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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-02
Reports NJ severe Fighting and
Atrocious Barbarfties Committed
by Turks Received at Sofia.
VILLAGES LAID IN WASTE
AND THEIR ENTIRE POPULATION Al
LEGGED TO HAVE BEEN MAssACRED.
Twenty-Onc Hundred Boigarinns Re-
ported by Turks "a Have Been
Killed I'm Recent engagements.

SOFIA, Ruls1r!a. Sept. 1.-The Mace
donian revolutionaries awaited the anniveT-
sary of TIE SuItan's accession TO proclaim
tie long anticipated general insrrrection in
northern Macedonia. the proclamation OF
which was issued to-day signed by all She
members OF tine insurgent general STAFF
The now outbreak is headed by the famous
Macedonian leaders. General ZOntchieff.
president of the Macedonian committee. and
Colonel Jankoff. who was wounded in the
rising OF 1902. The new territory covers
the ALLEY of the Struma at the base of
the Rhodopc mountain chain and to the
north OF the River Vardar.. Colonel jan
koff is directing the movements of the
bands in the southern part.
News OF severe fighting is still coming in
Al the village OF Armensi after a days
fighting. the Turkish troops in the night
time massacred the entire population of $50
men and 200 women. The Turks have also
massacred the inhabitants of the village of
Velesi.
II is reported that Hilmi Pacha the in
spector general for Macedonia. refuses to
leave his headquarters in the Konak at
Monastir. The insurgent leader, Grueff. in
a letter to Hilmi Pacha. demanded that
he prevent the barbarous acts OF the Turk
fsh soldiers and bashi bazouks, otherwise
the revolutionaries would massacre all the
Turkish inhabitants The insurgents have
occupied the mountain pass of Gergle on
the main line frdsn salonica to Uskub. ans
Turkish troops have been sent TO dislodge
them.
The town of Msikoternoyo is reported TO
be ina state OF anarchy. the Turks plum
dering the houses and committing unspeak-
able atrocities. on the women
A strong force OF Turkish infantry. caval-
ry and artillery recently attacked the viii
lage of Stoilovo. northward of Malkoter-
novO. which had been occupied by in
surgents- The latter retired after which
the Turks entered the place. massacred the
entire population and destroyed the viii
lage.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has arrived
at Euxinograde, Bulgaria. where he has
been joine1 by Premier Petroff The prince
Is expected to remain there for some time.
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steel materially. Let us hope that the
product will not be decreased. The vital
element in the matter u.s. we all know,
the supply of iron ore. Many of you are
cOnverSant with the situation here. l only
know what / learn from others, but un-
dOubtedy the attention of the iron and
steel manufacturers should be directed 10
this question. Where and how they
obtain supply of iron ore?
Nor is IL question which the manufac-
turer of America can s.fefy neglect. IL
was because it forced itself strongly
upon us that we secured such an abun-
dant supply of the best ore obtainable.
For sixty years, l think, the United States
Steel Corporation is supplied at it's pres
is nothing compared to the life of a nation.
1t is upon future discoveries of iron ore
that the future Of cheap steel manufac-
turing. even in America, depends. There
are immense deposits in inaccessible
parts. In Utah, for instance, and in South
ern California large deposits have been
found, so that steel will continue to be
manufactured, but il would not surprise
me il it's cost very greatly advanced
in the future. 1t seems almost miraculous
that such an article as steel could be pro-
duced and sold without loss at three pounds
for a penny i am convinced that this is
a thing of the past. 1t will be a question
of increased cost and therefore of in
creased price, that neither Britain nor
America need fear that steel manufacture
will be wholly lost; the world will gladly
pay the increased price necessary to OBJ
tain it. During the next half century il
seems that America is to increase her out
put at tremendous pace. The output of
Britain will perhaps remain stationary or
even increase somewhat, if developments
in Norway and Sweden prove satisfactory"
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LETTER CARRIERS.
Second Day Of Their Convention
President Keller's Report

