Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 309, 26 October 1891 — ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

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A prominent Baptist minister in Russia has 4 been sentanced to four years in Siberia, beeause he disregarded a warning to abstafn from preaehing. This is the second time he has been sent to Siberia. According to an ofiicial estimate made in the United States, the world's supply of breadstuffs this season is. in consequence of failure ōf the Jlussian harvest, deficient by

200/.KM),(K)() bushels. In thirteen provinces of Russia, the harvest has been a total failure. The distresp throughout the empire is terrible. Brigundi*ge, murder, and other >hocking outrages are cominittrcl, parents even eating their own children.