The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-05-09
THE POLISH JEWS BANISHED.
Russia Serves Notice on the Jew Of
Poland 10 Remove at Once.

Poland 10 remove at Once.
Yfom Mondsy DAll- Ners
LoNDc>. Msy Though the
newspapers of western Europe are
jus, now busy with a more than
ordirary supply of topics. calling
for big type AM louble lead., |
take It that America interests m1st
be nearly touched by something
which is happening over across the
line ,epaiating evil. alton from
barbarism Z mid.k1rope, no hint OF
Of which has heretofore go; into
type of any sort.
The facts which am able today
to make public are known only to
three men IL London aud perhaps
ten or twelve Others II Paris. Ber-
lin and Vienna. ! be greatest pos
sible pains have been "a zen during
the past fortnight to verify these
facts by lot OF detailed documen-
tary evidence, some of the originals
Of which are here in London and
which / have seen. These show
that wholesale expulsion of Jews
has been begun in the kingdom of
Poland itself. This means forced
deportation ot people compared
with which the recent exodus
from Russia proper il rela-
tively insufficient There are at
present something Ike 10000
Jews in Poland, or about four times
the number affected by the passover
edict Of 1891 in Russia. They are
of somewhat better class a,
vh ole than the Russian Jews at
least from an economic point c
vlew-because they contain much
larger proportion OF artisans and
skilled Workmen, bat they have
certain social characteristics born
of their peculiar environments
which render them even less vel.
come than those we have alleady
seen in exile. When this new Pol.
ish exodus gets fairly into motion
the resources and patience of chris
tendon will be tasked a. never be.
fore.
Incredible as it may seem at first
these DEGREES of expulsion promul-
gated as far back as the , n of
February, were only heard OF out
side of Russia bare fortnight ago
7 his alone gives a vivid notion of
the hopeless obscurlty envelopipg
the country east Of the Y istula.
When the tidings did at last sif,
westward the leaders of the Jewish
community discredited them and
not until actual proofs were obtain
ed were they able to realize this
hideous addition to their calamitous
burden. Inquiry has developed the
fact that many thousand Jewish
families in villages and the open
country all over Poland have been
served with these summary orders
to move at once into the towns,
Most of the detailed information
at hand here refers to the
province Of Radon, bat there
seems no doubt that the same Ma
chinery is at work in the other nine
gubernia of the kingdom. In the
solitary communal district OF Ruda
Guzovska, which is forty versts
from Warsaw on the railroad lead
ing TO Vienna, $50 families engsg ed
in trade and possessed of immova-
BILE property have been served with
these orders. In the village of
Sucedniov, seat of the admlnistra-
ton for the government iron mines,
$50 families received similar notices.
In the district Ct Blizen, out Of 10
Jewish families in the place, lbs
have been ordered out. OF these
latter Is families have been settled
there for generations, if not centu-
RES, and contained among their
adult males 10 tailors, 10
bakers, l. commercial tray
elers, commission agents,
book makers, carpenters,
contractors, coachmen, dealers
in crockeIy, , butchers, foremen
in the iron works and ! porter.
give the list TO show the sweeping
character of explosions. 1t may be
added that the list contains fourteen
heads of families who served a term
in the army. In the adjoining dis