Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — Siberian Convicts. [ARTICLE]

Siberian Convicts.

London Pally News. From a report which appears in the Moscow Listock it appears that last year 11,530 convicts passed through the forwarding prison at Tinmen for the various penal settlements of Siberia. Of this total number of both sexes there were 7,526 men, 1,715 women and 2,339 juveniles. Of the last, named the majority are children who voluntarily followed their parents into exile. The report gives the religious confessions of these deportees as follows: 8,831 Orthodox Russians, 1,224 Mahometans, 511) Hebrews, 506 Roman Catholics, 274 Lutherans, 119 Old Believers (orthodox), 35 Gregorians, 30 Skoptsi and 51 Buddhists. The convicts are now sent by river barges from Tiumcn to Tomsk, and therefore escape the terrible hardships of the old highway route. During last year, also, there were embarked at Odessa about 1,700 convicts of the worst class and of both sexes for the penal island of Sakhalien.