Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-11-15
Over Score Shot Dead During
Riot in Kishinef.
WHITE is IN EARNEST
Campaign of Reform Is Begun by His
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. All Over
Russia Are Closed.

Gov. Gen. Kaulbars, but the situation
continues threatening. The dispatch de-
scribes at length the atrocities which
occurred at Odessa, saying that the st.
Bartholomew massacre pales in compar-
iSOn. 1t lays the responsibility on Pre-
feet Neuhardt. who twice prevented the
city council from telegraphing Count
Witte q demand for his removal.
Compel Strikers to Resume Work.
WARSAW, Russian Poland. Nov. II.
The governor general has ordered the
military to take possession of all the
stores of coal, with the object Of depriv-
ing the population of fuel and compelling
the strikers to resume work.
Troops Fire Upon Mutineers.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 1.-THE
prisoners in the Jail at Kishineff, Bess-
arabia, revolted in a body last night and
demanded their freedom. On their re-
quest being refused the prisoners set fire
to the jail.
Troops were hurried to the scene and
fired volley into the mutineers, of
whom twenty-five were killed and many
wounded.
All is comparatively quiet at Odessa,
although there were many isolated cases
OF violence during the night.
Count Whites ministry entered upon its
functions today and will devote all its
efforts TO the realization of the reforms
outlined in the Emperor's manifesto.
Count Witte Is Checked
Count Witte received the severest
checks in his attempts to solve the con-
| stitution problem by the refusal of
Prince Troubetzkoi to join the ministry,
and also, in a lesser degree, by that of
Nj ol-.>T -.
rapidity he replaced them by Prof. Men
schoutkin and NJ Timarazeff
Autonomy similar to that given to Fin
| land will be granted to Poland shortly,
| thus settling the unrest there.
Massacre of Jews Not Expected
There is every reason to believe that
| the fears Of massacre of Jews tonight
| at st. Petersburg and Moscow are I'M
| founded. The alarming reports look
| more like a campaign of the revolution
airy extreme elements. The Jewish quar-
| ter Of st. Petersburg has been heavily
| guarded since last night.
Notwithstanding the assurances of
protection, hundreds Of Jews and many
others are seeking safety in flight.
Schools All Closed Up.
The universities and high schools
throughout Russia have been closed in
! definitely by order of the minister of
| education. 1t is announced that martha
law will be declared throughout Poland.
Every tenth sailor implicated in the
recent riots at Cronstadt is to be shot.
| This sentence was passed upon the mu-
tlnous soldiers by a military court which
| was convened in extraordinary session at
| Cronstadt yesterday.
According TO information received by
| the Slovo the mutiny is not yet complete
! ~ quelled, the Fourth and Seventh
1 ENfYJ1J c-&s 1D1l
| racks and keeping the trSops which sur
| round the building at bay by means of
| machine guns mounted at the windows.
The admiralty declares that the report
| that the crews of the Russian battle
| ships Slava and Alexander H., now at
Cronstadt, have mutinied is untrue.
Graft Cause for Troubles.
Vice Admiral Birilieff, minister of ma
| rine, freely admits that the sailors have
many just grievances, investigation hav-
| ing shown that the government contract
ors have robbed the government and fur
| nlShed the crews with food unfit to eat
An independent investigation seems to
| confirm the report that the naval Off
GERS at Cronstadt acted disgracefully
Poland Wants Autonomy.
WARSAW, Nov. 1O.-Representatives
| of all political parties in Poland have
decided to send twenty leading citizens
to st. Petersburg to request the EN-
peror to grant Russian Poland full au-
tonomy ana its own Parliament Dis
orders continue here.
Revolution But No Blood.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. IL
here today from Kobe, Japan, by a
member of the local Russian revolution
airy committee:
Enthusiastic reception given to revo-
lutonary officers by the revolutionary
10000 soldiers at Hamadera and Hime-
j detention camps, red banners bearing
allegiance. Russian Marseillaise sung
Dr.. Russell the Leader.
The explanation of this cablegram.
given by the local committee here, is
| that q remarkable peaceful revolution
has been accomplished under conditions
! never before paralleled
In 1901 DR.. Nicholas Russell, a Rus
sian by birth, but a resident of Hayti
was president of the first territorial SEN
ate. Coming to America, he became
deeply interested in propagating Social
istic reform ideas. He was finally sup
piled with adequate funds and great
mass of Socialistic literature by ''the
| American friends Of Russia of which
Charles w. Folk and Julia Ward Howe
are respectively president and vice pres
ident, and by other similar societies.
Prisoners All Socialists.
Upon the fall of Port Arthur, DR.
Russell was sent to Japan to spread
among the Russian captives the ideas
of his party. According to the mem
bers of the local society he has succeed
ed beyond all expectations, as is shown
| by the fact that he has organized under
the banner of Socialism nearly all of
the thousands of Russian soldiers taken
prisoners by the Japanese during the last
war, who are now in detention in Japan
awaiting transportation to their homes.
CASHIER IS UNDER CLOUD.