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Lowell Daily Courier

Location

Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Aug 31, 1903

Page

2

Turkey 10 Be Held to Strict Account News Brief

Washington reports no new developments in the Turkish crisis as Admiral Cotton sails with cruisers Brooklyn and San Francisco toward Beirut. Chekib Bey remains unsettled amid American fleet presence while Leishman in Constantinople is told to insist Turkey keeps peace and protects U S citizens.

Washington Cotton Brooklyn San Francisco Beirut United States Leishman Associated Press Chekib Bey Sayville Long Island Turkey Hay Teunstantinople Harpoot

Chekib Bey Heads for Washington on Turkish American Tensions

Sayville L I August 29 Chekib Bey the sublime porte envoy to the United States rushes to Washington to meet Sec Hay. He questions the dispatch of the American squadron noting it may provoke revolutionists and hinder foreign protection.

Magelssen Chekib Bey Beirut United States Sayville L. I Sublime Porte Washington Sec. Hay Cotton

Bulgarians Rout In Smi lovo as Turks Storm Height

Bulgarian insurgents suffer heavy losses at Smi lovo on Friday as 3000 fighters hold a high position until six Turkish battalions under Servet Pasha retake the area. Turkish losses are reported light. Neveska is looted after capture on August 25 with arms, ammunition, and a $5000 levy, then villagers driven to the mountains.

Salonica Smilovo Servet Pasha Neveska

Anarchy reigns in Salonica as Macedonia erupts

The Daily Mail and Times correspondents report rising insurgent numbers in Macedonia facing Ottoman forces. Anarchy reigns with the Turkish army out of control, famine looming and terror feared. Commerce is paralyzed and a massacre risk looms in Salonica.

London Salonica Daily Main Macedonia Times Daily Mail Commerce

Insurgent Bands Ravage Macedonian Fronts Across Balkans

Dispatches from Constantinople and Salonica report continuing insurgent raids in Macedonia. Insurgents grip Demirhissar Kitchevo and Monastir passes, with 6000 fighters in Adrianople vilayet. Turkish troops discouraged. 60 soldiers killed in attacks on Ghioktope and surrounding camps. renewed fighting near Salonica and Edisjevada.

Sofia Bulgaria Constantinople Salonica Monastir Adrianople Macedonia Dnevnik Porte Turkey Servia Gjergjeli Edidjevarda Kastoria Florina Vilayet Demirhissar Kitchevo Ghioktope Malkoternovo Egripalanka Kratovec Kotcheni

Mutiny Aboard Golden Rod Off Newfoundland

Report from Halifax describes a near mutiny aboard the schooner Golden Rod near Burgeo after six crewmen demanded to be sent to Gloucester. Captain Frank Woolard, already serving a long sentence for a prior incident on the Helen Whittem, defended the ship with an axe as mutineers seized bait choppers and knives. Twelve loyal sailors stayed with the captain. mutineers refused to fish or sail, and the vessel was ordered home by Gloucester owners.

Halifax N. S St. John N. F Helen Whitten Frank Woolard Burgeo Golden Rod Gloucester

Madrid ministers deny arrest conspiracy claim

The Spanish minister of the interior states that an American report claiming 80 officers were arrested to stop the queen mother from returning from Vienna is completely unfounded.

Madrid America Spain Vienna

Boundary case brief outlines Alaska dispute with Canada

London is the site as Secretary Root and others arrive for the Alaska boundary commission. Briefs will be presented next Thursday with US and Canadian delegates. The US claims the 1825 Russo British treaty places the line inland, separating Canada from the sea and putting Porcupine Creek and Gold Dust under American control.

London Elihu Root John W. Foster Hannis Taylor John M. Dickinson Liverpool Celtic Alaskan Boundary Commission Petherick United States Choate Root Associated Press Canada Numerus Lynn Canal Foster Porcupine Creek

Hold Up Frustrated Near Malta Montana

Havre Montana August 30 It was learned an attempt was made Friday night to hold up the westbound flyer of the Great Northern near Malta. Three suspicious men believed to be Harvey Logan gang members boarded the train. Detectives on the engine spotted two climbers at the tender and they fled into darkness. The company had prior information Logan was back in Montana planning a raid and placed detectives on every train.

