Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-18

st. Petersburg, May II. - Very
disquieting reports are in circula-
ton this evening about Vice Adj
miral Rojestvensky's health. It is
said that he telegraphed the en-
peror that 1t is impossible for him
to proceed. An evening paper
today prints report that the adj
miral suffers from nervous
breakdown. No official conf1rma-
ton of the report is obtainable.
st. Petersburg, May lit is an
nounced from Cronstadt that Vice Ad-
m1ral Biriloff, comm and nder-in-chief of
the Baltic ports, has ordered the COM
manders In the fourth division of Ro-
jestvensky's fleet to hold their ships
In readiness to leave for the far east
by June IA without fail.
Togo Ready for Battle.
Annoy. May lit is believed part
OF the Japanese fleet is taking up
position below Formosa and that Togo
has planend to fight the Russians
south Of Formosa The Japanese get
orders from this vicinity at night time.
Rojestvensky Absolutely Independ dent.
Saigon, May 17.-Admiral De Jon
quieres, the French naval commander
OF Saigon, who has been cruising along
the AMMAN coast, returned here today.
According to reports gathered concern
ing the Russian fleet Rojestvensky has
shown absolute disregard of the dis
cussions on the subject of neutrality.
The Russian com mander proceeded as
If his position gave him complete inde.
pendence. He declared he acted on
his own Judgment and said the criti.
cisms did not change his opiDions.
Iron discipline. it is added, is main.
tanned on the Russian warships.
Governor General Of Ufa Wounded.
Ufa, Russia. May 17.-Major General
Sokolvsky. governor general Of the
province OF Ufa, was fired at several
times and seriously wounded yester-
day morning in the public garden dur
ing an entertainment. His assailant
J disappeared. General Sokolovsky's life
is despaired of, though he retains
| complete consciousness. Vice Cover
nor Bogdanovitch has taken over the
administration of the province.
An Enemy Of RevoIutlonlsts.
ST. Petersburg, May 17.-The shoot.
, ing of Major General Sokolovsky, gov.
ernor general of Ufa, is the second
crime of this nature which occurred
at Ufa within two years. his prede
cessor, General Bogdanovitch, having
been assassinated in the streets of Ufa
on May 9, 1903. General Sokolovsky
who as vice governor of Orenburg and
later as military governor of the same
province, acquired a reputation as a
stern. and rigorous official, was ap
pointed to restore order in the turbu
lent district Of Ufa and adopted re
pressive policy which long ago caused
4 him to be marked for the same fate
as Bogdanovitch. Numerous revolu
tionary societies were broken up by
General Sokolovsky and manifesto
tions were not permitted under his ad
ministration, and the last acts of the
governor general were the dispersal o
an anti-gov ernmental club and the sun
4 preston of the May day demonstra
tions with the arrest Of many armet
demonstrators.
:. Disturbances In Warsaw.
! Warsaw, May 17.-There were dis
turbances in the Jewish quarter las
!, evening. Police were attacked by
mob and forced to take refuge in tn
market hall. from which they shot an,
killed one and wounded another of tn
rioters
The workmen's committee issued
manifesto yesterday denouncing ag
tators, saying they had deceived tn
] workmen, who had led them to believ
a'general revolution was afoot through
out Russia. and as result a numbe
+, had been killed without gain. TIL
committee implored the workmen t,
return to work and secure their aim
by peaceful measures.
Policeman Killed at Riga.
Riga, European Russia. May IT,
Two policemen were killed by ur
; known persons at midnight near Cuis
! enberg park. A bomb was thrown a
a police patrol with the result that
police commissioner was wounded an
= policeman was killed. A policema
& who was among those who pursued tn
= bomb throwers was shot and killed b
the assassins, who were armed with re
volvers.
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