The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, November 20, 1895, Image 6
Bloodstained Turkey.
How "Reform" has Been
Waged With the Sword.
AN ESTIMATE OP 20 ?OOO
MURDERS.
A London Paper Commends Pop?
ular Expression in America of
Indignation at the Mas?
sacres.
LONDON, Nov. IT.-The Daily
News will to-morrow publish a dis?
patch from Constantinople dated
Nov. 16, saying that the most seri?
ous anxiety prevails and the situa?
tion is becoming worse. The gov?
ernment is obtaining a record of the
houses in which Armenians live
This action causes alarm, because in
several towns where massacres have
occurred, the houses of Armenians
had been previously marked. Several
of the leading merchants have sought
ami received shelter in the houses of
^?oropeaus.
The Americau missionaries at Bit
Hs have telegraphed to the American
minister asking him to proeure from
the porte an escort to take then and
their families to Van.
It is estimated that 20,000 persona
have been massacred since the ac?
ceptance by the sultan of the schemes
of reform.
The Daily News in an article on
America and Turfes will say that the
v. new world is asserting itself to re?
dress the balance of the old world.
The lethargy of the European powers
is bard to explain, but it is well that
the Turks should know that there is
a gxeat nation beyond the Atlantic
that will not allow the blood of its
sons to be shed with impunity. The
paper commends the holding of in?
dignation meetings that have been
summoned for Thursday in New
York.
. TUR2KH PAPERS APPEAL TO THE POPU?
LACE.
London, Nov. 17.-The Standard
will to-morrow publish a dispatch
from Constantinople 6aying that offi?
cial dispatches received during the
past two days seem to point to orders
having been given to Caset Macreas.
The sultan fears joint action and re
garda the concurrent concentration of
the fleets of the powers in the Levant
as a warning.
The dispatch adds that the grand
vizier, Hal il Eefat Pasha, has assured
the Hon. M Herbert, the British
charge d' affaires, that th? report
that the government is making a list
of the houses occupied by Armenians
is untrue.
The campaign against the young
Turkey party continues. Thirty-six
members of the party have been
drowned off the island of Kaiki
The embassies regard the new minis?
try with the gravest distrust
The Turkish newspapers Sunday
published an energetic appeal to the
people to abstain from all provoking
acts, stating that the sultan had
granted reforms to certain of the
Auatolian provinces which he will
afterward extend to the other prov
inces. The consulates at Moosh re-i
port a riot there but add that owing
to the gallant behavior of the gover?
nor, who repeatedly exposed his own
life, aided by the better class of
Moslems, few Armenians were killed.
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EAGER TO BE ARMED.
London, Nov. 17.-The Times will
to-morrow publish a dispatch from
Constantinople saying it is officially
announced in that city that an
Armenian disguised as an Arab has
been arrested at Orfah, 78 miles
southwest of Diarbekir. He was
bearing a letter to the Armenian
bishop of Orfak from the Armenian
bishop of Aleppo. An extract
which was given from the letter
reads : "Send powder to the Zei
-toun insurgents to enable them to
resist authority. Send saltpetre to
make powder. The Baion of Zei
tonn will form an army. The Ar
mepians of Afajaeh are ready and
?$I?F ?9F fte fT?y-.5?
Uk* u?Bpat?u a?Ms that the Turkish {
Constitutional declare that thejr do
not have the same aims as Midbadt
Pasha's Young Turkey ??rl?. The
former only want a rational govern?
ment security and justice. They do
not object to the sultan except on the
ground of his odious methods of gov?
ernment
THREATENED REVOLUTION
London, Nov. 17 -The Constanti?
nople correspondent of the Chronicle
says that he does not hear of any im
provemeni in the sultan's mental con?
dition.
The Telegraph will tomorrow pub?
lish a Constantinople dispatch saying
that the Aimenian reform commis
sion held its first meeting Saturday.
The porte has promised the ex?cution
of reforms when the disturbances are
suppressed.