Havre Mont Great Northern Malta Harvey Logan Kid” Curry Harvey Logan Montana

Peonage case heard against Montgomery turpentine man

In Troy Alabama United States Commissioner Tutwiler bound over Marion Priestwood his son and tenant Will Goodson to await the Federal grand jury. The record cites abuse of Bob English and his two sons including starvation and harsh hardship on a ten person family over months.

Montgomery Ala Marion Priestwood United States Tutwiler Troy Will Goodson Bob English

Mills Reopen After Shutdown Across New England

Boston Aug 30 Most of the more than twenty thousand workers employed in mills across Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont and Maine owned by the American Woolen company will return to work tomorrow after a shutdown lasting one to two weeks. The stoppage aimed to give employees a vacation and to allow repairs and changes to be completed.

Boston Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont Maine American Woolen Company

Attlebgid Woman Dies of Alcoholism

Attleboro August 30 The body of Mrs Ann MacDonald aged 63 was found at her home this afternoon under suspicious circumstances. The body was covered with blood and showed bruises while three men in the house could not explain their presence. Medical examiner cites alcoholism as cause though bruises remain unexplained. The three men were held for examination in local court tomorrow.

Attleboro Ann MacDonald

Tomato Dreams Meet Fading Summer Frost

A reflective note on a native tomato that would bloom with sun, ripen fully before frost, and be ready to eat. The speaker laments its late season birth and hopes for warmer days to bring abundance.

Gunboat sunk off Cadiz amid unclear identity

The Austrian gunboat Kerka, a wooden schooner rigged vessel of 540 tons with 104 crew, foundered off Cadiz on August 30. Eleven crew were saved by a French trans ocean steamer. naval records show no gunboat named Sheila or Sherla.

Cadiz Spain Sheila Sherla

May Fiske Opens Lowell Season With Sold-Out Opera House

The May Fiske repertoire company opened at the Opera House to two record crowds in Lowell. Miss Fiske starred in A Soldier's Sweetheart with Emery Nadine and a strong Lowell cast. The program included novelty songs, ventriloquisms, whistling, moving pictures, and a notable Firefly song production. The company remains for two weeks with The Deacon's Daughter as the current bill.

May Fiske Opera House Miss Fiske George H. Rexford Charles Landie Adelaide Nye Charles H. Stevens Katherine Bingham Lowell Emery Nadine Wilson Bingham Moving Pictures the Deacon Annie Pixley

Powers sentenced to death for Goebel murder case

Georgetown Ky August 29 Caleb Powers is found guilty and sentenced to death for complicity in Governor Goebel's murder. The crowded courtroom fell silent as the verdict was read and each juror affirmed. Powers, appealing, faces a third trial history with two prior life sentences. The case split party lines, linking Powers to the 1899 Goebel contest and a Republican secretary of state role. Arthur Goebel, brother of the victim, collapsed under the strain of the proceedings.

Georgetown Caleb Powers Goebel Powers Arthur Goebel Cincinnati Appelate W. S. Taylor William Goebel

Nashua Mills Shut Down for Two Weeks in August

Nashua New Hampshire August 29 mills of Nashua and Jackson Manufacturing companies closed at noon today until September 8. Both corporations employ about 3500 workers. Danielson Connecticut August 29 Quinebaug company cotton mills shut down September 12 for two weeks. Danielsonville mills closed partly for repairs due to high cotton prices.

Nashua N. H Nashua and Jackson Manufacturing Danielson

Unexcelled pen offered by Courier Citizen coupon plan

A new “unexcelled pen” is being marketed through Courier Citizen and affiliated agencies across the city. Sixteen Coupons plus sixty nine cents will secure one pen at any agency, with the coupon valid on every day.

Courier-Citizen Courier- Citizen

Fine Residence on the Hill in Centralville for Sale

Do you want a fine residence on the hill in Centralville. Here is a chance to own a perfect home at a great sacrifice. Modern features include furnace heat set tubs laundry H. C. water cemented cellar 10000 feet of land and fruits of all kinds. Large stable and carriage room. Owner is leaving town and will sell at any reasonable offer. T. H. Elliott 64 Central Street telephone 508-2.

Centralville T. H. Elliott Central Atreat

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