Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-23
RUSSIA IS DISTRACTED
Remarkable Record of Law
Iessness and Crime
IN ALL PARTS OF EMPIRE
Keeping Pace With Governments Re-
pressive Plans.
IN ALL PARTS OF EMPIRE
PAPERS FILLED WITH STORIES
Robberies and Assassinations Are Of
Political Nature-Revolution
Using Bombs and Pistols.

ST. PETERSBURG March 23.-Lawless-
ness and crime are keeping pace in Russia
with the repressive measures of the gov
ernment. Columns Of the newspapers are
daily filled with records OF murders and
robberies. and side by side are brief chron
icles OF condemnations and military execu-
tions of political offenders. The majority
OF the robberies and assassinations are of
political nature. and everywhere the rev.
olutionists are fighting their oppressors
with bombs and revolvers. The record of
single day shows the distracted state of
the country.
AT Tanbof, Riga, Warsaw, Batoum, Nit
tau and Chita yesterday military executions
took place, while from a half dozen other
cities come reports of death sentences
passed by military courts on political pris-
oners.
From Stavropol and Kuban provinces in
the Caucasus come reports of the pllage Of
churches and the theft of sacred jewel-in-
crusted relics. Near Samara province Of
samara robbers disguised as rural guards
held up a mall coach and carried off $4,000
In booty, and at Orenburg, province of
Orenburg an armed band plundered the
state distillery and several pharmacies.
An attempt was made at Klotzlavsk Po-
land. to assassinate the chief of police, and
at Staritsy. another place in Poland, a
large factory was set fire to and burned to
the ground
Armed men at Ekaternslav South Rus
Fia entered the counting room of a mer-
chant named Marschak, ordered the clerks
TO throw up their hands, and got off with
1900.
AT Smolensk, province of Smolensk, an
Internal machine was thrown through
window into an assembly of mobiles, and
in Sebastopol eight masked men entered a
store. bound and gagged the proprietor
and employees and escaped with the contents
of the till
Lawlessness in the North.
The spirit of lawlessness has also pene-
trated north, which part of the country is
still snowbound. The peasants of the north
ern VolOgada province. on the road to
Archangel. are driving off the proprietors.
They fought a battle near Yarensk with a
detachment of a hundred and thirty cos
sacks. were defeated, and left number OF
dead on the field. On the other hand, near
Bloseis<, In Novgorod province, the peas
ants Were victorious In a fight with forest
guards, forcing the latter to retreat.
At LODI, Poland, eight thouand men are
locked out, and in all the principal cities
hundreds. If not thousands, of men are
without work and are walking the streets
begging for food.
Russian Editor Arrested.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 23.-Alexis
AIexievitch Souvorin editor of the Russ,
was arrested last night as the result of the
rejection by Emperor Nicholas of his ap-
peal against the sentence of one years i'm
prisonment in fortress imposed upon him
January 20 last for publishing in Decem-
her 1893, sedltOus proclamation. includ-
ing the manifesto of the workman's coun-
ell, announcing that the government had
declared civil war on the proIetariat and
saying that the challenge must be ac-
cepted