SYRACUSE, n. Y, Sept. 1.-The early
session of the National Letter Carriers
convention to-day was devoted to a spirited
contest over the seating of the delegations
from branches No. 80. of New York, and
No. IL, of Chicago.
In his annual report President ]. C. X Ter
took UP the charge that Chairman Loud, of
the postoffice committee of the House of
Representatives, was defeated by w. j.
Wynne. through efforts of the carriers
denying that the officers of the national
association had any connection whatever
with the defeat OF Loud. who was opposed
to the carriers salary bill He suggested
that hereafter twelve instead of sixteen an
nual assessments be made in the mutual
benefit branch of the order. The branch
he said, had $4,000 assets i'm a reserve fund
He recommended that the officers OF the
association be relieved from Washington to
avoid professional lobbyists. The national
association has 5000 in the treasury and
all bills paid.
A short evening session was held at which
the report of the committee on credentials
was called for. Chairman Shuff stated
that IL was not ready. Adjournment was
taken to tomorrow morning. 1t was un-
officially stated to-day that the protests
against the New York and Chicago dele
cations sitting were acted on adversely by
the committee and that the delegates will be
seated.
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MASKED MEN ATTACK THE JAIL AT
SHAWNEETOWN, ILL.
They Fail to Break Down the Doors,
and Finally Disperse After Being
Warned by the Jailer.

SHAWNEETOWN, Ill, Sept. IA mob
of fifty masked men went to the Jail here
early this morning and demanded that
Jailer Galloway turn over to them John
Griffin, colored, who was under arrest for
an attempted assault o. Mrs. Joseph
Hobbs, a white woman, near her home.
Griffin had been frightened away by the
woman's screams and he had been ar
rested a short while afterward.
When the mob demanded that Jailer Gal
loway turn the negro over to them Gal
loway armed himself and, after reasoning
with the men from the Jail door, he warned
them that any effort to force an entrance
would be at their peril. The mob. in spite
of the jailer's words. made several inef-
fectual attempts to break down the Jail
doors, finally dispensing about daylight.
Many colored people are taking sides
with Griffin, though some of them have.
in fear of a race riot. left the town. No
trouble has followed the visit of the mob to
the Jail this morning. but preparations are
making to take the negro TO Carmi for
safe keeping.
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SLAUGHTER OF BULsaRIANs.
Turks Alleged to Have Killed 2,15O i'm
Recent engagements.

SALONICA, Sept. 1.-According to the
latest Turkish official estimate about 15O0
Bulgarians were killed in tie recent fight
ing at Smilero. Neveska AMI Klissura. The
Turkish losses are not stated. This esti-
mate does not include further losses in the
Smlero district. where fighting was re-
newed Aug. 30 and continued until yester-
day. 1t is reported that $50 Bulgarians
were killed in this two-day battle Sara
foff. the revolutionary leader. left Salonica
yesterday.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 1.-Official re-
ports say that 800 insurgents were killed or
wounded during the fighting whicE occurred
last week in the vilayet of Monastir.
Consular dispatches from Prishtina. near
the Servian frontier. confirm the reports
that nearly aiI the Christian villages in the
districts OF Dibra. ifty-fOur miles from
Ionsstr. ana CicevO have been pillaged
eEd burned and that the inhabitants have
red. 1t IS not stated whether AIbanians
o. Bu.garians were the perpetrators OF the
outrages.
eenera; situation optimism prevails in Turk
fSh official circles. In the course of the
audiences which the German ambassador.
l,aron Narsnical Won Bieberstein and the
Russian ambassador. ~. Zinevier. have
been With the Sultan for the purpose OF
recon n,endiris more energetic action and
chief full direction of the military oper-
at.ors, the Sultan replied that he preferred
70 retain control of constanthople.
The Porte has sent memorandum to the
Austrian and Russian ambassadors here
pointing out that at the recent mass meet
ing OF Macedonians in Sofia. Bulgaria, il
was decided 10 send fresh bands into Mace
d1nia. and also calling attention TO the fact
taat committees I'm Bulgaria were supplying
the insurgents with arms and ammunition
BY means or ships which load their carCoes
on the coast sn the vicinity OF Inida
The government has imposed "A personal
or land tax. on the entire Population of
the empire over the age of eighteen The
tax Is on different classes and ranges from
about 80 cents TO $500 each annually. This
Is regarded. In some quarters. as being i'm
the nature OF a provision for war.
TIE celebration here OF the anniversary
CT the Sultan's accession passed of without
any untoward incident The Sultan held
the customary reception and received the
CONGRATULATIONS of the representatives of
the powers and the state dignitaries This
evening the city is brilliantly illuminated
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And Intended to Arrest Him When
He Exchanged 800 I'm Good Money
for $500 I'm Counterfeit.
MARSHALL KNOCKED DOWN
FATALLY BEATEN WITH A STONE
AND HIS MONEY CARRIED OFF.
Found Several Hours Later and
Taken to N New Albany Hospital
Milwaukee Bank Robbed.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
NEW ALBANY. Ind. Sept. 1-Charles
Marshall, Of Pogo, Orange county, forty
miles north Of this city. the Paoli pike.
was terribly beaten to-day by a man whose
name is II. c. Hite, of Louisville, and who
is a counterfeiter by profession. according
TO Marshall. Marshall says he is detec-
tive, and that he has been travelling with
Hite for several days TO secure sufficient
evidence TO convict him of counterfeiting.
This morning the men were walking on
country road north Of the city when. Mar
shall claims, Hite set upon him, and, after
knocking him down, beat him about the
head with a stone. His scalp was cut in
over fifty places, and the gashes cross each
other in such a manner that not a square
inch of skin is left uncut. In some places
pieces of the scalp an inch square are gone.
leaving the skull bare. Marshalrs left ear
is cut in two, and his face is gashed in a
frightful manner. Strange TO say. the skull
is not fractured Marshall crawled 10
farmhouse and became unconscious. from
loss of blood The police were notified. and
he was brought TO St. Edwards Hospital.
where his wounds were dressed. His
sailant has not been apprehended. Unless
will recover. g
An Associated Press dispatch says;
Marshall will die. He is young
country man who shortly after Joining an
amateur detective association received
letter from a man in Chicago offering 70
sell 500 i'm genuine currency for $2o- The
letter was so worded as to give the idea thas
the bills were raised. Marshall opened
correspondence and arranged to meet the
man, who gave his name as Hite, In
secluded spot near New Albany. The anna
teur detective borrowed $780, and when the
negotiations with Hite reached the point
where the moneys were TO be exchanged
he told Hite he was under arrest. Hite
knocked Marshall down with large stone
and proceeded to batter his victims head
into a pulp. When Marshall was found,
horribly beaten. several hours later, the S1oo
he had taken TO the spot was gone. Ply
sicians at st. Edwards Hospital declare
that there is no chance for his recovery"
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GOBBLED BY THE TRUST
IMPORTANT MICHIGAN BEET SUGAR
FACTORIES PURCHASED.
Controlling Interest Secured by the
American Sugar Refining Company
I'm Several Concerns.

