Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-11-27
FAVOR HIS RE-
y
FORMS AND WANT MORE.
DEMAND DIRECT BALLOT
Ask for Concession Which Premier
Considers 1t impossible to Grant
Meeting Also FaVors Grant to
Douma of Power to Elaborate a
Constitution.

Moscow, Nov. 24.-By a Scanty ma
jority of 20 tine zemstvo congress yes
terday accepted the first sections Oh
the resolution drafted by the execu-
tive committee declaring the solidar-
ity of the congress with the principles
of the imperial manifesto of Oct. 80
and assuring. the government of the
support of the great majority Of. the
zemstvos and municipalities in carry
ing into effect the liberties. promised
by the manifesto, but laying down
as the sole means of guaranteeing
the authority of the douma and re-
storing order in the country, the
election of. representatives by a gen
eral, direct, equal and secret ballot
and formal grant to the first douma
of the power to elaborate a conStitu-
tion for tne empire.
/ Friends of Premier White on the
floor made a stout fight against the
provision for a direct ballot, the one
concession which the premier consid-
ers it Impossible to grant, but this
provision was carried over their
heads by a two-thirds majority
Business Resumes in VIadivostok.s
Vladivostok, Nov 24-There have
been no further disturbances here
and order has been completely re-
stored. Ships are arriving daily and
cargoes are piled high on the docks.
There is great activity in the port.
Warehouses have been burned and
nearly all the hotels have suffered
from the torch The few remaining
hotels and private houses are crowd
ed with hundreds Of business men
who have poured into Vladivostok
since the declaration of peace.
Troops Filling Poland
Kielce, Russian Poland, Nov. pa
garrisons in Poland. One additional
regiment arrived here yesterday and
two regiments. passed Kielce march
ing in the direction of Dombroya.
To Exterminate Rioters.
Warsaw, Nov: 24.-Goyernor. Gener-
al Skallon has sent a confidential cir
cular to the temporary military gov
ernors recently appointed in the Pol
ish provinces, ordering them to con-
slider agitators' and. rioters as insuFg
ents,. and to shoot them down until
they are all exterminated, - and also
to dispense public meetings by the
use of firearms.
Relief Fund Near Million Mark
New York, .NoY: 24-The total
amount collected to date for the Jew
ish relief fund for sufferers from the
Russian massacre is now $734,494.
The subscriptions for yesterday were
$73737.
Finn Republic Dec: 20. -
ST. Petersburg, NOV. PA mem
Der of the zemstvo congress has tee
graphed from Moscow that Finland
will declare itself a republic Deem
Der 20.
In answer to the. address of the
Moscow merchants Count WitteImade,
this reply yesterday: Your com
munication strengthens me. in my eff
forts to fulfill my duties to his maJes
ty and to direct Russia's. reformation
in accordance with the principles of
law and freedom"
Wholesale assertions from : the
army are reported from the eau
casus and the trans-Caspian regions,
where the Georgians and Armenians
form an important part Of the troops.
A strike of the employees of the pos
tai and telegraph systems is expected.
Cars Children Struggled Away?
Berlin, Nov 24.-From Swedish
sources it is learned that it is sus-
pected at Stockholm that the czar
has sent his children out of Russia in
care of Grand Duke Nicolai Michael
ovitch, who Wednesday crossed Swed-
en-, bound for Denmark and the Ri