Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
WOULD ELEVATE THE PEAsANTRY
Desires Thew Should Be Land Owners,
as Well as Free.
MAY LEAVE PEASANT CONMUNEs
Russian Ruler Advocates Improved
Agriculture.
HAS CONFIDENCE IN HIS SUBJECTS
wolves Run Down weddinR Party Of
One Hundred and Twenty aud
Ouiy Two Escape 20 Tell
the story.
N GEORGE FRAsER.

ST PETERSBURG. March 25.-tSpecisl
to The BeeD-The czar Of Russia has
taken In his latest imperial rescript the
most forward step ever taken, perhaps
by a ruler Of the country. II is the fur
therance OF his work Of reform begun
few years ago.
The car took occasion to declare his
policy for the betterment Of the peasants
in an imperial rescrpt issued I'm the
name Of NJ. Stolypin. the prime minister.
in which he pays n tribute Of gratitude
to all those who co-oper6ted In AleNau-
der lis great work OF the emancipation
Of the serfs and lays stress upon Abe spirit
Of seIf-sacrifice manifested by the RUS
sian nobility.
The car declares that he has set be-
fore himself the task Of completing the
work Of his grandfather and OF trans
forming the Russian peasants into not
merely free but economically strong
land owners. This the car states. can
be achieved by affording them facilities
to leave the peasant communes and b.
the improvement OF agricultural science.
He expresses his conviction that the in
stitutions to which the execution OF
peasant reforms are to be entrusted will
maintain civil order among the country
population Of Russia.
Wolves Devour wedding Party.
Run down on the snow field and de-
voured by hungry wolves was the fato
Of a wedding party. but two out OF 10
escaping TO tell the story. in Asiatic Rus
STA The severe weather has been the
cause Of many minor tragedies in which
the wolves have played a part. but per
haps none has ever been known so ter
rible as that now reported, since in this
/ instance no fewer than us persons ara
said TO have persisted wedding party
numbering $50 persons set out In thirty
! sIedges to drive twenty miles from the
village of obstipoff 10 Tashkend. The
ground was thickly covered with snow
and the progress was necessarily delayed.
At distance Of a few miles from Tash-
kend the party was frightened by a
black cloud approaching over the snow.
Its nearer approach showed it 20 be
hundreds OF wolves. yelping furiously and
evidently frantic with hunger, and within
a few seconds the hindmost sledges were
surrounded. Panic seized the party and
those in the van whipped up their
horses and made desperate attempts TO
escape, regardless Of their companions
The pursuit however, never slackened
and the sickening carnage went on until
only the foremost sledge-that containing
the bride and bridegroom-remained be-
yond the wolves reach. nightmare
,, race was kept up for a few hundred
yards and It seemed as though the danger
was being evaded when suddenly a fresh
, pack OF wolves appeared. The two men
accompanying the bridal couple demanded
, that the bride should be sacrificed but
the bridegroom Indignantly rejected the
cowardIy proposition The men seized
and overpowered the pair and threw them
? out TO meet a horrible fate. The two then
succeeded in rousing their horses TO a
last effort and though attacked in turn
beat off the wolves and eventually reached
Tsshkend. Both men were in a semi.
demented state from their experience,
second HoundsdItch Battle.
Six were killed in a battle between
policemen and two burglars at Tver
which recalls the circumstances of the
Houndsditch murders Policemen tried q
, arrest two suspects at Biezhitsk The
men opened fire, killed a policeman and a
police sergeant, wounded another police.
man and then took refuge in q BATH
house, whence they fired on the assem-
: bled Gordon Of police. The siege LASTED
the whole night and another sergeant wa,
wounded. In the morning the desperadoe
-, were found dead. They we're the au,nori
q Of an armed burglary at the house OF
. neighboring village priest. whose wifi
! they left for dead, and had afterward
= murdered a cab driver
. Woman Aged Hundred siEty-Five.
q Among the peasants are persons Of verl
Il great age. Nina Turataviloff. a peasan
= woman at Teley, in the Caucasus, q
, probably the oldest person in the world
q Recently she celebrated her 165th birth
p, day. Though she Is now quite incapabl
!, OF using her limbs, she e. sull In posses
p sion OF her mental faculties