Newport weekly independent., 1903-09-11

tlVes ot foreign governments that ne will place in the field in Macedonia an army of 100000 men to put down the revolution.
 On June 30, 1902, there were 1,001, ,494 pensioners on the rolls of the United States. On the corre- spending date this year the num- Der had declined to 996,545 Near ly 41,000 names have been dropped from the rolls in the past year by reason of deaths, the number run ming from 2,000 to 5000 a month.
 A man giving his name as Henry Wielbruner was arrested near the summer home of President Roose- welt because he persisted in an eff fort to get an audience with the chief executive. He proved to be crank with the hallucination that he was to wed the presidents daugh- ter. He was armed with a revolv- CT.
 Private news from the Balkans contains horrible descriptions of massacres committed by Turkish troops in repressing the insurrec- tion. Whole villages were set on fire and sacked and men tortured in the worst manner before being killed. Not only women, but children of both sexes, were brutal ly voilated by Bashi-Bazouks, and other cruelties committed, so repug- nant that they cannot be described. To remonstances from the consuls the Pashas have answered, pledg- ing themselves to be able within two weeks to announce to the whole world that order has been re-estab- lished in the Balkans.
 The London Daily Mails corre- spondent, in a dispatch from Mo- nastir, tells of an intellectual at tempt he made to penetrate the Albanian cordon and reach Armen- sko. He was threatened with death and compelled to return under guard. He gives numerous in- stances of Turkish brutality and treachery. The villagers of Arm ensko were massacred before a sin gle insurgent visited the place, The inhabitants of the village Veol- kar, near Florin, were butchered while on their way to Florina un- der guard, after having surrender ed on a guarantee of immunity. At Florina, continued the correspond ent, the Christians are in a state of abject fear and are handicapped by bigoted Greek metropolitan, who orders them to stay in the vil- lage and not to flee, with the result that the savage soldiery murder them by the score.
 The Suffrage League of Boston, negro organization, recently adopt ed resolutions declaring: "Inas- much as Booker T. Washington has glorifed the revised constitutions of the south, has minimized the jim crow car outrage, has attacked the wisdom of the fourteenth and if teenth amendments to the constitu- tion, has deprecated the primary importance of the ballot, has preached to the colored people si- lent submission to intolerable con- ditions and makes his people by word and laughing stock before the world, he is not a fit leader for the colored race, and no president who recognizes him as a political leader should receive the colored vote of the north" The above will not de- ter Booker Washington in his life work of making of the southern ne gro a better citizen both to himself and the people among whom he lives.
 Masked burglars robbed the barns of the cable car line in St. Louis and murdered two men and fatally wounded two others. The burglars. entered the office of the barn aboutt 12 o'clock at night, and without giving the men a chance to comply with their request to hold up their hands, began firing. J. E. Johnn- son and Frank Stewart were in- stantly killed and W. D. Edmonds and Henry Biehl were fatally nd