The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-08-11
Gar Demands Punishment
of Turks Who Murdered
Russian Consul
APOLOGY NOT SATISFACTORY
Vet IL Appears From the Reports
That the Consul Deserved
to be Killed

ST. PETERSBURG, August TO-
The Car has demanded the punish
ment not only cf the murderer of the
killed last week by Turkish gendarmes,
but of all the military and civil off,
cials in any way responsible for the
crime.
The assassination of the Russian
consul at Monstair, NJ Rostkovoski, is
the second murder of the Russian con-
sui in Macedonia within a few months.
and has created intense indignation
here
In reporting the occurrence to the
foreign office the Russian ambassador
at Constantinople telegraphed August
9Th:
THE Russian consul at Monastir
has fallen the victim CT an atrocious
crime. The grand vizier and the Turk
ish foreign minister have come to me
with epressions of repgret in the name
of the Sultan Ferid Pasha, the grand
vizier, informed me that the assassin
was a gendarme named Hahn and
that he will be subjected to the Sc
veTest punishment, and the Val Of
Monastir will be removed from his
post"
In reply Count Lamsdorff. the for
leign minister teegraphed to the am
bassador August 9Th:
"His majesty has received a tele-
gram from the Sultan expressing his
deep regret at the death of the Rus
sian consul at Monastir. When I
showed the telegram to the Emperor
his majesty gave orders that you
should not confine yourself to receiv-
ling explanations from the grand viz.er,
but should make the most energetic
demands on the Turkish government
for full satisfaction and immediate
and exemplary punishment both of the
murderer and of all the military and
civil officials on whom respo lsibility
for the audacious crime may TALL"
According to the report made by the
official now in charge Of tn. Russian
consulate at Monastir, tie murdered
IIS a gendarme.
Ghe consul asked his name, becarse,
In defiance of instructions. the gend-
arme did rot salute him.
The gendarme thereupon fired sew
eral shots, mortally woun'lng the con-
isul il TIE head and hip. The horse
consul was riding received two bul-
let's
According to mail advices from Mon
astir, dated August 5, the insurgents
who recent yoccupied the little town
CT Krushevo, twenty-thIe9 miles north
of Monastir. Numbered nine hundl ed.
I1hey killed the garrison consisting of
% soldiers, dynamited an bIcned The
government headquarters and nolsted
on a hill a red flag bearing on ona
side lion with the inscription Death
Or Liberty" and on the otner side
the words, Courage Brethren" TIE
rebels were still in possession of the
town when the letters were sent off.
Practically the whole country north
o. Monastir is in revolt. The Turkish
official reports state that fresh bands
of revolutionary forces in considerable
numbers have crossed the frontier
from Bulgaria during the last few
days. The local Bulgarian officials,
however, deny this and declare that
the strictest watch is being kept along
The frontier.
BELGRADE, Servia, August H.
According to the latest reports reeeiv-
ed here regarding the murder Of the
Russian consul at Monastir. NJ. Rost-
lovoski abused the Turkish gendarIGe,
who was doing sentry duty, for not
saluting him and called him mig of
with his whip, saying:
Next time. perhaps you will know
ne" The gendarme thereupon tired
on TIE consul.
1t is stated that NJ. Rostovoski vas
hated by the Turks on account of his
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