Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-09
ALL AWE FOR CAR
HAS NOW FAR GONE
Conditions in Russia Grow
Steadily Worse.
WEIRD STORIES OF HORROR
Family Tied to Stake to Watch Their
Property Burn.
PEASANTS GO OUT FOR ARSON
Ministry Of Finance Perfecting Meas
ures for Absorbing the Script
by the Land Banks.
PEASANTS GO OUT FOR ARSON

indicate, it is thought by CORE
spondents, the growing horror of
the agrarian situation in Russia.
Peasants who live close to the soil,
and should be all else but blood
thirsty, sally forth and burn prop
crty with the same savoir faire that
they light their pipes. The human
killing rivals a stock yard, and
London correspondent says that
life is so cheap that it will never
be known. The arrangements at
St. Petersburg for absorbing the
script will shortly be perfected.
Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON. September S.-Dispatches from
st. Petersburg say that while the country
as whole is somewhat quieter. the dan
gerous conditions still exist. Awe of the
car having disappeared bestiality and hui
manity are now struggling for the upper
hand. Robbery and murder are Landed as
heroic acts, and incendiarism is spoken of
as illumination. Assassins are praised and
a proposal is made to build pantheon for
their remains. The young generation is
eager to take a short cut to glory and gain
laurels by crime. The ideas of right and
wrong are wholly perverted In society
composed of intelligent individuals regret
is openly expressed when attempts on the
lives of officials prove unsuccessful. and
descriptions of the marvellous action of
bombs made, with such details being
especially dwelt upon as the beating.of the
human heart on the ground after it had
been torn from the breast, and such like
horrors.
A Narrowing Scene.
One correspondent says:
Il met today a once wealthy land owner
from Simgirsk. He has come to ST. Peters
burg to endeavor to dispose of some prop
erty which he owns in the capital and then
leave Russia forever. He told me a har-
rowing story of the destruction of his home.
mob of two or three hundred peasants.
the majority of them tenants on his own
estate, surrounded his house one night last
WeSh ne anu Wlle anu ldIIily~ were
dragged from their beds and tied to stakes
to watch the destruction of their property.
THE peasants fought among themselves
over the looting Of the house. They found
the wine cellars and dragged out all the
liquor. Thereafter horrible orgy began.
The house was fired and crowds of half
drunken men danced around the owner and
his family, singing revolutionary songs and
declaring that the day of Russian liberty
had come at last.
The numerous cases of arson and the de-
struction of estates by peasants in many
parts of the country indicate the growing
danger of the agrarian situation. The peo-
pie have grown out of hand and are dead to
all moral sense. Even well-to-do state
peasants sally forth on foot and horseback
to burn down the property of the land own
ers just like the ex-serfs.
Russia's butcher bill'' would astound the
world were it published, but so cheap is
life that the actual number of killings will
never be known.
Absorbing the Script.
ST. PETERSBURG, September 8-The
ministry of finance is perfecting measures
for absorbing the script by the land banks
in payment for private estates acquired in
accordance with the agrarian program, SO
as to prevent too great a depreciation by
the sudden flooding of the market and
has decided to authorize the investment
therein of funds accumulated in the govern
ment'S hands for pensions, arrack construc-
ton, etc. Included in the sums to be so
invested are not only the capital on state
pensions, but also special insurance pension
funds formed by obligatory contributions
of employees in the various government de-
partments. 1t is hoped to absorb practi-
cally all the $35,OOO,OOO to $40.000.000 which
it Is calculated to issue this year and to
maintain the price at not less than 90 Both
5 and 6 per cent script will be purchased.
While the 6 per cent script Is nominally
untransferable. it can at issue be made pay
able to any one whom the sellers of the
land nominate
The purchase of script by insurance
companies, including the American, which
are required to invest part of their re-
serve in government securities, is author
lied. The report that the government is
seeking to induce foreign investment in the
land script Is denied at the ministry of
finance
Further Measure of Relief.
In addition to the sale of crown ap-
panage lands hitherto announced, the gov
ernmnt has found 1t possible to distrib-
ute a portion of the state lands held by
the government, which are separate from
the lands Of the emperor and imperial fam
fly. and consist largely of forest reserves,
etc. making an addition Of three to four
million dessiatines to the acreage already
announced.
A further measure of relief will be lower
ing Of the interest on arrears of payments
on lands previously purchased by peasants
through the land banks. The difference will
be charged to the state treasury
The assistant foreign minister says there
is a prospect that the $31. $50. 600 assigned
for famine relief will be adequate and
that the government later may decide to
issue an additional interior loan, but this
Will be taken. like the last. by the govern
ment savings banks. which have large
amounts to invest.
Sentenced to Be Hanged.
ST. PETERSBURG. September s-Tbe
court-martial which tried Zenalde Kenopli-
anikoyo. the girl member Of the flying
group" Of the terriorists Of Penza province.
who assassinated General Min August %.
today sentenced her to be hanged. She
maintained her composure and smiled on
hearing the sentence. which Is subject to
the confirmation Of Grand Duke Nicholas,
commander of the Guards Corps.
Another Bomb Exploded.
KERTCH. September ga bomb was ex-
ploded today In the garnet Of the principal
synagogue here killing two sons Of the
Waterman Of the edifice. Investigation re-
yealed two other bombs and tools for manu-
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