Fresh troubles are reported in the
Aleppo, Aitab, Marouna and Amasia
districts The Turks accuse the j
Armenians of starting the disturb- ?
anees Uneasy rumors are aflo?t j
and the tear prevails that the native
progress party may act energetically
with important and dangerous re?
sults.
THE VOICE OF AMERICA.
Grand Rapids, Mich , Nov. 17.
The following telegram ,was sent to
Hon. Edwin P. Ubi, assistant secre?
tary of state, at Washington, by the
Congregational church of tiiis city
this afternoon :
.'The First Congregational church
of Grand Rapids, at a full meeting
this morning, by a unanimous votel
? in view of its personal and financia*
interest in tie mission of the Amen*
can board at liarpoot, Turkey, plun?
dered and burned by-a Turkish mob,
has instructed its committee to
urgently request that every possible
effort be made by the state depart?
ment to demand protection for the in?
juries done, and especially to secure
protection to the lives of our mis?
sionaries aud the property of the
American board.
'.Very respectfully,
"Dan. F. Bradley,
Pastor for the Committee.'*
Late this evening, Rev. Mr. Brad?
ley received the following reply from
Mr. Ubi :
"Our latest advices report Harpoot
missionaries safe, and the American
minister is taking all possible precau?
tion for their future safety. Nothing
is being omitted by the department
in the direction of appropriate and
energetic action "
CELERY CHRISTIANS PROTRST.
Kalamazoo, Mich., Nov. 17.
Two thousand people attended a pub?
lic mass meeting at the Congrega?
tional church to-night George Bar
soon, a graduate of Roberts college,
Constantinople gave a graphic ac?
count of the murder in England of
the Armenians in Constantinople, and
laid the cause to trade influences in
England and Germany. After seve?
ral speeches the following resolutions
were adopted and ordered sent to the
secretary of state at Washington :
Whereas We are informed of in?
excusable outrages perpetrated by
Turks upon Armenians which offend
the whole civilized world :
Resolved, That we enter our
solemn protest against the contin?
uance of said outrages.
Resolved, That we call on all
Christiaus to make forceful their
voice that men may worship God un?
molested.
Resolved, That the duty of this
government is to unite all Christian
persons in measures to prevent the
further pillaging and murder among
the Armenians and secure to them j
the largest measure of civil and reli- ?
gious libertv.
STIRRING CP SALISBURY.
Troy, N. Y.; Nov 17.-A largely
attended mass meeting was held here
today to protest against the massacre
of Christians in Armenian. The
proceedings of the Turks were I
strongly condemned, and the follow?
ing message was cabled to the Mar?
quis of Salisbury, the British prime
frainister :
"Massacres of Armenians shame
christendom. Citizens of Troy, N.
Y , protest vehemently and appeal to
the powers of Europe for immediate I
action to stop bloosdhed."
The United States government also
was requested to interfere. Among
those who spoke at the'meeting were
Heiiant M. Kiretchjian, general 6ec ?
rel a ry of the Armenian relief associa- j
tion of New York ; Varian Dilloyan, j
one of the Armenians who escaped j
from tl ie Sassoun massacre, and the j
Revs T P. Sawin, Hector Hall and I
L. M. S. Haynes, of Troy. More )
than $200 was collected for the re- j
lief fund.
ASSURANCES FROM THE TURKS.
Washington, Nov. 17.-The Tur?
kish legation here has received under
to-day's date the following telegram
from the sublime porte:
"The safely of missionaries is com
pletely assured
"Our previous telegrams have al?
ready shown that the renewed accu?
sations about a supposed massacre
are groundless. The reported un?
pleasantness between the grand vizier
and Mr. . Terrell, the American min?
ister, resulting from a supposed note
of the latter, which, as a matter of
fact, was never sent to his highness,
"s also groundless."
MISTAKING ENGLAND'S FEELINGS.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 17 -The
Russian newspapers declare that the j
situation in Turkey is rapidly drifting j
to an acute phase that will inevitably j
culminate in the disruption and aboli
tion of the Ottoman now in Europe. !
