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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-29
STORY OF THE MASSACRE.
Miss Hartford VIII Refurnfo China
Despite Her Narrow Escape.

DOVER, N. H.. Nov. 29, lS9o.-Nlss
Mabel c.. Hartford, one of the two adult
survivors of the Hwasang massacre OF
August, near Ku-Cheng, China, has ar
rived in this. her native city.
In conversation yesterday Miss Hart
ford said that when she goes back she
will engage in pioneer work in the long
Bing district, which is two days travel up
the river. or about 100 miles above ku-
Cheng.
Miss Hartford was asked what has been
the attitude of the Chinese people to-
ward the missionaries in the region
where the massacre occurred. and she
replied
The friendliest possible. We have "a al,
ways received the kindest treatment from
the inhabitants andw ere considered their
friends. They had no part in the mas
sacre and expressed the deepest regrets
.'There was no riot or uprising of the
masses against us, as many people m
this country suppose. Members OF the l
secret society of Vegetarians We're the
sole perpetrators of the atrocities. The
feeling against Them is bitter, for they
are sworn not only to Kill all foreigners,
but to kill the magistrates and overturn
the Chinese Government They are con-
fined principally, however, to the prov
ince of Ku-Cheng.
There were not more than 81 men
was to kill US, not because we were mis-
sionaries or Christians, but because we
were foreigners. They did not use the
word missionary.
Miss Hartford said that the man who
attacked her was the one who killed
Miss Hessie Newcomb. He had already
knocked Miss Hartford down and was
beating her with the butt end of his
spear when a servant from her house
came to the rescue. She then managed
to escape and ran to house on the hill
some distance away. Three other yege- g
this one to kill her stopped to pIunder
the servants from the Stewart house,
who were carrying some things away,
and that is why. she thinks, she was en-
abled to escape.
She says the Vegetarians are extremely
superstitious, and after the massacre re-
marked that the foreign women were
very quiet while being attacked. IF
they had screamed" said they, 1--WE could
not have killed them.'' She believes the
authorities captured the men who took
part in the massacre and that they in
tend if poSSible to STAMP out the society.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-29
AUSTRIAN EX-PREMIER
DEAD
By Cable to the United Press.

VIENNA, Nov. 20, 1s95-Count Edward
Taaffe, formerly Prime Minister of Austria,
died this morning on his estate at Elischau,
in Bohemia. He had been i'll for several
months with heart affection and subsequent
pyaemia.
Count Edward Francis Joseph Taaffe was
BON at Prague February "a, 1888. He
was Viscount TaaIfe of Corren and Baron of
Ballymote, Sligo in the Irish peerage;
Count Of the Holy Roman Empire and a life
member of the Herrenhaus of Austria. He
was brought up along with Emperor Francis
Joseph, whose intimate friend he was. He
entered the imperial service in 1857 as
Secretary of the Hungarian Government
and was appointed Governor of Salzburg in
1863 In 1867 he became Austrian Minister
of the Interior and vice-president Of the Cis-
leithan Ministry. At the end of 1869 he
served as Minister President, and in 1871 ac-
cepted the Office of Governor of the Tyrol
and Vorarlberg He was conspicuously OPP
posed to anti-Semite agitation. In 1898 he
put forward carefully elaborated political
programme which met with general opposl-
ton and led to his retirement
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-29
VAQUERos IN BATTLE.

STOCKTON. Cal, Nov. 90, 1s95.-There
was general gun fight twelve miles south
west of this city last night. Ed sween and
John Staiger have charge of a band of cat
tie on the Mclaughlin ranch. About nine
o'clock last night they discovered three
campers who had fired large oak tree.
The vacqueros ordered the campers to put
out the fire, and the latter drove the cow
boys away with reyolvers.
The Vacqueros notified Deputy Sheriff
Buzzell who returned with them to the
scene. Buzzell ordered the campers to ex-
tinguish the fire and they replied by shoot
ing at the deputy and the cowboys all of
whom returned the fire. Buzzell dropped
from his horse and was left for
dead by Sween and Staiger, who
were put to fight by the belligerant
trespassers They fastened to Stockton and
notified the authorities. A posse was or
ganized and left for the scene shortly after
midnight. 1t is thought that Sheriff Buz-
zell is fatally injured, as he received more
than one shot in the breast.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-29
A GREEKS STORY.
Incidents of the Massacre In Con-
stantimOple-Ame meriean PasaPO Orts.

