The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-03-03
Cream of Yesterdays New York Press

The Tribune's cable from London under
date gives the following horrible picture OF
starvation in Russia:
The English special correspondent who IS
travelling in the famine districts OF Russia
writes from Saratov that crimes of violence in
the Valley of the Volga are of frequent occur
renee. Clergymen's houses have been robbed.
and the bodies of murdered men are found
on the highroads. Caravans of merchandise
are escorted by an armed force. The cores
pondent says that while he was sleiehing on
the Volga one evening he was tracked for half
an hour by "A ragged. il-looklng peasant,
armed with n muskot and a cudgel. 1t was
his intention to signal the approach OF the
correspondent TO an ambush prepared by
robbers, who infest both sides of the Volga.
The correspondent showed ms revolver ana
the peasant retired.
The correspondent adds that villages IN the
Government of Samara which were prosper
GUS in 1886 are now plunged into the deepest
misery and the population has been decl-
mated. In one village 2,765 of its 1856 In
habitants have migrated. OF those remain
ing. 1850 are dependent upon charity; In
three months the people of this village have
lost 4,03s head Of live stock. They are in
debted to the State IN the sum of
1850 rubles:. Similar conditions prevail
in other villages. Forty thousand acres
of land are idle in the Province
of Samara. owing to a lack of seed
wherewith to plant this area. A large number
OF the German colonists 1--we IN holes IN the
earth for warmth. They eat bread made of
wild hemp, and the carcasses OF horses. This
diet causes severe, often fatal, nausea. The
anime is changing the peasants into wild
beasts. In one case a man attempted to hang
his daughter because she had not been sue
cessful in begging. A loaf of bread was given
foa neasant. who began to deyOur it with the
syidity of a famished wolf. While he was in
the act of gulping down the bread he fell into
q fit ard died.
Speaking of the resources of the country.
the correspondent says that the land in the
basin of the Volga is exhausted. and the eli
mate is changing. lie suggests that 100, 900
of the German c~olonists be assisted 10 immi-
crate TO Canada and the United States. They
are a fine race. he says, and would make sue
eessful ~colonists in those countries.
A meeting has been held at the house of
Charles Emory Smith. the United States min
tster. OF persons interested In the establish
nent of a system OF relief for lepers in Siberia.
IL was decided to open. subscriptions TO es-
tablish leper colonies. Twenty thousand
roubles have already been collected for this
purpose.
The earnings and expenditures of the Penn
~sylvania railroad system are published as an
advertisement in q. the New York papers.
The document is verv long and complicated.
The Tribune makes the following summary
of II which seems To be correct.
II lOiNN "A dnuu4A iCBOlt " ~ 4 GILL
eylvania Railroad Company, which appears
in another part of The Tribune this morning,
gives the public al insight of the operations
of this great and famous railway system. and
establishes the fact Of its assured prosperity.
The statement covers the general
operations of this well-managed company
for 1891. including the main line be-
tween Philadelphia and Pittsburg and all
branches and leased lines under its control.
From the figures presented 1t appears that
the gross earnings of the main line during the
year were S4l, 40. 5ls. S5. and its net income,
after deducting expenses, rentals 10 branch
roads, interest on bonded debt, State tax.
etc, was S12. 257. 1924 The gross earnings
Of all the lines east of Pittsburg were 800. 0A.-
B2S. rs: the expenses. SCI, OS9. ass. 81. leaving as
net earnings c27 ,794. 046.73.
The aggregate earnings of the lines west of
Pittsburg were ga. 210. 2s3. 76; the expenses
&29. 569.37 10. giving the net earnings at STA
Gao, 205. 63, which places the aggregate net
earnings of the company over expenses al
sf2, 43i 952. sc for the year. For the previous
year OF 1890 the aggregate net earnings were
Sil.5lS, 227. 70. or an increase of 1891 over 1880
OF S9l6. 1875 The number of passengers
carried last year by the company was So, 934.-
tl7, and the number Of tons Of freight moved
a29, 992, 599.
This Is the Suns way OF describing a storm
that occurred in New York Tuesday.
Two aerial duellists met in this neighbor-
hood before dawn yesterday and settled their
differences. Ii may never be definitely
known which got the best of il. but il seems
70 De ineontestible that New York got the
worst. One of the ~slugeers was from North
Cafoina and the otherfrom Ohio. The fight
srs siugged and wrestied and whirled in the
pounaiess arena of space. The Ohio com
S"'~N' nSu Ills looks frosted with snow and