The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-06-21
COUNTS 29O DEAD
JEWS IN STREET
A Newspaper Correspondent
Writes Of Atrocities In
Bialystock.
OUTBREAKS ELSEWHERE
Reported That Constitutional Demo.
Gratis Of Lower House Of Russian
Parliament Have Voted to
Break With Government.

odessa, June 20.-The Novost! pub
iIshcd n dispatch today from It's CORE.
spondent ut Bialystok. saying:
II personally counted go Jewish
corpses. n great number OF which were
horribly mu,iiated. only six Christians
were killed and eight wounded
Warsaw. June iS.-Anti-Jewish riots
have broken out at Zabludow aud
Gouiondz. province OF Grodno. and os-
sowiec, province OF Lom=a.
To Break with Government.
st. Petersburg. June iS.-constitu-
tional democrats seem almost ready To
throw In their lot with the revolution
lists. Popular agitation Is SO great that
Mt n caucus lasting three mornings the
question OF changing party tactics
aad abandoning any further attempt
10 postpone an open rupture with the
government was seriously debated.
Roditcheff and Naboukofr. leaders Of
the constitutional democrats In the
lower house. led tho radical wing. urg-
ing the absolute necessity OF Keeping
pace with the revolutionary movement
and insisting that unless they moved
forward to battle Immediately they
would be overwhelmed and left
stranded.
Believes Decision Is Reached.
Professor Mulukoff. NJ. vlnivar ano
others counseled caution. saying IL was
not yet time TO bend TO the storm. but
the radicals were In the majority.
The Novoe vremya today says the
constitutional democrats have actually
resolved TO break with the government,
within n few days. but NJ. Strive. ed
i,or OF the Osvobojdenic. informed the
Associated Press that no decision had
been taken. lie admitted. however
that the leaders plans were secret
Many liberals fear n rupture and re-
-
error. They claim the constitutional
democrats cannot hope To keep step
with the advanced radicals who. at
meetings held la the suburbs OF st.
Petersburg laat night, not only con-
demned the lower house OF parliament
and characterized the constitutional
democrats as traitors. but even de-
nounccd the group OF toll. orators ut
meetings glorined the coming dictator
ship 81 the proletariat. and chcercd
and cried. Down with the government
and the middle classcs!"
Asrarian Question TO Commission.
The long debate on the AgrarIan
question ended today In the lower house
% parliament. IL was decided To send
the question TO a commission.
The bakeries continue closed today.
strikers threatening TO wreck the shops
where attempts were made TO bake
bread. Little hardship. however has
thus far resulted. The lower classes
were warned and supplied themselves
with black bread In advance. The
strike OF the bakers ~ To be followed
IN a few days by butchers strike.
News from the interior shows the
wave OF strikes In spreading. but IL In
too early TO tell whether this move
ment, which seems more spontaneous
than organized. Will precipitate n crisis.
Mutiny 10 Looked for.
The usual number OF robberies are
reported today. emphasizing the grow
Ing lawlessness and anarchy In the
country. The government seems TO
fear n repetition OF the November mu-
tiny at Cronstadt fortress. where sail
ors. marines, soldiers and workmen are
reported TO be extremely turbulent.
The streets OF Cronsindt are filled with
troops and well TO do inhabitants are
hurriedly leaving the island on which
the town IN situated.
Seventy Buried Today.
Bialystok. June iS.-Quiet relgns to-
day throughout this devastated town.
Total figures on casualties are not
available. but seventy bodies were bu-
ried today. This is claimed To be less
than half the total killed. Jewish csti-
mates say not less than 200 were killed.
The number OF wounded IN enormous.
surgeons have arrived here from
Warsaw TO assist the ovcrworkcd STATS
IN the hospitals I'm caring for the In
jured.
As instances OF excuses OF the bcs-
TALLY and brutality with which VIC
TINS OF the massacre were treated.
some corpses found were masses OF
pulped flesh. the wounded In some
cases having scarcely n sound bone I'm
their body. Members OF the commits
sion OF the lower house OF parliament
who are here TO inquire into the mas
sacre are greeted as saviors by the
population. who flock out OF their
houses with pathetic Joy and relief.
The commandment OF the troops has
furnished the commissioners with an
escort and has promised them every
facility In conducting their InYeHtipn-