Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
POLICE PREFECT
SHOT ON STREET
TERRoRisTs ALSO WOUND HIS
WIFE AND TWO GUARDS
ACCOMPANYING THEM
Cause Of Conservative Liberalism De-
Iivered a Heavy Blow In Loss Of
shipoff, the Veteran Liberal-With-
draws From the Party.

Tambov, Russia, Sept. 24.-Prefect
of the Police Tomushan Of Borissog
liebsk at the home of Maria Spiridono-
vo, who was shot and killed, Chief Of
Secret Police Luzuenoffsky, was fired
at and seriously wounded in the street
here today by terrorists, who also shot
the projects wife and two guards ac-
companying them.
st. Petersburg, Sept. 24.-The cause
of conservative liberalism as represent
ed by the Octobrists and peaceful re-
generatfonists has suffered q heavy
blow in the loss of Dn.itri Shipoff, the
veteran liberal and the central figure
in Russian politics, who in letter to
the committee of Octobrists an
nounces his withdrawal from the party
which he led in the last campaign.
His retirement is due to disagree
ments with Alexander ]. Guchkoff and
others of his colleagues, whose views
approving Premier Stolypin's meas
ures of repression prevailed after q
hard fight in the central committee.
M. Guchkoff, who has now succeeded
to the leadership of the party, in an
open letter yesterday to Prince Eu-
gene Troubetskoy, the constitutional
democrat, reiterates his approval Of
drumhead courts martial and other
measures Of firm repression, declaring
that liberal or even radical govern
ment would be unable to cope with
revolutionary terrorism without them
and that it is the truest mercy to strike
and spare not.
There are things more terrible and
more savage than a drumhead court
martial" the letter says, namely,
lynch law. armed revolt, and civil wal" /"
Fears Reign of Terror.
The letter condemns the constitu-
tional democrats for seeking to per.
suade the people that an understanding
between the government and the peo-
pie is impossible and for preventing
by extravagant demands any other is.
sue than actual revolution.
Given If the right of revolution Is
recognized I must shrink from the fra
tricidai strife which would follow. IN
such a population as Russia's it would
exceed In savagery and barbarity all
previous civil wars.
"If those who led Russia into a need
less foreign war are guilty how much
more culpable would be those plung
ing the empire into a CHASTITY interna,
war when the situation presents an
other issue? Excesses and revolution
would bury our young liberty and all o1
our culture"
Jews at Odessa Saved.
Odessa, Sept. 24-It now transpires
that the Black Hundreds, acting in col
lusion with the anarchists, had elabor
ated plans for a violent attack on the
Jewish New Year, and that the carry
ing out Of these plans was only avertet
by the extraordinary alertness ant
energy shown by the authorities. Gen
Gregorieff, prefect Of Odessa, in the
absence of Gov. Gen. Kaulbars, hal
telegraphed information concerning
the plot to PRIMER Stolypin.
Although the danger is believed tt
be past the preventive measures in
augurated by the officials have no
been relaxed. The Jews continue tt
be apprehensive of trouble.
In view Of this check to their plan!
the experienced organizers Of anti
Jewish demonstrations have opened
the columns Of their newspaper to an
other campaign. They have revived
the old story of ritual assassination
accusing the director of private in
firmary of the murder of a Christian
child by the TRANSMISSION Of it's blood in
to the veins Of a sick Jewess.
| An official investigation of thi
charge disclosed the fact that the chile
which was Jew, had been accidental
ly poisoned. Despite this, however
the campaign is progressing. The beat
ing of Jews in the streets of the cit,
continues.