The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-08
THE WAR BRINGS RUSSIAN PROV.
INcE FACE TO FACE WITH
STARVATION.
Richest City in Poland Has Opened
Fifty Soup Houses for Benefit
of Poor.

LONDON, Nov. S.-Dependable ad-
vices from st. Petersburg state that
the Russian authorities are worried
over the outlook in Russian Poland
where the people are actually face to
face with starvation.
The districts comprising that prov
ince are inhabited with comparatively
few exceptions by men and women de-
pendent for their livelihood upon the
activity in the textile industry and
the war has closed fully nine out of
every ten mills. The general stagnation
of the Russian home market has
promted the mill-owners to suspend
operations until the future seems more
bright and the government is. there
fore, compelled to care as much as is
in it's power for the men and women
that were employed in these factories.
Lodz, perhaps the richest city Of
the province, has opened fifty soup
houses within the last two months.
Similar steps have been taken by the
authorities, of other cities of the Pet
rikoff government and an appeal sign
ed by the governor Of the province
and bearing the names of many menu
bers Of the nobility, is being circulated
among the mill-owners praying for
their pecuniary aid in the work Of
relieving the suffering.
Serious riots have occurred during
the last week and as the local police
are not able to cope with the trouble,
a large number of Cossacks have been
brought into Ladz and stationed in the
districts most densely populated by the
working classes.
- Merchants are biasknaaiIsd.
But alarming complaints have since
been made that the Cossacks rather
add to the poverty of the people, for
many of the smaller merchants claim
that they have been compelled to pay
considerable sums of money in order
to escape molestation.
Incendiary literature, threatening
destruction to the wealthy and ad-
vising, the poor to get, berad wherever
and however they may, is being dis
tributed all over the city Of LODI.
Several arrests have been made, but
the ringleaders are still at liberty.
A locksmith named Jolinsky was
shot and MORALLY wounded by a po-
lice officer yesterday, who caught the
civilian posting one of these circulars
on a wall. At the police station the dy-
ing man was questioned as to the
source of the circular and when he
refused to answer he was brutally
beaten. He died few hours later.
In Tomaschowitz, the authorities
have begun extensive street improve
ments and those in charge have been
instructed to employ only married
men. There is some talk of a large
appropriation to be made for the relief
of the province but nothing official has
been made known yet in connection
with this plan.
No interest In Election.
election, perhaps, in the United States
since the civil war, in which Europe
has taken so little interest as in the
present one. Various causes are at the
bottom of this apathy. In the first place
affairs in Manchuria and almost equal
ly exciting events nearer home; then
again they do not expect the outcome
Will effect either the tariff or the money
question, and last of all they have been
SpondentS of the London papers that
the election does not excite much inte-
rest in the United States, so that there
is no need for the slightest worry. The
exception to this lack of interest is
manifested only in the highest political
circles. There it is accepted as a fact
never again to be changed that Ameri-
can friendship is the very cornerstone
of English policy and accordingly the
views of the candidates on foreign
questions are being eagerly perused.
Plans for kruger's Burial.
1t is reported from JOHANNESBURG
taht Gen. Botha has issued the pro
gram to be observed upon the occa
sion of the obsequies of the late Pres
lient Kruger, whose remains are now
On the way to South Africa, having
been shipped from Rotterdam on Mon
day last The body will lie in state a,
Cape Town for a week and will tber
re conveyed by special train to Preto-
ia. the final interment taking Mace q,
December 16
The Philippine Tobacco comnanv hos
presented a proposition to the Portu
guese government for the acou;s;+;ox