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Show COLD AND HUXGEfi AND DISEASE CARRYING OFF RUSSIAN PEASANTS BY THOUSANDS. The Roller Supplies Cannot be Distributed liecause All Horses Hnt Been Killed for Food - Other News from Foreign Lands. Lamm, Feb. 18. A dispatch from Penxa, capital of the government of that namo, says the thermometer registers 5S' below, and that there is terrible suffering anions the peasants. A number ef men were frozen to death on the high roads. (Quantities of grain for the famine suffor. era have, arrived at Penza, but it is imposa! ble to distribute it because nearly all the horses have been killed for food ox sold to procure money with w hich to buy the necessaries nec-essaries of life. It is estimated thai nearly million of draught animals have been killed throughout the empire since autumn. Typhus fever, smallpox and diphtheria is decimating the inhabitants. Around Penza 200 peasants have died from those diseases. The dispatch adds that in the governments of Samaria, Sarattor, and N'lji Novgorod, the condition U far worse than in Penza. In those, three governments thousands of peaB. srrts have fallen victims to hunger nud di ease. lu the governments of l harkov and Kazan the typhus is especially terrible ;in its raT-ages. raT-ages. The inhabitants are dying off by the hundred. |