The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-09
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

1 Steele, N. D.-Gorman Baker. charged with the murder of his wife and father | in-law. Thomas Glass, was taken from tho lSidder county Jail today and lynch ed. It is the first lynchins in North Da- kota in a decade.
 Mexico City.--A cruehing defeat was administered to the zapatistas in the | fighting around Cuernavaea, according to advices received today. over a hun dred rebels were left on the battlefield. The remnants of General Le Laes army sought refuge in the mountains where pursuit was hazardous.
 Quebec.-Ferryboats today succeeded
 in reaching the stranded liner Roya George in the St. Lawrence river and ir taking off the five hundred steerage pas sengers.
 New William Hunter, Chester feldian, age 70, was arrested in Brook . | lyn this afternoon and held in $10,000 bail on a charge of complicity in the l alleged wire tapping game in which | Kirby s. Sidbury and Dr. ]. w. Powell of Wilmington, N. C., recently lost | s25,000. Hunter is the fourth man ar rested on this charge.
 Chicago-Withn a day or two Gov ernor Deneen will decide whether he will call an extra session of the state | legislature to fill the United States senatorial vacancy and pass apportion- ment bills.
 London-The Saturday Review, com n.enting on the election of Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency of the United States says the test of MT Wilson's character and statesmanship will come when he takes up Great Britains pro- test against the Panama canal bill ............'''..'.''''''' I ing to it's request for mediation by the | European powers, but the newspapers 1 say this situation has given way before | the demand of the army and or pubic | opinion that the war be continued The common danger sems to have united all | parties This is shown by the outburst of the newspapers of all political be- | liefs.
 The reflection of this new born unanim- rlty may be found in the suggestion of one of the high government officials that even if it is found impossible to hold the lines at Tchatalja, other defenses are possible before the enemy can reach this city. Every male who has reached the age of 19 years will be expected to be ready to perform his share in the duty Of protect ] ing the capital.
 l Mshmoud Echefket Pasha, ex-minister of war. saw Kamii Pasha, the grand vizier, today. 1t is reported that Schef- ket will be appointed inspector general.
 In Turkish official reports Palas and Kirdjare districts have been burned by Bulgarian troops and Daoud and Topuklu and surrounding villages also were de- stroyed.
 An official dispatch received from the yali of Salonikl, dated today, says that | two squadrons of Bulgarian cavalry Thursday attacked the troops guarding the railway station at Orlu, three hours l tourney from Adrianople, but that the Bulgarians were repulsed, losing % smen | killed.
 Tales of Massacre | constantinople, November 7-tBy Way | of Kustendje, Roumania.)-Storie of the distress which prevails among the Turk
 ish troops of the panic which seized upon various bodies of the men, and | what is worse, tales of pillage, rapine I and massacre, continue to come in from various points. It is reported that Nazim
 Pasha, the Turkish commander in chief, | has decided to send to their homes sey- eral thousand of his men who have shown i the white feather on the field of battle. but logic would suggest that they deserved more serious punishment.
 Reports of the excesses of the fleeing
 Turkish troops in the town of Silivri, a | port on the Sea of Marmora, southwest of the Tchatalja line. apparently are au- | thentic.
 Many of the inhabitants are said to have 1 been massacred and the town was com pletely burned. The population of Slivri | was mostly Greek.
 | Such stories as those do not tend to reassure the minds of the dwellers in | Constantinople. where sufficient panic | feeling already prevails. Some of the sem
 satlonal stories telegraphed abroad con- corning the situation in Constantnople
 not only are exaggerated, but mischiev- ous. as they are likely not only to react | locally but cause anxiety among friends | of members of the foreign colonies here. | The presence of warships of the foreign powers, which is understood will num- Der F. is the surest guarantee for the
 safety of the property and lives of Euro
 peans. but the Turkish government also | desires credit for the strong measures 1t has taken for keeping order within l the capital
 The authorities are acting under plan