Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 7 December 1894 — Page 2

Mw Knocked Clear W! Os Prices in our Dress Gooffs Department. We will make special priees on the following goods while they last: 38 in. All Wool Tricot Flannels, former price <SO cents, now 35 cents. 34 in. “ Dress “ “ 35 “ “ 20 SO in.- “ Flaid “ “ 60 “ “ 45 “ 38 in. Colored Brillianteens, “ 50 “ “ 25 •* 38 In. All Wool Bengalines, “ 1100 “ 75 “ 38 in. “ “ “ “0 “ “ 60 “ 6-4 “ Flannels, “ 28 “ •* 18 ‘ Nobby All Wool Suitings, the Latest Styles, suit complete, linings, thread, stays, etc., etc., from $4 50 to $5.50 per suit. Come and see them. ■Wo 2Be«.t thio "World For Underwear. Elegant Ribbed, Fleece lined garment, 25c.. well worth 35c You must see them before you can appreciate their real value. Wool and Merino in same good values. Come and see for yourself. HOSIERY? Well, Yes. We are O K. on this line, also Gloves and Mittens. Fascinators, Shawls, and. in fact, everything you can think of, and all at the Hlgllt PrIOCS. Blankets I Blankets I Blankets! All we ask is, if you are needing any Blankets to see our line before you buy, as it is immense and the price is in keeping with the “times.” CHINA, GLASS AND QUEENSWARE. Well Now You Have Struck the Key Note. We are second to none in this department. Our line is simply admirable. So much nicer than ever before and quite a great deal cheaper. Our line is from one of the largest Importers in this country. You should come in and see before they are all picked over. They are going out every day. Come and select your Xmas presents in this line and have them put away and be sure of them, TOYS! TOYS!! TOYS !!! Well, it is useless to try to enumerate all in this big line, as there are 1,001 articles that we would like to mention but can’t for want of space, but remember, we arei SANTA. OX-.ja.TTSP HEADQUARTERS for any and everything in the TOY AND XMAS GOODS LINE. Groceries. Groceries. Groceries. Remember us when you need Good, Nice, Fresh, Clean. Groceries and Provisions. SPRANG & TRUE.

OmiGM TIMS'. Armenian Refugees Reach Athens and Tell of Awful Horrors. FIRST REPORTS CONFIRMED. Thirty-Two Villages Devastated After the Most Appalling Atrocities Had Been Practiced Upon Women and Children. Homes Fired While the People Slept. Astonishing Stories. [Copyrighted. 1894, by the Associated Press.] Athens, Greece, Dec. 4. —The Associated Press exclusively has been able to give to the world the facts of the terrible atrocities perpetrated upon Armenian Christians in Asia Minor, and today its representative has succeeded in obtaining additional details confirming the statements previously made. The representative met 20 Armenian refugees who arrived here from Armenia after a journey full of hardships and sufferings. Securing the services of a first-class interpreter, he gathered the Armenians together at a convenient place, and after having relieved their pressing necessities the interpreter questioned the refugees concerning the terrible events of which they had in a number of cases been eye-witnesses. This party of Armenians is the first that has escaped from the districts where the massacres occurred, and it is believed that even worse remains to be told, as the horrors recorded are understood to have lasted for a long time after this party fled. Most of the persons who 1 told these stories escaped from Moosh, Bitlis and Sassoun, taking with them what little they could carry. *. Beginning of Atrocities* Several Armenian women escaped from the villages with this party, but when near Erzeroum they died from the effects of saber wounds inflicted upon them before their escape. For about 18 months, the Armenian refugees say, the province of Sassoun has been surrounded by Turkish troops and nobody has been allowed 'to enter it or to leave. About four ! months ago the Turkish authorities learned that the inhabitants of Vartemis, a village outside, 'the frontier of Sassoun, were sending for the necessaries of life to the village of Dalvorig. Such communication being prohibited, the Turks massacred nearly all the inhabitants of Vartemis. . This was the second massacre to occur. The first took place about a year ago. One of the refugees, a man named Khadjik, states that his uncle and aunt wer > among the killed, the latter being violated previous to being put to death. The village contained 235 Armenian houses before the Turks attacked it, but when theJEugitives left only 25 houses remained standing. Bloody Vengeance. Dalvorig, it appears, is the largest village in the province of Sassoun, and its inhabitants, when they learned of the horrors perpetrated by the Turks at Vartemis, attacked the Turks on the frontier. The Turkish commander eventually sent 12 soldiers into Dalvorig to learn what had occurred. The Armenians, filled with indignation at the atrocities committed, attacked this detachment and put them all to death. When the Turkish commander heard of the death of his soldiers he determined upon avenging it in the most bloody manner possible. A strong force of Turkish troops was sent to the village, with artillery, and the massacre began. Guns kept up a continuous fire upon Dalvorig, until practically not one stone was left standing upon another. % Selo, the bey of Initzoun, a Kurd, with a detachment of Kurdish cavalry, -v went with the Turkish soldiers to the village of Semal and forcibly took the Armenian priest from his church after disgustingly defiling the sacred vessels and the priest’s hands. They then bound him on a donkey which they drove a distance of a few yards. The soldiers then fired at the priest and killed him and the beast he was bound to. In the village the Turkish soldiers entered an Armenian house and violated

