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Show 111 1 iiittjsaiii By SEWARD W. HOPKINS, Author of "Jck bobbins ! America," "la th Cfcioa Sea,' Hli," 'To ' On Chrs," ftl r1lt, iM, by Oentlereeo i KiOm Etc. KoBtm Ivnui Soil, CHAPTER XI. "Let ub go to the prefetto," said the monk, "and give him warning of the evil work that is planned against him The prefetto is our master. We must protect him, for he is the representative of the king. What is your name, sou?" "I am called Damon, father." 'Come with me to the prefetto. Come, traveler; I will need your evidence as well." Wondering what desperate game the monk was about to play, I lollowed him. The monk spoke a few words to the guard. A servant was summoned, and we were led into the presence of the master of all Cagliari. "Your excellency! " said the monk, by way of salutation. "Yes, Brother Michael," responded the prefetto. "You have news of importance to convey. So said the servant 1 am ready to listen." "Your excellency," said the monk, "it is my good fortune that I have become possessed of important knowledge that concerns your safety and that of the fair Signorina Uarlbtti, who is under your roof." The prefetto started. "That cursed American?" he said. "No. This time it is one of your trusted friends who is plotting against you, and who would, hut for our friends here, murder you this night and carry away the signorina for his own." "Sacre-lexclaimed the prefetto, turning pale and looking at Dambo and me with staring eyes. "Is this true? Have I a friend so false? His name! His name! I demand his name! " "Slow, your excellency. Do not be come excited," said the monk, calmly. "It is the Count di Pordino who thus plots against you." "Pordino? Impossible! He was here and drank wine with me, and We spoke of his approaching marriage to the ward of my poor brother He! Is he so bad as that? Let him enter here and my own hand shall y Blay him!" And as the enraged prefetto uttered his threat against the count I thought of the words carved in the wall of the cell in the Torre dell Elefante and in the marble of the grotto, "Henry Thor-lane- . I will avenge." The prefetto called the officer of the guard and told him the facts. The count was expected about midnight, anu it was nearly that now. "Remember," said the prefetto, as his captain was leaving. "Kill all the others, but leave the count to me!" The bells of the monastery were ringing the hour of midnight, and the darkness of a, cloudy night was over everything, when we, who stood in a waiting attitude on the front porch of the prefetto's villa, were startled by a yell that came from a coppice to the right. A shot was fired, evidently by one. of the prefetto's guards, and the flash of his rifle lighted up the grounds for an instant. And in that instant we saw the forms of men running toward the villa. suddenly some one placed lights in the windows of the villa, which threw a glare out into the night, and by this light the guards of the prefetto saw the attacking party, and formed to meet them. The villa became the scene of indescribable excitement and activity. The screams of frightened women, the servants of the household, pierced the air, and rang out in unison with the hoarse shouts of the soldiers and the cries of the attacking party. The leader of the attacking crowd was but thinly disguised. The Count dl Pordino was a tall man, and bore himself with a carriage that was too marked In character to be easily overlooked. He was not wounded in the charge, and in the glare of the lights in the windows he could be seen urging his men on. The prefetto, with a muttered curse, sprang forward, evidently to meet the count face to face. As he leaped from the porch, the Jesuit slid after him. I was about to follow, when I missed Dambo, who had been standing behind me. A rush of fear came over me. Dambo had had another purpose in coming to the villa than to warn the prefetto. He had before attempted Nita Barlotti's life he would do it again. Dropping my peddler's pack I bounded through the halls and up the stairs toward Nlta's room. in the excitement the door of Barlotti's room had been opened. I reached the upper hail just in time to see Dambo, knif.; in hand, enter her door. Then a scream, in a voice which i recognized as Nlta's, told me the villain was at his work. Panting, I plunged on, and reached the room, to see Dambo, with a knife upraised in his right hand, while his left clutched the frightened girl by the throat. Raising my club, I uttered a prayer for muscular strength. It must have been answered. Tae club descended upon the skull