EXETER, N. H., Nov. %, 1S95.-Petros
Males, a native born Greek, and who
has just returned from Constantinople.
where he had gone to visit his parents.
said in an interview yesterday that he
was an eyewitness to some of the Turk
iSh outrages there
Zone night a family living across the
street from my fathers house, he salo,
"came over and asked permission to
sleep in our house, saying that they
would be killed by the Turks If they
slept in their own house
II myself was a witness to the murder
of an Armenian in the streets While
two cities of Pera and Constantlnople
saw a crowd of six or seven Turks rush
upon an Armenian and kill him with
sword. The poor fellow was going peace
business. At another time the Turks
broke into a house where about 120 Arg
menian laborers were living, and put
them all to death.
"A friend of mine, who is a grocer
and has place of business near the
water, told me when he arose that morn
ing he found the bodies of five Armeni-
ans floating in the water.
when I left America, on July z, / did
not know there was any trouble. visit
post, to avoid trouble, for I had heard
that the authorities at Constantinople
did not pay much attention to American
passports. I learned that Armenians
Custom House and either killed or pre-
vented from entering the country.
"All newspapers coming into the coun-
try with reports of Armenian trouble are
suppressed in the Postoffice.
when l left Constantinople the Turks
were accustomed to stop men in the
street, ask them their names, and If they
were Armenians to kill them"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-29
CHECK OR CHBCKMA4B
Alleged Inside Storyof Zella
Nicholaus' $4,000
Gould Suit.
dE .RGE Us PRESENCE OF MIND
Al, Aleck and Eel Looking Up
Reply to a New York Paper's
Great Sensation.
5E -RGE Us PRESENCE OF MIND

Zella Nicholaus. who has been residing
at the Hotel Washington since she
abandoned her histronic aspirations, and
her husband. A. Ruhman. were in CONSUL
tation with lawyer Alex Simpson all
day today in reference to a story which
appeared in New York newspaper yes
terday and which purported to be the
true account of the way in which Zella
obtained the $4,000 check which forms
the basis of her suit against millionaire
George Gould. According to the story
a member of the Gould family belonged
to one of those cI.bs which was formed
for the purpose of renting and occupy
ing mansions at Chicago during the
Worlds Fair A certain luxurious fur
nished house fell to the member of the
Gould family for two months and while
he was living there in splendor he met
Miss Nicholaus. One day while
Gould was in her company he received a
check for $4,000. which came into Zella's
possession.
NO BANK WOULD TAKE IT.
The young women, the story goes on
to say. took the check to Chicago
bank and tried to start an account with
it. The President of the bank looked
at the paper and the endorsements and
politely but firmly declined to receive it
unless Miss Nicholaus produced either
Mr.. Gould or note from him. She then
tried several other banks in Chicago,
but met with no better success. Then
she came TO New York and went through
the same experience there.
Finally, in sheer deSperatio she went
to George Could and laying the check
before him. asked him to cash it. The
story says that although Mr.. Gould was
taken back. when he saw the check he
did not falter. but calmly told Miss
Nicholaus that he had not so much
money at hand. but if she could leave it
he would send it to the bank to be
cashed. and she could receive the money
be under some expense. he remarked,
and gave her $500 on account
Zella took the money and departed full
ly convinced that she would at last get
her money.
GOULD GIVES HER $780,
The, next day, she called at Gould's Of
fee, but was told by. the boy that Mr..
Then she began to suspect trick had
been played upon her and she began
to lombard Mr.. George Gould with notes.
When George became tired of the bonn
bardment he called in his fathers old
friend, Superintendent Byrnes. He took
methods which were in vogue in Null
berry street in those days, in duced Zelia
to leave the counary. She did not remain
long under the Byrnes scare and soon
returned to this country. When she
learned that George Gould had claimed
to be a resident of New Jersey she
came to this city and engaged Mr. Simp-
man said last night that there was no
truth in the story. whatever.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-29
JULIO SANGUILY'S TRIAL.
Rn Cnb;c 70 the Unftea Press.

