Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-30
FIND BOMBS
HAVE BATTLE
REVoLuTioNIsTs FIRE FROM
WINDOW AND THROW BOMB
FROM THE HOUSE
BUILDING is RIDDLED

Troops and Police Fire Bullets Into
Place and All Occupants Are Elther
Killed or Wounded-Absolute Mon
archy Is Asked for by Party.
Riga, Aug 2s.-Police and troops
today surrounded a lodging house on
Stolivia street, where bombs had been
discovered. Revolutionists inside fired |
with rifles from windows on the at
lacking party and also threw bomb
whereupon the troops riddled the
house with bullets, killing or wound
Ing all the inmates. Two men and one
woman we're killed At another place
in the suburbs Lettish student was
killed and several were wounded while |
resisting arrest.
Want Absolute Monarchy
Moscow, Aug. 2S.-A monarchial
party in an address to the emperor just
published openly, appeals for dictat'
orship which will put an end to demon
alization in the army, and also urges
the complete suppression Of parlia-
ment and the restoration of unlimited
authority.
| The car yesterday, by ukase, trans.
ferred 100000 acres of crown appan-
age to the Peasants bank The bank
will sell the land to peasants on thir-
ty-three and sixty years time. The
details are yet to be arranged.
The transfer of 100000 additional
acres of land, it is announced, will be
made within a short time.
The lands chosen for this first dis
tribution include:
Lands under cultivation which are
not contiguous to forest tracts and
where leases have expired.
2-Forests adjoining or surrounded
by peasant holdings
| 3-Wcod lands suitable In the gov
ernments of Archangel md Vologda.
Lands That Are Exempt.
The following kinds of appanages
arc excluded from these operations:
Districts devoted to factories, foun-
deries or any mining concerns or pro-
vided with agricultural or other valua-
BILE buildings or gardens in high
state of cultivation: those unsuited for
farming; and, finally, crown lands in
the Crimea and Transcaucasia and
forest.
The apportionment of land ASSIGNED
for sale and the tax to be imposed on
said lands will be fixed by the agrarian
committee appointed by the imperial
!. ukase of March with the ssistance
Of the Peasants bank.
The preparation of the scheme of
transfer and the arrangements with
80 do nd
:, the final settlement Of the conditions
, Of sale by imperial decree are confln'
ed to the minister of the imperial
, household, who will consult with the
ministers of the interior and finance
: and @e chief agricultural authorities
All the schemes must first receive the
. emperor's sanction.
e Car Attends Funeral Mass.
). In spite of the menace of active wal
by the terrorists, Emperor Nicholas
and the empress quilted the shelter d
e the palace Enclosure ct Peterhof yes
= terday to attend a funeral mass
. over the body Of Gen. Min in the Peter
!, hof camp, considerable distance from
+. the palace.
The precaution for the protection o
4 the imperial family were adequate, AMI
: the sovereisns returned to the palac,
without incident.
The body of Gen. Min will b.
G brought to st. Petersburg on board
g royal train over the special imperia
e line, which is used only in Journeys o
the emperor between ST Petersbur!
n and Peterhof, instead of over the regu
al lar railroad used for ordinary traffic.
a. The Seminovsky regiment will NEE
e the body at the station and escort it t.
d. the reglmental chapel. Officers an
r men Of this regiment have receive
many communications threatenin
them with bombs and other reprisals
T. Terrorists In Two Camps.
There Is some dissension in tn
'e camp of the social revolutionists owe
the decision to wage war of terro
20 ism against all officials, as is NANTES
a = ed in proclamation by the moderat
y wing of the party washing its hand
re of the attempt on the life of Premie
Stolypin, which is attributed to th
n flying group" or younger members
the party.
The Official Messenger announce
IT, that the officers and soldiers detaile
''' to guard Belenzoff, the leader of tt
" band which robbed the Credit Mutu
80 bank of Moscow Of $437,500, will
be court-martialed for allowing him to e
It's cape.
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