a woman and Her daughter, the latter being 14 years of age. From this village Selo forcibly took eight Armenian girls and sent them to his harem at Initzoun. Villages Fired While People Slept. Further atrocities were committed by the Turks at the village of Keliehuzen. Before dawn this place was surrounded by soldiers and while the inhabitants were still asleep it was set on fire. The brutal soldiers entered the residence of a man named Arrkel, who was asleep with his wife, and tortured them both infernally with redhot irons. At Kelichuzfa the soldiers killed the Armenian priest, Margoa, who, with 20 other inmates of the house, was burned to death, the soldiers preventihg anybody from escaping. The chief of the village of Cheneg was captured bj the soldiers and bound to his two daughters. All three were then scalded to death with boiling water. A detachment of 25 regulars of the Turkish cavalry, after committing inexpressible horrors at the village of Sebghank, went to the village school and ravished the girls found there. The cavalrymen then devastated the building. Damnable Crimes. Ibo Bey, a notorious Kurd brigand of the Village ofr Djibran, ana a coiouei in the regular army, went with a detachment of Turkish troops to the Armenian villages of Bahlou, Hatezgent and Komk and at each place they committed every crime possible to commit. After driving out the men, they collected the female children of Bahlou together, about 200 in all, and after ravishing them they killed them all with guns and swords. After this massacre the Turkish soldiers regaled themselves with wine and whatever else they could find in the village. The Kurdish regular troops from Kizan and Bahran entered the Armenian villages of Alianozig and Aghteg, killed the inhabitants and wrecked their houses. The number of villages devastated in this manner is said to be over 32. The Armenians fled in every possible direction, but many of them were captured by the Turkish troops before they could get away and were taken to prison.

A Georgia Dove Scene. “Goodby, Jim—be good.” ‘‘So long, Sue —keep peart.” ‘‘Oh, Jim!” ‘‘l hears you.” ‘‘Write me a letter through the postoffice, Jim!” —Atlanta Constitution. The land tbrtoises of many countries bury themselves in the mud at the bottoms of streams and marshes on the approach of winter, and also, it is said, at the coming of a protracted drought. General Richard Montgomery, who was killed at Quebec in 17755, isremembered in the name of the Alabama city. Friendship. z' ‘‘The fundamental difference between men’s friendships and women’s, ” says a cynical man I know, ‘‘lies in just this: Two men are friends because they like the same things; two women are friends because they dislike the same people.”—Washington Post Cape Canaveral, in Florida, was named by the Spaniards from the abundance of flowers in the vicinity. The name means ‘‘Land of the Rose Tree.” I I .. • ■ ■ ■ — Hopeful. ‘ ‘I am not suah whethah she loves me or not, ” said Willie Wibbles. “Have you had any encouragement?” “Yes, indeed. I am infohmed that she wefers to me as ‘it, ’ just as she does to her pet dog.’’-—Washington Star. The whiskers of a cat are supposed by some naturalists to be provided with nerves down to the tips, while others believe that the base of the hair is better fitted out with nerves than most other parts of the skin. Much Improved. From the report of a missionary to Africa: , . “My congregation refuse to give up cannibalism, but I have succeeded in so far improving their tastes that they now eat with knives and forks.” —Reading (Pa) Telegram.

