Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-08
TRAIN DERAILED.
One Officer and Ten British
 Soldiers Killed.
ECHOES FROM CORONATION.

ECHOES FROM CORONATION. It Is Rumored That William Waldorf
 Astor Will Be Made q Peer--Sir
 Thomas I8pton It Is Also Said Will
 Receive the Same Title-Order Near
 1y Restored in the Governments of
 Poltaya and Kharkoff-Peasants
 Burned and Carried Off Live Stock.
 London, May S.-Lord Kitchener re- ports another accident, May ', to train bound from Pretoria to Pieters- burg. northern Transvaal The cars were derailed at a curve and an off, Ger and ten men were killed
 New York, May 7.-Coronation ru- mors are plentiful these days, says a London dispatch to the Herald. The latest is 8 revival Of the statement that William Waldorf Astor will be made peer in June. Of late Mir As tors gifts to scientific, educational and patriotic institutions in Great Britain have been large and numerous.
 Rumor still insists that Sir Thomas Lipton will receive 3 peerage in recog- milton of his work in connection with tue kings dinner to 5O0,000 poor on coronation day.
 London, May S.-The St Petersburg correspondent of the Associated Press, after a personal investigation of the situation in southern Russia, writes from Moscow, under date of Saturday, May 3. as follows:
 .'Comparatiye order has been re- stored in the governments of Poltaya and Kharkoff, but the peasants are only outwardly quiescent. believing that the grant of a division of the lands of the nOble1nen will be effected during the coming autumn, leaving the hereditary land owners only twenty acres and yoke of oxen each.
 Authentic particulars of the dis orders prevailing during the last three weeks show that they were largely due to extreme suffering from famine which was used by agitators to fo- ment a rising The peasants were not the only believers in the issue of an imperial ukase permitting divi- sion of the property of the nobility, and a charitable distribution of pota- toes by the steward of the Duke Of Mecklenburg's estate at Kharloffka tended to confirm this belief The people of the whole countryside, often IL d to the Kharloffka and other estates, afoot. on horseback and in wagons, de manded the keys of the pantries, gra- naries and barns and carried off their contents. Rich Cossacks suffered equally with the noblemen. When land owners refused to deliver up the keys the peasants broke down doors quietly seized foodstuffs and returned home, even we'll to do peasants sharing in the plunder. When unopposed. the peasants contented themselves with supplying their immediate needs. but when baked they burned and de stroyed. carried off livestock and deso- lated estates. Most of the difficulties occurred where the inhabitants of the villages were already on q strained footing with the neighboring land own CTS. Violence is reported from twelve to fifteen villages. while three estates have been devastated in 1he Kharkoff government and forty-three in tue Poltava government. To add to the general consternation, POO cossaeks ar rived at Poltava after the regular mili- fary forces had restored order. The troops fired on the people i'll two or three cases, and in one instance tie peasants attacked the troops with stones. whereupon the latter fired. kill ing several persons and wounding score. among whom were women and children. Corporal punishment was ad- ministered right and left without over scrupulous inquiry into the guilt of the people logged. Some estimates place the number of turbulent peasants as high as 30.000.
 There was similar occurrence at Kharkoff, whose governor general, Prince Obolensky, was particularly se were
 General Eugene Michalovich-Douk hoysky was among the sueffrers. His estate at Mechek was ruined and he, himself. was seized and beaten. He is still i'll from the effects of the treat ment he received.
 "As an example of the extent to which the ranks or the Iamlne Sfrlcker villagers are swollen by the return of unemployed factory workers, it is pointed out that one iron works which heretofore employed 12,000 to 10000 people. is now employing only 5000 for three days a week"
 London, May s.-The weekly state ment of the Bank of England shows the following changes: Total re- serve decreased G276.OO0; circulation increased 9119,0O0; bullion decreased G157. .4S2; other securities decreased a4444,O GOO; other deposits decreased e2, ,300.000; public deposits decreased R2. .453. 900; notes reserve decreased G27S.O government securities in creased .f2O,O0O. The proportion of the Bank of EngIand's reserve to 1fa-