle alike to Christians and heathen fn and sround Ku-Cheng. From various re- ports of those who saw (he attack, I belley about elghty men wero engaged. They were armed with spears and swords and seemed strongly organized and under one chief. The attack came like a thunderbolt out of a cleir sky, net one of the victims baving the slightest intimation of the intention te as- stult them, Thirty minutes from the time the onslaught commenced ot a single Vege- tacfan was (0 be seen near the grounds of the massacre, After urgept pleading, apd finally commanding, 1 _Wal le to leave Hwa-Sang at 8 By \ru\az(lu‘ all that AP, m. DIght I managod o reach Sul-Kaw at 8:30 oy the morpin August 3. There was the eadd:st phicedsich ever formed in China The magistrate had sent runnors to Sul-Kaw by our orders, and had impressed four na- tive boats for us. We left for Foo-Chow in the afternoon. On the morning of the 4th we met & steam launch taking the sub- prefect to Sul-Kaw, 1 boarded her and in elated on the launch tewing cur boat to eo-Cliow, it belng necessary to arrive there as soon as possible, since the effect of the extreme heat was proving serious. We were welcomed by, and our heirts were devou fully thankful to United States Consul Hixson for his prompt action and euccessf efforts in s ring and immediately dis- patching a rescuing party, the presence o which greatly relleved our fatigue and suf- ferings during the remainder of the jour- ney to Foo-Chow ‘At noon met Mr. came in a houseboat to more supplies. About 1 us and cheered us, consulate on the jetty at Foo-Chow, where Consul Hixson and a large party of friends soon had the Injured comfortably resting on clean beds, “When the question is cause of the terri massacre, one have little doubt that the Vegetarians the active perticipants, and that the local and provinelal authorities were directly im- plicated in the crimes seems certain, for the society has been strong around for two year nd is increasing. The bers have been growing bolder in their threats and acts as the months have passed. Barly in July last several hundred attacked 2 village near Ku-Cheng and killed and wounded several natives not Christians. This never punished viceroy sent Ku-Cheng a small force of 200 soldiers to assist the local authorities in settling with determined savages It was a mere farce, and the local officers were unable to dc anything, but they criminally failed to promptly demand refmforcements from the viceroy. It 18 obvious to all who looked at the matter much that the Chinese have been encouraged to take forelgners’ prop- erty in this province. Just as long as the foreign powers are satisfied with such treat- men of this wanton, barbarous destruction of life, just so long will China fail to govern her peopl 2. J. GREGORY.” STORY OF A SURVIVOR. The World will print tomorrow in a special cablegram from Shanghal, China, an account of the massacre of missionaries at Hwa-Sang, written by Miss Mabel C. Hartford, one of the survivors of the mas: e, and the only one who witnessed is, Miss Hartford's state- ment follows: “‘August 1, at we 3ibbs, who kindly meet us, bringing 30 p. m. he greeted We_arrived at the the need were, ralsed as to 30 a. m., I heard shouts. They were the yells of servants who rushed | In snouting for m tarians were coming house on the hill mission few minutes later a tezcher came to my door and ‘old me to run. I put on my clothes and rushed to the door 1 was met by man with a spear, who yelled: ‘Here is foreign woman.' He pointed the spear at my chest. I twisted it to one side and it Just grazed my ear and head. He threw me to the ground and beat me with the wooden end of the spear. A servant came and wrenched the spear away and told me to run. 1 jumped down the embankment and ran along the road A serva carge and pulled me along until T got upon the side of the hill. I then lay down there to get more breath After resting twice | reached a secluded spot and lay there. All this time th> yells went on and two houses were burned to the ground. After a while the yells stopped. I supposed the vegetarians had gone away A servant went to see how matters were, He returned in half an hour, telling me to come home; that five women of the English mission had been killed and some had been wounded, but that my house, a rented native house, had not been troubled. “I went home to find Miss Codri cut about th head and beaten all over; Mildred Stewart, 12 years old, knea cut and bleeding very hard,; Herbert Stewart, 6 years old, cut on the head and aimost dead; Baby Stewart, with one eye black nd swollen The cond Stewart girl, Kathleen, 11 years with the second boy, an, 3 years old beaten and pierced with spear, bui injured The boy vomited all thought it was from fright. BURIAL OF THE DEAD. “Mr. Phillips of the English lived in a native escaped all injury, o see the b dies of the d tarians say: ‘We have elgners.’ At first we heard that some foreigners had escaped and were hiding, but Mr. Stewart did not come and we feared the worst. Mr. Phillips went to the ruins and found eizht bodies, five not burned and three burned fo 1s not to be recognizable. Dr. Gregory ar- rived at dark and dressed the wounds of the patients. Coffins were made and the bodie were put In them. The bodies of the burned were aiso put in boxes. Another burned body was found, making nine grown people massa cred, R. G. Stewart and his wife, a nurs m Ireland called Lena, Nellle Saunders, ‘opsy Saunders of Australia, who lived in the upper house called the Stewart house, Hessie Newcombe of Ireland, Elsie Marshall and Lucy Stewart of England and Annie Gordon of Australia “The first four were burned beyond recos nition. Topsy ran out of the house and was killed outside. Hessle thrown down an embankment with her head