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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-4-6, Page 3TOLL OF HUMAN LINES. Eighty Claimeil FrOM the Tourist Steamer Stella. MORE WRECKS AND COLLISIONS, The Str, Soothweserat Also on alio Kocks -Si- Drowned Prom a French. Fish. trig Smack -Tau Heattmool Ban DOW*. aed tacht Men Lost - The Etztaututia $ates the atelier, Southomptoo, April 3.—Of the 140 passengers on tho tourist steamer Stella when site oink at Casrmet Rooks in the English °bowie', 102 were accounted for. Soturday. It b believed that nearly all of the erew of 49 perished, making a total of SO lost. The small boats are orobabie Loss ot sister Slam Soutbainaton, April 3, --The London &" Southwestern 'way Company's atetimer Southwestern, which was sent to watch for bodiea a the victims or the wreak a the same coropany's steamer, Steno, which sank after rum -ling on the Coasquet Rocks on 'Thursday afternoon, went ashore oa Fraay nigh. Tho mese- age tald the Southwestern WaS ashore in tlast viciniro with her hall atere hi. The cow roma ne brOaTit. six were Drowned, Dover, Eng., April lho-A French fish- Zns smack,wb1h Wad elf Dover Fritloy evening, wee In collision with an tool known veascl. Six of her crow- were, drowited, Tan Itaatapool nen DoWn. 1 Brighton, ng., April 3,—T1w 13ritis1t atorint collier Utothpeol, from Sunderlond for Nazaire, Frw, was run down, ond sunk on Friday evening off Beaohy Heath Only one of Ler crow a 16 moo was Bawd. Seven of the er,4ir Were Saved. Dover, Flura, April 3,—It developed later in the day that it was the collier eatirpool which :oink on Friday evenlog Off Botchy Had, WhiCil WWI in collision with the Ethelhilda. me collisiort occurred trO 10 o'elock in the evening. The Ethelhilda sovea seven of the crow of to Ileatlapool tuul bee lauded thew, hero Pontos Sunk. 13righton, Eng., April 3.—The German eteamer Pontos, from Rosario about Feb. 24th, has been aunt; In the Channel after laeing in caH11nrL with the British ataramer Star of New Zwilooti, which arrived, at London on Feb. atith, from Weillugton, N.Z., and which WaS Out- ward bound. The boats of the Star of how Zeabrati were stove in, and she is returning to London. Tho Pontos hod on board a cargo of cattle, 1,00110 sheep toad a! quantity of wheat. It appears that the. Stor of New Zealand ran into the PontoS during the darkness of the early morn - in, striking her multi:ships. Twelve sea- i mon, who left the German stomper in a boot, were picked up exhausted, anti hero boon landed here. The captain and 10 of the crew have been landed, at Ilastioga W II 0 lUOKn FA Mena° Prints Ofiluint Decord ot Major Esterltsmy's Trial. Paris, April 3.—The Figaro published tho official record of the military court; %Odell tried histerhazy in August, 1898. It appears from it that lasterimay was accused of sending three threatening letters to President Faure. At the close of the evidence the presi- dent of tho court put three issues to his colleagues, as folloWsz First, Should Esterhazy be retinal for habitual leis- lot:bay/or? Second, was he guilty of a grave offence against discipline? Third, was ho guilty of a grave offeneo against boner? The court voted on the Mat issuo In the affirmative 3 to 2. The second issue was unanimously rejented, anti the third was negatived by a vote of 4 to 1. General Zurlinclon's letter •transmitting tho fintling,s Of the court minimized the verdiot, pointing out the narrow majority against Eaterhazy, and urged a light punishment. The publication of the record has caused a sensation, and there is much speculation as to how The Figaro obtain- ed it. It will. be rememberea that the issue of the report was limited. A eePY was supplied to each member of the Court of Cessation, and each. of tho Min- isters, and no other conics wore to be had. The Government has ordered an inquiry to lawn who has been guilty of a breach of faith. mum) TO KILL LOUBET. armament. genet!. Hit and Killed the Wrong Man in Paris. Paris, April 8.