The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-04-07
UPHEAVAL
Is FEARED
Southeastern Russia in Condi-
ton Of Extreme Excitement
MERCHANTS SOUNDALARM
Wire Minister of Interior Representa-
tives of People Must Be Summoned
Martial Law for
Rioters.

Samara, Southeast Russia, April -.
The Merchants Exchange here, repre-
senting commercial connections over a
region inhabited by 100000 people,
has telegraphed to NJ Bouligan, minister
OF the interior, that the whole area is
IN condition Of extreme excitement,
and that terrible catastrophe is only
ayoidable by immediately summoning
representatives Of the people, In accord
ance with the terms of the imperial re
script.
The Exchange also demands represen-
tation upon the commission which is
considering the subiecl.
The peasants are greatly aroused over
the reports that the intellectuals are
seeking to return them to condition
of slavery.
st. Petersburg, April 6.-Much excite
ment has been caused in this city by
the arrest of Terrorist agent in the
very palace of the car at Tsarkoe Selo.
On Monday when Nicholas receives
the officers who are to be stationed in
the imperial palace during the week, a
man wearing the uniform of colonel
OF Cossacks entered the building and was
noticed acting in a suspicious manner
while the guard was being exchanged.
The commanding officer at once ex-
amined him and found that his sword
was not Of the kind used by the Cos
sacks, but was an infantry officers
weapon. The man was tlereupon ar
rested.
4 packet containing two bombs was
afterward found in the prisoners cloth
ing.
Police Agents Arrested.
A searching inquiry resulted in the
arrest Of twelve secret police agents,
who are suspected of being the mans
accomplices.
Subsequently the daughter Of Gen.
I,eontieff was arrested in this city. Her
rooms were then carefully searched by
the secret police and two bombs were
finally discovered under bed.
The reports Of peasant uprisings in
the Baltic province, especially in Lithun-
la and C0nrland, continue to be extreme
ly disquieting. Although Cossack and
infantry patrols are scattered through
the country the troops are unable to
stop the plundering Of estates by the
larger bands.
| At Werra, where 4 regiment of Cos
sacks fired on mob which had complete
possession of the town, the rioters We're
dispersed, but broke up into smaller
| bands, which berrorized the neighboring
! landowners. Similar incidents have oc-
CURED at other places.
The smaller bands drove off cattle,
burned barns and fodder, and helped
themselves 10 grain and provisions. De-
| spatehes from dozens Of places tell of
panic produced BY the depredations Of
rowing companies Of peasants.
Congress Praises Gorly.
Moscow. April 6.-The last act of
the congress of doctors from all parts
Of Russia, which was in session here
| Wednesday. Was 10 dispatch a telegram
to Maxim Eorky, addressed to him as
" valiant defender of the rights of
man.
Workmen Sentenced to Death.
Warsaw. Russian Poland, April T.
All persons participating in disorders
will hereafter be tried by martial law.
The new regime began Wednesday,
when two workmen were thus tried and
condemned to death One of them fired
revolver at a policeman and the other
struck policeman with an iron bar.
An extraordinary case of wholesale
poisoning has occurred at cotton mill
in Pabianizc. Seventy girls in the COLI
oring department We're taken suddenly
i'll and fell to the floor unconscious.
Thirty Of them were taken to hospi-
tai in q dangerous condition. An in
vestigation shows that the illness Of the
girls was due to arsenic having been
sprinkled through the room by unknown
rniscreants.