SECOND tOrtISCE. Republican Senators Again In Session In Indianapolis. COUNCIL TO INVESTIGATE. R«Mnt Inquiry by the Capital City Board of Public Works Unsatisfactory to the Legislators— Doubtful Condition of City Account. In Valparaiso—Women Brutally Treated—General State Dispatches. Indianapolis, Deo. 4. — Republican members of the state senate are holding a second conference today in the Denison house to hear a report on the arrangement of committees, so that the committees may be able to get to work on some prospective legislation. Senator .Wishard of this county will be chairman of the apportionment committee. It is regarded as almost certain that the recent supreme court decision on the fee and salary law will make a new mensuro necessary, and this will be talked over during the day. ARE HIS BOOKS CORRECTf Difference of Opinion Between City Officer. of Valparatao. Valparaiso, Ind., Dec. 4.—At the last meeting of the common council a special committee reported the result of an investigation of the books and vouchers of ex-City Treasurer George Schwarzkopf, finding a shortage of $11,396.21. This did not include two water orders, collectively calling for $2,438.83, which, if not produced, would swell the shortage to $13,835.04. The report was accepted, but action was deferred for two weeks to give Mr. Sehwarzkopf and his bondsmen a chance to investigate. ’ The ex-city treasurer claims that there is no deficiency, and that if one is found then unauthorized persons have changed the books. SECOND INVESTIGATION. Indianapolis Council Not Satisfied With a Board of Public Works Report. Indianapoijs, Dec. 4.—Recently the mayor and board of public works investigated newspaper complaints against the city engineer’s office and reported that there was no truth in rumors. Last night the council took up the matter and ordered an investigation of the board of public works and all departments over which it has control. The motion was pioposed by a Republican and passed without a dissenting vote. The committee is composed of three Republicans and two Democrats.

JUMPED OVERBOARD. Indianapolis Woman Suicides While Returning From Europe. Philadelphia, Dec. 4. —The American line steamship Ohio, which arrived here yesterday from Queenstown, reported the suicide on Nov. 22 of Mrs. Hannah Williams of Indianapolis, who was returning with her husband and young son from a European trip. On the night in question the woman was seen to leap overboard. Attempts at rescue were without success. Plea of Guilty to Forgery. Muncie, Ind., Dec. 4.—Albert Daugherty pleaded guilty yesterday to forging the name of Milton Hamilton on two notes of SIOO ea<sh as security, and went to jail in default of SSOO bail. He gave the notes to Jacob Rector for a team of horses. Daugherty is prosecuting a SIOO,OOO damage suit against John Seaton for false arrest. Heaton thought Daugherty stole a herd of cattle from him. This suit comes up today. Brutal Treatment of a Wife. Huntington, Ind., Dec. 4.—Ezekiel Allerton is under arrest for brutal treatment of his wife. He lives a mile from town and is alleged to have knocked her down, kicked her and then dragged her from the house by her hair, leaving her in an unconscious condition on the porch. He then came out of the house with a butcherknife, but a son prevented further outrage. — * Big Four Gets Subsidy. Wabash, Ind., Dec. 4. —At an election in this township yesterday to give the Big Four $50,000 subsidy to build shops here, the question passed by a majority of 1,432 out of a total vote of 2,166. The new shops will cost over $150,000 and construction work will begin at once. Wanted In Anderson. Toronto, Dec. 4.—Yesterday afternoon detectives arrested George L. Armstrong on the strength of a telegram ifom Pinkerton’s detective agency, Chicago. The prisoner is wanted in Anderson, Ind., for embezzlement. Armstrong says he is willing to go back. Cause For Rejoicing. Alexandria, 4.—There is great rejoicing over the sale of the Depauw plants in this city and New Albany to the St. Louis company, and the determination of the purchasers to consolidate the several purchases under one management in this city.

Drunken Husband Thwarted. Brazil, Ind., Dec. 4.—William Willliamson, while intoxicated, endeavored to murder his wife and infant child by cutting their throats with a razor. Mrs. Williamson fought desperately and thwarted her husband’s efforts. No Charge For Copying. Indianapolis, Dec. 4.—Supreme Court Clerk Hess has decided that opinions may be copied in his office without charge, he having found no precedent for a charge of 10 cents per 100 words. Schools Cloned. Portland, Ind., Dec. 4. —All the city schools are closed for two weeks, or until further notice, on account of diphtheria. There are a number of cases and the disease is becoming epidemic. Distillery Changes Manas. Terre HAute, Ind., Dec. 4.—The antitrust distillery, projected by George Woolsey, and which has been operated on a small capacity for a few months,

