The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-10

consider the question OF nnakiaE "a
attempt to buy out ali the Jewish
thus Insure the withdrawal Of the
Jews from the business world. The
proposition has been made 70 pay the
Jewish tradesmen Of the city &c. 0a0,-
GOO rouhles. for their combined bust-
ness enterprises and stocks OF gooaEs
II the Jews refuse to sen out at the
figures offered by the tradesmen. the
threat is openly made that thefV
shops viii be plundered and destroyed.
The movement that has just been ffi-
augurated may lead TO lant1-senetfc
outbreaks here similar to those that
have occurred in other Russian cities.
A religious demonstration has been
organized for tomorrow, and anti
time.
Armed Forces Are 1futinous.
There were. fresh Developments yeu-
terday showing the autinous fesling
existing among army ane naval forces
The more important demonstrations
occurred here and at the Schusselburs
fortress, although small mutinies are
reported from several points. In this
city it was necessary to call out a
strong force OF soldiers to surround
sailors of the Fourteenth and
Eighteenth naval divisions in order to
send them to the fortress at Kron-
stRdt. These sailors have been on tbs
verge or mutIny for weeks and 1t was
determined to remove them to Kron-
stadt. The sailors at first openly re-
fused to obey orders to go to Krous
stadt. One Of the men boldly ad-
dressed Admiral NeidTimilleF, sayinEi
t'YOu should be drowned in our blood
You want to herd us together so that
you can repeat the massacre Of
Sevastcpol.'
The sailors barricaded themselve,
in their barracks and refused to move
A strong force Of soldiers finally cor
rallied the mutineers and forced thsm
to board barges, which carried them
to Kronstadt-
At sehusseIberg fortress located o.
an island in the Neva river 20 naiief
from st. Petersburg, the garrison is IN
mutiny. The soldiers demand the re-
lease of all political prisoners. incar.
cerated in the fortress and threaten
to take the place by storm unless Their
demands are granted.
Schusselburg fortress for the last 1!
Years has been Russia's torture houss=
for political prisoners and 1t is fire.
quently compared to the French Bias
tile Many OF the dungeons are be.
low the high water mark of the Nevs
and the cells are flooded at high tide
and the prisoners half drowned
Many persons have been driven In
sane through their sufHerings in this
prison
Threaten to Free Prisoners.
A few prisoners were released from
the fortress under the ezar's amnesty
s
had been ineareerated for Is years and
who are so broken IN health and spirirs
that they could not become dangerous
conspirators. The men who are feared
/ by the government are still held in the
fortress The soldiers are now demand
/ ing that they shall be freed or they
/ declare they viii set the prisoners at
/ liberty themselves. One of the prison.
ers in this fortress is cameron, the assas-
sin of former Minister Of the Interior
/ Won PIehve.
Fresh trouble is threatened in the
/ provinces as the result of the stand ta-
! ken by General Maximovitch, former
! governor general of Warsaw, who has
/ been named as the successor OF General
! Sakharoff to quel the peasants upris-
/ ings His first act was 20 issue an or
der to the Cossacks under his command
/ in which he said:
DO not use your knouts upon the
n,aIeontents but shoot whenever you
meet with the slightest opposition. Sh0 "
/ the rebel dogs that you are not eeonoml-
cal Of cartridges. The more political
indictments you kill the higher will be
! the cars estimate OF your services.
Take care that your actions create a
/ GOOD impression upon the government"
! There are $1,000 armed peasants in
the districts to which General MAXI
movitch has been assigned and they are
I greatly aroused over his order to the
! froons. Unless the ear coUnteFmafds
certain to be much bioodshed as the
peasants are determined to resist 20
the bitteB end.
odessa Abandoned to Robbery
| vienna. Dec. "A Jewish tradesnan
| Just arrived from odessa relates that
that city is abandoned 70 robpeFy aIa
| murder The police and the military
/ assist the rabbie and share in the spolis
| rrl,e rioters pretend to be religious fan
| atics and carry ikons. Jewish students
| and foreigners are murdered every qe y.
/ Thousands of the citizens are ruined
I having lost all their property IN the
/ riots.
Chicago, Dec. 9.r-s-~ Daily News
correspondent, cabling from Budapest
Budapest, Dec. 9-Many nigh officers
Of the Russian army are deserving. Six
/ of them are now in Budapest ana nave
] Joined actively in the revolutionary
/ cause. One of these is a man Of great
/ military reputation and of much wealth.
/ Reliable news from the Russian frons-
/ Ter records the unhaltiag progress OF the
/ revolution which is not expected 20
reach its bloodiest stage for Two or
three months.
ExiIes Are Returning.
Stockholm, Dec. 9.-The Swedish
cruiser Psilander and the torpedo boat
/ OInen have arrived at Riga on their
way to St. Petersburg, to which place
they have been ordered for the proIec-
/ ton of Swedish interests.
/ The Swedish consul at Riga ADVISES
/ the foreign Office in this city thatit Is
/ impossible to communicate with St.
/ Petersburg except by courier The lat
/ est news from the capital is to the ef-
feet that Count Witte is stiH in nofli-
/ nal control and that conferences are
being held hourly between the govern
/ rnent and zemstyoists booking toward
the formal attention Of q public pro-
/ nouncement for the paelfcation OF tbs
I country.
It is said that the constitutional party
/ is in nc danger Of beiHE compelled to
surrender the leadership in this crisis
to the violent reVeiutionists. although
the latter arestfying to over thFe<-- tins
/ moderates and are caIlfnS back TO RUS
STA to assist in the pronagsa1rsia Of foree