The Minneapolis journal., 1906-06-12
ARMED MUTINEERS
DEFYING COSSACKS
5czar's Troops in Open Revolt
Arson and Famine in the
Country.
MARSHAL OF NOBILITY SLAIN.

MAhotkA1 OE NO01A41 - SAafAAINs
Kutais, Russia, June I'm. Sharp
kovsky, a smarshal Of the mobility, was
waylaid and murdered by revolution
lists yesterday.
Poltava, South Russia, June 12.-An
open mutiny has broken out in the Fletz
regiment Of infantry over the failure.
of the military authorities to redeem
their pledges regarding the amelioration
Of service conditions made as a result
Of the revolt last fall.
The mutiny threatens to spread to
the rest Of the garrison.
unable to cope with the mutineers, who
are armed with rifles and have sup
ply of cartridges.
The rebels left their barracks in a
body and held meeting in the public
square, at which delegates from the
zesky regiment Of infantry and the
artillery promised that these forces will
join in the mutiny.
Fire on Police Chief.
The chief Of police, in advancing
with the hope Of dispensing the meeting,
was fired at, but. escaped injury. The
horse Of his Cossack orderly was killed.
The Fletz regiment left its barracks
at midnight and marched with band
playing thru the town to the non-com-
missioned officers school, members Of
which Joined the mutineers. The lat
ter, while returning to the barracks,
disarmed and beat the policemen whom
The public is greatly excited, antici-
pattng that the revolutionists will seize
the opportunity to inauguarate an
armed revolt In support Of the mutinous
soldiers. :.a
Arson and Famine.
st. Petersburg, June lathe news.
papers are filed with dispatches re-
porting agrarian troubles in the inte.
rior of the empire, in which the hand
recting brain are clearly manifest
Where it is impossible to incite the
peasantry to open arson and destruc.
| tion, the propaganda manifests itself
in agrarian strikes.
There are three well-marked lines. II
the province Of Kherson the Bessarabie
peasants refuse. to. begin work in the
fields until their demands shall have
been granted, altho these demands were
not formulated until after the present
crop was planted. = -
In the provinces of Saratov an6
Tchernigov and along the lower Volgs
! an unconditional strike has been in
augurated. II, H.
Famine already is acute in severa
districts, and In the province of Voro
nezp typhus has become epidemic.
The minister of war lis investigating
the trouble with the Rostov Grenadier
barracks on account Of disafectio1
1growing out Of the non-fulflment o:
the reforms promised after the mutin,
of December last. -
! Police Put to Rout.
| Ryazan, June l2.-The peasantry VIII,
had seized all the private estates in tn
district of Ronnenburg and planted tn
fields .In have e driven s. of the police VIII
Of cavalry, left Ryazan today for Ron
nenburg.
49,. Landowners in Panic. q tI
st. Petersburg, June 12.-The. ;pani
among the landowners is manifested b.
agrarian banks. s
Mirovich Dead Of Wounds.
siedlce, June 12.--Mauor Mirovich
who was shot by g band Of terrorist
; Sunday night while he was walkin
; with the chief of the governors 8 offic
and the secretary Of police board, ha
died Of his wounds. ~
" Famine Is Certain. f..
}. Altho the crop reports from the en-
land, from the Black sea and from tn
Gulf Of Finland, are excellent, the la1
est reports from the Volga region il
dicate Russia will not escape famine
The harvest in that corner of tn
empire this year, especially in Kaza1
Simbirsk and Samara, threatens, OWN
to lack Of rain, to be complete fai
! ure. This is the region where the pea.
/ ant agitation. is most acute .
In spite Of the bad showing in th
. Volga region, the government crop RI
port considers that the good conditio
4 westward indicates more than an ave-
. age crop.