Life — January 17, 1907 — page 28: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

96 RUSSIAN OUTRAGE! An American Woman the Victim THE NORTH ATLANTIC FLEET TO THE BALTIC Troops Being Moved to the Atlantic Seaboard Excitement in Washington—Mass-Meet- ings in All the Big Cities—The Presi- dent to Take Command in Person— State Troops Preparing to Move. Mrs. Alexander Moscow, Jan. 16. Trautley, the wife of a well-known American physician, traveling abroad, was this afternoon accosted on the Nev- sky Prospekt by a man who, Mrs.Traut- ley states, was entirely unknown to her and whom she had never seen before. ‘The man then seized her by the arm and began calling for the police. Upon the arrival of an officer, the man demanded her arrest on the charge that the evening before she had picked his pocket of thir- teen rubles. Mrs. Trautley protested her innocence and told the policeman who she was. The latter accepted the un- supported statement of the man and put Mrs. Trautley under arrest. A large crowd of persons followed the unfortu- nate woman and her captors to the Ten- derloinski station-house. Arraigned be- fore the sergeant, Mrs. Treutley pro- duced her visiting card and asked that her husband be sent for. In reply, the sergeant ordered her to be searched and locked up ina cell. After several hours’ imprisonment, she managed to get in communication with some friends well known in American society in who were able to secure her release on bail. The man’s name is Peter J. Hogan- off, of 132 ‘The Boweryowski. He is a member of the Moscow branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, Later.—Further inquiry shows that Hoganoff does not live at the address he gave, and that he never had thirteen rubles. Excitement in Washington Wastuncton, Jan. 16.—The news of the Russian outrage on an American LDP + woman in Moscow has turned Washing- ton into a turmoil of excitement. ‘The North Atlantic fleet, which was on the point of starting for Cuban waters, has been ordered to Kiel under forced draft. The Mediterranean squadron has been cabled to rendezvous at the same place. . All the available regiments of the regu- lar army have been ordered to Newport News for embarkation on transports. The President has just sent five spe- cially illustrated messages to Congress and is in telegraphic communication with the governors of all the States with refer- ence to putting the National Guard in ervice. He will command both land and | services in person, and was this ing measured for a generai’s and an admiral’s uniform. ‘The Rough Riders have been ordered to report at the Whjte House. This is the most serious step yet taken, and it is xpected to have an immediate effect in bringing a prompt apology and offer of aration from the Russian Govern- ment Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou has just sold a hundred millions of new five per cent. bonds to the City National Bank, of New York, at 80. Intense excitement is shown among the members of both houses of Congress. enators Platt and Depew were em- phatic in saying that this is the time for patriotic statesmen to do their duty, and that neither of them has any intention of resigning. Senator Tillman denounces the arrest of Mrs. Trautley as a hellish outra and offers to raise and equip a whole d—d negro regiment for service in Russia. Secretary Taft has been at the War Department continuously ever-since the receipt of the news, and has already lost twenty-three pounds. He says that it is incredible that such an outrage could occur at this period of the world’s history, even in Russia, The W. C. 'T. U. is making arrange- ments to equip every regiment going to the front with a liberal supply of lemon pop. Throughout the Country Cuicaco, Jan. 16.—A_ tremendous mass-meeting was held on the lake front to-night under the auspices of the Team- sters’ Union. Russian brutality was de- nounced in vigorous terms by walking delegates and members of the Entertain- ment Committee. Large orders for canned beef have been received at Packingtown from the War Department. In view of the emergency, the requirements of the Pure Food Law will not be enforced. A number of well-known Republican patriots have organized a new military society to be known as Veterans of the Russian War. It will be similar in scope and purpose to the Grand Army and the Sons of Veterans of the Spanish War. Mass-meetings are being held all over the West to protest against the latest ex- ample of Russian despotism. Colonel Bryan, who was booked to make a speech at Omaha in favor of government con- fiscation of the railroads, was so moved by the news that he started at once for Washington to place his sword at the service of the Government. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 9.—The Mid- West Literary League, which comprises in its membership most of the inhabitants of Indiana and the adjoining States, has discontinued writing best-selling novels and short stories for the ten-cent maga- zines. Every man, woman and child in the league is writing patriotic poetry and battle hymns of the republic NEW YORK’S DEEP INDIGNATION The News Here—No Hysteria But the Untiring and Persistent Wrath of New York Is Roused. No city in the world is so sensitive to any abuse of police power as New York. It can be imagined then the thrill of hor- ror that swept through this community when it was learned that a Moscow po- liceman had arrested an American wom- anon the unsupported statement of an unknown man, and that a Russian police sergeant had submitted her to the indig- nity and humiliation of search and inear- ceration in a station-house cell without making any effort to ascertain whether she was telling the truth about her identi If Russia knew the character of the itizens of New York, how resentful they cliz are of any abuse or invasion of personal rights, the outrage would never have taken place. No better evidence of this characteristic could be had than the New Yorkers’ determined resistance to bad treatment on the part of the street rail way corporations and their employees; how patiently but relentlessly New York- comicbooks.com