The Nove Vremeya says: "We are!
glad to observe that Englishmen are i
becoming accustomed to the not dis- ?
tant prospect ot Russia occupying
Constantinople for that must be the
ultimate issue of the eastern question. :
QUARANTINIIG A SPEECH
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Constantinople, Nov IT.-The
London newspapers of Nov. ll con?
taining the report of the speech made :
by Lord Salisbury on the occasion of
the banquet given by the lord mayor I
of London, and the papers of Nov. '
12 containing comments on the
speech, have been forbidden entry
intoTnrkey by order of the porte.
A PPEAL TO FRENCHMEN.
Paris, Nov. 17.-The Armenian's of
this city have addressed an appeal to
Pr?sident Faure in which they say
they are convinced that Fiance will
not refuse to prorect their countrymen
in the cruel ordeal through which
they are now passing.
DISCUSSED BY THE POPE
Rome, Nov. 17-The Pope yester?
day gave an audience to Mgr Alt
maar, the Apostolic delegate to
Asia Minor. His Holiness and the
delegate discussed the situation in
Turkey.
j PLOT AGAINST THE LIFE OF THE SULTAN.
Berlin. Nov. 17.-The Hamburg?
er's correspondent claims to have
semi-official information that a new
; conspiracy against the life of the
j sultan has been discovered m the
j Yildis palace
TO PROTECT AMERICANS.
; Marseilles, Nov. 17 .-The United
! States cruiser San Fransisco sailed
; hence last evening for Turkey.
Kicking Against Pullmans.
Chicago, Nov. 17.-A morning
paper says z All the railroads in the
United States using the Pullman
sleeping cars are about to present a
unanimous petition to the company to
j have the price of upper berths in its
j sleeping cars lowered at least 25 per
j cent. The Pennsylvania Railroad
j compaoy has started the war against
j the Pullman rates.
j Mr.-James H. Wood, general pas
i seoger agent of the above road, has
addressed a private letter to the gener?
al passenger agents of all the import?
ant railroads in the country using the
Pullman sleepers, asking them to join
him in a request to the Pullcnae com
pany to have the price of upper berths
reducedat least 25 per cent, below the
price charged for lower herbs.
lu his letter Mr. Wood says that his
I company is determined to have rhe
! price of upper berths lowered, and
earnestly requests the co-cperatioo of
all roads using the Pullman sleepers.
About two-thirds of the Chicago roads
using these cars have agreed to join the
Pennsylvania compaoy in its campaign
I for lower berth rates.
The matter has been kept extremely
secret, only the general passenger
agents, knowing anything about it. A
meeting of the general passenger agents
of all roads in the country using these
cars will probably soon be called to take
f?.r-il action on the question.
Buying a Peace in Cuba.
Jacksonville, Fla.. November 17.
A special to tho Times-Union from
Tama, Fla, says : The Plant steamer
Olivette arrived from Havana this after?
noon. Among the passengers were
some prominent persons direct from
Cuba, where they learned that Campos
had instructed bis men not to fire upon
the insurgents, if it could be avoided,
on account of a purchase price now
pending between Spaio and the Cuban
leaders.
It is told by a close friend cf Campos
and is understood by the powers that
be in Havana, that the insurrection will
come to an immediate end, for the rea?
son that both Gomez and Maceo, the
leaders, have beea: brought by the Span?
ish Government, and while the price
has not been delivered to the sellers,
the money for them is now io Havana
Ir, is a matter of history that in pre?
vious revolutions the leaders of the in?
surrectionists were bought, which gives
credence to this startling report, which
seems to be authentic.
Cleveland's Calamity.
Cleveland, 0., Nov. 18.-"The life
saving corps and boat crews were on
the river eariy this morning in an
endeavor to rescue additional bodies of
the victims of Saturday night's terrible
street car disaster at the draw bridge of
the central viaduct. Shortly after 10
o'clook the body of a wou:ao was
brought to the surface of the river and
later identified as that of Miss Martha
Saueruheimer, She was a sister-in-law
of Mrs. John A. Sauernheimer, whose
body was recovered Saturday night.