of Darabo, and he fell back, half stunned, the hand that had been at Nlta's throat relaxed its hold, and the knife fell from the other to the floor. "Nita!" I cried, seizing the half fainting girl, and pocking to reassure her. "You are safe! You know me! I am Wllberton, your friend!" "Slgnor Wllberton!" she gasped. "What does it mean? And what means all the noise, the shots and the cries? Are we attacked? Are they friends or foes? Is the prefetto's house in danger?" I threw aside my wig and beard to assure her of my Identity. "The villa is attacked by the Count dl Pordino." I said, "w ho seeks to take you a ay by force. But the warning was brought in time, and tbe solditrs if the prefetto are fighting off the forces of the count." Nita was now fcslde herself with grief, passion and fear. Stooping, she picked up the knife that Dambo ha4 dropped. "I will do It, Signer Wllberton," she SAii "I am no longer weak. I am a woman, but I can tight. I have been a circus performer, and cau take my own part, Let them come. I will kill the pretttto and 1 will kill the count, iut if they conquer me and 1 fail to kill them, I will plunge this, knife into my own heart rather than become the bride, the slave, of the Count di Pordino." Her eyes flashed as the spoke, her bosom rose and lell in an excess of emotion, ami the del;, ah' but muscular little fingers grasped the handle of the knife in a most determined way. Now Dambo, who had been motionless under the elects of the merciless biow 1 had ghji him. began to crawl away from tue. Springing to the window, which was shaded with heavy lace curtains, held in festoons by cord, I tore the cord away, and seizing the Italian, bound him strongly and securely, and warning him not to make any further attempt to escape, left him in a heap ou the floor. The din in and around the villa was now something awful. Sounds of rifle shots, cries, shrieks, moaus and curses reached us through the doors and windows, and I mshed out on the balcony to get a peep at the scenes of war below. .More lights had been brought. Lan- terns flashed all over the villa grounds. TIik monastery 'It d.ic", St uuisf I said, 4ca Dam! o Is This minute lying bound la Pa, bo Ma'fent's room. And In the lieu lies X;:a BarVt! in a dead faint. 1 :: whs soil .g after cognac for her, The doors are locked." "Give me the keys," he said. "1 hae a flask. I will bring the signorina round. You go below Brother Michael may wish to se you." I felt that I could trust Muterelll and handed him the keys. Then went down into the library, where tha prefetto and the Count di Pordino had heeai carried. Two broad. low couches had beer hurriedly draw n out into the center ol the library, Upon one lay the pre futto, and upon the other the Count It. was evident, even to iii Pordino. my unpractieed eyes, that both these men were dying. Physicians who had hurried to the villa, aroused by the alarm bells of the monastery, were working over them, and by the side of each stood a monk, holding a crm-illin his hand. "That is all we can do," said one. "The wounds are fatal. Neither the prefetto nor the Count di Pordino will live till daylight." The wounded men looked about them. and They were conscious, heard their doom as pronounced by the physician. Brother Michael stepped nearer to tnem, and said: "Sons, you have heard the sad words of the physician. Make your peace with God, for you will soon stand before him to be judged for your deeds on earth, and if they have been evil, for the degree of repen tance and reparation you have given. Have you, Count di Pordino, any sin or secret on your soul which you wish to confess and receive absolution and forgiveness before you go before the final and the Almighty 1 bells were clanging the The battle had bemidnight alarm. come a struggle, the forces of the prefetto essaying not only to defend the villa from attack, but to drive the invaders from the piaee, and the horde of cutthroats under the Count di Pordino still hot In the hunt for Nita Baiiotti, and whatever else of plunder they could lay their hands to. Backward and forward the clashing groups ran, shouting, shooting, stabbing, blinded by rage and passion, inflamed by the blood already spilled, destroying life where they could, fearing Judge?" The count looked at the monk feenot death themselves. To my eye it seemed as if the bly a moment aud slowly shook his Count di Pordino's bandits were gain- head. "Is there nothing? Thjnk, count, ing. And If the military failed to of your past life. Is there nothing? soon would arrive from Cagliari, all Have you ever borne false witness