Julio Sanguily. the American citizen who
is charged with active agitation in the
Cuban rebellion was resumed today. The
Government put upon the witness stand
an expert in chirography, who examined
letters put in evidence as having been
written by Sanguily. This witness de-
clared the letters to be in the handwrit-
ing of Sangily. Among those letters
was a document naming Jose Ynocencio
Arcuy as delegate to the Revolutionary
Committee in New York. the authenticity
The sitnation 5ny IL 4bst sayera1 VII
nesses corroborate Sanguilys declaration
THAT he did not encourage the Cuban re-
volt, while letters in the possession of
the Government prove him guilty. Coun-
sci for the defence made a protest to-
day against the irregularity of the trial
and demanded Sanguily's acquittal.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-29
SOCIALIST CASH SAFE.
BIZ Cdhle to the United Press.

ZURICH. Nov. 20. 1Ss5.-Herr Bebel,
the Socialist leader in the German Reich
stag. together with other leading mem
bers of the Socialist party in Germany, an
funds of the party. The removal of
this money from Germany "a Vas ana;na meas
the legal dissolution of the Socialist or
ganizatqn BY the % German autnoritffe aS ~
quantity and character of the documents
and other material evidence collected by by
houses of prominent Socialists, the
Public Prosecutor has decided to. close
the respective headquarters of the
Socialist Elections Unions at once. This
action is to be taken upon the strength
of Article is of the DAVIS relating to as
sociations, pending the decision of the
courts in the matter.
DR.. Foarster. editor of the journal,
ethical Culture has been sentenced to
three months Imprisonment in a fortress,
having been convicted of Lese Majestic for
articles printed in that paper.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-29
SAY zELLA HAS WEAKENED
Buffalo Bill Among the Chicago
Witnesses Against Her

~ aShkeSstS A&da0St II eFs
CHICAGO, Nov. 20, 1S95-No dispositions
are being taircn-teaay-ia the Gould Nicolaus
case and the chances are the intention of
taking them has been abandoned. A. S.
Trude, William F. Cody buffalo Bill, Nate
Salisbury and others were notified some
time ago by the Gould attorneys that they
would be required to make dispositions in
regard to Zella's character It was ex-
pected to prove in this way that she was of
bad character and bore reputation in Chi
cago by no means untarnished
The discovery of new evidence as to some
of the Nicolaus alleged shady transactions,
making the taking of depositions here un-
necessary, is said to be the reason for the
abandonment of the Chicago end of the
programme. 1t is also hinted that the plain
Tiff in the $4,000 suit has weakened
One of the Chicago Attorneys for Zella
is authority for the statement that she tolo
him the real amount of money received from
Mr.. Gould at the time she presented the
check to him for payment was $4,000
A. S. Trude is out of the city, but his re-
preventative here says that all Mr.. Trude
knows of the matter is what he may have
learned through his connection with Nico-
laus as her legal adviser at the time she
sought to recover a trunk which Marshall
Field had attached for bill run at his
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-29

ROASTING TURKEY.
No Visible improvement in
the Situation on the
Bosphorus.
GRAND yIzIER's SILLY BLUFF
Americans in Armenia Virtually
Imprisoned in Their Homes
A Greeks Story.
BIZ Gable to the United Press.

