The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-29
TOWNS BURNED
PEOPLE KILLED.
ROumanian Troops Shoot the ROtOus
Peasants.
100000 JEWS ARE NOW HOMELESS.
Terrible Uprising of Peasants in Media
via Against the Farmers Trust
Because Some of the Landlords Are
Jews the Mobs Attack All of That
Faith-Troops Charge the Mobs.

Vienna (By Cable) The serious
ness of the situation in Northern
Moldavia growing out of the agrasian
disorders has not, according to the
latest Geographic reports reaching
here from Czernewitz, on the border,
been exaggerated.
From the estimates of the damages
made it appears that 400 farms in
Moldavia have been devastated, 1000
fugitives have fed over the Rouman-
ian frontier into Austria, and total
of 10000 Jews are homeless.
The number of dead and wounded
cannot be given accurately, but the
latest reports give total of about
IS men killed and in the neighbour
hood of $50 wounded.
The outbreak seems to have been
partially suppressed in the district of
Botosahni, but the latest reports are
that the movement is spreading
southwark into Wallachia and even
into the Austrian crown land of b.
kowina.
The Roumanian government is still
sending troops into the afflicted dis
trict. Practically the entire prov
ince of Moldavia has been involved.
Against Farming Trust.
The movement is really more agra
rian than antisemitic. The peasants
are in revolt against the great farm
ing trust, which has leased half the
cultivatable land in Moldavia. The
absentee landlords who control the
trust happen to be Jews, and this
fact brings the ire of the peasants
down upon any and all Jews that
they meet, and to this antipathy is
added strong racial feeling arising
from other causes.
On Thursday 500 peasants tried
to invade Michaileni. In spite of the
fact that there was sufficient num-
Der of Roumanian troops in this
town to stop the rioters, the peasants
at first got the upper hand because
the soldiers, acting upon the orders
of the project of the town, were not
permitted by their officers to open
fire. In the face of the menaces of
the furious peasants, however, some
OF the soldiers did fire, against or
ders This volley killed Is of the
rioters and wounded As, whereupon
the peasants withdrew.
The Town Plundered.
at Vaslui, to the south of Jassy Here
body of 1000 peasants forced their
way into the town. The project of
Vaslui did not have sufficient troops
at his command to stop the onward
march of the Infatuated countrymen.
He stood a helpless witness while the
rioters, in an incredibly short space
of time, plundered practically all the
htfi1 linz thu r1rinofno1
streets of Vuslui and then set them
on fire. The peasants had looted
freely and the fire completed the
work of destruction.
The project sent in hurried ap-
peal for reinforcements, and the
peasants, in ignorance of this step,
remained in the town until the SOL
diers arrived. There then ensued
streets. The soldiers came out vic
torious, but 20 rioters were killed
and many were wounded. The COM
mander of the troops, Major Calori,
sustained serious injuries.
Heaps of Ruins.
The entire Roman district was up
in arms. Here the authorities were
powerless, and the peasants pillaged,
burned and devastated everywhere.
All the buildings in the villages of
Halancesti, Herlesti, Holcisteni and
Ninelusen were demolished, and the
villages are now nothing more than
heaps of ruins.
1t is estimated that not less than
5000 fugitiyes have crossed the
frontier into the Austrian Province
of Bukowina, where they are being
| cared for as we'll as possible.