Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28
1RAND DUKE ALEXIS SAID TO
HEAD LIST OF THIRTY MARKED
FOR "ExEcuTIoN.'
WoRKMEN IN UGLY MOOD


Destination Unknown-Mllitary Sec
& retary Gen. Sahkaroff Lets Out Sc
cret That Russians Lost 100000
Raising New Armies.
st. Petersburg, March 27.-It is op-
emily stated among the workmen that
the fighting wing of the social revolu-
tionists has passed sentence Of death
on thirty high personages, the list be-
ing headed with the name of Grand
Duke Alexis and ending with that Of
the emperor and bearing also the
name of the dowager empress.
Eighty bombs were found by the
Warsaw police yesterday, hidden in q
grave In the cemetery. The news OF
this fact has caused the greatest con-
Germ here.
A report published abroad that the
sia incognito is untrue. He has not
left st. Petersburg.
Workmen In Ugly Mood.
The Industrial problem in st. Peters
stage, the owners of many factories
having in consequence of continued
backing and filling by their employees
decided to close down their works en-
tirely, locking out 10000 men.
The idle workmen are in an, ugly
frame of mind. The machinery in one
OF the big cotton mills was wrecked
Saturday, and the spirit of disorder is
in the air.
Trouble is expected and it Is be-
lieved the wilder spirits are now not
without bombs and other weapons of
defense and reprisal.
Death for Guard Officers.
Guard officers continue to receive
warnings that they will sign their
death warrants if they order the troops
to fire, and social democratic propa:
ganda Of demonstration and disturb
ance is evident
The proprietors Of the cotton mills
and woolen mills, which have been
operating on the smallest possible mar
gin of profit, are generally planning to
pay off and discharge their employees,
trying, with the aid of the authorities,
to send them back to the villages.
War Costs Car 100000 Men.
st. Petersburg, March 27-Russia
has lost 100000 men in the war with
Japan.
This astounding secret was revealed
Saturday by General Sakharoff, the
minister of war, who, stung by the crit
icism of his conduct Of the war office
blurted out the facts in an official
statement
For his temerity In revealing to ia
pan and the whole world the terrible
losses suffered by Russia, Sahkaroff
will be dismissed from his post by the
czar.
Nearly Million Men.
General Sahkaroff shows that the
Siberian railroad has delivered at Har
bin from the date of the beginning o1
the war up to today 761,467 soldiers
13,0S7 officers, 146,408 horses, 1,521
guns and 351 900 tons of stores
The publication of this article has
created a sensation among military
men and in public circles, many Of the
former censuring the general staff fol
disclosing valuable military secrets
and the latter finding from the figures
practical admission that the war has
cost almost 100000 men in killed
wounded. prisoners and sick, as the
whole effective force in the far east |.
now believed not to exceed 100000
men.
Fearful Losses in Battle.
1t is known that in round number!
100000 Russians are held in Japan al
prisoners Fully another 100000 wer.
killed in the siege of Port Arthur ant
the battles of the Yalu, Kinchau, Nan
shan hill, Vafangow, Liaoyang, tn.
Shahke, Heikoutai and Mukden. Full.
100000 have been inva!ided home from
sickness, and another 100000 incapa
citated for duty by wounds.
These stories tell the story of Rus
sia's sacrifices in the far east Doubt
less they have been known to Japan
But they are revealed to Russia for tn
first time.
1t appears from the foregoing that
including the large force in the ia
east at the beginning of the war, Rus
sia had within year nearly million
men in the field and it becomes ez
ceedingly doubtful if a Russian fore
was numerically inferior to the Japan
ese in any enga cement, including MuB
den.
Fail to Supply Port Arthur
The criticism of the war Offices fai
ure to supply Port Arthur adequatel
is met with the statement that it wa
provisioned for a garrison of twelv
battalions, the decision to put thirt
battalions there being taken so lat
that the original calculations could NO
be changed.
While affirming that the quick firin
guns and field guns of the Russians ar
superior to those of the Japanese, tn
war Office explains that the misfortun