October 5, 1890 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR HELPLESS CHRISTIANS THE VICTIMS OF THE SUBLIME PORTE To the Editor of the New-York Times: Disturbances of the gravest significance are being produced in the Ottoman Empire. The corrupt administration of the Turkish officials in Armenia, the Armenophobe policy of the Sublime Porte, the acquittal of Moussa Bey, […]

September 10, 1890 CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 9. — The Kurds have set fire to the crops of the Armenians in many places in the vicinity of Bitlis. The Porte has dispatched troops to Ismindt (sic!) (Ismidt) in consequence of the receipt of reports of several Conflicts there between Armenians and Circassians. The Extraordinary Council returned the […]

September 7, 1890 If it be true or not that the only perfect goodness and happiness ever known in the world were once the blessings of a garden in Armenia, certain it is that little trace of them is left. If the wretched inhabitants of that unhappy country may still seek refuge from the blazing […]

September 2, 1890 CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 1. — The Armenian Patriarch, after a conference with the Sultan’s Secretary, obtained an irade assenting to all the demands made by the Patriarch in his memorandum, including the restoration of the privileges of the Armenian Church and the improvement of the condition of the Armenians in Asia Minor. The […]

September 1, 1890 LONDON, Sept. 1. — A correspondent of the Daily News at Igdir says it is reported there that the Armenian Governors have been ordered to arrest any Armenians caught conversing on the streets as conspirators, and to send them to Constantinople. In the event of resistance the Governors are instructed to shoot […]

August 31, 1890 CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 30. — The Armenian Secret Central Committee has sent a circular to the powers declaring that if the grievances against the Turkish Government are not redressed, a serious rising is certain.

August 28, 1890 TIFLIS, Aug. 27. — Advices have been received from Moosh to the effect that the Armenians continue to be subjected to terrible atrocities. Bands of Kurds make raids nightly on the Armenian frontier villages and set fire to the crops. Influential Armenians are arrested nearly every day.

August 3, 1890 The feeling heart cannot withhold a tribute of sympathy from the Armenian Patriarch of Alexandria (sic!) (Constantinople). A week ago, while conducting service in his cathedral, that prelate was assaulted by his congregation and very despitefully entreated. He escaped with his life, but he left behind him his canonicals and his patriarchal […]

August 2, 1890 THE RIOTOUS ARMENIANS RESIGNATION OF THE PATRIARCH CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 1. — During the disturbances by Armenians in the Koomcapo (sic!) (Koomkapou) quarter of this city last Sunday the Sultan’s escutcheon at the Armenian Patriarchate was carried away and smashed. The examination of the prisoners who are held for taking part in the […]

CONSTANTINOPLE, July 31. — The greater number of the Armenians who were arrested for taking part in the assault upon the Patriarch in the Armenian Cathedral on Sunday last have been released. Twenty-five of them, however, are held for trial. They will be arraigned before a military council sitting at the Seraskierate (sic!) (Seraskeriate). The […]