Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-05-12
RELIEF WORK AT ADANA.

ksALELA FfFVaElAE fah Sf1DalsA
Armenian Representatives Assured
That the Authorities Will Prosecute
With Vigor the Investigation Int
the armenian Massacres and That
the Guilty Will Be Dealt With
Summarily.
Constantinople, By Cable,-The
government is taking hold Of the re-
LIEF work in Adana province with Wig
or, It was announced that $l50,000
had been sent. there.
Tie Grand Vizier and Ferid Pasha,
the Minister of the Interior, received
q derutation of Armenian clergy
and laity Saturday, headed by Ar
schalani, provisional representative
of the patriarchate, who was assur-
ell the government would inquire
thoroughly into the Adana massacres,
and severely punish those guilty of
melting them.
a number Of notable ,Armenians
met here Sunday and submitted to.
the government the following re-
quests:
v First. that the murderers Of Chris
tians be punished; second. that stolen
|, , property be returned, and indemni-
lies be paid for property destroyed;
third, that the women and girls who
were stolen be returned, and also
that men and women who were CON-
PEELED forcihly to adopt Mohammed..
ism be allowed to resume their origi-
nal faith; fourth, that the investiga-
ton conducted under the chairman
Eship Of the governor general be sus-:
pended and that a new investigation
of the disorders from their COM
mencement be made by a military
commission; fifth, that Christians be
permitted to participate in the local
police establishment, and sixth, that
Armenians be allowed to participate
in defraying the cost Of erecting a
monument to those who have fallen
in the army Of liberty. ~.
The agricultural bank has arranged
to loan $75, 900 without interest to the
farmers Of Adana province, to aid
them in planting new crops.
Practically all the refugees at Lata-
ka, Syria, have returned to their
homes OF are ready to go. The wealth
er in fine and warm and crops are ripe.
/ John G. Davis Arrested.
WASHINGTON. Special.-There were
sensational developments Saturday in
1 the case of John C. Davis, a member
Of the local bar, who was arrested
Friday on the charge of having OBJ
tanned money under false prtenses.
i The amount, which Davis is alleged to
have 1nisappropriated in transactions
with his clients, mostly women, was
thought at first to have been small,
but Saturday notes, aggregating $50,-
900, said to have been given by Davis,
were exhibited to United States Dis
trict Attorney Baker, and it is ru.
/ mored that the amount finally may
!. reach 100000. Martin C. Davis, a
brothei of John and secretary Of q
| local building and loan association,
was arrested Saturday on charge of
conspiracy.
Il a dispatch from Raleigh, N. c.,
i says: Davis created a sensation in
this State in the early ninties, result
ing in his Incarceration In the State
\ insane asylum here from May "a,
4 1892, to November 30, 1897. He was
4 q lawyer in Wilmington and q pronlii-
y nent and azealous member Of the
4 Methodist church. He furnished the
4 money TO build q Methodist church
4 and placed in it costly chimes. He
spent money freely. Then came pom
plants from clients involving money
matters, said to aggregate about $780,
600. He was arrested and the case
was noted one in the judicial an
/ mails Of the State. His counsel set up
the plea of insanity. The jury found
the accused insane. He was then sent
to the insane asylum here. Upon his
release some years later he went to
Washington and in many ways since
! tried to make 6 reparation in some OF
those from whom he was charged with
fraudulently obtaining money. During
the past two years he has been send.
ling occasional remittanees to those
with who he had dealings in Whining.
ton. His defense will be insanity ir
the present trouble.