Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-06-22
RUSSIAN PRESS
INDIGNANT
FREELY CONDEMNS EVENTS IN
LOWER HOUSE.
AFTERMATH OF THE RIOTS
Thirty Jews Were Killed and Many
Injured Following Throwing of the
Bomb-Frightened People. Flee
From City to Forests.

ST. Petersburg. The press is unan-
imous in its criticism over the events
in the lower house of parliament. The
situation is strained to the breaking
point. The attempt of the military
procurator, General Payloff, i'll behalf
of War Minister Rudiger to shift, the
responsibility for the military execu-
tions to the minister Of the interior
is a palpable evasion of the issue
raised by the house and has re-echoed
throughout the country. The result
is that a storm Of indignation has
been aroused and is being augmented
by the cool attempt of the government
to invade the inviolability of the men,
bers of parliament and its demand for
the expulsion of NJ. Ulianoff.
Whether the government dares fol-
low up legally the refusal of the house
to expel NJ. Ulianoff and its faunt-
ing of Procurator Pavloff is now the
question. Unless the government is
definitely resolved to give battle, the
Goremykin ministry must fall into
the chasm between it and parliament.
which is now unbridgeable.
M. Alladin, leader of the peasant
workmen group, openly boasted from
the rostrum that the death of the min
listers would be the country's re-
joinder to the government IS refusal
to abolish the dath penalty.
Some of the papers believe that this
event definitely foreshadows the gov
ernment s intention to dissolve parlia-
ment and they emphasize the military
conspiracy of the officers of the guard
regiments which is progressing un-
checked before everybody's eyes, at
he capital.
1t is significant that the Novoe
Vremya hitherto a thick and thin sup
porter of the government, is silent.
The Rech and the Strana, which Of
the liberal papers best keep their
heads in times of stress, sadly COM
nent on rapidly waning chances of an
understanding being arrived at be-
tween the emperor and parliament.
They consider that the only hope now
lies in the emperor disearding his evil
advisers vn in%fdiatffl5S of aHHf rrhRn Himself
with representatives of the people.
At meeting of five thousand social
democratic workmen it was decided
hat parliament had engaged in futile
ak for a month and had done moth
ng and that the workmen must have
recourse to a general strike. Repre-
sentatives of the bakers announce that
the bakeries will be closed in few
days and that the city would be with
)ut bread.
According to the information OBJ
tanned of the attacks on the Jews,
they were provoked by Jewish an
archist throwing bomb into Corpus
Christi procession seriously wounding
priest, Father Fedarnof, who was
at the head of the procession and sew
sral Of his assistants.
This aroused the ire of the popula-
ton and although the perpetrators of
the outrage were unknown the respon-
sibility was promptly placed on the
Jews. A mob was soon formed and for
several hours ravaged the Jewish
quarters. They pillaged the shops and
hunted down and beat their occupants
About twenty persons were killed and
eighty wounded. For hours the bodies
IF the dead and wounded lay uncared
for in the streets. The Jews concealed
themselves in cellars and attics in or
der to escape the wrath of the mob
and many fed from the city. The gov
ernor of Grodno arrived here at mid
night and is taking all the measures
necessary to calm the population.