Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-01
aEBEtLINe SAILORS AT ODESSA
BLOCKADE PORT, BUT BLACK
SEA FLEET HAS NOT
ARRIVED.
LIBAU MUTINEERs
SURROUNDED IN WOOD
soIdIers Control the Situation There
But Only After An All Days strua.
sle--No News From Black Sea Fleet
Which Was Ordered to odessa-st.
Petersburg Is Alarmed.

ST. Petersburg, June 3o.-The
newspapers are not allowed to
print word OF the dispatches re-
garding the revolt Of the sailors
but several OF them In round
about fashion have succeeded In
limiting at the startling develop
nents.
Considerable nervousness pre-
walls among the upper classes at
st. Petersburg and many are has
tlly preparing to go abroad. Am.
bassador Meyers family leaves ST.
Petersburg tomorrow for the Unit
ed States. The trip was arranged
long. ago and is not connected
with the recent developments.
Berlin, June ao.-An Odessa
dispatch today says: "Mobs esti-
mated to be 10000 strong attacked
! the troops In the street yesterday.
The lighting continued last night
and several Hundred persons were
killed and wounded. The hospitals
are crowded.
The petroleum reservoirs. were
set on fire and exploded. All traf-
fic In the streets Is stopped. The
volunteer cruiser Saratoga was
burned.
st. Petersburg, June 30.-The
battIeshlp Potemkine, according
to official advices received from
the governor of the province in
which Odessa is situated, left
Odessa early this morning for an
unknown destination. The official
version of the affair puts entirely
new light on it. It is claimed
that the mutiny on the Potemkine
was the result Of plot concocted
by twenty sailors who were mem.
bers OF a revolutionary organiza-
tion. Complaints against bad food
were the pretexts.
London, June ,3O.-A dispatch
from Odessa today says that since
midnight the Russian battIeship
kniaz Potemkine has established
blockade port in regard to all
steamers flying the Russian flag.
No one is allowed to enter or de-
part.
st. Petersburg, June 3o.-A SEN
sationaI report is current and has
been officially confirmed to the ef-
: feet that 5000 imperial sailors, to-
gether with workmen at the yards
and docks of the naval port, Cron-
stadt, have refused to work and
that practically state of mutiny
exists there. One officer has been
killed.
London, June 3O.-A private ca
DIe received in London this even
Ing says tho Black sea squadron
arrived off Odessa and then re.
tired until the vessels could be
seen on tho horizon. where they
are now motionIess. This is taken
in some quarters to mean that tho
sailors In the squadron have mu-
tinted and refuse to fire on their
comrades Of the kniaz Potemkine.
ST. Petersburg, June 3o.-News
from the front indicates military
operations have suddenly come to
standstlII.
Washington, D. c., June 3d.
It is understood here on good au-
thority that negotiations are In
frcaress in Manchuria for an ar
r1istice, which it is believed will
be drawn up by Linevitch and
Oyama.
st. Petersburg, June 30.-A dispatcl
Led at Odessa last evening and re
eived here this morning states tina
le battleship Kniaz Potemkine wa
len opening fire upon the shore. ST,
Ulcers Of the battleship were mur
cred by the mutiners, eight hav,
cen liberated and the remainder ar,
risoners on board. Five hundred riot
IS have been killed.
Eight Naval Officers Murdered.
Washington, June 30.-A dispatch
sceived at the state department owe,
lght from Consul Henan at Odessf
lys in substance:
"Six officers of the Potemkine were
llled, eight were liberated and the re
ainder are prisoners. The harboj
as largely destroyed by the fire."
500 Rioters Dead.
A cablegram received from Ambas
dor Never at st. Petersburg says: