The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-03
DEMAND LIBERTY OR DEATH
ARAIENIANS HAVE RISEN AND HAVE
 ASSERrED TIT ElR RIGHTS.

In the Riot of Last Monday 1t is Believed
 That at Least Ten Persons Were Killed
 Hand to Hand Fight Took Placs-Streets Patrolled by Troops.
 London, Oct 2.-The Post will to-mor- row publish dispatch from Constant inople saying it is believed ten persons streets during the rioting on Monday Five hundred persons have been arrest ed on the charge of participating in the riot. Among the prisoners are a num- Der of Armenians. These, when arrest ed, were beaten and then bound. One Armenian was struck with a bludgeon and afterwards shot and killed. Two Sendarmes were about to seize an Ar menian near the sultan's palace where the trouble originated, when shots were fired from crowd of students and both officers killed. Several other gendarmes were wounded. It is stated that eight Armenians were killed within the min istry of police, which was attacked by the rioters. A crowd of armed Softas assembled later and threatened to mas sacre the Armenians. The police, how ever, dispersed them. The porte and the palace officials are greatly alarmed, The ministers have held meeting to consider the situation, which is threat ening. A dinner which had been ar ranged at the palace In honor of Prince Albert of Schleswighas has been cans celled.
 A French dispatch boat the Petrel, which was about to sail for Toulon has been ordered to remain.
 The demonstration of the Armenians had long been pre-arranged Copies of the petition against the government, to present which to the grand vizier was the object of the visit of the Armenians to the gate of the palace, were sent to some of the embassies with an intima- ton that the petition would be forward ed to the grand vizier. The police, hearing of this, orders were given to prevent the petition from being pre- scented.
 About two thousand persons assem- bled in the Koukman cathedral to at tend the celebration of the cross. After the service twenty Armenian ladies pre- sented a petition to the patriarch beg ging him to summon the faithful to go 10 the porte to pray that it promptly enforce reforms in Armenia. The pat riarch exhorted the assemblage to make no demonstration, as it would be con- trary to law. He begged the Armenians to rely upon himself to do everything possible to secure the desired reforms. Thereupon the crowd shouted: "We \, l.. ,Y, l. deathv'
 The patriarch then withdrew and the Armenians tried to form a process sion, but were prevnted by the police, who dispersed the crowd into various streets Later, however, they gathered again at an arranged point. There Major Serwet Key, aide to the minis try of police, addressed them, directing them to leave the petition with him. Some reports say he insulted the Ar menians At any rate the latter be- came incensed and began shouting Then shots were fired and Serwet Bey was killed and several gendarmes were wounded. A -to-hand fight followed.
 The disturbances were renewed on Tuesday and 1t is known some people were killed
 The streets are patrolled by troops and the guards at the government Of fices have been reinforced. It is stated that the Armenians broke into the law courts and killed two judges. Dur ing the rioting Monday bullets pierced the carriages of the minister of the in- terior, the minister of foreign affairs and the minister of police
 The correspondent of the News says that an eyewitness of Tuesdays trau- bles declares that he saw cartload of corpses removed from the Kouml<apo district last night. A Greek messenger employed at the British consulate re- ports that he was at the principal prison and saw four dead and elSht wounded Armenians brought up. He heard an order given to kill the wound- ed, which was done. The matter was reported to the British minister.
 The News estimates the killed at more than twenty. Christian and Mos lem fanaticism. it says, is alike aroused.