Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-07-10
GEAR MAKING EFFORT To BRING ABOUT
AN IMMEDIATE ARM|ST|CE IN FAR EAST

Gen. Linevitch cannot prevent this,
for his 100000 men are confined by
Marshal Oyama's 100000. and any
attempt on his part to relieve Gen.
Kasbeck could result only as did Mar,
| shall McMahon's attempt to relieve
Metz in 1870.
Rebel Crew Well Commanded.
st. Petersburg, July 6.-While no Of
! fetal confirmation is obtainable the
Associated Press has been informed
by an authority usually reliable that
the admiralty received news that
Kniaz Potemkine, after shipping coal,
provisions and medicines, is again at
large in the Black Sea with destina-
ton unknown. Whether the report is
| true Or not, the crew took a remark
able step yesterday when, with all
solemnity of a provisional government,
it issued manifesto addressed to the
powers, announcing that a civil war
mas begun against the existing regime
i'll Russia and pledging the inviolabil-
lty Of foreign shipping anu foreign
ports.
This action was doubtless taken to
quiet the apprehensions Of foreign
ing warships through the Dardanelles
| to effect the capture OF the battleship.
1t is considered a shrewd move on the
part of the mutineers and stamps the
commander of the crew as q leader far
above the ordinary sailor and strength
ems the opinion that he is not a mem
Der of the original crew, but one of
the revolutionaries who went on board
ct Odessa.
Dispatches from Tif1is say the re-
ports of rioting at Odessa and the
action of the Kniaz Potemkine aroused
most intense interest and the widest
joy among revolutionists, followed
Immediately by a complete strike,
even the lamplighters quitting work.
Considerable anxiety is felt because
the cruiser Chernomoretz, due at Sc
bastopol Monday, has not yet arrived.
Food and Coal or Bombs.
Theodosia, July 6.-Summoned by
the Kniaz Potemkine, representatives
of the town council went aboard the
battleship and were received in the
admiraPs cabin by the commission
commanding her. The commission de-
manded the delivery of 500 tons of
coal and provisions Of various kinds
within "a hours, and threatened that
in the event of noncompliance, after
warning the inhabitants, the town
would be bombarded. The commits
sion also proposed that The mayor
should transmit to the population a
proclamation demanding the terTnina
ton of the war. a convocation of zem-
stvos and other reforms,
Learning these demands, many Of
the inhabitants fed the town, Work
men insisted that the demands be
granted.
special meeting of The municipal
council was called and consented to
deliver the provisions, out refused -
comply with the demand for coal for
the reason that the town had none.
Mutneers Will BE Shot.
Odessa, July 6.-Sixty-seven mutt
neers from the Georgi Pobiedonosetz,
including the ringleaders, were impris-
oned yesterday 1t is expected that all
will be shot.
Rioters Stone Offices.
st. Petersburg, July 6. = The indie
pendent investigation made by the AS
sociated Press shows that the soldiers
did not fire on the PutilOff WOrkmen,
but there was more or less riOting,
during which some strikers fired re-
volvers and officers were stoned. Rev
dictionary proclamatiOns are scattered
broadcast among the crowds and many
arrests were made. At o'clock last
evening cossacks and infantry patrols
were about the works and the men
were in an ugly mood Managers or
the works threaten TO close them in
definitely if the men do not resume
work today.
Gorky Declines Offer.
st. Petersburg, July 6.-Maxim Cor
ky. the novelist living at KOkola, coast
of Finland, refused a fiattering offer
for a lecture tour in the United States,
preferring to remain for the purpose
of aiding in the work of emancipating
Russia.
Government rornids Meeting.
Moscow, July 6. = The government
has forbidden the holding OF the big
congress of zemstvoists and other rep
resentatives from all parts of Russia
July Is.