RELIGIOUS FANATICISM.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN SACRIFICED.
TERRIBLE DISCLOSURES MADE
(Per Press Association. —Copyright.)
St. Petersburg, June 10
A terrible discovery of religions fanaticism has been made among the Beguni section in the village of Terufka in Caucasia.
According to the particulars a band of 25 persons, inclnding five women and four children, voluntarily submitted to being burned alive. Some of them were entombed in the wall of a cellar, and the rest were interred in a garden. Kovaliff, the chief agent of the section, buried his mother, his wife, and two children. He has been arrested on a charge of causing their deaths. It is evident from the manner in which the bodies were buried that the victims offered no resistance.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 345, 11 June 1897, Page 3
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121RELIGIOUS FANATICISM. Hastings Standard, Issue 345, 11 June 1897, Page 3
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