The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-08-07
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
PARALLELS THE OLD
FRENCH REVOLU.
s TON. go
A Summary of the Causes Com
pared-A General Strike is
Called at Capital-Mutin-
GERS Executed in Num-
bers-Other News.
FRENCH REVOLUTION.

FRENCH REVOLUTION.
I Ruler-Louis XVI.
Causes-Poverty of the people
high taxes, no voice 10 the govern
ment, oppression by the nobility
and church.
Third estate, representing the low.
! est classes, organized under royal
(edict, but the rights were curtailed.
Necar, minister of finance, looked
upon to regensrate france, dismiss.
ed by the king.
Louis XVI retires with royal
family to Versailles, just outside o.
Paris.
I Masses called on Louis XVI tc
save them from poverty by nobili'
ity, pressing him to safety and were
turned down.
Mrtinies and outbreaks of Paris
guards and imperial troops.
Uprising of peasants and burn
ing of nobles' estates.
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. :
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Ruler-Nicholas II.
Causes-Poverty Of workipgmen
excessive taxation, little voice ir
the government, oppression by the
grand dukes, bureaucracy and holy
synod. s.-szs1s- s.s.es..n
Douma, representing thu peasants
aud working mtn, demands more
liberty.
Prince Mirsky, former minister
of the interior, who suggested ma.
ny reforms, discredited. M. Witte
resigns.
Nicholas II rstires with the roy al
family to Tearskoe.selo sni Peter.
hof, few miles from St. Peters
burg.
People appear t. czar to redres:
their wrongs and douma is diseolv'
ed.
Mu inies of soldiers and sailors.
Strikes Of laboring men and seiz'
ure e.and destruction of large estates
St. Petersburg, Aug. Allow
are the roads for motoring 10 Sar .
tov Provinee?" was the remarkable
question the emperor put to Prince
ILvoff. who saw him during the ne.
gotiations with Premier Stolypin
looking to the prince's entsli 6 9
reorganiz.d ministry. The prince
says the car interrupted him in
the midst Of explanations Of the ex
treme gravity Of the Russian situa'
ton with The inquiry about the
chance for sport. Later the empe
ror said be was cer.ain the army
was loyal to him. The princes
tt,ry is CO ,sidered most remarkable
The following is almost under thu
cars nose:
! General revolution ary strike il
called; $4,000 workman are out anc
1more going.
Mutinies Of supposed loyal troops
have jast been suppressed at Svea
borg aud Krons'adt, ohave broker
out at Warsaw, aud possibly have
beeo renewed at Kronstadt.
Peasant bands are on the march
in scores of interior districts, bura
ing, pillaging and numbering.
| Hundreds of nihil sis sre waiti,
their chance to throw a bomb
their Little Father"
Bandits and train robbers ar,
abroad.
St. Petersburg, Aug 3.-Thougl
the mutineers at Sveaborg ant
Kronstads have been suppressed
the governments troubles have on
ly begnn. Premier Stolypin ha
resigned, a general strike in St. Pc
tersburg has been declared to go ir
ip effect tomorrow. mutinie. Of gar
Tfsons in various 1arts of the en-
pire are reportet; while burning
and destroying OF MOBILES estates b,
peasants continues.
Stolypin has g.ne to Psterhcf
presumably to tender his resigua
ton.
1t is officially announced thi
morning, confirming the report o
Stolypin's defeat at Camafalls, tba
the report that the non-burea ucrat
ic elements will enter the cabine
is untrue. SO ~ "a. ~
The emperor has fatty refuse'
to accept the conditions to whicl
Premier Stoly pin agreed in his ne
gotiations with Count Heydon, Al
exander Guchkoff, Prince Nlcho'a