Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
TURNING TO BEASTS.
frlghtful Moral Effects oil the Fam
inc in Paris of Russia.
TRAVEL THERE NO LONGER SAFE.
Greece Confronted by Crisis Which May
Lead to Civil War.
RIVAL CABINETS AT THE CAPITAL

LONDON, March 1.-The English special
correspondent, who is travelling in the fam
inc districts OF Russia, writes from Saratov
that crimes OF violence in the valley of the
Volga are of frequent occurrence. Clergy
mems houses have been robbed, and the
bodies of murdered men are found on the
high. ads. The correspondent was warned
of the dangers of travelling about the coun-
try, and he seldom drove at night.
Caravans of merchandise are escorted by
an armed force. The correspondent says
that while he was sleighing on the Volga
one evening he was tracked for half an hour
by ragged, ill-looking peasant armed with
musket and cudgel 1t was his inten-
tion to signal the approach of the corre-
spondent to an ambush prepared by robbers,
who infest both sides of the Volga- The
correspondent showed his revolver and the
peasant retired.
The correspondent adds that villages in
the Government of Samara, which were
prosperous in 1856, are now plunged into
the deepest misery, and the population has
been decimated
Heavy Debts for Government Taxes.
In one village 2,765 of its 1856 inhab-
itants have migrated. Of those remaining,
1880 are dependent upon charity. In three
months the people of this village have lost
4,03S head of live stock. They are indebted
to the State in the sum of y, $50 roubles.
Similar conditions prevail in other villages.
Forty thousand acres of land are idle in
the province of Ssmara, owing to lack OF
seed wherewith to plant this area. A num-
ha~ - nto,,, ,,-%- hale inf hn
earth for warmth. They eat bread made of
wild hemp and the carcasses of horses. This
diet causes severe, often fatal, nausea
The famine is changing the peasants into
wild beasts. In one case a man attempted
to hang his daughter because she had not
been successful in begging. A loaf of bread
was given to a peasant, who began to de-
your it with the avidity of a famished wolf.
While he was in the act of gulping down
the bread he fell in a fit and died.
Speaking of the resources of the province,
the correspondent says that land in the
basin of the Volga is exhausted and the eli
mate is changing He suggests that 100000
IF the German colonists be assisted to emf
crate to Canada and the United States.
They are a fine race, he says and would
make successful colonists in those coun-
tries
5000 Loaves for $4,000 People.
A cable dispatch from Vienna says: The
distribution of free bread to the poor at the
Offices of the Socialist paper, VolkS PreSSe,
was attended with great deal of disorder
to-day. Eight Thousand loaves of bread had
been provided, but fully 1900 men and
women assembled in front of the Offices with
the expectation of receiving share.
When it became known that the supplies
had been exhausted, many of those who had
al ,oth la1 &hA 9TH
fortunate and fought with maniacal fury
for the food they coveted, the possessors
ef which fercely defended their rights
against their ravenous opponents. In the
crush ten women were injured. The efforts
of a strong force o. police were finally sue
cessful in checking the rioting.
Another Cable dispatch from Dantzic,
says: The unemployed of this city marched
IN procession to the Town Hall to-day and
asked for relief. The municipal authorities
decided to put them tc work reclaiming
waste lands