Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-11

noon asserts that Hayward confessed
his connection with the murder of
Catherine Cling to County Physician
Frank Burton, last night The asser-
tion created no interest, however, as
Hayward's damaging admissions to
Detective Quinlan and to his brother,
Dr.. Thaddeus Hayward, had already
been published.
A MASSACRE DESCRIBED.
Horrible ButChery by the Turks at
BitliS, October %.
The Turks Armed and Prepared for
Their Bloody Work, Then Gath
cred at the Mosque, to Await the
Signal 80 Others of Their Own
Kind, Gathered at the Mosque,
Disguised as Armenians, and Pre-
tended to Attack the Building.
Then the MurderOus Work Began.
The Firmans to be Issued.
Constantinople, December 1O.-The
rumOr that the Sultan had determined
to issue the fcmans demanded by the
powers turns out to be correct. At $40
this evening an trade was issued grant
ing the permission for the extra guard
ships to pass the straits Of the Dardan-
elles, tnus ending a.other chapter in
the long history Of the Eastern ques-
tion.
Copyright, 1895, by Associated -Press.)
Constantinop,e, December lot was
announced in official circles this after
noon that the representations of the
powers upon the matter of the extra
guardships has finally had its effect
upon the Sultan and that the frmans
for the passage of the extra guardships
viii be issued so soon as possible.
Constantinople, December 9, via.
Sofia. Bulgaria, December 1O.-The fol-
lowing account has just been received
OF the massacre at Bitlis on October
%:
The Turks, armed, assembled in the
mosques and several others. dressed as
Armenians fired pistols in che court
yard Of the mosque of Outoudjami. near
the market place, in order to afford a
preteXt for the massacre. The Turks
then raised cries Of 'giaours are attack
ing the mosque
Then they combined in an attack upon
the market, the Armenian traders were
massacred, their shops were looted and
the mob pillaged the Armenian quar-
ters, killing women and children.
The rioters were aided by the Kur-
dish tribes of Modgan and Khout;. The
disturbances in the villages around ex-
ceed in feroc.ty those in the town itself.
Five villages were
COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED.
A report received here from Van
states that forty villages in that vicin-
ity have been devastated and plundered
and that the entire population, consist
ing Of $4,000 persons, have been dis
persed to the hills.
Everywhere there is massacre. pillage
famine and fire at work IN exterminat-
ing the Armenians. 1t is also stated
- t~f1 10 " do
vastated by the Turks, Bash:bazouks,
soldiers and gendlrmes, while the popu1
lation fed and wandered over the sur
rounding country.
The village of Andreas was attacked
on October %. a number Of the inhab-
.tants were slain and number of old
men women and children, who sought
refuge in the church are said to have
bean burned alive. Only few escaped
70 the mountains. The bugle Of the
troops. in this case, was sounded for the
attack 20 begin and the soldiers took
nor. IN the massacres which followed.
Rumors which apparently have a
foundation in fact, are current here OF
a wholesale conspiracy which may
have for its object the deposing OF the
Sultan Ii is known that number OF
prominent Armenians here and several
military officers of high rank in the
Turkish army and navy
HAVE BEEN CLOSELY WATCHED
for months past, but in spite OF this
surveillance they have succeeded in es-
Gaming from the country. That the con-
spiracy was of a most important nature
NAV be judged from the fact that
among the fugitives is the Sultan S
aid-de-camp. Hassan Djemi Pasha, who,
it is believed, was to have led the dis
affected of the imperial guards into the
palace to seize the Sultan.
The report was circulated to-day that
the burning of the palace in which the
Sultan entertained imperial guests was
of incendiary origin and intended as a
signal for rising of Armenians, but
there is absolutely nothing upon which
to base it.
No news has yet reached the city from
Zeitoun. which is still supposed to be in
+bo hands of the ArmenianS