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Show English in India .. Facinjjasstre News Brought by John H. Cooper, a Mormon Missionary Just ' Returning i. Now' York, April 30, Residents of tho Lahore district of India aro facing fac-ing n massacro nt tho hands of native na-tive troops who, havo risen and killed kill-ed all their whlto officers, according to John II. Cooper, a Mormon mis slonary who arrived hero today from India. Inspired by (Jcrman ngents, Cooper Coop-er says, numbers of natlvo troops havo mutinied, killed their English officers of-ficers and escaped to tho hills. All tho whlto residents of the Lahoro district aro barricading their homos and building stockndes. Tho British government, ho says, has carefully concealed nows of the uprising. Whllo on tho steamor City of Paris, on which ho mado tho trip from India In-dia to Liverpool, Cooper says ho saw thousands of graves paralleling tho Suez canal. Ho was Informed 12,000 Turks had boen killed in of' forts to cross tho canal. Inquiry made last night ot emigration emigra-tion officials of tho Mormon church disposed the fact that Mr. Cooper is a missionary who has been sorvlng In India, and that ho was tho husband hus-band of Mrs. Olivia Cooper, who was murdored at Franklin's confectionery and astry storo at 2CS South Main ptrcot Suit Lnko City, In tho latter part of January of this year, tho tragedy creating a Bcnsatlon which kept tho pollco and the public in a stato of agitated Intercstcdness for soveral weeks after its occurrence |