Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19

criminate popping of pistols and
shouting and running around, and then
two or three Orientals go to the hos.
pital, badly bunged up. The cause?
Merely a local blooming out of a quar-
rel that his its roots at the bottom
of the social structure of Syria; the
breach between the two branches of
the Syrian church has been reopened
in due form here in New York. Nine
times out of ten one or another of the
hostile bishops or both of them man
court end of the ARRAY.
Traced Many Murders.
A few days ago the sensational
Union Square murder served to direct
attention to the fight between the
Turks and the Armenians and be-
tween the, Armenians themselves. The
richest Armenian in America, a mil
lionaire rug merchant, was shot to
death from behind as he came out of
the Everett House. where he had been
for his lunch. Investigating the assas-
sination the district attorneys Office
stumbled upon a door which, being
opened, showed veritable Blue
Boards closet of horrors. Mr.. Jerome's
young men were able to trace the muir
der of the rug merchant, the butchery
of the Armenian priest, old Father
Kaspar, three months before, and half
a dozen other unexplained murders
here and in other parts of the globe
to common cause
They learned, to their very great
surprise, that for months and years
most of the wealthy Armenians in
America had been living in fear of
their lives because OF the threats and
the acts of mysterious Armenian So
ciety formed ostensibly for the pur-
pose of aiding the moribund revolu-
ton against Turkey, but in reality
doing a large mail-order business in
murder, blackmail and intimidation
society which has its headquarters
in Cypress and which, through its
chosen agents, strikes deadly blows at
will in New York or London or Con-
stantinople or New England. The
slayer of the rug dealer came, so the
police believe, all the way across the
ocean from Greece to shoot one of his
countrymen whom he had never seen.
He got his orders and he came.
Trouble Brought from Sparta.
One night last week a desperate
fight broke out among the Greek ped
dlers who sell fruit and peanuts
around the Manhattan entrance of
Brooklyn bridge. Up ana down Park
Row the fight ragged. Fifteen or TWEEN
ty Greeks, arrayed in equal strength
on either side, deserted their push
carts to use knives and fists and clubs
on one another. They overpowered the
first of the policemen who came
against them and kept right on. 1t
took the reserves from two station
houses to NOW the gladiators down
and drag them away to the station
house.
In the police court the magistrate
said he supposed they were two rival
groups of peddlers who had fallen out
! over the distribution of the fruitful
territory about the bridge entrance.
"Oh, no." explained the interpreter,
4ullC dS d ludllCI Vi IdCl. All lueSti
men come from Sparta, and there has
| been bitter quarrel between their
families in Sparta for many years.
They happened to meet in force here
| in New York
He added that from what he could
gather there would probably be work
| for an undertaken when the leaders of
the two clans came out of the work.
house. And there you are. That's the
way it goes in New York, the world
| metropolis.
Police Commissioner Bingham re-
allies that the police force as it is
constituted at present is not compe-
| tent to cope with the foreigners who
bring their old feuds and conspiracies
over here with them. He has asked
for special appropriation of 5000
| with which to hire secret-service
staff of Cinnamon Italians and AR