be up with Nita Batiotti and me. another?' Apart from the other struggling against A frightened look came Into the men two stalwart swayed combatants, to and fro in a fight to the death. count's eyes. "Ah!" softly said Brother Michael. One had worn a mask, and it had fallIs it about en off, disclosing the features of the "There is something. The other was Henry Thorlane?" Count di Pordino. The count made a sign of assent. Maligni, the prefetto of Cagliari. "The crime with which he was They were armed with knives, and as they writhed and twisted in each charged, and for which he was senwere tenced to a servile penance for twenthe knives other's grasp, and for which his estate was plunged first into one and then into ty years, the other, until it seemed as if they confiscated and turned over to your hands did he commit that crime? surely must drop dead from their "Vvas he an enemy of the prefetto?" wounds. The lips of the dying count formed Near these two struggling princithe word "No." pals in the affray stood Brother MichThe monk then turned to the preael, the Jesuit, and so silent and cold was he, amid the boiling and seething fetto. (To be continued.) of the caldron around him, that his calmness thrilled me as in another SOME AUTHORS. some great deed of valor might do. And Nita saw him, and watched the silent figure a moment In wonder, so Writers Whose Fame Rests Upon a Single Book or Quotation. distinct and apart from the entire It is one of the many odd experiscene did he seem to be. "See ences of life that, while some men in "Signor!" she whispered. that silent monk. Is he not grandly pursuit of fame write a library of calm amid all the horrors around books and die and are forgotten, other him! He is different from the others. men, under some happy inspiration, See how noble and still he is." write a single lino, poem or volume, in a whisper. and are forever ranked with the im"Yes," I replied, "That is Brother Michael a Jesuit, mortals. He saved me from the soldiers and In some cases immortality goes prison guards when I ran away, and from the modest shrinking he saved my life from a wound they of an author to claim his offspring, I have my suspicion that as in the case of the oracle who gave me. Brother Michael is one whom the pre- penned the eloquent word "Don't" ii fetto tninks is doing servile penance answer to Punch's request for advice in the monastery. Perhaps you have to those about to marry. I think heard of Henry Thorlane. Very few read Congreve nowadays, that Brother Michael is none other and fewer still could quote half a " than he in the dozen lines from any of his poems "Henry Thorlane!" and dramas; and yet to many who The cry rang out from Nita's lips have never even heard his name there with a wildness that frightened me, are few lines more familiar than the and caused the silent monk to look and misquoted, "Music toward us. hath charms to soothe the savage "Henry Thorlane!" she cried again. breast." "No, no; it cannot be Henry ThorCharles Wolfe, the Irish divine and lane. Henry Thorlane is deau! He wrote many poems of excellence, poet, " died when She reeled. Her hands went up to but only one redeems him and all his her head. With a gasp and moan, she works from obscurity, and of this few sank into my arms and lost all con- could get beyond the first line, "We buried him darkly at dead of night." I Hurriedly carried her sciousness. Thomas Gray has left one legacy into the room and placed her on the bed. Water was handy, and I bathed only from all his writings, but that is her face with it. When the fight an imperishable one his "Elegy Writshould be over, I would call for liquor ten in a Country Churchyard," the most widely quoted poem In our lanand give it to her. I stepped out on the balcony again guage. Yet those who can recite every word of it could probably not even to see how the fight was progressing. Suddenly the prefetto and his murder- give the name of a single other poem ous foe, Pordino, relaxed their hold by the same writer. and fell together. Lady Anne Barnard would have no Encouraged by this, the bandits re- place at all in the public memory if newed their attack. The villa must she had not written "Auld Robin certainly fall into their hands. Gray." Just then, by a sudden movement, DAY TURNED INTO NIGHT. the silent monk drew from his bosom a peculiar symbol and held it aloft. He spoke a few words, and I heard Extraordinary Abode Built by Eccentric Millionaire. exclamations of surprise ejaculated among the crowd of Pordino's hireAnother transformation of the Inthe terior of a family mansion resulted