Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-07
MOSCOW BURNED,
4 RUSSIA CUT OFF
Communication Is Completely Severed
and Information by Wire Impossible
ONINOUS RUNORS ARE TOLD ABROAD
A Russian Telegraph Operator at Moscow
Says That Great Incendiary Fire
is Raging There.

Warsaw, Russian Poland, Dec. 2-
1889 D. ma Russian telegraph oper-
ator at Moscow says that a great in
cendiary conhagration is raging there.
GEAR AND GRAND DUKE IN TROUBLE.
Raris, Dec. The Journal today pub
fishes st. Petersburg dispatch which
was carried to Eydtkuhnen (East Prus-
sia) by courier, which repeats the late
reports relative to violent scene IN
the palace at Tsarskoe-Selo. TheJou
nal says that the trouble was between
Emperor Nicholas and Grand Duke
Vladimir and was relative to Grand
Duke Cyril. The paper adds:
'Tt is certain that something extra
ordinary occurred there besides the dis
affection of the guards and that the
whole domestic staff at the palace is
now preparing to strike.
TEN MILLION OF ROUBLEs DAMAGE.
Vladiyostok, Dec. l, via Chefoo.--
delayed in transmission. )-Quiet was
restored two days after the initiation OF
disturbances. Representative business
men agree with officials that there is no
probability of a recurrence. The dam
age is estimated at ten million roubles,
mostly in buildings destroyed by fire.
ga small percentage of this sum repre-
sents the destruction of merchandise, OF
which immense quantities were here.
Thirty-five steamers were awaiting to
discharge their cargoes at the time OF
the riots.
Undoubtedly the riots were precipl-
tated by the excited condition Of the
troops and sailors consequent upon the
mass meetings held by citizens to cele-
brate the emperor's proclamation, the
enthusiasm at the mass meetings be-
ing accentuated and taken advantage OF
by the revolutionary element to incite
the military to acts of hoodlumism, re-
suIting in riots. There is an unusual
influx of representatives of American
commercial interests to Vladivostok.
JABBED EMPEROR INTO SIGNING.
Chez Foo, Dec. L. (Delayedin trans
mission. Private letters from Korea
tend to confirm the recent reports from
Pekin that the Korean emperor was
practically forced at the point of bay
onet into an agreement with the Japa-
nese. The emperor's seal was affixed
to the documents by others, resulting in
a panic in the palace and the suicide Of
some of the officials. The Ipalace has
been under increased japanese surveil-
Ianee for the last two weeks.
CUT OFF FROM OUTER WORLD.
London, Dec. 2. up to midnight
London, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris and
Stockholm were completely cut off from
felegraphic communication with st.
Petersburg.
Early this afternoon the Great North
ern Telegraph Company, which has two
routes into st. Petersburg, one by way
of Copenhagen and Libau and the other
by VI. tsvf Finland, announced the COM
munication was completely severed,
Copenhagen and Nystad, the last named
on the western Finnish coast being the
most early points from which to and
from it could accept messages.
y The Associated Press Is eDdeavoring
10 get into communication with ths cap
ital from iIelsingfors, the nearest point
to st. Petersburg, but that route was
impossible by wire, and there is some
doubt whether the water is sufficiently
free from ice to permit Of boats cross
ing to Helsingfors from Russian ports.
The Associated Press and the Reuter-