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HUMANITMISGRACE
The Shocking Brutalities That Led Up
to the Sassoun Massacre.
TURKISH INQUIRY A PARCEL
The Civilized World Must Unite to End
the Atrocities—Both Turk and Arme-
nian to Blame—First Authentic
News Direct From Armenia.
LONDON, Feb. 4.——A letter has been re-
ceived here from a special correspondent
who was sent to Armenia from London in
order to investigate the reported Armenian
atrocities and who is at present in Ar‘
menia. For reasons which will be readi-
ly understood the name of this correspond-
ent is withheld, but he is a newspaper
man well known in America, and he was
instructed to make an impartial investi-
gation of the stories told of Turkish cruel-
ty. His first letter has just reached here,
after having been posted by a trusted mes-
senger at Tifiis, Russia. It contains the
first authentic news received from Ar-
menia direct and says:
” Whatever secret-s may lie under the
snow on the Armenian mountains, it
seems beyond dispute from what I have
heard from many lips that the published
stories of ferocious butchery and red hor-
ror in the Sassoun villages have at least a
reasonable foundation of truth, and that
any change authorized by further investi-
gation will deal more with numbers than
with the degree of horror. ”
But from what the correspondent says
in a later part of his letter there are two
sides to the Armenian story, as he remarks:
“But no matter what light we throw
upon the spasmodic wickedness of the Turk
or upon the ingenious deviltry of the revo.
lutionary conspiratory, We find that it is
still the innocent who sufier most. The
Turk declares that the Armenians have
inflicted shocking outrages upon Turkish
men and women. and from what is already
known of conspiracy methods it is quite
likely that the assertion is true.
Devilish Expedients'.
“For instance, it is reported that as a
means of inciting the Turks to commit
outrages that will bring down upon them
the wrath of a civilized world, Armenians
have thrust gun cartridges into the bodies
of living Turkish men and women and
have exploded them, and that in the case
of one man a hole was made just below the
bones of the chest for the insertion of a_
quantity of gunpowder, which was then
ignited as a sort of bomb. The Turk who
would not retaliate in kind is yet to be
born; These facts are known at the em-
bassies in Constantinople, and possibly
they have been transmitted in reports to
the various governments.”
The correspondent also remarks: “The
impartial truzh of the Sassoun massacre
will probably never be known. for the dead
tell no tales. A careful sitting of all the
facts obtainable from trustworthy sources
in Constantinople. Sassoun. Korrasuud,
Trebizonde and Bitlis indicates that this is
what happened:
”Certain Armenian peasants. to the
number of several thousands. were tending
their herds and flocks in their summer
pastures in the Sassoun mountains. They
were living in mere temporary villages.
which they inhabited only during the
summer pasture season, their winter
homes being far down the valleys. They
were under the protection of a tribe of
Kurds, who were under contract to defend
them against the raids of cattle stealers
and Kurdish bandits.
“A short time before the villagers were
ready to return to their homes in the val-
leys with their fattcned cattle, a band of
Kurdish bandits, industriously searching
for a winter’s supply of provisions, raided
their stock. The villagers and their Kurd-
ish protectors would have driven Off the
thieves, and that would have ended it.
but before the fighting was over the Turk-
ish government came into the affair, and
then the real trouble began. Some official
telegraphed to Constantinople that arcvo-
lution was in progress among the _Armenv
IT PREVENTS THE EN TRAN 0E
of disease—pure blood or an active
liver. How explained? The circu-
lation of the blood is the great high-
way over which the genus of disease
travel, the liver is the quarantine
through whose gate any dread dis-
ease may or may not pass, as the
liver chooses.
Are you watchful? Is your blood
in order and your liver active, so as
to repel disease? If not, you will
find in Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
Discovery just the help you need.
It comes to your assistance when
on. have such warnings of impure
blood and inactive liver, as pimples,
boils or carbuncles; or a feeling of
lassitude, weakness and despondency.
When your flesh is, from any cause,
“ reduced below a healthy standard,”
you’ve only to take the “ Discovery,”
which will set all the organs into
vigorous action and builds up both
flesh and strength. Avoid_nauseous
preparations of Cod liver 011. They
add fat, but not wholesome flesh or
healthy tissue.
