The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK
RUSSIAN INTERNAL SITUATION.

RUSSIAN INTERNAL SITUATION.
A serious mutiny has broken out In
The great island fortress of Sveaborg.
Finland, which defends the sea ap-
proaches to H~elsingfors. Severe fight
ing followed between rebellious and
loyal troops in which several hundred
men were killed or wounded. The
mutineers include the artillerymen
and the guns of the fortress have re-
turned the fire of torpedo boats In the
harbor.
Mutinous sailors, soldiers, sappers
and miners seized Fort Constantine
at Cronstadt, but were subsequently
dislodged and compelled to surrender
after heavy fighting with the loyal
regiments. A hundred men were
killed and many we're wounded, in.
Guiding Admiral Boaklwisneh. Some
of the mutineers succeeded in board
ing q steamer and escaping to Fin
land.
In the light of the latest develop
ments the general strike In Russia
udy dlulOSL US 1C60AOON ~
The summons to go out has met with
some response in Moscow, where the
printers and the street a men and
part of the employees of the gas, water
and electric light plants quit work,
but these are more than Offset by the
| OBJECTIONS in St. Petersburg.
While Major General of the Gen
| darmerie Markgrafsky, who was also
an aide to the governor general, was
driving to his summer villa near Mos
COW with his wife, Sol and daughter,
he was killed from ambush. The vol
| lev fired by the assassins also killed
the generals son.
The crew of the armored cruiser
Pamyat Azova mutined off the Esth-
oman coast and are now in full pos
session of the ship, which has sailed
northward in the direction of the Fin
nish gulf. The captain and four Off
GERS of the cruiser were killed by the
mutineerA u4-
The government has practically sue
ceeded in crushing the organization
Of the strike leaders at st. Petersburg.
The central committee OF the Social
Democrats has been captured and
placed in prison and the greatest con
fusion prevails in the revolutionary
camp ~-"7."'~A~' 'easfsMMa
M. Herzenstein, former member Of
the outlawed parliament. in which he
was a prominent leader of the Con
stitutional Democrats, was assas
sinated at his country house near Teri
loki, Finland, by men in the pay OF tn
Black Hundred organization.
Pickets of cavalry and infantry ar
the most conspicuous figures on til
, streets of St. Petersburg. Bushes
: houses generally have boarded up thei
windows, as they did in the great o.
tobec strike.
sveaborg fortress is completely j
the hands of the government. In
mutineers have been marched out an
sent to Skatudden island, where the
viii await trial.
Meetings Of workmen, which are b.
ing addressed by revolutionary orator
are being held nightly, in secret, !
the industrial sections Of St. Peter
burg.
ST. Petersburg is in darkness, ii
employees of the electric lightir
plants having ceased work in oh
dience to the call for a general strik
An incipient mutiny broke out {
the Russian cruiser Bogatyr at He
singfors. 1t was Immediately p
down with the arrest of 200 sailors.
Train robbers between Libau ar
Eafpot stole $4,000 of governmel
money. Eight passengers were woun
ed in defense OF the train.
/ "A portion OF the troops in the SUI
mer camp at Rembertoff, Russian P
4 land. have mutinied and are in ope
revolt.
! The cruiser Pamyat Azova is aga
in the hands of the government. I'll
! mutineers have been placed under e
rest.