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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
COWARO|CE OF CAR
Emperor of Russia a Weak
and Stupid Monarch.
VIEWS OF THE PRESS
SLAUGHTER OF PETITIONERS IN
ST. PETERSBURG RUTHLESS.
Sunday Massacre Hastens Doom OF
Romanoffs-America Sympathy
With Sufferers.
From the NeW York World.

From the New York World.
THE worst of all tyranny is the tyranny
of cowards," said Tocqueville. The most
conspicuous living example of that wise
generalization is Nicholas II, Gar of all
the Russias. The BourbOns were fools, as
Napolean said, but they were not lacking
in physical courage Nicholas seems to be
no less deficient in courage than in knowl-
edge of his people. How easy 1t would
have been for a really brave ruler to deal
with the situation that developed in st. Pc
tersburg yesterday. No mob was ever less
bloodthirsty than that which assembled at
the Winter Palace to petition for redress
of grievances. None ever showed more
confidence in its sovereign, the inviolability
of whose person had been guaranteed by
its leaders. I'VE do not wish to do harm"
IF he will only listen to our grievances
we are sure he will be just and merciful. )"
Those were not the cries of assassins.
A word from the car himself, even his
appearance before his people-an uplifted
hand-WOuld have satisfied majority that
the little father had heard their prayer and
would redress their wrongs. Instead hun
dreds of dead and wounded men and women
are the cars answer to the appeals of op
pressed people. With 100000 japanese hang
ing to the brown bears TANKS in Manchu-
ria, Nicholas could think of no better way
of answering a petition than to slaughter
his subjects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
Fatal Blunder at st. Petersburg.
From the New York Sun.


Although Americans dwell at dis
lance of at least 4 900 miles from the Rus
sian capital, electricity has made us eye
witnesses and ar-witnesses of a frightful
catastrophe which is probably the prelude
to a catacIysm such the world has not
beheld since the five terrible years that fol-
lowed the meeting in 1889 of the states
general at Versailles. At regards, indeed,
magnitude and stupidity no mistake was
committed By the purblind upholders of
the French ancien regime comparable for
a moment with the awful butchery to
which yesterday were subjected thousa Ids
of the cars most devoted subjects who
We're approaching the winter palace with
no other purpose but humbly to petition the
august and venerated sovereign who still to
their hearts was their Little Father" The
consequences of a dreadful disillusion and
of the maddenng disclosure that, judged
by his acts or by those of his trusted rep
resentatives, the ruler whom they have
been taught to regard as Gods anointed
and their guardian angel is really an en-
throned devil are likely to be the more APP
palling than anything seen in Paris during
the reign of terror, in proportion as the
Russian people have borne for centuries
acuter suffering with more patient forti-
tude, and in proportion as they are less
articulate and far more desperate than were
the subjects of Louis XVI,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
Foreign Naval Scholarships.

Two scholarships, with naval cadets of two
European nations aboard, are expected in the
Chesapeake within the next week. and a look
out for them is being kept by the mara
time observers at the Virginia Capes. The
Italian schoolship Amerigo Vespucci sailed
from Gibraltar for the Chesaoeake several
weeks ago and she is now about due She
will make a short visit to Baltimore, from
which city the class of cadets aboard are
expected to come here, as they did when
the vessel last visited this country two
years ago.
The German schoolship Molthe is coming
up the coast from the West Indies, and
she, too is expected to visit Baltimore in
a few days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
Hearing Under Rule Postponed.

Hearing of the rule, returnable today be-
fore Justice Gould in Probate Court, requir-
ing Mr.. John Ridout of the local bar to
show cause why he should not be adjudged
to be in contempt of court, was, by agree
ment of the parties interested, postponed
until next Friday.
Mr.. Ridout was called upon to pay into
the registry of the court December 8 last
$2,101, which he was alleged to have col
lected as attorney for Mrs. Barrett, adj
ministratrix of the estate of her deceased
husband, Judge o. d. Barrett. Not having
paid In the money as ordered, the rule was
issued requiring him to show cause today
why he should not be adjudged to be guilty
Of contempt because of such failure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
BOONE PENNEBAKER DEAD
Employed in Pension Office and Went to
Former Home a Short While AGO.

