Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-06-17


such as Abdul Hamid held will prob
ably be seen no more. This Sultan
is going to do as the older ones did,
go to different mosques, and not
have the day for seeing ambassadors
necessarily fixed for after the Sal
\ emlik, so there will be no "Pavil-
lion," ETC., but the crowd can take
its chance of seeing.
Yesterday morning we were sur
prised to find that during the night
cannon had been placed back of Pera
Palace over the admiralty and all
the heights about, and infantry
had surrounded the admiralty. An at
tempt at mutiny had broken out on
Saturday as a demonstration against
the newly appointed minister of
marine, but Schefket Pasha, the COM
mander II chief, took his measures
while the mutineers slept with both
ears on their pillows, as they say.
The result was that the white flag
was raised.
Among those executed today are
the assassins Of the minister of JUS
tice, deputy and an officer who was
killed on the bridge while trying to
perse.
The heat has come suddenly and is
very intense. My poor husband, in
his heavy uniform, has just gone
down to return the call of the new
ly arrived captains of our station
aires. They lunched with us the
other day, and on Wednesday we
lunched on the gun boat.
must tell you story that is 60
! ing the rounds of the City to ex.
plain why the former Sultan is yet
alive. 1t is very Oriental and hard
ly reVerent, but typical. 1t seems
that in this crisis the Almighty and
the prince Of the lower regions held
council as to who should receive Alb
dull Hamid, if the troubled events on
earth should cause his sudden ap-
| pearance. The Almighty said decided
ly that the gates of Paradise were
closed to such man. His satanic
majesty declared that he, too, could
not take him in, for the simple rea-
son that he feared the former Sui
tan would begin his intrigues there
and overthrow him. So it was de-
cided to leave him in Salonica as
the place where he could do tie
least harm.
This mornings papers say that
yesterday Abdul ordered some shirts,
for he had only time to take hand
baggage with him.
Tuesday evening, May 4th.-I must
finish this, for tomorrow's post
am tired tonight and heart heavy,
for all day we have seen SO much
suffering. This morning a party Or
us went over to STEAMBOAT to a big
military hospital. 1t is Turkish, but
nurses are German. There are 200
patients, of whom 40 were wounded
soldiers Most of them were of the
reactionarieS, but they lay quietly,
side by side with the Liberals. Here
the wounded were in very serious
condition, and, altogether there was
so much misery. We took them
twelve bottles of orange and lemon
syrup, so oranges and 40 packets
of cigarettes, as well as flowers.
came home, hurried through lunch,
and down to a committee meeting
of our Home.
At $3.50 Mrs. R. and l went to
the Armenian hospital, which is poor,
and where the patients get no
! luXuries, and took them several
large bottles of sherbet, two Or
anges and two packets of cigar
cites each. They recognized us and
were so glad to see US. There are
/ two young, fine looking Albanian vol
unteers there, one of whom lost his
! leg above the knee, and since We
were there the last time, his right
arm was taken off at the shoulder.
The second had leg off. Poor fell
lows, think of their going back to
their mountain homes, and where it
/ is literally only the survival Of the
fittest, manned like this. 1t makes
ones heart ache for them. His maj
| esty is going there in a day or two,
and | hope his attention will be
drawn to such cripples. There are
not many such, I doubt if more than
/ 80, and some small pensions might
be given that would keep them from
I starvation This is the sad part Of
the war.
When we went by the Taxim bar
rack the dreadful gibbets were ready
for those who are to be executed
tomorrow at 5 a. NJ, and the bodies