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Show RUSSIAN PRESS MUZZLED. Prisons Yawn for Offending Editors In Czar's Domain. St. Petersburg. Tho first net of tho government after tho result of tho St. Petersburg elections became known wns to tighten the screws on the press. Some of tho worst featurqs of the old censorship havo been restored. Tho papers must again submit copies ot their editions beforo they are distributed, distrib-uted, nnd tho expedient of chnnglng a paper's nnmo when suspended has been forbidden. Likewise the device so practiced by Socialistic organs, ns Vorwncrts In Gerninny, In Hiring a series of "prison editors." Tho council of tho empire hns hurriedly hur-riedly adopted n law by 11 to 2 votes, punishing with a year's Imprisonment tho publication of fnlso roports which affect tho credit of tho country nt i lnrge. |