Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-10-08
THE SULTAN REPLIED TO.
CHARGES OF r K CONS
PLICITY is REITE-
RATED.

and Armenians to Death-Re> ,
suit of the First Trial Before ,
the Extraordinary Tribunal
No Progress in ReconciIing
Armenians.
Constantinople, October 81
The text of the reply of the rep
resentatiyes of the powers on
September Is to the denial of
the Turkish government of Sep
TENDER 9, reiterates the charges
of completely of Turkish officials
in the massaeres, saying that the
irritation caused by Armenian
provocation had less influence in
guiding the mob than the latter's
knowledge of the immunity en-
joyed by the authors of theI
massacres in Anatolia, and
adds that the facility with which
the massacres were stopped
shows the power at the disposal
of the authorities and the bad use
made of it fol. two days.
The first musSulmanS to be
convicted of the murder of Ar
menians we're yesterday found
guilty by the extraordinary tri-
bunal and sentenced to fifteen
years imprisonment. A the same
time, however, a long list of Ar
menians suspected of taking part
in the outbreak were condemned
to death. The men thus SEN
fenced to death include an AIRS
menian who was handed over tc
the Turkish authorities by Bel
gian legation on the condition
that he should be released so
soon rs examined. Consequently.
the Belgian minister has de-
handed the mans liberation.
The mission of Artim Pasha to
reconcile the Armenians is not
making any progress.
Diren Bey. Artim Pasha's son,
has started on a tour Of the Ar
menian committees in order to
conciliate them.
New York. October 2.--Three
women, who say they yer on
the scene of the recent Turkish
massacres, are at Ellis Island.
Their names are Beizar Mala-
chan, aged forty years, Chris
tine, aged eighteen, and Angelo,
aged fourteen. They speak
English, though they are Armen
ianS.
Angelo says she was a teacher
in the Scottish mission at Con,
s~tantinople. When the massa
ores began she and her mother
and sister were at Haskeny,
a village near Stamboul.
1--WE heard that the Kurd'
were coming" said Angelo, LAM
hid in a cistern under tn
roofs of our house. My sister
my aunt, my mother and my
self were in a dry well three
days. We next went to a hous
of an English lady and from
there got away and came to New
York.
1.-The Turks and Kurds rushe
into the house and killed all tn
Armenian males they conld find
The soldiers used sticks an
stones and beat the men to death
The boys they tied up by tn
feet. The soldiers did not touc
the women except to insult ther
with words. They said the sulta
had so ordered it.
When, we left the villag
our slippers were wet with bloc
that ran down the streets. >Fiv
hundred males were killed i
Haskeny and three hundred i
Stamhoui. The soldiers insulte
the American flag. saying it ha
no power in that country.
1.-The day before the massacr
began some Spanish Jew
went through the village an
put a red mark on the the door
of Armenians. Some Armenia
young men put red marks on til
houses of the Jews and lots
them were killed.
1.-The Jews r the caus
Of the trouble to the Armen
ians. All the property we ha
they destroyed and orr clothin
they burned up. Even the mai
in the walls the soldiers pulle
out. The people hid in the churc
q but the soldiers followed the
and killed the men,"
Boston, October 2.-Mr. Susa
Fessenden, president of Masss
chusetts Women's Christ.a
Temperance Union,ss received
cablegram to-day from Mis
Frances E. Willard, desirin
Massachusetts, to entertai
thirty American refugees unit
work can be found for then
Miss Willard cabled as follow
"'rhese poor people are dyin
in Marseilles, Who will give
cup of cold water 'in the nam
and take into his or her hon
one or more of these slitt
ones?"