| Show JEWS BATTLE FOR LIFE IN CRIMEA st reters petersburg burg news of tho the autt anil semitic disorders in the crimea ar riving here shows show a that they were on a larger scale heale than the first reports indicated at Meli the people set upon the jevis jems and fought a regular battle with stories stones and revolvers the few police and thirty soldiers in the town Mere B ere power powerless legs when the jews ifield fled defeated the christians from noon until midnight held a carnival ot of pillage and plunder every shop ex capt two jewelry stores was sacked backed the crowd only de when ex hausted the he arrival ot of al ot of province the following da restored order the number of killed or wounded Is cot given either from Meli Mell or where rioting aga against irist the jews began as ai a result of the circulation cu of 0 a story that a jewish hucl bucl ster had thrown a sacred akon into a water closet at the village of in the th crimea the rioting took the form or oc an attack upon baptists the peas ants under the direction of the authorities directed an assault upon lipon the church no one Is reported to have been killed the were wera captured and held as prisoners in tho the church tor for ten hours after which they were kere released |
