Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-19
CONFLICTS BETWEEN MODS AND
TROOPS IN THE STREETS OF
BIAi-YsToK
STORES LOOTED:
JEWS MURDERED
Many Acts Of Terrorism Reported
Situation in ST. Petersburg Grave
Government Alarmed at RevoIu-
tionary Spirit In Army--lncreased
Agitation for an Armed Uprising.

tionary Spirit In Army-increased
Agitation for an Armed Uprising.
Warsaw, June 16.-The latest mes
sages received from Bialystok say that
the sacking of Jewish houses and
shops accompanied by conflicts in the
streets between mobs and troops, con-
tinued until late last night.
Many Killed.
Many Jews, Poles. and Russians,
civilians and soldiers, were killed or
wounded.
The suburb of Bopary was totally
burned and eight streets at Bailystok
were completely sacked.
The rioting is said to have extended
to Lapy station on the st. Petersburg
railroad and to Starosielce station on
the Southwestern railroad.
Shops Looted; Jews Murdered.
At both places the Jewish shops
were looted and the Jews murdered or
beaten. A mob devastated the Jewish
shops in the town of Chermayawiez.
Police Officers Killed.
In Warsaw two police sergeants
were shot and killed, another police
man wounded by terrorists and po-
liceman who pursued the assassins
was shot and killed by passing wo-
men.
No Signs Of Cessation.
st. Petersburg, June, 16.-M. Vina-
yer, constitutional democratic mem
Der Of the lower house, received the
following dispatch from Bialystok ear
ly this morning "The rioting proceed
ed throughout the day with undated
fury and is still continuing with no
signs of cessation. 1t is impossible to
send particulars Of the horrors"
4 Other Outbreaks.
This afternoon there is an unconfirm-
ed rumor to the effect that anti-Jewish
outbreaks have occurred at Brest-Lit-
ovsk and Wilma. 1t is also reported that
a Catholic priest was torn to pieces at
Bialystok, but this is officially denied.
Urge Armed Uprising.
The gravity Of the general situation
grows hourly. The bourses of st.
Peters burg and Moscow are in pan
icky condition. The social democrats
and social revolutionists, considering
parliament to be negligible quantity,
are pushing their campaign for an
armed uprising with increased vigor.
, Daily Demonstrations.
J, Demonstrations are daily occurring
) in the streets Of Moscow in favor OF
t a general strike with which the pro-
t letariat leaders are trying to precipi
tate conflict.
The agitation among the workmen
) here has reached the boiling point
Patrols are again in heavy force in
the industrial quarters in the coun
try and the rural guards are throw
:. ing in their lot with the peasants and
refusing to protect the landlords.
: Government Alarmed.
The progress of the revolutionary
. propaganda in the army is seriously
alarming the government and to ado
$ to the excitement comes the massacre
! of Jews at Bialystok.
While the reports conflict as to the
immediate responsibility for the out
;, break the authorities here cannot es
cape the responsibility for the provo
= cative black hundred kilograms which
:, they caused to be printed Throughout
Russia appealing to the worst pas
= sions of the mob against the Jews al
enemies of the country
y Martial law has been declared a
Bialystok and troops are being rushed
!. to the scene.
d Starving In Fields and Woods.
!, St. Petersburg, June 16.-Direct tel
: egrams from Bialystok to the newspa
pers today contain no fresh informa
y ton and there is no doubt that cen
) sor controls the telegraph.
s The Bourse Gazette prints specia
If from Grodno declaring that the govern
d or of the city has expressed himsel
to the effect that there is no hope O
r. stopping the butchery of Jews at Bialy
!. stok for two or three days. Mobs ar
2. invading the trains passing through
3. Bialystok and are dragging out an
killing the passengers. The Jews VIII
"a escaped from Bialystok are wanderin
and starving in the fields or woods.
Odessa Jews in Panic.
Odessa June 16-The Jews at Kist
inev are in state of panic in view c
the reports that a Jewish massacre
10 threatened They hastily closed an
barricaded all their houses and store
lie at noon today and the town is now p;
lie trolled by troops
N Messages from Yelisabethgrad an
s. Krementchug report that anti-Jewis
,e excuses are also apprehended there.
#. City on Fire.
Of Berlin, June ia dispatch frol
81 Bialystok dated 2:40 p. M, says:
ty "Plundering and numbering CO.
IT. tinue Troops are in possession of til
n city, which is on fire. Fires are CO.
%, tinually breaking. out and the stu
lit ton is frightful, A few Jews, throue
". high payments, have been allowed |
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