in lings. They swarmed around Jesuit, who spoke to them again, it an extraordinary Inversion of the plana seemed in a commanding way. oi nature. The owner, Mr. Brownjohn, Then the attacking party turned, a retired stockbroker, was determined and just when they seemed to have to turn night into day, and it cost him everything in their grasp, they filed thousands of pounds to do it. All the silently out of the place, leaving the outside windows of the house were defeated soldiers of the prefetto built up, so as to exclude every ray at this new turn that affairs of natural light, Entrance to the manhad taken. sion was by an underground passage, Bending over the fallen chiefs, the and every room had a door and winmonk felt their breasts as If to learn dow opening onto a magnificent cenwhether they were alive or dead. The tral space, which was open to the Investigation evidently satisfied him. roof. From the roof, when it was night for he turned and signaled for some outside, an Imitation sun shone forth of the house servants and soldiers to an electric glare, which filled the carry the prefetto and the count Into whole place with a light as of day. The wealthy eccentric rose at nine the house. Thoroughly bewildered now, I made o'clock each evening, and, having sure that Dambo's cords were secure, breakfasted, started on a day's routine He lunched at dragged him otit of Nita's room and of work and pleasure. Into that in which racho Mallgnl had 1 In the morning, drank a cup of tea been killed, and. locking bota doors, about 4 a. m., and dined at 7 o'clock, put the keys In my pocket and went retiring to rest about 10 and 11 a, m down to meet Brother Michael. when, by an Ingenious sliding arrangeOn the stairs I met Multerelll, who ment In the room, the bright sky and was sauntering carelessly along smokImitation sun were at once transformed Into a concave expanse of inky ing a cigarette. "You here?" I cried. "I did not see blackness, from out of which a host of false stars twinkled, and an artifiyou in the fight," "No, slgnor," he Mid. "A man who cial moon shed forth her spurious has prospects of fifty thousand lire beams. Pearson's Weekly. never risks his life In a fight with bandits. was looking for you. I Long Time In High Position. have something for you." Adjutant General Da! ton of Massa From under his Jnclet he took a chusetts, who announces his Intended box-t- he red tin box that bad been retirement, will on Jan. 1 next have taken from Pacho Maliwi. completed a twenty year occupancy of "Where did you get that?" I asked, a position which Is practically the ad"In Dambo's quarter." he faid. "It ministrative head of the state's miliseems to connect him with the murder tary establishment, Gon. Dalton was of Mallgnl." originally appointed by Gov. Dwtler. hand-to-han- ONE-LIN- 1 OF WORK A FIEND. RUSSIA FACES GRAVE DANGER Woman Bade Injured by Biack Brut at Reno. Nevada, An attempt was made to lyneh a , l.egri) about noon Friday, at boeau-.lie of was suspected Nevada, me) having tried to kill Mrs. James E. Creek buy (if s iinil'ie is a'.w a s ;i Harper, a promiiien woman of Reno, u ,i: Ket.ic ie article. who is so badly injured she cannot reThe industry, huwevef, bids fair to cover. lose inn, h (, (is jirispi it y by reason The assault upon Mr. Harper was ef stringent measures tor its sup made In tho , morning, while Mrs. liar which have been adopted reeet,t!y by the immigration bureau. per was away from home. The negro P very 'iii tig possible is being done b: entered the house, and with an ax pUt Li stop 10 it. struck the woman as she lay In the )!oS ttllO tin:..;ed for Pittsburg or Chicago ais bed with her two children. He then especially under suspicion, and every dragged her Uidy into a woodshed Creek or I'lilcui yc.imgst.r who can- j and was preparing to sever her head not give mii istactoty proof thai ho has was fright in sir le'ai'otis in this h from the body when he ol ened away by the children rushing to Toti.pt! (h p!. vied. This course pneedure on the par! of the govern- the house of a neighbor for assistance, metit is com big the "padroni" much! When help arrived the man was gone. money, and gnrt is the groaning and About, noon a strange negro Was arf.nashiitg if (colli thereat. rested by a citizen, and the sight, of The i!ep an n.ent of commerce and man taking his prisoner to the Ir.bor dees evvr thing in its power to the county jail at the iniint of a shotgun tile protect immigrants. They number caused the speedy formation of a about per mmum. at the presmob of a thousand people. A rope was ent rue of aduii.