Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-18
Landed Proprietors Flee
 From Flaming Homes.
TORCH APPLIED ALL OVER LAND
No Officials Life Safe From Bomb
 or Bullet.
CHAR TOO WEAK TO CALL HALT

From Russian Empire Come Reports
 of Assassination, PiIlage and De-
 struction by Fire In Many Prov
 observation-disclosures Outrages and
 Agrarinn Disorders Multiply to
 such an Extent as to Foreshad0w
 an immediate Reign of Terror Such
 n Swept Thousands of French Au-
 tocrats on the Earth-st. Peters-
 burg Police Disnnccted = Great
 Strike at sevastopol-village Burn-
 cd by "Reds"-Large Country Es-
 tates Destroyed.
 ST. PETERSBURG, July 1S.-A spe- cial dispatch from Bobrov, province of voronezh, says that the troubles in the whole of that district, covering l35 miles square, are becoming more seri- ous daily. The peasants have risen as one man, and during the night over twenty estates were burned and sev- eral landed proprietors killed.
 The town of Bobruisk is filled with terror stricken proprietors, who were able to escape the carnage by fleeing from their estates. Ten miles from the city fifteen estates were burned and many of the proprietors killed. The governor has arrived with Cos sacks but order has not been restored.
 Alarm has been caused by the inau- guration of a strike of police here.
 The ostensible basis of police discon- tent is monetary, including the ac- counting for the mems saving fund, for which, it is alleged, they have not been allowed interest The authOri- ties, however. declare that the trouble was inspired by asitators.
 Notwithstanding the efforts of the police officials to quiet their fears, the people are in terror lest the lawless element abounding here should take advantage of the situation.
 At Sevastopol the workmen employ ed in the arsenal of the admiralty have struck and have been joined by the store employees and street car drivers. The streets are being patrolled by troops. It is stated that the agitation and strike are in sympathy with the Otchakoff mutineers, whose trial has begun.
 The assassin of General Kozloff. who was murdered in the English park at Peterhof on Saturday. has been identi- fled ns Lett belonging to an organi- ration the members of which have sworn to kill General Trepoff. General Prince PutIatin and thirteen other per sons intimately connected with the court. The assassin was chosen by lot.
 Chief of Police MartinoK. at Tiflis, while driving in the street was mortal ly wounded by a bomb. His leg and arm were blown off. The bomb was thrown from the Georgian Nobles' school. M. MartinofY was much hated on account of the severity of the meas ures he adopted in putting down meet ings and for the maltreatment of the people
 Emperor Nicholas has degraded the Seventh cavalry. which recently muti- nied at Tambov. by taking away the imperial standard conferred on the regiment two years ago
 The daily budget of revolutionary oufrages and agrarian disorders is larger than usual. In many places the peasants are wantonly applying the torch to estates belonging to the crown and to private forests.
 At Natshatkino. in SlmhIrsk prov ince, the town hall was sci on fire. and the entire village. consisting of 300 houses. was consumed.
 Throughout Poland systematic pillag- Ing of the government spirit shops is in progress. The central police office at Warsaw was robbed, and gen. dsrme was killed.
 At Lublin, Russian Poland, revolu- tionists executed a workman who was suspected of being a spy. and at Mini Novgorod and vasniky the cashiers of the spirit monopoly were robbed and killed.
 At Smolensk the agrarian movement has assumed a violent phase. The es- tates of Count Sheromatieff. q promi- nent reactionary. and Prince Lubanoff Rostoffsky and three other large es- tafes have been completely destroyed.
 At Pavlograd the estate of M. Su-' kovhkin has been pillaged and 2.0o0 tons of hay and forage burned.
 Admiral skrydloff. who succeeded Ad- mirsl Mskbaroff in command of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur after the latter went down with his flagship. has Aeen officially named as commander of sne Black sea fleet. succeeiing the late Vice Admiral Chouknin-
 Tn view of the terrorizei state of the population the governor general of the province of Bsku has ordered an people to stay indoors from 2 o'clock ?. m. to 6 o'clock a. m. Persons on whom arms are found will be imprisoned for three months.
 The Red Squadron Is still spread ing its propaEznda- The Red Squadron is new tsrroristic party which has he- come active recently in the vicinity of Batu. It's leaders hold that the present is 10 time to handy words but to an swer governmental repFessiOus with the death of oficiais-
 Al IubIsn two gsudnrmes were kill ed in the streets of rhst eity. The mur- deren escapei-