The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-07

motion Tor a new trial The motion
| made was overruled and the case was
appealed TO the supreme court In the
event Edgar secures a reversal in the
supreme court, which is most unlikely,
he Will be tried for attempting to break
JAIL Edgar was separately indicted for
TINS offeIEse and it has not been merged
into the other charges against him
SIX BABIES WERE BORN
While the Armenians Retreated From Shar
to Shadir.
Chicago, Jan.e.-Miss Myra L. Barnes
or No 1914 Union avenupe, at present
engaged in educational work in this
CITY, was several years ago a mission
airy under the American board IN Ash
attic Turkey. She spent one year at
Aintab, and three years at Marash,
besides visiting all the important places
there, many of which are now made
sadly memorable Through the recent
massacres and atrocities occurring at
them. Among these are Karpooit, Ma
latia- Al-Bassan, and Zeitoun.
Miss Barnes knows a host of mission
aries and their friends at home and
abroad. With many of the mission
aries in Armenia and Asiatic Turkey,
as well as in Constan tfnople. she carries
the native preachers and prominent
Christians out there she knows person.
ally. Hence she gets bits of news and
accounts Of interest often direct from
the places where only recently scenes
Of shuddering import have been wit
messed. What follows here, is parts
of such letters, extracts directly quo
ted, or their Information summarized.
The letter describing the pT1laging.
burning, and killing ait Marash, Nov.
Is, has an interest Of fits own 1t is
dated Dec. z. The delay Of any report
for so many days, when ordinarily mail
needs only three days to reach Tarsus
from Marash, is due to the close watch
the Turks keep over the telegraph and
postal systems. MaSsacres are not re-
ported by kilograms and letters from
disturbed regions are inspected.
In a letter dated Sep 26, Rev. Amer
icuS Fuller, president of Central T1Ir-
key college, Aintab, speaks of a certain
rumor that the sultan had yielded to
the European powers, and that, there
fore, there were signs of peace and
security. And up to shat time there
had been no violence, no outbreaks,
Yet there had been plenty of fears and
approximations that such would occur.
The above mentioned rumor had mo
foundation, however. Tt rather seems
to have been the wavering policy on
the part of the powers which made the
sultan bold, and There is but little doubt
that the maSsacres occurring a little
later were the result of a special edict.
From a leutre written by Mr.. Seeley
Constantinople, dated Dec. 9:
eve all have felt very insecure here:
in fo.S
erican missionaries must go. But we
are not ready while THE Christians here
need US So many prophesy that the
sultan will try Ito kill off few of us
somewhere to see what effect it will
have. After this trouble is over it viii
be like beginning a new work, so many
of our leading men among the Arrneni-
an Christians have been murdered
Since May 1 have helped with Avada-
par, Turkfsh-Armenian religious
monthly, but 1 fear that after this reign
OF cruelty is over there will be but few
people lett to read a Protestant relig-
ious paper"
Miss Barnes received a letter dated
Nov. %, from Mrs. T. d. Christie, Tar
sus, whose husband, Rev. T. D. Chris
tie, IS president Of Sit. Paurs institute
there. That this letter had nothing
definite TO report Of the Marash massa-
ere, although ten days since its occur
rance had elapsed and hardly more
than two days would have been needed
for mail to bring information about it,
Is explained by the way the Turks man
age the postal and telegraph system
IN their own behalf. The Turk viii
not send out kilograms about massa-
cres. And all mail dS inspected, and |
letters are not transmit |
ted. There has consequently been prin |
led no full account of any of the mas |
;acres, only lurid glimpses, as it We're, |
If what took place on wholesale scale. |
Mrs. Christie writes: "a student in |
aintab college writes of hourly fear of |
800 killed. The Third Protestant |
.hurch in Aintab is being used as a mos
lue. Soldiers are landing in thousands
went to MeTsine (at the sea shore)
With mail two days ago. All travellers
ire Turks. Soldiers everywhere. We
re not personally in imminent danger.
am not afraid while the American
vaship (the MarblehaO stays. We
,et no papers,
Papers sent to the missionaries are
INITIATED. Everything thought OBJ
ectiOnable IS slipped out, until some
ines hardly anything is left. And if
lppings are sent in letters they are
aiken out and destroyed.
Mrs. Christie says further: Seven
T eight hundred fed in a snowstorm
Yer the mountains from Shar to Had
IT. They were first robbed and strip
ed nearly naked. Six babies were
ORR during the flight, three of which
ed. We hear that Zeitoun IS to be an
Inflated. There are eXcitable men |
here, a. few old-time rebels, and rob
erS. but think Of our supplemented,
lnocent Pr0testants, ana other friends,
! that place"
The next letter from Mrs. Christie
as dated Dec. Z, an I began:
Letters have come from MaraSn az
Lst Such terrible times they have
ad- I wrote You Of the first disturb !
nee that cost fifty lives and 200 serious
: wounded. On the morning OF Nov. ;
!, at Z o'clock. firse burst out in three
IffsTent Christian quarters OF the city. {
nd at the same time firing began. All {
ay long this went on and was seen {
nd heard from the mission premises
{ 9 O'Clock soldiers came TO the hill I
I'd entered two houses. forming a part {
Mr.. Lees stone wall. One of these
as the house of Avadis, a native prea- s
Ter. The people fed to Mr.. Lees !
DuSe. when they saw they saw the :
0b loot their houses OF everything,
nashing doors and windows. Next a
uads OF soldiers entered the theologi- e
j seminary yard where they went c
rough the boarding house, enptylng
Of all the boys clothing. bedding. etc
7om this they went TO the theological | !.
nlinary. doing the same. They also =
ok al the years provisions from both
aces Then they found two young