Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-28
R. ". BLISS HURT.
Secretary of fAmerican Embas-
 sy Attacked by Russians.
ST. PETERSBURG POLICE RESCUE HIM
Eddy Sends Note of .Protest--Muti- neers at SevastopoI Hold Out. Many Blaols Sea Fleet
 ships Tn Revols.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2s, Rober
 Woods Bliss, second secretary of tht
 American embassy, who has just re
 turned here after three months vaca
 ton in Paris, was the victim of ar
 outrage by rowdies in, one of the most
 fashionable streets of the capital and
 escaped bsing beaten to death owing
 to the tiEsly arrival of the police.
 Mir. Bliss was returning to the em. bassy on foot from the yacht club where he had been dining. On the Horse Guard boulevard, opposite the barracks of the Chevalier guard, the secretary was suddenly set upon by two men who sprang out of the dark ness of the trees. Mr. Bliss knocked down one of his assailants, but was seized by sympathizers with the row. dies, who had been attracted to the spot by the disturbance, and he was getting the worst of it when three po- llcemen and a house porter came to his rescue and fought off and seized his assailants.
 The rapidly gathering crowd, how ever, which sided against the police, rushed at the officers and rescued the prisoners The police managed to stand off the crowd and cover the retreat of Mir. Bliss, who was badly cut about the face. but not seriously injured. A po- lice captain visited the embassy and apologized for the attack on Secretary Bliss, but he warned the members of the embassy that the streets were very unsafe. especially the boulevard, which is the rendezvous of rowdies and sol diers and sailors in civilian clothes. The captain advised the members of the embassy to go armed in future and not to venture out more than is abso- lutely necessary.
 Charge d'Affaires Eddy has sent a note to Count Lamsdorff, the foreign minister, calling his attention to the assault on MT. Bliss, but making no demands.
 A dispatch from Irkutsk says that soldiers stationed at the penal colony at Alexandrovsk. government of IT, kutsk, revolted, got drunk and set fire to the barracks, where were eighty po- litical prisoners awaiting liberation through the czars amnesty.
 All of the eighty were burned to death.
 The soldiers then burned shops and houses. Cossaeks surrounded the muti- neers and fired on them repeatedly, killing forty and woundlng thirty.
 The latest news from Sevastopol is to the effect that many of the vessels and crews of the Black sea fleet have joined the mutineers.
 Governor General Kaulbars, at Odes- sa, has received the following dispatch from Vice Admiral Chouknin, com manding the Black sea fleet:
 'The mutineers left the Kniaz Po- temkine, and the vessel is now in my hands. The sailors, together with the soldiers of the Brest regiment, who mutinied. have shut themselves in the Lazareff barracks with some guns. When fresh troops arrive I shall at- tack, though fear the artillerymen may join the mutineers.
 "A very serious state of affairs pre- vails. Several officers have been kill ed"
 The council of the St. Petersburg Workmen's union has sent the follow Ing to the mutineers:
 'Heartiest greeting to the sailors and soldiers who have decided to follow the glorious example of the crew of the Kniaz Potemkine in declaring them selves fighters for liberty in fraternal union with the workmen of St. Peters burg"
 A telegram from Odessa says there 1 Is a rumor there that the mutineers of l he Black sea fleet intend to take pos session of Odessa.
 The president and all the principal members of the congress of peasants | 1t Moscow were arrested there under he authority of martial law. Among hose arrested was M. Tchirikoff. au- hor of the play. "The Chosen People," which was presented in London and New York early this year by the St. |