The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-09-15
MOB STONES MARQUIS ITO
ANGER AT PEACE TERMS CAUSES
DISORDER IN TOXIC.
Residence of Cabinet Minister Is
Burned-Four Are Re-
ported Killed.

TOXIC, sept. S-POpular outbreaks
against the peace terms made with
Russia are growing in violence. E.
H. Hartman, president of the South
ern Pacific railroad, has been threat
ened, and Marquis Ito, president of the
privy council, has been stoned by
mobs. Neither of them was injured.
Crowds menacing a neighboring po-
lice kiosk filed the space in front of
the American legation and hooted and
jeereG the soldiers escorting the Har-
riman party, who, with fixed bayonets.
charged the crowd, cleared the street
and guarded the legation throughout
the plight.
A mob burned and destroyed ten
Christian churches and one mission
house school Wednesday night. The
people were not injured.
Serious rioting followed the attack
Tuesday on the Office of the Koku-
min Shimbun, the government organ.
A moo attacked and burned the Official
residence of the minister of home af-
fairs, which stood between the Mobiles
Hibaya park, which was the storm
center throughout the day. Threaten
ing demonstrations occurred in the
neighborhood of the official homes of
Premier Katsura and Baron Komura,
foreign minister, who is now in the
United States, but the police succeed
ed in preventing injury to the occu-
pants or damage to the houses.
Accurate figures of the casualties are
not obtainable, but it is reported that
four persons were killed, that sew
eral were MORALLY wounded by sword
thrusts, and that others were bruised
with stones and injured in the brushes.
kilograms from Kobe, Nogoya,
Osaka, Sasebo, Kanazawa, Himeji,
Kyoto and Tokoma expressed the pop
ular dissatisfaction and detection over
the result. The minor radical pa
pers have thrown off all restraint and
pronounced the peace settlement the
greatest humiliation the country has
ever suffered. They even advise re-
fusal to ratify the treaty, through va
rious expedients.
The entire nation is keenly disap-
pointed at the outcome. Nowhere
throughout the empire has there been
a step taken toward the celebration of
the conclusion of peace.
Toxic, Sept. 9.-The Toxic munich
pality has passed a resolution denounc-
ing the peace terms and favoring the
abandonment of the peace treaty.
A mob Friday surged about the I'm
perial hotel, which is crowded with
distinguished foreign visitors, as the
tourist season is at it's height. E. H.
Hartman, who was made the victim
of an earlier attack by the mob, is
stopping at the Imperial with his
party.
These foreigners are in state of
terror, as the demonstrations clearly
have taken an anti-foreign turn, as
well as being anti-government.
Troops were stationed about the I'm
perial all night, and Friday the gov
eminent provided military protection
for the foreigners. 1t has been neces-
sary to assign soldiers to guard the
various legations, as it is not known
at what moment the anger of the mob
may be directed toward them, and at
tack would be almost sure to follow.
Americans especially are under the
ban of the rioters. Among the lower
classes the feeling prevails that Japan
was forced to yield to Russia's peace
proposals through the influence of
President Roosevelt. That is why
American visitors here have been sub.
jected to insult and open attack.