Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-09-11
LIFE INSURANCE IN TURKEY
THE PORTE CANNOT GUARANTEE
LEGATIONS SAFETY.

e LEGATIONS SAFETY.
Outbreak at esirut.-Rumorsd Change
in British cabinst.-Pops Plus WouI
Stop Massaerss. = Beirut Weddin
. Story Proved False
:. The Turkish government has notifie,
4 the powers that the porte cannot guar
antee the safety of the legations a
Constantinople. This extraordinar.
D statement was communicated withou
explanation or qualifying details. Tn,
] apparent weakness of the Turkish gov.
8 eminent is due largely to long defer.
ence toward the powers and to divis.
, ions in the councils within the palace
} which Is regarded at Berlin as justi-
l flying the view that Turkey is incapa-
. BILE Of preserving order in her Euro
!, pean provinces unless she Is allowed q
free hand in dealing with the insur-
gents. At Constantinople the embassies
; are said to be in danger Of an attack
by agitators Of the fanatics and several
, governments have landed marines
there. The tendency among high Tur-
kish officials is decidedly against war,
but unrest among the military element
has markedly increased. The German
empire regards the Turko- Balkan af-
fairs as having entered an acute stage.
The porte's inability to take an en-
ergetic course against the Macedonian
insurrection is the worst feature Of the
situation.
A recent council of Bulgarian minis
tiers presided over by Prince Ferdinand
decided that Bulgaria should continue
| IN ms MT a n of NJ ho fri OF
neutrality in the Macedonian question:
and that the most stringent measures
should be adopted to prevent disturb
ance in Bulgaria's relations with Tur-
key. Many villages have been burned
by the Turks, all the churches and the
Rosen -four mills have been destroyed
and terrible atrocities perpetrated. A
train carrying Turkish troops between
Uskub and Velos was blown up Friday.
Many soldiers have been reported
killed.
| The U. S. cruisers Brooklyn and San
Francisco have arrived at Beirut. Syria.
An outbreak occurred during Sunday
night at Beirut between Christians and
Mussulmans. Fighting was furious
firearms and knives being used. Beirut,
Smyrna and Salonica are now centers
OF great disturbance.
Pope Plus X will soon have an
ecumenical council of American arch
bishops to decide upon the withdrawal
of America from the jurisdiction of the
congregation Of the propaganda and /
placing it directly under that of the
holy see.
A successful exhibition was given
at the Apollo theatre, Berlin, recently
of an apparatus combining the phono-
graph and moving photograph machine
so as to produce a speaking photo
graph 1t is the invention of Oscar
Messter.
H. ]. Thaddeus, the Irish painter,
whose portraits of Pope Plus TX, Leo. |
XIII, Mr.. Gladstone and other promi- |
nent parsonage, have won him consid
cradle fame, has obtained the privilege |
of being the first to paint a picture of !
the present pope. He expects to finish |
the work about Christmas.
A Constantinople correspondent tele-
graphs that the wedding story given
out by the vail of Beirut as an expla-
nation of the outrage on United States
Vice Consul Magelssen is proved to be
false and the vice consul's assailant is
believed to be known. 1t is expected
that the United States will peremptor-
lily demand the dismissal of the vail
Twenty-Five persons were killed by
explosions on the Austrian steamer
Vaskapu which occurred soon after
leaving the Bulgarian port Burgas
Sept. 2. The vessel caught fire and
was beached. Bulgarian revolutionists
are said to have done it. The porte has
warned foreign embassies and lega-
ions that Bulgarian agitators are plot
ing outrages against them.
1t is rumored in London that the res
gnation of Lord Lansdowne, the for
ner war secretary and present foreign
secretary, may be expected shortly as
IN outcome of disclosures made in re-
ports of the So. African war commits
sion. 1t is said that he will be succeed
ID by Mr.. Brodrick, the present war
secretary and that Mr. Wyndham, the
irish secretary will be made head of
he war office.
Pope Plus X has represented to the
Austrian emperor the advisability, es-
)ecially on the part Of the Catholic
powers, of coming to an agreement as
o the best way to stop the massacres
n Macedonia. Several cardinals have
the opinion that the pontiff
should publicly denounce the situation
n Macedonia to the civilized world
Without distinction of religion, calling
Iction on humanitarian grounds.
Der Tag, Berlin newspaper, says
hat a false report from Beirut of the
attempted murder of Vice Consul
Iagelssen was a trick to enable Amer
ca to interfere in European affairs.
'he paper says that America has long
een attempting practically to invade
Europe, and that an European equiva-
ial and that the European powers
must prohibit America from trespass-
ng on their preserves. The article
oncludes with a scurriouS attack on
merica and the American navy. It
eclares that the officers and men of
he European squadron disgrace them
elves in every port they visit. :
Protection Of Animals.
The Berlin society for the preven-
on of cruelty to animals is taking
ne initiative in attempting to bring