CONSTANTINOPLE RIOTS AND LOCATION OF THE CIRCUS TENTS

Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, August 31, 1896.

CONSTANTINOPLE RIOTS.

Further Disorders Occur In the Turkish Capital.

MANY PERSONS SLAUGHTERED.

As a Result or the First Outbreak Seven Hundred Bodies Were Counted and Many Others Probably Fell—Other Foreign News.

   CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 31.—Rioting was renewed in the Galata quarter of this city Saturday night. A sharp fusillade took place between the troops and the Armenian rioters. It lasted only a few minutes however, and a stampede of the revolutionists followed.

   The ambassadors of the foreign powers held a conference and sent a strong joint appeal asking the sultan to suppress the disorders without delay. No reply has been received from the sublime porte as yet.

   Just before the departure of the leaders of the invaders of the Ottoman bank on Sir Edgar Vincent's yacht, after they had negotiated with the Turkish officials and surrendered upon condition that they should be allowed to leave the country, they announced to the dragomans of the different embassies that they intended to continue the agitation until the right of the Armenians should be recognized by the representatives of the foreign powers. Members of the different embassies have received another circular letter from the Armenian revolutionary committee making a similar announcement.

   It will be remembered that several days before the raid upon the Ottoman bank by the Armenians, threatening letters of a similar character were received by the representatives of the powers, but the foreign diplomats stationed in Constantinople paid no attention to those warnings.

   Already several claims for damages to property have been received at the British embassy, the property destroyed being owned by British subjects. As an indication of the number of persons who perished in the recent riots, it is stated that 700 dead bodies were buried in the [Chickli, possibly Sisli] cemetery alone. The British charge d'affairs, Michael Herbert, has made special representations to Tewfik Pasha, Turkish minister of foreign affairs, concerning the case of two Armenians who were brutally killed just in front of the guardhouse and before the eyes of the members of the British embassy.

   The joint note of the ambassadors of the powers asking the sublime porte to suppress the disorders in Constantinople without delay failing to have the desired effect, the representatives of the powers dispatched a joint telegram warning the sultan that he endangered the Turkish empire by suffering the continuance of anarchy by the connivance of the imperial troops and the police. It is said that the sultan trembled when he received this warning telegram.

   Neither the members of the diplomatic circles nor rational observers doubt that an armed mob of Turks had been previously organized for possible riots. It was noticed that less than two hours after the insane attack on the Ottoman bank by the Armenians the mob that filled the street at Galata overspread the whole city and Turks in parties from 120 to 150 strong, apparently well organized and acting in concert, crossed in lighters from Stamboul.

Reforms in Crete.

   ATHENS, Aug. 31.—The scheme of reforms proposed in the government of Crete and sanctioned by the sultan in addition to concentrating the power in the hands of a governor general, who shall be a Christian, the reorganization of the gendarmes by European officials, the independence of the judiciary of Crete and economic autonomy with the payment of a tribute to the sultan, also provides that the Cretans shall be allowed to tax Turkish imports for the purpose of providing a fund which shall be applied to the compensation of the victims of the recent disorders.

Li Hong Zhang.

Li Hung Chang's Movements.

   NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Li Hung Chang received his old friend, Colonel Forrester, and afterward a delegation of Mott street merchants paid their respects to the viceroy. In the afternoon he visited Grant's tomb on which he laid a wreath, winding up the day's work by a visit to the house of Colonel Fred D. Grant, where he had tea and remained an hour.

   Li Hung Chang will leave today on the dispatch boat Dolphin for West Point. He will be accompanied by the members of his retinue and the officers of the United States government who are attending him during his stay in this country. Assistant Secretary McAdoo of the navy and W. W. Rockill, first assistant secretary of state, will also go to West Point.

   Li Hung Chang will inspect the United States military academy at West Point and return to this city on the Dolphin this evening.

Some Recent Achievements.

   The nineteenth century will go out in a blaze of glory, so far as discovery and invention arc concerned. The most fixed of the old theories in regard to human life and its possibilities are being upset. Professor Elmer Gates of Washington is demonstrating through his own child his theory that brain cells may be enlarged and developed to any capacity according to the fancy of the developer. Professor Gates' 16 months old son has been subjected by easy stages to differences of heat and cold such that he will never flinch in any temperature, torrid or frigid. He can endure cold as well as an Eskimo. He can also already distinguish colors with the delicate eye of an artist or a woman. In the same city the two children of Mr. William Dinwiddie have a muscular training that enables the little girl, 3 1/2 years old, to jump 16 feet from off an elevation. The same system of training made it possible for them to sit alone, creep and walk months earlier than other children do.

   Dr. Vacher, an eminent French statistician, has discovered that human life has lengthened six years during this wonderful nineteenth century and that those who escape the perils of childhood now live to the average age of 73. He also declares emphatically that mankind normally live to be 100 and if anybody does not stay here his 100 years out in good health and preserving all his faculties it is his own fault. It will be well, therefore, for those spiritless individuals who begin out of sheer laziness to call themselves old at 50 or 60 to brace up and go on, and swim, run, dance, work, laugh and sing like the young people they are.

