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Show A CItY FROM RUSSIA. A VOICE FROM THE PEOPLE CRYINC ALOUD FOR RELIEF. The Government Cnnble to Cope With the Calamity, but Will Allow no One to Assist Other News from Foreign For-eign Lands. Loxdox, Jan. 30. The Xfoily Graphic today to-day publishes a manifesto wnjch It says has been issued by the Russian getastove (local administrative bodies) which afV composed of country gentlemen and land .'ners. on the famine in Russia and the inadVruaey of the government nita-uves nl'-ld relief. The manifesto declares thalu' MLm' efforts to 'lighten the sufferings oAie flJMMhl j people are only toleratecBse J J M I ceftebffc H.i. " - Jr ,i i H continues: "The government is araierr J with the weapons of a state of siege, rilling I Siberia and the jails with suspected persons I and fearing revolutionary propaganda. This I government, which robbed us of all reforms I inaugurated by Alexander II and which deprived de-prived society from taking any part in pub-; pub-; lie life, has brought to Russia to starvation. Such a government cannot solve the present problem with own forces. The calamity is only iu its its initial stage. Spring will disclose dis-close its actual proportions. How will it end. if the government does not change its altitude. Society is in a state of bankruptcy, political enfeehlement and dlsmembertaent- Hussia, in a popular rising, would be deluged with her people's blood. No one can foresee fore-see the end." Tile Hmiuari.m Klcctlous. UudTesth. .Ian. 30. Tho returns of the elections tor members of the Hungarian diet iwe -;'ll .i-:t)g reecivril. This morning tb& I returns show the opposition gaining a number num-ber of seat-. This is due to the support given the candidates of the opposition by the lower clergy, who in so doing acted in defiance of the bishops. It Is expected tho aetiou of the priests will lead to an agitation agita-tion for the establishment of a kulturkumpff j by tho new diet. Itivennen Strike. Loxnox, Jan. 30. The port of the city of Perth, Scotland, is inundated, and in many portions of tlie couutry the railways are flooded. Six thousand engineers employed in the works on the rivers Wear, Tyne and Tee luivc struck in consequence of a dispute regarding re-garding tho payment for over time. An Imperial Funeral. St. Petersburg, .Ian. SO.-Tlic final interment in-terment of tin- remains of the Grand Duke Constantino, uncle of the ez.ir, took place today. The services were marked with all tle pomp and circumstance which attends imperial funerals. The Egyptian rurlliiinent Opened. Cairo, Jan. 30. The khedive in person today opened the general assembly. He congratulated tie members on the good results re-sults hitherto obtained by their action, and said he would continue tlie work his father , had commenced. A Fatal Fleet ion Riot.'5' Brna Pestii, Inn. 30. An election r ,t occurred at Stein Amtingcr yesterday, in which three rioters were killed and a number num-ber of others wounded by the police. A Fatal Fxplosinn. EvAnsvii.LK, Out., Jan. 30. An explosion of dynamite at a mine in Tempfeton yestcr- day killed three men aud injured several " others. A Public Hull Collapse. London, Jan. 30. Two men were killed and -.even dangerously Injured by the collapse col-lapse of a public hall at llfrecombc. |