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one end Of It, placed looking glass in
 front of him and put the muzzle of a re-
 volver to his heart, and fred and fell
 over dead.
 IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. July 19-The
 imprisoned miners at the Pewabic mine
 were released about midnight. The escape is considered most remarkable in the history of mining.
 LEWISTON, He. July 19-A heavy storm has swept this region Great dam age to crops and railroad bridges has re- suited. 1t extends as far west aS Mar sht ltown, la.
 SCRANTON, Miss. July I9-Andrew Thomas the negro who wes arrested for assaulting an aged white woman was lyDched by mob last night. BUFFALO, N. r., July 19-The next meeting of the National Association of Baggage agents will be held in Sau An- tonic, Tex.
 DENVER, Colo. July 10 David J. Mar tin an ex member of the fire and police ' board committed suicide today by shoot ing himself in the head
 PHILADELPHTA, Pa. July 19-W hile going to fire s hose ca:t overturned. killing one and inJuring severely four | tiremen.
 | CHICAGO, July 19-John LeonI, Jack, the Window Smasher," who has smash ed over loo plate glass windows in the heart of the city. causing a loss of sl5OO last year. was captured last night 1 NEw YORK, July 19-A trusted en- ploye of the Herald was sent to the bank to get 5000 check cashed yesterday afternoon and has not been seen eince. LANDERs, Wyo., July Ex-Governor Richards hae ordered B4ujamin Sheld
 on, commander of Company 5, Wyom. Ing Guards, to equIp his company and
 be ready for a Campaign against the h. dians at Jackson's Hole.
 SPOKANE, Wash, July 19-B. O. Smith, the murderer, escaped from jail.
 His pursuers caught up with him. He drew a razor and almost severed his head from his body.
 Iowa CITY, July 19-A cloudburs
 last night did great damage to crops, railroad tracks and houses. 4 special from Os8ge, kas., tells of heavy cleo tric storm there and much damage re-
 sultiDg.
 Los ANGELES. Cal, July 19-John Luch, an employe of the Peoples store
 ID this city, this morning cut the throat of his young wife as she was lay in bed at the Hotel Johnson. He then sever ed his own windpipe and then leaped from a second story window. For ysar he had suspected hls wife of intideI- itg and upoo procuring the proof con- mitted the deed He is the son of wealthy people of Nashville, Tenn. VAN, July 1S-The prison of Van. where the Armenian prisoners are con- fined, is located under the shadow Of the city wall and at point where the ground IS so low as to receive the damage of the rest of the city. Like the other buildings of the city, it is built of sun drled bricks laid in the mud. The pris- on is only ore-story building and with DO provision for keeping it dry. The inrer prison consists of six long, narrow rooms, three on each side of & common passsgeway into which they open. Each room Is about twelve feet wide and from thirty to forty long, has two windows at the outer end and two smaller windows and door at the inner end opening into the passage. During the past winter from thirty to forty men were crowded into each of these rooms. | sleeping on the floor, Q row along each wall, SO that if their feet were little rore than ordinarily extended the two rows would interfere with each other. Sometimes there were twepty-twu ruen in each row, allowing only about eighteen inches for each person.
 Five of the small cells mentioned are damp, dark and entirely unwarmed fer winter. A prisoner, Ksrakeen Paghesh- te Khan by name, was kept in one of these cells fourteen consecutive months with foot fetters all the time and with hand and neck letters much of the time. Afterward hs was removed to one of the inDer cells, which are even worse, and where he now is. He was fiogged on an average of once day.
 Apart from the actual butchery of Sassoun, the most painful feature of the Armenian situation is the position of the Armenian woman One cannot investl gate this phase of the subject without feelings of rage and horror over the In suit and outrages to which these poor creatures are subjected. After the most 1 careful personal inquiry the correspond | ent is able to state that in hundreds of | villages in Armenia there IS hardly one woman, old or young, who IS not from | time to time made the victim of the | passion of the Kurds and Turks. la | all the villages of Armenia the Chris | tian women, both old and young, are | absolutely at the mercy or their Kurdish | and Turkish neigh bors. Fms is not the | case in the larger cities Of Van, Bltlis, | Moush and Erzeroum. because in these | cities the large Armenian population Is | itself protection to the women, but ID | the villages where the ArmenIans are in | the minority protection Is not possible, | aud the women are at the beck and call | of any Turk or Kurd who happeOs to take fancy to them. Moreover, th's state of things is sad to be we'll known to the Turkish government.
 It Is the custom of the government to sell to the highest bidder the tax prIvi- legss of the various villages, the pur chaser having the right to collect all Of the taxes from the people. h mary cases the number of young Armenian women in a village has great deal to do with the price paid for the tax privi- lege. When the ublic sale is made of the tax privilege 1t is no uncommon thing for the auctioneer to call out in the market place, so that all may hear, that so many girls are available In the village. When man has purchased the nP riI ho |