DETROIT, Mich, Sept 1.-The Free
Press tomorrow will say: For some time
past the American Sugar Refining Com
pany has been gradually purchasing stock
in many Of the large beet sugar factories
throughout Michigan and to-day ii was
announced that this company had obtained
controlling interest in the following big
factories: The Sebewaing Sugar Refining
Company, Sebewaing; the Sanilac Sugar
Refining Company, Croswell; the sPeninsula
Sugar Company, Caro-; the Tawas Sugar
Company. East Tawas; the Michigan Sug
ar Company, Bay City; the Alma Sugar
Company. Alma; the Saginaw Sugar Com
pany, saginaw; TIE Valley Sugar Company,
Saginaw, and the Menomnec River Sugar
company, Mcnominee. IL is also stated
that as soon as the beet sugar season Is
over the management of the factories will
be placed under one head. The combined
capitalization Of the companies absorbed
by the American Sugar Refining Company
is placed at $635O,O0 O00."
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Independent Packing Company Or
ganfzed and Two Plants to BE
Erected in the West.
CAPITAL STOCK $5,OOo,ooo
FIFTY-ONE PER CENT. OF WHICH
WILL BE HELD In ESCROW,
In Order that the SO-Called Packers
Trust Cannot Secure Control of
the New Company.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. 1.-Twenty-five
stockmen from different parts of the West
ern grass country met in the Midland Hotel
in this city to-day and arranged to perfect
the organization of a packing company to
compete with the alleged packers trust.
The new company was named the Inde-
corporation will be drawn tomorrow and
signed at meeting to be held tomorrow
afternoon.
The company will have a capital stock OF
s5,000,000, and will be Incorporated under
the laws of Arizona. OF the total cap
italization, 81 per cent. will be so disposed
of as to be held in escrow by the board of
directors of the company This will insure
stockmen who interest themselves in the
plan that the company will always be con-
trolled by stock interests. The rest of the
stock will be sold to stockmen If possible,
although no purchaser will be barred.
The division of the stock as decided upon
to-day was made to prevent any possible
chance of the alleged packers trust gain
ing control of the new independent COM
pany. Two millions of the stock will be
issued at first; the rest will be put out
later. Formerly it was part of the plan to
include the United States Packing Conn.,
pany, OF Pueblo, Col, in the scheme. Now
it is predicted on good authority that the
Pueblo plant Will never be built, but that
its capitalization of more than a million
and a half will be offered to the Independ-
ent Packing Company, or will be allowed to
revert back to the stockmen who sub
scribed it. Charles F. Martin, secretary of
the National Live Stock Association, who
was one of the promoters of the United
States Packing Company and a stockholder,
is i'm Kansas City promoting the organiza-
ton of the Independent Packing Company.
The Independent Packing Company will
build one plant in the Missouri valley but
the exact location has not yet been decided
upon. 1t is to be in operation in the fall
of next year. Another plant will be built
later probably in Texas.
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new LAW FOR BARRIERS
UNCLEANLINESs NOT PERMITTED IN
ANY NEW YORK SHOP.
Tonsorial Artists Cannot Use Towels,
Powder Pufs, ETC., on More than
One Person without Washing.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-The new law reg
ulating barber shops has become operative,
and, beginning to-day, any tonsorial artist
in New York State caught shaving a Gus
toner without washing his hands in warm
water and soap, or using a powder pufr or
a towel on more than one person without
its having been washed will be subjected
to Imprisonment and fine.
No alum or other astringent may he used
in stick form 10 stop the flow of blood
The use of sponges is strictly prohibited
Mugs and shaving brushes must be thor
oughly washed after use on each person.
Combs, razors. clippers and scissors must
be thoroughly cleansed by dipping in boil
ing water or other germ destroyer after
every separate use
Other provisions are made for the cleanli-
ness of shops and every barber must have
a certificate procured by examination
before q State board.
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NOW SAYS HE LIED.
John w. Sluder Recants His Com
fession 10 Chicago Police.

