The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-05-28
WERE SORRY FOR VICTIMS
Leaders Of Murderers. at Kishineff
Display Singular Mixture
of Feeling.
EXPRESSED REGRET AND THEN KILLED,
On Entering Jewish Dwellings, They
Are Declared to Have Said: "Poor
Brothers,, We Must Kill You'll Is
So Ordered"-St. Petersburg Faces
an Uprising.

Berl1n, May 2S.-lhe singular state
of mind Of the people Of Kishineff, Bes-
sarabia, while they were killing the
Jews there abou ia month ago is de-
scribed, in a letter from a non-Jewish
German of Odessa, received by the re-
lief committee here. He said:
''The leaders of the bands, on enter
ing Jewish dwellings, often addressed
the occupants good-naturedly, saying:
Poor brethren, we must kill YOU. tits
so ordered!
"Monstrous things were not done
until robbers began to participate and
when they, with the Christian zealots,
became intoxicated.
"The state of terror of the Jews at
Kishinef," the letter adds, Continued.
A fresh massacre is expected there and
the Jews of Odessa and of all the large
towns of Bessarabia are living in hour
ly dread of death. The whole province
seems to be in a state of fanaticalfury
against the Jews"
Excitement intensified.
The writer of the letter then says:
1.-THE excitement is intensified
through proclamations distributed in.
the streets and the tone of the bitter
ly anti-Semitic newspapers. The Rus
slams say to their educated and toler-
ant countrymen who urge keeping the
peace: 1T is the cars will hat the
Jews be everywhere robbed. Orders
have been given that we start again at
Pentecost.'
"The situation has become all the
worse since the important Russian pa
pers have been prevented by the CEN
sorship from freely expressing their
opinions. Their behavior, almost with
out exception, has been excellent. I'm
less the St. Petersburg government
adopts a, more energetic policy the
events at Kishineff will undoubtedly
be repeated in other towns. AS indi-
eating the complete disapproval of the
best classes, respectable Russian law
yers are assisting the sufferers to OBJ
tain redress"
st. Petersburg Fears Uprising.
St. Petersburg, Monday, May 1s.-
The greatest anxiety prevails in adj
ministrative circles owing to the
possibility of serious outbreaks on
the occasion of the approaching BIZ
centenary of this city. The police
have requested the owners of work
shops and factories to refuse a hol-
iday to their employees during the
festivities. But the men will prob
ably refuse to work. The latter
have recently shown much uneasi-
ness. Revolutionist em~issaries have
been flooding the workshops with Sc
ditious literature, in which it is de-
clared that while the car in his
proclamation of March II pretended
to be animated by a desire to
ameliorate the lot of the peasants,
in reality he cares nothing for
them, and the men must themselves
obtain their rights. These pamph-
lets are couched in language most in
sulting to the a the czarina and
the government. The employers are
asking for police protection during
the celebrations, fearing attacks on
their establishments.
The recent destruction by fire of a
factory in St. Petersburg. involving
the loss of about 100000, is attrib-
uted to the workmen.
Another Crack in Turtle Mountain.
Victoria, B. c., May ga special
to the Colonist from Frank says a
crack four feet wide and 5000 feet
long has opened a couple of hundred
yards back from the face of the
western peak of Turtle Mountain, at
L1-.- A I;ero+oh hoe haon no