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Show CRUELTONEGROES Kidnapped and Driv.en in a Bunch Like Cattle. FROST IN WISCONSIN. Minnesota Milita Waiting, Ready for a Fight Heartrending Accident in a Mine in Butte, Mont. Another Tale of Horror Hor-ror Prom Armenia. Little Rock, Ark,, May 12. Reports Re-ports have reached here from Ouachita county, Arkansae, of the wholesale kidnapping of negroes by farmers living liv-ing adjacent to the Arkansas line who needed farm laborers. When laborers were needed, they crossed into Arkan-sea, Arkan-sea, selected the negroes they wanted and took them to Louisiana by force. Minilar reports have reached here from Union and other counties on the Louisiana border. A dispatch from Eldorado says Judge Smith of Ouachita county, has convened a special grand jury to investigate in-vestigate the recent outrages of this character. In some cases the kidnappers kidnap-pers have been seen driving before them like so many eheep a bunch of negroes with their arrrs pinioned and tied together. READY FOR A BOW. Dulutii, Minn., May 12 Duluth is in battle array tonight, nearly all of the various military companies being at the armory waiting to see what will i e the outcome of the disturbance at the Franklin mine, at Virginia, where the employes went on a strike for an advance ii. wages. Adjutant General Mablb rg arrived in the city tonight aud w iiit to the hotel, where he met Sheriff Buchart and representatives of the mining company. The adjutant general was not dispjsed to favor the sending of troops to the scene of disturbance, dis-turbance, as he did not consider that there was any real danger, but the mining company's officials asserted that unless a show of arms was made the ttrikers, who are mainly Finland-ers, Finland-ers, Poles and Hungarians, would be-! come demonstrative and interfere more seriously than they yet have. At 12 o'clock Adjutant General Mahlberg declined to send the troops, but the militiamen are still under arms, A MINE ACCIDENT. Butte, Mont., May 12. A. D. McDonald, Mc-Donald, aged 42, and James Mabrinto, aged 28, miners in the Rams, were crushed to death In the shaft of the mine at 3 o'clock thiB morning, While cuming up from the bottom of the cage Mabrinto fainted, and in falling, it is supposed, he dragged McDanaH with him. Both bodies were dragged up' along the timbers ana Mabrinto's body was torn in many parts, the fragments falling to the bottom of the i ehaft. McDonald was also horribly mangled and wedged between the I cage and shaft. William B.iwen, another an-other miner, wras thrown against the sides of the shaft by the jar of the cage, and had his right leg fractured. Mabrinto was a single man, and came to Butte from Nevada a short time ago. McDonald was married and had five small children. EXTENSIVE FROST AREA. Chicago. May 12. The weather bureau bu-reau in a report of frosts last night says: The frost area reported this morning morn-ing is unusually extensive and severe for this time of year, frost having occurred oc-curred this morning in all of the fifteen fif-teen states for which it was forecasted Saturoay. In the peach belt of Michigan, Mich-igan, the cranberry marshes of Wisconsin, Wis-consin, temperatures below freezing occurred, and the freeze was of a killing kil-ling nature. Frost of more or less severity occurred oc-curred throughout the states of the np-per np-per lake region and the upper Missis sippi valley, on the east slope of the Rocky mountains and in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. In these states the temperature will rise considerably tonight. A TAL'i OF HORROR. ' New York. May 12. Crinor Manas-eian Manas-eian has arrived in this city from Marseilles Mar-seilles accompanied by his wife and child. The facts concerning Manas-aian'a Manas-aian'a arrest and imprisonment in Turkey Tur-key were published some time ago. His deposition cooncerning the treatment treat-ment he received at the hands of the Turkish government will this week be presented to the department of state at Washington. Mr. Manaesian who is of Armenian birth, became an American citizen in 1893, after a residence resi-dence of Eeven years in the United StateB. Mr. Manassian's statement is as follows: fol-lows: i left New YorK in July, 1893, and went to my native town of Takai Turkey. "In September the vali (governor general) carre to Tokai. I applied to him about my passports, but he said, 'You should not have become an American Amer-ican citizen ' "Three days after, Sunday, late in the evening, seven Turkish soldieis came into the house where I was with mv wife and child, and in spite of my protests that I was an American citizen, citi-zen, thev compelled me to go with them, saying that the ali wanted me. They took me to prison. The next morning they put me in chains and manacles, ar d an iron around the neck together with two murderers, in a dungeon, and then sent we in a cart to Amasia. Jb'rom Amasia to Neva they made me walk in chains with the murderers Ave days, making me sleep at night in dungeons in chain. They brought me out occasionally to ack me if I still persisted in remaining an American citizen, and when I said I did, they took me back to jail. At the end of two weeks I was sent as a prhroner to Constantinople, in a Turkish steamer, and upon arrival pat in prison. The next day Minister Terrell was informed, in-formed, and I was released. "With much suffering, I managed to borrow money, and reached Marseilles. Our consul at Marseilles gave me to understand that they had an order not to protect American citizers who were born Armenians. Is such a thing pos-si pos-si J Who i3 our government afraid of |