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NIAGARA GORGE
THREATENS RUIN
ICE JAM YIELDS.
Mountains of Ice May Cause
Channel to form.
New
Famous Suspension Bridge in Danger
of Destruction Whirlpool Frozen
for First Time In History River
Carries' Torrents of Ice From
Lake Erie.
Niagara Falls, April 22. Vast areas
of angry water and mountains of ice,
backed up by the gorge in Niagara
river, threaten to cut a new channel
and destroy one side, at least, of the
famous falls, one of the chief wonders
of theworld. The famous spidery sus
pension bridge, once the highest and
longest in the world, and admittedly
one of the most famous engineering
projects, is in imminent danger of
destruction.
At Niagara-on-the-Lake the river is
18 feet above the normal level, and is
still rising.
The gorge road which skirts the
American shore is almost obliterated.
The great whirlpool, which has never
in the memory of the white man sub
mitted to the will of the ice, is lost to
view under the pack, which at that
point spans the stream, and every min
ute the covering of ice is becoming
thicker.
The pressure of the on-rush from
Lake Erie has piled ' the far stretches
in great concentric ridges, some of
them rising to a height of 50 feet. It
is possible with the aid of a plank to
cross the pool from shore to shore.
Small Opening Made In Niagara With
Dynamite.
Youngstown, N. Y., April 23. A
breach was made today in the great
ice jam which for ten days has held
the lower Niagara in its grip and
caused damage estimated at $1,000,-
000.
Engineer Kunz and his men ham
mered away and at 5 o'clock the blast
from 150 pounds of dynamite sent a
tiny rivulet trickling through the east
side of the jam. At dusk further ex
plosions and the ceaseless grinding of
the floating ice had broadened the
trickle to a bold young stream.
Engineer Kunz expects that the
channel will be widened during the
night, and that by morning there will
be a broad avenue.
The dynamiting attracted lees than
500 spectators. Some chunks of ice
buried themselves a foot in the earth.
One crashed through the roof of the
pumping station.
The main mass of the ice from the
mouth of the river, 10 miles north, is
apparently as solid as masonry. At out
100 feet from the shore a narrow chan
nel is swiftly running. About 80 feet
north of the head of this channel is a
good acre of green water streaked with
chunks of ice.
The jam is of appalling proportions
It is 12 miles in length and in many
places 60 feet in depth, and represents
millions of tons and a strength power
enough to annihilate the four villages
alone its border, if it should start to
go out all at once. Another element
of horror is its pestilential nature.
Mingled with the slushy ice cast high
on the banks is a week s sewage from
the cities along the Niagara frontier.
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A BRIEF DAILY REPORT ON
THE WORK OF CONGRESS
SULTAN AWAITS TROOPS.
" Friday, April 23.
Washington, April 23. The first
reading of the tariff bill for consider
ing committee amendments was con
cluded when the senate adjourned to
day. According to an announcement
made when the reading began, every
paragraph of the bill will be subject
to amendment when it is taken up for
final consideration next Monday. All
concede, however, that substantial
progress has been made. There will
be a return to many of the schedules.
There was comparatively little debate
today, as Aldrich postponed answers to
many questions asked of him in order
to hasten the reading. He said he
would make full explanations when the
amendments received final considera
tion. Many provisions, including the
wood pulp and wool schedules were
passed over today on specific objection.
SULTAN GIVES IN.
Surrenders All Power to Parliament
and Awaits Decision.
TEN THOUSAND DIE.
Butchery in Syria Reaches Appalling
Degree and Craze Spreads.
Constantinopple, April 22. Massa
cres that started last week in Adana
have spread along the Syrian coast and
toward the interior as far as the vila
yet of Aleppo, and fanaticism has led
to wholesale butchery throughout this
entire district. It is conservatively
estimated that over 10,000 have been
slain, the majority of this number be--ing
women and children, who have been
slaughtered in droves.
Religious uprisings have broken out
in Antioch and Birejik, and foreigners
have taken refuge in the British con
sulates. Fifty men from the British
warship Diana have been landed at Al-
exandretta, but their distance from the
scene of the latest outbreaks seems to
have no effect in stopping the ravages
of the religion-crazed slayers.
The situation at Alexandretta is crit
ical. Panic everywhere prevails.
Thousands of refugees are crowding
the city, which is patrolled by marines
from the British cruiser Diana.