telegram from Louisville, KY, announces
the death of Samuel Boone Pennebaker yes
terday at his mothers residence in that city.
He was buried in the family lot in Cave
Hill cemetery, in Louisville, this morning.
Mr.. Pennebaker born in Louisville in
September, 1860. He came to Washington
soon after the civil war with his father, the
late Col. c. d. Pennebaker, then Kentucky
state agent and attended the public schools
here for several years. In 1874 he was ap-
pointed a page in the Senate by the late
Senator Beck. After several years service
there he was appointed a clerk in the pen
sion bureau, where he served until he re-
signed on account of i'll health a short time
ago and returned to his Kentucky home.
The change did not, however, benefit him,
and his wife and son were telegraphed for
and went to Louisville last week and were
with him when he died
Mr.. Pennebaker married Miss Rosa Cot
terrell of this city, and they have one child
He was of kindly, genial temperament and
very popular with his friends, and his death,
in the prime of life, is much deplored.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
Gar Wins if Guards Obey.

From the Baltimore Sun.
The future alone can tell what Will be
the result of the dreadful events in St.
Petersburg yesterday. when men, women
and children engaged in an industrial and
political demonstration were shot down by
the troops of their little father the car.
There may be revolution, or the agitators,
dsheartened by the stern attitude of their
government, may be cowed for the line
into submission. st. Petersburg dispatches
represent all elements Of the population of
the Russian capital as being aroused to
high pitch of anger by the slaughter of un
armed men and helpless women ana chill
dren. But, bitter as the feeling may be
among the masses, there is only The 1emct-
est chance of a successful revolution so
long as the cars legions are true TO their
sovereign. So long as the Cossacks and
the guards obey orders and kill strikers
and political agitators when the command
is given, there is little prospect that the au-
tocracy will be overthrown or that the car
will be compelled to accede to the demands
of his subjects Of all classes fog political
reforms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
Will Bureaucracy Prevail?

From the Philadelphia Record.
After us the 0eluge! This was the cry of
the supporters of the ancient regime in
France. But the deluge overlook them and
overwhelmed the rotten fabric of caste and
privilege in sea of blood. Has the flood
arrived in Russia, or will the efforts of the
bureaucracy to sweep back the tide avail
to hold the surging masses in check an
other generation? This is a question the
answer to which will probably be deter
Ieined by the events of the next twenty-four
hours. For the movement to uplift the
Russian nation to the plane of civilization
and political emancipation was not born
yesterday. The strike of the iron workers
of st. Petersburg was not its beginning,
nor was the meeting of the zemstvo dele
cations in that city last month which re-
suited in a petition for constitution. The
movement may be traced back forty years
to the time of the liberation of the serfs by
Alexander II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
The Russian Revolt.
From the New York Tribune

From the New York Tribune.
The forebodngs of yesterday are the facts
of today 1t would be difficult to exag-
gerate the gravity of the news which we
print from st. Petersburg this morning
Details may be exaggerated. The killed and
wounded may be numbered by hundreds, or
only by scores instead of the thousands of
popular report. That does not matter so
far as the significance of the whole incident
is concerned The important fact is that
large part of the populace of the Russian
capital has risen in revolt against the gov
eminent. if not against the dynasty, and
that the government is trying to repress it
with powder and ball. One life or a thou
sand-it is all the same in principle. 1t is
war. The scene of conflict has been shifted
thur has fallen and Kuropatkin is hiber-
mating in presumable security, but st. Pc
tersburg is in a state of siege and it's streets
are wet with the blood of Russian subjects
slain by Russian soldiers at the command
of the Russian government. That is the
situation. 1t could not well be more serious
in kind, and it may become supremacy Sc
riOus in degree.
Within the last few days more than one
writer has likened the situation at st. Pc
tersburg to that at Paris and Versailles at
the beginning of the French revolution. The
comparison may be odious in it's ominous
implications, but in some details it is OBJ
vious. AS in 1883, so in 1905 the people are
asking to see their sovereign. that they may
ask of him directly redress for their wrongs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
FRANK CROKER DEAD.
Automobile Accident Had Fatal End
ing


