Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-01-03
$4,000 ARE KILLED.
Russian Riots Continue With
Great Slaughter
COVERS THE WHOLE COUNTRY
Business is Suffering Seriously From
Strike in Russia-Letters ALI Gen.
sored-Attempt to Kill Prefect of
Police at st. Petersburg-Soldie
Surround Hotel and Bring Up Ar
tillery-Two Regiments of Cos
sacks Mutinied.

Moscow, By Cable.-Firing in the
streets continued until midnight
Wednesday night. The Governor
General issued an appeal to the peo-
pie, which is displayed in the streets,
urging the citizens not to trust to
the false interpretations given the re-
cent manifesto and calling on them to
give up the strike and take sides with
the troops and the police in the preser-
walton of order. resting on The assur.
ance that the lawful authorities will
know how to protect lives and prop
serty.
81 London, By Cable.-The st. Petrs
burg correspondent of The Times, in
IA dispatch dated December 26, says:
tGovernor General Doubasoff, tele-
graphing reports that $4,000 persons
had been killed or wounded at Mos
cow.
tsThe latest news from Moscow says
that the first regiment of Don Co.'S
sacks, Tvern dragons and the Mes
Gyizh regiment of infantry mutlned
and are confined in their barracks.
s.I am informed from good source
that 1000 persons were killed and lO,-
1000 wounded. The revolutionists are
making no headway but they show up
Ez..z-.. 90 o~.l,o,,cf;n,, ~
All over the city there are marks
of the battle which has ragged in the
streets for three days, and the distant
booming Of cannon shows that the
fighting is not yet at an end. Houses
have been completely demolished by
the artillery, and everywhere win
sdows have been smashed by bullets.
Governor General Doubasoff has
prohibited the opening Of windows.
The better classes are afraid to ven
ture >on the streets owing to the fact
that numerous bombs and other dead.
" missiles are being thrown from
the windows and roofs of houses.
Near the triumphal arch could be seen
today, the red flags of the insurgents
flying above their barricades. Sol
diers surrounded the Continental Ho-
tel and artillery was brought up as it
was claimed that "a shot had been fired
from one of the windows. 1t was
with difficulty that the landlord per
suaded the troops not to dcmolish the
building.
AS the correspondent entered the
telephone exchange he saw two agita-
tors shot by a passing patrol. Artil-
lery can be heard at work near the
Nicholas station.
Two attempts on the life of the pre-
feet of police by students, one of them
woman, was frustrated. The stu
dents were arrested.
The Bourse Gazette says it is report
led that General De Dioulin, prefeet of
police Of st. Petersburg, has been
informed by telephone that the num-
Der of dead or wounded at Moscow
number 10000 and that when ques-
toned tonight the general did not
deny that such a report had been re-
ceived.
The merchants here complain that
they are suffering seriously from the
strike in Russia, and are not receiv-
ing the information in regard to the
situation there, as-all letters are care
fully Gems /red.
The correspondent of the St.
Petersburg Times, wires that it is re
ported there, that a military terrorist
plot has been discovered by the au-
thorities. Fifty arrests have been
made in connection with this discev.
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