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Show ' SUPERSTITIOUS RUSSIA. JTbe Cruel Murder of a Woman Supposed t - Be the "Cholera Devil." Another form which the devil as enmes in Russia pretty often of late if that of the cholera, who, of course, is female. In the district of Barnaul the other day the peasants were determined to make short work it the "cunning one" in that odious role of his. They clubbed together and lay in wait On day they descried the spirit of evil on way to kill people with tho terrible epidemic. He was riding in a tarantass v-a sort of springlejs cart covered with anvas disguised in the form of a fe male. The watchman refused to allow the tarantass to enter the village of Pras-lonkha. Pras-lonkha. The woman inside protested, trut had to turn back. The peasants a sembled, gave chase to the tarantass, iurrounded it and called out to the "cholera devil" to disappear. The poor woman said she was human like themselves them-selves and could not vanish miraculously, miraculous-ly, but they shouted, prayed and closed around. A few shots were heard, fol lowed by a piteous moan and then a deafening shout of triumph: "Pray to God, brothers, and thank him. We have killed the cholera. " The woman's name was Kondratieff. Her corpse waa not allowed into the village. Lcndoit Telegraph. |