Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-24


thoritative quarters say the situation III
Russia is rapidly improving and that
Premier Stolypin is confident OF carry
ing out liberal reforms before the new
Parliament is elected.
Awful Record of Crime.
ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 2O.-Last
weeks statistics show that fifty eight OF
fcials We're murdered and forty-three
were wounded in Russia proper, that
fifty bomb depots were discoyered; that
six safes We're rifed of money and that
sIXty-three persons were robbed.
These official figures do not take into
account the pillaging in the country, nor
do they give the number of military ex-
ecutions or arrests of agitators and revo-
luuonlsts, and there are no figures show
ing the number of persons sent into
exile.
Thousands Are Banished.
The st. Petersburg Gazette says that
200 persons We're banished on Saturday
from st. Petersburg alone and $50 were
placed on trains bound for the interior.
Project of Police Won Launitz has de-
clared his intention of clearing the capt.
tai of all 'vagabonds."
The police of this city are being
trained in the handling of rapid fire
guns at an arms factory outside of St.
Petersburg. A detachment of police is
sent there daily for training.
Car Hot After the Reds
A call to an uncompromising war with
terrorism and revolution in Poland was
sounded in the imperial telegram of con-
graduation to Gov. Gen. Skallon of
Warsaw on his escape from the bombs
of would-be assaSsins at Warsaw on
Saturday. Emperor Nicholas after
thanking divine Providence for saving
the governors life ''for me and Russia ~
continues:
DO not be discouraged. Be resolute
III the battle with insensate anarchy and
Sedition."
The escape of Belenzof, the bandit
leader, was due to carelessness of off
Gals who hid their negligence under
false reports. Instead of jumping through
a window Of the train it turns out that
Belenzoff was in the toilet room with a
guard outside, when he escaped. The
guards then smashed windows as a blind.
American Home Looted.
LONDON, Aug. 2o-In a dispatch
from Warsaw the correspondent of the
Tribune says that one British and one
American resident of LODI had their
houses looted by Cossacks after the
bomb outrage of Wednesday. Both suf-
ferers have filed demands for heavy in
demnity with their respective consuls.
American Asks Redress.
WARSAW, Aug. 20.-AIna Beckman,
widow of a naturalized American has
applied to the American consul for $4,000
damages owing to the destruction of her
property during the disturbances here.
Robbed of $4,000.
NICOLAIEFF, Aug. 20.-Eght
armed men attacked the treasurer of the
Black Sea company at midday Sunday
on the principal street here. They killed
the treasurer, as well as a policeman
who was accompanying him, and made
off with $4,000
Troops Fire Into Big Crowd
USOVKA, Russia, Aug. 2O.-Two
squadrons of dragons last night began
to dispense a meeting of Vyatka miners
when several shots were fred from back
of the crowd which numbered several
thousand. The dragons replied with
five volleys, killing and wounding many
of the miners.
Eighteen ring leaders of the disturb
ance have been arrested. The greatest
excitement prevails here