Show CANNIBALS EAT MISSIONARIES Ship From Friendly Islands Brings Details of Awful Fate 0 of of Christian Workers Seattle Wash The The barkentine Mary l E. E Winkelman which has Juat just arrived at l lukI ukI teo Wash Nash from the Friendly or Tonga islands in the South sea brings details of the murder murder mur mur- der tIer and eating by cannibals on Savage Say Sav age Island near the of the Rev Horatio Hopkins and his assistant assistant assistant assist assist- ant the Rev Hector Laurie McPherson son missionaries of the Presbyterian mission on February 5 5 6 While the barkentine lay at Tanga Tanga- tabu In the Tonga islands a n. canoe load of mission natives from Savage Island arrived at Eua Bun bringing new news of the Ule butchery The natives said that Hopkins and McPherson were teaching in the mission mission mission mis mis- sion building which stands on the beach in the little harbor of Savage island when of the unconverted savages howling war cries and bran bran- 1 II 11 Ul clubs and unu spears descended descended upon their quarters and took tool eVer every everyone everyone one prisoner The missionaries had abo about t twenty converts undergoing I training at the time Ume and only nine converts escaped Both missionaries were bound with thongs and were left lyIng on the beach in the tropical sun for or several hours while the savages took ook the native captives inland The cannibals on returning to too the beach each carried the missionaries on a litter itter to the crater of the extinct vol vol- r nt d MA the I limes Imes revives revives rev rev- ives ere the so- so two the themen men of vote um dElthe El d-El- the 1 iT l been heen practical H l. l uon of the senate senater BI BH and was regarded as one of t 1 oSti- oSti ir of the subdivisions of the bill The vote is generally accepted as a test of the strength of the contending contending contending con con- tending sides an and it is believed it pt presages presages pre pre- e- e sages the passage of the bill by a safe majority Of the total membership of 92 there were 28 senators who did not vote and of these four all aU Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- were absent and unpaired The They were Senators Clark of Arkansas Bankhead of Alabama McEnery 1 of Louisiana and Smith of Maryland l All the Democrats present voted for forthe forthe forthe the Cummins provision so that if the four Democrats mentioned had been present and had voted for the amendment amend amend- amendment ment the ballot in its favor would still have been less by two votes than the vote against the provision |