Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-07
TOday's Telegraphic News
Terrible Conditions in Russia.

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dispatches yesterday they have estab-
lished by tapping" the telegraph wires
and placing instruments in their head
quarters, to the effect that the revolu-
tionary propaganda is rampant in many
provinces. These reports come from
various points in the empire, and show
that the people are rising against the
government
In several provinces the government
officials have been deposed and commit
tees of public safety are now governing
many towns and small cities. The revo-
| luliOnists declare the mutineers at Eka-
trinosav captured the arsenal and seized
10, 900 rifles which were distributed to
the people The town of NOverssOisk
has surrendered to mutineers.
AT Elizabethpol mutiny has begun
and there has been fighting atAskahand.
Similar reports as to the progress of the
revolutionary movement have bean re-
ceiVed from other towns.
None of the provincial governments
has been able to concentrate troops to
oppose the revolutionists, owing to the
fact that the telegraph system has been
tied up by the strike. This has given
an opportunity for the revOlutionists to
make good headway in organizing their
movement.
Three squadrons OF cavalry mutinied
in st. Petersburg today. They refused
to reply to the saldte of their command
err. The latter fed, fearing he would
be assassinated
The financial question is prominent in
st. Petersburg and every one believes
that a money crash must come before the
end of the month unless the government
seizes the money of the orthodox church
and devotes it to public use. Deposits
to the amount of 81 900, 900 have been
Withdrawn from the banks within the
last few weeks, and the money has
either been sent abroad or is b. ing
boarded in private houses.
81. Petersburg, Via Eydtkuhnen)
Dec. 6.-Father GapOu, who was the
leader of the workingmen at the incep-
ton of the labor troubles nearly year
ago which led up to the present reyc'
lutionary movement, was today con-
demned to death by tribunal named
10y the central revolutionary committee.
Two emissaries of the committee were
named to carry out the sentence.
Treachery to the cause of the people is
the charge made against Father Gapon
and was why the revolutionists con.
demned him.
Over 100 persons were seriously in
jured last night in a fight between Cos
sacks and strikers. The strikers at
tempted to hold meeting, which the
Cossacks broke up. The strikers drew
revolvers and began firing at the Cos
sacks. The latter dill not return the
fire, but the troopers rode among the
strikers, using their nagaikas with ter
rible effect. rbe dangerously wounded
number over 100 persons.
Three battaiOns or infantry at Mos
COW are reported to have reyolted and
killed their officers. No details of The
affair are Obtainable. The general strike
is progressing at every city of note in the
empire.
The assassination OF GeneralSakharOff,
former Minister of War, has caused the
greatest rejoicing on the part of the
revoluticnists, who openly declare that
he was killed according to their order to
show the bureaucracy that tyranny will
be put down with bloodshed. General
Sakharoff had been sent to the province
of SaratOn, with orders to stamp out the
peasant uprising at any cost. He was
given practically autOcratic power, and
used it ruthlessly. He travelled from
village to village with a strong force of
Cossacks, and turned the drunken Cos
sacks loose on the villagers. He Or
dered drumhead courts martial held and
in some cases these trials were follow
ed by the immediate execution of inno-
cent villagers. He ordered both men
and women Aogged, and personally at
tended the whippings. He conducted
himself generally like second Bobori
kof the former Governor Of Finland,
whose brutality to the Finlanders finally
led to his assassination. The assassina-
ton has caused feeling of terror among
the Cars supporters who fear that the
peasants will be made bolder and it is
predicted that further revolutionary up
risings among them are certain to follow,
as the result of the attack on General
Sakharof.
The correspondent of the Publishers
Press was today granted an interview
by one of the higher officials of the !
government, who for obvious reasons
did not want his name used He said +: |
81 believe the present events are the be |
ginning of the end of the present dy- |
nasty in Russia. The government is in |
a much more precarious condition than
any European government has been since
the French revolution. 1t is folly for |
any one to remain blind to this fact.
loss to the Russian government Of three
million dollars per day, and our finances
are 80 weak, we will not be able to with
stand this drain very much longer"
An enormous slump in Russian tours
has taken place, they closing at "A.
Many of the city's banks are in pre-
carious position and a great financial
crash seems imminent.
Vienna, Dec. 7.--Fugitiyes who have
arrived here state that the conditions III
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During the rioting of the last few days,