Constantinople, April 23. The
Young Turks have won another vie
tory over Sultan Abdul Hamid, but
whether the sultan will remain as sov
ereign is yet to be decided, although
he has offered to place the affairs of
government entirely in the hands of
ministers responsible to parliament.
The sultan also agrees to replace the
Constantinople garrision with troops
that have been investing the city for
four days.
The chamber of deputies and some of
the senators met today at San Stefano
and are now discussing the question of
deposing the sultan.
The concentration of the investing
army is complete and doubtless the
next 24 hours will decide the fate of
the sultan, who remains passively at
his palace, awaiting the issue.
For the present there need be little
fear of bloodshed within the city, but
there is much to be feared from the
riots and massacres that now are
sweeping over the districts under Turk
ish domination.
Thursday. April 22.
Washington, April 22. Republican
criticism of the pending tariff bill on
the ground that the rates were too high
was prominent in the senate today
when Nelson, of Minnesota, and Dol
liver, of Iowa, attacked various sched
ules. Under the guise of discussing
the duty on gas retorts a general de
bate was participated in by Demo
cratic senators.
It was agreed by Mr. Aldrich that at
any time while the measure was being
considered lor amendment any para
graph might be reverted and be sub
ject to amendment without the neces
sity of resorting to any formal parlia
mentary procedure.
Nelson denounced the measure, de
claring that the cotton, glass and wool
en schedules were too high. He said
that placing duties on woolen manufac
tured goods 59 per cent higher than
the duty on raw wool was unjust.
Gal linger energetically declared that
that was the same spirit that actuated
New England with its criticism of any
effort to reduce the high rates that had
prevailed upon her products.
Dolhver declared that not only were
the duties of the Payne-Aldrich bill tool
high, but they were so worded as to
result in large increases of rates with
out definite indication of such increases
in the schedules.
publican leader presented the esti
mates of revenue and expenditures,
showing that under the bill, which
omits any new forms of taxation, and
witn a reduction in expenses to be
eirected by economy, ,thf government
will have a sum us of $30,000,000 in
the fiscal year 1911. He declared that
appropriations in the last few years
naa Deen extravagant, and that no new
taxes were necessary. Daniel criti
cised the majority of the committee
for not admitting the Democarts to the
sessions at which the bill was drafted
He practically conceded the soundness
of the protection theory, by admitting
mat trie tariff should equal the differ
ence in the cost of production at home
and abroad, but said the bill did not
equally safeguard all interests.
. At the conclusion of Aldrich's state
ment, Daniel, the ranking minority
leader of the finance committee, ar
raigned the Republican members of
the committee for their exclusion of
the Democratic members during the
consideration of the bill.
At me conclusion oi uaniels re
marks, Aldrich sent to the clerk's desk
a copy of a newspaper dated April 21,
1894, in which Senator Vorhees and
Senator Vest had defended the Demo
cratic procedure in framing the Wilson
bill to be reported to the senate without
the participation of the Republican
minority.
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upon motion oi Aldrich the bill was
then made the unfinished business of
the day.
I urkish capital Ready to Fall Feet at
of Army.
Constantinople, April 21. Sultan
Abdul Hamid is awaiting in his palace
for whatever may befall. Ilia grand
vizier, Tewfik Pasha, has announced
that, without fear, the sultan will re
main with his family and accept re
signedly the fate prepared for him and
his country.
Tewfik Pasha and the minister of
war, iulhem Pasha, who sent their res
ignations last night, decided to with
draw them today, and the grand vizier
is pabcing most of the time with the
sultan.
Nazim Pasha is still in command of
the garrison, but no preparations have
ABDUL REPORTED
TO HAVE GIVEN UP
Said to Have Abdicated Throne In
v Face of Advancing Enemy.
Sultan Believed to Have Fled or Hid
denSuccessor May Be Prince
Yusseff Izzedin 'Army of Consti
tutionalists Enveloping City Cap
ital Full of Rumors.
ConstantinoDle. ADril 20. With the
been made to resist the advance of the Constitutional army steadily enveloping
mo capnai ana demanding nis nead,
with a garrison un wiling to defend him,
Salonica troops. The Constitutionalist
lines now envelop the city, but the
commander in chief, General HuBni
Pasha, is still at Hademoki and it is
not likely that the invaders will enter
the city before tomorrow night or the
following day.
