The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-27
Observation-Disclosures

st. Petersburg, June 27.-There is a
complete embargo on news from LODI
but generally speaking the situation
in Russian Poland shows a little i'm
Frovement. Such advices as have ar
rived here from Warsaw indicate that
the strike is only partially successful,
and that the authorities are keeping the
situation pretty well in hand.
The ringleaders and agitators are be-
than thousand having been put behind
the bars up to this morning.
Women Slain by Cossacks.
Following the example of LODI work.
men, the Warsaw workmen built bar.
rlcades at five places and blood was
shed In defending them. Early last
night young Jew threw stone at
passing patrol on Krochmalna street,
WhereuPon. the Cossacks drove a crowd
OF people into court yard and fred
volley at them, killing or wounding
twenty persons, including five women
and a boy.
The strikers of the Boamanshavede
FACTORY, on being fired on by the son
OF the proprietor, retaliated by wreck
ing the establishment.
Great pains are being taken to an.
pease the reserve men who will oa
mobilization in Moscow and st. Peters,
burg. At Moscow, in order to create rs
Httle disturbance as possible, it is pro-
posed to take 1900 men Der day for
twenty days. The Grand Duchess Ei,z-
abeth is arranging to distribute pres-
ents to the men and a similar corrse
Will De pursued at Romny, government
Gorda Danger Spot.
Another danger spot is Gorda (Rus.
sian Trans Caucasia), the warlike in
hab1tants Of which are deeply incensed
over the affront offered to their clergy.
seventy Of whom, while attempting to
discuss the question of church and
state, were attacked by Cossacks, who
dispersed them with knouts. The priests.
IN their protest against this action
PRACTICALLY laid their country under an
1nterdlct like that passed in the middle
ages by refusing to solemnize baptisms.
marriages and other rites of the church
until redress is given by the whole or
thodox church, Of which the Georgian
sion Of the incident and the beating
OF the priests has caused wide indigna-
ton.
Trepof on Trial.
The situation offers crucial test of
the ability of General Trepoff, and the
new police minister is virtually on trial
before the emperor and Russia to JUS
| tlfy his selection for so responsible a
| post. The trouble is all the more sud-
| den and the more unexpected, coming
| on the heels Of the good impression
produced by the emperor's reception
| Of the zemstvoists and his promise to
| consider the grievances and to give the
country a national assembly as rapidly
| as possible.
A dispatch from Erivan reports a
| new and alarming feature Of the situa-
| tion in the Caucasus, in the desire of
the Persian Mohammedans to join their
| Moslem brethren across the border,
which would convert a racial strife into
| real "holy war; and kindle a fame
| which would devastate the southern
Caucasus and be extinguished only by
streams Of blood.
State of Siege.
Warsaw, Russian Poland, June 81
! All the prisons are full, no less than 672
persons, mostly Jews, having been ar
rested during the past twenty-four
| hours.
It is expected that state of siege
will be proclaimed, as great riots are
expected during the. mobilization.
The laborers on thirty-two beet-root
plantations in the government of Po-
| dolia have struck and it is feared the
harvest will be lost. The peasants in
the government Of Kovno are force
fully occupying pasture and other lands
of the proprietors Of the estates.
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