“Equal and Exact Justice to all .M en 01‘ Whatever State or Permeation, Religious or Politica .”-—Jefl"mon
lans in the 'Sa‘ssoun mountain ‘villagcs,
and the order came straight from the pal-
ace, ‘Punish the villagers to the utmost
extremity.’
The hIassacrc.
“The palace had not paused to inquire
into the truth of the rumor, and the Offi-
cers intrusted with the execution of the
order paused not to investigate the facts
when the troops arrived on the ground.
The Kurdish bandits joined forces with
the Turkish regulars, and oven the Kurds
who had been defending the Armenians
turned traitors and swelled the numbers
of the government troops. The poor Ar-
menian peasants were then left at the
mercy of a force of Turkish regulars and
two bands of Kurds. Then the massacre
began. For the Armenians it was a fight
withouthope, but still they fought as only
men can fight who defend their wives and
children from outrage and death. They
took refuge in their houses and barricaded
themselves in, but the Kurdish cannon
made short work of that, and when they
ran in terror from hiding place to hiding
place they were slain without mercy—man,
woman and child.
“The outrage of Armenian women and
children by Turks in that part of the
country is so common a thing even in
times of absolute quiet that there can be
no doubt that this massacre was attended
with outrage and atrocity too horrible to
think of. The Armenians in Athens and
Constantinople assert that 42 villagers
were destroyed and nearly 10,000 persons
massacred, but more imparital and equally
well informed persons elsewhere put the
number at 25 villages and from 1,000 to
3,000 persons killed. The exact number
will never be known.
“The sultan was so well pleased with
the work Of _his soldiers that he sent
thanks and decorations to the officers and
forwarded flags to be presented to the regi-
ments engaged in the awful butchery.
These flags have not yet been handed over
to the regiments, although the regiments
went out to escort to their headquarters
the messengers who brought them. It is
thought that the presentation will be de-
ferred until the commotion Over the Sas
soun affair has subsided. The English
delegate on the Turkish commission of in-
quiry might see these flags if he went at
it in the right way.
The Turkish Commission.
”As for the Turkish commission, it is
such a farce that it is a waste of breath to
talk about it. This assertion may seem to
be of the nature of hanging a man before
he is tried. but in Constantinople no Euro-
pean of ordinary intelligence has any other
view of it. In the foreign embassies there
is, of course. a disposition to give the
Turk a chance to Show what the commis-
sion will do, with perhaps a hope that the
European delegates will have a good effect
toward creating at least a semblance
an investigation; but. as Inc .orvign dele.
gates have no power to direct the course
ofthe inquiry and are little more than or-
dinary spectators, there is not much hope
that anything of consequence will be done.
“What the European residents of Con-
stantinople are really looking forward to
with confidence is the investigation of the
whole affair by a European commission.
They believe that the Turkish commission
will bring in such an unsatisfactory re-
port that the Christian nations will up-
point a commission and make an investi-
gation whether the Turks like it or not.
This is what it must come to in the end.
for, no matter what reforms the sultan
may promise, the Armenian agitation will
continue until the entire vexed question
is passed upon by the rest of the world.
”The sultan’s promise of reform will
not be binding upon the Armenian revo-
lutionary agents. no matter what may
come, and until the revolutionary agita-
tion is provided for one way or another by
the Christian powers of the world there
will be no end to the disturbances in Ar-
menia. This is the revolutionary party’s
opportunity. and it will make the most Of
it. If Christianity does not step in now
and put an end to the .-\1‘III€2'-i.in question
once for all, the murders, the massacres
and the nameless atrociti. s will continue
until it does. It is, of course, impossible
to say to what extent radical ideas prevail
among. the revolutionary propagandists,
but the plans of some of the leaders are
shockino- in theexmema ,
"In' brief, their plans are to commit
atrocities upon Turks in order that the
infuriated Turks shall shock the Christian
world by the fiendish outrages of their re-
taliation. When remonstrated with in re-
gard to these nnchristian plans the men
who are responsible for them merely say,
"It may seem to you cruel and barbarous,
but we know what we are doing and why
we are doing it.’
