Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-11-17
BULLETS CRUSH MUT|Ny
Over Score Shot Dead During
Riot in Kishinef.
WHITE is IN EARNEST
Campaign of Reform Is Begun by His
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. All Over
Russia Are Closed.

patch to the Russ from Odessa says that
reports of contemplated massacre have
created a panic. A general exodus was
only prevented by measures taken by
Gov. Gen. kaUlbars, but the situation
continues threatening. The dispatch de-
scribes at length the atrocities which
occurred at Odessa, saying that the st.
Bartholomew massacre pales in compar-
ison. 1t lays the responsibility on Pre-
feet Neuhardt, who twice prevented the
city council from telegra phing Count
Witte a demand for his removal.
Compel Strikers to Resume Work.
WARSAW. Russian Poland. Nov. II.
The governor general has ordered the
military to take possession of all the
stores of coal, with the object of depriv
ing the population of fuel and compelling
the strikers TO resume work.
Troops Fire Upon Mutineers.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 1.-THE
prisoners in the Jail at Kishineff, Bess-
arabia, revolted in a body last night and
demanded their freedom. On their re-
quest being refused the prisoners set fire
to the Jail.
Troops were hurried to the scene and
fired a Volley into the mutineers, Of
whom twenty-five were killed and many
wounded.
All is comparatively quiet at Odessa,
although there were many isolated cases
Of violence during the night.
Official announcement is made that
Count Whites ministry entered upon its
functions today and will devote all its
efforts TO the realization of the reforms
outlined i'll the Emperors manifesto.
Count Witte Is Checked.
Count Witte received the severest
checks in his attempts to solve the con-
stitutiOn problem by the refusal of
Prince TrOubetZkOi to join the ministry,
and also, in a lesser degree, by that of
NJ. Goutchkoff. With characteristic
rapidity he replaced them by Prof. Men
schoutkin and NJ. Timarazieff.
Autonomy similar to that given to Fin
land will be granted to Poland shortly,
thus settling the unrest there.
Massacre of Jews Not Expected.
There is every reason to believe that
the fears of a massacre of Jews tonight
at st. Petersburg and Moscow are I'M
founded. The alarming reports look
more like campaign of the revolution
airy extreme elements. The Jewish quar-
ter OF st Petersburg has been heavily
guarded since last night.
Notwithstanding the assurances of
protection, hundreds of Jews and many
others are seeking safety in flight.
Schools All Closed Up.
The universities and high schools
throughout Russia have been closed in
definitely by order OF the minister of
education. 1t is announced that martial
law will he declared throughout Poland.
Every tenth sailor implicated in the
recent riots at Cronstadt is to be shot
sentence hn
tlnous soldiers by military court which
was convened in extra ordinary session at
Cronstadt yesterday.
According TO information received by
the Slovo the mutiny is not yet complete
y quelled, the Fourth and Seventh
Equlpages still holding out in their bar
racks and keeping the troops which sur
round the building at bay by means of
machine guns mounted at the windows
The admiralty declares that the report
that the crews of the Russian battle
ships Slt va and Alexander IL, now at
Cronstadt, have mutinied is untrue.
Graft Cause for Troubles.
Vice Admiral Birilieff, minister of ma
rine, freely admits that the sailors have
many just grievances, investigation hay
ing shown that the government contract
ors have robbed the government and fur
nlshed the crews with food unfit to eat.
An independent investigation seems to
confirm the report that the naval Off
GERS at Cronstadt acted disgracefully.
Poland Wants Autonomy.
WARSAW, Nov. 1O.-Representatives
Of all political parties in Poland have
decided to send twenty leading citizens
to st. Petersburg to request the EN-
peror to grant Russian Poland full au-
tonomy and its own Parliament. Dis
orders continue here.
Revolution But No Blood.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. IL
The following cablegram was received
here today from Kobe, Japan, by
member OF the local Russian revolution
airy committee:
Enthusiastic reception given to reNo-
lutionary officers by the revolutionary
10000 soldiers at Hamadera and Hime-
j detention camps, red banners bearing
allegiance. Russian Marseillaise sung"
DR.. Russell the Leader.
The explanation of this cablegram.
given by the local committee here. is
that Il remarkable peaceful revolution
has been accomplished under conditions
never before paralleled.
In 1901 DR.. Nicholas Russell, a Rus
sian by birth, but a resident of Hayti.
was president of the first territorial sen
ate Coming to America, he became
deeply interested in propagating Social
istic reform ideas. He was finally sup
piled with adequate funds and a great
mass of Socialistic literature by 1.-The
American friends of Russia" of which
Charles w. Folk and Julia Ward Howe
are respectively president and vice pres
ident, and by other similar societies.
Prisoners All Socialists.
Upon the fall of Port Arthur, DR..
Russell was sent to Japan to spread
among the Russian captives the ideas
of his party. According to the mem
bers of the local society he has succeed
ed beyond all expectations, as is shown
by the fact that he has organized under
the banner of Socialism nearly all of
the thousands of Russian soldiers taken
prisoners by the japanese during the last
war, who are now in detention in japan
awaiting transportation to their homes
CASHIER Is UNDER CLOUD.