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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1909
Page
1
Rumors of abdication swirl amid a formal imperial order that proceeds without resistance. Officials stress stability while public reaction remains uncertain as the governance structure faces potential transition.
Constantinople, April 21. The constitutional army presses toward the capital as the sultan contemplates abdication under conditions not yet disclosed. Tewfik Pasha remains the steady influence guiding cabinet decisions amid martial law talks.
Ada Oklahoma April 20 Attorney General West summoned County Attorney Wimbish to Atoka for a grand jury probe into the lynching of four cattlemen. A special jury will be impanelled and indictments are expected against unnamed mob readers and alleged organizers. Edward and Dave Johnson are among those charged in reports.
In Constantinople on April 20 the grand vizier Tewfik Pasha and ministers Edhem and Nazim Pashas submitted resignations to the sultan. Hilmi Pasha hesitated to resume, while Tewfik met the sultan. Proclamations from Hosni Pasha assure protection of lives and property as constitutional troops surround the city, with Young Turk forces advancing. no entry date for Constantinople is known.
A telegram from Smyrna reports the murder of Andre Kopassis Effendi, governor of Samos, the Greek island in Asia Minor. The note notes Samos’s annual tribute and ties to Smyrna, with the murder claim surfacing from the Turkish region.
In Louisiana a 12 year old boy fed the youngest child to hogs and, with an ax, fatally wounded several others after being left in charge by his stepmother. The six year old is dying while the other two children suffer severe injuries. The boy was jailed after the incident reported to parish authorities.
In a Tuesday accident on Wildwood avenue a carpenter, Adams Sauer, fell about twenty feet from the second floor of a residence under construction by Lee J. Ninde. He landed on his back on a heavy joist and may have internal injuries. Sauer was taken to his home at 827 Huestis avenue after initial shock and pains subsided briefly.
Four prominent cattlemen were seized from Ada jail by a mob of about one hundred citizens. They were hung from rafters in a barn after a swift, organized crowd moved in at 3 p.m. The victims included J. B. Miller of Fort Worth Texas and B. B. Burrell of Duncan Oklahoma. Authorities could not intervene as a largely Texan mob carried out the lynching.
Newswire report details large scale killings in Adana with streets described as stained by blood. Authorities did not specify casualty breakdown or perpetrator identities. The dispatch emphasizes a violent mass incident affecting civilians and local security responses.
Constantinople reports at least five thousand killed in Adana region disturbances over eight days. Two thousand deaths occur in Adana city with many Muslim victims, Christians attacked at Marash. British cruiser Diana at Alexandretta is hoped to calm tensions amid widespread unrest. Disturbances reach Hadjin where Armenians defend themselves. A missionary who had lived in Turkey three years and was married to Miss Hawley is noted in dispatch.
Beiru t Syria on April 20 reports say Moslem fanaticism simmers around Alexandretta with great excitement in the district. Houses are seen in flames from the streets, signaling unrest and danger.
A Beirut dispatch says the Adana massacres killed about twelve hundred people including some Europeans. British warships arrived at Mersina and eight hundred men were landed.
Goshen Indiana April 20 Rev Henry Maurer American missionary killed in rioting at Adana supported by Mennonite Brethren in Christ of Elkhart county Indiana. He headed a school at Haggin Turkey. Maurer was thirty and born in a German settlement in St Joseph county Indiana. He had
Chicago April 20 bears in wheat pressed the market with July down six cents and May following. Patten and allies were linked to the decline but confirmation remained unclear. Heavy Russian shipments, rain in the Southwest, and near-term bumper crop prospects weighed on prices as Potters stayed largely inactive in the pit.
A Latakia Syria cable states Mersina is safe. Reformed Presbyterian church officials had reported unease over missionaries including Rev. C A Dodds and wife Rev R E Willson and wife Dr John Peoples and Miss Elma French.
Dr Talcot Williams of the Philadelphia Press reports no information on the safety of his sister Mrs William N Chambers a missionary in Adana amid reported trouble. He contacted friends in Turkey and the American ambassador through the state department in Washington and noted her relations with Moslems had always been friendly.
Rev Dwight Pratt of Walnut Hills Congregational Church identifies Congregational missionaries in Adana. Named are William N Chambers and wife Lucy H Morley Elizabeth and Mary Webb sisters S H Wallis and Mrs Borel. He says there are no other American missionaries in Adana.
President Taft plans a notable trip after Congress acts on the $25,000 traveling fund, routing from Washington to Woodberry Point Beverly Mass for two months or more of quiet travel, with dates tentatively set to begin after adjournment and extend into August.
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