—A wealthy gentleman named Tourret was shot dead on Friday evening on tho Bois do Bologna by a man who 'mistook his victim for Presi- dent Loubet, to whom M. Tourrct bore a striking resemblance. The murderer, whose name is Ozouf and who 1s38 years add, is thought to be insane. Who the Assassin is. Ozouf, the man who assassinated M. Tourret in tho Bois de Boulogne on Fri- day evening, mistaking him for President Loubet, whom he resembles strikingly, is an electrical engineer who lost his Sorteetain the Panaina smash. It is sug- gested that the mention of tho Panama scandals in connection with M. Loubet's election is responsible for the man's Moo of assassinating the President. The aSSIISSill fired two bullets into M. Toerret, who expired immediately afterwards. Ozouf was promptly arrested. Photographing the stomnea. Berlin, April 3.—Drs. Lang and Melts- ing describe an apparatus they have in- vented for photographing the interior of the stomach. The foremost end of the stomaoh tube contains a microscopic •camera and an electric light. When the stomach is emptied anti filled with air, the apparatus photographs the most secret recesses. Tho negative is about the size of a cherry stone, but cau be enlarged. Bulgaria:as whipped, Turks. Vienna, April 3.--A serious collision has taken place be-tame/1 Belgarians and Turkish frontier guards at Kozyl-Agob, between Janaboli, Eastern Rountella, and Adrianople, on the banks of the Toonja, 56 miles south of Jarnboli. Adeording to a despatch front Sofia, capital of Bei- aa,ria, Oe Turks attacked a weak Bul- garian outpost, but the Bulgarians, aided by armed inhabitants, repulsed their Saaatlauts, after a four hours' fight. Both sides suffered loses of killed and woonth ed. 'Ile Turks, the despatch says, were seeking to secure a position hitherto held by the Bulgarians. TROOPS RESTING. Tag aaterteana etre rig:urine opt the itsoti eentog of the ./teeeist tricots to the eitilitielono Manilo, April 3.—Tbe American troops onder Goseral hlaeArthor are still,. yes ing at hialolosr where everything wos geiet yesterday. Hostilitiea eisewhere—so far tie otlicielly reperteas-have been lima ited during the LISD 94 beers to AO QOalt stoma exchange of shots between the ,attrgenta and the troops forming the lines of General Lawton 'and Genera Hole, eXtendiang freat the woterworks to La - Ionia. But this shooting has just beeu active eommir to melte the lives of the soldiers a istatlem and to compel the. oillee.rs to sltop in the trenches, clothed and in readiness to repel possible attacks. Mott of the Americans are l000tning convinced that the backbone of the loser - gent opposition is broken. There are numerous rumors. pointing to an early collopse of the insurgents' action., One, of these is that General Pio del Filer, tbe bes LgJiter aniong tho Filipino will detergninaide and give Ids sup, port to the Ameritans. The Spaniard; reasoniug trove their experience of the entivea refuse to be- lieve that the rebellion is anywhere near put down. They declare that the Filipinos will not take their tiete,at at alalolos. with the 'COS of the city and lie removal of their weaned goverannont. Serlottdr to hearts On the contrary. the Spanionia predict that the inaurgents 'will hover , near the Americon lines, bothering them oa much aa possible, and when attacked In tome, Oisolve. only to reappear at other points. This sort of Matins—the Sponiords say—will bo followed Until the vat sateen compels. the Americons to be ?lensed in barrocita and then the pinos will return and resoccupy omit towns as the -United States. troops do not : garrison. Ni ith the Ile7.0 dry season A repetition of the present operations will begin. Time alone will same how much Is in this theory; but, tie against it, it must be borne in mind that the Span. lards In all their domination of the Phppines never gave tile inhabitants a demonstration of power comnorable In effectiveness to that given Ohm, by tha Americana WKAT AG isaie 0 SATS, Tbe Capture of entioitet re Not in Inipato taut After Ali. Pails, April 3.