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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-09
In Danger of Starving.

LONDON, Dec. 8.-The Marquis of
Salisbury has written to the treasurer
of the Armenian relief fund to the eff
feet that the consul at Moosh through
the British ambassador Sir Philip Cur
RE, reports that the Armenians of the
Bitlis district are in danger of starv-
ing. The treasurer has forwarded 1000
pounds for Bitlis, Kharpoot, Erzeroum,
Mardin and Trebizond.
The Daily News correspondent at
Constantinople in a dispatch to that
paper says:
1t is probable that as a result of ne
gotiations Said Pasha will voluntarily
quit the British embassy. Lord Sails
bury has telegraphed his approval Of
Sir Philip Currie's conduct. Meantime
the gates of the embassy are closed
and the force which was landed from
the ambassadors yacht Imogene pa
trolls the ground.
Russia's hesitation has ceased. 1t is
currently reported that NJ. Neildorff,
the Russian ambassador, today gave
the sultan the cars message, insisting
upon the entry of the guardships
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FINEST IN THE WORLD.
New Quarters of the Postal Tele-
graph Company in Chicago.

graph Company in ChicaE go.
CHICAGO, Dec. S.-What is said to
be the finest equipped telegraph Of
flee in the world was put into active
service for the first time today. 1t is
the new quarters of the Postal Tele-
graph Gable company, lncated on the
first and thirteenth floors of the new
Chicago stock exchange building, cor
ner of La Sale and Washington
streets, directly across from the city
hall and the chamber of commerce
building. The operating department
and the executive offices occupy the
entire top floor of the building. The
operating department has 5000 feet of
floor space, with space provided to
double the capacity in the future. The
fixtures are in cherry, with marble and
aluminium also generously. Each of
the operators desks has accommoda-
ton for eight typeWrfters, pen and
pencil being banished by the machine.
The new general office is the center
for 100 branch offices throughout the
city. The wires to these branches, as
we'll as to the hundreds of offices in
other cities and towns, were cut today
and the thousands of new connections
made; but so perfect were the PANS
for the transfer that not the slightest
interruption of business took place.
Every bit of appara tus now utilized in
the new office is brand new and of the
most approved designs, some of it en-
bodying appliances now used for the
first time.
One Of the special features is the
electric lighting arrangement Not a
shadow is possible on any of the tables
the lighting being of a unique ov err
head kind, doing away with the neces-
sity of lights attached to the tables
and preventing the annoying glare
usual on typewriter keys The whole
effect is practically that of the bright
est daylight.
Two hundred and fifty miles of wire
compose the new cables pulled in the
underground conduits built to connect
the terminal-room in the basement Of
the board of trade building with the
cables in the main conduits running
east and south. From the board of
trade terminal-room in the basement
of the Chicago stock exchange the con-
Quits afford space for many large 125-
wire cables, with an aggregate mileage
of 551 6-10 miles. 1t was necessary to
put in other cables, ranging from ten
to sixty conductors, in other conduits.
equal to more than $50 miles of wire.
There are more than LOO miles of
wire in the Postal cables connecting
its new office with the Union stock
yards, where it's pole lines begin. The
transfer was made under the general
direction of Assistant General Superin-
tendent e. J. Nally. ]. F. Butterfield.
assistant electrical engineer of Chi
cago, under the supervision of F. w.
Jones, electrical engineer of New York.
planned and carried out the many de-
tails of the many mechanical and cleo
trical features which contribute to TIE
excellence of this most complete of
modern telegraph offices.
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THE STRATHNLyIS.
Search for the Disabled Steamship
Will Be Vigorously Prosecuted,

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Dec. 81
Search for the disabled steamship StratE-
nevis will be prosecuted by the Oriental
steamer Tacoma, which sailed westward
from Victoria today. In a few days two
or three tugs will be sent out a. couple
Of hundred miles to await her appear
ance.
For the past three weeks series of
southerly gales have been expert Anced
for a thousand miles west of Cape Flat
terry. Captain Hooper of the revenue
marine service, who is thoroughly ac-
duainted with the ocean currents of
that locality, ventures the opinion that
the Strathnevis is too far WestW2 ri 10
feel the upward coast current which
sets in against Vancouver island and the
southeast coast of Alaska. However
southerly gales would naturally create
a northern current. If she possesses anp
steam propelling power at all, which to-
gether with limited sail area, she has,
added Captain Hooper, it would doubt
iessly enable her to approach near
enough to Cape Flattery to se:ure the
assistance of a tug.
Shipping men say it would ~a1uila a
large steamship of almost her own size
to be of any material use il towing
against a head wind. The steamer is
heavily loaded. cumbersome and would
be awkward to handle in rough weather
No real alarm for the vessels safety is
unprecedented by experienced naviga tors,
and they believe that she will reach port
by the end Of the week.
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BUBBLING OVER.
Venezuelan Patriots Preparing for
Defense.