CHICAGO, Sept. John w. Sluder, ex-
employe of the Chicago City Railway COM
pany, who Monday night gave the po-
lice an alleged confession of the circum-
stances surrounding the murderous raid OK
the company's barn Sunday morning. in
formed Chief O'Neill in the presence of
number of newspaper men tonight that all
his startling yarns about the tragedy were
false THAT was all a lie, chief. / don't
know why l told 1t. but was not there at
all when the shooting took place."
The chief declared that Sluders denial
was no surprise 10 him. as ever since the
telling one story and contradicting IL i'm
his next breath. The strange thing about
Sluder now seems TO be, as the police view
il, his familiarity with every move made
by the robbers, details which Henry Biehl,
one of the clerks I'm the office. alone was
supposed to know, excepting the robbers
themselves.
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NEW CRUISER TESTED.


PORTLAND. Me-, Sept. 1.-The cruiser
Cleveland, built at the Bath iron works.
and designed Cor service in tropical waters
made her official trial run to-day on the
Cape Ann course, with a four-hour run
against the Navy Departments require
ment that she develop speed of 16.5 knots
under service conditions. The ship suffered
one accident. break in an air pump at
tached to the port engine, which delayed
her by more than a minute. and she was
obliged TO deviate from the course through
the carelessness of three-masted schooner
which ran across her bows during the best
part of the trip. In spite of that, however,
she logged an average of 1912 knots for
the four hours. while during the best part
of the test she made 1866 knots These
figures do not include the tidal corrections,
which will undoubtedly be in favor of the
ship.
Captain Charles J. Train is president of
the trial board and Commander w. c.
Cowles its recorder. 1t is expected the COR
rected speed will be announced tomorrow.
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DOCTOR CUTS HIS THROAT
COMMITS SUICIDE IN JAIL FEW
HOURS AFTER ARREST.
Was Charged with Being Instru-
mental In Causing the Death of a
Bride of Three Weeks.

MENDOZA, ILL.,, Sept. 1.-Dr. Frank NJ.
English, who has been practicing physi-
clan here for nearly thirty years, committed
suicide in the city jail last night, cutting
his throat with penknife. He had been
arrested only few hours before. charged
with having been instrumental in causing
the death of Mrs. Leroy Smith, eighteen
years of age, who died in a hospital at La
sale Sunday night. Mrs. Smith, who was
a bride of three weeks, was formerly Miss
Stella Taylor. Her marriage to Leroy
Smith, an employe of the Illinois Valley
Traction Company. was a runaway match.
Mrs. Edward Mowery, a middle-aged
woman of Mendoza, is under arrest charged
with completely in the crime which is al
legged to have caused the young woman's
death.
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BANK ROBBED OF $500.
Money Pulled from the Paying Tel.
Ier's Desk with "a Piece of Wire.

