Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-28
AMERICAN is
MOB VICTIM.
Secretary of Embassy Injured
in Russian Demonstration
Revolt Is Spreading.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2S.-Robert
Woods Bliss, second secretary of the
American embassy, who has just re-
turned here after three months vaca-
ton in Paris, was the victim of an
outrage by rowdies in one of the most
fashionable streets of the capital and
escaped being beaten to death owing
to the timely arrival of the police.
Mr.. Bliss was returning to the en-
bassy on foot from the yacht club
where he had been dining. On the
Horse Guard boulevard, opposite the
barracks of the Chevalier guard, the
secretary was suddenly set upon by
two men who sprang out of the dark
ness of the trees. Mr.. Bliss knocked
down one of his assailants, but was
seized by s~ympathizers with the row.
dies, who had been attracted to the
spot by the disturbance, and he was
getting the worst of it when three po-
licemen and u house porter came to
his rescue and fought off and seized his
assailants.
The rapidly gathering crowd, how
ever, which sided against the police,
rushed at the officers and rescued the
prisoners. The police managed to stand
off the crowd and cover the retreat of
Mr.. Bliss, who was badly cut about the
face, but not seriously injured. A po-
lice captain visited the embassy and
a%pologized for the attack on Secretary
Bliss, but he warned the members of
the embassy that the streets were very
unsafe, especially the boulevard, which
is the rendezvous of rowdies and sol
diers and sailors in civilian clothes.
The captain advised the members of
the embassy to go armed in future and
not to venture out more than is abso-
lutely necessary.
Charge d'Affaires Eddy has sent a
note to Count Lamsdorff, the foreign
minister, calling his attention to the
assault on Mr.. Bliss, but making no
demands.
A dispatch from Irkutsk says that
soldiers stationed at the penal colony
ut AleXandrovsk, government of r.
kutsk, revolted, got drunk and set fire
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litical prisoners awaiting liberation
through the cars amnesty.
All of the eighty were burned to
death.
The soldiers then burned shops and
houses. Cossacks surrounded the mutt
neers and fired on them repeatedly,
killing forty and wounding thirty.
The latest news from Sevastopol is
to the effect that many of the vessels
and crews of the Black sea fleet have
joined the mutineers.
Governor General Kaulbars, at Odes-
sa, has received the following dispatch
from Vice Admiral Chouknin, com
handing the Black sea fleet:
THE mutineers left the Kniaz Po-
temkine, and the vessel is now in my
hands. The sailors, together with the
soldiers of the Brest regiment, who
mutinied, have shut themselves in the
Lazareff barracks with some guns.
When fresh troops arrive shall at
tack, though | fear the artillerymen
may join the mutineers.
"A very serious state of affairs pre-
walls. Several officers have been kill
ed
The council of the st. Petersburg
Workmen's union has sent the follow
ing to the mutineerS:
'Heartiest greeting to the sailors and
soldiers who have decided to follow the
glorious example of the crew of the
Kniaz Potemkine in declaring them
selves fighters for liberty in fraternal
union with the workmen of st. Peters
burg
A telegram from Odessa says there
is a rumor there that the mutineers of
the Black sea fleet intend to take pos
session of Odessa.
The president and all the principal
members of the congress of peasants
at Moscow were arrested there under
the authority of martial law. Among
those arrested was NJ. Tchlrikoff. au-
thor of the play, The Chosen People,"
which was presented in London and
New York early this year by the st.
Petersburg Dramatic company.