Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-23

5a governors general.
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= ST. Petersburg, Dec. 22.-The bold
est of all bold pronunciamentos of the
}revolutionists is mysterious handful
with which Tsarkoe Selo vas flooded
today. Protesting to allude to ter
Erorist plot agains.. the emperor the
hand bill says:
There will be little puff smoke.
Pay no heed to it as the. result will
be the best thing possible for every
bcdy.'
Police Arc Mystified.
"a The police are baff1ed in efforts to
baand the printers and disseminators of
lhese bills.
" Railroads Are Tied UP.
= Reports from all portions of Rus
sia state that a strike on the railroads
Is occurring today. Traffic is either
tied up or badly interrupted. Many of
tthe passenger trains were hauled to
the large towns before being aban-
doned by crews in order that the pas
sengers should rot suffer.
Financial Conditions Affected.
AT Warsaw the failure of an impor-
n }ant banking house, attributable to the
epolitical situation, was announced to-
3ilday.
! Strike Is Not Complete.
I S. The failure of many of the railroad
men at st. Petersburg to obey the
strike order and the ability Of the
minister of communications to move
trains on all roads except the Baltic
Z roads, are thorns in the sides of the
strike leaders.
|. A fiat went forth at last nights
imeeting of the workmens council that
Traffic must be interrupted at all costs
though this is admittedly difficult or
tie Nicholas road to Moscow.
The government has succeeded !
arresting practically all the members
OF the strike and railroau committees
Outlook Is Desperate.
The gloom which settled over Rus
sia last night was the deepest this
{, country has ever known, and the out
III look the most desperate.
y The palaces of the nobility were
Jlazing from st Petersburg to Odessa
ing from st. Petersburg to Odessa
I and the mutilated bodies of tie parti
sans of the emperor fill the dMches o.
country roads and the cutters Of the
streets of the rebellious cities.
Mobiles who have been able to ESCAPE
/, the vengeance of the peasants in the
Il country and the proletariat in the
town are fleeing to the frontiers, leav
King manorial halls and wide estates as
II loot for the now fully aroused people
The memory of centuries of oppres
legion seems to stir the masses to mas
Vhkacres of the most revolving cruelty
aauuBelieving that each blow struck the
= '9iobility reaches the despotic govern
si4hent, the peasants are striking dee1
aTfnd sure.
nj Peasants Riot in Palaces.
fos On all the snowy reaches arount
saYiga mobiles have been slain by scores
eSheir bodies thrown to tho vu,t,ires
@and their ancient castles made scene:
Isof orgies of drunken peasants.
\ The lands of the richest estates ar,
Adivided among the men who driv,
Aaway or kill the former owner. tn,
erich tapestry, furniture, pictures. ant
A carpets go to peasants huts, and th,
A castles are destroyed
Sailors on the Baltic sea dcclar,
shat the coast of Livonia for fort,
miles north of Riga is lit with th,
flames of burning estates. In Rig.
Itotels down to the rneanast Io6pin,
houses are crowded with persons wh,
bear the highest names in Russia
Who have been glad to escane frcn
che infuricted mobs with their lives
eaving all their property in the hand
|Isapf the revoluticnists.
n From sll other portions of the un
AAsappy empire cone reports rs awfl,l
TVhereyer the flag Of revolution 4
Feared even tho soldiers sworn Ii
lserye the czar fleck around it,