Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-18
CAR IGNORES MINISTER'S
Approves Famine Relief Bill Despite
Advice Of His Cabinet,
AGRARlAN COMMITTEE MAKES APPEAL
Duma Members Attempt 20 Counter
act Eject on the Country of Pro-
pOsaIs Made by the Rus
sian Government.

sian government
ST. PETERSBURG. July 17.-The en-
peror last night approved the bill OF 'he
lower house of Parliament, which was
adopted by the upper house, appropriating
s7O0oO00 for famine relief, thus supporting
the contention of both houses of Parlia-
ment against his own ministers. This law
is the first enactment OF the Russian Par-
lament and represents the net legal result
OF a session OF over two months.
The papers today say that the authorities
at Peterhof are again asking NJ ShipoH.
former president of the zemstvo council
and NJ. Yermoloff, leader of the conserva-
tive center party, to renew their attempts
to induce the constitutional democrats TO
enter coalition cabinet.
Duma Appeals to Country.
The agrarian committee of the lower
house of Parliament has completed the
draft of appeal to the country to coun-
teract the effects of the governments
agrarian proposals, which have been sent
broadcast throughout the empire. The doc
ument drawn up by the house committee
carefully reviews the declarations OF the
lower house in its address in reply to the
speech from the throne, and the state
ments made In the nonpossumus returned
by the ministry on the subject of the pro-
posed appropriation of land, calls attention
to the fact that no solution OF the ques-
! tion is possible, according o the manifesto
| of October 30 without the consent of Par
/ lament, and reaffirms the adhesion OF the
| house to the principle of the forcible eN-
! preparation of church. state, crown and
/ private lands in excess of a normal amount.
! and appeals to the peasants to remain calm
and await patiently the final action Of the
! house
! seventh Cavalry DEGRADED.
Emperor Nicholas has degraded the Sew
enth cavalry, which recently mutinied at
! Tamboff. by taking away the imperial
standard conferred on the regiment two
! years ago.
| The assassin Of General Koslov, who was
killed Saturday evening in the English park
at Peterhof, has not yet been identified, but
the Novoe vremya declares that his phys
iognomy shows plainly that ne is of He
brew extraction and says that a few days
before the crime he was seen at Peterhof
! I'm company with three Jews, who spoke
I English The official Rossia declares there
| is no doubt that the assassination of the
general was planned by terrorlsts and ap-
peals to all good citizens to uphold the
authorities in their efforts to put end
| to the spri of awessness which threatens
TO overwhelm the country in anarchy.
Peasants Are Destructive.
The daily budget of revolutionary out
RACES and agrarian disorders is larger than
usual today. In many places the peasants
are wantonly applying the torch to es-
tates belonging 20 the crown and 10 prl-
vate forests. At Natshatklno. In Simbrsk
province, the town hall was set on fire
of 800 houses, was consumed.
Throughout Poland systematic pillages of
the government spirit shops is in progress.
The central police office at Warsaw was
robbed yesterday and a gendarme was
killed.
At Lublin. Russian Poland. revolution
lists yesterday executed a workman who
was suspected of being spy. and at
Nizhni Novgorod and Vasniky the cashiers
of the spirit monopoly were robbed and
killed A bank at Sosnitza was robbed
yesterday, and at Tihis an Armenian loco
motive engineer was shot in his cab by
an assassin concealed in the neighboring
woods.
, workmen at Rostoff killed an alleged
government provocator. At Ritiagorsk a
Tartar woman who baptized in the
, Orthodox church was murdered, and al
Yaroslav bombs were exploded at the resi-,
dence of the chief of police and an Officer
of the gendarmerie
Police Threaten 20 strike.
/ Threats Of a police strike nearly caused
e a panic here today though the strike ha,
I been postponed the danger cannot be saiC
i to have entirely passed. The ostensibl,
basis OF police discomfort is monetary, in
$ cluding the accounting of the mems saw
for vyh 10 oil
: have not been allowed interest. The au
e tho-it!es, however, declare that the troubl,
i was inspired by agitators
{ The gendarn.es of the first district thi
t morning refused to go on their beats unit
( authoritatively assured that their none,
d would be paid with full interest. The cap
s tain tried TO pacify the men with assur
= ances that everything would be satsfact
n orily arranged, but they would not lister
i TO him Then they marched to the Secon,
district where they induced their com
rades to join them, Cossaoks were sum
] moned and the police were surrounded an
threatened with arrest, but they held ou
), until he chief of police assured them tina
their demands would be investigated an
all wrongs righted.
Notwithstanding the efforts OF the polio
officials to quiet their fears, the people ar
II in terror lest the lawless element aboundin
e here should take advantage of the situa
Y tion.
II Many Landed PrOPrietOrs Killed.
n BOBROVSK, Province OF Voronezh Jul
J. 1.-THE troubles in the whole OF this dis
T. trict. covering l& miles square. are becom
n ing more serious daily. The peasants hav
$. risen as one man and last night owe
5, twenty estates were burned and sewers
s. landed proprietors killed. This town
le filled with terror stricken proprietors. VIII
II were able to escape yesterdays carnae
y only by neeing from their estates Te
II miles from here fifteen estates were burne
is and many OF the proprietors killed. Tn
% governor has arrived with Cossacks, bu
T. order has not been restored.
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TWENIY. NINTH RREAKS CAM