WASHINGTON, Dec. Sword comes
from Venezuela as to the excitement
and patriotic enthusiasm over the
boundary controversy with England.
AT Puerto Cabello a meeting has been
held and subscriptions opened for the
purchase of a torpedo boat for the de-
Tense of the harbor. AT the city or
Bolivia another subscription is being
received, citizens of all parts OF the
republic agreeing to contribute a
stated sum weekly.
At Caracas, the capital of Venezuela,
a convention is to be held to consider
the question of defense. In the big
street parade, which will be a feature
of the meeting, each state delegation
will carry the coat of arms of the
state, and at the head Of the para de
the coat of arms of Venezuela will be
borne.
The movement was started by the
Central society for the propagation Of
the defense of Venezuelan territory.
but has apparently secured official ap-
prevail. as members of President
Crespo's cabinet and the governors os
the several states give it full endorse
ment
The minister of the interior has
written a letter congratulating the pro-
motors of the movement on their pa
triotism. but adding that there should
be calmness and wisdom in the steps
taken
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casions, but their whereabouts and the
location of their arms and ammunition
which they had buried were betrayed
by someone who knew the camp. H.
NJ. Sullivan, a young Mississippian who
had been appointed as captain of the
artillery, deserted from the camp the
latter part of last week All the NUM-
tlons were then removed, owing to Sui
Hvan's movements. Shortly after his
disappearance, the Spanish consul at
Key West was informed and cutters
left Tampa and the Key West stimuli
taneously for Cape Sable, where the
camp had been. The searching party
found nothing, although they went di-
rectly to the spot where the arms had
been buried.
The camp had already been broken
up and all the munitions hidden. The
Cubans believe Sullivan was a tt aitor
and Should he be caught the Cubans
will have little respect for his comfort
or safety.
Six of the party arrived here tonight
from Key West. The Cu5ans are jubi-
liant, however, over the fact that moth
ing was captured.
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Gomez and MaceO,
NEW YORK, Dec. "a special to the
World from Havana, Cuba, says:

NEW YORK, Dec. "a special to the
World from Havana, Cuba, says:
Maimo Gomez and Antonio Maceo
have crossed the border into Santa
Clara province at a point near Las
LaJltas. They have a large force both
OF horse and foot
They struck the road between Iguar-
ra and Juguasco and waylaid a train
OF 200 mules laden with provisions and
conveyed by 400 infantry under COM
mand of Colonel Seguerro. The insur-
gents full force-not less than 4,O00-en-
deaVored as usual to disable the pack
animals so as to obtain the supplies
The insurgents attacked Colonel Sc
guerra from all sides. He formed a
square and forced his way through the
insurSent lines He left nine dead on
the field. He must have had many
wounded. The insurgent loss is put at
seventy. A part of the convoy was
saved but the killed and badly wound
ed animals fell into the hands of the in
surgents.
1t is unofflcially reported here that
Gomez. and Maceo will try to Elove in
the direction of Rededios with their
mounted followers, while most of their
following will endeavor to proceed to-
wards the Trinidad mountains under
Serafino Sanchez Rabi and Quintan
Bandera.
1t is stated that the members of the
insurgent government as now organ
lied remain in the western portion of
Puerto Principe province.
Unless the insurgents succeed in evad-
ing the numerous Spanish columns in
that vicinity there will be important
news soon. Communication with San
ii Spiritus, the military headquarters
Of the district, is infrequent. There is
no telegraph or railway in this section.
The whole country is covered with for
ests through which runs paths or apol-
ogies for roads.
General Campos is i'll from overwork.
Brigadier General Bazan, sent to
Spain by General Campos, returned to-
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To Aid Insurgents.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. S.-A special to the
Republic from New York, says:
A syndicate Of American capitalists
has been formed in this city to aid the
Cuban insurgents. To Marquis de Santa
Lucia, president of the provisional re-
public, a representative of the syndi-
cate has made proposition to loan the
Cuban republic SIS 100000 contingent
on the recognition of belligerency by
the United States government In eX-
change the syndicate will accept $45.-
100000 in Cuban bonds the same to be
cancelled from customs receipts inn
mediately on the recognition by Spain
of the Cuban republic, or a declaration
OF peace. The syndicate stipulates
that $10,0O0,000 be expended in the pur-
chase of two modern war vessels and
munitions of war; that these vessels
shall Immediately proceed to capture
and hold, in conjunction with the land
forces, some Cuban port and that they
with the assistance of other men-of-
war, whose purchase later may be
deemed advisable, shall prey on Span
lsh commerce and assume an aggres-
i've policy which will bring this war to
an early end
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THE ELKINS DINNER.
Many Prominent Politicians of the
Party Present.