MILWAUKEE,, Sept. 1.-The Gerniania
National Bank was robbed OF 500 to-day by
a thief who gave his name George p.
Johnson. The money taken was package
Of currency and was extracted from the
paying teller's desk by a short piece OF
copper wire while the teller was engaged
at the telephone. The thief was run down
and captured and the money recovered in
few minutes.
The prisoner now acknowledges that his
name is Joe Shea and the Bertillion meas
ures establish this fact. He is credited in
police circles with having robbed the
Metropolitan National Bank of New York OF
$4,000 on July 2S, 1899. for which he served
a term of two and half years I'm Sing
Sing and was identified at that time by
Captain OF Detectives Coleran. OF Chicago.
as Philip Bailey. who had several years
before been under indictment for steal
ing a $4,000 diamond pin from a jeweler in
Chicago.
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OYSTER BAY, ~. Y. Sept This was
one OF President Roosevelt's quietest week
days during his summer sojourn at Saga
more Hill. No formal callers were received
The President embraced the opportunity to
attend to a considerab BILE amount OF depart
mental business that has been referred TO
him and to dispose OF mass OF correspond
ence. The work In the executive offices
here has become so heavy that il has been
necessary to increase the force Of clerks.
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SALT LAKE, Sept. IA gentle bureau
of information is to be established in this
city by the womens Missionary Union of
Salt Lake and the Utah Ministerial Union
A circular has been sent out to ministerial
associations and missionary and church
organizations all over the country calling
attention to the bureau, explaining it's OBJ
jects. For some time the Mormon Church
has had a bureau of information on the
temple grounds for the benefit of tourists
and Ii is to furnish these visitors with in
formation from the gentle point OF view
especially the questions OF polygamy. the
church in politics and kindred matters
that the bureau is to be established.
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INDIANOLA, Neb., Sept. Flour masked
men, before daylight this morning, at
tempted to blow off the locks of the cage
occupied by Chas. Mcmillan, slayer of Lee
Jones, awaiting trial on a charge of murder
They succeeded In getting two of the locks
off, but the noise aroused the jailer and
the men fed. The identity of the men is
unknown and whether their purpose was to
harm or liberate Mcmillan is equally
r,arrc
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FARMER SHOOTS DAUGHTER.


OTSEGO. Mich, Sept. l-Duncan Swan.
a weIl-known farmer. residing north of this
village. accidentally shot his daughter
Mary and she died last night from the
wound Swan had been troubled with the
crows in his corn. Yesterday he saw tho
stalks moving and thinking crows were I'm
the patch again. discharged his shotgun at
the moving corn. To his horror his daugh-
ter screamed and he found that he had
shot her I'm the breast. She was gathering
corn for dinner and her father did not
know it, Swan is nearly crazed.
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TREASURE SHIP SAILS.
Transport Thomas, with S7,OOO,OOO ON
Board, Leaves for Manila.

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 1.-The army
transport Thomas sailed for Manila by
way of Guam to-day. She carried 307 ma
rines for the Philippines and Guam. twen-
ty-fve members of the Fourteenth Cavalry,
and a few casuals. In addition to a large
quantity of freight the Thomas takes TO
the islands $7.00o.0o0 in treasure, of which
100000 Is in the new silver pesos and
the remainder I'm Philippine silver certifi-
Gates. Ii Is guarded by Major +. III. Hardy,
OF the Fourteenth Cavalry. and a detach-
ment OF twenty-five men.
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WHILE RECITING A PRAYER.
Aged Preacher Dies Suddenly of
Heart Disease at Inwood. IL

NEW YORK. Sept. 1-while recitIng a
prayer In the pulpit OF ST. Paurs Church.
NJ Inwood. l. l.. Rev. Gilbert Combs
stopped in the middle OF a sentence. One
OF the congregation. Fastening to his side.
found the minister, who was seventy-nine
years old. dead from heart failure. For a
moment the congregation was almost panic
stricken. Quiet was restored and the
worshipers slowly left the church