nearly severed from her shoulders. Hannah Gordon's head also was nearly cut off. “The bodies were put in coffine and we left to get up, for the veg after tearing down belonging to the F gton much mission, house some distance away arriving in time to d and hear the vege killed all the for- who Hwa-Sang for Sui-Kow day afternoon, August 2 “Herbert died about three hours later, just below Col-Ong. We took the body in a chair and had a cofin made for it at Sui-Kow, which place we reached about 8 a. m. Sat- urday and telegraphed to Foo-Chow for a steam launch. We left Sui-Kow In native boats at 3 p. m. and on Sunday morning met a steam launch going toward Sui-Kow taking soldiers. We engaged it to tow us to Foo-Chow. Soon afterward we met the res- cuing party in a launch. The party consisted of United States marines and two English missionaries, bringing full supplies for the sufferers, “When I wa wife called on some to save me. There only one vegetariar about 4 o'clock Fri- thrown down my teacher's Hwa-Sang men around were four men there to but they would not help. She came and tried to pull me away as he was beating me. The vegetarian kicked her. When the vegetarian who beat me starte down the hill to.come ir house, ot e with him, but off after some Chinamen, so I escaped with only one pers cutor, There were about fifty vegetar but I only saw the man who attacked ne, who shouted: ‘Here is a foreign wom ““He had a trident r. Some had sw There was at at least one gun, for I b it fired. The natives say vere more “Yuo-Ung, the Ku-Cheng mag'strate, came to Hwa-Sang Friday afternoon, August with 100 soldlers. He viewed the bodies, in quired the n f all, the places of their injuries and made out an account. He did what be could to help ns to get off to Sui- Kow. “M. MABEL HARTFORD." ans. one, rds, ard MADE NO CALL ON THE NAVY YET, Petrel the Only Vessel Wh « Ascend the River, WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—The State depart ment has not called upon the secretary of the navy for war vessels to assist in protect- ing the missfons, but it is known at both departments that the Petrel on her recent voyage up the Yang-Tse assisted materially in maintaining qulet. There has been re ceived at the State department a report from Consul General Jernigan, in which he quotes from the ch fathers at Wu-Hui, saying that the arrival of the Petrel at Wu-Hul was providential, saving many lv ing anticipated trouble. Bri confirms the report and says that been for the American gunboat the foreign at Wu-Hui would have suffcred in the riots. The Petrol s the only vessel of the Asiatic squadron which can go up the river any considerable distance, the others being of too great draught. The Petrel on her last voy age went to Han-Kow, 600 miles above Shanghal. This would not bring the vessel to the fmmediate scene of the first disturb- ances, but it is believed that if a vessel were sent up the fivep gt would have a quieting elfect tipon the rlofers Acting Seéfetary McAdoo today sent for the lisy of vessels in the Astatle station, with their positions, and will consider moving them, 80 as to better protect American in- ula terests, The Detrolt {s at Shanghai, the mouth of the Yang-Tse river, but it would be useless for her to attempt to ascend (he Yang-Tse. The Petrel, the lightest of the fleet, is at Yokohama, & long distance away. There is no disposition to interfere with Ad- (Coutiaued on Becond Page) Ku-Cheng | mem- | everal | the | nglish | British Ship Oscar and an Unknown Collide in, Midocean, | BOTH VESSELS NOW ON THE BOTTOM x of the Prince Osear's Crew Drow Capsizing of o i inder Res- we Suffering, PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 8.—The ship P Oscar, from Liverpool, Captain Henderson, collided fn midocean on July 13 with an unknown sailing vessel. Both ships sank in less than ten minutes. Six members of the crew of the Prince Oscar and all on board unknown vessel were lost. The survivors, seventeen in number, were rescued nce the | by the ship Dharwar, after being confined in an open boat with neither food nor water for three days. transferred to the British steamship Capac, from Plesaqua, and brought to this port tonight The names of the lost are k, of South Shields; Osc of Christiana; E aman, of D mark; August Carton, deck boy, of Ostend; 1. Relap of Douglas, Isle of Man; J. Ander- son, steward, of Liverpool, and the entire crew of the unknown vessel. The occurred shortly after night in lititude 9:30 south, longitude west The Prince Oscar, which was from Shields, which port she left May Iquiqui, laden with coal, was clipping galt on the port tack before a brisk wind, and with | canvas set It is mated by the crew that she was making about six and a half knots an hour, when suddenly there lcomed directly under her hows a four masted vessel. The mate asserts that the stranger had no light burning, and after she was sighted it was impossible to change the course of the Prince Oscar. The fron hull of the latter struck the unknown ship full amid- ship, knocking her almost on her beam ends and crashing through the woodworks until her prow was more than balf buried. The stranger went over almost on her ends, as the Prince Oscar backe? away the rehound. As the crew of the Prince Oscar stood peering through the darkness they saw the stranger partly right herself and then rapidly sink. They listened in vain for some signs of life, but not a ery for help nor a word of command came from the swmbeken vossel. In less than four minutes from the time she was struck the stranger keeled over and plunged stern firet into the depths below. CAPTAIN THE LAST TO LEAVE Captain_Henderson of the Prince Oscar. who was below in his berth, rushed on deck just in time to discover that his ship also sinking. The