| Show AT HOME AND ABROAD BOSTON BosTo iq feb I 1 19 9 A letter referring to the be massacre of almeniana Arme Armen niana lanis just received by a resident 0 of this ibis city w who far for obvious reasons doer not wish his hie name published to la tf f great interest because of having been written from a part of turkey entirely remote from where the letters hitherto published have come it indicates a most moat de rable state of affair affa irr under date of storable 3 an lith the writer sye says the extraordinary quasar quarantine tine precautions taken by the hitherto immovable turk with regard to cholera that was waa till still far away have now been explained by the that have come from moosh there to is very strong evidence that a general massacre and series of massacres of christians have been undertaken by the local governments ments there to la an activity and energy displayed by the government in the recent efforts to encompass the christians and put off their names anu ano existence that points to a newly formed plan to be put into execution with as an little waste of time as am possible pa referring ta a case came which came under his big own notice the writer says A protestant woman in Y was assaulted and violated by three turks they were to in F and found guilty but that infamous court in 8 under the influence fluence iD of the till more infamous government refused judgment and released the he guilty men from this state of things there is no redress the writer says no appeal can be made and such crimes will be more frequent than ever terror anu amazement have taken hild of the people to such an extent within a few months as to become manifest even in their countenance attempts have been made bv officers and soldiers to draw christians into a quarrel but have so far failed most ot of the of officers ficere are in posse solon siston of the property ot of the christians and doing just as they please wit without bourt regard to law jaw or justice LONDON feb 19 lord blaeberry Boa Rob eberry hastily summoned a meeting of toe the cabinet which lasted fully an hour it to Is rumored a a dissolution of the parliament Is imminent Last evening when a vote was being taken in the houst of commons on an sir william motion to close the debate on the address in reply to the queens speech it was confidently believed by t tle ie opposition the government would be defeated the vote was t washington D 0 feb fb 19 the house committee on pensions voted today to favorably report representative hermanns hermann Is bill to amend the act of 1892 grunting granting pem pensions to survivors of the indian wars wan ol of 1832 1882 to 1842 so that men who served thirty days or more in several other wars will be pet pei at the same rates and their widows also the wars embraced in the proposed amendments are the following atiat florida and georgia seminole ole indict war ot of 1818 1818 the ibe fever favor indian war of illinois ot of 1827 the babine indian disturbances of 1886 1837 the cayuso indian war of 1847 1848 the texas and new mexico indian war of 1849 1855 the california indian disturb disturbances auces ot of of 1861 1852 the utah indian disturbances of 1850 1868 1858 and the oregon and Wa washington abington territory indian wars wara from 1851 to 1856 inclusive CAIRO feb 19 liae khedive signed a contract with his big favorite olave alave today in the presence of the egyptian ministers tots tola act constitutes a mar ariage to the slave and there will be no public pu bile ceremony NEW YORK feb 20 files of the times ot or argentina just received to in his city under date of january 28 cou con tain taid the following letter dated from linia lima october 81 31 you complain that I 1 do not dot comply with your orders to wire to the times the daily occurrences in regard to the revolutionary movement in the republic please hear bear this time nobody here Is IB allowed to tell the truth every newspaper office has hag a censor and every telegraph office is equally under immediate government supervision no telegraphic communication la Is therefore possible to give you an idea of the run by anybody giving information of the revolutionary movement move moot I 1 may state that the residence of every one BUS person la Is invaded by the police at all hours houra of the night the furniture lurn iture destroyed the male re residents turned into the streets and the female portion isolated people are arrested pell well mell whipped tortured shot ahot or decapitated decapita teo without trial political prisoners disappear and their families cannot teu teli w lore alere their ded dead bodies are interred the only consolation they have is that thai they can pray for the souls of the departed recruiting to in the public thoroughfares goes on continually often a raid is made at a church door when people are coming out the men are then than entrapped tied up in much the sam am way as slave drivers convey their slaves and marched off to the barracks barra to increase the government Rovern ment forces anybody with a sword dau daegling gling at ai his fais side aide con considers himself the arbitrator of life and properly caceres hordes entered matucana maturana Ma tucana the abe other day the town was committs com pitts ly jy sacked men man were shot abos in heaps and every woman in the town became the properio of ruffians who go under ibe name of 01 soldiers nothing ot euca nature has hag been witnessed in history and the noted bulgarian atrocities pale under the shadows ot of the iniquities of maturana matucana Ma tucana A friend of mine will post this let ter in valparaiso no such missive could be trusted to out our post offices Y ST BT LOUIS mo feb 20 abe first description by an eye witness of moo shir pashas march of blood as it has come to be known has lust just been received by the from moosa asia minor the account is written by a native of the gassoun district sod and had been sent by a secret messenger through the territory of the sultan to insure its oaf arrival pasha the military governor tf if the city of Erze ijan started by order of the sultan into the bassoon district last september innumerable burned villages and lives liven was wa the he price of this officials visit the european commission commie slon now in vesti gating have just reached the city of moheb the town irom from which the republic received itis ita dispatch it reads minor jan agthe the number of our deau deai country men in the four towns visited by pasha kaaha will na not be far short abort of this big is from the bodies counted counte ct aud and known to have perished we cannot tell how mady others there J may be 11 the rho first town entered by was kainik it contains four our vJ villages lages mears koonook and copy W when ben our or people here heard of the ar rival of the casba father with forty of the leading townsmen went to meet him to beseech him t to have mercy upon them they were by soldiers long before they could get to pasha and every one was killed their bodies were put in the church and burned then they proceeded eded to burn the village the number killed in chinik proper numbered and atom the rest real of ct the villages vill agea those bouee who escaped are now DOW in the villages surrounding tola thin town but the villagers are themselves very poor and may go hungry Moo shir pasha left jelt to go to the he next town in we the a district anis town in ia alyon and has bag fourteen VII villages ISSeL the people heard beard of his hia coaxing abad that he be had bad twenty four companies each of flur hundred men cannon the they k ow ew that it was waa useless to appeal to him so eo they fled to the village of ail because of its rooks rock and add steppes and ad there they could better escape him rhey stayed in the mountains for all a most twenty days daya and when all food was gone and there was nothing left jeff they fled as best aby could two thousand bodies were left behind at ubi chi gall gazon gaban was next and because the town had bad twenty four villages vill agea around it brought kurds burds Ah Abua idies and irregular numbering num berine the town was lor for the peoples with all the fud fou they tay could carry had fled to the a they stayed in their cst ness for thirty days and at last jast with a frenzy born of hunger and despair they made a terrible rush down th the m buntain side and attacked the tyrant instead of waiting to be killed patriot gaitan V ait in was like a god and killed ten tea men with his own sword before he fell bead father badome was a soldier boldI fAr too and encouraged his children und and when he was wao at last killed his big body m a i out in pieces and given to the dogg dogiel alag was tau last awn that toe blood tyrant visited and thia place contains seven v illanes vero al condon Moor avar euklik and Davi drig the people had bad for the most part made their escape but when ado and hla hig soldiers went their way 1300 1800 bodies were faund MADY MOM inore were burned but their number cannot be known most of the bodies were left where they were butchered and those who would travel ravel to this distant place must risk their lives through thu the pestilential odors that go up from eo 80 many dead all who esea peti from uie the gassoun district came to the ibe villages of the plains of moosh sod and hungry destitute and braken hearted tiey ti ey look for hope and help and sympathy irom from toe tae civill sed world to whom the tae news of their berri hie ble lot may come |
