The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-14

Vladikavkaz, Transcaucasia, June IA.
Troops who were summonded to stop
fighting in neighboring villages be-
tween Cossacks and Cireassians, used
machine guns and killed thirty men.
St. Petersburg, June 14.-Such
shrewd judges of the situation as Pro-
fessor Milukoff, leader of the constitu-
tional democrats, are growing more pes
simistic daily. The radical elements in
the lower house of parliament are get
ting more and more out of hand and
whether, the surrender of the govern
ment to a demand for responsible min.
istry would not no wcome too late. The
leaders consequently are preparing for
eventualities.. The authority Of parlia-
try and if the extreme elements can
be held III check little longer, the
leaders hope that when the crisis comes
the government will realize the futility
of resistence.
Even Cossacks Rebel.
On the other hand, the agrarian move
ment, which is now extending in all di-
rectlons threatens. parliament as well as
the government and it is increasingly
manifest that the troops who come from
the villages are siding with the peasants
from whom they are recruited
Even the cossacks are beginning to
rebelfagainst the odious work of holding
the people in subsection.
NJ: Svesshnikof, a cossack member
of the lower. house claims to have re-
ceived a thousand letters from cossack
soldiers saving they are tired Of play
ing the role of oppressors of the people,
and adding that the me-honored name
of cossack, formerly synonymous with
hrpx ~
the ravages of savage hofdes on the
,borderland was now anathemized and
they desire to right the -sro ngsSsthey
have been compelled to Inlet On The
nation. 81
ominous News FiUm 5Pcltava.
Ominous Of the government 8 inabiIi-
ty to cope. with the prospective agrarian
disorders is the news which comes from
Poltava, one Of the richest and most
populous farming provinces Of Russia,
that the governor is in daily receipt of
requests for troops for the protection
of estates, from the cpeasantry who have
not the slightest fear Of the rural
guards.
The governor will be unable to COM
ply with these requests because the To-
cal troops, one reg ment of which mu-
tinted on Sunday last, are so infected
by the revolutionary propaganda that
detachments sent to the villages imme-
diately fraternizc with the peasants.
The governor therefore begs the St.
Petersburg authorities to send him
fresh troops.
Sedition Turnout Army.
The condition in Poltava with regar,l
to the army probably are widespread.
Indeed, the army is frail reed for: the
government to lean upon if it rejects
III, )c
general staff objects moreover to fur
nishing further troops for police duty
and has refused requests for guards for
government liquor shops, which are in
creasingly subject to attack, on the
ground that to comply with all thes:
demands would interfere with the
stragetic necessity of the empire.
Two daily newspaper organs of the
revolutionary socialists, the Narodny
Vestnik G'eople's Messenger) and th,
Isvestia peasant Neews) edited by
members of parliament which have been
virulently attacking parliament Us well
as the government, were suppressed by
the court today.
Scourges Landlords.
The current number of the Narodny
Vcstnik gives statistics of General
Trepoff IS reactionary party in the coun
posed Of three princes, four counts
three barons, twenty-four ex-governor
generals, governors and other high Off
Gals and one metropolitan, who tobeth
er draw from the government over
100000 in salaries.
Besides this, all these reactionaries
own immense estates, that of M. Poloft
self bbeing the largest one, 100000
acres, while NJ. Balashoff has $4,000
acres and Count Alexis Jgnatieff, il
spite of the recent sale of 100000 acre:
of his estates, is still a great lane
holder
General Trepoff's party at court. &c
almost exclusively of great lando own
ing mobiles.
Danger at Moscow.
An industrial tempest seems to be o,
the point Of breaking at Moscow
whence it may again spread over tn
empire. A final conference between
the employers and printers, who's
strike produced the general strike o
last October, is being held tonight. |
it should be fruitless the result will
be, lockout Of the printers and prob
ably sympathetic factory strike
The League, of Military Regenera
ton, composed principally of guar.
officers, has been founded here. TIL
members pledge their devotion an,
fidelity solely to the orders of the EN-
peror.
A Cossack officers Of the Imperia
ecort at the initial meeting of tn
league, declared that the army mus
protect his majesty against his interna
posed the emperor's will.