Show CANNOT AGREE UPON Russian Commissioners 0 Hav Hay Having Having Haying ing Serious Time Over Ex Expropriation Expropriation Expropriation of Lands DISORDER IN PROVINCES PEASANTS ON V A TION St Petersburg July S The first para paragraph paragraph paragraph graph of tho proposed agrarian law viz augmentation the of the tho lands of the peasants by the appropriation of all state and crown domains and church and mon monastery monastery monastery astery lands has been accepted by the commission of the low house with practically practically unanimity The commissioners have now locked horns over the mode of expropriation and the method of dispo disposal disposal disposal sal of private estates and the end is not yet In sight The determination to expropriate church lands which In distinction to the great estates owned by the monasteries lie scattered like the lands of the common schools in American in small smaIl tracts throughout the country and support the local clergy will cause complications Such action would deprive the parish priests of the principal part of their scan scanty scanty scanty ty emoluments and necessitate n an equiv equivalent equivalent alent from some other source Rains Came Too Late LateA A correspondent of the Associated Press has just completed a tour of the provinces provinces provinces inces of Samara and He reports that the drouth is finally broken but the rains have come too late to save the crop and help the peasants who are in a piti pitiable pitiable pitiable able condition Their cattle have either I been sold or are starving in the fields The government relief granaries were completely emptied during last years famine The present agrarian disorders which can be expected to grow worse are due largely to the necessity of the peas peasants peasants peasants ants seizing food and nd forage to preserve their lives and save from starvation the remainder of their cattle These disorders disorders disorders ders have reached the highest pitch in the province of where the troops and Cossacks Coss although In considerable force are practically helpless and on the defensive Many peasants have been killed or wounded in desperate attacks on military patrols and the rural guards Peasants Attack Police According to a telegram received here from peasants pea on the estate of the Princess attacked a com commissary commissary and a posse of rural police The commissary and four policemen were se seriously seriously seriously wounded In another section of the province of a body of peas peasants peasants peasants ants armed with pitchforks and spades resisted a squadron of dragoons Because of these the troops fired kill killing killing ing three thre peasants and wounding many others At southeast of Titus Tiflis a hand fight has occurred between Cos Cog Cossacks Cossacks sacks and an armed guard of peasants with the result that seven seen men were killed on both sides There has been a fatal encounter at Krasnopolsk in the province of between rich peasants and poor peas peasants peasants peasants ants The POOl men were incensed be because because because cause the rich men had sent a telegram to the lower house protesting against the proposed distribution of land In the fighting of the wealthy peasants killed four and seriously wounded several of the poorer men Minister Not Exempt There have been grave disorders on the estate of Minister of Agriculture Stitch insky in Tula province The representative of the Associated Press at Rosto reports that the crop conditions in the Kuban and Don districts are above the average Agrarian disorders among the Cossack agricultural agric population are not expected although there has been some ferment among the military levies having to do police duty 3 |