Connecticut western news., 1895-10-17
MURDEROUS TURK.
FIFTY MORE ARMENIAN CHRISTIANS
 MASSAcRED.
suit.n's Police Ignore Safe Conduct Cards Given to Armenians by Foreign Embas- ssdor.-Insurr~ction Reported on ths IsIand of Crete.

Given to Armenians by Foreign Embas-
 ssdor.-Insurrection Reported on the
 Island of Crete.
 LONDON, Dot lo-A dispatch to The l Daily News from Constantinople says: Reliable news has been received hero that 90 Armenians were killed and number wounded at Akhissar, in the vii. laae of Adln, on tho Anatollam railway. by Moslem mob. Tho slaughter occurred on Oct. Q, which WAS market day, when many Armonians had gathered from nd. jaoent villages.
 "Early In the morning a Turkish rough, finding that the Armenians were not arm. ed, picked quarrel and shot one of them. There was then raised on all sides the cry
 Why hesitate to massacre the inf. delsp
 "A mob of Turks armed with ruvolvcra and knives then footed the market and massacrcd the helpless ArmenianA Their bodies were thrown into the wells. 10 is stated that tho mudlr was responsible for the attack.
 "No women or children wore injured, probably on account of the arrival of Kaimaiknn from the village of Giova three miles distant who made valiant efforts, at the risk of his own life, Co save the Christians. Otherwise the slaughter would have been comploto
 "The panic Is rcviving In ConstAntino. pie on account of the continued Isolated attack and the Armenlans aro again hockinR into tho churches. Tho police disregard tho safe conduct cards given to the Armeniana by tho foreign embassies and they insult and maltrcat tho holders of them"
 Insurreetioa on the leland of Crete.
 A dispatch to The Times from Athens, describing the growing discomfort of Turkish rule on the island of Crete. says that n band of 1, GOO armed Christians re. oently mot at Klima to petition the sultan Co restore tho charter abolished in 1889 and for reform of taxation and of the gendarmorie. The governor of Crote sent troops against the petitioners, who with drew to tho mountain fastncssos. whither the troops did not daro to follow. They now threaten to fomcnt n rebellion i'm fA- vor of annexation to Greece. Tho Crock government fearing complications deprc- cates such Crotan movement but tho situation is perilous
 The Constantinople correspondent of Tho Standard hlames the Armenian rcvo- lutionary committees for forcing tho Armenians to close their shops and ta maintain the appearance of panic when the Armenians themselves are ready to resume business.
 "1 visited the prison, 'i the correspond. ent says "and questioned the prisoners and found that thore were no serious complaints against the police. The in- specting commission sent list of GO pris- oners for liberation while I was there. The revolutionary loadors are responsible for the continuance of the deadlock " The Chronicles Constantinoplo advioes of Monday say that M. Camhon, tho French embassador; Nj. Neliduff the Rus sian embsssador, and Sir Philip Currio, the British embassador. have presented to Said Pasha, the minister of foreign affairs. tho final demands of tho powers for Armenian reforms. If this is not ao- oeptod. m ultimatum will be presented. No further notifications will be permit. ted. The scheme drops the demand for a Christian high oommissioner, but other~ wise it is almost identical with the pro. | posals of last May. It is believed, how ever, that Russia hesitates to force ap no. ceptanoe, because she fears ultimate Arnfc- nian autonomy.
 News received from Trebizond is Co tho effect that the Russian postal steamer is lying there with 2, 900 Christian refugees on board. Two othor vessels aiso full of refugees, arc there awaiting tho arrival of Russian ships to transport thom to Ba- toum.