—Agonoillo, the agent of Aguirre:hie, in the course of an inter- view published in La Pattie, nye: "The capture of ;11141019S is not as im- portant a.s the Americans are trying to make it appear. TIM Filipino Govern - men la rim y determine upon re- moval to Sao Fernando, and a small detitehment of troops was left with ardera to burn the town and thus to draw the Americans inland. Two months of rain and fever will save the Filipinos their ammuuition anti a good dela of trouble, anO the war will not, end while a. single Filipino Man/IN to bear arms." Ho charges Major-General Otis with Opellilig hostilities, and holds the AmeriaanS re- spousiblo for the transfer of tho Spanish mistiness and, for preventing the Fili- pinos negotiating a treaty with Spain. Agoneillo is couOned to bis room with the iulluenza, LIST OP CASUALTIES. General Otis Cables the Nausea of Victims of the omelettes,. Washington, April 3.—Isollotvinat Is General Otis' easualty report from Mari - The following deaths have occurred since last report: March 25, Thomas F. Whiteside, pri- vate ast Colorado, dysentery; 28th, Adolph Kolpf, private lst North Dakota, drowned accidentally. Deaths from smallpox-25t1m, Edward Pratt, private lath Minnesota; Wallace quartermester-sergeant 51st lowa; 26th, Frank A. Martin, private 23rd In- fantry; 270, Nelson McKellar, private lst South Dakota; 28th, James 0. Sto- vall, private Oth Artillery. From wounds in aetion-250, David Campbell, private lst 'Washington; 26th, Robert Brown, private lit Montana; John Miller, private 22nd Infantry; Wil- liam G. Courtney, private lst Washing- ton; George H. Fortson, captain Ise' Washington; 28th, Mat Suraers, private lst Nebraska; Lee Forby, captain, lst Nebraska; 31st, Charles Preachers, first sergeant lst South Dakota; William May, private lst South Dakota; W. II. Ilea- sperling, corporal 3rd Infantry; Fred. H. Wheaton. private lsb Monetua; Joseph Wahl, private 20th Kansas; .April 1, George A. Taylor, private 10th Pennsyl- vania. IrAcTS ABOUT THE Intrrisll NAvlt. What the Unique Naval Eunding Itecord of 1899 Is to Be. London, April 8.—Some striking facts about the navy are attracting attention. The year 1899 will be unique in British records for not only will the personnel reach 110,640 men—twice as many as ten years ago—bet no fewer than 50 warships of different types will enter tho navy ready to hoist the pennant for action. These include tho five great battleships, Albion, Canopus, Glory, Goliath and Ocean, totalling 54,750 tons, and costing $5,000,000; 14 protected cruisers and 81 'unprotected ships. Moreover, six new armored ships will be begun'making a total of 32 armored vessels, 17 protected vessels and 49 unarmored vessels complet- ing, advancing or beginning. That is, 1809 will see the stupendous number of 98 British warships under way, repre- senting an outlay of $175,000,000. 'Mr. Chamberlain's Brother Dead. London, April .3.—Mr. Richard Cham- berlain, brother of Mr. .Toseph Chamber- lain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, died ip London yesterday afternoon. The late Mr. Ricbard Chamberlain et ono time represented the West Division of the Borough of Islington, London, in Parliament, in the Conservative interest. SIII22 his retirement he had devotea his attention to, managing the extensive Chamberlain properties at Birmingham. Pier,,rii.r ft) r War. London, April 3.—A despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Bucharest says that there is a general impression there that Turkey is, naively prep ring for war meth Bulgaria. Trains laden with war Material are dottemetly running from Constantinople to Albite. opie, DEATH OF MR. INGLIS Head of the Toronto Engine Firm Suddenly Celled - TORONTO ELEVATOR BOY KILLED netroit Authorize* the Purcituee ot laer street ituilways end the COMM9O Connell, A ppoInts a commission tor That aurptaie-ottawisaiGuatoros, puttee Inc reasin Donovoras to Iteldace casolian. Mr. William K. Vanderbilt, in. of Now York. and ;Ulla Virginia" Fair will be married on luesday. A table reeeived at Montreal states that the Aliens have chartered for five months the Gonovoga, a fine 18-1no1i ehIP, to re' Place the Castilian. "Willis Jones or Broadbent, McKellar Township, Muskoka, hillsOl a line lynx last week. The aninha Meaeured about seren feeV imi length. The annual meeting of the South Nora fora Conservative .assoelation elected ofileera on Seturtiay, and pleagea eouild- ence and unbounded support to the loaders, ;tine persons were severely injured, and it is feared that two were drowned: in a C011isiell between an ageall-going tug ond the Brooklyn ferryboat Pierpout 011 Saturday