LONDON, Nov. %, 1s95.-The cores
pondent of the United Press at Constan-
tinople telegraphs under the date OF
November 2S that the Turkish troops en-
route to Zeitun have arrived at Marash,
where they have halted pending the re-
suit of negotiations with the Armenians,
who are in possession of Zeitun. The
conditions offered to the Armenians In
clude the surrender of their arms, as well
as the leaders of the recent revolt at
Zeitun, to the Turkish troops. Trustwor-
thy advices say that the rising OF the
Armenians at Zeitun followed an at
tempt on the part of the troops of the
Turkish garrison to pillage the city.
The Armenian survivors of the mas
sacres at Arabkir, Moosh and Harpoot,
these advices say, have been offered the
choice of embracing Islamism or being
put to the sword.
The Americans in Harpoot, Bitlis and
Marash are virtually prisoners in their
houses. 1t is not safe for Christians to
go into the streets and the escort wnfch
was provided for the American mis-
sionaries by order of the Porte upon the
application of Minister Terrell are afraid
to leave Harpoot on account of the dan
gers they are almost certain to encounter
on the roads from murderous bands. No
mails have passed over the Bagdad route
for three weeks.
Upon the strength of the assurances
given by the Porte to Sir Philip Currie,
British Ambassador to Turkey, that the
Sultan would permit each of the powers
to send into the Bosphod1us second
guardship Sir Philip telegraphed Admiral
Seymour, commanding the British Medi-
tSrranean squadron, requesting him TO
dispatch the gunboat Dryad to the Bos-
phorus at once. The Dryad was expected
to arrive at Osanakkale at eleven O'Clock
on the morning of November %, and the
Porte was so Informed, but no authority
10 a.
nelles had been given up to the time of
writing this despatch. The Sultan upon
learning this news became greatly dis
qudeted and at the hour. of midnight
sent messages to Tewhk Pasha the
Foreign Minister, and Said Pasha, ex-
Grand Vizier. Sir Philip Currie- is now
awaiting Instructions from Lord Sails
bury, and the other foreign diplomats
have in the meantime asked their re-
spective governments for instructions
The Synod of the Greek Church in
Turkey has refused to commit itself to
an expression of satisfaction with the
policy of the Government in Asia
Minor,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-29
OLD WORLD PUZZLES.
Rev. DR.. Brett's Sermon Yes
terday at the Union
Thanksgiving Services.

The congregations of the First Presby-
terian. Bergen Reformed, United Presby-
terian and Westminster Presbyterian
Churches held union Thanksgiving services
Yesterday morning in the latter church
There was a very large attendance, and Rev.
Dr.. Hathaway, pastar4-nf--t the church,
preached.
The services opened with the singing of an
anthem bv the choir, after which Rev David
Mitchell offered brief brayer. America"
was sung by the congregation, and Rev. A.
S. Biddle, pastor of the United Presbyterian
Church, read President Cleveland's Thanks
giving proclamation.
..Joy to the World was then sung by the
congregation and prayer was offered by
Rev. DR.. Charles Herr. sermon on
s.True Liberty,n and how to use it was
preached by Rev. DR.. Cornelius Brett pas
tor of the Bergen Reformed Church. He
said in part:-
DIR. BRET1'S SERMON.
"If quackery could have healed the hurts
of humanity, moral health would long ere
this have been universal Specifics have
been prescribed in variety and tonnage sutti-
cient to furnish lotions and plasters for the
whole world: and yet, like the woman who
suffered much of many physicians, society
seems at times to have grown worse rather
than better Simplicity gave way to luxury
but the old feverish lusts remain and leprosy
shakes its shriveled and ulcered members in
the face of reform in spite of every attempt
at cleansing
"The Haunting advertisements Of many
patent medicines are seen on all sides.
"They are successful in many cases as full
some testimonials show. The failures how
ever, which are never noticed in flowing
circulars are caused by variation in symp-
toms which no specific can touch, but which
needs the advice of skillful physician.
80 it is with our social abnormal condi-
tion. Specifics for the woes of life are never
wanting. Now they are commended by the
ferved rhetoric of blatant reformers or again
put forth in whispers as the discovery of
valuable contributions to the service of
sociology and yet, even after the application
of each pessimists even on Thanksgiving
Day find facts which set them croaEing."
INDEED A PUZZLE.
Mr.. Brett then said that it was peculiar
that 1000 wears after the birthof Christ as
mighty 'despotism as Russia should exist
much less be permitted to stand with threa-
tening mien against the enkindling of a new
civilization in Japan; that the sublime
Porte, which he characterized as a travesty
on government, should be permitted to main
tain place with the European powers; that
humble Christians should be exposed to the
fury of mobs among people that they had
come to bless; that criminals should be
denied the right of trial by jury, and
miserable, trembling towards tortured to
death in the public squares Of a Christian
city.
A very forcible and instructive sermon
was brought to close by an eloquent and
| lofty pereoration on liberty, delivered in DR..
Brett's best style. The address was listened
to with marked attention.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-29
STOLE HER OWN MONEY.
The Odd Charge on Which an Eiop-
ing Wife Is Being Tried.


