The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-08-16
ARMENIAN OUTRAGES
Cruel Treatment Of American Git
izens in MarsoVan.
OUR MINISTER ACTS PROMPTLY.

Demands the Release of Americans Un-
Justly Accused and Prompt Trial of
Those Who Are RovoIutIonists-The Lat
ter Threaten Objectionable Persons.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1o.-The depart
ment OF state has just received from Min
lister Terrell report which throws some
light on the report tslegrnphed from Con-
stantinople few days ago, saying that
American citizens had been injured at
Maraovan. From Minister Terrells report
II appears that on July / an Armenian
named Garabed was assassinated at Mar.
sovan, close to the church door, as he was
going to attend carly service. He was the
chief man of the Protestant community
and chairman Of the council of thirty,
who are responsible for the peace Of the
city. 1t was alleged that he had given
the government Information In reG..fd to
the reyolutionists.
Consul Jowe.t y. reporting this oese
July 10 e e4sul General Short, at Con
-pie says that numerous Arme-
nians were arrested, as 1t was said there
was little doubt Garabed was murdered
by them. Among those arrested was a
naturalized American citizen, who had
been a student ut the American college
at Marsovan, but who, as Mr.. Jewett was
informed, had boen dropped from the roll
So. 20 months ago.
Minister Terrell was promptly informed
concerning the assassination and the i'm
prisonments which followed 1t, and took
immediate steps to insure fair tseatmsnt
Of thS hatufalllsd oitiIens, and called
upon Mr.. Jewett for any trustworthy In.
formation he might have regarding the
danger to the missionary teachers at Mar.
sovan from Armenian rsvqlutionists, HI
informed Mr.. Jewett that though Turkey
has right to expel undesirable classes Of
people from her territory, she has no right
10 treat the acquired American citizenship
Of any Of them as an offense, and to i'm.
Prison them for that cause, nor to imprison
them on mere suspieian. He instructed
him In such cases promptly to demand
their release. and that If any OF them are
arrested while engaged In armed resist
ance to the government to demand fair
trial.
Mr.. Terrell's report OF the troubles al
Marsovan Is based upon a verbal state
ment of Mr.. Dwight, a leading American
missionary at Constantinople, and is a,
follows:
. More chan a year ago sixteen person.
at Morsavan Received written notices that
they would be killed unless they cooper
ated with the Armenian revolptionists
President Tracy and Professor Briggs, oi
Nprseyan college, were two of these
They had Incurred the ill will of the revo
lutiopists by refusing to receive in tn,
college the sons OF certain men suspected
Of being revolutionists. Garabed, who wa.
assassinatod, was another of the sixteeI
who received notice, and Mr.. Dwight ha,
been informed that still another has beer
assasslnated. A Turkish guard was fur
nished at the request of Mr.. Terril to pro
tect the American families from the assns
sins. Mr.. Dwight considers that guard
sufficient to protect the missionaries at the
college, and Mr.. Terrell has not applied
for an additional force.
1.-THE local governor informed tho Arme
mans, after the killing, that he intended
to arrest all suspected persons and i'm.
prison them until they revealed tho names
of the guilty ones; that their object was
to provoke Turkish vengeance In order IL
secure the sympathy and Intervention oI
Christian Europe, but that they would
not succeed, us be had caused to be preached
in the mosques for months that such wa.
their object, and that any Turk who killed
a Christian would be the worst enemy oi
Islam"
Mr.. Terrell adds that the revolutionists
of Marsovan had organized, and marked
the American professors long before the
Sassoun atrocities.