dispatch from Ormond Fla last night
says: Frank Croker of New York died here
soon after midnight from the effect of the
injuries he received yesterday in the au-
tomobile accident. His mother anr sister
will arrive on special train today.
Frank Croker was the second son of Rich
ard Croker. For nearly ten years he had
been leading spirit in the realm of sports
which means that he began his career in
this line wien he was only about seventeen
years old. In his college days he took the
most active part in all kinds of athletic
sports. He be came an expert at gclf win
ming several amateur victories that put him
we'll up to the head of the non-profes-
siCL ais.
For three years young Croker had been
an enthusiast in the automobile line and
had taken part in many notable races. His
greatest effort to win honors in this field
was in the aVnderoilt cup race on Long Is
land last fall, wheE he drove his own ma
chine against all the professionals from
this country and Europe
The accident which caused his death oc-
CURED about two miles this side of Ormond,
Florida. Croker was speeding northward,
driving himself. when he saw far ahead
man propellng motor chair car. Croker
tried to turn out, but the cyclist finally shot
sideways to the right, directly in front of
mighty effort to turn, but at that instant
the damp sand gripped his wheel. wrench
ing one of the tires, and the car turned
sharply and then Topped sideways, turning
over until it reached water foot deep
Croker was found to have one leg broken
near the thigh and the other leg injured,
but not broken. He had deep cut and
confusion on the forehead, and blood was
flowing from his ears. He was unconscious
for about ten minutes. Finally, when
bystander rolled back his eyelids he spoke
and gradually revived.
Raul, the driver, had ceased breathing
when his body was pulled out of the Allan
tic
The cyclist, whose legs were broken, was
taken to a carriage and driven off.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
MERRY BANQUET BOARD
CHEVALIERS OF CANTON WASH
INGToN, NO. /, L. o. OF.
General M. A. Raney of Iowa, Com
handing the Patriarchs Militant,
Guest of Honor.

About 100 chevaliers of Canton Wash
lhgton, No j, Patriarchs Militant, l. o. o.
f., with their ladies. sat down to an ex-
ceiient banquet at Freund's Saturday night
In honor of Gen. NJ. A. Raney of Iowa.
commanding the Patriarchs Militant of the
world. Chevalier Edwin B. Hay was at his
best as toastmaster, having been good
naturedly introduced by Capt. ID. V. CHS
hold as POSTMASTER of the evening
Colonel Hay alluded to the presence of
the ladies, and assured them as their hus-
bands brothers and sons would act on this
occasion in their presence so they had al
ways acted. and would in tie future al
ways deport themselves in the absence of
the ladies.
The first toast. Our Or6er." was re-
Sponded 10 by Grand Master w. II. McNiel
who referred to the toa stmaSter as hurting
unerring javelins that never miss the
mark; but whether their points are dipped
in honey or dipped in gall, they are so
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
Spirit of the People.
From the Philadelphia Press.


1t may be quite possible for the govern
ment to repress and subdue the uprising for
the time being. But the fire has been start
ed and no man. can tell where it Will end
Three months ago any prediction of the
momentous occurrences of the past week
would have been deemed visionary. Events
have moved with great rapidity. The revo-
lutonary spirit has made a Roadway OF
which few had any adequate conception.
The explanation is found in the character
of the new industrial element. This out
burst does not come from the supine and
stolid peasantry which forms the great sub
stratum of Russia. 1t comes from the class
of workers which has been developed by
the industries that have been established
within the last dozen years in st. Peters
burg, Moscow and other manufacturing
centers. This is a more plastic element,
and the facility with which they have adj
vanced from economic grievances to drastic
political demands shows the extraordinary
progress which the liberal propaganda has
made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
Fears for Safety of Vessel.