WASHINGTON, Dec S.-Senator Ell
kins gave dinner tonight to a num-
Der of members of the Republican ma
tional committee. There were also
present several other prominent poll
ticianS of the party. Among others
were: Chairman Carter, j. S. Clark
son, of Iowa; j. H. Manley, of Maine;
Powell Clayton, of Arkansas; William
J. Campbell, of Illinois, G. A. Hobart,
of New Jersey; Samuel Fessenden, of
Connecticut, and Senator Quay, Of
Pennsylvania.
While no particular object was
stated for the gathering. it is known
the meeting developed into a. discussion
of party policy and what was the best
to be done during the next campaign,
or rather, preliminary to the campaign.
1t was not intended that the meeting
should be in the interest of any candi-
date and, in fact, among the gentle
men present there were friends of all
candidates. Chairman Carter took oc-
casion to say that he did not think it
wise for the Republicans to be con-
fident. Although it was present that
victory was in the air, he said, there
were reasons why it was not well to
be optimistic to a degree of careless
ness. Tie The grave
before the country might we'll cause
the Republicans to pause and reflect
The president had placed himself
squarely in favor of retiring the credit
money Of the country. 1t was possible
the financial centers of the country
agreed with him. There was no doubt
that a course of that kind would make
Populistic votes. Mr. Carter called at
tention to what he styled the remark
able growth Of the Populist vote He
said it had increased 24O per cent dur
ing the past three years. This great
growth had not been developed in the
legislature since the 1892 Congress, but
the vote in the different elections
showed populist increase which it
was well for the Republicans to take
into considerable
Mr.. Carter was charged with being a.
pessimist and different members of the
committee said that with a platform
enunciating straight Republican prin-
ciples there could be no doubt of vic
tory with any of the excellent men
who were mentioned for the nomina-
ton of the head of the ticket"
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WITHOUT WARNING.
ENGINE LEAVES THE TRACK AND
CAUSES DEATH
Conductor and Fireman Leap for
Their Lives and Made Good Their
Escape-Three Men Killed and
Two Badly Injured.