It is understood that the Salonicans
have submitted to the government a
list of persons whose punishment is de
manded for complicity in the recent
mutiny. This list includes deputies
and journalists. But apparently there
is the utmost good feeling between the
invaders and the residents of the city,
many of whom visited the camps of the
baton ica troops today and were receiv
ed hospitably.
PASSENGER TRAFFIC LARGE.
Booms Taffs Tour North.
Washington, April 23. Conerression
al Delegate Wickersham, of Alaska,
today wired the mayors of 24 Alaskan
cities to send invitations to President
Taft to visit the territory during the
summer. When the invitations arrive
Wickersham will call on the president
and urge him to make the trip. Pur
suant to the orders he received, Gover
nor Hoggatt has given up his apart
ments in this city and is now en route
to Alaska.
MASSACRES SPREAD NORTH.
GALE KILLS AND MAIMS.
Ohio Lakefront Swept by a Sudden
Five-Minute Blow.
Cleveland, April 2. Three persons
were killed, six perhaps fatally hurt,
at least 50 less seriously injured and
51,000,000 worth of property destroyed
in a tornado that swept through Cleve
land and Northern Ohio yesterday.
The storm arose suddenly and lasted
just five minutes. At 12:30 the sun
was shining brightly. At 12:33 the
city was dark. From the northeast of
the lake came a 66-mile gale and heavy
rain. People were blown off their feet
and hurled against buildings in many
places, to be struck down by bricks
and timbers that filled the air.
Roofs were lifted off houses, walls
hurled down, strongly-braced smoke
stacks picked up and chimneys demol
ished. iwelve school buildings were
damaged. Many pupils had remark
able escapes, but none were seriously
hurt. Firemen and policemen turned
out to assist the people whose homes
had been wrecked. So seriouly was
the telephone service crippled that it
was impossible to get connection with
either the police or fire headquarters.
Merger Suit in Court.
San Francisco, April 22. Suit
against the Union Pacific and the South
ern Pacific companies has been entered
in the United States Circuit court for
the Northern district of California for
the purpose of dissolving the financial
relations of the two railroads. The
suit was brought originally in Utah,
where the lines of the two roads form
a junction, and hearings have been held
in nearly every large city of the United
States where the two roads own physi
cal property, have headquarters or
freight agencies.
Russia Must Soon Intervene.
St. Petersburg, April 22. The situ
ation in Persia engrosses the attention
of the Russian foreign office, the Turk
ish crisis assuming a position of sec
ondary importance. In spite of the
prompt compliance by the shah with
Russia's ultimatum that a six-day arm
istice must be declared at Pabriz for
the purpose of providing food for the
foreingners ana noncombatants, it is
felt that intervention in Persia cannot
long be postponed.
Snow on Western Prairies.
Denver, April 22. Nearly two inch
es of snow fell in Denver last night and
more iss predicted for tonight and to
morrow. This is the eighth day in
April on which snow has fallen. Snow
is also reported south and west in the
state and fruitgrowers are building
smudges to protect the fruit trees from
damage by frost.
New Regions Affected bv Fanatical
Wave of Slaying.
Constantinople, April 23. The
spread of the wave of massacre and
death to Erzerum, the principal town
of Turkish Armenia, in a district far
removed to the north from that hither
to affected by the wave of fanaticism,
is leading to the conclusion here that
the outrages are being inspired by the
sultan, more or less directly, as a coun
ter move in politics to the constitu
tional movement of the Young Turks.
Weight is given this conclusion by
the change in feeling on. the part of
the Armenians, who are now ceasing
their enthusiastic hailing of the con
stitutional government, and appealing
again for the laws of the Sheri and the
sultan. That the Young Turks have
been very friendly with the Christians
is a matter of record ; and the fact
that the fanatical Moslems have been
roused to attack Christians is regarded
as an indirect way of bringing pressure
upon the Young Turks by many in
well-informed political circles. Horri
ble as this idea is, it is fast gaining
ground, and the behavior of the Ar
menians themselves in abandoning
their appeals to the Young Turks and
placing reliance on the sultan is fur
ther proof of it.
Wednesday, April 21.
Washington, April 21. Substantial
progress was made by the senate today
in considering the tariff bill. No sen
ator being prepared to speak on the
bill as a whole, the reading of the meas
ure by paragraphs began. The various
items in the chemical schedules were
passed over for future consideration.
The reading was frequently interrupt
ed by the discussion of amendments
and only 18 pages of the bill were dis
posed of. Cummins presented his in
come tax provision and discussed it at
length.
