Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCH.

His Counsels Were Unheeded During Recent Troubles. The Armenian Patriarch at Constantinople, w*hose portrait we publish, played an important part during the recent riot

with the Softas. After celebrating high mass at a great ecclesiastical festival, when the Armenian community gathered together at the cathedral of KoumKapou, be was requested by the leaders of a certain Armenian anarchist party to head a‘procession to the porte to petition for redress of their wrongs. The patri-

arch refused, and begged his flock to avoid any demonstration, but they were beyond his control. They formed a procession and came into collision with the police. Then the Softas—Mussulman theological stbdents—began to hunt down the Armenians right and left, and the public soon joined them. Numerous Armenians were killed and for some time Stamboul was .in a state of seige. The patriarch is severely indisposed, and has been confined to his bed.

The large five-story building on Middle street, Lowell, Mass., known ns the Parker Block, was almost destroyed by fire. The fire was aided by repeated explosions of whisky in barrels, which blew out the windows and created havoc in adjoining building* The total loss exceeds $350.000. |

MGR. KRIMIAN.