Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
Turkey.

Turkey.
THE cHIos HoRRoR-KILLED AND INJURED.
CHIos, April sth.-Slight shocks of earth
Quake continue. Large quantities of blan-
kets, goods and medicines are shipped from
Syria by each steamer. Two hundred sap
pers left Pyracuse in a guuboat to bury the
dead. The number Of killed is variously es-
tirnated at 4. 600 to 6,000 The injured are
more than twice the number OF killed.
CoYsTANTINoPLE, April Sth. = Goschen,
British ambassador, has sent Major Trotter
to Chios to distribute relief to sixty villages.
The number of victims is now estimated at
5000.
ATHENS, April sth.-Sixty sappers, with
material for huts, have gone to Chios. The
Mayor of the island appeals for every sort of
relief. Forty thousand persons are without
bread.
VICTIMS OF THE PLAGUE.
LONDON, April Sth.-Four hundred and
four persons have died from the plague in
Mesopotania.
AFFAIRS AT ST PETERSBURG.
ST. PETERSBURG, April Shit is reported
that the Gar has received from the Nihilist
Committee a printed proclamation, dated
March 22d, Offering to lay down all arms, in
return, among other things, for amnesty for
the revolutionists. On the other hand, the
engineers continue to search for mines in the
purlieus of Annitichkoff Palace, and another
is spoken of as having been discovered lead
ing from the Admiralty to the Saltykof en-
trance of the Winter Palace.
TRIAL OF THE AssAssINs OF THE czAR.
ST. PETERSBURG, April Sth.-The trial of
- IL 1o+a
day. Jeliaboff conducts his own defense.
The space usually occupied by the jury was
reserved for distinguished persons, including
Prince Pierre of Oldenburg; General
Meliontine, Minister of War Abaza. Minis
lister OF Finance Solski, Imperial Comp
troller, and General Baranoff, Project of st.
Petersburg. Admission to the Court is only
by ticket, and the strictest control is main
tanned. Ten seats have been assigned to the
foreign press and five to the Russian press.
A life-size portrait of the late Car, draped
in black is prominent feature in the hall.
Senator Fuches, a member of the High Court
of Cassadon, presides assisted by four Senators
and Touraireff, Assistant Prosecutor of st.
Petersburg, and Postozki, Assistant Prosecu-
tor of the District Tribunal. Sixty-four wit
nesses and eleven experts will be examined.
Greek, Catholic, Lutheran and Mohammedan
clergy were present to administer oaths. The
reading of the indictment occupied two
hours. The prisoners were then Intercepted,
and the late Cars coachman was examined.
The prisoners, when asked, declined to state
their names, ages, professions or domiciles.
The decision of the Court was read rejecting
the protest of the prisoner, .Jeliaboff and
which maintained that the tribunal ought to
be constituted directly by the people or by
its legally elected delegates, and in any case
the prisoners should be tried by jury.
Jeliaboff replying to the President, said he
was baptized as a member of the orthodox
church, but denied its orthodoxy. He recog-
nized the doctrine of Jesus Christ, which oc-
cupied an important place in his convictions.
He served the cause of the people. 1t was
his sole occupation, to which for years he
had sacrificed his whole being. The Court
decided that the dispositions of the deceased
merchant Goldenberg, so far as they related
to the prisoners before the Court, be allowed
to be read. The President then invited the
chief officer Of the Court to read the indict-
ment
DEMANDS OF THE REvoLUTIoNIsTS.
BERLIN, April Sth-A letter from st.
Petersburg announces that the revolutionists
have issued manifesto, demanding universal
suffrage and freedom of speech, press, con-
science and election, and declaring that if
this programme is adopted the Executive
Committee will dissolve and there will be no
more violence.
THE BoERs BECOMING TROUBLESOME AGAIN.
NEWCASTLE (Natal), April Sth.-The Beers
are daily infringing the peace terms, looting
the property of loyalists refusing to surren.
der farms and houses, and assaulting the
proprietors if they attempt to take possession.
The law is powerless.
Canada
RAILROAD COLLISION.
TORONTO, April Sth.-In collision on the
Northern Railway this morning. between
Barrie and Allendale, David Thornton, a
railway employe, was killed and several
others badly injured. An engine and three
cars were destroyed.
Mexico.
CONGRESS oPENED-RAnwAY PAYMENTs-A
DEAD GENERAL LIBELED - INDIANS CAP
TURED.
MEXICO, April 3d-Congress opened on
the LIST instant Simeon Artarga was elected
President and Antonio Carvajol Vice-Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Deputies.
The Government has paid on account of
subventions for sections of railways COM
pleted to the present S1,2l2,000.
The remains of General Gonzales Artega
were buried at Mexico on the LIST instant
with great ceremony. A libel on the memory
of the deceased General published in the
clerical journals at Zacatecas caused great in
dignation.
Labano, chief of the remnant of Victories
band of Indians and four followers. have
been captured in Chihuahua. The residents
of Pazo Del Norte presented a watch to
Governor Terrazas for killing Victorio and
dispensing his band