Fears are expressed for the safety of the
American barkentine Essex, which it is be-
lieved has fallen a victim to one of the Sc
we're gales which have recently swept over
the Atlantic. The Essex sailed from
Charleston, December Z. for New York.
and since that time tidings have been
had of the vessel, although the ordinary
time of the trip would not have much ex-
ceeded two weeks. The Essex was built
at Newburyport. Mass. in 1870. md was a
vessel of 622 gross tons. She was COM
manded by Capt. Smith of Philadelphia and
was last in port here some time during the
summer. when she discharged a cargo of
humber from south ATLANTIC port.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS.
slemp Succeeds Agnew as Chairman of
Central Committee.

The republican state central committee
and executive committee met in Lynch
burg Saturday night with all of the eX-
ecutive committee represented and A out
of so of the central committee present. G.
Bascom Slemp was elected chairman, to
succeed Park Agnew.
A resolution was unanimously adopted
calling upon the republican party in every
county, city and town to make fight this
year for local offices and for the legisla-
ture, and another expressing thanks of the
committee for the past work of Mr.. Agnew.
The session closed with speeches by Camp
bell Slemp, Judge L. L. Lewis, c. A. Heer
mans and John c. Blair.
During the speech of Mr.. Semp he re-
ferred to Judge Lewis as the next republic
can nominee for governor, to which Judge
Lewis responded that he would prefer to
fight as private in the ranks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
Of bloodguiltiness, in its death struggle.

of bloodguiltiness, In its death struggle.
Yet it will surely die.
Whether the end Is to come in few days
or few months no man can say. Amid
the rush of events since the first blood of
an awakening people stained the snow in
front of the winter palace prophecy of the
immediate future is idle. Too much de-
Ponds upon conditions concerning which
there Is no definite knowledge-even In st.
Petersburg-to make indications Of the hour
worth considering.
We know that the first day of the revolt
has passed in butchery. Men, virtually I'M
armed. women and children have opposed
themselves to professional fighting ma
chimes, guided by ruthless hands, and have
been slain and manned by thousands. OF
such collision there could come but one
isuse-supposing the troops held faithful to
the government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
Lighthouse Service Matters.

The lighthouse tender Violet is reported
at the Point Lookout station Of the light
house service landing a lot OF bu3ys and
anchors, which she brought from the sup
ply station at Portsmouth. Va. These
buoys will be used fors channel marks on
Chesapeake bay and in the Potomac river
and other tributaries of the bay.
John Temple, who has been assistant
keeper at the Pages Rock light station,
Va has been transferred to the Smith s
Point station. at the mouth of the Poto-
mac as assistant keeper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
HELD FOR GRAND JURY.
Andrew Lincoln Charged With Assault
ing Wife With Razor

Andrew Lincoln, who lives at go Ricketts,
court northwest, was up in the Police Court
this morning on charge of assaulting his
wife, Martha Lincoln, with a razor and was
held under $1,000 bond to await the action
of the grand jury.
1t was alleged by Policeman Mccarthy,
who made the arrest, that Lincoln came
home last evening and after engaging in
an alteration with his wife he drew the
razor and cut her severely about the head
She was taken to the Emergency Hospi-
tai in the ambulance Immediately after the
assault, where medical attention was given
her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
The Massacre.
l the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The dispatches which bring the story
of the day in the Russian capital are in
some respects the most remarkable ever
printed; probably no such volume of in
formation has ever before been carried by
the nights cable. 1t cannot be said, how
ever, that the situation is clear. 1t has
been day of death. For the present at
least the military seem to be in control.
What frenzy of revolution is ready to burst
forth tomorrow or the next day, whereunto
the dolorous business of January ODD may
grow, no human wisdom dare undertake to
forecast.
Much, perhaps everything, so far as the
events of the next few days are concerned,
depends on the attitude of the army. Dur
ing the past two years the socialistic
propaganda is known to have made head
way among the imperial troops. In Au-
gust, 1902, General -Auropatkin issued
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
Banquet of Caledonian Club.

