The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-21
.KISHINEF LIKE
A Big CEMETERY
The Quiet Of Death Rests Like :
Pail Over the Stricken
City.
Business Is at a standstill and Peo-
pie Are Starving to
Death.
Secretary Hay Acted Within His
Rights in Protesting to the
Russian Government.

New York, May 21.-News Of present
conditions at Kishinef has been received
by the Jewish Daily News In a, cable dis
patch sent from that city. The dispatch
says that credit and business are at
standstill and that those who, before the
riots were beggars, are now starving.
The news came from DR.. Muchnik In re-
Spouse to request for information. It
is dated May 10 and says:
1--WE are in receipt Of your cables of in
quiry. It is impossible to send answers
to your questions at this time. The rea-
son must be obvious. Quiet prevails in
Kishinef. It is always quiet in a. ceme-
tery-for that is all that Kishinef is now.
'Rumors Of new riots are flying every
where but for the present things are
quiet. The result of this one riot is
terrible one for all the Jews of Russia.
A. financial crisis has come. Credit and
confidence have ceased. Persons who
have money have concealed it for the
hour of emergency. 7sss @
Persons having goods, wares and mer-
-chandise do not permit them to pass out
Of their hands except for cash payments.
Christians are not selling goods to us
on credit for fear that new riots may
impoverish us and make it impossible for
us to pay. Jews are selling no goods to
Christians for fear the latter will pay
with a new riot. No new business is
undertaken and old business is paraiyzed.
THE result is that there Is distress and
poverty in the whole land such as was
never before known. Wealthy men have
become poor; poor men are now beggars
and those who were beggars are now
starving to death.
The same newspaper also received to-
day a letter sent to a prominent Jew in
this city by his brother In Warsaw, which
says in part:
Here in Warsaw we expected riot on
May 3, and were prepared. All of Or
Jewish youth was armed-aye, and even
men up to the age Of 40. We were organ
lied and had squads at every corner. We
had picked messengers in the telephone
booths, and picked minute men in front
| of the churches. These minute men were
young men armed with revolvers loaded
with heavy cartridges. The streets
swarmed with our young men-long life
| to them. s.. 81 81
| $50 thoroly armed and prepared were
/ we that the tables were turned and the
Christiseas feared h to walk thru the
lstreets.' z,
When Lapouchin, the imperial chief Of
Epo1fce Of Kishinef asked a Jew If he
Icould indicate who the bandits were, the
letter says this man answered. 1.-THE
lgovernor, the chief Of police, the colonel,
the sergeants and the rest Of your whole
! DEVILS crew.
Among the letters received to-day was
! one to the Jewish Herald from it's corre-
spondent in Buhuah, Roumania, telling
i of fears of a massacre in that country.
The Yiddish newspaper, Verwaerts.
tprinted to-day a letter said to have been
written by woman in Kishinef; telling
how her little girl was killed. The woman
ESCAPED by hiding in a stall. She writes:
t"They snatched my 1-year-old girl from
lmy arms. One took it by the leg, another
lby the other and tore 1t in twain. begged
i them to kill me. They caught up my boy,
Is years old. and chopped him to pieces. .
The relief committee in Kishinef has
called upon rich Jews the world over to
q adopt those orphaned there, in the name of
religion. The Kievaka Slova, published In
i Kieff, says that about 10000 Jews >of that
city are preparing to come to America as
soon as the city is quiet enough to in
sure the safety Of families left behind.