Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-08
HELL LOOSE N RUSSIA
Editor Stead's Graphic Picture
OF the Horrors Of the
Present Situation
SOCIETY lN CHASTITY WELLER
Woman in sosrIet Leads the Mob
Against tho Troops and With Hun.
drsds Of Others il Shot Down With.
out Mercy-Troops Beg People to
Dispense and Not Compel Shooting.

fresh from Russia, stopped over I'M Der
lin yesterday on his way to Paris. Fol
an hour and half he poured forth his
vivid impressions OF hell pretty wei
let loose" he called 1t, Of the things ht
had seen and heard, and OF the ghastly
weller into which Russian society has
drifted'
strange things are happening said
Mr.. Stead Think of the incidents al
Reval. Some determined persons
! marched down the street TO the town
hall followed by a crowd. There the
mayor andpcouhcilmen were sitting, de-
| liberating on the situation. In came our
determined friends We demand, they
said. we demand liberty, universal sur
frage, and the right to rule ourselves
| But said the mayor, i can not
give you these things. would gladly
send your petition to the emperor
"'Well,' continued the delegates, we
are delegates of a revolution, and If we
do not get what we want we have de-
tided to burn the city. Give us $500
foubles.'
'.The mayor and his colleagues
thought 1T was better to pay the 1900
roubles than to have the city burned,
SO they raised the money, paid the dele
gates and the latter went away prom
Using to be very good and they were
good.
Another crowd came and said: What
about us? Pay us too
This the mayor would not do, and
they went away with threats Of de-
structto1.
1.-The red virgin of the French COM
mune was Louise Michel, in Reval, q
certain widow named Linde, dressed in
scarlet from top to toe. and with an axe
over her shoulder, placed herself at the
head of the mob. All night the revolu-
florists whetted themselves up. In the
meantime the govrnor had gotten out
troops and the mob gathered In the
morning facing the soldiers in the great
square. The governor called on the mob
to dispense and said that if after fifteen
minutes they did not dispense he would
order the troops to fire. Five minutes
went by and the widow Linde, in red,
climbed lamp post and cried out en-
enlargement and exhorted steadfast-
ness FOR the revolution. The soldiers
began to call out TO the people to go
away as II they were ordered to fire.
They must do so. and they did not want
to kill anybody.
"Kill him! Kill mimi" screamed the
widow Linde, pointing to the COVER
nor.
Several revolver shots were fired
from the crowd, but no one was hit
The governor, who waited to the end
OF the fifteen minutes, then gave the
command to fire and the widow Linde,
shot through the body, fell to the
ground, as Baron Euzull, an eye wit
ness told me, like sparrow from a
twig.'
zone hundred and five dead persons
were picked up from the square and
thirteen more died in the hospitals.
1.-THE coolest man in Russia is the
emperor. God grant that he may keep
his seat, that liberals may gather about
him, and that they may resist the
forces Of dissolution. His authority is
shaken, passions are loose, and things
are likely to be worse
"Trhere may be fearful slaughterings.
AS an optilnist I think a hundred
thousand lives may fall. If were pes
simistic, would say two millions. The
situation Is something like this: The
police, gendarunes and Cossacks have
been suppressing a revolution in the
name of the emperor. Suddenly, they
say, the emperor goes over to the lib
eral side and that he ttinks more of
those who want to vote and who are
doing everything in the way of meet
ing and agitation which the police
we're taught to believe was unlawful
than he does of them. AS simply hu-
man nature the police and gendarmes
say: ooh, very we'll, If the emperor,s
new friends act like this it is no con-
Germ of ours
"Count WHITE is the only man stand
ing between Russia and anarchy. He is
meeting with terrible opposition from
the reactionaries, who are directly re-
sponsible for the massacres in south
Russia. Count White is distinctly
frindly to the Jews and is in no way
responsible for the n1assacres. 1t is
his ambition to be the remaker of Rus
STA, and I believe that If he is left
alone he will succeed. Count Whites
good faith is beyond all doubt"
LOVE FINDS A WAY.