Aldrich stated he would ask to have
passed over for future consideration
any provision that might be objected
to. It was agreed that any amend
ment to which there should be objec
tion should be passed over with the un
derstanding that any senator might
move at any time to take up any para
graph after it had been read.
Dolliver suggested that the recipro
city and retaliatory clauses and the
drawback and thea dministrative feat
ures of the bill should be reported by
the finance committee before the bill
was considered.
Taft Favors Lane.
Washington, April 23. That Frank
lin K. Lane, of California, will succeed
himself as member of the Interstate
Commerce commission is believed here
by many of his friends. Although
Lane s term does not expire for several
months, it is known that several have
their eyes on the berth. The work
done by the Californian, however, is
said to have won the approval of Presi
dent Taft. Lane is believed to regard
another term with favor.
Critics Are Welcome.
Los Angeles, April 23. A unique
innovation in municipal affairs is a
clearing house for all city business
which Mayor Alexander established to
day. It is expected to effectually end
the insistent complaint heretofore pre
vailing that private individuals could
not get access to or action from public
officials. Under the new system the
mayor will not only receive, but actu
ally invites complaints, criticisms, new
ideas and suggestions of all kinds
which may result in the betterment of
conditions in any direction.
Reopen Over Million Acres.
Washington, April 23. The Taft ad
ministration is not going as far as the
past administration in tying up public
lands, in furtherance of the conserva
tive policy. It leaked out today for
the first time that during the close of
Garfield s term in the Interior depart
ment several million acres of land were
withdrawn from entry in order to "con
serve stream flow." This administra
tion has ordered restoration to entry of
1,170,925 acres of this land.
Tuesday, April 20.
Washington, April 20. The census
bill was sent back to conference by
the senate today in order that its
amendments relating to the civil ser
vice law and requiring the construc
tion of a building for the census work
in this city might be considered fur
ther. By an aye and nay vote, the senate
rejected the conference report because
of its failure to include the McCumber
amendment, requiring applicants for
civil service employment to reside in
the states claimed by them as their
homes.
That the census office has in it em
ploy in one bureau the wife of s secre
tary of a member of congress, the
wives of two officials of the War de
partment, and the wife of a prominent
official in the Treasury department was
the charge mode by McCumber in criti
cizing the conference report.
"Promotion," he said, "seems to be
almost wholly for women who have
nusDanos in tne department. this is
getting to be a city of official families
holding positions under the govern
ment." Whole families, he said, are em
ployed in government departments
credited to states which the younger
members of the families have never
seen. McCumber urged the necessity
of his amendment requiring actual res
idence by the applicant from a state,
which was stricken out by the conferees.
Pollution of Water the State's Affair.
Washington, April 21. The secre
tary of war today decided the case of
the city of Santa Barbara against the
Union Oil company. Protests were
filed with the department against pol
mnon oi tne waters oy proposed pipe
lines and the tanks of the company,
The engineering department decided
that it was without remedy, and so did
the attorney general. The secretary
of war now says the matter must be
handled by the state, if at all.
Barrett Quite Content.
Washington, April 23. John Bar
rett, director of the bureau of Ameri
can republics, today stated that he is
not a candidate for the appointment as
minister to China or to any other dip
lomatic post, but is desirous of retain
ipg his present position. He said he
had been asked by both the president
and secretary of state to continue as
director instead of accepting a new
position.
Thousands Will Seek Homes on Pa
cific Coast.
Chicago, April 21. Officials of the
North Pacific coast roads expect an un
usually large passenger traffic to that
country during the coming summer.
It will not be created wholly by the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific fair, though that
will be a great drawing card. There
will also be a vast volume of travel
brought about by the large number of
persons going to the coast with the
intention of becoming permanent
settlers in the Northwestern country.
The business depression which has
been keenly felt in all the industrial
and commercial centers of the East
has caused a great many people to seek
out pastures new as the fields for their
future exertions, and large numbers of
these have come to look upon the Pa-
cific Northwest coast country as offer
ing them the greatest inducement of
making their future homes there.
Already inquiries are being made of
the railroads in great numbers as to
facilities for transportation and reser
vations are being made for sleeping car
and other accommodations away in ad
vance of anything believed to be possl
ble a short time ago.
and with a cabinet ready to surrender
to the demands of the patriot armv.
