The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-08-23
TERRORIST WAR
ON IN EARNEST
FIFTY ASSASSiNATIONS THE REC
ORD OF ONE DAYS BLOODY
WORK..
DARKFES RUSSIAN OUTLOOK
NEWSPAPER REFERS TO "ST.
BARTHOLOMEW NIGHT IN
POLAND"

St. Petersburg, Aug. lS.--The war Of
terrorism which the lighting organiza-
ton Of the social reyolutionists de-
clared Immediately after parliament
was dissolved seems now to have be-
gun in earnest From all parts Of the
empire the telegraph brings be same
story of attacks on police officials OF
all classes, accompanied IN the major
ity of cases by plunder
The Polish revolutionists are espe-
cially active. There is veritable
reign Of terror from the NiStula to the
German frontier. Almost fifty cases
OF assassination were reported early
last night.
The Novoe Vremya heads its list OF
murders and other crimes. st Bar
tholomew's Night in Poland"
Darkens Russian Outlook.
The resumption OF terrorist activity
on large scale renders the task Of
the government more difficult and
darkens the prospects Of the present
ministry in accomplishing anything in
the direction of an ameliOratiOn Of the
situation. While for the moment the
campaign Of terrOristS is bound to in
crease the revulsion of the more con
sentative public opinion against tho
wild excuses Of the extremists, it Is
at the same time certain to force the
government to redouble the measures
of repression which, it is said, will in
the end drive public sympathy back to
support almost any means of relief.
Retaliation for Arrests.
Some of the dispat ches from Poland
assert that the outbreak of terrorism
is in retaliation for the wholesale ar
rests and repressions of the governor
general.
Agrarian disorders in another dis
trict of the province of Penza led to
an encounter between the populace
and COssacks, in which one peasant
was killed and several were wounded.
Terror in Warsaw.
Warsaw, Aug. lit is now stated
that during Wednesdays massacre
thirteen policemen, four police SER
geants, seven gendarmes and four sol
diers were killed, and that eight po-
licemen, two sergeants two gendarmes
and six soldiers were wounded. The
soldiers in replying to the attacks on
the police with volleys and charging
the crowds killed thirteen men and
two women and severely wounded
seventy persons and slightly injured
nj, Ex,n In i,rI,t hot 10
were heard in different parts of tho
city, but the casualties have not been
ascertained.
Throws Bomb at Procession.
A boy threw bomb at o'clock last
night into a procession returning from
a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Holy
Virgin at Rokitno, near Warsaw,
wounding two of the processionists.
The explosion attracted patrol of in
fantry, who without warning fired
volley. wounding thirty persons.
Pitiful Scenes in Warsaw.
London, Aug. 1.-THE Tribune's
Warsaw correspondent telegraphs a
description of the 'ul scenes wit
messed by him after the disturbances
Wednesday.
''The hospital surgeons, fatigued by
their labors," he says. were unable to
attend to cases, and wounds diagnosed
as fatal were left to take their course.
THE scenes in the morgues were
horrible. In one counted thirty-two
civilian bodies, all dirty and dressed
as they fell.
People Grow Cailous.
"The people have grown callous with
too much death. was shocked to hear
a young girl laugh heartily at the sight
of woman whose brain pan had been
torn off by bomb
Last night resulted in an orgie OF
blood in the Jewish quarter. The
number Of persons dubbed or bayo-
neted exceeds 800
TUo Killed nv Gao ExpIosion