People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — WE WILL TAKE A HAND. [ARTICLE]

WE WILL TAKE A HAND.

American Consul instructed to Invest! Turkish (Tutrages. Constantinople, Aug. 22. —The United States consul at Beyreut, Thomas R. Gibson, has been instructed to proceed to Tarsus in order to open an inquiry into the attack recently made upon the American college there. It is stated the sultan lias decided to issue a decree Aug. 31 announcing general reforms throughout the empire. The tendency of this reply to the powers, however, is more retrograde than progressive, as, for instance, Christians are not admitted to be eligible to hold the post of Vali, in spite of the fact that Christian valis have existed for years past.