Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-19
Dire Prediction Comes
to Capital From
Kharkoff.
QUIET AT BIALYSTOK
Authorities Sanction the Pill
Laying of Jewish
Homes.

st. Petersburg, June 19.-Private let
ters received from Kharkoff predict
the entire south of Russia will be in a
state of open revolution within a
month
Country shocked.
St Petersburg, June 19.-The mas
sacre of Jews at Bialystok has shock.
ed the country and added to the gen.
eral excitement and the revelations
which the commission of lower house
of parliament sent to investigate the
outbreak at Bialystok are expected to
make will only add fuel to the flames.
Cannot Print News.
Thus far the censor at Bialystok has
evidently refused TO allow press cor
respondents to send anything reflect
ing on the authorities. The Colos. a
newspaper edited by NJ. Ulianoff. mem
Der of the lower house of parliament
containing an account of the horrors
and charging the authorities of Bialy-
stok with deliberately preparing riot.
was confiscated when it appeared to-
day.
General Strike Not success.
Dispatches from the interior today
bring the usual chronicle of murder
and robbery. Fresh strikes are report
ed at many places, but the success of
the attempt to precipitate a general
strike is by no means assured. Novoe
VRmya reports the engineers of the
Moscow railroad have decided not TO
keep out of their locomotives tomor-
row.
Government Prepared
The government has made most
elaborate preparations to meet the
strike movement. Military trains are
held in readiness at all sections of st.
Petersburg and Moscow. Masons and
stonecutters joined the bakers in their
strike today and the butchers will fol-
low their example tomorrow. Prices
of bread and meat have been doubled
Navy Neur Mutiny.
News from Cronstadt continues dis
quieting. Troops sent to the island are
camping outside the city. The Twenti-
eth Century says the situation is so
dangerous that breechlocks have been
removed from the guns of warships in
the harbor.
BiaIystok Normal Again.
Bialystok, June 19.-The night pass
ed quietly and the town is resuming
it's normal appearance. Some street
cars are running and several factories
resumed work Fully half the patrols
have been withdrawn. Bodies of more
than hundred Jews were buried yes
terday, but the imposing array of mil
itary force prevented resumption OF
disorders.
stealing is Allowed.
A correspondent of the Associated
Press last evening saw dozens of Chris
tians of the lower class with sacks on
their backs coming from the desolated
Jewish quarters, to submit to the ex
animation of soldiers and police. If
the sacks contained plunder, none OF
it was seized.
Troops I'm Control.
General Bader, commander OF the
garrison and acting governor general,
is in personal charge of the troops,
which are so dispersed that renewal
of rioting is considered improbable.
The Jews. however, continue in a state
of panic and have barricaded what was
left of their houses. Many of them
adopted the artifice of placing ikons or
crosses on their doors in order to avert
the attacks of the Christians.
LawIessness Growing.
Tiflis. June 19.-Lawlessness in the
Caucasus is growing. In spite of pa
trolls of soldiers and police. murder and
robbery is unchecked in this city. To
day 15 brigands, armed to the teeth. |
boarded a car in the center of the city, |
and held up and searched the passen-
gers, taking all vaIuables. There were
no arrests. Interrace war between the
Armenians and Tartars is spreading.
Tried to Kill TrepOf?
St. Petersburg, June ia circum-
stantial report is in circulation today
of an attempt on the life of General
Trepoff. commandant of the palace by
a well dressed woman masquerading
as Princess Narishkin. According to
the rumor the woman gained admit |
tance to the palace and when Trepof
appeared she drew a revolver, but was
seized before she could fire. The po
lice deny the story.
story of Massacre known.
ST. Petersburg, June 19.-The story