It is believed that there are at least one
or two bodies"still in the river, and
dragging of the water will be cooticued.
Rogers, the motorman, who jumped
from the car and thus saved his life, has
been bound over without bail for two
weeks, during wbich time a thorough
investigation will be made into the af?
fair, The coroner's* inquest will be
begun to-morrow morning.
It was definitely settled to-day that
one of the safeguards provided by the
street railway compauy at the central
viaduct to prevent accident, has been
out of order for three weeks.
The body of the seventeenth and
probably the last victim was recovered
from the river this afternoon. It was
that of Matthew Callihan, and it was
buried in the mud directly where the
trucks of the motor had been.
That Petrified Man.
A gentleman from th ss cit j who went TO
Columbia last week to the F*ir saw the
petrified man while lhere, and says it ?9 no j
fake, but the genuine arricie beyond a doubt.
The body is of a blueish-gray in color, ?od I
was evidently composed for burial. The j
hands are crossed over the t-reust ; the limbs
are perfectly straight and lie close together; ;
the head is thrown hack as it would be when j
placed tr? a coffin, and the chest is expanded. I
The moustache is plainly indicated, emotiv?
as in a marble or clay bust : the tue and j
finger nails are perfect and distinct, and I
there are other parts ot' the body visible that !
it would be impossible to duplicate art'fi- j
ci*Uy. A part of the stomach is gone. This j
is evidently the effect of partial mortification j
having set in before the process of petriftva- ?
tion began. The man was evidently io life j
tall, well-formed aod fine looking. Kow he
likes ?..ting made a gazing stock of might be I
a question Have the dead no rights of this
sort that they should cot be protected from
the gaze of the crowds of curiosity mongers?
What are the ethics on this subject? f?as a
man the moral right to exhibit for profit the
corpse of another man, whether known or
unknown, whether petrified or unpretrified?
Then comes in the question of decency. Cer?
tainly women should not be asked to look
upon euch a sight. Yet the "tooter" for
this particular sideshow was heard advising
everybody, schoolgirls particularly, to see it.
In our opinion the man so advising should
be severely kicked by the relatives of any
female who, following his advice, should go
to pee the petrified mau. Women doctors
might be excepted, but no others.
A bale of cotton was stolen from ti'e-gin
house of Capt. C. L. Williamson on Friday
night last, ?nd ?s yet the bale has not been
traced. On Friday night Mr. Ted Gaillard
was returning from ?his city and when a
mile or more this side of Capt. Williamson's
place, met a wagon containing a bale of col?
ton. It is supposed that this was the stolen
cotton. Search has been made in this city
for the stolen b?le, but it could oot be found.
It is now believed that the thief carried the
cotton to Wedgefield for sale, and th?ric
will be traced up from that poiot.
mm ? i i mum
Supreme Court.
U. K. Brooks, clerk of the supreme court,
upon affidavits of Marion Moise, Esq., of the
firm of Moise k Lee, a:torney3 for respond?
ents, in hcoordf.oce with rules 1 and 2, en?
tered orders dismissing the appeals for want
of prosecution, wiih costs, in the cases of
Jol:n H. D-Champs *s administrator, piaio- I
tiff respondent against the German-Ameri-J
can Insurance Company of New York, de?
fendant-appellant, third circu??, Sumter
county, and Edward D. Elias hy M. Kalisky,
his guardian, ad litetn, plaintiff-respondent,
again?: the Enterprise Building and Losn
Association, defendant-appellant, fifth circuit,
Kershaw county -The State.
Marvelon? Resalta.
From :i letter written by Kev. J. Gunderman,
of Dimondule, Mich., we are permitted to innkc
this extract: 4,I have no hesitation in recom?
mending Dr. King's New Discovery, as the re.
suits were almost marvelous in the case of my
wife. While I was pastor of the Baptist
Church at Hives Junction she was brought
down with Pneumonia succeeding La Grippe.