HIANGE IN TO RULES. Resolution In the Senate Looking to That End. OPENING DAY OF CONGRESS. Animated Soene. In Both Branches Ware Incidental to the Dav, Proceeding. Being Fentnrele*. — Reading of the Message—Mr. Tnrple’s Resolution on Direct Vote For Senators—Other News. Washington, Dec. 4. — There was more or less talk on the Democratic side of the senate during yesterday about the importance of a change in the rules of the senate, and this culminated late in the afternoon by the introduction of a resolution by Senator George looking to that end. The resolution directs the committee on rules»to report at the earliest practicable moment such amendments as will enable the senate to reasonably discharge the legislative functions imposed upon it. The resolution specifically provides that the senate shall have power to come to a vote on any pending question after giving such reasonable opportunity for amendment and debate as the senate may decide to be proper to compel the attendance of a quorum; that for the purpose of making a quorum all senators present may be counted, whether answering to their names or not; that a senator present who fails to answer to the call of his name shall be punished for disorderly behavior. OPENING OF CONGRESS. Scene. Picture.que In n Way, but Devoid of Interest. Washington, Dec. 4.—The opening of the short session in the house was picturesque in away, but devoid of interesting features. The victorious Republicans and the defeated Democrats exchanged greetings and gave and took thrusts on the result of the recent political battle with much animation but thorough good nature. The galleries were crowded and half the desks on the floor were smothered with flowers. The leaders on both sides got enthusiastic receptions from their respective partisans, the appearance of Speaker Crisp, ex-Speaker Reed, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Burrows being the signal for long and loud outbursts. There was no chance in the first day’s proceedings for any public reference to the election, so that the actual proceedings were dull and uninteresting. Seven new membets were sworn in, and, after a long wait, the president’s message was read. Although listened to attentively, it was concluded without a single mark of approval or disapproval. The death of the late Representative Wright of Pennsylvania was then announced, whereupon the house, as a mark of respect, adjourned. In the senate the scene was not different in any important particular—there were the crowd, the greetings, the flowers, the message ana all else. Among the notable absentees was Senator Hill. After the message had been read and ordered printed, Mr. George presented a resolution for the revision of rules. This was followed by other routine until adjournment at 4 o’clock.

Scheme Said to Be Fraudulent. Washington, Dec. 4.—Complaint of irregularities conducted through the United States and English mails has been made to the postoffice department by the British embassy, and as a result Postmaster General Bissell has directed postmasters at New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore to return to senders all registered letters addressed to the International Patentees agency or to either W. H. Munn, Percy Willis or Henry Martin, constituting the agency. The parties are charged with conducting a fraudulent scheme. Free Coinage Bill. Washington, Dec. 4.—A bill providing for the free coinage of silver was introduced in the house by Representative Hartman of Montana. An important provision of the measure is that requiring import duties to be paid in gold in case where the articles of importation are brought from countries whose governments refuse to open their mints to the free coinage of silver and gold. Clereltiixd at the White House. Washington, Dec. 4.—The fact that President Cleveland appeared at the white house yesterday for the first time in, two weeks; coupled with the length of his message, gives color to the belief that most of the time he was on the work in hand rather than in nursing an alleged gouty foot. He appeared in good health and limped but slightly. ' New Indictment. Against Howgate. Washington, Dec. 4.—The district grand jury yesterday presented two new indictments for embezzlement against Captain Henry W. Howgate. One charges that Howgate embezzled SII,BOO on Oct. 15, 1879, and the other the embezzlement of two sums aggregating $20,760 on Aug. 21, 1878. The original charge of forgery is ignored.

Senators by Direct Vote. Washington, Dec. 4. —In the senate yesterday afternoon Mr. Turpie of Indiana offered a resolution reciting that the time had now come for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. Mr. Turpie announced that on Friday next he would submit some remarks on the resolution, and in the meantime it went over. Sherman's Danghter to Wed. Washington, Dec. 4.—Cards have been issued for the marriage of Mary Stewart Sherman, daughter of Senator Sherman, to James Ives McCallum, Wednesday, Dec. 12. Attorney Fellows on Trial. New YoJta, Dec. 4.—The trial of Colonel John B. Fellows, district attorney of the city and county of New York, upon charges of neglect of duty was begun before Flower’s oommission’er, ex-Senator John J. Lenson of Kingston, yesterday.

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