night. Minneapolis City Connell has passed a curfew ordinance, After this children under 16 who aro found an the street after 9 o'cleelt at night will fled themselves lu trouble, The custoros duties oollectial at the port of Ottawa for the month of Marcia amounts. to $49.496.75. Tho duty collect- ed in March, 1698, was $47,301.62, and In 1807, $41,047.70. W. Y. Emery, collector of customs for St. Thomas, dropped dead suddenly at his resulonce there on Sundor. Mr. Emery was in the net of washing when be fell buck and expired, hire. Rightraeyer, relict of the late Mr. Levi Rightmeyor, for twiny years a salt oninfocturer of Kincardine and at ono OHM president of the Sok •Aasociation at Confide, is dead at Detroit, The Ring or Siam has issued a deem to the effect that no children who ars entirely naked will be henceforth allowed to play in the streets of Bangkok, and that overy person over the age of 10 must ba �bothect from the knee to the neck. Williom Gordincer, employed •at the Walibritlite Hematite Mine Pear hiadoo, Was puled into the shaft, falling a dis- tance of 80 feet, to the first landing. Ile bad a thigh broken, wrist bodly sprained, and was otherwise severely bruised. The Detroit, Ibeh., Common Council an Saturday evening, by a vote of 21 to 11, appointed a commission, headed by Governor Pingree, to riegotinto, purchase and operate all the street railways of Detroit, under municipal ownership. anvil Nixon, 4 16-yealsold elevator bay employed by the Toronto :towel Case Cu., lost his balance on Saturday and fell down the shaft from the secona floor to the bosement. His injuries mangle(' him terribly and he (Ilea in the Afternoon. Two hundred, and fifty 11(1V companies have been incorporated. at Trenton, N..T., during the mouth of Alava, and the total capitol of those authorized to issue stock and bonds of over $1,000,000 each amounts to $1, 111,7at000. The incorporation fees amounted to Ol26,000, At Boauport, Quo., a Mrs. Carlopy was In the not of peeling potatoes when her 8 -year-old child, unnoticed by the mother, seized a small potato nnil tried to swal- low it. The potato stuck in the child's throet, antl before medical aid oould bo obtained the little victim expired. It has been definitely derided that the Quebee dietriet camp will be held ab Levis from June 27 to July 8, and will consist of 3,400 men. There will be three batteries of artillery and ten rural bat- talions of infantry in camp. Two city battalions, in addition, will bo attached for two days. The complete morgue record of the Windsor Hotel, New York, victims up to Sattuelay night was as follows: Killed daring the ilre and died subsequently of Injuries received during the fire, 11. liedies taken from the ruins and identi- fied, 2. Unidentified bodies taken from the ruins, 32. Total known dead., 45. John .T. Schmitt, a Williamsburg, N. Y., tailor, 85 years old, while in a tit of jealous rage on Saturdny night, shot his znother-in-law, Mrs. Wild, who was in- stantly killed; his wife, his sister-in-law and his brother-in-law, and ended by firing a bullet at his 1 -year-old infant. Mrs. Schmitt was shot in the arm and thigh; Nicholas Wild, a brother-in-law of Schmitt, attempted to interfere and received a bullet in the head; a sister-in- law, PaulincrWild, was shot in the arm, and Schmitt then fired a shot at his 1 - year -old infant. Schmitt was arrested. Mr. John Inglis, head of the firm of Inglis & Sons, engine builders, Toronto, died suddenly about 4 o'clock Sunday morning, the direct cause of death being heart failure. For some months past the deceased has been suffering fronm sciatica, but otberwise his health was good, and In consequence his sudden death came as a shook to bis family. The deceased was born 76 years ago in Hawick, County Roxborough, Scotland, and came to Can- ada about 47 years ago, settling first in Dundas, and afterwards removing to Guelph, where his body will be buried. He has lived in Toronto 18 years. Judge Finkle's Easter Egg. WOOCISt001f, April 3.