The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-31
BOMBS DRUG THE:
RUSSIAN MARKET
Factories Are Constantly Being
Seized, but Manufacture OF
Explosives Continues.

st. Petersburg, Jan. 31.-The gov
: eminent is finding ample Justification
! for its severe policy against the revo-
lutiorists in the constant discoveries
] of bombs, bomb factories and depots
9of arms and munitions in all parts OF
the empire which are row so corsmon-
place that such matters scarcely OBJ
/ tam Individual mention i'll the papers.
The \ovoe Vremya today, however.
prints half a columa of statistics OF
last week Is captures. showing the selk,
ure OF ECmbs in a score OF cities and
Stlr ulsccseries Of regular bomb lab
oratories, explosives, and filled and
untitled bombs at Ekaterinburg, Sa-
mara Riga, Vikutsk,4Suwalke and Elk
{ aterinOSlav. ...f~.
Terrorjsts having in their possession
two to twenty bombs have been ar
rested at Warsaw, Minsk, Vitebsk,
*1odz, Odessa, Gomel and Tihis. There
have been attempts to kill police, mill
stary or civil officers at Warsaw, Pinsk,
sRiRga, Gomel, Tiflis, Minsk and other
cities. Tho not included in the Novoe
fVremya's list, bomb factories have
salso been discovered here and at Mos
COW. Searches of the ProkaroH and
other factories at Moscow still result
in finding explosives and weapons.
TO curb the revolutionary outbreaks
and enable estate owners to defend
their property against further peasant
uprisings, the government is distribnt-
ing the arms captured on the British
steamer John, sunk III the Gulf of Both
MIA, Finland, i'll September last, and
rifles and reviewers captured elsewhere,
to responsible applicants, and also is
estate guards, which are often com
posed of veterans snd commanded by
former non-commissicned officers of the
regular army
Czar's Forces Divided:
Tifis. Caucasia, Jan. 31-The assas-
sination Of General Griaznoff, who was
killed by the explosion of bomb
thrown at him Jan. 20 by man dis
guisYed as q painter, has brought to
of the military, which regards with dis
favor the policy of the viceroy Of the
Caucasus, Count Won Verontzoff- Dash
koff, in the war between the Tartars
and Armenians. The two races, it is
is said, will appear directly to ST..
Petersburg for the removal of the vice
roy, and they are secretly supported
by high officials Of the viceroyalty.
Chosen by Lot.
It is established that the murderer
Of General Griaznoff, who has not re-
covered consciousness from the terrible
beating he received from the soldiers
who arrested him, is student Of In
eritia-government Of Kutais-named
Djoyashvii, member of the fighting
Organization of the social revolution
lists. He was selected to carry out the
sentence of death imposed on Graiaznoff
in retaliation for the ,latter:'s ruthless
repression of the revolutionists of XII
tais and the policy proclaimed by Gen
eral Alikhanoff, who was dispatched
there to "pacify " the province.
nor property in the war he is waging
against the revolutionists. He has re-
opened the railroad to fhe Black sea-
which had long been in the hands of
the revolutionists, and for the first
time for months the entire Trans eau.
casian line is in operation.
Echo Of Russ Revolt.
The whole revolutionary movement il
the Caucasus was an echo of the move
ment in Russia proper. 1t was con
Quoted by Workingmen of various ma
tionalities under the leadership of Rus
sian social democratic agitators, and. il
being gradually stamped out in Kutais
Mingrelia and the Black sea littoral
The Armenians with their powerful rev
dictionary committees, who formerly
secretly supported the movement, have
now withdrawn. The restoration Of
their church property and the reopen
ing of their schools closed since 1879:
have been great victories for the Ar
menians, and their leaders profess them
selves satisfied, disclaiming any nation
alistic or separatist aspirations.
Troops in Force.
The fears Of a renewal Of the Arme
nian-Tartar butchery following the as
sassination Of General Griaznoff happil,
did not materialize. Both sides wer
ready, but the troops were everywher
in force and collisions occurred. Tw
Armenians, however, We're shot durin
the. capture by the police of one o
their strongholds where arms an
munitions were concealed H.
On account of the disturbed cond
tions in the viceroyalty the extensio
of the zemstvo system to the Caucasu
in conformity with other parts Of tn
empire has been postponed. In Kutai
the captured revolutionists are bein
tried by field court -martials, on the pal
tern Of those adopted in the trials o
revolutionists in the Baltic province: