Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-13
SAVAGE CHARACTER OF THE
MOVEMENT NOW BEING
REALIZED.
PROGRAM OF REvOLUTIONISTS
ESTABLISHMENT OF DEMOCRAT
&c REPUBLIC ON RUINS OF
ARiSToCRACY.

st. Petersburg, April S.-RepOrts OF
peasant uprisings in the Baltic prov
inces, especially in Lithuania and
Courland, continue extremely disquiet-
ing. Although Cossack and infantry
patrols are scattered throughout the
country, the troops are unable to stop
the plundering of estates by the larger
peasant bands. At Werra, where
regiment of Cossacks fired on mob
which had complete possession of the
town, the rioters were dispersed, but
they broke up into smaller bands
which te~rorized the neighboring land
owners. Similar incidents have &C.
Cured in other places.
The smaller bands drive off the cat
tie, burn barns and fodder and help
themselves to grain and provisions.
Dispatches from dozens of places tell
of panic produced by the depredations
of rowing bands of peasants.
Savagery Is Natural.
The agrarian agitation is regarded
as the result of irritation OF peasants
against the CONT olling privileged
classes, the savage character OF the
movement being due to the non-civ-
iliZation of Russian village life and
the absence of peaceable means OK
protest.
Grave troubles are anticipated IN
the cities and towns along the Volga
ono the opening of navigation and
with the influx of steamboat freight
handlers.
At many places in the Minsk gov
eminent the peasants are refusing to
pay rent for their land, declaring that
it belongs to them. The land owners
are powerless, as the peasants threat
en- to destroy everything if troops are
summoned.
Terrible Catastrophe Near.
Samara, Russia, April s. - The ex
change here, representing commercial
connections over region inhabited
by 100000 people, has telegraphed tt
M. Bouligan, minister of the interior
that the whole area is in condition
of extreme excitement and that ter
rible catastrophe is only avoidable b.
Immediately summoning representa-
tives of the people in accordance will
the terms of the imperial 'rescript.
Death to Agitators.
Warsaw, April S.-All persons pal
ticipating in disorders will hereafte
be tried by martial law. The nev
regime commenced yesterday, whel
two workmen were thus tried and cor
demned to death. One of them fired
revolver at policeman and the othe
struck policeman with an iron bar.
Program OF Revolution.
Moscow, April 8.-The central con
mittee of the Revolutionary party ha
drawn up document containing tn
main points of it's program. HUI
dreds of thousands of copies are bein
printed for circulation in all parts {
European Russia. The first and mai
point of the program is the establish
ment of a democratic republic on tn
ruins of the autocracy, and beside
the usual points of social democrat
doctrine. it includes many argument
especially directed to Russian co1d
lions and designed to appeal to tt
S0l1-lul0ISSI VI luC INuooldh AA
both agricultural and industrial.
voices phrases familiar to the Amer
can ear. such as Initiative and refe
endum," public ownership of publ
utilities, etc.
Japanese Are Advancing.
London, April 8-The corresponds
at ST. Petersburg OF the Times tel
graphs:
"The latest official information iea'
to the belief that the Japanese are a
1ancing in crescent formation, Oku {
the left, NoCzu on the center al
Kuroki and Kawamura on the riSl
and with a total strength of 475,O(
1t is feared that Linevitch will
compelled to withdraw"
Funston in Command.
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