The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-29
DepOsed Sultan With Part of
Harem at Sal0niki.
Takes Up His Residence i'm a
Suburban Villa.
is HANGED AT DAWN.
Nadir Pasha Is Suspended by
the Neck on Galata Bridge.
Charged With Instigating the
Mutiny of April 13.

Saloniki, European Turkey, April
29.-The deposed sultan of Turkey.
Abdul Hamid arrived here late last
night from Constantinople. He was
accompanied by two of his sons and a
suite of seventeen persons, including
eleven women of his harem. The par
ty was escorted quietly to the villa in
the suburbs set aside for their use.
Nadir Pasha Hanged
Constantinople, April 29.-Nadir
Pasha, the second eunuch of the pal
ace under the regime of Abdul Hamid,
was hanged at dawn today on the
Galata bridge, the great thoroughfare
that connects Stamboul with the quar-
ters of Galata and Pera. The body
was allowed to swing until o'clock
in the morning, and thousands of the
people stopped to look at the great
Nubian whose name was a terror un-
face showed an undershot jaw and
thick heavy lips. In life he had been
fully six feet four inches tall.
Nadir was executed after a trial by
court martial on the charge that he
instigated the mutiny of the troops ON
April 13. He was reputed to be in
tensely ambitious, subtitle minded and
insensible to the sufferings of others.
He was one of the trio that formed
Abdul Hamids private cabinet under
the old regime The other members
of this cabinet were Izzet PaSha and
Fehim Pasha. The former, the sui
tanS' secretary, is now in hiding in
London, and the latter, who was head
| of the sultan's spy system, has been
| assassinated somewhere in Russia.
Nadir Pasha came to the imperial
palace as slave and grew UP in that
hotbed of intrigue. Since the depar-
!
Abdul Hamid has relied entirely upon
| Nadir, who is regarded as having been
the chief conspirator in the events of.
the 18th of April
Adana Is Wiped Out.
| London, April ga special dis
patch from Mersina says:
! Two Turkish regiments which land
| ed here proceeded to Adana where
| they resumed the wholesale murder
| ing of Armenians and the burning of
their property. y Thousands were
| burned to death, While those who at
tempted to. escape were shot down by
/ the troops. The destruction Of the
! town of Adana is complete.
| The loss of life in the whole prov
/ ince of Adana is estimated at 10000.
The losses of Europeans in property
are enormous British and foreign
warships here are inactive.
Four Germans previously reported
as having been killed at Bakdjah have
|
armenian population at Bakdjah have
| been maSSacred.
| Bodies Lying in the Field.
| Adana, Tuesday, April 27.-Con-
ditions in the country surrounding
| Adana as result of the recent
the Christian population are terrible.
| Dead bodies are lying out on the
! fields. Numberless Armenian farm
houses have been burned. Conditions
are most unsanitary and dysentery is
appearing.
River Carries Dead Bodies.
Mersina, Asiatic Turkey, Tuesday.
April 29.-The river that empties into
| the sea here is carrying down many
bodies of men. women and children.
| They undoubtedly were thrown into
the river from the country above the
city.
Adana Is Burning.
Corstantinople, April ga tele-
gram received here today from
Adane says the fighting which began
there again last Sunday continued for
two days. that a terri terrible fire was as
the city and that further efforts were
being made to stamp out the
Armenian population.
Carried OF the Girls.
Adana, April 2e.-The emergency
hospitals established here contain
| DaJfenIS
many of whom are women The
average number of wounds to each
patient is four. There is great and
| Immediate need for food and medical
supplies.
Practically the entire Armenian
population at Adana, $4,000 people. is
homeless without bedding or clothing
and the food supply in the shops is
exhausted.
women have told Miss Wallace, an
English nurse who is caring for
them that they were shot by the
Moslems because they screamed when
thsy saw their husbands killed before
their eyes Many Armenian girls
booty 4 large number of mutilated
bodies have been found in the houses
During the first five days of the
disorders. while fighting. killing and
Numbering was going on all sides, the
Vail of Adana kept the Turkish troops
in government houses day and night
ordered them to put a stop to the
fghting which could have beer done
on the first day
Relief Expedition
!. Mersina, April 29.-Two battalions o
Turkish troops arrived here today. L
is understood a strong detachment vii
al once be sent up country to Hadjir
to effect the relief of the American wo
men missionaries there who for nearly
a fortnight have been besieged IN theil
mission house by a horde OF fanatica
Mohamlnedan tribesmen of the sur
rounding country.
Settled at 2k Cents.
Kansas City, April 29--"As far as