   A French marine engineer has devised a steamship which there is reason to believe can travel 60 miles an hour with ease. He rolls the vessel over the water by means of six huge, hollow wheels, three on a side. It is to be hoped, however, that when these steamers become the vogue the companies will still run a few old fashioned slow ones for the pleasure of those who like to promenade decks and sit in the moonlight and watch the waves.

   Professor D. A. Reardon of Boston has invented a wonderful apparatus for electrically carrying light waves directly to the brain and sight centers of the blind, enabling them to see. If it can be perfected, this will be one of the greatest inventions of the ages. Mr. McNeil of New York city is the inventor of a method of obtaining X rays and seeing one's bones and internal processes by means of an ordinary electrical incandescent lamp. Soon everybody can have an X ray machine at home and entertain his friends by showing them their own bones.

LOCATION OF THE TENTS.

Where to Find the Wonders of the Barnum & Bailey Show.

   The tents of the big Barnum & Bailey show when it visits Cortland next Saturday will be located on the Allport track on Tompkins-st. The free street parade will leave these grounds at 8 o'clock in the morning and will take about an hour and a half to cover the route through the principal streets. The hours advertised for the circus performance in the big tents are 2 P. M. and 8 P.M., but it is the part of wisdom for those who want to get the full value of their invested half dollar to present themselves at the main entrance an hour before that time.

   The menagerie is the finest collection of rare animals in the country, and includes a number of rare species nowhere else to be found. The wonderful gorilla, Johanna, is the most interesting of the animals, and probably the most interesting animal ever in captivity. Johanna is much younger than Chiko, the first of Mr. Bailey's pair of gorillas, but she has already developed greater intelligence than he possessed. With her the imitative faculty is strong, and she does whatever she sees people about her doing, as if anxious to get into the "swim'' of human society.

   In addition to the collection of animals, and even more interesting to a majority of thinking visitors, is a large party of natives of Ceylon, Hindustan and other countries of oriental India, who keep the crowds entertained for nearly an hour with dances, religious ceremonies, juggling, legerdemain, sword drills and the acting of portions of a native musical drama, illustrating the street and home life of the orient. Representatives of two races of pigmies found in southern India and Ceylon are also shown, one of a high degree of intelligence, the other of a cave-dwelling type, even below the gorilla Johanna in physique and mental endowment.

   In addition to the attractions of the menagerie, a fine military band assisted by the beautiful young cornet soloist, Jessie Miller, gives a high-class concert during the preliminary hour.

   Of the circus it need only be said that it is the good old Barnum & Bailey three-ring circus, with the Meers sisters, William Showles and other favorite riders; the Silbons, Dunbars, Potters and other first-class aerialists; the Gliuserettis, Asbeys, Lamonts, Werts and O'Brien and other wonderful acrobats; LaRoche, the mysterious ascensionist; John O'Brien, with fifty trained horses in one ring, besides trained elephants, bulls, bears, dogs, monkeys, hogs, lions and tigers; Evetta, the only lady clown, besides Al. Caron, Spader Johnson, Harry Wentworth, and a score of funny fellows. And it all concludes with exciting hippodrome races, exhibitions of horseless carriages and strange forms of the bicycle and the great jumping horse Oxford, exhibited by the English equestrienne, Miss Nellie Reid.

ARRESTED SATURDAY

For Alleged Violation of the Raines Excise Law.

   James Meehan, who lives at 36 Crandall-st. on the corner of Elm-st. was arrested on Saturday night by Chief Linderman. The charge was selling ale, beer and whiskey in violation of chapter 112 of the laws of the state of New York of the year 1896, and in violation of the statutes of the state of New York without a liquor tax certificate. This morning Meehan was brought before Police Justice Mellon and was held in $1,000 bail for his appearance at an examination at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 2. Edwin Duffey was his counsel this morning.

Robert J. York.

   Mr. Robert J. York of 13 Foundry Lane died this morning at the age of 34 years. Mr. York had been a member of the Hitchcock Hose Co. running team and of the Hitchcock Hose Co. drill team. He was formerly of the Forty-fifth Separate company and took a prize for excellence in the performance of the manual of arms. He was a member of the famous C. A. A. tug of war team, and it is thought he overstrained himself in this and brought on the difficulty which led to his death.

   Mr. York was a highly respected young man. He leaves a wife and one child a year old. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock to-morrow and Hitchcock Hose Co. will attend it in a body.

BREVITIES.

   —A lady's cape found on the street Saturday evening is awaiting an owner at police headquarters.

   —New advertisements to-day are—F. E. Brogden, witch hazel, etc., page 7; A. S. Burgess, good for McKinley, etc., page 8.

   —The McLean correspondent reports that chicken thieves are at work. People in other parts of the county had better watch out.

   —The Wesson-Nivison Mfg. Co. will apply to the special term of supreme court at Binghamton on Oct. 18 for permission to change its name to the Wesson Manufacturing Co.

   —The STANDARD last Thursday began the publication of the serial story, "The House of the Wolf" by Stanley J. Weyman. The second installment of it is published to-day on our third page. We advise every one to read it, as it is one of the best if not the best serial we have ever published. It will appear in the STANDARD on Mondays and Thursdays.