-sioi- t, ni d the children represent an important fraction secured, but a cordon of policemen surof the whole cumber. Two hundred rounded the negro and fought through tho crowd to the jail. Court was going on in the courthouse, but it was quickly adjourned and Judge Curler addressed the excited mob, counseling White Slave Traffic AUTHORITIES ARE PREPARING FOR AN OUTBREAK. lie-no- e The go enitm-iiis exlem.'ie i!s mighty hand to throttle 4 tt.o-ionbusine.-s- i which has beea ibi vi!. f r s some past under the vt ry n inof the authorttus. It is ah dustry, revived from time to ttu.e. and may be described as utilizing the immigration service br f multitude the virtual enslavement of white children of foreign IMr.i.tdge. The scheme in question h.o lens been luiown as the "padrone and, in simple terms, consists ef an arrangement by which gr'at numbers of little boys are purchased in li:.'y and Greece, and imported into this country to work as booth'''", peddlers, newspaper venders, bwyann. or what not, under the taskmasters who take from them all of their earring, giving them only in return a wretthed subsistence, and often treat tag them These children, a"er their cruelly. arrival in the "land of the. free," are oiit bought and sold with just much regard for their feelings or wishes as if they were dogs or cms. The price of a small boy in southern Italy or in Greece is from $25 to $;o. Sometimes they may be obtained for as little as $10. Children are plentiful over there, and the poverty stricken parents are not unwilling to allow their young sons to go to America a wonderful country, where, as they have heard, wages are phenomenally high and riches easily acquired. Passage on the steamship will be paid, and the cash received is so much bonus. So the buyer collects a consignment of boys without much trouble. He prefers that they shall be not more than nine or ten years of age, for reasons which will presently appear. The shipment of them Is the only difficulty, because they cannot be sent in a bunch, lest the suspicions of our immigration authorities be aroused. They have to be sent over by ones and twos, accompanying adults, to whom they usually claim relationship, and it is necessary to coach them carefully Watching Incoming Ships. in the answers they are to give to thousand of the aliens who landed on questions which are sure to be asked .these shores during the liscal year when they reach Ellis Island. If they ended June 30 were under 14 years of fail in giving the proper replies, they thorn-am- i were under age. Sixty-fivare liable to be sent back, and the C years, ami l,"i.oiu) were under 3 years. speculator loses the money he has The babies in arms alone were a mulinvested. titude. Particularly for the benefit of these last the immigration bureau has Buyers Make Trips Abroad. newly built a roof garden at Kills The importer of these human chat- Island, where the infants and their tels sometimes does his own buying, mothers are allowed to enjoy the cool a to twice once visits or year making breezes of New York bay, while wailItaly, or Greece, for that purpose. But, ing for permission to become Ameri however this part of the business may cans. be managed, the system on this side of the water is always pretty much Had a Bone to Pick. the same. The "padrone" (master), Senator Scott, of West Virginia had who owns the boys by right of pur- a bone to pick yesterday with Senator chase, either rents them out to minor Kean of New Jersey. When the busi bosses, at so much a head, or else ness of the senate was moving along own to account his work on them puts Mr. Scott, stood up. He had a nt peddling, blacking boots, or what- nicely, bill to bring to the senate's attention, ever employment may offer the befct ami was recognized by Mr. Kean, holdexpectation of profit, '.lusher- case But Setiator Hale imhe pays them their wages Scents ing tho gavel. made a privileged motion to or $i a week and provides tiem with mediately go into executive session, which left meals and lodgings, the West Virginian dangling in tiie As might be imagined, the board air. and accommodations furnished to the "Look here, Kean," ejaculated Mr. unfortunate little slaves are extremely Scott in a half undertone, as he ran wretched. The food they get barely down the aisle toward the desk, exsuffices to keep body and soul to cited in manner, "you recognized me, gether, and commonly they are obliged then turned me down to sleep on the floor, 25 or 30 of them But. the sequel of tho protest was in a room. It is not surprising that veiled in the secrets of the executive their proprietors make money