Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — HUMAN FIENDS. [ARTICLE]

HUMAN FIENDS.

Further Details of the Armenian Massacres. The "Unspeakable” Turk* Cut Off the Limb* of Victim* With Saw*—Children Thrown Into Burning Oil, A Berlin cable, Dec. 19, says: The Cologne Gazette today published a letter from Armenia telling of fresh horrors there, including twenty-three villages laid in ashes, eleven other villages pillaged and forty priests massacred. The letter says that the Turkish garrllonsatErzeroun, Irisa, Van, Tigranocerta, Babert and Moosh, altogether about sixtF thousand men, were sent against the Armenians. The commanders ot these troops innounced to the inhabitants of the villages: “We are ordered to put you to the iwordfor openly defying the government.” The attack began on Aug. 18. The Turks were repulsed in the first instance. The massacres began Sept. 5. Those Armenians who submitted unconditionally were bound to stakes and then their limbs were cut off with saws. In other eases the victims were disemboweled and their eyes gouged out. Children were thrown Into burning oil and women were tortured and burned to death. The troops plundered and burned the churches. Among those who fell victims to the savagery of the soldiers were forty priests, who were brutally massacred. The British consul at Erzeroum was prevented from going to the scenes of the atrocities on the ground that it was not safe for any Armenian, he being an Armenian, to approach the places where the troubles had occurred. This did not detei him from making an attempt to learn the truth, but as he was trying to approach one of the devastated villages he was arrested. Among those who witnessed the atrocities was a Spaniard naiped Ximenes. The Turkish authorities approached him and offered him large bribes to induce him to deny in the English papers the truth ofthe reports of the outrages. They also sought to bribe him to go to England for the purpose of delivering lectures on Armenia, in which be was to dwell upon the contented condition of the Armenians. Senor Ximenes rejected the offers made to him.

The Whisky Trust officials have issued a statement giving the causes of the financial troubles of the concern, and proposing a plan of reorganization. Twenty f *lictments forelection frandi have be®" ’••ondby the>grand jury at St. Louis. The smanest baby yet reported was born of Norwegian parents, near Crown Point, Tuesday. The child is a male, is as perfectly formed as a babe could be, and at its birth weighed only nine ounces. A ring worn on the little finger of the father was slipped over Its foot nearly np to the knee. The probabilities are that it wiU live. teacher w— us to tell what is the difference between “apeair” and “talk.” Mr. Flagg—Lem- lemme see. Gen erallv when 1 get into an argumen) with’your mother she is outspoken and lam outtalked.