The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-14
with the preliminaries of the conven-
ton.
OF.
THE SCHEME

st. Petersburg, Sept. 11-Another
disastrous massacre followed an out
rage against the police yesterday when
ment of Olonetz, bomb was thrown
in the market square.
The bomb was hurled at a police
man who had committed no offense
save the performance Of his ordinary
duties His body was shattered to
fragments and bits of flying metal
slightly injured pedestrians in the
vicinity. This outrage was immedi-
ately followed by the throwing of a
second bomb which injured one police
man and the doorkeeper or the Zirar-
dow spinning, works.
Troops were rushed to the market
square and scenes we're enacted which
promise to become customary so
long as the terrorists pursue their
policy of indiscriminate murder. A
cause of the explosions. The troops
\ rushed on the assemblage, firing in
all directions. The people scattered
but the infuriated soldiers continued
their shooting. Before the square was
cleared, forty civilians had been
killed and wounded At Grodnov
near the Polish frontier, a political
assassination was committed late
yesterday, Chief of Police Gribojedoff,
of the little manufacturing city, be-
ing the victim.
QUIET AT SIEDLCE.
The government has received word
from Warsaw that the massacre at
Siedlce, Russian Poland, the excesses
of which were reported yesterday,
had subsided, 1t appears that the
soldiers once they determined to at
tack the Jewish quarter exercised a
free hand for nearly "a hours. There
are official denials that artillery was
used in demolishing houses in the
Jewish streets, One notable circum-
stance is that the orgy of blood stop
ped with remarkable suddenness, and
this is taken in revolutionary circles
to show that the government was in a
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and to call halt. Early reports of
the massacre were exaggerated as to
the casualties, and it now appears
that not more than 100 Jews were
killed outright and some 400 wounded.
A number of the wounded now in the
hospital will probably die, increasing
the death roll of one hundred.
! Many persons in st. Petersburg,
both friends and enemies of the gov
ernment, believe that the Siedlce mas
sacre, yesterdays volley firing into
the crowd at Ruda Gugowska
and other recent incidents of in
discriminate shooting by the troops
instead of attempting to arrest terror
lists committing outrages, are part of
the governments scheme to crush out
the nihilistic terrorists.s
The government is practically pow
erless to combat the terrorists with
it's own hired agencies in a direct
campaign. There are too many ter
rorists and the very police and secret
service agents who alone may catch
the terrorists are the avowed victims
Of the latter. 1t is an uneven fight
the government has on its hands and
a most costly one to the official per-
sonnel of the empire. Therefore it is
great reluctance has consented to
the plan now being followed. The
people are to be forced to suppress
the terrorists for their own preserva-
ton. AS at Siedlce, the lives of 100
were taken for the killing of a few po-
licemen, while four hundred were shot,
beaten and MANNED, SO it is claimed
this is to be the rule wherever a po-
liceman or official is the victim of an
outrage. Premier Stolypin is said to
one way to end the reign of terror
ism. He rebelled at the cost of hui
man life 1t would entail in the mas
sGc. eing of innocent people, but deem
ed the situation so desperate that this
literally heroic remedy had to be
adopted. A mouthpiece of the terror
lists said yesterday that the horrible
tragedy in his own home a few weeks
ago had worked fundamental change
in Stolypin's disposition; that he had
become morose and cruel and no long
or felt the confidence in the populace
he formerly asserted and experienced
no shock in receiving reports of whole
sale killings in retaliation for terror
lists outrages.