Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-05-22 | Page 1 | Twenty Peasants Hanged in Russia

aft I 1 I 1 flati I 1 N H ff f THE government NO LONGER TRUSTS TO FLOGGING I 1 I 1 farmers who burned big estates for political purposes are put to death kh Kl ierson erson russia may 22 twenty peasants who took part in recent disorders in district were hanged here today under decree of a court martial they belonged to a peasant association as the avowed object of which was to lo drive out landed proprietors by the I 1 burning of their estates the resort to the death penalty for agrarian outrages is a new depart ure lire hogging flogging and short terms of im I 1 having baving been the amial punishment I even during the great disorders of 1906