Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-28
CITY OF GOMEZ IS BURNING
Fight in Progress Between RsvOlutionists
and Troops
DISORDER EAreNOs TO FIVE DISTRICT;
Peasants Depose Authorities and Or
ganixe Local Governments Plot
to KIN General Dou-
Bnson.

ST PETERSBURG. Jan. ga dispatch
from Gomel says that half the town Is in
flames and that hghting is going on in the
center of the town between the troops and
reNolutionists, who have been reinforced
by the peasantry of the SURROUNDING dis
tricts. The disorder extends to Ave coun-
ties around Gomel. The peasantry, as in
the Baltic provinces, have deposed the old
authorities and elected revoutionists to I'LL
Ntheir places.
Beyond the fact that the revolt at
Vladivostok is not subdued and that the
mutinous sailors and soldiers are still
standing by the guns at the Holy limo
cents battery, the War office had nothing
to give out today regarding the situation
at the fortress. The only further news
available was newspaper dispatch, dated
January d, stating that two sauadrons of
the Nertchinsk regiment of Cossacks had
arrived and that many arrests had been
made. The War Office officials said that
their own information practically duplica-
ted yesterdays news dispatch.
The American embassy has not received
any report from the consul at Vladivo-
stok and the other embassies are equally
uniformed.
The government has been advised from
Irkutsk, Siberia, that a number of OFF,
| Gals and employees of the general offices
OF the TransSiberian railway have been
arrested on the charge of being implicated
in abstractlng from a government NUM-
ton train 1000 rifles, 900 revolvers and
10000 cartridges and giving them to the
revolutionists. search was instituted
for the cartridges during which many OF
the rifles were discovered. The authorities
also discovered four bombs
Police Are Busy.
A large number of summary searches
and arrests have occurred of late at
Tsarskoe' Selo, The store of Jew drug
| gist named Abramovitch was ransacked,
but no seizures were made. The police say
| the AFFAIR was unimportant and that they
merely desired to keep an eye on all
suspects in the immediate neighborhood.
| The plot revealed by the arrest of the
pseudo Princess Koslovsk, January l, how
ever, was found to be really serious and
| to have wide qualifications intended to
encompass the death of Governor General
! Doubassoh of Moscow and all his staff
at the blessing of the water ceremony.
/ The authorities are convinced that the
revolutionary leaders have eliminated up
rislngs and street fighting from their pro-
gram for the time being in favor of ter
rorists attempts against high officials and
have already succeeded in breaking up sew
eral conspiracies in embryo. The govern
ment Is disposing of the cases of those ar
rested before January %. Most of them
are being fined for carrying revolvers.
| The receipts from this source yesterday
alone amounted to $500 On account OF the
the fact that there is no British consul at
Vladivostok to represent British shipping
in prize court cases, c. A. Spring-Ric",
the charge daffaires OF Great Britain. has
| requested the government to permit the
American consul to represent Great Britain.
,s--cged Traitor killed.
| LODI, r4.ussian Poland. Jan. H.--Three
uniden .ified persons today gained access to
the hospital and killed with. daggers a man
named Lukizevsk who was shot in the
! streets January %. The murdercrs thus
completed the sSnte1co of the local revo-
lutlonary tribunal which condemned Luki-
| zevski to death as traitor for informing
the police of the location of bomb depots.
Many ReyOIutionists Executed.
wENDEN, Eivonia. Thursday, Jan. 25.-
The pacifcation of the Baltic provinces is
reaching the final stage, so far the
agrarian movement is concerned. Nearly
$50 revolutionists have been shot. several
thousand are under arrest and 5000 rifles
( have been captured.
! Generals Orion, Meinhardt and Wendt
are now operating in the Wenden district
with 1000 troops, completing circle in
which the revolutionists are being gathered.
The generals have the names of the lead
ers of the revolutionists, who will be tried
by court-martial when caught and either
shot or imprisoned The majority of those
already executed were Ilettish teachers or
students.
The revolutonlsts have stopped burning
buildings, but they occasionally fire on the
troops. Among the burned castles is that
! of Baron Rosen Grosscup, about twenty
miles northwest Of Wenden, which was de-
stroyed with all its contents, servants who
had been in the service of the baron for
twenty years assisting in the work of de-
struction. Altogether the revolutionists
have burned 200 castles, valued at $1,000. 900,
without including the articles OF value
which they contained.
The troops are taking the strictest meas
ures. On one occasion they surrounded
a church in which funeral services were
proceeding, arrested the revolutionary orr
ators and shot one of them.