rapidly. session. As the few spectators moved Many of the Italian banks in New out the doors were closed, and Mr. other and cities are York, Chicago Scott and Mr. Kean settled their difowned by men who were formerly ferences with only the senate as aa "padroni," and some of them are still audience. Washington Post. in the business. If it be asked why the boys do not Squashed Street Car Hog. run away from their masters, the "Yes," said the trolley car conducanswer is simply that most of them "we see ninny queer are so young as to need to be taken tor, meditatively, In our travels about town. sights of care of. Ignorant our institutions is no phase of human life that There and language, they do not feel able to does not manifest itself on our cars. look out for themselves amid the turYour query makes me think of an Inmoil of a city. So long as they remain cident that happened lately. The car are with the "padrone." they sure, at was crowded with late shoppers, all all events, of food to eat and a home bundles. Most of the pasheaven save the mark to go to. If carrying were women, yet all the men, sengers took affairs into their own their they were seated. That one was hands they might starve; and, be- - abut one, fellow standing crosswise of burly the car, with elbows out, reading a paper. On both sides of him were women, who were much disturbed over his position. His right elbow-waJammed hard against one woman's shoulder, and when the car lurched it hurt her. Finally, grabbing the fellow by both arms, she swung him around straight with the remark: " 'There! If you'll turn this way you will have more room and every one else, too!' Now that's what I call spunk." Brooklyn Eagle. I Spread of Strike, Backed by Socialin Conflict With Soldiers and Much Bloodshed. ists, tlab'e to j ' End ITes.-deii- b-- Advices from St. Petersburg state that the strike situation is becoming very grave. There are 58.000 men out on strike, and the movement is to the big cotton mills, spreading which employ over 60,000 operatives. Meetings have been called, at which the Socialistic Democratic leaders will use their utmost endeavors to convert the strike into a vast political demonstration, which, at the present crisis, might have most serious The authorities are developments. adopting every precaution to avoid an outbreak, but the Socialistic Democrats are spurring on the strikers, and there is great danger of a col- j for" s V V--- 1; i '.'' 4f Castle Garden end Harbor. sides, their owner might catch them and beat them. Nevertheless, when these slave children have reached the ago of 14 or 13, they usually do run away and start In business of some kind for Memory Method. Association is the vital spring of memory, and anyone who analyzes his thought pro' ess may catch himself recalling a thing by a series of allied things. Many people have tried to systematize association and arrange a scientific memory method. has discovered a A mathematician most interesting process for remembering dates. Suppose you have forgotten the year of the Norman conquest. Take the date of your birth and add to It the number of the month when you were born. Multiply the result by the day of the month your father was born. Square the result. Add six. Now divide by the cube root of the number of people In the t'nited States. Forget the result, add 1008, and you have the required date. Youth's Companion. themselves. And this Is precisely why the "padroni" prefer to purchase boys who are not over 9 or 10, and w ho may be counted on for at least three or four years of obedient service. Of course the supply has to be kept up by The Best Man at His Wedding, constant fresh Importations, and some Haskins By tho way. who was the thousands of luckless youngsters have been delivered annually on this side best man at your wedding? Willowb- y- The parson seemed to bf of the water, destined for such servifeeling the best. You see, it was all tude, for a long time past. -Where the System Thrives, Tho "padrone system" thrives much more luxuriantly In certain inland cities, especially Chicago and Pittsburg, than in Now York. Dealers in the metropolis forward the boys to the West as fast as they arrive, and, on delivery at their destinations, they aro sorted out and bought and sold like any othIn some cases the er merchandise. slave merchant, who dies a western trade, resides In New Ynrk and disposes of tho children, at many dollars apiece, wherever they may be demand for thfiu. An Ittlian or profit for him and no risk whatever Boston Transscrlpt. Plan German Theater. The 150 German societies of San