The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-10
Plundering and Killing,

Tifis, Caucasia, Jan. lo:-The plum.
dering Of this city continues. Last
night bombs were thrown at military
patrol, whereupon the house from
which the bombs were hurled and the
adjoining buildings were bombarded
by artillery with the result that many
persons were killed or wounded. A
attempted to. assissinate an officer,
had sought refuge was set on fire and
the man was burned alive.
No Quarter Given.
Mitau, Oourland, Jan. l0.-A squad
ron Of dragons which was ambushed
rear Hazenpot, losing two men killed
and four wounded, received reinforce
ments later and surrounded the revo-
the revolutionists, numbering eighty
nine, were killed to the last man.
A band of fifty revolutionists made
a daring raid on Iivenhotf with the
object Of obtaining medicines and
Eandages for the rovolutionists in the
field. They carried off two Jewish
merchants and held them for a heavy
ransom which was paid.
Siberian Revolt Next.
Nagasaki, Jan. 10.-The transport
Mongolia, which has arrived here from
Vladivostok with Russian refugees, re-
ports that a general uprising thruout
Siberia is feared.
Riga, Livonia, Jan. 10.-Tho the
troops are operating theoretically in all
directions, the revolutionary peasants
are continuing their work Of devasta-
ton, wandering in groups thru the prov.
inces. cutting the railway wherever an
opportunity is offered, and attacking
trains and passengers.
in the days of the Teutonic knights of
the Hanseatic league, which were rich
in memories Of the wars between Rus
slams and Swedes and Germans and
Let's, only few remain. Among those
destroyed was the magnificent castle
Neunberg, the Oldest in Courland, which
was built in 1914 and contained histor
ical documents and priceless pictures
and antiquities. It belonged to Baror
Won Derecke. : " - = $3.50 T. go"
Another baron. formerly a prosper
GUS landowner, but now Impoverished
bitterly assigns responsibility for tn
era of Jacquerie to the Russian govern
ment. which he says coguetted with thu
Lettish peasantry, promising it land an
cattle and melting it against the estat,
owners, with which it was formerly O,
good terms. He added that he and hi
fellows Of the Baltic nobility are forcet
to renounce their Russian citizenship
and leave estates their forefathers hal
| held for seven centuries and emigrat
to German Poland where official posi-
tions are at their disposal.
Bismarck, years ago, declared tina
the Baltic Germans were the best mate
rial for the Germanizing Of the Polls
provinces," the baron adds, "and tn
Russian government is now helpin
make good the Bismarckian proposal. .
| The newspapers are appealing to tn
! landowners to heed the call Of dut
and return to their estates, but this
impossible. The landowners are mostl
without funds with which to restor
the devastated estates and must abar
don them.
On account Of the continual anarchy
the summer crops were meager and tn
revolutionary peasants, who are livin
in the woods Of destroyed estates, ar
forced by famine to attack and plunde
villages where military protection
slight and are perpetrating inhuma
outrages. A number Of the chief ag
tators at Windau and Galdingin, whic
places were occupied by troops afte
they had been for several weeks in th
hands Of the insurgents, were tried b
drumhead courtmartial and shot.