The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-17
OUR FOREIGN LETTER

| 1 St. Petersburg, Oct. 17.-Russia is threatened with a repetition of the digast trous % famine of last year
 failed ill eleven cantons. In the 1 Courland rains have destroyed all the rye and great part of the wheat: In Livonia the crops are bad In Polta- va, and Tcthernigov the corn is threat l ened; in Eksterin oslav the deficit will amount to 50 Der cent; and there is a similar outlook for Cherson and Tau rdda. In the Western Caucasus the l drought has ruined all the cereals; in frosts have considerably affected the 1 harvest. Tn Crenberg and the Ural the situation is. exceedingly grave. | Berlin, Oct. 17-Frustrated in an attempt to commit suicide with a knife, a workman named Heinrich
 bite himself to death. He had bitten open an artery of his hand and gnajw 1 ed huge chunks of flesh from his arm exhausted in his blood-drenct1ed cell.
 Moscow, Oct. IA wholesale dis
 taken place under direct orders from the Czar, on account Of an incident during his inspection of the Second
 While his majesty was passing
 along the lines. a soldier suddenly threw down his rifle. stepped out of | 1 officers hurled themselves upon him. Later it was learned that he merely l wanted to appeal for his discharge l from the army on the ground that he | had been, forced to enlist in place or his brother. who had been drafted
 The Czar's fright quickly gave way 1 to rage, and he ordered the comman- | der of the army corps to caution, the l comma nder of the division a reproof. the commander of the regiment Ia pub lie reprimand, the commander Of the
 battalion to which the soldier belor- ged an order to resign, the captain Of the mans company and the non Inent to be summari1y dismissed.
 The soldier himself was sentenced 10 ! thirty days Imprisonment, With the promise, however, that his grievance 1 would be investigated.
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 Lisbon. oct. Five persons were
 killed and twenty injured in a fracas l at the wedding festivities of Don Pe- l rec, a wealthy cattle breeder alt Mel gaco Following Portugese custom. | the bridegroom gave an al fresco din- | ner and ball in his gardens, in which
 200 guests partfcfPated, ancludang @ poen | Liberal potations of champagne dls- eussions on politics began. Blows TO-
 tona.tis pistols revolyers, and sr1lIecS toe The military had to be called in 1 to quell the fight. The lawn where drenched with blood
 St Petersburg. Oct. 1.-The con
 struction of eighteen new prisons .5 IS creasing, number of political offenders, says the Chief Prisons AdInir1istTa- | tion in presenting it's budget for the | ensuing year The Minister of Jus 1 tice win ask the Fourth Duma, which is to meet November 26, for an 'appro-
 pr1atdon of s5,0ooooo Tor tnls ,-;orp purpose ef l Russia contain approximately l9O, ,o0O condemned persons, of whom l2u,Ooo 1 were sentenced for political offenses, an increase of 50 OO0 in the past five
 years.
 Socia lisua in the army is engaging the l attention of the Italian Cabinet The l Minister of the Interior sent a circular
 to the commander of each regiment with. instructions to watch every sol dier who receives any money from a
 labor. union also to report those seen in ti4 company with Socialists and to notice the character of Journals read
 That the ancient Romans had the
 elevator habit at least to a, limited
 degree is revealed by recent excaVa-
 tit,ns in Palatine. Among the dncoV-
 cred. ruins of, Nero's city twelve rudely
 constructed elevators have been found T and antiuuarians say that their con-
 str11ction dates back to earliest times One of them is now being cleaned and
 put in working order for exhibition
 at the Archaeological Congress which
 is to meet here in few months. Portsmouth. England. Oct. 17.-Fol- , l lowing recent experiments, the Admir- atty has determined on a big increase
 in the mum Der of hydroplanes ait the | flying station at Westchurch. It has been shown that from a height of one thousand feet a bomb can be dropped l down a warsf1ip funnel with the ut , l most accuracy To guard against this l the new British warships are to be l arrrnor clad on the decks as we'll af the sides and the tops of the tunnels AHARTFoRD IN 1912."i