The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-29
DETAILS OF
 1.-THE REVOLT [ dated Reports Are
 Published. UPRISING IN THE PROVINCES Reyolutionaries Were at Times
 Successful. st. Petersburs Learns of Rise And Fall Of North Caucasian Republic. Which Lasted for One
 Month.
UPRISING IN THE PROVINCES

St Petersburg Jan. 2s.-The Eews- papers published interesting accounts received by mail of the disorders Tn the smaller cities during the period or arm ed revolution, many of which passed unnotfced at the time owing to inter ruption of telegraphic communication. Tn a number of instances the troops were defeated and driven out of the towns or forced to surrender.
 At Sotssi in the Black Sea, eighty Cossacks of the garrison, who attempted to disperse a gathering in the market place, were routed by the revolution ists and forced to flee to their barracks outside the towns weher they were regularly beseiged. The insurgents brought up an old cannon from the port and bombarded the barracks fer two days with such effect that the Cos sacks were forced tc surrender
 The triumph of the revolutienists was short-lived however, for a torpedo boat destroyer arrived from Batoum and the population at the first threat of a bonl- bardnlent hastened to liberate the pris- oners, to deliver up their arms as we'll as the funds of the city treasury which had been taken to the mountains
 letter from Pyatigorsk. in Cis-Cau- casia describes the rise and fall of the north Caucasian republic" which had a short and thrilling history of n10nTn. AIIGT I16 EGNUll tnG fc2tEFt battalion garrison at Pyatigorsk, the soldiers were joined by the entire pop uIation of that and four neighboring cities. A constituent assembly was summoned and a revolutionary army" consisting Of the mutInous soldiers who were led by a renegade Cossaek officer and several bands of the fighting branch of the revolutionary orsaniza- tions and other irregulars.
 TaAu tsar axst rarYfpd 0n a successful campaign against the troops guarding the railroad stations. who were driven back for some forty miles along the line with considerable loss. The revo- Iutionists conceived the plan of march inE to Rostoli on Don, 250 miles away and even talked of continuing to Khar- khoff to join hands with the supposed revolutionary army there. They were to stop on the way and attack the inl- porfal arsenal at GeorKievsk. where thsre are large stores of rifles, cannon and machine guns.
 The army" was attacked by three companies of Cossacks who It defeat eL with heavy loss, most of the sur ,9ivors being killed during their flight across the thin ice of stream.
 Later tho army encountered q coi- umn of infantry. a battery of artil- iery and several companies of Cos buChS. 10iS WaS NpO ohhSH5 to be resisted and the revolutionary leaders after nasty council of war fled.
 The "Republic'' then came to an end.
 At viadka. in the government of that name, band largely composed of school boys and school girls. seized the waterworks. which they held for fif- teen hours against a whole battalion of infantry. The troops were attack ed in the rear by two companies of rev olutionsries. who were finally driven to a fortified house. This house was captured after q bombardment lasting two hours. Among the killed was the Colonel commanding the troops.