The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-08
TROOPS IN BALTIC PROVINCES
AND OTHER SECTIONS IN
OPEN REVOLT.
fifty MuT|Nt[RS ARE KILLED
PANIC STRICKEN POPULATION
FEARS THAT A cATAcLYSM
is IMMINENT.

ST. Petersburg, via Berlin, Dec. s.
Intense alarm prevails here. Com
munication with the outer world by
telegraph ceased Saturday morning
when the Finnish operators joined
their Russian comrades.
The population is almost in a state
of panic, fearing that the railroad
will stop running and that the inha
tants, therefore, will have no mode OF
flight in the event of the cataclysns
which they seem to fear is imminent.
Stories of the spread of disaffection
in the guard regiments are in every
bodys mouth and the revoluticnaries
continue to boast that the troops wil2
no longer fire on the people.
Troops in Open Mutiny.
The Associated Press has just
learned from high authority that the,
situation in the Baltic provinces has
grown exceedingly grave and that the
troops at Reval and neighborhood are
in open mutiny.
All attempts to secure details of the.
uprising have thus far failed. Ac-
cording to reports the attitude of the
troops in the Baltic provinces is re-
garded by the government as the most
dangerous factor that has thus far de-
veloped.
Count White continues to refuse
deal with the telegraphers, declaring
that for the government to YIELD
would be equivalent to its abdication
at their order.
Mutiny at kieff.
London, Dec 5.-The~ Daily Mails
Kieff correspondent in dispatch
dated Dec. 2, and forwarded by way
of Podwoloezyska, says:
EARLY this morning company of
sappers, dissstihed with their mar
tinet commander. mutinied and per-
suaded second company to join
them. Numbering thousand, the
mutineers marched to the: barracks of
the 125th Kursl infantry, which
however, remained loyal. Finally the
mutineers arrived at the barracks of
hes'aritllery division and the Azoff in
fantry regiment.
'f@ Fifty Are Killed.
1.-THE Azoff men answered their APP
peal with insults and the rebels
opened fire upon them. The Azoffs
answered with three volleys. A por-
tion of the mutineers fled, but the.
others continued firing The Azoffs
replied with deadly volleys, and finally
the rebels fed headlong, throwing
down their arms Two hundred of
them surrendered and were conveyed
to their barracks by Cossacks. Fifty
dead and a hundred wounded mutt
neers were left on the ground.
"A court-martial has been convened3
and notice issued that any further at
tempt at mutiny will be quelled by ar
| tillery."
Trco-s Rebel at Odessa.
Vienna. Dec. 5.-The Tageblatt; pub
! fishes a communication from Odessa.
which was mailed to Podwoloczyska
| Galicia from which point it was tel
egraDhed. 1t reads as follows:
The Ismaili and Donau regiments
| stationed at Odessa, mutinicd, but the
! authorities succeeded in disirming II
| the men,"
Warships Disarmed.
Paris, Dec. 5.-Undated dispatches
| from ST. Petersburg arriving by way
| of Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, give the.
following information:
| There is the greatest excitement
| among the sailors and the authorities,
have ordered the disarmament of the.
warships The officers, fearing mu-
| tiny, acceded to the demand of the.
| sailors for the release of workman
| who was arrested while distributing
revolutionary proclamations''
| Fear Outbreak of Troops.
ST Petersburg, Dec. 2, via Fydtkuh-
men, Dec 4-The most elaborate pre-
! cautions have been taken against p
| feared outbreak by the troops as re-
suit of the Sebastopol mutiny. The.
naval batta1ions have been completely
gained over by the revolutionaries
and are almost beyond control They
have been deprived of their arms.
Guard for American Embassy.
Berlin, Dec. 5. = A guard for the,
| United States embassy at St. Peters
! burg passed through here Yesterday
I The men, who were dressed in civil
! ians' clothes, are believed to be from
/ 1.-THE cruiser Minneapolis, which is at
| Gravesend, Eng.
| Washington, Dec. 5.-The men re-
ferred to as passing through Berlin
| en- route to the American embassy as
I cordins to the state department, are
probably household attendants which
Mr.. Meyer, the American Ambassador
to Russia, has engaged for his person
al service in st. Petersburg.