The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-07-18
Landed PfOprietOrS Flee
From Fl ming Homes.
TORCH APPLIED ALL OVER LAND
No Officials Life Safe from Bomb
or Bullet.
CAR TOO WEAK TO CALL HALT

From Russian Empire Come Reports
OF Assassinntion, PniHge aud De-
struction BY Fire la Many Prov
inces-ReVoiutionnr Outrnges aud
Such nn Extent as to Foreshadow
nm Immediate Reign Of Terror Such
a.. swept Thousands OF French Au-
tocrat on the Earliest. Peters
burg Police Disanected - Great
strike at sevastopoI-NiiIage Burn
ed by "Rcds"-Large Country Es-
tatcs Destroyed.
ST. PETERSBURG, July ls.-A spe.
cinl dispatch from Bobruisk, province
of Noronezh. says that the troubles Ia
the whole of that district, covering l33
miles square are becoming more seri-
Gus daily The peasants have risen
IA one man. aud during the night over
twenty estates were burned aud sew
eral landed proprietors killed.
The town of Bobrulsk Is filed with
terror stricken proprletors. who were
able 10 escape the carnage by fleeing
from their estates Ten miles from
the city fifteen estates were burned
and many of the proprietors killed.
The governor has arrived with Cos
sacks. but order has not been restored.
Alarm has been caused by the inau-
guratlon of a strike Of police here.
The ostensible basis Of police discoh-
tent Is monetary including the ac.
counting for the mems saving fund.
for which. 1t is alleged. they have not
been allowed interest The authorl
ties. however. declare that the trouble
was inspired by agitators.
The gendarmes of the first district
refused 10 20 out on their beats until
authoritatively assured that their mon
ey would be paid with full Interest
The captain tried to pacify the men
with assurances that everything would
be satisfactorily arranged. but they
would not listen to him. They then
marched to the second district where
they induced their comrades to JON
Them Cossacks were summoned and
the police surrounded and threatened
with arrest. but they held out until
the chief of police assured them That
their demands would be investigated
and all wrongs righted.
Notwithstanding the efforts of the
police officials to quiet their fears, the
people are in terror lest the lawless
element Astounding here should take
advantage Of the situation.
At Sevastopol the wOrkmen employ
ed in the arsenal of the admiralty have
struck and have been joined by the
store employees and street car drivers.
The streets are being patrOlled by
troops. II Is stated that the agitation
and strike are in sympathy with the
Otchakon mutineers, whose trial has
begun.
The assassin of General Kozloff. who
was murdered in the English park mt
Peterhof on saturday has been ldenti
fled as n Lett belonging TO an Organi-
cation the members of which have
sworn to kill General TrepOff. General
Prince Putatin and thirteen other per
SONS intimately connected with the
court. The assassin was chosen by
lot
Chief of Police Martinoff. at Tiflis.
l., 4 tot IL, fha - marta
ly wounded by bomb. His leg and
arm were blown off. The bomb was
thrown from the Georgian MOBILES
school. NJ. Martinoff was much hated
on account of the severity of the mems
ures he adopted in putting down meet
ings and for the maltreatment Of the
people.
Emperor Nicholas has degraded the
Seventh cavalry, which recently mutt
MED at Tambov 10y taking away the
imperial standard conferred on the
regiment two years ago.
The daily budget of revolutionary
outrages and agrarian disorders is
larger than usual. In many places the
peasants are wantonly applying the
torch 10 estates belonging To the crown
and to private forests.
At Natshatkino, in SimbrSk PROV
ince, the town hall was set on fire, and
the entire village. consisting of 300
houses. was consumed.
Throughout Poland systematic pillag
ing of the government spirit shops is
in progress. The central police Office
at Warsaw was robbed, and gen
darme was killed.
At Lublin, Russian Poland. revolu
tonists executed workman who was
suspected Of being a spy. and at Min
Novgorod and Vgsniky the cashiers OF
the spirit monopoly were robbed and
killed
At Smolensk the agrarian movement
has assumed a violent phase The as
tates Of Count Sheromatieff promi
nent reactionary, and Prince Lubanof1
Rostoffsky aud three other large es
tates have been completely destroyed
At Pavlograd the estate of NJ. Su-
kovhlIln has been pillaged and 1000
tons Of hay and forage burned.
Admiral Skrydloff, who succeeded AID
miral Makharoff in command Of TIT