The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29
GREAT PEASANT UPRISING
IN SETTLING RUSSIA
Estates Of Mobiles in Various
Provinces Devastated.
GENERAL ANARCHY RENEWED
Nuiiks Turn on Their OpprassoTs-
Many Landlords Slain, Their
Crops Burned and Their Pal
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Many Landlords Slain, Their
Crops Burned and Their Pal
aces Looted.
Dobroff, Province Of VoroneGh,
Russia.-The troubles in the whole
of this district. covering 1S5 miles
square. are becoming more serious
daily.
The peasants have risen as one
man, and over twenty estates were
burned and several landed proprie-
tors killed.
The town is filled with terror
stricken proprietors who were able
to escape the carnage by fleeing
from their estates Ten miles from
here fifteen estates were burned and
many of the proprietors were killed.
The governor has arrived with Cos
sacks.
St. Petersburg, Russia.-In many
places the peasants are Wantonly
applying the torch to estates belong
ing to the Crown and to private
forests.
At Natshatkino, Simbirsk Prov
ince, the town hall was set on hre
and the entire village, consisting OF
800 houses, was consumed.
The Monastery of the Nativity at
Moscow has been plundered Of all
it's jewelry and sacred relics and
$4,000 in cash.
Throughout Poland systematic
pillaging of the government spirit
shops is in progress. The Central
Police Office at Warsaw was robbed
and gendarme was killed.
At Lublin, Poland, revolutionists
executed a workman who was sus-
pected Of being a spy, and at Nlz-
hui Novgorod and Vasniky the cash
iers of the spirit monopoly were
robbed and killed. At Lublin two
gendarmes were killed in the streets,
the asSassins escaping.
A bank at Sosnitsa, Province of
Sosnitsa. was robbed. At Tiflis an
Armenian locomotive engineer was
shot in his cab by an assassin con-
cealed in the neighboring woods.
Workmen at Rostoff killed an al
legged government provocator. At
Yaroslav bombs were exploded at
the residence of the Chief of Police
and an officer of the sendarmerie.
In view of the terrorized state
Of the population of Baku, the Gov
ernor General has ordered all per-
sons to stay indoors from p. m.
to 5 a. m Persons on whom arms
are found will be imprisoned for
three months.
The Red Squadron, the new
terrorist party, is still spreading its
propaganda in the Caucasus.
The assassin of Gen. Kozloff, Of
the Headquarters Staff, who was
murdered in the English Park at
Peterhof last Saturday. has been
identified as a Lett belonging to an
organization. the members of which
have sworn to kill Gen. Trepoff,
Gen. Prince Putiatin, and thirteen
other persons intimately connected
with the Court. The assassin was
chosen >by lot.
The Twentieth Century asserts
that the reports submitted by the
commission of the General Staff on
the investigation of the disaffection
in the army thus far show that six
guard regiments, twenty-siX line,
seven cavalry, six artillery, and five
sapper regiments are more or less
affected by the revolutionary propa-
ganda.
Emperor Nicholas has degraded
the Seventh Cavalry, which recent
ly mutinied at Tamboff, by taking
away the imperial standard con-
ferred on the regiment two years
ago.
Threats of police strike nearly
caused a panic here and, though
the strike has been postponed, the
danger cannot be said to have en-
tirely passed. The ostensible basis
of the police discomfort is in regard
to money affairs. but the authorities
declare that the trouble was inspired
by agitators.
The police Of the First District
refused to go out on their beats un-
til authoritatively assured that the
money paid into the savings fund
would be repaid with full interest.
The men marched to the Second Dis
trict, where they induced their COM
rades to join them. Cossacks were
summoned and the police were sur
rounded and threatened with arrest.
but they held out until the Chief
of Police assured them that their
demands would be investigated and
all wrongs would be righted.
Smolensk. agrarian move
ment has assumed violent phase in
this district. The estates of Count
Sheromatieff, prominent reaction
ary, and Prince Lubanoff Rostoffsky
and three other large estates have
been completely destroyed.
Pavlograd, Province Of Ekaterino-
laff.-The estate of NJ Sukovhkin
has been pillaged and 1000 tons OF
hay and forage burned.