—Judge Finkle has succeeded in proving to the satisfaction of the officials of the NOW York Life Assurance Company that Charles Miller Is datd, and he bee, received a cheque for $13,167.10, which iecludes six years back premiums which have been paid since Miller died, and one-half the premiums for the procadher five years, under the terms of the conir'act in tho policy, which 'WILS of the mortuary return set:tees. The judge paid $1,190 in premiums. May 24 in irnsilingtoti. Washington, .April 3.—The committee on civic parades for the peace jubilee, to be held hero in May, took action on Sat- urday night, looking to a formal recogna tion of Queen Victoria's birthday. The big parade is to be held on May 24 and a ommoittee was appointed to wait on Ambassador Pauncefote and arrange for some appropriate ceremony on -tbe Queen's anniversary at the demonstration hens. MONTREAL TO BRANCH OUT. 4 Scheme to Make It a Notiomti Port Coder the control of the 1)9min- ion 041v,oriA meat • Ottawa, April 3.—A. large and Mau- enthO deputation, representing Kingston and Moutreal shipping interests, had an interview *with the Premier and other Ministers on Saturday, with referent* to the opening of the canels, the building of elevators at Montreal and other mat- ters. The deputation consisted of Mr. -A, aleFee, president of the Corn Exchange; Mr- D. A. Watt, seeretary Marine Maier - writers' Association, anti Messrs, John Torninee, C. Esaaile, W. Ilewg111, Jaaanh Ward, E. W. Rolford, P. A. Crone end II A, Campbell of Montreal, and Mayor BYMI, Capt. CaSkill and alessr.s. T. Elliott and H. J. 13. Pense of Kingston. The Ministers who received the depute, tion were: Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Louis Davies, llon. A. ta. Blair, Eton, J. I, 1 i Tarte Mail Hon, R. R. DObell, The first matter discussed woe the date for opening the canal; the deputation urging thet it should be earlier than 1 May 1. On this point the Premier said that, while he could give no positive promise., be would say that, if navigation opened It.fore May 1, dime would be uo difficulty, he thought, &sone the caulds. The del:oration Veen took up the ques- tion of Montreal berbor and palatial out that the eumpletiou of the muds and the • deepening of the zthip channel between Montreal and Quebec would make very greet apti invariant changes in the buil, neas of Minium], and it west strongi, If urged that it shouli be made a national Iport, under the control Of the Dominion Government, which should build PIPVII,' tors, provide terminol facilities for both railways and ateamboats, anti genentily I put the pert on site]) 4 ftgriiii: that it ! could compete anteastfitlly with tent.; in the United aratett, abe depanitien op- posed the allenatim of any IIIII'Ldr or government property to 407 cerporetio and urged that rho improvementa Ira the harbor should be controlled by tho limn - intim Government for the lament of the whole Dominion. as the lOwering at ebargee at Montreal and the increase of terminal and shipping facilities would be in the intereit of the produeer, by Assist - lug him to get his proilucc to the boat maricet at the least cosh It was else urged that, in building elevators, they should be lotsiteri so as to bo easily acves.a. r ible to the Intercolonial Railway, so that, after the close of navigation, vorgoei 'might be shipped vizi the Intarcolorrial from Halifax or St. John. ., Sir Wilfrid. Laurier, in 2+447111o., said that he would promise that no ollenation : of harbor or Gorman -sent land should tithe place without parties intereated being notified, and that ail the other matters referred to should twelve the ctuoful consideration of the Government. RESOURCES OF •MANITOBA. A Orient to the Northern pacific Email Statistic* ShOlViliti; the Growth of lie erovittee. Winuipeg, April 3.—Provincial Trans- rer le1l1an Imo eonelutled Ilia budget apeoch in the Legislature. Tho estimates are very much the S21112 es for 1898. lite fellowlest, cluingee are the principal ones: Gore:leant, estimates to receive, in adaltion to the regular subsidy, $3G0,000 from the sehool latale fund, about $50,- 400 from the provinelollands, tut itierease $a5.000 over lost year, and $00,000 from land titles oilices, an inereaso of about *10,000. On the exprovilture side, sebool grants are inere.ised from $200,000 to $250,000. Grants for publie works aro slightly Inereosed, as also the cost of maintaining public institutions, causea by the growth of