People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1897 — FEEL FAMINE AT DELHI. [ARTICLE]

FEEL FAMINE AT DELHI.

All Classes of Feople In that. Part of India Reduced to Dire Want. Delhi, March 3.—This, the headquarters of the gold and silver wire-work-ers, jewelers and embroiderers, is feeling the pinch of famine greatly. There are no Hindoo marriages and no demand for wedding garments. Numerous respectable classes, too proud to go to work, are enduring the direst poverty. Sirsa is the worst afflicted district of the southern Punjab. The mortality among the cattle is enormous. Forty thousand, or 23 per cent, of the total have died. The starving Mohammedans are killing the cattle, and this causes friction for the Hindoos. Rates of mortgages on lands have risen immensely, and the land is going into the hands of the usurers.