The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-11
DEPosE THE SULTAN.
Conspiracy In High Rank Seems
LII

Have Really Existed.
Constantinople. December O. via Sofia,
December l0-(Copyrlghted 1895 by the
Associated press)-The following account
has Just been received Of the massacre
ut Ritlis on Octobcr 3:
The armed Turks assembled In tho
mosques, and several others, dressed Az
Armcnians, fred pistols in tho court yard
of tho mosque Of OutoudiamI ucar the
market place, ia order TO AFFORD a pretext
for the massacre. The Turks then raised
cries oil Hiaouss are attacking the mos
que"
Then thny combined IN an attack on
the market The Armenian traders we're
mhssaered their shops were lootcd and
me mob pillaged the Armenian quarters.
killing women aud children. The rioters
were aided by the Kurdish tribes Of Mod
jan ana knouti The disturbances IN the
Vl'iaEes around exceed in ferocity those
completely demolished
y report from Van states that forty
villages M that vicinity have been devas-
tat.d ana that the ehtire population con-
pcrscd 70 the nils. Every where, II ia
aided, therc IS massacre, famine and fire
IN exterlninating the ,Armcnians. Il IL
also stated that fifty villages around Slvas
were devastated by the Turkish soldiers
and gendarmes. while the population fed
and wandered over the surrounding coun-
Try.
The village of Andrews. It is further
stated, was attacked on October q. "A
number OF Inhabitants were slain and n
nunnb"r or men, women and children who
sought refuge In n church are said TO
have becn burned alive. Only a few cs-
capped to the mountains. The hugles of
the troops, q Is asserted, in this case
were sounded for the attack to begin and
the soldiers took part in the innssncre
which followed,
Rumors which apparently have a foun-
dation In fact are current here of whole
sale conspiracy. which NAV have for its
object the deposing OF the sultan. ii is
known that "A number of promfnent Ar
meuians 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 surVeil-
lance they have succeeded I'm escaping
from the country. That the conspiracy
was of n most important nature may be
judged from the fact that among the fugi-
tivcs IS he sultan's aide de camp. Hassan
Djem Pagha, whom Il Is believed was to
have led tho dissatisfied guards into the
irnpcrlai palace TO seize the sultan.
The commission investigating the dam
age to American missionary property at
Kharput has not yet reported
NEWS OF A CRISIS.
London. December 1O.--A Conslaplinopie
dispatch to the Times says that the Ar
menian patriarch has Informed the Ital-
ian ambassador that he estimates tho num-
Der OF homeless Armenians in the six
northeastern Yilayets Of Asia Minor at
nearly half million.
The Daily News will today publish n
dispatch from Vienna which says that II
telegram received there from CONSTANT
nopIe states that there Is a fresh cabinet
crisis.
The Daily News Constantinnple CORES
Iondent complains that Lord Salisbury
II withholding the British consular re-
ports from publicity, ana he alleges that
30,000 Armenians have been mas8a"red ana
the remainder deprived OF their means of
subsistence,
correspondent at Mersina, In describ-
ing the pillage and burning Of hundreds
OF Armenian villages. says that the United
ststes cruiser Mnrhlehegd visited the coast
at Payas and demanded from the ahthoi-
tics the surrender OF an Armenian doctor
who II now an American citizen. and ca ?
rying an American passport. lie ana ms
modore OF tho Marblehead Smoking VII
iages were clearly visible from the deck
Of the cruiser
LIZ. A ILrI,I,R E,Nl,E