The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-26

'iASHl SCI liz lellSI anu L "OuIO pS
murdered. 1t was on Easter, April 19.
that a mob of 200 started the massacre.
L n my wife hid three days in a cell
lar without food or water and when
we went back into our house we found
everything in it demolished. Besides
killing over 100 men. women and chill
dren. the barbarlans, who call them
selves Christians, broke up everything
they III in the houses. kischeneff
is desolate. Please, for Gods sake.
send me enough money for my wife
snd | TO go to your great country,
where a man can live in eac and
worship God as he chooses. l know
you will regret to lear that our uncle
and aunt were mons the victims. But
for the cellar under our house, 1 and
my wife would also have been muir
dered."
THE CHURCH RESPONSIBLE.
Huntsville. Ala. May 21.-Dr. Louis
Edleman, of this city, who has Travelled
extensively through Russia as a stu
n and is thoroughly acquainted with
all conditions in that country, has ad-
dressed a letter to Count CaSsini with
reference to his recent statement of the
causes leading up to the massacre. DIR.
Edleman writes:
L am forced to the conclusion that
you. like the rest of the st. Petersburg
officlalS, are ignorant of what exists IN
the interior of Russia. 1t is not hatred
OF the peasant toward the Jews, but
the persecution of the church against
the Jew that is responsible for the
atrocities committed. The ln~stigator
OF the horrible murders is the fanatical
Pobiedonostzeff, who is the Torque-
mazda of the Russian inquisition. The
ambition of this man is to convert all
the inhabitants of Russia to the Greek
church and his wrath is not visited up
on the Jews alone. but upon Roman
Catholics and ProtestantS alike. Fifty
Cossacks upon their horses o into
the Roman Catholic church at Kross,
a town IN the government of koVno,
and slaughtered the peasants while
kneeling at the altar. What can paral-
lei the persecution and suffering en-
dured by the ProteStantS Of Finland
and Courland at the hands of the
church? The underlying cause of this
persecution, murder and pillage is that
the Russian church wants the Jew to
become q Greek Catholic"
HORRIBLE STORY OF FANATAC-
ISM.
Berlin, May 21.-The singular state Of
mn of the towns people of KiSchenef,
Bessarabia, while they were killing the
Jews there about a month ago is de-
scribed in a letter from a non-JeWish
German or ODESSA, received by the re-
lief committee here. He said:
The leaders of the bands on enter
ing Jewish dwellings, often addressed
its occupants good naturally saying:
Poor brethren, we must kill you. 1t is
so ordered.'"
Monstrous things were not done Un-
til robbers began to participate and
When they, with the Christian z~ealats,
became intoxicated.
The state of terror of the Jews at
Kischeneff. the latter adds. continues.
a fresh massacre is expected and the
Jews of Odessa and of all the large
towns of Bessarabia are living in hour
~ dread of death. The Whole province
seems to be in a state Of fanatical fury
against the Jews.
The writer Of the latter says:
The excitement is intensified
through the proclamation distributed
in the streets ms the tone of the bit
terly anti-Semitic newspapers. The
Russians say to their educated and toll
Grant Countymen who urge keeping the
peace.
1t is Cars will that the Jews be
everywhere Tobbed. Orders have beer
given that we start again at Pente-
COST