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Starving To Death

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
June
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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Southampton, June 13.- Over 300 íftmtlies 'have arrived here by steamera from Buenos Ayres, having1 been ioreed to leave in consequence of the stoppage of work thare and the lack ot -"oney. Nearly all are entirely destitute, and the Southampton authorities weta obllged to provide them with food and other necessaries. There are many Irish families among them, who were in special need oí relief. Some of them report a distressing state of affairs in the Argentine repnblic owing to the reeent financial disturbances. The foreign population, large numbers of whom emigrated there on glowing promlsesof highlypaid labor, are said "to be in some cases actually dying of starvation, as they are practically shut out from all work and can earn no money either to sustain themselves or to enable them to leave the country.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register