People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — NEW TREATY WITH RUSSIA. [ARTICLE]

NEW TREATY WITH RUSSIA.

Defines Various Offenses for Which Either Government Shall Grant Extradition Papers. Washington, June 7.— The extradition treaty between the United States and Russia only needs the formal proclamation of President Cleveland to become operative, its ratification having been consummated by the exchange of formal notes between the two governments. Under the provisions of the instrument the extraditable offenses shall consist of murder, manslaughter, rape, abortion, arson, burglary, robbery, forgery, the making or circulating of counterfeit money or national obligations, embezzlement, piracy, mutiny, destruction or obstruction of railways in a manner to endanger human life. It is expressly stipulated, however, that “an attempt against the life of the head of either government, or against that of any member of his family, when such attempt comprises the act either of murder, of assassination or of poisoning, or of the accessory ship thereto, shall not be considered a political of■fense or an act connected with such an offeqse.”