pumps were mannes in less time than it takes to tell it, it discovered that there was no hope from that source. Life boats were ordered cut adrift and the men were told to jump and swim for their lives. They all went over board, and with the exception of two unfor- tunates, reached the small boats, Captain Henderson, who was the last man to leave the ship, went over in his night garme and swam fully two miles before he picked up. Both boate hovered about scene of the wreck until daylight in an effort to rescue the two missing members of the Prince Oscar's crew and any member of the crew of the stranger who might have been fortunate enough to have kept afloat. They found no one, and nothing to indicate the name, home or destination of their compan fon in misfortune. Finally they left the scene they knew not exactly where. Tweaty-four houra later a heavy sea struck the beat com- manded by Mate Lynch and capsized it. The oceupants, eight in number, were thrown into the sea, an) the already overcrowded craft commanded by Captain Henderson put quickiy to the rescue. They were successful in get ting four of the men aboard. The rest were irowned. There were now seventeen men In the small life boat, with nothing to eat, nothing to drink and barely room to stretch their limbs. Toward ev the crew ey were Willlam Knight 00 r Nilson, seaman, Peterson, & mid- 5:20 bound 27, for disaster estl- was but was was the and headed ng of the second day one of discovered a_small cask of fish ofl stowed away in the boat. This was deait out to the survivors in small doses and they used it to molsten their parched lips and tongues, Most of the men were partially naked, having had no time to secure cloth ing. For three days and nights they floated d just as they were about to abandon hcpe “they sighted the ship Dharwar, from London bound for Melbourne. They suc- cecded In attracting the atention of those on board and were soon on its decke. Four days later, in latitude 16:38 south. longitude 37:31 west, they were put aboard th» Capic, bound for this port. STRANGER SHOWED NO LIGHTS. All of the survivors still bear evidence of the sufferings they endured. Captain Hen- derson was reticent, preferring not to give the full details of the disaster until he hadl reported to British Consul Cipherton, which official will be asked to institute a naval court of inquiry and hear the full details of th disaster. * After some persuasion, how- ever, Captain Henderson said: “On the night of July 13, when the collision occurred, I had just turned in, leaving the deck in charge of the chief officer. The wind was southwest and squally and there was con- siderable sea. We were golng along possi- bly six and a half knots with everything set. The mate saw nothing of the approach- ing vessel until she was almost on top of us and he positively asserts she was without side lights. She had every stitch of canvas set and was jumping through the water at a lively rate. Consequently when both ves- sels came ‘together the crash was terrifi and ths damage was sufficient to cause hoth to go to the bottom in ten minus Not a und came from the stranger and at the expiration of five minutes the top of her masts were seen sinking beneath waters.” Captain Henderson is well advanced in years and has followed the sea since a boy, this being his first accident. - SECURED Bl HTH JUROR, yu for Durra > rters Cited 2 FRANCISCO, Aug. An elghth Juror was obtained to try Theodore Durrant for murder at the forenoon session of the superior court, He is P. F. Hooper, a lum- ber merchant, and like all his fellow jurors the community, unusually large crowd the city hall in action would be taken in the threatened contempt proceedings against cer- tain newspapers for interviewing jurors re- garding their standing in the case. After a number of veniremen had been examined one of the defendant's attorneys presented a bundle of afdavits from his elient and asked that citations be issued for the edi- tors and city editors of the Chronicle and the Examiner. The attorney also asked for further time to prepare afdavits concern- ing the action of other newspaper men who had published statements concerning jur men wh'ch he considered in contempt of court. The court stated he would consiler the matter carefully before deciding the question cf 1ssuing the citation askel for Nothing was sald concerning Jurors Browne and Nathan, who allowed themselves to be interviewed gnd iscussed the case Wit} reporters, despite the court's &xpress eim- mands’ to the contrary Attorn, Have stands high in An corridors of that scme thronged the the expectation Apply Early, The important an nent is made by President T. H Shirley of the citizens' organization that pplication for free quarters during th campment will not be received from C Army posts after August There is an abundance of room, but it is necessary that applications close at the time specified, £o that all assignments way be made and proper accommodations provided. [SAVK WITH AL 0N BOARD| "remmes British | | from Foo- | a gre | urday going at a | | himself as being certain tnat pris of an Alar ng Noture Col Ing from Varlous Parts of C LONDON, Aug 8.