The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-06-07
BLOODY RIOT
EX-MAYOR OF BAKU DE-
NOUNCES THE WAR BE. Z
FORE CHEERING
THOUSANDS

THOUSANDS
Police Repulsed at First With
Chairs and Sticks, the Officers,
Reinforced, Drive All With
Drawn Swords.
st. Petersburg, June AT
great demonstration this evening in
the Pavlovsk Gardens, near Tsars.
koe-Selo, the 5000 persons present
clamored for a funeral march in
memory of the Russian sailors who
had lost their lives in the naval dis
aster in the Sea of Japan. The
members of the orchestra became
alarmed and fed from the platform
whan M. Novikof, ex.mayor of
Baku, rose and said:
''Lst us all by rising show re-
speet for the victims. Down with
the war. We have had enough
blood.''
Some 80 policemen entered the
farther end of the ball and elbowed
their way through the crowd to-
wards NJ. Novikof, whereupon cries
! were raised of: Let US attack the
police" Chairs were seized and
hurled at the police, the crowd be-
| ing led by colonel with a drawn
sword. The policemen fed precip-
itately. Order being restored a
number of speeches were delivered
on the national crisis.
| Suddenly the police, reinforced
to between 200 and geo, again in
vaded the hall and rushed on the
audience with drawn swords. The
people defended themselves with
chairs and sticks, but after ten min
utes were driven from the hall into
the garden, where there was bat.
tallion of tirailleurs, who raised
their rifles to their shoulders pre-
lliminary to the order to fire being
Ig;ven, causing q panic. The pub.
| lie. fed toward the exits and hnd.
ling them closed smashed the doors
| and windows of the hal. and sc
gained the street. Many person:
were injured, some so seriously tha1
they had 10 be taken to the hospit
al.
M. Novikof was arrested and tht
gardens were occupied by police and
Cossacks.
Conditions are, Indeed. ripe fol
J an uprising throughout Russis
which will be of a widespread char
acter. The officers of the guard
regiments, who have been sent tt
outlying barracks to instruct th'
J reserves, have openly revolted ane
refused to do so. A number o
t them have been placed under arres
J and are likely to be shot this morn
!, ing. From all over the countr,
> come reports of anti-war meeting
which the police have been power
less to suppress.
) 1t is reported that several re Il
S ments of reserves at Sevassos :,
9 at Odessa have mutinied and open
ly de6ed their officers.
J, Boise, Idaho, June "a re
: markable case of stroke by light
: ming is reported from Cassia coun
0 ty, the victim being Thomas Thorn
5 Jas, well-known sheepman. II
: was ont at his camp and ASSISTING
S in marking lambs. A storm came u
q and a bolt of lightning struck him
t He seemed to rise some feet int
f the air and dropped back to th
j. ground, apparently dead.
l. It was found that his heart sti
: beat, and efforts were made to II
b vive him. After seven hours b
!, ,regained consciousness and seem
e to be in fair way to recovery.
II 1t was ascertained that the elet
: trio current came first in contae
e with the right side of Mr.. Thomas
head, singeing his hair, then passin
Z down his right cheek. burning o
l. the mustache ou that side, passin
d down upon his chest, where th
0 current separated and continued o
a downward, encircling the abdomei
q and came together, TO again seps
J. rate at the loins, and one currer
o passed down each leg in front /
d the knee. where each made a ha
Q circle, changed to the calf and o
}, down to the heel and then into tt
e ground tearing each shos to piece
"a The course of the electric cuirel
upon the body, from where it can
in contact to the feet, which a
bruised and swollen, is marked /
"a "a deep burns which, although painful
or are not considered to have reache
is any vital part that may jeopardi,