Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-28
'SWavs of Disorder Rolling Over Empire
Appears at Odessa.
W0RKMEN DECLARE GENERAL : RlKE
Barricades Erected in Suburb tack
of CosSacks Repulsed.
FIVE HUNDRED ARE DEAD LODI
Censor Allows But Little info on to
Gene from Poland.
FIVE HUNDRED ARE DEAD
JAlLs IN WARSAW ARE CROWDED
Nearly seven Hundred, Mostly Jews
Locked Up within Twenty-FOur
Hours-MartIaI LnW Will
he Declared.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 2S.-2:O0 a. M
The wave of disorder rolling over Russia
has appeared at Odessa, where general
strike, accompanied by bloodshed and dis
order, has broken out. There were several
collisions between the military and the
strikers Monday night and yesterday in
two of which voleys were fired by the
troops. No report of the extent of the
casualties has been received. the official
statement dealing only with the initial
encounter Monday night, declaring that
two persons were killed therein.
There was another encounter yesterday
afternoon, and number of attacks were
made on individual policemen. A press
dispatch received last night said that 400
armed workmen barricaded a suburb and
repulsed the attack of a company of Cos
sacks. Renforcements of three companies
4 Of Cossacks were sent to the suburb. but
y the result of their attack on the strikers
IL not yet known.
y Little News from Poland.
There is little news from Poland but
copies of the Lodz Gazette, giving ac-
count of the demonstrations, are eagerly
read. A telegram to the official agency
gives the number of killed and those who
died of their wounds on Friday as l64
II adds that others were killed Saturday
Of victims cannot be stated definitely.
b Other accounts give a total estimate of 800
- 9sad at Lodz.
There IL a complete embargo on news
from Lodz but generally the situation in
Russian Poland shows improvement. Such
advices as have arrived here from warsaw
indicate that the strike Is only partially
successful and that the authorities are
keeping the situation pretty well in hand.
The ringleaders and agitators are being ar
rested by the wholesale, over 1000 having
been put behind the bars to this time.
Following the example of the Lodz work
men, the workmen of Warsaw built barri-
oades at five places and blood was shed
in defending them. Early last night a
young Jew threw a stone at a passing pa
troll on Kroohmalna street, whereupon the
Cossacks drove crowd of people into q
courtyard and fired volley at them, killing
or wounding twenty persons, including five
women and boy.
The strikers of the Boamanshvede factor!
on being fired upon by the son OF the pro
prietor retaliated by wrecking the esteb
ushmant
Great pains are being taken to appeas
the reserve men who will be called to tn
coloru at the forthcoming mobilizations a
MOSCOW and st. Petersburg At Moscow Il
order to create as little disturbance as pos
aihle II IL proposed to take /, 900 men per da,
for twenty days. The Grand Duchess Eliz
abeth IL arranging to distribute presents L
the men and a similar course will be pur
sued at Romni, government Of Poltava.
Many Arrests I'm Warsaw.
WARSAW, Russian Poland. June T.-Al
the prisons are full to overhowing. no les
I than 670 persons, mostly Jews, having bee
- arrested during the last twenty-four hours
1t IL expected that a state of siege will b
~ proclaimed. as great riots are anticipate
ri during the mobilization.
The iaborers of thirty-two beet roo
4 plantations In the government OF Podoli
have struck and 1t Is feared the harves
= will be lost
The peasants in the government OF Know
are illegally occupying pasture and othe
A lands OF the proprietors of estates.
ltG A secret meeting of 200 socialists In I'll
~ lbrest OF Zduerz near Lodz, was surprise
by Cossacks at noon today. Eighteen {
the socialists were wounded and $50 al
rested. The authorities received informs
ton that the meeting being held an
sent a squadron OF Cossacks who su
rounded the forest and fired into II
socialists taking them entirely unaware
The wounded were taken to hospitals
Lode and those arrested were sent to prise
ct Lenszyca. twenty miles distant,
The authorities are making an insistel
search for the socialist leaders. In Il
course of the search today a number
persons we're killed or wounded.
All restaurants and liquor stores ha'
bean ordered closed.
Troops at FIhRrkOff.
EHARKoFF Russia, June T-Trool
were dispatched from here today to thr
adjoining districts, where the peasants a
saoldng estates and burning buildings