—~A diepateh to the Pall Mall Gazette from Shanghal says that fur- ther and reljable news of an alarming has been recelved there. It is stated that fanatical outbreaks against the Christians have occurred at Ching-Chow, a seaport of the province of Fo-Kien, and at Hu-Peh, Tal-Ping and An-Hul. These outbreaks, it is added, are not merely the work of .vege- ne, but they are sald to be organized and carried out by the Chinese officials. The extent of the damage done is not yet known, but the foreigners are reported to have es- caped Owing to the unsettled state of the prov- ince, 200 Sikhs, rellable British Indian troops from Hongkong will escort the British consul “how to Ku-Cheng sul will conduct an inquiry outzages In regard to the dispatch from Hongkong, cabled exclusively to the Assoclated press last night, announcing that the British and American missions at Fat-8han, near Car ton, were attack>d yesterday afternoon by a large and infuriated mob, which demolished into the recent the hospitals and caused some of the mission- | that | aries to flee to Shameen, it is stated the Wesleyan misston » of the most important medical missions In China at Fat- Shan. The hospital and station are the charge of Dr. Wanyon, who has Just arrived here, after a perilous overland jour- | ney, during which he was arrested in Arm nia as a_spy. The rest of the mission staff of the Wesleyan mission at Fat-Shan are Chi- nese. They were attacked a few years ago, upon which gccasion a missionary was Killed A representative of the Associated press has had an interview with Mr. W. W. Rock- hill, third assistant secretary of state of the United States, who was one of the delegates to the recent international geographical con- gress, and who returns to New York on Sat- next. Referring to the massacres in Mr Rockhill said he thought it was istake for the missionaries to have returned so soon to the outlying stations after the conclusion of tne war, especially as they had been warned of the danger of so doing. Mr. Rockhill could not say anything about what the United Stares and the Brit- ish governments might be expected to do under the clicumstances, but he expressed the diplomatic of the different countries in terested would make a common cause of such cases, as they did when the Swedish missionaries were murdered at Sang-Pu. Contnuing, Mr. Rockhill said he thought the vegetarian must be the north China ciety known as the Tsalll, who are not so much vegetarians as abstainers and non- £moke They are nelther a political nor an anti-foreign society, and, according to Mr. Rockhill, a number of the servants of the United States ministry at Peking are mem- bers of it The Chinese minister had a protracted in terview with the marquis of Salisbury today. China representative GER STEAMER WRECKED. < i th o e Night and S Drowned. W., Ang. Nty —A boat's crew of Chinese has been landed at Forster, about 100 miles north of thix port. The men report that the British stenmer Catterthun, 1,400 tons, which salled from Hong Kong on May 27, for Australian ports, was wrecked yesterday evening. The fate of the other members ofthe crew and passengers is un- known. Later in the d wreck of the Ca from Gorster. was wrecked in Hawk, early yesterday morning gale. The passengers, who nu enty persons, of whom fifty-five nese, were asleep below when the ship grounded. Only three of the Kuropean pas engers and the second mate of the steamer were saved. The others are miss ng, but it is believed to be possible that they succeeded in taking to the boats and that they were afterwards blown out to sea and may be heard from later on. A tug which h of the wreck of the thun saved some of .the passengers and crew of the \sieamship, and there is now Little doubt that sixty persons were drowned, of whom forty-six were Chinese. Second Officer Langfar, who had the watch on deck at the time of the disaster, states that the night was very dark. Suddenly the steamer experienced a terrific shock and foundered a few minutes afterward. The Chinese made a rush for the boats, but only one boat load reached the shore. The missing passengers inclade thirty women, some terthun detalls of were recelved The steamship, it the Seal Rocks, the here appears, off Cape during a ibered sev. were Chl- returned British from the amer Catter MANITOBA WILL NOT YIELD, . Uttern the nway. 8~The declaration of an eastern newspaper that if Manitoba did not obey the order to restore the Roman Catholic parochial school it wagld be whipped into subjection by force of érms, has intensi- fled the bitterness here. Tae Tribune, thc organ ot Premler Greenway, in an article headed “The Crisis Approaching.” sa ‘Manitoba will not be whipped into subjection to that ridiculous aggregation which supposes it is governing the country. On the con- trary, it proposes subjugating that aggrega- tion. Let there be no misunderstanding It the imperial privy council should at any time exceed its jurisdiction and by doing so should injuriously affect the interests of Mani- toba, this province may be counted upon to question its jurisdiction. Manitoba is a truly loyal and 5ot a mock loyal community True loyalty is not unreasoning subservienc: and true loyalty 1s not incompatible with re sistance to the oppressive or coercive re- striction or deprivation of constitutional right TURKEY Organ of WINNIPEG, Aug. Sti rope with I CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug The grand vizier is again reported to have recently signed, owing to the opposition of the palace to the proposals of the pow which pro- posals Sald Pasha favors. The sultan, it is stated, has not accepted hls resignatio. Advices received hére from Moosh say that the Turkish authorities are plicing obs in the way of the distribution of relief by the Armenian committee and it expected that the funds collected for the succor of suffering Armentans will be placed in the hands of the Ameriean wissionairies. Co ed the Insurgents to Fly. HAVA Aug. §.—Lieutenant Colonel Cebado has had an encewnter with a band of insurgents commanded by Matazas and oblige them to seek refuze among the hills. The fight took place near Clenga, province of Matanzas. Th: insurgents left five dead upon the field. ‘Their loss in wounded is not known. After the skirmish ome of the insur- gents surrendered to the troops. Two sol- diers were seriously wounded during the fight. Captain insurgent Sultan Ronet has had a brush with an band, led by Cantero, in the di rict of Trinidad. On the insurgent three men were killsd and two we tured by the troops. On the government side only two soldlers were wounded MADRID, Aug. 8.