Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-03

than half the portfolios are to be given
to non-bureaucrats and that q broad.
conciliatory programme of reform will
be proclaimed in the hope of calming the
population.
Want Jews to Be Equals.
Some of these with whom H Stolypin
is negotiating are insisting that the pro-
gramme must include an uneuuivocal
declaration in favor of placing the Jews
and all other inhabitants on an equal
footing before the law
Running parallel with these liberal
promises NJ. Stolypin has issued another
circular to the governors instructing
them to keep close watch on the popua-
ton, to prevent meetings tending to law
less acts and giving them authority to
expel dangerous characters and arrest
persons belonging to revolutionary par
ties and when found in possession of in
eliminating documents to exile them to
the uttermOSt limits of the empire"
Transcaucasia has been placed under a
state of exception security.
Nineteen aldermen here were ar
rested at Il secret meeting in private
house last night. Officials of the gov
eminent declare that the question under
discussion was the best manner to turn
the city over to the revolutionists when
the proper time comes.
After five hours Imprisonment the al
dermen were released, each under the
surveillance of the secret service men.
Race War in Siberia
News has been received here that
racial troubles have broken out at
KrasnOyarSk between Russians and ma
tiyeS Of Siberia. One person was killed
and six were wound d in the first en-
counter
The ministry of railroads received
word of several attempts to destroy rail
road bridges, and it IS believed that the
radicals are reSOrting 10 this means to
force the issue.
Premier Stolypin, III an interview to-
day. said:
There has been no coup detat and
nothing has been done which was not in
accordance with the prescribed constitu-
tional methods. The Emperor was en-
powered by the fundamental law to dis
solve the DoumI. and there was no
other course open to his majesty. The
Douma as a whole. was a dying body,
and the most merciful treatment was
its prompt dispatch. terminating its I'M
profitable existence
For Strong Handed Reform.
Asked as to the extent the counter
action was likely to go, NJ. StolypIn re
Piled:
at the present moment three policies
are open to the Emperor and his ad-
visers
Il. Reaction.
"2. Impassivity toward the threatened
revolution.
''3}. y policy of strong handed reform.
1T is the last mentioned upon which
the Emperor has resolved.
NJ. krOndeSchuX, Il member of the out
law Parliament, has been arrested near
Brest-LitovSil for melting the peasants
to rise. The prisoner was removed to
the fortress.
Prices advanced today. Imperial As
at one time showed a gain over ycster-
days closing price of fully two points
and imperial IS point and 4 half, but
both closed slightly under the best fig
ures for the day. Imperial tours ut l314
and IS at S4;H. Banking and industrial
shares generally moved upward.
Bold Robberies Mark Revolt.
WARSAW. July PA daring rob
berry was perpetrated Thursday on the
Vistula railway in the outskirts Of War
saw. RevoIutionaries stopped u passen-
ger train by pulling the emergency
brake. The robbers then uncoupled the
locomotive and car containing several
strong boxes filled with the receipts Of
various stations. The gendarme i'll
charge was killed and the engine driver
forced to proceed tc Il spot where the
line passes through a wood. At given
signal thirty armed men appeared, broke
open the boxes, distracted $500 and
decamped.
Dozens Arrested n Moscow.
MOSCOW. July 27.-Dozens Of per
sons were arrested here last night while
attempting 10 placard the walls of the
city with the address to the people drawn
up at Viborg Finland July %. by the
members Of the outlawed Parliament
Reds Make Tools of Printers
YAROSLAE, July 2T.-Twelve armed
men ned printing office here after
midnight and compelled the compositors
to set up and the printers to print 80
900 copies of the parliamentary address
TO the country. as well as Il number Of