Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-03
TOday's Telegraphic News
CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA.

will probably be the issuing of decree
granting liberty of the press. 1t is ex-
pected that this decree will be given out
today. The newspapers have already
been informed that the censorship which
has prohibited them from entering into
a general discussion of events, has beeu
abrogsted.
1t now seems probable that the ukase
granting amnesty to political offenders
who are prisoners in the various fortress
ses and prisons, aud exiles from home
will not be issued uutil December l.
When it is granted 10000 political
exiles will be allowed to return to their
homes.
The Grand Duke Alexander Michael
ovitch has resigned as Director General
of the merchant marine
An official telegram from Sevastopol
announces that Admiral Birieff who
was reported to have been slain by mutt
neer sailors of the Black Sea fleet, has
arrived there safely with the fleet.
Advices from Odessa Monday stated
that it was persistently rumoTed that
there had been a general mutiny of the
present crew of the Black Sea feet, and
that Admirals Birileff and Choukin
had been killed by the mutineers.
st. Petersburg, Nov. 9--An official
announcement was issued today stating
that only five persons we're killed and
twelve wounded ia Tuesdays disturb
ances.
Odessa, Russia, Nov. .3.-An inferno
ragged in this city throughout the night,
and continued through the early hours
of the morning. No other word will
properly describe the awful scenes wit
messed here during the last fifteen hours.
Conditions beggar description. Drunken
mobs have run riot in the streets, behav-
ing like packs of wild beasts toward the
Jews. Although martial law was de-
cIared yesterday, and theoretically con-
tnues in effect, the troops during the
night and early today did nothing to
prevent the sacking Of the Jewish quar-
tiers and the work of pillage begun We'd
nesday evening continued unchecked.
This riot of bloodshed aud robbery has
continued now for over fOrty-eight hours.
The troops have contented themselves
with preventing the mobs from pillaging
the homes and shops of Christians, none
of which as yet has been harmed. Cen
ersI Kaubars the military commander,
by his inactivity, has earned the detesta-
ton of everyone in the city. He seems
to be carried away by desire to show
them that there is more of evil than of
good in revolutions and so allowing the
mob almost full sway. Street fighting
continued this morning in many dis
tricts. The students are throwing their
lives away uselessly in an attempt TO
subdue the mobs. Their efforts in this
direction have caused the Cossacks to
attack them as rioters.
The hospitals cannot accommodate all
the wounded and many houses are being
turned into temporary in6rmaries where
the injured are cared for. The streets
are not safe. Newspaper correspondents
risk their lives every time they venture
to the telegraph Offices to file their mes
sapes. 1t is estimated that fully 5000
persons have been killed and wounded
during the rioting. This afternoon the
situation became somewhat improved.
Order was practically restored in the
centre of the city, but there was little
improvement in conditions in the jewish
quarters. No attempts were made to re-
sumo business. Advices received today
indicate that rioting is being kept up in
other cities of the empire as well as in
Odessa. Nikolaieff has been the scene
of anti-semitic outrages, although not on
as large scale as here. Jewish quar-
tiers of that town have been almost wiped
out, however. Reports from other places
state that there have been outbreaks today |
Three hundred shops and houses of Jews
we're destroyed in the suburbs of Odessa
yesterday.
Order has been restored in the centre |
of the city since the military has assumed |
active operations in putting down the
rioting. 1t is still impossible, however,
to resume business. The Jewish quar-
tiers of the city, which were the scene of
so much boodshed during the attacks
made by Houigans on Hebrews, are still
far from sale.
Warsaw, Poland, Nov. 8, 2:15 p. H.
1t is reported that Colonel Meyer, the
chief of police, has fed from the city
disguised as a woman, because he feared !
that the people would revenge them
selves upon him for Wednesdays mas
sacre
Bucharest, ROumania, Nov. S.-News
received here from Kishineff, Russia,
tells of the disorders which have occur
red there. While thanksgiving SER
vice was being held to celebrate the
Cars manifesto, the criminal classes
took advantage of the opportunity offered
them to indulge in riots during the at
tendance of the masses of the respectable
citizens at the demonstrations. Bent
upon murder and wreaking the greatest
possible damage to property, the roughs
attacked the synagogues. pharmacies,
hospitals and shops of tradesmen. Many
of the buildings we're destroyed and
others were badly damaged. The authO-
rites made no attempt to suppress the
disorders and the troops stood idly by
while the mob accomplished its work OF
destruction. Eight persons are known
to have persisted and hundreds were
wounded.
Odessa, Nov. 3.--S p. m.-The lull
in the disorders which came this after
noon was only temporary and fresh dis