The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-09-15
WAR CLOUD LOWERS.
Big Guns of American Ships
Ships Trained on Beirut.
American Mission Property Is Threat
ened and Other American Interests
Are Placed in Jeopsrdy-The
Situation Seems Grave.

Beirut, Sept. 1.-THE American war.
ships in the harbor have cleared decks
| and are ready for war action. Signal
men have been placed at points OF adj
vantage to give the men aboard the
war ships all information that is de-
sired during the present crisis. A
guard has been placed at the American
consulate, and every precautiOn made
for landing marines at the shortest pos
sible notice. Rapid-fre guns and small
arms are ready to be loaded into boats
| for the marines when the command
| to land is given. Heavy guns on the
cruisers Brooklyn and San Francisco
are trained upon the city, and Adm.
| Cotton is on the alert to assume de-
| termined attitude and back up his po-
sition in the most fOrcible manner.
Guards have been demanded for the
| governor by the American missions.
| American mission property has been
| threatened, and other American inter
ests are placed in jeopardy.
Moved by the menace of RI. Adm.
| Cotton, the Turkish sultan has ousted
| the vail of Beirut, under whose regime
rioting took place in that city Sunday,
| in which many Christians were killed.
Washington, Sept. 1.-THE state de-
partment Thursday morning received
the following dispatch from Minister
Leishman, at Constantinople:
-Four ambassadors have demanded
! the removal of the governor of Beirut.
| The other foreign representatives will
probably do the same.
Il have urged that the governor be
preserving order and giving effective
protection to American citizens and
| interests"
Sofia, Sept 1.-THE continuous re-
ports Of wholesale massacres of the
bulgarian population and the destruc
| ton of Bulgarian villages in MacedO-
MIA are causing considerable excite
ment in political and general circles
here Premier Petroff is said to have
| informed the representatives CT the
powers in Sofia that neither the gov
eminent nor the Bulgarian people can
witness with Indifference the annihi-
| Iation Of the Bulgarian element in Mac
edonia and the devastation Of the coun-
| try and unless the powers can find
some means of restraining Turkeys
| terrible repressive measures Bulgaria
will be forced to depart from her pres
ent attitude of strict neutrality. While
| the premier's intimatiOn was conveyed
| in the course of informal conversation
with the diplomats in Sofia and in no
sense intended as an official cOmmuni-
cation, it may be regarded as an indi-
cation that the patience Of the Bulga,
rian people is becoming exhausted.
Every day brings news of fresh mas.
sacres and outrages in Macedonia. The
revolutionary organizations Thursday
published elaborate statistics giving
the names of III villages burned by
the Turkish soldiery, the number Of
houses in each, the date of the inceu-
diarism, and particulars Of the mum.
| Der of persons murdered in each case.
London, Sept. 12-The powers are
evidently still exerting pressure both
| at ConstantinOple and at Sofia to avert
a TurcO-Bulgarian war, apparently
| with some temporary success; blu:
meantime an increasingly terrible tale
| of atrocities committed in Macedoni.
| shows that the situation is daily be.
| coming aggravated.
Tle news that a French squad on is
| going to the Levant is also held to be
ominOus and this step by the French
government will probably be followed
! by similar action On the part of the
| other powers.
| The Turkish embassy in London in
it's denial, issued daily, of Turks
atrocities, Friday declared it to be
absolutely false that the Ottoman
troops are burning villages, the truth
being that it is the Bulgarians, who
| at the approach of the troops. use ex-
| plosives to burn the villages before
leaving them and then accuse the Turk
ish troops of such abominable deeds"
| The same communication maintains
| that there were only eight persons kill
ed and fifteen wounded in the qffray
at Beirut and that many fugitives to
Lebanon are returning to their homes.
| According to special dispatches from
| COnstantinOple the MuSSulmans sack
| ed Christian houses during the disor
ders at Beirut and startling rumors of
| all kinds are current, including a gen.
eral massacre at Beirut and the immi-
nent dynamiting Of public buildings
and the poisoning of the water supply
at Constantinople.
From Vienna comes again an uncOn-
firmed report that Boris Sarafoff, the
Macedonian leader, has been murdered
near Monastir
Count ToIstoi's 75th Birthday.
St Petersburg. Sept 12-COunt Toll