Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — KILLED LIKE BEASTS. [ARTICLE]

KILLED LIKE BEASTS.

Two Thousand of the Unprotected People Butchered In Samsun* A dispatch to the London Times from Vienna says that a letter has been received there from Smyrna reporting that Zeki Pasha, a Turkish marshal, with a detachment of Nizams and a field battery, massacred 2,000 Armenians at Sassun. The bodies of the dead were left unburied and their presence has caused an outbreak of cholera. Many Christians are reported to have fled by secret paths across the Russian frontier. So-far there has been no official confirmation of this news, but if it is true it is time the pow’ers share in the responsibility by their failure to enforce article Gt of the Berlin treaty, which imposes on them the duty of seeing that the Porto takes measures to protect Armenians. The latter declare that they hope for nothing from Europe, but that they still have confidence in Great Britain. Numerous appeals have been made by the Armenians to the British foreign office. The last appeal received says that the Armenians do not wish to see more of their territory annexed by Russia, but if Great Britain is unable to help them they will be compelled to look to Russia, under whose yoke they would be better off than under the yoke of Turkey. A dispatch to the London Daily News from Constantinople says that the energetic action of Sir Philip Currie, the British Ambassador to Turkey, has caused consternation among the members of the Turkish Government. Everything has been done to keep secret the facts of the outrages. Information from various sources tends to prove that the Sassun affair was most serious. A dispatch from Constantinople to the Standard says that ip .response to the protest made by Sir Philip Currie, British Ambassador to Turkey, the Porte has unreservedly withdrawn the charge against Mr. Hallward, the British Consul at Van, of inciting the Armenians nt Sassun and elsewhere to revolt. The charge grew out of the investigation made by Mr. Hallward into the Armenian massacres and his report to the British Ambassador. The Governor of Bitlis, ! who is seriously involved in the outrage, I made the charge, it is said, for the purpose of revenge. The Sultan has decided to send a commission composed of three members of his military household and one civilian to Sassun for the purpose of making an impartial inquiry into the outrages on Armenians. The latest news is to the effect that many of the Armenians who were supposed to have been killed fled from the soldiery and are now returning. Brlefleta. Dr. L. T. Holder was found dead at a hotel in Memphis, Mo. He had taken an overdose of nerve medicine. Frederick Cronenberger was crushed to death by a block of stone that fell from the new Chamber of Commerce Building at Toledo, Ohio. Judge J. T. Terrill was shot and killed at Jonesboro, Ark., by Arney Seymour, a stock raiser. Before falling a corpse Terrill knocked Seymour down with a club, inflicting serious wounds. Mrs. Blanche Kaufman, a French actress, was sentenced at Cincinnati, Ohio, to three months’ imprisonment and to pay S2OO fine and costs for shooting her husband several months ago. Two more dead, burned in the forest fires of Sept. 1, have been found in the most northerly portion of the burned district. One was Capt. L. Brook, of Pine City, Minn.; the other cannot be identified. The trial of the would-be train robbers, Overfield and Abrams, was postponed until February at Memphis, Mo., because Abrams is not sufficiently recpvered to appear. General McCook has ordered a court martial for the trial of Captain Theophilus Morrison, Sixteenth Infantry, on charges growing out of the erratic conduct of the officer during last summer’s campaign. 1 The body of Sam Sing, the Chinese leper, who lived for more than four years alone in a cell at Snake Hill, N. Y., where doctors watched his disease, helpless to aid him, was buried M >nday in quick lime at Snake Hill. President Cleveland has granted still another respite to Thomas St. Clair, one of the mutinous sailors of the bark Hesper, who was to have been hanged in San Jose, Cal., for the murder of Fitzgerald. The President now grants a respite until Dec. 21. The execution of St. Clair will be deferred pending the trial of St. Clair’s accomplices, Spars and Hanson, and in the event of a sentence the three murderers will be executed together.