—Premier Canovas del Castillo in an interview today said that the Spanish government was_prepared to dis patch 25000 troops to Cuba If necessary adding that the rebellion would be crushéd before the end bf th ar Ax n ROME Hgrims Leave Rome. Aug. 8.—The American pilgrims have gone to Naples, from which port will embark on Sunday next for Marsellles Rt. Rev. M. F. Burke, bishop of St. Joseph, Mo., has left this elty for Perugia, Central Italy, and from there he will 2o to Switzer land » ent for Ge QUEBEC, Aug, . Chicago Tribune is here t behalf of the Sons of t statue to General Montgomery as near as ;'nl:lblr to the spot below the clilf where he e they enl Isabs) Montgomery. Garrison of the select a site on where the con- | under further, | Revolution for a | rEFFORT COST HIM HIS LIFE Associate Justioe Jackson Dies Suddenly at His Tennessee Home, | WORK OVERTAXED HIS STRENGTH | r Rallied | from of Hearing, | no« e spicuous NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jackson, me court of Aug. 8.—Hon, Howell associate justice of the | the United States, died at | his residence at West Meade, six miles west | | Edmunds | supr of this city, this afterncon in the 64th | of his age of consumption | Judge Jackson had been in for the past four years, but it {In the past eight or nine progress of the family and fr on a lengthy search of health year health has only been that th failing months began to nds uneasiness. Last trip to the far west in Later he went to Thomas ville, Tenn., where it hoped the mild | and bracing climate wofild restore his one- | time vigorous constitution. The trip did him little good, and after a time he was brought home. At his old home Judge Jackson seemed to improve slightly until he went to Wash ington to sit in the second hearing of th | come tax case. He stood that trip fairly well | and after his return his Qisease | year he | w wag in- home appeared to_lose | strength rapidly. Nevertheless, Judge Jack- | son never took to his bed till last Wednes | day week. Since that time his family and | friends feared that the end was near, and his death today was not unexpected Judge Jackson was twice married, the first time to Miss Sophia Malloy, daughter ¢ David B. Malloy, a banker of Memphis, who died in 1873. To this union were born three children, as follows: Henry, William H. and Howell Jackson. Henry Jackson fe at pres ent soliciting frefght agent for the Southern rallway, with headquarters at Atlanta. W. H. Jackson fs district attorney of the Che peake & Ohlo at Cincinnati. Howell E. Jack- #on is manager of the Jackson Cotton mills at Jackeon, Tenn. In 1876 Judge Jackson married Miss Ma Harding, daughter of | General William G. Harding. Of this union { three children survive, Misses Elizabeth and Louise Jackson and Willlam H. Jackson, ir. who are in Europe. The children were at the bedside when the distinguished sufferer passed away. The news of Judge Jackson's death caused general sorrow In this where he was so well known and admired, The arrangements for the funeral have not been fully completed, but it is known that it will take place next Sunday afternoon at JUDGE JACKSO) WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. Jackson was born in 1832, 5o that he was in his 63d year at th time of his death. Justice Jackson was a classical scholar, graduated from the West Tenne college in 1848, He studied law two vears at the University of Virginia, and in Jackson, under his kinsmen, Judges A. W 0. Totten and Milton Brown. He graduated from the Lebanon law school in 1856, in which year he located in Jackson and en gaged in the practice of his profession; re moved to Memphis in 1859, where he ¢ tinued the practice of law; served on th supreme bench by appointment on two oc casions, and was once a prominent candidate for supreme judge before the nominating convention; located in Jackeon fn 1876; was elected 10 the state house of representatives in 1880, on the state credit platform; was elected to the United States senate as a democrat in 1881, and served until Aprii 12, 1886; was appointed Uwnited States cir- cuit judge by President Cleveland, and nom inated for associate justice by Presiden Harrison: was confirmed by the senat February 18, 1893, and entered upon th duties of the office March 4, 1593 s senator and justice of the supreme court Jackson had resided in Washington about eight vears. His associates here wer fined largely to his colleagues on the bench and in the senate chamber. By them he was universally esteemed as a man of high moral worth and rich intellectual attainments, as evinced in nothing 0 much as In his appointment to the supreme bench by Pres- ant Harrison and his confirmation by a re publican senate, notwithstanding he was a democrat When Ju this spring CARE! Howell Edmunds nn., April 8, Mr. fee Jackson w that he was not expected to cover the name of his successor was consid- erably speculated in. The idea was suggested by some that the president would again name Messrs. Peckham or Hornblower of New York, while if the selection fell to a man from the west Don M. Dickinson and Postmaster General Wilson were strongly spoken of as among the possibilities, while the majority were of the opinion that Secretary Carlisle could have the place if he wanted it. Mr. Carlisle would be especially eligible, as he would be appointed from the same district that the death of Justice Jackson has made vecant BUZZARD'S BAY, Mass., Aug. 8.