The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-12-14
MURDER MORE JEWS
Mob at EIizabethgrad, Russia,
Including Soldiers, Sacks and
Burns Hebrew Quarter.
PEASANTS WITHHOLD TAXES

Rural Communities Follow Tolstoi's
Advice-No General Strike at Present.
Awful crueItes Against lsraeIites Re-
ported = Count witte Will Not Use
Coercion-Sacharoff Killed.
For several days news from Russia
reached the outside world only by
courier to the German frontier, thence
by telegraph, owing to great and gen
eral strike of all Russian telegraph and
postal employees. Communication W
fitfully resumed, with many Interrupt
lions.
Word was received of a Jewish mas
sacre in Elizabethgrad. The entire
Jewish quarter of the town is mass
of smoldering ruins, and hundreds OF
the residents of the section have been
cruelty slain.
The slaughter began on Sunday night,
when a mob, including many soldiers,
marched through the Jewish section,
burning houses and killing the inmates.
When there were no more houses OF
Jewish residents to burn the mob start
ed by burning the administrative build
ings and ended by burning private resi-
denees indiscriminately.
Not even the many reports of dlsor-
der throughout the country have arous-
ed as much apprehension in govern
ment circles as did the news that many
of the rural and village communities
have taken Tolstoi's advice and refuse
to pay taxes to the government coli
lectors.
The workmen's council has rejected
the proposition to order general strike
at present, the members believing that
the time was not ripe for a general ces-
sation of work.
Details of the massacre of many
Jewish families at Nosefka, Russia,
reached Isaac j. Robinson of Chicago,
and by them he was informed of the
murder of his elder sister Anne, and
all the members of her family and the
hardships undergone by another sister.
The letter tells of the cutting to pieces,
the burning and the binding of Jewish
victims of the Russian mob.
The news correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Telegraph at st. Peters
burg in an interview with Count White
was told by the premier that Russia IS
confronted with the alternative of
revolution or violent coercion. Though
the count has not abandoned hope, he
is not sanguine, and if forcible repres-
sion should become necessary he will
resign his task to other hands.
Reports from Warsaw say that what
is considered by many the real revo u
ton against the car has begun in that
ancient capital of Poland.
A company of the Rexholm regiment,
only recently returned from Manchu-
ria, broke from the barracks and head
ing procession of strikers joined in
singing revolutionary songs. In Mar
szalkowska street General Prebodnoff
in command of battalion of the Gro
chowslli regiment barred the way and
ordered his men to fire on the revolu-
tionary soldiers.
The men of Prebodnoff's command
declined to obey orders and permitted
the procession to pass. More than 100
of the Grochowski regiment, fully arm
ed, Joined the revolutionists. The COM
mander of the regiment fed.
The immediate danger confronting
the Russian government is a concerted
attack on the country's credit. The
public fear that the government can
be forced to suspend gold payments
increases daily
Lieutenant General Sacharoff, for
mer minister of war, has been assassi-
mated at Saratov. The government had
deputed General Sacharoff to visit the
province of Saratov for the purpose OF
quelling the agrarian riots there. A
woman belonging to the so called Ely
ing columns of the revolutionary move
ment called at the house of the govern
or of Saratov at noon and shot him.
One report from Odessa tells of fresh
massacre, which casts into the shade
all other uprisings in that city Muir
der and rapine had full sway, and the
vengeance of the mobs was visited Oh
the Jews, who were killed indiscrimi-
nately.
One report from Odessa said the con-
ditions were unchanged and made no
mention of the reported massacre of
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