The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-06
THROAT CUTTING.
Murder and PilIage Resumed
With RedOubled Fury
At Various Points of the Russian
Interior.
SOLDIERS LOOK ON
HVhfIo Fo-- A. DID,. HDEt.H
While Jews Are Beaten, Robbed
and Murdered.
The Torch Adds to Horrors of
the Situation.

St. Petersburg, Nov 6.-The news
from the interior shows that there has
been little Improvement in the situa-
ton. In some places disorders have
recommended with redoubled fury. The
horrible story of massacre at Odessa is
not fully known here. In the Caucasus
the Tartars and Russians are cutting
each others threats and the Armenians
are giving themselves up to piIlage and
incendiarism.
From Baehmul. Besarabia, somes an
entierly new tale of revolt.
A three days attack on the Jews be
gan Thursday with every indication of
police organization. Jewish students
were beaten, the Jewish stores in the
markets were sacked during the day and
during the night the plumber OF resi-
dences commenced Troops arrived on
the scene but the following day the
work of piIlage was resumed before the
eyes of the soldiers. The prayers of the
hunted Jews for mrecy were unavailing-
| Toward noon the torch was applied to
stores and houses. The police would
not permit the Jews to fight s9Ie fire and
the troops were withdrawn. Then the
pnlage began afresh. It was temporari-
" stopped Saturday morning through
the efforts of the Russian peasants but
the police spread false reports which
aroused the mob and there was a re-
4lCNe1A u the NOIh OL Rlu4l0GI ana
massacre. The losses are said to be in
the millions of dollars.
A telephone message from MOSCOW
says the Jews are terror stricken with
fear of a massacre there. Many of them
have abandoned their lodgings and are
sleeping in the houses of friends.
Manifesto Arrives.
Helsingfors. Nov. 6=The imperial
/ manifesto meeting meeting most of the
/ demands of the Firms arrived here
/ late last night. The constutionalists
are satisfied and the socialists who
\ threatened to make a demonstration
have thus far been quiet.
Charge with BayOnets.
Tomsk, Siberia, Nov. 6.=The troops
today were forced to charge with bay
/ Onets against a mob which was pillag-
! ing Jewish houses. A number were
killed and many wounded. The city
is half sacked.
N[ussulmans for ePace.
ElizabapoI. Caucasia, Nov. 6.-The
/ NIussulman population has organized
/ manifestations in behalf of the i'm
perial manifesto, the orators calling on
the population to cease all national
hatred.
Killed and Wounded 5000.
odessa. Nov. 6.-1g!31 p. M.-The
town is quiet today. 1t is now esti-
mated that the killed and wounded
during the recent riots here number 6,
O00 The city hospital alone contains p
600 wounded.
Killed by Bomb.
Novogeorgieviskic, Russia, Nov. GA
| bomb was thrown yesterday into the
apartments of the commander of the
fortress. The commander was killed
and his wife, their children and an or
derby were wounded.
Court Forced 10 Resign.
Stockholm Nov Ga telegram from
Abo, capital of the province of Abo-
jorneborg, Finland, says that Governor
! Borgenstrom has Joined the constitu-
tionalists and that the garrison OF zoo
men including 100 CossacIs remains
passive by his orders. The members