The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-29
POLICE CAUSED THE MASSACRE
OF GOVERNMENT RE
sPoNsIRLE FOR OUTBREAK
AT BlALYsTok.


st. Petersburg, June 24.-At a
crowded meeting of the Constitutional
club last night Deputy Stchepkin re-
ported the findings of the committee
of the lower house which went to
Bialystok to investigate the anti-Jew-
ish outbreak there. According to this
report, the police, with the aid of sub
ordinate officers of the police and mil
itary, caused the outbreak by circu-
lating false rumors against the Jews.
directly responsible, was said by M.
Stchepkin to have been undoubtedly
crlminally guilty of prolonging the
excuses by abandoning his post. The
governor washed his hands of the at
fair, not knowing the attitude of the
officials at ST Petersburg. The local
police assumed that the Goremykin
ministry, which had printed Black
Hundred circulars, would not punish
those who participated in the out
break. 1t is the two-faced attitude of
the government, M. Stchepkin assert
ed, which was principally responsible.
In concluding the report says:
THE ministry must be changed and
one must be chosen from the majority
IN parliament, or otherwise Russia
will fall to the level of Persia and
Turkey and ultimately come under the
tutorship of a really civilized govern
ment."
Russian Army in Open Revolt.
st. Petersburg, June ga large
proportion OF the news appearing in
the papers of this city this morning
consists of dispatches telling of mill
tary disaffection. In addition to the
outbreaks at Sevastopol and Ryazan,
reported on Thursday, the dispatches
report that the garrison of Krasno-
yarsk, capital OF the province of Yani-
sci and one of the principal cities of
GERS out of hand. The trouble was
caused by an intoxicated colonel
named Shurin, who, hearing a litter
from a group of enlisted men, sabered
one of the soldiers.
While Regiment Mutinies.
The latters companions thereupon
felled the. colonel with clubs. Two
of the soldiers were arrested and as
soon as the news spread the regiment
mutinied and demanded the release
of their comrades. Capt. Kozmin,
who ordered his company to fire on
the mutineers, was killed by his own
men. The entire population of Krans-
noyarsk is in panic.
Minister of Marine Birileff again
visited Cronstadt yesterday and urged
the mutinous sailors to return Loyalty
to their duty.
Massacre Narrowly Averted.
Kielce, a Polish city with a great
Jewish population, was on the verge
yesterday of an experience such as
that through which Bialystok has just
passed. During a religious procession
shot was fired. wounding a gen.
darme, but the police succeeded in
holding the populace in check. The
man who fired the shot, a Pole. was
arrested.
At Gomel, where rumors of an i'm
pending anti-Jewish outbreak are rife,
the military authorities yesterday
summoned deputation of Jews, who
declared they had evidence that ex-
cesses were being planned and even
named the leaders of the plot, but the
commandant succeeded in reassuring
them.
Use Field Guns on the Soldiers.
London, June 26-The correspond
ent at Moscow says that intermittent
firing of field guns and distinctive vol
leys were heard last night outside of
the town of Khodina Plain. 1t was
impossible to secure details, but, the
correspondent says, 1t is believed that
an enormous meeting of disconnected
soldiers of the Moscow garrison was
being dispersed by the artillery.
Want Cabinet to Resign.
st. Petersburg, June 26-The Con-
servative Centrist party in the council
of the empire, organized recently with
the purpose of attempting to supplant
the Goremykin ministry by cabinet
chosen from the Octoberists, the Dem
ocratic Reform and the Constitutional
Democratic party, have joined in the
chorus demanding the resignation of
the cabinet. M. Yermoloff. formerly
minister of agriculture, gave out an
interview yesterday saying the pres
ent situation is impossible and that
it is evident that If the actual minis
try can do nothing for the paciflcation
of the country it should be replaced by
cabinet in which more moderate ele-
ments of parliament are given places.
M. Yermoloff has nothing but honey
ed words for parliament, which though
containing revolutionary elements, he