The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-19
REVIEW OF THE WEEK.
OLD WORLD.
,os, OF THE ARMENIAN HORRORS.

.ouu,s From Two Different Mission.
"sries-iOOO People Covered With Pes
a.aIeum ana Burned to Death.
Rev. H. Allen Topper Jr. in letter
Aated Nlessina, Asia Minor, May Il
u ,;res graphic description Of the ter
Es;ble condition of affairs, in Armenia,
III ~ is, he says, NOW openly con .
,ossed hv certain Mohammedans that
.b 1, systematic massacres that went on
rom r village to village were simply the
nmrosecution of plan, we'll understood
tY tbc Turks, to exterminate all the
christians in all Armenia, and it is
aenerallv believed that the Sultan Or
Jared these massacres. So far as mag
"itnde is concerned Oorfa heads the
Iist with full 5000 victims in the last
nassacrc alone. The number sacrificed
IN the great church, where they bad
aad for safety, is now ascertained to
he about 1000. and in the streets and
,nburbs of the village near the same
amber of bodice we're found cut and
nangIed most terrible. A private let
.er from missionary who Is at pres
emf 10 Oorfa, explains what has hith-
as to how the Turkish soldiers sue
reeded in burning these four thousand
victims in the church. This mission
ary. who has made careful investi,
cation on the spot, explains that gal.
Fnry extends around three sides of this
church, and from here great guam
tity of petroleum was poured upon
these defenceless men, women and
children who were jammed together
IN the floor. Then lighted torches
we're thrown among them. Is it posi-
Me to conceive of anything more di-
abolcale Numbers had been butch
cred before the petroleum was poured
cut and the torch applied. The fifty
or sixty who escaped to the roof of the
church were overtaken and tossed into
fine flame. The church building where
this occurred, which has been used
for many years as place of worship
hy the Armenians, has been converted
by these murderous Turks into Mo
hammedan mosque, where prayers are
now daily offered to the prophet Mo
manned. Upper describes the mas
sacre at Biredik. only a few miles from
Oorfa, as hardly less revolving. Every
house belonging to Christian, about
100 in number, except two were plum
dered. Christian girls, who refused to
immediately marry young men of the
Mohqmmedan faith, were tortured
into obedience or cast into harems.
Scores OF men and aged women were
given the alternative of embracing the
Islam religion or being put to death
after lingering torture. Heavy stones
we're tied to many of the victims and
they we're drowned in the river Ell
phrates. There is not single Chris
tan in Biredjik
A soldiers Fortunes.
Gen Baratieri, who commanded the
Italian forces in the battle of Adowa
when they were slaughtered by the
Abyssinans, has been found responsible
for tho defeat and guilty of desertion.
It appears more than probable that
the general did not desert from the
impulse of cowardice, but that he lit
orally went to pieces when he discov-
cred the terrible cause of his blunder
and lost control of himself altogether.
The penalty of his offense is death,
for the military law knows no mercy.
Before being executed Gen. Barateri
will be paraded in public and his in
sigma of rank, shoulder strap, chevros
and buttons will be cut off. After be-
ing publicly disgraced he will be shot
to death at sunset.
England to Conquer the Standardization
Africa to he Carved Up.
Premier Salisbury stated in the
British House of Lords Friday in re-
Div to an inquiry from Lord Rose
berry that the complete reconquest OF
the Soudan was contemplated by the
British and Egyptian governments.
The late victory Of the Eyptian troops
over the dervishes increases the ex-
pectation of the English military cir
cle the members of which think that
the expedition will sweep the Soudan
without risk Of disaster. And II IS
the belief in diplomatic circles IN
Europe that England and Germany
have reached an understanding for
the partition of Eastern Africa. Ger
many will buy the Italian possessions
on the Red sea and assume Italy
claims to suzerainty inland: England
will conquer the Soudan for Egypt
and then buy it of Egypt, and Ger
MANY will also withdraw its Oppose
ton to England's requirement OF that
strip 81 territory on the eastern enu
OF the Congo Free State needed to MI
the gap in the English lane from Egypt
to Cape Colony. This accords with
Saisbury's admission that his purpose
is the complete conquest of the Sou
dan \ this trouble might have been
saved if England had vigorously ana
swiftly pushed to Gordon's support
dozen years ago.
Sank With $50 souls.
The British steamer Drummond
Castle. which sailed from Table bay
May % for Londn, with go persons on
BOARD. has been sunk near Ushant. the
most western of the islands on the
coast of Brittany, France. Only Two
lives are known TO have been saved
Frightful japan Earthquake /
Shocks of earthquake, accompanies
by tidal wave. have ravaged tne
northern part of Japan. Ihe entlre
town of Kamaishi has been Destroyer,
and 1000 persons killed. During
hours there we're IL distinct shocks Vi
earthquake.
John Hays Ham mond and the three
other Johannesburg reform leaoels
were fined s125, 600 apiece ana re-
leased. Hammond and two OF the ON
ers signed a document pledglng the.l-
selves to abstain from interference u
Transvaal politics, after when ineai
punishment was Cancelled. CoioneI
Rhodes refused and was banisheo ior