Show DESPAIR OF THE RUSSIAN JEWS minn dec 25 do not ask any questions do not wait to write but it aw want to see us alive aenid bleamer tickets Is the despair ing cry which the russian jews of this city are dally bearing from rela altes residing in the empire of the czar horrible descriptions of slaughter and rapine are contained in many the letters A letter from kotorac Ko russia gives a lurid description ot the massacres which occurred there andi in following the issuance or the azars czars recent manifesto according to the account crowds of brigande brigands bri gands followed the parade which was held in celebration of the issuance of tho manifesto gathered in a mob and placed at head a picture of tho czar and a cross emblem of state and church made their way to the jewish quarter where they began their work of murder and robbery driving a number of jewish children into the street they poured kerosene on them and set alre to them the mothers were obliged to stand by and helplessly listen to the agonized screams of their little ones as they perished in tho flames after making way with the children the murderers turned their attention to the parents and slaughtered them without mercy three hundred Jew s perished at that time in koloras while in uman 1000 were hilled the most horrible cruelties cruel ties were practiced by choie who in the massa crea not only did tha police refuse to protect or aid the jews in any during the massacres but many ot them even assisted the assassins in their bloody work the and members of educated classes however came to the assistance of the jews and many of them valiantly in defense |