Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-16
BIG BAND OF TERRoRlsTs
An Elaborate Organization Discover
ed in Warsaw by Police.
REWARDS FOR KILLING A GIRL
Commander Of st. Petersburg CARR
son Gives Sentry Five Dollars
for Committing Murder

Special Cablegram to The Star.
ST. PETERSBURG, October ia bomb
exploded today in the stove In the Office
OF the manager of the Nobel Company's
petroleum depot here. The manager was
slightly wounded.
The Baku manager OF the Nobel Company
was murdered last Sunday at Pyatigorsk,
a Caucasian watering place. The Nobel
Company had had much trouble for nearly
two years with it's svorkmen and their
sympathizers. During the strikes In the
petroleum districts in the early part OF last
year sixteen of its Oil tanks we're destroyed
by incendiaries and 1t suffered other losses.
Later, Tartars destroyed 80 per cent Of
the company's Oil derricks. M. Nobel, the
president Of the company, at that time the
largest employer in st. Petersburg headed
a deputation of manufacturers in an appeal
to 1.-THE minister of finance; for military
protection just previous to the great
strikes in January Of last year, and in
November of last year he formed an asse-
citation OF the employers in st. Petersburg.
decline to treat with employees on questions
of wages or hours until the duma should
have met and acted.
Headquarters Of Band.
WARSAW. October 16.-The police today
discovered the headquarters Of an elabo-
rately organized band of terrorists and
captured forty-nine members of the band
rod with how ,ff<1
many murders and robberies
ST. PETERSBURG, October 16.-After in
vestigating the killing of Mile. semenova.
the young medical student confined in the
central detention prison of st. Petersburg
who was shot and killed by a sentry Sep
TENDER 10 when she showed herself at the
window Of her cell overlooking the court
yard. the commander of the St. Petersburg
garrison. In an order Of the day has
thanked the soldier who killed the girl and
has given him a reward of s.. In addition
the soldier, who belongs to the Seminovsky
Regiment, Is upheld in the order of the
day as an example to his comrades of the
faithful performance Of duty
The testimony of the prisoners confined
In the central detention prison and that Of
the witness in behalf of the military au-
thertties differed considerably. The prison.
ers claimed that the sentry fired without
any warning or provocatfon, while the sem
try said he ordered Mile. Semenova four
times to leave the window, where she and
some of her companions were haunting
members of the Seminovslsy Regiment with
the part, they had taken in the suppression
of the revolt at Moscow.
7 The authorities threatening to close
the universities Of st. Petersburg and Kiev
as well as the University of Moscow, be-
cause of the holding of revolutionary meet
fngs within the buildings and me partici-
patton Of non-students in the meetings The
PROFESSIONAL councils have appealed to the
students to. for the sake Of the academic
life Of Russia, refrain from permitting such
Illegal gatherings.
According to a dispatch from Yalta, Cri-
mea. member of the secret police has
been arrested there for firing on a dragon
patrol with the intention Of provoking retri-
butive excesses on the part of the soldiery
against the Jews.
Twelve Bombs Seized.
VORONEZII. Russia October 16.-The DO
lice have today seized twelve bombs which
were found in the possession of q peasant
belonging to the village Of Pesskf the CEN
ter OF the agrarian disorders In this vicinity
last summer.