The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-25
THE EASTERN WAR.
Sweeping russian ConscriptiOn.
Horrible Barbarities by the Cars
Army.
Houses Burned and Men, Women
and Children ButChered.
Fourteen Hours Fighting at Shipka
Pass.
Russian Barbarlties.

diplomatic agents abroad that the
Russians on entering Eski Saghra dis
armed the Mussulmsns, employed
Mokdsrs to fetch Mussulmsns out ol their
houses ~ d they were msssaCred. They
put 100 to death. The Russians entered
LorentZ and fifteen women and children,
fleeing from the invaders, were killed and
others 10 escape outrage or death
had to sbandon everything, even their
children. Every Mussu, house in
LAvatz was pillsged Alter The recap
lure Of the town the Russians carried
devastation and carnage into the neigh
boring districts The Russians drove out
all the Mussulman inhaOItants OF the wi.
iage OF Herst and burned All the men
s.nd some of the women. Only one
woman escaped. Seventy Mussul-
clans and the lmaun OF Iuk.
Sern were shut up IN n barn, which
was fired. Forty-lour other MussuImans
we're massacred, and All the Mussulmsn
women were outraged. Eight young
girls VINO resisted were killed, and two
we're burnt with men. The greater part
OF the other women, with their children
st their side, were taken outside o. the
village, where one alter another were
slaughtered. Twenty women and child
rem VINO escaped the massacre were res
cued by the Ottoman troops. The Eng
lish military sttsChe himself witnessed
al these horrors. The Russians disarn-
ed the MussuImans Of EskI Ssghra, kas.
aniIk and neIghbOring villages, dlstrlb
uted aims among the Bulgarians,
who drove down tour hundred
Musselmans to the river Tundja and
massacred them At EskI-Saghra and
It's nelghborhood the Bulgsrians continue
TO massacre the Musselman population.
rhe atrocltie, committed by the COssscks
and Bulgarlsns continue. The women
and children who had sought refuge III
khidiIkenI were massaCred, and the
other families who were shut up in the
granarIes were delivered by our troops,
among them several women and chill
dren wounded. The Bulgsrisns put TO
fire and sword the Musselman village OF
oofedIi and several other, after having
carried of the women and girls whom
they outraged, killed aad mutilsted hor.
riby. One woman and her two sons
we're the only persons saved.
War Notes.
LONDON, August PA Daily NetOs
correspondent ut the Russian hesdQusr.
ters explains the mystliicstiOn which has
arisen concerning the reported capture
of Banlkor Pass by the Turks he says
on the 18th inst. a column OF Suiimsn
Pasha's force attempted strenuously TO
or, the Pass 1t has been reported
ihs, hey were successful, but though the
.olumn did indeed force Its way into the
lefle, it was there SO roughly handled
by the Russian artillery and by the regI-
ment holding the Pass, that 1t WAS com
PEELED to retire.
The Times Vienna correspondent re-
marks relative TO the attack OF Shlpks
Pass that all along the main range of tLe
Balkans, especially along the Tundjs
valley, the face of the mountains Is
precipitous rock, through which the
road leads up 10 steep curves, and how
ever much the bulk Of Sulimsn Psshas
torce NAY have been INJURED to mountain
warfare and however heroic the efforts
made within the last two days may have
been, il will be little short of = miracle il
they shou ultimately succeed IN carry
ing the pass
LONDON, August "A Several special
dispatches remark about the hostile tone
of the German semi official press towards
Turkey. The Turkish embassy 81 Berlin
having through the telegrsphic agency
conLrsdicted the report tnst the perpe-
traitors Of the Sslonlcs MASSACRE have
been released, the Ministerial Moro
cLensche expressly begs to observe that
the statements put forward by the Turk
ish Foreign Department are VIGOROUSLY
untrustworthy.
LONDON, August 24.-Sulimsn Psshs
has been reinforced by two divisions
ander Rassim Pashs from PhilspOpeh.
On account Of the numerous accidents
on the over worked Roumsnisn railways
An agreement has been made by which
the railway companies pay 1000 francs
for every soldier hereafter killed and
1000 francs tor every officer killed.
A Moscow correspondent writing o.
the war IN Bussls says that the peasants
are being called on 10 join the Imperial
army from oil directions. Wherever one
goes the families are mourning because
either father or brother
are under orders to start within, per-
chance, only few hours. Families are
broken up on sll sides, and the wives are
selling household furniture. The streets
OF Moscow are thronged in many places
with household goods. The price OF
provisions Is rising proporIlonsbIy.
Among the upper classes the 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 Is pre-
sumed. be summoned in course OF
time Whilst | write general csll
/. being made for al 70 serve in
the military, and notices 70 this
effect have been served on sll those resid-
ing IN No. OF the six divisions Of Mos
COW. House 70 house visitation Is also
going on relative 70 the numbe OF men
servant, and horses kept by every house.
holder, large quota Of which must now
BE- parted with tor public service. Sub
stitutes on the part OF the former are not
accepted Funds are rolling 10 Tor the
sick and wounded on sll sides-lbs
peasants even urging the scaePtsrcs Of
their mite.
CoNsrAsTISoPLE, August A.-Suiei-
man Ps.hs telegrsphs that on August
2lst three of MS brigsdes sscended the
heights OF Snipks Pass, in spite OF tbs
shower OF Russian projectiies, Grove bsrs
the Russian outpoets and advanced {"
within ore hundred yards Of the enemy
entrenchments. There Wa desperate
fighting for fourteen hours, and althe u-h
the Turks retained the GROUND they bad
conquered, the enemy still held the forti-
fed positions, which were defended by
fourteen cannon and large force. The
telegram concludes: "1o-mo'row We
shall bring up our siege guns snd renew
the struggle We hope 70 be successful