Mower County transcript., 1903-09-02
'MAGNS ssh, N IS ] u ]! b |
REPORTED AssAssINATIo or
AMERICAN VICE coNsuL
PROVES ING CORRECT.
Was Fired at BY Unknown Parties u at 4.
Beirut, syria, but Bullets Missed 4 the &
Mark-Mistake Due 70 Error Il
Translatine Cipher Message Ar ar
II ships Will Proceed to Turkish Ns-
!. ters as First Decided on.

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@ Washington, AUG. 29. decid dedly
new turn in the case Of United States
Vice Consul William G. Magelssent a
Beirut, Syria, who was reported tc
have been assassinated last Sunday
developed last night when it became
known that the report was incorrect
and that, although Mr.. Magelssen had
been shot at, he had not even been in
jured. This information came to the
state department in a dispatch from
United States Minister Leishman al
Constantinople, who said the mistake
in making the original announcement
was due to an error in the transmits
sion of the cipher dispatch from Con
sui Ravndal at Beirut in reporting the
incident to the minister. The dis
patch from the minister was communi
Gated to the president at once at Oys'
ter Bay. ..& n
Acting Secretary Loomis declined to
make public the text Of Minister Leish'
mans dispatch, but he gave q sum
mary Of it's contents.
Vice Consul Uninjured.
It showed that Mr.. Magelssen had
been shot at by some person at the time
unknown to the officials, but that he
had not been hit. The local Turkish Off
cials were prompt to express their re
gret at the occurrence and were exert.
ing themselves to apprehend the assas
sin, but thus far had been unsuccess'
full. H. % Z.
The minister's dispatch also said
that Consul Ravndal had reported to
him that some of the foreign c0nsuls
located at Beirut had reported to their
governments that the situation at that
place had become exceedingly unsafe,
that this condition of affairs had ex-
listed for some time and that something
ought to be done to relieve the ten.
sion. The opinion was expressed that
the attempted assassination of Magels-
sen probably would bring matters to a
focus, the attention of the Turkish
government being drawn to the mat
ter in this forcible way and some eff
fort thus be made to avoid further
trouble. tF.9- sis4t sS
Relieves the Situation. j
The latest development in the Turk
ish situation was discussed in official
circles, where the view is held that the
denial of the report of the killing of
Mr.. Magelssen relieves the situation
of it's immediate awkward and embar-
RAISING feature, but will not prevent
our naval vesselsf continuing to the
East. y E
Minister Leishman, in one of his
dispatches to the department, sug-
gested that conditions were such that
it might be we'll to have some Ameri-
can naval demonstration in those wa
ters. Reports also have come to the
government from the missionary in
terests of threatened destruction OF
their property at Harpoot and because
of this, Admiral Cotton, it is expected,
will be allowed to proceed with one or
more of his vessels to Beirut.
: Acting Secretary Darling last night
received a cablegram from the ad-
miral, dated Villefranche, saying that
he had left that place with the cruisers
Brooklyn and San Francisco for
Genoa on the way to Beirut.