—Tonight President Cleveland received news of the death of Justice Jackson. On learning of the fact he said: “The country will keenly feel the loss of such a prominent and able man.” 0 seriously ill NEGRO COLONISTS DESTITUTE. 1 and Clothing and Suffer~ ing from ox. Tex., Aug. A letter was re- from Jesse M. Sparks, United States dated T N gras, August § a dition amc ico, and urging | Out of AUSTIN, ceived here consul to leplorable con Mex- imediate action on the par food t have cross:d negro emigrants in of citizens to send money an Qistressed people. He says: “I the Rio Grande about 400, They are in of the state United States au who will pr for them. They clothing badly majority of them are as naked as fr This is posttively true. Let your gather up cloth for these poor men and children & send It at once. The negroes yrreon about 200 miles from here, down in the in terior of Mexico, want something to eat. We cannot get rations to them without paying duties to the Mexican government. So put up money. Send it to me and I will buy rations for them. . There are about seventy five at Torreon. They cannot get account of smalipox. Three died the cars frem Monclava.” Consul Sparks added that the barked from the train at Rio 400 starved dogs and 200 young coy wolves, which they will neither sell Kill, notwithstanding their famished c over charg thorities need and vide The people women away on teday on 400 Grande Aisem: had nor ndi for Hearing. Kan., Aug. 8.—A party of high railrod officlals left for Albuquerque today in special cars to take part In a legal bat- tle to be made Monday next. when the of the bondholders of the Atlantic & road for separate rece for that prop- erty will he party includes George R. Peck ral solieitor of the system; C. N. Sterr ral attorney of th Atlantic & Pactfic; E. D. Kenna, general at. torney of the St. Louls & San Franci wW. K. Gillette, general auditor of the Santa Fe system and Char Gleed, director of both the Santa Fe Atlantic & Pacifi companies. Santa Fe motion Pacific and Aug. S, achusetts, from Move At London New York At Liverpool ladelphia At Bremen—Arrived rk, via Southampt At New Y Arrived—Rhynel Antwerp; Lahn, from Bren from les. At Hamburg New Y s, Arrived—Pennland, from Havel, New and, frem en; Britannia, Arrived—Phoenicia, from At Amsterdam—Arrived—Edam, from New York. SPRING VALLEY TROUBLE ENDED, crs WL ek to Wil e VALLEY, I, trouble in this city seems to be at an end. Al blasts blew work this evening George Schilling, secret of the Labor bureau time among the lored people at Seatonville and came into this this evening to-attend a miners meeting. He stated at the meeting that he was here for the governor and will not leave until the trouble is settled. The miners at today's meeting readopted the resolution of yesterday. After this mecting Mr. Schil- ling held a conference with General Manag r Dalzell, and it was agreed to start the mines in the morning. Mayor Delmagro today swore in fifty conservators of the peace to be ready in an emergency. In all likelihood Dalzell will bring in the exiled negroes morrow and set them to work. The mayor says he will pratect them, J. 8. Buckner of Chicago, the colored legislator, announced in Springfield Tucsday night that the bodies of thirty-four of his people had been found in the woods around here. He arrived today from Seatonville Soon after he sent a message to the governor saying: “You must send troops here at onc The mayor wiil not furnish any safe protec- tion to colored people and they demand that you take the matter in hand.” Mayor Delmagro fssued a proclamation this afternoon calling on the citizens to co- operate in maintaining law and order, par- ticularly after the return of the negroes When the mayor heard of Buckner to the governor he wired stand you have been telegraphed Such a step is not necessary. There been no disturbance here since Sunday Colored people who were driven out have been assured that if they return they will be pratected. They are yet at Seatonville. Con- servators of the peace are adequate for their protection, and are held in readiness, walting for their return. We assure you that if they return they will not be molested, now that we have sufficient force to protect them Mr. Schilling said tonlght that the troops were not needed, and he would the governor. Representative Buckner pressed himself la night as satisfied with the turn affairs had taken . CONVENTION 1IN A me rotee SPRING Aug. §.—~The for State spent some city message We under~ for troops. has last, ex- DEADLOCK. Mixxissippl Democeats Have n Hard Time Completing © Tieket. JACKSON, Mi Aug. 8.—Representative hall presented a lively scene this morning before 9 o'clock. Over 1,000 delegates were on hand, working like beavers. The seekers after the remaining offices seemed to preciate the fact that they were on the home stretch, and were conquest Speculation wa ap- entering ready for rife as to what had been done during the hours intervening between last night's adjournment at 11 o'clock and the hour of meeting this worning. It was rumored that Thomas Hudson, one of the candidates for attorney general, would with- draw early in the balloting in favor of John ston, but the rumor could not be confirmed prior to the meeting time. Combinations of all sorts and for all offices were hinted at Senator George chairman of the conven tion, rapped at 9:15 a. m., and announced that the order of business was the continu ation of the balloting for attorney general, which was then taken up The deadlock on attorney general was broken after nine ballots had been taken by the withdrawal of Mr. Trotter's name. when his supporters flocked to Nash, and when Johnston's friends saw the battle was lost they withdrew his name also. The nom- ination of Wiley N. Nash for attorney gen eral was then made unanimous. A. A. Kineannon of Lauderdale was then nomfnated for superintendent of education and the convention adfourned till 8 p. m. The convention nominated E. W. Brown of Copah county for clerk of the supreme court Afier the nomination of J. M. f Lee for land commissioner, Adams for revenue agent, the convention al journed until evening, when became & leadlock on the nominations for three rail- road commissioners. At th's hour, 12 m., nine ballc been tak looks as though the convention iroughout the night. At 1:40 a. m. th broken and the 2. m. tomorrow Simonton and Wirt have would deadlock remained un convention adjourned until 9 CROOK KILLED BY THE CARS, Who Was with Him at the Time, Arrested by the Police. TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 8.