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Show RUSSIA ALARMED7 I j Her Crops Fail and She Calls j For Help. The Government Issues a Decree Totally 1 Prohibiting- theExiiort of Grain From Russia. London, August 10. Both the Times aiid Dnllij Xe,r have been collecting exhaustive reports from Russia and In-j dia about the failure of the wheat crops. The results are more startling .than was supposed. In view of the -failure of the crops throughout Great Britain, the Iiaihj Xeu-x admits that, unless abundant grain is forthcoming from America, Europe will be on the Verae of starvation before the next harvest. har-vest. The Russian government has al-reioiv al-reioiv taken the extreme step of prohibiting pro-hibiting all export of corn from Russia for tiie remainder of the year. Last year Russia sent nearly 4,0o0.0()0 quar ters ot wheat to England, nearly one-third one-third of the entile amount imported. New York, August lO.Ui-adstreet's publishes a review in which it places the probable shortage in the European wheat crop at -81 ,000,000 bushels; only 177,000,000 can be supplied by the United States and India, and commenting com-menting on it savs: '-The report is" an extremely bullish one when Mr. Bear's well-know care and conservatism are taken into account. ac-count. It will lie observed how guard-; guard-; on- reference is made to the probable t-in-ct of the short crop of rye in central and eastern Europe, and what tiie probable effect will lie if full allowance be made for it, Allowing 100,000.000 bushels of wheat for export from the I'niied States to Europe, and ;;.'!,0;!0.-(XX) ;;.'!,0;!0.-(XX) bushels liom India. M ere would rein. re-in. -tin fully .V?.0( 10,1 100 bushels to be sup-pi'ed sup-pi'ed bv Auvralia, Argentine. Clrli, Asia Minor, Canada and such other countries as may be found to have wheat to spare." St. Pktkksduuo, August 10. The gra .a situation caused by the failure of the crops in Russia is causing the greatest apprehension in all circles. The (imxhihtu'tu declares that the local administration will be unable to make provision for the inhabitants in the distressed provinces if speculators are allowed to export corn or if the pi ice of corn is hut checked. The paper dell) de-ll) aids that the government immediately immedi-ately place a heavy duty on the export of rye. i .The Financial fcafenfin- declares it 'will; be almost iniposhii'ile for Russia to export corn this year. it is oilicially announced that the government has not yet contemplated is.-uing a decree totally prohibiting the export of fraui trom Russia, but the partial failure of the crop demands that provision be made for the people living in the distressed provinces, and consequently the ex port of grain from those provioces" will be restricted by the authorities. Lnvonv Aii.mst. 10. Tlie St. . James (.nzette this morning prints the following: follow-ing: "Judging frrm the returns issued by the board o ciiuie, it took as though we had already reached the end of good times. The great decline in the exports ex-ports from Great Britian is undoubtedly undoubted-ly due to the operation of the McKin-ley McKin-ley law in the United States. We have been told that the act, would eventually prove a misfortune to the United States, but its immediate object was to hit the foreign manufactures, especially those of Great Britain, and it is plainly evident evi-dent that this object has been attained at-tained " the subvention by hich tae line v. , j benefitted, but President Diaz will v recede from the plan of econor.iv up ; w hich lie has entered, and consi-ie: i that the era of subsidies to railway and steamship companies is past ii, Mexico. That lMnt of Whiskey. Atlanta, Mo., August 10. Last evening ev-ening Frank Coffey and several other, quarrelled over a pint of whisky. A light took place in which Homer, sot of Hon. J. L. McCulloiigh, was shot i; the wrist. Frank Coffey was killed .uai Robert Stanley cut so bad that he v. i 1 die. A Crazy Chinaman Loose. Salt Lake, August 11. A crazy Chinamen created a panic in Third South street, near Franklin aw nne this morning. He escaped froii tlie laundry where his friends were car ing for him and went along the sin e howling like a demon. Then he com menced smashing the windows of ila houses along the street. He was finally overpowered bv thtf police and taken to jail. |