The morning times., 1896-10-13
MUST PAY OVERDUE TAXES.
Turks Add Another Burder to Suffer
ing Armenians.

ing Armenians.
New York, oct.12.-Advicesf from Turkey
have been received by the Armenian Re
lief Association, containing the follow
ing:
Harpoot, Sept 9.-An our Christian
OWNS, and ees are now in great dis
tress over the collection of taxes. Even the
hack taxes of former years, which have
remained on villages, are. being collected.
All this makes the prospect for the coming
winter even darker than we had ina giDed-
l am confident that the estimate made in
u former report for this coming winter of
e 1000 is much underestimated. t.
IF we had the funds il would be an cx-
celient economy to invest In grain now for
relief during the coming " Ulter Grain
is cheap and II would aIAo help the Poor
farmers ID their present distress. Can the
Constantinople Committee advance any
money for tnis purpose?
The rumors of disturbance in Con
| stantinople. MaraSh, and else ewhere, have
excited the Turks and alarmed the Ar
mcDians. General confidence is weaker
than it mas been for Il great while.
"Fifty-four Arabkir prisoners, SO long
in prison here, have been released. The
remaining nity-une, it is understood, are
to be condemned.
the month of August. 1895, since the last
report was issued, the administrative de-
partment of this work has sustained
serious loss III the departure for America
| Of DR.. kimball.
by tbefirst OF August, when Dr. KimbaIl
| left tine city, and passed the work over to
my bands, the mass OF the villagers had
withdraw II, and We were able to look over
| the situation and lay plans for the future.
| 1t had not become clear that the hope
| we had entertained and which found ex-
preston in Major Williams report TO,
May, was no longer tenabie. Not only was
| any gain that had been made in the recent
months lost, but the people were thrown
back 10 position much worse than that
which prevailed a year ago.
ALLOW me to present a brief summary
| of the massacre. The statistics given by
| the head of the Armenia n community, show
| that 541 persons were killed in the city
| during the massacre, of whom $40 were
| men, while> $50 more of the latter class
are missing; that is, left the city with
the reyoIutiunsts and were killed bet ween
here and the Persian border.
| The whole number of deaths at the
| time of The massacre and as result OF
| it, is put at ,215. Estimating the Armen-
! ian population of the city at 20 600, and
| counting one-quarter of this number as
| ablebodied males, or bread winners, it
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class were sacrificed in the city. Taking
the whole rilayet, as far as reported, the
| number of killed and missing (as explained
| above), is 3 ,522, Of whom 4, ,454 were from
| the class of bread winners, or nearly one
| fifth in the vilaye
'Inthe city 35 houses were burned, leav-
\ ing their owners homeless. A low esti-
mate of the pecuniary loss is e42 ,925 equal
| to ST ,5s7. Thenumber of houses robbed
| was 81 4, and the bishop estimates the
| average loss at f1O0.
The amount expended during the month
of August, since took charge OF the works,
has been FL ,651, equal TO 1880. More
than Il hundred wounded were received at
| the time of the massacre.
Il am confident that no portion of our
expenses has been more uSefully applied
than the G26S Isl ,993) expended n start
| ing the industrial bureau which had been
closed before the trouble, because cot
ton was not obtainable. The principle on
" hich this work is being conducted is con
siderably simplified, in accordance " ith DR..
| kimball's advice given in view of her past
| experience.
The work is now conducted by giving
out certain weight of raw cotton OF
Wool, and requiring a certain weight OF
yarn in return, the excess being purchased
from the spiuners, to furnish them means
for living Work is issued to 713 houses
and provides food for 3, ,566 souls. The
donations that have,reached us this month
amounts to but f65S t$2,921) and the bal.
ance now n hand is reduced to about e43O
(S1.909).
Earnestly soliciting generous contri-
buttons, and promising Utmost efforts tt
secure faithful and economical administra
tion, this report is respectfully submitted y