The anniversary of the birthday of the
Scottish poet Robert Burns will be cele-
brated by the Caledonian Club with a BAN
quet at Freund's.
Rev. Donald Mcleod, Mr.. Alexander
Grant, Capt. Robert Armour, John B.
Smyth, Prof. A. E. L. Leckie, Prof. John
Kirk Smith and others will respond to
toasts. The committee in charge is COM
posed of Robert Low, William Jardine
John McVey, John B. Smyth, DIR. Thos
Miller James NJ Leckie and Dr. w. S.
Barr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
The Storm Breaks.
From the Philadelphia North American.

From the Philadelphia North American.
Despotism has sounded it's own death
knel in Russia. But it has elected to die
hard. Sundays terrible work in st. Peters,
burg is assurance that its desperation is
measureless-that it will hesitate at no ex-
IRENE of barbarity-stop short of no depths
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23

circular addressed to the general officers
warning them against allowing the spread
in which revolutionary pamphlets and
proclamations had been Autographed within
the military bureau itself In the strikes
of 1903 at Kieff.- Baku and Odessa, the
troops were persuaded to act only with the
utmost reluctance, and in a number of
cases regiments fraternized with the
strikers.
1t need hardly be remarked that in the
sympathy of the soldiery of Louis XVI
with the proletariat lay, the cause of the
success of the French revolution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
Depends ON the Army.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

DSPSANS W. eAC aIuy.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer
The threatened clash has happened. There
has been and still is desperate conflict
between the people and the officials whose
duty it is to maintain order and to pre-
serve the peace. Men, women and children
by the hundred nave been shot down and
killed or wounded on the streets of the
Russian capital But whether the riot of
today is to eliminate in the revolution of
tomorrow remains to be seen. The
balance depends upon the action to be
taken by the troops. An autocratic gov
eminent which has lost the confidence and
forfeited the respect of those over whom
its rule is exercised can only sustain itself
by force, and the force of the government
of the car is the army. If the army
stands by him. if its officers retain their
loyalty and the men in the ranks their
obedience, it will be Impossible for the
rebellion against authority or the revolt
against oppression to be successfully sus-
tanned, and while it may not be without
some permanent result, it will not lead,
unless indirectly, to any radical change in
the governmental system.
Riot or Revolutionp
From the Baltimore American.
1t is possible that Russia is confronted
by crisis which may be destructive of
autocratic government and productive of a
constitution and parliament, nut no such
conclusion may be drawn from the isolated
fact of the killing and wound1ng of a few
hundred men, women and children in the
streets and Palace Square of the city of st.
Petersburg Riots are made by morgan
lied and ignorant mobs with a few frenzied
leaders. Revolutions are inflated by such
mobs plus an element of high intelligence,
students of the continual process of social
evolution, in which there is 40 lack of bril-
liant leadership and which have q we'll
thought out program embodying their en-
thusiasms, principles and purposes. When
the French king inquired of his minister
what the roting meant, and the minister re-
piled, Sire 1t is not a riot; it is n revolu-
tion," it was not of such mob he spoke
as that which yesterday rushed Dlindly upon
the cars cavalry and infantry ut st.
Petersburg.
insignificant, however, as the bloody oc-
currence may be in itself, it may be the
spark that will start the conhagration of
revolution. Never before has a ruler of
the house of the Romanoffs been confronted
by conditions SO full of threat against his
power.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-02-01
Hale and Hearty at Eighty.


3. NJ. Crawford, of South Union, was
in Walhalla last Saturday and paid The
Courier q pleasant call. Mr.. Crawford
is in his sIst year, having been born
July Is, 1924, at the same place at which
he now resides. He has lived there
practically all his life. Just prior to the
war he was appointed to the office of
County Commissioner for Oconee county
and served four years in that capacity
under appointment. That Office was
then made elective, and he was the
choice of the people, serving two more
yearS, making service of six consecu-
tive years as commissioner. At the
age of 25, when The Keoweo Courier
was launched as newspaper in 1S49,
Mr.. Crawford became subscriber, and
for 55 years his name has been continu-
eusly on the subscription books of this
paper. he is q pleasant, genial gentle
man, as honest as. the 21st day of June
is long, and in his eighty years of active
life and honest toll there is much to
serve as guide to the 20 of fewer years.
We wish for him yet many years of
prosperity.