Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-03
ARMED BANDS A MENACE,
ROB TRAIN CARRYING GOVERNMENT
MONEY AND KILL TROOPS
GUARDING GOLFERS.
TELEGRAPH LINES CUT.
Provinces Can't Communicate with the
Capital Except Over Wires Con-
trolled by Government

WARSAW, July Pa passenger
train carrying government money and
guarded by a detachment of soldiers and
gendarmes, was attacked today between
Czenstochowa and Herby by numer-
Gus, well armed band. Lively firing en-
sued, during which two gendarmes, four
soldiers and two civil employees We're
killed and others of the guards were
wounded. The attacking party carried
off $4,000 and the arms OF the defend
ers of the train.
1t probably was the same band which
captured a train on Thursday. announc-
ing that the revolution had begun.
Two Generals Slain.
Among the killed We're Gen. Zukat,
Chief OF the frontier guard, and Gen
Neltenring, CHER OF the customs service.
Besides Gems. Zukot and Weitenring,
the revolutionists shot and killed the
cashier of the custom house at Herby,
who was in charge of the money. Gen.
Neltenring was the chief customs col
| lector of Warsaw.
Another account says that it was the
assistant cashier of the custom house
and not the cashier. Col Brzezicki and
other passengers were compelled to give
up all their personal cash.
Near the village OF ChernipOff a de-
tachment of dragons sent to arrest two
agltatoFs were met by, peasants with
scythes, rakes and pitchtorks. Five
peasants were killed and twelve dra-
goons wounded, three fatally.
The Black Hundreds Kazan are ter
| rorizing the intelligentsia and Jews
with threats of an uprising. Many
houses have been marked with crosses
and the Jews are seeking safety in flight.
The country side is said to be in a
md IN,
rllla bands. The small force of troops
operating in the district will be rein
forced.
Public Telegraph Lines Cut.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 2S.-The
switchboard of the central telegraph sta
ton in St Petersburg was burned out
today, destroying all communication
with the provinces.
w bile there is 4 suspicion that the
accident" was arranged by the revolu-
tlonlsts, no evidence to support it can be
found. However, the public is cut off
from telegraph communication with the
interior Tor some time, but the govern
ment retains the possibility of communi-
eating with the provincial authorities
over the railway wires. Cable communi-
cation abroad is not affected.
Government Scheme Fails.
New obstacles have been encountered
by Premier Stolypin in his efforts to Sc
cure the services III a reorganized ca BIZ
net OF men of standing in Russia outside
OF official life. The conditions laid down
by NJ. Guchkoff and Prince Lvoff are
understood to have been rejected and
| they have definitely refused to enter the
ministry. This presages the principal
shlpwreck of the entire scheme, since
without the participation of the non-bu-
reaucratlc elements it would be difficult
the liberals of the sincerity of the GOV
ernment'S promises.
Meanwhile NJ. Stolypn is theoretically
and continually trying 70 persuade tie
country that his policy of 'S:,t1lg-handed
reform" does not involve reaction. iIs
has announced in his provl1: =; that the
pale will be granted to semtsvo insti-
tutlons and denies that the government
intends to interfere with tie legal Ice
toral campaigns of the vI-iOus parties,
in vlrture of which he las authorized the
holding of q national congress of con-
stitutlonal democrats at Noarow.
Jews Are Left Alone.
He has instructed the 30 ice of ST Pc
tersburg not to interfere wi I the Jewish
members of the outlawp,! parliament
who, under the law, when they ceased 70
enjoy the immunity emf lied by their
membership of Parliament forfeited the
right to remain in the capital more than
twenty-fOur hours.
Such half way deeds of liberalism,
however. are scored by The Rech,
which today says that the situation is
! no differnt from what it was under
Count Witte, when the latter as pre-
mier, was filling the world with liberal
declarations while his wicked partner
| Burnoyo was putting on the screws
again" The Rech adds: I'VE hear
the voice of Jacob, but We feel the hand
of Esau."
Upper House Members Quit
Five additional members of the coun-
Gil of the empire, NJ. Shishkoff, Verkow-
sky, Lappodanilevsky, Bereeshine, and
Nernadsky, have formally resigned
They have signed an open letter setting
forth that the retention of their man
dates would be equivalent to acquescing
in tho dissolution of Parliament and the
restoration of the bureaucrat regime, en-
ablying it to pass the budget of 1907
without the approval of the representa-
tives of the people.
The Rech says that in spite of his
advanced age NJ. Pobedonostseff for
merIy procurator general of the Holy
| Synod, has the dominant influence over
the Emperor.
The ukase providing for the dissolu-
ton of Parliament has been ordered to
be read before the troops of all the gar
| risOns in Russia.
! Bourse Can't Hold Out
| Yesterdays improvement on the
! hourse here was not sustained today, Il
| food of offerings on the advance result
! ing in a reation in the whole list, but
prices at the close were firm. Imperial
| fours closed at 7212 and tives ut S41a.
| NJ Sedelnikoff, the radical Cossack
member OF the outlawed Parliament
who was arrested and beaten by the
police July 4, which caused stormy
/ scene in the house, was today fined $3.50
! for carrying revolver.