Francisco are pltinrlng to erect a magt.lficent structure that will fur nlsh a theater, a large assembly hall, meeting rooms, a library, classrooms and clubrooms. Leipzig to Have Immense Station, A railway station, which it. is said w ill bo the Inrnest In the wot Id and will cost $37,r,oQ,nO", has been begun at Ilp.lg. lision with troops, which would be almost sure to be followed with red flag demonstrations, accompanied with great b!olshed. The community is full of sensational rumors and rioting is generally Tho great industrial quarexpected. ter of St. Petersburg presents the appearance of an armed camp. The idle factories are surrounded by cordons of police and patrols of infantry march about the plains. This is the first great strike in northern Russia. Hithtrto th.e workmen have been unorganized and pre vious strikes in St. Petersburg- have not involved more than 10,000 men. The strike leaders claim to have funds enough to hold out for a month, but this Is doubted, and the lack of money and tho privations of winter and perhaps government interference are expected to make the strike short and sharp. peace. The mob was finally disbanded without accomplishing their purpose. Mrs. Harper is still alive. Her skull Is fearfully crushed where she was struck by the ax and site Is lying in an unconscious IN TERROR snow-covere- condition. OF MASSACRE. Moslems Slaughter 5,000 Armenians, Including 2,771 Children. Tho state department, has made public portions of an Important report recently mads by Thomas H. Norton, American consul at Harput, Turkey, on the results of a tour of Investigation made by him, under instructions from the department, through the vilayets of Bitlis and Van, which were tho scones during several months last summer of repealed attacks upon and massacres of Armenian Christians by Jhe Kurds and other elements of the These disturbMoslem population. ances, attended by frightful atrocities and savage cruelty, resulted in death, suffering and destitution. Tho principal object of the visit was for the better protection of American and the timely arrival interests there, , it le unt.l rnnt tin t ed to f,f 1W a peaceful termination. No Americans were known to have been In STRIKE BIG OVER. YELLOW FEVER SCARE. Cotton Mill Operatives at Fall River Return to Work. The strike of the cotton mill operatives at Fall River, which affected about 25,000 persons and has been in progress for six months, to the great hardship and suffering of Fall River's people, was Beitled on Wednesday through the mediation of Governor William L. Douglas of Massachusetts. was The agreement accepted framed by tho governor, and was submitted to each sldo by him when the parties met. After some dis cussion in separate rooms the com- mitteos returned to the governor's of fice and announced their acceptance of the proposition. Tine mills affocted by tho strike have a combined capital of 25,000,000, and have 2,300 spindles, During the months the mills were shut down the operatives lost nearly $150,000 weekly and the cor- Cases on Isthmus May Cause Exodus of Canal Builders. Unofficial advices received In Washington from representatives of the government In tho Panama canal zone, dated at the end of tho first week in January, are to the effect that while the current reports of the prevalence of yellow fever on the Isthmus are exaggerated, the pest docs exist there and some apreheiision is expressed that if It continues to spread there will be a wholesale exodus of the canal builders. Tho eases so fiir developed are said to have probably been preventable had proper precautions been adopted. But the large Influx of people of the north, unacquainted with tropical climatic dangers, and tho best means to avoid them., undoubtedly has afforded great opportunity for tho spread ol yoflow fever. The American woman particularly are said to be careless, and they don the lightest white muslin shirtwaists, in the evening and are almost surely bitten by the poisonous mosquito. Dr. Enimett Perdue, head physician, of tho North American Copper company at lncampment, Wyo., was shot and killed at the homo of F. M. , three miles 'jcakcy, hi3 southwest of Richmond, Mo., on Wednesday, Dr. Perdue's wife will be held temporarily, but she was allowed to romain at her father's home last night. After six years of married life Mrs. Perdue left her husband two years ago. Recently she and her husband became reconciled to each other and last week they came to the home of her parents together. They intended to leave for Wyoming together. Mrs. Perdue refused to testify before the coroner's jury, and