The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-01

boa I'd or leave tho service. One officer Is
In the hospital as result Of his in juries.
The troops at Peterhof, the imperial
residence where the Gar 10 now living,
have been reinforced.
Tho worst sort OF rumors prevailed on
tho Bourse to-day as to the condition OF
affairs in the provinces,
A telegram from Rsval gives news Of dis
orders At the seaport Of Hapsal In con-
nection with the railway strike. Reen-
foroements Of Cossa oks have been cent
from Reval
FINLAND MILITARY DISTRICT ABOLISHED
Tho Military Council has decided to do
away with the Finland military district The
post OF commander in chief Of that district
Is abolished and the fortreAses and mill
tary organizations OF Finland will he in
corporated In the 81. Petersburg military
district.
II Is reported that the Russian volunteer
cruiser Saratoff has been burned at Odessa.
WHY THE PoTEMKIN FIRED.
LONDON. July IA despatch to the
Standard from Odessa yesterday said that
the firing OF two 24-po,lnd shots last
night by the Potemkin was owing to the
foolish temporary detention by the military
authorities OF four OF the fifteen nutlneers
sent ashore to bury their colnrade Omel-
chuk. One shot fairly aimed. fell harm
sssly but ngerously near the spacious
Cathedral Square. which WAS Allied with
/, 500 soldiers. The other shot fell little
short Of the Cossa cks' barracks.
A general exodus was In progress al As
p. NJ, when the despa CHI was sent. Thirty
thousand persons had Ief, within the last
forty.eight hours Many members Of the
British colony were sending the: wives
and families away. The commandant, the
Civil Governor and the police master were
absolutely inaccessible. The correspond
ent said he spent four hours this morning
in vain attempts to obtain speech with one
or all OF these authorities.
Forty men, alleged by tho police
to be incendiaries, wers killed last night In
Primorskaia street, which aanks the
inner bay
INSURGENTS ORGANIZED GOVERNMENT
The Petit Pdrisien OF Paris publishes q
despatch from Odessa reporting that the
insurgents have organized provisional
government.
The same papers st. Petersburg cor
respondent says that the opinion in the
Russian capital inolines to the belief that
the revolt was not a spontaneous outburst,
but was the elimination OF a matured plot.
The authorities acknowledge that ten Of
flcers of the Kniaz Potemkin are with the
mutineers.
A despatch to Lloyds from Odessa says
that three steamships belonging to the
Russian Transport Company have been
burned. Names and details are not given.
Altogether nine ships had been burned up
to last evening.
CONSUL REPORTS SURRENDER.
WASHINGTON. June 3o.--United States
Consul Heenan reported from Odessa
o.day that the Knisz Potemkin surrendered
to the Russian Black Sea feet at noon.
The firing on the town from the Potemkin
did not last long, and the vessel surrendered
Immediately upon the arrival Of the feet.
Earlier advices received at the State
Department from Consul Heenan and from
Mr., Meyer, the American Ambassador at
st. Petersburg showed that the guns OF
the Kniaz Potemkin had been turned on
the city, the wharves had been destroyed
by fire and 500 rioters had been killed by
the troops.
Many Russian steamers had been de-
stroyed by the FIRE. Consul Heenan In
one despatc says that six officers Of the
Knaz Potemkn were murdered by the
mutinous crew and eight liberated upon
the arrival Of the vessel al Odessa. The
remainder we're prisoners on board the
ship.
Ore despatch from Ambassador Meyer
said that siH.companes Of Marines at Libau
had mutinied and wrecked their harra oks
They were surrounded and some Of them
surrendered. Mr.. Meyer added that there
seerned 10 he concerted action on the part
Of the sailors in the Black Sea and the Baltic
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