Sultan Abdul Hamid is reported to
have abdicated and fled on a warship or
sought refuge in a foreign embassy.
l he report that the sultan had abdi
cated caused the Greatest excitement
in the lobbies of parliament. A rumor
of the flight of the sultan on a warship
followed closely on that of his abdica
tion, but neither could be confirmed.
Large crowds gathered at the British
embassy, where other reports had it
that the sultan had taken refuge, and
there were scores of inquiries at the
Russian embassy concerning the truth
of the rumor that the sultan was under
the protection of Russia on one of its
guardships. At both of these embas
sies all knowledge of the sultan's move
ments was denied and the Turkish For
eign office gave a strong denial of the
rumors.
The abdication of Abdul Hamid, how
ever, appears to be not improbable,
and it appears that within a day or two
the Constiuttionalists may accept! as
his successor Prince Yusseff Izzedin,
the eldest son of the late sultan, who
is second in line, as they are strongly
displeased with Abdul Hamid's attitude.
The Constitutional forces sent out
small parties to reconnoiter this after
noon, and at 7 o'clock in the evening
they were within sight of the gates of
Constantinople. They encountered no
resistance, nor does resistance seem
likely, unless it is at the palace. The
headquarters of the Constitutionalist
army is at Dedegatich, and General
Husni Pasha's forces, which now num
ber between 20,000 and 30,000, occupy
a range of hills about 20 miles from
the capital.
LOEB AFTER SMUGGLERS.
Drop
Deschutes Project Still in Doubt.
Washington, April 20. Secretary
Ballinger says the fate of the Des
chutes project has not been finally de
lermmeo. ine reclamation service
recommended abandoning it, but the
secretary has not decided to accept the
recommendation. Further considera
tion will be given the matter in the
immediate future.
MacVeagh to Cut Expenses.
Washington, April 20. Treasury es
timates for the fiscal year beginning
July 1, 1910, must be ready for sub
mission to Secretary McVeagh on May
1, 6 months earlier than formerly.
Mr. McVeagh proposes to make a thor
ough examination into the treasury re
quirements, with a view to reducing
expenditures.
Assassin Uses Dynamite.
Chattanooga, Tenn., April 23.
Rudolph Buol, aged 65, was assassinat
ed at a late hour tonight while asleep.
The murderer opened Buol's bedroom
window and placed a stick of dynamite
on his bed. exploding it with a fuse.
Buol was killed instantly. His wife.
who was asleep at his side, escaped
injury.
Monday, April 19.
vvanington, April i. Debate on
the tariff bill began in the senate to
day with the opening speeches of the
leader on each Bide in the finance com
mittee, Aldrich and Daniel. The Re-1
Dickinson is On His Way.
Washington, April 20. Secretary
Dickinson and the party to accompany
him to Panama left here tonight for
Charleston, S. C, where they will em
bark on the President's yacht May
flower for the Isthmus Wednesday,
The secretary expects to get back to
Washington about the middle of May.
Taft Declines Alaskan Offer.
Washington, April 24. President
Taft today told Delegate Wickersham
ne could not visit Alaska this summer
unless congress makes provision for his
expenses. He will not make the trip
at the expense of the people of Alaska,
who stand ready to raise the necessary
funds.
JURY PROBES SMUGGLING.
Federal Body Takes Action in New
York Gown Importations.
New York, April 21. Further inves
tigation of the systematic smuggling
of Paris gowns into this port led the
customs officials to declare that the
syndicate probably had smuggled in
$1,000,000 worth of goods each year
for the last 10 years, thus defrauding
the government out of $600,000 an
nually in customs duties.
Efforts to avoid criminal prosecution
and to shield from publicity the prom
inent women for whom the $55,000
worth of gowns recently seized were
intended resulted in the offer by repu
table attorneys representing anonymous
clients of $260,000 to the government
to drop the investigation.
The Federal grand jury is investi
gating the case, and it is intimated the
identity of the smugglers will be re
vealed.
Death Rate Eight Daily.
Washington, April 22. One hundred
and eighty-four persons were killed
and 2,924 injured in train accidents
during the three months ending Decem
ber 31 last, according to the Interstate
Commerce commission report filed to
day. Other kinds of accidents bring
the total number of casualties up to
17,644, including 798 killed and 16,846
injured. This shows a decrease of 2,
814 as compared with a year ago.
There were 1,973 collisions.
Ellis to Boost in "Hub."