LONDON, Nov. 20, 1S95.-Mrs. Fontaine
Besson, wife of a manufacturer of musi-
cal instruments in this city, New York,
Paris and ST. Petersburg, who was ar
rested in Seville, Spain, in october, and
extradited to England, was arraigned
here today upon the charge of having
stolen from her husband securities valued
at 100000.
Her husbands counsel said that Mrs.
Besson had eloped with a Spaniard, tax
ing the securities with her, and that II
was the intention of the eloping couple TO
go from Spain to America. Already,
counsel asserted, the defendant had dis
posed of 100000 worth of the stolen Sc
curities.
husband had taken his wife's name and
did not deny that the property was hers.
but sought to manage and administer II
because of the community of goods un-
der the marriage contract, which was
drawn according to the provisions OF the
French law.
The case was adjourned, the defendant
being liberated under bonds. in the sum
of f5,O00, which were furnished by her
ualf
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-29

wheeled vehicles. not few riders had
narrow escapes from injury. Frank
Kuhl had a miraculous escape. The driv-
sr witH6ut Hf Wafnng Saggy apf Kuhf was riding
Kuhl was unable to stop, in time, ana as
result the rear wheel Of the buggy
struck his bicycle and threw him Vio-
lently to the ground. Fortunately ne
escaped with a few scratches, while the
bicycle was but little damaged,
the race was started. How the riders
managed to dodge in and out among the
carriages was a mystery to the ,specta-
tors All but one of the entered riders
started. The riders were:-
W. 1. Roome Clio SCI scratch.
y Y. RohIfs 1; R2Fmsf Clio II w. i minafe Mil seEa'en'
W. Whelpsley. Greenwich W., 2 min
F. Kuhl. Clio W. 2 minutes; ~, aa,u,an
H. Heber. Layfayette Kings Sons, 8
u j. o'Halleron. N. ]. A. c.. minutes
80 seconds.
]. Walker Arcanum Wheelmen. 8 min
utes. 30 seconds.
minutes. 80 seconds. -
L. eanne. N ]. A. c.. minutes. 80
seconds.
W. Sharpe, Clio W.. minutes.
E. Fisher. Clio W.. 6 minutes:
G. McFadden. Arcanum W., min
utes.
Danner who had been given a handi-
cap Of thirty seconds, refused to accept
the handicap. and went back on scraicn Il
with Roome. The starting ana n nniisnlng ms nng
the course was 21a miles TO west Elg IN N
street, and from there five miles 70
limit men. rode well for the first FIVE
miles. managing to retain the lead. on
the seventh mile they were overtaken
by the four three and two Two mhute ,i1eu Il Wen Was
a ana DAT although Jack o'Halleron pushed
him hard he managed to stay + IN heaa brole af of
u UNI Nv Wheeimen, heeii and H. Heber, Of the La
fayette Kings Sons rode riiapF PRETTY nsce eaef o
rGr rding tRlre seita Place clipped HeSer few feet
from the tape, and won third place by
half wheel. Rooms ana parmer, ySara IN shse 1Te
ond time prizes. respectively.
The first six men nnlsned ,,1 "a a. rG1tuw bandicap
sm l. q so see Ma.kee Corrected time IS m. Is sec
2. ]. o'Halleron. N. j.; A. c., M, 80
sec 80 m 4 sec % 81 s. Ge99aage 90 gm;S Sei15 e sec Ae
:. r. Fisher. Clio w 6 min. 6. F.
Kuhi, Clio vi TiMn nip PR1zFs
/. w. c. Roome. Clio W.. scratch, 20
M 3 W. ". L. Darmer clio W.. scratch, 25
~ Tbe 9e Ii prizes. which will be awarded the
winners at the Clos headquarters IN
ie@ 1st tin time prize-seThe Jersey City News"
trophy" bronze clock; I'd time prize, gilt
reception chair. s,o>
1st priza-Stearns silver cup 9value s1pl
On hsnksgiving Dav until cup is finally
won. End Willow Haven Trophy
solid silver tobacco n66sssiiTer 6Gx ga pfesk cake
haskell 9Th prize-Pair bicycle shoes