The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-28
RUSSIAN NEWS AND views.

burg IL mYstined about the value OF the huss'su
legal tender money in foreign mArkeh Starting IRON
IN. point Of view that the legal tender represents this
industry OF the nation asks whether Russian industry
Is not worth more than 50 per cent OF what IL
rerresented to bet But It's confusion grows sti worse
when notices tho fluctuations In the price OF the SILVER
rube Three four years ago the Russian ruole was
worth no more than about ~ German marks; this year
1t has risen to the value Of two marks A. the same
time. tho production and expectation Of grain from
Russia has steadily decreased for the last three years
and tho importation OF grain and other products, as
well as OF raw matoriAA from abroad has considerably
increased The patriotic Journal therefore is at loss
lind the why the foreign value OF the Russian
legal tender has been raised. do figures lie ~ 10
asks and exhibits the decline OF Russian prosperity ana
the rise of Russian credit in foreign markets
Some time ago a midwife OF warsaw. skublnGkAyA BY
name brought to Justice with several OF her ooAd-
tutors for the crime OF killing Legitimate children me
and her he pers called themselves THE soostJ
Of Angels" and engaged in the arocious work OF "de-
spRtching the lttlo onos to heaven" OF course for
certain consideration paid them by the unfortunate
mothers their friends This fact aroused discussion
in all the Russian papers the of uleRttimato
children in that country Tho mortality Of such wafs
found to be eighty per cent among those
in the Government ntytnms In St. Petersburg and Moe
Those asyums keep the children only for short
time and send them villages be raised in the FAINT
lies of peasants There they die In large numborA But
| the number OF such children M arc despatched"
directly BY professional murderorS like skubuakaya
similar Society otAnEoS" discovered in wilma me
fate OF the unfortunate infants has raise the question
to the causes for the prevalence OF such crime
The papers hint broadly as tho strctnens Of the
censor Of the press allows that the cruel laws with
reference to waits arc at the bottom OF tho whole
trouble. An eEtmate child in Russia IL It ever Grows
up has no standing before the law. No matter vhns
his abilities or vrtueR by chance by natural en-
dowment he happens be possessed OF any there No
hope and prospect for him to do any good In the
world for himself Tho law will not recognise hin
as member Of society and he 10 tossed about and buf-
feed until he finds his into gang criminals
passing their lives in mine in the Ural HountpinA
In view OF these facts IL 10 that sinful moth
ers regard 1t benont for their children b de-
spRtched to heaven before thoy grow up TO live IN
Rnominy and suffering earth and that "AnRels'' me
skublinSkaya should be found who have scrupsss
help sinful mothers Kidding Of their ehdrsa
Tho cultivation of cotton in tho AEatic provinces q
Russia has boon rapidly developing for the last fOsR
yeRrB Merchants and manufacturer begin apprO-i
cato tho Importance OF this industry and larEO
sums in the purchase of American which they dis
tribute among planters in the province of sr and
adjoining Russian territory They also advance money
to planters tho expected crop The papers unani.
mously this enterprise which they say Vim
In time become an object of national Importance
A strange occurrence took place on April aoin No.
COW. peasant Ivan Prudin BY name met two vonon
In the Khitrov market who carried pitcher OF krdss
Tho day was very warm. Tho women offered Prudn q
drink which he accepted gratefully But sooner
had he tasted Of the beverage the favorto drink
Of Russian peasants than he strong head
ache and nausea BY strong effort found 4 police
man. whom he informed that he was sick, and begged
to take him to the hospital. Arrived there he was
found to be poisoned with phosphorus The women In
tho mean time were lost in the crowd AZ Prudin was
almost stranger in Moscow. and attempt at rob-
bery was made in connection with his poisoning the
police are ut loss TO the motive of deed
AT the hospital antdotes ad minstered in time TO
ms lint a Ia Gall
two women that poisoned him. or even to describe
their appearance. Tho pitcher with rest Of the
poisoned kudsa in it was found on the sidewalk.
Tho Municipal Council of st. Petersburg received ON
May the reports of tho city hospitals the oharita
bic societies connected with them From these reports
t appears shat Of the eight hospitals of the city only
one, the obukhoVskaya has society with capital of
ia 600 rubes; have no such Sociees At ALL the
hve have societies whose capital ranging
from $1,000 to 1900 rubles inadequate secure any
beneficial results The purpose of such societies Il. TO
anord assistance to convaeBcinR patients until thew
ian go to work Tho Municipal Council has son. circu
ars to all real estate owners of tho city urging them 70
become members Of tho hospital societies.
On April as NJ Metz lectured before the "sociov for
he announcement of Russian Commerce and Indun-
~" In St Petersburg on American Insurance Com
'anies" As tho subject of insurance comparatively
lew In Russia the lecture attracted large audienoa
Mr.. Metz lectured two hours and thirty mnutea He
'eEan with the statement that In 1898 insur-
moo company appeared In Russia and subseuuentv
'thsr companies followed They were all established
~ Russian stockholders and worked In thor inter-
'sts. But suddenly American and especially New
FORK insurance companies camo to Russia, ana
heSe were not stock companies, but mutual insur.
nco companieA These foreign societies pushsA
ho native companies TO tho wall; the Russian tnsurso
referred their policies those of his own countrymen
Zero Mr. Metz brought forward array OF heavy ao.
usRtions against the American companies. The Amer
'anS no said, as ru'c, promise than they
nd tn ThaNy
SO any means to attain their object Their
rinted reports are false. lie continued that the
qutAoie Insurance Company in 1897. issued roports
three various Countries which disagreed in thetv
AtementS and In theIr figures; OF course thev
luSt do. since they referred to different nations
nd Independent transactions lie sailed out In lone
rray of denuneiatons against the toutne insurance
stem At last he worked himself into such q rage
lanst tho foreign companies in general and the
mericans in particular that he began using tho hard
It Words he called them "a contagious dtsaaaa n
loerA post" and other ephets Of the kind He oon'
uded by Offering sset of resolutions to the effect thaA
70 Government be pettone ed exclude ALI such oour..
es from Russia and to cancel tho charters of thoaa
hich have already found their way there Whsn tns
cturer was done with his speech, his argument vas
X zen up by Mr.. Levrentltf and Mr. Lura Tho fopn.r
ID thA 70 the man who wants to have his life nsuredo
axes no difference whether tho company s Russian
reign he takes his policy from those which obar hi~
best advantages and securlteA Insurance
not an act OF patriotism but OF busiuesa
iehh companieA no matter what theiy
icies and business principles may be A
me- when they are incorporated In RussA are RsnI.
y Russian, and must work under the rules and unon
conditions which the Russian Government imposoa
IN them Tho control which the Rusa an Government
rciSos over such companies IL even moro enoacionS
N that under which native companies operate for
latter may transfer their capital Whatsoever place
oes'ro' WINE inc former are bound to keep theip
'tai within tho limits OF Russia. Mr. Luria d.mon-
Ated That the apparent Inconsistencies which hno
pointed out by tho lecturer in tho reports of the
litAbo Insurance Company of New York for the vaap
were quite consistent. for they fully agreed Win
market value of the currency of those three conn.
10 which tho lecturer had mentioned The rssol1
10 proposed were referred 10 u committee
nSAV lVanovitch Falz-Fen, the richest land ovns,
outhern Russia. died in Odessa on April 20 Ths
adAtion or his great wealth was lad by tho fathop
Gustav who came to Russia as q poor Germnn
mist lie began as plain farmer and mad. ~.
edng OF sheep his speciality. In q very short time
conquered for himself the distinction OF the Ersa,.at