The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-10
UNREST IN RUSSIA
GROWS DANGEROUS
Internal Dissension in European
Realms Of the Gas Is
Increasing.
LlTTLE NEW FROM FRONT
Mystery Still Surrounds the Operations
of the Big Armies, Both Above
the Yalu and on the Lao
Tung Peninsula.

consul at Gensan reports a Russian
advance on koyuen, twenty-five miles
north of Gensan. Their commissarat
has arrived at Puk Jeng.
For some months there has been a
diplomatic correspondence between
China and Korea over the boundary in
Kan island, at the mouth of the Tu
men river 1t has finally been decided
to request the Chinese government to
arbitrate the matter.
Che Foo June 4.-The japanese have
landed another lot of troops about
twenty miles southwest of Takushan.
A Chinese junk arriving from there
says that seventy transports have dis
charged troops there. one thousand
soldiers have been garrisoned ashore.
ReinfOrcementS for the Japanese army
which is attacking Port Arthur have
been landed northeast of Talien Wan.
Their number is unknown.
London, June 4.-The Daily Mails
Newchwang COZ respondent, cabling I'M
der date of June 2, says:
General Stalkenhurg. with 10000
Russians, made UP OF artillery, cavalry
and infantry, has marched south of
Lao Yang in the direction of Wafang-
ten.
Large forces of Chinese bandits are
collecting in the hills northeast of the
Lao river, and are preparing to cut
the railroad north of Mukden."
Washington, June 3.-The press COM
mittce Of the Friends of Russian Free
dom" an organization of which William
Dudley Foukc IS president, has secured
inside facts as to present conditions In
Russia and is sending them out IN printed
slips to the American press. Among these
stories, vouched for by the committee, are
the following:
Since the breaking out of the war COLI
SlOnS frtQllpNf
sian prisons between the political prison
ers ana the prison authorities. A CORE
spondcnt of La Tribune Russo, writing
from kovno. says that, in order to exas-
peratc the male prisoners, the women are
made the objects of special persecution
Miss Vera Speransky a political prison.
er, had been Systematically annoyed by
one Of the under inspectors She was
taken i'll and sent for the prison ma tron
The under inspector came instead. Mss
Speransky complain cd to the head jailor
of his intrusion. The next morning the
same under inspector came into her cell
unexpectedly while she was dressing, and
she threw water over HIM. For this she
was imprisoned five days and nights in a
dark cellar, when the thermometer was %
degrees below zero. The political prison
ers protested by a hunger strike" re-
fusiilg all food. One of them, Garnitsky,
was found on the third day unconscious
found out what was going on among the
'politicals,' and joined in demanding that
Miss Spcransky be restored to her cell.
AS they got no answer, they raised
riot broke the windows and their chairs.
and filled the prison with shouts of
Down with injustice!" The soldiers were
sent for, the rioters were put in the prison
cellar, and Miss Spcransky was taken
from 1t and placed in the infirmarE. She
is seriously i'll. Garni sky was punished
for having protested most encrgetical-
ly."
Compulsory Patriotism.
Under color of an appeal from free will
offerings to help carry on the war, the
government Is reported to be lcvying a
regular war tax. The Jews subjected
to especial squeezing, but all classes are
| put under forced contribution. Every
merchant is notified of the amount he
| must give, and is required also to keep
| back a part of the salary of each of his
| clerks and forward it as a contribution.
Even day laborcrS have a portion of thir
wages withheld.
At Odessa, the other day, in one of the
| workshops of the Southern railroad, d
| workman begged the company to lessen
| the amount of the "freewill Offering
| thus locked from his wages. The COM
| pany applied to st. Petersburg to know
what to do The answer was, "Discharge
contribute the prescribed amount"
| Meanwhile the general suspicion as to
what becomes of the money is indicated
| by the Reuter- telegram that the rich
classes at Moscow have consented to sub
scribe to the Red Cross only on condi-
| ton of receiving satisfactory guarantees
! that the money will be under the strict
supervision of M. Gouchiov, member Of
! the Moscow mercantile community Free
| Russia says: "Gouch!lov is a young mil
| lionare, energetic and trustworthy, who
| organized the fund raised in Moscow to
| aid the Boers.'
Repression Is Un!7ygicnic.
| At the recent medical congress held in
| St. Petersburg, the section on hygiene
| passed singularly bold resolutions decar-
| ing It to be impossible to spread hygien.c
| knowledge among the people under the
| present regime; calling for the suppress
| sion of the censorship. which now, The
doctors assert, prevents them from teach
! ing the people either by speech or writ
| ing: demanding that any one shall be free
to organize committees of public inStruc-
ton, and urging that the present aIbi-
| trary power OF government officials to
suppress anybody and anything be limi-
| ted to the right to prosecute those who
| break the laws.
| in Joint session, passed resolutions de-
| claring that ito combat effectively the
alcoholism so prevalent In Russia, there
must be individual liberty, freedom of the
| press and of public meetings, in order %
| make known the dangers of drunkenness
| and its real causes: also that the com
pulsory concentration of the Jews within
| the prescribed narrow limits is unhygicnic,
| and that they ought to be allowed 10 cir
culate freely.
| When the secretaries of these sections
read the report of the adoption of the
l
| in terror, ordered the band to drown their
voices by playing the national hymn. The
| audience retorted by singing tire Mar
! seillaiSe."
| At the University Of Moscow n r,ccttns,
| of $50 students lately passed resolutions
| protesting against the war, and agaias;
| the arbitrary acts OF the Russian govern
| ment at home. There were Cn,y lh1u;
| forty dissentients.
| Professor Iasnopols:y of the Techn,2-
logical institute at Kharkof has been dis
| missed from his professorship ard ar
| rested as criminal for having !cctured to
| his students on the aggressive character
of Russa's policy in the far east The
| professor is much beloved hv his stu
dents, 400 of whom held a meeting and
| passed unanimous resolution of protest;
| The archaeological institute has been
| closed and fifteen students arrested.
| Anglo Russian oproac1nert
st. Petersburg, June 4.-ComneEt
here on the settlement of the russo
| Canadian fishery dispute is Very sig
nificant., The agreement is welcomed
| by the Russian press rs evidence OF the
increasing probability of an Anglo Rus
| sian alliance, the papers pointing out
| that public opinion in Great Rrita;il
France and Russia is becoming more
| favorable. the war, instead of proving
i Ill