The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-26
AMERICANS NOT TO BE SLAIN.
MINISTER TERRELL SECURES TIE
SAFETY OF MISSIONARIES.

Germany, Russia and France Report
ed to Have signed an Agreement
TO Act in Concert in the Turkish
TroubIes-Minister TerrcIrs Adj
vices Report the Provinces quiet
for the Past Three Days-The Porte
and the Warships.
Washington. Nov. 25.-Dispatches to the
state department from Minister Terrell
give reassuring news of the condition Of
affairs in the perturbed districts of Tur-
key. Mr.. Terrell says he is now officially
assured that protection will be afforded
three American ladies at Hadjin, who had
been threatened by the AIussulmans These
are the women for whose safety Mr.. Ter
rell is said to have made vigorous de-
mand on the porte, coupled with the state
ment that he would call for the decapi-
tatlon OF the governor of the province in
which Hadjn is situated, if they were in
Jurcd. According TO Mr.. TerreIs adVices
the provinces have been quiet for the last
three days, and the outlook is better. He
aqus that telegrams from Aintab and
Marsovan report that the missionaries are
safe and protected, and that ne is now
able to report that all of the 1T2 American
missionaries in Turkey are now under pro-
lection. Mr.. Terrell also states that the
porte has given assurances that tranquil
ity viii soon be restored.
Jefferson City, No., Nov. 25.-Rev. J. T.
Johnson, ID. D., pastor of the First Bap-
tist church of this city, who has just re-
turned from a three months tour of Tur-
key and the Holy Land, last night, in
sermon on the Armenian troubles, made
the sensational statement that American
Minister Terrell ought to be hanged He
declares that he has Joined the Moham-
medan church and is thus aiding in the
persecution and killing of Christians in
stead of protecting them; that the situa-
tion is far worse than has been reported
to the papers, and that Minister Terrell
prevents true reports from being sent out,
sending out false reports himself
Rev. johnson and his entire party OF
thirty-four members have signed pc
tition to President Cleveland, begging him
to remove Minister Terrell.
Constantinople Nov 25.-The main OBJ
lection of the porte to the admission of the
United States cruiser Marblehead into the
Bosphorous, for which Minister Terrin
made application, was that she is 100
large, only small boats being allowed to
enter.
The governor of Harpoot, where the
American mission buildings We're burned
at the time of the recent massacres there,
has been decorated with an order Of merit.
A telegram received here from AintaD,
sixty miles from AleppO, says that the
Americans there are perfectly safe, ow-
ing to the protection afforded them by
the government authorities
The Hon. A. w. Terrell, the American
minister, has received a dispatch from
Aintab. confirming the announcement
that the Americans there were safe, owing
to the protection that is now afforded
them by the government. Mr.. Terrell eX-
presses himself as satisfied with the con-
dtion of affairs at Aintab, so far as the
Americans are concerned and Is now
confident that the missionaries through
out Anatolia, numbering 172, are now SEE
The missionaries at Aintab are DR.. nj
Mrs. Americus Fuller Rev. Charles s.
Sanders, Mrs. M. A. Trowbrdge, Miss FL
len NJ. Pierce and Miss Elizabeth NJ
Trowbridge.
Berlin, Nov. 25-The Tageblatt asserts
that Germany, Russia and France have
concluded an alliance committing them
to common action upon all questions con-
corning Turkey.
The Constantinople correspondent of
the Frankfort Zeitung telegraphs that lie
has had an interview with HALL Rifaat
Pasha, the grand viZier. in which he was
assured that order would be restored in O
Few days if foreign influences ceased to
operate. The Pasha added that the threat
ened naval demonstration by the powers
and the sending of a second guard ship to
the Bosphorous by each of the powers
would be political mistakes which would
only give the disturbers fresh scope FOR
agitation in which case the porte would
decline all further responsibility for the
security OF the foreigners. The grand vi
zier added that the sultan was much
gratihed by the attitude of Emperor VIII
liam.
Several Berlin papers report that the re-
call of NJ. Nelidoff, the Russian ambas-
sador to Turkey is impending.