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Show THE NIPPING FROSTS CAUSE A RENEWAL OF THE DISTRESS IN FAMINE-STRICKEN RUSSIA. Incidents Showing the Terrible Distress of the People Usurers Beside Whom Jens are Angels Other Xews From Foreign Lands. , V.---' London, Oct. 24. A St. Petersburg correspondent corre-spondent of the SUaulaixl says the approach of frost has caused a renewal of distress. The Xocosti estimates that 20,000,000 of people are without food. Statistics prove conclusively that in many places speculators get extravagant prices. The corn merchants of the village of Kodaks aud the usurers are charged with the responsibility for the extortion. A Samara paper declares that the Jews are angels compared with the Koolaks, who are in the habit of reducing . tlio.-e in their power to thu lowest stage of poverty. Incidents showing the terrible distress of the people continue to be recorded. A poor woman of Ratehino, on returning home from a neighboring village, whither she had j gone to try to purchase food, found all her ehildred. dead. A post mortem examination! beinl; made,' their stomachs w ere found tilie d j with r3sand earth, Many villages are com- j pletely deserted in the district of Porin. One-half of the population of Reason died of hunger or disease. An odious trallie is carried car-ried on in women's hair, the best heads realising real-ising a crown a-pieee. |