Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1903 — MAP OF COUNTRY NEAR KISCHINEFF, RUSSIA, SCENE OF MASSACRE OF JEWS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAP OF COUNTRY NEAR KISCHINEFF, RUSSIA, SCENE OF MASSACRE OF JEWS.

rs ■£ • • pi < ■ ‘i ' > iii .? i i. 1 H J M-> 1 fifi'j Kiacdiineff, the : tlie awful Fjnassacre of the. Jews,.ia Abe; capital.of proviupe of | Ren«iifbi»ti on the Baier Bulk, an attlueiit* of'the Dniester, . to tbe mopt sputh(*j.-u pprt pf Europeaqi Russia. It is 1 102 mlleh tidWhwest' of ■ Odessa by rail, and,is picturesquely satiated on tfirtii fif!ls,'brtVlaePn which ' the rlvei* winds atound; Crossed liy sdjoral bridges.. It is connected by .raU with Odessa and Jassy, and it is the s&jt of the dvil and etvleslastleal aatoorltjes rif Besfßrabhi. twenty cHutdheA ln the tqWri, a wyaagwriit. r J&ilk|sh baths, a a"titinibei‘ bf schools, a seminary, anil several thea|prs. Tlie pbpqjiition bjf .^ischin^ff’ is r about, Itp.OOU, II l Uas..large for caittle and corn, and the Inhabitants are much engaged in the activation of. fruit and tobacco, while o the tow n hns n considerable trade in fallow, > wool, wheat, hides and other valuable products.