The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-03-14
PEASANTS SEIZE PENZA
Cars Advisers Regard Uprising as
Most Ominous Of All.
THE GOVERNMENT IS ALARMED

Autocracy Faces TebeIlion-Ths MOSCOW
Gazette Calls For Massacre OF Rioters
--Poiceman is Shot U prisings in Po-
land Continue : Troubles Increase
Everywhere in Russia.
ST. Petersburg, Russia AT last the
autocracy is face to face with actual
revolution. The province Of Penza,
/ lying in the very heart of European
Russia. was taken by armed peasants,
who not only gained complete control
Of the country regions. but soon be-
came supreme in Penza, the capital
city. with thriving population OF
about 10000. In the Caucasus the
Government no longer tried to conceal
the gravity Of the situation. and it was
decided to suppress the rising by arms
General Alihanoff led force out OF
Bateum against the recalcitrant Geor-
gians in Trans Caucasia. The body
consisted Of seven battalions of infan-
4 try. six companies of Cossacks ard
battery Of light artillery. Alihan0n is
hated in the Caucasus, as he has been
unchanging in brutal attitude toward
4 the strikers ard disaffected peasants.
The leading merchants and foreigners
in the Caucasian regions have been
threatend with death in the event of
any action in opposition to the revolu
tionary committee. This threat has
been applied to the United States and
British consuIs in Batoum.
L. Il mi no low
ment official that the Car and his
Ministers are keenIy distressed over
/ the situation in Penza. The violence
of the peasants there was taken as a
more ominous sign than the rising
general over Poland The fear of the
Emperor arises from the precedent OF
| the French Revolution, when the ris-
ing of the peasants turned out to be
the real starting point of the strife
which had its climax in the death of
Louis XVI. There are numerous
signs of history promising to repeat
itself. as, in the case Of the French
peasants, the country population OF
Penza has taken to burning the homes
of the landed classes. The police Of
the city of Penza have been unable to
suppress the peasants, and 1t is said
that an Overwhelming force win be
drafted from the Moscow garrison to
bring the peasants speedily to sub
mission. Penza is $50 miles from Mos
COW. and troops are said to have been
| already dispatched from the old cap
4 ital
In a miner degree the activity Of the
Penza peasants was enacted in almost
every corner of the empire. The in
tense seriousness Of the crisis was not
known generally here, as the Govern
ment maintained rigid censorship on
all dispatches. The alarm Of the Em-
| peror and his advisers, however, was
reflected in an editorial In the MOSCOW
| Gazette, the traditional mouthpiece OF
the autOnracy and the most rabid OF
all the reactionary organs, The Ca
zette unqualifiedly asserted that the
present revolt in the interior should
be put down Immediately in the way
| which General Michael Muravietf
crushed the Polish and Lithuanian re-
belIion in 1853. This was the first
published admission OF rebellion. and
coming from an inspired organ, it was
| taken as a practical announcement
from the Government.
Warsaw, Poland. Renewed out
breaks OH all the railroads became inn
minent as a result of the different
companies having decided that it would
be impossible to pay the increased
wages conceded to the strikers q
couple of weeks ago. The manage
ment of the Vienna railway called a
meeting of the stockholders to discuss
the financial problem raised by the new
conditions A careful revision Of the
lists Of employees showed that the in
crease in wages promised to the strik
ers summed up to 100000 instead Of
the S375,000 as originally estimated.
The workmen who returned from
strike say that they would walk out
at. once should the company revoke its
concession The railroad officials said
they could not pay the existing wages
and run their lines. The Governor
General tried to break the deadlock,
but so far without success
A policeman was shot by striking
shop assistants, and at the same time
in infantryman, enraged by the taunts
of strikers, seriously wounded q man
and a little girl A bullet from the
soldiers rifle pierced the bodies of the
couple. and 1t is feared recovery is iEl-
possible
SIJTp'S OFFICER A STfTcTDW