Show SULTAN IS IN HOURLY FEA He Believes That He May Be Deposed at Almost Any Time IVrisSIONARIES STARVING Appeals For Honey to Relieve the Pangs of Hunger Powers Appear to Have Resolved to Insist Upon the Demands for Extra Guardships Has Mnrnd Fled Czar Is Taking a Keen Interest In-terest in the Turkish Complications Complica-tions Stories Told by 1 Missionary Some Explanations I LONDON Dec 2The Standards I I Vienna correspondent telegraphs that he learns from a trustworthy source in Constantinople that the sultan is in hourly fear of deposition His courtiers warn him that the powers have decided I upon this action and that they want the second guardship admitted to the I Dardanelles in order to provide the I necessary force to carry I out The Berlin correspondent of the Daily News says the German ironclad Hagen has been ordered to Turkish waters The Chronicle says the British consul con-sul at Moush reports to the foreign office that the relief work at Sassoun is at a standstill and that the country is in so disturbed a condition that caravans I Sassoun cara-vans are not able to leave Moush for Missionaries Starving NEW YORK Dec 2Rev H O Dwight missionary of the American I board at Constantinople today cabled from PhillSpopolis Turkey to the Christian Herald New York Remit funds telegraphically Harpool missionaries mis-sionaries telegraph starvation imminent I immin-ent DWIGHT The Christian Herald adds This message from Dr DWight has a peculiar I pecu-liar significance as it discloses the fact that tne missionaries at Harpool Whose mission buildings were totally destroyed during the recent massacre there are themselves suffering the pangs of hunger and cold probably us severe as the Armenians The I Christian Herald will forward to the missionaries by cable free of expense I all sums contributed for the relief of the sufferers in Armenia S WILL INSIST Latest Reported Attitude of iho Powers CONSTANTINOPLE Dec 1 via I Sofia Bulgaria Dec Copyrighted 1895 by Associated Press While being be-ing desirous of not doing anything which would in any way tend to induce disturbances or hinder the work of restoring re-storing order the powers again appear unanimously resolved to insist upon the demand for extra guardships Inconsequence In-consequence the ambassadors have arranged ar-ranged for a meeting tomorrow Monday Mon-day to consider what action is necessary neces-sary in view of the sultans continued objection to granting the firmans Meanwhile the impression is being conveyed to the public that the sultan has won a great victory This tends to make the matter more delicate to handle as to demonstrate that such rs not the case is almost certain to lead I to an outbreak even more serious than the one which gave a pretext for the demand for extra guardships A Turkish official discussing the withdrawal of the Dryad intimated that the powers objected to any power taking the lead in any action in Turkey Tur-key In other words if action is to betaken be-taken it should be a combined action upon the part of the powers Thus it is Intimated that if the passage of the Dardanelles is to be forced it should be done by the warships of all the powers interested This was the original orig-inal understanding but Great Britain it appears was not disposed to delay matters beyond a certain point Another An-other diplomat said it looked as if Great Britain had attained the object she had in view namely to show the sultan and the powers as well that while being desirous of acting in accord ac-cord with the other powers her majestys government was prepared to act alone if a necessity should arise and if the powers desired concerted acton ac-ton they must act promptly or Great Britain will take the initiative The socalled firing upon the British ship Loch Rannoch in theDardanelles is said by Turkish officials to be easily explained They say Loch Rannoch arrived after sundown and instead of anchoring attempted to proceed and was signalled from shore by a gunshot gun-shot to bring up As she did not do so a second shot was fired and the Loch Rannoch let go her anchor I the matter had been so serious as the Odessa correspondent of the Daily News made out the captain of the Loch Rannoch would certainly have bassy made complaint at the British em Has Mnrad Fleil A great deal of excitement was caused here today by a report that ex Sultan Mohammed Murad who was deposed on the ground of idiocy August 31 1876 has escaped from Yil diz Kiosh where Tie was kept a close prisoner The report it appears grew out of the flight of Murad Bey them perial commissioner of the council cf public debt who was also suspected of having relations with the young Turk party Murad it seems has been watched by the police and was suddenly sud-denly summoned to the palace to explain ex-plain his conduct He gave the sultan what appeared a satisfactory explanation explana-tion of the charges against him but the matter being pressed further Mu rad fled on board l Russian ship Czar Tnkes Greit Interest NEW YORK Dec 2A dispatch to the Herald from St Petrsburg says The czar who takes a keen personal interest in Turkey as in all other important im-portant questions said while speaking very earnestly on the subject at the palace of Czarskoeseto The sultan should be given time to carry out the I promised reforms which under the circumstances are not easy of accomplishment accom-plishment The First Thing NEW YORK Dec 2A dispatch to the Herald from Vienna says The ambassador of a great power said to a correspondent last night The first thing to be done is to strengthen the position of the sultan as the question of the additional guard ships has lessened his authority with his subjects and may cause an outburst of fanaticism Austria has now changed her policy and is now marching hand in hand with England The sultan has complained to the English ambassador of the false reports re-ports that have appeared in the English En-glish press There is no truth in the report that Austria is massing troops in Bosnia He Suffered Hindi COLUMBUS Ind Dec 2About a year ago the Rev Z T Sweeney of this city formerly consul general t Constantinople under President Harri son was asked to carry a petition to Washington representing the Christian Chris-tian Womans Board of Foreign Missions Mis-sions of the United States for the pardon of Sahag Madissian an Armenian Arme-nian school teacher who translated a sentence of scripture for a friend who circulated it in the market place of an interior Turkish town For which offense both were arrested and sent into exile to Mourzook in the Oasis of Fezzan in the desert of Sahara The friend died but Sahang has lived through great abuse and suffering The Rev Mr Sweeney while in office opened open-ed up communication with Sahang and sent him money through Sir Drum mond Hay English consulgeneral at Tripoli The missionary society took up his case and Elder Sweeney in company with exCongressman Cooper presented a petition signed by 400000 Christian women of the state department depart-ment at Washington which forwarded it to the sultan News has just r ached ach-ed here that Sahang has been pardoned pardon-ed and had reached Tripoli on his way nmp |