nopftlatien: the grant far immigration Is about thn same as last year. Estimated expeutliture :dor includes ald at $1.750 per mile to the Northern Pacific, for the Bohnont extension, and the C.P.R. for tiro Foxton and Reston extensions. lion. Mr. Cameron laid on tho table of the House on onturtlay afternoon rho an- nual report giving statistics and hrforinto tion respecting inunielptaities in the province for the year Dios. Population of rural municipalities, unorganiztal tiOaricts, etc., 161,635; cities, towns and villages, 68,240; total popula- tion of the matinee, 229,831. According to the last eeDS218 in 1891, Hues 152,500. Number of resitient farmers in the province, 33,450; asseeement, real and personal, rural ammicipalitles, 843,134,- 980; assessment, real and personal. cities, ete., $31,455,619; fano laborers from the east, 1898, 5,0n; acreage prepared for crop, 1899, 1,011,455; number of rural municipalities in province, 74; eitie.e, 2; towns, 11; villages, 6; rural schools in operation, 1,002; estimated number of school children in rural districts, 40.129; In cities, towns and villages, 8,812. total revenue of tho province, 1808, $936,3.61; total expenditure province, 1898, $8370- 887.95. NEWS' NOTES PUO3I OTTAWA, Government Will Take Charge or rood Protinctet for Paris. Ottawa, April 3.—The Department of Agriculture will take charge of all the exhibits of food products intended for the exhibition at Paris and make them part of a good Dominion exhibit. Those ex- hibitors whose exhibits are accepted will each have a chance to receive an award on the tnerite of his products. Lieut. -Col. H. F. McLean of the 62nd Sb. John, N.13., Battalion, will probably be commandant of this year's Bliley team, and Capt. .A.. R. Helmer of the 43rd will likely be adjutant. It is understood that the Government intends recalling about two-thirds of the military contineant from the Yukon. There aro 203 officers and men, and all but 75, who will be left at Dawson, will be recoiled. • The eleetion for the Dominion House In the city of Winnipeg will take place on April 20. The Quebee SOOOOS141011 Tax. Quebec, A aril 8.—An important deci- sion has boon reaeited by the (limbic Government with reference to the succes- sion tax. llithorte the tax has been paid on the face value of the estate. 9.'hus if a man left a legacy of $10,000, though he actually received only $9,000, he was compelled to pay the tax on the full amount, $10,000. A complaint based on the above incident was made to the Gov- ernment. Hon. Mr. Marchand, after con- sultation with the law officers of the province, canto to the conclusiorm that the cost of inventory and division must be deducted from the amonnt of such estate before caloolating the succession tax, and all collectors of provincial reveune havo boas notified to that effect WOES OF BRIGANDAGE. Story of a Greek Outlaw Slain by His Countrymen. FATE OF SARRANTOS FERRONTOS* 00*At He Wela Obliged to Give no SO HOttOrable Military Career Mu4 Be, goose a Gesperado-aDarlog Exploit!. ana Narrow Escapes. A. few menthe ago the Greek colony of New Vork city was excited by the disco -r-. eri- that a :tierce man among them WM none other than Sorrento% Ferroutos, the moot famous-britraud of the Greak nutlet*, wile is said to have once made an attempt to assassinate King George., The New York Greets were so terrorized that they hesitated to give evidence against Far- v,rettA•kivhen be was arresteti for a Weal Or feast. BPI room murder. under drown awes which seem to implicate hia cone- oztadista odds new interest to his strange aerate taloa* his death Ferrontos gave to The %Item, a tiatatb of his lide ;felon. 