NEW YORK, Dec. S.-Three men
were killed and two injured in a rail-
road wreck today on the New York G.
New Haven railroad IN Harlem. The
killed are:
Thomas Fitzgerald, engineer, IS
frederick Naples, 40 years old,
Thomas C. McNally. 40 years old.
brakeman.
Injured:
Thomas Damon, conductor, cut and
scalded.
Thomas McKeon, fireman, cut and
scalded.
All of the killed and injured were
residents of this city. The accident oc-
CURED between One Hundred and
Thirty-second and One Hundred and
Thirty-third streets. The engine was
used as a switch engine and was bound
east to Vannest station, with its crew
of five men. The accident occurred at
a short curve and no explanation of
what was responsible for the trouble
could be ascertained. Everything was
in its proper shape apparently and the
engine and its tender were proceeding
along at the usual speed when, with
out any warning, the engine left the
track ana went pumping along over
the ties Bannon, the conductor, and
McKeon, the fireman, leaped for their
lives at the moment the engine top
pied and fell over across the west.
bound track, before the others Of the
crew were able to save themselves.
Police and fire alarms were at once
turned in. The firemen went to work
with their axes to cut away all the
wood work of the cab, and in that way
were able to take out the bodies Of
Fitzgerald and Naples.
The body of McNally, however, was
under the boiler, and the firemen were
not able to release it. A wreclSing
crew was sent for from the companys
yard, and the work of lifting up the
engine was begun. The engine was at
last raised and McNally's body re-
moved. All the bodies were crushed
and scalded, death evidently having
been instantaneous. Fitzgerald's head
protruded through the window of the
engine cab and he was sitting on his
seat at his duty when the accident
happened.
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GREAT Is THEIR JOY.
Arrangements Being Made for. the
4 Inauguration of Governor-EIect
~ bradley.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. S-Arange-
ments for the Inauguration of Governor
elect Bradley at Frankfort on Tuesday
are rapidly nearing completion. 1t is the
1lrSt opportunity the Republicans of this
state ever had for the management of
such an affair and the indications are
that they intend to 10 the occasion full
Justice. The Inauguration Of a Repub-
lican governor in Kentucky is a record
breaking event to start with and the
preparations are sufficiently elaborate TO
be in keeping with the Importance of the
occasion. The parade will, of course. be
the feature OF the day. General d. w.
Lindsay has been chosen chief marshal
and in the procession will be organiza-
tons from Newport Covington. Cincir-
matt; Louisville and other cities, incIud-
IN the famous Louisvlne legion. The par
the inauguration ceremonies will fellow
Colonel Bradley Will reach Frankfort
Tuesday morning and will, it is expected
be greeted by one of the largest crovoS
ever gathered at the state capital
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MURDERER WILL HANG.

OMAHA, Dec. S.-George Morgan.
who one month ago tonight raped and
- - - I'D Ida Gaskill, was to-
day found guilty of murder and SEN
10 <. rhe jury went out last
night and returned verdict this after
noon. Under the new law the jury
decides when the degree of the murder
is in the first, whether the prisoner
hangs or goes to the penitentiary for
life. Morgan denies the offense. but
said he was drunk when he is alleged
to have done the killing
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DISBANDED.
FAILURE OF A CAREFULLY PRE-
PARED EXPEDITION.
Syndicate of American CAPITALISTS
Has Been Formed in St. Louis to
Aid the Cuban Insurgents-The
Propositions Made.

TAMPA, Fla, Dec. S.-The long-pre-
pared expedition of General Enrique
Colianzo has temporarily disbanded. 1t
was composed of 116 men and was to
have carried to Cuba 400 Remington
carbines, 100000 rounds OF ammunition,
one two-pound rapid-fire Hotchkiss
gun, with LOCO rounds of ammunition,
many machetes, dynamite and other
powerful explosives.
The men who formed the band have
xbeen encanped on various keys on the
southern coast of Florida FL the past
ninety days. The cause of disbanding
was partly the delay of the steamer
r{Sley expected on several different oc-
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Newspaper Man WEEDS.
Timber Thieves
A Mere Trihe.

BUTTE. Mont, Dec. S.-George
Bretherton. a wealthy rancher. living
near Meeker, Colo, aged 70, who has
been visiting his sons, prominent mer-
chants, dropped dead in the Mountain
View Methodist church this morning
curing the services, from heart dis
ease. The body was removed from the
church and Rev. Rollins, without in
terruption. continued his sermon on
the subject From the Lower to the
Higher-God's Plan
The deceased has a son living in
Denver
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mans, telegraphed to the vail of Sivac:
You may rest assured there is not
an Armenian left in Guerin. They re-
sisted the butchers and they have suf-
fcred for it,
The expulsion and removal of the
Armenians from Constantinople and
from the vilayets continues by whole
sale. All the Armenian monasteries
IN the vicinity of Erzingjan have been
plllaged- The massacre there occurred
after the Armenians had been dis
armed and Zokl1i Pasha had faithfully
promised to protect them.
AT the village of Pasuan, near Err
zlngjan, the Kurds and Turks attacked
a crowd of Armenians, who had taken
refuge in an Armenian church. and
Killed forty of them. Four hundred
We're killed and eight hundred were in
Jured in the Erzingjan district.
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(special to The HeraldO


