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Show RIOT OF RUSSIAN PEASANTS. Government Officials Receive Many Threatening Letters. t. Petersburg, April 26. The peas-ar.ts peas-ar.ts in the Poltava and Kharkoff prov-i:ior-s. where IS.OdO are reported to be l Ji ipating in riots . have already ' eighty estates, where they de- Mv..yed everythins they could not airy off. . The whole region is terrorized, ana ' nil-uwners and stewards are fleeing !: s -ifetv. The fear is increasing that 'I'.arkoff and other towns will be attacked, at-tacked, iiouie of the authorities are showing weakness and pusillanimity, while others are cruelly vigorous, and are causing wholesale floggings of persons per-sons arrested. The agitation at Moscow is so serious that the czar has relinquished Jiis intention in-tention of spending the Russian Easter there. The ministers, including M. De Witte, the minister of finance, continue to receive letters threatening them with death. |