Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — CLAIMS AGAINST THE TURK. [ARTICLE]

CLAIMS AGAINST THE TURK.

American Missionaries Put Big Values on Boots and Bedding. A special from Washington says that it is the purpose of the administration to continue pressing the sublime porte to pay the American missionary claims pending against it, but those acquainted with the character of the they greatly overestimate tbe4walue of the property destroyed. The total loss which the missionaries at Hnrpoot say they sustained as a result of the outbreak at that point in 1895 amounted to $87,985, of which $43,700 represented the value of the buildings damaged, $32,677 the personal losses of the missionaries and SII,OOB the loss on stock and apparatus. Rev. C. H. Wheeler apparently suffered the greatest loss. He estimates that $9,010 will be required properly to reimburse him. Among his effects destroyed were notes and bonds which he values at $2,200 and the accrued interest is put at sl,500 more. Clothing nnd materials which he possessed mid which were damaged he values at $1,342: furnjgure, $1,000; bedding, $230; provisions, fuel and medicine, $750, and boots and shoes, $35. Itev. C. F. Gates apparently wore more expensive 6hoos than Mr. Wheeler, for he asserts that those he lost were worth $72. Dr. Gates lost clothing valued at $879, horse, donkey, and cows SIBB, and bedding $370. Miss E. C. Wheeler values her clothing she lost at $1,138, bedding at $215 and photographs aud pictures at S3OO. Her boots and shoes were worth $76.