BOISE, Ida, Dec. S.-United States
District Attorney Forney left today
for Moscow, to prosecute several par
ties for selling liquor to Nez Perez In
dams. A test case will be made, in
volving a highly interesting point.
These former wards of the government
are now citizens. entitled to the fran
chise. enjoying the right of maintain
ing actions at law. and being them
selves subject to be sued; but the dis
trict attorney insists that twenty-four
years must elapse before they can buy
whisky.
To this the citizen Indian objects.
? A greater objection, however. comes
from the liquor dealerI for with all
restrictions removed, the traffic with
the Indians would materially increase
their receipts.
Mr.. Forney claims that twenty-five
years must elapse after the date of
treaty with the Indians whereby they
agreed to accept land in severalty, be-
fore they can lawfully buy whisky.
This. he says, is a provision of the old
lsNStdlN Will lllt IllNldIS. OHc gtdl
has passed since the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
ing treaty was ratified, so Indians
must forego for twenty-four years
longer the privilege of stepping up to
the bar and exercising the prerogative
enjoyed by other classes of citizens.
The saloon-keepers belfeve Mr. Forrfey
is -laboring under a misrepresentation
OF the law in the premises and of the
treaty provisions. and have decided
TO make a test.
Newspaper Man WEEDS.
Charles B. Stevensberg and Miss
Nina Ettinger were married at Cald-
we'll last night. The groom is one of
the proprietors of the Caldwell Record,
and one of the best known newspaper
men in the state
Timber Thieves
The wholesale theft of timber from
the government land in north Idaho
1has been called to the attention of
the federal authorities and an inves-
LEGATION will be made, Much of this
timber. it is said, has been converted
into ties for the Northern Pacific.
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INDIANS AND
FIREVATER.
A Combination Now Causing
Considerable Trouble
In Idaho.
RIGHTS OF THE REDSKINS.
An Interesting Point of Law is
Involved.
RIGHTS OF THE REDSKINS.

KIave the Right OF Franchise and
Are Now Citizens, but the District
Attorney Says They Are Debarred
from Buying LiQuor-A Newspa-
per Man Weds-Chasing Timber
Thieves-Man Drops Dead in a
Butte Church, but the Pastor
Takes Up the Thread OF the In
y ferrupted Sermon
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LOST HER ANCHOR.

NEW YORK, Dec. SIT was report
ed at Tompkinsville. Staten Island,
that the United States steamship
Texas, while coming to anchor off that
place yesterday afternoon lost her
anchor and a portion of the chain at
tached. The accident was said to have
been caused by pin doping out of
one of the shackles of the chain cable.
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From = Missionary.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Dec. s-The relatives
Oh Mrs. Helen Register Bliss, who reside
IN Memphis, are in receipt of a IL tier
relative to the Armenian wars.
MI. and Mrs. Bliss are natives of Mem
PMS and are connected with the Ameri-
can Bible society in Constantinople. Mrs
Bliss says:
We are having an anxious time here
and know not what to expect. At Har-
pool all but four of our missionary
houses have been destroyed and these
We're looted. AT Erzeroum 10000 Armen-
lans were killed in less than ten days
There IS no doubt at all that these out
RACES are committed with the sanction of
the sultan. The bulgarian massacres
were but a drop in the bucket Of course
there was the same fiendish cruelties at
that time, but not to be compared with
this in extent. Over 100000 Aremnians
have been butchered, mostly men, leaving
women and children in awful poverty
with winter upon them.
None of the ambassadors have recon-
mended their constituents to leave the
city, and that gives US hope that we will
be SAFE
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THE BIG THREE.
Chicago, st. Louis and San Francisco
Will Bid Heavily

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-Chicago, st.
Louis and San Francisco, three of the
cities competing for the honor of hold
ing within their limits the next ma ton
al Republican convention, are now all
represented here by delegations Pitts
burg, the fourth competing city, has
her vanguard i'm Washington, while the
main bodyguard is due in the morning
The quiet of Sunday in the corridors Of
the Arlington was broken by the pres
ence of SO many strangers, all jealous
and DESTROYS of securing this much
coveted prize for the cities they rep
resent. National committeeman also
continue to arrive and it is expected
that by tomorrow night practically all
will be here and prepared for the meet
ing on Tuesday morning.
Will BE Spirited.
Headquarters have been established
and everything points to an interest