The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-21
MONEY CRISIS AFTER RIOTS.
CREDIT AND TRADE HAVE AL
MOST CEASED Nv RUSSIA.
Christians Won't Sell to Jews. Nor Jews
to Christians, Cabie to an East siae
Newspaper Says-CNtbreak Feared
IN Rouusania-Urgent CaH for Relief.


News Of present conditions at Kishinefi
vas received yesterday by the Jewish
DoiL Neus In a cable despatch sent from
that city The despatch says that credit
and business are at Il standstill and that
those who before the riots were beggars
arc now starving. The news came from
DR.. Muchnik in response to a request for
information 1t is dated May 10 and says:
We are in receipt Of your cabl rs OF Inquiry.
IL ia impossible to send nnsw ers TO your
questions ut this time. Tho reason must be
obvious Quiet prevails in Kishi-
neff 1t Is always quiet in n cenSetery--for
that 10 all that. Kishineff Ia now
Rumors OF new riots are flying everywhere.
but for the present things are quiet every
where But the result OF this one riot Is a
terrible one for all the Jews OF Russia,
financial crisis has come. Credit and conf
dence have ceased. Persons who have
money hive concealed it for the hour OF
emergency.
Persons having goods. wares and merchan-
disc do not permit them 70 pass out OF their
hands except for cash payments. Christians
are not selling goods to us on credit, for iear
TINT new riots may ifnpoversh us and make
IL impossible for us to pay. Jews are selling
no goods to Christians. for fear the latter VIII
pay with new riot. No new business Is
undertaken and old business ia paralyzed.
The result Is that there is distress and
poverty in the " hole land such as was never
before known. Wealthy men have become
poor: poor men are now beggars. and those
Who were bessars are STARVING W ueu'n'
The same newspaper also received yes
terday letter sent to a prominent Jew
in this city by his brother in Warsaw. which
Aays in part
May 5, and were prepare ed. All of our Jewish
Ss hss was a ory were "a esSs dR
md Ss s At every corner. We had piokess
and messengers In the telephone oo0tms. hna
These minute men were young men armed
With revolvers loaded with heavy cartridges.
The streets swarmed with our young men
IS thoroughly armed and prepared were
xs that the tables were turned ana DC, ne
When Lapouchin, the Imperial Chief of
Police Of Kghineff, asked jew II he could
indicate who the bandits were. the letter
says, this man answered:
aThe Governor. the Chief Of Police, the
Colonel the sergeants, and the rest OF your
whole, devils crew.
Among the letters received Yesterday
was one to the Je,cish Herald, from it's
correspondent In Buhush, Roumania. tell
ing Of fears of . massacre in that country.
1t aays In part:
only the God Almighty knows what tho
ns@sers at Ki.hinea has irrisated re
RSa sxs esssS beo ens re s.ay Al
<: Jew fhs q fF1 B az
claim openly that at they vii, ma ssacre all re
Jews" The so-oalled Representatives Of the
Bonmsnians say that they are not afraid
a1en know now Mha. Is esPectsd IN the fntur
esy aep Sou at IL js~ a and US
killed and. everything will be taken away
fhe Jews have closed UP many Of their
chops and stores. Large military forces are
ssy t T s R%n SSf item iSI @
and mirderins Of the Jews. We believe
them, for the same thing occurred 10 Rnssia'
f f Gs s,r i"' Prob n" listed !" eomnupies
with the outside world, and may easily fall
d victim fo' this communication
Yesterday letter said TO have been written
BY a woman in Kishinef telling how her
little girl was killed. The woman escaped
by hiding in a stall. She writes;
They :nat che took By sse s s S Sm
70 ohh m n.d Ssy eau. San ef Scy
years old and chopped him TO pieces.
The Relief Committee in Kishineff has
called upon rich Jews the world over TO
00Okt tne86 OfpnAueu tfeTe, III nniHc
of religion. The Kiepskd Slovd, published
in KieA, says that about 30, 900 Jews OF that
city are preparing to come TO America
- soon - the city is quiet enough to insure
the safety Of families left behind.
Other Russian papers received yester-
day say that on the second day OF the kishi-
ne& rots the Jews went to the Christian
hotsls sesking safety, and the hotelkeepers,
taking advantage Of their plight, charged
them u an hour for their rooms. -,
The Central Relief Committee. OF which
Araold Kohn is treasurer, received about
1850 more Yesterday. Mr.. Kohn heard
BY cable from Kishinefr that moneyis badly
needed there. The committee will meet
this morning and arrange to send about
Inittee. OF which Daniel duggenheim Of
day 100 from Secretary Hay and 81 900
Jeessh Daily Eeus has raised 3lo,2ls:
r. Hoo 4 Co.. in front Of whose factory
the Jewish riots occurred at the funeral
Of Rabbi Joseph, contributed . for tickets
to ths benedt performances which will be
held at the Grand Theatre Tomorrow and
Mount Vernon Lodge, No. II, the banner
s as s Sea an o1dss aaee
meeting at the Harlem Casino next Tuesday
evening. to protest against the Kishine5
Outrage. Among the speakers announced
are many OF the leading rabbis, Jacob H.
schin, Edward Lauterb1ch, and others.
ADIRONDACK FOREST FIRES.