1 was in I was a. student in the 1,%ratt'arY colioto for officers' sons at Btoe We heard of instal -gain bands who r:iVagmill. the Turkish frontier and rumors Fiat nios.ir mareararia in tlma attempt to low ia thol ori,asit rule tkoarteell atu- t,ciiamros YlialiONTos IN COSTrallt OSP aoLDIE.N.. dela% including myself, became Involved to eommunicationa with Macedonittas, We were discovered and charged with con- so:racy Wo were tried vani expelled from the college. arida once reduced to the reg- ular army as ordinary cozens, or soldiers. Wo were separated and scattered through different corps I went to the Fourth in - 'entry anti in a year was promoted to ths rulantputincy ••11ere began some of the strange adven- tures which bave come to um without seeking The nephew of the -commander of the corps held equal rank with myself. We quarreled, and a duel followed I wounded hint, for even then I was not a batty with tho sword Duels wero against; army rules, and then, too, I had wounded the nephew of the commander, Potropea- laki I was sentenced to six nuniths in the Medrese prison in Athens. With tho tad of friends, however, I escaped. "I could not join thearmy under anoth- er name. for I would be known owing to my height and appearance, which were well known. I joined the then famoug band of trio brigand Papakyritsopoulos. We Were seven in number, and I served my novitiate terrorizing Lamle. I only staid fourmonthswith the band. During that time we had one notable adventure that was profitable. The daughter of a deputy was captured, and her ransom amounted to 200,000 francs. "Shortly after that I joined Efthemeos Gakis' band on the Turkish border. I had never wanted to prey upon my own people, but the Turks were enemies of my country, and I determined to avenge some of nay countrymen's sufferings. This band contained 12 members. Just over the Turkish border at Servits, near Flo - rine, was a bey whose wealth was said to be vast. We plotted to invade the house, which our informant said was guarded only by three Albanians. Lots were cast as to who should effeot an entrance and admit the others by opening the door. The lot fell upon ine. They were to look first after the silence of the dogs, which is a science with brigands. All bands early bones for the dogs as carefully as they carry a gun. There is aproverb about tne life of a brigand lacing as much in the bone bags as in his gun. "In Turkey the chimneys of the houses are made very big. it was easy work get- ting down, but a slave girl discovered rue as I left the kitcheu with a revolver in one hand and a dagger in the other. She screamed. Instantly an Albanian rushed at me. He fell as I fired, and, with the plan of the house in my mind, I found the door and admitted the others of the band. The other guards were soon subdued. 000 girl was taken captive; another, who was captured, was ransomed for 51,000, "The chief of the band determined to make the other captive his slava Greek brigands are very superstitious abottt wo- men captives. There is a proverb that no band can succeed which has women with it for evil purposes With the higher class a Woman is -os sacred as if in her 'own h•orneShdls simply held for ransom. When the girl saw that her honor was in danger, she appealed to me. I had ob- tained the friendship of my comrades, and when I determined to save the girl they upheld me. She was finally released and her honor saved. "About two years after the affair at Mano it fell to my lot to go into Salon - lea We needed SOMO information which our agents could not get for us. I was arrested and taken. in irons to the interior of Turkey on aoharge of being a suspected revolutionist. I was tried by the goVernor and expoeted, to be imprisoned for life if tea put to death. Ou the neat tlay 1 was token before the governor. He woe ass- ,Illetteled by a lady, wbo, to my anusso- ent, I nasognieed as the girl whose honor had saved. She bed become the wife 'the governor of Iconiumwhere anoie0$ dungeons are still in ose a$ prison& I was taken back to prison, but in slave days the lady's brother-in-law took me' quietly from theprison and. supplying msr with clothes and money, sent me in totiosi out of the place. *During the next few years I lived, wit& bands who made tlie Turkish taxgatherene their objects of doring. In TrtakeSa whom" the OIXeS are collected they are goorde4', bv only a few soldiers. Agents would keep as posted as to whexf these wore to travel to the treasury. Wheo word Cam. of one of these taxgatherers starting °, of some rieh traveler who might be rila- somed, it was customary to post several men about two miles apart along the road over which the man roust travel, while the • rest of' the band remalued hidden at Ma point determined upon for the surprise - When the traveler had passed, the