Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-30
BOLD RoBBERIEs IN RUSSIA.

Two daring train robberies were COM
mitted in Russian Poland on Saturday,
one of them resulting in considerable
loss of Lille. A train from the frontier
station Herby bound for Czenstochowa
was carving money received from the
customs house to the branch OF the I'm
perial bank under protection OF seven
frontier euardsmen. Gen ZIkat, Chief
of the ftonter guards, Gen. WeitenIing,
chief of the customs service 0f warsaw;
Col. Brazezcki and Capt. Iaguma were
passengers Fifteen persons boarded lhe
trein at a way station. They evidently
had been waiting for it and made an at
tack on the guardsmen, who were REIN
forced by the officers named. A regular
skirmish followed, in which the two gen
erals, two officials, five soldiers and one
rohber we're killed and Col. BrazezlcEi
and one robber wounded. The robbers
escaped, taking $4,000 aud the arms oil
those who had attempted to defend the
train against robbery. The postal car
robbed contained a package OF 500, OOO
in cash flom abroad and at least $50, 600
additional funds. The actuel amount
takeu by the robbers cannot as yet be
definitely stated, as the documents at
tached to the money parcels aIe missing.
The second robbery was committed
Saturday evening on the Warsaw Vien-
na hallway six miles from Warsaw.
While the train was under way un-
known persons pulled the danger signal
causing il TO stop. Robbers. who were
aboard, jumped out and seized the To-
conceive and detached the mail car
from the train and ran it down the
line They secured $S7, 500 OF govern
ment money. Efforts TO capture the rob-
bers failed.
Public disorder is growing daily
throughout Russian Poland. On Sat
urday a paUic occurred in public park
in Warsaw. Many shots were fired
end one person was killed and four were
wounded
A party of men armed with revolvers
forced their way Saturday into the Bous-
sci printing establishment in ST. Peters
burg. They made he foreman priso-
ner and prevented the compositors from
leaving the bull ling. Iney 'hen had
printed $3.50, 600 copies of the Niborg
manifesto of the outawed lower house OF
parliament.
A grave outbreak occurred Saturday
in the Sevski res ment at Poliava, fol-
lowing the arrest of a pnvate OF the
First Battqion, who was discovered
with some others soldiers, in a shed
where the revOlutiOnists are n the
habit of holding meetings. After the
arrest the entire First Battalion, accom-
panied by large crowd, paraded
the streets in defiance of the
military authorities. The soldiers pro
ceeded to the artillery barracks, where
they seized several guns and marched
with them to the prison where the pollti-
cal prisoners are confined. At this stage
all the remainder of the Poltava garri-
son was called out The loyal troops
fred on the mutineers with machine
guns, as they were engaged in breaking
down the gate of the prison. Several
men we're killed or wounded. The out
break wac not suppressed until ? O'Clock
yesterday morning.
While train travelling from KhsrkoV
to YekaterinOslav yesterday was passing
the great monastery erected near Borky
by Alexander III to commemorate the
escape of himself aud members of the
Imperial family from railroad wreck in
1883, firing and cries ofhelp were heard.
The train was stopped, and a monk
came on board. He said the peasantry
we're attacking the monastery, and that
the monks were defending it. He had
managed to escape to summon help.