“It is a fact that certain of these Ar-
menian conspirators arranged to murder
the Rev. Edward Riggs and two other
Armenian missionaries at Maraovan and
fasten the blame upon the Turks in order
that the United States might inflict sum-
mary punishmnt upon the Turkish gov-
ernment, therebyImaking possible Arme-
nian independence. One will search a long
time in the pages of history for a more
diabolical plot than that. 'Moreover, the
missionaries would have been murdered
had not an Armenian friend warned them.
“The American consul at Sivas has
plenty of time for the investigation of
these stories, for he has nothing else to do.
The consulate at Sivas is maintained
missionaries for Armenia. There is abso-
tend to. It will be remembered. at least
by Americans, tbat'the sultan refused to
permit the United States to send Dr.
Jewett into the Sassoun region to make
an independent investigation. It is not
unlikely that had the United States pro-
posed to send a man not personally known
to the Turks the Objection would not have
been so strong. It might be well for the
United States government to bear this fact
in mind in case the prdposition to appoint
an investigator should come up in future.
“I have the highest authority for saying
that all of the facts that are known to be
facts in the case of the Sassoun massacre
have been sent to the state department at
Washington. Not only are innocent wom-
en and children made to suffer hideous
cruelty and unspeakable outrage as a re-
sult of Armenian plots and Turkish re-
taliation. but the revolutionary agitation
and disturbed condition of the country are
used by the wicked and unscrupulous to
oppress the poor and Satisfy the thirst for
petty revenge. -
but was drawn over on one side.
solely for the protection of the American '
lutely no other business for a consul to at— -
Nerwalk Conn:fihfionday Evening, February 4, 1895.”-
Appalling Horrors.
“Facts like these will probably not form
part of the investigation of the Turkish
commission. yet a satisfactory report of
the Armenian situation .cannot be made
until everything in connection with the
everyday life of the inhabitants of Ar-
menia is faithfully and intelligently in-
quired into.
”Not only should the Sassoun massacre
be probed to the bottom, but all the air
tending circumstances should be carefully
considered. For one thing, the state of
morals in Armenia, and especially along
the Kurdish frontier. should receive the
closest scrutiny.
”The facts that are now and then told
as merest matters of course are most ap-
palling in the depth of their depravity.
When an Armenain girl is to be married
she is taken from hrr home and outraged
by armed bands of Turks and Kurds, and
any member of her family who lifts a
hand in defense of her honor is shot down
like a dog. On the Kurdish frontier the
ravagcrs do not even wait for the approach
of a girl’s wedding. but they seize her
when she has reached a certain age and
carry her off to the mountains, where she
is most shamefully treated. In a few days
she is allowed to return home.
“This infamous practice is so common
that it is declared that there is not a
young Armenian woman living along the
Kurdish frontier who has not been a vic-
tim of it. lfiven children of tender years
are not exempt, and some have actually
died in the most frightful agony. Any
attempt of the Armenians to combat this
custom or to punish the perpetrators of
the outrages is met by severe measures.
“The Turkish commission will not in-
vestigate cases like this, and yet the state
of society which makes these things possi-
ble is responsible not only for the Sassoun
massacre, but for the hundreds of isolated
cases of outrage, murder and false im-
prisonment which the out-side world
knoWs nothing of.
“’hat Are You Going to Do About It?
“It is a significant fact that outrages are
not perpetrated by Turks upon other Turks
or by Kurds upon their fellow tribemen.
It is always upon the Armenian Chris-
tians that the Turk‘ and the Kurd let
loose their ingenious depravity. It is the
difference of religion that is the basis of
it all, and thus one is forced to believe
that both the Turk and the Armenian are
in the wrong.
“It should be borne in mind that the
missionaries in Armenia do not try to
make religious converts. ~ They make no
effort to change the Turk’s religion. They
merely educate the Armenians. They
would educate Turks as well, but the gov-
ernment of Turkey will not permit it,
and for the Turk to say that they are di-
rectly or indirectly inciting the Arme-
nians to revolution is ridiculous.
“ What will the practical Christianity of
England and America do about it? Will.
it help the Armenian revolutionary party
to form an independent state in order
that the innocent wOmen and children
may be protected against outrage and
death? Will it give Armenia to Christian
Russia. where already many thousands of
Armenians are living in peace and pros-
perity? Will it drag the Turk from power
and divide up his empire among the na-
tions of Europe? Whatever practical Chris-
tianity decides to do, it will not do it as a
result Of the report of the Turkish com‘
mission of inquiry.
