Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-03
GAR TO FORCE
TAX PAYMENTS.
Strict Orders Issued to Counterfeit Ad-
vice OF the Dissolved Pariia-
ment.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 2G.-Pre-
mier Stolypin has issued a special cir
cular to the governors instructing them
to employ every means to compel the
payment of the taxes now falling due
as well as the arrearages,
The central committee Of the Social
Democrats has been hastily sum- l0ned
here from the province. 1t has been
formally decided to support the acton
OF the revolutionary groups last week
IN pushing the agitation for a general
strike and uprising.
The rumor LAST night that Cen Ire
poff had been assassinated turns out TO
be baSeleSs.
Car Ouizzes u. S. Envoy.
The Gar summoned United States
Amba ssador Meyer to Peterhof Sunday,
to ascertain what impression had been
produced in America by the dissolution
of the Duma.
A mob of 1000 workmen completely
Quilted a brewery on the Schlusselburg
road here last night. Before a detach-
ment of Cossacks sent to dispense them
arrived, the mob destroyed practically
everything
There is very great agitation among
the wOrkmen in the Yekaterlnoslav In
dustrial district, but the leaders thus tar
have successfully prevented a strike I'M
til the signal is given from Moscow and
St Petersburg.
At Yuzovka and Yekaterinodar, how
ever, without waiting for the genera!
signal, many factory and mine workers
have struck.
First "Red" Army Outbreak.
From PoltaHa Sunday was reported
the first serious revolutionary outbreak
involving the army.
The outbreak followed the arrest of
several soldiers discovered in a house
known to be meeting place of the rev.
olutionaries-. 1t is known to establish
the fact that the loyal troops used ma
chane guns against their mutinous com
rades which alone is enough to create
q deep Impression in the army gener-
ally.
1t was learned here that the postal
car robbed on the Warsaw-Nienna rail
road near Warsaw Saturday night CON
tined a package Of 100000 in cash from
abroad and at lest $4,000 additional
funds. The actual amount taken by the
robbers cannot as yet be definitely stated
Advices received here from the Arme-
Man town of Shusha, 100 miles south
east of Tifiis, announce q renewal of hos
tiities between Armenians and Iartars
here. :Shusha was bombarded for three
days with twenty-One guns, and finally
set afire.
Foreigners Get Angry.
The foreign ,eonsuls at Yekaterinoslav
have made representations to their gov
ernments regarding the necessity for
protecting foreign subjects. German
manager was killed while leaving his
factory, Belgian manager escaped
death through the intervention of a pO-
liceman whom the wOrkmen shot dead,
and French manager was compelled
to flee under menace of death.
The garrison here has been reinforced
by a detachment of dragons. Other
revolutionary activity today was:
KIEV-The Rrodski Grain elevators
burned; loss of 81, 100000.
SAMARA-Three large estates destroyed
last night; peasants are cutting the Wood
on the crown and private forests.
PSkCN-Threp hundred peasants burned
the manor house and stock stables of NJ.
NaZymOff. president of the district Zomtsyo,
and sacked the village spirit stores.
Death for Naval Mutineers.
.SEBASTOPOL, July 30.--A naval
,court-martial has passed sentences upon
the seamen who were arrested for com
| plicity in the mutiny of the Black sea
| fleet of November, 1905. -Four men were
,thirty--two to varying terms of penal
servitude, and fifty to imprisonment. Six
| Were acquitted.
A man named Samenkoff, who was
| charged with completely IN the attempt
| with bomb upon the life of Gen. Nep-
tueff, at Sabastopol May y, escaped
| from Jail. He was assisted by ,Yolun-
| tee- who disappeared.