The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-02


a dispatch from ConstantinOple saying
that the porte has documents, claimed 10
have been written by Armenians at kar-
! poot, declaring that the education. given
| py the American missionaries has Sc
duced their young men from rectitude a n.
/ brought calamity upon them. The dis
! patch adds that elsewhere the officials
/ force starving Armenians to sign papers
declaring that the liberty enjoyed under
TURKISH rule is not eQualled in any land.
The Daily News will also publish a dis
| patch from Odessa, giving an interview
/ with Capt. Noble of the British steamer
Loeh Hannoch, from Leith Nov. 1 for
| Odessa, which arrived a few days ago
/ at Chanak, at the entrance of the Oar
/ danelles a few minutes after sundown.
/ Capt Noble observed that the shore on
| either side of the straits was lined with
| troops under canvass and that cannon
| We're placed at close stages along the
| banks. Two blank shots, one from each
| shore, were fired at the Loeb RannOch.
! The captain did not heave his vessel TO,
| thinking that the shots were part OF some
/ military maneuVer. Soon three shells were
fired at the steamer. The first shell drop
| ped under the bow of the steamer, the
| second fell astern and the third whiZzed
across the bridge few feet from the
| captains head.
Capt. Noble instantly reversed the en-
! gines. He was astonished, and thought
| war had been declared between England
| and Turkey. Hitherto the Turkish au-
| thorities have always allowed a time mar
| gin for vessels arriving at the straits
| after sundown. The head of the Dar-
danelles is covered with torpedoes.
| The Times has a dispatch from Rome
| which it will publish tomorrow. saying
| that Russia, in supporting the proposals
| each at Constantinople, explained to the
| sultan that her object was to assist him
| in maintaining order
| The Times COnstantinople correspond
! ent telegraphs that the diplomats who
| were recently given an audience by the
| sultan describe him as being a gifted rea-
| Soner. He is convinced that his mode of
| rule is the best for the empire. His self
| esteem is unbounded.
The Standard will tomorrow publish
| a dispatch from ConStantinOple saying il
| is believed that the present ministry is
| doomed, and that Said Pasha, recently the
grand vizier, will succeed, Hamil Rifat
| Pasha, the present grand Vizier Said
| Pasha is now president of the council of
| state.
Rome Dec. IA semi-official telegram
| from Constantinople says that the Amer
| ican admiral who is now at Smyrna re-
| Gently asked permission to visit the sui
| tan on board his flagship. The request
! was refused.
Sofia Dec IA meeting in support of
the Macedonian movement was held here
| this afternoon. The square in which the
meeting was held was crowded. M. Ia
| He claimed for Macedonia concessions
from Turkey similar to those granted to
| Armenia. Before the proceedings had
| progressed far disorder broke out and two
| revolver shots were fired. This caused
a panic, and in the rush that followed
| to escape from the square several persons
| were injured. A number of police and a
| detachment of cavalry cleared the square
and fearing that there might be repeti-
| tion of the disorder, the cavalry was or
| dered to patrol the streets during the
evening to prevent any further gather
| ings.
Washington, Dec. THE Turkish lega-
| tion has received from the sublime porte
| the following telegram, under to-day's
| date The Armenian rioters Of Szil, at
| SiYas, having closed their shops and fired
| on the Mussulmans, killing one of them,
| an ARRAY occurred during which four
| Mussulmans, of whom two were soldiers,
| and five Armenians We're killed.
| The Armenian reVolutonists attacked
| the district of Enderin burned the palace
of the governor and plundered the neigh
| orders"
constSsntlnopIs, SI lie =, Dec. - 1.4No No progress
tions between the ambassadors and
! the porte relative to the admission
into the Bosphorus of a second guard
! the treaty of Berlin. The delay that has
! occurred over the settlement of this ques-
tion leads to the belief that the concert
| of the powers is not as perfect as is
claimed, and that jealouses that have
| hitherto been latent are now actively
| working in manner that aids the sultan
| in working one power against another
| 1t is held that if all the powers were
| agreed upon definite course to be pur-
extra guard ships would be settled at
| once by the issue of firmans permitting
their entry into the Bosphorus, and that
| other veXatious diplomatic questions
would be speedily disposed of.
| Recently a number of unknown men,
| presumably police or government officials,
| visited number of houses occupied by
| Armenians and made note of the number
| of persons in each. They refused to en-
ter into any explanation of their action,
and their proceedings have increased the
| anxiety felt by the Armenians and other
| Christians in the city. 1t is feared that
| the taking of such a census is prelmina-
| wholesale driving
| Armenians of Constantinople 1t is pos
| sible that the authorities may mediate
| sending the Armenian residents or at
| least those suspected of being concerned
| in revolutionary plots, to the various
towns of Anatolia, where, should they
| be maSSacred by the hurdS, the blame for
| their killing could in some degree be shift
| ed from the central government and at
tributed to the lawlessness of the Kurds,
| which the porte claims it is using every
| means at its disposal to suppress
| Guidjian, the Armenian who claims to
! be an American citizen and who was re-
! Gently sentenced at AIeppo TO long term
| of imprisonment on the charge of being
| an emiSsary of a revolutionary society,
| has been released The Hon. A w Ter
rell, the American minister has taken a
most actiN< interest in the case of Guild
jian and it was in response to his demands
Further advices received from Aintab
| confirm the previous reports that the
| American missionaries there are safe.
| These missionaries are DR.. and Mrs.
dere, Mrs. NJ. A. Trowbridge, Miss Ell
len NJ. Pierce and Miss Elizabeth NJ.
| Trowbridge.
Considerable anxiety is felt regarding
| the safety of the missionaries at Caesa-
rea, fifty-hVe miles northwest of Jeru-
| lem, owing to report that a fanatical
| Mussulman outbreak is imminent at that
| place. Minister Terrell has telegraphed
to Caesarea making inquiries as to the
! safety of the Americans there, but up to
the time of sending this dispatch no reply
| has been received. The mails from Kar-
/ poot and Sivas and other places in the
I vicinity of those places arrived at Con-
| stantinople yesterday, but private let
ters have not been delivered yet
An official note states that a conflict
| was provoked at Seiea, in the vilayet of
Sivas, by the murder Of a Mussulman by
/ an Armenian. The Mussulmans attempted
TO revenge the death of their co-religion-
ist and in the fighting that ensued four
| Mussulmans and five Armenians We're
/ killed. The local authorities restored or
| der
! Another official dispatch states that a
| number of Armenians attacked the town
! Of Enderhin and set fire to a government
! building. Armenians have pillaged the
Mussuiman villages around Pias. Troops
A.