The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-12-08
AGRARiAN AND ANTi-JEWiSH
OUTBREAKS OCCUR IN MANY
LOCALITIES.
MAY PROCLAIM A DICTATOR
TALKED OF AS LAST RESORT TO
STOP REVOLT - HUNDREDS
ARE KILLED.

from Cronstadt that a German squad
ron has been sighted in THE Baltic
sea neal the Russian coast. Rumor
attributes the appearance OF the
squadron as preparatory to the flight
of the Russian imperial family.
Agrarian and anti-Jewish outbreaks
are reported to have occurred in the
governments of Chernigof, Tereks
Eursk and Kasan.
Tie-Up Remains Complete.
The city remains quiet but extreme
tension prevails. Armed patrols or
cavalry and infantry are in the streets.
especially in the neighborhood of the
telegraph Office. The telegraph and
postal tie-up remains complete.
The telegraph operators met yes
~terday's threat to discharge them to-
day unless they returned to work by
resolving to prosecute the strike until
their demands are satisfied.
The authorities profess confidence
that the strike will be broken in a few
days, but the basis of their op,lmism
is not stated.
Talk Of Dictatorship.
Count Witte is now convinced that
the emperor by acceding to the de-
mand for universal suffrage may still
find a common ground on which the
government and the mOderates and
the extreme elements a stand. IT
this fails to stay the headlong march
Of events the proclamation of a ready
made constitution might be tried as
The last card. Then nothing would re-
main except the proclamation of a
dictatorship.
Competent judges of the situation
believe hat a dictatorship, while it
might restrain the rising flood temper
arily, would only increase the dimen-
siOns of the cataclysm and when the
dam goes, sweep the government and
dynasty away to common ruin.
Hungry and Homeless.
Vienna, Dec. 6.-The Tageblatt pub
fishes a communication from Odessa
saying that a thousand reservists
have suddenly been released from
service and are hungry and homeless
They are p2rading the streets asking
for food. GOV. Gen. Kaulbars refuses
to help them and they are threatening
to steal and plumber.
The same communication says that
travellers arriving at Odessa from
kief. report that a serious fight took
place there last Friday between engi-
neers and Cossacks. Many hundreds
were killed or wounded.
! The Neue Freie Presse publishes a
dispatch from Lemberg, Galicia, evil
IDENTIFY referring to the same occur
renee at Kieff, but giving fuller de-
tails. 1t says that the engineers re-
fused to work as t~elegraphers, where
upon the trouble began.
1e5 Are Killed.
Five hundred armed men left their
barracks and paraded the streets.
where they were joined by a number
of infantrynen and followed by a.
crowd of wOrkmen. Near the railroad
station the mutineers engaged 300
Cossacks and drove them off. Later.
in the Jewish quarter, the m%utineers.
faced an infantry regiment, which
fired We volleys, killing 165 persons
and w%ounding many The remainder
OIL the IuutlIleoTS surrendered.
Peasants Kill Mobiles.
koenigsburg, East Prussia, Dec. g.
The Ostpreussische Zeitung prints re-
ports received from Iibau saving that
several Of the nobility officials and
other residents Of Livonia and Cour-
land have been attacked by peasants.
killed and terribly mutilated. Bands:
of several hundred peasants are row.
ing about robbing and killing. A gen.
eral i~nsurrection of the peasants and
labOrers is expected.
Kaiser Writes to Car.
London, Dec. 6.-The correspondent
at st. Petersburg of the Times says:
Count Alvensleben, former German
ambassador at ST. Petersburg. has
brought an autograph letter from EN-
peror William to Emperor Nicholas.
1.-The sailors of the imperial guard
have mutinied."