Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-16
WIRES ARE RESTORED. ONLY TO
BE CUT AGAIN BY THE
STRIKERS
LANDLORDS BEsIEGED
Germans Establish a Chain of Small
Forts-Refusees From Odessa Ar
rive at Boston and Tell Story Of
Horrors-Risa is the Center of the
Revolt.

-1ue government is making llIIle
Roadway in crushing the telegraph
strike. The wires. of the few lines
over which service has been temper
arily restored are constantly being cut
and not single wire is working out of
ST. Petersburg this morning. At the
present rate, weeks will elapse before
the service can be really restored.
Landlords Are Besieged.
News from the Baltic provinces to-
day is to the effect that many German
landlords who have not fled are estab-
fishing a network of small forts and
are standing regular siege. There
has been much killing and burning.
Ukase Causes Rejoicing.
Inhabitants of the Baltic provinces
now residing in st. Petersburg we're
intensely gratified at the publication
yesterday of an imperial ukase pro1nis-
ing local self-government which they
say means the abandonment Of the
classification policy begun in 1867, to
destroy the unity of the old provinces
of Lithuania.
Restores Old Conditions.
The ukase practically insures the re-
storation of the statu quo ante Great
ing a deliberative assembly for the So
luton Of the burning questions of re-
form of the peasant conditions, the in
stitution of local government and
schools and the encouragement as
the Office existed before 1876.
Peasants Burn and Pillage.
The governments advices today
from the Baltic provinces, forwarded
part of the way from Riga by courier,
are Of most alarming character.
Bands of thousands of Lettish peas.
ants are roaming the country in the
vicinity of Riga, putting the torch to
houses on all the estates and even
threatening the town of Riga itself.
The districts Of Riga and Venden are
entirely in the hands of the insur-
gents.
Revolt Is Spreading.
The revolt is spreading All railway
communications with Riga are cut.
The insurgents have seized a number
Of stations on the three railroads lead
ing from that city and are advancing
against others. The government is in
formed that all the sailors from the
commercial steamers in the harbor at
Riga have Joined the strike. The situa-
ton is bad at Mitau
Odessa Refugees In America.
Boston, Dec. 14.-Forty-three Rus
sian refugees were brought here to-
day by the Cunard line steamer LIVER
mia. Among them were included men,
women and children who came from
Riga, Wilma, Kieff, Odessa and Kovno.
All had escaped by various methods
after having fled from their homes on
account of the disturbances there.
Story of Refugees.
Leon Jacob Ziorotin, an educated
Russian Jew of Odessa, who has ar.
rived here from Russia, says that 49,
600 Jews we're killed in three days,
with most terrible mutilation and tor
ture Cossacks and police aided the
mobs in their deadly work, and men,
women and children were among the
victims.
Ziorotin, with his wife and year
old daughter, escaped by night from
Odessa. They reached Libau by train,
where they took ship for Liverpool,
thence coming to New York and Bos.
ton. He attributes his escape to the
fact that he bears little resemblance
to Jew. Of his experiences he said:
November Is was in my house.
when a murmur arose as If from a
mob. My wife and girl and myself
waited, expecting every minute Mat
the mob would break into our home
and kill us. We looked out Of the win
dow, and saw children thrown from the
top of buildings, and then, after the
mothers ears and noses were cut off
they also were thrown to their death. /"
Refugees Revolt at Colombo.
Colombo, Ceylon, Dec. IA hun.
dred Russians on board the Russian
battleship Czarvitch in the harbor here
revolted today. Military assistance
was asked for and sent and fifty of the
mutineers were taken ashore.