the members of her family would give no testimony. Mr. Perdue wao shot, apparently, through the back of his head as he slept. Mr. Perdue carried & life Insurance policy in the name of his wife. NTro-t,-- jured Dr. Norton says Mush virtually is an armed camp, which Armenians are (n constant terror. He estimates in the Sasstm district 5,000 lives wero lost in last, summer's massacres, including 2,771 children. Few fever-bearin- porations about $23,000. The aggro- gate direct losses to all interests up to today are estimated as fully $5,000,-00Killed as He Slept father-in-law- FIVE DEATHS Army Appropriation Bill Passed. The house of representatives on Fl-tiapassed Iho army appropriation bill, after voting by a large majority to incorporate In it an amendment providing that hereafter retired army officers assigned to the militia of the several states shall not receive any pay or allowance additional to their pay as retired officers, where such pay y and allowances exceed those of a The Indian appropriation bill was considered for the remainder of tho day, but was not concluded when the house adjourned. major. To Save Son From Disgrace. John Martin Spyer. a circus formerly of New Orleans, who killed his young son while showing in Kansas City two yes.rs ago, litis been found guilty of mnri'er in the first degree. Officers bad gone to the circus tent to serve a wurrant upon Speyer, charging him with nssmilting a young girl, and a mob threatened to lynch him, when he broke away, cut his child's throat with a razor and then tried to commit suicide. Speyer said he killed the boy to save him from dis- grace. Weds and Robs Sisters. Jobann Hock, who married his n-law, Mrs. Emily Fisher, two days after bis wire died, and who Is alleged to have disappeared two days subsequent to -his second wedding, after getting $7,- of his second wife's money, is sought by the police of Chicago, The coroner and police have taken tip the question of exhuming the body of the first wife, ilocli married two sisters within a month, securing his llrst wife through an advertisement. She died within three days after her sister-i- IN FLOOD. Tragic Results of Heavy Rains In Becoming Known. Information comes from Clifton, Ariz., that Ave bodies have been relast covered since the flood there week, and that others pre still entangled with the drift. But two of the five bodies already recovered have been Identified. They aro John Hunt and Jesus Romeo, Persons are hourly reported as missing, and it is impossible to determine how many perished In the flood. Arizona Threw Wife Out of Doors. Tho death of Mrs. John Jnson, who was found for the second time within a few hours lying In the street before her bom? in Chicago, Is being Investigated by the police. The woman's husband has been arrested, pending tbe outcome of the inquiry. Two pedestrians found the woman the firs! time and carried hor Into her home. Johnson, the husband. Is alleged to have said: "Throw her out I don't Not long afterward want her passcrstiy found her in the strocL ." Judge Hargis In Feud. F. Byrd attorney for the ton monwealth In the case against Bll! Britton for (he alleged assassinatlos of James Cockrell at Jackson, Ky., is the feudal war, in his opening of th case, made the sensational statemont that he would prove that Judge Har gis sat In the window of his fitori with a rifle In his hand prepared U shoot at the time Britton and Ourtl' Jett are alleged to have killed Cock roll. This Is the first tlmo tbe nam" of Hargis has been used as an actus participant In any of tbe Jacklot A. eudal killings. marriage. LafoHette for Senator. been Republican caucus has called for the purpose of nominating a candidate to succeed United States Senator Quartos of Wisconsin. Forty-siout. of fortvcl;;ht administration, ,or Lnfolblte supporters, members ol the assembly, hnvp pledged themselves to vote In the caucus until a t senator shall be nominated and to an adjournment without a nomination. Thev will Vote for Governor iUtfolletto. This setUm. It is sMd. assures the election of the A pro-ven- prac-Jlcall- I Woman Admits Election Frauds. In a deposition by Mrs. Blanch Shaw, presented lu a hearing In the district court In Pueblo. Colo., In the election fraud cases. Mrs. Shaw that she Assisted Chief of Detectives B. H. Wilsoti In making out dozens of fraudulent registration sheets, ami bud received pay from him for so doing, Mrs. Shaw has been In custody since th Rrand Jury ber-afrauds, Investigating election nd tbe deposition was taken In order to allow her freedom. There ara other Indictments against twenty-ninWllsoo. e |