Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-11-17
NO NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Jewish Clergy in Russia Mourns
for Massacre Victims.
POLAND TURNED DOWN
Car Refuses to Grant Autonomy an6
a Parliament, Which Highly In
censes People.

ODESSA, Nov. 13.-The death list of
Jewish victims of the recent outbreaks
here has been increased by ia, who
succumbed to injuries.
As token of deep mourning, the jew
ism clergy have decided not to celebrate
any marriages for month.
Chief Rabbi Kreps, who has been
very unpopular, has resigned.
Poland's Appeal Is Denied.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 13.-The
Car issued a ukase this morning not
only denying Polands plea for autonO-
my and a Parliament, but refusing to
permit Poland to share in the constitu-
tional government recently granted to all
the rest of Russia.
The Car declares that Poland is in a
state OF instruction, and that, until or
der IS restored, and the people prove
their loyalty, it cannot join in the
dOuma.
Polish People in Anger.
A proclamation of martial law at
Warsaw has angered the Poles, who
regard 1t as Il brutal answer to their
appeals for self-goyernment.
Rumor that anti-Semite riots are be.
ing organized caused a panic among
those likely to be affected. Numbers of
houses are barricaded and the Jews are
arming,
With each days developments it be
comes more apparent that Russian re-
formers have learned little Of the lessons
OF history and that Russia is destined,
like other countries before her, to travel
a thorny path to freedom. She seems
determined to pay the heaviest price for
her political education. This, perhaps,
is not strange, considering that all the
lntelIlgent classes are engaged in a re-
volt against the old order of things,
Jews Flee from the Capital.
The Jews are fleeing from St Peters
burg IN wild panic. Every train which
has left the capital for the Finnish from
tier has been packed with women and
children sent away by husbands and
fathers who remain to take their chances
with the mObs which are expected to in
augurate scenes of massacre and pillage
similar to those witnessed in Odessa
last week
The railway station platforms are
piled high with the personal belongings
or the tugltives who are trying to take
their household property and wearing APP
parel with them. Many, however, are
abandoning everything ia their frantic
desire to get away from st, Petersburg.
No More Jew Massacres?
In some quarters the story is that it is
certain that outrages of which Jews
have been the victims will not and can
not recur and foreigners will continue
perfectly safe. The holy synod and the
ministry of the interior have taken de-
cisive steps by which the governors have
been impressed that they will be dis
missed if any outrages or massacres oc-
cur in their provinces, while the clergy
have been instructed to inculcate alb
stention from all violence towards either
Jews or Gentiles.
Bourse Feels the Effect.
The formal proclamation of martial
law throughout Russian Poland and the
PRONUNCIATION of the governments inten-
ton to suppress the Polish movement to
secure autonomy almost created a panic
on the bourse today, imperial As again
falling to Sc. Industrials seem to have
no bottom. The city is full of rumors to
the effect that the imperial ukase was
issued over Count Whites head