Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-28
TOday's Telegraphic News
Grave Conditions in Russia.

81. Petersburg, Aug. %. --Extraordi-
nary measures have been taken to pre-
serve order in St. Petersburg and vicin-
its. The situation owing to the whole
sale assassinations Of prominent officials
that have occurred at various places, is
acknowledged to be of the gravest char
acter, and strong patrols are to be found
in every part of the city. There are
persistent rumors ahoat today that mar
lisl law will be proclaimed, slthough
The council of ministers has definitely
declined to adopt the proposition tor q
dictatorship. The decree issued by the
Gar granting $500, 900 acres of crown
lands to the peasants has not made the
slightest impression, the peasants ex-
pecting to receive the land gratis instead
OF having to pay a comparatively small
sum for the property.
Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 2S.-General
Trepoff, the ''irou listed, y suppressor
of reyolutionists, in St. Petersburg, is to
be appointed Governor General OF War
saw, according to report current here,
as the onlv man capable Of dealing with
the reign of anarchy which prevails here.
Murder goes practically unchecked
and lesser crimes are committed with
IMMUNITY. Twenty-Five murders have
been committed since August %.
Every murder of any person OF conse-
quence is followed by stern represslve
measures, which result 10 The slaughter
of many innocent persons, and this In
turn proyokes fresh outrages The police
are helpless under the circumstances.
1t is known that fully 100 storehouses
of bombs are IN existence, yet not one
has been discovered.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 2S.-Vengeance
upon the reyolutionist has been declared
BY secret society known as the death
for Death" for the killing of General
Wonlarlarski at Warsaw yesterday.
Five members of the late douma, includ'
ing deputies Peterunkevilch, Rodischefi,
aud other revolutionary leaders are
among those on whom the society had
passed the sentence of death.
The announcement of the death sem
fenced is continued in letter 10 the
newspaper Strana, wherein the death
of Death" society makes known lis in
tention to kill revolutionary leader
for ever victim of terrorists. The letter
containing the death warrant is signed
with a device showing the skull and
cross bones aud a Nagaka.
St. Petersburg, Aug. % Fire is the
latest weapon to which the revolutionisls
have resorted in their fight against the
government and its supporters. A wave
of incendiarism is sweeping across the
country leaving in its wake trail OF
ruin.
Further troubles are reported at var
Gus parts of the empire today. In Mos
COW a new reign of murder Of policemen
has been inaugurated. Most OF the
assaplts have been committed by terror
ISIS riding in cabs. From three closed
carriages they have fired on numerous
officers. Several are reported as seri
ou.ly wounded.
A bloody fight occurred at Samara be-
tween the police and revol1tionis!s Two
thousand persons marched through the
streets carrying revolutionary flags
When the police tried to disperse them
a fight followed, 10 which many officers
were wounded.
Another fight between police and
peasanIs occurred at Karloyka in the
government of Poltava Many casualties
are repOrted on both sides