The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-11-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK
RUSSIAN INTERNAL DISORDERS.

RUSSIAN INTERNAL DISORDERS
A food of dispatches from all part'
of the Russian empire report disorder
In many cities with a heavy total O
dead and wounded. The people whilt
celebrating their new found freedom
were in many instances set upon by
Cossacks and police, while sometimes
the spirit of mob violence broke forth
and the lower elements of the popula
ton gave themselves to pillage and
destruction. The most serious disor
ders apparently occurred at Odessa
where. hundreds of persons are report
ed to have been killed or wounded.
1t is now estimated that the killed
and wounded during the recent riots
at Odessa number 5000. The city hos
pital alone contains 1000 wounded.
Out of the 5000 casualties, those who
were killed or who died of wounds
aggregate 964, of which number 313
were taken 10 Jewish cemeteries and
651 to Christian cemeteries.
The news from the interior of Rus
STA shows that there has been little
improvement in the situation. In some
places disorders have recommended
with redoubled fury. In the Caucasus
the Tartars and Russians are cutting
each others threats and the Arme.
mans are giving themselves up to
pillage and incendiarism.
The council of the workmen's del.
egates at st. Petersburg has issued a
notice pointing out the necessity Of
arming workers for a decisive struggle
for the convocation of a constituent
assembly based on universal suffrage
with the view to the formation of a
democratic republic.
Anti-semitic rioting is reported to be
going on in Kherson, Ekaterinoslav.
Vasilkoff, kaluga, Ivanova, Voznesenk,
Moghileff, koseletz and Uman. At
Alderman many were killed and at
Rostoff-on-Don about 100 were killed
or wounded. The Cossacks assisted in
the p%illaging.
Three Russian battleships, a cruiser
and 10000 troops have arrived at Hell
singfors, Finland, from Reval. The
warships are anchored in the harbor.
The general strike continues. The sit
uation is threatening on account OF
the attitude of the socialists.
The proclamation of civil liberty in
Russia has been followed by the an
nouncement of a return to a constitu.
tional regime in Finland and the aboli-
ton OF the arbitrary conditions under
which Finland has been governed for
the last few years.
Constantine Petrovitch Pobiedono.
stef, chief p%rocurator of the holy
synod, has resigned. He was unwilling
to remain in Office under a parlia-
mentary government and presented his
resignation, which was accepted by the
emperor.
The greater part of the people OF
Russia received with deepest JOY the
emperor's gift of freedom, though in
st. Petersburg, Moscow and other cit
les socialists and revolutionaries or
ganized anti-government demonstra'
lions.
The attack of a detachment of Co.'S
sacks OH a number of prominent mem
bers of the professions during the cele-
bration at kazan led to an encounter
in which the troops used their rifles
and killed many persons.
Six persons were killed and sixty
we're wounded during the rioting at
Sebastopol. All the banks, schools and
stores are closed and houses about the
city are boarded up.
The text OF the imperial manifesto
promising autonomy for Finland has
been made public and has caused great
rejoicing in Helsingfors and other cit
les of Finland.
The struggle for autonomy in Poland
has been renewed and flags bearing
the Polish coat of arms are flying
from many buildings-preliminary to
further action.