People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — REFUGEES IN JAIL. [ARTICLE]

REFUGEES IN JAIL.

The Ten Men Who Escaped from Siberia Placed Under Arrest. Washington, Nov. 15.—The Russian minister at Washington has.intervened in the matter of the ten escaped Russian convicts who were recently picked up in the Pacific ocean and landed at San Francisco. The minister asked that the men be arrested, presumably for the purpose of ascertaining whether they are criminal offenders escaped from Siberia. The treasury department promptly acted on the request and ordered the arrest of the men, and it has received word that this has been accomplished and that the men are in jail