Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05
REACTIONAR RIEsm
COURT DAM, ,,
The Gar Has Many Enemies
Own Official FamlIy--No Newt
Come From Stricken City Since
urday-courlers Carry Dispatch
From Capital to FrontIer.-Ma Massaer,
of Jews. III

London, Dec. 4.-No dispatches
from st. Petersburg or elsewhere
In Russia with the exception Of d
brief message from Warsaw, have
arrived in London today. The for.
eign office has heard nothing from
the British embassy at st. Peters
burg since communications were
severed Saturday.
While ST.. Petersburg remains
without telegraphic communities
ton with the outer world, belated
advices are being received at from
tier points byecourier. The latest
OF these dispatches are dated Sat
urday and show that the situation
In the czar's capital and through
out the empire was exceedingly
grave at that tome, with promise
OF developing into complete chaos
on Sunday or today.
The czar Is beset from within
and without the palace, mutiny
RACES in the Baltic provinces, the
reactionaries are trying to over.
ride Witte and force a trial az
arms with the people, and disaf-
fection increases among the imper-
ial troops. The naval battalionS
have revolted en- masse and tho
warships have been disarmed.
Meanwhile the striking telegraph.
ers are defiant and the railroad
employees and workmen are con-
sidering walk-out. FS
The revolutionists, social dem.
ocrats, and advocates Of demo.
cratic republic are taking .advan-
tage of every turn in the situation
and working assiduously to win
the army over to their organized
plan for the overthrow of the
throne. The Jews Of Odessa re-
port a plan by. the troops to begin
another massacre. To just what
extent these various movements
progressed over Sunday is not yet
known.
Warsaw. Dec. 4. A decisive
meeting Of the League of Leagues
is expected to be held today In st.
Petersburg, where a project for
constituent assembly will be
adopted and demand for its ac.
ceptance will be presented to
Premier Witte.
According to official Jewish In
formation massacres of Jews oc-
CURED in 130 localities in Rus
sia.
New York, Dec. 4.-One hun.
dred thousand Jews, each wearing
a a band of crepe on the left arm,
marched under a myriad of black
banners through the principal
streets Of the Eas. Side today, ac-
companied by bands playing
dirges, in memory of the Jews
massacred in Russia
Chicago, Dec. 4. - At all Jew.
ish houses Of worship in the city,
memorial services were held to-
day for the Jews killed in massa-
cres in Russia.
st. Petersburg, Dec. 4.-(By Couri
to Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Dec.
The situation IN the capital, and,
fact, In all parts of the Russian e.
pire, is hourly growing worse. a,
present indications ere that a stor
will break Sunday or Monday th
will sweep the czar's tottering cover
ment before 1t.
So many forces are arrayed again
the throne that it seems impossit
that 1t can long endure. Strikes Al
mutinies and tje-up Of the telegra
are no longer the most serious Il
tllres. Of the crisis.
The most dangerous factor Is t
growing activity of the reactionary
fluences at court and the imper
guard, which are making desperate
forts to unhorse Count Witte, to pl
claim dictatorship and to fight t
revolution with bullets and bayone
Their candidates for dictator q
General Count Alexis Ingatieff al
General Skallon, governor general
Poland.
Sailors Join RevoIutIonIsts.
Mutiny is spreading among
troops in the Baltic provinces. In
Petersburg it would be impossible l
the czar to lay his hand on sint
soldier upon whose loyalty he COZ
count with certainty. The naval b
Ialions have been completely won {
ed by the revolutionists and are
yond control. The admiralty, in vi,
of this fact, has ordered all the vi
ships disarmed.
The railroad employees threaten
call a strike today and there is stro
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