Washington, April 24. Representa
tive Ellis has accepted an invitation to
address the Civic league, of Boston,
Monday night on the development of
the Western country, particularly by
irrigation.
Oregon Rural Carriers.
Washington, April 24. Ira Foren
has been appointed regular. Willie
Foren substitute, rural carrier, route
2, Crabtree, Ore.
Colima Pours Out Lava.
Mexico city, April zi. a severe
eruption of the Colima volcano, follow
ed by an earthquake shock, has spread
terror and confusion among the inhabi
tants of nearby towns, a number of
whom deserted their homes, and fled to
points outside the affected zone. The
eruption began at 6 :10 o'clock yester
day morning. It covered a wide area
with ashes and lava, and subsided at
nightfall. Just as confidence was be
ing restored, the region was shaken by
violent explosion, and the populace
once more was thrown into a panic.
Ice Dams Niagara River.
Niagara Falls, N. Y April 21. Ice
conditions in the Niagara gorge are
worse than ever tonight. Immense
blocks of ice have grounded on a sand
bar at the river mouth forming a solid
barrier against which thousands of tons
are piling up every hour. Tonight the
river is five feet above the high level
of Monday, and at the highest mark
ever recorded on that stretch of the
river. The ice is within 18 feet of the
floor of the Lewiston suspension bridge.
Castro's Wife Goes Back.
Colon, April 12. The steamer Guad
alupe came into port today from Port
Limon, Costa Rica and sailed this
afternoon for France via Venezuela.
Among her passengers are Senora Cas
tro, wife of the ex-president of Vene
zuela, who is returning to Europe to
join her husband. She could have
landed here or in Costa Rica, but
elected to proceed to France.
ueennes utter of S260.000 to
Government Inquiry.
New York, April 20. The smuggling
syndicate that first offered Collector of
the Port Loeb $100,000 to drop the
government's investigation of the
smuggling of "sleeper" trunks con
taining $55,000 worth of Paris gowns
increased its offer today to $260,000.
according to Mr. Loeb.
The amount now offered the gov
ernment to drop the investigation and
probable prosecution is $260,000,' said
Mr. Loeb. "The amount represents
what would be the penalties of fully
$200,000 above the appraised value of
the goods. All offers have been re
fused. We want the smueelers."
It is believed that worry over this
case so affected the mind of William
G. Bainbridge, confidential agent of
the United States Treasury department
m Paris, that he committed suicide.
The Treasury department had fully ap
proved Mr- Bainbridge's course in the
case, but he left a note declaring he
was the victim of a plot.
Mr. Loeb's investigation shows that
the smuggled gowns had been made in
Paris by famous designers for many
women of social prominence and wealth
in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
Washington and that the reason for
offering such a large sum to suppress
the investigation was to shield the
women from unpleasant publicity.
Short Route to Europe
Winnipeg, Man., April 20. Edson
J. Chamberlain, general manaeer of
the Grand Trunk Pacific railroad, an
nounced tonight that in a few days the
road would begin constructing branch
lines north and south from Melville.
Sask. The company will lose no time
in building a through line from the
American boundary to Hudson bay,
thus providing the farmers of the Mid
dle states with a short wheat route to
Europe. He also announced the con
struction of several other branches
from the main line to the north.
Steams 29 Knots an Hour.
Liverpool, April 21. The Maure-
tania, . which arrived from New York
today, concluded the last portion of her
trip, about 200 miles, at a speed of 29
knots, a feat never before accomplished
by an ocean liner.
Sultan Names Successor.
Berlin, April 20. A rumor emanat
ing from Vienna says that the sultan
has expressed his willingness to abdi
cate in favor of Mohammed Rechad
Effendi, heir apparent to the throne.
A dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger from
Constantinople says it is rumored Mo
hammed Rechad Effendi has been ac
claimed sultan at Salonica. The cor
respondent says it is intended to estab
lish the provisional seatTof government
at that place.
Young Turks Will Depose Sultan,
London, April 20. Interest in the
Turkish crisis is now chiefly concerned
with the fate of the sultan and there
is little doubt that he will be deposed.
Recent developments have served to
emphasize the devotion of the whole
country to constitutional government.
Cotton Fire is Burning,
Little Rock, Ark., April 20. The
St. Louis compress No. 2, with 1,200
bales of cotton, caught fire after mid
night and its total destruction is ex
pected. The loss will reach $1,000,000,
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