Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-07-27

the head.
The assassin then went up to the
bottom door, which the fugitives had
fastened and barricaded from the III.
side, and shaking it Justify, he cried,
''Grand vizier, open the door no harm
to you is intended - and called out
that the minister of marine should be
delivered up to him. The old grand
| vizier, greatly terrified, cried out
from behind the door My son, not
now you are too excited to listen to
reason Hassan, baflled in his rage,
sent two pistol shots through the door.
Unable to force open the door, the as
sassin upset the furniture, set fire to
the curtains. and broke the lustre or
chandelier, 50 that the large room was
only lighted by one single taper.
Several minutes elapsed during this
horrid butchery, the people in the
ante.chamber below stairs, though
they heard the report of the firearms,
not daring to stir, us they apprehend-
ed that the murderer was only the in
strument of some conspiracy IL which
| some OF the persons present might be
implicated, and for some time looked
at each other with blank Amusement,
every man suspecting and fearing his
neighhor. At length Midhat P;ssha,
having armed himself with a revolver,
went down stairs, and raised the spirits
of those persons. two Of them, one his
own servant. Ahmed Aglia, the other.
l!ussein Avni's aide.de.camp. Churki
Bey. ventured into the slaus hter.room.
| AS these two men entered the apart.
ment both fell dead, struck by Has
sans unerring revolver. But by this
time the police and soldiery from the
nearest post arrived, and Hassan, after
killing police officer and wOunding
six zaphtlhs and soldiers, was over.
powered and secured, being himself
seriously wounded. The soldiers would
have killed him on . the spot had not
Midhat Pasha hidden them take him
alive. The whole affray lasted from
twenty minutes to half IN hour.
The assassin was taken to the Ser
askierate, or war office, where, ON the
following morning, Friday, he was ex-
amined, tried and sentenced to death.
On Saturday. 1T daybreak, Il An, he was
hanged on tree in the open space be.
for: the Seraskierate. He would not
allow the surgeons to bind up his
| wounds, and was greatly exhausted by
loss of blood before he reached the
place of execution. The body was left
hanging for the whole of yesterday.
OF his victims, Hussein Ayni was
about 60 years old; Raschil Pasha,
about IL.
The object Of the Circassian was ev.
identity, at first. merely to kill Hussein
Avni, and the subsequent murders
were the result of that mad rage
which seems to blind wild beast when
it has once tasted blood. Besides Hus-
sein. he showed particular hatred only
to the minister of marine, because he
had dared to attempt to stay his hand.
The others were killed or wounded in
self.defence, when the murderer
thought that nothing WAS left to him
but to sell his life ut the highest price.
He avowed 1T his trial that all he
wished was to ayengc upon the war
minister. not only his own grievances,
but those also of his brother officers.
1t is, however, extremely probable
that he hated llassein Avni, as the
chief actor in that palace revolution
which had hurled the late sultan from
his throne, caused his sisters death,
and deprived him QIassan) Of that
courtiy interest on which he relied
for a brilliant success and rapid adj
vancement i'll his career. The govern.
ment here have been 1T great pains to
describe the crime of Hassan as the is
Olated deed of half-drunken maniac,
unconnected with political motives.
There is reason to believe. neverthe-
less, that the ministers are not quite
assured that the assassin had no &C.
completes, as on Friday the sultan
''grieved at the tragic occurrence"
did not leave the palace, and there
was no selomlik, or reception, as is
usually held upon the sultan's attend.
ance at the mosque. That something
like an ''old Turkey party may still be
+, in existence, and that it may have
| supporters of Ha:san's own desperate
temper among the friends and domes.
tics of the late Sultan's household, it
may be reasonable to suppose; and
that explains why the ceremony of
the inveStiture OF conservation ut Ely.
Dob S mosque has been so long. and is
even now indefinitely adjourned.
Meanwhile, although I'LL who had
occasion to deal with Raschid Pasha
sincerely lament the cruel fate of that
inoffensive and amiable minister-who
however, owing to his long connection
with the fallen cabinet Of Mahmoud
Pasha, would soon have been super.
seded-different feelings are enter.
tanned about the death of Hussein Av-
nj, which is by many looked upon as,
at this juncture, a happy radiance.
Hussein was the Prim OF the present
crisis. Drawn into the plot against
Sultan Abdul AZiz contrary to his own
inclination, Hussein Avni took good
care to insure for himself all the ben
eft of that coup d'etat, which he al
most alone carried into execution.
He so took into his own hands the
management of the army and of the
household of the new sultan as to re-
move not only those he suspected as
attached to the old order of things,
but also those in whom he dreaded as
partisans of his rivals and opponents
in the cabinet, and especially of Mid.
hat Pasha. His ascendency in the gov
eminent was becoming absolute, and,
had he assumed the dictatorship, to
which he aspired, availing himself of
his sovereign's inexperience and fee.
bleness of character, there would have
been all end to all ideas of reform.
Hussein Avni. however. held in his
army the surest, if not the only. ele-
ment of order, an instrument which,
perhaps, no man can now WELD with
an equally steady hand, and without
which attempts at innovation are not
unlikely to plunge the country into
utter anarchy. Midhat Pasha will now
have to 60 to work under the influence
of haunting terrors, for the old court
party, to which the Circassian Hassan
belonged, arc not dispersed, and only
a few suspected persons have been ar
rested. The sultan's life and that of
Midhat are held us scarcely worth q
months purchase, and liberal meas.
ures will be adopted only so far as is
compatible with unremitting vigi.