picket* waited to seelf any hand of soldiers Walt' following. If there was, the traVeler Wen* his way unmolested, but if too soldiers fol- lowed itivas another story. In arrongiog miasmas this same plan is followctiaa when. waiting for a traveler If the pleketatind the parties base violated their promise to come alone and are followed lay aranedi men, there is no negotiation at that theta One of tho fleeds with which ono of the, bands 1 was in WaS credited with happeued in a small Turkish town on the coast of Asia Minor, Agents brought word that there was .425,00ti i* gold irt the village. There were 40 men in this Wad, and -as .laiermitrecl to emote ilia 0084re. It was Friday morning. Diraut, the Torkislt Easter. oral the fast of Romero% when the bark on which the band had wiled ap- proaclual the town Then their agent let them loom the gold lied been removed - .4 consultation was held, and it was deter- mined that, rather than have their trip for nothing, they would enter the city The chief antirehapts were in the mosque when two of tho band walked into the edifice nd antortincod that not less than 410,00th u gold would save them and. tbeirs fro= being blown up by the baud; otherwise some of tbe biggest merobants would los, their lives or be beld for ransom The coogregratiou rushed to windows Anacleto*. only to look into gun barrels in the band* of the brothers of the two cool MOE inaido the (immix." EASTER ISLAND MYSTERIES. Gigantic, Statuen Carved lar Soso. atenotte proshirstorlo reoolto The situation of Easter islantl. itt the trattlesa waste of the Pacifica is singularly lonely. the nearest land being 1,100 miles to the westward It is only 13 miles long by town miles in width, and scarcely o tree grows upon it Nevertheless it had formerly a very numerous population, tlinated at not less than 20,000, and tbe puzzle is to imagine what losionto of thes, people, who, lutiging from the astonishing accumulatIona of skeletons, must have held orcupancy for a great length of time. They seem to have been of a race altogeth- er different front that of the present inhab- itants, and among various arts tbey prao- tired the settipturo of gigantic statues ot stone, the Ilito of which have never been found in auy other part of the world. Th. ouorries in winch these colossi were ,hewn, from solid rock remain today just as theg wero left by the prehistoric artists, whose work. SPOIIIS to have been brought to a.stad- ien atop by a calomity that overwhelmed* tho island aud wiped, out nearly everything living on It, There is no mystery ns to the origin at tbe statues, inasmuch ns 'many of there are found in various stages of completion AN EASTER ISLAND DEITY. in the quarries which served asworkshops. for turning themanit. The largest of the Volcanic mountains on Easter island is Rana Roraka, which 131,327 feet high and has a crater four-fifths of a mile in diame- ter. The edge of this crater forms a near- ly perfect circle, broken only at a point on the south side through which the laver stream, when the volcano was active, found its way to the sea.. Inside the cm - ter the cliffs have been cut into terraces by the buago makers, and here and there one sees a stone giant half finished, or in other cases nearly ready to receive the final touches from the artist's tool. Other stet - ties, again, are merely sketched ott upon the rocky walls as a preliminary to begin- ning the work of sculpture. That some tremendous catastrophe mit a sudden and final end to these labors, seems to be beyond question, and the like- lihood Is that it was a volcanic eruptiors. This it may have been that overthrow all the images, destroyed the inhabitants and even wiped out all the trees on the island. An A.rtiSt Aaoitt. It is traditional that to keep sailors busy at sea they are sometimes set tO pounding the cable and scraping tho an- chor. There is an old story about the work done under such circumstances on a ream of -war on a long voyage It is said that the man that painted the anchor after they had got it scraped painted it in imi- tation of cork and made it look so natural that, when they finally came to the dis- tant port for which they were bound ant' put this anchor overhand to amber tha, ship bp. It ilostol.