Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-02-25
TURMorLs IN RUSSIA.


Assassination or the Chief of Police
of Baku -Revoiutionists Set Fire 10
Military Magazine at Kieff-Strike
Movement Subsiding in st. Peters
burg.
Paris, Feb. 5.--The Reuter- Telegram
Company reports that the chief of police
at Batoom, Russia, has been assassinated.
ST. Petersburg, Feb. 25.--Three strik-
ers at daylight this morning assassinated
Kondratouch, the chief of police of
Baku. Large crowds surrounded Kon-
dratOuch as he was passing through the
street and the chief of police a moment
later fell dead in pool of blood. The
assassins escaped by side street where
vehicle was waiting to convey them to
place of safety.
This is probably the same assassina-
ton which Reuter- refers to. Owing to
the difficulty Of obtaining news from
southern Russia it is probable that the
cities of Bakn and Batoom were in con-
fiict in the dispatches received in Lon
don.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 25.-Revolu-
tionists today set fire to the military
magazine at KieA. Immense quantities
OF grain, hay aud stores we're destroyed.
London, Feb. 25.--The st. Peters
burg correspondent Of the Exchange
Telegraph Company reports that martial
law has been declared at Baku, Russian
Caucasia, the scene of serious street
fighting between AEmenians and Moham-
medans.
Warsaw, Feb. 25.-There is no sign
of a let up in the crisis arising from the
strike of the railway employees. Dis
orders on a small scale continue at diff
ferent points. The only serioustro
this morning occurred at Mark, where
strikers wrecked the railway station.
London, Feb. 25.--The situation in
southern Russia is fast taking on more
serious complexion than it had even dur
ing the recent revolutionary movement
there according to dispatch received by
the Exchange Telegraph Company, from
its St. Petersburg correspondent. The
correspondent states that the agitation is
rapidly spreading and the outlook is
most serious. The movement has now
taken hold among the peasants who
are burning stores Of corn and other
provisions belonging to the landed pro.
prietors. Several thousand sheep have
been killed and quantities of hay and
straw destroyed
Another dispatch from the Russian
capital says the statement has been made
by member of the diplomatic corps that
the imperial council of ministers has re-
ceiyed information that the situation in
both southern and western Russia is.
rapidly becoming SO serious that repres-
sive measures will be necessary 10 the
near future. Agitators are said to be
distributing circulars throughout the
country districts in which the peasants
are urged to make general demonstra-
ton on March the anniversary Of the
liberation of the serfs.
st. Petersburg, Feb. ga correspon-
dent of the Publishers Press Association,
after a careful investigation, has come to
the conclusion that the strike movement
10 Russia, renewed several days ago, is
generally subsiding, for the very sufici-
ent rsason that the workmen's funds are
exhausted and the men are starved out.
The strikers are resuming work wherever
1t is possible to dc so. In many cases
the strikes have been transformed into
lock-outs. The employers are revenging
themselves by denying employment to
repentant starving strikers. The official
estimates place the number of men not
workiDgin various districts at $50, 900.
London, Feb. 25.--The St. Peters
burg correspondent of the Reuter- Tele-
gram Co. wires that the council of minis
tiers has postponed the summOning of
the zemsky sober or popular assembly,
indefinitely. The same correspondent
states that work at the Putiloff Works
was resumed today.