Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-26
CALLING OF COUNCIL
preparation IL Being Made for a Pro-
visionaI Government - Outbreaks
Against the Jews-Llves Are Lost
and Homes PIlIased-clty Calm Last
Night

st. Petersburg, July IA procla-
melton announcing death sentence has
been imposed on the emperuf, General
Trepoff M. Poliedne Pobiednostseff,
General Orioff and others has been,
scattered over part of Peterhof. Ter
rorists are said to have succeeded In
mailing copies Of the sentence on doors
Of Orloff's and Trepoff's quarters.
Military Dictatorship.
st. Petersburg, July 24.-The way
has been prepared for military die
tatorship by a proposition now under
consideration at Peterhof to create an
advisory council to assist the emperor
Premier Stolypin, General Trepoff and
others are today comforting with the
emperor upon this subject. On the
surface the scheme is to form such a
council out Of members Of the council,
the empire conservatives and liberals
like Shipoff and Guchkoff and also pos
sibly several constitutional democratic
leaders, with the purpose of reassur-
Ing the population of the sincerity of
the government in its future inten-
tons.
Calm Over City.
st. Petersburg, July "a, 8 a. H.
An ominous calm, broken only by dis
connected collisions between troops
and citizens. pervades the capital.
In the calm signs of the gathering
storm are multiplying. Only a spark
is needed to set the city ablaze.
Despite the deep unrest the day
passed without serious outbreak, al
though in the outskirts one minor riot
followed another. All these, however,
were quelled effectually by the troops,
who are everywhere
So tense was the situation all day
that night found the theaters and 9th.
er places of amusement almost desert.
ed, the public fearing conflicts be.
tween crowds and the military force.
City Alive With Rumors.
With the strictest censorship placed
on the press, the city was alive with
rumors. One of these was that the
car and imperial family were prepar-
ing to flee to the large villa at Hvild.
oere. near Klomenboerg. Denmark,
which the dowager czarina recently
purchased.
Outbreak Against Jews.
Odessa, July 24-The anti-Jewish
outbreaks have commenced here. A
number of persons already have been
killed and wounded. Cossacks and
rowdies are plundering the deserted
Jewish houses and shops. On Srednaia
street three Jews were killed and
three wounded in attempting to defend
their property, while the police looked
on. Another bloody conflict Is now re-
ported as being in progress in Stepovi
street. The whole city is in a state of
panic. Many inhabitants are fleeing.
Hundreds are distributing bloodthirsty
proclamations in the streets.
Throwing Bombs.
Sosnowice, Russian Poland, July "a.
simultaneously at noon yesterday
bombs were thrown into four stores of
the Singer Sewing Machine Co., 10.
Gated here, at Bendzin, Seawierze and
Czenstochau, wrecIing each shop and
wounding many persons Bomb throw
ers were agents of the Polish social
istic party, which had made the Singer
, company an example of what may
happen to others for refusing to con.
tribute to the revolutionary cause.
-Four persons were arrested here. in.
/ Guiding probably the thrower of the
bomb. Intense excitement prevails,
the cossacks patrolling the streets. A
reign Of terror exists, as other bust.
ness houses have been threatened.
Demonstration at Moscow.
st. Petersburg, July PA telephone
message from Moscow says that great
popular demonstration organized by
leaders of the worllmen as preliminary
to strike occurred in the streets there
today, but in pursuance of the plan
care was taken to keep within peaceful
limits. There was no interference on
part of the police or troops.