This morning all the Russian! papers contain a very long account yesterday's kidnapping of two Homey Catholif Mission in Hardin. Fad ho had gone ous on the rivet Bee a' beating excursion.
'Though the police have distinctly feared' the public nat leher who was in charge of fourteen wey from dhe city itself, fe tea
firs Toots, Convert, boston ff" rent rather too far up the river though he was aetaaliy within the Tmt of the' Custom House frontier There {a a°sort of camp for alor of nildten at Chinhe, thie suburb the Lown which if situated on the viver bank, and it was from this camp that the excursion was ade fatwa boats, one bout being charge. of a male: teacher andthe ther i charge. of- 8 papil of the Seventh' dass et the Polish "Gym.
'THe boats started out, about 4 pan and after making their way up the'siver fora distance, the child ren went. on shore. to Disy-'on the Sandx. "Shortly before "6 pam. the faster gave. every for them tetum and himeelf Tended one bout 'Sih seven gits and. pushed. oft From the share, while the second our got ready to start out also "At "this. ament, two. bandits jumped nut. of the. bushes onthe fang ulled. the. boat back shore, seizing hold of the box, redone of" the' ins axed only eleven, apparently Cating that she Came of' wealthy, parents, because She wan hotier dressed and. hada ota ring. on her finger. "Another one of the ile jumped out of the out and Wid herself in the. bushes nd_was able to sce the whole the proceedings.
"The bandits hailed a large sailing boat which was saling up the river end placing' the elder bay and' the fitle'gir!'n fe they quickly. ase ppeated in' the " darinesn," after fetch the girl "who had been higdon inthe bushes "collected the "other children "and' with one oar paddled own the river, being met_on the fray" by the teacher "who hed tee come anxious and returned t0 look forthe second boat The story has caused quite a sention im the oven and Bion iz'a. Polish one, the. Polish Consul, er Kwiatkoweky is Seine best to" save the children from bentlts. "Cater news state that the little gist has been returned by the Bandily with a fetter ton Roman Catholic Mission demanding considerable sum in ransom for bor, 'The exact sum ts not yet Intown, but the boy is an orphan fand without means of any kind the bandits are depending entirely: upon compelling' the mission to pay cee $20,000" Ransom Demanded Harbin, Avg. 22, Two Catholic nuns are at present egotating with' a gang of Lideapers for the release of an orpige irl of seventeen Together with school-teacher, the orphan was in charge of a picnic party of fourteen git students Bre Catholic Mission: when the best containing her and seven of the eis tras carted off by bandits 'All. the girls were eventually re: leased except Mise. Tanaef," the cephan fu charge, for whom a ran fom of $20,000" is bring' demanded, On receipt of the demand, the nuns bravely Voluntecred to act rrhetween, buts though they ave explained the tts cream tances fo the lender of the pan the captive has not been set feces has been suggested that aco cert should be trgansed to Eats to ofer'as 0 ramom.—Revter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.