The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-12-19
GIVES IN
THE SULTAN COMES DOWN OFF HIS
HIGH HORSE.
Ne at Last issues and Trade Comply
Powers for Permission to Fake
Extra G~uardships Through the
Dnrdanelles-A Conspiracy to De-
pose the sultan.

Memphis. Tenn, Dec. 10.-The rela-
tiyes of Mrs. Helen Royster Bliss,
who resides in Memphis, are in re-
GENT Of a letter relative to the Az
mepian wars. Mr.. and Mrs. Bliss are
native MemphiSanS, and are connected
with the American Bible society III
Constantinople. Mrs. Bliss says:
I'VE are having an anxious time
here and know not what TO expect. Al
Harpoot all bul our OF our missionary
houses have been destroyed and these
were looted. At ErZerOum 10000 Ar
menians were killed in less than ten
DAYS. There is no doubt that Ill these
Outrages are committed with the sane
ton OF the sultan. The Bulgarian mas
saCres were but Il drop in the bucket.
OF course there was the same tiendiSh
cruelties at that time, but not TO be
compared with this in extent. over
100000 Armenians have been butch
cred. mostly men. leaving women and
children in awful poverty, with win
ter upon them. None OF the ambasSa-
doris have recommended their com
munities TO leave the city and that
gives US hope that we will be safe"
Massncres Continue.
COnStautinOple, Dee. lO.-Authentic
details have now been received Of the
Siyas massacres. They show that the
slaughter began on Nov. II ard con-
tinued for a week following. 1t is
known that 200 Armenians and ten
Turks were killed before there was n
cessation of the bloody work.
The manner of the outbreak is de-
scribed as follows: Suddenly, ut noOn.
as if by Il precOncerted signal. the
F",,,l- 81 .-,4- 81 a.. ~,
caSsianS. ana even the lab0rcrS and
MoSlem women and children rushed
into the market under command OF the
officers. All were armed. the laborers
with tools or clubs or anything they
could secure that could be used as an
offensive weapon.
They attacked and looted the Ar
menian shops ana pursued with re-
l~entleSs fury the occupants, who
seemed helpless with surprise at the
SuddennoSS OF the onslaught. Many
merchants and CLERKS were killed and
their bodies stripped.
As the importing business was al
most exclusively in the hands Of the
~Armepians. financial disaster mus
Overtake Sivas when the fury of the
aOrm Of blood and greed has sub
Ned A high official, in a position to
@W, declares that the massacres
Fgp the deliberate act of the Sultan'S
fragrance for having been compelled
10 grant the reforms i'll Armenia de-
handed by the powers
1t is asserted that the kama kan Of
Guerrin, where there are 5000 Ar
menians t~elegraphed to the Wall Of
slVas: "Iau can rest assured that
there is not an Armenian left in
Gterrin. They resisted the butchers
ana they suffered the worst for it,"
The expulsion and removal of the
Armenians from ConstantinOple and
from the Vilayets continues by whole
sale. All the Armenian monaStaries
In the vicinity Of ErZingian have been
plilaged. The massacre there occurred
after the Armenians had been dis.
armed and Seokki Pasha had faithful
~ promised to protect them.
AT the village of Pasuan. near Err.
zngjan, the Kurds and Turks attacked
a crowd Of Armcnians who had taken
refuge in the Armenian church and
Killed forty of them. Altogether 400
We're killed and 500 were wounded in
The E~rzingjan district.
Boston, Mass, Dec. ia CORES
ponden in C~onstantinople in d letter
received here to-day describes the con-
dltlon under which, in his opinion, re-
lief for the oppressed Armenians must
be distributed, advising either an indie
pendent American commission for the
work or one acting in conjunction with
an English organization of similar
character.
TO insure effectual work." the
writer says, lit will be essential rur
the United States government to take
/ nnIpr official t.,taatiz, a.. .-., .l,
distribute. Otherwise it will not be
Permitted by Turkey. A relief com
mission should be organized in Ameri-
ca on an Independent basis to have at
,east iour superintendent of distri-
oution' one at Alexandria to go to
hiptaD, Marash II Oorfa. reaching
\ne case also OF the needy in the
auTus mountains; another at Trebi-
%uu ana ErZeroum, with q view ~
rraching the regions Of Bitlis and
van; and a THIRD at Sassoun for the
MM,gions from Marsovan to Harpoot.
,he lourth should 81 10 Diarbekir and
nardln. There will undoubtedly be a
%IS amount Of aid sent from Eng
anu. I"obably Ii VIII be we'll for the
american commission to make some
Mnahce with those I'm England In or
vel To cover the ground without lap
Luz. ihere Is need of the greatest
nhaste In getting some effective relief
n' the Held. The people will be dr.
" or exposure and starvation very
roh. Moreover. the Turks are trving
every means In their lower to
%ice the survivors to become Mo-
aninedans. They are offeriuS aid OH
%ese conditions in some places. and
others are picking UP the desolate
thnoWs and orphans and simply TAX
rnss, possession Of them in order to
anNNe them Mohammedons without
Nuy will Of the captives."
~, 1encral War Predicted