St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-17
RUSSIA Is EXCITED.
A Desperate and Dangerous Stu
alton Prevails.

LONDON. Nov. 16.-Since the arrest at
Moscow, Thursday last, of about hun
dred members of noble families. litter
ateurS and others, charged with being
concerned in the movement looking to
he creation of popular assembly or
parliament similar 10 the Temsky labor
assemblies under the early cZarS, it has
become known that this alleged con-
Spiracy was of much wider extent than
at first supposed, and it is said that sew
eral hundred people have been taken
into custody. in addition to those re-
ferred to. From the time the discovery
of this pilot" became known CORE
spondentS in Russia of the news
agencies and newspapers have been
doing their utmost 10 discover the
true inwardDess of these wholesale ar
rests, but without success.
The stricteSt censorship of press dis
patches is observed, and the govern
ment is said to be contemplating severe
measures against newspaper CORE
spondents. Extensive arrests are re-
ported at st. Petersburg. Moscow and
other cities, but information of any
kind is refused. The situation is very
grave and the widest rumors are circu-
lating.
In this city. however, there are
number of prominent Russian eXiles
who are kept constantly informed. 10y
some secret means. of all that trans
pires in Russia. One OF the most prom
inent of these refugees said in sub
stance that never in the history
OF the Russian empire was the
situation of affairs within the dOmin-
ions of the car so desperate aud so
weighted with danger to the imperial
regime. Not a quarter of the real
horOrrS of the famine are Known"
he added Thousands are dying
in the famine-stricken dietricts of
starvation or typhoid fever, influ-
eDZa or other diseases. In some sec
tons the distress is as great as when tho
cholera or the plague swept down upon
villages and towns aud nearly wiped all
their inhabitants off the face of the
earth. Even were the government so
constituted that an honest attempt
could be made to relieve the sufferers.
thousands more OF them would perish
before help could reach them, even sup
posing that the inclemency OF Russian
winter would permit the free transpOr-
tation of supplies.
The movement in favor of a parlia-
mentary government began to gain
great headw Y in July last. when the
new governming institutions of ZemShi-
natchalnln. the chief reform introduced
by the late Count TOlstoi, were estab-
lished fol the first time in the province
of St. Petersburg. These district adj
ministrations were designed to exercise
an administrative. judicial, domestic
and generality patriarchal control over
the affairs of the peaSantry. and they
were 10 be appointed in few provinces
at time. This was a step in the right
direction. but it did not get very far be-
You'd the first stages, although it served
10 still further excite the appetite of
those who dreamed of free government
for some kind of a parliament, if only
an assembly of a local nature.
The spread of education and enlight-
eminent in Russia has been very slow,
but the day of liberty may he said to be
drawing near when wholesale arrest
are being made among the NOBILITY and
literary classes for taking steps toward
providing the people with some crude
form of self-g0vernment. Ia view. of
the famine, official erookedness. dis
graceful disclosures in high circles. the
danger of war and the practical failure
of the new Russian loan. Russia'Srulers
are in a position which is far from en-
viabie. and 10 which war would be re
lief, as it would take the public mind off
the contemplation of official abuses.