Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-19
TOday's Telegraphic News
spread of AgrarIan strike.

Warsaw, July l9.--The agraran strike
continues to spread snd il nov extends
over several governments where the
harvest is threatened with destruction,
as the union Of land owners refused to
grant the strikers demands. Twenty
government spirit stores have been de-
stroyed by reyolutionsries.
Warsaw, July l9.-Private kilograms
received here from St. Petersburg state
that dragons attacked peaceful meet
ing OF peasants 10 the village of Keche-
rovka, in the province OF Tsmbof', kill
ing eighty of the participants. The dra-
gocDs fired several volleys into the
crowd, also charging with drawn sabres.
ST. Petersburg, July 10. -Au infantry
regiment at LODI has refused to arrest
the soldiers of a cavalry regiment at
Wilma, who declined to obey their Off
GERS. despite numerous threats made by
the commanders. Both regiments will
be dismissed from the service and the
men sent to Siberia.
Jews residing in villas near st. Peters
burg are 10 a state of panic, as they fear
another massacre is being planned.
A Telegram received from Samara says
that the entire town of Sysran in the
government OF Simbirsk is afre and that
the inhabitants are fleeing toward Sa-
mara and Saratoh. Sysrsn is an impOr-
tant commercial and industrial town, To-
Gated seventy miles south of Simbirsk,
on the Sysran river, near its confluence
with the Volga. BY the census OF 1897
it had population of over 81, 600.
81. Petersburg, July l9.-The atti-
tude of the Douma on the question OF
issuing the proposed appeal TO the peo-
plo, condemning the governments agra
rian communique as Illegal is becoming
more moderate. NJ. Petrunkevitch, in
the name of the cadets, today, proposed
that an amended appeal should be drawn
in milder terms, denying the assertions
of the ministers, but not appealing for
revolution.
lis reported among the constitution
al democrats that if the Doums mani
festo to the peasantry is issued the Gar
will order the DOuma to be closed this
evening. The barracks adjoining the
Taurida Palace, where the Doums
meets, are filled with picked troops.
The general impression created by
this change of front is that the douma
tears to begin an open contest in view OF
the menacing attitude assumed by the
government.
Details of the agrarian disorders,
which have reached such alarming pro-
portions, especially in the Voronezh
province, are beginning to reach the
capital 1t is now known that fifteen
estates have been burned by peasant
since Sunday.
A week ago a strike Of laborers was
brutslly suppressed. Enormous bands of
peasants then began. to gather and
marched in a procession several miles in
length to sack all the estates in the
neighbOrhOod. The troops sent to OPP
pose them were forced by the mere
strength of numbers, TO retire but not
until there had been serious attacks on
the peasants who fell by the handred.
The herds of peasants, however, refused
TO be checked by the destruction and the
soldiers retired. Artillery is now on the
way to the province. The estates OF
Prince Orl0f and NJ. Tulinossky were
pillaged and burned.
Companies of the imperial guard aud
Ismailovsky regiment now guard the
railroad stations between Moscow and
ST. Petersburg. In the province of lula
peasants are reported to be holding the
railroad track and it is stated that 6, 900
men from the government cartridge fac
tory at Tuls, which is now closed, have
joined the baud of peasants.