The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-08-25
FOREIGN NEWS.
THE WAR IN THE EAST.
The Situation at shipka Pass.
A General COnscriptIOn of Men
and Horses for the Rus
sian Army.
Hostile Tone of the German Press
Towards the Ottoman.
Turkish Reports of Russian
0utragss.
A Tale Of Murder, PlIIage and
Outrage.
Fourteen Hours of Fighting In
Shlpka Pass.
The Russians Still Hold the For
tifiCatinns.
Turkish Reports of Russian
0utragss.
A Tale of Murder, PlIIage and
Outrage.
Fourteen Hours of Fighting In
Shipka Pass.
The Russians Still Hold the For
tiiCations.

auS HsSS1ono Sblll lIUlu kHo Tui
tiflCations.
LONDON, August 2S.-The Daily Nac,
correspondent at Russian headquarters
explains the mystifcation which has
arisen concerning the reported capture
ot Bonikar pass by the Turks. lie says
on the 18th inst. a column Of Suleiman
Pasha's force attempted strenuously to
force the pass. II has been reportedthey
were successful, but though the column
did indeed force Its way into the de6le II
was there 30 roughly handled by the
Russian artillery and by the regiment
holding the pass that it was compelled to
retire.
The Times Vienna correspondent re.
marks relative TO the attack OF Shipka
pass that all along the main range Of the
Balkans, especially along Turidil Valley,
the face ot the mountains is PERCEPTIONS
rock through which the road leads up in
steep curves. However much the bulk Of
Sulieman Pashas force may have been
Injured TO mountain warfare and however
heroic their efforts made within the last
two days may have been it will be little
short Of a miraoleif they should ultimate.
ly succeed in carrying the pass.
oERNfANY's ATTITUDE TOWARDS TURKEY.
Several special dispatches remark the
hostile tone OF the German semi official
press towards Turkey. The Turkish EN-.
bassy at Berlin, having through tele-
graphic agency, contradicted the report
that the perpetrators Of the Salonica
massacre have been released. The Min.
tsIertdl, ,Noroeleusche expressly begs 10 Oh.
serve that the statements put forward by
the Turkish Foreign Department are no.
toriousl y untrustworthy.
LONDON, August 2.-Sulciman Pasha
has been reinforced by two divisions
under Rassim Pasha from PhilippopoIi
On account Of the numerous accidents
on the overworked Roumanian railways,
an agreement has been made by which
the railways pay 1900 francs for every
soldier hereafter killed and IL, 600 francs
for every officer killed.
A Moscow correspondent writes Of the
war in Russia: Peasants are being called
on to Join the imperial army. Families
are moving because either father or
brother are under orders to start, The
families are broken up and the wives are
selling the household furniture. The
streets OF Moscow are thronged in many
places with household goods. The price
Of provisions is rising propor,ionately,
Among the upper classes homes are in
the same state Of change. Those who
have retired from the army or navy are
in many cases recalled. All will, it ia
presumed, be summoned in the course Of
time. Whilst l write general call is
being made for all to serve in the militia,
and notices to this effect have been served
on all those residing in No. of the six
divisions Of Moscow. House to house
visitation is also going on relative TO the
number OF men servants and horses kent
by every householder, n large quota Of
which must now be parted with ior pub.
lie service. Substitutes on the part Of
the former are not accepted. Funds are
rolling in for the sick and wounded on all
sides, the peasants even urging the ac-
ceptance Of their mite.
TURKISH LIST OF RUSSIAN DARBARIrIEs
NEW York, August 24.-The Turkish
Minister OF Foreign Affairs informs his
diplomatic agents abroad that the Rus.
SLAMS on entering Eski sayhra disarmed
the Musselmans and employed Mokdars
TO fetch the MuSSelmans out OF their
houses, and they were tnassacred; l,lOO
were thus put to death. When the Rus.
siang entered Loratz, fifteen women and
children fleeing from the invaders were
killed. Others TO escape outrage or
death had to abandon everything,
even their children. Every Musselman
house in Loratz was piilaged. After
the recapture OF the town, the Russians
carried devastation and carnage into the
neighboring districts. The Russians
drove out the Musselman inhabitans OF
the village OF Herst, and burned all the
men and women. Seventy Musselmans
OF Iuklem were shut up in barn which
was fired; fourty.four other Musselmans
were massacred and all the Musselman
women outraged. Eight young girls who
resisted were killed and two were burnt
up with the men. The greater part Of the
women with their children were taken
outside the village where one after an.
other, with their children at their side,
were slaughtered. Twenty women and
children who escaped massacre, were
rescued by the Ottoman troops. An Eng.
lish military attache himself, witnessed
all these horrors. The Russians dis.
armed the musSelmans Of Eski, Kasaulik
and the neighboring villages and dis.
trlbuted the arms among the Bulgarians,
who drove down four hundred Mussel.
mans TO the river Fundja and massacred
them. At Eski, Saghra and its neighbor.
hood, the Bulgarians continue to massacre
the Mussulman population, and atroci
ties committed by the Cossacks and
Bulgarians continue. Women and chill.
dren who had sought refuge in Khidir.
KIM, were massacred. Other families,
shut up in granaries, were delivered by
our troops, among them several women
and children wounded. The Bulgarians
put to fire and sword the Mussulman vii.
lage ot sofedgi and several others, after
having carried of the women and girls,
whom they outraged, killed and mutil.
ated horribly. One woman and her two
sons were the only persons saved.
suLE1MAN rAsHA IN THE PASS.
CoNsTASTINorLE, August 2i.-Sulei.
man Pasha telegraphs under date Of
August q that three OF his brigades az.
cended the heights OF Shipka Pass In aniie
Of the shower Of Russian projecliles, and
drove back the Russian outposts and ad.
vanced to within one hundred yards Of
the enemyls entrenchmens. There was
desperate lighting for fourteen hours, and
although the Turks retained the ground
captured, the enemy still held their forti.
fed positions by fourteen cannon and a
large force. The dispatch concludes as
follows: Tomorrow we shall bring up
our siege guns and renew the struggle.
We hope to be successful.