The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
RUSSIAN INTERNAL SITUATION.

a serious mutiny has broken out ir
The great island fortress of Sveaborg
Finland, which defends the sea ap
proaches to Helsingfors. Severe fight
Ing followed between rebellious and
loyal troops in which several hundred
men were killed or wounded. The
mutineers include the artillerymen
and the guns of the fortress have re.
turned the fire of torpedo boats in the
harbor.
Mutinous sailors, soldiers, sappera
and miners seized Fort Constantine
at Cronstadt, but were subsequently
dislodged and compelled to surrender
after heavy fighting with the loyal
regiments. A hundred men were
killed and many were wounded, in.
Guiding Admiral Boaklwisneff. Some
of the mutineers succeeded in board
ing a steamer and escaping to Fin.
land.
In the light of the latest develop
ments the general strike in Russia
may almost be regarded as a fiasco.
The summons to go out has met with
some response in Moscow, where the
printers and the street a men and
part of the employees Of the gas, water
and electric light plants quit work.
but these are more than Offset by the
defections in st. Petersburg.
While Major General of the Cen
darmerie M~arkgrafsky, who was also
an aide to the governor general, was
driving to his summer villa near Mos
COW with his wife, son and daughter,
he was killed from ambush. The vol
ley fred by the assassins also killed
the generals son.
The crew of the armored cruiser
Pamyat Azova mutined off the Esth.
oman coast and are now in full pos
session Of the ship, which has sailed
northward in the direction Of the Fin
nish gulf. The captain and four off,
GERS of the cruiser were killed by the
mutineers.
The government has practically sue
ceeded in crushing the organization
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The central committee of the Social
Democrats has been captured and
placed in prison and the greatest con-
fusion prevails in the revolutionary
camp, ,. .',,
M: Herzenstein, former member of
the outlawed parliament, in which he
was a prominent leader of the Con-
stitutional Democrats, was assas-
sinated at his country house near Teri
loki, Finland, by men in the pay Of the
Black Hundred organization.
Pickets of cavalry and infantry are
the most conspicuous figures on the
streets of St. Petersburg. Business
houses generally have boarded up their
windows, as they did in the great DC.
tober strike.
Sveaborg fortress is completely In
the hands of the government. The
mutineers have been marched out and
sent to Skatudden island, where they
will await trial.
Meetings of workmen, which are be.
ing addressed by revolutionary orators,
are being held nightly, in secret, in
the industrial sections of st. Peters
burg.
St. Petersburg is in darkness, the
employees Of the electric lighting
plants having ceased work In obe-
dience to the call for a general strike.
An incipient mutiny broke out on
the Russian cruiser Bogatyr at Hell
'singfors. It was Immediately put
down with the arrest of 200 sailors.
Train robbers between Libau and
Haftpot stole $4,000 of government
money. Eight passengers were wound.
ed in defense of the train.
A portion of the troops in the sum-
mer camp at Rembertoff, Russian Po-
land. have mutinied and are in open
revolt.
The cruiser Pamyat Azova is again
in the hands of the government. The
have been placed under ar.
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