Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1891 — CRYING FOR FOOD. [ARTICLE]

CRYING FOR FOOD.

A Sad State of Things in the Vol ga Frov ince of Russia. The distress in the Volga province of Russia is intense. In Penza women and children wander about almost utterly exhausted shrieking for food in the market placet. The Governor of Saratov remarks that children are the worst factor in such a crisis as this. All existing charities and Red Cross societies are doing their best. Russian corn merchants on the frontier are despondent over the idea that the German trade will find fresh channels and never return to Russia. President F. W. Kennedy and Cashier H. H. Kennedy, wreckers of the Spring Garden National Bank, Philadelphia, were each sentenced on the 15th to the penitentiary sot ten years.