Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-08-20
CHARGED WITH MURDER OF A
LIEUTENANT.
RUSSIAN CROPS NEEDED
Bourse for the First Time in Its His
tory Buys Grain in Germany, as
Result of Continued Agrarian rrou-
bIes-Various Uprisings Report
ed.

ST. Petersburg, Aug. Lids
patches received here yesterday from
Pensea, at the junction of the Sura
and Volga rivers, report the arrest of
another member of the late parlia-
ment, M. Vragoff, under circumstances
quite as compromising as those in
the Onipko case, Vragoff being
charged with completely in the nun
der of Lieut. Petroff of the rural po-
lice and the wounding of a sergeant
of the same force.
Agrarian disorders in another dis
trict of the province of Pensea, led to
an encounter between the populace
and cossacks, in which one peasant
was killed and several wounded,
The effect of the continued agrarian
disorders on the Russian grain yield
is shown in the fact that the st. Pet
ersburg bourse reports the purchase
of 10000 bushels of grain in Germany
for Russian delivery, the first time
in the history of the bourse that such
thing occurred.
The young woman who, after being
arrested for making sarcastic re-
mark upon the bearing of the cheva-
lier guards, while they were marching
along the Nevsky Prospect August
Ii, was subjected to gross indignities
in the presence of officers of the regi'
ment, is Anna Smirnoff.
1t was thought in America that pos
sibly the Nile. Smirnoff referred to
was Nile Nelka Smirnoff, now in Rus
STA, relative of Representative
| James w. WadswOrth and of Speaker
| Wadsworth of the New York assem-
| bly,, and prominent socially in Wash
ington and other American cities.
Disorders in Warsaw.
Warsaw, Aug. ia boy threw L
bomb at 9 o'clock last evening into a
procession passing through Cholodlna
street on the return from pilgrim
age to the shrine of the holy virgin
at Rokitno, near Warsaw, wounding
two professionals. The explosion at
tracted a patrol of infantry, who
without warning fired volley, wound
ing 80 persons.
A band of revolutionists yesterday
attacked the government alcohol
store, 81 sand killed a clerk and
wounded two other persons. The
band tried to rob the cash drawer. A
patrol of infantry surrounded the
house and the revolutionists fred
from a window, but all were arrested.
Odessa, Aug. 17.-Governor General
Kaulbard is daily receiving threats :
assassination and has ordered high
military authorities not to go out,
saying that to do so would only invite
murder.
"Know How to Die"
Yalta, Aug. IA plot to pfllage
several villas here was discovered
yesterday by a police commissary,
who with an assistant, Swallowed two
men. One of the conspirators was
shot by the commissary, whereupon
the other drew a bomb from his peck
ct, lighted the fuse with his cigaret
and started running He slipped and
the bomb exploded, fatally injuring
him. His last words were You see
we know how to die"
Prison Outbreak Subdued.
Moscow, Aug. 17-An outbreak oc-
Cured yesterday in the central pris-
on among political offenders confined
there, owing to hospital conditions.
The wardens of the prison, being IN
able to cope with the disturbance
were forced to call in half a company
of the Pernova regiment who sub
dued the outbreak by a volley, killing
two and wounding ten prisoners.