Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-09-03
INSURGENTS BURN
AND BUTCHER
New Outbreaks Reported; Rebels
Continuing Their Ravages.
COMMIT WHOLESALE MURDERS
The Inhabitants Panic-Stricken and
the Authorities Have Lost All Com
trol-Have Blown Up the Bar
racks at Ghioktipe.

Sofia, Bulgaria, aug. 31.-Dispatches
received, Sunday, from Constantinople.
Salonica, Monastir and Adrianople re-
veal an equally unsatisfactory condi-
ton of affairs in Macedonia. From
Salonica come reports of new risings.
At Monastir the insurgents are said to
be masters OF the situation. Tele-
grams from Adrianople declare that
the insurgent bands are continuing
their ravages.
At the moment the porte is asking
Belgium to supply officers for the Ma
cedonian gendarmerie the Swedish am
bassador at Constantinople has noti-
fed the Turkish government that un-
less they receive their pay immediate
ly, the Swiss officers now at Uskub will
leave the country.
The Dnevnik says the Servian diplo-
matte agent has notified the porte that
two divisions of the Servian army
have been modified without any hos
tile intention, as regards Turkey, but
they will be sent to the frontier to pre-
vent Albanian incursions into Servia.
Inhabitants Ponic-Strfcken.
The inhabitants are panic-stricken,
and the authorities have lost all con-
troll The rebels are committing whole
sale massacres.
An unsuccessful attempt was made,
the Dnevnik's advices add, to blow up
the west-bound Orient express between
Usunkistri and Tschernkeskia. Cnly
the locomotive. however, was derailed.
Destroyed All Residences.
A new outbreak is reported to have
occurred in the environs of Salonica,
and several skirmishes have taken
place between Gievgyeli and Salonica,
and there has also been a fight near
Edidjevarda, both sides losing heavily.
In the district between Kasteria and
Florina, south of Monastis, the insur-
gents have destroyed all the fortified
residences of the wealthy beys. no.
torious brigand named Abdul Medjid,
recently delivered harangue to the
inhabitants of Tetovo. telling them to
prepare themselves to slaughter all
Bulgarians upon the first appearance
of the revolutionary bands in the
neighborhood.
Turkish Troops Discouraged.
Many wounded Turkish soldiers have
been brought into Salonica from Us
kub. Seres and Monastir. The Turkish
troops are reported to be greatly dis
couraged, and many deserters have
been thrown into prison.
A. III hn Indi
(teachers attached to the mosque) in
the vilayet of hossavo, are preaching
that the time for holy war has come,
and that the people must be ready to
kill the Christians in the vilayet. In
surgent bands are said to be in COM
plete control of the districts of Demir-
hlssar and Kitschevo and the chief
mountain passes in the vllayet OF
Monastir.
sixty Soldiers Killed by Insurgents.
The total strength of the bands in
the vilayet of Adrianople is estimated
at 5000 men. The insurgents have
blown up the barracks at Ghioktipe,
near Malketernovo, killing 60 soldiers
They also attacked and set fire to the
Turkish camps at Egripalanka, Kra-
tovo. and Kotcheni. A great panic en-
sued, the troops firing into each other.
The Bulgarian government has sent
another regiment to strengthen the
frontier forces in the neighborhood OF
Kostendil A private telegram from
Rula, Bulgaria, near Kostendil. says
the reservists in the frontier villages
have received orders to be ready for
mobilization the moment that fighting
occurs at the frontier posts.