The Warwickshire Herald. — 1890-11-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

TORTURED BY TURKS.  The armed band which recently appeared on the Turco-Russian frontier consisted of 500 Armenians, who selected fluke, in Russian territory, as their rondo:Vow and bens of operations whence to make Incursions into Turkey. One hundred and fifty men crossed the frontier, and attacked and killed fiVe Muds. They were subsequently repulsed by Turkish troops, and a detachment of Cossacks dispersed the remainder of the band at Mador. The son of Mousse Bey (writes an Armenian correspondent of the Deily Naos) is following in the footsteps of his tether and grandfather, and, at the head of a large party of armed Kurds, Is ravaging the °gantry about Moosh. Arms and ammunition coothins to be distributed among Kurds, Turley and Circassian', and huh messierse are close at band. Three Armenians of Boulanuk have been burnt alive on a heap of cereal crops. Six Armenians of Van., who were returning home from Tiflis, were attacked on the way by a party of Kurds, shot an the spot, and then plundered. At Karakillissa another party of Kurds carried off 800 sheep, the property of an Armenian notable. Robberies and murders are matters of hourly occurrence, while acts of incendiarism and burning of crops are committed without let or hindrance. The prisons of Moab are again filled with Armenians. A wholesale arrest of n Armenians has been recently effected in that town. The country about Passen, in the jtrovitee of Erzeroum, has been reduced to a state utter rain. Travelling from village to village has become impossible. Alashgerd is deserted by its Armenian inhabitants, and the Kurds Aarieeklreactically the masters in the district. Kevork isa,of lie fresh victim of Turkish torture. died recently in the - -m of Moosh, tb- - burnt with _  red-hot'a pirirosoune through-I';a4 7.;;;J:, dagger. , le his tongue win pierced a  On Monday, at Dublin, before the Master of the lolls, In the cue of Mrs. Catherine O'Shea v. Captain W. H. O'Shea, counsel for the plaintiff applied for an order for the discovery of documents. Mrs. O'Shea seeks to have the trusts of her marriage settlement carried out. Certain property in the county of Clare was settled on her husband for his life tuns: he should become bankrupt or insolvent, and nun his death or his insolvency it was to go to her. She alleged that tho defendant became insolvent, and that she is consequently entitled to the property. She also seeks an account of the rents and profits. Counsel for the defendant upplied for a similar order. Both applications were  The collection of Chinese and Japanese paintings. which during the laid two years has occupied the main gallery in the new srim of the British Museum will shortly be removed. ft will be replaced by a representative selscakeu of the original drawings acquired by the Deportment of Prints and Drawings under the reign of Mr: Sidney Colvin. These will !practically form a consecutive series from the 14th and Idth *intuits down to our own times, and will include as a special feature some leaves of the unique early Florentine book of drawings acquired from the collection of Mr. Rusidu.and now ascribed by the keeper of the print' to Main Piniguorra.