—Charley La Blanche, aged about 2§ dead in the cit and his brother, six vears his junior, is In jail, under peculiar cir- The men yesterday attempted to steal a ride on a Rock Island passenger train but were scared off. Charley fell under the wheels and was killed and his brother es- caped to the outekirts of town. Jones the younger was arrested today on suspicion of being a crook, burglars’ tools, etc., having been found on the person of the dead brother The former was also found to be heavily armed and the police later practically identi- fied the two as leaders of a bold gang of safe blowers that has been operating with success in Kansas and western Missouri for several months. Today when confronted by the dead body of his brother young Jones threw up his hands dramatically and exclaimed: “Great God, I wonder If he's in hell?” Then he sat down on the side of the marble slab that held the body and eried until the officers led him away. The police are jubilant at having cor- ralled what they rt are two of the most expert and desperate robbers, against whom dozens of crimes can be placed. Hix Brother, allag vears, lies morgue, cumstances. CATHOLIC € UNION, et Shows o Balance & AN Obligations, Aug. 8.—The delegates of the Cathe otal Abstinence union wer astir early this morning. They attended the church of e Paulist fathers, where solemn requiem mass celebrated for the d ceased members of the union. The celebrant was Rev. P. J. 0'Callahan of the Pauli At the concluzion of the mass the dele- gates proceeded to Columbus hall, whe the business session was opened. A telegram of regret from Bishop Watterson of Columbus, 0., was read The treasurer’s r Preasurer's Rey After Payi NEW YORK was port showed receipts during the year amounting to $2,482, and a balance on ‘nand clear of disbursements of $866. Last year there was a deficit Reports from local unions were then re- ceived from Pittsburg, Baltimore and Boston — - Surveyors Changed DENVER, Aug. 8.—A from Victor, Colo., s excitement here tonight boundary lines, which of the valuable mine trict. Hurd and Davis finished a resurvey of site of 160 acres, the new line runuing about 200 feet from the old line. The effect of this Is to absorb a large amount of claims some already patented, lying along the west line of the townsite. The Tombigbee, how ever, has a deed from the Reynolds Cattle company, the original owners of the town site, for all mineral lands fnside of their lines whether the same is on the townsite or not The claims that sider ground wre the Tejon, War Lorena, Climax N 2 and some others. ‘There is talk among the parties affected of contesting the mineral rights in the townsite - pded n a Fight, The Knights of Labor rkers closed thelr today and tonight held a which broke up in a free-for-ali during which one man was throw flight of stairs, another was struck head with a chalr and & third was aill but killed by a mob which jumped on him. The fight was precipitated by gar ment workers who are affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and who had been invited to attend the meeting. The Knights were driven from the hall and the meeting was continued under the auspices of the rival orgauization. the Boundary, eclal to the News There is great over a change of flects large amounts property of this dis > reported to have the Lawrence town Cry Convention CHICAGO, Aug. § garment w this city convention in mass meeting fight down a on th | that th s0 report to | WHY THE LAW IS INVALID Churchill-Russell Bill Wants All gredients of a Statute, MR. GREENE ARRAIGNS THE MEASURE Ine er Argument in Yesterd Valid Acts in of it legs ase When the injunction case brought by the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners the appointees of Churchill and strain the latter from usurping functions of the board until the court could decide the controversy was called in Judge Hopewell's court yesterday morning the vacant ap= pearance, as the last few days But there were a few standbys on hand a full hour before the opening of court, anxious. to see the contestants come in on the home streteh. They inhaled Attorney Hall's and patiently glu to the benches as they had day since. uesday last Hall charged the other side with asserting unconstitutional and yet Hopewell to pass on, instead the supreme urged (hat this was. the supreme room presented compared with oratory sat done every law is refusing to ask Judge this question and asking court to pass on it. He Inconsistent €. J. Greene said that he did not want. Hall to be placed in the unfortunate position of arguing on a false assumption. “I repeat what 1 fold you at the beginning,” he added, “that we insist and propose to show that, this rotten from the foundation We willaggue on the uncoustitue tionality of the law as far sury to Justify our presence in court, Hall fnsisted that he could not get proposition through hiz head. He could understand what the gentlemen wanted argue, “We can’t giv Simeral, as a parting The court voluntecred tne inf. rmation, howe ever, that he at any rate understood the. position of