Rodgers Appointed hlanager.
BOSTON. Feb. 4.———W. B. Rodgers, Har-
vard, ’90, who was last year assistant man-
ager of the ’varsity football team. has been
appointed manager of the eleven for this
year. ~
A Wife lIurderer Convicted.
BALTIMORE. Feb. 4.—-Thomas J. Hasson,
who has been on trial for the killing of his
Wife on Oct. 4 last, has been convicted of
murder in the second degree.
Two Stores Burned.
RENovo, Pa. Feb. 4.—Fira totally de-
stroyed the large dry goods store of George
J. Koser and the grocery store of John
Considine.
Cut His Throat.
NEW YORK, Feb. 4.——Abe Erstein of
Athens, Ga, tried to commit suicide here
last night by cutting his throat. He may
recover.
Afflicted With Rheumatism.
Mr. Geo. A. Mills, of Lebanon, Conn.
says: “I was afflicted with rheumatism in
my back all last winter. It was so severe
at times that I could not stand up straight,
I tried
different remedies without receiving an
relief until I bought a bottle of Chamberlain 5
Pain Balm. After using it for three days,
according to directions, my rheumatism was
gone and has not returned since. I have
since rec0mmended it to others and know
they have been benefited by its use. For
sale by Gregory &_ Co.
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SUTCLIFFE TURNED DOWN.
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Alleged Offensive Partisanship the Cause of
the Revocation of His Appointment.
MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Feb. 4.—Dr. John
S. Sutcliffe of this city recently passed the
necessary civil service examination and
was notified by the department of agricul-
ture of his appointment as a United States
Veterinary inspector and ordered to report
for duty at the Chicago stockyards on
Feb. 1.
A few days ago Dr. Sutclifi‘e was noti-
fied by the department of agriculture that
his service would not be required. He
went to Washington and learned that his
appointment was revoked because of in-
formation furnished the departm ~ .ll’. of al-
leged offensive partisanship in the past.
The specific charge was that in a parade
by which the Republicans celebrated their
victory in 1888 he was the one who car-
ried through the streets and burned the
effigy Of Grover Cleveland. He denies that
the efligy was that of President Cleveland,
asserting that it was a “free trade baby, ”
and that it was set on fire by an unknown
small boy who applied a torch to it.
Jamison In Office.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 4.-—J. H. .Bremmer
yesterday withdrew from the contest for
the prosecutorship of Jackson county, and
W. I. Jamison. the Republican candidate,
was placed in possession of the Office by
Judge Henry. The proceedings resulted
from an investigation into alleged frauds
committed at the November elections.
The report of the commission which looked
into the alleged bribery and fraudulent
voting reported in favor of Jamison.
hIexico Is For \Var. ’
Cyrv or MEXICO, Feb. 4,—President
Diaz will give out on tomorrow what is
expected to be Mexico's ‘final ultimatum
In the dispute with Guatemala. If cur-
rent rumors and state of public feeling are
to be believed, it will be a declaration of
war. It is stated upon what is believed to
be good authority that the Mexican cab-
inet will not deviate from its original
policy.
Judge E. Rockwood Hoar Dead.
CONCORD, Mass, Feb. 4.——Judge ’E.
Rockwood Hear, the eminent Massachu-
setts jurist. died at his home here after a
painful illness of about two months of
heart trouble. He was unconscious when
death came, although during the after-
noon his mind had cleared, and be con-
versed with the members of‘his family,“
who were present.
“’omen Elect Officers.
ATLANTA. Feb. 4,—The National Amer-
ican Woman Suffrage association has elect<
ed the following officers: President. Su-
san B. Anthony; vice‘ persident, Rev.
Anna Howard Shaw; secretary, Rachel
Foster Avery; corresponding secretary,
Lucy Stone Blackwell; treasurer, Harriet
Taylor Upton.
Four Freighthouses Burned. .
ALBANY, Feb. 4.—The four big freight
houses of H. Slingerlands on the dock at
Coeymans were burned yesterday after-
noon. The buildings were stocked with
hay, grain, flour, feed, etc., andzwere en-
tirely destroyed. The loss is over $50,000.
