Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — MORE SLAUGHTER. [ARTICLE]

MORE SLAUGHTER.

Eigiit 1i si ii. i lvd Aini'-maiis Ruthlessly iilMe.t ut. Conktiialiiiiii/lc, Nov,- 18.—About jier.sbn.s u-eTc iiiusjsacfed by the Mus.-ul-muiis at lvliai ;>i;t, and i\\’,iu nut <-f 12 imiUkngs belonging to-the American missions v,eie sacked and biiiTied, The uiissioiiiines. however, escaped From (luran, in the villu.vat of Sivus, ‘where the Ktlrds have been besieging 4,000 Armenians, it is reported that all jhe Armenians have been massacred, —’ltiThefelwli'ict of .V.nrdin. where there r a iaige ( lirislian population of Chaldeans and Syr.aus, a nuuiher of villages have been binned to the ground. The people are destiru te ahd su tteri ng from sickness flue to exposure and-lounger. It is estimated that 20,000 persons have beeii massacred since the acceptance by the gultan of the scheme of reform.