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Show BULGARIAN MINISTER SEES CAPTIVE MISSIONARIES. Missionaries are Well Housed, but In Danger of Losing: Reason. Ivan Molocheff, a Bulgarian cleigy-man cleigy-man from Uscub, in' Macedonia, has just arrived from visiting Miss Stone and is now in consultation with Mr. Dickinson, says a Sofia, Bulgaria, dispatch dis-patch of Wednesday. Miss Stone, he said, is in the house of Bekir Bey, in the town of Ceres, Macedonia. Mace-donia. I left her two days ago, coming com-ing direct to Mr. Dickinson to try to arrange for her release. Miss Stone and Mme. Tsilka are well, but the strain is terrific, and there is danger that Miss Stone may lose her mind. To be always in the same surroundings is likely to drive her crazy; constantly looking at the same objects has semi-mesmerized semi-mesmerized her, and she has had a presentiment that evil will befall her. The brigand chief informs me that he will now insist on the full ransom as the length of time Miss Stone has been left on his hands leaves no margins mar-gins for bargaining. The name of the brigand chief is Dervich Younouse and he is an Albanian. Alba-nian. Bekir Bey, in whose house Miss Stone is confined, is hand-in-glove with the brigand chief. Bekir Bey assisted as-sisted the brigands by keeping Miss Stone for thirty days in the mountains before taking her to his house. Theie are about 150 Macedonians imprisoned im-prisoned in connection with the Stone affair by the Turkish officials. I want no personal compensation, but I want the Macenodians released. If the American, English and French consult at Salonica insist upon Bekir Bey releasing re-leasing Miss Stone, it will not be necessary nec-essary to deal with the brigands, and we can get her release without paying ransom. |