The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-09
ICONDIT'lO ONS3IN
+. u AND #PITIABLE0
Agfarian8 Disord ders Have Reached d q
High Pitch and Are Expected
to Grow Worse--D rought
Finally Broken, but
Rains Game Too
II Late.


ST. PETERSBURG. July s--The first
paragraph OF the proposed agrarian law.
viz: the augmentatlo OF the lands OF the
peasants by the appropriation OF all State
h and crown domains and church and mon
lstery lands, has been accepted BY, the:
y practical unanimity. The om,nissioners e
have now locked horns over the modog
& of appropriation and the method OF dis
" posal OF private estates, and the end s;is
not yet In slgft. 5ii y, ,sst a ri u II
The determination to appropriate teS Schurch
lands. which, In distinction to the great
estates owned by the monasteries lie
j scattered like the lands Of the common
schools In America, In small tracts M
throughout the country. and support the
local Clergy, n will cause complications. 524s
;s III Peasants Starving.
VA correspondent OF the Associated Press
has just completed IA tour OF the prov
Sinces of samara Il and Saratov. H re-
ports that the drought Is finally broken
but the rains have come 400 late to save
the crop ind help the peasan ts who are are
+ In Il ptiable tcondi ton Their ca tile nave
either been sold or are starving IN the
fields. s 65$S8 AZ ~ II
s%T The government relief granartes were 81 rtg
q 6completely cmptied during last years
famine. The presen gra rian disorIdeTs. .g e"
which can be expected to grow sro rse,
\ are due largely to The necessity Of the
/ peasants for selling food and forage to
preserye their lives and save from star Il
WALTON the remainder Of their ca tile.
These disorders have ched the h1gn- ~
est pitch in the province of ~ Voron ezn
where the troops and Cossack ks,S althoush u
In considerable force, are spract y call help
/ less and ion the "a e efens siye III ;, &
Many u peasants have been XII ca : @; y;
81 wounded III desperate q ttacks on he MI
tary patrols and the r,iral guar ds. s53
Several Killed.
1 According to- telegram received here ere
from Tambov,8s peasants on the s. est estt te5 t5
OF Princess Bariatins sky attac kei O. ccn-
rnissary and a posse OF rural tpollc J: The
& com ,ssary4 and h four policemen were!
I seriously wounded. In another sect
Il of The province OF TaInbov, a body Of
4 peasants, u armed "a with %8 pitchf forks Az and
K grades, resisted squadron of sdra goons.
Because OF this resistance, the troops
4 fired, killing three peasants and wound d
4 ing many others. AT Kedabey. southeast le'ls'
~ or Tiilis, a hand -to- hand fight has oc-
CURED between C.ossncks 4 and al armed
Z band Of peasants. with the result ina that
There has been ia tai encounter at
u Krassnopolsk In the province OF Podolia, j
Y between rich peasants and poor Ttsa SAINTS
The poor men were inhensed Eeca use eillei
rich men had serlt tell gram to the lower
house protesting against the proposed dis
tribution OF land. In the N1ighting. one OF
tfs wealthy peasants kiln \ four and ser
lousy wounded y se,tsral NJ the poorer
men. l5e s4sSf5}5 NJ &5ss a
Disorder on Minister'S Estate.
Fl In st. Petersburg a thousand crkIncn
4 have met and passed aresolu utlon op pos-
Ing the agrarian pro gran,me OF the GHroup.
OF Toll in the lower house. They declare r,
that fearful consequences would Senslle ~
sihis prcgramme became effective. and
urge tins members OF the group to recoE-s
nize their error and cooperate vi tn the
\ social Democrats and the laborites,
q There have been grave disorders on the.
estate OF Minister OF Agriculture Stl chs
insky.9in Tulaf Province. 55y
81 The representative OF the ASS ocia ted
y Press at Rostov reports thatsthe crop
conditions in the Kuhan and Don s.
y trlcts are above the average.
q 3Agrarian disorders among the Co.'S
sack agricultural population are not ex-f
pected, although there has been some
Il fernent among the military levies over
having to do police duty.
Words Too Big.
NJ. Mouromtseff, I, president Of the lower,
house, received to-day q couple of tele-
graphic oddities One is dispatch from
u the conservative peasantry In the Prov
.tince of Yaroslav. asking him to use
his influence to have the Emperor de-
clare a military dictatorship, and the
other is from a group of Muscovites G oHl-2
nlaining that the number Of words OF
& foreign origin used in the debates in the
lower house render them unintell lgible
i to the common people. Ss t3 n
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