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Show I BLOODSHED IN PERSIA. Thirty-five Days of Fighting In the Streets of Tabriz. Tabriz. Thore has now boon thirty-flvo thirty-flvo days' fighting In tho streets of Tabriz and tho casualties, duo chiefly to bombs thrown from mortnrs arid shrapnel, nro estimated at 800. Many of tho finer residences , of tho city nnd hundreds of shops In tho basements .linvo been looted, tho loss in this direction di-rection being placed at nioro than $1,000,000. Tho American missionaries. in tho city hnvo been exposed to stray bullets, bul-lets, but although tbdy havo had 'some , narrow escapes non'o .of' thomfhavo been Injured. During ono of tho , heavier bombardments n plcco of shrapnel fell in n garden within n 1 few feet of ono of tho mission ser vants. |