The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-09-04

yrw Yopr, Sept. S,-rho following
statement ha, Just been received by a
gentleman IN this city from responsible
persons IN Turkay, iuIly cognizant OF
the iacn:
Some eight months ago movement
va, made on tho part OF the Turks to
send aid to tho victims OF their bar
blity At sassun. A siiGOI 1000 pounds
sterling was reported aud a committee
was organized to see to its distribution,
Small sum, were oderoi to the people
on condition that they would sign
recslp.s in tho nature OF thanks Tor the
generosity thul manifested at tho same
time certifying that it was not
the soldiers OF the sultan who injured
tRem, but only little row that had
occurred between thom aud tho kurds.
Naturally they declined the proderei
sid on ,ucn conditions. Here was the
government that with fire aud sword
and with almost unprecedented aud
6endish atrocty had utterly wasted
thelr homes, coming and Offering
plltry dollar head to the survivors
vao are OIL tho ground, az proof Of their
gracious soyereign's charitable regard.
io' them, while they could 20 amon:
lasIr Moslem noighbors amt identify
property worth many times this sum as
hat which had been wre1tsd from
,lsn, while it would bs easy foF the
goyernmsnt itself to collect and return
from among tho more distant Kurdish
Honada nearly tho whole amount they
hailOIL
ENGLISH AID.
"Iu the meantime. English men and
women had collected for their fellow
CHRISTIANS some efficient all. When
sgen,s were appointed by tho British
AMBASSADOR to distribute the funds
IRON abroad it was with some difficulty
thN. permission was secured for thom
to enter the devastated region, where
some 1000 survivors had already gone
TO SOW their fields with a sort OF millet
that malnreI in 4 few weeks from the
time 1t /. sown, oxen having been gen.
erou,ily loaned them by the poor villa.
seEs oIthe Moorish plain. The sarvIcea
Of tho existing British committee
we're offered TO distribute these
contributions, but finally this point
vas apparently waived and they
we're allowed 10 locate them.
selves al the villages Of Semal. Tho
sight Of tho Crumbling OF its ouce COM
ilnabIs dwellings, scattered over the
picturesque hlllsides, with no: even q
charred chip TO show that they ever had
arloi, save that few small buildings
we're hastily covered last tait, IN which
families managed to spend tho winter,
convinced them that the first thing
to be done was TO piGpars these waIl',
at east, few Of them, for tho timbers
the goyornmOut had promised to bring
them from tho neighborins mountains
~ they moved &c procure woTkmou
!fgm Moosh, hut when LhOy were ready
,9s'Jrt the government informed them
that they musI no! stir u step in that
direction.
Turkey WANTS TO DISTRIBUTE IT.
"ConGderabls money has also boon
contributed by the Armenians from va.
toa, citio,, with the expectation that
iua ,orai Armenian authorities, in con
teri ui.h the British agents. wOull SOC
% is I.s,rlbuIlon. The government,
D aryor, has sout them strict ordOri
jaR ID they choose 10 haul over their
ig1I. TO tho Tutklsh committee for
u,.'rDull1n thay can do 50, Dtherwt'e
ll.y arc psrelnptorIly stopped from dis.
lrUU,.1n. OF course they do not haui
oygr iuelr funds, and 80 tho mOnoi
must wait ior tho present, until bet
'c' condition OF nilara eau Do inaugu'
ruaI
WORD comes that tho now British
consul, Mr. Hanson, has gono up TO
sI.pm.
clio Dismissal Of soma political ph4.
rno", and later tho dismissal OF Bahrl
IhHa. VI Van. have had u good oilGct
NI. tas general con lliOn Of the COun'
ifg }, grOwlu. worse. The o!h0r day,
a.IG' lwo hUGrs from here. n glrl carry
IusiIIi 10 tup fold for wOJkn0n wa
fe lpon by thrco young Turks and
hI.,f and 6rutIlly treated. A row ipl'
,.snI and tno or tIireo Chrialians wDrn
"YIaI,I At another village, niun
hruB from hero, baud Of tnirty horse
l,l entered the village Of Eupfl kony
atl ur,, Weat lAelu :h tue gl,la'o Ia a
ra. q, way nal grgitly tgrr.'al tho
nUr. Igmnudin, tho girl4 and brides.
I#.f,Aoy tYDk their rifles and wont
'rugtrou.h tho streets oi tho Village.
..os0n Of lno prIc,l oDGnoi tho dn1r
n.'n tho idea Ji inducing thom to 11yo
b. giving money. lilo wiI ahnt dpwn
IHnadoh They kept NJ THIS i1r about
Urol hours. The btDK1 opDn bnno
l..p arI drol into tho hpusnh THE
snfUm,ut as yDt has roiuaoI TO inha
1vs'Ng IN tho mnttnt, tnphih Ntt1
Company ot lnlo, IL Hill known. 80 II
goes, yefI,nbIJ reign Of terror
IurIusli HofrrnH
i0sD,y, BnpL 3,-rho Hon. George
e.. uu,,,n. under tccfelaty iIf tho iDf'