Terrible paroxysms of coughing would last
hours with little interruption and it seemed as
if sho could not survive them. A friend
recommended Dr King's New Discovery ; it
was quick in its work and highly satisfactory
in results." Triai bottles free at J. F. De.
Lorine's Drug Store Regular size 5i)c. and
$1.00. 1
WIJ-.L CLOSE OW THANKS?
GIVING DAY.
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We, the undersigned merchants, agree to j
close our pinces of business, (side ?nd back
doors included,) on Thanksgiving Dav. '
Thursday, November 28. 1895 :
T C Scuff*-, Geo P McKagen, Witherspoon
Bros, J Morris, Rnbf Wiegate, R F Hoyt,
exor. The Sumter Dry Good.-? Co, R W Du?
rant & Son, J F Pute, Hiss McDonald. Walsh
& Shaw, A C Phelps Co, 0 Donnell & Co, W j
H Yates, Marshal Bros. A M Fauntleroy, J I
Reid. A A Strauss & Co. Brown, Cutiioo k
Dellar. W 6 Burns, I) J Chandler. B J
Barnett, Spann k Co, Levi Bros. Kennedy
Book Store. R P Monaghan. P P Gaillard, P
M, L E LeGracd, S Y Delgar. H G Osteen &
Co, L W Folsom. Schwartz Bros, D W I
Alderman, S< n9 k Co, Bultn;an k Bro, A D j
Moses, Freeland k Rojran. .Moses Green, L W
Joye, W T Campbell, E T Brailsford, Ducker
k Stillman, J Ryttenbere k Sons, Dennis
O'Donnell.
Catarrh 19 a constitutional disease and can?
not be cured by local applications. Hood's
Sarsaparilla is a constitutione! remedy ; it
cures catarrh because it purifies the blood.
It Will be Cold.
ATLANTA, GA.. NOV. 19 -Hoist cold wave |
signal. Tempera!ure will fall from twenty
to thirty dearers dering Wednesday.
MOORE.
"An Optical Illusion Explained.
The Richmond Recorder say? : <;It is cu?
rious how much taster a street esr hunns
along when you nre'nioniuji after ir than
. hen you ar riding on it/ it is also curi?
ous how tauch f.ister th? '. Aria:)ta Sprcia;"
actually moves th>m it appears to on?- ?nv.r.z
on it. but 'he explanation is plain-rh? .^a
bo.-.rd Air Line road-bf?d -s so perfect 'hat
trains move over it at a speed of 60 enies ac
hour without jolt or jar. Tbs "Attesta
Special" is the Seaboard Air Lint's Wsti
Miied Li mi red Train, operated solid between
Washington. D: C., M nd Atlant?, Ga., via
Fredericksbnrg. Richmond arni Petersburg.
Va., and Raleigh, X. C.
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A Negroe's Hand Crushed.
Special io The Daily Kern.
BISHOPVILLE, S. C., Nov. 16.-Henry Price,
a negro of good s'andiug and well thought
of by white and colored, had bis hand badly
mashed while coupling cars here to-d?y. ne
will undoubtedly loose bis entire baud, ana
there is no possible chance for bim to get any
damage from the Railroad Company as be
was uor an employee, but was helping couple
cars gratuitously
Everything else in your sister county seat
that is to be, is quiet and peacefuljand "tbs
natives" confident of success-for they know
their cause is just. P. H. P.
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ss'cysts :-335rt.. ss, e.
Oct 16
Tiiose
We have been telling you so much
about, and they are beauties.
These goods are made by
H Chafa laifaotiri Co.,
Situated in the mountains of
North Carolina, where the wool
is brought to them by the
farmers, as the cotton is
brought to the, gin, thereby
avoiding any expense on the
raw material.
When you buy these goods
from us you can feel assured
that you pay no big profits to
middle men and the prices are
a guarantee of that.
Our stock of Blankets is complete in white and colorecL
SUMTER, So C.
Oct 22