the parties. EITHER SIDE SUITED HALL. Hall wanted the court to state the case as presented by the other side, when, ho. said, he would argue against i, “Right or wrong,” added Mr. Greene. “Yes, right or wrong,” answering befors. he saw what position it placed him in. This. caused a decided laugh at his cxpense. By the time C. J. Green began his ment the court room had filled and the crowd was completely jamming the alsles and approaches at the hallway. Mr. Greene said that he did not know Ne could be of greater service to the than in stating the facts in the case le up to the present suit. “In 1887, he “the legislature cnacted a taw providing for the governing of cities of the metropolitan. class, section 145 defining and regulat'ng the powers of the fire and police commission. In 1889 this section was amended and a deseriptive title given to the act, In 1801 the legislature again doctored thls sectiom of the act, changing it by injecting a politie cal quulification that the membership on the Dboard should consist of not more than two. from one political party. The last doctoring in 1805, when it was sought to. the act, but there was failure to obe the provisions of the constitution ree ing to a clear statement in the title of the previous section or act amended.” Mr. Green recited the meeting of Church. il and Russell, the governor having declined tos act with them, and the subsequent occurs rences in Omaha when the city council over rode the decree of the court. A WORD TO THE COUNCIL, “My pr ons are, first, that the ceedings by the attorney general and land commissioner in appointing the bine's board were defective, irregular, authorized and illegal. They had no right to meet as a board or organize as a board. Sefore organization they could only organize as individuals. It required the concurrent action of the#three members to organize the board “Second, that the law that appointments mignt be s, the clause should be construed as a per- mission to meet and act. It runs not only to two members, or to one, but to all, and the action of two before the organization of the board was unauthorized and the governop had a right to avall himself of the pros vistons of the law “Third, that under the law regarding com missions members of the alleged hoard have no commissions. On this proposition I can only glve such authorities and urge such reasons as I think will Justify the in= terpretation placed on the law by us and will proceed to do so at length. “Fourth, that it the court had jurisdiction to Issue a restrain'ng order against the city council, of which the city council had nos tice, then the council's act in disobeying the court's order was disobedience of the laws of the land. It Is just as obligatory on the part of the council to obey the court's rder as It is to obey the law of the land, The only distinction fs that in the one case the law of the land Is passed gencgally to apply to all citizens, and in the case of the court’s order it Is to be obeyed only by those to whom it s directed.” Therefore, though the proceedings | about through its dischedience cannot now be taken ade vantage of, the members of the Churchille Russell appointees are not qualified under the law to fill the positio “Before proceeding with t some of th been sald on the law s through. s may be necs the not to. you lot. brains,” added. that court ding sald,, pros the. come un- having provided made in thirty the discussion, B unkind things. other side, They cannot say that our clients acted {n bad faith withont charging the city council with hay ing acted g0, Nobody in fact ought to be charged with bad faitli who has a controversy and submits It to a court of competent jurise diction for a decision. That very act is the highest proof of good faith, OF the thousands: of cases that have been before your honor, was there ever one which would be considered as having been brought in bad faith when the parties came fnto court and asked for its des cision of the controversey? The act of 1857 and ail subsequent acts re= lating to the fire and police commission provide for the continuation of this same board. The board was never destroyed. The gentlemen on the other side iusist in cons founding the memb hoard with the board itself. They seem able to come prehend the difference between the stocks holders of a corporation and the corporation entity. We are here in court as a board, lawfully appointed the successor of the board formerly composed The statute defines the jurisdiction of the fire and police commission, stating that ft is responsible for the discipline and regul tion of the police force, Of what does that force consist? Of 101 members of the rolice depurtment, subdivided fnto squads and with a chief over them. 80 In the fire department, the organization is the same, there being ninety-one members n that department, subs ject 1o a chief in their turn. It Is idle to talk about there being two boards. There can only be one single lawful Board of Fire and Police Commissioners in the city of Omaha, and that board (s the board that was ablished in 1857, and has continued A0w, to the present time and which, for a yeaf has been under control of some of its mema bers, and for more than eix mouths subje ) the direction of others. Therefore, LB uestion s not whether these gentlemen o Churchill-Russell board lLave et an@ ttempted to organize, but are they in cope 1 of the'police and fire departments? Af| exe departments recognizing their authorjt the authority of the present board? No o return to the question whether the proe ceedings were brought in good faith. IR was an_impossibility for the present board wider the law to bring quo warrusto pros cgedings agalust men not qualified to fil) the office who were attempting to Al it, Thow et s I T