Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-21

seen MISUNDERSTANDING TO NIL ire
poff.
st. Petersburg, June 1e-Prvate
letters received from kharkoff
predict that the entire south Of
Russia will be in state of revo-
luton within one month.
Tiflis, June 1e.-The lawIessness
In Caucasia is growing. In spite
of the patrols of soldiers and po-
lice, murder and robbery are un-
checked In this cItv. Today fIf-
teen brlsands, armed to the teeth,
boarded car In the center Of the
city and held up and searched the
passengers, taking their valuables.
No arrests were made. The inter.
race war between the Arnenlans
and Tartars is spreading.
-Bialystok, June 19.-The night pass
ed quietly and the town is now resum-
ing its normal appearance. Some OF
the street cars are running and several
factories have resumed work. Fully
half of the patrols have been with
drawn. The bodies Of more than LOU
Jews were buried yesterday, but an i'm
posing array of military force prevent
ed resumption of the disorders.
Attempt to XIII Trepoff7
st. Petersburg, June ia circum-
stantial report is in circulation today
of an attempt on the life of General
Trepoff, the commandant of the pal
ace. by well dressed woman masquer-
aiding as the Princess Narishkin. Ac-
cordine to the rumor the woman gain
ed ad1nittance to the palace and when
Trepoff appeared she drew revolver,
but it was seized before she could tire.
The police deny the story.
Bfalystok. Russia, June 1s-The cen
sorship has been partly raised, and 1t
is possible for the first time to give
of the details of the massacre OF
the Jews in this city.
Seventy of the murdered Jews were
buried Monday. Jewish estimates say
that not less than 200 were killed.
The number Of wounded is enor'
nous. The hospitals are filled to over
flowing.
Deputy st. Chepkin of the lower
house of the douma arrived on Satur-
day and went directly to the hospital
escorted by a corporal's guard. he
was utterly unnerved by the sights
he witnessed there.
The corpse of teacher, Apsteln
Law on the grass with the hands tied
In the face and eyes had been ham
mered three inch nails. Rioters en-
tered his home and after fearful out
RACES killed him thus and then muir
dered the rest of his family Of seven
When the corpse arrived at the hos
pital is was marked also with bayonei
thrusts.
chiId's Leg Chopped Off.
Beside the body of Apstein lay the
corpse of a child of 10 years, whose
leg had been chopped off with an ak
Here also were the dead from the
Schlachter home where, according tt
witnesses, soldiers came and plum
dered the house and killed the wife
son, and a neighbours daughter, anc
seriously wounded Schlachter and his
two daughters.
1t is stated that soldiers entered the
apartments of the Lapidus brothers
which were crowded with people wht
had fed from the streets for safet!
and ordered the Christians to separate
themselves from the Jews. A Chris
tian student named Dikar protested
and was killed on the spot. Then al
the Jews were shot.
Some of the corpses were marked
with fire. These had been brough
from burned tannery and showed
,o,,iyc
In one corner of the yard was de
mented Jewess trying to cover thu
body of her husband; but her efforts
were in vain. as the blood simpl.
oozed from beneath the inadequate
covering.
Merely saying that the corpses wer,
mutilated fails to describe the awfu
facts. The faces of the dead have los
all human semblance, and the corpse
simply are crushed masses of flesh ant
bone soaking in blood. 1t is impossible
to conceive of such bestiality.
How Merchant Escaped.
From the wounded in the hospita
the correspondent heard many pitiabl
stories, all of the same general tenor
Here is the account of badly wound
ed merchant named Nevyazhiky:
Il live in the suburbs. Learning o
the massacre, I tried to reach the tow
through the fields, but was intercepte'
by roughs. My brother was killed, M
arm and leg were broken, my skull
was fractured, and l was stabbed twic
in the side l tainted from loss Q
blood and revived to find a soldie
standing over me who asked: 'Wha
are you still alive? Shall bayone