The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-08-30
StUHWjtU0 O0IDNH THO0s
The Turks Endeavor With the
Energy of Desperation to
DisIodge the Russians,
But Are Steadily Repulsed by the
Muscovites With Great
Slaughter.
The List of Killed and Wounded
Other Foreign Notes.
Horrible Slaughter in The Struggle
Between the Russians
and Turks.
Fighting All Along the Great Lines
of Battle in Asia and in
Europe.
I:OSS 8ARDANBSM

The sick ming Details of Buigarisn
Bat-iserings - Unparalleled Horrors
sr COssnck Cruelty
NEW YORK, August 21.-Thc Turkish
Minister has received the following from
| the Minister of Foreign Affairs OF Turkey
The Governor-G General OF Adrianople has
transmitted 10 the United States the follow.
ing list OF new acts OF barbarity, committed
by the Russians and Bulgarians, in the
village Of Adrianople.
Monday, July 18th, the Bulgarians OF
the district OF Eski Saghra wounded Azizic
and Eatma iIanaum of the village of Tar
kanel. The same day the Bulgarians
wounded five Mussulmans Of the village of
Baba Mushim. At Ali Dogh, four Mussul-
mans were
PUT To DEATH.
Ahmed I'll Mustapha, of the village Of
Echedge, and his child, ten years old, called
ZeIika, and Natina Haraun, of Guitar, at
Tournoya. were wounded with shot and bay
onets at Hazu Buba village, in the district
oiIIiassau Mehemet, and eceived wounds
from which they died Twelve emigrants
from Arbli and Ambarli, among whom were
some women and children.
WERE MAssACRED.
Similar act have been committed at ST.
limo, Yeni, Saghara, Iambali, and in other
localities. All the wounded and the bodies
of Hassan and Radja Mehemid were taken
to Adrianople The inhabitants Of FarlOs
in the district OF Rasgrad, seven hours dis
tant from Roustchouk, two-thirds Of them
Christians, having refused to surrender,
their houses numbering four hundred and
their churches,
WERE BURNED
when the Russians entered Basiabey village,
of the district of Eski Saghra, where four
hundred Mussulmans who had sought refuge
Indifferent places, and among whom were
women and children, were massacred
regardless of age or sex. \ Mussulman and
three women, two of them wounded, and
three children, were the only ones who es-
capped the massacre. More than thirty
who had emigrated to Tierno-
va, were carried off by the COssacks and
who forcibly took them to that
town, after having compelled the women TO
wear christian costumes.
Raauf Pasha telegraphs the following oc-
,urrence in the country where his army Is
operating: The Mussulmen villages in the
district OF Eski Saghra are scenes OF I'M
hearJI OF atrocities on the part OF the enc
nv. In the village near Gullu every
male inhabitant was massacred and the
women were compelled TO change their
names. aud To take off their wells Several
were killed in the fields Tie |
most part of the Mussulmans, even Of Gull |
"a, were massacrcd, and then their wives |
md children after being shut in
WERE BURIED ALIVE
1t Karadjaviran. The Bulgarians, after |
having disarmed the Mussulmans massacred |
i've of them and their women, whom they |
ut in pieces They dragged the survivors
nto church and forced them to renounce |
heir religion. Attacked by the Imperial
roops, the Bulgarians fled, after setting fire |
o the houses.
! transmit you the following telegram, re- |
ating to the acts of barbarity committed by |
he Russian troops while on the Ottoman |
erritory in Asia and Europe, recently. \
elegram from Ismail Tiki Pasha, COM
handing Van and Bayadid at Tasngennard |
Russians have
'ILLAGED ALL THE PROPERTY OF CHEsKEH, |
Russian Eviline Yansaufes, of the village |
# Ichghili, and took all his family prison
rs. Five or six Kuoel Chief from Talks
Nudpik, who had been asked by the enemy |
-, oI,, vas,hla D.l.nr N-ba |
md tifty-Seven persons of his suite, belong
,arried Off to the Armenian Bishopric, in
he vicinity of Utchikilisse. and
MAssAcRED THERE,
LoI~ak Kale, as well as the villages in |
he vicinity Of Zautchuk Guldit, near Mas
adm Gredik, and generally all those |
.ro,scd by the Russians in their retreat,
rave been destroyed. 4 great number Of |
he inhabitants of those localities, Mussul-
mans and Christians, with their families,
lavc been ill-treated and carried away by
" the enemy TO Senk and to Cara Baulak.
every kind OF property belonging to twelve
RIDES, each composed of thirty houses or
ents, were seized by the enemy. Two no.
ab!es OF the tribe Of Teksi and Bedrey Bey,
ettled at Huker village, of Sarakiliz, and
orty old men, women and children, who
led
SOUGHT REFUGE IN
he mountains, were brought 20 the Russians,
rho, during their march towards Reven,
Tiled them one after another, as we'll as a
reat number OF other inofIensivc, nnfortu-
ate people. Every Mussulman of the latter
ity, regardless of age or sex, and who had
urrendered to the Russians, was either sent
0 Siberia or ruthlessly massacred.