Italian Bombmakers.
ROME, Feb. 4.——The police yesterday
discovered a bomb factory at the lodgings
of two anarchists, Ravoglia and Capelli,
whmwere arrested. Three loaded bombs
weré found. Bavoglia confessed that he
threw the bombs the day that Lega at-
tempted the life of Premier Crispi.
Two Assassins Captured.
KNOXVILLE. Feb. 4.-—-Theodore Reese
and Bill Birchville. two of the most no-
torious moonshiners and assassins in Ten-
nessee, have been captured by revenue of-
ficers in the mountains of Blount county.
Didn’t Find the Chicora. ‘
SHEBOYGAN, Wis, Feb. 4.—The steamer
Ludington, which has been out 48 hours
, on a perilous and fruitless trip in search
of the lost steamer Chicora, arrived here
yesterday covered with 50 tons of ice.
Assaulted and Robbed.
~NIAGARA FALLS. Feb. 4. —Edward
Flanders was attacked last night by three
men, who cut his throat and robbed him
of $325. He will die. Two of his assail-
ants have been captured.
C. 1’. Huntington Dying.
NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—Collis P. Hunting-
ton, the Pacific railway magnate, is lying
at his home in this city in a very precarious
condition. Only slight hopes of his recov-
ery are entertained. .
Cholera. In” Turkey.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—A eablegram re-.
ceived at the state department yesterday
from United States Consul Short. at Pera,
Turkey. announces the appearance of chol-
era at that place.
' The Suit Is Ended.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 4.—Anton Kuhn of this
city has learned that his wife Louise
went down on the steamer Elbe while she
was on her way to St. Louis to defend a
divorce suit.
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half. We advise you to call early.
SOME OF THE BARGAINS.
German damask table linen, 39c quality at 250 yard.
Extra heavy. German damask 590 quality at 39c yard.
Hemstitched buck towels, full size, now 190 each.
Brown sheeting, 72 inches wide, 170 quality at l2§c yard.
Yard wide brown sheeting, at this sale only 4%c yard.
All wool red flannel, reduced to 150 yard.
Lining cambrics, short lengths at 30 yard.
Silesias, all colors, 160 quality at 12§c yard.
Men’s gray winter underwear were 500 to 750, at 39c each.
Boy’s flannel shirt waists, 50c quality at 360 each. -
Broken sizes in children’s underwear at 100 each.
Clothes brushes worth 19c at this sale 90 each.
Pearl, jet and metal buttons worth 12in to 25c for card Of 2 dez , now 10c car d
Stockinrt dress shields, Nos. 2 and 3 at 10c pair.
Ladies’ cardigan jackets, 75c quality at 25c; $1 quality at 59c.
Infant’s caps in wool and silk, 500 quality at 250.
'Ladies’ silk waists regular prices $4, 4 50, 5, and 5 98 at $2,69 each.
Ladies’ flannelette wrappers, $1.490 quality at 1.09c each.
White fur carriage robes, $2.98 qualit y 1 65.
10 pieces all-wool ingrain carpet, best made for 75c,at this sale 490. yd.
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Mufslin ‘ and Cambric Underwear.
Nightgowns, latestgand most approved Styles, 39c, 480, 50c, 75c, and $1
Ladies Drawers material and make the very best, 21c, 23c, 250,50, 753
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Extra sizes in muslin and cambric drawers, 380, 45c, 500, 750, $1. and
Chemises, good muslin all styles, 25c, 50c, 75c. $1, $1.25 and upward.
Corset covers, most approved shapes, 10c. 13c, 25c, 50c and upwards. $20. :w
Children’s Canton flannel night drawers, at 25c, 45c and 69c
Children’s short dresses, all qualities, from 25c to $6.00.“
Children’s short shirts all qualities from 25c to $2.
is completely stocked with everything necessary and desirable for the little
Long skirts and. slips, from 25c to $1.00.
Dresses and Christening Robes, at all prices, from $2.25 to $12 00.
Barrow coats, shawls, shoes, socks, sacques wrappers and double gowns.
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Dyers and cleaners of ladies’ and gents.
garments, made or ripped.
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SEASON 01’ 1895
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