The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-28
Proposition of a Pittsburg Man to
Buy All the Municipal and Pri-
vate Street Railways of St.
Petersburg
THE RUSSIAN PRESS
LIKES THE IDEA
Mr.. Werner Willing to Organize a
Company Under the Laws of
Russia With a Capital Stock of
100000 RoubIeS With
Right to Issue Bonds

hiYIll 10 ISSUE bOIluS
ST. Petersburg, Oct. 27.-The offer Of
Murray A. Werner of Pittsburg, Pa, to
buy all the municipal and private
street railways of st. Petersburg, intro
duce and organize a complete system of
electric tramways, has been received
very favorably by the local press. The
municipal council has been discussing
the matter for seveal years but Mr..
Verners offer is the first genuine step
toward the introduction of electricity.
| The city owns three lines and a num-
Der of lines are owned and operated by
two private companies The city has
begun legal proceedings against these
companies with view to unifying all
| the surface traction companies and Mr..
/ Verner's offer stipulates that the city
shall turn the private lines over to him
when the matter has been Irrigated.
/ Mr.. Verner's proposal is, briefly
stated, to organize a company under
the laws of Russia with a capital stock
i of so, 100000 roubles and the right to is
sue bonds to the same amount. He
states that he and his friends can sup
ply the money. He would agree to
complete the transformation of all ex-
listing lines into electrical lines within
four years from the date Of the fran
chise and would so arrange the traffic
that no change of cars would take place
in going to and from the centre of the
lefty 1t is stipulated that Russian ma
terials and Russian engineers and
worlNmen shall be employed as far as
available.
| An immense sensation has been
created here by the address with which
M. A. Staknovich, marshal of the no
bility of the province of Orel, greeted
the missionary congress at Orel.
Mr.. Stakhevich boldly preached free
dom of conscience, liberation of the
dissidents and other arch heresies
with which mobiles and officials are
popularity supposed not to be tainted
The speech has been printed by the
paper of Prince Oukhtomosky, which
appears to have more than common
courage, and has called forth a storm
of protest from the orthodox priests t
whom he spoke and from the whole
reactionary press. Mr.. Stakhevieh de
clared the orthodox faith strone
enough to be able to dispense with the
police and it was time to permit
everybody to seek and preach salvation
after his own ideas. The present sys-
as barbarous and worse than useless
AS an example of the mode of pro-
cedure he related that in a certain
! village, some years ago the priests and
the police arranged for the conversion
of all the "stundists.'
They were shut up in their meeting
house, an ikon was brought into the
middle of the room and placed on a
table. The dissidents were command
ed to kiss it and be enrolled into the
orthodox church. Those who refused
were beaten. Some bore the flagella-
ton four times before yielding but all
were converted before leaving the
room.
] Well informed Russians assert that
in matters of religion, a remarkable
change is now taking place. The
great complaint is no longer familiar
millions of peasants now calmly pro-
fess atheism or the most nonchalant
agnosticism.
The demandA for the admission of
women to the universities on equal
footing with men is growing. The cause
of the women is pleaded by the faculty
Of the university of Kieff which sent
/ the rector a petition to be forwarded
| to the ministry of education in which
| ground is taken for an admission of
all Corners regardless of religion.
The trial of 81 persons arrested in
connection with the riot at the ODE
kauff steel works last spring has just
ended in the conviction of all but Il
to hard labor for a term of years.
| Public works to relieve the hungering
peasants in II famine stricken prov.
inces continue to be the subject of the
! hour.
| A letter from Saratoff predicts the
wholesale loss of horses and cattle un
less energetic measures are taken t
provide fodder. The government seem:
disinclined to assume the responsible.
ty for an additional advance for thi:
purpose and the central government
has not yet decided whether to loan the
money to these peasants without guar.
antee.
A fishers exhibition will be held in
this city during January. Nearly al
European countries will be represented
England declining. The United States
has not yet been heard from.
French capitalists will begin steam.
boat traffic on the Volga River next
year. They have Is new steamers.
The minister of finance issues Stats
tics of commerce with China via Kali
! chita during the first four months OF
1901 Importations from China were
392, 900, compared to 646,941 in the same
period of 1900 The expectations tc
China were 457,5O4, compared to 37s.-
257. Since the discovery of gold sand
| in stream of the province of Moscow
all the land owners have turned gold
hunters. They dream Of future Rus
STA California.
One million three hundred and thirty
three thousand acres of virgin forests
were burned in the Blagoveshehensk
district of Siberia alone this year.
| Another well preserved mammoth
| has been found near the south of the
OBJ River. The skin is nearly intact
The carcass measured IS by 81 feet.