Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-08-25
Suggested as Easy Way
to Secure Peace in
Balkans.
ARE MANY ATROCITIES
Situation is Growing
Strained to Limit
in Bulgaria.

ConstantinOple, Aug. 25.-Three Bull
garian villages near Tcher Keskoi
vilayet, Adrianople, are reported at
tackled by Circassians and the inha BIZ
tants maSSacred.
Sofia, Aug. 25.-With the rumors Of
massacres and the murder of prisoners
In MOnastir now authenticated the gem
eral situation is considered here as fast
becoming intolerable. Official and dip
lomatic circles alike are concerned,
having every reason TO fear that only
part OF the horrors enacted in the
interior of Ma acedOnia have come TO
light as yet. The revolutionary COM
mittees is doing its utmost to force
the hands of the Bulgarian govern
ment, and the immediate outlook is ex-
ceedingly serious.
Insurgents Make New Plans.
1t appears that the Turks have OBJ
tanned the upper hand in the vilayet
of MonaStir, and the insurgents are
planning to remove the center of their
activity close to the Bulgarian from
tiers. Dispatches arriving from the
disturbed area are exceedingly gloomy.
From Adrianople comes the news of a
Turkish defeat, and the extension Of
the revolutionary outbreak; from Mon
astir. the news of Turkish victories
accompanied by barbarOus excess.
Horrible Atrocities at Krushevo.
While many of the reports remain
without confirmation sufficient au-
thentic details are forthcoming TO cause
10 o1IAhnritFac hn or Of A.
cording TO the Sofia Dnevnik the Turks
committed unspeakable atrocities at
Krushevo The mutilated corpses Of
ninety women and children We're found
in one bCilding: pieces of the bodies
had been thrown into the street. Fif-
teen of the principal merchants of the
town Were killed and their heads eX-
hibited on poles. At Monastir. the
churches We're demolished. the houses
sacked and the town is now in a heap
of ashes. The populace fed to the
hills, where they are in a starving con
dition.
FanaEicaI Population Rules.
The Dnevnik also asserts that a gen
eral massacre has taken place in the
whole vi%lyct Of Monastir Nearly all
the villages have been destroyed. The
treacherGIS murder of eighty insur-
gent prisoners by their guards near
Monastir has made an especially bad
impression here. Many rumOrs are cur
rent of massacreS in the city of Adri-
anople, but confirmation is lacking. The
population is afraid to leave thehOuses.
The prisons are full and the vail has
taken private houses to be used as
jails. When the Russian consul pro-
tested at the situation the vail is re-
ported to have answered that he was
pOwerless against the fanatical pOpula-
tion.
New Insurgent Movement on Foot.
Salonica, European Turkey. Aug
25.-An insurgent movement is afoot
in the vilayet of Salonica. 1t is feared
that it threatens Vodena, forty-six
miles from here, Salonica and other
towns Well-informed persons here
share in the general disquietude. Large
bands are reported to have been organ
ized by Bulgarians. who, it is expect
ed. at given signal may resort to
general incendiarism. The Turkish
population is resolved, should great
disturbances occur, to eXterminate all
the Bulgarians in this city. Conse-
quently a number of Bulgarian resi-
dents are leaving SaIOnica.