New-York tribune., 1906-07-18
WAVE OF REVOLT RISES
STRIKE 1T SEBASTOPOL.
Police Refuse Duty in Capital
Peasants Beyond Control.

st. Petersburg. July 17.<AIurder. mutiny and
pillage are spreading rapidly in all parts Of the
Russian Empire. The workmen employed at the
arsenal Of the Admiralty at Sebastopol have
struck, and have been Joined by the store en-
ployes and streetcar drivers. The streets are
being patrolled. 1t is said that the agitation and
strike are in sympathy with the Otchakoff unu-
tineers. whose trial has begun.
Threats of police strike nearly caused a panic
in st. Petersburg to-day. and. though the strike
has been postponed. the danger is not past The
ostensible source OF discomfort is monetary, in
Guiding the accounting for the mems saving
fund. which. it is alleged. interest has not
been allowed. The authorities however say that
the trouble was inspired by agitators. The gem.
darmes Of the LIST District this morning refused
60 go out on their beats until assured that their
money would be paid with full interest. The
captain tried to pacify the men. but they would
not listen to him. They then marched to the
I'd District where they induced their COM
rades to join them. Cossacks were summoned.
and the police were surrounded and threatened
with arrest. but they held out until the chief Of
police assured them that their demands would
be investigated and all wrongs righted. The
people are in terror lest the lawess element
aboundng here should take advantage OF the
situation.
driving in the city to-day was mortally wounded
by a bomb A leg and an blown Off
The bomb was thrown from the Georgian No
bles School Martinoff was much hated on ac-
count of his severity.
In view Of the terrorized state of the popula-
tion the Governor General of this province has
ordered all persons to stay in doors from p m
to 3 a. m. Persons on whom arms are found
will be imprisoned for three months. The RED
The troubles in the district of Bobroff. Of 1875
square miles, in the province of Voronezh are be-
coming more serious daily. The peasants have
| risen as one man. Last night over twenty estates
were burned, and many landed proprietors were
killed The city of Bobroff is filled with
ror stricken proprietors, who able to flee
from yesterdays carnage. Ten miles from here
fifteen estates were burned. The Governor has
arrived with Cossacks but order has not been
restored.
The agrarian movement has assumed violent
phase in the Smolensk district. The estates of
Count Sherematieff. prominent reactionist. and
Prince Lubanoff Rostoffsky and three other large
estates have been destroyed.
The estate of NJ sukovhkin. near Pavlograd.
has been pillaged and two thousand tons of hay
and forage have been burned
Attempts were made yesterday to start anti
Jewish outbreaks at Kherson, Ncolaieff and
Ekaterlnoslav but they were promptly sup
pressed by the authorities. The strikes continue
TO spread on all sides
THE Twentieth Century" formerly the Russ"
to-day says that the reports submitted by the
commission OF the general staff on disaffection in
the army thus far show that six Guard regiments.
twenty-six line, seven cavalry. six artillery and
five sapper regiments are more or less affected
by the revolutionary movement.
Az Natshs tlIino in Simbirsk Province, the
town haH was set on fire yesterday, and the en-
tire village, consisting of three hundred houses.
was consumed. The family of NJ. Krupenikof
have been driven off their estate near Simbirsk
by peasants. who announced that they intended
70 harvest the crop for themselves, but would
allow M. Krupenikoff 10 take his cattle
The Monastery OF the Nativity at Moscow has
been plundered OF all its jewels and sacred relics
and $4,000 in cash.
All through Poland systematic piaging OF the
government spirit shops is going The central
police Office at Warsaw robbed yesterday
and gendarme killed. At Lublin revolu-
tionists yesterday executed workman who was
suspected Of being a spy Two gendarmes were
killed in a street there to-day At Mini Nov
gorod and Vasniky the cashiers of the spirit
monopoly were robbed and killed. A bank az
sosnitsa was robbed yesterday.
workmen at ROstof Province OF Yaroslav
killed an alleged government provocator; at Pit
iagorsk a Tartar woman who baptized in
the Orthodox Church was murdered, and at
Yaroslav bombs were exploded at the residences
of the chief OF police and an officer OF the gen.
darmerie
Grafton continues In the volga provinces. and
that the partial total failure Of the crops has
Continued third pays