The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-02-16
POWDER AND BALL
USED BY TROOPS
THE RUSSIAN LABOR TROUBLES
CAUSE MORE BLooDsHED.
THIRTY-NINE PEOPLE KILLED
Death List From Thursdays Riots in
Poland Now Numbers 1oo, While
More Than That Number
Were Wounded.

LODI, Feb. 11.-According to thu
governors report issued today, TIKI
casualties resulting in the fighting o
troops and strikers at the katherine
Iron Works Thursday were 80 killed
/. and SO wounded. 1t is generally un
derstood that the number Of casual
ties were twice as large, but that the
real figures are being suppressed.
Another Account of Riot.
LODI, Russian Poland, Feb. lit is
reported that Iour persons were killed
and 6S wounded in a riot at the Cheib-
Ter factory and that seven We're killed
and so wounded at the Marcus Kohn
factory. According to n report, strik-
ers fred on a detachment of soldiers
from windows and the latter then fired
a volley into the crowd in the streets.
The strikers generally are enraged at
the refusal of other manufacturers to
give them their pay and several other
encounters between mobs and troops
are reported from different directions.
A number of people are said to have
been wounded. The greatest alarm
prevails here. The shops were closed
early Friday afternoon and the win
dows were boarded up.
Twenty-Four Killed at Kattowitz.
Berlin, Feb. 11.-According to press
dispatches from Kattowitz, Russian
Poland, a collision occurred between
5000 strikers and the military at the
Russian station of Skarzysko, in which
"a strikers were killed and 40 wound
ed. The military, it is reported, fired
on the strikers at Ostrowicz, but the
casualties in that case are not known.
Bloodshed at S~osnovice.
Sosnovice. Feb. lion Thursday a
mob invaded the yard of the Rather
linen works, demanding that the work
men in charge of the electrical machin-
cry there join in the strike. A COM
pany of soldiers interviewed and a Po-
lish officer repeatedly called upon the
people to dispense. They refused to
leave unless they were accompanied by
the workmen. 1t is said that a rioter
menaced the officer with a knife,
W . CupO1 ne gave lHC III ulS
with the result that 2S persons, includ-
ing a high school pupil, who happened
to be passing, fell dead and Sc were
seriously wounded. These latter were
removed to a hospital, where five of
them have since died. A number of
others were slightly wounded. Many
were wounded in the back and evident
-@hexE were trying to escape.
Trouble Renewed.
st. Petersburg, Feb. list. Peters
burg is again face to face with a re-
newal of the labor upheaval, the i'm
mediate Indictment being the failure
of the workmen to secur payment for
the time they were out or strike. added
to the 1act that there has been no ad-
Justment of the demands which led to
to strike last month. The Putiloff iron
works, where the former strike origi-
mated, is playing the principal role.
There are 10000 workmen already out
within the metropolis and the work
@en at the torpedo factory in Kolpino,
Is miles distant, have also Joined the
strikers. There is a strong prospect of
the movement extending.
Troops Maintain Order.
Only energetic measures by the
troops and police prevented the re-
sumption of the former tactics of the
strikers, marching from factory to fac
toY and inducing or compelling en-
ploVes to lay down their tools. Thus far
there has been no disorder in st. Pc
tersburg and the authorities appear to
have the situation well in hand in this
respect, and it is generally believed
that such precautions have been taken
Of will preclude the repetition of the
scene Of bloodshed of January %. How
ever, circumstantial reports that the
revolutionary element is about to join
with the strikers and resort to bomb
throwing are causing grave apprehen-
sion.
M. Whites Papers Taken.
London, Feb. 1.-THE correspondent
at st. Petersburg of the Daily Mail
sends to that paper the extraordinary
report that the first act of the new
minister of the interior, M. Bouligan,
on arriving in st. Petersburg on Fri
day, wa to have the residence of M.
Witte, president of the council Of the
empire, searched by the police, who
removed a mass of documents for ex-
animation. NJ. Witte was at home at
@e time, and the police made a sys-
tematfc and thorough examination of
all the private papers in the house.
The correspondent adds that when
Minister Won Plehve was assassinated
he was carrying an order to the en-
peror for his signature, authorizing
just such a perquisition for M. Whites
papers. 1t looks, therefore, the corre-
spondent says, as though the new in
terror administration is beginning Just
where Won P1ehye left off.
Destroyed Emperor's Portrait.
Kutais, Russia, Feb. 11.-At Batoum
a party Of high school boys publicly
destroyed a portrait Of the emperor.
Troops dispersed them with a volley.
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